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#107: December 12, 2014

December 12, 2014’s InfoWars episode features Alex Jones pivoting from personal drama—like divorce and custody disputes—to attacking John Boehner over Obamacare failures and a $1.1T funding bill, framing it as a "banker bailout." He falsely sensationalizes CIA torture, citing a 2004 Taguba report (actually predating Abu Ghraib) to claim children were raped with acid-dipped objects. Billy Corgan joins, defending his bizarre media appearances while Jones promotes conspiracy theories about Anderson Cooper’s CIA ties and John Lennon’s murder as a cover-up. Meanwhile, UC Davis professor Darrell Hamamoto alleges Wall Street and globalist plots target university pensions, praising Jones’ influence on his work. The hosts mock Jones’ shifting moral stances and Corgan’s credibility, exposing his pattern of uncritical endorsements and tangential rants—revealing how fringe narratives exploit distraction over real accountability. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 14:59
d
dan friesen
01:00:10
j
jordan holmes
30:46
Appearances
b
billy corgan
04:21
d
darrell hamamoto
03:59
Clips
a
anderson cooper
cnn 00:26
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
unidentified
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
alex jones
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We are a couple of dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
And act as the most professional broadcasters in the history of Twitch.
dan friesen
I am telling you what.
jordan holmes
Audio issues?
No.
Never have them.
dan friesen
It turns out.
jordan holmes
You got it.
Staff on that shit.
dan friesen
It turns out I know nothing about the audio settings, but I do know a lot about Alex Jones, and you do not.
jordan holmes
I don't know anything about Alex Jones.
unidentified
And therein we find our fun, our dynamic, and what have you.
dan friesen
How are you doing today, Jordan?
jordan holmes
That's a.
I don't know if you've ever done that before.
dan friesen
Very on my heels.
jordan holmes
I don't know if you've ever asked me how I'm doing in our friendship.
I don't know if that's ever happened.
dan friesen
I'm very back on my heels because of these tech issues.
I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
I'm falling back to my freezing point tactics, which would be I'd be sitting across from someone.
How are you doing?
jordan holmes
Hey, how about you vamp for a little bit?
dan friesen
Let's see if that starts a conversation.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you this right now.
Having some trouble with my rent.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
Got somebody squatting in there illegally who I asked to do so.
dan friesen
No, allegedly illegally.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
Oh, I didn't say anything.
I didn't say anything.
dan friesen
That's a good thing no one can hear us.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a good point.
dan friesen
So this is a podcast where we can.
jordan holmes
If we were famous enough for people to, for the people that I rent from to know who we are, we would also be famous enough for me to pay my rent on time.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's a good point.
So this is a podcast where we sit around, talk about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
That is what we do.
dan friesen
And today...
jordan holmes
And rent-related issues.
dan friesen
Sure, absolutely.
Rent, I know, is too damn high.
jordan holmes
And it's too damn high.
dan friesen
So today is, as we're recording this, it is November 27th, Cyber Monday, or also known as the day that Alex Jones announced he was going to do a 36-hour live marathon.
We discussed it on our last episode.
And he did.
unidentified
He did.
dan friesen
He is right now.
jordan holmes
As we speak.
dan friesen
And I listened to Alex Jones' show during it, and it had every intention, the purest of heart intention to cover that.
That was going to be what we covered on today's episode.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
But it was all fucking advertisements.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
It was all commercials for products.
And I just don't know how we cover that.
There was almost no content in it to the point where I was just like, I was getting mad at it.
jordan holmes
If we do that, eventually we're selling his product.
dan friesen
Kind of, yeah.
There was a part of it that was like, but I have one clip.
jordan holmes
In which case, we should join his pyramid scheme.
dan friesen
Might as well become part of InfoWars team.
Yeah.
I do have one clip from today, and it was just a beautiful moment of irony because I turned on the live stream of his show, and there was an ad before it.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
And it's very interesting to hear this ad and then the show start and see the juxtaposition of the two.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Hey, Chicago.
unidentified
The Amazon Smart Home Experience is now available in a Coles in Your Neighborhood.
alex jones
I have haranged everybody around me to not use Amazon for years.
We were off of Amazon for years.
dan friesen
I turned it on.
jordan holmes
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
It's like, what the fuck is going on?
jordan holmes
I love that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is great.
dan friesen
Amazon has got advertisements on his broadcast.
jordan holmes
I don't know if I've ever seen anything happen that quickly as far as a sponsor getting shit on.
dan friesen
Yeah, it was whiplash.
jordan holmes
That is crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah, I was pretty blown away.
But the rest of it was all just like completely boring ads.
And we have no reason to talk about it.
But I asked you, Jordan, earlier today.
Indeed, you did?
Never done this before, first time ever.
I asked you to choose a day from history for us to go back to, to do a time travel episode for.
Because, again, I am not quite prepared to do that time travel episode that one of our policy wonks has requested us do.
jordan holmes
And so I did, and I picked a date, and how did we go?
dan friesen
We went back to, you said December 21st of 2014.
jordan holmes
I meant to say December 17th or 18th.
dan friesen
No, you meant to say December 12th.
That is when you meant to say.
That is when the torture room.
jordan holmes
You say a lot of things.
Oh, I transposed the numbers.
Okay, that was what happened.
dan friesen
Your intention was to go back and see what Alex Jones had to say about the torture report that came out.
jordan holmes
And instead, I gave you a two-year anniversary of when the world ended.
dan friesen
Right, basically.
And we're going to get to all the goings on.
You accidentally stumbled onto a very amazing episode for a number of reasons.
jordan holmes
Very, very condescending of you.
dan friesen
No, I mean, you had no way of knowing what's coming.
jordan holmes
I know, but it seems like I chose a date that could possibly have had a good episode.
It was an educated guess.
I don't like the word accidentally.
dan friesen
It's because the torture part is not really a big factor.
It's the other stuff that makes it huge.
All right.
But before we get going, here is an out-of-context drop from today's episode.
alex jones
I make a lot of mistakes.
I say stupid stuff sometimes.
I mean, I hear my show rebroadcast and go, oh, my God, that sounds horrible.
I don't mean that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
You know that?
jordan holmes
He just drops it that quickly.
dan friesen
The number of times he said that on the air is staggering.
jordan holmes
I listen to this show and I'm like, Jesus, what kind of asshole would say that to you?
dan friesen
I don't know that guy.
It's like, what?
Get it together, Alex.
Jesus, you can't just be that easy.
I realize that we keep forgetting to give shouts out to policy wonks.
And we might be able to do that.
jordan holmes
Hey, you're doing it at the beginning of the show this time.
There we go.
dan friesen
I'm hoping this will give my brow a chance to get some sweat off of it.
Dry this fucking thing off.
jordan holmes
Do the only thing that you're really good at.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Thanking people for giving you money.
dan friesen
Right, absolutely.
We'd like to give a shout-out to a couple new policy wonks.
What's going on out there, Kelsey?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you for joining up with the team.
jordan holmes
Indeed.
dan friesen
And also.
jordan holmes
I know two nice Kelseys and one Kelsey Grammar.
So you choose which you want to be.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
And if you choose wrong, you're going to fall off a Kelsey Grammar save.
unidentified
Oh, dear God.
dan friesen
Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to our other new policy wonk.
What's going on out there, Kyle?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you so much for joining up with the team.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Kyle and Kelsey.
dan friesen
If you would like to become.
jordan holmes
Are you guys brother and sister?
dan friesen
They might be.
unidentified
Twins.
dan friesen
Not the same last name, but you never know.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's possible.
dan friesen
Could be long-lost twins.
I don't know.
Anyway, if you'd like to.
jordan holmes
It's actually Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
dan friesen
It could be.
It's possible.
unidentified
There we are.
dan friesen
If you'd like to become a policy wonk, you can do so by going to knowledgefight.com, clicking the support the show button, and maybe if we get enough policy wonks, we'll get our sound fixed.
Or I'll have enough time to run sound check before the episodes.
jordan holmes
Or I'll be able to pay my rent.
dan friesen
Yeah, any of these things.
jordan holmes
Any of these things are both impossible and delightful to imagine.
dan friesen
Oh, God.
Okay, so here we are.
jordan holmes
Here we are.
dan friesen
Here we are.
jordan holmes
Here we have come.
dan friesen
Here we will be.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
December 12th, 2014.
jordan holmes
D12.
dan friesen
Shit's going down on the 12th.
12-12-14.
What is going on?
I'll tell you what.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
That was a weird intro.
dan friesen
Sorry.
As the show starts, Alex Jones makes a very weird reference to his personal life that he almost never makes.
Okay.
And we'll see if you can catch what's going on.
alex jones
Ladies and gentlemen, we're live broadcasting worldwide.
It is the 12th day of December 2014 on this Friday edition.
I'm your host, Alex Jones.
I want to thank David Knight and the rest of the crew for sitting in yesterday.
I, again, have had family issues here and there that I've been taking care of that are all now coming into line quite nicely, thanks to the good Lord above.
And so that's why I've been missing a few days here and there.
But we'll make it up to everybody.
We are live, ladies and gentlemen.
jordan holmes
How will you make up a divorce trial to everybody?
dan friesen
Well, it's not a trial at this point.
jordan holmes
Oh, it's the custody hearing at this point.
dan friesen
No, it's just the divorce.
Settlement.
It's 2014.
This is when he's getting divorced.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So it's actually the separation and everything is what he's talking about.
jordan holmes
So when he gets remarried, that's when he's making it up to everybody.
dan friesen
I guess.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I think that sounds right.
dan friesen
Because his new wife is very important.
Because it's very shortly after.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
So I always think that's kind of interesting that, you know, he never references that.
He never talks about the divorce and stuff like that.
Right.
Except when he's getting super defensive about, I won, that sort of stuff.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And to be like, oh, hey, all right.
Yeah.
Look, there's family issues.
jordan holmes
Couldn't be in here yesterday because I was busy getting divorced.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
You know what?
dan friesen
That's very clear.
jordan holmes
Signing some documents.
She's yelling at me about that boat, and I'm like, I can't give you that boat.
dan friesen
You can have the other boat.
jordan holmes
You can have the six other boats that I have, but god damn it if I'm not keeping the info wash.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, you.
jordan holmes
Which is the name of his car wash?
dan friesen
Probably, yeah, for laundering purposes.
Hey.
So on the 12th, the reason you sent me back to the 12th was because on December 11th, there was a report that came out about the CIA torturing people.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And John Brennan.
Yeah, John Brennan was sort of called to respond about that, and he gave a lackluster response.
People weren't thrilled with it.
And human rights.
jordan holmes
If I recall correctly, his response was, hey, you know, some people do a thing, some people don't do a thing.
These things happen.
dan friesen
It's not far off.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner was like, you got to fucking prosecute those people.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because that's fucking nuts.
jordan holmes
And then we did, and everything was better forever, right?
dan friesen
We had to hand off control of Afghanistan's Bagram prison because of it.
Yeah.
There was a lot of mess.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So you might be surprised to tune in to Alex Jones' show and hear what his top story is.
alex jones
Where to start?
Look at the front page of DrudgeReport.com.
G-O-P-ers accuse leadership of breaking promises to kill the big spending bill.
Why, even the First Lady's Lunch program is funded.
jordan holmes
Can't believe it.
alex jones
And the constituency is so incredibly upset.
Even Sean Hannity, who normally defends the system, has come out and dubbed Boner Boehner.
I was calling him Joe Biden Boehner last week.
Well, now Hannity's calling him John Gruber Boehner.
Or John Gruber's Boner.
unidentified
I prefer Dave Gruber Boehner.
jordan holmes
The naked trucker.
dan friesen
This Boehner riff crushed it.
It's going to go on.
jordan holmes
Why?
There's no way it can do that.
It was bad to start with.
Joe Biden Boehner.
And he thinks that's fantastic.
dan friesen
You know Alex Jones.
He likes to pick all the meat off a bone.
Yeah.
And that's his comedic style.
jordan holmes
Because he knows good humor when he sees it.
dan friesen
He's like, this fucking comedy ore is just coming out.
This vein is not dry.
We are just going to keep chipping away at the John Boehner's name.
Sounds like Boner.
jordan holmes
I think we're going to get it.
dan friesen
Here we go.
alex jones
I mean, that is a pun, really, folks.
You're supposed to pronounce that German name Boner.
Be proud of your family name.
But even running down the first round for Congress saying it's Boehner, not Boner.
We ought to find that old TVF from 20-something years ago.
But Chun Haddie has slammed John Gruber's boner.
He shouldn't be the speaker.
John Boner Gruber.
jordan holmes
There we go.
alex jones
Conservatives tonight.
jordan holmes
Two.
alex jones
That's right.
He did Gruber Conservatives Tonight or the American people.
Most Democrats don't like Obamacare now in Gallup Pulse.
It's a giant stinking fraud, a bipartisan criminal operation.
You just had a major political realignment, the biggest Republican sweep in over 100 years.
What's going to happen if they don't perform and repeal it?
Which Mitch McConnell and John Gruber Boner Boehner.
unidentified
Four?
alex jones
Sounds like a song or something.
John Boehner, or no, John Gruber Boner Boehner.
His name is my name, too.
jordan holmes
Big laugh.
alex jones
Because all of them are going to be seen as a bunch of gruberites that were stupid.
By the way, we are stupid.
unidentified
That was a very successful bit.
dan friesen
First of all, great bet.
Second of all, that might be the first time that I have strategically edited to end the clip right where he says we are stupid.
jordan holmes
We are stupid.
dan friesen
What he says after this.
jordan holmes
By the way, we are stupid.
dan friesen
We are stupid if we go along with this.
I just decided to cut that out for fun and then call myself out on it because I'm not an asshole.
But I mean, yeah, sure.
jordan holmes
All right.
So boner.
dan friesen
Right.
This is just after the midterm election.
jordan holmes
That's all I've established here: that he thinks it's funny to say boner.
dan friesen
He's not wrong.
jordan holmes
He's not wrong.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
He's not wrong.
dan friesen
Sure.
Facts of life prove that, right?
jordan holmes
Right.
This is immediately after the pain.
Oh, yeah, it was growing pains.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That was an acceptable thing then.
Crazy times.
This is right after the November elections that gave us the Republican majority that we are currently dealing with.
dan friesen
Yes, it was just after the midterms in 2014, December 12th, 2014.
jordan holmes
Alex, what will happen if they don't successfully repeal Obamacare?
I can't think of anything.
dan friesen
Escalation?
jordan holmes
I think so.
dan friesen
Yeah, it seems like that is the play.
jordan holmes
Everyone will be disappointed to discover that they don't actually care and will not punish their politicians for failing them in the only thing that they really asked them to do.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
So that's his top story: John Boehner's name is funny.
Yeah.
And that there's a spending bill that the Republicans didn't stop with their supermajority.
jordan holmes
They had to fund the government.
dan friesen
We'll get into that after this next clip.
jordan holmes
Horrific.
alex jones
Some of the stories up on Infowars.com.
House passes government funding bill with bankster derivative bailout provision bigger than the banker bailout of 2008.
By the way, Kurt Nemmo's headline is excellent and it's very accurate.
He does a great job focusing on that, but it's not even bad enough.
The headline's not even horrible enough.
It should be House passes banker bailout derivatives bill bigger than 08 because it is bigger.
unidentified
It's unlimited.
alex jones
Unlimited power to bankrupt the country, to quote Emperor Palpatine.
dan friesen
Don't think he said.
jordan holmes
That's not so.
alex jones
Really trying to save the country.
And the globalists, the Federal Reserve, say, no, no, no, you will die.
You will sign on to everything.
unidentified
Everything is proceeding as David Rockefeller has foreseen it.
dan friesen
It's Friday.
It's like, I'm worked up.
So just to keep track of this.
jordan holmes
House a sales alliteration of assholes army is what he just did.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He's talking about an article from Kurt Nimmo, who is a guy who worked for InfoWars, who has since come out and said very clearly that Alex Jones is a fraud.
Yeah.
And been very.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's not going to appreciate Kurt Nimmo later on in life.
dan friesen
No, he's very against him now.
And you know what this spending bill, you know, the context of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The government shutdown.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yep.
dan friesen
That Dick Hole Ted.
jordan holmes
Ted Cruz, that motherfucker tried very hard to ruin the world with, damaged the GOP reputation so that even though they had a supermaturity, everybody hated them so much, specifically Ted Cruz, who would later come second in many primaries.
That's how much they hated him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So they passed a $1.1 trillion spending, omnibus spending bill.
Right.
But Democrats are now opposing several last-minute provisions, including one that would repeal a key rule in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that limits risky trades by federally insured banks.
Huh.
jordan holmes
Boy, it sure seems like the Republicans are trying to get rid of the Dodd-Frank bill.
dan friesen
Because they did.
jordan holmes
I can't think of any reason that they would get rid of the Dodd-Frank bill, considering that they represent the people in their districts who just care about prosperity.
dan friesen
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
And just, you know, getting back to Americana.
I don't understand why they would try to destroy a bill that actually protects those people from predatory lenders.
dan friesen
Because you don't understand prosperity.
It's mostly mostly about banks taking risks with your money.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
That's how real prosperity is.
jordan holmes
Shouldn't they tell me, though, when they're doing that?
No, Oh, they shouldn't tell me that.
dan friesen
Prosperity is more fun if it's a surprise.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
That might be true.
dan friesen
Well, you know, I mean, the revolution was a surprise.
jordan holmes
It's a surprise to all of us.
dan friesen
A lot of people were caught off guard by 1776.
So what do you got a problem with?
jordan holmes
Which seemed also to be about occasionally being taxed too much.
dan friesen
Right.
Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren both were incredibly vocal in their opposition to these last-minute additions that Republicans snuck through in.
And so when Alex is talking about this spending bill and all this stuff, the people who are the Republicans.
And the real dangerous parts are the things that the Republicans who he's lauding put in there.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And I don't know.
He can always pretend that he's not a Democrat.
He's not a Republican.
I'm bipartisan.
But he celebrates a lot when Republicans win.
jordan holmes
Oh, really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I don't know.
jordan holmes
I can't think of it.
dan friesen
I don't know if that's just an anti-Democrat thing or if he's just full of shit.
jordan holmes
I think he's full of shit, and I think he's anti-Democrat.
dan friesen
Could be six of one, half a dozen of another.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Anyway, let's get on to this next clip because Alex brings up another employee of his.
This is right after a video package that's real, like fast cuts, things taken out of context with really swelling dramatic music.
We get Nancy Pelosi.
alex jones
We need to get that video.
dan friesen
Not Nancy Pelosi, but Eric Holder.
Nancy Pelosi wasn't nearly on his shooting board at this point.
But Eric Holder is in there, Obama, and the likes.
jordan holmes
Well, of course, Obama saying something like, let's feed people, and then he's got a horror movie soundtrack in the back.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
alex jones
Video, not just on PrisonPlanet.tv, but up on Infowars.com right now.
Rob Jacobson produced that little two-minute jewel of awakening and truth, Veritas, Veritas.
He can name it whatever he wants.
Let's make it top video, Infowars.com, YouTube channel.
dan friesen
Funny story, Rob.
jordan holmes
That's a long name for that.
dan friesen
Rob Jacobson has also left Infowars and has also spoken out very publicly about how Alex is an asshole.
jordan holmes
Interesting.
dan friesen
And if I recall correctly, he was who Alex turned to for backup in the David Duke interview, who he also failed in debating David Duke.
Okay.
And has gone on to say, I mean, I certainly don't agree with him in this, but he's like, Alex will never touch Israel.
That sort of stuff.
jordan holmes
That's why he gotcha.
Gotcha.
That was the one.
There we go.
dan friesen
He's in that brand of.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, I was worried that he actually went to the side that makes sense.
dan friesen
No.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
It does not seem like it, but it's just another example.
Everybody he's bringing up back then, no longer there and does not like him.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So that's fun.
But you know what?
Alex has some weird allegiances back in 2014 that you would never expect.
You already heard him say something negative about Sean Hannity, who's his best friend now, apparently.
jordan holmes
Listen to this.
What is he friends with Mugabe?
Because the future is not going to hold well for him.
If he's banking on Mugabe, he's going to be in trouble.
dan friesen
He's not pimping for Mugabe.
But this clip is interesting as hell.
alex jones
Krauthammer is really smart, and he's a conservative intellectual.
He doesn't just throw out buzzwords all day.
I don't agree with some of the stuff Krauthammer pushes sometimes, but he's light years better than a Sean Hannity or these mainline rhino Republican talk show hosts that just support the police state, the drug war, the giant prisons, no matter what.
Police brutality, no matter what.
We try to look at both sides and actually be fair.
dan friesen
No, you don't.
jordan holmes
Not at all.
dan friesen
So, like, okay, I get that Sean Hannity hadn't morphed into a, hey, we're on the same team guy at that point.
He was still a corporate Fox News guy.
jordan holmes
So that begs into question: what happened to Hannity?
Is Hannity was a certain amount of crazy.
dan friesen
I think he saw what was happening to Alex.
jordan holmes
Well, but I mean, more like, was Hannity a secret Alex Jones this whole time?
dan friesen
He was as crazy.
jordan holmes
He was always as crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah, because if you listen to his radio show, it was a lot wild.
jordan holmes
Oh, his radio show is fucking bananas.
dan friesen
I don't mean wild in terms of like saying stupid shit like Alex, but it was wild in the sense of like he was really unprofessional.
jordan holmes
He was a dick.
dan friesen
He was really mean to everyone.
jordan holmes
My grandfather forced me to listen to a good hour or two of Hannity while I was watching him and ushering him into the great beyond.
And if it had kept me from listening to Hannity, I would have been like, go an hour or a couple earlier.
unidentified
Get gone.
dan friesen
Yeah, get.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Hannity is.
Hannity makes you want to kill your grandfather.
dan friesen
So Hannity sucks, but it's interesting to hear Alex say positive things about fucking Charles Krauthammer.
jordan holmes
Oh, don't you love the way his turtle head just kind of retracts into everything whenever he gets challenged?
dan friesen
I'm not talking, I don't want to talk personal shit.
I don't want to talk appearances.
I'm not here to neck shame anybody.
jordan holmes
I mean, it would be hard not to neck shame him.
He's just saying his name is neck shaming.
dan friesen
Here are some reasons Alex cannot.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
Alex cannot say he supports or agrees with Charles Krauthammer.
jordan holmes
So many reasons.
dan friesen
Krauthammer supports abortion.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
That's number one.
Number two, he believes in evolution and rejects the idea of intelligent design.
jordan holmes
Hard not to.
dan friesen
He also supports higher taxes to support environmental causes.
jordan holmes
It makes sense.
dan friesen
And energy conservation.
Right.
Also, this is the big one.
He emphatically supports embryonic stem cell research using tissue from abortions, which Alex is, what's wrong with that?
I think nothing.
Alex thinks they're harvesting babies and making chimeras.
Well, yeah, that's his big thing.
jordan holmes
But you got to come at it from both sides.
You got to give both sides credence.
That's why he likes to listen to Charles Krauthammer because Krauthammer is going to be like, hey, Alex, that's fucking stupid.
And he's going to be like, hey, Krauthammer, you've got a lot of good ideas.
Not like that dumbass Hannity over there who agrees with me that they're creating chimeras.
dan friesen
Yeah, and will be a great ally in two years.
Yeah.
Two years.
Once we have our demon candidate.
jordan holmes
Once you guys come to me, Krauthammer, you gone.
dan friesen
Once the rip in the reality veil becomes big enough, I will go to Sean Hannity and we will come together as some sort of globular alt media and professional media two-headed black.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
When we get forced into the dark timeline by Mixel Pixie.
dan friesen
Mr. Mixel Pixie.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and we have to say his name backwards before we can get into the timeline where Bernie won.
Like, I don't know.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, Alex is fucked up.
That makes no sense.
For his philosophy and for anything.
Yeah.
But his hubris back then, or as he would pronounce it, hubris back then, knows no bounds.
Listen to this fucking sales pitch for a second.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And then I will come back on the other side and tell you exactly what he's asking of his listeners.
alex jones
Another key: pray for this operation.
We're praying for America and the rest of the world and you as well.
We need those prayers.
That's number one.
But secondarily, support our local AM and FM affiliates, become sponsors, become supporters of local sponsors.
Call the station up and say, I want to pay for a billboard to promote the Alex Jones show.
That's how we're going to take this country back.
We're so close, folks.
dan friesen
We're so close.
jordan holmes
I want to pay for a billboard.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's an interesting thing to call your AM FM radio station with.
dan friesen
So do you know what's a big sponsor?
Do you know about billboard pricing?
jordan holmes
I don't know about billboard pricing.
I just saw three billboards in Ebbing, Missouri, and they said $5,000 a month for three billboards.
dan friesen
That's pretty close.
Very small towns.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Like outside of Milwaukee, you can get one for about $4,000 a month.
$3,000 to $4,000 a month.
jordan holmes
I mean, that's not terrible, right?
dan friesen
Now you bump it up to a city like San Diego, which is not even a large market.
I mean, it's big, but it's not like LA or something like that.
It's a big market.
That's going to run you probably about $10,000 to $15,000 a month.
jordan holmes
Still reasonable if you get a return on your investment.
dan friesen
Now you go to like Boston, let's say, Boston.
I don't go to Boston.
Urban area, metropolitan city, to get a billboard.
It can run you up to $23,000 a month.
jordan holmes
For a billboard?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Damn.
dan friesen
Because high traffic areas, it's all about how many eyes get on stuff.
It's all about impressions.
jordan holmes
How much would it cost us to get a billboard in Chicago?
dan friesen
A lot.
jordan holmes
What are you thinking?
dan friesen
At least that $20,000.
jordan holmes
You're thinking like closer to 30, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
I don't know.
I feel like Boston and Chicago are probably pretty close in terms of that.
Maybe a little higher, but probably in the ballpark.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
So that's, I mean, geez.
jordan holmes
So we're going to have to do a 36-hour live stream to get $23,000.
dan friesen
Call in and say you want to pay $20,000 for a billboard.
Or conservatively, $10,000 for a billboard.
jordan holmes
Call Clear Channel.
dan friesen
I know that it's too expensive to buy my wet herbs, but buy a billboard.
jordan holmes
Buy a billboard.
dan friesen
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
Buy a billboard.
dan friesen
Hubris.
jordan holmes
Hubris.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's nuts.
So we're maybe like half an hour into his broadcast at this point.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Buy a billboard.
And he finally decides to get into the torture stuff.
Yes.
jordan holmes
We're going to go hard on it.
He's got a lot of articles.
He's really going to get into the issues.
dan friesen
He might have a stack.
jordan holmes
He's got a stack.
dan friesen
But you know that doesn't mean anything.
jordan holmes
It doesn't mean much.
dan friesen
Here is Alex Jones' take.
alex jones
Look at this report by Washington's blog up on Infowars.com.
The media is focusing on the wrong Senate torture report.
The big story, torture everyone is missing.
jordan holmes
Oh, I'm in.
unidentified
What do we got?
alex jones
I agree with his report.
It gets into the Armed Services Committee of 2009 that details the systematic, widespread torture across the board.
But that's not even as bad as the torture report from 2000, I think it's 2007 or 8, General Tagumbu report.
General Tagumbu torture report.
He's the Filipino-American general, three-star general that did it's Taguba.
Did that investigation.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
And that was the real one.
Where they admitted the raping children with large objects dripping with acid in front of their parents in Iraq and places.
Killing people.
Non-terror related.
Just demons being hired.
Now the military was ordered to hire former federal prison guards who had records on purpose.
Rape, you name it.
So that's what I mean.
The Feinstein report's a whitewash.
dan friesen
So this whole thing that you have sent us back in time is apparently a whitewash.
Yep.
And a couple things.
jordan holmes
I did not realize that.
dan friesen
It's not Tagoombu.
unidentified
Whatever.
dan friesen
It's Taguba.
It's Antonio Taguba.
And here's the thing about that.
He has the date slightly off.
He said it was 2007, I believe.
Yeah.
It was 2004 that he did a report.
It did not entail anything about children being raped with things dipped in acid in front of their parents.
unidentified
Are you sure?
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm positive.
jordan holmes
Did you read it?
dan friesen
Yes, I did.
jordan holmes
Have you talked to Taguba?
dan friesen
I have not talked to Taguba.
jordan holmes
Okay, have you talked to Takumbu?
Oh, there you go.
There it is.
dan friesen
It's a different guy.
jordan holmes
You just don't do your research, Dan.
This is what bothers me.
You have a stack of articles about Taguba.
Nothing about Tecumbu.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
I blew it.
jordan holmes
Where did that voice come from?
dan friesen
I don't know.
It was my Tagumbu voice.
jordan holmes
I blew it.
dan friesen
The closest thing I could find is there are reports that General Taguba got that he was not able to substantiate, but he viewed as credible based on the circumstances that people might have been sodomized with a light, a fluorescent light, or something along those lines.
unidentified
That's funny.
dan friesen
Which is horrifying.
But that's not quite children getting raped with things dipped in acid in front of their parents.
Alex is sensationalizing this quite a bit.
jordan holmes
It's not that far off.
dan friesen
No, and it's a stupid place to draw a line, quite frankly.
jordan holmes
I mean, I'm not on anybody's side there.
There's not a winner that I want to back in this race.
dan friesen
I'm not either.
But in terms of Alex being a reporter, in terms of him actually telling you things, he's failing at that.
jordan holmes
Oh, he's very bad at that.
dan friesen
But the other thing, this is the most important piece.
So Taguba's report came out in May of 2004.
Amnesty International put out their report about Abu Ghraib in June of 2003.
So his report came out even after the atrocities that were reported in Abu Ghraib were already being reported.
So a lot of the stuff that's in there is just, I have substantiated that detainees told me these things happened, which had already been reported.
But Alex would never want to give it up for Amnesty International or something like that.
jordan holmes
Isn't it weird that 2014 is when this episode happens?
We've all known at this point that America is torturing people non-stop for 11 years.
And we're like, whoa, whoa.
Brennan.
dan friesen
Well, maybe not 10 years.
jordan holmes
Don't agree with us.
Right.
You're supposed to lie so we feel less complicit in the atrocities that are being committed in our name.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's really fucked up.
But Alex, I would think that his position on it would be, I guess this is pretty close to what I would expect his position to be.
I would expect it to be a little different, though, because I would expect it to be gloating.
But I would also expect it to be gloating with, like, and now here's all the times I've told you, and here is, you know, me breaking the story way before and all that, instead of dismissively being like, Tagooba.
I'm sorry, Tagoombo.
jordan holmes
My thoughts on what he would think based on his love of Blackwater now is: yeah, we're torturing people.
That's how we should be doing it.
dan friesen
I don't think he likes Blackwater at this point because he doesn't know that Eric is a Trump supporter.
jordan holmes
I'm talking about now.
dan friesen
Oh, yes, now.
jordan holmes
So, if you're a huge fan of Blackwater now, I assume that you have loved torture since you saw your first episode of 24.
dan friesen
I'll tell you this: Alex is not a fan of torture, which I support.
I give him.
jordan holmes
Does he know what we're doing now with the Trump regime and how we're killing like three times the number of civilians all around?
They are emboldened to torture.
And then the privatized army is just going buck wild.
dan friesen
Fake news.
jordan holmes
Every report that we get out of that is just they are just fighting a total war and burning people alive.
It's not good.
dan friesen
Who are you?
The Washington Post?
Fake news.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Fair enough.
Shout out to Project Veritas doing the Lord's work.
I don't know if you saw this.
I know everyone's seen the story that the Washington Post put out about Project Veritas trying to trick them with a fake sting operation about Roy Moore.
But I don't know if everybody's seen the videos that Project Veritas rushed out to try and get ahead of it.
Because they knew this story was going to come out.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Because they got reached for comment.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is so funny.
And I imagine that they got reached for comment in the middle of trying to screw them up.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
You guys are trying to trick us.
Can you tell me some things about that so we can print it?
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, James.
jordan holmes
Can we go off the record?
I want to be anonymous.
dan friesen
James O'Keefe rushed out some videos, and it's like behind the scenes talking to people at Washington Post.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it's so much nothing.
It's astounding how little there is there.
And he's like, oh, well, this is the real truth.
This is American Pravda.
The worst thing that he's got is somebody from the paper, from the Washington Post, saying that the editorial board doesn't like Trump.
It's like, that's the editorial board.
jordan holmes
I think that's pretty solid.
dan friesen
It's also not the news writers.
I don't think there are a lot of editorial boards.
jordan holmes
I don't think there are a lot of editorial boards that don't like, that like Trump.
dan friesen
I think there are a few.
So anyway, it's all a bunch of hot nonsense.
But also, in the wake of all this, it is very important to remember that a few years back, Donald Trump did give James O'Keefe $10,000 from one of his foundations.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yep.
So interesting to remember, and that will come back up at the end of this episode in a really weird way.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
But be that as it may.
jordan holmes
I love it when you bookend things.
dan friesen
I told you Alex Jones is against torture.
jordan holmes
He is against torture now, in this time period, when Obama is doing it.
dan friesen
I still think he's actually against it now still, too.
Disagree?
It depends on what you mean by truth.
Because he says he's against it.
And to be fair to him, when he's critiqued Trump, one of the things he consistently says or has said, especially in the early days of his presidency, was, I don't like where he stands on torture.
I think it's wrong.
That sort of thing.
It's one of the only things that he would point out that I think Trump's wrong on this one.
Generals are misleading him and stuff like that.
I think on some level, he actually does understand that torture is bad.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
But this next clip.
jordan holmes
I think understanding and being against are different things.
dan friesen
This next clip tells me that Alex has an incredibly weird take on torture as a whole.
And I don't really know what's going on in this clip.
I really don't.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
I mean, I've been in the parking lot before and seen some guy haul off and punch a woman in the face.
And I've gone over and said, you better stop that right now.
What the hell is your problem?
And they've gotten to my face.
And I've said, listen, by that time, people were calling the cops.
It was like 20 years ago.
And it's not because I'm a hero.
I don't like seeing some big guy punch a woman in the eye and give her a black eye.
At an instinctive level, that's just not right.
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
You want to think if she hit him or something?
You know, that would be a thing of passion.
But guys beating up women at an instinctive level, I don't like that.
So I think of my mother.
I think of my daughters.
But before I had daughters, I instinctively don't like women being messed with.
I have that instinctive thing to protect women and children.
That's what men are for.
That's what we do.
You're not a man if you don't want to do that.
But I mean, I guarantee you.
jordan holmes
I like to meet more men.
alex jones
There's been a lot of cases this year about the news where a dad opens the door and some 40-year-old guy is raping his 10-year-old son, and the dad kills him, and they don't even indict him.
Much less having grand jury non-bellum.
Everybody gets that.
jordan holmes
Wait, everybody gets that?
dan friesen
Fine, leave it aside.
But here's what I need.
I need you to track the thought.
I really need because he's talking about crimes of passion right now.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the idea that you just go red and you kill somebody or whatever.
Just keep that in mind.
I swear he's going to try and relate this to torture.
jordan holmes
Is he going to pull this off?
unidentified
He's not, but he is he is he flying a little bit low?
jordan holmes
Is he in a tailspin right now?
dan friesen
Pull up.
unidentified
Pull up.
jordan holmes
Get out.
dan friesen
Alex.
alex jones
Get out.
dan friesen
Throttle.
Just pull the throttle.
jordan holmes
Porkins.
unidentified
No.
alex jones
There was a case just north of Austin that happened a few years ago last year, I think.
And the dad beat the guy to death.
There's been cases where a drunk driver runs over somebody's kid right in front of their house.
The dad sees their dead son.
It was another Texas case, goes, gets his gun, kills him.
Grand jury doesn't indict.
That's not torture.
That's not when you beat somebody to death and want them to hurt.
You're hurt.
So torture is natural in the moment in the passion where you've caught the person, you know they've done it, and you're going to bash their brains out.
And in the moment, you have that killer instinct.
You're not enjoying it, but it's like stepping on a cockroach.
You have the energy and the will to just sit there and throw their head up against a wall or smash it with killer force.
Most people have a governor.
They decide to not kill.
They decide to not slam that head down hard enough where it breaks open.
You can do it.
You just decide you die.
You can kill them.
That's how the real world works.
dan friesen
What?
alex jones
So there's this tough guy instinct that gets misapplied by, yeah, they get us on 9-11.
Go ahead and torture them.
You can't have a big, nasty government do that because it'll do it for fake confessions and it'll do it to you.
That's why you don't do it.
Not because we're wimps.
And well, why do the Russians and the Chinese do it?
Well, because they're barbarous countries that never got reformed.
You got freedom in Russia?
No.
We're losing ours here now, and they're promoting torture and spying and everything else.
And Russia's trying to reform itself.
But Western pressure isn't letting it do it.
dan friesen
It's interesting.
We'll unpack all of that, but it's really interesting at the end there.
He's like, in Russia, they don't have any freedom.
Oh, shit.
I got to save this.
Russia's trying to do better.
jordan holmes
Because of us.
They don't have any freedom because we're stopping.
dan friesen
I'm sorry.
Oh, shit.
So clearly, this indicates to me that in December of 2014, he still wasn't completely turned.
But Alex has also been debriefed by the Russian intelligence agents by this point.
I think we can push that date back to 2014.
jordan holmes
I don't think that's conclusive.
I don't think that's a conclusive thing, right?
dan friesen
I don't give a shit.
I don't give a shit what you think.
alex jones
Fair enough.
dan friesen
I'm standing by it.
jordan holmes
This is what happens when you torture me before the show and we wind up getting audio issues.
dan friesen
Listen, it was a crime of passion.
So that's fucked up.
jordan holmes
I don't know what he thinks torture is.
I know he's against what I think he's just against false confessions.
dan friesen
I agree with.
I mean, I'm against that too.
jordan holmes
Right.
No, I think that's what he's really doing.
dan friesen
You should talk to Trump about the Central Park V. Yeah, no shit.
jordan holmes
Fuck me.
dan friesen
Or any number of people.
jordan holmes
So I think he's against torture for the wrong reasons.
dan friesen
Well, I mean.
jordan holmes
Or at least a right reason, but he's fine with it in certain circumstances.
dan friesen
I mean, it deprives you of your humanity, and it deprives the person who you're torturing of their humanity.
That's probably the biggest reason.
And I would love for everyone to operate on that principle.
But if you can't and don't torture people because it doesn't work, if that's all you got to do.
If that's the best you can do, if it leads to you not torturing people or advocating for people not torturing, hooray.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think that's good.
dan friesen
It's very elementary.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's very much in terms of, you know, there's just in the same way, there's emotional maturity and intellectual maturity.
There's like moral maturity.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
There's like, you know, just going by golden rule kind of stuff at sort of the really basic level.
And then principles get built in as you get older and you start to live by principles.
And then eventually you get to the point where you live by principles that must be true.
Like the opposite could not be true.
And Alex is operating on very, very childlike adolescent moral ideas.
And then also just equating torture with beating someone to death because they drunkenly killed your kid in a car accident.
jordan holmes
That one's weird.
dan friesen
Very much.
And also, that's not a crime of passion if you go and get your gun.
jordan holmes
Also, it seems as though he wants to bash somebody.
Like, he's describing something that he's done where it's like, I could have killed that guy.
dan friesen
No, no, totally.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That moment.
jordan holmes
He's describing exactly that.
dan friesen
That moment that everyone has a governor.
You just turn it off.
You die.
Yeah.
That's very, that's very real.
At least the feeling.
I'm not saying that was creepy.
I'm not saying he's killed anyone, but that's.
jordan holmes
I'm not saying he's killed anybody.
I'm saying that he thinks he stopped himself from killing somebody.
dan friesen
Definitely.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, he thinks he could have killed a lot of people.
dan friesen
Don't fucking play games.
He's literally said that on the show before.
That's true.
jordan holmes
That is true.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Yes, Dan.
dan friesen
You know how I told you at the beginning of the show.
jordan holmes
Also, I think he was referencing the movie The Way of the Gun where Sarah Silverman gets punched in the parking lot.
dan friesen
Oh, probably.
He probably just watched that after he smoked his one weed of the year.
jordan holmes
Great movie.
It's a great movie.
I love it.
Ryan Philippi Benicio Del Toro.
Big fan.
dan friesen
It's good.
jordan holmes
Sarah Silverman, get and punch.
dan friesen
She's great.
jordan holmes
I don't like the get and punch part, although she's great.
unidentified
She's great.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is the end of his coverage of the torture.
jordan holmes
So he nailed it.
unidentified
Yes.
With that rampage.
jordan holmes
And then just decided we can move on.
dan friesen
With that rambling two and a half minutes, he's like, check that off the list.
I crushed it.
Now, I told you at the beginning of the episode.
jordan holmes
Editorial?
Why?
Why?
I can sum up torture in two words.
unidentified
Punch, don't.
dan friesen
It's pleasurable, but don't do it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I told you at the beginning of the show here today that you accidentally picked up the perfect episode.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I will tell you why.
There's two reasons.
And one of them is that my favorite crazy comes in.
jordan holmes
No!
Why?
dan friesen
Daryl Hamamoto.
jordan holmes
Okay.
God damn it.
How did that happen?
Yes.
dan friesen
UC Davis professor Daryl Hamamoto.
I gave you Christmas.
I opened it up.
I started listening to it.
I was like, oh, fuck yeah.
And I will say this.
It's not his best showing.
Oh.
It's not, I wanted to pick my gayest instrument to go infiltrate Occupy Wall Street.
jordan holmes
That's a solid thing.
dan friesen
He's not that kind of Hamamoto, but he does say some stuff that's really great.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
This bums me out because he's like calling in from his pretty small apartment.
Whatever.
It is what it is.
But through the interview, you can hear trucks really loud interfere.
It's clear that he lives, you know, not a.
jordan holmes
He's a man of modest means.
dan friesen
But he shouldn't be.
He's a tenured professor at UC Davis.
jordan holmes
Maybe he does it on purpose.
There are many people who are saving up their money to buy even gayer instruments.
dan friesen
That's absurd.
So here is our first clip of my boy, Daryl Hamamoto.
And in this clip, he compliments and then insults another one of Alex Jones' guests.
jordan holmes
Okay, all right.
alex jones
And he would be there teaching professors and PhD students how to lie.
dan friesen
He's talking about Jonathan Gruber.
It's not important.
darrell hamamoto
Dave Gruber album.
jordan holmes
Alan.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
And how the world really works.
So I guess you get a PhD now, according to him, to learn the inside baseball of Pure BS.
And whereas that always went on from what I've seen in some special PhDs the last hundred years in this country in England and Germany, it wasn't like they'd get on C-SPAN and brag about it.
So it does show really the arrogance of how stupid they think we are.
darrell hamamoto
It's arrogance.
And I was listening to one of your earlier interviews this week.
I forgot who the guest was, but he referred to it as a narcissism.
unidentified
A lot of these high-ranking military, yeah.
darrell hamamoto
Dr. Steve Pieczenik, great, great mind, great intelligence, and great analyst.
And I really enjoy listening to him.
His fiction's not so great.
unidentified
I'm going to say political analyst.
darrell hamamoto
I read everything.
I check into all your guests.
dan friesen
That's great.
jordan holmes
Okay, Hamamoto, you're crazy.
All right.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
Pachenek writes fiction?
dan friesen
He's supposed to have been the ghostwriter or collaborator for Tom Clancy's books.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
dan friesen
So he must be shitting on Clancy.
unidentified
Yeah, Clancy, you know, Clancy's got some good.
jordan holmes
He's farmed out most of the writing of his books after the first three.
dan friesen
Hamamoto is nuts.
jordan holmes
Hamamoto is right.
dan friesen
No, he's not.
He says Steve Pieczenik is a great thinker.
jordan holmes
He's a great analyst.
That we have quabbles on.
I bet his fiction sucks.
dan friesen
I have no idea.
I've never read it.
I would like to read it.
jordan holmes
Well, if it's Latter-day Tom Clancy, it sucks.
dan friesen
I would like to read some of Matt Bracken's books at some point.
That's on my list of summer readings.
jordan holmes
Is that some of my beach readings?
Did you email Hamamoto with like a recommended list?
dan friesen
I mean, he's a professor.
He's got to know what's.
jordan holmes
He's got to know something.
dan friesen
Oh, he knows something.
jordan holmes
How to hide your guns?
dan friesen
No, no, he doesn't know that.
jordan holmes
Where to keep your gayest instruments?
dan friesen
He does know that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Hideyourgayinstruments.com.
jordan holmes
Right next to your guns.
dan friesen
We got a book.
unidentified
We got a book on hiding gay instruments.
dan friesen
So I told you that Hamamoto knows something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
In this next clip.
jordan holmes
What does Hamamoto know?
dan friesen
There's an elaborate conspiracy that he is going to lay out in this next clip.
And I would like to point out that the way he sets it up, even from the beginning, he's discussing what he tells professors to try and get them to wake up to red pill them or whatever.
Even in his own conception, he's talking about corporations trying to screw over people's pensions, not globalists.
So hold on.
We'll get to that on the other side after he makes his case that is rambling and nonsensical.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
My favorite crazy.
darrell hamamoto
So what I have done in order to get them into the tent, so to speak, is to bring to their attention that their security is an illusion.
Their retirement, their pension, the UC Investment Fund has been eyed hungrily by the wolves of Wall Street for many years now.
They're just waiting for an opportune time to go in there for the kill.
They're kind of circling the prey right now.
They're taking their pulse.
But once I make my colleagues aware that this is their strategy, and they have Janet Napolitano in place there, and they've got the MRAPs and the militarized campuses there in case there's any sort of dissent.
And they have the students bought off in their little ethnic identity politics going on.
alex jones
They've got them nicely balkanized and segregated like the old city of Rome.
darrell hamamoto
Precisely.
They have all the different factions and perpetual tension.
dan friesen
And they bring in so when he talks about the weaponized campus, he's talking about the like electromagnetic rays and stuff like that that they're shooting through the air and stuff.
jordan holmes
He was doing so good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He was doing so great.
He's not your pension is going to be taken by Wall Street.
They've been eyeing it for a long time.
They aren't going to enforce it with militarized camps, though.
That's where I campus.
alex jones
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
I thought he said militarized camps.
dan friesen
No, I don't believe so.
And also, it's not weaponized students.
jordan holmes
No, it's attacking their pensions.
dan friesen
It is because they have these.
Remember, he has that antenna theory that there are all kinds of rays that are going around the campus.
jordan holmes
Which is why he's suing Janet Napolitana.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And Linda Katahy, who's going to come back up in a second.
But also, the very idea that Wall Street wants these pensions and shit like that.
I mean, right on.
jordan holmes
Right on.
dan friesen
But that's not globalists.
jordan holmes
She did great.
dan friesen
That's not globalists.
That's out of control capitalism.
jordan holmes
It's got nothing to do with lasers.
I don't think they're going to enforce it with lasers.
billy corgan
No.
jordan holmes
Although, that would be a much more fun universe.
Frankly, if you're going to fuck me over, if you use lasers, that's better for me somehow.
billy corgan
Right.
jordan holmes
I think that's more fun.
dan friesen
Right.
Like it's the Penn Dragon effect.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Look, if you're going to be a monster, at least be a flamboyant monster.
Give me something to latch on to.
Give me some entertainment, you know.
dan friesen
So, so hold up.
This clip isn't done.
Let's let Hamamoto finish his case.
darrell hamamoto
Presidents or chancellors, such as Linda Katehi, who's a Greek national.
I don't know if she's even a U.S. citizen.
dan friesen
You have no idea.
darrell hamamoto
According to my research, and this is how you attack them.
You do your homework, you find the biography.
It's very easy.
It's open source.
jordan holmes
And she's a lot of people.
unidentified
I didn't do that on Linda Katehi, though.
darrell hamamoto
A network, an international network to nationalize and socialize and globalize institutions of higher education.
alex jones
Of course.
darrell hamamoto
Of course, absolutely.
And she was one of the leading consultants for the destruction of the higher education system in Greece.
And that is coterminous with the destruction of the larger Greek economy.
jordan holmes
So, if you okay, so Linda Katahi took down the Greek economy through taking down the education system in Greece.
dan friesen
She then toppled the Greek economy.
And then, because she was so successful, she got brought in here to be the president of UC Davis.
Yeah.
And she has a bunch of patents for antennas, and that's how she's doing it.
But also, she's so important that she's an international destroyer of economies.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And was fired for giving her son and stepdaughter a job.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
He's so crazy.
unidentified
I got to tell you something, Dan checks out.
dan friesen
Sure.
She's this indispensable piece of a nefarious international conspiracy who was fired for petty petty cash.
Petty nepotism.
It was like, ah, we can't look past that, even though you're such an important part of our global scheme to destroy economies through education systems.
jordan holmes
Man, he was doing so good.
dan friesen
He's so stupid.
jordan holmes
He's doing so good.
Because he had it.
He already had it.
Wall Street is eyeing your pensions.
You could just take that just one step further.
And if Wall Street eyes your pensions and then takes them like they did in Greece, then it's a bad thing.
Even if you think it's lasers, you're doing so good.
Why did you get off track and go to Janet or Nancy, whatever her name is.
dan friesen
I lied to you earlier when I said that this wasn't a good Hamamoto appearance.
He's killing it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
In this next clip, we get to find out some of the inspirations for Daryl Hamamoto.
alex jones
All right, Professor, I'm going to stop ranting here.
I'm going to give you the floor.
dan friesen
He wasn't ranting.
Alex did like a three-minute commercial, and then he's like, I'm going to stop ranting here.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
Or for seven, eight minutes.
jordan holmes
I'm going to get back to you.
alex jones
Talking about whatever you think front and center instead of me asking the questions.
Then we're going to take some calls.
darrell hamamoto
Great.
First, Alex, congratulations on your 20 years of broadcasting.
Your work, the contributions of your fine guests, your reportage team has directly influenced and informed not just my lectures, which, of course, has reached any number of students by now, but also my scholarship.
There's a book, a new book of mine that's in the mail to you that explicitly acknowledges your contribution to my own intellectual development.
dan friesen
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Are you getting the picture of Hamamoto's life?
It's exactly what we thought.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I want to go to, can we audit one of his lectures?
dan friesen
Yes, absolutely.
You got to take a trip.
jordan holmes
We have to go on.
dan friesen
He's got to donate so we can go to UC Davis.
Are you kidding me?
jordan holmes
And he's proud of those lectures that students go to?
dan friesen
Well, you understand.
I mean, what he's accidentally revealing is that he at one point was a normal human being.
And then he caught the brain virus of Alex Jones' globalists.
And by that time, he already had tenure.
Right.
So they can't fire him.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And maybe they've scaled back his salary, and that's why he lives in this shitty apartment.
jordan holmes
Entirely possible.
dan friesen
Like, everything is coming into picture for Hamamoto.
jordan holmes
Well, you're sure they're scaling back.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
Well, no.
dan friesen
Anything you can do within the bounds of tenure for someone who's clearly off the reservation.
jordan holmes
Completely insane.
dan friesen
He talks about arguing with students all the time.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
He insists on teaching classes about Illuminati theory and shit like that.
jordan holmes
Not great.
dan friesen
Not great.
Well, I mean, if you want to teach it from a academic perspective, go ahead.
But if you want to teach it from a, this is real, and Linda Categy has antennas that are poisoning you right now.
jordan holmes
I want to go.
How much fun is it?
That should be in every university.
There should be one hidden lunatic.
dan friesen
Oh, there is.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I found a couple of them at the University of Missouri.
Okay.
jordan holmes
They were great.
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
Yeah, I took all their classes.
jordan holmes
Right.
Like, what kind of crazy were we talking about there?
dan friesen
Well, I had one crazy who, there was the mean crazy.
He was Dr. It was some, it's like Wellington or something.
I can't remember.
It was some name like that.
And he was a Greek history professor.
He was just a fucking asshole.
But he was the kind of crazy.
jordan holmes
That's not fun.
dan friesen
He was the kind of crazy who like he expected everyone to do the reading and he would not be graceful about calling on people in class and then he would clown on them when they hadn't done the reading.
jordan holmes
That's not crazy.
dan friesen
That's kind of crazy.
jordan holmes
That's not crazy.
dan friesen
That's terse.
jordan holmes
That's not Hamamoto crazy.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
I'm talking about hidden Hamamoto crazy.
dan friesen
All right.
Let's see.
There was a guy.
This isn't the right kind of crazy either.
jordan holmes
I'm talking like the kind of crazy where it's like it's a nuclear physicist, but he only does classes on whether or not mole men are real.
dan friesen
No, I guess.
jordan holmes
That's the type of crazy that I think of Hamamoto.
dan friesen
Oh, he is definitely that.
But I guess we didn't have any of those.
The only person I was thinking of was this guy named Dr. Rowlett.
And he was an archaeology professor in a class I took.
And boy, the joke, the running joke was like, he should be teaching about himself.
Because he was like 90-something and could barely talk.
And so the entire class was me and the guy next to me being like, can you hear this guy?
What the fuck is going on?
What is this class?
Everyone passed.
The curve was a disaster.
jordan holmes
Can you hear this?
That sounds like a Mr. Show sketch.
dan friesen
Yeah.
You heard there, though, that Hamamoto knows how to get back on the show.
He knows how to get in Alex's good graces by complimenting him.
jordan holmes
By saying nice stuff.
dan friesen
Which I actually think is probably, he's not being facetious.
jordan holmes
It doesn't sound like it.
Hamamoto sounds like he's being honest as hell.
dan friesen
He is a fucking ass liquor.
Listen to this.
This is what happens immediately after.
darrell hamamoto
Okay.
alex jones
I'm honored.
I can't wait to maybe carry the book and obviously have you on about it once I've read it.
darrell hamamoto
Absolutely.
And also, just as sort of an experiment, 10 minutes prior to having this conversation with you, I took some Secret 12.
It's basically liquid B12 vitamins, put it sublingually.
And I take this right before the lectures because my goal is to be as fluid and slick as Joel Osteen, one of our favorite glitterbug preachers for the international audience.
alex jones
Well, you're a sweetheart for plugging, and we really are proud of Secret 12.
Thank you so much, brother.
dan friesen
Ooh.
jordan holmes
I mean, I don't know what's more troubling about that, Snake.
dan friesen
Everything.
Everything is troubling about that.
jordan holmes
B12 makes me feel great.
I take it before lectures.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's bad.
dan friesen
So I can be slick as Joel Osteen.
That's real bad.
He's being facetious.
He's being glib there.
That's making fun of Joel Osteen.
Yeah.
Because he calls him our favorite glitter bug preacher, which is a reference to Alex Jones insulting these prosperity gospels.
jordan holmes
I think he's still complimenting him.
dan friesen
No, I think I think.
jordan holmes
I think he's being honest about how Joel Osteen is good at what he does, which is be a complete piece of shit.
dan friesen
I think also there's a chance that Daryl Hamamoto has some sort of a personality disorder and has flat affect, and you can't tell when he's being like because his tone of voice almost never changes.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
He's always kind of in the same mode of speech.
So I think he was.
When I read the text, I read irony and sarcasm there.
I could be wrong, but that's what I see.
You might be right.
I might be right.
Either way, fucking amazing because Hamamoto is coming in and plugging for him.
And he continues that tradition on every appearance.
Like on one of the other ones we went over, he was like, he's like, hey, Alex, I just want to tell you, I just got your book or Roger Stone's book, The Making of a Presidency.
jordan holmes
Does he pull it up?
Yes.
No.
dan friesen
Yes.
And in this, he pulls out the bottle of Secret 12.
jordan holmes
Fantastic.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's got the good.
jordan holmes
That's great.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Do you think he's under contract?
dan friesen
Now, probably.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he has to be.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
If you're popping up a book, you've got to be.
Like, that's a social media influencer type gig right there.
dan friesen
It's buzz marketing.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But I think on another level, Hamamoto just sort of understands where his bread's buttered.
And he's like, I can get a lot of exposure from this that I couldn't get otherwise.
Right.
And like, if I pimp stuff for Alex, I know that's what motivates him.
That'll make him more likely to promote me.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Everything works out.
jordan holmes
And if people promote me, we'll finally get these fucking lasers taken care of.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
That's the main goal.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Okay.
So Hamamoto has got a little bit of an oppression complex going.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And in this next clip, he references a colleague of his, and I did a bit of research into this, and I can't find anything.
Look, here's the deal: he gives enough details that it sounds true if you're not paying attention, but so few details that it's impossible to search for it.
jordan holmes
Before we go any further, is the colleague he's speaking of real?
dan friesen
I can't say either way.
My gut says no.
Okay.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
At very least, the story he's about to tell is I got red flags.
darrell hamamoto
Okay.
Also, a colleague of mine who's been harassed continuously, and just to show you the viciousness of the university system, she was declared clinically dead due to a massive health crisis.
dan friesen
What do we do with that?
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
All right.
So, colleague.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
She was declared clinically dead.
Even though she's still alive.
Just because her health care costs were too high.
dan friesen
No, I don't think that's what it was.
Here's where he cut off.
darrell hamamoto
Which I won't go into detail.
And she published a massive health crisis, which I won't go into detail.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So you think it's an insurance thing?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't think so.
That's not how I heard it.
I heard it.
You have a better estimate than me.
jordan holmes
How did you hear it?
dan friesen
Retaliation.
jordan holmes
Wait, so you think she raised health care prices?
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
Like she had some sort of an accident of some sort.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then your theory makes the most sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
What did you think was going on there?
I'm way interested in your interpretation now because mine is great.
I'm a big fan of him believing that they would declare a living woman clinically dead for a while to lower the cost of whatever.
dan friesen
Because that doesn't work.
jordan holmes
That doesn't track.
dan friesen
But here's how I heard it.
And maybe I'm crazy.
Yeah.
But maybe I'm a Hamamoto.
jordan holmes
You're a Hamamoto fan.
dan friesen
I heard it as she was making a stink at the university, causing trouble.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And so they declared her dead.
That's that because that is kind of how he makes it sound.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
He's like, she has been being harassed and all this stuff.
It seems like the declaring her dead was a, hey, fuck you.
You're dead now.
Or something like that.
Honestly, that makes as much sense as healthcare stuff.
jordan holmes
No, no, I agree.
dan friesen
I agree.
jordan holmes
It makes as much sense.
dan friesen
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and she is not dead.
So that's not going to get you out of healthcare fees or whatever.
I don't.
jordan holmes
Does he tell the name of the book?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
No, come on.
She wrote a book.
dan friesen
He doesn't say the name of the book.
jordan holmes
But we got to find out whether or not she was killed.
dan friesen
He says that she wrote a great paper.
Legally.
He says that she wrote a great paper that if you email him, he'll give you the name of.
He doesn't say the name of it.
But what I'm saying is that all of these things are enough details that it's like, oh, yeah, he couldn't make all that up.
jordan holmes
It seems like he could make all of that.
dan friesen
But it's not enough that anyone could confirm this person's existence.
jordan holmes
Well, she's dead.
dan friesen
Right, at this point, legally.
jordan holmes
She's a ghost.
dan friesen
Legally.
jordan holmes
She's like Jason Bourne.
dan friesen
So Halamoto's crazy.
In this next clip, Amoto has a theory.
jordan holmes
How would they even have that power?
dan friesen
They don't.
jordan holmes
In what situation could the university be like, okay, wait, her bills are what?
Just declare her dead.
dan friesen
Jordan, I don't want to.
jordan holmes
Just give her, just move her under the rug.
dan friesen
To be honest, I don't like your tone.
You're dead now.
I declare you legally dead.
jordan holmes
I declare you dead.
dan friesen
Oh, no, me too.
You are dead, sir.
Hey, this is a podcast where two dead guys like to sit around to drink novelty.
But it doesn't talk about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Two guys whose social security numbers no longer work.
dan friesen
Yay!
So Amoto got another theory.
This guy has a lot of theories.
Yeah.
This next one.
jordan holmes
They're great.
dan friesen
This one is a little soft.
darrell hamamoto
But the reason why students are dropping out of the humanities in droves is because there's something called the theory scare that took hold in academia in the 1970s.
And I think I alluded to this in an earlier conversation with you.
Instead of reading the great classics, Dostoevsky, which I'm reading again now as an adult, it has as much more impact on me as an adult first.
Instead of reading these classics, they were just engaging in literally fraudulent, high-theoretical, philosophical screes by people like Paul Deman.
They were people that were imported primarily from France.
And I think that was a psyops.
If any enterprising PhD student wants to do a forensic analysis of it, I have an alternative theory to the psyop theory.
jordan holmes
If any enterprising young PhD student ever put forward as their thesis to defend, I think the 1970s theory scare was a psyop.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it led to the power of the past.
jordan holmes
I don't think they're going to get past that.
dan friesen
It led to in 2014 people dropping out of humanities class.
jordan holmes
In droves.
In droves.
dan friesen
I would imagine that Hamamoto sees a lot of people dropping out of his humanities class.
jordan holmes
I was going to say.
dan friesen
Because they get in there and they're like, this guy's nuts.
jordan holmes
This guy's fucking crazy.
dan friesen
Because some people care about their grades, and that is a chaotic element to have giving you grades.
Like for us, we don't give a shit.
We would have fun.
jordan holmes
It would be awesome.
dan friesen
Let's ride this out.
jordan holmes
Oh, I got an F in fucking fantasy land class.
dan friesen
Exactly.
I don't give a shit.
A little wasted money, but it was worth it.
Yeah, it was worth it.
So I have another alternative theory that's not just based on his subjective experience, and that is the humanities path generally does not lead to good salaried jobs.
jordan holmes
Not in my experience.
dan friesen
Most of the humanities leads to academia or social work or those sorts of things.
jordan holmes
Or work from home transcribing things.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Certainly, I'm in the soft humanities.
Exactly.
Like, if you study Greek, let's say, or classics, you study classics.
Like Dostoevsky, which is no, no, no, I'm talking about like classical work.
jordan holmes
No, I know.
I know what you're saying.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Or literature.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Even.
jordan holmes
I'm against it.
dan friesen
Any of those sorts of things, the real path that you can go down is become a teacher.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's essentially what you can use that degree for.
Like, I have one of my majors as a minor, but I took a lot more.
Who cares?
I took a lot of classes in Greek.
And if I were to go to grad school, I would probably take more classes in Greek and classics.
And the only path.
jordan holmes
And that would help you run an auto dealership.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
The only path it leads to is becoming a Greek teacher somewhere or something like that.
jordan holmes
Someone who propagates Greek.
dan friesen
This is not a psyop.
It's just a psyop.
It's just people in a bad economy or an economy that's values people with our type of education so little.
Yeah, and they value specialized degrees much more.
You can get higher-paying jobs.
People go to those.
You learned that when you're in college, and that leads you to go away from the humanities if your motivation is money.
So that is probably a more sensible explanation.
jordan holmes
New job market.
dan friesen
I'm hearing that.
I'm listening.
jordan holmes
We tutor chemical engineers in the STEM field, like just all STEM fields.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
All right.
All of our humanity degrees then go to just kind of going into random STEM field people's homes and just teaching them Dostoevsky and shit like that.
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
That way we'll never have a theory scare of the 1970s again.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
And we won't have to bring in these fucking French people over here.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
I don't know why you got to dig in at the French.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, this guy fucking over most of them French.
dan friesen
I mean, it's hack conspiracy theory, basically.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So at this point, Alex is like, Hamamoto's got theories.
I got to come with something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I can't just let this guy run circles of crazy around me.
Right.
And so he drops this.
alex jones
I go to Whole Foods and half the magazine.
It's great to be poor now.
It's so cool.
But then, meanwhile, Obama's flying around Air Force One telling Africans they can't have cars or air conditioners.
I mean, why not say you can have clean cars and clean air conditioners?
I mean, it's just they're teaching us it's not good to progress as a new dark age to stop the renaissance that threatens the monopoly of power.
dan friesen
So here's what's interesting.
I know that it's tired for us to play him talking about that Obama saying they can't have cars and air conditioners and flying in on a plane.
The reason that I kept it in this time is because what he was saying is literally what Alex says, why don't you say this?
Like he says, why don't you say you could have clean cars and clean air conditioning?
And the point that Obama was making was we can't modernize the entire world the same way we have modernized the world, the first world that we have now.
We made a lot of mistakes on the way.
We have to be smarter about the technologies that we use or else the world is going to boil over.
And so it's particularly offensive for me when Alex uses this narrative to make a stab at Barack Obama, then give a, why doesn't he say this?
And says exactly what Obama was saying.
jordan holmes
I think that does get into something that is true, though.
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
One of the biggest problems Alex has with Obama is he just doesn't talk like me.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Doesn't look like me.
jordan holmes
And I don't necessarily think it's that either.
He thinks he's smart.
Yeah, exactly.
I think there's this huge anti-intellectual movement that coincides with being on the right wing.
dan friesen
That's why you have a professor like Hamamoto.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And there's a lot of really smart professors.
jordan holmes
They hate smart people.
They hate experts.
They hate all those people.
dan friesen
You know why?
jordan holmes
It's something that I often get.
unidentified
You know why?
jordan holmes
You don't have any common sense.
Dude, you guys are so smart, but you don't have any common sense.
You don't know how to solve this budget thing.
Sure, you know your math and your gay instruments.
dan friesen
Well, learning stuff is hard.
That's why.
jordan holmes
Don't understand.
dan friesen
People, like, I generally think that the sentiment of anti-intellectualism that runs rampant around this here country of ours, it mostly comes from people that are abused in their own head with the idea that smart people are smart people and dumb people are dumb people.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Or that there is some sort of an intrinsic thing where it's just innate, you guys are the fucking stupid, you think you're better than us because you were born smart or something like that.
jordan holmes
The boring part is what they wind up getting kind of stuck on.
dan friesen
And people don't take, and they never come out and say as much necessarily, but I believe that's what's driving it.
When they don't realize that intelligence, I mean, you can make a nature-nurture split, but the biggest piece of it is learning.
The biggest piece of it is hard work and reading stuff and learning and experience and talking.
jordan holmes
I think we're going to have to refer you back to the four ways to learn episodes.
dan friesen
Race memory.
jordan holmes
Race memory.
That is how you learn.
What was the other one?
dan friesen
Well, I know that the best way to learn is to learn.
That's true.
I do know that.
jordan holmes
That's a good one.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So at this point, Alex is like, Hamamoto, you got to talk to some callers.
We got to take some calls.
And this does not go well.
jordan holmes
Hamamoto calls?
dan friesen
This doesn't go well.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Here's why.
Here's the caller that they get.
alex jones
Eddie in Illinois, you're on the air with Professor Hamamoto.
jordan holmes
Oh, I know, Eddie.
unidentified
Yeah, how are you doing, Alex?
alex jones
Good, brother.
dan friesen
Get ready.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Dan.
Get ready.
That was great work right there.
You played just enough, and then you, real quick, turned to the get-ready.
dan friesen
I need for you to not have an expectation that this is going to be fun.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
This is going to be pretty sad.
Okay.
And not Hamamoto heavy at all.
unidentified
Okay.
I just want to say real quick that I'm in the middle of a change in my life and I have a question.
I bought the DNA force in Oxie Powder.
I lost my job.
816-82057.
alex jones
Hold on a second.
Hold on one second, brother.
We can't give phone numbers out on air, but I appreciate that because somebody can call in with somebody else's number as a form of harassment.
I'm not saying you're doing that, but we can't give phone numbers out.
Sometimes we can give out 1-800 numbers because if it's a known number, but that's a tactic.
Sometimes people call in to talk radio and give out, say, their ex-wife's phone number.
Go ahead.
unidentified
Yeah, sorry about that.
I just want to say I am in this season of giving, you know, in Illinois, they're saying you can't film the cops.
It's going to be a felony.
I'm getting ready to be evicted.
I'm a very good person.
I'm just wondering how I can, you know, I pray to God.
alex jones
No, I hear you, brother.
I hear you, and I appreciate your call.
You know, you could give out your email if you wanted people to contact you locally and have them work with you.
What's your email?
Well, he's gone.
You know, you're going to see that as the economy collapses and more and more people can't get a job and are kicked off their unemployment.
dan friesen
First things first, unemployment is unemployment insurance that's paid for by taxes.
Second thing, Alex absolutely hung up on that guy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Undoubtedly.
jordan holmes
You think so?
dan friesen
The guy didn't hang up.
He was in the middle of a sentence when Alex cut him off with his general, we're done with this call kind of language.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And then he's like, hey, what's your email?
He absolutely fucking cut that guy off and hung up on him.
jordan holmes
I don't know if he did it personally.
dan friesen
Maybe the call screener did it.
jordan holmes
I would say it's probably more likely the miscommunication or something like that.
dan friesen
Whatever it is, that is an unempathic, real shitty...
I mean, I know there's still...
jordan holmes
If he did do it personally...
dan friesen
They're still trying to make a show, and I understand that.
jordan holmes
Do you think he has a button?
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
jordan holmes
You think he has a hard and fast, like...
dan friesen
I bet he has a dump button of some sort.
Or at least the people behind the board know, like, if someone starts cussing, hit the button.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because there was, actually, I found an episode where Robert David Steele was on, and he's like, Trump doesn't give a shit about us.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then Alex is like, ooh, we are on radio.
Yeah.
So, no, I just think that's real shit.
jordan holmes
That was very sad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That was sad.
He lied about buying the DNA for us.
dan friesen
No, no, he might have really.
jordan holmes
He might have really had a job.
Yeah, but essentially what he was doing is, I'm going to give you this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So you can give me this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You can give me the opportunity to put my name out there, a number, and maybe some people.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm going to be evicted from my house.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And instead, Alex just hangs up on him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's real shitty.
And then he's like trying to score points with talking about how people are going to be losing their unemployment.
Right.
That's a program.
jordan holmes
A program that you hate so very, very much.
dan friesen
Right.
You're advocating getting rid of that stuff.
jordan holmes
Everybody hates Medicare until they're on Medicare.
And then all of a sudden they're like, wait a second, I don't think this is a good idea to defund this.
dan friesen
Oh, why are you taking so much out of my check for these taxes?
Oh, my God.
I'm sick and I've lost my job.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's like what happened when Coach was on Fox News and he was like, listen, I've been on welfare.
I've been on unemployment.
And I think those are bad programs because they saved my life.
Like, he just pulled Craig T. Nelson.
Did you never see that one?
dan friesen
I was trying to figure out if you were talking about coach, coach, or if you have a coach.
jordan holmes
There's only one coach.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
There's only one coach.
dan friesen
I was also thinking he might have been talking about Jonathan Coachman.
jordan holmes
No, one coach.
Craig T. Nelson.
dan friesen
One true coach.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
All praise.
dan friesen
This call did not go well.
And this is not what you want when Humoto's in studio.
jordan holmes
No, that was kind of a bummer.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's actually labeled bummer caller.
But guess what?
We have something to pick us up.
Okay.
Out of the ashes of that phone call comes a new guest.
alex jones
Billy Corgan is our guest, or as I say it in Texas, drawl where he butcher names, Billy Corrigan.
Billy Corgan.
jordan holmes
That's why he married friends with him.
alex jones
You ought to pronounce his name right.
Billy Corgan.
And he's not in a hotel room.
He's flown in and landed.
He is in the airport right now.
So I can't wait to have him back in studio next time.
He's in Austin.
He's a regular listener, and he's just a great guy.
I learned that he was a listener through a man cow, a fellow friend.
And he's a really smart guy, one of the smartest people I've talked to, not just in music or entertainment, but period.
And Billy Corgan has actually taught me quite a bit.
I've talked to Hamamoto over here how to see the world and has helped me mature some.
And I think that's why, out of the blue, for the last decade or so, you see just random hit pieces, even though there's no scandals, no dirt, nothing.
That's why you see Anderson Cooper in the middle of the CIA attacking him.
dan friesen
So, yeah, dude, when I fucking pulled open this episode and it said the guests were Hamamoto and Billy Corgan, I was like, holy shit.
alex jones
Wow.
dan friesen
This is the goods.
So all these hatchet pieces about Billy Corgan are easily explained by Billy Corgan is a fucking asshole.
jordan holmes
Seems like it.
dan friesen
If you just look, this shortest Google search will turn up at least 10 instances of him being total dicks to bands he performs with.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so like everybody's got a, oh, yeah, Billy Corgan was a total asshole to me.
Right.
Kind of story.
Yeah, I mean, he's notorious.
jordan holmes
Most people.
Most people think Billy Corgan affected them through their music and helped them kind of grow that way.
And Alex is like, nah, he's kind of a shitty musician, but let me tell you about this guy in chemtrails.
Fucking made me mature quite a bit.
dan friesen
He's anti-vaccination.
We know that for sure.
He's a mess.
But also what?
At the end of that clip, he said that Anderson Cooper from the CIA putting out hit pieces about him.
jordan holmes
Hey, Coops.
dan friesen
And I don't know how to tell.
I don't know how to get into this.
jordan holmes
Just get into it, baby.
dan friesen
So Anderson Cooper had a segment on his show, Anderson Cooper 360, around this time that was called The Ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Solid pun.
dan friesen
I'm going to be honest with you.
jordan holmes
Wordplay.
dan friesen
It's local TV level hackery.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, it's just fillers.
jordan holmes
It's the top 10 list of shit.
dan friesen
Somewhat, yeah.
It's like an attempt at a comedy piece within the middle.
And you know what?
I think Anderson Cooper is actually really funny.
I've heard him on radio shows and I like him a lot.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Like he's been on back in the day, he was on Loveline a couple times.
And he's been, I've listened to a couple of clips of him on Howard Stern.
And he's a super personable, comfortable in his own skin, present, funny guy.
And this segment is not.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
It's not great.
You know, it's definitely not great.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But he had a bad producer.
It wasn't him.
Or does he come off as stiff and kind of shitty at it?
dan friesen
No, I just, I think it's, I think we are comedians, and when you're looking for a premise, you should try a little harder.
What happened was there was an issue of Pause Chicago, which pauses the no-kill shelter here, one of the big ones here in Chicago.
And Billy Corgan did a cover of the magazine with a couple of cats and the headline, Siamese Dream.
And so he was on the cover of Pause Chicago Magazine.
jordan holmes
I don't appreciate that.
dan friesen
And so at the same, around the same time, he did a commercial for a furniture store in Chicago.
And the point of Anderson Cooper's piece was like, you know, it's difficult to wrestle.
jordan holmes
Billy Corgan is an asshole.
dan friesen
It's difficult to wrestle with the idea of musicians getting older and that sort of thing.
He presents it a little bit.
jordan holmes
Ice Cube is in family films.
dan friesen
He presents it a little bit like, you know, it's sad that he's doing these things.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And that's.
Ice Cube is in family films.
dan friesen
That's shitty, though, because the reality is that Billy Corgan did do that cover for charity.
There was like a charity piece attached to it.
He didn't get paid for it or anything like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's no Ice Cube.
He's not taking that money home.
dan friesen
And he's a supporter of the Paws, and it is a no-kill shelter.
It's all great.
jordan holmes
Paws is great.
dan friesen
But the other piece.
jordan holmes
They should get Ice Cube to do something.
dan friesen
The other piece of it, too, though, is that furniture commercial.
That's not excusable that way.
But it is out of character.
You know, like it beyond saying you're washed up and it's a money thing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's also like you are avant-garde.
You were someone who, when I was younger, I thought was really creative and rocking.
jordan holmes
Snoop Dogg has a game show.
dan friesen
And the cover is weird.
It looks really weird.
If you look it up, it's mockable on its own.
Yeah.
You should have taken another shot, Billy.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It looks bad.
jordan holmes
Take two picks.
dan friesen
But then, even here, I'm going to play you the end of this Anderson Cooper piece, and you'll hear that he takes the piss out of himself at the end, too.
anderson cooper
You know what?
Maybe the internet is the real problem here.
There was a time that nobody outside of Chicago would have ever seen the cover of Paul's Chicago magazine.
But nowadays, you can't even pose for the cover of WebMD magazine.
Wait a minute, that's me on the cover of WebMD.
Okay, look, for the record, I have no memory of posing for the cover of WebMD, though apparently I did.
I gave an interview.
I don't know what I was doing on the cover of it.
dan friesen
Anyway.
Like I said, it's not good comedy, but he even calls himself out a little bit.
jordan holmes
He even got sad at the end there.
dan friesen
Kind of.
jordan holmes
That's not how you end that bit.
You don't end that bit, Maudlin.
dan friesen
It's not great, but at the same time, there is an element of it where he's like, hey, I do it too.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he was trying to make that point.
dan friesen
Yeah, he was trying to bring it full circle that it's like, I'm not really being that mean.
I just needed to fill a human interest in the middle.
jordan holmes
I'm taking the piss out of you.
It's not because I hate you or don't like you or disrespect you.
It's because, hey, we all do dumb shit, and it's fun to point it out.
dan friesen
The softest of hits possible.
And, oh, boy, almost the entire interview with Alex is about this.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Because Billy Corgan is a good idea.
jordan holmes
Billy Corgan's an asshole.
All right.
All right.
So if I understand the timeline correctly, Anderson Cooper makes a bad joke at Billy Corgan's expense.
dan friesen
Right.
Billy Corgan chooses.
jordan holmes
Billy Corgan goes on InfoWars, not realizing how much sadder that is than being on the cover of Paws Magazine.
dan friesen
I propose a solution to this that Billy Corgan could have taken very easily.
jordan holmes
Shut the fuck up.
dan friesen
No.
Oh, that's funny.
I wish they would have called and I could have told them about the charity and all that, but that's fine.
That's fine.
You know, people make jokes and whatever.
It's a misunderstanding.
Whatever.
jordan holmes
And then he goes, instead he goes on InfoWars and he's like, I'm taking that charity money back.
dan friesen
He's not like mad, but he is furious.
Anyway, let's get to the first clip.
This is nonsense.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
You heard my intro there.
There's so much to get into.
Let's talk about Anderson Cooper first.
Not that he even matters, has almost no viewers, dinosaur media, but at the same time you've got an album about to come out, the hit pieces begin.
dan friesen
Almost like your publicist is encouraging that sort of thing.
jordan holmes
Who would have guessed?
dan friesen
Maybe your publicist sent a copy of this cover to Anderson Cooper's producers.
jordan holmes
Probably a good idea.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
Because they want to slap you down.
billy corgan
Yeah, it was pretty strange.
I don't know if your listeners know the context of this, but I did a cover for a charity called Paws Chicago.
It's a no-kill shelter model.
Very proud.
I've helped raise, along with my partner in the band, Jeff, a quarter million dollars for the charity.
One of my proudest things that I've ever done is being involved in animal rights issues.
And it was about six months ago.
You know, the image went viral.
It's me and my rescue cats on the cover of the magazine.
Never in a million years did I think I start getting attacked.
And out of nowhere, four or five months later, there I am being made fun of.
No context for the fact that it's a charity magazine.
Basically presented as if I've fallen so far off the celebrity radar that I'm reduced to doing a cat magazine.
Then ties it into kind of a where has he gone?
Whatever happened to him kind of thing turned kind of mocking my participation in professional wrestling.
No mention of my new album, no mention of my successes, nothing.
As if I was some, you know, sort of I just disappeared off the celebrity map.
Very strange.
And I think he's probably been a bit shocked by the reaction because A, I fought back, which you're not supposed to do.
You're supposed to take your licks and just put your tail between your legs because the mighty CNN has spoken.
dan friesen
Or just be a grown-up about it.
You know, like maybe send them a request for a correction even.
That would be not too far off the mature.
jordan holmes
I actually, I find his argument to be somewhat convincing.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
I do.
He's a rock star, and he's an aging rock star, and he's not aging the way that the Rolling Stones do.
So he's feeling bitter because no matter how successful you get, you're always going to feel bitter about not being more successful.
And then he's got a good point.
That is the way that Cooper pulled that piece.
dan friesen
He's lived like 15, 20 years, 25 years pissed off that he's not Nirvana.
That is his existence.
And because of that, there is probably an oppression complex, much like Hamamoto's got like everybody in the InfoWars universe does, that he's being held down and that his greatness isn't being recognized.
jordan holmes
How does Hamamoto feel about Billy Corgan?
dan friesen
Loves him.
jordan holmes
Loves Billy Corgan?
dan friesen
I don't fucking know.
They didn't mention it.
jordan holmes
I want to know.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
This is the only thing I'm interested in now.
dan friesen
Let me ring that button.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
We could totally get Hamamoto on the phone.
dan friesen
Yeah, we probably could.
jordan holmes
We could totally do it.
dan friesen
Let's look into that.
Let's get our talent booker on that.
jordan holmes
The email system is our talent booker.
dan friesen
Look, here's as far as I'm willing to go with you on this.
I'm willing to agree that he has a good point.
He's got a good point.
It was misrepresented, but I don't believe super maliciously.
If you are an adult looking at that, your best play is to not get mad about it and to be like, you know, it's a human interest piece.
They kind of were.
jordan holmes
As an adult, I agree with you.
I think as a person promoting your next album.
dan friesen
But I think.
jordan holmes
I disagree.
I think the smart play there is to start a fucking shit war.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
And then get more people paying attention to you and more people realize that you have another album out because nobody's on.
Yeah, if he's playing the game, man, he's crushing it.
dan friesen
Well, okay.
jordan holmes
I'm on his team.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
I'm on Billy Corgan's team is the first time I've ever said that.
dan friesen
All right, fine.
Let's see him talk more about it.
unidentified
Okay.
billy corgan
Just to give you a little bit of the context on the other side of it.
Right after the Anderson Cooper thing kind of went viral.
I know you put a story on your site and I gave a quote for that.
dan friesen
I wonder if that's why it went viral.
billy corgan
When that sort of kind of ticked back up into the mainstream consciousness, I probably did about 10 interviews in the next couple of days.
And seven of the ten interviews asked about the Anderson Cooper flap.
And five of the seven people who interviewed me had no idea it was for a charity.
dan friesen
And then my response could have been, oh, it's interesting.
Actually, Paws Chicago is this really great no-kill shelter, and I was doing it to support them.
Everyone kind of misunderstands.
I understand.
Maybe I didn't do a good enough job of explaining that when my agent sent out the press release to Anderson Cooper's producer.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Maybe they could have done a better job for immediate release.
Billy Corgan does cover for charity instead of Billy Corgan does very weird-looking picture shoot.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is all bad.
jordan holmes
I'm telling you.
Okay.
What if it were Kanye?
dan friesen
Kanye's not coming on Infowars.
jordan holmes
I'm just saying, what if it were Kanye?
Kanye gets the same result from Anderson Cooper on a CNN piece.
Then Kanye goes on Fox News and goes on Hannity and he's like, fuck this guy.
I'm still on Kanye's side.
billy corgan
So that shows you that there's still a little affectionist.
You're counting on that low-information crowd to be on the headline.
alex jones
That's it.
They are targeting a low-information crowd.
But again, that crowd of zombies really don't even matter anymore.
I mean, I'm sad to say that it's like they're almost not even people.
dan friesen
Billy Corgan.
jordan holmes
Less on their side, though.
dan friesen
Billy Corgan, in his defense of himself, is like all these low-information people who only go off headlines.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'm not a fan of that one.
I'm not a fan of that one.
dan friesen
You will turn on Billy by the end of this.
jordan holmes
That's what this whole episode is about.
dan friesen
Like, look, I agree with you that he did a good thing for charity.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it was probably miscommunicated, but it's a fucking asshole.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
You're biased against assholes.
dan friesen
No, I'm fine with it.
Most of my friends are assholes.
jordan holmes
That's true.
I'm an asshole.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So anyway, here is, I don't know, let's talk more about Anderson Cooper.
alex jones
Speaking of Anderson Cooper, he really is a CIA guy.
He really was in the CIA.
He's not just an intern.
He really is the grandson of one of the biggest dynasties in the country.
What is it, the Astors?
So he's a little rich kid, given everything he's got.
He's failed.
He has some of the worst ratings on CNN.
So I would feel good, Billy, to just have this joke, this failure that was given everything.
I mean, you came from nowhere.
I came from nowhere.
He was given everything.
He's the opposite of Americana.
billy corgan
You know, I think what's interesting, to me, I try to stay out of the personal side of it.
Although I did say the other day I wasn't born with a silver spoon on my arse.
dan friesen
I tried to stay out of the personal stuff, except for this example of the other day when I got into the personal stuff.
billy corgan
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Well, he said he tried.
He didn't say he succeeded.
billy corgan
Succeeded.
I think it's very interesting that there is a level of arrogance here.
That crowd, whatever that crowd is, and I've hung with them.
I've been in those rooms and so have you.
I've been to those parties and so have you.
That crowd really thinks they can sort of flick us off their shoulder anytime they want.
And what they don't realize is that people like you and here we're just symbols of a much greater conversation.
They don't understand that a vast part of our country is waking up, is breaking this hypnosis, this grip of hypnosis, and they can't see it.
They literally can't see it.
They do not think.
They literally think they can just double down, triple down on these narratives and these false paradigms, and the public's just going to keep laughing them up.
dan friesen
Sounds a lot like Alex's listeners.
jordan holmes
Okay.
So, if I understand that correctly, Billy Corgan goes from, hey, CNN did this dumb piece about me.
I'm going to be all angry about it.
You're making me act like a seedless celebrity instead of saying that I'm doing a great thing for charity.
dan friesen
I have an album.
jordan holmes
Two, there's a great awakening coming.
CNN is the enemy.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, the only other thing they talk about other than Anderson Cooper in this interview is that everyone's asleep.
Yeah.
Like that.
There's a zombies on.
jordan holmes
What about his new album?
dan friesen
Also, I mean, they do talk about that a bit.
Billy Corgan did come from humble beginnings, but Alex didn't.
His dad was a dentist.
jordan holmes
Paid for his first show as well.
dan friesen
And he had multiple dental practices and owned tons of property in Austin.
jordan holmes
Oh, really?
dan friesen
Yeah, so he is a millionaire.
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
Well, then fuck that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I'm going to wait till this next clip plays, but I got some harsh truths about Anderson Cooper that Alex is probably not willing to deal with.
alex jones
Right.
How could you not be eyes open at this point?
And his mother was a Vanderbilt, the heir of the entire Vanderbilt fortune, not a Astor, but it doesn't matter.
They're interrelated.
And again, nothing wrong with being the last male heir of one of the biggest robber-barren horrible dynasties.
It's just, give us a break, Anderson Cooper, because I don't even get into fighting with these personalities.
But at the same time, I think it's important to not just respond and say, hey, I'm helping a cat charity.
Leave me alone.
Don't try to make me, you know, look like it has-been when I'm not.
Everybody knows that you've been popular all along.
dan friesen
You've been great, Billy.
Billy, you're the best.
You're the best, Billy.
jordan holmes
Have you tried this B12 that I'm getting out of here, Billy?
Billy, let me tell you something.
Dr. Hamamoto, it comes Dr. Hamamoto recommended.
If you want to get some more gay instruments in your Smashing Pumpkins band, come on down to Hamamoto's GayInstruments.com.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Anderson Cooper's mom, Gloria, is a Vanderbilt.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
She comes from the Vanderbilt family.
He is not the last male heir in the vast Vanderbilt fortune.
jordan holmes
No, I'm assuming they got a bunch.
dan friesen
He's been very clear in interviews throughout the entirety of his career that he was told at a very young age that he was disinherited from the family's wealth, that there was no trust fund for him.
He's interpreted it as, if I knew that there was a trust fund, I would have never tried to succeed.
I don't know a lot of people who have billions or millions of dollars waiting for them that have a drive to succeed.
And I'm very glad that they disinherited me when I was a kid.
That I had no inheritance.
A lot of people don't believe him, but the actual real likelihood is that there is no money.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, that's much more likely.
dan friesen
His mom, Gloria, inherited the equivalent of $33 million, not adjusted for inflation.
So it would be $33 million now in 1925.
That's a long fucking time ago.
jordan holmes
His mom is old.
How old is Anderson Cooper?
dan friesen
He's probably 50-something, maybe 52.
jordan holmes
He looks great.
dan friesen
Yeah, he does.
jordan holmes
He looks great.
dan friesen
He looks amazing.
jordan holmes
You know what it is?
Trust fund money.
dan friesen
I like Anderson Cooper.
jordan holmes
I get it.
dan friesen
I get it.
jordan holmes
That's your real issue here.
You're on Anderson Cooper's side against Billy Corgan.
dan friesen
I can be in commercial.
jordan holmes
I don't think you can.
I think you don't like Billy Corbin.
dan friesen
I'm calling it down the middle.
jordan holmes
Is this a benevolent minor celebrity situation that we're running into?
dan friesen
I've not met any of them.
jordan holmes
You met Billy Corgan or Anderson Cooper.
Who hurt you?
Dan, who hurt you?
dan friesen
No one.
Look, the issue is, I'm calling it down the middle.
I'm telling you that I think that it's correct that it's not right to clearly bring up that it is a charity thing that he did.
Although also, in 2009, Billy Corgan auctioned off the right to buy him lunch.
Someone paid $6,000 to get lunch with him, but had to pick up the tab.
jordan holmes
I mean.
dan friesen
It's a little asshole.
jordan holmes
I think you can.
So I'm just saying, I think you can deduct the price of the meal along with your charity.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They donated $6,000 and I would say probably like $142 worth of McDonald's.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Anderson Cooper's mom inherited the equivalent of $33 million in 1925 and family wrangling over the trust eventually accelerated her control of a slightly bigger share.
A lifetime of artistic and business pursuits presumably helped her independent cash flow, but unless she stopped taking distributions long ago, nine decades is a long time for a traditional trust to run.
People have muttered that the trust was actually empty by the 1950s.
And it's unclear how much money the designer jeans and perfume line that she put out actually made her.
By the time the perfume came out, she was already fighting her partners over a relatively insignificant $1.3 million.
A few years later, a Manhattan court ruled that her lawyer and psychiatrist had colluded to misappropriate a whopping $1.4 million from her accounts.
In the meantime, the IRS seized and liquidated her assets to pay a $2.5 million tax bill.
So there's a lot of indications that she's not going to be able to do.
They went from the business.
jordan holmes
No, they did a study on it, and most inherited wealth is dead by the fourth generation or something along those lines.
dan friesen
Absolutely, because it becomes diffuse.
There's so many people that are in on it.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
And the guy who made all the money, generally speaking, comes from a different place.
And if you're born into wealth, generally speaking, you're not going to be very good with money.
dan friesen
And so there's a really good chance that when Anderson Cooper was a child, his parents told him that he's disinherited and there is no inheritance waiting for him.
And he interpreted it as a way to stiffen him up and make him more thirsty for life or whatever.
But the reality is that there was no money there or there's a little bit of money, like a couple million.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Something like that.
But they had a lot of property and they were in with social classes.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And so there was the appearance of royalty or luxury lifestyle when they were really just probably pretty upper middle class or lower upper class or whatever.
They weren't like old money, the Carnegies of old or whatever.
So Alex's whole presentation about him.
jordan holmes
They weren't in the Great Gatsby or whatever.
dan friesen
He's just trying to stoke up sort of like class anger that he doesn't deserve to play with.
Because, Alex, you probably have more money than his mother.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
They probably started out at a relatively similar monetary position.
dan friesen
Right.
It's just the image of the Vanderbilts.
Right.
It comes with so much loaded baggage for Alex that he can't.
Prop to making a great point on the message boards.
Alex does come from royalty, Confederacy.
That's true.
jordan holmes
Good point.
dan friesen
Good point.
In his next clip, Billy Corgan.
Wow, he's been railing this entire time that Anderson Cooper has called him a washed-up celebrity on this puff piece human interest nonsense missed comedy segment.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I think in this clip, if you listen closely, Billy Corgan kind of says that his career is not going great.
billy corgan
You know, we have to remember, those of us that are awake, there are so many people that are in that horrible moment of like, wow, if this stuff is true, what do I do?
And we see that more and more now.
You see people waking up, and it's really shocking to them that they've been given a lie sort of all along.
And as you sit in bars and around coffee houses and talk to people about what's really going on, you can see that it's not so much that they don't know that something's happening.
They just don't know what to do about it.
So we have to continue to prepare the way.
And, you know, this is not some begging appeal to be supported as an artist.
But what I would say to everybody is, is the artists in many ways are some of the most dangerous people in the world because we have that street credibility to go out and speak some gospel.
And that's what makes me dangerous is once I get, once my career starts rolling in the right direction again, well, here I come.
Because, well, how is it possible?
I mean, they've tried to kill me how many times.
And, you know, the Anderson Cooper is just a small example getting kicked in the shin.
jordan holmes
He did it.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
He did it.
I wrote down the moment he started talking about all that stuff.
I wrote down go to an ad pivot, just like Alex Jones.
He just nailed the Alex Jones.
That's why I'm dangerous.
That's what I'm doing.
So once we get that career going, once we get that money going, you did write that down.
I wrote down go to an ad pivot.
dan friesen
Wow.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and he fucking nailed it.
He listens to Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Yeah, he probably does.
He's got his.
jordan holmes
He got that down.
dan friesen
But at the same time, even beyond that.
jordan holmes
They're afraid of me because I'm the leader of the people who are awake.
They can't stop me, which is why you guys need to go out and buy my new album.
dan friesen
And that is what happens next.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They do talk about buying his album.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
But at the same time, first of all, I'm getting very impressed with your ability to pick out these subtle versions of the ad pivot.
jordan holmes
You have hit me with so many ad pivots at this point.
I'm starting to become a connoisseur.
dan friesen
This is the education.
That's what it is.
I'm a better educator than Hamamoto at this point.
And show you the way.
Look through Alex's bullshit.
jordan holmes
Ooh, we got to get you a tenor class at the University of Missouri.
dan friesen
You know what?
jordan holmes
How to go to an ad pivot?
dan friesen
You know what?
When you said he did it, I thought what you were saying, and I was going to double down on, was that I think he gave away that he probably planted the story about paws.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Because when he says in there, my career gets going in the right direction again.
Yeah.
He's this blustery nonsense about like, oh, you're saying that I'm washed up.
My career's not going in the right direction.
Right.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
What are you doing?
jordan holmes
Well, the reason it's not going in the right direction is because not enough people are awake.
Not enough people know they've got to red pill it and get rid of this CNN Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt bullshit and start listening to the new Smashing Pumpkins album out in two weeks.
dan friesen
Here is one of the most grandiose and nonsensical plugs for Billy Corgan's album that happens right after this.
alex jones
If people go out and support independent artists that are speaking out against tyranny, it's great music as well, and buy your album at SmashingPumpkinsNexus.com and then play it for friends and then ask that it be played on the radio or share it with their friends.
dan friesen
Buy it a billboard.
alex jones
How you bring the system down.
You've got to go further and decide you want to promote cultures of liberty.
I can't tell you historically, how many kings, how many corrupt dynasties were brought down by a jester telling jokes that became viral in ancient times, or by the local band, or even one guy with his they didn't have guitars back then you know one guy with his little mandolin or whatever, singing songs about the corrupt nobility that would change it so.
So a song or an idea that isn't in the hands of the system could bring them down, and that's why they target people like you.
dan friesen
I think that's matrix shit, uh.
jordan holmes
But at the same time, how do you get rid of oppressive regimes, dan?
dan friesen
Well, I know that this machine kills fascists.
jordan holmes
That is exactly what he's doing right there.
He's doing the full-on.
You don't?
You don't go out and do any activism.
What you do?
You wait for somebody to write a song and you buy it.
You buy it.
dan friesen
You buy the stuff that I promote.
jordan holmes
You buy the song.
Yeah, that's it.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's shameful, but then, at the same time, I I i've studied a bit of history in my life.
I know that you're a student of history as well.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's not how it works.
dan friesen
Uh, do you know of any kings that were brought down by jesters or song, or is that just an archetype, that artists tell the people, oh boy um, let's see uh, Henry The Eighth uh-huh, he was brought down by uh uh flatulus, Flatulus, the great, right?
jordan holmes
Who is a Greek time-traveling farter?
dan friesen
He did mime farts.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Right.
Let's see.
No.
The answer is no.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
The 60s did shit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Where's our new protest music?
Well, it didn't fucking work last time.
Where's our new protest anything?
dan friesen
I mean, Billy Corgan even gets into that a little bit.
He's like, where's the political music now?
Like, who cares?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But anyway.
jordan holmes
It went to hip-hop, asshole.
dan friesen
So now Alex gets weird because they're already talking about the potency of song and all that stuff.
And in this next clip, Alex reveals something real weird.
alex jones
Now we're going to post this video later today on Facebook and Twitter.
It needs to go viral because he has a lot of courage saying what he's saying because they really come after people.
And I've got to be very careful here what I'm going to say about John Lennon.
But they made a film six, seven years ago that won a bunch of awards that had the declassified documents where Strom Thurman, the senator, and others said, we want him taken out.
We know the suspicious way he was killed.
I'm just going to stop right there.
But I've talked to the highest level people and been told stuff about what really went on and then what happened to them afterwards and everything.
And I can tell you, the FBI and the CIA killed John Lennon.
And then they went on a campaign to cover up what they did with their Patsy.
And so that's why when we talk about this, folks, it's very dangerous.
dan friesen
What aren't you telling people?
You told people everything.
He's just like, look, I can't tell you what I know, but here's all of it.
jordan holmes
Is that a thing?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Do people believe that?
dan friesen
Alex might.
jordan holmes
Do people believe that the FBI and the CIA, working together, which they don't traditionally do, especially now back then, killed John Lennon in Britain?
dan friesen
If you're awake.
oh yeah on foreign wait he was in New York wasn't he Oh, that's right.
jordan holmes
He wasn't.
dan friesen
Yeah, he was at that house.
jordan holmes
Yeah, sorry.
They picked the right time.
dan friesen
It would have been funnier.
jordan holmes
It would have been a lot funnier.
dan friesen
It would have been much more unrealistic.
No, I don't think.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Well, unless that was all part of the cover-up and they killed him back in Liverpool when he was nine.
dan friesen
I mean, some people believe that Paul McCartney is still alive.
So, I mean, it takes all kinds.
You understand?
It's weird.
Anyway, this next clip is.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
This next clip is on.
jordan holmes
I got it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
This next clip is unfortunate in hindsight.
Because they start talking about how I don't even remember how they got onto this topic.
It's not important, but this is dumb.
alex jones
Almost all local news is written in New York or L.A. or D.C.
This is on record and packaged and sent.
You tell them a local story, and then they send down what you say.
Or it's read off a teleprompter and it's a national story.
billy corgan
Right.
So if there's a man in a high castle somewhere, there's not a lot of them.
But they're able to, through their control and their media control, sort of manipulate the storyline.
Your listeners know.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Your listeners know.
I don't know what he's alluding to.
The listeners know.
jordan holmes
So on local news, when you're watching your local news action six or whatever it is, there's a good chance that they don't know what the story actually is.
Right.
And only from New York or L.A., they are broadcasting teleprompter things.
So the people sitting around at the desk are all reading for the first time local news.
dan friesen
Well, there's one.
I mean, that's nonsense.
But at the same time, I want to say one thing really quick before I dive into this that's going to be damning.
The man in the high castle wasn't about that.
As a Philip K. Dick fan, don't use that as your metaphor.
I know you visually think it makes sense.
jordan holmes
Oh, there's a man in a high cast.
dan friesen
Because that's not what the man in the high castle was doing.
jordan holmes
No, it's about a man in a high castle.
dan friesen
No, that's not what was going on.
jordan holmes
Don't you remember catching the riots about a dude catching all that fucking rye?
dan friesen
So much rye.
jordan holmes
So much fucking rye.
dan friesen
So Alex's conception of what is going on with local news is sort of spiritually correct, but it's not correct in the way he conceives of it.
Right.
jordan holmes
What he's talking about is Sinclair broadcasting.
dan friesen
Bingo.
jordan holmes
Unfortunately, they are expanding and completing totalian control over all local news everywhere and forcing people to run their propaganda.
dan friesen
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
That's bad.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
It's pretty interesting, too, if you look at what's happened with Sinclair since Trump got into office.
jordan holmes
A lot of good things, strangely enough.
It seems like they're coming out as a big winner.
dan friesen
Yeah, Monday morning, this is back in, I believe, March of this year.
Yes, that's correct.
Oh, May, excuse me.
This is an article from Common Dreams, which just aggregates stuff from other places.
This is from the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting organization.
Monday morning, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the conservative media behemoth that owns more local news stations than any other company in the country, just got even bigger.
It announced that it was buying Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, creating what Bloomberg calls a TV Goliath.
The purchase, which gives Sinclair a staggering reach of nearly 69% of the U.S. population, would have...
jordan holmes
Not happening.
No high fives for that.
dan friesen
That would have been in violation of ownership restrictions just weeks ago.
But last month, the Trump-appointed FCC chair Ajit Pai reinstated the UHF discount, an outdated loophole that allowed media conglomerates to exceed the nation's 39% cap on ownership of media stuff.
Sinclair made a $420 million deal to buy Bonton Media Group the very next day.
This sequence of events, quote, sure looks like a quid pro quo, as Craig Aaron of the media advocacy group Free Press has noted.
Months ago, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, told business executives, according to Politico, that, quote, Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better coverage.
The deal, Politico reported, was that Sinclair would give Trump more uncritical coverage in exchange for more access to Trump and the campaign.
Now, Trump appears to be using the considerable power of the Federal Communications Commission as his own personal ATM for political currency.
jordan holmes
And man, Trump's son is fucking stupid.
He's so dumb.
How did these guys win?
Anyways, Adjit Pie, well, just recently they're not done.
Yeah, I was going to say the one that was just a couple of weeks ago is fucking insane.
dan friesen
Well, also, you got to take into consideration that in the summer of this year, in June or July, excuse me, this is from an article in Politico.
Even while under fire for requiring its outlets to run conservative content, Sinclair Broadcast Group is increasing the, quote, must-run segments across its affiliates, featuring former Trump White House official Boris Abfasian to nine times a week, the company confirmed Monday.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you have to run it.
dan friesen
A must-run nine times a week to run 9% of the coverage in the country of a conservative propaganda piece that is masked to look like local news being presented by a former Trump White House official.
Also, they have pieces that are made by former Trump communications advisor Jason Miller.
jordan holmes
I'm not seeing any red flags there.
dan friesen
Multiple Trump people have gone over and started to actively work for the centralized Sinclair broadcast company.
jordan holmes
Not seeing any problems.
dan friesen
Big problems.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
The biggest thing that the FCC just did is allow local there used to be a rule.
There used to be a rule that you had to have at least six or seven local media outlets.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And they just got rid of that, which means that Sinclair Media is only going to expand its total domination of local news markets.
It is a nightmare.
It's interesting to me that it's as far as far-reaching consequences have gone, Ajit Pai has been the most damaging person in the Trump cabinet.
I mean, it's the Trump appointees.
In terms of the future, I think Ajit Pai is probably going to kill us all.
dan friesen
It's a real stacked field.
jordan holmes
It's a tight race.
It's a tight race.
dan friesen
It's real tough to make that kind of declaration, but it looks bad.
jordan holmes
But none of his legislation has really gotten through.
His Muslim bans have been stopped by the courts.
There's a legal challenge to just about everything.
The only thing that has apparently unilateral control is the FCC.
And Ajipai has singularly destroyed net neutrality, destroyed any protections against monopoly.
He's expanded the power of media conglomerates more than I think anybody's ever done.
And he's gotten rid of the need for equal internet access.
He's given a huge boon to your Comcast and your AT ⁇ T and all that shit in order to make sure that if you're poor and in the middle of nowhere, they don't have to service you because that costs them money and they don't get as much as they want.
dan friesen
Yep.
And the very idea that there was some sort of a deal about coverage for access.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, that's fine.
dan friesen
No, but just the idea that that is the predicate to the antecedent that we're seeing now.
jordan holmes
That's totally fine.
dan friesen
It is not fine.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, that's how government works, Dan.
Backroom deals.
You got to get a little.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
I don't.
I mean, I do, but I don't.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, is that any different from a guy like Roger Ailes who stands to make so much more money?
A little different?
I disagree.
dan friesen
I think it's a bigger con.
jordan holmes
Okay.
I mean, it's not as good a con.
dan friesen
But it is.
jordan holmes
It's not as good a situation there.
They're not fighting it.
dan friesen
into fake uh local news making it appear that these are uh not uh centralized reports from biased people is going to do an incredibly insidious job of radicalizing people in smaller communities you're going to have the output of that be i mean i guess that's the same thing if they just watched fox in small towns too Exactly.
It's all bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's all bad.
jordan holmes
It's the same thing as Roger Ailes, who stands to gain so much for Trump winning as opposed to...
dan friesen
Isn't he dead?
unidentified
Uh...
jordan holmes
Or no, not him.
Who's the fuck who runs Tribune?
who runs fox news the guy who owns it wasn't i mean roger ailes but he's didn't he die No, not the guy who owns it.
dan friesen
I don't know.
Murdoch?
jordan holmes
Murdoch.
dan friesen
I think he's dead, too.
No.
jordan holmes
Who the fuck is it?
dan friesen
Everyone's dead.
jordan holmes
Why don't I remember anyone?
dan friesen
We're dead.
Remember?
jordan holmes
Oh, we are dead.
dan friesen
Yeah, everyone's dead.
Anyways, so this is all bad.
jordan holmes
Owner stands to gain a lot.
Trump wins because he uses his massive media company to run propaganda for him.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this is all bad.
But we have one more clip left, and I'm not the kind of guy who's going to make everything a downer.
I'm going to leave you with a punchline.
billy corgan
You know, sometimes when I'm sitting around a table and your name comes up or I say some things that I've learned through you and through other people, they get into kind of games about accuracy.
Like, well, how can you know that that's true?
And all I got to say again and again is like, look, come on, something's off here.
Something's wrong.
And people like you, people like me, we don't have to be accurate.
That's not our job.
Our job is not to be perfect.
We don't hold ourselves to be perfect.
We don't hold ourselves up to be, you know, keepers or tooth tellers or something like that.
We're just pointing it, as you often say, you know, you're just pointing and saying, uh, what do you see that big thing that's coming down the road?
dan friesen
I do.
Alex agrees.
He's like, yeah.
It's bad just having him say that.
It's damning to be like, you're such a star fucker that you will agree with Billy Corgan saying literally the opposite of how you conceive of yourself.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Hey, listen, we don't have to be truthful.
dan friesen
Guys like us.
jordan holmes
We don't even say we're truthful.
dan friesen
Guys like us, we don't have to be accurate.
jordan holmes
Nah.
dan friesen
Never has there been a truer thing said on the Alex Jones show.
jordan holmes
That's probably true.
dan friesen
That's amazing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Fuck all of you.
Not our listeners, but fuck.
jordan holmes
Definitely Billy Corgan.
dan friesen
Fuck all this.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
How did you do it?
You turned me on Billy Corgan.
It was all about celebrities are allowed to be assholes, and now he's a fucking asshole.
dan friesen
He's the wrong kind of asshole.
jordan holmes
He's the wrong kind of asshole.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So anyway.
jordan holmes
It's very disappointing.
dan friesen
So anyway, power rankings.
Amamoto, still the number one crazy.
jordan holmes
He's tops.
Oh, man.
Fucking, how is it that Alex is such a star fucker?
dan friesen
So stupid.
jordan holmes
If anybody, if anybody else who wasn't famous, like if even if even Pieczenik or somebody like that, who was smart enough to know that he would never, he would never challenge him and be like, listen, Alex, you're not accurate all the time.
Alex would be like, I'm 99% accurate.
dan friesen
Even when I'm wrong, I'm right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
I can see the future in New Year's intro today, but back in the future.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Like that whole thing.
But if it's somebody famous, he'll agree to anything you say, Billy Corgan.
dan friesen
Yeah, and I imagine.
I imagine, you know, a week later, when he listened back to this episode, he had a thought something like this.
alex jones
I make a lot of mistakes.
I say stupid stuff sometimes.
I mean, I hear my show rebroadcast and go, oh my God, that sounds horrible.
I don't mean that.
dan friesen
Yep.
I imagine that's probably what you would like to think about.
jordan holmes
Solid punch.
Solid punch line there, Dave.
dan friesen
Fuck you, Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Fuck you, Alex Jones.
Fuck you, Billy Corgan.
dan friesen
Congratulations on just out of nowhere choosing an amazing date to go over.
There's a lot of bullshit.
jordan holmes
There's a lot of bullshit in that episode.
dan friesen
Yeah, so this has been the show.
We've been back to 2014, and now we will come back to the present.
jordan holmes
Every time we do a time travel episode, we never find what we do.
Yeah, exactly.
Every time somebody's like, oh, this is when this big thing happened, I was like, I want to hear what he has to say about the torture report.
And you're like, yes, but how about Hamamoto and Billy Corgan, too?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
How about Hamamoto and Billy Corgan more?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's like, uh, what about torture's bad?
Anyways.
What happened to that Malaysian plane?
Oh, Alex Jones is going to eat a hamburger covered in Supermale Vitality.
What the fuck is going on?
This show's ridiculous.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
I fucking love it.
dan friesen
This has been fun.
jordan holmes
So fucking stupid.
dan friesen
If you guys want to learn more about Alex Jones or us in particular, you can go to the bottom.
jordan holmes
Or Billy Corgan.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
We have a lot of news on him.
unidentified
We're going to do a lot more Billy Corgan pieces from now on.
dan friesen
You can find us over at knowledgefight.com.
That is our website.
jordan holmes
You can find us.
dan friesen
Writing content.
Jordan, you got a blog up there every Thursday.
jordan holmes
You're throwing down some great material every time now.
Sure, sure, sure.
You can also follow us on Twitter.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
At knowledge.
And then there's an underscore.
dan friesen
There is.
jordan holmes
And then there's the word fight.
dan friesen
We're also on Facebook.
jordan holmes
We are.
unidentified
You can go to iTunes, download it, subscribe to it.
dan friesen
Why not?
jordan holmes
Leave a review.
dan friesen
Couldn't hurt.
jordan holmes
All of those things?
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it couldn't hurt.
I don't know if it helps.
Who knows?
All right, that's been.
dan friesen
Fuck you.
jordan holmes
May the wolf choke on your flesh.
dan friesen
Fuck you.
So I know our website is knowledgefight.com, and I think that's a pretty good name for our website.
jordan holmes
I think it's a solid name.
dan friesen
I think it's a decent name.
jordan holmes
I was hoping for we love mainstream media attacks, but to be fair, there was a guy.
dan friesen
He's actually sitting on the domain name that I wanted.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No way.
What domain name?
dan friesen
No morefakenews.com.
jordan holmes
Oh, how did he get that one?
dan friesen
He got it back when it was Angel Cities or Angel Fighter.
GeoCities.
GeoCities, yep.
And he still has not remodeled the page.
I'm very disappointed in it.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
Go to Squarespace, John Rappaport.
Seriously.
jordan holmes
We don't advertise for Squarespace.
We don't do ads for Squarespace unless they pay us.
dan friesen
No free ride.
jordan holmes
That's a podcast rule.
dan friesen
I use Squarespace and it's pretty convenient.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
It's not an ad.
It's just a statement of fact.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
John Rappaport, you should really update that website because it looks like a hot pile of garbage.
jordan holmes
And until you update that website, I want your URL.
dan friesen
Until you update that website, John Rappaport, it's my duty to tell you that you can go fuck yourself, John Rappaport.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
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