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Dec. 19, 2017 - Knowledge Fight
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#112: December 15, 2017

Today, Dan tells Jordan all about the Dec. 15, 2017 episode of The Alex Jones Show. The episode is long, and ends with your hosts rambling a fair amount, and getting very wrapped up in discussing the finer points that Alex does not understand about people with disabilities.

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a
alex jones
31:37
d
dan friesen
01:36:29
j
jordan holmes
01:05:34
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r
roger stone
00:30
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
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're a couple dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
That is indeed what we do, Dan.
dan friesen
That is our modus operandi.
jordan holmes
Dan, if there was some sort of, like, okay, so if you were going to see the new Star Wars film.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
Right?
unidentified
Which you just did.
jordan holmes
It is amazing.
Right?
unidentified
It's so good.
jordan holmes
If there was, like, you know, you're not too interested in Star Wars.
dan friesen
No, not really.
jordan holmes
That's not really your thing.
dan friesen
It's for nerds.
jordan holmes
So what if I told you there was...
unidentified
I don't believe that at all.
jordan holmes
So what if I told you there was a hook, though?
dan friesen
To Star Wars.
jordan holmes
Yeah, even if you weren't interested in Star Wars as a whole, this movie has a hook.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
John Popper is in it?
jordan holmes
This movie has...
All Blues Traveler as the soundtrack.
dan friesen
Oh my god.
jordan holmes
The entire album.
dan friesen
I am in.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
See?
jordan holmes
Now, just like that hook, so do we have a hook, and that is...
dan friesen
I know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I don't know a goddamn thing about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
That is correct.
So, guys, we're going to be jumping in.
What we're going to be going over is last week Friday's episode of the Alex Jones program.
That would be December 15th, 2017.
Some nonsense goes down and standard introduction.
Shit's fucked up.
jordan holmes
Can we just pre-record that introduction?
dan friesen
Might as well.
jordan holmes
That'll save you some time editing.
Just drop it in there.
dan friesen
Shit's fucked up.
So before we get going, here is an out of context drop of Alex from that episode.
alex jones
Jesus loves Satan.
Kill your children.
dan friesen
Great.
So...
There's a lot of stuff going on in Alex's world here at the middle of December.
Coming on, I would say, the two-year anniversary of him losing his soul.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
And joining up with Team Trump.
Alex is in a very precarious position.
jordan holmes
That gives him a lot of credit for having a soul.
dan friesen
I think he probably did at one point.
All humans are...
I don't know if souls exist.
Let's move on from that.
jordan holmes
No, I think it's time to get into a metaphysical conversation.
dan friesen
Well, theologians would say.
So, Alex, we just...
jordan holmes
Whereas I would go with William Somerset, mom, and...
All right.
dan friesen
So, you asked me before the show, is this going to be some Roy Moore shit?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And no, it's not.
He's already moved on from that loss, and...
jordan holmes
Meaning everybody but Roy Moore has moved on from the loss.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
I think Bannon's even been like, oh, fuck this.
jordan holmes
Dude, dude, get the fuck out of here.
dan friesen
Lost cause.
I didn't do that.
I didn't do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Hey, guess what?
Now we all agree you're a pedophile.
Surprise!
You lost the election, now you go to jail.
dan friesen
Bannon is trying to play the role of Shaggy.
It wasn't me.
Weren't you boosting for him, like, up to the day of the election?
It wasn't me.
jordan holmes
Nah, I never...
I don't know.
I would never support a pedophile.
unidentified
That'd be crazy.
dan friesen
Oh, you give another woman access to your villa!
jordan holmes
That's Shaggy's.
unidentified
It wasn't me.
dan friesen
It used to be one of my karaoke jams.
jordan holmes
I got it.
I got it.
dan friesen
All right.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
I think everybody got the Shaggy reference.
dan friesen
Alex, the day after.
jordan holmes
And then you double dipped on the Shaggy reference.
That's trouble.
dan friesen
Anyway.
jordan holmes
Trying to get that magic back.
unidentified
I got to know how to play.
dan friesen
Anyway.
In the day after the election, the Alabama senatorial election, Alex tried to paint a bunch of very soft narratives about voter suppression against white people.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Which is great.
jordan holmes
Famous issue in this country today.
dan friesen
And then he tried to start up a conspiracy theory about them not maintaining the voting records, that there was a Supreme Court decision, an Alabama Supreme Court decision, that the Democrats and the globalists...
We're trying to pull, wherein they wouldn't maintain the records of the voting stuff.
jordan holmes
And they did it brilliantly by first...
Putting all Republicans as Supreme Court justices in Alabama.
dan friesen
Correct.
jordan holmes
That's the Democrats' first brilliant move there.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Second, fostering a need, a need to suppress black votes.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
And that's how the Democrats came up with this brilliant plan to...
And what was the result they were going for again?
dan friesen
I don't know.
It's so convoluted.
It's nonsensical.
Pretty quick, Alex realized, ooh, this doesn't have legs.
This is all Republicans who did this.
It was actually the Democrats who were saying maintain the records.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Be that as it may, he's like, ah, fuck it.
So he jumps ship on that narrative.
And most of his time since then has been spent on trying to tar and feather Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein.
jordan holmes
Not a bad idea?
dan friesen
Because I think he started to get the reality in mind that like, oh, we're doing a lot of work trying to get Trump to fire Mueller.
But even if Trump fires Mueller...
jordan holmes
Which he can't do.
dan friesen
He can.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
I believe he can.
jordan holmes
Not legally.
dan friesen
I think he can.
jordan holmes
No, it's against the law.
dan friesen
I think he can, though.
jordan holmes
He cannot force the Department of Justice to fire a special counsel.
That's the whole point of having a special counsel.
dan friesen
I think he can, and I think it would be a massive disaster.
But I think he does have the authority to.
It would just be like, oh no.
But even if he does, they can just get someone to replace him and keep the investigation going.
It's a much better idea to attack the Department of Justice itself.
Vis-a-vis Rod Rosenstein.
jordan holmes
Which he appointed.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
These people are stupid.
dan friesen
Alex is trying to pivot to that, and a lot of the work he's doing is through the discussion of those texts that came out between the FBI agents that were calling Trump an idiot.
jordan holmes
The biggest story in the history of the world.
other that Trump was an idiot.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
And it turns out they also were talking shit on Hillary and Sanders, too, along the way.
Of course.
dan friesen
But the more important thing is the reason that they were communicating, this guy struck, and I can't remember the lady's name, who were communicating through these work phones.
jordan holmes
They were having sex.
Yeah.
unidentified
They were banging.
dan friesen
They were using those phones because if they used their other phones, they might get caught by their spouses.
Right.
unidentified
They were cheating.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
So that's really more...
dan friesen
I don't really think that there's much compelling shit going on here.
jordan holmes
I challenge every Republican politician to not, to release their text messages around the Trump campaign.
dan friesen
Oh boy.
jordan holmes
I guarantee they will all have, if not the same text, very worse text.
dan friesen
What are we gonna do?
jordan holmes
Yeah, we're fucked, everybody.
This guy is a fucking moron.
dan friesen
So he spent a lot of time on that, and we don't really need to go over that too much, because I really just don't think that there's much There in terms of substance.
But there is one funny moment that I don't have a clip of, but it bears mentioning.
Alex is turning on Paul Ryan a good bit.
jordan holmes
Good.
dan friesen
Well, he never really liked him that much, but at one point, he calls him the darling of the left.
unidentified
Ooh!
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
Paul Ryan.
dan friesen
The darling of the left.
jordan holmes
Paul Ryan is the darling of the left.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Alrighty.
dan friesen
So, I have two clips.
jordan holmes
I guess that means we're allowed to kill the ones we love?
Is that how that works?
dan friesen
So, I have two clips here from the Thursday show, actually, because I actually cut these clips accidentally.
Okay.
But they're worth it.
So I have two clips from Thursday.
jordan holmes
How do you accidentally cut clips?
dan friesen
It's a long story.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So we'll listen to these and then we'll get into Friday proper, but they're relevant because that whole McCabe-Rosenstein narrative isn't really present as much on Friday, but it's been a big part of his last week.
jordan holmes
Real quick, before you get into the clip, do you think people have souls?
dan friesen
Look, theologians would say.
alex jones
The arrogance, the recklessness, the fake confidence that criminals and scum and betas engage in when betas finally get in a man's world and get together as a group of betas and start engaging in criminal activity.
They just do things alphas would never do.
I keep learning that it's betas who are the ones that get together and commit the really big crimes.
They're all a bunch of chicken-neck, anti-American trash.
I mean, you read their emails, their texts.
I mean, these are people that have a big, giant you-know-what for America and just hate flyover country and hate bitter clingers and hate Christians and just hate everything.
I mean, this is a group of garbage.
But you've got to be garbage.
If people are in your business, which is our country, robbing it, they're going to hate the people they're robbing.
It's what criminals do.
They always demonize who they're robbing.
And they always think they're invalidating.
until they get caught robbing.
unidentified
So they're the good guys?
alex jones
And then they think threats and intimidation and garbage work on people who are alphas because they're betas and it would work on them.
Make up whatever you want.
Do whatever you want.
Hit me with your best shot, baby.
Fire away, because you are all going to prison!
dan friesen
I think he's projecting a little bit.
jordan holmes
I don't understand.
Wait, so first thing he says...
dan friesen
All that stuff about betas is about McCabe and Rosenstein.
jordan holmes
Okay, sure.
dan friesen
And all the...
And Mueller, probably, too.
jordan holmes
Whatever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's all these liberals who are...
jordan holmes
I prefer to think of that entire thing as completely divorced from any reality, and it's just like his philosophy on...
dan friesen
It kind of is.
jordan holmes
Exactly, right?
dan friesen
He's espousing some sort of belief in, like, you soft pussies, you're the real problem in the world, not us bully alphas.
jordan holmes
Right.
And yet, at the same time...
So they would do things that alphas would never do, which, first question...
What are we talking about there?
dan friesen
Well, we're talking about the remnants and sort of, let's say, intellectual tradition of the men's rights activist communities.
jordan holmes
Great, great.
dan friesen
That's basically what he's operating off of.
unidentified
Gotcha.
dan friesen
I'm guaranteeing he's just sort of repeating half-remembered things Cernovich told him.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm guessing that's what he's expressing there.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
The betas are the ones you gotta worry about.
jordan holmes
I mean, I guess...
I guess if you've seen Revenge of the Nerds and you're a lady, that's probably true.
dan friesen
Certainly.
jordan holmes
They didn't treat them well.
dan friesen
Did not.
jordan holmes
And then he goes into how the betas are actually understandable in doing what they're doing because they're watching the country get taken apart.
dan friesen
You flip the teams, I think.
jordan holmes
I think he flipped the teams.
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
I think that's my issue here.
dan friesen
I don't think we could ever accuse Alex of being intellectually consistent within a sentence.
But what he's saying, I believe, is that these betas, they hate the country because they're robbing it.
jordan holmes
Oh, because they...
dan friesen
They're the ones robbing him.
jordan holmes
So I have an issue with his pronoun usage.
That's what really is going on right here.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So anyway, this next clip from Thursday the 14th is a little bit more troubling because he spends a good bit of the show really just playing clips of Putin.
He spends...
jordan holmes
I mean, now?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Is now the time?
dan friesen
Here's a clip of this and some dogshit analysis he's going to throw in.
unidentified
They limit the powers of the president who's been elected.
It means that they don't have respect for those people, those Americans who elected Donald Trump.
alex jones
And that's it.
Vladimir Putin.
Your media, your political elite do not respect the American people.
They do not respect you.
And they're trying to overthrow...
Your will and what you did constitutionally.
And we've caught the FBI and the Justice Department working with leftist groups in Russia to try to dummy up fake witnesses.
And it's all fallen through.
It's not real to frame our elected president.
dan friesen
So he's getting at that Christopher Steele stuff.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Okay.
What?
dan friesen
Putin is right, according to Alex.
jordan holmes
I already assumed that.
dan friesen
That the media is trying to disrespect the public.
Which is great.
jordan holmes
I feel like they're not.
I feel like we're all trying to disrespect the public that is fucking stupid.
dan friesen
There is that.
But it feeds into Alex's narratives about fake news and what have you.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And it turns out that to a certain extent, those are...
Russia's objectives to begin with, so Alex is really just now mirroring back what he has already mirrored from Russian sources.
Interesting.
Those drawings, those optical illusions where there's mirrors bouncing back and forth.
It's a little bit of that.
There's this weird visual...
jordan holmes
The infinite eye.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
There's this echo chamber back and forth of Alex responding to Putin, saying things he remembers and recognizes from his own narratives that themselves were mirroring Russian narratives to begin with.
It's very strange to figure out.
jordan holmes
I love...
There's something that, regardless of how you feel, having the balls.
If you are a Russian person, to go on TV and say, they don't respect the will of the American people.
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
It's wild.
jordan holmes
I think I love that more than, the balls on that.
We definitely influence your election with lies and bullshit, and you don't even respect your people.
dan friesen
We tried to drum up extremist opinion and racial tension and all that in order to facilitate a false, well, truly racist, but false populist uprising behind a very easily blackmailable and deeply in-debt guy who's surrounded by mobsters.
Why don't you respect the will of your people?
jordan holmes
And you guys don't even respect them!
unidentified
Yeah, what the fuck?
jordan holmes
We worked so hard to gain your respect.
dan friesen
I mean, they did.
jordan holmes
I mean, what?
unidentified
Huh?
jordan holmes
Hold on.
dan friesen
Pronoun reference.
jordan holmes
Who did I use?
Wait, wait, no, no.
dan friesen
Hold on.
So that's most of what I found interesting on Thursday and accidentally cut clips of.
There's another part where he's talking with Roger Stone and he sort of speculates...
jordan holmes
Hey, Roger, you're going to jail, right?
Yeah, I'm pretty much going to jail.
dan friesen
Roger does bring up that amicus brief that, if you guys don't know, John Brennan and Clapper and 14 other people signed an amicus brief.
jordan holmes
Everybody who knows classified information is like, we're not going to tell you why, but these fucking guys did it.
dan friesen
We know things.
We can't tell you why.
But Roger Stone's a fucking asshole.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know!
If you're filing the brief in the first place with your classified information, it's very clear you're like, oh yeah, these guys did some shit.
dan friesen
I understand why they do it, though.
That makes sense to me.
You have to protect processes and what have you.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
Aren't we past that?
Isn't it about time for us to...
dan friesen
Apparently we're not.
jordan holmes
Isn't it about time for us to stop worrying about a lot of those laws that made sense before we had a lunatic in charge?
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
You know, like, shouldn't the FBI...
No, like, former FBI people...
dan friesen
It's a bigger question, I think, than...
jordan holmes
Just be like, hey, normally we would never do this.
It's a bad idea to release classified information.
We don't know what the response really will be.
Also, Trump is a criminal.
He communicated with the Russian government to steal our election.
Roger Stone is involved.
And that means...
dan friesen
He is a local cutout.
He is a person who is clearly compromised.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
By process, so is Alex.
I mean, Alex even said within the last week, if I was a Russian agent, I didn't know it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He's opened up the door to accepting, like, fuck, I might have unwillingly done some shit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But I still think that even signing that...
jordan holmes
Unwittingly, as opposed to unwillingly.
Right.
I think willingly he would have been...
If they'd have asked him, he would have been like, I mean, guys...
dan friesen
Wait, you mean Russia is more America than America?
I'm in.
unidentified
I'm in.
jordan holmes
I've been saying that for years.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think, though, that what you need to take away from all that is that even just signing that amicus brief is, like, that is crazy.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
That, like, when you say, we don't usually do this, but here's the truth, they don't usually do that.
jordan holmes
No, of course.
dan friesen
So the fact that they all signed that...
Is crazy.
jordan holmes
See, that's my problem.
dan friesen
That is unprecedented sort of thing.
jordan holmes
In for a penny, in for a pound, man.
If you're going to file some half-assed thing where you're like, those guys did that shit, you might as well come out and say, those guys did that shit.
dan friesen
But these are people who have lifelong careers in national security and in information stuff, you know, like clandestine shit.
They can't go against their operating...
Sort of conditioning for their entire life.
jordan holmes
See, that's the problem with alphas.
We gotta get some betas in there because betas will do shit that the alphas would never do!
dan friesen
You're probably right.
So, let's get to Friday.
Friday is a wild ride.
We're gonna have a good time until we don't.
jordan holmes
Great.
You're selling this real strong.
dan friesen
There's a lot of nonsense.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
My standard introduction.
jordan holmes
Very good start.
dan friesen
Alex starts and spends a lot of the show talking about how these women who are accusing Trump of stuff are liars.
jordan holmes
Oh, these women with their thoughts.
dan friesen
They're liars.
And beyond that, he spends a great deal of time critiquing their appearance.
jordan holmes
So we're talking about the women who have accused Trump of sexual assault.
dan friesen
Yes.
Alex will just say that he asked for their phone number.
That's what he thinks the whole thing is about.
Not what he thinks.
That's what he's telling his audience.
jordan holmes
He's telling his audience that Trump was like, hey, I want to take you out on a date like we're in the 1950s.
I would like your number and I would like your father to accompany us so we both know that no kind of hanky-panky will go down.
And those women so impolitely said...
No, thank you.
dan friesen
Yes, and then beyond that, his further narrative is that everyone's getting paid to lie about Trump.
But we'll get to that in a second.
Let's start with this first clip, where we really get to see where Alex's feelings lie about these women.
alex jones
He once said, we need to both probably work out a little more.
We're both gaining weight.
Wow, okay.
What a criminal.
It's like one of these women up there that says, oh, once at a reception, he said, can I have your number?
And I'm not being mean, but I mean, she's not Donald Trump's type.
I don't want to call her ugly, but she does look like a space alien.
jordan holmes
That's what you would call an ugly person.
dan friesen
I think it's in the realm of what you would call...
It's certainly now like, she's so hot.
She looks like...
Actually, you know what?
I might say that about...
jordan holmes
I would say...
I've said it about Jon Hamm.
He's an alien from space.
He came down to teach us what real handsomeness is.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
I feel like some people have made those as positive claims, but that's certainly not what Alex is doing.
alex jones
No.
dan friesen
Yeah, and that just continues.
He says that over and over again.
Just like, these women are too ugly for Trump.
Trump doesn't put his dick in stuff like that.
That sort of thing.
It's crazy.
Even if you are a propagandist with nothing, why would you go that route?
It looks so bad.
It looks like you have nothing.
jordan holmes
Because if you are a white male supremacist, which I would argue 90 to 95% of his audience is, that idea of, like, you're not pretty enough for me to rape you is a threat.
And it's been said in the Brazilian parliament, which, fantastic, there is a parliamentary...
There's a dude who's in the parliament who has been elected and who was part of the fucking grand old dictatorship that they had before who famously said to Dilma Rousseff, the prime minister, you're too ugly for me to rape you.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
So that to me seems like a signal to those guys of like, well, of course I wouldn't.
Or, of course, Trump wouldn't do that.
He's much like me insofar as he would only rape pretty women.
dan friesen
I guess that's sort of the...
jordan holmes
That's his argument?
dan friesen
Well, because it does sort of imply that if they were more attractive, it would be believable, which means the behavior is believable within Trump if those women were hotter.
And that's not good.
jordan holmes
No.
Of course he's a rapist, but only for the pretty women who haven't come forward yet.
I mean, I didn't mean yet.
I meant...
Oh boy, that's not a good start.
dan friesen
This woman looks like a space alien.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Ugly!
dan friesen
So, in another attempt to discredit these women, Alex refers to a story that came out in The Hill last week that has to do with some high-powered lawyer who's going around trying to pay women to lie about Trump.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And we'll listen to this clip and then I'll explain why I don't give a fuck about this.
alex jones
That's what this is, ladies and gentlemen, is that they think they can run around in bars and in law firms and on the streets and go to women in databases of who's worked for Trump, and they come to their doors.
Mind if I come in, I'm a Democrat, such and such, but they got their names right here.
And they're like, sure, come on in.
And in 30 minutes of the conversation, we'll pay you $750,000 to say Trump threw you on a desk and tried to rape you.
jordan holmes
That's an arbitrary number.
alex jones
He did it, didn't he?
They're like, excuse me?
But some of them are so whacked out, they're like, well, if it's for the good of the country, you know, it's for the greater good.
You know he's a misogynist and you know all sex is rape.
Can I get my checkbook out right now?
But we own the story.
You're going to do the interviews.
We'll coach you.
Listen, it's going to be easy.
There's going to be hundreds of women.
unidentified
There's going to be one of them.
alex jones
And most women are scared to do it, so they're like, don't worry, we're going to hit them with so many women, the lawyers can't come after them all, okay?
Because these are what is on the tapes.
I've been told about them.
dan friesen
So that's not good.
jordan holmes
He should not be referencing the tapes.
dan friesen
I've been told about them.
Yeah, that's not good.
Also, you shouldn't be reporting this.
It best is secondhand.
And he's just making up these lurid details about, like, they come and knock on your door, like, tell them Trump threw you over a desk.
jordan holmes
Come and knock on our door.
dan friesen
Right, I mean, like, that's, that, even if these tapes are real, even if that's true, that's bad reporting.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I've been told about the tapes.
jordan holmes
Eh.
dan friesen
Like, that's not good.
jordan holmes
It's not necessarily unusual, though.
dan friesen
It's not.
jordan holmes
Not even just, I'm not even talking about just him.
I'm talking about...
There are a lot of times where it's like, unnamed sources in the government have told me, and you're like, well that's bullshit.
dan friesen
And that is what he has the right to report.
He has the right to report that someone has told me there are tapes.
He doesn't have the right to do an improv scene where he riffs.
jordan holmes
The content of the tapes.
dan friesen
Exactly.
Because that is implying a level of knowledge that he does not have.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you've listened to the tapes, why don't you tell us what's on the tapes?
dan friesen
Also, apparently what these tapes are about is Lisa Bloom.
jordan holmes
Lisa Bloom?
dan friesen
Who is the person who allegedly has gone around and tried to offer women money to come out and make up stories about Trump, if you believe that that's what the narrative is and what the tapes are.
Here's why I don't give a shit.
Whatever Lisa Bloom was doing, I don't think was related to anybody in any official capacity, even if this is true.
She was the person who was defending Harvey Weinstein.
When the allegations came out and then sort of...
I gotta distance myself.
When Ronan Farrow was coming out with his pieces about...
When he was working on the pieces about Weinstein...
jordan holmes
If I recall correctly, she was not on Ronan's side.
dan friesen
No, she actually offered him opposition research on, like, Rose McGowan and shit.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
Trying to discredit victims preemptively.
So I don't really give a shit what she was doing.
I think that she has no purchase here in terms of working for any official, like, ooh, yeah, the globalists.
Use her to do this dirty work.
jordan holmes
Nobody wants to touch her right now.
dan friesen
No.
So I don't care.
If this is true, then you have a shithead doing shithead things.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You don't have...
jordan holmes
You have Project Veritas.
dan friesen
Exactly.
Just a different version of Project Veritas.
You don't have...
Like a concerted effort by all the anti-Trump forces using Lisa Bloom to do this.
jordan holmes
You don't even have a competent effort.
dan friesen
But also, all of these people who are allegedly on tape are not the people who have come forward.
So even if Lisa Bloom is running some weird rogue activity that doesn't discredit the people who have come out already, it only does in shitheads' minds who are like, oh, if that happens, they must all have had that deal.
jordan holmes
That's the whole point that I made earlier is like, why would you do this?
We've got more than enough already.
Right.
dan friesen
Well, because you're Lisa Bloom.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
I don't have a whole lot of respect for her at this point.
So Alex is on a hot tip about sexual harassment stuff, and he wants to make sure we talk about all of it except for Trump and Roy Moores.
And so he gets to a story out of Kansas City about a representative there, and then he gets pretty misogynistic, and then dismissive of harassment in general.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
And then a little esoteric.
jordan holmes
Perfect.
alex jones
But meanwhile, breaking up on Infowars.com from the Kansas City star, Kansas, damn.
Andrea Ramsey, accused of sexual harassment, will drop out of U.S. House race.
Andrea Ramsey, a Democrat candidate for Congress, will drop out of the race after the Kansas City Star asked her about accusations in a 2005 lawsuit that she sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who said he had rejected her advances.
jordan holmes
Good.
Goodbye.
unidentified
Go fuck yourself, lady.
alex jones
I have actually found, if you refuse an older woman from her advances and she has any power over you, that they're more vindictive than the cases I've seen with men against women.
jordan holmes
So you've admitted that...
Both cases happen.
And you are the victim of such a case.
dan friesen
Let's remember that Harvey Weinstein got Mossad to follow women around who he had assaulted.
Think about the level of vindictive there.
Like some lady...
I looked into this and what the...
I'm inclined to believe the guy.
I don't know all the particulars of all the details.
jordan holmes
She dropped out.
Chances are the guy's telling the truth.
dan friesen
Well, the reason that she dropped out...
she still claims some form of innocence and the reason that she's dropping out is that liberals and democrats have implemented the let's not take chances policy so there's a zero tolerance for people who have harassed subordinates We got there.
It's great.
Yeah.
But the situation is there's this guy who worked for her and she had propositioned him and he said he didn't want to bang around.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then afterwards he claims that she wouldn't talk to him at the office and just ignored him and his career suffered because of it.
Like I said, I believe him.
But that level of vindictiveness is very bad.
But it's not getting Mossad involved.
jordan holmes
It's not quite.
Although there are, I mean, Meek Mill is going to prison for two years because of a rogue sexually harassing judge.
dan friesen
Interesting.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know anything about this.
Do you know everything about this?
jordan holmes
I know a lot about this.
Meek Mill is a very, very talented rapper out of Philadelphia.
dan friesen
I understand there's a lot of beefs in his past.
jordan holmes
He has had many a beef.
But...
He was on probation for way longer than his crime would ever have warranted, mainly because this judge kept following him around.
Like when he was doing charity work, she would show up.
She would tell him that he needs to put her name in songs.
He needs to do remixes of like Boyz II Men songs and reference her.
Wow.
unidentified
Like there's this whole fucking thing.
jordan holmes
Every probation officer is like, why has this guy been on probation for three years when it was only supposed to be like six months to start it?
Right.
unidentified
They've never seen anything like it in this particular.
jordan holmes
case.
unidentified
That's crazy.
jordan holmes
And he just got, he just went to prison for violating his probation.
dan friesen
Which he shouldn't have been on at this point.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
And in his capacity of traveling as a...
Very, very talented rapper performing shows, which he got permission to do from his probation officer and this judge.
She then claimed that she never received the email and never signed off on it, even though we have records that she did.
On appeal, Meek Mill will get out, but he's going to be in prison for a while.
dan friesen
And there's a hassle element to it, too.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and she should be stripped of her license.
unidentified
I agree.
jordan holmes
Now, that's some vindictive behavior, but it's not hiring massage!
dan friesen
Yeah.
So anyway, let's finish this quote.
alex jones
But men do it too, and it's all disgusting, power play garbage, and it's just...
It's just something that diseases modern culture, the culture period, but...
jordan holmes
Good.
You're getting it.
alex jones
You compare that on a scale to kidnapping, torturing children, selling them in the sex trade, stuff films.
jordan holmes
Now you missed it again.
alex jones
Harassing a woman or a man in your office is about a one.
It's wrong.
Not good.
It's terrible.
Compared to torturing and killing kids, that's a 10. And see, we should be worrying about the 10s in this world, and the 9s, and the 8s, and the 7s.
And then, if you're worried about that type of evil, you'd notice the retail stuff, the common stuff would start going away.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
But we've accepted evil.
And evil's like a psychic broadcast.
So when it gets more, and it commits more, it gets away with it, it winds itself up, and it begins...
Psychically diseasing more things around.
It's a psychic disease.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
That sounds exactly like Infowars.
dan friesen
It's projecting a lot.
jordan holmes
It is a psychic disease.
dan friesen
Well, I've described the globalist lie, the globalist mythology as a brain virus.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I believe that's the case.
But what Alex is talking about is this really bizarre version of an understanding of evil.
Where it's like, you take care of the big stuff, and the small stuff goes away.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's not how that works.
dan friesen
It's not, and it really underplays and discounts what he's describing as a one.
Like, I don't think it's a one.
I think, like, petty theft might be a one, or vandalism might be a one.
I think systematic harassment of people in order to...
jordan holmes
I didn't want to rank it!
dan friesen
No, no.
jordan holmes
There's no need to rank it!
dan friesen
No, but...
jordan holmes
It's a crime!
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Crime it!
And it's a bad one.
I don't even think petty theft is a crime, but that's a whole different world.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's a whole different world to enter into.
In the world that we live in, frankly, under maritime law, which is the only one that I accept, oh wait, no, under that you would be executed for petty theft.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Okay, well then, never mind.
I retract my argument.
dan friesen
You'd have to have your own court.
unidentified
Can we find an admiral up here?
dan friesen
So, I don't know.
I agree with you.
The ranking of things is kind of petty and stupid.
It doesn't really get you anywhere.
jordan holmes
No, and in fact, it does the complete opposite.
It keeps you from...
Look, if your idea is worry only about the big crimes, only about that, then you wind up discounting...
Everything else.
Don't look over here.
Don't look at this sexual harassment shit.
We've got to deal with this over here.
And then any problem you come up with, well, it's not raping and torturing kids, so let's not worry about it.
Even though your fantasy 10 is not real.
dan friesen
No, everything Alex complains about, he thinks is a 10, and that's a problem.
jordan holmes
And everything else is nothing.
dan friesen
But then further, the other dangerous piece of this is he's presenting this false world where people aren't working.
Against child exploitation.
Like, people aren't investigating those sorts of things and human trafficking and shit.
jordan holmes
And if you want to talk about the extent to which we're doing it...
That's a conversation I'm willing to have.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
But as long as you go, also sexual harassment is a crime, and it's a good thing that we're rooting these people out.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's fascinating that Alex has never got on air and been like, everyone should donate to these organizations that are working against human trafficking.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And stuff like that.
He doesn't give a shit.
jordan holmes
Well, he's not going to get any money from those donations.
dan friesen
He doesn't give a shit.
jordan holmes
He can't even write those off on his taxes.
dan friesen
He doesn't give a shit about the things that are actually on the ground.
He just cares about exploiting people's fears about them.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So...
Anyway, this next clip, Alex gets into talking about the Access Hollywood tape of Trump with Billy Bush.
jordan holmes
Where are we going to go on this?
I feel like this has been covered more than enough.
dan friesen
It has.
jordan holmes
Not reported enough, but it's been covered along all the angles.
dan friesen
Alex's take on this episode, this Friday the 15th episode, is really interesting because he takes a journey.
He starts here, and then after this clip, I'll play you where he ends up.
jordan holmes
He finds Colonel Kurtz.
dan friesen
It's such a mess.
He contradicts himself within the course of an episode, and it's just bizarre.
He's so desperate, grasping at straws, lying about even just basic reality, to the point where, like, here's what he says at the beginning, and then I'll play you what he says at the end.
alex jones
When all this starts coming out as it is, they're just gonna...
Not cover it.
And still have the fake women paid off on TV.
dan friesen
He's talking about, like, we talked about this on another episode, his prediction that come January and February there's going to be hundreds of women who accuse Trump.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And he's going to, he's saying that everyone will ignore the fact that they're all fake and Lisa Bloom is paying them all.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So, anyway.
alex jones
Saying he raped them, he slapped them, he called them whores.
I mean, this is all the stuff.
Like some OCD in a good way, patriot control freak, is going to run around raping women, and then he's 71 years old before we find out about it.
Yeah, that's going to happen.
dan friesen
It is if people sign a bunch of non-disclosure agreements and you settle cases out of court and shit like that, give people big payoffs.
Anyway.
alex jones
And long before I hooked up the Trump wagon, I talked to folks that know him and know him well.
dan friesen
Roger Stone.
jordan holmes
Dan, none of it is true.
alex jones
Zero.
Zero.
It's absolute BS.
What do you have, like 15 seasons of Apprentice?
And they get one recording behind the scenes.
You know, little scumbags record everything.
They can edit it together and things.
That's what Trump said.
It's edited.
He says, yeah, it's crazy.
They jump on you and do whatever you want.
It's crazy.
Good Lord.
He just sounds like an old fuddy-duddy there, but a good one.
jordan holmes
I feel like he didn't have to grab him by the pussy thing.
alex jones
I mean, just because that's old-fashioned.
He's like, I can't believe celebrities, women throw themselves at you like this.
Because back when I was just a billionaire, it wasn't like this.
Yeah, it's like Elvis with women throwing their panties at him.
He didn't rape those women.
jordan holmes
He grabbed them by the pussy.
alex jones
And that's what he's like.
Yeah, they throw themselves on you.
It's crazy.
jordan holmes
So long as you grab them.
alex jones
And that turns into he's this big criminal.
And they're the ones recording him.
Oh, it was accidental.
Somebody picked it up outside.
Bull!
dan friesen
That's not at all what happened.
alex jones
And you can hear the tape, how it's like a few words and cut, cut, cut.
You ever seen the refrigerator games?
Where you have the words and it's got hundreds of words.
You can put them together however you want.
It's the same deal.
You can take the Bible and edit it to say, Jesus loves Satan, kill your children.
But it's not true.
They've taken the words, cut them out, put them in different formations.
dan friesen
I mostly kept that towards the end because I had that gross slurp noise of him desperately trying to breathe.
So, I mean, if you go back and you actually listen to the excess Hollywood tape, again, it's not an apprentice tape, and no one was secretly recording him.
He was wearing a live mic.
unidentified
Grab them by the pussy.
dan friesen
Doesn't sound like that at all.
jordan holmes
No, it sounds like a sentence said by a monster.
dan friesen
And even the grab them by the pussy part is disgusting and awful.
But I think...
I think that you could make an argument, if you're Alex Jones, that what he's saying is, like, I don't believe in locker room talk, but I think he could make that argument better about that quote than about the quote from the same tape where Trump says, I can't help myself, sometimes I just start kissing them.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
Because that implies awareness of agency.
He knows that that is something that he does, and he's talking about how he does it.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The grab him by the pussy part could just be like, just dirty talk, or something like that.
jordan holmes
It has to be...
dan friesen
It's not, but you could make that argument.
jordan holmes
The reason that that, to me, is what needs to be...
dan friesen
It's also not an old fuddy-duddy.
jordan holmes
No, no.
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
jordan holmes
No, the reason to me why he can't say that and why it's important to continue to point out that Trump said that is because so many Republican voters, especially with his bullshit of like, they hate Christians and all of that stuff.
All of these Christians for all of our lives have constantly like, I'm not allowed to say pussy around my family.
You know, I'm not allowed to say that.
The guy you voted for said that he grabs women by the pussy and he said it publicly and you still voted for him.
Right.
No matter what you do, fuck you.
dan friesen
Well, because it comes down to the radicalization of evangelicals with things that they supposedly should care more about.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Which is what Alex Jones' sort of main purpose in life is, to make you afraid of demons that are all liberals and all that shit, where it's like, who cares?
Look, he's not a perfect man.
You know, he talks about how crazy it is that women want to fuck him a bunch, and you know, he's human.
jordan holmes
And the reality is...
If he repeats grab him by the pussy as many times as he would need to in his defenses of this circumstance, his listeners would be like, ooh, I did vote for a guy who said that.
dan friesen
Well, the bigger problem with the grab him by the pussy part of it is the frequent instances from his past where he has...
Literally just grabbed people's pussies.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, there is that element that's like, ooh.
You know, that...
He said that in, what was it, like 2015?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The tape from Access Hollywood?
jordan holmes
Something like that.
dan friesen
And there are stories dating back to the 90s of him just putting his hand up people's skirts.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And shit like that.
jordan holmes
The old lady in Home Alone 2. What?
It was brutal.
dan friesen
Oh my god.
The pigeon lady?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Come on, man.
jordan holmes
I just like...
I don't like it.
No, you don't.
The point being is, because that exists, I feel like it gives me full ease with which to invalidate any Christian's bullshit.
Like, any time...
If my parents...
dan friesen
There are some Christians that aren't on board with him.
There are some.
jordan holmes
No, I mean like the ones who voted for him, who consistently talk about the morality of homosexuality or whatever it is along those lines.
dan friesen
Get bent.
jordan holmes
All of that shit is gone.
We're past hypocrisy and into a complete, you don't really believe anything, so fuck you.
I don't need any of this shit.
dan friesen
I mean, you can even see that in the demographics of the Alabama Senate race.
Not even when you look at the racial and gendered.
All about Roy Moore.
In drastic numbers.
Yeah.
The only way to do that is to just assume that everyone's lying about these things.
Everyone's lying.
And the people who are lying are demonic.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But anyway, in that clip, Alex Jones' defense of Trump with that clip is that it's edited together of things he said.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And the things that he said are, he's a fuddy-duddy.
He's just an old but a good man who's like, it's crazy that women want to fuck me like this because I'm a celebrity.
jordan holmes
Well, you know when, do you know where the tape where they edited, where he said the word pussy and they edited it out and put it into that tape?
dan friesen
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
It was that tape.
dan friesen
Oh.
Oh my.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it was the one where he said that.
Where else would you edit together Trump saying pussy?
dan friesen
I think from the season of Celebrity Apprentice that had Bret Michaels on it.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Bret Michaels was trying to not take responsibility for how...
jordan holmes
And Bret Michaels was a pussy?
dan friesen
Yeah, their pretzel stand didn't work.
I've never watched that show.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
I know that on the Celebrity Apprentice, sometimes they have to make little pop-up businesses, and I assume maybe a pretzel stand was on.
I've never watched that show.
jordan holmes
There's money in the banana stand, Dan.
dan friesen
I do know that Bret Michaels was on it at some point.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Anyway, that was his defense in that clip.
Later on in the show, this is one of the only times that we're going to go out of chronological order in the episode, but it's worth it just for comparison.
A little bit later, someone calls in and talks about how you can just make people say fake stuff.
With audio and video technology now.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Now that's an interesting thought.
dan friesen
Right.
And somehow Alex hadn't considered this.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
And once this caller calls up, he's like, oh, this is the narrative.
jordan holmes
Light bulb.
dan friesen
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course.
dan friesen
And so he changes it to be like, no, it's not Trump being a fuddy-duddy.
Someone just put it in Adobe and made it.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Fucking perfect.
jordan holmes
Thanks, caller, for the assist.
I got a whole new week out of this shit.
dan friesen
Right.
So here is him putting the pieces together and also doing a little bit of a rambly riff on the intro music, which I enjoy.
alex jones
Your host, I want to go quickly through your calls because they're all so great.
And they bring up things that I'd forgotten to cover.
In many cases, things I didn't even know about.
dan friesen
Mostly.
alex jones
But I know this, we've got to run from the globalists.
jordan holmes
Oh, do we?
alex jones
We've got to take back our civilization, take back our culture, take back our innovation, and make the devil get behind us.
Not because we're running scared, but because we're marching out of the Babylon into the stars, into the future.
unidentified
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
I would listen to that show.
alex jones
We have to run and innovate.
And run and innovate.
We'll be right back.
jordan holmes
We're on minute six.
alex jones
Because we were mentioning it, Access Hollywood.
I'd forgotten about this Dolby program that anybody could get.
And then they didn't release it.
I remember seeing that in the news because it had so many problems.
Can you imagine what people would do?
I mean, all the little creeps out there.
And this is old technology.
So he records it, he has it playback, the computer can copy it, then he can change words just from one sentence and have it now say off one sentence other words that beat voice print.
dan friesen
I didn't keep all this in, because what he does is he plays a video of a guy demonstrating the technology from years ago, a couple years back.
jordan holmes
That he had somebody frantically YouTube immediately after that caller.
dan friesen
It's way too long, and so he just sits there and he's like, look what they can do.
And it just doesn't get to anything that proves his point.
jordan holmes
I assume he doesn't say, start that clip over again.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
That technology does exist in some form, but there are ways you can tell forensically.
Like, people can take the audio and see, you know, things have been edited and shit like that.
jordan holmes
It is a really interesting thing, though.
dan friesen
It's dangerous in the future.
jordan holmes
Because they can do a relatively primitive version of it now that you might...
dan friesen
You can trick some people.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you can trick some people with.
So that's going to be an interesting thing ten years from now.
dan friesen
I've seen demonstrations, too, on YouTube of video technology they can do where you speak and it is able to actually alter the mouth of the person who's talking.
And that sort of stuff is incredibly scary.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But we're not there yet.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Alex, man, you're a few years too early with this bullshit.
dan friesen
We're not there yet.
And also, Billy Bush is like, yeah.
Yeah, well, he's Billy Bush.
And they've done a lot of analyses of it, and he did say it.
jordan holmes
Why?
We all know he said it.
We knew he would say it.
We know he could have said it.
Totally.
Everything fits.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's the easiest mystery to solve ever.
We don't need to go into voice print match.
dan friesen
The only thing that I...
I care to bring up and talk about is the idea that Alex had the narrative of, like, he's an old fuddy-duddy.
At the beginning, a caller calls in, brings up that technology.
Alex fails to play a clip exploring the technology, and then he's like, yeah, that's probably it.
It's probably all fake.
jordan holmes
What do you think an old fuddy-duddy sounds like?
dan friesen
The guy from Up.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
All right.
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
What even is a fuddy-duddy?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't care.
Look, I want to move on to this next clip.
jordan holmes
Do you think humans have souls, Dan?
dan friesen
Look, theologians would tell you.
So in this next clip, earlier in the week, Alex Jones had been ranting about people who want to fuck cars.
jordan holmes
I did not see that coming.
That was a sentence that took me by surprise.
dan friesen
He also relates it to homosexuality.
jordan holmes
That I did see coming immediately after I told you the first part.
dan friesen
So there's this thing called mechanophilia.
Right.
And there's a subset of people who are sexually attracted to machines.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I watched a show where it was like, I married the Eiffel Tower.
dan friesen
Right, there's a lady who married a bridge.
jordan holmes
Yeah, whatever.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Fine, just don't fucking get in anybody's way.
dan friesen
Right.
It's harmless to a certain extent.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
About in 2008.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you're going to fuck your bridge, fuck it under.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Don't fuck it on top.
We'll all be okay with that.
Also, if you have three questions for me to get across, that I find offensive.
dan friesen
Two questions?
jordan holmes
We can negotiate on two.
dan friesen
So, in 2008, there was a video that went viral and a story about a guy who claimed, I think it was a guy out of England, who claimed that he'd had sex with a thousand cars.
And so that was like almost ten years ago now.
jordan holmes
Rich Little?
The man with a thousand voices cars?
dan friesen
Yeah, every time he fucked a car, he had a new voice.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That was popular about ten years ago as a point of conversation, and I guess it's back.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Fine.
The thing is, when Alex discussed it, he was discussing it in terms of like, he compares it to homosexuality.
In as much as, like, why do I gotta respect all this stuff?
All your letters and stuff like that.
All your LGBT fucking cars.
So what he's doing is he's taking, like, sort of very basic sexual identity and sexual orientations and bringing them into paraphilias.
jordan holmes
It's the bestiality, like, what's next?
Bestiality argument, but weirder.
dan friesen
Exactly.
So he...
Did this, and he ranted about this.
jordan holmes
Which is weird.
Is it weirder to fuck a bridge than it is to fuck an animal?
I feel like, yeah.
dan friesen
Well, in as much as one's alive, yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Just like from a base, like, mechanic standpoint.
dan friesen
You're splitting hairs here a tiny bit.
jordan holmes
I'm kind of...
dan friesen
I don't want to go down this road.
The point is...
jordan holmes
What's a ten?
From one to ten, is it like a cow?
dan friesen
Stone.
Roger.
unidentified
Stone.
dan friesen
A statue in stone of Roger Stone.
jordan holmes
Oh boy, that's hard to fuck.
dan friesen
Yeah, it is.
So, Alex, earlier in the week, it wasn't that he was one-to-one comparing being gay with fucking cars, but in his rant, he was so unclear about what he was talking about and what he was complaining about that people on Media Matters and these sort of sites pulled that and was like, this is a pretty homophobic rant and it has to do with fucking cars.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And to be fair to them, they weren't wrong.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Sounds like that's what it was.
dan friesen
There was homophobia in it, but he wasn't saying gay people fuck cars.
He wasn't saying that.
And they weren't saying that.
But Alex thinks that's what they were saying he was saying.
So on Friday, he rants about the reaction to the rant in a very weird way that is troubling.
This is very troubling.
jordan holmes
You know...
There was a time whenever that I didn't even think, like, a long time ago, I would have been like, oh, so, great movie.
Great movie.
I would have been like, what?
That's the craziest fucking thing I've...
Now I'm like, well, of course he's mad that people think that he said that he thinks that he fucked a car.
dan friesen
Well, it's like he's misrepresenting coverage of him being super unclear about what he's talking about.
jordan holmes
About what he's misrepresenting!
dan friesen
Exactly.
It's just this...
It's like a sea of fog.
No one can get out of it.
So anyway, here is this dog shit rant that he goes on on Friday.
alex jones
Oh, you're going to pay for somebody to put Drano in their eyes or someone to chop their genitals off?
Chop your genitals off.
I'm not paying for it.
Oh, that's homophobic!
You don't like people having sex with their cars?
I just said they're doing it.
I don't need to know the acronym.
I'm not hateful.
I don't, you know, respond to people that live as dogs, they live as children, they're dumping Drano in their eyes.
I was reading, there have been hundreds of surgeries in Europe where they remove people's corneas or they just dump bleach in your eye.
jordan holmes
I feel like that's not a surgery.
dan friesen
No.
I tried to find verification of this and, shockingly, could find no verification of it.
But he's saying there's hundreds in all of Europe.
I don't know.
Maybe there's hundreds of cases of people pouring Drano in their own eyes.
But it would be in the low hundreds.
Anyway, this statistic, he's...
jordan holmes
I feel like you're splitting hairs, Dan.
dan friesen
This statistic he's citing...
jordan holmes
And this is a road I don't want to go down.
dan friesen
Fine.
alex jones
And then you go on welfare as a blind person.
No, you're crazy.
Put them in a loony bin until they don't want to put Drano in their eyes.
But instead they got psychiatrists and psychologists at the scene applying it to their eyeballs.
And the neighbor's going, oh, it's so great.
Oh, it's so wonderful.
dan friesen
All he's going off of is a tiny clip that he has from a British show that's like My Strange Addiction.
I eat couches.
Stuff like that.
It's just one of those human interest sort of shows.
And he's just misrepresenting a years old three minute clip.
jordan holmes
It's like a show that's like, hey, look at how weird humans can be.
Isn't this some wackadoo shit?
dan friesen
It's the more respectful version and not racist version of human zoos that we now do on...
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a freak show.
I just got this image of a guy out on his front lawn, just in some suburbia, just sitting out on his front lawn, just pouring bleach into his eyes and his neighbors around, just like, that's fucking great.
dan friesen
Get him!
jordan holmes
Great job, man.
dan friesen
You did it!
jordan holmes
I really approve of this.
dan friesen
Proud of you.
Bully!
alex jones
They don't even want to debate about how they're trying to scramble society because their own documents admit they're doing this and making it normal to screw people up and create mental illness.
Let me tell you, you want to take your eyeballs out?
You're crazy.
You want to have sex with a car?
You're crazy.
Knock yourself out.
dan friesen
I don't think he believes that.
alex jones
But I don't have to know the acronym for it.
I know the acronym.
Mental patient.
I know the acronym.
Somebody wants to have sex with a rubber robot.
Somebody that doesn't want to communicate with humans, who was on a smartphone too much growing up.
That's what you are.
You're like an animal brought up in a cage with no windows, and you don't even know what it is to be your species.
That's what it is.
The end of our species.
I mean, this is how space aliens would slowly strangle us and take us out.
jordan holmes
Car fucking?
alex jones
This is how space aliens, if they were real, if they were here, you know, fallen angels, you know, this is how they do it.
And it's funny.
There's a book warning us that it was coming and they would run this exact operation.
Thanks, science fiction writers.
Because if you don't believe in God, that's all it is.
Okay, well, it's science fiction that they're using as a blueprint.
So you still, it doesn't matter.
It's manifesting.
It's happening.
We better get informed.
Okay, I'm going to take your calls coming up from the next hour and I'm going to go to Mark and Keen and Marcos and others, Brandon and John and everybody else we're going to go to.
Seriously, though.
If you spread the articles and videos, this is just something I say.
This is a war.
When you spread the articles, the videos, the reports, they're going to try to ridicule you online and try to punish you because they want to shut down the transmission that's most dangerous to them.
They have congressional hearings, you name it, and are specifically wanting us off the air.
unidentified
Because let me tell you, I got their program.
alex jones
So, Infowarsstore.com.
We need funding.
jordan holmes
It's a weird turn for Top Gear.
dan friesen
Yeah, so, I mean, you know, like, you can smell it coming from a mile away.
jordan holmes
We are going to race across Europe and then fuck our cars.
dan friesen
Right, I mean, didn't people who, like, people, explorers, would fuck animals?
You know, because you're out on the, you know, there's no one around.
jordan holmes
When you're alone, you just start fucking shit.
dan friesen
Right.
I don't, look.
jordan holmes
That's my excuse for all human behavior.
dan friesen
It's just all pathetic, like, what he's doing there.
Because, again, he's yelling about, like, I don't need to know the abbreviations.
I don't need to know the letters.
And, like, the letters are not talking about people who pour bleach in their eyes.
They're not talking about people who fuck cars.
They're talking about people who are, you know, very legitimate.
jordan holmes
Hey, here's a conversation maybe we should have.
People who fuck cars are less oppressed than gay people.
dan friesen
To some extent, yeah.
jordan holmes
Have you considered that, Alex?
dan friesen
And there's another...
jordan holmes
Do you know why they're not in the acronym?
Because they're fine.
dan friesen
They don't need an advocacy group.
jordan holmes
Yeah, nobody is bothering them.
Everybody's more like, hey, isn't that weird?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jordan holmes
Go on.
dan friesen
Don't do that in public.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
Get on out of here, you scape!
dan friesen
You see a guy, like, sort of rubbing a car, and you're like, get a garage!
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly!
dan friesen
It's troubling.
jordan holmes
I mean, if you've ever met a car dude, there's such an auto-erotic...
dan friesen
Auto.
jordan holmes
Auto.
Right.
dan friesen
Autobahn-erotic.
jordan holmes
Mechan-erotic.
dan friesen
It's called mechanophilia.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but the point being is a lot of those guys, if you left them alone with their cars for too long, you'd find some jizz on the car.
dan friesen
That's fine.
I don't even know how that works.
Quite frankly, I don't care.
I really don't care.
jordan holmes
I got a YouTube video for you, my friend.
dan friesen
Live your life.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's what I say.
That's my motto.
jordan holmes
But you know what?
I've seen people get married to a fucking car!
Before people were allowed to marry each other of the same sex.
dan friesen
I don't know if the state recognizes the marriage between man and car.
jordan holmes
No, they get full hospital visit rights.
dan friesen
With the car?
jordan holmes
Yes!
dan friesen
If it's in the shop?
Look, we can have a lot of fun and make jokes and stuff, but at the end of the day, what Alex is doing is he's conflating sexual identity, sexual orientation with these...
I mean, I don't think they're wrong or bad, but they are certainly very anomalous, and they fall under the heading of paraphilias.
They fall under the heading of sexual fetishes that...
It's not necessarily destructive, but it's certainly way outside the realm of normal human behavior.
jordan holmes
And it's just like if you've ever watched, what is it, TLC?
It's usually TLC, where it's like, so fat he can't leave his house, like that kind of thing.
What it is, it's a televised freak show.
dan friesen
More or less.
jordan holmes
And the reason that there's a freak show is because you've never seen anything like that before in your life.
dan friesen
And because the percentages of that population are nothing.
jordan holmes
Ridiculously low.
dan friesen
And Alex, it's just his inability to understand what people are saying to him.
His inability to understand criticism.
Or unwillingness, probably.
And his unwillingness to...
jordan holmes
Or it's a testament to the strength of his ability...
To ignore and misunderstand what people are saying.
dan friesen
And his unwillingness to disconnect the idea of homosexuality, transgender issues with I fuck my car.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He thinks that they're all freaks, and so he lumps them all into one.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
That's more the point I wanted to get to.
So anyway, in this next clip...
jordan holmes
Which, again, is still not a defensible position.
No.
Because your position is freaks don't have rights.
dan friesen
Yeah, but I'm not defending it.
I'm saying that's what Alex believes.
jordan holmes
No, I know, but even if you believe that, you need to understand that that's still wrong.
That's still the most wrong.
dan friesen
Quite wrong.
jordan holmes
Like, if your defense is being gay is exactly like fucking a car, and so you shouldn't have rights, the answer to that is, are you a human being?
So you get...
So you have those rights.
That's how human beings work.
dan friesen
Human rights.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
The ones that we have.
dan friesen
Fair enough.
Let's move along.
We've got a bit of road to go down here.
So in this next clip, Alex Jones has brought in Roger Stone.
Expert witness, Roger Stone.
jordan holmes
Wonderful.
Soon to be convicted felon, already felon, Roger Stone.
dan friesen
And so the two of them have a conversation about these women that are accusing Trump of sexual harassment.
unidentified
Right.
alex jones
I watched that press conference.
roger stone
I rolled it back and watched it three times when they brought out so-called victims.
alex jones
These women are coached.
They are forced.
unidentified
The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
alex jones
Oh, it's ridiculous.
And they say, oh, he asked for my phone number.
And they're like, oh, my God, that's...
Megyn Kelly just acts shocked.
And meanwhile, let's be honest.
You know Trump well.
You've known him 44 years.
I mean, this is not Donald Trump's type.
I mean, I'm sorry.
The woman looks like a praying mantis.
Yeah, none of these women were his type.
roger stone
When he was single, he dated supermodels and virtually only supermodels.
alex jones
What about your wife?
I'll tell you, she's a Latina supermodel.
I've met her, good lord.
roger stone
Well, I have high standards myself.
alex jones
Great.
dan friesen
This is sad.
This is sad.
jordan holmes
I'm confused as to what the conversation is about.
dan friesen
What do you mean?
It's about these women being too ugly for Trump, baby!
That's a major selling point of his argument now.
Lisa Bloom is paying them all, and they're too fucking ugly.
They look like aliens or praying mantises.
jordan holmes
That's not a good argument.
dan friesen
It's not good.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And it also is reinforcing the exact worldview that the people who are coming out with sexual assault and harassment allegations are the victims of.
Exactly.
You're embodying the thing that is allowing this to continue.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's great.
Anyway, Roger Stone.
Is in there.
And he talks about how he's being sued.
That amicus brief stuff.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
He talks about that a little bit and he's like, isn't it crazy?
They won't let me grill Clapper.
They won't let me...
He won't come into court and let me cross-examine him.
unidentified
Is that how that works?
jordan holmes
He's not really being sued.
dan friesen
No, the amicus brief is part of a lawsuit against Trump and Roger Stone because of the WikiLeaks stuff.
There is an issue where a number of people's personal identities and their personal information got leaked into the public because of those WikiLeaks disclosures that they had nothing to do with anything and they've sued the Trump campaign and Roger Stone for their complicity in the promotion of those leaks and the...
Possibly being involved with them.
jordan holmes
And the amicus brief was filed because they're like, yeah, they totally did.
dan friesen
Well, the amicus brief is establishing to a certain extent that Russia did hack the DNC and the RNC and that Russian intelligence has a history going back nigh on Cold War era.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
but especially since 2000 when Putin came into power, of using local people to disseminate information and to be their sort of point men in conversation.
countries where, you know.
Right.
unidentified
So I read the entire brief, and essentially all it boils down to is.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they did that.
dan friesen
They did that, and we can't tell you that Roger Stone is responsible for a lot of this stuff for reasons, but he was.
So he talks about that and he dismisses it and plays the victim like a sad little snowflake.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But then he says one thing about one of the women who's accusing Donald Trump.
jordan holmes
I don't want to know what he says.
dan friesen
No, it's actually really great.
jordan holmes
I don't understand what you mean by that.
dan friesen
It's great because it's so weak, but it also points the finger back at him and Alex in a way that he probably should be much more careful with his words.
jordan holmes
Okay.
roger stone
I think you have to hold some of the ammunition back.
I am chasing a very active story that one of the women who's an accuser, who was on The Apprentice and claimed to come sex and assaulted her, lied repeatedly in her applications to even get on the show.
alex jones
Well, if you lie about one thing, you'll lie about everything.
dan friesen
If you lie about one thing, you'll lie about everything.
If that's Roger Stone's belief, I have bad news about his career.
I have bad news about Alex's career.
I have bad news if you hold anyone to that standard.
Also, she's lying on an application to a fucking reality show.
Who gives a shit?
Everyone lies on those.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you're not lying on that, you're not doing it right.
dan friesen
I lied on my application to be a college columnist when I was in college.
Of course I did.
jordan holmes
Right.
I lied on my application to be on this show.
dan friesen
I've lied on every job application.
jordan holmes
On the Craigslist ad for co-hosts for an Alex Jones podcast, you were like, You've got to know a lot about Alex Jones to be on this show.
dan friesen
And then we've sort of pivoted to this new format where you know nothing about him.
jordan holmes
Well, I was the most qualified candidate.
dan friesen
Certainly.
Certainly.
But I am going to sue you for lying.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
No, no, no.
That's true.
dan friesen
I just think it's really fascinating when documented liars get together and complain about someone else lying in an innocuous way.
And then say that it indicates that everything they do is not credible.
jordan holmes
Well, it's unjust for people to lie about me.
I mean, it's fine for me to lie about other people.
But they're doing it about me.
dan friesen
Roger Stone isn't even saying that she's lying about him.
It's about my boy.
My boy!
jordan holmes
Yeah!
You know, that's a really interesting question.
dan friesen
No, it's not.
jordan holmes
To how much do these guys personalize the attacks on Trump?
Oh, intensely.
Of course that's not a good question.
But my thought there is these guys do seem to take it as personal attacks whenever you attack Trump.
They've completely associated themselves with his identity.
dan friesen
And I think there's different reasons for it.
And this might be a little bit out there and speculative, but I believe that the reasons for it...
jordan holmes
Well, for one, it's going to be the need for a pardon.
dan friesen
Well, that's part of it.
I think it's hierarchical to a certain extent.
Like, I believe that Roger Stone is defensive of Trump at this point for safety.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because attacks on Trump are attacks on him.
He understands, we get this layer up, I'm under there.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
jordan holmes
So you're saying he's a beta?
dan friesen
Somewhat.
And then, I don't know, Alex is a delta or something.
He's an epsilon.
He's down there because his fear and identification...
jordan holmes
How many more Greek...
Alphabet words can you toss out?
dan friesen
Alpha, beta, delta, lambdas, data, iota, omicron, oopsalon, omega.
Did I say epsilon the second time?
jordan holmes
You did say epsilon.
dan friesen
Not in the roundup here.
Sigma.
jordan holmes
I like sigma.
That's the name of the bad guy in Mega Man.
dan friesen
Pi, Psi, or two different letters.
jordan holmes
Psi?
dan friesen
Rho.
I should have done this in order.
This is not good.
New, moo.
Fuck, I'm running out.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
Happy Jew.
dan friesen
It's a rallying cry.
New, moo, happy Jew.
That's the weirdest thing I've ever said.
But I think Alex's sort of knee-jerk need to defend Trump is based on things that Roger has told him, but there's a filter.
Like, Roger isn't telling him, if Trump goes down, we're all going to prison.
Roger is spinning to Alex as well, and so he's telling him he is our last defense against these globalists and what have you, feeding into Alex's narrative.
So I think in his subconscious, he knows that if Trump goes down, he's in very serious legal trouble.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But, consciously and overtly, it's more...
I need my mission to be completed, and Trump will help complete that mission.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So the two of them, they're both very personally involved in Trump not being attacked, but for very different reasons.
jordan holmes
That's what I think.
But that's, to me, that makes sense.
The weird part is that they take it as attacks on them.
Like, I'm fine if you're Roger Stone and you're saying, well, an attack on Trump is an attack on my safety.
What seems to be the case, though, is if it's an attack on Trump, it's an attack on me personally.
dan friesen
Well, that's the branding, though.
That's the branding.
Trump is all of us.
Trump is the bulwark.
He is the figurehead of our movement, which is going to bring back sovereignty.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
All this stuff.
So, yeah, of course, Trump is you.
Trump is you.
jordan holmes
That's a bummer.
They should feel bad.
dan friesen
That's what they've spent a long time pushing.
jordan holmes
I know, but that's sad.
dan friesen
In this next clip, Alex is mad about Jeff Bezos on Amazon.
jordan holmes
Who wouldn't be?
dan friesen
We're trying to shut him down, apparently.
jordan holmes
We should.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
He's trying to shut down Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Well, we should shut down both of them.
dan friesen
Sure.
So he's complaining about that, and then he gets into territory he probably shouldn't be getting into.
alex jones
And they're actively trying to get us shut down.
Because this jerk has $110 billion himself that we know of, and then he wants me shut up.
jordan holmes
That we know of?
alex jones
And then I come home and his boxes are in my house.
jordan holmes
They're not his boxes.
alex jones
Not anymore, though.
People go, well, then why are you launching Amazon pages?
Because then they put off Chinese knockoffs on there of our products, undercut, so we have to be on Amazon.
To be able to then declare that it's our products.
Or I'm going to have to sue Amazon.
But you notice I don't plug get our stuff at Amazon.
It's all strategic.
And that's how people play games with our audience.
They go, look, Jones.
Jones says he's anti-Amazon, but then he's on it.
Exactly.
Just like Trump has to do some things.
You've got to be in the swamp to drain it.
We had hundreds of resellers.
Most of it fake.
And it was becoming a big problem.
We were having groups test it and find things in it, and we went and looked.
It wasn't ours.
China.
You can look it up.
So I've got to be able to have a store on eBay to shut down the fake stuff on eBay.
I've got to have a store on Amazon to shut down the fake stuff.
That's how it works.
unidentified
Is it?
alex jones
Good Lord, ladies and gentlemen.
It is insane.
And I'm not...
Whining.
But we're in a war.
I'm on the deck of the ship.
They are shooting at us.
And when you pray for us, when you spread the articles, when you spread the videos, and when you go and buy t-shirts and spread the word, meet like-minded people, and you buy books, you buy films, it changes the world.
I promise I'm going to Brandon, Mark, and Jim right when we come back in Louis and Tristan.
It's going to happen.
But I've got to plug it.
We won't be here.
Christmas every year helps us fund and the next year decide if we're going to be able to stay the same or grow or contract.
And luckily, by the grace of God, we've been expanding for 22 years.
jordan holmes
In Full Wars 4, Well, you've said you've been expanding for 22 years.
dan friesen
He somewhat has, I believe.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I believe it, based on the reality that we see in front of us now.
jordan holmes
Well, he's got Dr. Jerome Corsi crushing it in the D.C. office.
dan friesen
D.C. Bureau.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
So, the thing that I want to talk about...
jordan holmes
I can't tell you how many stories I've heard Corsi break.
dan friesen
So many hot ones.
Hot, hot stories.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
That's a guy who is fucking on it.
dan friesen
They're not sexy, though.
They don't go viral, but they're so real.
jordan holmes
And they're boring.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And you can't listen to them.
dan friesen
Oh, and they're not true.
jordan holmes
No, there is a problem with that.
dan friesen
Sure.
There's a couple.
jordan holmes
You can lie if you're interesting.
dan friesen
Right.
If you're Paul Joseph Watson, lie.
Lie like crazy.
jordan holmes
Who cares?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So the other thing that I want to talk about there is that what he's complaining about is this idea that I have to be on Amazon, because if I'm not, then there will be reselling.
jordan holmes
I don't think he likes capitalism at all.
dan friesen
I started this site to get around map agreements.
jordan holmes
Prosperity.
dan friesen
He's complaining about people doing...
The same thing that he's doing to his suppliers with his stuff.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, but it's bad when it happens to him.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
He doesn't care about those other people who he's doing it to.
dan friesen
It's so pathetic.
It's so pathetic.
It's not Amazon.
It's these other resellers who are just doing the same game you're doing.
Do you not understand that you behaving in this way makes it okay for everyone to behave in this way?
Who cares about agreements?
jordan holmes
Dan, I feel like you've fundamentally misunderstood capitalism.
dan friesen
No, I understand it.
And they're living it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but you've misunderstood it.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
The point is, only...
Wait, what was the definition again?
unidentified
Prosperity.
jordan holmes
Because that's what's happening.
dan friesen
Prosperity.
unidentified
Ugh.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex...
jordan holmes
Capitalism is great when you're...
When you're beneficiating from it.
dan friesen
And when all your rules are followed.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Everyone just gets in line.
jordan holmes
And all of a sudden, when capitalism hits you the wrong way, you're like, well, this is bad.
It turns out maybe this is bad.
dan friesen
Fuck this noise.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex finally...
jordan holmes
I want socialism for me and capitalism for everybody else.
dan friesen
That's what the rich say.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex finally gets to a caller.
And the caller asks him about a fake story.
And it's pretty interesting how Alex responds to it.
jordan holmes
Does Alex know about this story?
dan friesen
We'll see.
alex jones
Brandon, Alabama.
Thanks for holding.
You're on the air.
Go ahead.
unidentified
Alex, can you hear me?
alex jones
Yes, sir.
Thanks for calling.
I love you.
unidentified
Appreciate all you do.
Thank you for accepting the call.
I'm out here in Arizona, not Alabama.
alex jones
Sorry, sorry.
I got Alabama on the mind.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I was wondering if I can get your thoughts or opinions on.
Maybe you have some inside baseball through your sources that you can talk about, but it consisted of the CIA headquarters getting raided by the Marines recently, mixed with 4,000-plus field indictments in all 94 districts, which could be for, you know, Pettigate-related mass arrests.
It could be nothing more than gang prosecutions consisting of...
alex jones
Now, here's the question.
As I look at those reports, did the Marines really raid, or that's just rumors?
unidentified
That's why I'm bringing it up to you.
I didn't know if you had any more definitive...
alex jones
No, I mean, look, the globalists run a lot of fake news sites that act like they're patriots on purpose.
And notice the media never really covers that fake news.
They just put out fake news to confuse people so when they see a real bombshell story, they don't know what they're seeing.
unidentified
Right, exactly, exactly.
dan friesen
I have an alternative theory, and that is that a lot of people in Alex Jones' camp are crazy, and they post crazy stuff.
It's not the globalists who are putting fake patriot news out.
jordan holmes
Why did Alex Jones say in looking at these reports?
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
Are there reports?
I feel like he just made that up whole clock.
dan friesen
No, they're blog posts.
jordan holmes
Okay, so this guy...
dan friesen
This guy's referring to some sort of weird wingnut website where they posted a blog about, like, the military has invaded CIA headquarters, they're taking down the deep state kind of thing.
jordan holmes
See, I thought he was fucking with Alex because he sounded like he wasn't insane.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
Like, he had the vocal qualities of someone who isn't going to be like...
Also, did you know that they just raided the CIA headquarters with the Marines?
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
You have a good sense of a lot of these ad pivots, but you need to learn about how to tell if one of these callers is crazy.
jordan holmes
These crazy people hide in plain sight.
dan friesen
To some degree.
jordan holmes
Like Daria.
dan friesen
So, like, he goes on to be, like, probably going to take out, you know, maybe the military didn't invade, but they're going to fucking take out all these pedophiles, right?
What kind of lunatic?
Yeah, they are.
jordan holmes
What kind of lunatic?
I would believe that the Marines would raid the CIA.
Even if you believe that the Marines could raid the CIA, they can't!
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That's not even a thing!
dan friesen
Posse comitatus!
jordan holmes
That's not a thing!
dan friesen
I know.
jordan holmes
There's no thing that that could be!
dan friesen
The Army and the Marines do not operate on our soil.
jordan holmes
The Marines don't investigate things!
dan friesen
They're not police.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
dan friesen
It's the same thing with, like, Alex Jones saying that he has Secret Service sources that have told him that they're investigating Mueller.
And it's like, hold on now.
Do you know that the Secret Service, their only investigative arm is about...
jordan holmes
Treasury!
dan friesen
Yes.
unidentified
It's about taxes.
It's about money fraud.
dan friesen
It's about counterfeit money.
jordan holmes
It's about counterfeiting.
dan friesen
And then protecting the president.
Physically.
It's not about...
jordan holmes
And nobody ever really even knows why that's going on in the first place.
That was just one of those weird de facto things where they're like, eh, fuck it, come on in.
dan friesen
I get it.
But it's that same thing.
It's like, oh, the military...
Yeah, of course the good people and the Marines are going to investigate and storm the CIA.
jordan holmes
But the Marines would go to what CIA office?
dan friesen
The big one.
Home Command.
jordan holmes
The CIA office at Langley and Space Command.
dan friesen
Here's the problem that you don't understand.
jordan holmes
There are so many problems I don't understand.
dan friesen
Even a year into doing this podcast, I really don't think that you understand the dearth of weird websites that promote these sort of narratives.
There are thousands of them out there that people just subscribe to.
They're just like, oh, I like this guy's right.
You know what?
It's a small version of...
There are a thousand websites that tell you what's going on with wrestling.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean it's a more successful version of what we do?
dan friesen
No, because no one else does what we do.
There's a reason.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a good point.
dan friesen
This takes a long fucking time.
It's a lot of work.
There's a bunch of places where you can get varying degrees of the same sort of information about, like, what's going on in the narrative of the WWE, you know?
And you choose the guy whose writing style you like, and then it's like, I'm a with leather guy, or a spandex guy.
jordan holmes
Like, it's how Bill Simmons got a career.
dan friesen
I'm a bleacher report guy.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
I got it.
dan friesen
Or Matt Elfring.
He does his own thing, you know?
Our friend Matt.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but he does it with GameSpot because he's fucking incredible.
dan friesen
Right.
Love Matt.
jordan holmes
Congratulations, Matt, on your kid.
dan friesen
Congratulations, Matt.
jordan holmes
You just had a baby.
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm proud of him.
Also, I saw him tweeting that he's thinking about doing a Degrassi podcast.
jordan holmes
All right, Matt, you get the fuck off!
dan friesen
I'd like to tell him, good luck.
Spent a good two years doing that, and it's very emotionally draining.
But, be that as it may.
You have all these people and you just choose whichever voice you want in terms of like, this appeals to me.
I like this writing.
In the world of wingnut conspiracy shit, there is the same thing.
In terms of there are tons of people who are spitting fairly similar narratives on blogs and you're like, I like this guy's writing, I'm going to subscribe to him.
And then it just becomes your place to get that news.
There are hundreds of them on the internet, and they're all full of shit.
And most of them spit stuff like this.
Right.
unidentified
Like the Marines have invaded the CIA.
dan friesen
Report or rumor.
That would be a firefight.
Totally.
But do you remember like nine months ago we did that episode where he was talking about how they had a firefight at a pedophile compound?
jordan holmes
Yeah, but that's not the Marines and the CIA firing guns at each other.
dan friesen
But I think it was the Marines who had invaded this pedophile compound or whatever that he was making up.
jordan holmes
I'm fine with that, but if the CIA and the Marines had a firefight, I would...
We don't watch that movie so hard.
dan friesen
From that call, we do not know that there were weapon exchanges.
jordan holmes
If the Marines are invading the CIA headquarters, sooner or later there's going to be a weapon exchange.
dan friesen
You know from Alex that there are two types of people in the CIA.
There's the ones that do the killing, and those ones love Alex.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then there's the pencil neck chicken shit.
jordan holmes
Right.
The hard rice and the soft rice, if we're talking about Larry Nichols.
dan friesen
And the soft rice are the ones who got invaded.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The Marines came in with the pencil pushers.
No gunfire needs to be...
jordan holmes
But if the CIA...
If one office of the CIA gets raided by the Marines, now I just want a movie where there's a war between the CIA and the Marines!
dan friesen
Look, even Alex Jones fucking knows that this is bullshit.
jordan holmes
That's insane!
dan friesen
And to his credit on the show, he's like, nah, that's not real.
But the idea that he's like, the globalists push this, it's like, no, no, no, you have engendered a very empowered and...
jordan holmes
Dude.
dan friesen
Dumb population.
jordan holmes
See, now that's our sequel to Olympus Has Fallen right there.
The CIA and the Marines battle?
That's like Alien vs.
Predator, but way better.
dan friesen
But how do we do this without anyone knowing?
jordan holmes
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
That's going to be the interesting part.
jordan holmes
Well, that's why you're fighting against the CIA.
They're covering it up for you while they're fighting against you.
dan friesen
So now, Jordan, we're about to get into the part of the show where I would say Alex loses it a little bit.
jordan holmes
Aliens?
dan friesen
He doesn't want to talk to callers anymore.
jordan holmes
I imagine why!
dan friesen
He is sort of in a place where he's like, ugh, I have no more guests.
Paul Joseph Watson's gonna host the fourth hour, but...
jordan holmes
And he's a giant pile of shit.
dan friesen
I got a long way to go.
There's one story that I really want to talk about, but I can't get to it yet.
I gotta fill some time.
Let's talk about the devil.
jordan holmes
That's a good way to go.
alex jones
The betrayal, the deception, the lowliness, the weakness.
But that's the way the cycle works, isn't it?
We have to be tested.
You can't just be given eternal consciousness in God's great system that we're in the waiting room of being tested.
It's real.
All the top scientists know it, the genetic engineers, the globalists.
They say, oh, we're going to create new realities, and this one's the false one.
Something else is running.
We're going to make a really cool idea.
We're going to make this whole new thing.
Everybody needs to go with us into it.
jordan holmes
Haven't you heard those reports from the top scientists saying we're in the waiting room to heaven?
You remember those reports.
alex jones
The devil can't manufacture.
Can't create.
So he's got to get us to do it.
And he's trying to get us, made in the image of God, to build him his own new universe.
But then, of course, kill us when he's done.
jordan holmes
That also makes sense.
alex jones
He tells all the top architects that they're going to merge with these machines and he's going to take them with him.
The devil's already got robots.
unidentified
The devil's already got robots.
alex jones
Doesn't need you.
jordan holmes
Then why did he ask you?
alex jones
You'll find out.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
alex jones
Jim in Toronto, Canada.
unidentified
I don't think.
I don't think.
jordan holmes
Alright, alright, that's my favorite thing.
That's my favorite.
That's my favorite thing.
Finally, after a year of doing this, we found my favorite thing.
The devil...
He needs you to build him a new universe, but he has robots.
He doesn't need you.
dan friesen
You'll find out.
jordan holmes
Jim in Toronto, we gotta get you on board.
dan friesen
There's such comedy in those pauses.
You know from at least some experience with Alex that as he's pausing, there's just a look on his face of like...
jordan holmes
What am I...
I just said the devil has robots.
That's a weird thing for me to say.
Jim?
dan friesen
I just shot my wad with the devil.
I'm in a refractory period, I guess.
Jim, what do you want to fucking talk about?
jordan holmes
Hey, Toronto Jim!
What's going on?
dan friesen
That's like...
There are moments of Alex where he does something accidentally and just because he's kind of panicking a little bit that are ten times funnier than any joke I've ever heard in stand-up.
jordan holmes
I've never heard anything funnier than that.
That's so fucking...
dan friesen
Because you know what?
Alex accidentally understands tension and release.
Like, there's so much tension built up.
jordan holmes
God, that's the best Bob Hope bit that Bob Hope never wrote.
dan friesen
There's so much tension that's built up with this idea of, like, the devil is trying to make us create in the universe and then he's going to kill us.
unidentified
But he has robots already and he doesn't need us.
dan friesen
The long pauses serve it so well in terms of building up the tension.
And then the release, the punchline of Jim.
jordan holmes
Jim from Toronto.
dan friesen
Also, if I were Jim in Toronto, I'd be like, that was a shitty legal.
I don't want to come to stage to that.
How am I supposed to follow that?
jordan holmes
What does Jim in Toronto want to talk about?
dan friesen
I don't even remember.
It was so inconsequential.
Of course!
jordan holmes
Jim is following devil worshipping.
dan friesen
It's impossible.
jordan holmes
Come on, man.
Jim, you got nothing.
dan friesen
It's impossible.
You're filler.
So in this next clip, Alex asserts that the Me Too movement of women...
Talking about how they have also been sexually harassed and abused.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Is really just about trying to attack Trump.
unidentified
Nope.
jordan holmes
Done.
Already out.
dan friesen
Most of it's bullshit.
jordan holmes
It's really just about trying to attack toxic masculinity.
dan friesen
Which Trump embodies.
jordan holmes
Which he does embody.
That's true.
dan friesen
But beyond that, Alex gets into...
Pizzagate a little bit in this next clip.
jordan holmes
He should just not do...
Like, if I was him, if I was just giving him advice, which, once again, we should not be doing, and yet if he hires us for a good amount, I would think about it.
dan friesen
I'd like to meet Daria.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'd like to meet Daria.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
He should just pretend that that never happened, right?
dan friesen
But the problem with him pretending it doesn't happen is that there's too many records of what he said back then.
jordan holmes
We have records of all the shit he said.
It hasn't mattered.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And he lies about all that here.
And then on the other end of this clip, I'll explain why it's an even bigger issue than previously.
Just that.
alex jones
They're obviously readying this for Trump.
And that's what he's been getting at.
That's what he's been talking about.
Here's a low-tech example of what they do.
And then we're going to go to Jim.
Megyn Kelly aired about, what, ten months ago before she left Fox News, a clip on her show saying, here's Alex Jones saying Hillary tortures children to death in the basement of a pizza place.
jordan holmes
Would you like to play that clip?
dan friesen
But no, because before Alex gets into it, he's kind of fair on this.
That Megyn Kelly on her show did play a clip out of context in a report about Pizzagate.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But the issue is that Alex was being super unclear about what he was talking about in the clip that they pulled from.
jordan holmes
Are Alex being unclear?
dan friesen
And the other problem is that Alex...
His point that he's going to make when I keep playing this clip is that Hillary Clinton, through her support of the overthrow of Libya and stuff like that, is responsible for the rape and killing of children and what have you.
But the problem is, in that clip that Megyn Kelly took, she personally raped and murdered these children and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Which is...
Linguistically difficult.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I understand why a overburdened researcher clip puller for MSNBC or Fox News would do something like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's not necessarily the most deceitful thing, but Alex is also right that they did take it a bit out of context.
jordan holmes
It's one of those things where if I said out loud that Obama personally is responsible for the...
dan friesen
Not even personally is responsible for.
Just personally did things.
Because that's the language he used.
jordan holmes
See, now that's a different situation.
dan friesen
That's why I'm bringing this up as a clarification.
Because if he just said she's personally responsible for this stuff, then you could bring your Obama comparison in with all the shit he's allowed to have.
jordan holmes
Whatever atrocity you want to, you know, if you're making decisions on that level, your decisions are going to lead to atrocities.
dan friesen
Exactly.
And in her capacity as Secretary of State, she is responsible in some ways.
jordan holmes
For atrocities, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, for a lot of that stuff.
But when you use the language of she personally raped and murdered children, that is where it becomes a problem.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And he doesn't understand that distinction, and he's using this decent point he has to lie about a more salient point that he should watch his language.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But anyway.
alex jones
And then she had the owner on, and...
Then she said that this clip is what I'm saying about this guy.
dan friesen
This is about James Alephantis.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Owner of Comet Ping Pong Pizza.
jordan holmes
Who we have discussed.
dan friesen
And Alex Jones had to give a formal apology to.
jordan holmes
Yes.
alex jones
Which I didn't say.
I mean, it would have been defaming him if I was saying it about him.
I was saying it about Hillary.
dan friesen
You kind of were.
alex jones
Funding ISIS and Al-Qaeda that have sold kids into slavery by the tens of thousands, murdered women, thrown gays off buildings.
And then I went through this whole rant about, I don't know if she's a devil worshiper really killing kids, but, you know.
With this whole story the media had out there, specifically about Comet Ping Pong, and then later I said it probably was made up, it is made up, to distract us onto that place, away from what was in the WikiLeaks.
jordan holmes
Sure.
That was weird.
alex jones
It takes time to figure this out.
I did this whole rant about that, and they edited it together.
It's video, but audio and video.
Totally clear what I said at the beginning and the end, and they put it out.
I'm saying she's in the basement herself, torturing and killing kids.
dan friesen
Nope.
alex jones
And they edited the tape, mixed it around, edited it, cut the front off, the back off, and played like a minute on the show of fake audio.
That's why when Megyn Kelly called me and played dumb on the phone and started hitting on me, I said, I never take people.
Oh, fuck you!
But on that case, I did, because I could tell it was a setup.
jordan holmes
Fuck you!
alex jones
So there was a big Hillary sex scandal to break.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
Mainstream media all reported on it.
They just covered it up by creating a fake one.
Then they put it on me and say I'm fake news for being the one that went and reported on it, covered it, and then debunked what was happening.
Then I become the guy who's guilty and who supposedly needs to be put out of business for it.
dan friesen
So a couple of very salient facts that need to be brought up.
One, the guy who went to combat ping pong and fired his rifle.
In interviews said that he was inspired.
jordan holmes
Specifically pointed out.
Alex Jones.
dan friesen
I listened to Infowars and I needed to save those children.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
I needed to go get to the bottom of it.
And the clips that we have played that Alex has tried to delete from the internet unsuccessfully, he has said someone should go look into this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That sort of thing is why that guy did.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
More salient point.
jordan holmes
In the same way if one of those Second Amendment folks had gone after Hillary, you would look at Trump and say, you were the one who said, I hope these Second Amendment folks...
Go after Hillary.
dan friesen
Boy, that's weird.
jordan holmes
Weird.
dan friesen
The other thing I need to bring into focus is that in the last week, Alex Jones had a guest on his show to talk about Bitcoin.
He was a Bitcoin expert.
jordan holmes
A Bitcoin expert.
dan friesen
By the name of Dave Seaman.
And you don't know who that guy is.
jordan holmes
I remember a man named Dave Seaman because that is a funny name.
dan friesen
Dave Seaman was one of the biggest forces behind Pizzagate.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You could say he blew his wad on PC.
dan friesen
He did.
But apparently his refractory period has come around.
jordan holmes
Led him to Bitcoin.
dan friesen
He's now a Bitcoin expert.
jordan holmes
You know what?
Once you've come, you're always going to money.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Dave Seaman is a guy who all his videos are now taken off the internet because he's like, oh shit, I gotta get rid of all this stuff.
This is bad.
But he was leading the charge.
He was putting out frequent videos about the basement and about various Instagram posts that Comet Ping Pong had put out.
He was pointing the finger directly at James Oliphantus.
And he created this bizarre narrative around himself where he was being threatened.
And oh my god, the globalists are coming to get me because I'm uncovering all this stuff.
You guys need...
To support me.
Give me money.
And he made tons of money off people.
jordan holmes
But what it was actually about is that the globalists were coming after him because of his knowledge of Bitcoin.
dan friesen
I can't stress this enough.
His videos are gone from the internet, but I watched this unfold in real time.
I was watching the entire Pizzagate thing happen from the jump.
From the beginning of it.
And what Dave Seaman is doing now is the same thing that Alex is doing.
Because Dave has now scrubbed all his videos from the internet, and he has a Pizzagate recap on it, where he's trying to make it all about the things that were said in the WikiLeaks.
When in reality, what he was doing was ginning up people to a crazy extent.
He was like, no, it's all there.
It's all there.
Everything's going on there.
This James Elephantus is the devil worshiper.
They got Podestas in the basement killing kids.
He was...
100% the most prominent figure who was pushing that stuff to the point where he created a hoax about people trying to kill him.
He pretended he had to get off the grid and disappear to a cabin somewhere and then didn't put out videos for a while and everyone's like, where's Dave Seaman?
Did they get him?
That sort of shit.
jordan holmes
It's like if George Lucas tried to tell us that he never invented midichlorians.
unidentified
Bullshit.
jordan holmes
Bullshit, Lucas.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
That one's on you.
dan friesen
So Alex Jones had Dave Seaman on his show in the last week as a repurposed Bitcoin enthusiast.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
When he is not.
He is one of the people who...
jordan holmes
I believe if I recall your post about this, you likened it to Cain?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Before he was Kane, he was what now?
dan friesen
Dr. Isaac Yankum.
He was a wrestling dentist.
It's the repackaging.
jordan holmes
The entirety of your blog post was super boring.
But that is a very interesting...
I'm just fucking with you.
unidentified
Well, but that's what wrestlers do and characters don't work.
dan friesen
And they're doing the same game.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
No, I was being facetious.
dan friesen
I understand.
jordan holmes
He was very good.
dan friesen
But it's the same thing that Alex has done with himself.
He's repackaged what he said about Pizzagate and what he was doing.
He's now repackaged and allowed Dave Seaman to come on his show as a Bitcoin enthusiast.
And Dave Seaman wrote a book about buzz and about how he's all about buzz and how he would deny the existence of air if it got him attention.
So it's like, eh, maybe we don't need to pay attention to what you're saying.
jordan holmes
You shouldn't write an explanation for why you shouldn't listen to yourself.
Exactly.
dan friesen
And then let's go further another step.
Alex has Jack Posobiec on all the time, who was another proponent of the literal Pizzagate shit to the extent that he went to Comet Ping Pong Pizza and spr- I've read spurious rumors about them, as we've covered on an episode about them on the show.
jordan holmes
As we recalled on that video, which was sad.
dan friesen
He has all these guests who are trying to retcon their own past about this stuff, and it's not okay.
It's not okay.
I'm pissed off about it.
I'm super pissed off about it.
Pizza Gay was bullshit, and these dudes are just able to, like, eh.
And Mike Cernovich, too!
Mike Cernovich is another one!
He pretends those videos aren't still around.
It's nuts.
All of these guys are just engaged in large-scale fraud.
They're engaged in large-scale lying and manipulation.
And then when it doesn't work out, they're like, I wasn't saying that.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
There's videos, man.
There's videos of Alex Jones saying that he talked to Russian intelligence.
jordan holmes
This is nuts.
dan friesen
This isn't okay.
You can't get away with this.
I'm mad.
jordan holmes
I agree.
dan friesen
I'm furious.
jordan holmes
I just...
I agree with you.
dan friesen
I just channeled you a little bit.
jordan holmes
I agree with you on every point.
dan friesen
That's what it feels like when you do that.
jordan holmes
I enjoyed it so much.
That's our main difference.
I was listening to that rant going like, fuck yeah!
Keep on going, Dan!
Keep on fucking getting them!
Go after that!
And you're listening to my rants like, this fucking guy better shut up.
I've got more facts to get to.
Fuck you!
Fuck you, Dan!
That was great.
I enjoyed it.
How dare you?
dan friesen
That's a fair criticism.
jordan holmes
I am giving you positive reinforcement.
dan friesen
I accept that as criticism.
I accept that.
jordan holmes
Yes, my positive reinforcement is criticism of you.
dan friesen
Well, it is.
unidentified
It is.
jordan holmes
It is!
I know!
I'm using the powers of positive reinforcement to chastise you for the way you've treated me in the past.
dan friesen
Oh, God.
And, again, fair point.
unidentified
Yeah!
I love you, Dan.
dan friesen
Love you, too.
So this next clip, this one we're going to have fun with.
This next clip is actually going to be fun.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
jordan holmes
There's nothing better.
There is nothing better than two people having a moment of where it's like, All right, now we're going to get back to work.
Okay, yes, there we go.
dan friesen
That's our version of the Alex Jones ad pivot.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Back to what we're actually supposed to be talking about.
jordan holmes
What were we doing?
It doesn't matter.
Let's get back to what Alex Jones said.
dan friesen
I've always conceived of this show slightly like Mystery Science Theater in the sense that we are trapped in this room talking about something that neither of us would like to be talking about.
jordan holmes
Agreed, agreed.
dan friesen
And so we just got movie signed.
jordan holmes
No, exactly.
dan friesen
It's time to get back to the business.
jordan holmes
That's why I have never had, like, when we first started it, there were plenty of times where you were listening to me talk over the clips, like, what the fuck are you doing?
And now you've kind of got, like, that's what I've always thought of it as.
dan friesen
Well, keep talking over the clips, except for the points where I do this.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
Well, we've figured out an angle where that makes sense.
dan friesen
I have to shush Servo every now and again.
jordan holmes
You need to shush Servo every now and again.
God damn it, Bill Corbett.
Figure it out.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, we actually get to a little bit of...
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's right.
I know a lot about Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Who would have guessed?
dan friesen
That's not that much.
You know one of the guys?
jordan holmes
No, I know more of the guys.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Trace Bolio.
unidentified
Mike Nelson.
dan friesen
Shut up.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
All right.
This next clip, we can actually have some fun as Alex Jones misrepresents another right-wing sexual abuser in a very comical way.
jordan holmes
Before we go any further, Jonah Ray, great.
Great.
dan friesen
Fine.
jordan holmes
He's great in the new version.
dan friesen
Fine.
alex jones
That's how they operate, ladies and gentlemen.
But regardless, you have to take any video or any tape at face value after you have experts, forensic experts look at it, you see long clips of it.
You can't sit there and take it at face value when it comes out from these people because they've been caught.
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Confirm, The Hill, what we told you months ago and days ago and what Bill O 'Reilly said.
dan friesen
It's not really a story.
alex jones
And I'm not saying Bill O 'Reilly didn't hit on women and really weird stuff in the transcripts like, oh baby, you got a falafel in there.
You know, you want to have sex with a sandwich?
I mean, it was really weird.
jordan holmes
That's called sexual assault?
alex jones
No wonder he can't get women.
I mean, tip, O 'Reilly, you don't want to call up, you know, your producer if you want to take her out and tell her, you know, off the bat, does she want to, you know, shove a sandwich?
I mean, you're a pervert.
But, and you should have gotten in trouble.
What, $15 million to one woman?
For a pervert call?
You know, how he wants her to do stuff with food?
And it wasn't like chocolate sauce or something.
It was really stupid.
So...
unidentified
What?
alex jones
There's lots of examples of this and ways they can carry out fake news.
dan friesen
So here's what I want to say.
He ends there...
jordan holmes
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
dan friesen
I'll make everything clear.
I'll make everything clear.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So what he says there at the end is the most telling part.
There's so many ways they can do this fake news.
So now what he's talking about with the go-shove-a-sandwich and that falafel stuff, you don't know about this?
jordan holmes
No.
Why would I know about this?
dan friesen
So Bill O 'Reilly, when he got in trouble for the sexual harassment stuff last time, or the time before last, because it's happened a bunch, the classic one...
jordan holmes
Because he's a serial sexual assaulter.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Like Matt Lauer.
dan friesen
The one from years back involved a call that he made to a lady where he was talking about rubbing a falafel.
jordan holmes
Well, that's just good fun.
dan friesen
He meant loofah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He just didn't know the word for it.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
It was very clear that he was talking about rubbing a loofah around.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Bill O 'Reilly thought a loofah was falafel?
dan friesen
He was probably drunk or on pills or something like that and just was like, falafel, put that falafel on your pussy.
jordan holmes
You know what?
I don't think Bill O 'Reilly knows what he's talking about.
dan friesen
But Alex Jones is in that clip giving out fake news.
jordan holmes
And fake advice!
dan friesen
But in a sense, it's entirely...
jordan holmes
And even he was like...
And it's not even chocolate sauce, which I have done many a time.
Like, wait, what did you just say?
Alex Jones, did you just say you've used chocolate sauce a whole bunch?
dan friesen
That's fine.
jordan holmes
That's super fine.
dan friesen
Live your life.
jordan holmes
Why would that...
unidentified
Why would falafel not count in the same vein?
dan friesen
I think it would be structurally and logistically much more difficult than chocolate sauce to use in a sexual way.
jordan holmes
Chocolate sauce, it hardens.
It's not good.
Definitely don't use honey.
dan friesen
Okay.
I shan't.
But look, the...
I don't want to talk about that stuff, like the logistics of sex with food.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
And let me tell you something about fajitas.
Bad idea.
dan friesen
Because they're sizzling.
jordan holmes
A lot of burning.
dan friesen
I want to talk about the fact that even liberals, when they make fun of the falafel stuff, it's because everyone knows he misspoke.
It was talking about a loofah.
Alex legitimately is presenting it as like...
Hey, bro, you like sex with sandwiches?
Great.
Don't call your producer with that.
jordan holmes
I wouldn't call your producer with any of that.
Why are you giving that advice?
dan friesen
That's one piece of it.
jordan holmes
That's the more important piece.
His advice is, don't sexually assault your producer with that.
dan friesen
With sandwich talk?
jordan holmes
Sexually assault her with this.
dan friesen
But the fact that he doesn't know that it's a very easily explainable...
He meant loofah.
jordan holmes
Well, the fact that he thinks the problem is...
Sandwich choice.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's maybe a larger issue.
dan friesen
Everybody knows women like to be fucked with meatball subs.
jordan holmes
The problem is so much further towards the beginning of the question than when you get all the way to sandwiches.
dan friesen
Oh, totally.
jordan holmes
Like, there's a long way to go.
Like, sexual assault continues all the way up to sandwiches and beyond.
dan friesen
You're totally right, big picture.
But since this is an Alex Jones podcast and that seems like such an elementary point, I'm more fixated on the fact that he is willfully or just so oblivious to what Bill O 'Reilly was actually talking about that he's presenting it as...
jordan holmes
This is our Bill O 'Reilly's Nancy Pelosi moment where he's like, ah, Bill O 'Reilly, he's senile.
He doesn't even know how to fuck.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex talks about David Rockefeller who is now dead.
Yes.
He had some heart transplants in his life.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And in this clip...
jordan holmes
Dead is a Subway sandwich, which you should not fuck with.
dan friesen
Dude, I went to Subway the other day.
jordan holmes
Don't do it.
dan friesen
I almost yelled at the person, the sandwich artist.
I felt really bad about it, but she was not listening to me.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
dan friesen
I am a problem.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, Dan.
dan friesen
I'm a problem at Subway.
Because you know what I want?
jordan holmes
Why are you a problem?
dan friesen
Because I want giardiniera juice, but I don't want giardiniera.
I like the spicy oil.
jordan holmes
That is a problem.
dan friesen
The spicy oil is delicious.
jordan holmes
I understand.
dan friesen
I hate the cauliflower.
jordan holmes
I understand where you're coming from.
dan friesen
Giardinero.
jordan holmes
Fuck you, Chicago.
dan friesen
It's too busy.
jordan holmes
I get what you're saying.
I'm with you all the way.
I'm with you all the way.
dan friesen
It's too much.
jordan holmes
I understand.
Don't go to Subway, though.
dan friesen
Back when I used to work at Subway.
jordan holmes
That's on you.
dan friesen
Back at Subway, I would always be very happy to give people the oil.
It just takes pressing down the spoon, and then you get the oil, and you're going to put it on the sandwich.
The other day I went to Subway and I had to scream at somebody.
I didn't scream.
jordan holmes
You didn't scream.
Of course you did.
dan friesen
I was passive-aggressive as fuck, though.
jordan holmes
In your brain you screamed, then you felt guilty about it for weeks afterwards.
dan friesen
Let's role-play it.
jordan holmes
Okay, alright.
dan friesen
Can I just get the Giardinero oil?
Just the oil from it on the sandwich.
jordan holmes
What about the rest of it?
dan friesen
She didn't say that.
She just started going.
Just started doing it.
And she got a scoop.
Granted, it was mostly oil.
jordan holmes
So I'm already more competent than the sandwich employee that you are working with.
dan friesen
Well, if they wanted to have a conversation about it, it wouldn't help.
jordan holmes
Insofar as I asked you a question.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
No, she just started going in and then poured it on the sandwich.
I'm like, ah, there goes a carrot.
jordan holmes
Dude, she's being paid like nine bucks an hour.
She gets whatever she wants.
I will accept any inconvenience from a fast food employee because it's like, dude, I get it.
I'm with you.
dan friesen
No, I am too.
jordan holmes
You probably have a creative writing degree, which is more than I successfully achieved, and you're making me a sandwich.
I agree with you.
dan friesen
This is the end of Dan's hungover going to Subway tales.
Yes.
Also, I was there.
jordan holmes
Can we get some more benign celebrity acquaintances?
dan friesen
Yeah, here was one.
The manager of the Subway.
jordan holmes
Wait, is that the celebrity?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
All right, all right.
dan friesen
He was having a conversation.
unidentified
All right, I'm sold.
jordan holmes
I'm way in.
dan friesen
He apparently got robbed.
Like, apparently someone broke into the store recently.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And he was having a conversation with an adjuster, and she didn't believe him at all.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And so I'm just sitting there trying to order my sandwich, and she's just been like, walk me through this one more time.
And it was this very weird, like, do this in an office.
jordan holmes
Don't do it in the middle of the store.
An insurance adjuster is asking the manager, About what happened.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And what was lost.
jordan holmes
Whilst you are getting a sandwich.
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
In the same...
dan friesen
In the lobby.
Just sitting right next to where I'm ordering my sandwich and pissed off about the Giardinera oil.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then, get this!
jordan holmes
Get this!
Nobody has asked you about this.
You have been waiting to tell this story for so long.
dan friesen
I didn't realize it, but yes, apparently.
jordan holmes
Yes, apparently.
dan friesen
I didn't...
Look, so...
This happens, and I'm pissed off about the oil situation.
My quote was, there goes a carrot.
Which is fine.
So the sandwich gets wrapped up.
And then the manager, who's in the middle of talking to this insurance claims adjuster, comes around to ring me up.
jordan holmes
Do you know what that is?
That's a law and order episode.
Whenever the cops always go to the warehouse and the guy insists on still picking up boxes and putting it over, instead of just like, oh, hey, you're cops.
I will have a conversation with you.
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
There's one guy behind me.
There's two people in line total.
There's no need for him to come over at all.
jordan holmes
He's got to fucking handle it himself.
unidentified
He's got to get in there.
dan friesen
And then he overcharges me for the sandwich.
Overcharges me for the sandwich.
jordan holmes
What are you, Larry David now?
dan friesen
Basically.
unidentified
It was ridiculous.
jordan holmes
You just wrote a two-episode arc of Seinfeld.
That's what you just did.
You just wrote a two-episode arc.
dan friesen
It's an everyman version of Curb.
He charged me like six bucks for a meatball sub.
I'm like, I thought it was five dollar footlongs.
What's going on here?
And he's like, you got it wrong.
I'm like, alright, whatever.
unidentified
I'm hungover.
dan friesen
I gotta go home and eat this.
jordan holmes
You know what?
I'm not gonna back you with this insurance adjuster.
I was on your team until now.
This extra dollar means you didn't get robbed of shit.
dan friesen
This has been Dan's malevolent subway experiences corner of the day.
Now let's get back to this clip about David Rockefeller.
jordan holmes
Right.
We've got movie sign.
dan friesen
Movie sign!
alex jones
It's going to become very clear very soon how far gone we already are.
And by the time we turn the ship around, it's still going to be real bad, folks.
The mental illness, the evil, the genetic damage.
We're going to be so damaged that they're going to say, oh, we have computers and gene editing and everything for you.
Join in with us and we'll take care of you.
You have to be willing to die.
I would never take a Buddhist or a Christian or an atheist liver to lift Chinese liver.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
David Rockefeller had six heart transplants before he died.
jordan holmes
Really?
unidentified
A little inside baseball.
alex jones
He was on such a power trip four years ago before he went to his last Bilderberg, three years ago, that he had a heart transplant two days before he went.
jordan holmes
What is that clicking sound?
dan friesen
It's his pen.
He's clicking his pen.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
But this is...
jordan holmes
So he's like, what's his face in GoldenEye?
dan friesen
This is fake news out of the World News Daily Report.
jordan holmes
So Rockefeller had six heart transplants before he died.
dan friesen
The World News Daily Report in April of 2015 reported, the billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller had successfully undergone his sixth heart transplant at 38 years at the venerable age of 99 years old.
The article also purported to have a quote from David Rockefeller.
Every time I get a new heart, it's like a breath of life is swept across my body.
I feel regenerized and alive.
jordan holmes
That sounds like a fake quote.
dan friesen
However, this news was not reported by any other credible outlet because it was a spoof.
jordan holmes
Probably because it's made up.
dan friesen
It was a spoof about the alleged heartlessness and entitlement of the wealthy from the fake news site World News Daily Report, whose disclaimer page states...
truthfully.
unidentified
Here's a quote from their About page.
dan friesen
World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways.
All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction and presumably fake news.
Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental, except for all references to politicians and or celebrities, in which case they are based on real people, but still based on almost Right.
jordan holmes
It's an Onion article about Dick Cheney.
Essentially.
dan friesen
But Alex Jones took that to be true.
But it is true that he did have multiple heart transplants in his life, and he lived to 101.
jordan holmes
He had multiple heart transplants?
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm not sure the exact number.
jordan holmes
Is that even allowed?
I feel like you shouldn't be allowed to do that.
dan friesen
If you're super rich, you can do whatever the fuck you want.
jordan holmes
I feel like you get one extra heart, and then you go, fuck yourself.
dan friesen
You can do whatever the fuck you want, it turns out.
But this particular case...
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
Rich people get treated differently than the rest of us?
No idea.
dan friesen
But in this particular case, Alex is...
Like, the last episode, we talked about how he was just responding to a chain letter, basically.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And this one, he's responding to an article using World News Daily Report satirical news website as, like, did you know that a week before Bilderberg, he got...
jordan holmes
You know what's kind of sad?
I prefer...
I wish I lived in a world where you could just get a...
Shit ton of heart transplants and you'd be fine.
dan friesen
You can if you have tons and tons of money.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean...
dan friesen
He did live to 101.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but I mean more like he should have lived to 161.
You know what I'm saying?
Like he should have gotten...
Every new heart should have...
dan friesen
Give it time.
Medbed.
unidentified
Medbed.
dan friesen
It's coming.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
Our boy Randy Kramer is going to get that...
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
He's going to get that Kickstarter going.
jordan holmes
I accept any and all Medbed related information.
dan friesen
Yes.
So let's get through the rest of this.
unidentified
But...
dan friesen
The point is, Alex is lying.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
alex jones
Now, I'll give him that.
He had some will, didn't he?
But it was a will to hurt people.
And he wanted to be at those tables of power.
He wanted to hold on to this life as long as he could, but he didn't.
You know where David Rockefeller is now?
jordan holmes
France?
alex jones
With other spirits like his.
No more blood to suck.
Vampires.
jordan holmes
Tibet?
alex jones
In their eternal death.
In their spiritual coffins.
jordan holmes
Melbourne?
alex jones
For eternity alone.
jordan holmes
Melbourne.
I hear the tone.
alex jones
Cut off from God, that's hell.
jordan holmes
That's Melbourne.
alex jones
The lake of fire is a metaphor.
I said I'd go to your calls, and I didn't, but I've gone to a lot of them.
I'm going to go to Tristan, Jeff, Boheme, Devon, Clint, Lewis.
I'll get to all those calls before the transmission ends.
Paul Watts is coming up the fourth hour.
But I've got to say this, or we won't be able to fund ourselves, plus the great products you need.
unidentified
Oh!
alex jones
Look, Jones shows vitamins and minerals and water filters and air filters, and everything is good for you.
It doesn't mean I'm the perfect person.
It just means everything we bring you is the very best we can.
dan friesen
Great.
Do you see the difference in...
unidentified
His voice...
dan friesen
Do you see the difference in affect?
jordan holmes
His voice going from...
dan friesen
It's so performative.
jordan holmes
Oh, you know where he is.
alex jones
That guy's in hell.
jordan holmes
He's cut off from God.
Hey, we've got new sales on water filters.
Everything is good for you.
dan friesen
I can do a better version of it, and it is this.
It's like, I love this guy.
Rockefeller, he has all these Chinese arts.
You know where he is now, that guy.
Cut off from God.
He's in hell.
Everybody's trying to fucking say that I sell shit.
Because it's defensive.
He gets really excited defensively.
Everyone's like, I sell bullshit, but look, I sell water filters and vitamins.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
It's so performative.
It's nonsense.
To think that a normal human being would have that as their path of...
Experience their path of how they want to rhetorically do a show or whatever.
It's nonsense.
It's so fake.
I often think about this.
I believe you.
If you and I were in Alex Jones' position and we were doing a show where we were convinced that the globalists were trying to kill everybody.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
What we would do.
Like, how would we behave ourselves?
jordan holmes
In a certain sense, we are doing that show.
You just replace globalists with ultra-wealthy.
dan friesen
Um, no, because I really don't think that they are trying to kill us.
I think they just don't care.
You know what I mean?
jordan holmes
That's a conversation that we could get into for...
dan friesen
It's a little more nuanced in terms of, like, I don't think that the billionaire class or the super wealthy...
jordan holmes
The oligarchs?
dan friesen
Yes.
I don't think that they have a vested interest in killing us, necessarily.
It's just that if we do, they don't care, and the things that keep us alive cost them lots of money, and they don't care about that.
They want to take away those things.
Now, if we're able to survive without them...
They're not mad about that because we still get to work and prop up the organizations that they need to make money.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So the difference between our version of Boogeyman and Alex's version of Boogeyman, ours are real, and also we don't have these fictitious narratives about white genocide.
jordan holmes
I would like credit for not engaging with this tangent and going on a four and a half hour conversation about this.
Because I know that annoys you.
dan friesen
We'll do it off air.
jordan holmes
However, what I would like to say...
dan friesen
I've learned my lesson.
I'm going to be supportive.
unidentified
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
jordan holmes
Somehow that's even more disconcerting than otherwise.
I prefer it when you look into the camera and say that I'm the worst.
dan friesen
There's no win for me.
I'm like Eeyore.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
You fucking sympathy-getting piece of shit.
dan friesen
No, make your point, though.
jordan holmes
Anyways, let's go into the 20 things that Dan thinks are reasonable conversation.
I do think that they are actively trying to kill us.
dan friesen
That's fair.
I mean, you can make a good case for that.
I was just expressing my position.
jordan holmes
No, and I get that.
That's kind of the...
I think that is kind of the fundamental difference that we often have on so many different things, is how much of it is murder versus how much of it is manslaughter.
Right.
I think that's the conversation we often wind up having.
dan friesen
No, I agree.
And now that I'm sitting in it a little bit, I start to distance my personal experience away and sort of look at it in the bigger picture.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The laissez-faire, I don't give a fuck kind of attitude of the rich, that some people can survive, others can't.
And that might be a little bit of a bias that I have that's based in privilege of my own life.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That people who are lower on the chain, it is a death sentence to them.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
It is absolutely straight up a death sentence to them.
And so I guess there's only a semantic difference between...
Right.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
based on the actions that are right.
So you might actually be way more right.
jordan holmes
Right.
unidentified
Regardless of whether or not there is an active desire to murder, you are murdering people, and you are doing it with knowledge that people are going to die.
jordan holmes
Do you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
For the sake of keeping your...
jordan holmes
No, if you're saying, hey, we need to cut Medicaid, you are saying that from the position of, yes, I know people will die because of this.
I am saying we need to do it regardless.
dan friesen
The argument can never really be, does Medicaid work?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It can only be about the financial stuff.
jordan holmes
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
dan friesen
It can never be about, what does this provide?
jordan holmes
Right.
Obamacare, yes.
30 million more people are on insurance.
We should get rid of those millions of people.
Now, admittedly, yes, people will die due to that.
But financially speaking, it makes sense.
You know, like that kind of situation.
dan friesen
But see, with that example, the thing I would step back to is, like, it's not necessarily killing people as much as it is putting them into...
It's putting them into wage slavery, bondage, and deep debt and shit like that, which is a death in life to some extent.
But that's not killing them.
It's more making them completely inert variables.
unidentified
Again, it's splitting hairs a tiny bit.
jordan holmes
But at the same time, I would much rather...
dan friesen
I'm not ready to jump into bed with Alex's narratives about the people that we don't like.
I'm not ready to call them demonic and trying to murder all of us because I don't want to radicalize the people who listen to our show.
jordan holmes
And I do.
dan friesen
I respect the hell out of the people who listen to us and we chat online and we interact and I don't want there to be a moment where they get Some sort of dumbass idea in their head.
jordan holmes
You don't want them to go to a fucking pizza shop and start shooting people.
dan friesen
Right, but at the same time...
jordan holmes
And I want them to go to a boardroom and start shooting people.
Do not take that out of context.
You just said it out of context.
dan friesen
You should have said, go to the boardroom and shit on the table.
jordan holmes
Politically.
dan friesen
Yes.
The reason that I know where this episode is going to end, and that's why I'm being very specific about this, is that I don't think that our audience should think of the people who are in charge and are really ruining a ton of stuff as demonic entities that want to kill you as much as they are very greedy.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it is about accumulation of wealth and cutting people out of the equation.
That's really more, because that's a legitimate real-world motive that we've seen over and over again.
We see it play out consistently.
We see almost every time there's some sort of...
Like, really successful thing, it's based on fraud.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, they're just within markets.
jordan holmes
Well, fucking Enron.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Or any Enron-type thing.
jordan holmes
What I see it as, and I feel like this is probably the most apt comparison that I can come up with.
In an old Western, you see somebody ride a horse to death.
You know?
To them, The horse is simply a way.
A horse is simply the way to get there.
dan friesen
A means.
jordan holmes
It doesn't matter that the horse dies at the end because whatever it is they think they're doing is more important than the life of the horse.
dan friesen
Well, what we're talking about now is Kant's categorical imperative, basically.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
To some extent.
We're talking about two things.
One, the only thing that is good in the world is a good will.
The only thing that is good is doing things for the right reason.
And if you're acting out of bad faith and bad will, then anything you do is bad.
And I agree that a lot of this is that.
And we've lost track of that to a certain extent.
And then the other implication from that, I believe it's Kant.
I can't remember.
It might be another philosopher.
I apologize if that's the case.
Dave from IT once said, The idea of treating someone as a means to an end as opposed to an end in and of themselves is always wrong.
And I believe that is the case.
I believe that is true.
If you just are treating someone with their autonomy and their individual experience as a means to get you something as opposed to being a human themselves, then you're fucked.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And the system that we live in right now does both of those things.
They're acting in bad will and treating people as means to an end.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
dan friesen
So there is a reason enough there to just be like, burn it down.
jordan holmes
Of course.
And the only question I have for you is, Dan, do you think humans have a soul?
dan friesen
Listen, theologians would tell you.
There's a lot of ideas coming out of...
jordan holmes
No, we're...
It is the question that I keep going back to.
Does it...
So, when we started, the question continued...
A year ago?
Yeah.
It was constantly, to me, always like, is Alex stupid or evil?
And as we've gone along, the question has become, does it matter?
Like, does it matter if you are stupid or evil?
dan friesen
Your philosophical question has shifted.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because for me, the question has also shifted.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it's more, I know Alex is stupid.
I know that.
Right.
It's more become, to me, does he know what he's doing?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So to you...
jordan holmes
But that's the question of stupid versus evil.
If you're doing something stupid because you believe in it as a good thing...
dan friesen
I disagree.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I disagree, because I've already established he's stupid.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
I know that full on.
Right.
Just based on his...
Inaccurate readings of texts.
jordan holmes
Oh, he's fucking stupid.
No, we can move past whatever explanation you have for stupid.
We have 12 months of podcasts to prove it.
dan friesen
But what I mean is that dichotomy is meaningless to me.
In that we started with that.
Stupid versus evil.
That dichotomy is meaningless because I know he's stupid.
And the evil part now has become evil knowingly and willingly or evil just incidentally.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that part is still...
That's still tough for me.
I still...
I don't have evidence that he is full-on evil.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But I do have evidence, and we have evidence.
We've presented it over and over and over again, even in this episode with the Daria stuff.
unidentified
Like...
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ, Daria!
Daria, you have to tell...
It's like a cop.
unidentified
He's...
jordan holmes
Daria, you have to tell us if you're a Russian agent.
dan friesen
At best, he's...
In service of negative things.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
As a fool.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But I don't know.
I still don't know.
His evilness, I still don't know if it goes past abject greed and bigotry.
Which is still evil, but it's not evil in the bigger sense than trying to bring down the country.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Because that's what we're talking about.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's the end goal.
The way he...
The way he does his rhetoric and the way he brings his narratives into the world, the end result will be a holocaust.
Probably against Mosul.
jordan holmes
His desire.
Not necessarily his desire, but his rhetoric logically, based on what we know of history, will lead to...
This point.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It will lead to the putting in camps of Muslims.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And it will lead to a harsh crackdown on people who have liberal sensibilities.
jordan holmes
If you're fighting against demons, you put them in ovens.
dan friesen
Right, right.
There's not that much wiggle room in terms of that.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
But I don't know why I'm trying to defend him against being evil.
jordan holmes
You're not defending him.
I think what I'm understanding of what you're discussing is...
I think he's scared and greedy.
dan friesen
I think he's scared and greedy.
jordan holmes
How much does motivation change your opinions on how to deal with him?
Is that what I understand?
unidentified
Not at all.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
I deal with him objectively as what he says and what I gather from...
Researching the narratives and what he says.
I deal with it objectively.
I mean, we still give him credit for the things that he's right on.
True.
jordan holmes
It's been a long time since we've had to.
dan friesen
That's true.
jordan holmes
It's been a long while.
But my change in philosophical position has come from, well, on the last episode, or a recent episode, I posited the question, Can you say that the world would not be a better place if all Republicans died this instant?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Right?
So, if Alex is stupid or evil, does it matter?
The world would be better off without him.
Do you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
He's not a Republican.
jordan holmes
But that's not...
unidentified
You're talking about the right for whatever.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
The only reason that that comes up in my mind is because I...
I say it facetiously.
unidentified
I definitely don't want our listeners killing anybody.
dan friesen
You say it as a thought experiment.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and so if it is that thought experiment, does it matter?
Does it matter what your motivation is behind what you're doing?
The difference is murder versus manslaughter.
Does it matter whether or not billionaires want to murder us or whether or not billionaires support things that will kill us?
It doesn't matter to me because the issue is that we are going to die regardless of how they feel about it.
dan friesen
I agree with you.
And now the secondary problem becomes we have one political party that is actively supporting what you're talking about.
Right.
unidentified
And we have another political party that is not doing as good a job as we need fighting Right.
dan friesen
And so we'll see what happens.
Anyway, look, I don't know.
I love this conversation.
jordan holmes
We chose the side.
dan friesen
This podcast is going to end up being six hours long if we don't...
jordan holmes
Good point.
dan friesen
Let's get back to it.
jordan holmes
We're having a classic Knowledge Fight 12 and a half hour episode.
It is not a money bomb because we are just incapable of being quiet for that long.
dan friesen
But seriously, please donate to the show.
If you've made it this far, I legitimately...
I do need help.
jordan holmes
Frankly, if you've made it this far, you owe us.
dan friesen
I do need help.
Even just in terms of making rent this month.
Need help.
So please donate to the show.
FriesenPoint.com?
No, I don't have that one anymore.
KnowledgeFight.com?
jordan holmes
KnowledgeFight.com.
dan friesen
Click the support of the show button.
Anyway, that's our ad pivot.
jordan holmes
It's weird how we produce a lot of content, and I think we would do it regardless of whether or not anybody gave us money at all.
dan friesen
I'd do it for nothing, but I appreciate everyone who donates.
jordan holmes
It would be nice if he became a policy wonk.
Just to justify our weird obsession.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
So now we get to the point of this episode where this is what we've been trying to get to all along.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Alex Jones, I mentioned this earlier, he has something that he wants to talk about, a news story.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And he has been dancing around getting to it, much like he keeps avoiding going to calls.
jordan holmes
Did he just find out Stalin died?
dan friesen
Oh my god.
unidentified
He doesn't know yet.
Don't tell him.
jordan holmes
It's like Santa Claus.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it.
dan friesen
Okay.
He has a news story out of a Dutch video company.
Dutch TV.
jordan holmes
Already, I believe him.
dan friesen
He talks about this in the sense that it is creeping Nazism.
jordan holmes
Because of the Dutch.
dan friesen
Yes.
And I don't know how to do this exactly.
I'm just going to play this clip.
It involves some fake crime.
jordan holmes
Not because of the far-right rallies in Poland or the...
The Austrian government having a suddenly far-right turn to it.
No, no, no.
dan friesen
It has nothing to do with that.
It's the Dutch.
I don't mean that facetiously.
It has nothing to do with that.
jordan holmes
It's the Dutch.
dan friesen
He actually has...
I'll just break it down.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
He has a decent starting point.
jordan holmes
All right, all right.
He loses it...
Now I'm intrigued.
dan friesen
He loses it past the point of analysis, but he has a decent starting point, and what it is is that there is a...
There's a video clip.
Spoiler alert, it's from 2016.
It's like a year old.
But it's from a documentary that came out on Dutch television called The Last Downer.
Downer is a term that they use for people who have Down syndrome.
Which, that's not great.
jordan holmes
That's not a good term.
dan friesen
I don't like it, but that's the Dutch.
I'm not dealing with Dutch PC issues.
That's not...
jordan holmes
We're not the Dutch PC police.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
That's true.
That's not where we stake our claim.
jordan holmes
We got a lot of other shit to get to.
dan friesen
I'd be thrilled if they didn't use that term, but...
jordan holmes
I'd be thrilled if the only problem that you and I could find to combat in this world is Dutch PC.
Right.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So there was a documentary called The Last Downer, and what it was was a...
jordan holmes
Do not like you saying that, though.
dan friesen
Well, but here's the thing.
jordan holmes
No, I just mean, like...
Hearing the words, the last downer, in that context, not a huge fan.
Continue, though.
dan friesen
In the Netherlands, I'm just reading a synopsis of this, because I couldn't find the full version of it.
I tried really hard to find the full version of this documentary, and it's just not available on American internet.
jordan holmes
Right, like the movie starring Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey.
Tiptoes.
dan friesen
You can't find that anymore.
There's a bunch of Louis Thoreau documentaries I want to watch that you can't find because I don't live in England.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's not on American YouTube.
jordan holmes
And Gary Oldman, isn't it?
dan friesen
In the Netherlands, a TV show revolving around the end of Down Syndrome was recently aired on national television.
The series that was titled The Last Downer explored what society loses if Down Syndrome disappears.
It talked about ethical, social, psychological consequences of having a child with Down Syndrome.
jordan holmes
That's really interesting.
dan friesen
But do you understand?
jordan holmes
I mean, that's really interesting, yeah.
dan friesen
Do you understand that in the synopsis, the first thing it says, it explored what society loses if Down Syndrome disappears.
jordan holmes
That's why I'm saying that that's a very interesting documentary topic of like...
And what it is really is...
An exploration of how many of those neuroatypical situations actually wind up contributing far more to society than what is publicized.
To what extent?
And if you want, you can go back to biblical times.
How many prophets were people who had...
dan friesen
Autistic.
unidentified
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Or who had seizures or who were bipolar?
At what point do you look back at the relative weirdos of history who have influenced the way things have gone and not just go, that tracks with symptoms of what we call mental illness now.
Who is a medicine man but somebody who just believes in shit really hard?
dan friesen
Yeah, to a certain extent.
jordan holmes
What is a seer but somebody who has grand mal seizures?
dan friesen
These are things that are difficult to wrestle with.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And before we get into any of this, because Alex is going to be very...
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'm guessing that we're not going to be huge fans of what he says.
dan friesen
He's not good at this.
But I've known a couple people who are friends who had Down syndrome over my life.
And one of the things that I took away from that is that they are fucking people.
jordan holmes
Oh, what?
unidentified
Wait, what?
dan friesen
They're people.
jordan holmes
They're human beings.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Big time.
jordan holmes
They're people.
dan friesen
Yeah.
With issues, but at the same time, the same experience of life that everyone else has.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And one of the things that I...
This is going to come into Alex's commentary pretty harsh.
One of the things that I know from knowing people with Down syndrome and sort of looking into things a little bit, one of the biggest issues that people with Down syndrome have Right.
expectations.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
They look at them as infantilized.
They look at them as being these oh so aw shucks innocent, whatever, and that's not who they are.
They live their lives and maybe have developmental developmental disabilities in learning or in motor function or whatever, but that doesn't define them.
jordan holmes
In many ways...
dan friesen
Or they just have a physical deformity.
jordan holmes
Right.
In many ways, you can compare it to the idea of, like, we're going to put somebody in vocational school to train to have life skills.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
As opposed to, you know...
This is how you clean a fucking buh.
You know, like that kind of a thing.
dan friesen
So I don't know what the full documentary was about.
Because, again, I told you, I can't find it.
jordan holmes
Can't find it.
dan friesen
But I've watched the full clip that Alex has.
jordan holmes
Because you can find that.
If Alex can find it, a four-year-old can find it.
dan friesen
It started to circulate on right-wing blogs a couple days ago.
And so Alex picked up on it.
jordan holmes
I am trepidatious.
dan friesen
Well, but like I said, this documentary came out in 2016, so it's over a year old.
jordan holmes
It's already been covered by the assholes.
dan friesen
Right, so they just found this three minute, one minute clip.
It's probably closer to one minute than three.
And Alex just decides he's going to launch off on his narratives about it.
When I say that he has a decent jumping off point, it's that the idea...
That he's rallying against is reasonable to some extent.
The idea of...
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Stop selling this.
I'm interested now in what's going to happen.
dan friesen
No, because I need to defend myself a tiny bit before we get going.
Because I said that.
jordan holmes
Preemptive defense.
dan friesen
Well, it's just that you get to a certain place with genetic screenings.
In utero genetic screenings.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Where you're able to tell that people have various diseases.
jordan holmes
So we're getting into Ethan Hawke territory.
dan friesen
What does that mean?
jordan holmes
It's a reference to the movie...
dan friesen
Before Sunrise?
unidentified
No, it's not a reference to Before Sunrise.
jordan holmes
It's what is it?
Gattaca?
Gattaca.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's some of those issues.
Like, where does it end?
And that sort of thing.
Right.
If you look into genetic...
There are some that people are in pain for their entire lives.
There are genetic mutations that happen where people's skin is like tree branches and shit.
jordan holmes
People in Kentucky have blue skin.
dan friesen
Tay-Sachs disease.
jordan holmes
Not all people in Kentucky, but there is a family in Kentucky whose skin is blue.
dan friesen
Right, but there are some things where through genetic mapping and genetic editing you could allow someone to have a real...
I don't think that's a negative thing.
But if there's a way to edit genes in such a way that we figure out this is what makes you have Down syndrome, we'll fix that.
Right.
unidentified
I don't think that's a negative thing.
jordan holmes
There is a...
Massive conversation that you and I can have about that.
dan friesen
You get towards eugenics, and where Alex Jones jumps off from the discussion, where it's like, this is going to lead to killing of the weak, I agree with him in that sense, but I don't agree with him in application or the real world.
That's the only thing I wanted to say.
jordan holmes
Here is the only opinion I have on eugenics.
If...
At any point in time, we discover a gene that makes you an asshole, I will immediately be like, oh, we can fix that gene.
Eugenics is perfect.
dan friesen
Alex already thinks that exists, and that's why he's against this.
jordan holmes
Up until that point, there's a lot of variables going on that I don't want to start fucking around with.
But if we find a gene in Alex, so...
dan friesen
He's oppositional defiant.
jordan holmes
We decode Alex Jones' genome.
unidentified
He even talks about that himself.
jordan holmes
We decode his genome.
It's not genetic.
dan friesen
It's based on upbringing.
jordan holmes
And it's not Alex.
And it's not Alex.
It's everybody in that ilk.
And there's just like, oh, if we just flip this switch, Alex Jones is not an asshole.
dan friesen
Go from up to down.
jordan holmes
I'm in.
Up until that point, I have a lot of questions and a lot of thoughts.
And so long as they are theoretical, I'm far more interested in describing them.
dan friesen
I think it's pretty scary now, especially because we're on the vanguard of a lot of this stuff.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And you and I are mentally ill people and have struggled with a lot of stuff from our genetics and upbringing.
But a lot of those things have made us into this.
people that we are.
Right.
unidentified
And it's sort of threatening on some way, the idea of editing genes.
dan friesen
And there's like, well, I wouldn't be the person that I am today.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
But at the same time, if I was someone who had a genetic condition that was painful all the time and I lived a life that was just pain, I absolutely would be like, oh, I'm I really wish someone had edited this.
My personality is not worth the fact that I've lived 10 years, 15 years of just pain and died young.
jordan holmes
Well, and the simplest way for me to relate to that is...
dan friesen
And I'm not talking about people with Down syndrome when I'm saying that.
I'm talking about other conditions.
jordan holmes
We're talking about just genetic conditions, period.
For me, since I've been medicated, there will never...
Be a day where I don't question, like, would I be more creative if I were unmedicated?
That's just...
dan friesen
Well, you hear that from a lot of comics.
jordan holmes
That's part of being a bipolar person is just like, to what extent can I say that my creativity is from my brain or from my brain's...
Brokenness, you know?
So there will never be an answer to that question.
dan friesen
It's impossible to unpack.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
So the idea of, once again, we go back to what is a seer but somebody with epilepsy?
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
What is a, you know, all of those things.
unidentified
So if you edit that out, what do we have?
dan friesen
I honestly think...
jordan holmes
Is neuro-typical, is neuro-diversity as important as neuro-typical is?
dan friesen
Neuro-diversity is amazingly important.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think...
I don't know.
I can't speak to this because I can't find the entire documentary.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But I almost guarantee that that is kind of part of the point.
jordan holmes
It has to be!
Any reasonable thinking person believes this is a conversation, not an answer.
dan friesen
But also, why would the write-up of the documentary be what society loses?
Why would that be the first thing that's brought up in the...
jordan holmes
Other than it's sarcastic.
As in, like...
Hey, what do we lose if we get rid of these guys?
dan friesen
You know the Dutch.
jordan holmes
That kind of thing.
Exactly.
dan friesen
They're dark sartorial sense of humor.
jordan holmes
You know how the Dutch...
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know the Dutch?
dan friesen
They're notorious for their write-ups of TV programs.
jordan holmes
Sarcastic.
dan friesen
Being dark.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
Darkly sarcastic, like a Steely Dan album.
jordan holmes
Nothing the Dutch love more than sarcasm.
The Dutch are the mountain goats of music.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
So, let's get to this.
This first clip, Alex Jones just can't fucking handle getting to talking about the actual clip.
Yeah.
And we'll see how he handles this.
unidentified
Of course.
alex jones
I want to go to more of your phone calls, and I need to, because I've got to play this clip before Paul Watson comes on.
And the reason I didn't play at the start of the show is, quite frankly, I watched it this morning at about 5.30.
I couldn't sleep.
I got up.
dan friesen
I want to be very clear.
jordan holmes
He sounds like he's going to cry.
I'm worried about Alex.
dan friesen
Oh, he's going to fake cry.
jordan holmes
I'm worried about Alex.
Is he okay, Dan?
Is he okay?
dan friesen
He's going to fake cry.
And I wish that I had a super cut of all the times he teases getting to this throughout the show and just never does.
This is like right when Paul Joseph Watson is about to take over.
We're getting close to the fourth hour.
He's like, I've got to get this in.
I've got to fucking do it.
I've been teasing it all show.
jordan holmes
Right.
alex jones
And I went online and I was looking at stuff and I saw this put out by the Dutch government and...
unidentified
How did it make you feel?
dan friesen
It wasn't put out by the Dutch government.
alex jones
It's so sick that I don't feel like I'm worthy to even describe how sick it is.
jordan holmes
Not sure that tracks?
alex jones
Just, I don't...
I've got too much to say.
I don't...
You've got this weak, soft bureaucrat getting off...
On making a Down syndrome man feel bad and feel worthless, like he should die, and it's all done real cutesy and fake and liberal by an effeminate, he's not even a strong woman, he's not effeminate, by a soft little beta male.
dan friesen
We're back to beta.
jordan holmes
Wait, we're not, even him trying to defend the exploitation of people with Down syndrome.
dan friesen
Oh, it's going to be way worse.
jordan holmes
Sounds like him.
Exploiting people with Down Syndrome.
dan friesen
Oh, he is.
Very, very aggressively.
jordan holmes
He's not good at this.
dan friesen
I realize this now.
You guys don't have the video in front of you, and we've just talked about what it is.
There's a guy with Down Syndrome, and a guy who seems to be the host of the show.
The guy who's the host of the show is a svelte-looking gentleman, and they are the only clip that Alex plays, and it's the only clip you can find online.
Disseminated through right-wing blogs.
Of course.
jordan holmes
So you know it's true.
dan friesen
This svelte looking cool.
Alex describes him as liberal.
I have no evidence that he is.
unidentified
Liberal.
dan friesen
The guy with Down syndrome guy who are in office of a scientist.
And the scientist is explaining to them how much it costs for society to care for people with Down syndrome as opposed to people who do not have it.
That's the entire setup of the video.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And at no point...
jordan holmes
So we're framing this in purely economic terms.
dan friesen
Well, in this small clip.
jordan holmes
In this...
No, no, no.
That's what I'm saying.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, this conversation is occurring purely within the realm of...
The documentary having the idea of...
dan friesen
Well, the documentary is like an hour long, I think, and it's three minutes of it.
jordan holmes
But that's my point.
dan friesen
Or two minutes of it.
jordan holmes
That's my point.
If your documentary says, what do we have to lose by getting rid of people with Down syndrome, and you have one clip that is based on an economic argument, then it stands to reason that much of the rest of the documentary...
Is about humanity.
dan friesen
I would assume so.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I mean, like, I know I've watched tons of documentaries about people in just various conditions in life.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Being Down Syndrome, one of them.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And one of the things that always delights me so much is them being like...
Stop treating me like I'm a dick.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like that sort of thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
I always love people having that soft bigotry of diminished expectations thrown in their face.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
I always love it when I see someone talk to someone with Down syndrome and be like, how old are you?
And they're like, fuck off.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
They recognize when they're being fucked with.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And this guy...
jordan holmes
I cannot recommend it enough, but read the book Neurotribes.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's fantastic.
It's very, very good.
dan friesen
The guy in the documentary, too, is clearly taking in the information that's being presented to him.
And he's clearly part of the conversation.
He's not being like, he's not treated like a dick.
They're not saying we should kill you or anything like that.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But that is what Alex is going to present.
I realized that I had to lay sort of a scene of what the visual is.
jordan holmes
Totally get it.
dan friesen
So now let's get back to the analysis.
alex jones
Who gets off on that he's better in his mind than this person with Down syndrome?
If anybody knows those people, definitely are in touch with God and have a big soul.
And I look at this soulless guy that looks deformed and ugly to me.
The Down Syndrome guy with his open face listening and giving honest answers, that sounds like God to me.
And then the other guy sounds like somebody I want to strangle.
My soul says that's the enemy.
And these people sit there making fun of this guy.
And that's everything I'm talking about.
I am so tired of it.
How they take the innocence of somebody like this.
dan friesen
Alex is doing this thing, this infantilizing of people with Down syndrome.
He's deep into that.
But at the same time, they're not making fun of him.
They're giving him information that is just based on statistics.
It does cost a lot more for society to carry people with the need for help.
And that's not wrong.
That's not bad.
jordan holmes
The thing about this is what...
What is such a clear point of view on the right, which is that, and the way he's describing it, the Down syndrome person, whomever he may be, doesn't matter that he has Down syndrome.
The point being, he is simple.
He does not have a complex view of the world.
And that's the point.
dan friesen
He's so innocent.
jordan holmes
By virtue of not knowing a...
He's like a child.
That is seeing God.
dan friesen
The globalists can't get to him.
jordan holmes
The scientist, the person who describes this as a complex situation, wherein he says...
Okay, well, there are relative positives.
There are relative negatives.
We have to account for this.
We have to account for that.
The important part is figuring out what it is that makes the most sense, really.
dan friesen
I would imagine in the documentary it's different scientists they talk to.
This is an economic scientist.
jordan holmes
And even then, regardless of that, that's something that if you are a scientist, you should consider.
Like, no matter how...
Look.
As far as the tax bill is concerned, when we discuss that, the thing that I consider constantly is the idea of the point of this is to destroy entitlement spending.
It's to destroy Social Security, to destroy Medicare, to destroy Medicaid.
dan friesen
If we look at the track records of the people pushing for it, it seems like that's what they're out for.
jordan holmes
Now, I have to ask myself the question then.
Is that bad for me?
Like, get rid of Medicare.
Get rid of Social Security.
Get rid of Medicaid.
dan friesen
You have a job.
jordan holmes
I'm fine.
dan friesen
You're golden.
jordan holmes
And who is covered by Social Security?
Who is covered by Medicare?
Who is covered by Medicaid?
dan friesen
Old people.
jordan holmes
More than anyone else.
unidentified
Disabled.
dan friesen
Minorities.
jordan holmes
The elderly.
dan friesen
The elderly.
jordan holmes
Is it then a good idea?
To say that the elderly should take my money in order to just continue living.
Because that is essentially...
Like, if you go by what Kurt Vonnegut himself said...
dan friesen
You're getting into really fucked up territory.
jordan holmes
That's my point!
The point is...
If you are at all reasonable, you get into fucked up territory and you think about it.
And Alex Jones' point is never thinking about it is the voice of God.
dan friesen
Here's why it's fucked up territory.
It's because he's arguing that when socialism comes around and they just are going to be able to be like, nah, you're too much of a burden.
We're going to kill you.
Or whatever.
That's kind of what's going to happen with capitalism.
In the way that we're going, that is the direction that this tax bill takes.
You are not going to be hurt by it.
I, at the end, probably won't be hurt by it either.
I have enough of a net beneath me that's not really going to hurt me.
The people who are going to be hurt are the people that Alex pretends are going to be the victims of the socialist takeover.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And like, oh no, you're too much of a burden on society.
Like, that sort of thing.
I think, based on everything I have experienced in my life, the people on the left, it's easy to paint with a broad brush.
There are bad people on the left, and it gives a shit.
But generally, the people that I have met on the left and within...
Some socialist folk have no interest in getting rid of Down syndrome people.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
People with Down syndrome.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
That is not on their agenda.
Just because they're more expensive to have survive doesn't mean kill them.
unidentified
I think that's what my point is.
dan friesen
No, no.
I think I found what your point is.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Tell me what my point is.
dan friesen
I think it's applying a capitalist mentality towards democratic socialism.
I think it's applying this mentality of like, you are too expensive, you must go.
That's a capitalist mentality when the system should be taking care of everybody.
And that is what...
I think we should be working towards it.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
And the...
I think my...
dan friesen
Yes, you are more expensive, but who gives a shit?
jordan holmes
I think that's kind of more my thought process, though, is at the same time, if you are not capable of considering...
To me, the idea that I am aware that Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security not only do not benefit me, but in many cases...
Contribute to me having less money.
And yet at the same time, I am still capable of recognizing how they are far more beneficial to society as a whole as opposed to just myself allows me to converse with both ideas.
dan friesen
I think we're going to get to what Alex is mad about about that here in a little bit.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Because I think he doesn't want to be a part of society.
jordan holmes
And I think that's one of the biggest issues that we talk about.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Is that there is an idea of maybe, like, legit, without question.
dan friesen
It's that Anne Randian shit.
jordan holmes
No, and if you go by, if I go by everything that directly benefits me, Like, 100% directly benefits me.
I should be a Republican, right?
Like, I'm a straight white dude.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I am within the ages of 18 to 34. You're gainfully employed.
I have a job.
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
You're heterosexually engaged.
jordan holmes
All of the stuff that they do.
dan friesen
Not engaged to be married, but you're engaged with a woman.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
In all respects.
What their policies do is affect me in the current tense.
And if I was dumb, I would say that's the best way to go.
The reality is that in the larger sum of things, that is a non-existent position.
That will only benefit me for the next five years, and then it's going to fuck me over like everybody else.
Like, that's my biggest issue.
dan friesen
It might not.
It'll just fuck over everybody else, and that will end up fucking you over.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
Exactly!
dan friesen
But you still personally may gain a little bit, but...
unidentified
Well, it goes directly back to...
dan friesen
What do you gain when everyone else is in pain?
jordan holmes
It goes directly back to a trickle-down in economics and how it doesn't make any goddamn sense.
dan friesen
Alright, fine.
jordan holmes
Your idea of...
Okay, you want to make money as a business, right?
So if you produce something, you want people to buy it.
At the same time, you want profit on what you produce.
So you reduce your taxes, right?
That winds up meaning that the people who buy it don't have as much money.
So the people who buy it don't have as much money, and they can't buy it anymore, so it destroys you.
But in the short term, you get a lot more money.
If you get a lot of people who buy shit...
between wealth and income.
unidentified
Wealth is destructive.
jordan holmes
Income is fantastic.
Yes.
unidentified
If you increase income, everybody does great.
jordan holmes
If you increase wealth, a few people do great.
And that's what the question with this...
dan friesen
There's the disconnect.
jordan holmes
That's what this type of neurodiversity is about as well.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Sure.
If you increase...
jordan holmes
Like, there's...
There's a very clear parallel between the two and it frustrates me because it's a short-sighted view of things saying that it doesn't exist.
dan friesen
If there's a way to edit someone's genes when you know that they are going to have Down syndrome and make it so they don't have Down syndrome, good.
You should do that.
I think that is an ethical position.
jordan holmes
That's an interesting thought.
dan friesen
But I don't think that if you find out that your kid is going to have Down syndrome and then you abort them, I don't think that necessarily is an ethical position.
jordan holmes
That's an interesting question as well.
dan friesen
It's incredibly complicated because I don't think that, like, the reason that when I...
I'm trying to pivot back towards the clip.
jordan holmes
No, I understand.
I took us off on a way different tangent.
Apologies.
To everyone who had no interest in that thought.
dan friesen
When I started this and talked about how you and I are mentally ill, and a lot of it comes from our genetics, and it's just the card we were dealt in our life, we have an ego stance about how I wouldn't be who I was if I didn't have those struggles and what have you.
If we were born and didn't have those, probably pretty cool.
Probably be pretty fine.
jordan holmes
Who knows?
dan friesen
Because there wouldn't be the suicide attempts.
There wouldn't be the years wasted of our lives.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
There is that, and I don't really understand how my creativity has really been bolstered by those things.
jordan holmes
If it has, or if it has, yeah, who knows?
dan friesen
I've probably just hurt a bunch of other people because of it.
jordan holmes
Most likely.
dan friesen
Like, neurodiversity is great.
And it should exist at the core.
jordan holmes
Or at least we think so, you know?
dan friesen
It should exist more than it shouldn't.
In terms of killing all abnormal babies.
Or whatever.
If you want to call it babies.
Zygotes.
Right.
jordan holmes
Which is why we should kill Ethan Hawke.
Anyways, continue.
unidentified
I love Before Sunrise.
dan friesen
I like most Ethan Hawke.
jordan holmes
Ethan Hawke is great!
Ethan Hawke is great!
dan friesen
I've gotten a lot of shit for saying how much I love Ethan Hawke.
jordan holmes
Training day!
Come on, man.
dan friesen
I don't know about that.
So, it becomes a very complicated conversation, I think, in terms of what is technically possible and what is worth exploring.
I don't think it's worth exploring aborting every person who has Down syndrome.
I think it is worth exploring the idea of gene modification.
Right.
But not just because of Down syndrome folk, but because of the other mutations that can happen that will just make you destroyed for your life.
jordan holmes
But then you and I get into the question of Is that or is that not killing everybody who has Down syndrome?
Do you know what I'm saying?
So if you take me, I'm a bipolar person.
dan friesen
I would kill you in a second.
jordan holmes
Not a bad idea.
dan friesen
My life would be better.
unidentified
laughter Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
dan friesen
Imagine if we'd never met.
jordan holmes
You would be married, you'd have two kids by now.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
No, I mean...
So, if you remove bipolar syndrome from me, have you killed me?
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, the point being...
Sure, sure.
I, physically, the human being that I am is not dead.
And yet, at the same time, the human being that I am now...
Is retroactively destroyed?
It's like a time travel question.
dan friesen
I know.
It's that what could have been also...
jordan holmes
Right.
It's a proving a negative, is what it is.
dan friesen
But that's the argument that's not worth having.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The argument that is worth having is about people with Down syndrome are not...
I mean, they cost more to keep alive.
jordan holmes
To other human beings, yeah.
dan friesen
Yes.
And that's not that bad.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's not that bad.
But I also think that their lives would probably be better if they hadn't been born with Down syndrome.
jordan holmes
I mean, now that's another good question.
unidentified
But you know what?
jordan holmes
Would their lives be better?
dan friesen
But you know what else?
I don't think their lives are shit because they have Down syndrome.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
dan friesen
Because they are living their lives.
They have autonomy.
They have perfect ability to love, to work, to exist.
I don't know.
It's so complicated.
jordan holmes
Well, and then you get into the question of to what extent is not having Down syndrome detrimental to you?
dan friesen
So you're arguing we should all have Down syndrome?
jordan holmes
Well, let me ask you a question.
Would you be happier in like many people that I've known with Down syndrome?
Find far more happiness out of simpler things than I do.
Like, would I be a happier person?
Would I be a more satisfied person?
dan friesen
I think you're buying into a little bit of the infantilizing myth.
jordan holmes
And that's my issue, is that I am never certain what exactly, what mythology I am buying into in regards to a mental illness that I don't have.
Do you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
It's really complicated.
jordan holmes
It's really complicated.
So let's solve it within this seven and a half hour long podcast.
dan friesen
From all the research I can do and all the myths I can sort of ingest and work through, first of all...
People with Down Syndrome are humans.
And they are just like us.
jordan holmes
All the people I know are pretty cool.
dan friesen
And then beyond that, I don't think that the left wants to kill them.
jordan holmes
I feel like the entire conversation we've had has been about how killing them is a bad idea.
dan friesen
But at the same time...
unidentified
Ultimately.
dan friesen
But at the same time, the idea...
jordan holmes
Or just singling out any group for murder.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Except for rich white Republicans.
But it's a bad idea.
dan friesen
It's all a bad idea, but at the same time, the idea in utero gene therapy that could possibly...
It's not even get rid of people who have Down syndrome, but there are other genetic...
And deformities, and deformities even seems like a terrible word.
jordan holmes
I know, I know, right?
dan friesen
But there are those things that will make your life completely miserable.
You will just be living, and it's not Down syndrome folks, but it's the same sort of thing.
And so researching towards that doesn't seem bad to me.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But now when you apply it to like, oh, this person will be depressed, kill them.
Right.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
We won't get there.
jordan holmes
Multiple sclerosis.
Like, just consider all of these different diseases that are pain.
Yeah.
Life of pain.
Yeah.
You're otherwise, and yet at the same time, without being able to conquer that life of pain, are you capable of transcending beyond it?
You know, it's like a whole fucking insanity.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
Anyways, you should still eat genetically modified corn.
The point being, it's still...
dan friesen
We've spent a half hour not knowing which way to land on this.
But I think at the same time, we've done more analysis than Alex is going to do about this.
jordan holmes
Oh, in the history of his entire life.
unidentified
So let's listen to this shit.
alex jones
And he pissed all over it.
jordan holmes
Oh, is he still been crying?
Jesus.
alex jones
He thinks it's all funny.
When you're all going to be there, you're all...
The cancer rates, you think they're bad now?
They're only going...
I mean, everybody thinks this is so funny.
This is not funny.
And if you sit there and start saying, we're going to abort every Down syndrome child, then it's going to be everybody with what they say is a genetic disorder.
And they already say being aggressive.
Is mentally ill.
They already say Donald Trump being big-headed and delivering on his promises and really believing in America is mental illness because they're mentally ill.
They already sold out to evil.
They already think it's crazy to have morals.
They don't get the fact that that's the governing force that allows us to have a civilization.
We're bigger killers than you, you dumbasses!
We just have a governor!
And we will kill you!
Make no mistake!
You're pushing it!
And when we start killing you...
I don't even like to go down that road because I don't want to become what you imagine you are.
But I'll tell you this.
You think you're going to kill little mentally retarded children?
Oh, don't use the word retarded.
Just kill them.
See how political correctness works?
You think you're going to do stuff like that and you're going to get away with something.
You're going to feel powerful.
You're going to spiritually waddle around in front of somebody who's got an extra chromosome and look down on them because you're such a big man.
But I guarantee you have a miserable, horrible life, and you want to creep out your, you know, creepily bring out your eugenics again after it got a big, fat black eye under Herr Hitler, and you want to shove it down our throats.
Because once they get everybody involved in global health care and socialism, they go, well, we're paying for all these old people.
We're paying for all these mentally retarded people.
And I can't tell you how many old people I know that vote for higher taxes thinking they're getting a piece of it, and then when they get their house taken, they commit suicide.
They're genetically sabotaging us right now with the GMO to make us all genetically falling apart, to then make us all have to go in for genetic engineering to even have kids.
That's their admitted ultimate game plan.
jordan holmes
We admitted it.
alex jones
And then we're going to be replicants thinking we're having kids, and we're having replicants.
They're already going.
We're going to have a first child.
They have embryos.
They've frozen them.
They're looking to implant them in surrogates.
Five lesbians.
And if you're against it, you're against lesbians.
unidentified
And we have the first baby with five daddies.
jordan holmes
It's not a person.
alex jones
But see, it's the whole LGBTQ whatever.
It's not about men, women having sex, men having sex.
That's just the beginning.
Oh, if you accept men having sex with each other, which, you know, that's people.
That's humans.
Then it's, oh, sex with your car is okay-er.
Gouge your eyeballs out.
We'll pay for it with taxes.
And they call that an anti-gay rant.
This is their deployed anti-human plan that I don't think comes from here.
I think this must be like how they roll this out on other planets.
You know, like the exterminator, the Orkin Man just dropped by and this is it.
Hell, maybe even the Orkin man gave us the Bible, because metaphysically he's got to give us a warning.
Here's how I'm going to kill you.
Then it's all happening.
I mean, for the sadists out there, maybe that's what it is.
I mean, I'm not saying that's what it is, but...
Yeah, I see.
Now you get it.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
Maybe the Orkin man gave us the Bible.
alex jones
And now you get it.
unidentified
The old question.
jordan holmes
Did the Orkin man give us the Bible, Dan?
dan friesen
Old Hickory.
jordan holmes
Dan, the...
The ages-old question.
dan friesen
Old salt.
The old guy.
Old Orkin man.
jordan holmes
It's so discouraging to me for us to have a 25-minute tangent where we're discussing, like, oh, you know, there's this positive, there's this negative, there's this, and then Alex Jones comes back in with, the Orkin man gave us the Bible!
Like, fucking, oh, right.
dan friesen
And then at the end, as he's going into a commercial, he's like, Now you get it.
jordan holmes
Now you get it.
Now you get it.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
All right.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
Now I get what?
jordan holmes
All right.
All right.
I can see why your show is more popular than ours.
dan friesen
But I mean, to give Alex a little bit of credit, I don't think we found a conclusion.
jordan holmes
I don't think there's a...
dan friesen
There isn't a conclusion.
jordan holmes
There's no conclusion to draw that is not in some way utilitarian.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Even our conversation ultimately wound up with what's more useful or what's better as opposed to some sort of metaphysical ideal.
dan friesen
No, I think my absolute conclusion is that if you are...
jordan holmes
God is real and Satan is behind us.
dan friesen
I wasn't going to go that route.
jordan holmes
Oh, you weren't?
dan friesen
No, I was going to go the route of if...
You are going to be born, and your life is going to be a complete disaster because of your genetic makeup, which is not your fault, and gene editing is possible, and they can fix that.
Do it.
unidentified
Doesn't seem that controversial.
dan friesen
That's my position.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I think that people born with Down syndrome probably have a fine position with having their lives be what they are, and I respect the hell out of that.
But at the same time, I think that they probably would be better off if they had been born not having Down syndrome.
I think that might be slightly controversial.
And I want to be very clear, what I'm saying is not discounting their life as a I'm saying that their life...
Had it not been the case, would be better.
Inasmuch as, like I've related, you and I, had we not had the predisposition genetically towards depression, mental illness, our lives would be better.
jordan holmes
The next question, though, becomes if there are people making that decision, parents, are they going to be making a decision that is...
Best for their kid's life or best for their life?
And so that's where we get into a different ethical circumstance.
dan friesen
Well, that's a completely different argument than Alex is going to have.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
Exactly!
We have a very interesting argument about something, and Alex is like, you know what that's like?
It's like fucking cars.
Like, okay, goddammit!
dan friesen
Here's where I would say, like, I think that parents should never view their children as extensions of themselves.
I don't think that it should be like, this is a part of me, necessarily.
jordan holmes
Which I think Alex would disagree with.
Right.
100%.
dan friesen
Of course, because his ancestors are with him still and all that.
unidentified
Exactly.
dan friesen
Race memory and shit.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
But I would say that if a parent...
I believe this in terms of just abortion, period.
If you are not able to care for a child, then you shouldn't have them.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
If it comes down to it and you're an adult and you're able to care for a child who is just of normal capacity and...
You find out that they have Down Syndrome.
jordan holmes
And then we get into what normal and so on and so forth.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, but normal is this weird fucked up thing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Alex yells about it because in the clip with the Down Syndrome gentleman, I keep getting mad at myself to say Down Syndrome gentleman.
unidentified
Yeah, right?
dan friesen
Guy with Down Syndrome.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But they're like, what does a normal person cost?
And Alex is like, fuck you, normal?
Well, how many times have you called gay and trans people not normal?
jordan holmes
Well, you look at the...
But then the question then becomes, you know, if you want to go down that road, trans people cost at this current time more to society than somebody who's raised in a two-parent household and so on and so forth.
Now, is that because they're trans?
No.
It's because of systemic prejudices within society that push them out into a level of homelessness and so on and so forth that wind up forcing them to cost more.
So then your utilitarian argument goes back further towards why is society so prejudiced against them?
It keeps going back and back.
dan friesen
I don't think that this...
I agree with you to some extent, but I don't think this works because this is all eugenics shit.
jordan holmes
Right!
Exactly!
dan friesen
And that isn't something necessarily...
I don't think at this point you can tell from genes.
Right!
In utero, this is all about trying to get rid of unfavorable entities in utero.
jordan holmes
Right.
You and I are having a very interesting eugenics conversation, and unfortunately, boy, eugenics is a rough thing to have a conversation about.
dan friesen
I'm very worried that I'm...
jordan holmes
I'm not a huge fan of any eugenics conversation.
dan friesen
I'm not either, but I'm very worried.
jordan holmes
I know, right?
dan friesen
I'm very worried that I'm sounding like I am anti-people with Down syndrome.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
And I'm not.
jordan holmes
I think it's just one of those things about...
dan friesen
There are so many things that make up for the idea of, hey, it's expensive to keep you alive.
jordan holmes
Right.
No, of course!
dan friesen
In the same way with people who are depressed.
The same way with people who are borderline personality.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
What you were bringing up about neurodiversity is absolutely true in terms of that stuff.
When I have said already, this is where I'm getting really fucked up, is the idea that I might be projecting a tiny bit, and that's possible, but when I say that they think that My personality is based on the experience I've had.
I wouldn't want to not have this life.
That's based on only living the life they have.
And that isn't saying, fuck you, you're wrong to have the life you have.
It's more...
No one wants this life.
No one wants to be depressed.
No one wants to be borderline.
You don't want to be bipolar.
jordan holmes
No.
I've never wanted to spend two weeks wishing for death and a week fucking recovering from trying to kill myself.
I've never wanted that.
dan friesen
But at the same time, it's created who you are.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
It's that rough, incredibly difficult space that I'm...
Admittedly projecting our experiences of mental illness onto people with Down syndrome.
And I'm not sure that's fair.
I'm not sure.
I might be wrong.
jordan holmes
Of course not!
dan friesen
I might be wrong.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But...
jordan holmes
I think our ultimate conversation...
dan friesen
We all would love to be born normal.
jordan holmes
You and I, I mean.
At the same time?
Would we?
We've met plenty of normal people.
They kind of suck.
dan friesen
They're a little boring.
jordan holmes
I know, right?
dan friesen
I wish I was a little more normal.
jordan holmes
A little more normal.
Not too much more normal.
Not all the way.
I think ultimately our conversation boils down to I don't know the answer.
I'm interested to know why I don't know the answer.
I think there's a lot of interesting things about neurodiversity.
And at the end of the day, I do not feel like I have any qualifications to make a decision.
For anyone else.
dan friesen
And I strongly don't think this documentary was about eugenics.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
I think it was about three minutes that I'll...
Hold on.
jordan holmes
And here's the ultimate answer here, right?
If you are parents, even more so, if you're a mother and you make a decision about what's in your goddamn body, I have no judgment on you.
dan friesen
Cosine.
jordan holmes
You have your ability to make a decision, and were I to tell you what is the best, or etc., I'm in the wrong.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
So if you want to raise a child who has Down syndrome, and if you want to deal with the fact that maybe the child that you raised with Down syndrome resents you for raising them with Down syndrome, or if you want to deal with the child that resents you for raising them normally, or if you want to deal with the child who resents you for raising them whatever way, that's your choice.
And if you don't want to do that, that's your choice, and so on and so forth.
I am not going to decide for anyone else how they should live.
dan friesen
But further, the recognition that it might cost you more is not at all an abdication of, like, or an indication that you should kill all of them.
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
Or the idea that you should, if you were to give them up for adoption, and then the society at large should not have any responsibility towards them.
Like, it all comes down to this weird confluence of it is irresponsible.
For you and I to make that decision for society at large.
dan friesen
I think it's irresponsible for most people, or even governing bodies or anything.
But, hey, Jordan, you're fucked up if you think that there isn't a whole bunch more of Alex trying to wrestle with this.
jordan holmes
No, I think I'm correct.
You're fucked up if you think there isn't a whole bunch more of you and I trying to wrestle with this.
dan friesen
This is degrading.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
Why did you take us from such a happy place to this?
dan friesen
This next clip is degrading, but it's fun in as much as we really get to see how Alex Jones can't read in real time.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
See, I don't want to be in your communist system where everything I do is controlled because I'm connected to somebody else.
I want my own house, my own life, my own children, my own wife, and they've got me.
We do what we want.
We're free.
Got that?
That's why collectivism is an unmitigated nightmare!
dan friesen
Society.
alex jones
I want to go to your calls, but right now let's go to just a clip of this.
It's in Dutch.
So I will obviously read the words that are below on the screen.
Here it is.
The Dutch National Institute of Public Health, the environmental, request the latest downer circulated what the cost of the care for the downer is.
They call them a downer.
And that has not happened.
Today, Short will hear the result.
If you want to know what the spelling is on the advantage of the person, it's too fast.
Yes, for sure, I want to know.
Well, then you have to take this number and divide it with that number.
And again, they ask him before.
They go, do you know how much you cost?
And he shows him he costs way more, and see.
He just learns.
He's a bad person.
unidentified
You're bad, because, you know, you have to take care of him.
alex jones
Because he got rid of the family.
He created socialism.
So now you have to take care of him, so you want him dead, because you're not his daddy.
So he cost us, as a society, 48,000 euros per year.
It's a considerable amount, but it's high compared to normal persons.
Oh, they call them normal.
You're not normal.
See, but it's okay, because liberals can call somebody they want to kill.
Not normal.
unidentified
You can calculate that by taking a big number from 90 million.
And divide that amount by the number of citizens in the Netherlands.
alex jones
There are approximately 17 million.
That will give you approximately about 5,000 euros per person a year.
dan friesen
So Alex isn't keeping up with the subtitles.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But what's happened is this guy is a chalkboard, and he has laid out the cost to society in terms of health care.
It costs 48,000 euros a year.
jordan holmes
They've freakonomized that whole thing.
dan friesen
It costs 48,000 euros a year to keep someone alive who has Down syndrome versus 5,000 euros a year for someone who is just...
Able-bodied.
jordan holmes
Which is a suspect statistic to begin with.
dan friesen
It's clunky on its core.
And this chalkboard analysis is not super...
It's not like that Matt Damon movie.
The Adjustment Bureau?
The Goodwill Hunting Bureau.
jordan holmes
The Goodwill Hunting Bureau?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Oh shit, get back to the clip.
jordan holmes
No, that'd be a good one.
alex jones
Yeah, and old people too.
You gotta take care of them.
unidentified
And blind people.
alex jones
You're a very valuable man.
They make fun of him.
Hit pause.
I'm going to be honest.
I'm not making threats.
I just, when I watch this, I want to kick both of those smart-ass piles of crap asses when I watch something like this.
jordan holmes
He's an equal opportunity.
alex jones
The poor Down syndrome guy doesn't have the ego.
He doesn't, for whatever reason, he doesn't have the chicken you-know-what crap dimension behavior.
So he's just taking it as his, these are his friends.
He's like, I am valuable, wow.
And they're sitting there making fun of him going, you're very valuable, my friend.
dan friesen
I want to be clear.
jordan holmes
It seems as though the person in question is, first of all, aware of what they're talking about and how it is a joke.
dan friesen
It's not even a joke.
jordan holmes
Well, not a joke.
dan friesen
It's part of a bigger picture.
jordan holmes
How he's interacting with it as such that he understands what they're talking about and gets why it is that...
That would be a situation in question.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And they're not ridiculing him.
unidentified
Nope.
jordan holmes
They're like, hey, think about this.
And he's like, I can't think about that.
And they're like, okay, cool.
dan friesen
The exchange is, you're a pretty valuable person.
And he's like, I had no idea.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And I also think that he was along, I have to assume, in this documentary, he's along.
For the other parts of it that aren't being covered by right-wing media.
And they're not making fun of him.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
If you watch the video, they're not making fun of him.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
What kind of cruel fucking person would make a documentary where they were making fun of him?
dan friesen
We're like, hey, let's bring a Down Syndrome person along and just shit on them.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if that were the case...
dan friesen
We want you dead.
jordan holmes
If that were the case, that...
It stops being a left or right issue and starts being into a...
What the fuck kind of monster would do this issue?
dan friesen
Hey, guess what?
We would have known about that when it came out a year ago.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know, right?
dan friesen
As opposed to finding out about it later.
jordan holmes
Like, maybe the Dutch media would have gone fucking insane over this documentary.
dan friesen
Yeah, instead of Alex really needing to fill time on his show.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
alex jones
My friend, they didn't say, hey, you're a piece of crap.
We don't want to pay for you.
At least you can be honest.
You look at him and you make fun of him on Dutch television.
Every one of us has what they call genetic disorders.
Every one of us.
This is the perfect system to tell us how we're all equal and can put Drano on our eyes or cut our genitals off and have taxpayers pay for it.
It's all beautiful.
Don't criticize anybody.
But we're going to kill the old people.
The Case for Killing Granny cover in Newsweek.
And we're going to kill people with genetic disorders because we're liberal.
And we're going to have suicide nets at Apple factories in Foxconn in China.
And we're going to have slave labor at Amazon.
But it's all okay because we're liberal.
And then you've got a bunch of weird people that have been domesticated following the left, and now they admit they're just a power cult.
They're like, we're not getting anything.
We want to get stuff.
We've been told if we take you over, we get stuff.
As if you idiots are going to get anything once they blow the free market.
They want a monopoly.
They want a centralized technocracy run by an AI supercomputer they believe is going to hook them in and make them gods.
This is a cult.
We need to stop it.
If we don't take care of the Down Syndrome people, no one's going to be taken care of.
jordan holmes
I feel like an AI would take better care of the Down Syndrome people than Alex would.
dan friesen
I agree.
Right?
And here's the other piece I want to put into play right about now.
Who is going to take care of them?
Who?
You and I. Social programs.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So what is he advocating for?
jordan holmes
Well, he wants social programs to take care of them, but he also wants to remove any and all funding for social programs.
dan friesen
I want none of my money going towards all this stuff, but I want...
jordan holmes
Right, but I want society to take care of them.
It makes perfect sense.
dan friesen
He's so convoluted in this bullshit.
They were like, I recognize my...
Slight bias in thinking that everyone would be better with not having whatever ailments they have.
jordan holmes
I've heard of that.
dan friesen
But at the same time, I also think, you know, take care of everybody.
I love it.
It's great.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
How fucking stupid is this?
jordan holmes
It's the central dichotomy.
dan friesen
How fucking stupid and convoluted is this?
jordan holmes
It's every argument that you've seen in a Republican debate.
Right.
Which is, no, we need to take care of the elderly.
We need to take care of these people who are homeless.
We need to take care of them.
Now, admittedly, we need to cut spending and remove any funding to take care of those people, but we do need to take care of them.
dan friesen
You have to trigger certain bases in terms of like, hey, be afraid about this thing, but also like, why don't I fucking pay for it?
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Don't pay for it.
jordan holmes
Don't pay for it.
You don't want your taxes raised.
Now, admittedly, if those taxes were raised, we would have more money to take care of the people who you want taken care of.
dan friesen
He's engaged in what is essentially a half-hour rant about how everyone wants these Down syndrome people gone, and we realize, and statistics do back this up, they are much more expensive.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Just from healthcare costs.
jordan holmes
Dude, I want to...
dan friesen
And that's not negative.
That's not bad.
jordan holmes
Every night, I walk home past two or three homeless people.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I can't afford to give them dollars every time.
dan friesen
No, and that wouldn't help them.
jordan holmes
But if everybody paid a dollar more in their taxes...
We would have more dollars to take care of homeless people.
dan friesen
Because you know why?
If everyone paid dollars more in their taxes, all that money could go to a shelter as opposed to your dollar going towards maybe a sandwich or whatever.
Big picture.
Everyone coming together could help more than individualistic.
jordan holmes
Man, that sure sounds like communism or socialism or any of those evil things.
dan friesen
Which is the answer.
jordan holmes
It seems like socialism is maybe the way to go.
dan friesen
And Alex is kind of advocating for that.
jordan holmes
If you removed it from the oligarchical issues that we have with communism and have had for the millionth time, communism is an economic system, not a government system.
dan friesen
Nope.
That's authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
But be there as it may, Alex is advocating essentially for taking care of people who can't take care of themselves.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is great, but he doesn't realize that it's counter to everything.
unidentified
It requires social investment.
alex jones
We create economies about love.
They used to have hospitals until a thousand years ago.
They created the Hospitlers.
dan friesen
Great.
jordan holmes
That's not how that works.
alex jones
It created whole markets.
Civilization is about taking care of people.
Civilization.
But you'll notice the very groups telling you about social safety nets, like Bill Gates, are always the ones saying, if we kill this old lady and don't give her the last year of care, we can hire 10 teachers.
Sure, you don't make her stay alive.
See, there's some truth to it.
But you don't kill her and don't give her health care because she no longer, the bioethics board decided, helps society.
So back that up 20 seconds.
dan friesen
But even in what he's saying, it's right in line with his philosophies, this idea of withholding care.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He's saying that, oh, they don't kill him.
They just don't keep him alive, which is a thin line.
You would want that.
jordan holmes
You say that that's the best idea to go with.
dan friesen
You don't give a shit that people who can't afford care can't get care?
jordan holmes
If you say what he just said and support the Republican tax bill, you're dumb or you're evil.
Either way, go fuck yourself.
You should die.
dan friesen
It's very unclear.
alex jones
Here's the Down syndrome.
He's not a human, according to them normal people.
He's the downer.
You're the downer.
Here in the Netherlands, you're not.
That's Russian.
Yes.
You are a downer.
You are not normal.
You cost us much more.
People pay you to take care of.
That's having an economy about humans.
They want to get rid of an economy of humans.
Just like nobody bags your groceries.
Nobody cleans the table at the restaurant.
Because, oh, you just don't have that.
You throw it away.
It's all about no hospitality.
No realness, and you're getting rid of a world run by humans.
jordan holmes
Huh?
dan friesen
Also, recently, I believe the businesses can now take tips away from service employees.
unidentified
No big deal.
No big deal.
alex jones
Oh, now robots can run the store because nobody demands to have a human.
Oh, see, we made...
Well, the burger went down 10 cents.
You're killing yourself thinking you're getting ahead.
jordan holmes
You're killing us!
alex jones
And they go, look, you're a very important person.
But because both men are academic liberals, they can go, he doesn't get it.
And these are the very left who put the fluoride in your water, the cancer viruses, your vaccines.
dan friesen
They're just nasty people.
alex jones
And they love him because they can feel more superior.
But I just see the innocence of this man.
Yes, thank you.
jordan holmes
I'm important.
alex jones
He doesn't get the sociopathic stuff.
Somehow the Satanism transmission doesn't get to him.
See, God gave us these people to show us what someone only connected to God would look like.
A child.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
The enemy transmission doesn't get to him.
jordan holmes
Fuck you!
dan friesen
These Down Syndrome people are a child.
They're children.
They give us a view into what beautiful god-like abilities and existences would be.
How fucking degrading is that?
That's so fucking stupid.
alex jones
And they're there laughing at this guy who doesn't really have total free will.
dan friesen
What?
unidentified
What?
alex jones
He doesn't have total free will.
unidentified
He just...
alex jones
I am important!
And they're telling him how he needs to die, how he should have been killed, how he should have never been born.
dan friesen
Didn't tell him that.
alex jones
He's like, you're my friends.
You're my friends.
No, they're not your friends.
They're cowardly wolves that I swear, I swear we're going to get these people because they want all of us.
You need to know that.
unidentified
Logically, you're on their team, you fucking idiot.
alex jones
Let's continue.
Go ahead and play the clip.
I had not expected that.
Is there another group of Netherlands that approached that amount?
Back it up.
Back it up, guys.
30 seconds.
I want to play that part.
But they go, you're a very important person.
And he's like feeling good.
They're telling you're a sack of crap.
You're not normal.
You're not a human.
You're nobody.
unidentified
We got a whole show here about aborting every one of you.
alex jones
We want to kill you.
dan friesen
That's not what the show's about.
alex jones
But they don't do it that way.
unidentified
It's all like Stewart and everybody else and Colbert.
alex jones
It's all cute and funny.
And all the wannabes watch.
All the followers, all the betas watch and think, I get ahead being a psychopath.
I get ahead being a piece of crap.
That's a considerable amount, but it's high compared to normal persons.
unidentified
And you're not normal.
alex jones
Well, you can calculate that by taking the big number to 90 million.
unidentified
And divide that amount with the number of citizens in the Netherlands.
alex jones
And that approximately 17 million, he will give you approximately about 5,000 euros per person a year.
unidentified
So you say that he is almost 10 times as expensive as others.
alex jones
Those expenses are indeed 10 times hard.
You're a valuable man.
I had not expected that.
I'm somebody.
They're like literally talking about killing him right there.
unidentified
We'll be back and take your calls and Paul Watson will take over.
alex jones
God will deliver vengeance to those people.
Stop the little children.
We'll be back.
dan friesen
He's losing it there at the end.
So now we've gone through...
The hardest part of the show, which is that I had like 14 minutes of his Down Syndrome analysis that we've turned into maybe 40 minutes.
jordan holmes
He said analysis, which is frustrating to me.
unidentified
Not analysis.
dan friesen
What do you want to say on the other side of this?
I think we've said our piece.
jordan holmes
I think we've made it clear where we stand.
And I think Alex has made it clear that if anybody should be killed, it's him.
dan friesen
And he's lying the entire time through this.
jordan holmes
It's him!
It's him!
dan friesen
He's using people with Down Syndrome as a prop.
He's propping.
jordan holmes
I know!
It's degrading.
It's so amazing how he is...
It's like he's grabbing this magical...
I don't know.
All I can think of while I hear him say this bullshit is you don't care.
dan friesen
He doesn't.
No.
jordan holmes
Why are you talking about this?
dan friesen
You know why he doesn't care?
This documentary came out a year ago.
jordan holmes
Well, not just that, but even if the doc came out yesterday, he doesn't care about those people.
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
It's just like every time we've talked about mass shootings, the first thought he has is, how can I use this?
dan friesen
Let's get back to mass shootings for a second.
jordan holmes
Even the bullshit that shitty Republicans say, which is like, hey, our hopes and prayers go out to you.
He's never said that.
He's never even done the slightest bit.
dan friesen
Think about mass shootings.
So he believes, even go back before mass shootings, he believes that the Oklahoma City bombing was fake.
And set up by the globalists.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He believes that the Waco situation was set up by the globalists.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
These are from the 90s.
So, like, let's forget about the fact that he has just forgotten about all of the Sandy Hooks that he said is fake.
jordan holmes
Or racism.
dan friesen
Or Las Vegas is fake, and the knockout game is the biggest problem in the world.
Let's forget about that stuff.
If you actually believed that any of these things was fake, Prove one of them.
Prove one of them.
And then you have destroyed the entire world.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Right?
Because if you prove any of it, then it's like, oh, shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Right.
dan friesen
Oh, shit.
jordan holmes
Right.
And it's not like- The entire undependent for society is torn apart.
dan friesen
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And, hey, Alex.
I'd like to offer you this challenge three hours into our dumbass podcast.
jordan holmes
How long are we into this?
dan friesen
Prove the globalists exist.
jordan holmes
Oh, I think we got fired.
We took too long.
dan friesen
We're off air.
Ah, shit.
unidentified
Prove the globalists to exist.
jordan holmes
Paul Joseph Watson took over for the fourth hour of this show.
dan friesen
And it's snarky and Islamophobic.
jordan holmes
And he can go fucking die!
dan friesen
But he can't prove any of this stuff.
unidentified
No, of course not.
dan friesen
So it's always plate spinning, and that's why he's not still talking about the Las Vegas shooting.
unidentified
Of course not.
jordan holmes
Because he would be.
dan friesen
If you're like, oh, I can prove this.
I can prove this.
jordan holmes
Dude, if he could prove it, the only thing we would talk about is that fucking shit.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
That's because we're obsessed with reality.
dan friesen
If he was right, I'd be in.
jordan holmes
Of course!
dan friesen
So now, I want to give you one more clip, the last clip, where, and I...
Look, we've been talking about Down Syndrome a bunch, and that, to me, is disgraceful on his part.
But this last clip gets more into where I legitimately am now at the point where I think Alex Jones should be arrested.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm done playing games with Alex based on this last clip because the rules about what you can and can't do in terms of broadcast are pretty clear and Alex has crossed that line in this last clip from December 15th?
jordan holmes
God, I almost don't even want to hear this.
dan friesen
He's crossed the line.
It's over.
alex jones
I don't want to kill weak people.
I want to kill parasite thugs.
That's who I want to kill.
Right.
And I'm ready.
unidentified
They're pushing the Civil War.
alex jones
I'll be honest.
I'm ready.
I'm done with these people.
They want death.
They want blood.
If you want blood, you got it.
Blood on the streets.
Blood on the stage.
Blood on your feet.
You got it.
I want innocence and I want justice, but I'm sick of their globalist Islam promoting all their anti-family crap.
They're putting down little people that...
They're just bullies.
Watch those men on TV bullying them.
dan friesen
That's it.
That's it.
jordan holmes
You know, I say a lot of...
dan friesen
You didn't say politically.
jordan holmes
I say a lot of shit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
You should go to prison, too.
jordan holmes
I'm pretty sure that it...
Every single point of the shit that I've said, it's been very clear throughout my history.
I am being full of shit, you know?
Like, that's who I am.
dan friesen
Or you have me around to sort of talk you down and contextualize what you're saying.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, not even just that.
I've never...
I don't really believe in that.
Like, I can't bring myself to it.
As much as maybe even I want to, I don't think it's the right way to do things.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Alex clearly does.
dan friesen
And for a long time it's been unclear whether he believes in blood in the streets.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's advocating right there for straight-up murder of these globalists, which, as we know...
jordan holmes
Even in my worst fucking moments, I realized this isn't the right way to do things.
dan friesen
No, and you notice it.
jordan holmes
It's not going to help.
dan friesen
No, but for fun, let's listen to this clip one more time.
Listen to the music kick in real hard as soon as he gets into the, like, let's kill everybody.
jordan holmes
Oh, Buckley's on it.
alex jones
Oh, shit.
jordan holmes
Wrong clip!
alex jones
I don't want to kill weak people.
I want to kill parasite thugs.
That's who I want to kill.
Right.
And I'm ready.
unidentified
They're pushing the Civil War.
alex jones
I'll be honest.
I'm ready.
I'm done with these people.
They want death.
They want blood.
If you want blood, you got it.
Blood on the streets.
Blood on the stage.
Blood on your feet.
You got it.
I want innocence and I want justice, but I'm sick of their globalist Islam promoting all their anti-family crap.
unidentified
They're putting down little people that...
jordan holmes
You're too slow.
dan friesen
The music kicked in as soon as he said, I want their Islam off the streets.
Someone behind the scenes knows this is going to rile people up.
Anyway, that's the end of the show.
Alex Jones can go fuck himself.
jordan holmes
Alex Jones, go fuck yourself.
dan friesen
That seems as good an exit as...
Anyway, we haven't listened to John Rappaport in a while.
Also, I gotta piss.
So Rappaport...
Alex Jones, both go fuck yourself.
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Dan, there's a guy who is really fucking annoying, and Alex Jones can go fuck himself.
We also miss him.
dan friesen
We miss him because he's so boring these days.
John Rappaport, get more interesting.
Go fuck yourself.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
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Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
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I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
alex jones
I love you.
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