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April 10, 2018 - Knowledge Fight
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#148: June 1-3, 2009

June 1-3, 2009 Alex Jones episodes reveal his early radio show roots, sponsorship struggles (Cal Ben Soaps), and bizarre pivots—like eugenics theories tying Bill Gates ($56B net worth) and David Rockefeller to soap fillers. He falsely linked Bill Joy’s 2000 Wired warnings about tech elites to the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski), while promoting anti-cop, anti-military musician Steve Vaus (Grammy-winning "Buck Howdy"). Despite later partisan shifts, Jones’ 2009 openness to criticism—even from a Hawaiian caller branding him a "right-winger"—contrasts with his current combative style, exposing a pattern of ideological flip-flops and conspiracy-driven guest selections. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 12:08
d
dan friesen
49:10
j
jordan holmes
25:23
Appearances
k
kinky friedman
00:48
s
steve vaus
01:16
Clips
m
marty schachter
00:21
m
michael rivero
00:10
Callers
jeff in hawaii
callers 01:25
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy and Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
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.
I'm Jordan.
We're a couple of dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
Dan, is there a specific hook to this particular day that may be unusual for the two of us?
dan friesen
Today?
jordan holmes
Yeah, because you might know a lot about a certain event, and I don't know anything about a certain event.
dan friesen
An event?
jordan holmes
I'll be goddamned.
WrestleMania.
God damn it, Dan.
dan friesen
Catch on!
I do know a lot about WrestleMania.
You don't know anything about WrestleMania.
jordan holmes
See, there you go!
dan friesen
But more specifically this podcast, I know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
And I don't know anything about it.
dan friesen
So it's a very similar thing.
Something I want to get out of the way real fast before we get into my thoughts about WrestleMania, because I have a ton.
I'd like to give a shout-out to a new donor.
What's going on out there?
Someone who I think you'll like their name.
What's up out there, Jordan?
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you so much for joining up with the team.
jordan holmes
I got nothing.
I got nothing.
There aren't really any famous Jordans.
dan friesen
You weren't going to try and say it was you?
What about Jordan Peale?
Right?
Keen Peale?
Isn't it Jordan Peel?
marty schachter
Oh.
jordan holmes
I think you're right.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's famous as fuck.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He wrote one of the best horror movies of all time.
Fine.
Jordan Peele, thank you very much for donating the show.
How about a goddamn tweet?
unidentified
Huh?
dan friesen
Why is it?
jordan holmes
I don't know any Jordans.
unidentified
Why?
jordan holmes
Why is it that the other Jordan I know is the prophecy brother of mine?
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Oh, that's true.
The cult.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So speaking of cults, people are in a wrestling cult.
And they had their high church yesterday as we're recording this Sunday for WrestleMania.
And boy, I'll tell you what, I think I'm done with wrestling.
And it's not.
jordan holmes
What?
It's not.
Why was this one the backbreak?
dan friesen
Well, because it's not for the same reasons that a lot of people complain about it.
A lot of people are like, eh, it's so predictable, blah, blah, blah.
Everyone complains like that after all of the big pay-per-views.
And for me, it was just like, I got to about hour four, and I was like, I don't know why I'm watching this.
Well, I'm exhausted.
I don't really enjoy it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't know what's going on.
jordan holmes
I think you enjoy your non-enjoyment of it.
dan friesen
To a certain extent.
I will say that I had a number of thoughts in my boredom that were troubling.
The first is that they don't do a great job with.
jordan holmes
I'm telling you, do not say that the Juice could be exterminated.
I really think that's a bad thought to have during WrestleMania.
dan friesen
Well, that actually comes into this a little bit.
jordan holmes
I can't see how it could.
dan friesen
So within the first 10 minutes or so of the broadcast, they played a teaser.
jordan holmes
There was a Nazi wrestler?
alex jones
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
So they played a teaser clip for the upcoming SmackDown Women's Championship match between Charlotte and Asuka.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And they kept, and this is something they do a lot.
They keep referring to Charlotte as being bred for supremacy.
jordan holmes
Oh, I don't like that.
dan friesen
It makes me a bit of a good considering she's like a six-foot-something blonde Aryan goddess.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, Valkyries, I got nothing for this one.
I'm going to go with a no.
I'm going to go with a hard pass on this one.
dan friesen
And I grant that her dad is Ric Flair and that he used to be involved with a group called Evolution.
And so there's some of these ideas.
jordan holmes
I don't know what a group called Evolution.
unidentified
Is he a genetic birther kind of guy?
dan friesen
Is he like sort of like the evolution of wrestling?
We're the next evolution of it or something.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Is it related to them?
jordan holmes
So thematically, you're saying that there might be a defense.
dan friesen
Right, but it still doesn't feel good.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
It doesn't feel good.
When you have a fucking super tall, beautiful, blonde, white woman who's bred for supremacy.
It's very good.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's not great.
That's not great.
dan friesen
So that's in the first couple of days.
jordan holmes
Who was the lady named who's the lady in Red Sonia, though?
She was married to Flavor Flave or something?
dan friesen
I don't know what you're talking about.
jordan holmes
You don't know the?
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
She was in Bridget Nielsen?
jordan holmes
Bridget Nielsen, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I'm just naming Valkyries at this point.
Who else you got on your top five Valkyrie list?
I don't know.
dan friesen
But the other thing that made me uncomfortable, and this is something that I understand isn't like necessarily a real criticism, but they played this teaser that's kind of, it has a little bit of a Nazi feel to it in some ways.
jordan holmes
They know their audience.
dan friesen
And then they had the men's Battle Royal, the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, right?
So it's a 30.
jordan holmes
Wait, did they say it Battle Royal?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't care.
They had 30 dudes in the ring, and they're all fighting with each other.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And Matt Hardy ends up winning.
jordan holmes
Oh, I hate it when he wins.
dan friesen
Matt Hardy has a thing that he does where he deletes people.
That's his sort of comic.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
And he has a hand gesture for delete.
jordan holmes
No, I don't like a hand gesture.
dan friesen
It's a hand gesture that's like this, making a delete like a minus sign.
jordan holmes
Like an X on their throat.
unidentified
Someone.
jordan holmes
Like a wild.
dan friesen
And it's not a Nazi salute.
But boy, when it's 70,000 people doing it in an arena, it feels very close.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's not good.
dan friesen
So that's within the first time.
jordan holmes
I kind of don't like 70,000 people doing anything together.
That kind of bums me out.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So anyway, it just dragged on, and I guess some of it was good, but the only high point for me, and I know that I'm, you know, I'm going to sound like the fucking stupidest wrestling fan in the world, but there's this really giant guy named Braun Strowman.
Yeah.
And he had a shot at the tag team titles, but he didn't have a partner.
jordan holmes
I've heard this one because my longtime buddy Matt Elfring writes about wrestling for GameSpot, I think.
dan friesen
Does a great job over there?
jordan holmes
Yes, he was very excited about the 10-year-old child.
dan friesen
He picked a 10-year-old kid out of the audience.
jordan holmes
Is he going to come back?
I don't care.
Is the 10-year-old going to come back?
I feel like he has to be a plant, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
I don't care.
I love the absurdity of it, and I don't give a fuck.
It's very fun.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And then the main event was Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.
And everyone complains about all that shit because it's a very repetitive match.
It's happened a bunch of times.
People are just kind of tired of it.
I don't really care about that aspect of it, but Roman's head ended up bleeding a lot.
And I was watching it, and I was just like, this is gross.
This is disgusting.
I don't care if he cut himself like they do sometimes in wrestling.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he was actually from the film.
I learned that in the great movie, The Wrestler.
dan friesen
Yeah, they played.
I don't care really what the situation was.
It was grotesque, and seeing it made me very sick.
And between just not really enjoying it.
jordan holmes
Is he a member of the royal family?
unidentified
Does he have that hemophilia?
jordan holmes
You know, that's a.
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I did really enjoy NXT TakeOver New Orleans, though.
That was much better because it's much shorter.
jordan holmes
You've become the old movie critic who's like, listen, hey, it was a great movie.
Could have cut 10 minutes out.
dan friesen
Meanwhile, we.
jordan holmes
Could have cut 10 minutes out.
No big deal.
You could have cut 10 minutes out.
Meanwhile, I don't like an hour and 40 long minute movie.
Give me an hour and 30.
dan friesen
Meanwhile, we do a nine-hour episode about Endgame.
So who am I to fucking talk?
Anyway, I thought it was fine, but I don't know how much I'm going to be watching in the future.
But I am excited about the 10-year-old tag team channel.
jordan holmes
You mean exactly as much.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
jordan holmes
Because every time you get disillusioned after every single pay-per-view.
unidentified
God.
jordan holmes
And you keep going back, Dan.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's just boredom.
Anyway, today, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Thank you to our new donor, Jordan.
That was what that was dedicated to.
dan friesen
So today, what we're going to be going over is we're going to go back to the past.
We're deep in the past today because Alex has been out of studio since Thursday.
Okay.
He's going to Washington, D.C. to do his press conference.
jordan holmes
Which, as we know, is a four-day-long trek via covered wagon.
Yeah, is that what we're doing?
dan friesen
I assume.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So he had Owen Schroyer hosting on Monday.
He had Mike Adams hosting on Sunday, and then they just had a best of on Friday.
So there's not a whole lot to work with here.
And we're recording this on Monday, and I'm going to put it out on Tuesday instead of Wednesday this week because we might need to have an emergency recording at the press conference.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
I see what you're saying.
dan friesen
We need to not be backloaded or anything.
We need to have forward progress for this ridiculous press conference that's going to be happening on Tuesday.
So I decided let's go back to the past.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And we have been going like that movie.
Yes, the second one of them.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Back to the Past.
dan friesen
The third one.
Where they had time to train.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
That was a great one.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, we had been going back to 2008 looking at stuff, and I've come to the issue that I keep listening to episodes, and they are like clips of interviews that he did on a previous episode spliced together and stuff.
And it's very unreliable for me to get through, and it's just a time suck in 2008.
So I decided to jump forward a bit.
And so we find ourselves in June 2009.
And today we're going to be going over the first, second, and third of June 2009.
And just seeing what we find.
Let's see what happens.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
Your ability to put your cards behind your vest.
I don't know what's the saying there?
dan friesen
Keep them close.
jordan holmes
Keep them close to the vest.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
Keep them tight.
unidentified
Not good.
jordan holmes
You're not good at it.
dan friesen
No, I mean, we're going to find a lot of interesting stuff.
There's going to be some ooh boys.
And some just like, oh, it's interesting to see a snapshot of Alex Jones from almost a decade back.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And I have experience.
I've listened to a bit of these 2009 episodes, and it's much more like it's a radio show, as opposed to in 2008, where it's like, sometimes it's a radio show, and then sometimes he's just, here's a mishmash of shows for a week or whatever.
So we will go back to 2008 eventually because we've got to cover the election and stuff like that.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
We'll go back and find Obama.
dan friesen
I think.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I think, I don't know.
jordan holmes
I think we all lost.
dan friesen
Like Alien versus Predator situation?
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Whoever wins, we lose.
dan friesen
So we start here on June 1st, 2009.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And the first thing that I noticed right away is that Alex has a very different way of like, his callers are very different back then.
His callers are all in it for themselves.
jordan holmes
Now I'm interested.
Because nobody's buying products.
They don't have products to buy.
Nobody opens with like, hey, Alex, first off, love your hair product or whatever it is.
You know, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
There's no formal, like, at the beginning of the call, just being like, I love Micro ZX or whatever.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So what they do instead is they go into business for themselves and they try and promote their shit.
Here's the first example of that.
alex jones
Birdman in Florida, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Birdman.
unidentified
Hey, brother Alex, how are you doing?
alex jones
Good, Birdman.
jordan holmes
Congratulations on the Oscar.
unidentified
Grey, I really appreciate your program so much.
If you give me a couple of relaxed minutes, I want to ask you if I can tell people about my old punk band 1984.
alex jones
Okay, go ahead and tell us about your punk band.
jordan holmes
Fuck yes!
dan friesen
So, fuck yes.
We've got Birdman calling in.
jordan holmes
Give me this.
Hey, Alex, I just want to tell you about my mixtape.
Oh, give it to me all day.
dan friesen
Already, this show feels very different.
alex jones
I love it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But you can hear that sort of exasperation.
jordan holmes
Hey, Alex, can I get the directions to the Walmart?
dan friesen
You already hear an exasperated tone in Alex.
Like, tell us about it.
alex jones
Yeah, go.
jordan holmes
Oh, it's a punk band.
dan friesen
Whatever.
Here's where that goes.
unidentified
Well, from 81 to 85, that's all we ever sung about with everything that you guys talk about.
And I would like to get someone to put overdub some of your voices on some blank tracks from your programs to scream about the same thing.
It's myspace.com.
dan friesen
No free plugs.
jordan holmes
MySpace.
It's amazing that in 81 to 85, he was screaming about 9-11 Trutherism.
That's the most amazing thing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That was a great punk band.
dan friesen
Alex puts up with it and is just like, all right, all right.
Then a little bit later, we get another call.
jordan holmes
MySpace.com.
dan friesen
We get another call from another guy.
unidentified
Well, what I wanted to comment to you today had two things I want to say.
You've been a great inspiration to us here at We Are Change, North Carolina.
I'm a member and co-organizer of that.
And I've got me a radio show starting on Saturday mornings coming up starting this Saturday.
You mind if I throw a quick plug on it real quick?
alex jones
Sure, go ahead.
unidentified
All right.
It's called Eternal Vigilance with Justin Prim on RevolutionBroadcasting.com.
They're going to run it from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Our shows this week.
I'm extremely proud of the opportunity to get a chance to do this.
And Alex Jones is my inspiration.
dan friesen
Spoiler alert, that show is no longer on.
jordan holmes
Oh, did Eternal Vigilance flame out?
dan friesen
I think it might have, yes.
But you see, there's this sense that Alex, people think of Alex as a way that I can get my thing out back at this point, which is pretty much.
unidentified
I don't fucking care.
dan friesen
Yeah, and Alex is kind of still operating on some sort of local radio vibe, like almost public access show kind of feel of like the idea of somebody giving out their website in a 10-second clip.
jordan holmes
Because if you've ever given anybody a website, they're like, okay, spell that for me.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And somebody, so they're saying like spell vigilance.
Either people are on their computer ready to type it in as I speak, or people are recording this and are willing to listen back to it to get it right.
There's no way that this is a good idea.
Yeah, and I think that probably I feel like our many, many calls into Coast to Coast AM haven't worked out.
dan friesen
No, absolutely not.
I just think it's fascinating that that's sort of the vibe that's going on with Alex at this point.
It's entertaining.
jordan holmes
And then we get a local radio station guy.
He's like one of the failed comedians from the 80s who became a regional radio station DJ of some sort.
They do promotional, like, oh, we're going to show up outside the minor league baseball's first day of the year, like that kind of guy.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
And a lot of the narratives that he's selling aren't really even worth going over.
They're all kind of just nonsense.
Like he's screaming about how everything's about to collapse, which you can understand that sentiment in 2009, certainly.
That was probably a prevailing feeling.
jordan holmes
Well, it's a weird thing to feel whenever everything had already collapsed.
dan friesen
Also, he reads an article about society about to collapse from Pravda, which is fun.
jordan holmes
Do they sell those purses?
dan friesen
Yes.
The Devil Wears Profit.
He also screams about how Congress is being blackmailed, but he doesn't mention anything about it.
jordan holmes
Doesn't mention Larry Nichols?
dan friesen
No.
That he said sooth.
He also doesn't bring up his whole cosmology about pedophile blackmail or anything like that.
It's just some sort of nebulous ideas of blackmail.
He screams about how Supreme Court Justice nominee Soda Mayor is a racist.
He goes on some of that.
jordan holmes
You know what?
She's actually done a really great job.
Like, whenever I remember her confirmation and reading up on her, and the consensus at the time was very much like, well, she's more of a centrist liberal, like center-left kind of judge.
And since then, if you read her decisions, she's been pretty hard towards the left.
I like her.
unidentified
Cool.
jordan holmes
I like Soda Mayor.
dan friesen
Well, someone who Alex likes.
unidentified
I give her my retroactive endorsement.
dan friesen
Someone who Alex gives an endorsement to now is a guy by the name of Eric Prince, who runs Blackwater.
No!
Or ran Blackwater, which is now his name a number of times.
jordan holmes
Great episode of the dollop.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Alex now calls him a great patriot and a hero because he's involved with a lot of Trump's shady dealings and is deeply involved with Trump.
Let's hear what he was saying about Blackwater back in 2009.
alex jones
Cold-blooded murdering thugs.
unidentified
Yep.
alex jones
That's the same thing that Blackwater Worldwide's doing all over the planet right now.
They weren't for the people that are bringing down this country.
dan friesen
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
No, he's nailed it.
They still work for those very same people.
dan friesen
How do you go from there to abandoning that?
jordan holmes
Well, Trump got elected.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, of course.
jordan holmes
See, it's very simple.
Every single conservative principle that has ever been held has been demolished by Trump.
Absolutely.
dan friesen
It's very interesting, though, that it applies to Alex Jones' conspiracy world just as equally.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, the idea that he's selling a pretty accurate picture that Blackwater are murdering thugs and death merchants.
jordan holmes
Pretty much.
dan friesen
And then I just conveniently forget that, that the same guy who ran that is now someone who I yell about as being a great patriot.
jordan holmes
Well, he doesn't run it anymore.
He probably left due to morality concerns.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That was something that if I know anything about Eric Prince, it's that morality is high on his list.
dan friesen
Right, right.
And so it's weird.
You see these inconsistencies, and certainly there's a ton of them.
But one thing that is pretty consistent through Alex Jones's early career that we're finding is weird commercials.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So we love, of course, anytime we get to hear a new country song from Diamond Gussie.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
I want to know where to hide my guns pre-2015.
dan friesen
This won't top those, but boy, it's weird.
unidentified
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dan friesen
Better?
jordan holmes
I...
Yes.
dan friesen
That's crazy.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yes, to all of that.
I want that book now.
dan friesen
I could vouch for her.
She's my mom.
She's wild.
And then that end there where it's like, better take action.
There's a storm coming.
And then long thunderstorms sound very long.
Very uncomfortable.
jordan holmes
Who long was that thunderstorm?
dan friesen
Can't come up with enough copy to fill this 30-second spot.
Better have a thunderstorm sound effect.
Yikes.
jordan holmes
Tell me more about a gourmet survivalist.
dan friesen
Well, you know, you've got to get some leaks and ramps.
You've got to get some of those great mushrooms that you can find in neighborhoods.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Well, but a lot of those are poisonous.
dan friesen
That's why you need that book.
jordan holmes
Admittedly, the greatest teacher is experience, which I feel like they should not be selling on their ad for don't eat this bullshit.
dan friesen
If you have enough time, you don't need this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
But time is short.
There's a storm coming.
So we know that one of Alex Jones' consistent principles throughout his life has been opposition to abortion, except for the 10 that he got when he was younger.
Right, right, right, right.
And in this next clip, he discusses the shooting of an abortion doctor.
jordan holmes
Oh, I remember this one.
dan friesen
And this is fucked up.
jordan holmes
Hey, domestic white terrorism never happens.
dan friesen
This is super weird, the spin he takes on it, and the historical comparison he decides to make.
alex jones
Now, that said, remember John Brown, who in Kansas, they've got no fewer than 14 statues?
I looked it up this morning at the state house, you name it.
John Brown, the abolitionist, killed a whole bunch of people, slave owners.
dan friesen
Wow.
alex jones
He massacred nine in Kansas, nine slave owners, killed them dead in a hammer, shot them through, then led an army of white abolitionists and blacks on an armory in another state of abolitionists.
And the state honors him for assaulting the military and police and killing them.
And they got statues for him all over Kansas.
Now, I'm not defending John Brown.
Abraham Lincoln said that he was a misguided soul.
jordan holmes
I don't think he was.
alex jones
But you've got to ask why statehouses and why county seats all over the country and why black community centers all over the country have statues to John Brown who went around killing white slave owners.
dan friesen
Hold on.
alex jones
Now, are those blacks human beings?
Yes, they are.
Are those babies human beings?
See, this is the warp situation.
If we win and defeat the New World Order and stop the killing, 50-plus million babies, is that enough?
Will there be statues to this guy?
dan friesen
Whoa.
alex jones
I'm only asking the question.
jordan holmes
I'm going to go with no.
alex jones
I don't think people should go around killing abortionists.
unidentified
Don't because it'll make them into victims.
alex jones
And that's the only way they're going to be able to get around to peddle in their trade.
dan friesen
Yikes.
Yikes.
jordan holmes
Weird outro music.
dan friesen
Yeah, that logic is insane.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, when you consider how many statues are for slave owners, I'm way on board with statues for slave murderers.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
Not just slave owner murderers, not slave owners with slave murders.
dan friesen
I think everyone understood what you were saying.
I think that when you really take a step back and look at what is going on here, what you see is that the guy who shot an abortion doctor is not doing that because he's motivated by the plight of the unborn.
jordan holmes
I really don't think so.
dan friesen
They're usually doing it because they're threatened by the idea of women's autonomy and want to commit terrorist acts in order to scare people out of being abortion.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean all anti-abortion people?
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, like, you know, what you're doing is when you kill an abortion doctor, is you are trying to reinforce a status quo that is not equitable.
In fact, I would suggest that what you are is the equivalent of the slave owner in the metaphor.
So you're killing an abolitionist is what you're doing.
jordan holmes
What I would say is in the same vein, if you kill Jeff Bezos, I will make a statue for you.
dan friesen
You can make a statue?
jordan holmes
If somebody kills Jeff Bezos, I'll learn.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
God damn.
dan friesen
You're crafty.
jordan holmes
Yes, I am crafty.
dan friesen
So that's fucked up.
I thought that was really disturbing by and large.
But the thing that I thought was even more disturbing is that back in 2009.
unidentified
Go ahead.
jordan holmes
He's comparing.
To a certain extent, I kind of understand from if you are taking his standpoint in good faith, the idea that an abortion doctor, because unborn children are people, then that's a murderer.
Right?
So if you believe that, if you truly believe that, I can understand why somebody murdering a murderer to you, a state-sanctioned murderer, is a positive moral act.
Yeah.
But no.
I'm going to go with a hard no on that one.
dan friesen
The other problem that I have with that is the title abortion doctor is silly.
Because that's suggesting that there are people.
Or like this guy who got killed is just like, all day I abort.
That's all I do, baby.
jordan holmes
Can you get a specialty in med school of just abortions?
Like, you don't have to learn about any diseases.
You just have to learn about murdering in their words, babies.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't think so.
But listen, we got to move along.
We have a lot of road to cover here.
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
I'm derailing this whole thing.
dan friesen
This next clip is super wild.
Because back in 2009, Alex Jones' callers were either pitching their own stuff or calling him out for things.
And in 2009, Alex Jones can handle criticism.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Listen to this guy call in.
jordan holmes
He sucks it up?
dan friesen
Kind of.
I mean, it's not good, but he doesn't get mad.
jeff in hawaii
So I find you extremely difficult to believe most of what you say at this point.
This bird flu thing, you blew completely out of proportion.
You said you were losing touch with your ability to think a couple of weeks ago.
I think you should admit you're a right-winger for one and quit saying you're trying to break the left-right paradigm.
Hello?
alex jones
Not missing, Jay.
jeff in hawaii
Okay.
And this guy called in Friday to your show.
Jason was the host, but Jason was real trite with the guy.
The guy was going to disagree, and he was going to say that you guys are picking on Obama a whole lot more than Bush, which I totally agree with that.
jordan holmes
Good call.
jeff in hawaii
And I want to back that guy up.
But Jason really wouldn't listen to the guy.
He just got really trite, really smart elegy with him.
And the guy ended up just kind of hanging up during the break and never got any points out.
But I would say that we're being bombarded with Obama being the tip of the spear.
I mean, Bush wasn't the tip of the spear.
He was kind of like a good old boy who you kind of liked underneath.
You're kind of like.
jordan holmes
If you kill him, you get a statue.
jeff in hawaii
I want to say that mining mercury, mining gold causes mercury poisoning.
Are you familiar with this?
alex jones
I know that.
I know there's a lot of mining that has bad byproducts.
jeff in hawaii
Yeah, the two deepest mines in the world gold mines are in South Africa.
dan friesen
I'm not sure.
marty schachter
What is happening?
jeff in hawaii
So it was like 177 blacks fried in a gold mine in South Africa.
alex jones
Sir, I appreciate your call.
Sir, listen, I gave you about two minutes to run on there and say I'm a right-winger.
I'm not a right-winger or a left-winger.
dan friesen
So he just, he like, no, I disagree with you, but he doesn't get mad at him.
He lets him speak.
jordan holmes
I also feel like Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil is trite.
I feel like that's troublesome.
We haven't seen it yet, but I'm guessing there'll be a musical about Hamilton.
That's trite.
That's trite.
dan friesen
Super trite.
I mean, like, that is an unheard of amount of time for criticism to be allowed on the air these days.
unidentified
Oh, bananas.
dan friesen
And even if Alex Jones did let someone say that many, like, pretty critical negative words about him, and accurate, you know, like you're way more against Obama than you were against Bush.
jordan holmes
Oh, 100%.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
He would come back from it and start fucking screaming at him.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
Just like he has that commercial even plays where he screams at that Frank guy.
Frank, I need your help, Frank.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That he always makes jokes about.
jordan holmes
The first thing that he would say in response to this now is like, I understand your criticism.
I'm not saying that I'm treating him differently because he's black.
And you'd be like, he didn't point that out.
dan friesen
He would change it.
He'd create a straw man version of the complaint.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And to some extent, he still is because he's claiming that he's not a right-winger, which, I mean, he's his soul lives on the right.
jordan holmes
Super hard.
dan friesen
So at the end of this episode.
jordan holmes
His soul lives on the white, Dan.
dan friesen
At the end of this episode, we get a delightful appearance from one Jesse Ventura.
jordan holmes
Hey!
dan friesen
Jesse Ventura comes in and they have a nice time having a chat.
Jesse is smart.
He's making independent-minded opinions, and people keep bringing up points, and he's just like, well, how would you do that?
You know, talking about like dumb policy ideas.
And he's like, well, logistically, what do you think that would look like?
And people have no answer.
It's amazing.
jordan holmes
I love Jesse Ventura every time he shows up on the show.
It's fantastic.
dan friesen
With the exception of that Chris Kyle saga, I've liked everything every one of his appearances.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
He gets Alex to admit that he supports the opening up of Cuba.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Back in 2009, Alex was for the idea of opening up Cuba.
jordan holmes
He was against it when it happened.
dan friesen
And then they talk a bunch about how Man Cow had recently done a publicity stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded.
jordan holmes
Power's a piece of shit.
dan friesen
No, he doesn't really say that.
I think he's kind of on board with Man Cow.
But they talk about how Man Cow had been.
Do you remember this?
He got waterboarded as a publicity stunt.
jordan holmes
I do remember that.
And he lasted like two seconds and was like, no, this is fucking torture.
dan friesen
This is bullshit.
jordan holmes
Oh, fuck.
Oh, shit.
All the things that I believed for a long time aren't true.
dan friesen
Right, right.
And so they talk a bit about that, and Jesse Ventura's like, of course it is.
I don't need to do that to know that.
It's pretty nonsensical.
A lot of it's not really even worth listening to, but there's one clip that I think elevates to the level of greatness where we learn something very important about Alex.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
I tell you, serving's very addictive, isn't it, Jesse?
unidentified
Yes, it is.
And it's very difficult.
And people don't realize that it's a life dedication.
And I love to say this.
If people were that dedicated to a religion, would they call them religious bums?
alex jones
I'm as brown as a coconut from the beach.
I love the beach itself.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
Yes!
dan friesen
That's a top 10 throw to break.
jordan holmes
There you go.
dan friesen
That is a top 10 throw to break.
unidentified
Solid.
dan friesen
I'm as brown as a coconut from the beach.
I love the beach itself.
We'll be right back.
jordan holmes
Pre-show we were talking to AC Slater, and that is an AC Slater movie right now.
dan friesen
No doubt that's Lopezian.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I love that.
That's very fun.
And that brings us to the end of June 1st.
Now we go to June 2nd.
And this shows a lot of Hot garbage.
There's not a lot going on.
unidentified
Alex, Alex, I'm still on hold.
dan friesen
He starts the show off with an interview with Man Cow about this publicity stunt that he had done.
And Alex is like, I think I should get waterboarded and see how long I can make it.
He's trying to get a runoff of publicity stunt out of this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not worth listening to at all.
jordan holmes
Also, you're too much of a weakling.
dan friesen
He'd probably last 10 seconds.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
He wouldn't do it.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
jordan holmes
He's afraid.
Also, because he's seen Mancow fail so miserably at it, he has to realize I'm probably going to fail too.
And if I fail super fast, I'm fucked.
dan friesen
And Alex's stated position at this point is already that it's torture.
So he has nothing to really prove about it other than yup.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which he could just say based on Man Cow's video.
But anyway, Man Cow's on, and it's not worth listening to at all, except for this small clip.
alex jones
Eric Mancow Muller, Syndicate Radio Talk Show host, Sally.
That's right, Sally.
We decided to start calling him Sally.
unidentified
You know, I like when you spank me and call me Sally.
jordan holmes
Fake Muller.
alex jones
Man, you are something else.
I was saying, should I call you Eric Mancow Muller?
And you said, call me whatever I want.
And I said, okay, I'll call you Sally.
And now your new name will be Sally.
Whatever.
How are you, Alex?
I was about to say something really horrible.
dan friesen
What was he going to say?
He doesn't say.
He never says.
So, Eric Mancow.
I wish I would have heard this before I was on Man Cow.
I just could have called him Sally on the whole time.
jordan holmes
That would have been great.
dan friesen
God damn it, he sucks.
But the rest of the interview is.
He's the worst piece of shit.
The rest of the interview is just him talking about his waterboarding, and who cares?
A little bit later, he gets a visit from a guy named Mike Rivero, who does a show called What Happened With, I believe is the name of it.
It's another show.
jordan holmes
Bad title.
dan friesen
It's another show on the GCN radio network, Genesis Communications Network.
jordan holmes
What about stuff?
dan friesen
He got kicked off the radio network.
jordan holmes
Too much happened.
dan friesen
He got kicked off.
Let me find.
I got to vamp for a second here because I got to find the exact quote.
jordan holmes
Vamp for a second.
unidentified
Aye, coming up next month in May, I will be at Zadie's all but six minutes of week.
dan friesen
This is not what I meant for Alex.
It's terrible.
jordan holmes
I'm not vamping.
I'm not going to vamp for you.
dan friesen
This is terrible.
jordan holmes
What do you want me to do?
A Jesse Ventura impression?
I've already failed miserably at that.
dan friesen
Couldn't hurt.
So he was a host on the Genesis Communications Network.
The show is called What Really Happened with Mark Rivero.
He was a host until about 2010 when he left, according to him, because he and Alex Jones did not see eye to eye on Israel.
jordan holmes
So what really happened, Dan?
dan friesen
Mike is staunchly anti-Israel and felt that Alex was becoming more and more pro-Israel as time went on.
His statement about moving his show off the Genesis Communications Network included the following: Quote, GCN is a reflection of Alex Jones' views on the world, and more and more our points of view regarding Israel are diverging.
I guess the breaking point was his rant in which he said that anyone who is a critic of Israel is a weak-minded fool.
So he's a guy who that's in his future at this point when he's on the show.
At this point, they're still buddies and what have you.
But they have a breaking point over relative levels of support for Israel.
jordan holmes
Which is where are we at now with Alex's support of Israel?
He's pro-he's pro-Israel.
dan friesen
Yeah, but I think it's more he couches it like in a vague way, right?
He couches it more as like they're one of the only nationalistic countries left in the same way he supports Russia because he views them as one of the only nationalistic countries left.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So he has sort of like this.
jordan holmes
So he's a big fan of governments that murder people for no good reason.
dan friesen
Mysteriously, that seems to be all the anti-globalist countries.
jordan holmes
seems to be nice like the the guy who is has he said anything about the guy who was elected in Hungary No.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
He avoids any of that sort of conversation.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would, too, if I were Alex.
dan friesen
So anyway, Mike Rivero's on, and it's a boring interview, but he does say one thing that I think is worth noting.
And it's kind of, ooh, Alex would never allow something like this on the show now, I don't think.
michael rivero
Every major war was ultimately lost by the country that started it.
So guess where that sets us up?
I'm not surprised our soldiers are committing suicide in such numbers.
They know they're the bad guys.
unidentified
Whoa.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Whoa.
jordan holmes
Wow, is that intense?
dan friesen
I don't think Alex would allow someone to say something like that about soldiers now.
I think he's so pro-military and pro-cop now that he wouldn't allow that sort of shit.
At this point in 2009, he couldn't.
jordan holmes
And not because it's wrong.
No.
Not because historically that's the dumbest shit you can say.
dan friesen
If you looked at every single war that's ever been fought and tried to figure out did the aggressor win or lose.
jordan holmes
Well, you have to, because he said major war, which means he's classifying the wars that he thinks are major and all other wars.
dan friesen
World War I?
jordan holmes
Right.
No, I get.
He's talking about what?
Three wars?
dan friesen
Maybe.
Maybe.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Is he classifying the Korean War and the Vietnam War as major wars?
dan friesen
Police action.
I don't know.
But I do think that it's a sort of at least distasteful thing to say that, of course, these soldiers killed themselves.
They know they're the bad guys.
Even from my position, I think that's not a good thing to, like, that's not a good position to hold.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
No, Hold on.
Before I get into any trouble for my position, it's just I don't think it's because they know they're the bad guys.
dan friesen
I think there's a different way to phrase a similar sentiment in terms of like PTSD and grief and guilt about things you're made to do or made.
jordan holmes
Survivor's guilt.
Your friend died, and so you feel like you should have been there to save him.
dan friesen
Right, because in this position, the way he's presenting it is like, good.
Kill yourselves.
You're the bad guys.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's the Westboro Baptist Church.
dan friesen
That's ugly.
And this is kind of ugly, too.
This next clip, I think Alex is expressing an opinion that it's pretty cool to kill cops.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Or, I mean, I'm not saying my generation, or even if it's beyond my generation, I can't, you know, isn't going to have to make sacrifices.
If you're going to have a revolution, if you need to.
alex jones
Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen.
People are going to try to CPS people's kids, and it's happening more and more.
I see it in the news every week.
And people are just going to kill them.
And cops are going to stop people at a checkpoint, and the citizens are just going to get out.
And it's already starting to happen.
And the media kind of keeps it quiet.
But you see the reports all the time.
It's usually old vets, Korean War, Vietnam.
Most of them are dead now.
But they've had a couple cases in Austin where World War II vets would get pulled over and harassed by cops in Hayes County.
And the old vet would just get out and kill them.
It's like, buddy, I'm not your slave.
This is in Nazi Germany.
You're dead.
And the cop can argue about that all day and have the media say the old man was bad.
But at the end of the day, there's going to be a lot of blood.
And the system knows that.
And look, if we're self-sufficient, they can't beat us.
That's why they want to shut down the farms and ranches and get control.
dan friesen
That's very weird.
alex jones
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's too far from me.
dan friesen
That's justifying murdering cops at DUI checkpoints.
jordan holmes
These are white people murdering cops.
dan friesen
Right.
So it's that should be important.
jordan holmes
It's fine.
dan friesen
I mean, that is.
jordan holmes
Let's point out that.
These are 100% white people murdering cops in Alex's worldview.
dan friesen
See, now we've got to skip right ahead to the third.
That's it for the second.
The third is where we're going to focus.
jordan holmes
The third is where we get the whitest.
dan friesen
Third is where we're going to focus most of our attention.
No, this is a refutation of what you're saying.
Now, Alex says something about the cops negatively to start out the third.
Now, granted, I don't like the way he keeps saying blacks in this clip.
jordan holmes
Not good.
dan friesen
But listen to the spirit of this clip and think about what you were just saying.
alex jones
Listening to one of the local talk stations, and a caller calls in and talks about how blacks continue to be killed, shot in the back, homeless blacks, retarded blacks, autistic blacks in their cars at night, and there's always an excuse for why it happens.
And the squad car videos always malfunction, and then we always find out, oh, it didn't malfunction.
There is a surveillance camera.
And then they say, oh, but he had a gun.
Then you read the news article closely at the bottom, it says no officers thought he reached for a gun.
Just deception.
dan friesen
Look at that.
Look at that.
Look at that position.
jordan holmes
Holy shit.
Look at that position that Alex Jones has been kneeling for the national anthem this whole fucking time.
dan friesen
I mean, in 2009, he has a position of the cops are trying to cover up murdering black people, pretending that they have guns, which is an accurate depiction of that guy in Brooklyn with a shower head.
jordan holmes
I don't know how to deal with this.
dan friesen
It's very, very weird.
jordan holmes
He's dead on.
alex jones
Right.
jordan holmes
Now, he's dead on.
unidentified
Like, not even like wrong.
dan friesen
Except for some of the languages on the bottom.
jordan holmes
It's not great.
It's not great.
But his sentiment is there.
dan friesen
Right, which we can appreciate.
jordan holmes
It's not even like we normally agree with him where he's right in the wrong way.
Like, he's dead on.
This is 100% accurate.
Cops are murdering black people, and they are covering it up, and that's something that needs to stop.
dan friesen
Yep, it was a problem in 2009.
It's still a problem, but Alex has changed his tune.
jordan holmes
It was a problem in fucking 1860.
dan friesen
Alex has changed his tune aggressively since then and now has his aggressively pro-military and pro-cop positions.
And I think that's because he's been told, perhaps, that that's his big audience base or whatever.
jordan holmes
Well, is it that or is it does it really just come down to team sports?
alex jones
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Like, was it possible for the right wing to also at this time be like, hey, cops shouldn't be killing people.
And then it became a thing where a black person talked about it and they can't abide by that.
dan friesen
I mean, it's possible.
One of the things that I hope to track as we go forward in 2009, I have a subtle reason for why.
It's not subtle.
I have a bigger reason for why I'm doing this.
But one of the other reasons is I want to figure out his trajectory as it relates to at this point being very anti-military and anti-cop and see where that changes.
I think it's because of Obama.
jordan holmes
Well, of course it is.
dan friesen
I think it's just because Obama's president and he thinks that all of them are tools of Obama's machinations and what have you.
But I don't know if that's the case.
So I'm going to follow that moving forward.
jordan holmes
So if I understand correctly kind of what your point of view is on this one, is that maybe the reason that he's against the military and the cops right now is because ultimately he believes it's headed by a black person.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
And when it becomes headed by a white person, it's fine.
dan friesen
I don't think it's that simple, but I don't know if that plays into it.
I don't know if we'll ever be able to answer that question either.
jordan holmes
Well, we've already answered that he's a racist.
dan friesen
Right, no doubt.
But I don't know if we can.
I don't know if he could even answer that question, quite frankly.
But I know that one of the things that fascinates me the most is things that are different.
Blackwater, he was against it in 2009, loves Eric Prince now.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's easy to explain.
It's Trump.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
It's Trump-related.
That's simple, but that's a huge giving up of your principles.
In this case, I'm very fascinated in where did the pivot go of like cops are evil, they're supporting a terrible system to love cops.
Sometimes you got a bad one, but it's very rare.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That sort of rhetoric.
I don't know, and we'll see.
But he goes on to talk about another caller.
jordan holmes
Speaking of which, a thought that just popped into my mind as far as Alex talking about right now.
In 2009, how many abortions do you think Trump has paid for?
dan friesen
No idea.
Hold on to that thought, though.
unidentified
A lot?
dan friesen
Hold on to that thought.
jordan holmes
A bunch.
dan friesen
We've got to get through this next clip first.
jordan holmes
Perhaps a barrel, even.
dan friesen
A grip of them.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
In this next clip, he goes on talking more about this radio show he was listening to.
Yeah.
Where it is talking about these African Americans who've been shot by the police.
He talks about a caller, and I think that she's just a racist, but he has a different position on her.
jordan holmes
Strange.
alex jones
You see, these good old boys think they're part of the system.
They think they're the winners.
They think they're protected from all of this.
And then I heard a woman calling right after them going, yeah, I think we got too many minorities.
And she was serious.
She said, I'm glad they're killing them.
You see, that stupid fat soccer mom thinks she's part of the establishment.
She's a eugenicist.
unidentified
What?
alex jones
You can run into them.
I get their emails and their calls, and I've had them snidly say stuff to me.
You know, if you go to a school function or something, they say, well, there are too many people, Alex.
Well, listen here, know-it-all control freak.
Kill yourself then.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Don't sit there in the minority neighborhoods and tell 17-year-old pregnant girls, if you'll have an abortion, we'll drop this marijuana charge on you.
And that's what goes on coast to coast.
jordan holmes
That doesn't track.
That doesn't track.
I don't understand.
dan friesen
That was all just buzz marketing for Coast AI.
jordan holmes
Where's his start?
Where's this start point and where's his end point?
And how do they get there?
dan friesen
No idea.
I don't know what he's talking about there at the end, but I do know that what he's describing is just a racist caller on an AM talk show, probably.
jordan holmes
And she's a eugenicist.
dan friesen
She's a eugenicist.
She thinks she's a part of this imagined system that I'm afraid of because that short leash is still in place in 2009.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That part of his cosmology has existed throughout this entirety.
So, in the same way that I'm interested in things that are different, I'm also very interested in things that are the same.
And this idea that there's this eugenicist plan by the elites and stuff, that's consistent.
jordan holmes
But this is almost a cover story, I think, now.
Because the concept that he's putting forth here is that the globalists are trying to divide us through race.
Right.
Right?
That's his idea there.
I think, if I understand correctly, there is a bit of that, yeah.
So now he says the same thing, but he's dividing us by race.
So he's kind of got that consistent lie going on, but like he just stopped talking about it or like explaining it.
He seems passionate whenever he's describing her as being a globalist eugenicist.
Well, because he sees like he seems like he cares about it in the way that he doesn't now.
dan friesen
But it's also because he sees his imagined enemies everywhere.
In the same way that he talks about being at the grocery store and someone's face turns into a demon and what have you and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
That happens.
Like, what was he?
What was he in an Aldi?
dan friesen
Look, I was at a Marianos the other day in the classroom.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why I went Mariano's.
jordan holmes
Mariana's is a way better go.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
It's very weird.
But the thing that I think is interesting, too, is if you listen to that clip, that like, oh, you want other people to die?
Why don't you kill yourself first?
jordan holmes
That's fun.
Sounds like a thing I would say.
dan friesen
That's the open.
What we just listened to is the open mic version of the bit that he did on air like the other day in 2018, where he's screaming about like, kill yourself, I curse you, and shit like that.
unidentified
He's just when he's tooling up the bit.
dan friesen
He's fleshed out the bit, and now he has the showcase version in 2018.
We get to see the raw.
unidentified
It's too long.
jordan holmes
That's too long for a bit.
dan friesen
It's quite a while.
jordan holmes
I would let that bit go.
I would have let that bit go.
dan friesen
So you asked a second ago, how many abortions do you think Trump has paid for?
And I don't know.
I can't answer that, but I do know that Alex in 2018.
jordan holmes
20 plus, right?
dan friesen
In 2018, Alex has said that he has paid for at least 10.
So we do know that, which is interesting to hear this in 2009.
alex jones
And I'll tell you this: the citizens are out of control.
The society's out of control.
When you got 50-plus million dead babies because people kill their own kids, their own future, their own treasure, because they're too lazy to use contraception.
And because they're too lazy to admit it's a baby, that's out of control.
And even if you don't believe in God and karma or your reap what you show, you better believe in the law of the universe.
dan friesen
Okay.
So, I mean, like, what the I mean, what are you going to do?
jordan holmes
You know, this is this is every Catholic priest undoubtedly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Undoubtedly.
jordan holmes
This is denying other people morality whilst you do as I say, not as I do.
dan friesen
Right.
It's just interesting that at this point in his career, he's not ready to open up in the same way that he is now.
jordan holmes
Because he doesn't have as much power as he does now.
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
I'm sure he feels a lot less touchable.
dan friesen
That's true.
And I think if he were to, in the middle of that rant where he's judging people for being too lazy to use contraception, if he were to say, I'm guilty, I've had 10 abortions, then I think that would have really hurt him in 2009.
Whereas now, I mean, people just.
jordan holmes
I mean, in 2009, I give him, what, six?
I would say in the intervening nine years, he's paid for at least four more.
dan friesen
No, because in 2009, he's married to Kelly.
Like, he's...
jordan holmes
Yeah, Dan.
dan friesen
They had three kids together?
jordan holmes
Yeah, but they weren't fucking illegitimate kids.
dan friesen
No, no, I understand that, but I think at that point he's married and he's settled down.
I would say that all of them, all of the abortions that he has had, whether or not that number is exaggerated, were in his younger years.
jordan holmes
At most, I will give you eight at this time and two in the intervening nine years.
dan friesen
I'd say ten before, zero after.
jordan holmes
And you'll be taking bets also in the bracket.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
There will be.
We got some prop bets going.
jordan holmes
Surprise winner.
Alex has had 10 abortions before being married the first time.
dan friesen
We're going to have just an elaborate book, a gambling book on this about Alex Jones' conception record.
jordan holmes
You can bet on anything in Britain.
dan friesen
Jordan.
In the same way that Alex probably would have been hurt by that information in 2009, whereas he's not hurt by it now.
Yes.
There's another difference in 2009 that's very interesting that I could not have imagined.
jordan holmes
Was he thinner?
dan friesen
No, there's no video of this.
I'm just listening to audio.
But maybe he was a little bit.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Back then, one of his sponsors is soap, Cal Ben Soaps.
jordan holmes
I really was hoping you would just full stop soap.
dan friesen
The soap industry?
jordan holmes
Just soap.
dan friesen
Cal Ben Soap or Cal Ben Soap?
Cal Ben, I think.
jordan holmes
Cal Ben.
dan friesen
Five-star soaps.
jordan holmes
All right.
Eventually, he went on to leave the soap industry and go with ice cream.
Just friend Cal Jerry.
dan friesen
Just to the chat room, they're asking why I think he hasn't had abortions since he got married.
I guess there is a little bit of, I don't even know what you'd call it, purity bias on my part.
And maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But I think that given that they had three.
jordan holmes
You still believe in love.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
That's kind of what you believe in, Dan.
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
But at the same time.
unidentified
That's cute.
jordan holmes
That's a very cute thought.
dan friesen
At the same time, at no point am I saying this in any judgmental way?
jordan holmes
I'm not being judgmental at all.
dan friesen
Right.
And I'll admit my slight bias there.
jordan holmes
I've paid for 46 abortions.
That's four more than the answer to the question of what is life, the universe, and everything.
dan friesen
Back to soap.
So Alex has a soap sponsor.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And in order to have him be a sponsor of the show, Alex makes clear that part of the deal is that the owner of the soap company gets to be a guest on his show once a month.
jordan holmes
All right.
All right.
I want to know the owner of this soap company.
Well, you're going to get to the point.
What does this soap company owner believe?
dan friesen
Well, here's Alex trying to get into this guest appearance, I guess.
unidentified
This is the only soap to defend against 9-11.
alex jones
You know, side issue, but I want to get into the soap, but it all ties into that.
Government goes into mind war, eugenics war.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
It all ties into the soap.
I want to get into the soap.
The government is out of control.
It all ties into the soap, though.
dan friesen
I want to get into the soap, but this is all related.
Let me talk to you about Hitler.
jordan holmes
How do you get to the bottom of the story?
You follow the soap.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
That's number one rule.
steve vaus
Number one rule.
dan friesen
Oh, man.
That's crazy.
So he tries to get into some of his narratives with the soap guy, and it doesn't work all it doesn't work that well.
alex jones
Let's see it.
Eugenics.
I mean, I see the chemicalization of everything, part of the eugenics.
I know it is.
Have you ever looked into Margaret Sanger and the Colgate Foundation and all of that?
unidentified
No.
alex jones
Yeah, it's pretty hardcore.
Well, regardless, tell us what on record the detergents and toxic soaps are doing to it.
jordan holmes
I fucking love.
dan friesen
This is sad.
jordan holmes
No.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Well, tell us about soap then.
dan friesen
Tell us about what's wrong with detergent.
So they have a little talk about detergent.
jordan holmes
Oh, please more.
Please more of that.
dan friesen
This guy is like, hey, you know, they talk about sodium chloride being in soap, and everybody's like, oh, what is this chemical?
It's table salt.
And they use it as just a filler.
We don't use it as a filler.
It's all a fucking ad for his soap.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Of course it is.
dan friesen
And it gets to this.
jordan holmes
If you give a hard no to that question, you're out.
dan friesen
It gets to this.
marty schachter
I guarantee you satisfaction guaranteed for double your dirt back.
alex jones
Explain some of the chemicals that are in the soaps and hair care products and all the crud people use.
I know I washed my hair after lifting weights this morning with Cal Ben shampoo.
dan friesen
Good on air read.
That is smooth.
unidentified
Smooth.
jordan holmes
Beautiful.
dan friesen
Silky smooth.
jordan holmes
I know I washed my hair this morning after lifting weights because I'm a strong man.
With Cal Ben shampoo.
dan friesen
He does do that little pause and just put some English on it.
It's gorgeous.
jordan holmes
God, I want this Alex back.
dan friesen
This is a sad.
jordan holmes
Alex, if you're listening, God damn it.
Come back to this.
dan friesen
This is a sad Alex because what you're seeing is a guy who has to allow this in order to be sponsored.
You know, like, I want sponsors badly in terms of allowing us to continue doing this without me needing to ask.
jordan holmes
How's Cal Ben doing?
dan friesen
I'll give him a call.
unidentified
Yeah, but I would never, I would never.
jordan holmes
Ben, talk about your time working for the Alex Jones show.
No.
dan friesen
I would never accept that as a stipulation of sponsorship.
And it's clear, Alex does make clear that part of the sponsorship is he's on once a month.
Yeah.
Doesn't seem happy about it.
Of course not.
This is a mic-down clip.
Listen to the.
This is how the interview ends.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Or fivestarsoap.com or CalBenPureSoap.com.
Marty, give me a quick limerick.
marty schachter
The young lady of Kent who said that she knew what it meant.
When men asked her to dine, eat her cocktails and wine.
She knew what it meant, but she went.
alex jones
Marty shocked her.
jordan holmes
That wasn't even a fun limerick.
dan friesen
It was bad.
jordan holmes
That was shit.
dan friesen
It was shit.
But then there's so much fun there because you've got the long pause and then Alex.
unidentified
Ha ha ha.
jordan holmes
Yeah, all right.
dan friesen
All right.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Great stuff.
Great stuff, kid.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Great stuff.
Give me a quick limerick.
dan friesen
That's a fascinating glimpse into 2009, Alex.
I fucking love it.
He's being subjected to this in order to survive.
jordan holmes
Give me a quick limerick is my favorite sentence Alex has ever said.
dan friesen
And it's clear.
I mean, you could pick up from context clues that, like, I got to ask him for a limerick.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No, he has to.
Because that's what this guy is known for: improvising limericks.
And he goes out to the bar, and everybody's like, oh, give us a limerick, you asshole.
dan friesen
And that's what he wants to do.
He wants to go on air and do a limerick.
He doesn't want to talk about limericks.
jordan holmes
Of course.
No, he doesn't give a shit about soap either.
He just wants to talk limericks on air.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Love it.
dan friesen
So in 2009, something happened.
jordan holmes
Larry Nichols, you would be back on the show if you did limerick.
dan friesen
If you just figured out a way to talk about how you're not a duck, just give me some limericks.
So something happened in 2009 about Alex.
And it's one of the few times that he's been shook.
Okay.
There's people who are making claims about him.
First of all, the people who attack him are shitheads.
You need to know that.
jordan holmes
That's a first start.
dan friesen
And in this next clip, he gets into it in a way that he usually doesn't address public criticism.
But this one, he has to.
alex jones
A lot of these folks that attack me aren't just government operatives or just info agents.
They didn't have great parents like I did.
They didn't have the life experiences I did to bring me to the point I'm at.
dan friesen
I love this rock.
alex jones
But I do have to answer some of the charges occasionally that I'm like.
jordan holmes
Oh, you got him.
alex jones
Eugenics News, the police state control grid coming up next hour.
Absolutely.
Phones up as well.
I kept getting emails about this in the last few months, and I thought it was a joke, so I ignored it.
But it seems to have picked up steam.
dan friesen
I want you seriously to try and guess what he's talking about.
jordan holmes
You know, I want to go with Israel or something like that, but I feel like that's not going to be the way.
I want to go with.
dan friesen
It's something that he's deeming serious enough to address on air.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's a criticism that for months people have been emailing him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
You know what?
I am going to go with that's not the best way to hide your guns.
dan friesen
Oh, that's interesting.
That's not it.
alex jones
And so I guess I might as well at least chime in on it.
It just really gets ridiculous.
jordan holmes
And hot dogs are not a sandwich.
alex jones
This is why mainstream people laugh when they hear you question the government.
dan friesen
One more chance.
jordan holmes
Still have no idea.
dan friesen
One more chance.
jordan holmes
Beef versus Tofu.
alex jones
Nope.
Because the media is smart.
They focus in on the out-and-out kooks, the out-and-out nuts, the people that are just saying absolutely insane, ridiculous things.
dan friesen
They certainly are now.
alex jones
The rest of us who are questioning the official government story, that's almost always a lie, or at least partially a lie.
It's always spin, at least.
jordan holmes
Fluoride?
alex jones
Looks stupid.
They do this guilt by association.
And, you know, none of us are perfect, so I try not to be judgmental.
dan friesen
Fair.
alex jones
But there are tens of thousands of sites or pages that come up saying I'm Bill Hicks.
unidentified
People actually believe it.
alex jones
I mean, big websites have it up and have our pictures side by side and really say I'm Bill Hicks.
And, you know, it's almost crazy to come on air and say I'm not Bill Hicks.
dan friesen
Cool.
alex jones
And in a way, it only encourages it.
unidentified
A little.
alex jones
Just like to come on air and say, I'm not a reptoid.
Because people blow up videos of me where there's two-point light in front of me.
And, you know, that puts the image of two lights on each side of my eye, so it makes it look like I have cat's eyes.
dan friesen
What?
What?
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No, that one makes sense.
dan friesen
So just before you respond to that, about a minute later, he makes an official statement.
alex jones
But I'm not going to belabor it.
I just need to answer it on record and say.
jordan holmes
Are you Bill Hicks?
alex jones
No, I'm 35 years old, and I was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
And I am not Bill Hicks.
Bill Hicks did not stage his death.
That's a very mean thing to say.
dan friesen
True.
alex jones
I've even talked to some of his family, and I know him, and Bill really did die, folks.
dan friesen
I mean, I think it is a mean thing to say in terms of Bill Hicks' own wife.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, if you have any respect for Bill Hicks, it's an insult to say that he's Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I mean, some of his later specials weren't that great.
dan friesen
No, that's definitely true.
I mean, it's the same thing with pretty much any comic.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Except for what?
George Carlin?
unidentified
George Carlin?
dan friesen
Some of those later specials.
jordan holmes
All right, good point.
Good point.
dan friesen
Middle specials weren't great either.
But look, dude, this is fascinating to me because he wouldn't fucking air this kind of shit now, or he would have come up with a better spin on it than just, I'm not Bill Hicks.
jordan holmes
Maybe that's his distraction now.
Maybe he should go back to being like, people still think I'm Bill Hicks.
dan friesen
No, he does that from time to time.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He has done that.
He's gone back to the well as like his satire pieces where he'll play with that meme.
jordan holmes
Which should be the easiest way to tell he's not Bill Hicks.
His satire is garbage.
dan friesen
It's pretty bad.
Has no grasp on what satire is.
jordan holmes
Even at his worst, Bill Hicks was better at satire than Alex.
dan friesen
But it's wild, man.
In 2009, he saw fit to make a big production out of saying, like, this is how they invalidate you.
jordan holmes
Every time the mainstream media gets a hold of somebody questioning the government story on 9-11, they just keep calling him Bill Hicks.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Every single one of them.
dan friesen
Ain't it the same kind of thing?
jordan holmes
Glenn Beck?
dan friesen
I would say that.
jordan holmes
Bill Glenn Beckhicks.
dan friesen
I would say that if he was Bill Hicks, kind of makes him more legitimate.
unidentified
You know, right?
dan friesen
If it was.
Like, all right, look, I tried to play a little charade, but it's important to me, and I just didn't want my past work to be involved in my present work.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I created a new identity for myself.
jordan holmes
Also, I faked my own death.
That was a big part of that.
dan friesen
But that's not a big deal.
jordan holmes
It's a weird thing to admit on air.
dan friesen
I don't think it's a crime.
It might be a crime.
Probably a tax crime.
jordan holmes
Also, I was the plane hijacker.
dan friesen
D.B. Cooper?
jordan holmes
D.B. Cooper.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
All of these things are.
jordan holmes
D. Bill Hicks Cooper.
dan friesen
So, now, at this point, we get to Alex Jones giving us a list of globalists.
And that's interesting.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
Remember this story from a week or two ago, and ABC News reported it first and said, yes, secret meeting of the world elite to carry out eugenics.
But they said it's a good thing.
Billionaire club and bid to curb overpopulation through a world government.
And it has to be secret, they say, for your own good.
And it's Bill Gates, it's David Rockefeller, it's Warren Buffett, it's Michael Bloomberg, it's Oprah Wimfrey, Ted Turner, all the suspects.
And they met at Rockefeller University president's private home.
dan friesen
So you've got a list there, conspicuous in his absence, George Soros.
jordan holmes
Also, Tina Turner.
Right, right.
Another conspicuous snub.
Snub, known globalist Tina Turner.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
How else do you get Gloria?
Nationalism got to do with it.
dan friesen
You know, I mean, this is probably the larger picture of what I'm most interested in and looking back on these episodes.
jordan holmes
Is when did George Soros?
dan friesen
When did he come into play?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And you can see here, we already looked at that episode from 2006 with Aaron Russo.
Right.
Talked about all this shit, no mention of Soros.
Then he gave his entire documentary about the globalist agenda and their plan for enslavement.
No mention of Soros.
And now here we are in 2009, and he's listing off globalists and no mention of Soros.
Now, I also want to be clear.
I do know a little bit that I should just tell everyone ahead of time.
I do know that in 2010, Glenn Beck does a two-part, two-night special about how George Soros is the puppet master.
And it's one of the most anti-Semitic, nonsensical things that has ever been aired on television.
jordan holmes
Yes, I recall that.
dan friesen
It got incredible blowback.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And my working theory, and we will see if this is the case, I'm not entirely sure, but I'm suspicious that Alex Jones got on the Soros tip a little bit before that.
And that's why he's pissed off at Glenn Beck.
jordan holmes
You think so?
dan friesen
Yeah, that Glenn Beck ripped that off.
And because that kind of thing Glenn Beck in those weird crazy circles.
jordan holmes
You know what?
I'm actually going to go with the opposite.
I'm going to go with this is our QAnon situation all over again.
And he gets to Soros a little bit after Glenn because he sees Glenn Beck getting all this attention.
So then he jumps on Soros, and that's why he's pissed off at Glenn Beck, is because he doesn't get to take credit for it.
dan friesen
Either of these things are possible, and we'll see as it plays out, because neither of us know.
No, we have hunches, and we'll see.
unidentified
So far, mine have all been wrong, and yours tend to be right.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
I mean, it's just by virtue of the fact that I have a mind-melled with this dumbasshole.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
It's a very strange thing.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex brings up one of his favorite sources about the transhumanist eugenics future.
And it's just fun to listen to because it's so wrong.
He's just making shit up.
It's so fun.
It's so fun to know for sure that even in 2009, he was just making shit up.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
You know, Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems, I always plug key things that are well known.
There's thousands of things we could plug.
April issue 2000 of Wired magazine.
Why the future doesn't need us?
And he said, I went to a top-tech private conference with 200 top tech leaders, sworn to secrecy.
jordan holmes
This is Ted Talk.
alex jones
I can't say the names.
This is the guy worth $4 billion at that time.
Owners, there are infrastructure companies out there for I.T., Sun Microsystems.
And he says it was very upsetting.
It was how do we kill everybody or do we just cull most of the people and let them be entertained by the new technocracy?
And the elite's leaning towards killing everybody.
dan friesen
Alex is making that part up, too.
alex jones
And then he goes on to quote Theodore Kaczynski.
Why did Kaczynski, this professor, this doctor, admitted L.A. Times reports, CIA operative?
He quits, runs to the bush, and starts bombing people for a decade, bombing people over key technocracies.
I'm not defending what he did, but that's a real environmentalist.
Kaczynski said, my God, they're planning to create a total grid, create a new species of humanoids.
This is what the elites say they're doing, merging with cybernetics, and getting rid of most of us.
He said, I got to go kill these people.
dan friesen
So, real quick, Ted Kaczynski was crazy.
jordan holmes
So, did Alex just come on air and be like, the Unabomber had some good ideas, man?
That's all I'm saying.
unidentified
And then later, he's the guy at the party.
jordan holmes
You do not want to be anywhere near.
dan friesen
He's Drew Michaels' bit.
jordan holmes
He's Drew Michaels' bit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I forgot about that.
It's not a bad bit.
dan friesen
It's not a bad bit.
jordan holmes
It's not a bad bet.
dan friesen
So the couple things that I want to point out is that the quote in that article, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us from Ted Kaczynski is all Alex Jones read.
Because all of the other stuff that he's talking about, about the people killing us off and stuff like that, the elites making a decision whether or not that's all from the Ted Kaczynski quote in the article.
He's taking that as being Bill Joy's position, which it is not.
If you go to our website, KnowledgeFight.com, I have an entire big write-up that I've done on Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, and why Alex Jones is full of shit.
You can find a link to the actual article.
It's kind of long, but it's worth it.
It's enjoyable.
But it explains very thoroughly.
jordan holmes
Annotated version of the Unibomber's manifesto?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Did you do the whole thing?
dan friesen
We just have the whole thing up there on our website.
jordan holmes
If that'd be a thing that I might do.
For my next blog post, I'm just going to put up Ted Kaczynski's Unibomber manifesto.
dan friesen
Wouldn't put it past you.
jordan holmes
And be like, eh?
dan friesen
Question mark.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Shrugging emoticon.
This next clip is weird.
I think it matches up with some of Alex's ideas in the present.
But I don't know where he's getting any of this information from.
It's super fucked up.
And also a little bit.
jordan holmes
When's Larry Nichols coming to play?
dan friesen
He's not around.
jordan holmes
He's not around.
No Steve Pieczenik.
No Roger Stone.
We're going bare bones, Alex Jones making up shit whole clock.
dan friesen
I mean, Ventura's around.
But, I mean, in terms of people we know in his world have been around for a long time.
jordan holmes
Bill Hicks is there.
dan friesen
I don't know.
Those guys might be around, and I just haven't come into an episode with them yet.
Okay.
But this clip, very weird.
And quite.
alex jones
They have social workers that ask them questions under this.
Are mommy and daddy spanking you?
Are they yelling at you?
Because we've got a nice foster home, especially if you're blonde-haired and blue-eyed like this little girl.
She better be careful.
Because they can get half a mill for them.
So people can't believe this is happening.
I had a senator on a few weeks ago from Georgia where she was naming names of where they're bounties.
We need this many blonde hair, blue eyes this week.
dan friesen
I don't believe this.
alex jones
And they got Walmart employees, everybody watching.
You yell at your kid, boom, police are there.
Take them.
They're gone.
They get half a mil.
Walmart gets a few grand out of it.
And I showed you USA Walmart.
Walmart and pizza places and everybody.
Run your criminal background when you pay with a credit card, and you wonder why cops pull you over when you leave the parking lot.
They've got the whole grid in place.
jordan holmes
Wait, so does Walmart get the commission on the kidnapped kid or on the catching of the kidnapped kid?
dan friesen
Now, see, I'm more curious about does the employee or Walmart LLC because it goes to the case.
jordan holmes
They don't treat their workers well at all.
Now, maybe the employee gets a little bit of a cash kickback, but come on, man.
dan friesen
This to me is like, this is just indicative.
jordan holmes
Half a million and they only get a few thousand dollars.
That's a bad negotiating tactic.
dan friesen
That's a bad finder's fee.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
This to me is like the perfect encapsulation of the Alex Jones narratives you don't need to look into.
jordan holmes
I can't see why.
dan friesen
Well, there's a lot that I like to research, and this is not the kind of thing I like to research because I can just smell it and I'm like, nah.
See, this is because here's what I'm saying.
jordan holmes
This is the only type of thing I want to research.
Go for it.
I really want to find out.
dan friesen
Enjoy.
jordan holmes
Like, my main goal is to find out that Walmart does get a finder's fee.
dan friesen
Well, because if there was a senator who was making these claims.
jordan holmes
Did he have a senator from Georgia on that?
dan friesen
I didn't listen to the week before this.
jordan holmes
Why would you say that you have a senator from Georgia and not say the name?
dan friesen
He lies a lot.
You should remember that.
Even in 2009, he's lying a lot.
jordan holmes
Fair.
dan friesen
But if a senator was making these sorts of allegations, they'd at least get looked into.
And it would be pretty easy to figure out a paper trail of kidnapped kids, kickback to Walmart.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
Are they getting paid by a check?
dan friesen
Let's be fucking clear that Walmart is a billion-dollar company.
They don't give a fuck about $2,000 for helping kidnap children.
jordan holmes
When you got such a low overhead on children kidnapping, that's pure profit, Dan.
unidentified
So ridiculous.
jordan holmes
It all adds up.
dan friesen
So absolutely ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Look, you build your empire on the small things, Dan.
dan friesen
Well, I think what you really come down to is.
jordan holmes
And by that, I mean kids.
dan friesen
Alex resents the idea of child protective services, which to me is like, I don't know why you don't want abused children to have resources.
jordan holmes
He does all of the things that the CPS says you shouldn't do.
dan friesen
Well, I don't know.
I mean, he puts his son on air making spurious accusations, aggressive and violent gun rights debate in 2018.
jordan holmes
He's the person who's not a good person.
dan friesen
He has his kids involved in a transphobic satire video.
jordan holmes
Right, that's not great.
At one point, I'm sure he spanks them very, very aggressively.
unidentified
It's possible.
dan friesen
I don't know.
We can't make those sorts of claims.
jordan holmes
He's just doing the version of the guy who's like, well, they hit me when I was a kid and I turned out fine.
Sure, sure.
And your answer to that should be like, well, some of you turn out to be Alex Jones, so maybe fucking figure it out.
dan friesen
But the thing, I mean, sure.
But what I want to talk more about is the idea that this child protective service is evil or weird because they're asking kids who are, they come into their purview, are you okay?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't think that's an evil thing at all.
I think that's them doing their job.
The idea of asking, does mommy hit you?
Does daddy hit you?
Right.
That sort of thing is giving kids a chance to be saved from abuse.
If Alex is against that, because the sanctity of the family or whatever, I got to say I 100% disagree with that.
But be that as it is.
jordan holmes
What would you say?
What would you say to a CPS social worker that asked you that question?
Say you are a.
dan friesen
If I was a kid?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'd say no.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I would say no, too, and I got the shit kicked out of me.
dan friesen
Wow, okay.
Well, we have slightly different.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
dan friesen
Yeah, you were trained to say no.
jordan holmes
That's a good way of putting it.
Spare the rod, spoil the child, my friend.
dan friesen
See, I've only realized that the spankings with a wooden spoon were bad as an adult.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I didn't read it.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
I agree.
I would have said the same thing.
dan friesen
I wouldn't have articulated it back then.
But be that as it may.
That's my way of getting away from this uncomfortable territory.
jordan holmes
Good call.
dan friesen
We have a guest.
jordan holmes
Is how both of us are fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah, we have a guest coming up on this June 3rd of 2009 episode.
jordan holmes
Let's do it.
dan friesen
And this guest.
jordan holmes
This guest.
dan friesen
Did you ever wonder how Alex Jones met Jesse Ventura?
jordan holmes
No.
I just assumed that they fucking.
You're right.
I should have at least considered that.
For some reason, Alex Jones knowing Jesse Ventura has made the most sense of anything that this show has ever done.
It's just like, oh, they know each other.
dan friesen
Of course they're buddies.
jordan holmes
Yeah, whatever.
They were born in the same basket.
Like, I don't know how else to say it.
dan friesen
Today we find out how he met Jesse Ventura.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
Kinky Friedman's set to announce he's running for God's studio.
At least that's what I remember.
We'll see.
Or he'll talk about it.
That's coming up.
Musician, best-selling author.
That's how I met Jesse Ventura.
Kinky Friedman.
So, separately, I guess that's not how I met Willie Nelson.
Willie Nelson.
I ran into it at a movie showing, and then he contacted us.
dan friesen
What do you know about Kinky Friedman?
jordan holmes
I know the name I used to know a lot more, but that's one of those things where no matter how much you forget about somebody, you're never going to forget the name Kinky Friedman.
dan friesen
Kinky Friedman is really cool.
And he has no business being on Alex Jones' show, except that they're both Texans and kind of dudes.
jordan holmes
That's all you need.
dan friesen
I'm going to tell you a little bit about Kinky Friedman before we get into the interview.
jordan holmes
Let's do it.
I want to know all about Kinky Friedman.
dan friesen
In the 1970s, Kinky Friedman was in a parody country band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys.
jordan holmes
He's already my favorite artist of all time.
dan friesen
They played such songs as Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.
jordan holmes
Fantastic.
dan friesen
And his other hit.
jordan holmes
Weird Al should figure shit out.
dan friesen
And his other hit, They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore.
He's Jewish.
jordan holmes
Oh, I get it.
You get that.
dan friesen
He's celebrating his country Judaism.
jordan holmes
No, I get that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I understand.
dan friesen
It's a line.
jordan holmes
No, I know.
dan friesen
It's a weird line.
jordan holmes
Not to profile.
I guessed that Kinky Friedman was a Jew.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So he toured with Bob Dylan in 1976 on the Rolling Thunder Review track.
And he was the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night.
jordan holmes
They don't put Jesus' blood on the tracks like they used to.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I remember that tour.
dan friesen
He was a musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1976 where the host was Steve Martin.
How awesome is that?
That's so cool.
jordan holmes
That's super cool.
dan friesen
So after that, after his music career ran its course, he started writing mystery novels.
jordan holmes
I wonder what happened.
dan friesen
He was actually super successful.
jordan holmes
No, no, I mean, after his music, the part where after his music career ran its course, it's like, well, of course.
dan friesen
He played the Grand Old Opry.
I don't know if this is entirely true, but he claims to be the first full-blooded Jewish person who's ever played the Grand Old Opry.
And that's possibly true.
jordan holmes
That's amazing.
Now I want to know more about Kinky Friedman.
dan friesen
He played Austin Smith.
jordan holmes
Do they have any books about him in my local library?
dan friesen
He wrote 15 of them.
jordan holmes
All right, well, I'll read them.
dan friesen
Probably even more than that because after his musical career, he started writing mystery novels.
This is great.
jordan holmes
I love Kinky Friedman.
dan friesen
Featured a detective named Kinky Friedman.
jordan holmes
Yes!
Yes!
dan friesen
Who had finished up a musical career.
jordan holmes
It would only be better if the detective was named Angela Lansbury.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
That would be the only way it would be better.
That would be a great twist.
dan friesen
Kinky Friedman was the character's name.
He had been a musical guy in the South, and then he moved to New York, started solving crimes with the help of his cat.
unidentified
Love it.
dan friesen
I love this.
jordan holmes
I love this so much.
dan friesen
Then in 2006, I love this so much.
He ran for governor of Texas.
jordan holmes
Of course.
Why wouldn't he?
dan friesen
He was hoping to follow in the wake of Jesse Ventura becoming governor of Minnesota in 1999 and Schwarzenegger becoming California's governor in 2003.
jordan holmes
Kinky!
I didn't see that coming.
dan friesen
Ventura and Kinky were good friends.
I love it.
Of his political ambition, he wrote, quote, my platform is to remember that when they went out searching for Sam Houston to try and persuade him to be the governor, and he was the greatest governor this state has ever had.
jordan holmes
Not true.
dan friesen
Rumor has it that they found him drunk sleeping under a bridge with the Indians.
jordan holmes
Like it?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm a big fan of that.
dan friesen
He sold shirts with his slogan, Kinky2006.
Why the hell not?
jordan holmes
I love it.
That's a great slogan.
dan friesen
He was an absolute showman, and on the campaign trail, he would say things like, quote, if I win, the first thing I'll do is demand a recount.
And he promised that if elected the first Jewish governor of Texas, he would reduce the speed limit to 54.9.
jordan holmes
I love it.
I love this man.
dan friesen
He's so hilarious.
jordan holmes
Holy shit!
dan friesen
He's so funny.
jordan holmes
Oh, please don't tell me he's an anti-Semite.
Let me believe this is great.
dan friesen
No, from everything I can.
I mean, there's.
jordan holmes
Because every time there's somebody great on this show, it always winds up being he's the only truly anti-Semitic Jew.
dan friesen
I think that there's a little bit of a like, how much hay are you making out of your Judaism at the expense of Judah?
Not enough.
And that's kind of like, that's not a question I can answer.
I think he's hilarious.
jordan holmes
On the list of things that I'm going to care about really hard, how much hay Kinky Friedman made out of his Judaism?
Way down there.
dan friesen
I've tried to find horrible things about him, and I can't find all that much.
If you accept that he had a band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys, you're fine.
jordan holmes
Can't go wrong.
dan friesen
So he ran this campaign, and it was really fun, full of witticisms and joie de viv, but he ended up getting 12.6% of the vote, coming in fourth out of six candidates in the Texas governor.
jordan holmes
That's a lot more than I kind of thought he would have gotten.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's Ross Perot levels of crazy, awesome, fun lunacy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So although Kinky is a fun, ribbled Texan, Alex should not like him.
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
Because Kinky is very public about being friends with both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
He wrote in an article in Texas Monthly about Clinton, quote, I was just minding my business one day seven years ago, promoting my latest mystery novel at a book signing in Austin at Barnes and Noble.
jordan holmes
That's the greatest sentence I've ever heard.
dan friesen
I had just told the crowd that the reading and signing were free, but there would be a two latte minimum.
A guy came up to me and said, quote, sign one for the president.
I didn't think the book was really going to Bill Clinton, so I signed one of my standard inscriptions, Yours in Christ, or See You in Hell, and forgot about it.
jordan holmes
A little bit less fun.
dan friesen
Two weeks later, the postmaster in Medina brought me an express envelope and said in an excited tone, Kinky, you've got a letter from the White Horse Saloon.
You know that place in Nashville where they do all the line dancing?
I looked at the envelope.
It did not say White Horse.
It said White House.
Inside the envelope was a letter from President Clinton, and at the bottom he had written, I have now read all your books.
More, please.
I really need the laughs.
And that was the beginning of a three-year pen pal relationship during which we discussed many things from foreign affairs to more metaphysical matters.
And Bill Clinton invites him to the White House.
jordan holmes
Tell me.
Tell me that Bill Clinton made foreign policy decisions based on Kinky Friedman's thoughts.
unidentified
Maybe.
dan friesen
I don't know.
So then about Bush, quote, I first met George W. Bush about four years ago at the Texas Book Festival.
At the time, he was just thinking about running for president, and I was just thinking about having another Chavez Regal.
This guy's great.
jordan holmes
I love this guy.
dan friesen
He's a good writer.
jordan holmes
I love Kinky Friedman.
dan friesen
In a flash of misguided inspiration, I had taken Larry McMurtry's unclaimed name tag and slapped it on.
In a matter of moments.
jordan holmes
This is great, too.
Fuck Larry McMurtry.
dan friesen
In a matter of moments, people were coming up to me and telling me how much they admired my work.
Not wanting to burst their bubble and fairly hammered by then, I played along.
You've done so much for Texas, Mr. McMurtry, one lady told me.
jordan holmes
Love it.
dan friesen
Thank you kindly, I replied.
The governor, having witnessed this little exchange, I told you.
jordan holmes
What was he?
A lonesome dove?
He was a lonesome dove.
He was the river book.
dan friesen
I don't know all his work.
jordan holmes
Walk two rivers or whatever it is.
dan friesen
So George W. Bush eyes him quizzically at that point.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Look, Governor, I said, McMurtry's a shy little booger.
He'd never do this.
He'd never do this for himself.
I'm just helping the old boy out with a little PR.
George W. Bush laughed and whispered something to several of his aides, leading me to believe I was soon to be 86th from the affair.
But nothing happened.
I asked one of the aides what he'd said, and he told me the governor had said, I want that guy for my campaign manager.
jordan holmes
I love this.
dan friesen
George W. Bush is a.
jordan holmes
This is one of the few moments of pure joy I've ever experienced on this show.
dan friesen
George W. Bush invites him to come to the White House, which he does.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
And so discussing his friendship with George W. Bush and he tells him about how Reagan got butt-fucked.
Discussing the friendships that he has with these two presidents.
He says, quote, some might ask, particularly in these days, how the president can afford to maintain such a light-hearted friendship.
The answer is, particularly these days, everyone needs a laugh and everyone needs a friend.
Also, as early as 2005, Kinky was saying in interviews that he did not believe that rifles should be allowed with magazines higher than five.
So, he's friends with two globalist presidents and believes in gun control.
But because he's famous, Alex is totally cool.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And glosses past.
jordan holmes
Starfucker defeats all of Alex's principles.
dan friesen
Also, just to be clear, his name is Kinky, but it's not meant to be a dirty thing.
That's not about sexual kinky.
jordan holmes
I didn't care one way or the other.
dan friesen
It was a nickname given to him in college because of his curly hair.
Interestingly, his nickname was given to him by a guy named Chinga Chava.
jordan holmes
George H.W. Bush.
dan friesen
No, someone named Chinga Chavin, who would mysteriously also go on to.
jordan holmes
Nope, you can't get cooler.
Stop it.
dan friesen
This person would also go on to be a parody country artist.
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
They released an album called Country Porn in 1976.
jordan holmes
I want to listen to this.
dan friesen
Which was distributed by Penthouse.
All right.
100% through the mail.
jordan holmes
Give me everything.
dan friesen
And sold 100,000 copies.
jordan holmes
Can you find this?
dan friesen
I think you can.
The album included such songs as this is one of the titles.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Cum stains on the pillow.
jordan holmes
Yes, more!
dan friesen
Parenthetically, still the title.
jordan holmes
Parenthetically, of course.
dan friesen
Still the title, Where Your Sweet Head Used to Be.
One of the other titles.
unidentified
More.
dan friesen
One of the other titles?
Sit, Sit, Sit.
And then in parentheses, Sit on my face.
unidentified
Yeah, That has to go down.
dan friesen
And then his classic hit, which actually Kinky Friedman would go on to cover later and probably still does if he ever performs.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Asshole from El Paso.
Oh, well, that's the take on Okie from Muskoki by Merle Haggard.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a winner, right?
dan friesen
So all this is to say that Kinky Friedman has lived an amazing life.
jordan holmes
Ah, man.
dan friesen
And beautiful.
Yeah.
So at this point.
jordan holmes
Why do we even need to hear him talk?
I just want that biography to live forever.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's pretty great.
jordan holmes
It's beautiful.
dan friesen
I don't think he really does anything to invalidate himself on this episode.
He just shows up as like, yeah, I think I'm going to run for governor.
And then just acts kind of like an asshole.
But he's kind of a fun asshole.
jordan holmes
All right.
I'm in.
dan friesen
So in this first clip, we learn that he sells cigars.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
Listen, now, I wish I had a cigar.
An official cigar just made for Alex Jones with me on it, but Kinky actually has that.
And in fact, he even sells them.
Tell folks about your love of cigars and your website, and then we'll get into the serious issues.
kinky friedman
Well, I think cigars are good.
I always say cigarettes bad, cigar good.
That's my message to young people.
jordan holmes
Because science.
kinky friedman
And cigars are good for you, and they help you live longer.
jordan holmes
All right.
All right.
dan friesen
Not a great message.
Not a great kinky.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
So this.
jordan holmes
You know what?
I'm still fine.
I'm still fine with this.
dan friesen
This sets the tone.
jordan holmes
As a smoker, I'm still fine with this.
dan friesen
This sets the tone and leads us to this.
alex jones
Do you want to break the Austin ordinance on air and smoke in here?
kinky friedman
We certainly could.
Wouldn't bother me.
I mean, what would happen, really?
I don't think anything will happen.
alex jones
SWAT teams might come.
kinky friedman
Try it or not.
alex jones
Go ahead.
Sure.
kinky friedman
We'll give it a shot.
alex jones
Oh, now we're being really rebellious.
At land of the free, home of the brave.
kinky friedman
God, I'll tell you, Alex, we're risk-taker.
alex jones
Just thank God it's on a Cuban.
He's firing off here.
We'd really be arrested.
kinky friedman
This is a Cuban.
That's the Austin joking.
alex jones
Yeah, but.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
So Kinky Friedman lights up a Cuban cigar on air.
jordan holmes
Kinky Friedman, not giving a shit.
dan friesen
That's pretty great.
So they talk a lot of nonsense about him running for governor again.
Because, again, he ran in 2006.
Now we're here in 2009.
jordan holmes
Can't stop.
dan friesen
So they discuss police corruption a little bit.
Put your mic down.
alex jones
Weird.
dan friesen
Put your mic down.
jordan holmes
I'm way in.
dan friesen
This is so wild.
unidentified
This is buckwild.
alex jones
It's city by city.
You've got bad cities and good cities on average, but I don't know.
Cops in Austin aren't planting drugs that I know of.
But in Dallas, NPR even reported, the police admit it.
They frame thousands.
kinky friedman
Here's one solution: get a guy like Kinky Friedman in as governor who doesn't owe anybody and doesn't know anybody, okay?
And I appoint a guy like Racehorse Haynes to head up an abuse commission.
And this is a legacy for a guy like Racehorse.
In other words, he doesn't need to do it.
He's got plenty of money.
He believes in justice.
So he goes case by case, all through death row, all through Texas Youth Commission, through all of it, and empower these people.
I don't want a commission giving me a report.
dan friesen
He wants to put a guy named Racehorse in charge of police corruption.
jordan holmes
I agree with him.
Racehorse Hayes.
Racehorse has been on the wrong end of police corruption.
I'll tell you that for sure.
unidentified
I love it.
jordan holmes
A guy named Racehorse?
Come on.
dan friesen
Look, Racehorse, this is a legacy position.
jordan holmes
Racehorse has had to bribe thousands of cops.
dan friesen
He doesn't need this shit.
Racehorse is there for pure reasons.
jordan holmes
Racehorse has made his money.
dan friesen
So we got Kinky and Racehorse.
jordan holmes
I don't know how he made his money.
dan friesen
Holy shit.
So fun.
So fucking fun.
jordan holmes
Give me that government.
dan friesen
Alex has no business.
jordan holmes
I think that government would probably be great, actually.
dan friesen
It might be effective.
jordan holmes
I think it would be awesome.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So that's all we're going to listen to of Kinky's appearance.
Because most of it is really just like.
He doesn't have any of his standard Mark Twain witticisms on the show.
And it's mostly Alex just trying to impress him.
Of course.
It's a little sad.
jordan holmes
It's a little pathetic.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And he has to make time because he has another guest this day.
And that is a guy who does one of his bumper songs.
It's a song, Thank God for the Renegades.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
It's a.
jordan holmes
I don't know this song.
dan friesen
You don't know it?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
I'm not going to play it.
It's fine.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
dan friesen
It's a great song.
It's sort of under the radar country song.
But like sort of new-ish country.
It's in that no man's land of not old rebel country.
jordan holmes
All right, I'll let it go.
dan friesen
But he has him on, and this clip is fucking troubling.
steve vaus
I live in Southern California most of the time, and I got so dang frustrated with illegals streaming across the border, and that was the year of the riots in Los Angeles and all that kind of stuff.
And, you know, I got to a point where I couldn't sit silently anymore.
And so I wrote a song from my heart called We Must Take America Back.
And it just lit a firestorm when people heard it.
It kind of dripped out there on its own.
And all of a sudden, one of the big record companies out there wanted to put it out on a record and make it available nationally.
jordan holmes
Oh.
steve vaus
And I was right.
You know, it was zooming up the charts.
It got to number 56 or 52 on the Billboard country charts.
It was the most requested song in the nation on country radio.
unidentified
No.
steve vaus
The first few weeks it was out, but then a funny thing happened.
Some of the most powerful, some of the most influential country radio stations in the big city said, hey, look, we don't care where it is on the charts.
dan friesen
These city slickers.
steve vaus
We don't care how many requests we get for it.
unidentified
We're not going to play it because we don't agree with it.
steve vaus
And that was the end of my RCA career.
jeff in hawaii
Oh, man.
jordan holmes
It was RCA.
That was who picked him up?
dan friesen
He was screwed.
Screwed by the major labels.
Alex ends up playing his song, and we're not going to listen to it.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, but it has to go, it has to, like, I'm disappointed in his delivery because it should be.
unidentified
I've been living in SoCal for a long time, but I got frustrated by all these illegals coming over.
So I wrote a song about it, and it goes a little something like this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's what it should have been.
dan friesen
Do a live performance?
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
You notice that he's like, I'm pissed off about these illegals coming over.
Also, that was the year of the riots.
Who is it?
jordan holmes
And the riots?
Illegals.
dan friesen
And so now I have to make a song called We Have to Take Our Country Back from whom were you inspired to Mexicans and Black People?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
Interesting.
That's not fucked up at all.
jordan holmes
Strange.
dan friesen
That's not fucked up.
That's your motivation.
So anyway, he wrote this song.
jordan holmes
So he's talking about the Rodney King riots.
marty schachter
Yes.
jordan holmes
While they're talking about police.
dan friesen
Because he wrote that in 1992.
That's when that song came out.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
So that's when he wrote We Must Take Our Country Back.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Song reached number 68.
jordan holmes
So Alex Jones has made it clear that police are framing and murdering black people out of bullshit, racist reasons.
dan friesen
Yet still having a guy on who wrote a song.
jordan holmes
He wrote a song about how cops should be allowed to beat up black people.
dan friesen
We must take that back.
The song reached number 68 on the hot country charts, which leads me to believe it was never the most requested.
Because by definition, there's 67 songs ahead of it that people like.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but they were requesting it.
They didn't play it, though.
dan friesen
So it didn't make the regular charts at all, but it's actually really interesting.
This guy, Steve Vouse, it's VAUS.
If you look into him, you find out that he does have four Grammy nominations to his name.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's nice.
dan friesen
It's wild.
jordan holmes
Is he like a ghostwriter?
Is he a songwriter?
dan friesen
He has four Grammy nominations, but it's not to his name.
It's under a stage name, Buck Howdy.
jordan holmes
His stage name is Buck Howdy?
dan friesen
He actually won a Grammy in 2010 in the category Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
All right.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm in it so far.
dan friesen
So he's still a country musician today, and if you go to his Squarespace site, BuckHowdy.com?
No, I think it's stevevouse.com.
He refers to himself as a Grammy.
jordan holmes
Who has Buck Howdy?
dan friesen
He probably is sitting on it.
He refers to himself as a Grammy Award winner, hoping that people will just think it's because of his patriot country music and not his I'm going to talk to children as a Buck Howdy character.
jordan holmes
What was the.
dan friesen
No, I didn't listen to anybody.
jordan holmes
All right, now I got to listen.
How much shit do we have to listen to because of this show?
We've got to listen to the entire Kinky Friedman catalog.
That's got to happen.
And this is spoken word album.
dan friesen
We've got to listen to Come on the Pillow.
jordan holmes
Absolutely got to listen to Come on My Pillow.
So this brings us where your head used to be.
dan friesen
This brings us to the end of the show.
And so what we see here is Alex having a racist musician on.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
One of the greatest people ever to come out of Texas, Kinky Friedman on.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
To smoke on air for no reason.
Fantastic.
But at the end of the day, what we see here is very clearly in 2009, he's concerned with globalists, but he has no interest in George Soros.
He's very anti-military, very anti-cop, but at the same time, does recognize that black people are getting a fucking raw deal.
And all of these things change at some point.
jordan holmes
Weird.
dan friesen
Yeah, very weird.
jordan holmes
Except for his starfuckery.
dan friesen
No, that's consistent.
jordan holmes
That is always going to be there.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And the dumb relying on him not understanding primary sources.
jordan holmes
The only way Kinky Friedman could have been better is if he did a like, I wrote a little song about this InfoWars appearance.
dan friesen
Or just told Alex to fuck himself.
jordan holmes
And it goes a little something like this.
InfoWars is bullshit.
dan friesen
I'm sure it's a good thing.
jordan holmes
Alex is a fuckface.
dan friesen
All right, we've got to wrap this up.
I got to pee.
All right.
If you like our show, please go to our website, knowledgefight.com.
jordan holmes
You can follow us on Twitter at knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
That's correct.
jordan holmes
We're on Facebook.
You are also capable of finding us on iTunes.
You have to search for the words knowledge and then fight.
That's true.
If you search K-N-O-W-L-E, we are the eighth thing that pops up automatically.
dan friesen
Stop vamping.
I got to say that.
jordan holmes
We're making it.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
I think it's you.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
I think it's you.
You got a pitch?
dan friesen
Steve Vaus.
Steve Vaus can go fuck himself.
jordan holmes
There you go.
dan friesen
That guy wrote a fucking racist country song.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
alex jones
I love your work.
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