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#155: January 7-9, 2009

In Knowledge Fight’s #155, Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ January 7–9, 2009 broadcasts, where he condemned police for the Oscar Grant shooting but later spiraled into racist attacks on Black mall-goers and abortion rights. Guests like Bob Chapman pushed gold sales, while Jones amplified fringe claims—from giants to Obama’s "white body in blackface"—without skepticism. His pro-Russian gas dispute narrative blamed Ukraine despite evidence, and eBay bullhorn auctions (e.g., Tyranny Crusher 1) reached absurdly high bids, fueling conspiracy theories. Early hints of extremism contrast sharply with his later persona, revealing a pattern of exploitation and ideological inconsistency. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 17:40
d
dan friesen
01:01:14
j
jordan holmes
38:07
Appearances
b
bob chapman
00:52
t
ted anderson
gcn 00:56
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Speaker Time Text
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.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
alex jones
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
Bob Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple of dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Yes, I are.
jordan holmes
Dan, if you were trying to explain this show to one of our many utterly useless Democratic senators.
dan friesen
Oh, geez.
jordan holmes
The ones who are fucking awful, who are just murderously terrible in every possible fucking way.
Dan, how would you explain this show to these incompetent, moronic monsters that we have elected to lead us?
dan friesen
Well, first I would say a podcast is like a radio show.
jordan holmes
That's a good start because they're all fucking old and stupid.
dan friesen
Exactly.
That would be the first step.
jordan holmes
That's a good way to go.
dan friesen
And then past that, I would just describe it the way I describe it to anybody.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
dan friesen
Fuck you right off the bat.
jordan holmes
Come on, that was your tone dip.
dan friesen
It was.
jordan holmes
You did it.
dan friesen
I was trying to put a little jazz on you.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
I put a little English into the mix.
jordan holmes
You did?
dan friesen
Yeah, it was great.
That's show business.
I would say that I know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I don't know anything about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
It's a perfect summation of the show.
jordan holmes
And we would do a better job at your stupid fucking gig, you idiots.
dan friesen
Oh, you dumb, dumb politician.
jordan holmes
I hate them so much.
dan friesen
Very ineffectual.
jordan holmes
Fuck you, Nancy Pelosi.
You're garbage.
dan friesen
Okay.
alex jones
Sorry.
dan friesen
That's right.
Sometimes you've got to let that steam vent go and get a little bit of that.
jordan holmes
It's fucking awful.
dan friesen
I understand, man.
I understand.
jordan holmes
So useless.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, Jordan, today we're going to be going into the past.
Sure.
jordan holmes
Thank God.
dan friesen
We are going to.
jordan holmes
The present is great, Dan.
dan friesen
We are going to present.
jordan holmes
I don't even know why we would talk about the present.
Things are too good.
It's boring.
dan friesen
So for those people who have been following our escapades in the recent presentation frame?
Yeah, with going back to the past.
We've gone back to June.
We're going down to June.
I'm going back to June 2009 before.
That's what I have been doing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And I picked that arbitrarily, sort of, to some extent, because the episodes I was listening to in 2008 are not great.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they're unusable.
But I realized that maybe we should go back.
June might not be the best place to start.
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
All right.
dan friesen
Spoiler alert.
Buddy told me, reminded me that something happened in January of 2009.
It'd be very interesting to get Alex Jones' takeoff.
jordan holmes
The inauguration of Barack Obama?
dan friesen
Well, that should be coming up, yes, but it's not that specifically.
It's something that we're going to run into, and we're going to be – we'll deal with it as we go through this episode.
Today's episode is January 7th through 9th of 2009.
You're going to be going on a very interesting roller coaster today because there's a lot of stuff that I discovered looking into 2009 Alex that you aren't ready for.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But there are some familiar pieces.
And here's an out-of-context drop that's sort of familiar.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
Those beautiful mammary glands.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Dan, I think you may have forgotten some business to do up top.
dan friesen
No, I just wanted to get the out-of-context drop out of the way.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
I was just saying.
dan friesen
I wanted to give a flavor of the things to come.
And then next, I would like to beautiful mammary glands.
After that, he starts laughing.
He's like, the guys in the booth like that one.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Yeesh.
jordan holmes
There's no way he was guilty of the sexual assault lawsuit that he's doing.
The sea control harassment complaint.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
No, no chance.
dan friesen
So before we get into the show, very important that we give some shout-outs to donors.
I want to say, just big picture, we recently crossed the 100-donor mark.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
There were 100-plus policy wonks out there.
jordan holmes
That's fucking crazy.
dan friesen
It is nuts.
When we started this show, I didn't think there would be 10.
I didn't think there would be five, quite frankly.
And now we're at a point where we're over 100.
jordan holmes
Well, you had some people from your former show, and I kind of assumed we would have got rid of them.
dan friesen
We did lose a number of them.
jordan holmes
Well, I assumed we would have lost all of them, and no one would have ever jumped back on board.
dan friesen
Very reasonably, we lost comedian Tommy McNamara's mom.
That donated to my dad.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
unidentified
Yeah.
We got to talk to Tommy Mac.
dan friesen
I mean, it's just so great.
We're at a place where this show is going to be able to allow me to live much more stably.
And we appreciate it so much.
Everybody, it's life-changing levels of support.
And I really, really, really appreciate it.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
I don't have to buy you cigarettes anymore.
dan friesen
We'll see.
jordan holmes
That's a nice.
dan friesen
We'll see about that.
But please feel the love and appreciation in every time we play these drops because it's from the heart.
jordan holmes
It's pure, pure beauty.
dan friesen
So, first, I'd like to give a shout-out to new policy wonk, Mark.
What's going on out there, Mark?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you so much, Mark.
jordan holmes
Mark, how do they let you donate from jail?
dan friesen
Who are you talking about?
jordan holmes
He loves our shows about him.
He just loves Mark Richards, yeah.
dan friesen
It's Raptor Man Mark Richards.
jordan holmes
He loves hearing about himself.
That's what it's really all about.
Thank you, Mark Richards.
dan friesen
Oh, that's weird.
jordan holmes
You are a murderer, but that is very kind of you.
dan friesen
That's very sweet.
jordan holmes
We do take donations from murderers.
So if you have murdered, do not feel like, unlike voting, you are still able to donate to our show.
dan friesen
This one is not something you can jazz on because I actually know who is.
jordan holmes
Is it the BTK killer?
dan friesen
No, this one I know.
I'm going to give a specific shout-out to.
This dude's a great rapper, and he's on the road right now with our friend Far Out.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
I think they're still on the road.
I'm really bad at remembering dates, but they had a tour of the Northeast.
Big shout-out.
Thank you so much for supporting the show, I-9.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Really appreciate it.
jordan holmes
Thank you so very much.
dan friesen
Got some great music out there.
Everyone should go check out.
Also, next.
jordan holmes
Also, there are just no names to play off if your name is I-9.
There's no other.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's going to be tough.
I'd like to give a shout-out to someone who's coming in as a globalist, bump their donation up as a globalist.
Shout-out, and thank you so much, John.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
alex jones
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
unidentified
Daddy Shark, bump, Yeah, thank you.
jordan holmes
Hey, thank you very much.
I believe this is John Wick, if I recall correctly.
dan friesen
He doesn't like killing dogs.
jordan holmes
He does not like dogs getting killed in any form.
dan friesen
I was going to say John Arbuckle.
jordan holmes
John Arbuckle.
dan friesen
You always go real people.
Wait, you didn't this time.
jordan holmes
No, that was not.
dan friesen
All right.
Wait, you can't use John Wick.
That's someone's alias who already has donated.
jordan holmes
That's what I'm saying.
I thought this guy bumped his donation up.
I thought this was the guy who earlier I referenced as being John Wick.
dan friesen
If someone has an obvious gnome deplume, I'm going to just go ahead and use it.
I just don't want to put people's business on the streets if they use their own.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, that's right, because we did have a guy who donated as John Wick.
That's what I was saying.
Well, now I've messed it up.
I apologize, Dan.
dan friesen
That's all right.
I quit.
Finally.
jordan holmes
I give up.
dan friesen
Finally, one more shout-out.
This is a very special shout-out.
This gentleman was in town last weekend, and we had a very nice time hanging out with him and his girlfriend.
Oh, shit!
It was a blast meeting him, and we were cool.
Thank you so much.
Jim, you are now a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
alex jones
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Shark, bomb, bomb, bump, bump, bump.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser, little kitty baby.
alex jones
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much, Jim.
jordan holmes
Thank you so much, Jim.
And you and your significant other were absolutely fantastic to talk to.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Very, very brilliant people.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Always a thrill when we get to meet folks.
It's a treat for us, I believe.
I believe that's fair to say.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And we're super excited to meet a bunch of folks down in Austin when we're down there in June.
That'll be most of the thrill, I think.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
The show will be secondary to just amazing folks who have sent me nice messages.
jordan holmes
Every time we meet people, there's a part of me that's like, I didn't think you were real.
I kind of assumed this is more of an elaborate scam that you are perpetrating on me in order to get me to.
Yeah, yeah.
Like somehow I am like I have cancer or something, and you're just trying to make my last days as exciting as possible.
You're like, look, our fan base is growing.
There's nobody actually listening.
dan friesen
Why does it have to be an either or?
I don't understand why it's got to be a dichotomy.
jordan holmes
That's a fair point.
But no, I do not disagree.
dan friesen
It's great.
I'm emotionally overwhelmed, and the only thing you can do in situations like that is just keep on moving forward.
So we're going to.
We're going to keep on moving forward with the show.
And let's get to it.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today we start on January 7th of 2009.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And let me say something to you.
This first clip is going to blow your goddamn mind.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
This is what Alex starts out the show talking about, and he spends most of the show talking about this.
You would never expect these kinds of things to come out of Alex Jones' mouth in 2018 or 2015 anywhere that we've looked into him.
alex jones
And that brings me to San Francisco.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
alex jones
I'm going to get into this later in the broadcast once we go live at PrisonPlanet.tv because I want to show the clips.
The witnesses were all saying that they took the black men off the train.
There had been a report of people yelling and screaming at each other and arguing on the train.
And that they then were putting them in handcuffs and that the man wasn't resisting and that they shot him in the back.
And the police, and we have their first press conferences, said, no, that's not true.
And then they use this weird lawyer speak to say there was an altercation, an argument, and then the officers, one of the officers shot him.
Now, with Legal Ease Speak, he's talking about the argument on the train between the men that had the police respond.
But psychologically, and they do this on the news, too, in the newscast later, they're sandwiching that in with, oh, he did something in an altercation with police.
dan friesen
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
It shouldn't be.
But it is a huge deal to hear Alex Jones coming out against the shooting of black people.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
That is, it should not be, it shouldn't even be a conversation.
There should never have been a question of it.
It should have just been like, we should all be like, hey, cops are murdering black people specifically.
That is a bad thing.
Now, Alex would be like, eh, they probably had it coming.
But back then, that he's against it.
Where did this Alex go?
dan friesen
When I turned this on and when I was listening to this episode and he said that, I gasped.
I know!
jordan holmes
It shouldn't matter.
dan friesen
I almost fainted.
jordan holmes
It shouldn't be a generational thing.
It shouldn't be every decade he decides which fucking group of people is fine for the cops to shoot.
Dear Lord.
Imagine if this had continued.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So what he's referring to is there was a guy by the name of Oscar Grant who was out partying, I assume, because it was on New Year's Eve.
It was about 2 a.m. on New Year's Day, 2009.
And there were reports that there was some fighting on a BART train in San Francisco.
And, you know, the details are murky in terms of the specifics of it, but who cares?
The long and short of it are the cops tried to arrest this guy.
They had him down on the ground with a knee to his back.
Not a knee to his back, but they were trying to handcuff him.
As I understand it, I've looked into this, and from what I understand, they were trying to handcuff him, but he was like, they couldn't get his hands right.
So he wasn't in handcuffs when they shot him, which is a meaningless point to me.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But the cops shot him in the back, and then he died on the way to the station.
And there was a bit of some obviously understandable protests afterwards.
The cop did get in trouble, from what I recall.
I believe he did end up getting he at least resigned.
Let me see, because I think I have the details here.
jordan holmes
Somehow that was a better time.
Christ.
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
I mean, at least he had some sort of punishment for it, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
That's all fucked up.
Yeah.
And I believe, what, was it today or yesterday that Alabama put up a monument to the victims of lynchings?
Yeah.
It's a good thing that's over.
It's a good thing we don't have to worry about state-sponsored murders.
dan friesen
So apparently in July of 2010, a jury found the cop, Johannes Maersley, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and not guilty of charges of second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.
So that's not great.
They also found him guilty of gun enhancement charge that could have added 10 years to his sentence, made him ineligible for probation, and required him to serve 85% of his sentence.
So that's not great.
jordan holmes
He's taking super gun vitality.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's not great, but in terms of the end results we see of so many of these shootings with cops, at least there was something.
Yeah.
Which is not good enough.
jordan holmes
It's bad.
It's all bad.
dan friesen
But the weirdest part about this is that Alex is against the cops and in favor of the murder victim, Oscar Grant.
Although he refuses to say his name.
That is kind of weird.
jordan holmes
Well, but if you're going to, you don't want to say his name.
That humanizes him.
What you're trying to do is...
dan friesen
I'm hearing from the chat room that the case was thrown out.
I don't know if that's the case.
I'm operating on incomplete information.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
That might be the case.
I'm operating on incomplete information about the end turnout of this.
So I don't know.
jordan holmes
Thanks, chat room.
dan friesen
Yeah, bumming.
jordan holmes
Thanks for bumming me out still further.
dan friesen
What's more important, though, is that Alex is kind of clearly assessing the situation.
He's dealing with it in a much more real way.
Oh, I read the message in the chat room wrong.
Never mind.
Sorry.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Well, then I'm back to happy again, I guess.
Is that what was going on?
I don't believe I was ever happy.
I think that just changed my disappointment and sadness levels from about yay high to about yay low.
dan friesen
I'm going to stop responding to messages I don't fully understand.
jordan holmes
Probably a good idea.
dan friesen
There we go.
So, you know, Alex is against it.
He's against the shooting.
He's against the cops.
alex jones
Good boy, Alex.
dan friesen
He goes on to say this.
alex jones
It's not even the issue that they murder this guy.
jordan holmes
No, that is a big issue.
alex jones
It's that they make excuses now that the videos have come out and are saying, well, he thought it was his taser.
It was taser confusion.
May have been.
The issue here, though, is that they lied.
The police officials with the transit authority lied about it.
And they need to go to jail.
dan friesen
So, first of all, That is the end point is good.
jordan holmes
I don't know how to deal with that.
dan friesen
I told you.
jordan holmes
I don't even understand.
I don't understand how that sentence can.
dan friesen
What?
unidentified
I believe the issue isn't that they murdered the guy.
dan friesen
Well, first of all, that's kind of like the, it's not that you cheated on me, it's that you lied about it.
jordan holmes
That's that trope.
dan friesen
That's very weird.
But then, like, that sentence, I think, is fairly philosophically consistent with what Alex pretends to be.
You know what I mean?
jordan holmes
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
Like, he's giving credit or leeway to some extent, but still being like, you need to go to prison.
You lied about shooting a guy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
But the issue there is that it almost seems like more his response, had they just been like, oh, yeah, we murdered that guy.
He would have been like, well, see?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Good for them.
I don't think so.
Like, if they had just told the job.
Or what would he prefer the outcome be?
That they apologize?
dan friesen
No, because then he would be, then if they took responsibility for it, then he would be mad if they didn't get the direct consequences of admitting, oh, we killed this guy.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I think all this is really to illustrate, and this clip's not done, but all this is to illustrate is that Alex is fucking anti-cop in 2009.
jordan holmes
He's all over the place.
dan friesen
He does not like cops.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
But slightly pro-murder.
alex jones
I'm not even so much focused on the police officer, clearly in a frenzy, who pulls his gun out, aims at the man's back, and kills him.
Because you can see the police officer's response where he drops his hand with a gun and starts cussing, going, what the hell?
What the hell just happened?
I believe he probably did think it was his taser.
And I'm trying to be fair here.
I don't, because I, quote, hate cops, just then go, no, he clearly killed him in cold blood and meant to do it.
That could be the case.
We don't know.
But the way he reacted after he killed the guy, after he shot the poor man who did nothing wrong, looks like he was shocked.
Doesn't matter.
You still need to go to jail for manslaughter.
You need to spend a few years in prison.
You killed somebody.
Their life is over.
They did nothing wrong.
dan friesen
This is crazy.
This is crazy from such a departure.
This is nuts.
jordan holmes
We've been doing this show for a long time now.
dan friesen
Almost a year and a half now.
jordan holmes
That is crazy.
Very much.
That's the first time I've been genuinely shocked in a good long while.
I am legitimately.
dan friesen
Because there's no part of it where he's trying to blame the globalists.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
There's no part of it where he's saying he's fake or the thing is fake.
jordan holmes
And he's not even asserting anything wildly.
He's even leaving it open.
He's like, we don't know the facts for sure.
What we do know is that this man was killed illegally.
This man should go to prison for it.
Right, right.
There's no like, I know he murdered that guy.
There's no, I know he didn't murder that guy.
There's no like, it's all a globalist plot to trick us into thinking he murdered that guy.
And that guy isn't even actually murdered.
dan friesen
Right.
There's nothing.
jordan holmes
It's just him with a measured, reasonable response.
dan friesen
Now, it is like maybe giving too far of a berth, too wide of a berth to be like, you know, I believe that he might have thought it was the taser, but this is where he's operating from now.
It's still within what I would describe as the acceptable realm of conversation.
jordan holmes
I kind of agree.
dan friesen
It's a kind of conversation that you can have.
jordan holmes
It's wild.
dan friesen
Yeah, and then get this.
alex jones
The issue is studying police agencies, they lie more often than they tell the truth.
jordan holmes
No.
alex jones
Sometimes even when the truth suits them, they lie.
It is a culture of lying and deceit, and I'm tired of it.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
I'm fucking hyper-ventilating, dude.
dan friesen
Cops are liars.
It's a culture of lying.
jordan holmes
It is.
Right.
What?
Oh, man.
dan friesen
It's wild.
jordan holmes
Now, I am starting to believe in the globalists because now it is very clear that some shadowy organization murdered Alex Jones, who at this time perhaps was Bill Hicks.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
And then replaced him with the monster that we see now as controlled opposition to make sure that his insanity is ignored.
dan friesen
It's an interesting possibility.
I'd say Occam's Razor would tell me.
jordan holmes
Cops probably killed him.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
Occam's Razor would tell me that he just started taking a bunch of his own supplements and went crazy.
Maybe not.
I don't know.
It's very difficult for me to figure out, like, because this is a huge curveball.
And to see, like, how does this evolve into the guy we know now?
Like, this is, like, again, I disagree with this.
I disagree with this guy.
jordan holmes
He screamed about Colin Kaepernick for months.
unidentified
Months.
jordan holmes
For months.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And all he did was just needle on the field.
dan friesen
In protest of a thing that Alex in 2009 is super aware of.
jordan holmes
Super aware is an issue.
Yeah, and is advocating for jail time.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
This is bananas.
This is unprecedented.
dan friesen
If you want to become even more sympathetic to him, listen to this next clip.
unidentified
No.
All right.
jordan holmes
This is all it is.
You're just going to play the intro music.
unidentified
I'm waiting for the clip to do that.
I'm going to chase the sky forever.
With the woman and the stallion and the wind.
alex jones
And the sun is going to burn into a cinder.
unidentified
The sun's going to burn into a cinder.
All right.
jordan holmes
Before we ever.
Still going, huh?
unidentified
Waiting again.
alex jones
And we're going to ride.
And we're going to ride.
We're going to ride.
We're going to ride.
Ride like the one-eyed jack of diamonds.
Ride like a one-eyed jack of diamond.
And we're going to ride.
Analyst predicts 40% unemployment, no recovery.
jordan holmes
Weird transition.
Are those the next lyrics on the song?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Willie Nelson doesn't come in with that verse?
No.
dan friesen
No.
Holy shit.
That's like.
That's unbelievable to me because, again, it just goes back to that.
He fucking loves good country.
He loves the highwaymen.
I don't know, man.
jordan holmes
But that.
I'm confused.
I'm out of my game.
dan friesen
That pivot is professional level.
Singing along to We're going to ride to analysts predict 40% unemployment.
I'm having a great time.
Now I want to scare you.
It's so weird.
jordan holmes
I don't know what to do.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm so confused.
I feel like we've started all over again.
dan friesen
We have.
jordan holmes
And I have to rewire all of my hatred for Alex Jones, knowing full well that in the past he was less of a piece of shit.
He's still a piece of shit.
We've done episodes in this time period before, but this is bananas.
dan friesen
Well, there's a lot of stuff, and I don't have a lot of clips of these, but there's a lot of stuff that you can trace literal parallels from back then to now.
Like there's catchphrases that he's using 11 or like nine years ago and still using now.
Like the alternative media is coming up and the mainstream media's ratings are down.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
He has like a philosophy of like if someone's being attacked, that probably means they're right, which is consistent all throughout this time frame.
So there's a lot of things that are really common.
But yeah, I think what you're more going to have to wrestle with is like, you know, the future.
Yeah, this isn't because you can't look at this guy without knowing what ends up happening.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
You've read the end of the day.
jordan holmes
This is baby Hitler all over again.
dan friesen
To some extent.
jordan holmes
Whatever I went back in time and hung out with Baby Hitler for a while.
He was very cute.
dan friesen
So that's it for January 7th.
And we get on to January 8th.
jordan holmes
Nothing else happened?
dan friesen
No, I mean, it did.
jordan holmes
What else was it on?
How does he just show up in that little spot, and that's all you have from January 7th?
Was there any context to that?
dan friesen
No, most of it's really boring.
He talks a lot more about.
jordan holmes
No, it's really boring.
I just want like some kind of, how did this, now that this is a mystery all over again to me.
dan friesen
Have you watched Endgame with me?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
It's a lot of that.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
dan friesen
He talks about the Trans Texas corridor, that road that they're really mad about.
Hey, they're pretending it's stopped, but it's not.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That sort of stuff.
He has an interview with a guy named Eric Plumley.
No relation to Tosh Plumley.
jordan holmes
What about Mason Plumley?
dan friesen
Nope, not in there.
He has an interview with him, and he wants it to be an interview about the government surveilling you and stuff like that.
Is it?
Well, no, but Eric Plumley is a surveillance lawyer, but it turns out his specialty is like you trying to bug your wife's.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, he's a PI lawyer, isn't he?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
So the interview doesn't.
dan friesen
It doesn't go really far because every time he tries to talk about bigger picture stuff, Eric Plumley is kind of like, ah, that's outside of my purview.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
He has an interview with Ray McGovern, who used to be involved in the daily briefings for Reagan and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it's not really all that substantial.
It's just kind of endgame stuff.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
You know, it does.
jordan holmes
I'm just trying to get a fuller picture of this man who I have never met before in my entire life.
dan friesen
It's a lot of endgame stuff, and then this very weird position on this shooting of.
jordan holmes
How long did he talk about it for a long time?
Or was it just like, I'm going to drop in, give you my thoughts, going to get right back into that road.
I hate roads.
dan friesen
No, I would say it's a good half hour at least of the show, maybe even more dedicated to this.
But again, there's less empathy for the victim than you want.
jordan holmes
Well, he doesn't have empathy.
dan friesen
And more anger at the cops.
But at least.
jordan holmes
I'm happier with that.
dan friesen
It's a road in, at least, which is very, very strange and not like anything we've ever seen from Alex.
And it gets even weirder.
jordan holmes
This is such an alternate universe right now.
dan friesen
January 8th gets even weirder.
Listen to this shit.
alex jones
And now I've seen more of this officer's body language up close, and he looks like he's completely out of his mind.
He's resigned from the force, and now the police are saying, well, we're no longer involved in this because he's resigned, so now it's not our issue, and now Eternal Affairs isn't investigating.
What does that mean?
So if a cop murders somebody, either capital murder, premeditated, or whether it's manslaughter, whether it's accidental, and I think clearly it's pointing towards capital murder now.
This guy's a lunatic.
I mean, I could see him getting off on an insanity plea, maybe.
Because you watch him.
He pulls the gun out, he sights it, and you know the difference between a black, what looks like a Glock or Heckler and Coke, classic standard-issue handgun.
Looks like 9mm, 40 cal, something along those lines.
We don't know yet.
They've kept that secret.
And he cites it, holds the shot for about two seconds, and shoots the guy in the back.
Now, I'd said maybe it was taser confusion, but now watching him from a closer video angle off somebody's cell phone camera, he looks like a vampiric demon or something.
He looks like Bella Lugosi.
He just, his eyes are completely crazed.
He looks like a lunatic.
dan friesen
So that's not great, but at least the point is right.
unidentified
You know, like you take this satanic demon stuff out of the way.
jordan holmes
Now that reminds me of the Alex Jones.
I know.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
At the very least, he's not a human being.
He's a literal demon.
dan friesen
Right.
Which, again, it's a little cowardly in terms of not allowing humans to take responsibility for their actions and shit like that.
But at least, like, the point is right, that he watched another video and you can see him citing it.
And that means that he knew it wasn't a taser.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
So that's the point behind what he's trying to say.
And it's like, yeah, man.
unidentified
I don't.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
Pretty nuts.
The idea of Alex Jones revising his theories based on new information is that alone is crazy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't get this.
dan friesen
That is.
jordan holmes
He didn't even double down on his.
Yeah, he grew as well.
He got crazier with it.
dan friesen
He modified it.
jordan holmes
But he did.
His narrative didn't become more concrete.
It only got shaken, and his beliefs changed based upon that.
I can't process this information.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Alex is not doubling down.
The only Alex I know and understand is the Alex who doubles down and the Alex who waffles like a little bitch.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Those are the only two I know.
The Alex who learns.
Yeah, cries.
dan friesen
Cries.
Yell cries.
jordan holmes
Cries.
Drunks.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Gets drunks.
dan friesen
Sure, sure.
So this position that he's taken on the shooting is really wild.
And then in the aftermath of the shooting, obviously there were a bunch of protests.
And people were rightly mad about the situation.
jordan holmes
Now we get back to status quo, Alex Jones.
He's definitely against these protests.
dan friesen
Well, in the present day, he'd be super against them.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
Protest over Bark shooting turned violent.
San Francisco Chronicle.
I watched video of it when police started getting in people's faces and telling them to disperse that they were not an authorized permitted crowd.
They began throwing soda bottles and things at the police car windows.
They overturned police cars, burned police cars.
The police began firing rubber bullets at the crowd.
And you know why the people are doing this?
They don't like seeing a fellow human being murdered execution style and then the system making excuses for it.
If you want any respect from the public, you have to punish your officers when they murder people in cold blood.
But no, you've been caught lying.
dan friesen
What the fuck?
You thought that entire time he was ramping up to talk shit about the protesters.
He was defending them or justifying it.
Yep.
This is pretty nuts.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Dan?
alex jones
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
Dan, I had a whole bunch of anger in the holster for today, and now it is gone.
dan friesen
Well, I texted you.
jordan holmes
It is just fucking pure shock and confusion.
dan friesen
I texted you before the show that I had something really confusing for you.
jordan holmes
I'm so confused.
dan friesen
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
I don't even, I don't even, what is this show if I think he's advocating for a violent response?
He's not necessarily advocating, but he's justifying a violent response to police action that is, again, unlawful in and of itself.
How is this a possible thing?
dan friesen
He's at very least coherently explaining why that happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
Violence is the outlet of the people who can't be listened to.
dan friesen
Rioting in the voice of the unheard.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
I don't know, man.
It's, to me, just incredibly bizarre.
I don't know.
It's weird.
I'm confused.
And again, I don't know what to do, Dan.
I don't either.
So at this point.
jordan holmes
Do we invent time travel?
Is there like a like if we're if we're going to indulge multiverse theory, which I think is probably true, if we get into a time machine, is there any way that we can talk to the Alex Jones from this time and then put him on a completely different path?
Like, just butterfly.
dan friesen
We don't have the money.
jordan holmes
Just chaos theory, butterfly.
dan friesen
We don't have the money.
jordan holmes
Just throw a little rock at him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And then all of a sudden he grows into an activist?
Like, what's going on here?
dan friesen
No, I don't think it would be possible.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But, again, I'm not.
jordan holmes
Maybe we just eat his brains and take his strength at this time.
dan friesen
I'm not doing this intentionally to butter you up.
I'm playing you the clips that are relevant in the order they come.
This next clip made me smile.
jordan holmes
What are you doing to me?
dan friesen
This next clip.
Dan, this is one of the only.
jordan holmes
You are fucking with my head.
dan friesen
I know that we've talked about whenever he listens to Highway Men, it's kind of like, that's a happy Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You can hear a couple moments in this next clip where it's like, this is absurdly happy Alex.
alex jones
I'll never forget when I was a teenager in Dallas, other than getting in a lot of fist fights, I was very clean.
Again, didn't like drugs.
I tried a few.
Every time I hated them.
I liked alcohol.
We can get our hands on it.
That was it.
And they would just call kids in all day long to the office, not just myself, and say, we know you're a drug dealer.
We know you're stealing stereos, and you're going to work for us now.
And I said, no, and then they got very upset.
But, I mean, this is just standard.
I'll never forget the cops saying, well, if you didn't steal those stereos, I know you're doing something illegal.
And I was self-righteous and said, yeah, I've stolen beer out of the golf carts.
That's how teenagers got their beer in Rockwall, Texas, is there were golf courses all over the community in different neighborhoods.
And before I even had a car or a motorcycle or a moped, we would walk sometimes a couple miles over to our buddies' houses.
And I only stole beer a couple times, but I had money all the time.
To the point of not leaving their ice chest in the back of their golf carts.
And they'd all be in the different golf.
I'm already digressing with this story.
The point is, is that I said, yeah, I've stolen beer.
We know you've done a lot more than that.
And this was years after I'd stolen beer out of ice chest.
Can you imagine being 13, 14 years old?
And you run up, grab a six-pack bottle of wine out of the back of the ice chest, run off in the woods and drink it with your buddies and roll around in the leaves.
That's about the extent of it.
jordan holmes
Oh, and it wasn't convertible.
dan friesen
That's human.
jordan holmes
They're rolling around in the leaves?
dan friesen
Yeah, you're drunk like idiots when you're 13, rolling around at the park.
jordan holmes
Rolling around in the leaves.
That's a little bit weird.
dan friesen
No, it's not.
jordan holmes
I think that one's.
No, it is delightful, but it turns him into a weird elf figure.
dan friesen
This isn't over.
alex jones
Convertible.
We could go to one Easy Mart, but we had to walk about two miles because the other convenience stores on the main highway by our neighborhood wouldn't sell youth cigarettes, but the Easy Mart would.
But I did one time that was a convertible open with a pack of Marlborough Reds laying on the dash.
Let's just have a little confession hour here.
And I grabbed that pack of cigarettes and I smoked them.
Hell yeah.
That's the extent of my great thievery.
Meanwhile, we're criminals.
The entire population are criminals, and we deserve it.
We deserve to be shot in the back because assuredly we did something wrong in our lives, or we deserve to be framed for a murder because, assuredly, we did something wrong in our lives.
Well, then the police just run around framing whoever they want, stealing houses, stealing homes.
dan friesen
So, like, I mean, he's talking about eminent domain there at the end, and we agree with him on that, too.
But what's interesting to me about that clip is it's two minutes or so of him getting wistful and telling adorable, relatable, human stories about stealing booze as a kid, or like you see some cigarettes in an open car and you scamper off and you smoke them.
Like, that's so relatable and human and cute.
jordan holmes
It is downright cute in this world in this world for sure.
It is scampish, and it is, it could be in the movie American Graffiti, but it is cute as fuck.
dan friesen
But did you notice there at the end, like, he keeps losing the point of why he's telling these stories?
jordan holmes
He's having too much fun.
dan friesen
He's caught up in sentiment, and he forgets that he's trying to talk about these rock wall teachers trying to turn him into a snitch or something like that.
He forgets that.
jordan holmes
And he's what?
Like, he's 34, 33 at this time?
dan friesen
At this point, yeah, yeah, give or take.
jordan holmes
Somewhere around there.
Or 45, we don't actually know his age.
dan friesen
On record, he's 34.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm fascinated by the losing yourself in sentiment, telling these stories, and then needing to get back on track.
And so he jumps back onto the cops think we're all guilty.
You know, like that, that's where his mind gets back onto the narrative.
And it's just, to me, it's like your brain worked better.
jordan holmes
This turns me, this turns the whole Alex Jones show now into a weird behind the music for me because this is turned into exactly that narrative.
Like, he's growing up, he's having a carefree, happy lifestyle, getting into some scampish trouble, gets a radio show, gets a, you know, his daddy gives him all the money, starts to build a little following for himself, gets right around to this time period, really living his best life.
He's a conspiracy theorist.
He's spouting nonsense.
dan friesen
He pretends he calls himself.
jordan holmes
He's singing with the highwaymen.
And then at a certain point, he starts to get obsessed with money.
It's all about money to him.
And he thinks it's going to make him happier, but it doesn't, Dan.
The money only adds problems to what's going on.
More money, more money.
He cheats on his wife.
Maybe.
dan friesen
We don't know that.
We don't know that.
jordan holmes
Come on.
He's cheating on his current wife right now.
dan friesen
I don't know.
We don't know that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Probably.
dan friesen
Jordan, your theory is interesting and compelling, and I used to love that show.
But I would say that you're forgetting that he made Endgame before this.
That's a good point.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
He was still having fun in Endgame, though.
unidentified
Somewhat.
dan friesen
He had his bullhorn.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he had a bullhorn.
Come on.
dan friesen
We're going to learn a lot about that bullhorn.
jordan holmes
I love it.
I want to know the bullhorn's backstory.
dan friesen
You're going to hear a bit of.
You're going to learn more about that bullhorn than you want.
jordan holmes
I don't want to learn about that bullhorn.
dan friesen
So when I told you I was reminded of January in 2009, it's for a very specific reason.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
That's why we went back to this date specifically to relaunch our 2009 investigation from this point forward.
And that is because on January 7th, 2009, I will read to you from the Guardian article from that very day.
Gazprom, the state-owned Russian gas group, today cut off all supplies to Europe traveling through the Ukrainian pipelines, intensifying the political and economic crisis that has arisen out of a payment dispute between the two countries.
Amid evidence that people in Eastern Europe are being deprived of heating as the Arctic cold snap continues, Russia and Ukraine continue to blame each other for the deadlock.
Gazprom accuses Ukraine of shutting down the fourth and last open pipeline crossing the country, while officials at NAFTAGAZ, Ukraine's state energy firm, simply said, quote, words fail us.
Russia supplies a quarter of Europe's gas and 80% of this transits through Ukraine.
As shortages hit Western Europe and intensify in the south and east, EU governments will meet on Friday to consider sharing supplies held in storage.
So we'll get more into it after this clip, but suffice it to say, at this point, because of some contractual disputes, on January 7th,
Russia cut off oil or gas that was most of the supplies for 18 countries that all ran through Ukraine because of disagreements with their financial in terms in terms of any argument public like this in like a large scale.
jordan holmes
I am immediately going to side with the person who has the least wordy response.
If the Ukraine's response is like, dude, I don't even know what that guy's talking about.
I'm immediately like, yeah, Ukraine is right.
dan friesen
Words fail us is a strong response.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For real, guys, you can't believe this guy.
dan friesen
So that was on January 7th, and the crisis had been sort of escalating for a few days prior because I believe it was on the 5th that Russia cut off most of the supply, and then on the 7th, cut off all of it.
jordan holmes
What were they doing on the 6th?
dan friesen
He was hanging out.
unidentified
Just chilling.
dan friesen
But on the 7th, Alex didn't even bring it up.
And on the 8th, he says this.
alex jones
And now, Russia, because of Ukraine threatening to reneg on their lease of a naval port and moving weapon systems up against the border, Russia cut back on some of the basically free gas they've been giving them as a subsidy as part of that deal.
And so what did Ukraine do?
They just cut off gas to Europe.
People could die there, folks.
I mean, below zero in many of those countries.
In fact, people are dying.
The press is reporting.
You know, I saw a blurb about this in email, and I didn't believe it.
And I googled it, and it was our very own KVUE Austin TV.
New law restricts resale of kids' products.
jordan holmes
Wait, that was a quick turnaround.
dan friesen
I kept that last part in just to illustrate how quickly he pivots off.
jordan holmes
That was quick.
dan friesen
And he doesn't fucking talk about it ever again.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
He drops that one line, and he's like, hey, and I heard that kids are not allowed to use toys anymore.
dan friesen
In as much as I've listened to, he does not bring it back up.
And that's crazy.
jordan holmes
Wait, so he's just, Ukraine is making sure people die.
Kids, they're not allowed to buy toys anymore.
dan friesen
But it's important to note that he's putting the onus on Ukraine shutting it off.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
jordan holmes
See, now this is the Alex.
Now we're back in comfortable territory.
We are.
Alex joining with Russia on literally anything is where I am comfortable.
dan friesen
But this is very, very strange.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because it's so dismissive.
It's so like, here's a 10-second blurb about this, and then we're moving on to, hey, you can't resell cribs.
unidentified
Right.
Or whatever.
jordan holmes
Can't do it.
Could get hurt.
dan friesen
So I read a report from the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies about the crisis because I wanted to get a good handle on what the situation was, like, whether it was reasonable in any way for Alex to think that Ukraine was behind the actual shutting off of the gas.
jordan holmes
Because he's insinuating that Ukraine is killing Europeans.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Which is the worst crime you can commit.
dan friesen
So I'm going to read you some of the salient points from this 60-page report that the Oxford Energy Institute put out.
jordan holmes
Love their dictionary, by the way.
dan friesen
Quote, the night of the 5th of January and early hours of the 6th of January were possibly the key moments in the crisis as far as deliveries to Europe were concerned.
On the 5th, a televised and rather obviously staged conversation between Prime Minister Putin and Gazprom CEO Miller rehearsed all the Russian grievances against Ukraine and culminated in Putin agreeing with Miller's proposal to reduce the gas flows and instructing him to inform Gazprom's European partners about the reasons for the action.
At this point, on the 7th of January, the second and more serious stage of the dispute began.
Gas was cut off completely to countries in southeastern Europe which are 100% dependent on Russian imports and partially to other countries for 13 days.
The Russian and Ukrainian sides blamed each other, neither displayed great urgency about moving towards agreement.
It is important to underline the unprecedented nature of this situation.
Supplies to Europe had never been halted since the gas transit system was built in Soviet times.
The two sides finally negotiated two new contracts covering supply and transit, which were signed on the 19th of January.
Gas flows to Europe restarted on the morning of the 20th, and two days later were returning to normal levels.
So that's sort of just a description of what happened.
And then they get to their conclusions.
A crisis in Russia-Ukraine bilateral gas relations is not in itself a surprise.
Many, including ourselves, had seen it coming as long ago as the summer of 2008.
The surprise, indeed, the shock, was that both sides allowed the dispute to escalate from disagreements about debts, prices, and transit tariffs to the point where supplies to Europe were completely shut off, and then allowed the situation to continue for two weeks in the middle of winter, with serious adverse humanitarian consequences for especially Southeast European countries.
We do not believe the often cited desire of the Russian government to use energy as an economic or political weapon against European countries played any part in this crisis.
Russia's relationship with Europe and the gas sphere is and will remain one of mutual dependence.
While Europe depends heavily on Russian gas supplies, Russia, which here means both Gazprom and the Russian state, relies heavily heavily on revenues generated from European sales.
By contrast, the critical Russian decision to cut back deliveries on the 5th of January, Russia did it, was an unnecessarily risky and commercially irrational action at this stage of the dispute.
That decision may have reflected Prime Minister Putin's anger and frustration and been aimed at punishing Ukraine for its repeated threats to disrupt transit.
Forty years of Russia's reputation as a secure gas supplier and Ukraine's reputation as a secure transit country have been damaged, probably irreparably.
The Russian government almost certainly personalized to Prime Minister Putin, which took the decisions which eventually led on the 7th of January to the complete interruption of European supplies through the Ukrainian transit network, should have recognized these consequences and had the option of stepping back.
jordan holmes
So if I understand correctly, what they said was Putin threw a tantrum.
dan friesen
It seems like that's the most likely explanation that people who have studied the case on it is.
jordan holmes
Well, now that you go back and you look at the way that they one of the one of the narratives that emerged with the Russian hacking into the American election and the DNC emails and all of that stuff was really just a very personal I hate Hillary kind of reaction.
So that now makes a lot more sense with that context of him just throwing a tantrum and ruining relations with the rest of the world for a while.
dan friesen
Some of that is too easy, I think, a little bit.
And I think that fits into a, I would say, an incompletely drawn psychological profile that we may want to work off of.
I think that when you look at more of the details about it, and I don't want to read you guys a 60-page report or anything like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't want you to do that either.
dan friesen
Both sides had fault in this, but the shutting off of the gas was 100% Russia.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
They did it in response to failed negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and some things that Russia said Ukraine was doing that do not appear to be true.
They were saying that they were stealing gas that was coming through the pipelines, but it appears that most of the stuff that did they get a little hose and they siphoned it.
jordan holmes
The guy was breathing in real hard and put it in a gas can.
dan friesen
I mean, a lot of it is really impossible to prove either way.
Right.
But the Ukraine's argument is that the gas that they're talking about is what's called operational gas, which they were using to power the pipelines and create the ability to use the transit flows.
Right, right.
So it's like it's the cost of doing business, essentially.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
In order to move this gas, we have to use this gas.
dan friesen
Some of the gas is used in the transit of it.
And so it's incredibly complicated.
And I think from everything I can tell, if you look at the reality of it, both sides are 100% at fault for not resolving this when the stakes were so high for people in other countries.
But also, Russia made the decision to shut off the gas, which Alex is putting the other direction on.
He's saying that Ukraine shut it off.
And that is not the case.
No one would make that argument.
Even on the 8th of January 2009, no one would make that argument.
jordan holmes
Except who?
dan friesen
But see, I hate this.
I hate this because obviously we know what the fucking answer is.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Obviously, but it still could just be someone who's hyper-sympathetic to the Russian narrative, Russia's worldview, has a boner for Putin to some extent.
And what it means to me is that clip where he talked about going on RT and the Russian intelligence agents debriefing him, I think it had to have happened before 2009.
jordan holmes
Seems like it.
dan friesen
Because this narrative would never come out of his mouth if he wasn't super sympathetic to Russia.
jordan holmes
No, absolutely not.
It's fascinating to me, just on a pure, like, where would you get this shit kind of level?
But like, there's no way to read.
Yeah, exactly.
The only way to get that narrative is through approved state-sponsored Russian sources.
dan friesen
Some of his buddies who hang out with.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, what are we talking about?
His buddies?
dan friesen
Paul Craig Roberts?
jordan holmes
He's at the bar in Austin, and they're like, hey, you know, this Ukraine character, they're going all buck wild on this.
unidentified
Possibly.
jordan holmes
This is clearly a Russian narrative.
Where does he get it unless he is either absorbing and watching Russian television constantly, which is a suspicious thought in and of itself.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
Or if he's got a direct relationship with people whose interests are aligned in that.
dan friesen
I still don't think we have any kind of firm evidence that there's a direct relationship past the exploitation of flattery, that they have clearly if Alex's story about that RT debriefing is true, which I'm inclined to believe it is true.
jordan holmes
As we go further along, I'm leaning more and more towards that's a real narrative.
dan friesen
I mostly believe it's true because he's not that creative.
No.
A lot of his brags are just, we have millions of listeners.
The idea of concocting a setup that he fell for, I don't think would occur to him.
So I don't know, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's next level line.
dan friesen
It's very tough.
And this is the reason going back to this specific start point and to see immediately that narrative in the face of the reality is troubling.
And what's more troubling is to see a completely different man than we know in the present still loving Russia.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like the guy who is mad that the cops killed a black guy who's innocent and didn't deserve to die and all this, and he's mad about it and the cops should go to jail.
And he's still saying like, hey, Ukraine's fucking up here.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Why are they fucking with Russia?
jordan holmes
Russia can't do wrong.
dan friesen
It means, like, you know what I'm having?
I'm having the exact same revelation that we did when we did the 2015 thing.
Like, when we went back and Alex was like, some say Putin will save the world.
Like, before he became on TV.
Yeah, yeah.
When I was surprised by that, it's the same thing.
I'm super surprised.
Yeah, I'm super surprised to hear that.
Something I'm not as surprised about.
jordan holmes
Is he perhaps a Russian sleeper agent?
Are you sure?
When did his dad move to this country?
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
There's a lot of David Jones's it's really tough to figure out.
jordan holmes
There you go.
dan friesen
One of them is David Bowie.
jordan holmes
When did he move to this country?
dan friesen
Don't know that either.
jordan holmes
I don't think he did.
dan friesen
So you won't be surprised to learn that Alex at this point is still really wanting money.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
dan friesen
But the flavor is so different.
He hasn't started his pill companies yet.
And so he's kind of, you know, he's selling DVDs, he's selling books, and he has some sponsors.
You know, like we've seen some of these weirdos, misshapen jeans.
We've seen those.
But on this episode, on January 8th, he's got a fucking real interesting way he's trying to make money.
alex jones
Another issue, and then we're going to Steve Quayle, is this.
We moved to the new office completely about two and a half weeks ago, and I had this bullhorn that I use in the movie, A Scanner Darkly.
I guess I've had it five, six years since the last one got broken.
And it's the favorite model, this big radio shack model that I found is the loudest for the size.
And it's been in just countless demonstrations.
The last one was in Denver.
We were bullhorning MSNBC for covering up at 9-11 was an inside job outside.
And they came over, grabbed it, tried to rip it away.
Then a guy comes up with a knife and cuts it.
It's on video.
And so if somebody wants to buy the bullhorn, we have an eBay auction going.
They can fix that or they can keep it as a classic piece of Liberty memorabilia.
And the disinfo trolls went into the article on Infowars.com that Kurt Nemo posted, Alex Jones, Tyranny Crusher 1 bullhorn.
jordan holmes
I watched that eBay!
alex jones
And they yelled and screamed and said, How dare you be selling this?
How dare you be profiting?
How dare you be doing this when we've stated that we're selling the bullhorn to raise money to expand the studio?
We've built the new radio studio.
You've seen it.
It looks great.
If you're a PrisonPlanet.tv viewer.
We're building the new studio, but in this economy, we don't have the funds to do this.
dan friesen
So even now, you should be getting the sense that he's a man who's living.
jordan holmes
He took a bath in the housing crisis.
I'll tell you that right now.
dan friesen
It's possible, but the way he's asking for money, working around money, that's how a human does it.
jordan holmes
I want that bullhorn so bad.
dan friesen
Freedom Crusher, Tyranny Crusher 1?
jordan holmes
He's having a garage sale.
I want that bullhorn so bad.
dan friesen
You're not going to like how much the bidding gets up to.
jordan holmes
I bet it's gone down a lot since then.
dan friesen
Spoiler alert, we're going to hear a lot about this bullhorn for the rest of the episode.
jordan holmes
Wait, so his old bullhorn, for which he clearly had a sentimental attachment, was damaged.
So then he researches bullhorns, finds the loudest model within the best size for him.
All right.
Buys that bullhorn.
Then it gets damaged and he decides: no, I am going to turn this bullhorn into my company's future.
dan friesen
Exactly.
Okay.
And it seems to work because I don't want to ruin things, but the bidding warns.
jordan holmes
If we can track that bullhorn down, I will steal it.
dan friesen
Would you believe this?
jordan holmes
I will steal it like a pack of Marlboro Reds on a convertible.
dan friesen
The bidding for this bullhorn gets so intense that the government gets involved.
jordan holmes
What?
What are you talking about?
dan friesen
But that's a spoiler.
jordan holmes
What is he fucking talking about?
dan friesen
But that's a spoiler for later.
jordan holmes
Who is mad at him for you can't sell that bullhorn?
dan friesen
What are you doing?
What are you doing selling that bullhorn?
jordan holmes
What is he talking about?
dan friesen
This is the heyday of eBay.
Rhymes.
We're going to learn a lot more about this bullhorn.
But in the meantime, right now, we've got to take a quick break.
We'll be back in about two minutes.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
All right, we're back.
jordan holmes
Hey!
dan friesen
So this bullhorn is going to be right back into bullhorn talk.
It's going to be a huge player in the show.
jordan holmes
I don't understand how that's possible.
dan friesen
But I want to talk to you about the guests a little bit that they have on.
Look at my notes out here, and I just don't have the inventor of the bullhorn, of course.
I don't have any clips of them, really, because they're just like the interviews are inconsequential.
And a lot of it does come back to just like when you listen to 2009 Alex Jones, so much of it is endgame stuff.
Yeah.
It becomes very clear to me that Endgame was specifically like a best of documentary that he made.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And it was just kind of like he talks about these same things all the fucking time.
So just go and watch our Endgame stuff and you'll get most of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, so when we did the Endgame documentary, what we wound up doing is ruining the Greatest Hits album.
Yeah, so that's what's going on.
But you can't go back and listen to any of the Eagles' regular albums.
Because you shouldn't, and you shouldn't listen to their Greatest Hits album either.
But if you're going to, you wind up listening to that one.
dan friesen
That's why this investigation is going to be even greater because we're going to find those deep album cuts like him being mad at the cops for killing him on our man that most people don't get to know.
jordan holmes
We're going to listen to the songs Fleetwood Mac wrote that weren't written by anybody who was any good.
dan friesen
Sure.
He has Steve Quayle on, who we know has written multiple books about how giants used to walk the earth, among other very crack potty topics.
unidentified
He is a ironic for a man named after a very small bird.
dan friesen
He is a straight-up lunatic.
He is on and he talks about how it's all just like the end is here kind of stuff.
Like we're in a martial law state already.
He has a good quote.
jordan holmes
The Patriot Act was already signed.
dan friesen
The globalists sacrifice live children.
If they'll take your guns, they'll take your life.
That sort of shit.
Very strong.
He also wanted to inform everyone that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was the successor of Aleister Crowley and was the head of the OTO, the Ordo Tempo Tempo.
jordan holmes
I don't want to get back to Bullhorn talk.
This is crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He has Paul Craig Roberts on.
jordan holmes
Hey!
dan friesen
The founder of Reaganomics, as Alex would call him.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Also, a gentleman who's, like, we've discussed, written for Sputnik for years and years.
jordan holmes
Also, if you are the founder of Reaganomics, you are an insane person.
dan friesen
They mostly just talk about economic collapse and whatever.
jordan holmes
Well, they were right on time.
dan friesen
A little late.
And they talk about how it's going to get worse.
And then he has an hour and a half.
jordan holmes
Unless there is some sort of massive stimulus package that's passed through Congress that will.
dan friesen
They'd probably be against that.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Then he has an hour and a half interview with David Icke.
And the interview with David Icke is not good.
Like, it's just boring.
Like, as much as I want to play clips of David Icke for you, saying nonsense.
I would love to, but it's just nothing.
jordan holmes
He should have been using a bullhorn.
dan friesen
It's absolutely nothing.
It's just the two of them sort of.
jordan holmes
I'm starting to understand why he wants to talk about this bullhorn a lot because I'm liking saying the word bullhorn.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He got a lot of ul in there.
dan friesen
The only thing that David Icke said that I thought was like, eee, I mean, he doesn't talk lizards when he's on Alex's show.
He keeps that sort of talk close to the vest.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
But he does say that people like Barack Obama are white people in black bodies.
And that made me a bit uncomfortable.
All right.
jordan holmes
I don't know what that means.
dan friesen
I don't either.
But he says he was quoting somebody else, but I couldn't.
jordan holmes
I don't know who.
dan friesen
I couldn't make out who he was saying.
And so I just, I don't have the clip of it.
I would have researched who he was quoting, but it just, he just, I don't know.
It's a bad interview.
jordan holmes
It was actually Dennis Haster.
dan friesen
So anyway, yo, boy, Belding.
So he gets done with David Ike, and then he gets back to the bullhorn.
alex jones
What is the surprise today?
Well, it's not Alex Jones, Tyranny Crusher 1.
This was the first time we ever did an eBay item.
And the reason we did it is because people are like, well, this megaphone's broken.
We've bought a new one.
You've had this one for all these years.
It's in the movie, A Scanner Darkly that they rotoscope.
That's really me and the bullhorn in there.
jordan holmes
Yep.
alex jones
We're going to play a clip of that in a moment.
dan friesen
He's going to play a clip just to prove that he was in the movie.
We know you're in the movie, Alex.
That's not.
Who cares?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I like it.
Movie memorabilia.
Sell it to the hard rocks.
This isn't the surprise.
alex jones
Surprise coming up in a minute.
Tyranny Crusher 1.
Should we get it fixed?
Like a $125 megaphone, or should we sell it?
And obviously, it's a fundraiser.
We're not saying the megaphone, just as a megaphone, is worth $3,500.
I think it's the latest bid on there for it.
We only have it at $1,500.
There is Tyranny Crusher 1 on the prisonplanet.tv screen.
dan friesen
So there's two important things going on here.
jordan holmes
He's calling the bullhorn Tyranny Crusher 1.
dan friesen
He said that already.
You didn't catch that?
It's a great name.
jordan holmes
I caught it, but I'm still struggling to wrap my head around that fact.
dan friesen
Trying to wrap your head around it?
jordan holmes
Oh, there we go.
dan friesen
It's a pretty good name for a bullhorn.
And it's great that he has to keep talking about it.
jordan holmes
I like living in a world where you can just say it's a pretty good name for a bullhorn, and everybody's like, yeah.
And then we move on.
That's an insane thing to say, right?
dan friesen
Are you not concerned about what the surprise is?
jordan holmes
No, I think the surprise is that this bullhorn is going to sell for a lot of money.
dan friesen
When I was going back through my notes, here's the note that I have from this time stamp.
Alex has a big surprise.
Also, still trying to sell that bullhorn.
jordan holmes
Also, still trying to sell that bullhorn.
dan friesen
So I was going back through, and I'm like, he didn't have a surprise.
Because I couldn't remember what the surprise was.
And then I remembered, oh, that's the surprise.
Charlie Sheen gave him a jacket.
That's his big surprise.
jordan holmes
Oh, he was in a nice jacket.
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's the jacket that he wore in Red Dawn.
jordan holmes
Really?
Yeah, I would like that jacket.
dan friesen
Allegedly.
It may or may not be true.
jordan holmes
There's no way that's true.
It could be.
Which jacket?
So Alex is also Wolverines.
dan friesen
Sure.
Alex yells that a bunch.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Which, again, people did not understand the point of that movie at all.
dan friesen
Alex might not either.
jordan holmes
It was an allegory.
dan friesen
But Alex is super excited to tell everyone that he has Charlie Sheen's jacket from Red Dawn.
In the context of I'm silver this bullhorn, I will not sell you this jacket.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
All right.
That's what kind of a guy Charlie Sheen is.
He's such a good man.
He'll give you this jacket.
That's what he does for his friends.
All right.
And so that ends up leading.
jordan holmes
This bullhorn is Tyranny Crusher 1.
This jacket is heroic death one.
I don't know.
dan friesen
So that leads him to play some clips from Red Dawn.
jordan holmes
And now I'm in.
dan friesen
It just starts talking.
jordan holmes
I love this show.
He starts talking.
Every time a listener is like, you know, I used to listen to Alex a long time ago because I thought he was funny.
I'm like, because I never did.
And I'm always like, this guy is a fucking insane racist monster.
And now listening back to the 2009, I get it, man.
This is pretty funny.
dan friesen
Keep in mind.
jordan holmes
He's playing clips of Red Dawn.
dan friesen
But keep in mind that this is like a four-hour show, and I'm playing you 20 minutes of it.
jordan holmes
That's all I needed to listen to.
the repetitive commercials i'm not gonna i'm not gonna actually go back and listen to the show but come on a guy who's selling a bullhorn named and not selling a jacket Bragging about his jacket.
dan friesen
That is just great radio.
So he starts playing some clips from Red Dawn, and then he makes an announcement over them.
alex jones
Oh, he tackles him in the jacket.
Tackle the Ruski.
unidentified
He's so happy.
alex jones
By the way, I'm on Russia today during election day.
For a full hour.
dan friesen
Smooth.
alex jones
Smooth.
dan friesen
Like silk.
Ooh, he tackles him in the jacket.
jordan holmes
By the way, I'm on Russia today.
For a full hour?
dan friesen
During election coverage.
jordan holmes
God, that's so great.
dan friesen
That's pretty amazing.
jordan holmes
That makes me so happy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's so happy.
Look at how happy he is.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's pretty good.
jordan holmes
He is loving watching Red Dawn on the radio.
This is a man who's getting paid to play clips from Red Dawn.
That is a happy man.
dan friesen
I think if anything, Alex Jones, and I mean, we'll see what else we end up learning through this trip through 2009.
But I think he should live on in everyone's memory, not as a racist propagandist, because he is that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I think more importantly to all of our hearts, he should serve as a cautionary tale.
Like Icarus.
jordan holmes
Don't take Superman Vitality.
dan friesen
Well, there's that.
But also, like Icarus, he flew too close to the sun.
You know, like, he, whatever it is, it's probably a lust for money or whatever.
He got money and he wanted more.
He wanted more.
He wanted more of the luxury of it.
jordan holmes
He got flattered and he wanted more.
He wanted his dad to love him.
dan friesen
When the happiest he could possibly ever be is right around here.
He's making enough money to live.
He has a fan base.
He's getting to do whatever the fuck he wants.
Consequence-free.
Just say a bunch of shit.
No one's going to sue him.
jordan holmes
He owns his own home.
But he wants a bigger one.
I don't understand that.
I don't think that's it.
Like, for us, getting to the point where it's just like, we have enough donations so you can pay your rent is the happiest we're ever going to be.
dan friesen
No, we can.
jordan holmes
Everything from here is going to be garbage.
dan friesen
No, we could get happier, but like the idea of being rich doesn't charm me.
jordan holmes
No, it sucks.
Clearly.
Like, this is great for us.
If we ever do become successful, immediately we're both going to be like, no, no, no, you can't turn into that guy.
You guys can have Tyranny Crusher one through five.
dan friesen
Jordan, we don't need it.
This might not be the best time to tell you this.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
I'm selling a broken megaphone.
jordan holmes
No!
What's the name?
dan friesen
It doesn't have a name.
I don't think it's fun to name megaphones, just bullhorns.
jordan holmes
Wait, what's the difference between a bullhorn and a megaphone?
dan friesen
A megaphone is just that tube that you put your mouth at the base of and it amplifies your voice.
jordan holmes
Like a vuzela?
Is that what you're talking about?
dan friesen
No, you don't blow into it.
It's just like a cone, basically, that you yell at him.
Whereas the megaphone has electric parts.
jordan holmes
The bullhorn, you mean?
dan friesen
Yes.
Turns out I don't know the difference.
Anyway, you know what I do know?
Alex Jones is a fucking insane gold salesman in 2009.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
The level.
jordan holmes
You can wear him as pants.
dan friesen
The level to which he is incorporating Vitas Resources without disclosing their relationship.
jordan holmes
Do you mean that they own him entirely?
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Okay.
Like, he ends almost every show with Ted Anderson coming in and telling him about what bouillon he's bought.
Like, hey, I got a couple of francs that need to go.
I got some buffalo coins.
jordan holmes
Man, that is like the host of a major TV show on Fox News, bringing in a lawyer that he has.
Never mind.
dan friesen
Yeah, no, no.
jordan holmes
It's just crazy on ethics.
dan friesen
No correlation.
jordan holmes
No, not at all.
dan friesen
So at this point, and I want to stress, like, he had done a half-hour interview with Paul Craig Roberts just about the economy collapsing and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so now towards the end of the show, at about the, like, you know, we're a good three and a half hours into the show now.
He brings in Ted.
alex jones
In closing, again, we're trying to fund this operation.
The reason we're able to expand or maintain, I'm kind of wondering if we can expand or just maintain with the economy the way it is.
We need more funds.
And I hope you won't get the books and videos and materials and also support our sponsors.
And one of them is the place I buy precious metals.
dan friesen
Real quick, he says that they're a sponsor, but that's not really accurate.
That is not.
jordan holmes
I've looked.
dan friesen
I've looked a little bit into the FTC's guidelines in terms of how you're supposed to represent sponsorships and stuff like that.
And spiritually, I think this is a crime.
I legitimately, I can't say for sure, and it's going to take a little more research on my part.
But the fact that he's being syndicated by the guy's company and not disclosing that, that is an unfair representation of their relationship.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Sinclair Media.
dan friesen
Who cares?
alex jones
And Ted has still got gold at $60, $70, some of the pieces, $80 under the price it's selling for.
Gold is fucking busy.
By now, I write at $15 today from yesterday.
And you heard Dr. Paul Craig Roberts say we will have a depression worse.
He never talked like that, the father of Regonomics.
So I wanted to bring Ted on.
Ted Anderson here in about a week.
Ted, you've got the super deal for people.
Tell folks about it.
unidentified
I did.
ted anderson
I was able to even back down a little bit on the British sovereigns and francs right now.
I've got the French franc a 204 and the British sovereign a 252.
alex jones
So where is that price in the market?
Like 760?
ted anderson
Yeah, comparatively speaking, I did a little check on it and I was looking to see where I. That's really boring stuff.
dan friesen
But the point that I wanted to keep in the end there was that Alex is like talking price points.
He's very aware of the business.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
He's very wait.
jordan holmes
So you're telling me that you're selling gold 35% of what it is that it would be on the market?
How can you get away with these prices, Dan?
dan friesen
Yeah, they're in crazy.
jordan holmes
We're going to have to put a clock on this.
We're going to have to put a clock because we're going to sell out of gold.
We're going to sell out of French francs.
I don't know if those are gold, but that's fine.
You got an hour.
Call in now.
We're going to sell out.
This is not like we have a suite of samurai swords, which are made out of francophiles.
Not even French francs, but people who like France.
dan friesen
This isn't close to acceptable broadcast behavior.
It's whenever you like, if Alex is slightly unaware of the business and just letting Ted talk, having a TED talk, that would be slightly different.
But he's doing it like a like, I mean, it's not funny, but it's like a vaudeville routine.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The two of them are going back for it.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
It's very weird.
So that's the end of the eighth.
And now we jump into the ninth.
And Jordan, if you have been confused up till now.
jordan holmes
How is this going to get more confused?
dan friesen
This is going to get so much worse.
jordan holmes
How much did the bullhorn cost?
dan friesen
We're going to get to it.
jordan holmes
It still hasn't finished?
dan friesen
Bullhorn's still in play.
jordan holmes
Bullhorn's still in play.
unidentified
All right.
All right.
dan friesen
But at the beginning of this show, Alex Jones talks about a president who Donald Trump is a big fan of.
And Alex is a big fan of in present day.
jordan holmes
So you're talking about Andrew Jackson.
alex jones
Hitler gave speeches about it, wrote about it.
jordan holmes
He was president.
alex jones
He had his policies for death camps and rounding up populations, non-Aryan groups in Russia and all over Europe from the American Indian program here in the United States.
And of course, that adopted a lot from those that invented it, the British, the concentration camp.
It was Andrew Jackson who turned around and did some of the same stuff to Native Americans.
jordan holmes
It's not a laughing.
dan friesen
No, the giggle's not great, but the awareness there is that Andrew Jackson is in league with Hitler.
That's weird.
jordan holmes
I don't.
dan friesen
That's very weird.
jordan holmes
So the problem here is that this suggests that he actually does know something about history at this point in time.
Like he, like, for all the times we talk about how he's read all of these sources and he just willfully lies about them.
dan friesen
He probably heard before 2009.
jordan holmes
Well, that's possible.
But that's the thing, like, on the stupid/slash evil continuum that we often disagree upon, wherein we're talking about, you know, is his reading comprehension so low?
Is that the real issue?
And that's why he misunderstands all of these things.
Now, if you get, if you can read the history of Andrew Jackson and get that he is a fucking monster and then report that like a reasonable human being, that suggests that later on you are willfully lying about Andrew Jackson and all of this shit.
You are willfully lying about all of these primary sources that you say you understand because you can.
It is within your capability to recognize that America is genociders.
dan friesen
I disagree.
I don't think it's that cut and dry because that's such a simple conclusion to come to.
You know, like you could read a children's coloring book and find out that Andrew Jackson was a genocider.
jordan holmes
We should publish a series of knowledge fight coloring books that talk about real American history.
dan friesen
Oh, dude, that would be brutal.
It's very unmarketable.
But, you know, like that, that to me that doesn't indicate too much in terms of what's that children's book?
jordan holmes
Go the fuck to sleep?
Yeah, yeah.
I think America's version would be Go the Fuck to Hell, something along those lines.
dan friesen
Go the fuck to democracy.
Exclamation point.
So, Jordan, you're asking questions about that bullhorn.
And I am thrilled to tell you that I have answers.
jordan holmes
Always asking questions about that bullhorn.
alex jones
By the way, the Alex Jones Tyranny Crusher 1 bullhorn got mentioned on eBay only a couple days into a seven-day bid is over $50,000 right now.
unidentified
Wow.
alex jones
Now somebody won for $5 million and then bragged that it was fake.
We just Googled their handle and found out that it was part of a government group.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
Government-affiliated group.
Laughing openly saying they wanted to screw it up, but we just canceled their bid, and it's a legitimate cancellation because we have their own handle, their own admission, where they're admitting that they are and even posting their bidding details on the web, posting the evidence of their felony.
We went and looked it up.
Memory told me it was a felony.
Over $10,000 federal in Texas.
It's above 6,000 for state felony, but I don't know what state this individual's in.
jordan holmes
States can't have felonies, right?
alex jones
You can always subpoena those, but it looks like we'll be able to handle those problems.
We've talked to eBay now, and they did say that if these people did succeed, that there would be criminal charges.
jordan holmes
And they put a bid in on the bullhorn.
alex jones
They're not going to be successful in their criminal activities.
They're admitted criminal activities, but they're doing important work, of course, for CENTCOM, so it's okay.
jordan holmes
What is CENTCOM?
dan friesen
Central Command.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
He believes that.
jordan holmes
Well, that's less fun than I was hoping.
dan friesen
He believes that a government agency was trying to fuck with him by putting in a troll bid for $5 million for his broken bullhorn.
That's.
jordan holmes
I prefer a government that does that, Dan.
I prefer a government that is willing to troll Alex Jones in that fashion.
dan friesen
I understand that Cointel Pro is a thing and infiltration exists and that sort of stuff.
I get that.
Don't get me wrong.
That is not lost on me.
jordan holmes
No, yeah, but Edgar Hoover was like, hey, I'll buy your notes on the I Have a Dream speech for $5 million.
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Also, this is like, you know, 2009 is where you're getting beginnings of people figuring out really good ways to fuck with people on the internet.
And maybe Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
It was a happier time.
dan friesen
And maybe Alex's world kind of coalesced a lot of those people for and against him.
And someone was just fucking with him on eBay.
I think that's the absolute most likely thing.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, of course.
It was not a government agency, but it was a 14-year-old.
dan friesen
But that does not stop Alex from spiraling to a vicious rant about these people on the internet who are fucking with him.
alex jones
Yeah, and if you didn't know that you've got some CENTCOM and FBI guys in there with you, I know some of you are just fellow traveler lobotomy-type folks.
Oh, those lobotomies.
You're going to have heads.
Your mothers didn't breastfeed you, and then you drank fluoride, so your brain's tiny and got rot holes in it.
Oh, you didn't know that.
Of course, you'll just laugh.
You'll go, well, my mom didn't breastfeed me.
That's true.
But you won't Google and read the BBC and Associated Press about your brain being 15 to 30% smaller, depending on the study, people weren't breastfed.
You'll just laugh and stuff.
jordan holmes
It does depend on the study, doesn't it?
alex jones
But I guarantee you, mama puts you in a crib in dirty diapers and didn't take care of you.
And that's your problem.
And I'm sorry they savaged your mind so that you couldn't connect your intellect with your soul.
dan friesen
Wow.
That's weird.
jordan holmes
And this is an is that like teleportation without a soul?
dan friesen
Something like that.
jordan holmes
A little bit along those lines?
dan friesen
This is another point that I need to bring up that I have discovered from watching this 2009 shit.
Alex has been against Satan the whole time.
There was a part of me that I used to listen to his show.
Yeah.
You know, like when I was younger, and it would be like, oh, these conspiracies are wild and kind of fun and everything.
But like, I didn't understand.
jordan holmes
Did you put in that bid?
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
Dan, did you put in that bid?
unidentified
No, no.
Dan.
dan friesen
I did not work for CENTCOM.
unidentified
Dan.
dan friesen
But I didn't understand that he was fucking against Satan from the jump.
Like, I didn't realize that this is a decade ago.
alex jones
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
Of course he's against Satan.
dan friesen
He doesn't talk about it much, but he's.
jordan holmes
Satan is ostensibly a bad character.
dan friesen
Right, but I thought that that was a newer wrinkle in his world.
Like his cosmology, the, oh, there's devil, the literal Christian devil behind all of this.
It's there.
jordan holmes
See, I assumed immediately, the moment you bring up the devil, you've always been bringing up the devil.
At the end of the day.
There's nobody who just suddenly starts bringing up the devil.
dan friesen
That's not true.
jordan holmes
You've always been against the devil.
dan friesen
People who are born again at like 40 or something like that who get uh you know they change, yeah, but he clearly wasn't born again.
jordan holmes
This is shit that he's grown up with.
dan friesen
It's probably true.
I bet in early 2000s.
jordan holmes
I bet he has a grandma who talked about the devil non-stop.
dan friesen
But I bet in early 2000s he wasn't like overtly talking about Satan's behind all these people I don't like.
He has an hour interview at the end of this show with a guy named Satan Alan Watt.
Not Alan Watts.
jordan holmes
Not the Alan Watts.
dan friesen
No, Alan Watts is the other guy.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Alan Watt.
The guy who Alex talks to.
jordan holmes
Not the guy who's interested in Taoist philosophy.
dan friesen
Not the inspirational speaker that you find videos of giving flowing speeches about human potential on YouTube.
No, Alan Watt is a guy who believes in the Illuminati.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
And is probably similar.
dan friesen
He's probably behind a lot of Alex's endgame beliefs, honestly, because every time he comes on the show, it's just the plot of endgame.
And on this appearance here on the 9th, January 9th, 2009, he is literally talking about the Christian devil being behind all of the problems.
jordan holmes
Lucifer.
Yes.
The fallen star.
dan friesen
Yes.
And so, like, it's just, that blew my mind.
And so when he's talking about your intellect not being connected to your soul, there's so much there.
jordan holmes
It's surprising to me that all it takes to connect the intellect to the soul is breastfeeding.
dan friesen
Breast melted.
jordan holmes
That seems suspicious.
dan friesen
Yeah, weird.
jordan holmes
I would like to see a peer-reviewed study on that.
dan friesen
Well, it depends based on the study.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
Depends.
jordan holmes
You got 15 to 30% more soul if you've been breastfed.
dan friesen
Yeah, the soul quotient depends on study.
So he's not done complaining about these people launched into this tirade by the troll bid on his EAR.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And so now he talks about.
jordan holmes
That's because of fluoride.
dan friesen
No, it's about not breastfeeding.
jordan holmes
Not breastfaking.
dan friesen
And then he gets into some groups of people he hates.
alex jones
They pumped you full of yourself and told you you were the elite and got you all arrogant and slack-jawed and smiley-faced.
You know, the spirit I'm talking about.
The attitude.
Devil.
The cowardly attitude of these little metro sexual men out there today and all of these screening psycho-worldly women.
jordan holmes
Oh, those women.
alex jones
Who have had more abortions than they've paid for?
I don't know, bought cars in their lives.
They get an abortion every two years and get a new car every two years.
jordan holmes
Who gets a new car?
alex jones
You didn't care about that baby?
Well, the elite doesn't care about you either, honey.
That baby wasn't a human being.
Well, you're not either.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
So, oh, a lot of that goodwill we were.
jordan holmes
We're back in comfortable territory.
Homophobic, misogynistic.
I'm a kid.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, these women with their abortions.
I've only paid for like 15 of them.
dan friesen
Yeah.
How many cars have you bought this?
jordan holmes
Hey, something like that.
Every two years.
Every two years I pay for another abortion.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's nuts, man.
jordan holmes
What is.
dan friesen
That is right.
We're a boat that's a little bit more.
jordan holmes
Yeah, now we're right in there.
Now the storm has passed, Dan.
dan friesen
Also, remember when people used to complain about metrosexuals?
jordan holmes
I know.
That was more interesting.
That was a fun time.
That was a fun time.
Oh, these men are acting like they're not from the 50s.
Oh, with their genes.
Dan, their genes fit.
You should get random jeans.
dan friesen
Spell jeans.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
unidentified
All right.
I got it.
jordan holmes
I got it.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
All right, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Spell jeans.
You're going to get a negative one point for that.
unidentified
Jordan, I don't know how to do this, do you?
dan friesen
Okay.
Don't know what to do.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Alex Jones' first guest on the 9th is a guy by the name of Russell Means.
Does that name mean it?
jordan holmes
Spell Means.
dan friesen
M-E-A-N-S.
He is a Native American activist who's been doing sit-ins and occupations of like Alcatraz, other locations since the late 60s.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
So far I'm on board.
dan friesen
He is a gentleman who believes in like Lakota rights and original peoples.
jordan holmes
Still good.
He and I are getting along so far.
dan friesen
But here's the thing: he's on Alex's show.
jordan holmes
It's not a great sign.
unidentified
No, but it's weird.
jordan holmes
It's not a great sign.
dan friesen
It goes back to him being mad at the cops.
jordan holmes
But it's like when the reasonable scientist was on a show.
Do you remember that one?
dan friesen
Dean Adele.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, Dean Adele.
Man, never going to not think he's Dean Adele.
dan friesen
But at least Dean Adele was like Dean Adele was at least he is a broadcaster.
Right.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
So he was utterly bewildered by Alex.
dan friesen
I have good news and bad news about Russell Means.
Okay.
I support him.
jordan holmes
What do you mean?
dan friesen
I mean, that he has a lot of good ideas, and I support them in terms of Native American issues.
Okay.
First Peoples issues.
jordan holmes
You are really trying to cover your bases here.
dan friesen
No, but throughout the interview, he gets into like, it's the Rothschilds and something like, oh, no.
All right, here we go.
But at the same time, in 2009, Alex was willing to have someone who has made their entire life about trying to get rights for a minority group, which is, again, crazy.
jordan holmes
I mean, what do you view somebody like?
If we have a massive speaker, like somebody who is tirelessly campaigning for equal pay for women, and they just will not fucking give it up, and they do so much good in their life.
But then at a certain point, you find out it's like, and the reason that I've been campaigning for women is because everyone who doesn't campaign for women is controlled by the devil.
And you're like, ooh, I support what you're doing, and I'm just going to look over.
I'm going to look over this one part where you think it's the devil.
Because at the end of the day, it could be the devil.
It could be Paul Ryan.
It doesn't matter.
They're all evil.
dan friesen
You're looking at the wrong thing.
I'm not concerned about where Russell's motivation comes from.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Or whatever dumb ideas he's become beholden to late in life.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because I don't think he was on that tip in the mid-late 60s when he was an activist.
And throughout his life, he was an activist.
I'm not going to take that away from him.
I will say that I did not have time to do a massive deep dive into Russell Means' life, but from what I could gather, a lot of it was...
jordan holmes
Russell Means' life sounds like a great name for...
dan friesen
His website was Russell Means Freedom.
jordan holmes
Ooh, I like that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's clever.
dan friesen
But I don't judge the Rothschild narrative becoming a piece of his thing.
I'm not.
I don't give a shit about that.
I'm concerned with the idea that in 2009, Alex Jones had a Native American activist on the show, and he was like, yep, absolutely.
He was like, he was on board.
He wasn't talking about how it's a plan to separate us and balkanize us, divide and conquer these Native Americans who want rights.
It's all the globalists just trying to make white people feel guilty.
It wasn't anything like that.
He was talking to him from a position of like, I agree with you.
And that's nuts.
jordan holmes
That is nuts.
dan friesen
Now, this next clip is even more nuts.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
But I want to shift gears in the time we have left with him on the parallels between what's happening with the Gazans because they're dead and dying.
jordan holmes
No.
alex jones
Right now.
Gaza children found with mothers' corpses.
The New York Times.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered shocking scenes, including small children next to their mother's corpses.
Well, at least it was wounded knee.
They killed all the kids, too.
When his representatives gained access for the first time to parts of Gaza battered by Israeli shelling, it accused Israel of failing to meet obligations to care for the wounded in the combat areas.
dan friesen
So that part where he's talking about at least they killed the children.
That's dark bananas.
That's dark human.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
That one I'm just going to pass over.
dan friesen
And you should.
That's just him.
That's just going to pass.
I think you should.
I got you.
alex jones
Yeah, I got you now.
jordan holmes
Come on.
Come on.
dan friesen
It took me a second.
jordan holmes
Come on.
dan friesen
I was getting defensive.
All right.
That's nuts.
And I think.
jordan holmes
Who is this man?
Who is this man, Dad?
dan friesen
There's so many other.
There's a couple other instances that were too garbled and way out of context.
We'd have to listen to much longer clips in order to get the sound bite to make sense.
But there are a number of other points where he's fucking critical of Israel.
And the thing I want to take away from this clip is a very strong message to all of the people out there who claim that Alex Jones refuses to talk about Israel.
Go fuck yourself.
He does.
At least in 2009, I don't know how this changes over time or whatever, but like him saying they're killing the Gaza, the people in Gaza, like that's as far as you need to go for at least a first step.
That's something that if he was, as his critics, his anti-Semitic critics, alleged that he works for Mossad, he would never fucking say something like that.
jordan holmes
Well, even more bananas, most, if not all people, no matter how liberal that they were or profess to be at that time, were still avoiding the talk of Israel's war crimes as much as humanly possible.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Like, it doesn't matter who you were back then.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There's a 98% chance you were like, ooh, I'm not talking about Israel.
The fact that Alex is at that, oh man, this is so weird.
The fact that Alex Jones is literally coming out and saying that Israel is committing war crimes at a time period where Obama would not even talk about that shit.
If you brought up Israel, Obama at that time would have been like, you know, and then moved on as fast as possible.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, this is bananas.
dan friesen
And what's even more fucked up is, like I said, there are more clips of him on that tip around this time.
jordan holmes
I don't know how to deal with this.
dan friesen
I don't either.
I don't either.
And I think it.
jordan holmes
It almost feels like we need to do a spin-off show about Alex in 2009 that is not related to the Knowledge Fight show.
dan friesen
That's right.
jordan holmes
Because this is a completely different person.
dan friesen
No, that's what the show is from now on.
I don't care about the present.
Like, it's just, like we said in the last episode, it's all distractions.
It's all this obfuscating and dumb.
Like I would much rather figure out where does the breaking point come.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because it has to.
It wasn't Trump.
jordan holmes
No.
No, we proved that.
dan friesen
When we went back to 2015, he was a fucking monster.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
Before Trump.
He was saying that the day after the Charleston shooting, he said, well, this guy really wanted to be racist.
He should have been an abortion doctor.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
That guy was already there in 2015.
So it had to have been something before that where it just everything went wrong.
Because as much as much as this guy that we're listening to in 2009 does suck.
He sucks.
jordan holmes
No, no, for sure.
dan friesen
Because you're seeing him shit on women who've had abortions when he secretly had 10 at this point and admit to it.
jordan holmes
So many.
He's garbage.
dan friesen
He's yelling about how, like, oh, if you're a critic of mine, you just weren't breastfed.
Right.
He's a dick, and he's clearly a manipulative gold salesman/slash broken bullhorn salesman.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
But the narrative.
jordan holmes
Which is a tough job to get.
It is really hard to become a broken bullhorn salesman.
dan friesen
It's like a hard double major.
jordan holmes
It's super hard to get.
dan friesen
But the narratives that we're seeing, you know, like with the cop shooting of Oscar Grant, with him talking about Israel bombing people in Gaza and its murder.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Those sorts of things are things you could talk about.
You know?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like nowadays, nothing he talks about, you can talk about.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Nothing.
jordan holmes
No, it's a conversation.
It's just like I've talked about so many times: like, if you are on the right, it's not like I hate conservatives or right-wing people so much as it is like they should just be ignored because if you can't have a conversation about what the best way to tackle climate change is, if you aren't willing to be like, well, here's how we should tackle it versus how you want to tackle it, that's a conversation.
If you just say, nah, it doesn't exist, then fuck off, go away.
Like, this is an Alex Jones where you're like, okay, well, how do we tackle this police brutality issue?
How do we tackle the unchecked fucking power of these people, which is clearly based in a white supremacy that we're just not past?
This is an Alex who you can actually have a conversation with about how to correct these issues because he notices what the issues are.
dan friesen
You can go to the side of the street.
jordan holmes
I don't understand.
Yeah, I don't understand how it is this guy goes from that.
Is it really just team sports?
Is that all it really is?
dan friesen
I don't think so.
I don't know.
unidentified
Like, is it just that people have turned...
dan friesen
From whatever advanced knowledge I have of the other episodes I've listened to in 2009, I don't know.
Okay.
I don't know.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
This is going to be wild.
Yeah, it's the I'm going to have to recalibrate my entire belief system now.
dan friesen
But we've got to keep this fresh.
Isn't this more funny?
jordan holmes
This is super weird.
I am scared.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So don't be scared.
In this next clip, Alex Jones says something very insulting about Native Americans to this Native American activist.
alex jones
I mean, at least the glass bead wampum had some visual value, but was still a scam to sell New York.
Now they just show you an empty box and say, look at how beautiful it is, and we sell our whole souls, sell our future.
So people make fun of the Native Americans, you know, buying the pretty blue and red glass beads and nails and knives and hair combs.
But, I mean, we've sold our souls for nothing.
dan friesen
I would argue that the people who you make fun of or you're pointing the finger at are the people who offered the beads.
I think that's more the lesson of history: look at these shitty white dudes manipulating people.
I don't know if Alex is getting the wrong lesson from very basic history, but it seems like he might be thinking that everyone's laughing at the Native Americans for accepting that as opposed to anyway.
jordan holmes
This is I if you if you follow if you followed my feelings throughout this whole thing, it would be the EKG of a man having a heart attack.
Like, I'm going up and down so fucking!
dan friesen
But you did hear Russell laugh.
Yeah, he's he, there's good spirit behind it.
It's not like he's saying this, and he's like, hey, fuck you, man.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
It's a mess.
So a little later, Alex Jones has a visit from someone we know very well, a dear friend of ours.
unidentified
That's such a weird thing.
jordan holmes
Just the idea of a man who still who says wampum.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Just that concept.
dan friesen
And it's not like a hack bit.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
You hear wampum sometimes in jokes.
jordan holmes
No, this is a man who's like wampum is a totally legitimate thing to say.
dan friesen
But I think he was using it for effect.
You know what I'm saying?
jordan holmes
No, I think he uses it conversationally.
dan friesen
I don't know.
We don't have enough context.
I would argue, and I think that it's the same thing as him saying, hey, at least at Wounded Knee, they killed all the children.
jordan holmes
That's dark comedy.
dan friesen
But I think it's that same sort of thing.
I don't think he's saying it in any insulting way.
I think he's saying it with a wink and a nod.
jordan holmes
You know what I'm saying?
I wouldn't go that far.
dan friesen
I'm giving out a leeway because of the other stuff.
jordan holmes
I don't think he's saying it with a wink and a nod.
I think he's saying it in pure ignorance of like, well, there's nothing wrong with saying wampum.
That's a normal thing that happened in 1940s Looney Tunes cartoon.
So it's clearly fine.
dan friesen
Maybe.
I don't know.
Anyway, we get a visit on the show from a buddy of ours.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
An old friend.
unidentified
Jesus.
No.
jordan holmes
Stevie Larry Nicks.
dan friesen
Still haven't seen him in 2009 yet.
unidentified
Oh, when does he show up?
dan friesen
He should be creeping around somewhere.
jordan holmes
When does he show up?
dan friesen
He's in play.
Steve Pieczenik is in play at some point soon.
These guys are part of Alex's world.
We haven't seen them.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
They're coming.
dan friesen
People like Paul Craig Roberts, people like Gerald Salenti are much more regular guests at this point.
But those dudes have to show up at some point pretty soon.
jordan holmes
You would think.
dan friesen
I eagerly await it.
Here's the problem.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
With the first Pachenek appearance, that's going to be a banner day for us.
dan friesen
With this stream that I'm getting all these episodes from.
jordan holmes
I don't know why I'm on this show.
You're an asshole.
dan friesen
Nothing is labeled in terms of the episodes.
It just has the dates and stuff like that.
So I know nothing going in listening to these episodes.
Thankfully, at this point in Alex Jones' broadcast career, he starts every show by being like, well, today we're going to be talking to X, Y, and Z.
He starts, and so I can get a sense of classic radio.
He never does that anymore.
unidentified
But that's the secret of 2017.
dan friesen
With modern episodes, you know, up to about 2013 or so, you can find them on YouTube.
And I can just see who the guests are and be like, ooh, Hamamoto, let's do this thing.
Whereas now, I'm like, I'm flying blind.
To the chat room, Rappaport, I think, is not in play.
I think he came around in like 2013 or so.
I think.
I'm not entirely sure.
But, boy, if Rappaport shows up randomly, that'd be exciting as well.
jordan holmes
It's turning into such a weird, like, origin story.
This is like his blue period.
Like, this is such a weird artist character arc throughout this whole thing.
This is bananas.
dan friesen
You know what it is?
jordan holmes
This is when Alex was into realism.
This was when Alex was into postmodernism.
This is when Alex was a pointalist.
Like, this is bananas.
dan friesen
No, it's, it's, what's fascinating is I think that we have tapped into, to some extent, a villain's origin story.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because at this point, you do see the remnants, or not remnants, or they only are seeds.
They're only remnants because we know the future.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they're seeds.
dan friesen
You see the kernels of rationality.
You see the kernels of, like, oh, all right, you're thinking.
And then you see the kernels of delightfulness with the sing-along with the highwaymen.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The talking about stealing beer out of carts.
Like, and this whole.
jordan holmes
This is Jack Nicholson's Joker, is what this is.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's a great movie, right?
dan friesen
Sure.
And so as this goes along, I think what we're going to see is a man get worse and worse and worse.
And I don't know.
jordan holmes
Yeah, there's no other direction for this to go.
Either that or for some reason, like somehow, let's say we continue this investigation, and it turns out in 2010, he peaks in this weird, like woke, in his words, classical liberal concept, and he's fucking crushing it, and then something bad happens to him.
Like, he falls into a vat of acid.
Something along those lines.
Like, something horrific has to turn him into the monster that he is today.
dan friesen
Hmm.
Yeah, I don't know.
jordan holmes
Maybe he got hit by a meteor or, again, was murdered by the globalists and replaced with an Alex Jones chimera.
I have called it right now, ladies and gentlemen.
dan friesen
That's your prediction.
jordan holmes
Alex Jones, that we know today, was grown in a tank of a cow uterus or whatever it is he thinks they are.
dan friesen
I'm very confused because I try and think about life events that have happened, and certainly the divorce was a big event that happened.
jordan holmes
Didn't help.
But I don't think when was that?
Like 2015.
2015?
dan friesen
Yeah, that's when it was formalized.
But I mean, it could have been falling apart for a while before that.
jordan holmes
Oh, they always do.
dan friesen
And that would actually be the least appealing narrative to me if we go back and it turns out that around when the marriage fell apart, that is when everybody's going to be able to do it.
jordan holmes
He lost his mind.
dan friesen
Yeah, because then it's just like.
jordan holmes
That would be such a bummer.
dan friesen
That is just a sad, huge story.
jordan holmes
That's such a bummer.
dan friesen
Yeah, you kind of want it to have more.
jordan holmes
There's got to be some drama.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But who knows?
We'll see.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Anyway, who's our friend?
jordan holmes
Who's our friend?
dan friesen
Who's our friend?
jordan holmes
I don't know who our friend is.
You're the one who runs this fucking show.
dan friesen
I'll give you 20 questions to figure out who our friend is.
All right.
jordan holmes
Is he white?
dan friesen
Yes.
No shit.
How dare you even ask that?
It's like we're playing Guess Who all over the place.
jordan holmes
No, I was just thinking the same thing.
Is he a pseudoscientist?
No.
Is he a climate denier?
dan friesen
Debatable.
But that's not essential to his character.
jordan holmes
All right.
Is he a player?
Is he a player in the game?
Is he like a secret agent type?
He doesn't have any insider information.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Is he former law enforcement of any kind?
dan friesen
Not that I'm aware of, and not that matters.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Like that doesn't come into the middle.
jordan holmes
All right.
Is he Hamamoto?
dan friesen
No.
I haven't said his name yet in the show.
jordan holmes
Oh, well, then now I don't even fucking know.
dan friesen
Let me just.
unidentified
Oh, wait.
jordan holmes
No, it's not today.
unidentified
Okay.
All right.
jordan holmes
Well, then fuck it.
Keep going.
dan friesen
No, no, no, you go.
jordan holmes
No, I don't have any more questions.
Yes, you do.
I have so many more questions.
I just have too many questions.
dan friesen
Get there.
unidentified
Come on.
dan friesen
You can do this.
I believe in you.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
I believe.
jordan holmes
Is he a member of a former Republican administration?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Never been in politics.
jordan holmes
Never been in politics.
unidentified
Not that I'm aware of.
jordan holmes
I got nothing.
dan friesen
He's been on our show exactly one time.
jordan holmes
Well, then, how the fuck am I supposed to know?
I don't even remember it.
We talked to Stevie Larry Nixon.
I forget his name half the time.
dan friesen
It's very memorable.
jordan holmes
Is it Charlie Sheen?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
All right.
Is it.
No, I got nothing.
unidentified
Come on.
jordan holmes
Just tell me.
Just tell me.
Don't draw this out.
Don't draw this out.
Don't make me feel stupid.
dan friesen
It's the guy who said that he saw Reagan get butt-fucked.
jordan holmes
Oh, goddammit.
I was actually going to make a reference to that earlier in the show.
God damn it.
dan friesen
It's Bob Chapman.
jordan holmes
Bob Chapman.
dan friesen
The international forecaster.
Bob Chapman.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
He is a guy who runs a publication called The International Forecaster where they give a bunch of predictions about stuff.
And hey, guess what we didn't realize from the times we've listened to him?
He is just a fucking shill for gold sale.
jordan holmes
No!
bob chapman
I think the only true place to be for safety is gold and silver-related assets.
And if you are a wealthy person and you want to have 20 or 30 or 40 percent of your assets in another safe place or a relatively safe place, I have recommended Swiss fran treasuries.
Other than that, I don't have anything to offer.
dan friesen
Okay, so it's get in gold or silver or Swiss bank account.
jordan holmes
Reagan getting fucked.
dan friesen
Swiss bank accounts.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Those are the safe places to put your money.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
Thank you, Bob.
jordan holmes
That's right.
dan friesen
Thanks, Bob.
jordan holmes
Sounds right.
dan friesen
Oh, so you're coming on.
jordan holmes
Is that all he talked about?
dan friesen
You're coming on a conspiracy theorist show who is owned by a gold and silver sale operation and fraudulent, a notoriously fraudulent gold and silver sale operation.
Someone who has lost his license about six years after this.
It's been sued multiple times.
jordan holmes
It takes a long time for the government to actually screw with rich people.
Yeah, he's been committing the crimes for a long time.
dan friesen
And so he comes on and says the only safe place for you to be.
jordan holmes
Only safe place.
dan friesen
Only safe place.
Swiss bank accounts.
Right.
Which agreed.
jordan holmes
Is that agreed?
Yeah.
Don't you Cayman Islands it now?
Don't you do something like that?
Don't you set up a shell corporation?
dan friesen
Megan, fuck with you.
jordan holmes
Like the Miami Marlins have a Shell corporation.
They have an office set up in fucking nowhere with nobody who does it.
dan friesen
Too risky.
So anyway, you know, you want to sell gold and silver.
Bob's got a recommendation for you.
jordan holmes
What's Bob's recommendation?
unidentified
How you doing, Bob?
What I wanted to ask, Bob, pretty much, is it even worth us paying?
I know it's pretty stupid, but I mean, just asking, since the money is pretty much going to amount to nothing, is it pretty much even worth paying most of these bills and credit card debts and all these sort of things that the American people are going to be having to deal with?
I mean, if the money is pretty much going to be worth nothing at all?
bob chapman
Well, you've got to understand that the people that you owe the money to are still going to be within the system.
There is going to be some kind of a system.
Maybe it'll break down from time to time, but you're still going to have to pay it off.
And just because the value of the dollar goes down, it still means that you have to pay those bills.
The way you protect yourself is to call Midas and purchase gold and silver coins.
jordan holmes
Oh, no!
Too overt.
unidentified
No!
dan friesen
Too overt.
jordan holmes
He was almost giving great financial advice.
He was really close to it.
dan friesen
Well, no, because that wasn't good advice.
That's just don't be an idiot.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
On Alex's show, that qualifies as the best advice anybody's ever given.
dan friesen
Your debts don't disappear because of bad times.
jordan holmes
That's great.
dan friesen
Sure.
But that's a reality check.
jordan holmes
I still pay my credit card bill.
I don't think the world is going to last another 10 years, but I don't want to get fucked over before then.
dan friesen
That's a reality check in some, like, to people who are too far gone.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
For sure.
But the other thing is the answer is call Midas.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's not great.
dan friesen
That's too fucking overt.
That is too much.
So this interview goes on a little while.
jordan holmes
No, that's some full-on Better Call Saul type shit right there.
dan friesen
This interview goes on a little while.
jordan holmes
Which, by the way, they, speaking of which, they fucking confiscated like 16 burner phones from Michael Cohen.
That is some for real better call saw type shit right there.
You saw it in Breaking Bad whenever he opened the drawer with 16 burner phones.
That's a guy who was the lawyer for the president.
I find that hilarious.
dan friesen
The limit on phones is three for me.
jordan holmes
For burner phones?
dan friesen
Humans.
jordan holmes
Humans.
dan friesen
For humans.
jordan holmes
For human phones?
dan friesen
Three phones.
You can have three phones.
jordan holmes
If you have 16 phones, why do you have 16 phones?
dan friesen
Three phones.
And one of them is in your house.
jordan holmes
One of them's a house.
One's a landline.
dan friesen
Well, maybe you got to call into radio shows or something like that.
It's a better connection.
You know, that sort of thing.
I've heard people talk about that.
jordan holmes
I didn't know that.
dan friesen
I've heard that from people.
Maybe they don't want to.
jordan holmes
Just get a solid VoIP.
That's all I'm saying.
dan friesen
Hey.
But look, I'll accept that as one phone.
jordan holmes
All right.
That's one phone.
dan friesen
Personal cell.
jordan holmes
Wireless cell.
Business.
dan friesen
That's it.
jordan holmes
You got three?
dan friesen
That's it.
unidentified
That's it.
More than that, you have committing crimes.
dan friesen
To quote Mr. Arnaz, you got some splaining to do.
I don't.
jordan holmes
It seems like.
dan friesen
You know what?
jordan holmes
I'll go for so much.
dan friesen
I'll go for.
I'll go four with the fourth being a wild card that I can't explain, but someone has a good explanation.
jordan holmes
Hey, you're cheating on your wife.
Something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have an affair.
dan friesen
Whoa, that's fun.
jordan holmes
Why not?
Yeah.
That sounds fun.
Yeah.
Four makes sense.
dan friesen
Five, you're crazy.
jordan holmes
16?
That seems like more than enough circumstantial evidence for any jury to convict you of literally anything.
It's like, this guy had 16 phones.
They're like, oh, yeah, he probably did some illegal shit.
dan friesen
It's one of those times.
jordan holmes
He had 16 phones.
What kind of human being has 16 phones that isn't committing a crime?
dan friesen
It's one of those times that I wish this argument would hold up in court.
Come on.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly, right?
Come on.
Come on.
dan friesen
You put your elbow down on the juror box as a lawyer.
Come on.
jordan holmes
He's got 16 phones.
dan friesen
Come on.
Guys.
jordan holmes
Objection, Your Honor.
unidentified
Hey.
jordan holmes
Sustained.
Your Honor?
Come on.
dan friesen
Let's have a sidebar.
jordan holmes
Come on.
What are you doing?
dan friesen
So they take some more calls.
jordan holmes
He's got 16 fucking phones.
dan friesen
They take some more calls.
And as much as we've enjoyed Alex being mad at the cops about how they killed an unarmed black man, which we've enjoyed.
jordan holmes
Uncharacteristic reasonability.
dan friesen
It turns out that some of that might have more to do with hating the cops in 2009.
jordan holmes
He got pulled over, didn't he?
He got some kind of ticky-tack bullshit.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think it just, I'm not entirely sure that I can't explain it, but I do know that it's not that he cares about black people.
Yeah, well, because listen to this.
alex jones
Well, here's some good news.
Here's some good news.
I went to the mall because the lady who cuts my hair is in the mall.
I don't normally go to the mall.
Don't really like that culture.
But I'm in there, and I had three separate black guys, two of them working at Lil Kios, stop me and go, you know, I always liked you for years, but kind of got upset at first when you didn't like Obama.
But I want to basically apologize.
You were right about Obama, and I can see his betrayal, so give them some time.
The people who won't wake up is just white yuppies because they're just so arrogant.
They're so trusting in the system.
Bob Chapman, you want to comment on that?
bob chapman
No, no.
dan friesen
It's perfect.
jordan holmes
Reagan got buckfucked.
It's perfect.
dan friesen
So the reason that I think that that is racist in character is because he says that he doesn't like the culture of malls and then immediately is like a bunch of black people come over and told me that they're sorry about criticizing me for liking Obama or not liking Obama.
jordan holmes
Really?
I did not get that.
dan friesen
The fact that his mind went so quickly to apologetic black people coming up to him in the mall after he said he didn't like the culture of the mall.
jordan holmes
The culture of the mall thing did not bother me at all.
I don't like the culture of the mall.
Has nothing to do with race?
I think the race issue comes up when he specifically says three black people in his traditional style of this is a made-up thing, and I have to specifically point out minorities in order to bolster my credibility as though I have any amongst minorities.
dan friesen
But I also think from context clues, and even though we're so thrown by this man in 2009, I still think I understand his brain pretty well.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, he's still a virulent racist.
dan friesen
And when he says, I don't like the culture of the mall, I think he's responding to black people being at the mall.
I think that's what he said.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Because he so quickly is saying, because he, okay, if you listen to that clip, he starts with, here's the good news.
I don't like the culture of the mall, but I was at the mall because I had to get a haircut, and black people came up to me and apologized.
Right.
The track of that sentence leads a person, a reasonable, thinking person, to assume that the culture he doesn't like in the mall has something to do with the black people.
The visible black people there to him.
jordan holmes
I can see that.
dan friesen
Generally, he doesn't like it when black people don't apologize to him at the mall when he's there.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
And the good news is the last time he was there, three of them did.
That's how I parse the sentence.
jordan holmes
I get that.
I understand that.
I'm going to be honest, though, my own personal biases.
dan friesen
I also don't like malls.
jordan holmes
My own personal biases came out, and I was like, oh, he doesn't like the youths.
Right.
He watched mall rats in the 90s and he was like, oh, I hate malls.
dan friesen
They're all going to try and put shit on my pretzels.
jordan holmes
Also, what do you mean you don't like the culture of malls?
You get your hair cut in a mall.
You can get your hair cut anywhere.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There are so many places.
There's salons down the street from your fucking Austin, you dad.
Come on.
What are you talking about?
You can get your hair cut fucking anywhere.
dan friesen
It's nonsense.
And also.
jordan holmes
Now, that's a lady that we should interview.
dan friesen
It would be better if Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I want to know about the lady who cut Alex Jones' hair in 2009.
dan friesen
I don't.
jordan holmes
I do.
dan friesen
Probably took about 45 seconds.
Still did not have a whole lot of hair back then, says the guy with a ridiculous mane.
jordan holmes
Hey, hey, hey.
Don't talk about receding hairlines, folks.
dan friesen
I like having this hair, but man, I don't like how much it costs to get it cut.
So I shan't.
jordan holmes
Anyway, my bill is going down as my hairline recedes.
I'll tell you that right now.
dan friesen
Well, that's the good news.
jordan holmes
No black people have come up to me to tell me about how apologetic they are about my hair life.
dan friesen
So we got one more clip, and it's just further bringing home.
Yeah.
I've said this to you a couple times.
I've said this to other friends.
jordan holmes
To Jesus in your quiet moments.
dan friesen
I regret not naming this show They're All Con Men because I think that more than talking about Alex Jones, we talk a lot about Alex Jones.
Yeah.
But the through line is all these other people who come up on his show, all the people who are involved with Project Camelon.
All these like Gavin McGinnis, Mike Cernovich, Jack Pisobic, Steve Pieczenik even, Hamamoto.
They're all fucking con men.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Everybody, they're all con men.
jordan holmes
Milo.
dan friesen
Milo.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Milo's a clunky con man.
But all of these people are running elaborate cons.
Right.
jordan holmes
So you regret not naming our show something that is even harder to find than our Facebook group.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
But the reason I bring this up is that, you know, you got Bob Chapman on here, and he said the only safe thing to do is buy gold and silver and fuck Reagan.
And then he said to a caller, what you need to do is call Midas.
And so here's how this show ends up.
alex jones
All right, we are back live with Bob Chapman.
I'm going to come back in the next whole segment, take a few more calls.
But right now, briefly, I wanted Bob and Ted Anderson to have a chance to talk.
Because I know Midas Resources also offers a trial copy of the International Forecaster.
jordan holmes
Real business.
That is some cross-promotion right there.
alex jones
Bob Chapman.
jordan holmes
That is corporate synergy, Dan.
dan friesen
Bob Chapman.
jordan holmes
Great business.
dan friesen
Bob Chapman's publication is distributed, at least in part, by Midas Resources.
So when he tells people to call Midas, he is doing a quid pro quo in some way for help with distribution.
unidentified
And they're all doing it on this show in public.
alex jones
It's fucking amazing.
jordan holmes
So good.
alex jones
But Ted is doing gold is up again today, but Ted bought it a few weeks ago.
jordan holmes
And it was down.
alex jones
$760 level.
Whoa.
Again, the price is close to, I guess, $90 under what it is right now.
So he factors that into the savings.
Ted told folks out there about today and throughout the weekend the gold offer.
And then I don't know what Bob's going to say.
I want to see what he's going to say because he's a great analyst on this about how good a deal he thinks it is.
Bob Chapman and Ted Anderson, you guys talk.
ted anderson
Yeah, well, basically.
dan friesen
That's code for I want to eat a sandwich.
jordan holmes
I don't know what he's going to say.
He's probably going to say it's a good deal, but I don't know what he's going to say about it.
dan friesen
I predict Bob Chapman's going to be suspicious of this deal.
jordan holmes
What would you give for Ted to go on and be like, today's not a good day.
dan friesen
Not great.
jordan holmes
Today's not a good day to buy gold.
Wait until tomorrow.
dan friesen
Right.
ted anderson
Basically, what I have right now, Alex, I mean, gold did edge up again today and seen a peak of $868.90, which means it is getting stronger.
The unemployment figures came out way low.
I mean, way higher than what it was.
The economy here is melting down.
What I did is I picked up some francs here just a short while ago at that price level that you're referring to.
jordan holmes
Love a frank.
unidentified
And they're currently at 204, where the brand service is at 252.
Walking Liberty Halves are at 840 or $8.40 or $168 Parola 20.
ted anderson
All that stuff is really a good buying range for the market.
Obviously, with the economy melting down, I just can't think of a better time to be getting involved in the gold and silver.
Plus, also having support of rising market prices, you know, just the whole thing.
I mean, that gun issue that you're talking about earlier on is going to make people's blood boil.
dan friesen
So even Ted Anderson, as an energetic force on this show, is saying, in order to help sell my gold, I'm going to refer back to a gun issue that you were talking about.
And spoiler alert, that was Alex earlier in the show talking about how everyone's going to get their guns taken.
And he's like, I don't remember the name of the bill.
I've been meaning to cover it.
jordan holmes
Make your guns out of gold.
They'll never be able to take them then.
dan friesen
He's like, I don't remember the name of the bill, but I'm going to get to it.
I can't find it.
And then it turns out it's a World Net Daily fucking article.
Like, that's not a bill.
It didn't fucking happen.
Nope.
And also, real fun.
I mean, these people are fucking so overt.
They're so fucking lunatic.
jordan holmes
Hilarious.
dan friesen
There's only one clip that I wish I would have pulled, and that's where Bob Chapman is like, you better bury your guns and ammunition.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
He's read the book.
jordan holmes
Where to hide your guns, my friend.
That's a man who hides his guns.
dan friesen
It might be even further synergy that we're unaware of, that Bob Chapman owns where to hideyourguns.com.
jordan holmes
Is that still up?
dan friesen
I think it might be.
Someone told me it might be.
I don't remember.
Anyway, we've got to wrap this up.
We've gotten to the end of this exploration of three days in January 2009.
Here's what I think are the important takeaways.
One, Alex is already giving unacceptable and unexplainable pro-Russian narratives in 2009 for major world events.
jordan holmes
But he's still, at this time, he's sneaking them in.
Somewhat.
He's not spending 25 minutes talking about it.
He's just tossing in, like, hey, everything Russia does is great.
dan friesen
Oh, we're going to move on.
jordan holmes
Can't buy toys.
dan friesen
Doesn't bring it back up on the ninth at all.
No, it never brings it up.
Of course not.
jordan holmes
Why would it?
dan friesen
I didn't just selectively edit the camera.
jordan holmes
As you said, the situation was resolved immediately.
Right?
dan friesen
It did.
It took two weeks.
jordan holmes
Wait, it took two weeks?
dan friesen
Yeah, and people were dying.
jordan holmes
Well, then I assume he brought it up again.
dan friesen
Maybe.
I mean, he might.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
He didn't.
dan friesen
We might see that in the next episode.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
You've already said he doesn't.
dan friesen
Who knows?
You do.
I don't actually know all that much.
Okay.
Because actually, Alex goes on vacation.
I should be clear about that.
That's a little piece I know.
jordan holmes
Of course.
There you go.
All right.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Alex then bounces.
dan friesen
Alex has a vacation, and he has a guy named Jason Burmese host, who I have no idea who that guy is.
I have no idea who that guy is.
jordan holmes
All right.
Now I'm interested.
dan friesen
He's a character from these days and not.
jordan holmes
Is he better than Owen Schroyer?
dan friesen
I would bet money he's come out since he quit and said that Alex is full of shit.
I guess, because most of his old employees have.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But the other thing that I think is important is that Alex is a racist, but not that racist.
Which is interesting.
Also, he's willing to talk negatively about Israel.
jordan holmes
He's one of those reflexive racists at this point in time.
dan friesen
No, no.
jordan holmes
It's almost deep.
dan friesen
It's deep.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's not so much that he is out and out voting for racism, which is what he is now.
It's more like it's just he's a good old boy who was raised in Texas, so of course he's fucking racist.
Yeah, like even when he's trying not to be racist, he's still going to throw in a wampum.
Like he's just a monster.
dan friesen
But also at the same time, still willing to have an interview with a guy who is there for First People's Rights.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Which is pretty crazy compared to the press.
jordan holmes
Bananas.
dan friesen
Also.
jordan holmes
I don't know if he's ever even spoken to a non-white person in the past two years.
Aside from the Nation of Islam.
dan friesen
Farrakhan?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's had Candace Owens on.
unidentified
Oh, right.
dan friesen
Who Kanye really loves?
jordan holmes
Let's not talk about it.
dan friesen
You know, I think that there's a lot of interesting threads here, and I hope that we're able to get to the bottom of a lot of them.
jordan holmes
This is a whole new wrinkle.
I'm so fascinated by this.
dan friesen
How much does he sell the bullhorn for?
That's what we've got to find out.
jordan holmes
Do we not know how much he winds up selling it for?
dan friesen
Not yet.
There was a $50,000 bid.
unidentified
That's all we know.
jordan holmes
You can't be real.
dan friesen
Might be.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
I don't want that bullhorn.
dan friesen
We've got to wrap this up.
jordan holmes
If you are deeply in the past, you're never going to find this bullhorn.
You can first off follow us at knowledge underscore fight and knowledgefight.com.
If you know where this bullhorn is, you better goddamn tweet it at knowledge underscore fight.
unidentified
For sure.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you that right there.
dan friesen
Or you can send us a message on Facebook.
unidentified
All bullhorn-related messages are over here.
jordan holmes
Or you could leave a five-star bullhorn review on iTunes.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
You could definitely do that.
dan friesen
If you leave a review on iTunes and mention Terror Crusher 1, Tyranny Crusher, Tyrone Crusher 1.
We will send you a shirt that we don't have.
Who knows?
All right, let's wrap this up.
jordan holmes
What else do we got?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, if you want to support the show.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Go to knowledgefight.com, click support the show, and then mail us Tyranny Crusher One.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's the best way to support this show.
dan friesen
God damn it, if I get a broken bullhorn in the mail and it's not Tyranny Crusher One, just another broken bullhorn.
jordan holmes
It's just a regular broken bullhorn.
Horrible.
With Tyranny Crusher one spray painted on it.
dan friesen
If that happens, I will know that it was SETCOM that you know what I'll do?
jordan holmes
Sell it for 50 grand.
I'll tell you that right now.
dan friesen
There you go.
Anyway, it's your turn.
jordan holmes
It's my turn.
Oh, dude, you know exactly what it's like.
The number of people.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
Do you think it's going to be related to this show that we just did?
This was fantastic, but you know who I want to go fuck themselves.
dan friesen
All the Democrats in the world.
jordan holmes
You're goddamn fucking right.
dan friesen
Yeah, go fuck yourselves.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
unidentified
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
alex jones
I love your work.
Love you.
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