Today, Dan and Jordan come to you from the past to discuss a couple episodes of The Alex Jones Show from the even deeper past. In this installment, the gents find Alex embarking on an intense white victimhood narrative, responding to the news of a new Pope being named, and doing an iffy impression of McGruff The Crime Dog.
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| I'll be taking care of that in the Wednesday episode because Bye. | ||
| The only content that was really available of Alex covering it is a two-minute video that he shot in an airport where people behind him are looking very confused and very upset at... | ||
| Being in the background against their will in an Alex Jones video, I felt very sad for these people. | ||
| But he talks for about a minute about his feelings about Epstein's death, and then there's a minute of a commercial for his survival foods and water filtration. | ||
| So that's a good sign. | ||
| That does not make for an episode. | ||
| So anyway, that will be on Wednesday. | ||
| We'll have a modern day episode. | ||
| But I believe that this episode has a lot of fun in it. | ||
| And I hope you do enjoy. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Bye. | ||
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I'm sweating knowledgefight.com. | |
| I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys. | ||
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Knowledge fight. | |
| I need money. | ||
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Andy in Kansas. | |
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a big fan. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your word. | ||
| Knowledge Fight. | ||
| KnowledgeFight.com. | ||
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I love you. | |
| Hey everybody, welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Indeed we are, Dan. | ||
| What up, Jordan? | ||
| Dan? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| When you were going through puberty, did you have a lot of zits and stuff? | ||
| Not a ton. | ||
| No? | ||
| Didn't have any skin issues? | ||
| I wouldn't say I didn't have any, but it wasn't as big a problem as media had led me to believe it would be. | ||
| I thought for sure, based on all of the TV shows I'd watched, all of the teen dramas, that it would be the biggest crisis. | ||
| It really wasn't. | ||
| I got some zits here and there, and certainly it was always... | ||
| I did feel embarrassed when you'd have a big white head, but it wasn't. | ||
| It wasn't that terrible. | ||
| I really was worried you were going to go pubes. | ||
| No. | ||
| I really thought you were going through puberty when you start getting them hairs. | ||
| Boring! | ||
| I don't want to know. | ||
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That's boring. | |
| I don't want to know. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| And I won't tell you. | ||
| I'm interested just because I was watching one of those teenage drama series with my girlfriend last night, and it was very much like I was trying to think back on my high school experience, and I didn't really have that many skin issues either. | ||
| I think I went through puberty really early. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Because I had a beard really young. | ||
| Or at least facial hair that came in as a full beard much earlier than a lot of... | ||
| Did you literally just tell me when you got your beard? | ||
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No. | |
| I said beard. | ||
| I know. | ||
| And then also my voice was pretty low pretty early. | ||
| Like in a way that was noticeable to people around me. | ||
| People would think I was an adult when I answered the phone. | ||
| Oh, no, absolutely. | ||
| But, yeah, maybe I'm lucky. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| That's nice. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's nice. | ||
| I always assumed growing up that it was going to be, like, I'm going to get an entire pimple face because my little sister did have that experience of just, like... | ||
| Oh, man, she did the whole, you gotta buy the creams, and you gotta... | ||
| And the Accutane. | ||
| You gotta do the whole thing. | ||
| And it was brutal. | ||
| So I felt amazed that I dodged that bullet. | ||
| Our hearts go out to the folks who have struggled with acne. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's tough. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, Jordan, this is a podcast where I don't know a whole lot about that subjective experience, but I do know a lot about Alex Jones. | ||
| And I don't know anything about either. | ||
| Correct, and currently you are on vacation. | ||
| Yay! | ||
| We're recording this before you take off for vacation, but you will be gone halfway across the world when this comes out, and you'll be free of any consequences. | ||
| Man, this is, I'm not going to tweet, period, until I get back because I don't want to get on that. | ||
| I don't want to have that experience of like saying, sending some tweet that when I land in South Africa is like, oh, the internet just killed me. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| I lost my job. | ||
| I don't have. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| So I wanted to, you know, get together with you and record an episode in advance, of course, because the people won't, you can't stand a whole week plus without the two of us hanging out, talking shit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Honestly, I'm going to miss it, which is crazy. | ||
| Yeah, but he'll be back soon enough. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| The problem that comes in with that is that we're very limited possibilities. | ||
| You know, we can't really do a present day episode as well because we're recording this preemptively. | ||
| Stick around in 2013 or do Wacky Wednesday. | ||
| And we've decided we will do one of each. | ||
| So today we're going to be back in 2013. | ||
| We're going to be looking at March 13th and 14th, 2013. | ||
| And I think we're actually turning a bit of a corner here. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I think these couple days have some pretty wild shit. | ||
| They found the Zodiac Killer. | ||
| That is not what happens. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| But there's a development. | ||
| I will say one new development that I can spoil ahead of time. | ||
| We get a new Pope. | ||
| Ooh! | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That happens over the span of days. | ||
| We do get a new pope. | ||
| Holy shit! | ||
| That's wild to think about. | ||
| This is that couple days. | ||
| Plays much less of a role in anything that happens than you might think. | ||
| You might think that Alex would be very excited about this and full of angles about it. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Spoiler alert, this is just a racist mess of a couple days. | ||
| This is one of the most racist... | ||
| Things I've ever heard from Alex's show. | ||
| This couple days is profoundly racist. | ||
| In 2013? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| No shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's deeply... | ||
| Deeply racist. | ||
| So you get rid of a Nazi pope and Alex gets racist. | ||
| I think that makes perfect sense. | ||
| He's got to even out the ballots. | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| The universe must do. | ||
| So we'll get to that. | ||
| And we'll also get to giving some shout-outs to people who have signed up and supported the show. | ||
| But I actually found two out-of-context drops for today's show. | ||
| So let's get one of them in before the shout-outs. | ||
| I have no guilt. | ||
| I'm a really good guy. | ||
| I'm trying to free humanity. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So take it how you want it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Real good guy. | ||
| No guilt. | ||
| That sounds like something that somebody without guilt says all the time. | ||
| Somebody with no guilt says all the time. | ||
| It's not someone who's doth protested too much. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I have no guilt, only appreciation for the people that I would like to give a shout out to now. | ||
| Nicely done. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| But that's not even true. | ||
| You do have some guilt. | ||
| I do have a little guilt. | ||
| You barely just proved the point. | ||
| I have a bit of guilt about anybody who supports our show, but I'm trying to work through it. | ||
| It's my own fucking psychological mess. | ||
| But I do appreciate everybody from the bottom of my heart, and so I would like to say, first of all, this person today is lousy with joke names. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this first one is somebody who I will say your name, but I am not sure that I endorse the message that your name implies. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| But by Ethereum, you are now a policy walk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| We do not advocate for cryptocurrencies of any form, except MaxCoin. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Becca, thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thanks, Becca. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Jennifer, thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you, Jennifer. | ||
| Next, Alex Jones killed my dog. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you so much, Alex Jones killed my dog. | ||
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Thank you, the truth. | |
| Finally, I'd like to give some shout-outs to some people who donated on an elevated level. | ||
| We appreciate it very much. | ||
| Melissa, thank you so much. | ||
| Tasha, thank you so much. | ||
| And there are no wild wolves in Chicago. | ||
| You saw a coyote. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| And that very well might be. | ||
| I'm willing to accept that. | ||
| I told the story of seeing a wolf. | ||
| I believe it to be a wolf, but if it's a coyote, then so be it. | ||
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Whatever. | |
| I will take your criticism and accept it, and thank you, along with Melissa and Tasha. | ||
| You are all wonderful technocrats. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Crikey, mate, that's fantastic. | ||
| Have yourself a brew. | ||
| How's your 401k doing, bro? | ||
| We gotta go full tilt boogie on this, Watson, alright? | ||
| Let's just get down to business. | ||
| We ain't making that money off that heroin. | ||
| Why are you pimp so good? | ||
| My neck is freakishly large. | ||
| I declare InfoWare on you. | ||
| Thank you so much, Melissa, Tasha, and there are no wild wolves in Chicago. | ||
| You saw a coyote. | ||
| Yes, thank you. | ||
| We appreciate it. | ||
| You know, telling somebody they're wrong while also donating some of their money to something that's important really helps the medicine go down. | ||
| It really does. | ||
| It really does. | ||
| Being kicked while supported feels familiar. | ||
| So, Jordan, we've got this episode to go over. | ||
| Oh, and if you are listening and you'd like to support the show, you can do that by going to our website, knowledgefight.com, clicking the button that says support the show. | ||
| We would appreciate it. | ||
| Please do. | ||
| Now, before we get into today's proceedings, here is the second out-of-context drop from today's show. | ||
| They literally attack our testicles. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| So we're going to have the most racist couple of episodes, and it started off by... | ||
| They're kicking us in the balls, fellas. | ||
| I think, if I recall the context of that, it's less of an outward assault on the testicles and more of a pharmacological attack. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Alex is worried about his balls. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So we start on the 13th, and right at the beginning of the show, we get an announcement of a big guest that Alex is going to have on. | ||
| And this is continuing in this trend. | ||
| It's interesting to see, because right before he went on vacation... | ||
| He had, like, Ted Nugent, Michael Savage. | ||
| He had these big gits on his show, and he's super excited about it. | ||
| Riding the wave of fighting Piers Morgan. | ||
| All this, like, I'm penetrating other people's market spaces. | ||
| And now he's trying to continue that with someone who is familiar to him. | ||
| It's not a stranger or anything, but it's someone who has a gigantic presence. | ||
| I've seen the numbers. | ||
| Trade publications vary, but... | ||
| The second most listened to show in this country is not Sean Hannity, and it is not certainly Glenn Beck. | ||
| It is George Norrie. | ||
| And I find him to be a very interesting individual, and he's really helped us get the word out over the years. | ||
| And I wanted to get him on about the nature of reality and where he sees humanity going and the times that he sees ahead. | ||
| Because it was George now 10 years ago. | ||
| Who started putting me on Coast to Coast AM for full shows, three hours. | ||
| And nowadays, to talk about the New World Order and prison camps and checkpoints and drones and surveillance grids and deadly vaccines, that's pretty much passe. | ||
| I tuned into two different shows on 590 yesterday, and I tuned into WLAI in San Antonio while I was out driving to work and driving back yesterday and doing some errands. | ||
| Every show was saying there's a police state takeover, the government runs Al-Qaeda, we're in deep trouble. | ||
| I would argue that you're hearing those things, that's not indicative of widespread, everybody's talking about that. | ||
| It's like, those are the stations you're on. | ||
| If they're airing your show, they might be selected towards covering similar topics. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Also, that's not a good thing. | ||
| No. | ||
| My shit's going worldwide! | ||
| That's not a good thing. | ||
| So Alex has George Norrie from Coast to Coast AM who's going to come up on this episode. | ||
| And Alex saying that George Norrie was the first person to give him a large platform is a perfect argument for why softball programs like Coast to Coast AM could be pretty dangerous. | ||
| They're usually not. | ||
| Joe Rogan! | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| I think it's a little bit different, but yeah, there are similarities. | ||
| I was thinking about it in terms of that. | ||
| Joe is... | ||
| More critical of his guests than George Norris. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Of course, of course. | ||
| It's hard not to be more critical than George Norris. | ||
| George Norris is just like... | ||
| He might as well not be there. | ||
| Carrie Cassidy is more... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, most of the time, I don't think his show is a problem. | ||
| Like, Coast to Coast isn't a problem a lot of the time. | ||
| You'll end up with a charming eccentric or someone pitching ideas that are so far past the point of believability that they're not really threatening. | ||
| However, a platform like that, where the host has cultivated an audience full of open-minded but not that critical people, where the host has a policy of not being a hostile interviewer and letting people speak their piece, a platform like that is an ideal target for someone like Alex. | ||
| It's the greatest gift you could ever give a malignant narcissist looking to expand their flock. | ||
| With a show like Coast to Coast, the hard work needs to be done in the booking process. | ||
| You can have a loose, freewheeling, non-confrontational interview, but if you do... | ||
| You have a responsibility to not allow people on your show who are only there to poach your audience and get them into their cult. | ||
| If you encourage open-mindedness and complete naivete in your audience, you have an obligation to then protect them from malicious influences. | ||
| And that's a part of the equation that none of these people who run shows like this seem to get. | ||
| If they don't book their show very carefully, what they're basically doing is corralling gullible people into one centralized place where they can be targeted by someone with bad will. | ||
| And that seems to be at least a piece of Alex Jones's rise to prominence and relevance. | ||
| And for this and many other reasons, I would like to say that George Norrie can go Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| George Norrie put all that fish in the barrel and then Alex shot him. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's exactly what happened. | ||
| It's a phenomenon that I don't know that necessarily a lot of these people are all that cognizant that they're engaging in. | ||
| But when you have a show like Coast to Coast AM where everything is based on a lack of evidence, like nobody has any evidence of any of the shit they're saying, and they're just open-minded to maybe this is possible, that is a breeding ground. | ||
| That is a warm Petri dish that you can introduce whatever you want into it and let it grow. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it's dangerous. | ||
| And while you're in there, eventually you're going to have to graduate into, well, now I need to know what is true. | ||
| I can't stay open-minded and all that stuff. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| You'll make a decision of what is true. | ||
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There it is, yeah. | |
| But you're not going to necessarily demand the proof. | ||
| Oh, no, no, no. | ||
| I mean, eventually you're going to want a truth. | ||
| You're going to stop wanting the open-minded anything is possible and start wanting some sort of certainty. | ||
| I've spent all of my time. | ||
| You'll err towards that. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Certainly, that'll be a direction you'll go in, and someone like Alex will provide you that truth. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And it'll be there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, it's not... | ||
| I don't think that this is any statement that I'm making that something like Coast to Coast shouldn't exist. | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| Or that they should be censored or banned. | ||
| But it needs to be a part of the equation that these people running shows like this have. | ||
| Or they need to be open about the fact that, like... | ||
| We're trying to dupe people. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| You shouldn't be able to, like, pretend that your intentions aren't in that direction and then behave in every way that leads towards that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You need an ombudsman. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know what they do, but yes. | ||
| So Alex, in that clip there, also was saying that, you know, like, I listen to all these radio stations. | ||
| It's passe to talk about the stuff that I talk about. | ||
| It's all normal now. | ||
| There's a little bit of a delusion of grandeur that's in there, too. | ||
| Because he's not just saying that his ideas are all mainstream. | ||
| He's convinced that he's the reason they're mainstream. | ||
| And all of these people are just following his wake. | ||
| And there might be some truth to that, but it's not the whole picture. | ||
| He was on the air just going, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, government runs Al-Qaeda. | ||
| And I heard the morning show saying it. | ||
| And this is without it being on Drudge Report, which most radio shows go and get their news from. | ||
| This was, without it even being on Infowars, it was not even a meme in the media. | ||
| And I heard three shows yesterday, and when you see a chain reaction like that, and I see that more and more, or something out of the ether. | ||
| Well, I haven't called Jeff, but I'll guarantee you that all three of the shows, WAI and the 2590 shows, heard my Sunday show. | ||
| Where I talked about it for about an hour and a half of the two hours. | ||
| So he said at the beginning, it's not on InfoWars. | ||
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But then, 30 seconds later, he's like, I guarantee I heard my show. | |
| I mean, it's not on InfoWars, but it was on InfoWars. | ||
| It wasn't on the website, but I talked about it. | ||
| So everybody's listening. | ||
| So that's a little bit grandiose. | ||
| And then also, real dangerous mentality to have that everybody gets all their, all radio shows just read from Drudge. | ||
| I think he accidentally gave up the game. | ||
| Most radio shows just get their news from Drudge, so it's okay that I get my news from Drudge. | ||
| Most radio, it's most radio shows. | ||
| It does seem like maybe a justification. | ||
| So, I told you that this is a really racist couple of days, and it starts pretty quick. | ||
| I would have to. | ||
| Because Alex is on some, like, they're attacking white people shit. | ||
| That's his big narrative on the 13th. | ||
| And when you really get down to the bottom of what's going on here, his intentions become crystal clear. | ||
| People couldn't believe it! | ||
| Couldn't believe it for four or five days when we first broke the MIAC, then not just the state-level report, the federal master report, and others. | ||
| And since then, there's over 100 FBI manuals and flyers given to every business you can imagine, from animal husbandry to tattoos, from barbershops to clothiers, you name it, saying blue jeans, cell phones, a sign of terrorism, but the number one sign, and it says it in the manuals, But I'm about to show you one right now. | ||
| Not a manual, L.A. Times. | ||
| They say being white is the sign of terror. | ||
| So he says, he's going to read to you from the manual. | ||
| It's not the manual, it's the L.A. Times. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| How could you get that wrong? | ||
| You call the L.A. Times some sort of a manual? | ||
| Like an internal manual? | ||
| It was a fucking op-ed article. | ||
| Yeah, but he was quoting the manual, right? | ||
| No! | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Well, then never mind. | ||
| This is stupid. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| So apparently there's an LA Times article that says that if you're white, you're a terrorist. | ||
| That doesn't sound true. | ||
| Because it's not. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| But I didn't know really what to go on here, and I wasn't quite sure. | ||
| It just seemed like he could be talking about nothing. | ||
| Or anything. | ||
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Right. | |
| I was just like, ah. | ||
| I need more details. | ||
| And so a little bit later in the episode, he gives some more details, and we figure out what is up. | ||
| And he went on Slimeball. | ||
| Mark Potok went on and said, we're putting out another red alert. | ||
| The new threat is white gun owners. | ||
| They're going to attack. | ||
| And in their report, and in their letter, and what the letter sourced was their report, guess who's at the top of the list? | ||
| A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R-J-O-N-E-S. | ||
| And what does that spell? | ||
| Alexander Jones. | ||
| Who is that? | ||
| You bet. | ||
| I love that at the end there. | ||
| Who is that? | ||
| You bet. | ||
| That's not even... | ||
| That doesn't even make sense. | ||
| So, I think slimeball is hardball. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I'm pretty sure. | ||
| So you got this Mark Potok went on TV and was saying that there's a white extremist issue that we should pay attention to. | ||
| He wasn't right. | ||
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Uh-huh. | |
| It's a good thing that nobody ever listened to him. | ||
| So it's fair to say, or it is fair, that Mark Potok was talking about the possible threat that was posed by some members of the white gun-owning community. | ||
| But here, what we're seeing, Alex, as usual, is leaving out some very important context. | ||
| Mark's comments were in response to a video that was put out by a Tennessee weapons instructor by the name of James Yeager, literally saying that if Obama put forth any gun control measures, it was time to, quote, start killing people. | ||
| Mark Potok was just quoting James Yeager. | ||
| It's really indicative of the sort of gaslighting that Alex engages in all the time, what we're seeing here. | ||
| Some gun weirdo threatens to kill people. | ||
| Then someone who works at the SPLC says it would be wise to pay attention to this guy threatening to kill people and people in his community who are making similar threats. | ||
| And Alex ignores the original threat and pretends that the SPLC guy is nuts and just saying that all white people are terrorists. | ||
| This really is one of the main tricks that Alex uses on his show. | ||
| The robbing a story or comment of prior context that would make it make complete sense. | ||
| All that happened here was that Potok wrote an article about this threat and provided specific examples of other groups and individuals around the country who were making similar threats about a violent revolution that they were ready to set off. | ||
| This article that he wrote was published in Salon on January 11th, and Potok had been a guest on Hardball to discuss the topic, which Alex, I assume, is responding to. | ||
| I know that he needs to make a big deal out of every perceived slight against white people, but really, you should know what's going on here. | ||
| And you should know what actually is going on here. | ||
| Because this is what Alex is turning into all whites are terrorists. | ||
| But there's more. | ||
| The original article at the center of this whole thing, like I said, was Mark Potok responding to a video put out by James Yeager. | ||
| And once you realize who James Yeager is, everything comes into focus. | ||
| Yeager is the CEO of Tactical Response, a company that sells weapons, weapon parts, and tactical training. | ||
| They're also a sponsor of Alex's show. | ||
| Jaeger's been on the show many times, and Alex sells gun parts from his site, on his website. | ||
| Or at least he definitely did in the past. | ||
| I'm not sure if he still does. | ||
| That relationship is mysteriously undisclosed in Alex's commentary about Mark Potok, the LA Times, all of this. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| No, that's not okay. | ||
| No. | ||
| That's just not okay. | ||
| How is that a thing? | ||
| How is that a thing that can happen? | ||
| I feel like that... | ||
| Man! | ||
| There are so many things that aren't illegal and that I don't know how to police correctly, but really shouldn't be possible or okay. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, what you have is a level of manipulation and a level of... | ||
| There's intent behind it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So Mark Potok is the guy who worked at the SPLC Center who was behind the report that the LA Times article is based on. | ||
| So it's at the root of all of this stuff. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| And Mark Potok's article that he wrote for Salon that was an extension of this commentary is about James Yeager. | ||
| So you have this explicit connection between this all being about people explicitly threatening to kill people if there is any gun control measures passed. | ||
| So it's just, you've got a cart and horse situation that's completely, Alex is forgetting about what's actually behind the chicken and egg, if you will. | ||
| Whatever the cause and effect is, he's ignoring the cause, talking about the effect as if it exists in a vacuum. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's abusive. | ||
| It's a manipulative strategy that I think is just bullshit. | ||
| And he only does this when it's issues about white people. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Well, he thinks that white gun owners should be able to threaten, To kill people with no consequences, and that way they can terrorize them into doing whatever they want. | ||
| He's a terrorist. | ||
| Well, what's really interesting about this is that Alex, because of the LA Times article, the Mark Podok on Slimeball, because of all that, Alex is making a big prediction. | ||
| In this next clip, we will see. | ||
| And it's pretty extreme, and I think I understand what's going on. | ||
| They've got all these movies coming out where militias attack the White House. | ||
| So they can stage a false flag, have it be incredibly immoral, what happens, blow up a nursery like Oklahoma City, whatever, and then blame it on us and say, see, we told you so. | ||
| And they are moving into fire zone. | ||
| The Death Star is clear to fire in five minutes. | ||
| So here, again, this is what we talked about on our last Wednesday episode. | ||
| The pre-hype. | ||
| This is the pre-hype for the attack. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I mean, politically speaking, five seconds. | ||
| It is coming around, to use a Star Wars analogy, coming around Yavin and is about to be cleared of fire, okay? | ||
| I mean, the Death Star is coming around. | ||
| And if you're not in your X-Wing out there right now fighting every day to expose these murdering terrorists, they're going to bring in the Red Terror. | ||
| They're panicked. | ||
| They're scared. | ||
| They know we've got the initiative, and this is history happening right now. | ||
| The Death Star is clear to fire in five seconds. | ||
| That means any minute now, any time, we're in a death struggle to back them off, to expose them, so they don't pull it off and they hold back and don't do it. | ||
| And then when they do do it, if they do do it, we're going to really be able to deal with them. | ||
| Because people now know, we've got people everywhere watching. | ||
| The minute they blow something up, folks, everyone should carry cameras on them at all times. | ||
| So what's really interesting here is that within a couple weeks, the Boston bombing happens. | ||
| So Alex is here, and he's saying these things, and people are going to interpret that as him predicting the Boston bombing. | ||
| And when the Boston bombing does happen, he's going to be able to say, I predicted this. | ||
| He's not responding to the LA Times or the SPLC or Mark Podock. | ||
| He's responding to knowing that James Yeager and people like him are threatening to do stuff like this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is protection. | ||
| This is self-defense. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This is preemptive justification for things that he has a very good idea that some of his militia buddies are going to do. | ||
| That's what's going on here. | ||
| That's too conspiracy even for me. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| That his predictions of a terrorist attack are based around his militia buddies planning a terrorist attack, telling him about it, having him say that there's going to be one that they're going to blame on them. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| To be clear, that's not exactly what I'm saying. | ||
| I'm not saying that James Yeager told him about a plot that he's aware of. | ||
| I'm saying that Alex is aware of the world and these corners of the world enough to know that this The SPLC guy coming out and warning and saying, hey, this is a serious problem. | ||
| There are these white right-wing militias that it would be wise to pay attention to. | ||
| Alex knows that that's in response to things that are people he knows, people who sponsor his show. | ||
| He knows that they are the people who have made threats like that. | ||
| Mark Potok and his comments don't exist. | ||
| Devoid of context. | ||
| He's not saying this to demonize white people. | ||
| He's saying this because other people have made these threats. | ||
| Alex knows that, and he knows these people might fucking follow through on their threats. | ||
| It would be wise for me to protect the business to go ahead and create a preemptive narrative in case one of them does blow something up. | ||
| And if they do blow something up, then I get to make a whole bunch of money saying it was fake, and I can create a whole new season based on that. | ||
| It's a perfect strategy for him. | ||
| Yeah, he's running interference on white nationalist terror. | ||
| Well, that's a big part of it. | ||
| And then another big part of it is it's best for his business. | ||
| No, for sure it's best for his business. | ||
| There's a financial motivation and an ideological motivation. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's best for his business, but at the same time it's also best for the terrorists. | ||
| Because, I mean, we would almost certainly have done more to investigate. | ||
| Or the FBI would have done more to investigate white nationalist terror if there weren't a massive amount of people who are supporting the fucking president, you know? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| As they pointed out. | ||
| Or even back in 2009 when the Mayak report came out. | ||
| If there weren't people like Alex and his ilk agitating against looking at terrorism as a broader problem than just people from the Middle East. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And, you know, there's an even further benefit to it that, like, let's say no one does anything. | ||
| Like, none of these terrorist militia guys that Alex knows and supports and is cool with, let's say none of them end up doing anything. | ||
| It's still good for his business to act this way because there is the white identity angle to it. | ||
| There is the white victimhood, the aggrievement that he makes so much money off of. | ||
| That's so central to being the fuel for his worldviews. | ||
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| So in the chance that something happens, great. | ||
| You got a preemptive defense for it. | ||
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| In the case that nothing happens, we're still making money. | ||
| We're still making money here. | ||
| It's the perfect thing to happen, or at least it's the perfect response for him to have to somebody saying, like, we should take this fucking seriously because these guys are planning shit and they're overtly saying what they're going to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're making terrorist threats! | ||
| Yeah, at the same time, he's making it inevitable for one of them to do it, eventually. | ||
| In a long enough span of time, yes. | ||
| I would say, given enough time and enough support from media figures like Alex, it does feel inevitable. | ||
| Especially now that we live in what is the inevitable. | ||
| Certainly with the context and insight of six more years of history. | ||
| It does feel inevitable. | ||
| But I don't want to apply that to Alex's mentality back then. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because I don't know if that's... | ||
| We can only speculate that, yeah. | ||
| What feels a lot more likely is, just in case, let's build this narrative, and also money, money, money. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So Alex gets around to reading some of this LA Times op-ed, and I don't think he does a good job of interpreting the text. | ||
| Let me show you what's in the LA Times. | ||
| Told you this was coming. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| I mean, peril from patriots. | ||
| The U.S. needs to keep a close watch on the growing threat of homegrown extremist groups. | ||
| Now, it gets worse. | ||
| Look at who they show as the extremist. | ||
| Only criminals and government want unarmed public. | ||
| What part of shall not be infringed? | ||
| I understand. | ||
| Repeal and negate. | ||
| Now, it gets worse. | ||
| First, they say you're radical. | ||
| Then they say there are an increasing frightening numbers. | ||
| Of shells, it's shells, of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. | ||
| They're usually heavily armed, blinded by intractable hatred. | ||
| You mean wide awake to your evil, and we know who you are. | ||
| Often motivated by religious zeal. | ||
| They're not jihadists. | ||
| They are white. | ||
| They are white, right-wing Americans. | ||
| They've now announced white men are terrorists. | ||
| That's the headline, Kurt Nemo. | ||
| L.A. Times announces white men are terrorists. | ||
| So you see how easy a jump he makes there from the saying some white men engage in terrorism to being like they're saying that white people are terrorists. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's the only thing that he can say. | ||
| I think, honestly. | ||
| Well, not just that, but to fit within his worldview, because he already thinks that everybody who's a Muslim is a terrorist. | ||
| He keeps that close to the vest back then. | ||
| Well, yeah, but in that extent, you know, why don't they call them radical Islamists? | ||
| Because they're all secretly radical Islamists. | ||
| So every brown person is a terrorist, and if he wants to maintain any kind of ideological consistency, if you call one person a terrorist in a group... | ||
| All of them are terrorists. | ||
| There's probably a piece of that, but I think the larger... | ||
| Oh, he doesn't know that. | ||
| He's not doing that on purpose, but that's how he thinks. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I think the larger piece of it is that he can't argue on the merits of, are there white people who are terrorists? | ||
| Because if that's the conversation, that falls apart entirely. | ||
| He's going to have to go out of his way to deny every act of what... | ||
| I mean, he tries. | ||
| Has he... | ||
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He tries. | |
| It hasn't stopped him yet. | ||
| No, he tries, but there's plenty that he has no awareness of, and they just weren't on his radar. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| So he'd have to do so much work about these specific cases and finding ways to turn them into conspiracies. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And he's not up for it. | ||
| So instead, you change the argument that's being had to they're saying that white people are terrorists. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, it's so fucking nonspecific and stupid. | ||
| You can just grandstand on that all you want. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| It's a pointless argument. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But you'd rather have those pointless arguments than lose the argument that some white people are committing terrorist acts. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Yeah, no, there's... | ||
| I've said it before, but nobody has more in common with ISIS than white Christian militia people. | ||
| And Alex. | ||
| And Alex. | ||
| Who is, yeah. | ||
| So Alex gets around to getting really extreme about what he thinks is going to happen because of this trend that he's seeing. | ||
| So he's making this prediction that there's going to be a false flag. | ||
| And that when that happens, everybody get your cameras out. | ||
| Get those cameras. | ||
| Which he actually probably doesn't want them to do because then they'll actually... | ||
| See that it was a regular old... | ||
| But what he can do then is take the footage and take the parts out that make it not suspicious. | ||
| Ooh, good call! | ||
| And then cast suspicions around. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| But you could hear that and think, like, oh, he's predicting that this Boston bombing is going to happen, right? | ||
| You could hear that from his pressured tone about, like, they're going to blow something up. | ||
| But when he gets more specific, you start to understand that, like... | ||
| He doesn't know what he's talking about. | ||
| This is such a vague idea. | ||
| This is the extreme level that he's predicting. | ||
| Kurt Nemo's article's up on DrudgeReport.com right now. | ||
| God help us. | ||
| God help us. | ||
| Folks, I know what's going to happen next. | ||
| You wonder why I break down and cry sometimes? | ||
| I think they're going to nuke a city. | ||
| That's what my gut tells me. | ||
| Thousands of points of analysis. | ||
| Obama and his controllers are looking at detonating a low-yield nuclear weapon in a city and blaming us. | ||
| And they're going to kill me hours after it happens. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| In 2019, when we were discussing Alex's narratives that he was building about the El Paso and Dayton shooting, he discussed the Arlington Road model. | ||
| The Arlington Road system. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In 2013 here, he's talking about the government nuking a city and then killing him, presumably, I guess, to set him up. | ||
| I suppose? | ||
| He's kind of discussing the Arlington Road system. | ||
| Yeah, pretty much. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That movie was out before this. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He must have really liked that movie. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I would say that this is stupid. | ||
| That Obama's going to nuke a fucking city? | ||
| It's a low-yield nuke, man. | ||
| So it's not that big a deal. | ||
| Did you see how the 24 seconds of that clip took a little journey? | ||
| It started with, you know, I break down crying because I have a feeling that they might nuke a city. | ||
| And then he said Obama and his controllers are considering using a low-yield nuke on an American city. | ||
| That shifts from a prediction to, like, that tone is reporting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Obama and his controllers are considering this. | ||
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| That's not saying I feel like they're going to. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The tone of that is very much like as if he has a reason to believe that other than his stupid analysis of the world. | ||
| That's dangerous. | ||
| Yeah, it's hard even now. | ||
| I don't know if it's easier or harder now to mix up those tones because everything he says is a feeling and is based in... | ||
| Best seventh-hand knowledge of the summary of somebody else's sixth-hand knowledge of something. | ||
| So whenever he changes tone from opinion to reporting, I don't really notice it because it's all the same thing there. | ||
| I can see how, if I didn't have this level experience, though, that that would be an insidious way of transforming your... | ||
| Apocalyptic predictions into something that someone would take as reporting. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| But for his listeners' purposes, he's doing it probably, I would say, I don't know how much intention, how much it's just muscle memory, but with the hopes that people will take it more seriously than it deserves to be taken. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Because all it is is him talking shit. | ||
| Right. | ||
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So we don't have any clips of George Norrie's interview because it's really boring and very bad. | |
| But what it does solidify is that Norrie fucking loves Alex Jones. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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And it's not just lip service. | |
| The two of them are on the same page about a lot of political stuff, which you would know if you listen to a little bit of Coast to Coast AM, because he does let that show a little bit more than someone who is presumably impartial and just like a guy who wants to let people talk about stuff. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Like he's very, very against that. | |
| Left social causes. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| And so that's not surprising. | ||
| The two of them just have a bull session about how great Alex is. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| It's not worth our time. | ||
| Good times. | ||
| Alex has another guest that's coming up on this show. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And that is James O 'Keefe from Project Chemical. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Project Veritas. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Now, we don't have to listen to him on the show, and there's a reason. | ||
| We had scheduled the Project Veritas. | ||
| We've put together a video of police and all these departments saying, no, you shouldn't be able to own guns, get a dog. | ||
| And then O 'Keefe, I'm told, is under the weather, so we're going to see if we're going to have one of his other cohorts on the broadcast coming up here in about 30 minutes. | ||
| But regardless, we're going to play that video slash audio. | ||
| James O 'Keefe canceled on Alex. | ||
| He's pretending he's sick so he doesn't have to come talk to this guy. | ||
| Hey, he's under the weather, Dan. | ||
| He's not sick. | ||
| He's sick. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I gave a Freudian slip. | ||
| He's sick. | ||
| He's sick. | ||
| He's totally sick. | ||
| I don't believe he's sick. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| I believe. | ||
| It's like, I don't want to do this. | ||
| Which is sad. | ||
| This seems like a hassle. | ||
| Which is sad for Alex. | ||
| I don't want to make this 15-minute phone call. | ||
| Yeah, because I'm going to be pissed if O 'Keefe is busy. | ||
| Yeah, that's insane. | ||
| So, like I mentioned at the beginning of the episode, we get a new pope. | ||
| And on the 13th of March, that is when the smoke, the white smoke, came above the chimney in the Vatican. | ||
| And we found that there was a new pope. | ||
| And Alex takes this news gracefully. | ||
| Also, white smoke rises over Vatican. | ||
| A new pope has been elected. | ||
| Let's fade up Fox News. | ||
| Here, whenever we get a chance to do that, and we will be breaking more of that down here today as that unfolds. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, I mean, that's just as close to, like, a reporting of the facts. | ||
| That actually wasn't bad. | ||
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| Eh, that wasn't bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, Alex has some more commentary about the new pope here. | ||
| We don't know that it's Francis yet, and so here's some covering that. | ||
| They have still not announced who the new pope is. | ||
| The white smoke's been coming out. | ||
| They'll build the... | ||
| Anticipation with all the showmanship and announce it. | ||
| When are they saying they're going to announce the new pope is? | ||
| Because I'm actually interested. | ||
| I want to know politically what that means. | ||
| So this is interesting to me. | ||
| So I've mentioned this before on the show. | ||
| I went back and checked the episodes around the time that Pope Benedict stepped down as Pope when I was trying to find a good one-off episode to cover for one of our live shows. | ||
| I felt the odds were pretty strong that Alex was going to be freaking out about it. | ||
| It's big world news. | ||
| I figured he'd have an angle on it, so I just wanted to check. | ||
| But Alex was on vacation when that happened. | ||
| And as it turns out, that was the vacation we just passed here in 2013. | ||
| Benedict resigned on February 28th, 2013. | ||
| And now here on March 13th, we're getting to experience in real time Alex Jones's response to the news that there is a new pope, which I would describe as mildly interested curiosity. | ||
| This is interesting. | ||
| Because it tells me that Alex had no idea who the new pope was going to be. | ||
| But according to his own self-told backstory, he should know. | ||
| According to Alex nowadays, Leo Zagami predicted that Benedict was going to step down and even predicted Francis as the next pope. | ||
| The way Alex tells the story, it's heavily implied that Alex knew about Zagami's prediction and watched them play out in real time. | ||
| But here we see Alex wondering who the next pontiff is going to be. | ||
| I think this is probably because Alex didn't meet Leo Zagami until 2015. | ||
| Yeah, that makes sense. | ||
| Which is a bit of a problem. | ||
| For that timeline to work out? | ||
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| Yeah, a little bit tough. | ||
| Alex is just taking as truth Leo's claims that he predicted that Benedict would step down with no substantiating proof. | ||
| I can find zero proof that Leo Zagami made this prediction before Benedict resigned. | ||
| And knowing as much about him as I do, I'm very comfortable assuming that this is something he made up after the fact and pretended he'd known all along. | ||
| Most of the citations to this prediction go back to Leo's book, Pope Francis, the last pope, question mark? | ||
| Money, Masons, and Occultism and the Decline of the Catholic Church. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| First of all, two subtitles, no good. | ||
| No, not good. | ||
| But that book wasn't published until April 2015. | ||
| A further reason to be suspicious is that when Leo was on Alex's show in October 2015, he said that he knew from a high-level Vatican source that Francis was going to step down and resign after he visited his home country of Argentina, and that was going to happen in 2016. | ||
| This didn't happen, which calls into question the veracity of his sources. | ||
| Between that, every other piece of information in the world about Leo Zagami, and the fact that literally no one seems to be able to produce evidence that he actually predicted Benedict's resignation before it happened, I'm comfortable with my position that this is a load of bullshit. | ||
| And it's a load of bullshit that Alex believed when Leo told him about it, probably, again, just because Leo's Italian and fairly good at improv. | ||
| He's got that accent. | ||
| I would even go so far as to say it doesn't just question the veracity of Leo Zagami's sources, but their existence at all, Dan! | ||
| You bet. | ||
| And we can clearly see here, in 2013, Alex had no idea who the new pope was going to be. | ||
| And he doesn't even bring up that his good buddy, Leo Zagami, made a very real prediction that happens to come true. | ||
| Like, Alex should be freaking out, not just about the white smoke. | ||
| He should be freaking out about the whole thing, because Leo Zagami predicted Benedict's resignation. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's a world-shattering event. | ||
| If you predicted the resignation of a pope, then you are fucking top! | ||
| Dog. | ||
| We're already deep into his prediction coming true. | ||
| It's not like the prediction is only true if Francis is the one who's named Pope. | ||
| Alex should have every reason to be in the middle of an extended freakout. | ||
| But he doesn't know Leo Zagami. | ||
| When was the last time a Pope resigned? | ||
| It's been a long time. | ||
| It's been hundreds of years. | ||
| So if you predicted that one, damn. | ||
| Even though you knew he was a Nazi. | ||
| If you predicted that, that's evidence of either you do have good sources or you're the kind of crazy person who would make a fucking long shot prediction and you got the luckiest you have ever been in your life. | ||
| And knowing what I know about Leo Zagami, I'm inclined towards the latter. | ||
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| No, that's a million typewriters, a million chimpanzees situation where, I mean, yeah, technically somebody could have made that prediction, and it could have come true, but damn. | ||
| If that's, like, real, and he made that prediction and it came true, that is not convincing to me that he has good sources. | ||
| But it's enough to make me like, I gotta track all of his other predictions. | ||
| Because if he has a good track record, and that is among his hits, that's very, very interesting. | ||
| That's very serious. | ||
| Considering almost all of his other predictions are shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He took credit for 9-11 and said he was Jesus and claims to have created a cult based on the movie The Matrix. | ||
| Yeah, he did. | ||
| And I'm going to go ahead and say this is something he created as a part of his fictionalized backstory. | ||
| And Alex has bit hook, line, and sinker. | ||
| In the present day. | ||
| But he had no idea here in 2013. | ||
| That does always make me think of the reality that with the infinite number of possibilities and probabilities in the universe, it is entirely possible for one person to live their entire life and have every prediction that they've ever made come true. | ||
| And it'd just be a coincidence. | ||
| And I think about how miserable you would be if you were that person. | ||
| It would be the worst feeling in the world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, what would be weird about it is if you recognized it, at some point you would probably start trying to make really fucked up predictions. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| To try and ruin the streak. | ||
| Exactly, yeah. | ||
| So you wouldn't have to feel like you predict everything, and then when those come true... | ||
| It would drive you insane. | ||
| Yeah, you would probably be plagued by it. | ||
| Oh yeah, it'd be a nightmare. | ||
| Yeah, but I think everybody who, like, you know, there are people who have... | ||
| Better luck, let's say. | ||
| Things tend to go their way. | ||
| I think a lot of them are kind of unhappy about that. | ||
| There is something about losing that makes you feel more in control of your life. | ||
| Well, you have to call upon a lot of resources within yourself. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And you don't have to do that when the road is really easy. | ||
| Yeah, and if you're getting every one of your predictions right, you won't think, oh, I'm so brilliant, you'll think that you're a captive of some sort of larger fate. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Alex probably does think that about himself. | ||
| That actually probably is true! | ||
| Holy shit! | ||
| He's so miserable! | ||
| Because he's wrong all the time, but he... | ||
| His brain is so narcissistic that he transforms bad predictions into correct predictions. | ||
| Yeah, that's bananas. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So on this next clip, Alex gets back to the white narrative. | ||
| White! | ||
| White. | ||
| And he makes a statement that I'm going to say in advance. | ||
| I'm very against this statement. | ||
| The whole war on terror, as I warned you for the last 11 years... | ||
| It's about gun owners, constitutionalists, returning veterans, and now, and I already saw this in the training stuff two years ago, and I told you, white al-Qaeda, and they're now announcing whites are terrorists, and whites will probably show up to local prisons and ask to be put in prisons and ask for the state to work their kids' death and slave camps. | ||
| I mean, you know, the average American, rather than, I mean, whites know they're bad. | ||
| Whites know they're the ultimate evil on Earth. | ||
| Whites are the source of all evil. | ||
| The media tells us that. | ||
| And so this is a good thing that the ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center and LA Times and a bunch of other publications are saying whites are terrorists. | ||
| I can read the quote for you again. | ||
| Period. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| What a little, I mean to use his own terms, a loser little titty baby. | ||
| No kidding. | ||
| Like this is a soft, soft man. | ||
| Like if you're that shaken by that, that means you either have just the thinnest skin imaginable or you are really worried. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's one of the two. | ||
| Like, it's either you're the most sensitive person in the world, you can't handle any form of criticism, or you are keenly aware of the world that you are surrounded by, the right-wing militia world. | ||
| You recognize how volatile, how dangerous those people are. | ||
| You like that about them, and you need to defend against it. | ||
| It's one of the two, and my gut tells me it's both, but more the latter. | ||
| Well... | ||
| Alex can't not be aware of the Minutemen. | ||
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| He can't not be aware of all of the militias that have existed from the 70s, 60s and 70s, and then the resurgence in the 90s. | ||
| He cannot not be aware of the order. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| He can't not know about these groups. | ||
| He can't not know... | ||
| One of his big sponsors, Larry Pratt from Gun Owners of America, was at the fucking Rocky Mountain Rendezvous. | ||
| It's insane to imagine that he isn't aware of that. | ||
| You can't think it's all fake. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| Well, the thing that makes me agree with the latter being true more than anything else is, just like we talked about before with his support of Trump, is... | ||
| He was all about freedom, all that stuff, because it could happen to whites. | ||
| And then once you remove that backstop, none of it matters. | ||
| So that, to me, makes it so clear that it's the latter. | ||
| Because that behavior probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't the latter. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| So Alex talks about the LA Times a little bit more, and he's embellishing and just completely lying about what this article says. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We have breaking news at PrisonPlanet.com and Infowars.com right now, dealing with the L.A. Times headline, Peril from Patriots. | ||
| L.A. Times announces white men are terrorists. | ||
| And they just say, being white inherently is terrorism. | ||
| I read the quote over and over again. | ||
| It is unbelievable, and I told you forever. | ||
| That this was coming. | ||
| In fact... | ||
| So, I mean, it's just... | ||
| I don't know what else to say about it. | ||
| It's just a white fragility, white victimhood, desperation to validate those feelings because they move product and they keep people in this world. | ||
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Right. | |
| Do you know what he will never do but would reveal everything? | ||
| Define white. | ||
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Ooh. | |
| I actually think he would love to do that. | ||
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Privately. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Privately, he would be very clear. | ||
| He would be very definite what White is. | ||
| I think Rob Dew knows full well what Alex's thoughts on that are. | ||
| But yeah, not on air. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| It would be very telling. | ||
| It would tell the whole story. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| So Alex got stood up by James O 'Keefe, but someone else from Project Veritas calls in. | ||
| Which is what I hope every woman who agreed to go out on a date with O 'Keefe did. | ||
| Ah, stood him up. | ||
| So this other guy from Project Veritas comes on, and I don't respect him enough to know his name, so I don't remember what it was. | ||
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Cool. | |
| Other guy from Project Veritas. | ||
| Mad that there's even one guy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he shows up. | ||
| And the video that they put out is about going to police departments and having discussions with cops where you say, like, okay, so if I call the police, they're going to take three minutes to respond to my house. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What am I supposed to do if someone's breaking into my house? | ||
| Like, if there is a threat. | ||
| They're like, well, you call the police. | ||
| What do I do in that two or three minutes? | ||
| Well... | ||
| They want the police to say, well, kill the person. | ||
| That's what they want. | ||
| And that's not a conversation you're ever going to have with a police officer. | ||
| At least I hope not. | ||
| It seems like a weird thing for them to endorse. | ||
| Here's what I'd say. | ||
| I don't want the cops to ever give the message that we really want you to go ahead and kill people ahead of time. | ||
| Because if that's the case, then why call the cops? | ||
| Yeah, I don't want a cop to say, what you should do is take the law into your own hands. | ||
| Now, somebody who has said that is, of course, Sheriff David Clark. | ||
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Yes, who should be removed from Earth. | |
| I don't think there's anything just entirely wrong with saying it's wise to be able to defend yourself in situations when... | ||
| Appropriate law enforcement can't make it. | ||
| I don't think that there's anything, people who are responsible about having a gun at home for protection, I don't think that there's anything implicitly wrong with that. | ||
| I think there would be something dangerous about police on the job saying, well, fucking shoot people. | ||
| I think it sends the wrong message. | ||
| I think it's even more dangerous when police off the job say that because they sure probably do a lot. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think culturally it gives a worse message if they are in uniform and speaking as an official representative. | ||
| Or it's implied that they're an official representative. | ||
| So some of these people are like, well, you can get a dog. | ||
| Have a dog to defend you. | ||
| Fine for a cop to say, I think, whatever. | ||
| That's what the Project Veritas video is. | ||
| They're saying, like, cops say, become a victim of a crime. | ||
| Get a dog. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Once again, Project Veritas is shitty at their job, but it fools just enough white, crazy conservatives who want to believe it no matter what. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex is interviewing... | ||
| Dum Dum 2 from over at Project Veritas. | ||
| And he's making that argument that we went in and we were talking about it. | ||
| It's all about being able to defend yourself in that two minutes before the police show up. | ||
| That's the entire defense that this video's existence relies on. | ||
| And Alex, because he is such a fucking idiot and a violent person who fetishizes the idea of shooting somebody. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| He can't keep it together. | ||
| And he immediately invalidates their entire argument for this video. | ||
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These officers, again, this is no fault of their own. | |
| This is just the reality that's put in front of them. | ||
| What we didn't show is that we've asked them multiple times, you know, what do we do when X happens? | ||
| And they go, oh, you should call 911. | ||
| And then we said, okay, but what about if someone's breaking down my door and, you know, they're trying to rob me? | ||
| Oh, just, you know, call 911. | ||
| Well, I get that. | ||
| You know, we're going to call 911. | ||
| But in the time between, you know, you get to, well, you've got to call the police. | ||
| It took in some of these instances, speaking to these police officers, five times to repeat the same question before they understood even the concept that we were saying, look, we've established that you're on your way. | ||
| How do I defend myself? | ||
| And that's when you get these inexplicable explanations like throw some ammonia at it and throw some bleach at it. | ||
| Well, listen, let me just say something here. | ||
| You see these houses that say, we don't dial 911. | ||
| You see these signs outside houses and they don't get robbed. | ||
| If somebody's breaking in my house or somebody came to my office trying to mass shooting, I'm not going to waste time calling 911 until I've killed them. | ||
| I'm going to get the gun, I'm going to go like a robot, and I'm going to instinctively shoot into their center of mass from as best a cover as I can get. | ||
| And it's just automatic. | ||
| I am going to dissociate and kill a man. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I mean, like, the whole point of the video really relies on the pretense of we are trying to do everything possible to... | ||
| Not to kill a man. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And you are revealing that the whole reason we're making this specious... | ||
| Bad faith argument is because we really want to kill a man. | ||
| I will not even call the police before I kill the guy. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Alex, Alex, the quiet part isn't supposed to be the loud part! | ||
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Well, it's not even... | |
| I mean, I don't know if it's quiet or loud in this case, but what it is is absolutely undercutting the intended propaganda that Project Veritas was trying to present, which I find hilarious in an interview. | ||
| That is... | ||
| It's pretty... | ||
| It's pretty nice to see. | ||
| It is almost like he just said, why did you make this video? | ||
| Who is this for? | ||
| Because anybody who believes what I believe would have already killed the man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| So Alex goes into overdrive on this episode. | ||
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Sure he does. | |
| But only does about five minutes of overdrive. | ||
| Okay, good for him. | ||
| Which I thought was really weird because he's like, I'm going to go into overdrive. | ||
| And I'm like, oh God, I got another half hour of this hour to listen to. | ||
| He does it and most of it is this, which is an impression. | ||
| Which I hadn't heard him do. | ||
| I don't think it's terrible. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I think it's in the neighborhood of what he's trying to do. | ||
| It's McGruff the Crime Dog. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Better watch what you talk about, bud. | ||
| Never mind. | ||
| Being pro-bill of rights is an act of terror. | ||
| And you saw the SLPC in the LA Times and AP. | ||
| They say if you talk about the two billion bullets, you're part of a white supremacist cell. | ||
| In fact, just being white's an act of terror. | ||
| I honestly think that he's in and out of the impression. | ||
| I think there are a couple moments where it's pretty decent and other points where he's very close to his Pennywise impression. | ||
| It's not as good as I remember it. | ||
| I apologize for saying that. | ||
| But there are moments where he hits just the right tone. | ||
| Do you know what he did do, though? | ||
| A really great impression of a bad guy from, like, a Humphrey Bogart movie. | ||
| It's closer to that. | ||
| Like, in the Maltese Falcon, I could totally hear that voice, for sure. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's not done with the PSA. | ||
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Okay. | |
| That's right. | ||
| L.A. Times announces white men are the terrorists. | ||
| And I say good. | ||
| And since I'm McGruff, the crime dog, I happen to be white. | ||
| I got a white spot. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I'm reporting to a local forced labor FEMA camp to show everybody that I can be trusted. | ||
| Help take a bite out of the Second Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights. | ||
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John Wayne and George Washington are trash. | |
| Sovietism is good. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Mao Zedong's who I like. | ||
| Help take a bite out of liberty. | ||
| This message brought to you by DHS and Mr. Napolitano. | ||
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Ha ha! | |
| Oh boy. | ||
| Fun. | ||
| That was, in a word, coherent. | ||
| I would also like to recommend to everybody out there, if you haven't, go listen to McGrath the Crime Dog's album. | ||
| It's hot. | ||
| It's good stuff. | ||
| Did he come out with an album? | ||
| Yeah, he made an album, but not doing drugs. | ||
| Oh, I think I'm aware of it. | ||
| It's good stuff. | ||
| I think I forced you to listen to it. | ||
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Yeah, you did. | |
| You did. | ||
| Now I remember. | ||
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It's pretty great. | |
| Yeah, it is pretty great. | ||
| It's pretty hilarious. | ||
| So when I heard that, Alex went into Overdrive to do a minute-long impression of McGruff doing a PSA about the white people being terrorists. | ||
| I was like, we are entering a white identity. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| On Alex's show. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I got the real strong sense that we got this. | ||
| The next couple days, probably next week at least, is going to be Alex going out of his way to find any way to make stories about this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is going to be what it's all about. | ||
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Right. | |
| White identity protection. | ||
| White people cannot do wrong, and they're unfairly maligning us as if we were not white people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's a good way to put it. | ||
| And it'll just be like, I'm going to choose the thinnest bullshit in order to make these stories. | ||
| And I was not surprised at all when I turned on the 14th, and that's exactly what we got. | ||
| And now they've got universities and groups. | ||
| If you want to basically get your tuition or get your scholarship, you've got to sign on to agree to go under Southern Poverty Law Center, written manuals. | ||
| And Aaron Dykes covered this last night. | ||
| I'm going to have him in. | ||
| Today, with their actual printouts in Wisconsin and other states, whites are to wear a white armband or wristband, like Jews wearing yellow stars, to show you're evil. | ||
| And then you, quote, have a minority, who is really the majority worldwide and now the majority in the U.S., follow you around and tell you how bad you are. | ||
| It actually says that. | ||
| It actually says that. | ||
| I really don't think it does, Dan. | ||
| Because anybody who designed that... | ||
| A fucking exercise. | ||
| Wouldn't even be trying to accomplish the goal, I guess they're trying to set out for it, you know? | ||
| Yeah, this is just white identity shit going through the roof. | ||
| It's escalating, like it's crazy. | ||
| Not only is Alex lying about that LA Times story that he's pretending, you know, that proves that they, in quotes, are saying that all white people are terrorists, now he's come across a story of white people being forced to wear bracelets, just like the Jews, and be followed around by non-whites who yell at them about how bad they are. | ||
| I found the Aaron Dyke story that Alex is basing this reporting on, and this shit is weak. | ||
| According to Infowars and their primary source on this, which is CNS News, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction held a seminar and was encouraging people in their VISTA program to take steps to consider how their being white puts them in a privileged position in society. | ||
| One of the examples is to wear a wristband, which would allow conversations to happen when people ask you why you're wearing a wristband. | ||
| This seems like a shitty plan in the post-Live Strong era, since I don't think anyone is going to see a wristband and be like, hey, what's going on with that strange accessory? | ||
| Cannot imagine that happening. | ||
| No. | ||
| Bananas. | ||
| VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America, and it's part of AmeriCorps. | ||
| Presumably since this was involved with the Department of Public Instruction, these were people who were volunteering to help with school and library-based things. | ||
| Because that's what the DPI is about. | ||
| Yeah, good. | ||
| So for one, all of these people are volunteers. | ||
| Even if the bullshit that Alex is saying is true, they still wouldn't be forced to do any of it. | ||
| Thankfully, none of the things he's saying are true at all, so it's kind of a moot point. | ||
| Here are some of the things that are not true that Alex said in that clip. | ||
| Oh. | ||
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Which he has not proven in any way and is just making up. | |
| He's saying that universities and That's what the Unabomber called it, right? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| They're forcing people to do this to get their tuition. | ||
| This is a volunteer program, and even if it were a prerequisite of getting a scholarship, if the person who was in it felt that the PC demands of the program were too much for them, they could still get their volunteerism requirement fulfilled by taking another opportunity. | ||
| Or, if they had a problem with it, they could complain to their volunteer coordinator or supervisor, which is strangely not a part of this story in any way. | ||
| There's no indication that anyone who went to the seminar was complaining about this at all. | ||
| The only people who were mad about it seemed to be right-wing pundits with sketchy histories on race issues. | ||
| It's almost like they went looking for something that would fit the narrative they wanted. | ||
| It's almost like that. | ||
| It's almost like that. | ||
| It's really close to being like that. | ||
| The manuals were written by the SPLC. | ||
| That's another claim that Alex is making. | ||
| Neither Alex nor any other reporting on his website proves this in any way. | ||
| The manuals were written by a non-profit called the Beyond Diversity Resource Center, and I can find no connection between them and the SPLC. | ||
| Alex has created this completely false narrative about the SPLC running Elohim City and planning the Oklahoma City bombing in order to make patriots look bad, which is helpful to help create the appearance that all white terrorism is fake, but this is the second use for that narrative. | ||
| Anytime there's a social justice-type organization, Alex can immediately neutralize whatever position they make by claiming they're mixed up with the SPLC. | ||
| It doesn't matter if they are or not. | ||
| None of his listeners are going to check. | ||
| What's important is smearing them so their ideas and information aren't even considered, and whatever horrible shit you're going to make up about them becomes completely believable. | ||
| They're mixed up with the people who tried to smear whites by doing the Oklahoma City bombing. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| You could just invalidate any kind of social justice. | ||
| Yeah, that's pretty much all you have to do. | ||
| And also Alex claims that these are their printouts. | ||
| Alex is playing really fast and loose here. | ||
| Whose printouts is he implying this is or are? | ||
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Kinko's! | |
| Is it AmeriCorps that he's blaming? | ||
| Is it the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction? | ||
| Is it the SPLC? | ||
| When you try to trace down the actual document from Infowars, you end up on CNS News, and then you eventually find the site where it was originally posted, which is still hyperlinked on their websites. | ||
| It takes you to a PDF that kindly explains to you that, quote, the document previously available via this URL is no longer here. | ||
| It was not a VISTA document, nor a Wisconsin DPI document. | ||
| The file that had been here was a document included in a resource packet offered to VISTA volunteers as they left a training session. | ||
| The document was not referenced in that training, and the training session was conducted by individuals external to DPI and VISTA. | ||
| Unfortunately, misconceptions and misinformation about the document are being spread by an out-of-state entity that has no... | ||
| To be absolutely clear... | ||
| No DPI official has asked, requested, or encouraged any school district educator or student to wear any wristband, and none of our VISTA volunteers have had any children put on any wristbands. | ||
| Again, no DPI official nor any VISTA volunteer has used, requested, or encouraged anyone in the school to use a wristband activity as reported, in quotes, and shared by external groups. | ||
| This is the point that I made on the Wednesday episode, in that we are absolutely complicit in the rise of right-wing terrorism. | ||
| Because do you know what? | ||
| They went... | ||
| Out of their fucking way, bending over backwards for these fucks who came up with this bullshit bad faith argument to the point where they write this statement that's still up there six fucking years later. | ||
| That's still linked on CNS News. | ||
| Still linked up there. | ||
| Do you know what should be up there? | ||
| Here's the fucking document and fuck you, Alex Jones. | ||
| That's what should be up there. | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| I fully support considering these bullshit... | ||
| Criticisms. | ||
| Absolutely consider them. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| If somebody is criticizing you and they have a good point, doesn't matter what side of the aisle they're on. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Consider their bullshit. | ||
| But this is bad faith lies. | ||
| And you don't need to come up with some like, oh, we don't support the view and this was all of that. | ||
| Fuck you, Alex Jones, is what should be there, and here's what was there. | ||
| That's what we should be fucking doing. | ||
| But I also think that it's important that this is there, because it is kind of an own on CNS News and Infowars. | ||
| Their information now links to a page that explains that this was a misinformation. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| To be fair, people who believe what Alex is saying aren't going to believe that PDF now. | ||
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Nope. | |
| It should say, fuck you. | ||
| It should. | ||
| That's what it should say. | ||
| But that would be unbecoming of these state organizations, and it would probably be, that would cause, because these people like Alex are... | ||
| Opportunistic in such a way. | ||
| That would cause even more problems. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But it doesn't matter. | ||
| They're going to find new problems to cause problems about. | ||
| You're not wrong. | ||
| At a certain point, you have to stop saying, we can't agitate them anymore because then they'll get more agitated. | ||
| They're already accelerating over and over and over again, regardless of how... | ||
| Much we bend over backwards. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I definitely think that that is an important point. | ||
| Sorry for being it. | ||
| No, I think you're fine. | ||
| I think you make a good point. | ||
| I just think that there is also a qualification that needs to be made that there is still... | ||
| Just because whatever you do, they're going to behave the same way. | ||
| These propagandists and these folks are going to do it. | ||
| Whether you give them ammunition or not, they'll create their own ammunition. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Still needs to be tempered with a little bit of like, well, that doesn't give carte blanche to just behave however. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| People still need to be a little bit restrained. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I'm not thrilled with the idea of these organizations that are about getting handicap accessible ramps for schools behaving in the way you and I might. | ||
| You know, like saying, go fuck yourself out. | ||
| Totally understand. | ||
| I think it would be fun to see it once, maybe. | ||
| In the same way that, like, I don't know, Arby's will tell someone to fuck them off on Twitter. | ||
| You know, like, it's like, ah, isn't that it? | ||
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Ah, look at you! | |
| Look at you, Arby's, good on you! | ||
| You get a little thrill out of that. | ||
| But I do think that it might be a step backwards in terms of some... | ||
| I know. | ||
| I don't disagree with you. | ||
| Actually, I 100% agree with you. | ||
| The only thing is, it can't be, we can't accommodate them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I absolutely want them to have that statement of like, hey, this is a complete disinformation campaign. | ||
| What they did is lie about us and be blunt about us. | ||
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They did. | |
| They did. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm just saying that it needs to be far more direct. | ||
| I think that it's just the thing where it's like you need to have people focusing on these propaganda outlets like us and institutions protecting themselves simultaneously in order to... | ||
| Have a full spectrum of protection. | ||
| That's a far better way of putting it. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Because we don't have to worry about... | ||
| If we start telling people to go fuck themselves, we're not at risk of losing state funding that will hurt libraries. | ||
| No, that's true. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| There could be... | ||
| No, that's 100% true. | ||
| There could be legitimate consequences for people who are vulnerable. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, they're helping disadvantaged children in Wisconsin. | ||
| Right, but at the same time, isn't that part of the issue to begin with? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Telling a right-wing troll brigade to fuck off could fuck with your funding as opposed to the right-wing troll brigade? | ||
| That is a bigger issue there as well. | ||
| I don't disagree. | ||
| I'm not disagreeing with you, but the only reason I'm bringing this in is because it's more complicated than what we would like to see. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| No, I think we're actually 100% agreeing with each other. | ||
| We're just adding these different layers of the complexity behind it, which is what right-wing troll brigades cannot do. | ||
| No, they refuse to. | ||
| And I'll add an extra layer of complexity. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| I've seen the document itself, and I don't think that there's anything really wrong with it. | ||
| The document that was put out by the Beyond Diversity Resource Center that was given to people as they left this thing, this meeting seminar that wasn't even being run by DPI or Vista. | ||
| Some of the suggestions are a little bit cheesy. | ||
| going to be, I would say that some of them might not be the most productive suggestions. | ||
| And if Alex wanted to make that kind of criticism, I really don't think there would be that big of a deal. | ||
| If he were to make an argument of they're telling people to wear bracelets in order to have conversations that will be started by the bracelet about white privilege. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You could have a conversation that's not racist and white identity in nature about how, like, That's kind of a hokey idea. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's kind of the idea that someone running a corporate seminar might come up with that really doesn't address the problem. | ||
| It just seems like it might. | ||
| How can we give the appearance of addressing it without ever actually doing anything? | ||
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Right. | |
| You could have a conversation. | ||
| You could attack this document on that front and still be on fairly solid grounds. | ||
| I think the bigger issue, though, is that you see something, you see how something so small, something so localized and minor can be spun by Alex and his community into some complete government-sanctioned SPLC-run attack on white people, which is white supremacy in action. | ||
| Like, what they're doing, that is what's going on. | ||
| That's not in the document. | ||
| No, I don't think it would be. | ||
| One of their suggestions for reminders about addressing the privilege status that you hold in society were you to be, you happen to be white, is, quote, find a person of color who's willing to hold you accountable for addressing privilege. | ||
| There's a slight difference there, and I also think that that's a bad suggestion. | ||
| It kind of puts the onus on this accountability partner, which I feel a little weird about. | ||
| It looks like every part of this puts the onus on discussing race on other people coming to you or something along those lines. | ||
| Well, there's parts of it that Alex isn't talking about that are about reflection. | ||
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Okay. | |
| You know, like about thoughts to have and to explore. | ||
| And then some of the other suggestions are like, put a note on your computer screen. | ||
| So that's not on other people. | ||
| Quit being a racist. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Quit it! | ||
| But I think that that suggestion is kind of like, it is weird to be like, I'm going to go find a person of color that I can have keep me accountable. | ||
| No, that's really bananas. | ||
| Putting the work on someone else. | ||
| Strange. | ||
| But as the way it's phrased, it's a person of color who is willing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't exclude the possibility that that person might exist. | ||
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Right. | |
| And not think it's insulting for me to come to them and be like, hey, can you... | ||
| Am I being racist right now? | ||
| Oh, hell yeah, you are. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| I will stop doing that. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think anybody... | ||
| I don't think the Southern Poverty Law Center is like, here's what we do. | ||
| We take a book out of Game... | ||
| We take a page out of Game of Thrones and we have people of color follow white people around. | ||
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Shame! | |
| Here's what the SPLC didn't do. | ||
| Let's somehow subcontract an organization that we're not involved in at all to make a printout that ends up being handed out to people at one seminar that's not even being run by the Wisconsin DPI or the VISTA program or AmeriCorps. | ||
| That's how we'll stick it to the whites. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's just crazy. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| Also, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that CNS News is owned by the Media Research Center, which is a conservative propaganda outlet that has received tons of funding from the Bradley Foundation, the Scaife Foundation, and ExxonMobil, thanks to their climate denial. | ||
| They are not a good source of information. | ||
| It is a straight-up right-wing misinformation campaign operation. | ||
| And that's where Alex is pulling for the beginning of the story. | ||
| That's his source for the InfoWars article. | ||
| And so that's where we're at. | ||
| This is just the thinnest fucking worst white victimhood type bullshit. | ||
| But it's what you expect. | ||
| You start to see this narrative and this season taking shape. | ||
| The last season was before Alex went on vacation. | ||
| It was all star fuckery. | ||
| It was all just like, I'm getting big name people on here. | ||
| We're having celebrities. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| And now he comes back. | ||
| And I get the very strong sense that it is going to be a lot of white identity issues. | ||
| Great. | ||
| You know how we love talking about those. | ||
| We're getting used to it. | ||
| So, Alex, I want to be clear. | ||
| I'm going to play this clip, and it doesn't include the part of the clip where Alex does explicitly say that Hitler was bad. | ||
| But he does. | ||
| Alex does say that Hitler is bad. | ||
| He says that he's a psychopath and bad. | ||
| He is also a complete badass, as we all know. | ||
| And a stud. | ||
| And a stud. | ||
| Along with Stalin. | ||
| It's less important, but I guess it is important that I do qualify that Alex isn't saying this as unchecked praise for Hitler. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But he does spend a little bit of time on his show praising Hitler. | ||
| That's bad. | ||
| Can I say Hitler had a lot of courage? | ||
| I mean, he had a Congressional Medal of Honor. | ||
| That was the equivalent. | ||
| He had the Iron Cross First Class. | ||
| That's the Congressional Medal of Honor. | ||
| They only handed out a handful of those in World War I. That's why everybody followed Hitler, because he was a big war hero. | ||
| You really don't have to give it up to the Somali pirates. | ||
| You don't have to give it up to Hitler. | ||
| You don't have to give it up to Hitler. | ||
| So while it's true that Adolf Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross First Class in the First World War, it's Nazi propaganda that painted him as a war hero, when reality does not back that up. | ||
| One of the problems with sorting out the reality of Hitler's military history in World War I is that no one knew who he was. | ||
| No one knew he was going to become Hitler back then, so there aren't intricate records of his life as a normal run-of-the-mill soldier. | ||
| What was known is that he was a runner during the war, and that he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class, so those two facts were accepted to mean that he was the sort of message carrier who ran across the front lines and dodged machine gun fire to get the orders where they needed to be. | ||
| That is not true. | ||
| There were two varieties of runners in the German military in World War I. There were those who were on the front lines, carrying orders through dangerous terrain, and office workers, who delivered messages between the offices in the regimental headquarters, far away from the fighting. | ||
| Hitler was the second kind of runner during the war. | ||
| Historians have noted that it's likely that he was given the First Class Award after a battle where messengers were particularly important, and it was likely that his inclusion in the award recipients was the result of him having close association with the higher-ranked officers due to him being stationed inside the headquarters. | ||
| Alex is confusing things also about how many Iron Cross First Class medals were given out. | ||
| He's thinking of the highest ranking, the Grand Cross, of which only 19 were ever given out. | ||
| Between 1870 and 1918, 5.7 million Iron Cross First and Second Class medals were given out. | ||
| And while the Second Class ones were definitely more commonly awarded, the First Class weren't some kind of super rare thing. | ||
| Some numbers I've seen have put the number of recipients at about 165,000, which would be just short of 10 of them being awarded every day between 1870 and 1918. | ||
| Alex is making these comments in the context of a rant that he's doing about how Hitler's evil. | ||
| But it's also saying that he's super brave. | ||
| It's supposed to be making some kind of point that... | ||
| I'm not actually sure what point he hoped to make, to be honest. | ||
| But it really highlights something that I think is super fucked up. | ||
| Alex Jones believes Nazi versions of history. | ||
| It was part of Hitler's propaganda that he was a war hero, and it was an essential piece of his appeal to the people, and a lot of the German public believed it. | ||
| By the time Alex is on air here in 2013, historians and researchers had debunked this myth, and yet here Alex is, still preaching to his audience about the positive parts of Hitler. | ||
| This is a trend. | ||
| It's not just an isolated incident. | ||
| Alex is very inclined to believe Nazi propaganda between this, the stuff about the Hitler was set up, the, the peace treaty, the, the, the, the Rothschild's share at Waterloo, him directly taking a story that was amplified and put into its sort of canonical form by a Goebbels film. | ||
| There's a lot of Nazi history that's revisionist, not based on reality that Alex accepts whole cloth as real. | ||
| That's disturbing. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| When you say, because we've heard him say it a million times, but when you say you've read a hundred books on World War II, there aren't a hundred books on World War II that don't include 30 books at least of Nazi propaganda. | ||
| It seems like it would be likely, yeah. | ||
| There's no way that at least some of his information isn't coming from a... | ||
| And even if he's doing his best job to critically analyze it, which is not possible for him. | ||
| It seems out of his character. | ||
| Yeah, his best job is impossible. | ||
| But even then, some of those stories, if you're reading a hundred different books on World War II, might seep through. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Might just seep in, and you know, I've got all of the correct history up, but for some reason, there's this one story that's only in this one Nazi propaganda history book. | ||
| And it might sound really good. | ||
| And it sounds so good, and there's a good quote from Thomas Jefferson in there. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's lore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's Nazi lore. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he loves lore. | ||
| I'll let him off the hook a tiny bit just because you brought up the books on this one because a lot of people didn't actually look through the records enough to figure out what kind of runner Hitler was until fairly recent to this episode. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Like it's not like it's something that's been a part of scholarship for 50 years and Alex has just written that off. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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So it's entirely possible that the books that he had read were based on bad information and inaccurate incomplete history. | |
| Yeah, no, that's entirely possible. | ||
| And it wouldn't be wrong for those books to reflect that, possibly. | ||
| But history had more information added to it, and people then realized that that's just a part of Hitler's PR campaign. | ||
| And it's upon Alex to, at that point, recognize that and update his positions, which he has not done. | ||
| People hate... | ||
| When history is updated. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They despise it. | ||
| You know who doesn't? | ||
| Historians. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They kind of love it. | ||
| Yeah, it's really interesting. | ||
| Think about how furious people were that Pluto stopped being considered a planet and compare that to how much white nationalists... | ||
| I think a lot of that was a meme. | ||
| White nationalist Nazis hate being a fucking... | ||
| hate the idea that Hitler wasn't a hero. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's tough. | ||
| It's tough for those guys. | ||
| I feel for them. | ||
| Shout out, guys. | ||
| You gotta give it up to the Nazis. | ||
| You gotta give it up to the Nazis who are struggling with finding out that their hero wasn't a hero. | ||
| So at this point in the episode, Alex gets back to this narrative about the handout that was given that says that white people need to wear bracelets and find a minority to yell at them. | ||
| He updates this narrative and now extends it. | ||
| You can see... | ||
| That he has taken the kernel that he's already established and now is embellishing upon that theme in order to make it far more universal than it actually is. | ||
| Universities all over the United States are telling whites that they're inherently evil and bad and making them wear white armbands to symbolize that they're bad and having them agree under AmeriCorps and they have to agree then to get their tuition. | ||
| To be followed, quote, by a minority to explain to them how inherently bad it is to be white. | ||
| So you see the evolution here. | ||
| This has now become universities all across the country are forcing white people to do this in order to get their tuition. | ||
| Forcing. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Forcing them. | ||
| You've got to have that minority follow you around and yell at you. | ||
| I told you that this was very racist, and it's not like he's dropping N-words around or anything. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| But you see what I'm talking about. | ||
| Like, this is deeply... | ||
| Deeply racist stuff that he's engaging in. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It was almost shocking to me, like, the consistency with which he's dipping into this. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I'll be honest, I did not take a ton of clips from the 14th that would have been illuminating of this racism, because it's stuff he says all the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But he brings it all in almost like a tornado of racism. | ||
| All of these disparate parts of his narratives and his... | ||
| Just talking points that we've heard a hundred times. | ||
| Margaret Sanger wants to kill black people. | ||
| Abortion is about killing black people. | ||
| All of this stuff. | ||
| The March 14th episode is just all of that. | ||
| He's shooting an AK. | ||
| Just a semi-automatic blast of racist talking point, racist talking point. | ||
| It's that kind of thing where if you heard a four-hour radio show and you heard one of those things where you're like, wait! | ||
| Is that a racist talking point? | ||
| Maybe you can blow by it. | ||
| But if it's all there, there's just no other conclusion you can come to. | ||
| It's just not possible. | ||
| It's all over the place on this 14th episode. | ||
| I considered... | ||
| Maybe just getting all the clips. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it being overkill. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| We're just going to run a super cut for this entire episode of Alex being a racist piece of shit. | ||
| But I realize there wasn't a ton of value in that. | ||
| And if anybody wants to listen to that whole episode and bask in all of the things we've already talked about that make Alex a racist, enjoy. | ||
| I thought I would focus more on the things that are new to this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That live within that context. | ||
| I think that's a better use of our time. | ||
| Yeah, it is one of those. | ||
| The thing about it that I think of when talking about a show or an entertainment show or a new show or anything of that value is naturally we have said that Alex is a racist a lot. | ||
| And I can understand why it would get boring or why it would feel repetitive, but it can never not be mentioned. | ||
| It has to be consistently mentioned over and over and over again because you can't for a moment forget. | ||
| And I don't think we do a good enough job about that, maybe, just because it comes up when it's earned. | ||
| It lives in the background of our show. | ||
| There's not a moment where, at least since, I don't know, a couple months into doing the podcast... | ||
| I was a little resistant to call him a racist without good evidence at the beginning, but since then, it exists. | ||
| It's overwhelming. | ||
| I think we've refined our position on it, too, in terms of the things that he gives us clues about. | ||
| It's not just a specific racism. | ||
| It's a white identity-based worldview, Christian identity, dominionist ideas. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So one of the things I wish he talked about more is that there's a new fucking pope. | ||
| It seems like... | ||
| Massive world news. | ||
| Massive! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How many Catholics are there? | ||
| There's tons of them around the world. | ||
| Billions. | ||
| There's so many Catholics! | ||
| I don't know if there's billions, but like a billion. | ||
| People affected by the new Pope? | ||
| Billions! | ||
| Non-Catholics are affected by this. | ||
| Hell yeah! | ||
| It becomes a huge political story. | ||
| Like, there's so many angles to... | ||
| And if you stop to reflect on the fact that it's... | ||
| That one dude being elected by 20 weird dudes wearing red shit is going to change the world? | ||
| It's wild! | ||
| It's interesting as a story. | ||
| It's compelling. | ||
| It's news. | ||
| It's incomprehensible as a human way of life. | ||
| It touches Alex's world. | ||
| He should have known who the new pope was going to be. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Segami. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I was really disappointed that he doesn't really cover it much. | ||
| This is most of his coverage. | ||
| This is sort of the tone of it. | ||
| And it's kind of dismissive, even. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Continuing, the new Pope, Pope Francis, the first Latin American, first Jesuit. | ||
| Well, that'll add to all the theories that the Jesuits really run the Catholic Church. | ||
| And the first Pope Francis to lead the world's Catholics. | ||
| Alex is almost dismissive of the conspiracies about the Jesuits running the Catholic Church and being involved in New World Order stuff, which he does believe now. | ||
| No, I halfway expected him to be like, that'll fuel the fire of Jesuits thinking that they run the, when everybody knows it's the Jews, and you're like, wait, what? | ||
| I don't understand why he's so dismissive of this, because it's not part of his narratives yet. | ||
| Leo Zagami hasn't come around and given him that upgrade. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's work to be done. | ||
| He doesn't have a guy with an Italian accent. | ||
| So that's most of it. | ||
| He's like, oh, we got this South American Jesuit. | ||
| That's going to make people in the conspiracy worlds freak out. | ||
| Great analysis, Alex. | ||
| That's most of it. | ||
| So, the guy who wrote the article for Alex about this wristband issue is Aaron Dykes, one of his employees. | ||
| I don't think he's still there. | ||
| I'm not sure if he's one of the people who hates Alex now or not. | ||
| A lot of his ex-employees don't seem to like him, and the others seem to respect their non-disclosure agreements. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Don't think there's a lot of happy ex-employees. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Other than maybe Joe Biggs, Rambo Joe Biggs. | ||
| Good for him. | ||
| Might be the only person who has been fired by InfoWars and still like, I'm carrying the torch. | ||
| Congrats, you piece of shit. | ||
| So Aaron Dykes comes on to talk about this article that he's written, and man, he is... | ||
| He displays some incredibly racist positions that I think are good context clues as to why he wrote the article that he wrote, quite frankly. | ||
| And here's the first one. | ||
| And they have studied psychology and specifically applied it to their rulership, and they're punching our buttons with race issues. | ||
| That's what they're doing. | ||
| The real racism has mainly died out, at least in my generation. | ||
| Everybody who was friends with everybody is very cosmopolitan, very diverse, at least in my school. | ||
| That was phase one. | ||
| I know it's not like that everywhere. | ||
| No, but that's phase one. | ||
| I was really disappointed that Alex doesn't explain what phase one is. | ||
| He doesn't say what phase two is. | ||
| It is just him interrupting him by saying, that's phase one. | ||
| That's phase one. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't know what that implies. | ||
| Well, actually, you saying that he doesn't explain what phase one is is phase two. | ||
| Confusion is phase two. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So Aaron Dykes is expressing that the globalists, they have this whole system in place, and when they bring up race issues, they're pushing our buttons. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They're pushing white people's buttons. | ||
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Right. | |
| Now, simultaneously, that is also inexplicably phase three. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And also, they're pushing other races' buttons through things like civil rights. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| They hate that. | ||
| So whenever there's social justice causes, like let's say black people saying police should stop killing us. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Targeting us unjustly and disproportionately. | ||
| Dan, you just saying that is making me racist. | ||
| Black people aren't saying that. | ||
| The globalists are saying that on behalf of black people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that's pushing black people's buttons. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So they are more... | ||
| You get what I'm saying. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| This is a convoluted nonsense argument. | ||
| Anyway, this next clip is one of my favorite things in the world. | ||
| Alex gets into talking about his dad. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Now, we know this from listening to Alex as much as we do. | ||
| Alex's dad was one of the smartest people in Texas, and the globalists tried to recruit him. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| They took him into a meeting, and they tried to recruit him back when he was younger. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And Alex retells that story here, sitting with Aaron Dykes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this is really great, because Alex probably gets too specific. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| And I have figured out some things. | ||
| But the side issue, when I called my dad in, when he was still in high school, A junior when he was brought to UT to be tested with all these kids. | ||
| And then he was out of hundreds, you know, just the few they brought in. | ||
| And it was, we're going to carry out eugenics. | ||
| You're the elite. | ||
| Do you like that idea? | ||
| And by the way, this isn't like Hitler. | ||
| The head of the botany department was running it. | ||
| Professor Spear, I'm Jewish, he said. | ||
| This isn't like Hitler. | ||
| We're going after everybody that's inferior. | ||
| And my dad was like, eh. | ||
| But he still went to UT later, but then got out of all that. | ||
| He was never really in it. | ||
| But, you know, it was, well, you went there. | ||
| You know about it. | ||
| Yeah, and looking back at UT, there's a lot of creepy professors and agendas going on. | ||
| Go fuck yourself, dykes. | ||
| So, Alex should know better than to use real names. | ||
| Yeah, that'll get him into trouble. | ||
| That makes what was once a fanciful story about how cool Alex's dad is into a crime. | ||
| Alex is referring to Dr. Erwin Speer, who taught in the botany and biology departments at UT Austin from 1953 to 1994. | ||
| I've read some reviews from students that were posted in the alumni magazines, and from everything I can tell about him, he sounds like a great teacher. | ||
| From a 2011 interview with someone who took his class 40 years prior. | ||
| It made such an impression on him that he singled this Erwin Spear out as, like, an important teacher. | ||
| Quote, He inspired us. | ||
| He was a very difficult teacher, but he made it very easy to have appointments with him to discuss anything we didn't understand. | ||
| And his exams. | ||
| I think it was the first time that I was taking exams where you had to really think. | ||
| You didn't just regurgitate information. | ||
| Dr. Speer was so challenging and yet so stimulating and started many of us on the right road to how to study, how to prepare for exams, and how to appreciate what we were learning. | ||
| That's why I stuck with medical technology, with organic chemistry. | ||
| That's a great teacher right there. | ||
| Someone who changes people's lives with learning. | ||
| I know from Alex's dad's dental license that he was born in 1950, so he'd have to be about 17 when this meeting allegedly happened. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Because he's still in high school, a junior. | ||
| A junior would be 17 or 18. Roughly. | ||
| So that would be 1967. | ||
| Well, I happened to find a copy of an article from the Austin Daily Texan from March 20, 1968, where they talked to Erwin Speer, and his title is listed as, quote, Associate Professor of Botany. | ||
| Also, from a copy of the UT student publication, The Alcalde, from October 1964. | ||
| Also lists him as an associate professor in biology. | ||
| So from 1964 to 1968, he was an associate professor of biology. | ||
| Or, sorry, botany. | ||
| Botany, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Associate professors are typically professors that are on the tenure track, working their way towards becoming full professors at an academic institution. | ||
| They've paid their dues as an assistant professor, and now they're in that middle step before they're given tenure. | ||
| There's absolutely no shame in being an associate professor, even if you're for a long time, because it's a super competitive rank to achieve at most top-tier schools, and UT Austin is not a bad school. | ||
| I point all this out because that's the position that Dr. Irwin Speer would have to have been in when Alex's dad would have been the age he's supposed to have had this completely not true meeting with. | ||
| There's literally zero reason to believe that the globalists are having associate professors working their way towards their tenure, take a little break from their scholastic duties to try and recruit high schoolers into their nefarious eugenics plaza. | ||
| To put this plainly, this story is accusing a specific person of being involved in a plot against humanity. | ||
| It's a conspiracy. | ||
| And Erwin Spear, in this story Alex is telling, is trying to recruit people with the specific goal of committing genocide and crimes against humanity. | ||
| I'm sure Alex feels like he's safe because Erwin Spear died in 2002. | ||
| But still, this is some shady shit Alex is doing. | ||
| This story absolutely didn't happen. | ||
| There's no way. | ||
| There's no way associate professor Erwin Speer is taking time to like, hey, David Jones, future dentist, I'm going to try and enlist you in my globalist eugenics plot. | ||
| You know it's like Hitler, but I'm not like Hitler. | ||
| I'm Jewish. | ||
| It's totally cool. | ||
| We're going to get everybody. | ||
| Dan, you're way off on this one. | ||
| Of course it's him because he's the least likely person for whom it could be. | ||
| Such bullshit. | ||
| Such bullshit. | ||
| If anyone cared, Alex could easily be sued for this. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This is slamming. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Unfortunately, this isn't a present-day episode, so the statute of limitations is over. | ||
| Like, 2013, him slandering him, that's... | ||
| Too late now. | ||
| It's like two years max on various circumstances for what slander can be charged with. | ||
| So Alex is in the clear here. | ||
| But if he wasn't, I would fucking be so thrilled to get in touch with Dr. Spears next to him. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Let's do this. | ||
| Hey, guys, let's fucking nail him! | ||
| I got your back! | ||
| From now on, I will be keeping a very close ear on the present day episodes for Alex telling this story. | ||
| Because if he tells this story... | ||
| In the present. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He's slandering in the present. | ||
| We will now have prior context for who he's talking about. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He will have committed a crime. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I bet I can find this story in the last two years. | ||
| I bet I can. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| While you're on vacation, I'm digging through the archives. | ||
| Let's nail him. | ||
| I think we can prove... | ||
| Let's do it! | ||
| An actual, like, hard crime on somebody. | ||
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I agree. | |
| Like, he's accusing him of fucking genocide. | ||
| Genocide, yeah. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Attempted genocide, thank you. | ||
| Conspiracy. | ||
| Conspiracy to commit genocide, yeah. | ||
| You shouldn't use specific names, Alex. | ||
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Never. | |
| Don't try and impress Aaron Dykes. | ||
| What a fucking idiot. | ||
| So, about five minutes on this episode, maybe more. | ||
| A while. | ||
| It's taken up with Alex getting a caller. | ||
| Who accuses him of using the exact same divide and conquer strategies that he accuses the globalists of using. | ||
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Right. | |
| And Alex gets really super defensive about it. | ||
| Surprise. | ||
| I don't know if this clip is worth it. | ||
| I'm going to play it anyway, because I think there's something worthwhile in it. | ||
| There is a point to it. | ||
| The point where Alex was really defensive is minutes before this, and actually before a commercial break. | ||
| But I think this clip really highlights Alex kind of losing it. | ||
| Like, this guy is making decent criticism of him, and not doing it aggressively, just saying, like, hey, I think this is a, you know, you should know that you say that all of these, you know, the globalists do divide and conquer, but I listen to you, and I hear you dividing people into groups. | ||
| And then further, the guy's other criticism is like... | ||
| You just try and, like, you use fear-mongering all the time. | ||
| So the guy is just being accurate. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| And so here's Alex's, a bit of his response to it. | ||
| I think the biggest reason that I think it's worthwhile to play this is that it demonstrates how confronting Alex, even when you're correct, is not worth it. | ||
| So let's go ahead and go back to Brian. | ||
| Brian, tell me how I fear-monger, or tell me how I divide and conquer. | ||
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I don't want to upset you, Alex. | |
| You're not upsetting me. | ||
| Tell me, please, please. | ||
| Says the upset man. | ||
| But prior to this, he was very upset. | ||
| Says the man who is upset. | ||
| I'm not mad. | ||
| I'm not mad! | ||
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I will. | |
| I will. | ||
| All I'm saying is I think that the entire production team sits around probably and says, what can we talk about? | ||
| And underlying all of that is how can we be provocative? | ||
| How can we stir the emotion, which is a human circumstance? | ||
| Okay, you just misrepresented. | ||
| Well, what really goes on is out of all this real sensational stuff going on... | ||
| What are we going to cover? | ||
| And how do we hijack mindless cultural memes that don't matter and attach reality to them? | ||
| That's culture jamming, culture hijacking. | ||
| We don't have enough of those meetings. | ||
| 90 plus percent of the time, my crew does whatever they want because I hired folks that I overall trust and just get it and know what's going on. | ||
| And sometimes I go, this isn't sensational enough because we tend to water down our headlines. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, Aaron Dykes in an article said, has political correctness gone too far making whites wear white bracelets? | ||
| I mean, I didn't call Aaron. | ||
| I'm doing it now. | ||
| He does a great job. | ||
| It's worse than that. | ||
| It's totally creating a color-obsessed society instead of a color-blind society. | ||
| I mean, it's the opposite, okay? | ||
| And, oh my gosh. | ||
| I mean, no, you're wrong about how we run things up here. | ||
| Okay, I cannot describe how crazy things are, sir. | ||
| I mean, I mean... | ||
| Do you want to know about the two billion bullets? | ||
| How is that fear-mongering? | ||
| That's really going on. | ||
| And I always get to get the criticism first because, I mean, look, I told you Piers Morgan, a bunch of his colleagues have been arrested. | ||
| Now the five people under him were arrested today. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I mean, Piers Morgan is a gangster. | ||
| And, you know, it doesn't feel good to be a gangster from my position. | ||
| I don't want to be a gangster, but he wants to be a gangster. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I mean, I'm here straight shooting. | ||
| Show me money. | ||
| Show me the proof. | ||
| Show me the fear-mongering. | ||
| Show me the divide and conquer. | ||
| Show me! | ||
| Show me! | ||
| Come on! | ||
| He hung up. | ||
| He dropped off. | ||
|
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Show me! | |
| I don't believe that guy hung up. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| I do not believe that. | ||
| No, he absolutely did not hang up. | ||
| If you're going to take the time to wait on hold and make these criticisms of Alex, you're not going to hang up when he starts haranguing. | ||
| You're going to hang on in case you get a chance to respond to stuff. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Alex absolutely hung up on that dude. | ||
| That guy is not going to quit then. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Of all the times to quit. | ||
| Oh no, Alex has made too good of a point. | ||
| I've got to hang up. | ||
| Yeah, Alex made too good of a point. | ||
| Sure. | ||
|
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That's show me, show me, show me. | |
| Yeah, you know when... | ||
| Get fucking bent. | ||
| Although I would hang up the moment somebody started chanting at me. | ||
| Show me why fear monger. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here's why you're fear-mongering, and I'll give you some... | ||
| Every single thing you've ever done. | ||
| Every single thing you've said. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What a pathetic, loser little titty baby. | ||
| Yeah, he's very sensitive. | ||
| There's just no other way to put it. | ||
| He's very, very sensitive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's something you've got to understand, is you've got to deal with him with kid gloves, but also there's no way to do that, because the level of sensitivity that he has around issues that are threatening to him are just to the point where you can't even approach without triggering that response. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it's kind of lame. | ||
| So Alex now, for the rest of this episode, kind of has it in his mind that he's like... | ||
| I'm being accused of fear-monkering. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| He got fucked up by this call. | ||
| A little bit. | ||
| He just really got fucked up by it. | ||
| Which is kind of a sign that he got, like, valid criticism that he didn't know how to deal with. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So that colors things as it goes on. | ||
| And I think it also has, you know, why he's got a... | ||
| You know what he does? | ||
| What's he do? | ||
| He goes for his security blanket. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| He finds his security blanket, and that is... | ||
| Whiskey? | ||
| Ted Anderson. | ||
| Oh, no! | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| Ted Anderson from Midas Resources. | ||
| Fucking Ted Anderson. | ||
| He comes in as a guest, and Alex gives him this introduction, which is fucking hilarious. | ||
| You know, my gold sponsor, one of the few A-plus, better business bureaus, the biggest companies. | ||
| Go look it up. | ||
| There's hardly any other gold companies. | ||
| That have even an A rating. | ||
| I can't find one that has an A+. | ||
| Because we get all these offers constantly, and we get offers in the magazine. | ||
| I can't ever find a reputable gold company to be a sponsor. | ||
| Because Ted is my exclusive on the radio, but I don't have a rule to do that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| But, I mean, he's the only guy that's A+. | ||
| He's been around 30 years, 16 with his company Midas. | ||
| By the way, real quick, Stormfront also had an A-plus rating on... | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How are they doing? | ||
| They do it all right? | ||
| The Better Business Bureau ratings are very inconsistent. | ||
| Oh, the whole thing is a scam. | ||
| It's a shakedown operation. | ||
| But hold on. | ||
| Let him finish his piece here. | ||
| I've known the guy for 17 years. | ||
| He came out and visited me in Austin, stayed at my house last night. | ||
| We were talking in the car. | ||
| 1996 is when I first talked to Ted Anderson. | ||
| 17 years ago, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Coming up on 18. And go look, Better Business Bureau. | ||
| Better Business Bureau, A-plus rating. | ||
| You can't even find that that I know of anywhere. | ||
| Smash cut to two years later, Ted Anderson loses his gold license. | ||
| Because of a systematic history of defrauding customers. | ||
| Still has an A-plus rating on BVB. | ||
| Of course he does. | ||
| Do you know why? | ||
| Because you can pay to get an A-plus rating on the BVB. | ||
| You know what's really interesting to me, though, is at this point, in March 2013, Like, this is when Ted is probably doing his really shady business. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| It's the mid-2015 when he actually gets his license taken away and the proceedings are happening. | ||
| But the offense happened prior to that. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Like, this is when he's actually taking people and defrauding them. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| So what Alex is doing is, like, really just throwing people into the ringer. | ||
| This is abusive. | ||
| Do you know what's fun is that this is almost like his preemptive defense of white nationalist terror is he's going on this long diatribe about how Ted Anderson is so great and his gold sales are amazing all the while at least at least A little bit aware that Ted Anderson is a shady motherfucker. | ||
| There's no doubt he's almost 100% aware of it. | ||
| Like, come on. | ||
| He's committing all the crimes. | ||
| So when I heard that clip, I wasn't clear that it was an introduction for Ted. | ||
| I thought it might have just been Alex being like, let's get a plug in here. | ||
| I didn't realize. | ||
| This just turns into a Midas infomercial. | ||
| But what's really interesting about it is because of that caller who asked Alex about, like, you're a fear monger, you use divide and conquer. | ||
| Alex is really defensive about it, and he needs Ted to reassure him. | ||
| Not with Ted Anderson. | ||
| He's got the best brokers, the best people. | ||
| Ted, I didn't get you here over this. | ||
| I wanted to get you here to have some other meetings with us and work on some longevity stuff we're doing with Infowars Health. | ||
| And for the nightly news, but here you are. | ||
| I've gone into this whole rant. | ||
| Do you think it's fear-mongering, Ted, to say they're going to devalue the dollar, gold's $260, get into it, and 10 years later, it's $1,600. | ||
| Is that fear-mongering to say there's drones, there's bullets, and then they said I was a liar, but now it's all admitted? | ||
| Is it fear-mongering to be right? | ||
| Here is the answer to that. | ||
| Alex, you're unprofessional. | ||
| Also, why is Ted here to talk about longevity issues? | ||
| That's another sponsor. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| You're really implying that this is not just a sponsor. | ||
| This is someone you're deeply in business with. | ||
|
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You might as well be the same company, it seems. | |
| Very weird. | ||
| Very strange. | ||
| That is such like... | ||
| Alex, I know we have a very difficult power balance relationship between us, but in some ways, I am your boss, and at the very least, I'm your colleague. | ||
| I am not here. | ||
| To make you feel good. | ||
| So shut the fuck up. | ||
| Yes, he is. | ||
| And we're going to sell gold. | ||
| No, he is there to make him feel good because he kowtows entirely to Alex's demands to be made feel better. | ||
| Make me whole again after that call. | ||
| Ted is subservient and helps. | ||
| And you know what's really interesting? | ||
| The rest of this interview with Ted Anderson is largely Alex bullying him. | ||
| And we've seen this before. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| Like, he just yells at Ted. | ||
| Whenever Ted's on, he'll start talking about, like, gold prices and Alex will just start screaming at him and just, like, try to do bits. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Because he's like, Ted's fucking boring. | ||
| I need to bring the heat. | ||
| I need to... | ||
| It's almost like he feels a program director's voice in his head be like, pick it up, pick it up. | ||
| This segment is falling. | ||
| In the context of... | ||
| Like, the story of his mom kicking him off her knee at six years old and being like, you don't get love no more! | ||
| So much of his relationship with Ted Anderson gets weirdly mommy-issued as opposed to anything else. | ||
| Like, it's always like... | ||
| I think it's brotherly more than anything. | ||
| Oh, you think it's brotherly? | ||
| I think that he's treating Ted like a brother, like in a bullying older brother kind of way. | ||
| That's the vibe that I get from the two of them. | ||
| Less than mother or father issues. | ||
| It's more just like a... | ||
| Fuck this guy, he's boring and stupid. | ||
| I'm going to give him a swirly. | ||
| You've listened to 10 million more hours than I have, so there's not much I can... | ||
| Well, I mean, I might not be right, but I do have a better assessment. | ||
| That's the line, I think. | ||
| Also, I think that in that clip, when Alex is saying like... | ||
| Is it fear-mongering for me to say that gold is at $260 and now it's at $1,600? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like 10 years later it's at $1,600? | ||
| That's a long time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Second, the way you sell gold is not saying eventually it will be worth $1,600. | ||
| You sell gold by talking about financial collapse. | ||
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Yep. | |
| So yes, you are fear-mongering. | ||
| Even though the price of gold did rise in that decade, yes, that's fine. | ||
| You have steered people towards not a terrible investment. | ||
| If they have the money to make that investment in the long term, shouldn't do it with Midas. | ||
| But the way you sold it is fear-mongering, even if the end result wasn't negative. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That's a distinction that is important. | ||
| The other stuff is lies. | ||
| Yes, you did fearmonger people into this. | ||
| Because you knew that you weren't going to be able to sell enough gold by being like, it's a sound investment. | ||
| If you wait a decade, you'll have an 800% return. | ||
| You'd never be able to sell people on that. | ||
| You sell people with the market's about to collapse, and then when it does, dollar will be worthless, and you'll be the king with gold. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's fearmongering. | ||
| Any good financial analyst will tell you that... | ||
| Gambling on commodities in the short term is a brilliant idea. | ||
| That's what sound financial analysts tell everybody. | ||
| They gamble on short term investments in commodities. | ||
| And buy MaxCoin. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| But that one's taken as red. | ||
| So I brought up the bullying. | ||
| And that comes into play in this next clip. | ||
| Every time Ted's on... | ||
| Alex seems to want to beat up on him and not let him talk in very interesting ways. | ||
| Alex is on this whole white identity thing on these two days, and so what he wants to riff on is the idea that any time you say anything, people call you racist. | ||
| And so that's what we're seeing here. | ||
| That's the way he bullies Ted. | ||
| They're in there cutting up black babies, and they need to get that white supremacist operation run, and they're not going to allow me to stop it. | ||
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I know, I know, and that's the thing. | |
| I mean, the black baby... | ||
| Racist, racist, racist, racist! | ||
| I guess it's not racist. | ||
| Racist, racist, racist! | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Racist, racist, racist! | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| But just as I was trying to say, I mean, we no longer know the value of money. | ||
| If you go deposit... | ||
| Racist! | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| If you respected Ted Anderson as a gold salesman, this is a bad way to treat him. | ||
| Nuts. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| Look, if you and I are re... | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If we're reenacting this conversation, you and I... | ||
| I don't even know if I could. | ||
| And we're just friends at a bar, and this conversation is happening. | ||
| Hilarious. | ||
| If we're in a professional space... | ||
| We're done being in a professional space. | ||
| I'm out! | ||
| I agree with you, but I would also say that you and I, sitting at a bar, having this conversation, that goes like this. | ||
| Whatever the riff is, it ends so much quicker than this. | ||
| Because, let's say you're the one who's yelling racist at me. | ||
| I recognize, we laugh, and then we move on to the next one. | ||
| Whatever it is, the bit doesn't need to continue this aggressively. | ||
| No, the bit ended when he went, yeah. | ||
| After the second round of, racist, racist! | ||
| And he goes, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, alright. | ||
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Well, what I'm trying to say is, racist, racist! | |
| Oh, fuck off. | ||
| You suck. | ||
| So Ted tries to deal with this, and he's very unsuccessful. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Here's how Alex plays this. | ||
| Racism, people! | ||
|
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You sound like you have some passion with that, Alex, and I can tell... | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| You have done well, Lord Vader. | ||
|
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We have gotten to the point... | |
| And now, young Jedi, you will die. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
|
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Yeah, no, that's right. | |
| No, that's fine. | ||
| There is something really, really satisfying about watching a shithead being treated so poorly. | ||
| I listened to that clip in context of the episode when I cut these clips, and I was like... | ||
| That is what happened. | ||
| But now, as we're listening to it, I'm like, that really sounds like I just edited together Ted trying to talk with Alex saying things over it. | ||
| It totally does. | ||
| That sounds fake as shit. | ||
| That sounds like you made that shit happen. | ||
| I got very self-conscious, and I'm like, I know I didn't do that. | ||
| But that really sounds fake. | ||
| That's unreal! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What kind of human being would treat a professional colleague like that? | ||
| Your main sponsor. | ||
| Like, he's yelling, like, I get that you're passionate about that, but I'd love to talk about gold. | ||
| You've done well, Lord Vader! | ||
| That's right! | ||
| It's almost like I have a soundboard, and I'm just hitting that. | ||
| Nope, that's Alex's brain. | ||
| Nope, that's how it works. | ||
| That is how he treats people. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| That is one of the best... | ||
| Bits of abuse I think we've ever seen on this show. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| I have no rooting interest in either one of those people's feelings, and I hope they both get hurt as much as possible. | ||
| I have no real sympathy for Ted Anderson, certainly. | ||
| But I hate to see someone treated like this. | ||
| He's a piece of shit. | ||
| If only for the frustration that I can empathize with. | ||
| Like, being around someone who acts like that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When you're trying to make a point that's beneficial to both of you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, Ted Anderson is trying to make points that will financially benefit Alex. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And Alex is just like, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Race stuff is more important right now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I am. | ||
| I got a head of steam. | ||
| I got this caller who really fucked with my head. | ||
| I gotta do this. | ||
| And Ted... | ||
| You're my whipping boy. | ||
| I have made you millions of dollars. | ||
| And you know better than to protest my abuse. | ||
| I just think of every person who got fucked over by Ted Anderson while listening to that clip. | ||
| And I'm just like, oh man, if only they knew. | ||
| If only they could listen and hear Ted Anderson get his butt kicked like that. | ||
| There'd probably be some schadenfreude in that. | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| And it's not unique at all. | ||
| Alex treats Ted like that quite a bit. | ||
| I can understand. | ||
| But it also does indicate to me that Alex's whole thing about I wasn't a bully when I was younger is probably not true. | ||
| Because Ted does trigger what bullies like to abuse. | ||
| He's a bookish dork. | ||
| He's like, oh, well, actually, the price of gold goes up. | ||
| Well, what's really a sound investment? | ||
| Fuck you, nerd! | ||
|
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Nerd! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And so Alex responding like that to him is kind of indicative. | ||
| Maybe that is how you operate. | ||
| People who have detail and substance and a little bit of a nuanced position that frustrates you. | ||
| You want more of the intensity. | ||
| And so you take it out on them. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| If you could take it out like that on someone who is... | ||
| Basically your meal ticket. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| You could do it to someone at school. | ||
| Yeah, pretty easily. | ||
| I would assume. | ||
| Pretty easily. | ||
| So I've also, from all this, sort of deduced that maybe if Alex is fine bullying Ted and he's fine with letting out on air that they're there to talk about longevity issues, which is a different sponsor, maybe they are the same company. | ||
| And this next clip kind of makes me feel like that... | ||
| Seems to be what's going on here. | ||
| Here's an ad we wrote for a TV ad script that we're putting together for Ted while he's down here in town. | ||
| But I think this says it all. | ||
| Ted and I agreed, collaborated on this this morning and wrote this. | ||
| Hi, I'm Ted Anderson, but I'm actually Alex Jones. | ||
| Ted's right there. | ||
| While I'm reading this, we'll aim the camera at Ted. | ||
| Hi, I'm Ted Anderson, president of Minus Resources. | ||
| If you are somebody who is being sponsored by this company... | ||
| It doesn't make sense for you then to have to write ad copy for them. | ||
| That seems like a different kind of relationship. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alex is here talking about on air, like, we wrote this ad for Midas. | ||
| Why? | ||
| That should be their ad department. | ||
| Yeah, that's very strange. | ||
| That's on them. | ||
| That's a very strange situation right there. | ||
|
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Mm-hmm. | |
| I mean... | ||
| They're the same company. | ||
| Like, that's... | ||
| I'm not sure about this, but I think that's a very borderline illegal... | ||
| I don't think it's illegal. | ||
| I think it's just like a... | ||
| It's an indication of how entwined they are. | ||
| They are, for all intents and purposes, they are the same company. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| It's a facade. | ||
| Most of Ted's revenue through Midas is... | ||
| A lot of it is Alex Jones-based advertising and the way Alex carries himself on his show. | ||
| GCN, as a radio network, only exists because of Alex Jones. | ||
| The rest of those shows, even if some of them are on more markets than Alex, none of them are nearly as huge as Alex. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| And the shows that they have that have grown into something are only possible because of the relationship that started. | ||
| In like 99. Right. | ||
| Between Alex and Ted. | ||
| You can't disentangle them. | ||
| They are the same company. | ||
| They have come up together through decades. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that's why when Ted lost his license to sell gold and had a million dollars that he had to pay off for his malfeasance. | ||
| And Alex immediately after that did a money bomb. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Like that's why that sort of thing is like that is not a coincidence. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| This is him paying off. | ||
| The fines that Ted Anderson needs to pay or else he'll be fucked. | ||
| These two companies are just this... | ||
| They might as well be the same, but for legal reasons they can't, and that's why they exist like this. | ||
| Right, but that's what I'm saying. | ||
| I think that's why when he said that we're writing ad copy for you, that is where legal reasons get into, oh, that's why legal reasons exist, that's illegal. | ||
| But the ad copy writing isn't enough. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| Because you could do that as a favor. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| Alex would probably present it as like... | ||
| Look, Ted's a great guy. | ||
| Love him. | ||
| He's great with gold, but he's not good with the word. | ||
| And that's why I bully him all the time. | ||
| They could put together an invoice or whatever like that. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I know that. | ||
| He gets on air and he starts talking and I gotta fucking yell racist at him because he's not good at talking. | ||
| When he's not good at talking, I gotta say, it extends also to the ad copy that he writes. | ||
| So I do a little bit of that for him and we're all better for it. | ||
| We're all golden. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| Yeah, but it does indicate just such a strong connection between the two that is so much deeper than what they would. | ||
| And when you recognize that the relationship between them is so much deeper, it makes all of the other times that he so embarrassingly sells gold so much more suspicious. | ||
| Like all of the financial collapse narratives that he's talking about with Bob Chapman that immediately lead into, and now Ted's here to sell gold. | ||
| It all is just like, it's so gross. | ||
| So fucking gross. | ||
| So we have one more clip, and it's about a story that had come out that Michael Moore is apparently trying to work towards getting photos from Sandy Hook released. | ||
| Because he has the belief that if you see... | ||
| The reality of this situation, it will lead you to recognize the severity of the situation that we're dealing with. | ||
| That poor, naive, idealistic bastard. | ||
| And so Alex responds like this. | ||
| Folks, as you know, Michael Moore is saying he's going to finish off the Second Amendment and the NRA. | ||
| That's how you're framing it. | ||
| By trying to get the photos released, and Dianne Feinstein's been licking her lips about that. | ||
| Watch a hacker get them or something. | ||
| And they're just going to throw them up there and show them it'll all be photoshopped. | ||
| This is looking more and more like a staged deal. | ||
| I mean, they've staged other mass killings the globalists have, and it has all the telltale signs. | ||
| Aurora, no doubt, was. | ||
| Nope. | ||
|
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There we go. | |
| So, you see, I know that it seems like there has been nothing throughout this course. | ||
| Of this episode about the main idea that we're looking at in 2013, which is the progression in Sandy Hook. | ||
| But here we have, at the end of this March 14th episode, him saying, like, oh, Michael Moore wants these photos to come out, which would shock people into recognizing the real tragedy and the fucking awful situation that can be brought about by gun violence. | ||
| I need to defend from that. | ||
| The only way I can do that, if those photos come out, is to say that they're Photoshopped photos. | ||
| And if I do that, then I might as well go all the way and say this is a staged event. | ||
| Now, he's still not saying they're actors, but boy, this is close. | ||
| And it's a jump. | ||
| It's a jump. | ||
| Because we've been listening to this, and there has not been, like in the last couple episodes from 2013, any indication that he's going in that direction. | ||
| This seems to be like a pretty out-of-nowhere jump. | ||
| I don't know what that will pretend, but I do think that this white identity shit that he's deeply on, this prediction that there's going to be a coming false flag that he's using to preemptively justify in case some of his buddies start doing some shit, I think a lot of that is tied in. | ||
| I think all of it is, there's a tapestry that is being woven, and I think his Sandy Hook denial is a part of it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
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And it can't be understood outside of those other, those contextual pieces. | |
| I'd be interested to know, and it's impossible to quantify this or even measure it, but the The thought that I have is like, what if it wasn't Michael Moore specifically? | ||
| Do you know what I mean? | ||
| I think it would be the same. | ||
| It would probably be the same. | ||
| But the fact that it's Michael Moore raises that, like, Alex Jones has those hackles and just... | ||
| He should like Michael Moore based on some of his... | ||
| Right. | ||
| Especially his early work. | ||
| Right, except for his guns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Except for the guns. | ||
| I imagine if it was somebody else not a... | ||
| Somebody who can turn it from the impersonal to personal. | ||
| Because he hates Michael Moore. | ||
| He does. | ||
| His reaction to Michael Moore doing something is going to be more extreme. | ||
| You would assume. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Than if it were just somebody else. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| But then again, we saw with Pollock, like, it doesn't even fucking matter. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
|
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I agree. | |
| And I think also Michael Moore is more of a threat to him than some rando saying this. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So if someone else who was in the same media level as Michael Moore said it, I think he'd respond similarly. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Even though he hates Michael Moore and has built up narratives about him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But... | ||
| I think all that's important about it is someone of relative cultural importance is saying this. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| And that is why I must respond. | ||
| And if that is what makes him dance closer to it being staged, because staged is different than false flag as he was presenting it before. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because before it was the globalists went in and killed the children and then the patsy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Lanzo was killed. | ||
| False flag is just a different person. | ||
| Staged is very different. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what that pretends for the future. | ||
| But I should tell you, I have cut out an entire hour and a half of this episode. | ||
| On the 14th, he then gets into an interview with a grandfather who is anti-vax. | ||
| And I don't care about that interview at all. | ||
| He apparently has a radio show. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't care at all. | ||
| It's the stupidest shit I'd heard. | ||
| It ends the episode, and then it goes into overdrive. | ||
| Alex goes into overdrive for another hour. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| Alex leaves. | ||
| What? | ||
| The grandpa hosts the last hour of the show. | ||
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No, no, no, no. | |
| Hold on. | ||
|
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Hold on. | |
| What the fuck are you talking about? | ||
| No. | ||
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No. | |
| Does he have an unhung painting? | ||
| Is that why he's getting the fourth hour? | ||
| Is that all anybody needs to do? | ||
| There is no formal fourth hour at this point, but this is a proto-fourth hour. | ||
| Having someone else host the fourth hour is a very proto example of this. | ||
| And I don't know why they did it. | ||
| It might have been brokered programming. | ||
| It might have been. | ||
| I have no fucking idea. | ||
| As it seemed to me, Alex did about a half hour with this guy. | ||
| And then he wanted to talk more about Annie Vax stuff. | ||
| And they can continue the show. | ||
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Right. | |
| And Alex doesn't give a shit. | ||
| Alex doesn't need to be there. | ||
| Sure, you have fun. | ||
| I have some Jamesons out in the car. | ||
| I'm going to just get out of here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So that's what happened. | ||
| And I was like, this is insane. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| In listening to this period of time, I'd not heard Alex surrender the fourth hour to somebody. | ||
| Other than one of his employees, because there was that patch back in, I think it was in 2009, we tried to do Four Hours, and he had people like David Knight or Rob Jacobson. | ||
| His employees would do the Fourth Hour, as if it was InfoWars Nightly News. | ||
| But have some rogue entity do the Fourth Hour. | ||
| Yeah, that's kind of wild. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| Very weird. | ||
| It's kind of wild. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And not good. | ||
| No! | ||
| So, we come to the end of this. | ||
| I think what I would like to say is, like, this is a racist pile of shit. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I don't even think it's fully encapsulated by our episode. | ||
| The 14th, especially, March 14th, was an impossible-to-get-through pile. | ||
| It was just, you're digging through racism. | ||
| The entire time. | ||
| And it's triggered by the LA Times narrative that he started on the 13th. | ||
| And that was triggered by him trying to defend the very real murder threats that one of his sponsors and people in his community were making. | ||
| So, I see trends happening here. | ||
| And it's... | ||
| Because we're in 2019, and I'm looking back on this, I know that, like... | ||
| I see so many dynamics. | ||
| Like, he's saying that there's going to be a false flag that happens. | ||
| And I know why he's doing that. | ||
| Because of all these things, what I just described. | ||
| The militia people who are threatening to do shit like that. | ||
| But then the fact that a high-profile attack does happen. | ||
| And it's not blamed on white people. | ||
| But Alex is going to present it as if it is. | ||
| Tamerlan Tsarnev, the brother who dies, was an InfoWars fan. | ||
| And that becomes Alex's way of being like, they're trying to blame me for this. | ||
| I know that because I remember it. | ||
| And I just see these dynamics happening and it really makes me anxious. | ||
| But very excited. | ||
| I'm very excited about this period of time. | ||
| But also, I'm so fucking... | ||
| I didn't know that... | ||
| In March, Alex is predicting a terrorist attack is about to happen. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| But I also didn't know that a couple months before this, one of his buddies is threatening to shoot and kill people. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| So all of this context is very new to me, and it's exciting, but fucking anxiety-provoking. | ||
| Well, the thing that I am most excited for, Dan, is, and I think this might be a first, but your prediction that the Boston bombing is where shit's going to start getting wild? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is starting to sound true. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Every time we've made a prediction at all in the past, suddenly you've got to give it up to the Somali pirates. | ||
| But this time, it really does look like we're getting a solid, we're getting a hanging cement mixer curveball right at the goddamn belt. | ||
| But you know, because history is prelude, what is going to happen is that he's going to start saying that Sandy Hook was a false flag and that there were actors. | ||
| Before. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, of course. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just to fuck with our heads. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We're seeing all the dynamics and all the things that are playing. | ||
| And it all makes perfect sense. | ||
| As soon as the Boston bombing happens, that's when he's going to lose his mind. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And all of these things are going to come together. | ||
| The next episode. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| March 17th, he comes on air and he's like, guys, I got to tell you. | ||
| God damn it, Alex. | ||
| You son of a bitch! | ||
| You're a confusing asshole. | ||
| But thank you for informing us that they literally attack our testicles. | ||
| It's important that everyone knows that. | ||
| You're the devil. | ||
| So thank you for bringing that to our attention. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| So we'll be back. | ||
| I hope you're having a great vacation, by the way. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| I'm really excited to hope I'm having a good vacation. | ||
| We will be back, probably not on the next episode. | ||
| Well, no, I don't know. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But you and I, the show will be back. | ||
| The show will be back. | ||
| You and I will be back Wednesday. | ||
| As soon as we can. | ||
| Wednesday of next week, probably. | ||
| Probably, yeah. | ||
| Not certainly. | ||
| Not probably. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But until then, we have a website. | ||
| We do. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
| You bet. | ||
| We also are on Twitter. | ||
| It is at knowledge underscore fight and at GoBedJordan. | ||
| Yes, and you know what? | ||
| What? | ||
| We're on Facebook. | ||
| We are on Facebook. | ||
| Now, if you wanted to download this podcast, you could do that by going to iTunes. | ||
| Now, we're actually in the past right now, so you're in the future. | ||
| The other way to download this podcast would be to build a time machine. | ||
| That is important. | ||
| And then you would be able to download this podcast at any point in time from when it is released. | ||
| There's something that people don't actually know and that is that there are a bunch of episodes of our podcast that we've released that are buried in the past. | ||
| Yes, that's actually true. | ||
| If you're listening to this in 2019, there are like 200 episodes that we have that you can only access if you have a time machine and you travel back to... | ||
| 1776. | ||
| Now, on the other hand, you could also... | ||
| Tench Cox, founding father Tench Cox, has a zip drive that we gave him. | ||
| He didn't know what it was, but we gave it to him, and we said, you protect this like you protect guns, you anti-federalists under the bitch. | ||
| We gave it to him, and if you get a time machine and you go back to 1776, 200 more episodes of our show are available. | ||
| True. | ||
| You can also find them on iTunes once you get that flash drive. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| You could travel forward, however, to 2176 when those episodes will be excavated and finally they will be shown in the Louvre. | ||
| By the great archaeologist Namzad. | ||
| Policywonk Namzad. | ||
| Kneel before Namzad! | ||
| Has unearthed those episodes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I don't know why I joined in on that. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I usually just let you do it. | ||
| That's just a riff. | ||
| Until we get back, I have been the Jesus Lizard. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your work. |