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#346: April 11-14, 2013

Today, Dan and Jordan continue their study of The Alex Jones Show in the time after Sandy Hook. In this installment, the gents get through the episodes leading up to the Boston Bombing, and find Alex's show stagnating as he becomes very obsessed with passing off sloppy man-on-the-street videos as reporting.

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alex jones
11:30
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dan friesen
48:27
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jordan holmes
19:17
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steve pieczenik
00:25
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unidentified
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy in Kansas.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
Stop it.
Andy in Kansas.
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your world.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledgefight.com.
unidentified
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey everybody, welcome back to Knowledge Fight, I'm Dan.
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan?
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Have you ever fulfilled a childhood dream?
unidentified
Oh.
jordan holmes
Now, I mean, like, you know, this show is a dream to do, but you didn't grow up thinking, I can't wait to, someday I want to talk about Alex Jones?
dan friesen
Little did you know, I was a wee nine-year-old boy in Honolulu dreaming.
You know, I was like, what would I have been?
About 10 years old when Alex first started broadcasting?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I got an update about it.
Did you?
I was like, I don't know, 25 years from now, I'm going to have to take care of this.
jordan holmes
You guys got local access, Austin TV and Hollywood.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Gotcha, okay, fair.
dan friesen
I started listening to the final edition or whatever the fuck his old show is called.
Sure, sure.
And I was like, you know what?
No one's going to address this.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
This is going to be my responsibility to...
No, I don't know.
I don't know if I had a ton of, like, fulfillable childhood fantasies.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So things like flying.
jordan holmes
Right, well, yeah, well, yeah.
I mean, you have flown.
dan friesen
In a plane, yeah.
jordan holmes
In a sense.
dan friesen
I went parasailing.
Did you?
jordan holmes
Oh, that's really cool.
dan friesen
I've jumped off a cliff.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Not a huge one.
jordan holmes
Well, that's fucking awesome.
I'm terrified of heights.
I would never jump off a cliff.
dan friesen
It's not something that I probably would do again, but the context it was in seemed very safe.
jordan holmes
You were being chased by cannibals, obviously.
The safe we're all trying to do is jump off a cliff.
dan friesen
I'd seen a bunch of people go off already, and so I was like, well, odds of me getting hurt are slim.
And you could see the water underneath, so there weren't any big rocks.
But I probably wouldn't do it again.
Especially in a context where I didn't feel like I could see the water.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
People who do that are crazy.
jordan holmes
No, insane.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So anyway, this is a podcast where I am actively fulfilling my childhood fantasy.
And actually, there is a little bit of truth to that.
Because from a very young age, I did want to do radio.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
dan friesen
Like, I loved radio.
jordan holmes
Right.
That's what I was...
Well, that's one of the things that I was thinking whenever I was thinking about the question.
It's like...
This is adjacent to a dream of yours.
Because we've talked in the past about how you've always wanted to do radio.
dan friesen
Yeah, I love it.
jordan holmes
And I've done a lot of things that are adjacent to goals that I've had in comedy as a kid.
But I don't know if there's any...
Like, the only one that is genuinely a childhood dream that I've had since I was like six years old is writing a novel.
And, like, that's the only childhood dream that I'm close to achieving, and I'm really scared of failing at it.
dan friesen
Or just, I mean, that's a good reason not to do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You're scared of failing.
No, absolutely not.
But I do know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
And I only know what you tell me.
dan friesen
That's correct, and that's the podcast here that we're doing.
Alex is on some bullshit today, and we've got an interesting episode to go over, covering the time span of April 11th to 14th.
All right.
So in our going back to track Alex's coverage of Sandy Hook, we have now reached the day before the Boston bombing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So we're going to get right up to the edge of that, and then the next episode will probably be incredibly miserable.
Yeah.
But before we get into what's going on here on the show today, we've got to take a little moment to say thank you to the people who have signed up and are supporting the show.
So first of all, Sean, thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you, Sean.
dan friesen
Next, Tyler.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you, Tyler.
alex jones
Next, Kate.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you, Matt.
Next, Lawrence.
jordan holmes
Lawrence.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you, Lawrence.
dan friesen
Next, Jennifer.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you, Jennifer.
And finally, Danger Guy.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Danger Guy.
dan friesen
If you're out there listening and thinking, hey, I like what this show, I like what these guys do, I'd like to support it, you can do that by going to our website, knowledgefight.com, clicking the button that says support the show, we would appreciate it.
jordan holmes
It would be lovely.
dan friesen
Also today, Jordan, I want to give a very special shout-out to a couple of listeners.
Who have an anniversary today.
jordan holmes
Oh, congratulations!
dan friesen
Very exciting.
We're so thrilled for them.
unidentified
Yeah!
dan friesen
So, Joker-een and Spooks, congratulations on your anniversary.
We hope it's a great one.
Absolutely.
unidentified
And I hope you're having the best day of your lives.
jordan holmes
Yep.
unidentified
Is it the anniversary of choosing the best names ever?
dan friesen
The fun nicknames?
Perhaps.
Sure.
So like I said, we're doing April 11th to 14th today.
And one of the things I kind of wanted to stick around in the present, because Eddie Bravo and Sam Tripoli were still in studio on Friday.
They were on The War Room with Owen Schroyer.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
And I was like, this is a lot of Eddie Bravo content.
jordan holmes
Look, I'm not busy, but I'm still too busy to do two InfoWars shows.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
They were all over the network at the end of last week.
And so I was thinking, like, everybody enjoys to hear some Eddie Bravo nonsense.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But there was a pretty severe backlash from our audience over Sam Tripoli.
jordan holmes
I think we all agree.
dan friesen
There was an unexpected and universal sentiment that was like...
Don't cover this guy anymore.
It was awful to listen to him yell.
So I have to honor their wishes and stay away from the present day.
Get back into the past here, 2013.
I like it.
Let's do it.
So in this first clip from April 11th, Alex makes...
You get a glimpse into how his brain works and how he experiences his own situation.
And this is just surreal bullshit.
alex jones
And this program is so evidenced.
It is so...
100% on record that it dizzies my mind that we're even having a debate about this.
The establishment is moving forward with an accelerated timetable for several reasons.
They're about 10 years behind in their projections, and they've looked forward that if they don't accelerate the program, their operation will fail.
But they have succeeded.
In their greatest goal of creating an artificial habitat civilization with government and corporate reservations that are breakaway civilizations several steps above us.
dan friesen
I don't even know what he's talking about at this point.
Like, that's sort of the same ideas that, like, Tom Papert was talking about in the present day.
The idea that the globalists have created, like, Iceland is, like, a place with no immigrants and low taxes.
I don't know what he's talking about, but the idea that he's saying that all of these claims that they're making are all so evidenced, it's so proven, so on record, is just ludicrous.
jordan holmes
I am a big fan of your fictional enemy being suddenly, somehow, ten years behind.
We have not talked about this yesterday, or the day before that, or the past ten years, actually, that they are behind at all.
Shouldn't we be getting updates?
unidentified
Shouldn't last year he have said they're officially nine years behind their projections?
dan friesen
Well, they might have been ten years behind then, too.
jordan holmes
How can you be two?
dan friesen
I mean, Alex still says in the present day that they're ten years behind.
unidentified
Because the Patriots pushed back on them.
It's because of the John Birch Society coming around and gumming up the works.
jordan holmes
They're accelerating things because they've looked at their projections and they're clearly 10 years behind.
What are you talking about?
dan friesen
I think what he's doing is he's twisting comments that people have made about like...
jordan holmes
High-speed rail?
dan friesen
Sure.
Things like that.
jordan holmes
Our monorail is ten years behind.
dan friesen
Sure.
Or modernization in third world countries.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Stuff like that.
I'm guessing that that's what he's talking about.
People have said it's behind what people had hoped.
But whatever the case, Alex is like real.
He's consistent, and he keeps pushing forward on this mentality of, like, they're accelerating.
We should be accelerating, too.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And when the other side isn't accelerating, and you're just creating the perception that they are, what you're doing is justifying and rationalizing your own acceleration.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's kind of all that's going on.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
I mean, it is a little bit along the lines of, like, hey, guys.
They're ten years behind on killing all of us, so we've basically got ten years to kill all of them.
That's really what I'm saying.
dan friesen
Or else.
jordan holmes
Or else we'll die.
dan friesen
They'll catch up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and if they could...
They would already have killed you.
So that's basically them attempting to kill you as we speak.
dan friesen
So, Alex, in keeping that sort of vibe alive of this sort of fatal kind of situation, he teases an upcoming news report in a way that I think is a little over the top.
alex jones
Then at the bottom of the next hour, I will break down...
The most chilling information that we have ever covered here on this broadcast.
And it's all publicly available.
dan friesen
So, the most chilling information ever of all time, Jordan.
jordan holmes
God, every time he does this, it's like we have the guy who breaks shit from the internet.
dan friesen
We got the hammer guy.
jordan holmes
The biggest guest we've ever had, it's the guy who hits things with a hammer on YouTube.
dan friesen
To be fair, that was a pretty fun interview.
jordan holmes
Well, it was better than Eddie Bravo and Sam Tripoli.
dan friesen
In terms of ranking Alex's guests, that guy was pretty fun.
He did hit things with a hammer, and Alex rejoiced.
jordan holmes
That's true.
That is true.
dan friesen
So, I mean, we could spend all day trying to guess what this super-chilling information is, and I think it's this.
alex jones
And there's a new Bilderberg Group report out at Infowars.com right now where the president of the Italian Supreme Court...
Very famous individual.
Has now come out and said that the government has all of the documentation and Italian intelligence has all the documentation that every time Italy tries to get out from under the EU or the globalist system, terror attacks are staged by the Bilderberg Group.
Document says secretive group was involved in strategy of tension.
dan friesen
So what's going on here is Alex is saying that this is in the present.
Like that this guy has a document that shows that the Bilderberg group causes false flags whenever people meddle in globalist plans or whatever.
And that's not really fair.
But that's the presentation he is absolutely trying to create.
jordan holmes
That is troubling if true.
dan friesen
So this is about a guy named Ferdinando Impassamato.
jordan holmes
The president of the Italian Supreme Court.
dan friesen
He's often credited as the, quote, honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy.
jordan holmes
See, that's different.
dan friesen
But I can't find any evidence that he was an actual judge on the Supreme Court.
I honestly have no idea what that title means.
And I've looked into it a little bit, and I still don't really understand.
From what I can tell from looking at Italian legal websites, honorary judges are sometimes appointed who provide assistance to courts on various matters, but it's usually a temporary thing, depending on the person's expertise.
So he might have assisted the Supreme Court of Italy on something in an honorary fashion.
jordan holmes
He's a judge consultant.
dan friesen
Yeah, and he's a legitimate person who's had a career in public service.
jordan holmes
So judges are like, we're deliberating, and they're like, hey, what do you think?
dan friesen
I don't think honorary president of the Italian Supreme Court is a bullshit credential, but I do think that the way Alex is presenting it is a little bit bullshit.
jordan holmes
Right, because it's not as though he's the...
It's not like he's...
Chief Supreme Court Justice.
He's not John Roberts in this scenario.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
He's Steve Pachanek working at the State Department.
He's a consultant.
dan friesen
Sure, sure.
I don't have enough information to know whether or not this guy is lying about his involvement in things.
But the way Alex is framing it is dishonest.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So in 2013, Impassamato published a book called The Republic of Unpunished Massacres, which I have to assume sounds better in Italian.
Right.
attacks in Italy in the 70s and 80s.
Right.
unidentified
This document has not been produced, nor has Impassamato even claimed to Oh.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, that's a low bar, but it does make things simpler, I suppose.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Alex is presenting this as if Alex himself has the document, and that it proves that whatever Italy wants to, whenever they want to get out of the EU in the present day, they get hit with false flag terrorist attacks, which is ludicrous, even if you believe all of the assertions being made in Impassamato's book.
He was only talking about activity that took place in the days of Operation Gladio, which, despite what Alex might say, does not continue to the present day.
It was a product of Cold War stupidity, and by the time anything involved actual attacks, it was because of groups that had splintered from their original purpose and gone rogue.
Now, is that in and of itself a good argument against setting up operations like Gladio?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
You bet.
unidentified
100%.
dan friesen
Does it prove that the people behind Gladio are actually trying to create terrorist cells to pull off false flag attacks?
I think I need more evidence on that.
jordan holmes
Not all of them?
dan friesen
I think I need more evidence before we're going to be able to substantiate that one.
And so looking at the claim that's being made here, I see no actual evidence that the Bilderberg Group was involved in Operation Gladio outside of this mysterious document that Pazamato claims he saw but isn't anywhere to be found.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So that's conceivably the most chilling news in the world.
jordan holmes
Okay.
So the most chilling news in the world is that for a while the Bilderberg Group was maybe but probably not orchestrating false flag attacks through.
Operation Gladio.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
I'm not very chilled by that.
dan friesen
No?
jordan holmes
I'm pretty fine with it.
That was like, I wasn't even born, so I'm pretty good.
dan friesen
What about this?
Does this chill you?
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
Alex has changed the narrative on North Korea.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's still kind of...
Beating the drums of attacking them.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
He's still saying that they're going to attack, they're threatening to attack Japan and what have you, but now he's put a slight twist in it, and that is that the globalists are paying him, Kim Jong-un, to threaten people in order to create this strategic tension as related to this Italian Supreme Court guy.
jordan holmes
Dan, that chills me to the fucking bone.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I am chilled, Dan.
dan friesen
He bases this on nothing other than his sort of assumptions and like, this is how I read the tea leaves.
jordan holmes
That's the most chilling type of reading that you can have!
dan friesen
Perhaps, perhaps.
So The 11th is kind of a ghost town in terms of anything interesting.
It's kind of just a continuation of all the same gun paranoia, they're coming to take your kids, all the same sort of trends continue.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
It's kind of boring to keep going over it.
jordan holmes
The specials Ghost Town is playing the entire show.
dan friesen
Oh, gonna like a Ghost Town.
That is how I would describe this episode.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So we get to the 12th, and Alex says something that he...
I think he's trying to overblow his own importance and impactfulness.
unidentified
Alex?
dan friesen
Yeah, I know.
Very out of character.
Our boy?
But in doing so, I think he accidentally says something that I think is quite true.
alex jones
And believe me, the subconscious drives the conscious, and the brain is connected through the spinal cord to the rest of your body.
And the mere fact that I'm talking about how you're under attack right now, even if you're a jellyfish consciously, I am commanding jellyfish right now, spineless people.
I am commanding you.
I am commanding you through your instincts, through your ancestors, through your common sense.
And, of course, God is commanding you through your spirit to activate right now and launch defenses.
And believe me, the defenses are launched.
So the globalists have got a big problem on their hands, okay?
dan friesen
I don't think that, you know, even jellyfish listening are going to be driven to pull up defenses because of Alex.
But what he's touching on there, I think, is very real.
And that is that even if you don't believe...
I think if you passively don't believe him, if you actively don't believe him, it doesn't have much of an effect.
But if you're just casually listening to him, he is going to have an effect on you.
He's recognizing and sort of pointing to the fact that what I do is evocative.
And what I do, even if you don't believe me, this is going to fuck with your subconscious.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I think there's some truth to that.
I think it's one of the reasons that his style of broadcast is particularly dangerous.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Unless you ignore it as a whole, or you come in with a guard up, it can be very dangerous.
jordan holmes
He's like an exploit.
I think so much about when...
When somebody will say, like, oh, you need to update iOS to 11.102 because hackers found this exploit.
And there's this one little thing, and oh, once you fix it, it's all closed.
But if you're passively walking by and you haven't updated, then Alex is going to sneak in and fuck up your phone.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's attention hijacking, it's focus hijacking, it's emotion hijacking.
And I don't find it possible that he's not aware of that.
Because he's perfectly describing it here just in heroic language.
I think that makes him all the worse.
So also on this episode, Alex has got a real bee in his bonnet about how everyone's ripping him off.
And that's cool.
jordan holmes
How many times have we stolen people's ideas and put them on a shirt, Alex?
Oh, I hate when people rip you off.
dan friesen
It's in the more present day.
But yeah, and he's still like 1776 is the answer to 1984.
He stole that from a guy.
But he's...
Always complaining about Glenn Beck in that context.
But now he widens the net to everybody.
All of these right-wing people are ripping him off.
And I can actually explain that to him.
And I also fail to believe, I refuse to believe, that he's not aware of what's really going on.
alex jones
And with what we do sends out ripples.
You know, I shouldn't get mad that within three days of us breaking major news, every single day, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh.
You name it.
Sean Hannity are covering it, and more and more they can't even spin it because their audiences demand the truth.
dan friesen
You know what's going on?
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
All of them are reading Drudge.
That's all that's going on.
That's it.
They're ripping me off because I'm just reading shit off Drudge.
jordan holmes
You know, I think the thing that...
I don't know if he's expressing this.
But the thing that he says where he says within three days, that makes me think that it's less...
Like, they're just all reading the same...
I mean, they were all reading Drudge, obviously.
dan friesen
And Alex...
jordan holmes
But it's also...
It's going through the lunatic laundry.
True.
Like, Alex says something fucking lunatic.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And then after a day or two, the right wing is like, let's distill this down to something that we can actually say on Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
That kind of thing.
dan friesen
Right.
That is definitely a process that happens.
But also, additionally, Alex will say some crazy shit.
And because he runs this InfoWars website that also publishes articles...
He has articles that end up getting linked on Drudge.
So a couple of days after he starts yelling about something that he read on Drudge, his story will be on Drudge.
jordan holmes
God, the right-wing mediasphere is fucking ridiculous.
dan friesen
Whatever the case is, all roads lead back to Drudge.
That's the reason that Alex feels like everyone's ripping him off.
And it's just because you all have the same news source that you rely on for your careers.
jordan holmes
You're all so fucking stupid.
dan friesen
So Alex is bringing up the MIAC report a lot in this episode.
He's sort of ranting about how this proves that they're going to put us in these camps and they're going to take our guns.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
It's exhausting.
alex jones
I mean, it wasn't enough to badmouth George Washington.
It wasn't bad enough to badmouth Thomas Jefferson.
It wasn't bad enough to say returning veterans will attack every police department in America with IED.
Remember that five years ago?
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
And I'm like, here's this secret document.
I was sent by a federal marshal.
They're teaching him that every department will be attacked.
Let me check this document.
I've confirmed it's real.
The feds were hopping mad when I called them that I had it and quite threatening.
Police, are you being trained that veterans will attack your department, will, with IEDs in the near future?
Open the phones up.
Every cop calls in.
Yeah, they trained us on that last year.
We thought it was crazy.
dan friesen
Alex is lying.
So hard.
jordan holmes
That's a way to be a dick to policemen.
dan friesen
I've listened to so many of his shows, and almost without fail, his callers do not confirm the things that he says.
They'll generally try and be polite.
Like we've talked about with that, like veterans getting that letter, and the response being...
jordan holmes
I'm pretty sure my friend got one of those.
dan friesen
Sure, or the classic, I haven't checked the mail today.
jordan holmes
I haven't checked the mail today!
dan friesen
Yeah, so they'll do those sorts of responses, and Alex will take that as confirmation of something, and that is absolutely not the case.
Very low rates of Alex's callers offering anything substantial to confirm his narratives.
That seems to be pretty rare.
So he's getting really extreme.
There's the taking the guns, taking the kids, globalists want to take over, all this shit.
But there's a real singular focus on this episode regarding dumbing people down.
That seems to be something that he's very interested in on this episode.
jordan holmes
He's for or against?
dan friesen
He's against.
Ostensibly he's against.
jordan holmes
But his entire career would suggest the opposite, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, and this clip where he's talking about it.
So the plan, I suppose, is that the globalists want to dumb people down to the point where they can't fight back against these invasion plans and they don't see what's right in front of their face.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
Now pay close attention to this clip because the evidence that he provides for this is pretty dumb.
alex jones
We are entering a period in our culture where everything is going to accelerate downhill.
And the establishment has done the actuaries.
They believe they've got a big enough group of people that are so dumbed down.
I mean, I saw a Mark Dice video.
We're going to play it coming up in the next segment where he goes out and says, will you confiscate?
Are you for people being arrested if they own guns?
Are you for banning guns?
And the people, most of them, signed the petition to do it.
dan friesen
So Alex, he says that they've actuaried out and figured that there's enough dumb people.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Provides no evidence of that at all, and then starts talking about a Mark Dice video that shows that people are dumb.
jordan holmes
I think what he thinks is going on, right, is Mark Dice is imitating what the globalist actuaries are doing.
So the globalists are getting people to sign those petitions, and they're like...
We know now we've got 100,000 signatures.
And Mark Dice proves that the globalists are doing this.
dan friesen
No, no, no, he doesn't.
jordan holmes
Because if people will sign Mark Dices, then that means...
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
Now you go to the actuary.
dan friesen
This is a prank video.
jordan holmes
Because Mark Dice is there.
dan friesen
This is a sloppily made man on the street video.
jordan holmes
I do love the idea of using fucking Jay Leno bits to prove things.
What a fucking asshole.
dan friesen
And Alex is obsessed with it on this episode.
He is going on and on about how these are great, like they demonstrate these great truths.
Leanne McAdoo has been hired.
I think this might be one of the first, if not the first, instances of Alex bringing up Leanne McAdoo.
She has been hired, and she goes out on the street, and she asks people to sign a petition banning dihydromonoxide, or it's water.
jordan holmes
Oxygen, or water, or whatever it is.
dan friesen
It's H2O.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Dihydrogen monoxide.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's like, oh my god, look at this, look how dumb people are.
Most people are being polite.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
This doesn't prove anything.
But Alex is all about it.
It seems to be a real interest of his on this April 12th.
It doesn't seem...
It's not following a trend.
This hasn't been an obsession of his for the prior weeks or whatever.
jordan holmes
I just can't understand anybody that accepts any of those videos for anything other than the individuals that they put on there.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And if you want to pull that shit, give me a Steadicam.
Of you out there for four hours.
99% of people walked by and went, fuck you.
I don't need this shit.
dan friesen
And even some of the people you keep in, you're cut.
They're high out on the boardwalk or something.
You're bumming me out.
I'll sign this to make you go away.
jordan holmes
Anytime that somebody extrapolates real people...
The majority from those videos.
It's like, fuck you.
dan friesen
Right, right.
So if he wants to make this argument, he needs to show the other stuff, the globalist actuaries and what have you, as opposed to pointing to a Mark Dice video.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
I need better than that.
That's something that only would be convincing to a dumbed-down audience.
Coincidence, probably.
jordan holmes
Odd, odd.
dan friesen
So the Democrats, they're trying to push a gun ban, as they always are, apparently.
jordan holmes
We have done such a great job of focusing on that idea.
dan friesen
Sure.
This clip is not interesting for that.
That is very standard stuff.
alex jones
Sure.
dan friesen
But Alex says something that is something I like to keep track of.
jordan holmes
Are we getting a TJ quote?
dan friesen
We are not.
We are not.
I think he's quoting somebody, though.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Treason alert.
Dems try to move gun bill forward without allowing senators to read it.
Obamacare repeat.
Senators not allowed to read bill prior to cloture.
This is all treason, ladies and gentlemen.
If you don't know Robert's rules, parliamentary procedure, the laws in this country as well.
The same with the fellow reserve was passed by three senators the night before Christmas.
jordan holmes
Hey there, Wayne Paul.
alex jones
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Three of them passed the Federal Reserve Act.
dan friesen
That is something only a dumbed-down audience would believe.
jordan holmes
That's a dumb, dumb, dumb thing to say.
God damn it.
dan friesen
That's insane.
Like, I understand that you love Ron Paul and his brother's got to be cool by association, or maybe even Ron Paul told him this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is very easy to look up.
Like, this is not something that's acceptable for you to be someone who presents themselves as a scholar and all this shit and actually believe that.
Like, this is recorded.
This is very easy to show to be false.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I have an even greater bone to pick here.
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
I did not know that if you don't follow Robert's Rules of Order, you are committing treason.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
I didn't know that.
unidentified
I didn't know it was the high stakes of the Robert Rules of Order.
dan friesen
That's a part of Admiralty Law.
jordan holmes
Robert's Rules of Sovereign Citizenry.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I like it.
dan friesen
So over the course of the time doing this podcast, I think we have seen Alex be pretty hurtful to a lot of groups of people.
jordan holmes
Minorities, women.
dan friesen
Yeah, in particular.
But I've never heard him be shitty to this specific group.
I'm almost shocked that Alex's show seems almost devoid of...
Being the same kind of asshole he is to everybody about folks with disability.
And so when I heard this clip, I was like, this shouldn't surprise me, but it's also kind of different.
unidentified
Novel?
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's weird.
alex jones
All men are created equal, endowed by their creator, with certain unalienable rights.
jordan holmes
Unalienable.
alex jones
Inalienable rights.
Life, liberty, life and liberty.
You got your life?
You got your liberty.
Not everybody's as smart as the other person.
Everybody's just good looking.
We all have different gifts.
All of you have gifts.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
Where's this going?
alex jones
Even people that are handicapped, even mentally, they are giving the gift of a burden to someone to grow.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
Everything's a gift.
dan friesen
That's crazy.
What?
unidentified
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
jordan holmes
Parse that the fuck out for me, because I think I know what that means, but you need to tell me and confirm for me what that means.
dan friesen
What he's expressing is that everybody has gifts.
We're all endowed with some gifts from the creator, and the gifts that people who have disabilities, their gifts are that they're a hard time for you.
jordan holmes
See, this is where I'm running into trouble.
dan friesen
No, that's horrible.
jordan holmes
That's a horrible mentality.
So everyone is given gifts.
Right.
And the gift given to the handicapped person is the knowledge that they are making someone else's life worse.
dan friesen
Which is a growth opportunity.
jordan holmes
Thereby making their life better.
dan friesen
They are things to Alex.
unidentified
That's insane.
dan friesen
That's insane!
jordan holmes
Everyone's given gifts except the handicapped is what he just said.
dan friesen
Well, but they don't know.
What?
I don't know.
jordan holmes
That's a fucking insane person.
dan friesen
That's next level awful.
jordan holmes
That is ridiculous.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's treating people who happen to have some disability status as, like, they're just there as a side quest level or whatever in your video game.
They're a prop to you.
jordan holmes
The gift that the handicapped are given are being emotional barbells for other people to work out on.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
That's it.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Good gift.
dan friesen
That's shitty.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's pretty shitty.
dan friesen
So Alex has a guest on this episode.
He is a guy by the name of Ben Swan on the show.
And one of the reasons is that Ben Swan is leaving a Fox affiliate that he worked at, I believe, and Alex is going to try and make a real fucking big deal out of it.
jordan holmes
Naturally, naturally.
dan friesen
It's a conspiracy and he's being silenced.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
Because he's libertarian-leaning and did some reports on Ron Paul and what have you in the past.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So obviously the globalists are forcing him out of this station.
jordan holmes
Okay, so I assume he hit his significant other...
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
It's just a regular old story?
dan friesen
I mean, his life doesn't go great later, but it isn't, at this point, I don't think it's anything nefarious.
Ben will explain it in a clip, and Alex does not like his explanation, but I think it is probably a thing where it's like, well, the station wasn't a right fit, or explore online media or something.
I think at this point in his career, that's perfectly plausible.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Later.
Maybe not.
Not necessarily beating his wife or anything.
jordan holmes
I'm just saying, anytime we hear, like, oh, he's being silenced, you scratch the surface and there's a man who's hurting his wife.
dan friesen
Alex wants that to be the narrative because that's the narrative Alex has about himself in his early days of radio.
That he was told to shut up about the Clintons and he wouldn't, and that's why he got fired from KLBJ or KJFK, whichever one.
I can't remember.
But he wants it to be a mirror of his experience.
So he can yell about his own life.
That's basically what goes on.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So Alex intros this Ben Swan guy and gives some of his credits.
And you learn something interesting.
alex jones
And I remember about a month or two ago I wanted to get him on and he said, well, I'm not allowed to do interviews anymore and I'll be talking to you shortly.
And I thought, well, that might mean he's going to be leaving.
And sure enough, he's put out a video.
We'll play a clip of it later.
But why not?
Just go right to him.
He's won both an Edward R. Murrow Award, so that's about as good as it gets.
dan friesen
Jordan, did you know that there are at least five different awards called the Edward R. Murrow Award?
jordan holmes
Okay, see, now that's what I was thinking.
I was like...
Man, it does get better than that, and it's called the Pulitzer.
I don't know about the Edward R. Murrow.
That's like a Lifetime Achievement Award for some people.
dan friesen
Well, that's one of them.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a couple of those.
dan friesen
Yeah, and none of them are like shit or whatever.
jordan holmes
Right, no, no, no.
dan friesen
I'm not insulting or anything, but the one Ben Swan is said to have won is the one that's given out by the Radio Television Digital News Association, or the RTDNA, in 2002.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This was for, quote, continuing coverage about Alexandra Flores, who was a five-year-old girl who'd been abducted and eventually murdered.
So their news coverage about that story was what ended up winning them the RTDNA.
The thing is, though, if you go to the RTDNA's website, they have a list of past winners of their awards, and Ben Swan's name isn't anywhere on it.
And that's because the continuing coverage award is not given to an individual, but instead awarded to a station.
In this case, KFOX TV El Paso.
This version of the Edward R. Murrow Award, the one that's given out by the RTDNA, they're almost exclusively given to stations, reflecting a recognition of collaborative efforts that go into creating a complete news program.
jordan holmes
So what you're saying is he won the Edward R. Murrow Award.
dan friesen
In a sense, yeah.
It is true that Ben Swan was working for that station at the time, and I'm sure he worked on the coverage.
But I feel like saying that he won this award is dishonest framing.
A more accurate way to say it would be that the station he worked at won these awards.
But I understand that that doesn't sound good on a bio.
jordan holmes
I think that reminds me of Hannibal's description of winning an Emmy when he was writing on SNL.
Where he's like, I was just on the right team at the right time.
Like, I have an Emmy the same way Juwan Howard has a championship.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, yeah, okay.
I gotcha.
dan friesen
Alex doesn't know that there are multiple different awards named after Edward R. Murrow.
It's possible that he's thinking of the one that's given up by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That one is so selective that they don't even give them out some years.
jordan holmes
Are you sure they didn't give it out to Ben Swan?
dan friesen
I'm sure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That one is given to specific people, though.
In the past, people like Terry Gross and Ira Glass have won them.
But you might notice something similar about those two people, and that is that they work in public broadcasting.
So that award is only given to public broadcasters.
There's also the Edward R. Murrow Award that's given out by Washington State University, which is Edward R. Murrow's alma mater.
A whole bunch of people that Alex hates have won that.
Like Ted Turner, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Helen Thomas, Ted Koppel.
That one is basically the Lifetime Achievement Award you're talking about.
So the only names you're going to see on that list are super relevant news people.
And if you're imagining that Ben Swan won one of those, that's crazy.
This is the problem with awards that have the same name as other awards.
It's really easy to get the idea that Ben Swan is being honored in the same way that Walter Cronkite has.
But in reality, he was a part of a team that put together some quality, continuing coverage of local news about a kidnapped child.
jordan holmes
Which is nothing to sneeze at!
dan friesen
Exactly.
I'm not shitting him for that.
I think he should be super proud of the work he's done.
I'm just saying that I suspect that this might be an attempt to willfully deceive people about the nature of this award, or at least a willingness to let other people make the assumption.
Right.
And not correct it.
jordan holmes
Right.
If we gave out a scholarship and named it the Fulbright Scholarship, it would be a little bit dishonest for you to be like, I got a Fulbright!
dan friesen
Yeah, it would be dubious.
jordan holmes
No, I got you.
No, I got you, but you know.
dan friesen
I understand why there would be multiple awards named after Murrow, though.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
He's a luminary in the field of TV news.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
So also, because of this, I didn't cut a clip of it, but Alex...
He feels the need to brag about his own accomplishments.
And so he says that a couple years back he won an award from Talkers Magazine.
The top award from Talkers Magazine.
And he didn't win an award from Talkers Magazine.
He was invited to give a keynote address at their 2011 New Media Seminar.
unidentified
And guess who opened for him?
jordan holmes
Dana Gould?
dan friesen
Lionel!
unidentified
No!
jordan holmes
No!
The new media kings?
Lionel and Alex Jones?
dan friesen
2011, things looked a lot different.
So Talkers doesn't even give out an award.
They put out a list that's called the Heavy 100, which is the top 100 talk radio figures.
Alex has never been number one on that list.
Absolutely not.
jordan holmes
For obvious reasons.
dan friesen
In 2019, Alex is number 49 on that list.
jordan holmes
That's not bad.
dan friesen
It's not, but to put it in context, a show called Curtis and Juliet out of WABC is number 36. Okay, well then they're doing great.
I have never heard of them, ever.
And the picture of them is a younger blonde woman and an older man in a red tracksuit wearing a red beret.
So Alex is 13 spots lower on the list than them.
jordan holmes
What did you just say to me?
Did you just say red tracksuit wearing a red beret?
dan friesen
Yep, the dude looks real weird.
Alright, well then I am tuning in.
To be fair, though, Alex this year did beat Sebastian Gorka.
jordan holmes
Okay, well that's good.
dan friesen
Actually, I'm lying.
Gorka's number 27. That can't be real.
jordan holmes
Why is Gorka even on the list?
He has his own radio show?
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
We're just giving Nazis radio shows left and right now?
dan friesen
Hey, he's got a good radio voice, I say facetiously.
jordan holmes
Okay, alright.
dan friesen
So, Alex was number 26 last year and 2017.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a lot.
dan friesen
Talker's heavy hundred list is actually a bad sign about the state of affairs for Alex's career.
That drop from 26 to 49 is a big slide for him.
They make up that list based on consulting with a big group of radio industry figures, so this is indicative of Alex losing a ton of ground in terms of his radio imprint.
The industry doesn't seem to see him as relevant.
His ratings are probably plummeting.
And it's not like they hate conservatives or people who are like Alex.
That list is mostly just right-wing talk show hosts.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'd say, only right-wing people listen to radio now, right?
dan friesen
Somewhat, yeah.
I mean, it's a much larger market.
And Hannity's been number one for the last two years on it, so it's not like there's some sort of an implicit liberal bias.
And Glenn Beck has beat Alex every year.
jordan holmes
God, I want to know who's 101.
How brutal would that feel?
dan friesen
I've scrolled through it and like...
Once you get down into the 70s and 80s, it's kind of real...
I don't know who any of these people are.
I didn't know this was a show.
jordan holmes
Hey, it's Chuck and Buttfuck in the mornings.
You're 99 on the list.
Holy shit.
dan friesen
Might as well.
Wow.
So this is Alex being a petty asshole making this claim because he has a guy who won an Edward R. Murrow Award and he wants to be like, well, I've won things too.
I won this Talkers Award.
It doesn't exist.
Just because I thought it was really lame of him, I decided to check in and see if I could find his keynote speech from Talkers, the convention in 2011, and it's fucking insane.
jordan holmes
There's a transcript?
For real?
dan friesen
No, I found a video of it.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's ridiculous.
dan friesen
It's just Alex yelling at this seminar group, doing basically his radio shtick, while every now and again you'll hear a voice in the crowd be like, wow.
It's nuts.
He's just yelling to a bunch of conference attendees about the globalists.
jordan holmes
God, that's awful.
dan friesen
It's amazing.
And they do give him a round of applause a couple times, but one of them was like...
He's talking about how in his early days, he had to edit video from tape to tape, and it would take forever.
And so he was getting three hours of sleep a night for these years, and he was coming up.
He was like, and I did it on coffee!
And that's what turned me into what I am today!
And now he gets a round of applause.
jordan holmes
Wait, he's doing an ad for coffee?
dan friesen
I guess.
But they give him a round of applause, but it feels like they're laughing at him.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because he's like, that's why I'm crazy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
Oh, we appreciate that you acknowledge.
jordan holmes
God, I would do anything to go back in time.
And have Alex speak at my high school graduation.
dan friesen
It would be amazing.
jordan holmes
I would do anything.
I would do anything.
dan friesen
It would be very inspirational.
jordan holmes
It would.
dan friesen
It would probably go long.
jordan holmes
It would blow my mind.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So I was listening to that speech, and basically, if you want to know what it's like, it's basically an episode of his show.
And so there wasn't a lot that I felt was like...
Worth going over.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But he said one thing in it that I thought is absolutely crucial.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Because he's talking to a group of media insider folk, and probably he's unaware that they're recording it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So there is a feel of like, we all know.
jordan holmes
It's us in here.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Which is a vibe that you never really see from Alex.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And he talks about his process, and I think this is kind of revealing.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
So because I work my way up in every media and every system trying to learn it, I mean, we would have had a lot more success up until now if I'd obviously known all this 16 years ago.
It's like I don't even know what I learned.
I don't even know what I know.
I just am able to do it, and I don't have an instinct for things, and I know how to take a story, put an accurate headline out, but I want it to be read, but then I just know how to put the headline out so it'll have the biggest effect.
And then I've got my crew, and I'm always trying to teach them exactly.
I'm like, watch this.
This is what I'm going to say about this.
This is going to encapsulate what this really does.
The system knows how to take something horrible and spin it like it's no big deal.
We're going to take something that's hiding in plain view, put a new headline on it, have three-paragraph comment, put a blurb of that, point it out, and everybody goes, whoa!
dan friesen
He's describing being a fabulist.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's pretty direct.
dan friesen
He's just describing, like, I have an instinct for sensationalizing things, and that gets us a lot of traffic.
jordan holmes
Yep.
He just described that pretty succinctly, too.
Like, he didn't go long.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That was right on.
dan friesen
Granted, he will say that, like, I give it an accurate headline.
I'm sure that's what he likes to believe, and it's probably a better presentation than I sensationalize the shit out of things.
I understand clickbait in my bones.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But that's exactly like a lot of the criticisms I would level at his journalistic style.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Lack of proving anything and flamboyant-ass headlines.
jordan holmes
They take things that are horrifying and they know how to spin it so it looks like there's nothing going on.
So what we do is take nothing going on and spin it like it's horrifying.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Exactly.
unidentified
Oh.
jordan holmes
Okay.
That's bullshit?
dan friesen
It's telling.
Because it also indicates an awareness on Alex's part that this is what he does.
However much of it is just instinctual and this is how I operate.
It's like, well, you're aware of that being how you operate.
And you're misleading people.
jordan holmes
Yeah, my real ancestors are William Randolph Hearst and no one else.
dan friesen
He was on the Mayflower.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
I saw it in an Infowars headline.
So Alex gets to talking to Ben Swan.
And like I said, most of the interview is predicated on the idea that he's just left this station that he was working at.
And so Alex says this.
alex jones
Ben Swan is our guest.
We're going to give you his Facebook, Twitter, all his websites and everything.
And I can't wait to see what he ends up doing.
He's told me a little bit behind the scenes, but we'll see how much he can tell us on air straight ahead.
dan friesen
So Alex is real excited to see what Ben Swan does next.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know exactly what he did immediately after this, but I can tell you that in 2017, Ben Swan got fired and lost his job from a local CBS affiliate in Atlanta after he started covering Pizzagate.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
Oh, there we go.
Okay.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That's the flavor that he's been dishing out.
He got real into reporting Alex Jones-y type of conspiracy theories on a segment that he ran on the CBS station.
jordan holmes
Oh, so he had his own...
Oh, boy.
That's really funny.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So he was doing these reports, and they were like, you've got to stop that.
I think it was the Pizzagate one that was like, no.
No, no, no, no.
unidentified
That's crazy.
dan friesen
You can't do this.
And so he let the show go dormant, but apparently he was going to try and bring it back, and then they fired him.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
You just can't.
You can't be associated with our station if you're going to be pushing Pizzagate shit.
jordan holmes
So was he working on a local news broadcast, and he had a little segment, like a little, we've got our remote reporter out here.
God, can you imagine just watching WGN news at 5 and then all of a sudden they're like, alright, we're going to throw this dude over here and he's like, the Clintons are murdering children underneath my very feet right now!
Alright, we're going to go back to you in studio.
dan friesen
I might watch the news more, honestly.
jordan holmes
I might watch the shit out of the news!
dan friesen
I think it would be corrosive to news.
I know he also worked at RT for a little bit, but I don't think that's anything suspicious, necessarily.
He just had a show.
It's more like his career has had a trajectory that seems to reflect someone who believes wacky, nonsensical bullshit and was lucky to be a part of that team that won these Edward R. Murrow reports because everything else he's done in his career since then...
That ain't award-worthy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I mean, how well was it?
What if he's a really good producer?
Like, the segments are well-produced, the direction is perfect, the cinematography is great.
dan friesen
He's just an idiot.
I saw the Pizzagate one, and it didn't seem any different than most local news reports that I've ever seen.
jordan holmes
Okay, well, then never mind.
He's not revolutionizing the field?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But Alex needs the story to be that Ben is leaving the station because he was told he couldn't cover things like...
Gun Grabs and Ron Paul.
jordan holmes
Well, we can't cover Pizzagate.
That's for damn sure.
dan friesen
Well, again, that's later, but yes.
So he's trying to push that, and he needs Ben to sign off on it in order to authenticate this, like, Ben Swan came on the show.
He told us he's being silenced.
You can't trust any news.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But Ben, isn't it that narrative?
alex jones
The power structure knows liberty is popular.
That's why they never want to give it a chance to get its roots going.
And that's why they always try to suppress people.
So bottom line, did you get told to back off?
unidentified
You know, it wasn't so much about being told to back off so much as the station has, you know, they're moving in a certain direction.
alex jones
You just said not so much.
They're moving in another direction.
But that's how they do it.
We don't like this direction.
Let us nudge you.
Be honest.
Be honest.
They told you to knock it off.
unidentified
It really wasn't.
It really wasn't.
These guys really want Cincinnati-centric, and we want bigger issues.
And so kind of my view of where it was headed was different.
They were always very supportive of what we were doing.
So I want to make that clear.
dan friesen
So Alex can't handle that.
I think that's probably totally believable at this point in his career.
It was like, I want to look at a bigger thing than a local news station probably allows.
He got a bunch of attention from the Patriot.
Right-wing media.
Sphere, like online, when he was covering Ron Paul's stuff.
And I bet that really felt like, this is a direction I should go in.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
That would put you butting heads, even if you're getting good ratings with a local station, that that's kind of outside of their mandate for the most part.
So obviously that would be like, we should go separate ways.
jordan holmes
Did Ron Paul come to Cincinnati?
No.
Then fuck off.
dan friesen
Right, when he does, go for it.
Yeah, we'd be happy to do something.
Until then, that's not what our station is.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So I can see that...
Being very believable.
But I see Alex's response being so based in his own ego.
Like, this is what happened to me.
I need to discredit all media forces except my own.
I need this to be the truth.
So he acts like he knows the reality of Ben's situation better than Ben himself does.
It's lame.
jordan holmes
It is never...
It is unendingly funny to me anytime somebody gives a very direct question that has two answers, affirmative or negative.
And the person responds to it.
Well, you know, there are a lot of different things.
Do you know what that answer is?
Whatever answer you hoped it was going to be, it is not that answer.
dan friesen
Probably not.
jordan holmes
You wanted to know?
Well, guess what?
I've got a long string of words for you that equal up to not know, man.
Not know.
dan friesen
So Alex is excited for Ben Swan's future, and he wants him to work at InfoWars.
jordan holmes
Sure, of course.
And Ben does not want to work at InfoWars.
dan friesen
He doesn't seem into it, but he is also not anti-Alex.
He's not...
Right.
He's pretty friendly and seems to be congratulatory of Alex's accomplishments.
He says that the Piers Morgan thing was the best thing he's ever seen on TV.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
So he's into Alex.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But I would imagine he knows well enough that, like, I can't work there.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That would be a huge fuck-up.
jordan holmes
Or at least he's willing to leave his options open until other local affiliates have no interest in him.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like they did after Pizza Gate.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Alex wants him to work there, but more importantly, there's this place that he doesn't.
unidentified
We'll get back together very soon.
I'll see you then.
alex jones
All right, there you go.
And people always ask me, why do I promote other liberty-oriented media?
I do it because we don't have a future if we don't.
And it's funny you mentioned Beck in there.
I think I told you like six months ago off air, I said, I wouldn't be surprised if Beck doesn't offer you a job because I know he's building a whole network off, basically, ideas I put on air, which is fine.
I think that's great.
And just my only painful thing is hearing something, him reading word-for-word InfoWars articles, then telling his listeners don't trust InfoWars.
I mean, I see it all the time.
Every time I tune in, it's insane.
dan friesen
So Glenn Beck has stolen the Blaze from Alex.
Yeah.
And don't go work there.
Whatever you do, don't work there.
jordan holmes
And he steals all my stuff every day, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I don't have a problem with that.
There's no problem with that.
I've just mentioned it 45 times today, and I don't have a problem with it.
You only repeat things repetitively if you don't have a problem with it.
dan friesen
If there's soft, trivial issues that don't really matter to you.
I would say that the rest of that interview is not worthwhile.
It's mostly Alex trying to...
Cast aspersions about the media as a whole and imply that Ben got forced out or whatever.
It's lame.
But we've heard Alex say a lot of really unacceptable things on this podcast.
I would say it's...
jordan holmes
Today.
Sure.
dan friesen
And I would say that he's crossed a lot of lines.
This next clip, he's crossed another line.
And this is one I'm going to have to take very seriously.
alex jones
I mean, I was watching this morning, there's a story up on Infowars.com about Kesha, and I hadn't really ever followed her, and I watched a couple of her videos, and it's teaching 14-year-old girls how to commit suicide, and songs about committing suicide, having her fans send in their teeth to wear around her neck, and how she loves Satan and the devil, and all of this.
And they're not just doing this to be cool.
This is the spirit of the age.
This is how do we hurt the youth?
How do we screw them up so bad they roll over to us?
To bring in the control grid.
And I'm going to break down what the control grid is.
dan friesen
Don't you dare mess with Kesha.
jordan holmes
Shut the fuck up, old man.
What was that?
Oh, there's Satanism in music in 2013?
Did you never hear of music before?
dan friesen
All of it.
jordan holmes
All of it.
dan friesen
Yeah, and what's really weird to me is like, okay, this is an April...
April 12th, 2013?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Kesha released Die Young like six months prior to this.
Yeah, yeah.
What are you doing?
Yeah, it was like fourth quarter 2012 that that came out.
jordan holmes
Dude, don't anybody tell him about Led fucking Zeppelin.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
He'll get in real, real trouble there.
dan friesen
There's nothing current about this.
He's just taking pot shots at Kesha.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is not cool.
Also, that song is not encouraging suicide.
It's like, let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die young.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Just because the name of the song is Doc.
jordan holmes
No, you're not reading between the lines, Dan.
It's not what they say.
It's what they're saying that they're saying that you think they're saying.
dan friesen
Cash is fantastic pop, and I will hear nothing against her from the likes of Alex Bucket Jones.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no shit.
dan friesen
How dare you?
How dare you?
If you start talking about Carly Rae Jepsen.
I am going to quit this podcast.
jordan holmes
I'm not doing this.
Look, how many times?
I've let this one go.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
I still can't go after Pink, though, can I?
dan friesen
No.
Leave Pink alone, too.
Although I haven't heard anything of hers for quite a while.
jordan holmes
See, there we go.
I'm waiting for the statute of limitations to run out on shitting all over Pink with you.
dan friesen
That may end up happening at some point.
But Kesha, Carly Rae, Jepsen, mm-mm.
Lana Del Rey to some extent.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
Let's go through here.
dan friesen
Although I do think I've heard Alex complain about Lana Del Rey.
unidentified
Oh, yeah?
dan friesen
I do think I've heard that before.
jordan holmes
I mean, there are some legitimate complaints.
dan friesen
She's a lot darker.
jordan holmes
Yeah, her most recent album is actually not terrible.
dan friesen
I've not heard it.
I'm sure it's great.
So, like I mentioned, Leanne McAdoo has been hired at this point, and Alex describes this bit that he had her do, like, go out and do this man on the street thing.
And, you know, he has brass balls complaining that other people are ripping him off when this is how he describes what he's having his employees do.
alex jones
Leanne McAdoo, the story's up on PrisonPlanet.tv.
She went out and could find no one that knew that dihydrogen monoxide was water.
Redoing a Penn& Teller skit from like nine years ago.
We heard that yesterday.
dan friesen
You just admitted that you stole that bit from someone else.
jordan holmes
It's already been done?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Great, great, Alex.
Good work, guys.
dan friesen
Very original, very fresh, unlike Glenn Beck.
jordan holmes
I hate it when people steal my stuff.
It's no big deal, though.
dan friesen
No, totally not.
unidentified
No big deal.
dan friesen
So like I said, though, there seems to be a very large obsession on this episode with these prank man-on-the-street videos.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think Alex might be recognizing that, like, Okay, we're in a holding pattern.
I've already got really extreme in my rhetoric.
Now what we need to do is create the news.
alex jones
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
We can't rely on waiting for something to happen that we can then manipulate.
We need to send somebody out and then we can completely manufacture a perception.
We can just cut out all the people who talk to the man on the street that doesn't go along with the preconceived notion that we're pushing.
It feels like that's what's going on because it's very overt how much he's talking about this Mark Dice video and Leanne's work.
It's weird.
It's weird to me.
But that's the real strong sense that I get.
jordan holmes
And just one piece of advice to everybody who does those, especially those in bad faith.
Don't do it live.
How many times have you seen Fox News' people go out on the street trying to do those men in the street and then get dunked on by some random-ass stranger?
dan friesen
That great one was...
jordan holmes
Or like a 12-year-old who's like, shut the fuck up!
Let me explain climate change to you!
I'm gonna die!
dan friesen
That happened to Owen Schroer when that kid flipped him off.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's right!
That was good stuff.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Alex knows this.
So he talks about this Mark Dice report, and I think there's some weird stuff going on.
First of all, Mark Dice's report is a Mark Dice report.
I don't give a shit.
jordan holmes
Right, of course not.
dan friesen
Nothing about it could ever be persuasive, compelling, funny, interesting.
None of it.
But Alex's response to it and how he's using it I find kind of interesting.
alex jones
And that is what's happened.
I mean, it is a mass zombies.
So when they laugh at you, that's a pre-programmed response.
Because they've seen millions of simulated murders on TV, death, killing, video games.
So you tell them about, hey, you know, two million dead Chinese in a nuclear attack, and they just go, I don't care.
Because they can't differentiate what's real.
And this has been done scientifically.
The globalists brag about this.
Bernays bragged about it 60, 70 years ago.
dan friesen
Alex is presenting the other...
There's another Mark Dice video where he asks them about, like, did you hear that we nuked China earlier this week?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And most of those people, again, are probably high or drunk out on the boardwalk.
They don't give a fuck about what this guy is saying.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Or it's politeness.
If you were to ask me about that on the street, I'd be like, I don't know.
Because I haven't heard that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But also, I don't want to be like, that didn't happen, because maybe I haven't looked at the news that day.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
Or something.
It's manipulative.
It's just fucking nonsense.
And he's using it to paint the idea that everyone are zombies.
They can't think, and the globalists want it that way.
But in reality, it's very clearly, like, it's part of the game when you're doing man-on-the-street shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's crazy.
That's so unbelievably stupid.
That is so, for real.
Look.
unidentified
Do you remember 9-11?
jordan holmes
Nobody was like, oh, you know, oh, did the Twin Towers fall?
Whatever.
Moving on.
A nuclear weapon being used in 2013 would be 9-11.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
It would be 9-11.
dan friesen
Right, but even if someone came up to you and you hadn't heard this news, probably because it didn't happen, and they asked you about it, your response wouldn't be, fuck you, you're full of shit, or something like that.
jordan holmes
Mine would, yes.
unidentified
Maybe.
dan friesen
But you'd get cut out of the video.
jordan holmes
I would get cut out of the video.
dan friesen
That's true.
Most people, I think, as long as they weren't angry at the person asking them the questions, If there was a sort of friendly-ish exchange happening, like, I don't know that.
I didn't hear that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Oh, wow.
Or something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then you'd look it up later.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then be like, oh, that guy lied to me.
Or whatever.
jordan holmes
Man, that's just too big.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's a bad one.
Just because, here's the only way that somebody tells you that, that you don't already know it in a genuine way.
It is you watching a crowd of people running towards you and one of them grabs your shoulders and goes, "We just hit China with a nuclear weapon!" And you're like, "Holy shit!" And you run with them.
And then later you find out it was an improv everywhere sketch.
That's the only thing.
dan friesen
I wouldn't put it past Mark Dice to organize a crowd of people to run and yell at somebody.
jordan holmes
See, now then, if you say that you don't believe it, then you're crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex talks now more about the Mark Dice video about taking people's guns.
He's gone out with a petition that is basically like, "We're gonna confiscate." And Alex's response to this is so weird.
alex jones
That's what matters in this universe.
And I just have...
I was just reading the Bible passage this morning, you know, about turn the other cheek, but that's with your brethren.
Not with the New Order.
Christ beat the money changers.
But when your brethren are having issues, you need to love them, especially to guide them and build them up to do the great work that needs to be done fighting tyranny.
We are builders.
And that's our job.
And we need to shake these zombies out of their mind control.
Here's Mark Dice's excellent report.
unidentified
We're going to just repeal the Second Amendment and take the guns away from the crazy right-wing white extremists and just make sure that only the illegal guns stay on the streets.
alex jones
The white guy signs it.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
alex jones
Just thank you.
dan friesen
Alex seems to be really focused on talking over this video to point out people's races.
Like, here's another example of it from just a little bit later.
unidentified
What is going on?
dan friesen
That's most of the commentary that he gives over this video.
It's like, there's a white guy signing it.
Oh, this guy looks like he's white-black mixed.
jordan holmes
That's really gross.
dan friesen
It's very strange.
jordan holmes
That's very gross.
dan friesen
There is a sense of somehow this has a real racial component to it.
To Alex that I feel is uncomfortable.
jordan holmes
Here's what I am getting.
And obviously I can't prove this.
What I'm getting from this is, based on my knowledge of Alex's cosmology, a white dude signing this.
Is the sign that the globalists have successfully tricked everybody.
Because a white dude saying that he wants crazy right-wing white guy's guns away.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Well, that's race traitor.
dan friesen
It's a betrayal to Alex.
unidentified
Exactly.
jordan holmes
That's what that is.
So that's why he's pointing out races.
Because if a white dude does it, then yeah.
dan friesen
That's a vibe that I got.
But again, I agree with you.
Can't prove that.
unidentified
Can't prove it.
dan friesen
It just feels like something that he does a bit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And a mentality that he has.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Fucks around a little bit.
The triple-double, of course.
This made me laugh pretty hard.
unidentified
Only two young women, after about 17, said no.
Thank you.
A chance to win a free Xbox to repeal the Second Amendment?
alex jones
Pure genius.
dan friesen
It's pure genius for Mark Dice to offer an Xbox to someone to sign his petition.
jordan holmes
Pure genius!
There's no way that anybody could view that as anything other than genius.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
It's revolutionary, game-changing stuff where Mark Dice says, do you want an Xbox?
Sign this petition.
jordan holmes
I am personally sad that Stephen Hawking is dead.
Because if he had been listening to our show, he could have gotten an email from him saying...
Gotta confirm, Mark Dice is pure genius.
dan friesen
I mean, he did get one of those genius grants.
unidentified
The very thought.
No, he got a MacArthur grant.
jordan holmes
It's not a MacArthur grant.
It's a MacArthur grant.
dan friesen
Same name awards cause so much confusion.
jordan holmes
So much trouble.
dan friesen
The worst.
So, Alex, at this point, He's got to go with what he knows.
And he knows that Steve Pachanek is coming on his show all the fucking time.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
dan friesen
At this stretch of April.
And so he's introing Steve here.
And I think that the way he does this is like so laughably absurd.
alex jones
I was just out there.
They have CNN on the TV.
Can you guys pump that in here?
For TV viewers, radio listeners.
Paul Begala.
I meant to mention that weeks ago.
He has his own TV show.
His own TV show, and notice all over CNN, ABC, you name it, it's nothing but former government people.
Because it's state-run media.
dan friesen
He's gearing up to introduce Steve Pachanek, and he's complaining about CNN being full of ex-government people, intelligence folks.
You're introducing a guy who fits that description perfectly.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
jordan holmes
I was wondering that.
There's a follow-up to it, right?
Which is...
That's a great idea for a show!
dan friesen
It's terrible when CNN does it, but because Steve is one of the good guys, he's definitely not fucking with us.
Right, right, right.
He's cool.
He gets a pass.
jordan holmes
Man, it seems like the definition of somebody who's former government, but it's okay to have them on my show, is just...
Anybody who's former government who is willing to come on my show.
dan friesen
And who's crazy and maybe complains about minorities working in the TSA.
Maybe.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So Alex gives Steve a glowing introduction.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And then in this clip, you'll hear some of that introduction, and then he asks Steve a question that a human cannot answer.
This is an impossible...
jordan holmes
And Steve does.
dan friesen
No, I don't...
I mean, he just goes on to...
He just says whatever he wants to say.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
But listen to this fucking question.
This is absurd.
Like, if you're starting an interview with somebody, you don't do something like this.
alex jones
Most of you know who he is.
Very interesting, guys.
Helped overthrow governments with PSYOPs, you name it.
And he joins us.
Here's what I wanted to cover with you.
Just out of the gate, sir, just a quick answer on this.
You said it's all a false flag between China, the U.S., North Korea, and others to sell weapons, and that North Korea wants oil and food.
And it's not a black box, obviously.
Since you talked to us, it turns out there were secret meetings.
Put that up on screen, guys.
Reuters.
With the Pentagon.
Kim Jong-un, a month ago, before all this started...
And I have Rumsfeld, mainstream news articles from 15 years ago, up on Infowars.com.
Who gave North Korea the nukes in the first place?
U.S. government and the CIA.
China's massing troops on the border with North Korea, threatening them like they never have before.
Is North Korea almost out of China's control?
Have they done a flip-flop, you know, like Stalin away from Hitler?
Or I guess Hitler cheated him first with their deal in Poland.
Is Kim Jong-un actually being manipulated?
Will he be double-crossed, now threatening to nuke Tokyo?
I mean, am I wrong, sir, in saying this is unprecedented?
Dr. Steve Pachenik joining us.
dan friesen
That is not a good intro question.
unidentified
He throws out like 50 fucking ideas.
There are 50 questions!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There are five references to his own website referencing things that have nothing to do with the question that I assume he's asking.
dan friesen
Well, maybe on a tertiary level, but yeah, they're not like...
You don't need...
You could just ask a straightforward question.
You don't need to rant for a minute.
And you put the person who's supposed to answer that question in a possible predicament, because they can't respond to all of that.
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
Even if you're taking notes, you couldn't respond to all of that.
It's very difficult.
jordan holmes
I was trying to follow along with what I thought the question might wind up being.
Way off.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Way off.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
I had no idea.
dan friesen
And within the body of the question, he's introducing either-or questions.
Those aren't all the options.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You're completely discounting other possibilities.
You're trying to focus this here.
jordan holmes
In that question, I counted eight semicolons, and I don't think that's a good question.
unidentified
It's too many.
dan friesen
So Steve just sort of butters Alex up, flatters him, and then puts forth his version of what's going on in North Korea, which has been his business over the last week, let's say, while he...
May or may not have been in South Korea.
I have no fucking idea.
But, you know, he does what he does best, and that is flatter the shit out of Alex.
alex jones
This is unprecedented.
Dr. Steve Pachanek joining us.
steve pieczenik
No, not Alex.
First of all, let me congratulate you.
I came here to San Francisco, and believe it or not, I was at Berkeley last night, and you are a hero.
jordan holmes
You are sitting at home.
Shut the fuck up.
He is sitting at home.
He is sitting at home.
dan friesen
Do you notice how his audio quality isn't that different from when he was in South Korea?
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
Very strange.
jordan holmes
It seems weird.
steve pieczenik
Weird.
jordan holmes
He is fucking sitting in his goddamn recliner.
dan friesen
Alex, I'm in.
I was at Berkeley, and I gotta say, you're a hero of the left.
What?
jordan holmes
What the fuck are you selling?
dan friesen
Well, he's selling himself to Alex, and he's doing a great job.
jordan holmes
Crazy.
dan friesen
He is so good at this.
This flattery game.
jordan holmes
It is ridiculous.
dan friesen
And the fact that Alex doesn't see through it.
jordan holmes
Not even a little bit.
dan friesen
It's brutal.
jordan holmes
It is.
God, if you were to go back and listen to that, oh, that would break your heart.
dan friesen
If you're Alex?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's got to be.
jordan holmes
Knowing what you know now, listening to that, you'd have to just look at it and be like, the signs were there, man.
They were all fucking there.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's like this one.
Is on me.
jordan holmes
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me consistently for five to ten years, that one's on me.
dan friesen
It's like, yes, Steve is running a quote-unquote PSYOP or whatever.
He's responsible for his actions, but I really should have seen that one.
jordan holmes
I could have listened to my show one time.
Would have gotten it.
dan friesen
I could have asked Steve a follow-up question.
Ever.
So it's not really a great interview.
It's retreading a lot of the same territory of his previous North Korea calls, which are largely about the media hyping this up and then China being the string pullers and Kim Jong-un just not really being in charge and whatever.
So it's not really worth all that much.
But he does say something interesting in this next clip.
And it's kind of indicative of the exact opposite of things that he would be telling Alex two years later.
steve pieczenik
Then you have the head of the CIA, John Brennan, who we know is totally incompetent and created a lot of the false flag.
Then we have on top of that the head of DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Mike Flynn, a general who really doesn't know anything.
Then above that...
dan friesen
Mike Flynn doesn't know anything.
Nothing.
Michael Flynn is a part of Trump's team that he's putting together to do the counter-coup.
jordan holmes
No idea what you're talking about.
He doesn't know anything.
dan friesen
Once the counter-coup narrative needs to be put in place, Mike Flynn is a heroic know-it-all kind of general.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, he studied.
dan friesen
In 2013, Mike Flynn doesn't know anything.
He's not interested in Mike Flynn.
That's interesting to me.
It's very different.
jordan holmes
It really feels like they will just...
Not the narrative, but the pieces inside of it.
The narrative remains strong, and the pieces inside, they'll just fit however they want to.
dan friesen
There's no show on the 13th, because that's a Saturday.
We get to the 14th, and man, I don't have much from this episode.
It's really boring.
there is a real lack of clips from a lot of these shows because it's just kind of retreading the same stuff, saying the same shit over and over again and I guess I did fail to mention that he had an interview with Shooter Jennings who he We can do that.
We can hook that up.
jordan holmes
I like him.
dan friesen
So the only two clips I have, one is completely irrelevant, and the next is Alex signing off his show.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So here's the completely irrelevant one.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
alex jones
Here's Morgan.
He has armed guards at his house.
Armed guards at his house on record.
Project Veritas exposed that.
Of course he does.
I mean, you see video of him when he's out in L.A. with, like, three bodyguards.
Can you imagine going out to eat at a restaurant?
Where it's already exclusive and they've already got bodyguards there.
You've got to have three bodyguards sitting at a table next to you because your peer is Morgan.
I mean, give me a break, man.
Why don't you just have your wife pack heat in her purse, you wimp?
dan friesen
In 2019, Alex employs Blackwater.
Former Blackwater guys to go on planes with him and go everywhere with him.
So, I don't know.
jordan holmes
His wife does carry a revolver in her purse, though.
dan friesen
Fine.
You still need security, Alex.
Why?
Oh.
jordan holmes
Come on.
alex jones
Hey!
dan friesen
So that's just a little bit silly.
And then here's how he signs off the show.
Like, there really isn't much going on.
It's all just these exact same things.
Talking about that family that kidnapped their kids and tried to flee to Cuba.
Painting them as the government's trying to take your kids.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
The protester at that city councilman speech where the guy says, you're going to need that sign later when we come take your gun.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
Just all of it.
It's so repetitive.
It's just...
It was mind-numbing to listen to these couple days.
The thing that's tough about the mind-numbingness of it is that there's very real terror in that, too.
It's these same things that I've already looked into and we've already discussed, but on their own, had we not have listened to them, they're fucked up.
It's still creating a panic.
It's still creating a mentality and reinforcing it repeatedly that this is Armageddon.
It is happening.
We are in the middle of this civil war that I have decided we're in.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Everything is an existential threat.
The globalists are moving now because they're ten years late on their plans.
They've actuaryed it out.
Mark Dice has demonstrated shit.
It's all that.
And so, like, I don't mean to say that nothing is happening.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But it's such a, like...
jordan holmes
It's like road hypnosis.
It's like when you've been driving for a long time and you're falling asleep and you, like, because you forget.
Oh, that's right.
I am driving a four-ton murder machine.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And I'm honestly close to falling asleep and doing this insanely dangerous thing.
dan friesen
And that's a demonstration of what I was talking about at the beginning of this episode with his subconscious effect on people.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
If I'm here critically listening to this and researching and looking into his narratives, and I am experiencing like...
This is so repetitive.
I am dulled to the horror and the awfulness of a lot of the things that he's saying.
Imagine if you're not being critical when you're listening.
The effect of it would be awful.
You internalize these things.
I've internalized them as something he won't stop talking about.
But if you don't listen with a critical eye or even a sympathetic one, if you have sympathetic ears to him, you could very easily, without realizing it, Create inside yourself the feeling that these things are actually happening.
That it is the end of the world.
The Democrats and the globalists are about to take the guns and take you and your family off to a FEMA torture camp.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and it's such that even if you only listen to Alex while you're in the car on the way to the grocery store, but you have it on every day...
So you listen to him for 10 minutes every day, though.
But if you keep hearing the same shit in those 10 minutes, you're going to think, oh my god.
He wouldn't keep talking about it as much if it weren't so important.
dan friesen
And there's a subconscious thing that people expect people to act straight up.
So if you hear him say this for weeks, you would think...
Whether you actually think this or it's sort of subconscious, you'd be telling yourself, like, if he said that two weeks ago and he was wrong, he would correct himself.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so the fact that it just keeps going this same way, it kind of leads you to think, like, well, he must know what he's talking about.
He hasn't corrected it.
No one sued him.
Right.
And it's just...
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The experience of it is really weird because, you know, I know that the Boston bombing is tomorrow in this chronology.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I know that these episodes are boring as shit.
So I don't...
You never really find exactly what you expect, but I guess you could kind of maybe expect that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because there is no connection necessarily between his show and events that are to happen later.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
So it's not like you would expect the show to be really exciting as a lead-up into real-world events.
They're completely disconnected.
It's fascinating to me that it is this way.
It is molasses trying to walk through it.
It'll get where it's going.
Anyway, here's how he signs off the show on the 14th.
alex jones
I'll be back tomorrow, 11 a.m. Central.
Folks, if you aren't paying attention, something's wrong with you.
America has been taken over by a bunch of criminals because we've been complacent.
It's time to wake up or be totally enslaved.
Infowars.com.
Get that video out.
dan friesen
So, I mean, if you believe that, that's his consistent thesis.
America has been taken over.
He keeps calling the people in the government an occupying force.
I mean, we could unpack for a second how that's the exact same rhetoric, exact same mentality, exact same description as neo-Nazis talking about a Zionist-occupied government.
He just takes the Zionist part off.
Right, right, right, right.
You could talk about that, and that's interesting, something we've touched on a bunch in the past.
You could talk about how, like, this is all just waiting for the spark.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, all of it is so bad.
And waiting for the spark that comes tomorrow.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
It's exactly what he needs.
jordan holmes
This is like re-watching a Dragon Ball Z recap episode.
Or like when they're doing the training montage where you're like, Dude, I know tomorrow we're gonna fucking fight Frieza.
Why are we spending all day today just going back?
alex jones
I know!
jordan holmes
Goku's doing bullshit!
alex jones
Come on, man!
dan friesen
Right.
And we'll get to Goku's bullshit on the next 2013 episode.
But I think it's worth it to have experienced this ride.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Because the things that are going to happen, I bet, after the bombing, are going to be continuations of the rhetoric and the worldview that we've seen built up over the course of the last months of his show.
They're not isolated in that sense.
I'm almost positive that everything is going to be a I was right about everything, a complete escalation of the dangerous trends that we're seeing, particularly in the beginning of April.
You're probably going to see Steve Pachanek stick around and take an even more prominent role.
It's a mess.
It's a mess.
jordan holmes
Due to circumstance, his bullshit is going to feel way more important to people who already were sympathetic to it, but are now like, not only is he right, he's right now!
dan friesen
Well, because he frames everything as a false flag, so I'm not saying that Boston was a false flag, but he will, right?
jordan holmes
You think so?
dan friesen
100%.
jordan holmes
And...
unidentified
How dare you ask that?
jordan holmes
You took me...
dan friesen
How dare you?
jordan holmes
Of course I know.
dan friesen
Because he sees it that way, he's going to make the argument that I've been saying forever the false flag is coming.
I told you in the last weeks that something was about to happen.
I could feel it and all this.
But we've gone over it and listened to it.
It's always him saying that the Globals are going to nuke Chicago.
He's going to be right if you are dumb and uncritically listening to this show.
But he's wrong.
Actually.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I think that's going to be a real serious problem.
I really think...
jordan holmes
Well, we live in 2019, and yes, it is.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think it's going to be a more immediate problem in 2013, though, because he's going to be able to play around with those ideas of credibility.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Like, I was right, and I think that is maybe going to, much like Icarus, give him too much hubris and fly too close to the sun of...
Saying everybody is actors and everything's fake.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, he's already there.
Oh, yeah.
He's not saying that Sandy Hook was actors, but he's dancing around it.
unidentified
He's about to.
dan friesen
He's dipping his toe in it prior to the bombing.
He's calling other things, like the Aurora shooting.
There were actors there, the victims and survivors.
So he's already on the precipice of this.
Left to his own devices, he would jump.
With or without the bombing.
I think it's unrelated, but it also might be a huge catalyst for him to immediately go and aggressively go in that direction.
But we'll see.
jordan holmes
He's standing on the diving board, kind of like a little nervous, bouncing up and down, and then this Boston bombing is the guy kicking him, and he has to jump.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It almost feels like, to some extent, our prediction was right and wrong.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Related to the Boston bombing.
jordan holmes
As is always the case.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So we'll see what happens.
We will cover Alex's response to the tragedy in Boston on our next 2013 episode.
This investigation has really morphed.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it really has.
This is not like the 2015 investigation at all.
This has taken so many different twists and turns that I would not have expected.
dan friesen
It's very weird, very unexpected.
But it's...
I don't know.
Maybe we're learning something.
jordan holmes
I mean, is it even an investigation anymore?
Or are we just kind of covering both the present and somewhat targeted...
Past, simultaneously.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's what it is.
Anyway, we'll be back with more of it.
And no Sam Tripoli on our next episode.
jordan holmes
Never again.
dan friesen
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do have a website.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yes.
We're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledge underscore fight.
Yes.
And at go-to-bed Jordan.
dan friesen
Yes.
We're also on Facebook.
jordan holmes
We are on Facebook!
But if you would like to download our podcast, then you should go to iTunes.
While you're there, you could leave a review.
There are other ways to listen to it.
You could go to Spotify.
But let me tell you something.
My favorite way to listen to it.
What you're going to want to do.
Go to your nearest sports bar.
Ask them to turn on poker.
I know it's been a long time.
You know, remember Chris Moneymaker?
We all used to watch Texas Hold 'em on TV.
You're going to want to watch Texas Hold 'em for one hour and eight minutes.
Then the bartender will turn around, go to the bar, grab you a shot of hams.
And whiskey.
dan friesen
Okay.
A Hammondstein?
jordan holmes
A Hammondstein.
Yeah.
And then out of the whiskey shot will come a little hard drive.
dan friesen
Hammondson.
unidentified
That's what it is.
dan friesen
Because it's the Jameson.
jordan holmes
Hammondson.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what I was thinking.
dan friesen
That's what bars call it.
Cool.
jordan holmes
I lost it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I lost it there because I was like, Hammondson.
And I couldn't find it.
dan friesen
You're spinning your wheels.
jordan holmes
And then it died on me.
dan friesen
That's all right.
jordan holmes
You can't win them all.
dan friesen
No, you can't.
But I can be Neo.
I'm Leo.
I am DZXClark, and I'm the Jesus Lizard.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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