Knowledge Fight - #534: February 19, 2021
Aired: 2021-02-22
Duration: 01:15:30


=== Bright Spots and Hot Sauces (04:36) ===

[00:00:16]  Dan and Jordan, I'm sweating.
[00:00:19]  Knowledgefight.com.
[00:00:20]  It's time to pray.
[00:00:21]  I have great respect for knowledge fight.
[00:00:24]  Knowledge fight.
[00:00:25]  I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
[00:00:27]  Shang, we are the bad guys.
[00:00:29]  Knowledge and fight.
[00:00:30]  Dan and Jordan.
[00:00:31]  Knowledge fight.
[00:00:35]  I need money.
[00:00:39]  Andy and Pamza.
[00:00:40]  Andy and Pandy.
[00:00:42]  Andy and Pamza.
[00:00:43]  Andy and Kansas.
[00:00:46]  It's time to pray.
[00:00:47]  Andy and Kansas, you're on the air.
[00:00:48]  Thanks for holding us.
[00:00:49]  Hello, Alex.
[00:00:50]  I'm a fish ten colour here saying I love your room.
[00:00:52]  Knowledge fight.
[00:00:55]  Knowledgefight.com.
[00:00:58]  I love you.
[00:00:59]  Hey, everybody.
[00:01:00]  Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
[00:01:01]  I'm Dan.
[00:01:01]  I'm Jordan.
[00:01:01]  We're a couple dudes like to sit around Drink Novelty Beverages and talk a little bit about Alex Jewel.
[00:01:05]  Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
[00:01:06]  Jordan.
[00:01:06]  Dan.
[00:01:07]  Jordan.
[00:01:08]  Quick question for you.
[00:01:08]  What's up?
[00:01:09]  What's your bright show?
[00:01:10]  Oh, shit.
[00:01:12]  It's a trick daddy.
[00:01:13]  Now we're doing a different show.
[00:01:14]  Immediately, we just skip into a different show.
[00:01:17]  Remix.
[00:01:19]  Remix Knowledge Fight.
[00:01:20]  Uh-oh, y'all thought you were coming for Alex Jones.
[00:01:24]  One of my two favorite things that, what's up?
[00:01:27]  Shut up.
[00:01:27]  Shut up.
[00:01:28]  And then the other one is the, hey, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?
[00:01:32]  Jordan, I'm serious.
[00:01:33]  What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
[00:01:35]  It doesn't matter what your favorite split.
[00:01:38]  The rock.
[00:01:40]  You're going to ask what my bright spot is.
[00:01:41]  Jordan.
[00:01:41]  Yes, what is your bright spot?
[00:01:42]  Today, my bright spot is we're checking in on the hot sauce of the month club that Policy Wonk Lisa signed us up for.
[00:01:49]  This month, I was a little late getting over to the box because of snow and schedule and stuff.
[00:01:55]  But this month we got the slow death hot sauce.
[00:01:59]  And this is good.
[00:02:01]  It's good.
[00:02:02]  This is quite good.
[00:02:03]  For now, you don't know what's going to happen later.
[00:02:05]  It's the slow death.
[00:02:06]  I might die slowly.
[00:02:07]  You don't know how slow it is.
[00:02:09]  It's very hot, but it also is a Trinidad scorpion pepper-based sauce, and I like the flavor of that.
[00:02:16]  What kind of hot?
[00:02:17]  Now that I'm a hot sauce guy, too.
[00:02:18]  Tastes a little bit more.
[00:02:19]  Let's talk about it.
[00:02:20]  No, I'm not ready for that just yet.
[00:02:22]  You said very hot.
[00:02:23]  Now that they're comfortable with very hot just.
[00:02:25]  I think you could handle it.
[00:02:26]  Sure, but not before the show is over.
[00:02:29]  It might.
[00:02:30]  Yeah, it might make things go down a strange path.
[00:02:33]  You can try some after the show.
[00:02:34]  Okay.
[00:02:35]  It's pretty good.
[00:02:35]  I like it a bit.
[00:02:36]  I could use it.
[00:02:37]  I could see myself using it for like dipping chicken, maybe, or adding to a sauce.
[00:02:43]  Nice little shit.
[00:02:44]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:45]  Throw a little in some soup.
[00:02:47]  Maybe a little meat sauce.
[00:02:48]  Put a little hot sauce in there.
[00:02:49]  Sure, why?
[00:02:51]  Do it.
[00:02:51]  Yeah, piano, you're getting a little bit of mariner together.
[00:02:55]  What's your favorite flavor of spaghetti?
[00:02:57]  I don't know.
[00:02:58]  It doesn't matter what's your favorite.
[00:02:59]  Okay.
[00:02:59]  You have to interrupt.
[00:03:01]  You understand.
[00:03:02]  You're too fast.
[00:03:03]  So what's your bright spot?
[00:03:04]  My bright spot, Dan, is we were talking about this earlier today.
[00:03:08]  My bright spot is the Chris Gethard show.
[00:03:10]  Oh, sure.
[00:03:11]  As you and I have to do it.
[00:03:12]  Back to our early season.
[00:03:13]  We have spoken about this show so much, and you know I'm a huge fan, obviously.
[00:03:18]  Chris Gethard got you a cameo.
[00:03:20]  You cruelly forced him to say nice things about me through the medium of money, like some sort of indentured service.
[00:03:27]  He thought your book was in Barnes and Noble.
[00:03:30]  Yes.
[00:03:31]  And we've developed a great friendship since.
[00:03:33]  Yes, absolutely.
[00:03:34]  But yeah, no.
[00:03:35]  I've been starting so many projects.
[00:03:37]  I've been trying to find something new to really sink my teeth into.
[00:03:41]  And watching the Chris Gathard show and just that unfettered creativity of it all is very inspiring.
[00:03:47]  And it's like, don't give up on doing weird shit.
[00:03:50]  Yeah, it's good to reconnect with that from time to time, like that sort of mentality.
[00:03:54]  Absolutely.
[00:03:55]  And that whole like, we're a public access show.
[00:03:59]  We know no one's watching.
[00:04:00]  That's why we're free.
[00:04:02]  Yeah.
[00:04:02]  You know, that's something beautiful about it, that embracing of like, no, we're not trying to get famous or anything like this.
[00:04:09]  It's really interesting, too, to consider that both Chris Gethard and Alex Jones grew out of public access.
[00:04:14]  That is interesting.
[00:04:15]  Yes.
[00:04:16]  The two people who affect my life most today.
[00:04:19]  Two very divergent individuals.
[00:04:23]  Very different paths they have tried.
[00:04:26]  Yeah.
[00:04:26]  Both of them started at UCB.
[00:04:28]  It's true.
[00:04:29]  No, no.
[00:04:30]  Alex was a groundling.
[00:04:31]  Oh, that's right.
[00:04:31]  That's right.
[00:04:32]  Get it right.
[00:04:32]  Sorry, my bad.
[00:04:33]  So, Jordan, today we got an interesting thing to go over.
[00:04:36]  We're talking about Friday of last week.

=== Thank You Notes (03:54) ===

[00:04:38]  It's February 19th, 2020.
[00:04:41]  I think that counts.
[00:04:42]  You got 2020.
[00:04:44]  I think we're going to leave that to the judges.
[00:04:46]  Okay.
[00:04:47]  The judges in the audience will determine.
[00:04:49]  I think the only question is whether or not you fully finished the 21.
[00:04:52]  I think you started before I finished, and that's why I stopped.
[00:04:55]  I think.
[00:04:56]  Anyway, it's Friday of last week.
[00:04:58]  This episode is nuts.
[00:05:00]  Okay.
[00:05:01]  I imagine so.
[00:05:02]  Yeah.
[00:05:03]  Power's back on.
[00:05:04]  Okay.
[00:05:05]  Pretty much in the Infor studio, although maybe it's running on generators.
[00:05:08]  It's unclear.
[00:05:10]  Alex is really, really mad.
[00:05:13]  He is really mad.
[00:05:14]  Well, yeah.
[00:05:15]  Yeah.
[00:05:16]  He has a lot of breakdowns on this episode, and some will be fun to laugh at and discuss what he's lying about in order to get himself in the place where he can freak out.
[00:05:25]  Yeah.
[00:05:26]  But before we cover this episode, Jordan, let's take a moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up on our sporting show.
[00:05:30]  That's a great idea.
[00:05:31]  So first, I like this name a lot.
[00:05:32]  It's an affirmation.
[00:05:34]  I'm a worthy human being.
[00:05:35]  Thank you so much.
[00:05:36]  You are now a policy wonk.
[00:05:37]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:05:38]  Thank you very much, Thing I Have Never Said to My Mirror.
[00:05:42]  Next, Un-American Podcast.
[00:05:44]  Thank you so much.
[00:05:45]  You are now a policy wonk.
[00:05:46]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:05:47]  Thank you very much, Un-American Podcast.
[00:05:49]  Also, thank you to happy birthday, Elena.
[00:05:52]  You are now a policy wonk.
[00:05:54]  This is a week late.
[00:05:55]  I apologize.
[00:05:56]  Yeah, I was late on the messages.
[00:05:57]  Anyway, happy birthday, Elena.
[00:05:58]  You're now a policy wonk.
[00:05:59]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:06:01]  Happy birthday, Elena.
[00:06:02]  Next, Alfren with two N's.
[00:06:04]  Thank you so much.
[00:06:04]  You are now a policy wonk.
[00:06:06]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:06:07]  Thanks, Alfred.
[00:06:07]  Back out.
[00:06:08]  Next, Heather M. Thank you so much.
[00:06:09]  You are now a policy wonk.
[00:06:11]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:06:12]  Thank you very much, Heather.
[00:06:13]  And I'd like to give a little Technocrat shout-out to someone who I think has two aliases.
[00:06:18]  So this is just one shout-out.
[00:06:21]  Right.
[00:06:22]  Two names.
[00:06:24]  So it's Old Dirty.
[00:06:26]  Dirt McGurt.
[00:06:27]  Oh, Dirt McGurt.
[00:06:28]  Old Dirty Chinese Rosa.
[00:06:29]  Oh, yeah, I was going to say.
[00:06:30]  Is he back?
[00:06:34]  No, Knock Nokia busted one of our first bits way back.
[00:06:38]  One of the beginnings.
[00:06:39]  Yeah.
[00:06:40]  Who's there?
[00:06:40]  Uh-oh.
[00:06:42]  I don't remember how this bit goes.
[00:06:45]  And then, yes, thank you very much to the both of you.
[00:06:49]  You're now a technocrat.
[00:06:50]  I'm a policy wonk.
[00:06:52]  Crikey Mike, that's fantastic.
[00:06:53]  Have yourself a brew.
[00:06:55]  How's your 401k doing, bro?
[00:06:56]  We got to go full tilt buggy on this, Watson, all right?
[00:06:59]  Let's just get down to business.
[00:07:00]  We ain't making that money off that heroin.
[00:07:02]  Why are you pimps so good?
[00:07:04]  My neck is freakishly large.
[00:07:06]  I declare info war on you.
[00:07:09]  Yes, thank you so much to the both of you.
[00:07:10]  Yes, thank you so much.
[00:07:12]  Very complicated to now.
[00:07:15]  So, Jordan.
[00:07:17]  What's up?
[00:07:18]  Shut up.
[00:07:21]  I'm feeling good.
[00:07:21]  All right, you're a little punched up.
[00:07:23]  You know what the deal is?
[00:07:24]  See, you're a little dancy.
[00:07:25]  I've had very little sleep because the neighbors downstairs have been partying.
[00:07:30]  Oh, I gotta do it.
[00:07:31]  And I'm a little bit on fumes.
[00:07:34]  I'm a little bit loose.
[00:07:35]  Right, right, right.
[00:07:36]  My connection with the present is tenuous.
[00:07:40]  You've got a runner's high kind of thing.
[00:07:41]  A little bit.
[00:07:42]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:43]  I think that there are some college students who live downstairs.
[00:07:47]  And we'll text you and complain about this every now and again.
[00:07:52]  I can hear them yell singing through the floor.
[00:07:55]  So they'll just be like singing wet-ass pussy.
[00:07:58]  Yeah, dude.
[00:07:58]  Yeah.
[00:07:59]  This sucks.
[00:08:00]  I'm waiting for you to get a saw and just get a whole circle in the top of your head.
[00:08:04]  I haven't thought about it.
[00:08:05]  Drop it down.
[00:08:06]  I am inches away from old man stomping on the floor, but I just can't do it.
[00:08:11]  And I don't feel right knocking on the door because of COVID and stuff.
[00:08:14]  I don't want to.
[00:08:15]  Anyway.

=== Lawyers and Contempt (15:47) ===

[00:08:16]  Yeah.
[00:08:16]  You're going to need a broom.
[00:08:17]  That's why I'm a little silly.
[00:08:19]  But the good news is Alex isn't in a totally centered presence of mind himself on this episode.
[00:08:25]  So we kind of match energies.
[00:08:27]  We're all playing on a level playing field.
[00:08:29]  Yeah.
[00:08:29]  Here's an out-of-context drop from today's show.
[00:08:32]  That's why we're in this position where there's a bunch of lawyers, a bunch of candy-ass lawyers covering their ass so much, the Chinese are running the tables on us.
[00:08:39]  Get ready to nuke our ass because you little chicken that America-hating bastards have taken over the damn country!
[00:08:50]  Right back. Right back.
[00:08:52]  If I were Alex in the position he's in right now, I think I'd probably hate lawyers too.
[00:08:56]  Yeah.
[00:08:57]  I believe it.
[00:08:58]  You know what?
[00:08:58]  I like this.
[00:08:59]  I like getting back to where we should be, which is everybody hating on lawyers.
[00:09:03]  We've had, it's been a while since everybody's really agreed to just hate lawyers.
[00:09:07]  You know what I'm saying?
[00:09:08]  Like used to be what we did on our early 90s.
[00:09:11]  I remember Jurassic Park.
[00:09:12]  Oh, everybody hated lawyers.
[00:09:14]  Lawyers were more of a villain in Jurassic Park than the dinosaurs.
[00:09:17]  Exactly.
[00:09:18]  Exactly.
[00:09:19]  That's the whole thing.
[00:09:21]  Yeah.
[00:09:22]  I don't know.
[00:09:22]  Alex is in a weird state.
[00:09:25]  So Alex starts the show by talking about how, like, maybe I shouldn't do the show.
[00:09:30]  Which is nice.
[00:09:31]  That's a good way to do it.
[00:09:32]  It's always a good sign for the show that's about to happen.
[00:09:35]  Good start.
[00:09:35]  You know, I learned something during the Trump administration.
[00:09:38]  I had never tried to be in LA or be in New York or be in D.C. and to be around the power.
[00:09:47]  I had never tried to go be a sycophant and in the system.
[00:09:52]  But I noticed very early on they would work around the clock to try to make sure that I didn't have access to the president or access to anybody high-level government because I always just thought inform the public about things and then that would percolate up into government and into governance and then we would be able to stand up against tyranny.
[00:10:14]  Triple up lionopics.
[00:10:16]  Take action against the globalist.
[00:10:20]  But it's a balance.
[00:10:22]  It's a balance.
[00:10:25]  You also need to target, obviously, people that are in a power structure.
[00:10:30]  And I'm almost tempted right now with the news I have that I've been working on the last hour to just not do the show today.
[00:10:36]  It probably would be better if I just call Tucker Carlson, call Steven Crowder, call Roger Stone, and try to get on the phone with Trump because I can get on the phone with him if I need to.
[00:10:46]  Can you?
[00:10:46]  Because I'm not putting the audience down.
[00:10:48]  We cover so much hardcore stuff here, but we're here every day.
[00:10:52]  No one kind of takes it serious.
[00:10:54]  We just drop bomb after But familiarity breeds contempt.
[00:11:02]  And I get it.
[00:11:03]  I have contempt for myself too.
[00:11:05]  I don't realize how important we are in the great work we've done.
[00:11:07]  Understand that.
[00:11:08]  This is an interesting headspace.
[00:11:10]  That is a startling number of words for a very simple concept to express.
[00:11:15]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:17]  Other people have better reach than I do.
[00:11:18]  I think I need to probably.
[00:11:19]  Yeah.
[00:11:20]  I could do better.
[00:11:21]  But it is also like really shitting on the audience.
[00:11:25]  Yeah.
[00:11:25]  It's super shitty.
[00:11:27]  My job.
[00:11:29]  You guys are so used to me being the best, you don't even give a shit how great I am.
[00:11:34]  You're a bunch of assholes.
[00:11:35]  You've gotten soft because I'm not.
[00:11:37]  Because I'm so good.
[00:11:38]  You don't even have to try.
[00:11:39]  I wish I was worse at my job so you guys would have to raise your level.
[00:11:43]  If only I killed time most of the time and then dropped a bomb every now and again, you would know to amplify that bomb.
[00:11:50]  Exactly.
[00:11:50]  Exactly.
[00:11:51]  That's my problem.
[00:11:53]  Also, why do you need to get a hold of Trump?
[00:11:55]  He's not the president anymore.
[00:11:57]  No, he's the president.
[00:11:58]  He's the president.
[00:11:59]  He's the secret president.
[00:12:00]  It's very strange.
[00:12:01]  Very strange.
[00:12:02]  You ever been at a comedy show, Dan, where for whatever reason, the host is just like their opening set was just something really weird.
[00:12:11]  And everybody in the audience and all of the comics got the vibe of like, this is going to be a weird show that's not going to change.
[00:12:18]  This just happened.
[00:12:19]  It doesn't matter that there's an hour and 20 minutes left.
[00:12:22]  For the next hour and a half, it's going to be weird.
[00:12:24]  Yeah, you've set the energy.
[00:12:26]  Exactly.
[00:12:26]  You could dig out of the hole and we might have some enjoyable whatever.
[00:12:30]  But it's still going to be weird.
[00:12:31]  It's going to be, yeah, it's going to be strange.
[00:12:33]  This is what I'm hearing right now.
[00:12:34]  Yeah, and you hear it a lot, too.
[00:12:36]  Like this tone of like, I don't even want to do the show anymore.
[00:12:39]  But it's particularly severe on this episode.
[00:12:43]  Distance makes the heart grow fond.
[00:12:45]  Familiarity breeds contempt.
[00:12:47]  A contempt.
[00:12:48]  So I'm going to go to rebroadcast for a while.
[00:12:50]  We're going to get re-ready to shoot the show, go live here today.
[00:12:53]  And then I may not do the show today just because this is too important.
[00:12:58]  I don't care.
[00:12:58]  We have the smoking gun, absolute, total, complete master plan of the enemy.
[00:13:06]  We have them by the short hairs completely, and no one is going to care.
[00:13:11]  It's always the same.
[00:13:12]  It's always the same.
[00:13:13]  All of you listeners, I bring light to the evil conspiracies of Plumbless.
[00:13:18]  I give you all their plans and nothing happens.
[00:13:21]  I've got to call Tucker Carlson and Steven Crowder.
[00:13:23]  I'm going to be honest with you.
[00:13:26]  I don't think that familiarity always breeds contempt.
[00:13:29]  You know what it does, though?
[00:13:30]  Contempt.
[00:13:31]  Really?
[00:13:34]  When Alex shows this contempt for his audience, that would breed contempt.
[00:13:38]  I would also argue continually starting the show with, my news is too big for me to do the show, is something too familiar for me not to be contemptuous about.
[00:13:48]  Yes, yes.
[00:13:49]  There's a lot of intersections of familiarity and contempt in this equation.
[00:13:54]  So yeah, Alex freaks out.
[00:13:56]  He's just screaming how he wants to quit.
[00:13:59]  But I'm here to tell you, we had to get back in the new studio today.
[00:14:02]  We weren't quite ready to launch.
[00:14:03]  It's okay.
[00:14:04]  Don't blaming the crew.
[00:14:05]  That's okay.
[00:14:05]  It's going to give me some time while they get set up and ready to go and to prepare my broadcast.
[00:14:12]  Because here's the deal.
[00:14:13]  I'm not just going to sit here and put this information out and just have it nothing happen.
[00:14:17]  I'll quit today.
[00:14:19]  I want to walk away from this place so bad.
[00:14:21]  Do it.
[00:14:22]  Do it.
[00:14:25]  Because we have all the evidence of what the enemy's done.
[00:14:28]  And I don't know why people don't have an instinct to victory, but it's incredible.
[00:14:33]  It was bleeped out.
[00:14:34]  He didn't say no one gives a shit.
[00:14:38]  He is very mad.
[00:14:39]  I like it.
[00:14:40]  He is pretty mad.
[00:14:41]  I do.
[00:14:42]  I mean, there's something weirdly noble about the tenacity he has because every other human being, I think, on the planet would at a certain point go, like, well, I've seen every other major news organization release huge information and then change the world.
[00:15:01]  And I think I've done that literally every day for my entire career, and not once have I changed the world.
[00:15:07]  Yeah.
[00:15:07]  Perhaps it is me.
[00:15:10]  Yeah.
[00:15:10]  Maybe my radar is busted.
[00:15:13]  Maybe I can't tell what's big news.
[00:15:16]  Maybe it's me.
[00:15:17]  Maybe I should look a little bit harder at the stories I cover.
[00:15:21]  Nope.
[00:15:23]  Nope.
[00:15:23]  It's everybody else's fault forever.
[00:15:25]  Just got to get so mad.
[00:15:27]  The end.
[00:15:28]  It's everyone else's fault always.
[00:15:31]  And one of the things I really love about his broadcast style when he gets into these moods is like he doesn't say what the news is.
[00:15:39]  Yeah, why would he?
[00:15:40]  It's too big.
[00:15:41]  He can't handle it.
[00:15:44]  And I enjoy that.
[00:15:45]  He's too busy being petulant.
[00:15:46]  I enjoy that because it's really the tell that this is performance on some level.
[00:15:52]  Like, I think he's really mad.
[00:15:53]  There's something that is definitely pissing him off.
[00:15:55]  For sure.
[00:15:55]  And it's probably financial, and maybe the staff sucks.
[00:15:59]  I would imagine it has something to do with lawyers.
[00:16:02]  Probably lawyers.
[00:16:03]  The staff probably also is incompetent and not doing the job that he needs them to do.
[00:16:08]  But he's not that mad about what this big news is.
[00:16:11]  He's clearly still using this breakdown lashing out as a way of anybody who's watching, oh, they'll tell people that he's saying he's going to quit on air.
[00:16:21]  No, it's him being like, use it.
[00:16:23]  There's something else pissing him off.
[00:16:24]  I'm going to use it in my speech today.
[00:16:26]  Yeah.
[00:16:26]  Yeah.
[00:16:27]  What am I talking about?
[00:16:28]  What's the big news?
[00:16:29]  No one cares.
[00:16:30]  I shouldn't even say it, probably.
[00:16:35]  At least when I call other people that are influential, they care and I'll look into it and put it out.
[00:16:41]  I call Paul on some of this.
[00:16:42]  Oh, he's busy out on a date or something.
[00:16:44]  I'm not mad at Paul.
[00:16:45]  He already wrote like five articles today.
[00:16:46]  It's just that I don't have the people.
[00:16:48]  I don't have the infrastructure.
[00:16:50]  I don't have anything.
[00:16:51]  I mean, we could have the keys to put Lucifer into the pit of hell.
[00:16:54]  No one would care.
[00:16:56]  They'd be busy getting their fucking nails done.
[00:16:58]  If I were Paul, I would not appreciate the way Alex talks about him.
[00:17:04]  He seems to be pretty unprofessional.
[00:17:07]  Oh, man.
[00:17:08]  Weird.
[00:17:08]  Weird to have to work with that guy.
[00:17:10]  Yeah.
[00:17:11]  It's almost like he lashes out at the people around him as well as the audience on a constant basis.
[00:17:16]  Yeah.
[00:17:18]  Like he's a child.
[00:17:19]  Almost.
[00:17:20]  Yeah.
[00:17:20]  So anyway, we get to the big news.
[00:17:22]  Sure.
[00:17:22]  Alex does eventually let it rip what the story is.
[00:17:26]  And it is bullshit.
[00:17:29]  You understand, ladies and gentlemen, we have the smoking gun of what did the power outage.
[00:17:36]  100% it was the Department of Energy and their order to keep the power off.
[00:17:40]  You understand we have that and no one gives a damn.
[00:17:44]  I quit then.
[00:17:45]  Screw this whole freaking place, man.
[00:17:48]  I mean, this is just all out of control.
[00:17:51]  It's unbelievable.
[00:17:54]  We have released so many smoking guns, so much proof.
[00:17:56]  Joe Biden is on TV on CNN saying Xi Ji Ping is doing a good job invading Hong Kong and running giant death camps.
[00:18:05]  Fine, if America wants that, then freaking have it.
[00:18:07]  If you want your power turned off by the Department of Energy, then enjoy it.
[00:18:12]  I'm going to run some tapes.
[00:18:13]  I'm not even sure I'm coming from it.
[00:18:15]  Screw this whole business.
[00:18:16]  God, this country's totally up.
[00:18:19]  God almighty, let it all burn then.
[00:18:22]  I mean, we can't even admit aborting babies is murder, so we don't deserve to have power.
[00:18:31]  Oh, tip of the spear.
[00:18:32]  Tip of the spear.
[00:18:33]  I'm going to lead you into the next.
[00:18:35]  Screw this place.
[00:18:37]  We all deserve to burn.
[00:18:39]  Okay, Trump didn't win, but it's a setback.
[00:18:41]  I'm still going to lead you into it.
[00:18:43]  Nope.
[00:18:44]  Everyone dies.
[00:18:45]  All of this emotional outburst and this childish pageantry.
[00:18:50]  But he's still able to say freaking.
[00:18:52]  He's still able to recognize he's on the radio and he doesn't want to get fined.
[00:18:56]  Totally.
[00:18:56]  So I find this a little false.
[00:18:58]  Yeah.
[00:18:59]  So also, it appears that Alex is very mad about a document from the Department of Energy that he's been shown.
[00:19:04]  And I would guess that he hasn't read this document.
[00:19:06]  He claims that it's smoke and gun evidence that the power outages in Texas were intentional, which is why he's putting on this shamefully childish display of fake rage at the start of the show.
[00:19:14]  We'll get into the document as Alex covers it.
[00:19:16]  But at this point, let me just sum things up to say that Alex is entirely wrong about it.
[00:19:21]  That's not hard.
[00:19:22]  No.
[00:19:23]  That's not hard to believe.
[00:19:24]  No, but it does.
[00:19:24]  It does.
[00:19:25]  Like the level to which he's wrong about it makes all this outburst really, really funny.
[00:19:30]  What I do appreciate about all of this is there is, you can't deny that being your own boss is great, right?
[00:19:37]  Sure.
[00:19:39]  I mean, he technically said I quit.
[00:19:40]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:19:42]  Like, that kind of outburst, you just can't get that if you work for someone else.
[00:19:47]  Wolf Blitzer's not going on TV on election night being like, shit, I don't even know what the results are.
[00:19:53]  I quit.
[00:19:54]  Let's imagine that Alex did have a boss, but he had such a good contract that they just couldn't get him out of it.
[00:19:59]  Yeah, like firing him would require paying out 10 years of his contract or something.
[00:20:03]  Something ridiculous.
[00:20:04]  If he did that and he just yelled, I quit on air and I was his boss.
[00:20:07]  I'd be like, he said it.
[00:20:08]  He said it.
[00:20:08]  No, no, no.
[00:20:09]  I'm not playing it in court.
[00:20:10]  I'm playing it in court.
[00:20:11]  He's gone.
[00:20:13]  I accept your letter of resignation immediately.
[00:20:18]  That's the other good thing about not having a boss.
[00:20:20]  Nothing you say means anything.
[00:20:21]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:20:22]  So, like, this is a smoking gun.
[00:20:24]  Sure.
[00:20:26]  There's another smoking gun.
[00:20:27]  And then there's another.
[00:20:28]  There's so many.
[00:20:28]  Alex has so many smoking guns.
[00:20:30]  This is smoking gun stuff.
[00:20:33]  And then I've got a bunch of other big, giant smoking guns.
[00:20:40]  But I'm too angry to do the show right now.
[00:20:43]  I am too damn angry to do this broadcast right now.
[00:20:47]  And there's a lot of other stuff going on.
[00:20:49]  So I'm going to just, and I've got to go find my stack of news from yesterday.
[00:20:53]  I got to do a lot of stuff around here.
[00:20:55]  Sure.
[00:20:55]  I watched somebody walk out of my stack yesterday.
[00:20:57]  I'm like, oh, no, you got the stack.
[00:20:58]  Well, I'll go get it myself.
[00:21:00]  But, and I'm not even bitching anymore.
[00:21:02]  I just can't do this six, seven days a week.
[00:21:04]  And just with the public, like zombies everywhere.
[00:21:06]  Just like walking into globalist machine gun fire.
[00:21:09]  And then that weird reanimated corpse, Biden stumbling around up there.
[00:21:12]  Just all of it.
[00:21:13]  Just, it's just, it's a joke because people are unconscious from watching TV and playing on their phones all day.
[00:21:19]  Ah, that's it.
[00:21:21]  That's the problem.
[00:21:22]  Yeah.
[00:21:22]  The public.
[00:21:23]  Yeah.
[00:21:24]  Hmm.
[00:21:25]  He's having a bad day.
[00:21:26]  Yeah.
[00:21:27]  Yeah.
[00:21:28]  You know, I can't help but feel like I've been there before.
[00:21:30]  And what comforts me all the time is when I just go, oh no, I'm just an asshole.
[00:21:35]  Yeah.
[00:21:36]  You know, like everybody else is asleep and everybody.
[00:21:38]  No, no, no, I'm just being a dick.
[00:21:40]  My bad, guys.
[00:21:40]  I'm an asshole.
[00:21:41]  I just, I'm having a bad day.
[00:21:43]  Something didn't like, you know, some I got overcharged for something.
[00:21:48]  Totally.
[00:21:48]  Maybe I'm taking it out on the people around me subconsciously.
[00:21:51]  I'm sorry.
[00:21:52]  And you tell them and they're like, you know what?
[00:21:53]  I get it.
[00:21:54]  I've been in that experience.
[00:21:56]  Yeah, it happens.
[00:21:57]  And then you're just like, we've got to de-escalate.
[00:22:00]  For Alex, it's an essential piece of his showmanship.
[00:22:03]  Exactly.
[00:22:04]  Dwelling in that piece.
[00:22:06]  He's having a bad day.
[00:22:08]  And that means everyone's got to die.
[00:22:10]  People are unconscious from watching TV and playing on their phones all day.
[00:22:14]  It manipulates all the dopamine receptors where people think that's the real world.
[00:22:17]  And the real world, they're all oh, ooh, ooh, like this.
[00:22:21]  And I just, I just don't even want to be around this anymore.
[00:22:23]  Maybe Bill Gates is right.
[00:22:24]  Just kill everybody, but use neutron bombs at least and kill them quick, man.
[00:22:28]  Don't mutate them and torture them and dumb them down.
[00:22:30]  But Bill Gates writes that.
[00:22:32]  Bill Gates, get a deal with the globalists and start neutron bombing the public.
[00:22:37]  Just neutron bomb everybody.
[00:22:39]  Then we don't kill the earth and the humans are gotten rid of.
[00:22:41]  Maybe he's right.
[00:22:43]  Maybe I should go work for Gates and just come up with a neutron bomb plan.
[00:22:46]  I know Bertrand Russell had one before they called it a neutron bomb.
[00:22:50]  Do you know anything about neutron?
[00:22:52]  That's the answer.
[00:22:54]  Gotta start over.
[00:22:56]  You know, God did it, so I guess we're just imitating God.
[00:22:59]  Maybe I should just salute Bill Gates right now on air.
[00:23:02]  Pledge allegiance to him.
[00:23:03]  Nobody else cares.
[00:23:05]  Do it.
[00:23:05]  At least he actually wants to run something.
[00:23:07]  It's me, the devil.
[00:23:08]  Do it.
[00:23:09]  You must.
[00:23:12]  I have the giant news from no one.
[00:23:14]  No one cares, of course.
[00:23:14]  I'm serious.
[00:23:15]  I don't try to offend here.
[00:23:16]  Just no one cares.
[00:23:17]  Maybe if I freak out, maybe I cut a few fingers off with loppers.
[00:23:20]  People go, and this is really important.
[00:23:21]  This will bring down the globalists.
[00:23:22]  Here, let me cut my pinky off.
[00:23:23]  Oh, now you pay attention.
[00:23:25]  The Department of Energy on record told Texas, you can't produce more power.
[00:23:29]  I have the damn document with a direct link to them.
[00:23:32]  They'll just have Snope say it isn't real.
[00:23:34]  Hell, we want to be able to pull it up in there probably.
[00:23:42]  So, anyways, I'm going to go to rebroadcast for a while.
[00:23:45]  I'm going to try to settle down.
[00:23:47]  And then I'm going to come back and lay all this out for you.

=== Emergency Power Regulations (06:58) ===

[00:23:52]  It's so incredible.
[00:23:53]  It's incredible.
[00:23:54]  That is.
[00:23:55]  That wasn't a display.
[00:23:58]  That was a show.
[00:24:00]  That was a baby.
[00:24:03]  Man, you know what would suck?
[00:24:04]  It would really suck if his conspiracies were actually true.
[00:24:07]  Oh, yeah.
[00:24:08]  Because now the movement about these things are so beholden to him that like the imagine having to fall in line behind him.
[00:24:16]  Oh, brutal.
[00:24:18]  Oh, this guy's onto something.
[00:24:19]  Brutal.
[00:24:20]  This whiny little asshole.
[00:24:21]  You know, you know who.
[00:24:23]  Thankfully, he's not.
[00:24:24]  You know who goes down in history for being a hero?
[00:24:26]  People who weather adversity.
[00:24:28]  You know, when you think of Nelson Mandela and you think of being put in prison for all those years and then not just surviving through it, but then going on to help found a fucking country for a real opportunity and equality.
[00:24:43]  But you read his speech.
[00:24:44]  Yeah.
[00:24:44]  No one cares.
[00:24:45]  I don't even know.
[00:24:46]  I don't even know if I want to do this.
[00:24:47]  You guys imprisoned me for 25 years, and I don't even know if I want to help any of you people.
[00:24:51]  No one cares.
[00:24:51]  You know what?
[00:24:52]  How about you all are owned by white supremacists?
[00:24:54]  How about that?
[00:24:55]  Huh?
[00:24:55]  Huh?
[00:24:56]  I quit.
[00:24:56]  No one gives a shit about me.
[00:24:59]  Bishop Desmond Tutu's an asshole.
[00:25:05]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:25:07]  Very stupid.
[00:25:07]  Stupid.
[00:25:08]  That's who I want to follow into the war.
[00:25:11]  He's a noble, noble leader.
[00:25:13]  So I think part of his anger is coming from a place of like he wasn't on this sooner.
[00:25:18]  It's like this document was available before, and he could have been covering the story this way before.
[00:25:24]  Instead, he had the sort of childish, oh, it was the windmill narrative and what have you.
[00:25:29]  And I think that's where a little bit of this anger comes from.
[00:25:33]  Before I went live on air, I got a bunch of extra news that I already was told by a very close person to me.
[00:25:42]  And I dropped the ball on Monday and just said, I've been told by inside sources in Texas power plants that the feds ordered them not to increase power.
[00:25:54]  I should have followed up on that.
[00:25:55]  I already knew there was those agreements.
[00:25:57]  I already knew about those documents.
[00:25:58]  I should have gotten the current ones.
[00:26:00]  I should have found out, well, let me see the directive.
[00:26:02]  Instead, I just went and poured another glass of wine and set the fire in the dark.
[00:26:09]  And then, son of a bitch, a whistleblower inside the Department of Energy contacted someone that works here and said, why is Jones not covering this?
[00:26:17]  No one else is.
[00:26:18]  And I read it 20 minutes before I went on air and already knew all that was real.
[00:26:22]  We went and checked.
[00:26:22]  It's on the Department of Energy website.
[00:26:24]  And it was like being punched in the chest and the stomach over and over again to read, for sure they raped us.
[00:26:31]  For sure they're doing it.
[00:26:34]  I am so freaking pissed, man.
[00:26:36]  I can't take much more of these people.
[00:26:43]  And the way it's written.
[00:26:44]  You sound like the demon.
[00:26:45]  It's all slimy.
[00:26:47]  The way it's written is all slimy.
[00:26:49]  What is wrong with this man?
[00:26:51]  I don't know.
[00:26:51]  I'm not sure exactly what the definition of slimy documents are, but I guess for Alex, it's when the document says the opposite of what you need it to say.
[00:26:58]  And so you have to argue that when they say yes, they really mean no.
[00:27:01]  Exactly.
[00:27:02]  It's slimy.
[00:27:02]  Slimy is shit.
[00:27:03]  Super slimy.
[00:27:04]  Super slimy.
[00:27:05]  Also, I think that Alex.
[00:27:06]  The young thug thinks it's slimy.
[00:27:08]  I think Alex is really using the term whistleblower too loosely here.
[00:27:12]  This is a publicly available document on the Department of Energy's website.
[00:27:15]  So I would say that this is a tipster, if anything.
[00:27:17]  Wow.
[00:27:18]  Maybe someone who's doing Alex's work for him.
[00:27:20]  I don't know.
[00:27:20]  Maybe somebody who's just been to that website.
[00:27:22]  It's not a whistleblower.
[00:27:23]  No.
[00:27:23]  The document in question is titled Order No. 202-21-1.
[00:27:28]  It's four pages long, so there's no way I believe Alex read it.
[00:27:32]  And it's really easy to find.
[00:27:33]  And if you go do find it, what you'll read is an order that is designed to increase the electric capacity of the Texas power grid in order to deal with the emergency that the state is going through.
[00:27:43]  Sure.
[00:27:43]  On February 14th, quote, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an independent system operator whose service territory includes 90% of the electric customers in the state of Texas, filed a request for emergency order under Section 202C of the Federal Power Act.
[00:27:58]  The beginning of the document lays out how ERCOT had foreseen the possible issue and that, quote, this weather event is expected to result in record winter electricity demand that will exceed even ERCOT's most extreme seasonal load forecasts.
[00:28:12]  To try to adjust for this, ERCOT attempted to maximize energy generation by doing things like having the Railroad Commission of Texas put out an emergency order that quote specified increasing the priority of gas supplies to ERCOT generators.
[00:28:26]  One of the main things that this order is about is that the electricity generation that they were needing to engage in would almost certainly not be possible, quote, without violating federal air quality or other permit limitations.
[00:28:38]  So ERCOT appealed to the Department of Energy to get an order allowing them to work outside those regulations due to the emergency situation.
[00:28:46]  On page two of the order, it says, quote, given the emergency nature of the expected load stress, the responsibility of ERCOT to ensure maximum reliability on its system and the ability of ERCOT to identify and dispatch generation necessary to meet the additional load, I have determined that the additional dispatch of the specified resources is necessary to best meet the emergency and serve the public interest for purposes of FPA Section 202C.
[00:29:12]  Okay, so the document Alex Jones is saying is them saying you can't have more power, is them saying, yes, you can have more power.
[00:29:20]  With some limitation.
[00:29:21]  Well, sure.
[00:29:21]  I mean, you can't destroy the Earth.
[00:29:24]  Right.
[00:29:24]  Yeah.
[00:29:24]  The order is the acting Secretary of Energy replying to ERCOT saying that they have permission to break regulations up to a point.
[00:29:31]  Basically.
[00:29:31]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:29:32]  The order literally says, quote, ERCOT anticipates that this order may result in exceedance of emissions as well as wastewater release limits.
[00:29:40]  To minimize adverse environmental impacts, this order limits operation of dispatched units to the times and within the parameters determined by ERCOT for reliability purposes.
[00:29:49]  Yeah, that's great.
[00:29:50]  It's pretty simple.
[00:29:51]  This is just an order where ERCOT asked for permission to wiggle around some regulation in order to be able to meet the increased demand of the energy emergency.
[00:29:59]  The Department of Energy replied that they could do so, but that wiggle room only existed for the purposes of re-establishing reliability of the power grid.
[00:30:06]  They couldn't just flout all federal pollution regulations, but some would be less rigidly enforced given the human need that existed.
[00:30:13]  Yeah, we don't want to destroy the earth, but people are freezing to death, so let's find a better place than find a way to make this work.
[00:30:19]  Exactly.
[00:30:20]  There's nothing here, quite honestly.
[00:30:22]  Yeah, it doesn't sound like it.
[00:30:23]  Which is why Alex is doing this high school drama club play about how serious and smoking gun it all is.
[00:30:28]  It's actually a document that says the opposite of what he claims it does.
[00:30:31]  And because that is the case, he has to claim that it's slimy.

=== Warren Buffett's Backlash (02:19) ===

[00:30:35]  This is the level of work that he's doing, and it really makes you wonder why he doesn't just quit.
[00:30:40]  Like, this is nothing.
[00:30:42]  I don't know.
[00:30:42]  Because he's his own boss, I guess.
[00:30:44]  Slimy.
[00:30:45]  Slimy.
[00:30:46]  Yeah, he doesn't want to start all over again.
[00:30:47]  Anyway, I don't think he's even read it, so I wouldn't expect him to understand some of these dynamics and all of this.
[00:30:54]  But I think that he realizes, like, I don't know if I can really even fucking explain this to the audience in a way that's going to make them motivated.
[00:31:02]  This might be too hard for me.
[00:31:04]  Yeah.
[00:31:04]  I better call Tucker.
[00:31:06]  Oh, boy.
[00:31:07]  I can get more done if I call a bunch of influential people I know and tell them to look into this and let them break it because I don't care about breaking it and then it will actually have an effect.
[00:31:15]  Instead, the audience is great, but I say so much stuff, people just hear it and just think, oh, that's another thing Alex just said.
[00:31:21]  No, it's not.
[00:31:22]  It's the biggest freaking smoking gun I ever saw to quote Robert Duvall in network.
[00:31:30]  It's a big kidded hit, okay?
[00:31:33]  I mean, this thing would hurt them so freaking bad.
[00:31:37]  I hate the New World Order.
[00:31:39]  I can't stand Bill Gates.
[00:31:40]  I can't stand Warren Buffett.
[00:31:42]  I can't stand Ted Turner.
[00:31:43]  I can't stand Barack Obama.
[00:31:46]  I can't stand him anymore.
[00:31:48]  I want him off my back now, you mothers.
[00:31:53]  And then I sit there and I read exactly what I was told by my family that works in these damn plants that they're ordered to go at zero or quarter power under the freaking federal government because Biden put them back under the son of a bitch two weeks ago.
[00:32:12]  Now, we all knew that.
[00:32:13]  Did we?
[00:32:14]  Did we all know that?
[00:32:14]  Did we all know that?
[00:32:15]  Yeah.
[00:32:15]  I feel like we did not know that.
[00:32:17]  No, and I don't know.
[00:32:18]  I read this document.
[00:32:19]  I still don't know it.
[00:32:20]  Yeah, man.
[00:32:21]  You know, here's my pitch for Alex.
[00:32:23]  And this is going to sound crazy.
[00:32:25]  All right.
[00:32:25]  But he's sick of being under the backs of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner for some reason.
[00:32:33]  Join the socialists, buddy.

=== Prices and Demand Response (16:03) ===

[00:32:36]  We want to try and get rid of these rich people and remove their power.
[00:32:39]  Come on, man.
[00:32:39]  No, you want to get rid of them?
[00:32:41]  Let's go.
[00:32:41]  No, because socialists are working for Ted Turner.
[00:32:44]  They just don't know it.
[00:32:45]  Oh, well, how about this?
[00:32:47]  How about this?
[00:32:47]  What if Ted Turner...
[00:32:49]  Here's my cell.
[00:32:50]  Here's my cell back to you, Alex.
[00:32:52]  What if Ted Turner thinks we're working for him, but we're actually working for our own goals using his money and power that he thinks he's bought us with?
[00:33:03]  Another possibility would be move to Antarctica.
[00:33:06]  Okay, now that's also a good one.
[00:33:08]  Alex, you can also go to Antarctica.
[00:33:11]  So one of the features of Alex's coverage of this document from the Department of Energy is one of those strategies he uses a lot.
[00:33:20]  I call it making things up.
[00:33:21]  Oh, that's a good one.
[00:33:22]  And guess what's in the document?
[00:33:24]  The Department of Energy told Texas, under federal law, you'll be prosecuted unless you exhaust outside power supplies first.
[00:33:34]  There's no mention of prosecution.
[00:33:36]  The relevant part of the order that Alex is talking about is as follows.
[00:33:39]  Quote, consistent with good utility practice, ERCOT shall exhaust all reasonably and practically available resources, including available imports, demand response, and identified behind-the-meter generation resources selected to minimize increase in emissions, to the extent that such resources provide support to maintain grid reliability prior to dispatching the specified resources.
[00:34:02]  This makes total sense.
[00:34:03]  And Alex is just writing a story about it to make things seem more nefarious, when in reality, this is very much a document that is the Department of Energy giving ERCOT a fair amount of leeway and trying to keep the system online.
[00:34:14]  Frequently in the document, you see it made clear that if the determination of what is necessary is that they need to put on more save lives now.
[00:34:22]  Yeah.
[00:34:23]  Save lives now.
[00:34:24]  The determination of when it's necessary to put on all these other things, that's at the discretion of ERCOT.
[00:34:32]  That is not, that's left up to them.
[00:34:35]  Yep.
[00:34:37]  And so like behind the meter generation resources for what it's worth is like solar and batteries and stuff like that.
[00:34:46]  So I don't know.
[00:34:48]  I just don't see what he's saying.
[00:34:51]  I don't find this very compelling at all.
[00:34:53]  No.
[00:34:53]  Texas always had more power than anybody.
[00:34:55]  We used to supply before Obama came in the states all around us.
[00:34:58]  Remember that?
[00:34:59]  Our grid supplied much of the country.
[00:35:01]  That's why we were proud of it.
[00:35:02]  Remember the U.S. under Trump got to where it was the biggest supplier of energy in the world for the first time since the 50s?
[00:35:08]  Again, this is just something Alex is making up.
[00:35:10]  The power grid in Texas specifically exists in such a way as to not supply power to other states, to avoid interstate energy sales regulation from the federal government.
[00:35:18]  Someone with the pretend persona that Alex has should really understand that dynamic well and be proud of it.
[00:35:24]  Also, Alex is just reporting something Trump lied about and pretending it's real.
[00:35:27]  Trump basically lied in his State of the Union speech about how for the first time in 65 years, we're net exporters of energy, but that's not true.
[00:35:34]  No.
[00:35:35]  Anyway, prices for energy are going up.
[00:35:39]  Oh, well, yeah, I imagine so.
[00:35:41]  Reuters, Texas wholesale electric prices spiked more than 10,000% amid outages.
[00:35:47]  And what does this little sweet document show that I'll show you the print of the next segment?
[00:35:52]  They had to first only buy from outside sources, including available imports and demand response.
[00:36:00]  You look those terms up, that means demand response is a term meaning outside power when you don't have enough demand response is a key term.
[00:36:07]  It means you buy from available imports.
[00:36:10]  These are all lawyer terms.
[00:36:12]  Once again, I think that one's just an economics term.
[00:36:14]  Well, and Alex is just making things up because he knows that his audience doesn't care and they're never going to check on anything.
[00:36:20]  Why would they?
[00:36:21]  Demand response, according to Alex, is lawyer speak.
[00:36:24]  I mean, you've got to buy outside power.
[00:36:26]  He knows this because he looked it up.
[00:36:28]  Yeah.
[00:36:29]  This is made up out of thin air.
[00:36:30]  Yeah.
[00:36:30]  Demand response is an energy efficiency strategy that involves giving customers the ability to adjust their electricity usage away from peak hours by doing things like offering cut rates at other times when the burden on the electric grid is lower or putting small tariffs on power during peak periods.
[00:36:46]  This Department of Energy document is saying that in addition to using available reserves, demand response strategies should be employed where possible to maintain the functioning of the power grid.
[00:36:55]  Oh, so you mean incentivizing people to spread out the usage of power when possible.
[00:37:02]  I'm fairly certain that you did just say buy all your power from China.
[00:37:06]  Sure.
[00:37:07]  It would be easy for someone to hear me make this correction of Alex and say that I'm just nitpicking and fact-checking him pointlessly, but there's a really serious phenomenon that I'm trying to illustrate here.
[00:37:15]  Alex Jones constantly pretends to know things.
[00:37:18]  He has a consistent pattern of just making up definitions of words and details about news stories and then pretending that the thing he's making up is the product of research or investigation.
[00:37:27]  It's important to recognize that he does this about the small details of his day-to-day conspiracies in the same way he does with the larger worldview level conspiracies.
[00:37:37]  His workflow is essentially like watching a shitty improv show rooted in terrible racist politics.
[00:37:43]  He uses headlines and words he skims in stories as the suggestions from the audience that he takes and then he riffs a scene out of it.
[00:37:50]  I would implore anyone who takes him seriously to consider that dynamic and to critically engage with the things he's saying.
[00:37:55]  You'll almost always find him fabricating details about the stories that he's covering in order to make them fit his predetermined narrative and worldview, which he absolutely wouldn't need to do if he wasn't full of shit.
[00:38:06]  As for the skyrocketing prices of energy some consumers are seeing, that is being reported in reputable outlets and it does appear that some of this is going on.
[00:38:13]  The Public Utility Commission of Texas is opening an investigation into possible price gouging and I would guess that if they find companies that were engaging in that, then the customers will not be responsible for paying those outrageous rates.
[00:38:25]  There's one thing to keep in mind, however.
[00:38:27]  A small number of people in Texas use a company called Gritty to provide their electricity, which operates on wholesale prices.
[00:38:34]  Most people use providers who have fixed rates, but going through a company like Gritty actually saves people money on their electric bill generally.
[00:38:42]  The downside is in a situation like this, their rates are not fixed and they can skyrocket.
[00:38:48]  Even so, I would guess that these people won't be stuck with these exorbitant bills and the solution will be reached.
[00:38:55]  I find it hard to believe that, but I don't know.
[00:38:59]  Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
[00:39:01]  At this point in time, it's safer to assume that people are going to get fucked over in some massive fashion.
[00:39:07]  Possibly, possibly, but I would guess that there will be some forgiveness.
[00:39:13]  Yeah.
[00:39:13]  Yeah.
[00:39:14]  Something.
[00:39:15]  But the examples that you see are these really, really high bills.
[00:39:19]  And the ones that I've been able to see, and someone could correct me if I'm wrong, but the ones that I've been able to find being reported are wholesale prices, which are not the majority of electric users in the state of Texas.
[00:39:32]  Most people have fixed rate.
[00:39:33]  And obviously, their prices will go up too, but not per like the right.
[00:39:40]  Will need to use more electricity to heat their house because it's colder outside.
[00:39:43]  Right.
[00:39:43]  But they won't, you know, that's just a natural phenomenon.
[00:39:49]  You know, and like, I mean, just price gouging is illegal.
[00:39:53]  Yeah.
[00:39:54]  So if that's going on, people will get to the bottom of it.
[00:39:57]  We'll hope.
[00:39:58]  Yeah.
[00:39:58]  So Alex, you know, he's got this document that he's lying about.
[00:40:02]  Yes.
[00:40:03]  And he feels really excited about this lie.
[00:40:04]  He's pretty pumped about it.
[00:40:06]  And he's like, you know what?
[00:40:09]  These fucking people in Congress in Texas and our governor, they need to lie about this document, too.
[00:40:16]  Oh, no.
[00:40:17]  And all Ted Cruz has got to do to change the subject, all Greg Abbott has to do to redeem himself, all John Corner has to do is come out and read this on air and it's game over.
[00:40:29]  By the way, I've had my problems with Ted Cruz, but I think he's a good constitutionalist.
[00:40:33]  Cancun is like going out to get a cheeseburger in Texas.
[00:40:36]  It's an hour and 45-minute flight.
[00:40:38]  His daughters were going down there.
[00:40:40]  Why do I care if he flew down there with his daughters to get out of this hell when it turned out his power was off?
[00:40:44]  My power was off a bunch.
[00:40:46]  My water just came back today.
[00:40:47]  Most folks still don't have water.
[00:40:50]  Now you're...
[00:40:51]  They're out of school.
[00:40:52]  Why not go?
[00:40:52]  Mexico?
[00:40:53]  See, we live by Mexico, folks.
[00:40:55]  We go down there.
[00:40:56]  But I'm not even defending that.
[00:40:57]  How is that the news?
[00:40:58]  How is he horrible?
[00:41:00]  And the Democrats are all, oh, look, he doesn't care about you.
[00:41:03]  He didn't want the lockdowns.
[00:41:04]  He didn't want to wear the mask.
[00:41:06]  It's not like he's for a lockdown and he's caught getting out of one.
[00:41:09]  Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Jones with a master class in intentionally missing the point.
[00:41:13]  Yep.
[00:41:14]  Remarkable.
[00:41:15]  I think the point could very easily be made that he doesn't see that as something very difficult to do because he too is rich.
[00:41:22]  Could be.
[00:41:23]  Could have something to do with that.
[00:41:24]  Could be.
[00:41:25]  Could be one of those things where rich people don't really understand why poor people get mad.
[00:41:30]  Yeah, and I think that it's a really interesting way that Alex engages with Ted Cruz and his responsibilities as an elected official.
[00:41:38]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:41:39]  As opposed to the responsibilities of other enemy elected officials.
[00:41:44]  Yeah, you know.
[00:41:45]  It's weird.
[00:41:46]  Just because you don't need to be there doesn't mean you're.
[00:41:48]  Sure.
[00:41:49]  So Alex is mad at ERCOT.
[00:41:53]  Now, I should say that he doesn't know that it's the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
[00:41:57]  Well, he doesn't really know what it is.
[00:42:00]  He seems to think that ERCOT is basically Enron.
[00:42:04]  Oh, okay.
[00:42:04]  I get what you think.
[00:42:05]  He thinks it's a company.
[00:42:06]  Yeah.
[00:42:07]  Of course he does.
[00:42:08]  Yeah, it's weird.
[00:42:09]  And I'm just reading it made me so angry that I almost turned this desk over.
[00:42:16]  Seriously, man, you know what?
[00:42:17]  That's a normal response to learning they're not just robbing our future.
[00:42:21]  They're blaming us.
[00:42:22]  They're starving people.
[00:42:23]  They're bankrupting all these communities.
[00:42:25]  They killed over 50 people.
[00:42:27]  And then now they're going to rape us more and are telling us permanent blackouts because the feds put ERCOT in control because you can't have the state managing it.
[00:42:35]  The feds put URCOT in control.
[00:42:36]  The feds put ERCOT in control.
[00:42:39]  Alex has no idea what that is.
[00:42:40]  Wow.
[00:42:41]  He seems to think it's like a power company as opposed to being the management entity for Texas's power grid, which is run by a board of directors that's overseen by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the state's legislature.
[00:42:53]  The public utility commissioners responsible for overseeing ERCOT are directly appointed by Texas's governor.
[00:42:58]  There could almost be no system imaginable where the state would have more direct control over the power system, other than one where the state itself runs all the power plants itself, which I can't imagine Alex advocating for.
[00:43:10]  No, no, no.
[00:43:12]  Alex knows nothing about the subjects he's covering, and he's just making up a story to tell the audience that fits the show's larger themes and narratives.
[00:43:18]  None of this is based in reality at all.
[00:43:20]  Yeah, no.
[00:43:21]  It's outrageous.
[00:43:22]  Also, you don't get to care.
[00:43:24]  He doesn't get to care.
[00:43:25]  You already did the coronavirus thing where you denied all of that shit.
[00:43:29]  You don't get to be like, oh, how dare they do this now?
[00:43:31]  Nah, fuck off.
[00:43:32]  It's remarkable how everything is a conspiracy, isn't it?
[00:43:35]  Yeah.
[00:43:36]  Anyway, Alex gets back to this document.
[00:43:39]  And this is kind of, I guess, one of the other reasons I'm in a nice mood beyond the sort of slap happiness and sleep deprivenness.
[00:43:46]  Because he's talking about the docks.
[00:43:47]  He's talking about a document.
[00:43:48]  Yeah, and I always like it when we can get ground here.
[00:43:51]  You like the docks.
[00:43:52]  Yeah.
[00:43:53]  In the ERCOT region, that's Texas, the generating unit specified resources that this order pertains to are listed on the order 202-21-1 resource list as described below.
[00:44:05]  And it's, oh, hydroelectric.
[00:44:07]  And it's, oh, this, it takes them a week to turn a coal plant up.
[00:44:10]  Didn't let him do that.
[00:44:11]  So Alex is reading this part of the document that he's skimming.
[00:44:15]  And it should come as no surprise, but he's just making shit up.
[00:44:17]  The resource list that's referenced in that Department of Energy order is available, and it's easy to find.
[00:44:23]  It's just a list of power generation plants in Texas that are relevant to the order.
[00:44:27]  Each plant is listed, and the third column in the spreadsheet is the type of energy that they use.
[00:44:32]  Okay.
[00:44:33]  Literally zero are solar or windmills or hydroelectric because that's not what the order pertains to.
[00:44:39]  It doesn't seem like those would be important in this particular one.
[00:44:42]  These are all natural gas, lignite, bituminous coal or distillate fuel oil power generators, which are being given special permission to operate in ways that would exceed environmental rules, specifically only when doing so would be needed to maintain the reliability of the grid.
[00:44:57]  Alex hasn't read the actual document, nor has he seen this resource list.
[00:45:01]  He's literally just making up what he thinks the story is then, repeating that to his audience as a fact.
[00:45:06]  That's what he does.
[00:45:07]  He makes up stories.
[00:45:08]  He's a storyteller.
[00:45:10]  Yeah, also, this should make it more than abundantly clear.
[00:45:15]  We have an order saying that these evil power companies can destroy the earth in order to save lives, but all the renewable energies are just like, eh, you guys keep on going.
[00:45:25]  Like, it seems very obvious that one of these is a serious polluter destroying the world, and the other one, they're like, okay, well, you guys are fine.
[00:45:34]  Yeah.
[00:45:35]  So Alex is, you know, again, he's really confused about ERCOT and what have you and the relationship with the federal government.
[00:45:44]  The feds are in charge, man.
[00:45:47]  I think a lot of people are confused as to how this happened.
[00:45:50]  We're going to come back and read all this for you.
[00:45:51]  It gets really bad right here.
[00:45:53]  It's really, really bad.
[00:45:54]  But the point is, the feds are in control.
[00:45:57]  The feds wouldn't let them up the power till the power grid was going down and then limited what they could do and then sat back and said, Texas is a bunch of idiots, a bunch of hayseeds.
[00:46:06]  Oh, I'm watching Hee-Haw right now.
[00:46:08]  I'm aware of Joe Biden going.
[00:46:11]  Take me over.
[00:46:12]  Joe Biden knows how to cook a possum.
[00:46:14]  Oh, yeah.
[00:46:18]  I'm not sure that's what's happening.
[00:46:20]  I'm fairly certain that I have heard many comments on Biden's ability to not cook possum.
[00:46:28]  The jury's out from what I've heard.
[00:46:30]  Sure.
[00:46:30]  Some people like it, some people don't.
[00:46:32]  Yeah, let me be just above board and totally clear.
[00:46:36]  Any kind of Texan bashing that's going on, I think, is wrong.
[00:46:39]  Yeah.
[00:46:40]  I think it's misguided.
[00:46:41]  It's counterproductive at least.
[00:46:43]  To the extent that that is going on, I don't know what extent it is.
[00:46:48]  I have not really been exposed to much of it myself.
[00:46:51]  Sure.
[00:46:52]  I imagine if I spent more time on Twitter, maybe I would have seen some dumb comments.
[00:46:57]  Yeah, get them out of here.
[00:46:58]  But whatever.
[00:46:59]  That said, what Alex is doing is trying to take valid criticisms about how Texas, their power grid is operated.
[00:47:05]  And then he turns that into people saying that Texans just watch hee-haw all day and cook possum.
[00:47:10]  He doesn't have a response to the arguments about the grid because he doesn't actually even understand the conversation that people are having.
[00:47:16]  Not even a little bit.
[00:47:17]  But he can get his audience personally offended if he makes the whole thing about how the coastal elites think people in the middle of the country are stupid.
[00:47:23]  And that's pretty much the tactic that you see being employed here.
[00:47:26]  It's infuriating.
[00:47:27]  I do not appreciate that he is talking about a problem that is almost entirely the result of a state desiring more than anything else for the federal government to get out of their fucking business and then to blame the feds for being in their business.
[00:47:46]  Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a piece of it that you can probably blame on the organizational structure of the disconnection from the interstate sales of energy.
[00:47:59]  But also, like, I think that you also have to be very careful with that because of how severe this storm is.
[00:48:04]  Oh, totally.
[00:48:05]  Like, even in ideal circumstances, there would have been power outages.
[00:48:10]  100%.
[00:48:10]  Perhaps not to the extent that we have seen.
[00:48:14]  Sure.
[00:48:14]  And maybe not as severe as we've seen.
[00:48:16]  But a storm like that in Texas is something that is just a recipe for there's going to be a lot of trouble.
[00:48:23]  Sure, sure.
[00:48:24]  I'm just saying that if the reports of them being that close to having no power for months are true, that is 100%.

=== Power Outage Planning Mishap (07:24) ===

[00:48:33]  Look, there are going to be power outages.
[00:48:35]  They happen here, they happen everywhere, and it can be dealt with.
[00:48:40]  But if you have a system that is like, well, we were a James Bond moment away from fucking never having power for the next year, then yeah, you've done fucked up in the planning somewhere along the line.
[00:48:53]  Yeah.
[00:48:53]  And it's really tough to say if that problem is essentially related to the non-interstate energy sales.
[00:49:05]  Also, if it's just unrelated mismanagement or something.
[00:49:10]  Entirely possible.
[00:49:11]  I don't know enough to say for sure, but I think that those things are important to tease out before you make too much of a judgment.
[00:49:17]  But it does seem like whatever it is, it's something.
[00:49:20]  Yeah.
[00:49:20]  Yeah.
[00:49:22]  I mean, at the very least, it would be hard to imagine if there was some sort of unified or greater area of power control where it wouldn't be able to be transported effectively much, much better to the point where we would have a better response time at the very least, you know?
[00:49:43]  It may be.
[00:49:44]  Yeah.
[00:49:44]  But who knows?
[00:49:46]  For now, all we do know is that Alex over prepares for his show.
[00:49:51]  That sounds true.
[00:49:52]  I want to be totally clear with you.
[00:49:55]  I massively prepare for this show.
[00:49:58]  I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen stacks of news.
[00:50:05]  Wow, that was impressive.
[00:50:06]  It was over and red, and I've not even hit.
[00:50:08]  Can't believe you counted all the way.
[00:50:10]  Like one story a segment, and they go, oh, coming up is this.
[00:50:12]  No!
[00:50:16]  I will not!
[00:50:17]  here and watch the Department of Energy override Trump's executive orders and tell Texas they couldn't increase power when I have the smoking gun.
[00:50:25]  I just want to see this all over the news.
[00:50:32]  I want to see them go to prison.
[00:50:34]  Got bad news.
[00:50:35]  Yeah, that's going to be trouble.
[00:50:36]  Yeah, it's probably not going to happen.
[00:50:38]  Good luck, buddy.
[00:50:39]  So Alex is personally offended because this is about Texas.
[00:50:44]  Yes, of course.
[00:50:45]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:50:46]  And what he wants you to know is that Texas.
[00:50:48]  What about it?
[00:50:49]  You look at me?
[00:50:49]  I am looking at me.
[00:50:50]  Straight on.
[00:50:51]  Right on Texas.
[00:50:53]  What about it?
[00:50:54]  Those people take action.
[00:50:56]  And Alex might have the worst example that he uses.
[00:51:00]  Okay.
[00:51:01]  Think it's a mistake that this operation comes out of Texas?
[00:51:04]  Think it's a mistake Kennedy got his head blown off down here?
[00:51:08]  People are ready to take action down here, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:51:10]  I'm not the feeling with Apple Kennedy.
[00:51:11]  I'm just saying the new world with a lot of fire.
[00:51:16]  And they take our kindness as weakness because they're stupid.
[00:51:20]  Because they have to tell you history and they have no idea about people dedicated to an idea, dedicated to their family, dedicated to God, dedicated to war to defend it if need be.
[00:51:31]  Why did you say that?
[00:51:33]  Look, Texagans, Texans, we'll fucking kill the president.
[00:51:36]  We'll do it right now.
[00:51:37]  That's weird.
[00:51:38]  I thought it was a...
[00:51:39]  Right now. I guess it's...
[00:51:42]  I guess.
[00:51:43]  If there's one thing I know about the South, it's that they murder President's Dad.
[00:51:47]  Huh?
[00:51:48]  This adds a wrinkle to the conspiracy, I guess.
[00:51:50]  I suppose.
[00:51:51]  So it had to have been a Texan conspiracy.
[00:51:53]  Yep.
[00:51:53]  Yep.
[00:51:54]  This is interesting.
[00:51:55]  It was not the mob.
[00:51:56]  It was not the Russians.
[00:51:57]  It was not a single lone actor.
[00:51:59]  It was the lone star state.
[00:52:01]  George H.W. Bush is from Connecticut.
[00:52:04]  Yep.
[00:52:05]  Yep.
[00:52:07]  Yeah, I don't know.
[00:52:08]  This could be a tough one to sell.
[00:52:10]  Do you think it's a coincidence that InfoWars comes out of the same state where Kennedy was killed?
[00:52:15]  What?
[00:52:15]  I don't think it is.
[00:52:17]  I don't think it's cool.
[00:52:17]  I was hoping it was a coincidence.
[00:52:19]  Nope, it's not.
[00:52:20]  I thought Ted Cruz's dad did it.
[00:52:22]  No, Alex Jones' dad did it.
[00:52:24]  He was a CIA dentist.
[00:52:26]  Oh, shit.
[00:52:27]  He shot him with a tooth.
[00:52:28]  Exactly.
[00:52:29]  The magic bullet was actually a tooth.
[00:52:30]  No, it was an exploding tooth.
[00:52:32]  It was a dune situation.
[00:52:33]  Yep, that's totally.
[00:52:34]  That's Dr. Jones's calling card.
[00:52:39]  Probably.
[00:52:39]  So Alex goes to calls.
[00:52:41]  Not a lot of these are worth even mentioning.
[00:52:45]  Although I will say that this next call is probably the saddest I've been listening to Alex in a long time.
[00:52:52]  Oh, boy.
[00:52:53]  With my three kids.
[00:52:54]  I live close to the Memorial City Mall right in the Houston suburbs, right in the thick of this whole thing.
[00:52:59]  And I can just want to say thank you to you guys because there is not a chance I would have gotten through this with myself, my wife, my three kids without two things.
[00:53:08]  First thing, the water filtration system is incredible.
[00:53:11]  Anybody listening, please, please get prepared.
[00:53:14]  You do not want to be a victim to this government, to this squeeze.
[00:53:19]  Thank InfoWars and Alex and this entire crew because every day you guys get uncomfortable and you have the uncomfortable conversation and you teach us here on the ground to be uncomfortable and to talk to people and to have the uncomfortable conversation.
[00:53:34]  And the reason why I love you so much so much, Alex, is because you're real.
[00:53:38]  You say when you make mistakes, you say when something got by you when the Q thing.
[00:53:43]  You just are real.
[00:53:44]  InfoWars is as real as it gets in America.
[00:53:47]  And I can tell you from listening to you guys from my generator power this week, you kept my connection to humans.
[00:53:53]  You kept my connection to God, Alex.
[00:53:55]  And I'm telling you, I have been freezing my butt off, me and my family, in 40-degree weather all week long.
[00:54:00]  But I can promise you, every morning when I wake up, I was going to band on video waiting for your reports because you guys keep our connection to God and our human connection.
[00:54:09]  Oh, bro, that's so beautiful.
[00:54:10]  That's exactly what John, John the Boom on Raider, said.
[00:54:13]  Doesn't matter, Jones, you blew up earlier.
[00:54:15]  That's real.
[00:54:15]  They're looking for red blood.
[00:54:16]  And that's it.
[00:54:17]  All I've got is I'm real.
[00:54:19]  Oh, boy.
[00:54:20]  Wow.
[00:54:21]  That just bummed me out so much.
[00:54:23]  Everything that dude was saying is so wrong.
[00:54:25]  Wow.
[00:54:26]  Just brutal.
[00:54:27]  Just.
[00:54:28]  That is.
[00:54:29]  That's just.
[00:54:30]  What's the uncomfortable conversation?
[00:54:32]  I don't know, but that guy has just enumerated a crime.
[00:54:36]  Like, what he has just described is somebody so destroying his mind that he is in thrall to the point of death.
[00:54:45]  Yeah.
[00:54:45]  The idea that in a disaster.
[00:54:48]  No, I will say that this is one of the situations where some of Alex's products actually probably would be quite useful.
[00:54:55]  Like, I take less issue with this guy saying, I bought a water filter.
[00:54:58]  No, the water filtration thing.
[00:54:59]  I was like, hey, man.
[00:55:01]  Hey, how about that?
[00:55:01]  It paid off.
[00:55:02]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:55:03]  So that I take less issue with.
[00:55:05]  But the idea that in a disaster, in this scenario that he's in, he goes to the generator to try and find Alex's videos to keep his connection with humanity and God is just dark.
[00:55:19]  Yeah, that is a dark thought.
[00:55:20]  Yeah.
[00:55:21]  That is a dark thought.
[00:55:22]  Especially when, like, okay, your connection to humanity just quit earlier in the show.
[00:55:26]  No, shit.
[00:55:28]  Your connection to humanity said, fuck this.
[00:55:31]  Bill Gates should neutron bomb everybody.
[00:55:33]  I mean, it just makes you, like, you think about all the horrible shit that's happened in the past, and you're like, why would people follow that guy?

=== Kill Lists Controversy (03:49) ===

[00:55:41]  And you're like, eh.
[00:55:42]  People follow any old asshole, apparently.
[00:55:45]  Yeah, I believe the expression they used to say in Missouri was, it takes all kinds.
[00:55:49]  Yeah, it takes all kinds.
[00:55:51]  Yeah.
[00:55:52]  So.
[00:55:52]  Why would anyone listen to a 13-year-old Pope?
[00:55:55]  And then you get that guy and you're like, well, yeah, I guess believe whatever you want, man.
[00:55:59]  So I got to ask you, I don't know a whole lot about this 13-year-old Pope.
[00:56:03]  Was that the young Pope?
[00:56:04]  Was that that HBO show?
[00:56:06]  No, no, no, no.
[00:56:07]  That was what?
[00:56:08]  What's his face?
[00:56:09]  I don't know.
[00:56:09]  British dude?
[00:56:10]  Was he the type who told his audience to prepare kill lists?
[00:56:14]  Yeah, actually, he was.
[00:56:15]  Oh, he and Alex have that in common.
[00:56:16]  I believe you.
[00:56:17]  Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have words to describe to you how serious the times are.
[00:56:22]  I know you already know that.
[00:56:24]  And I'm not saying be violent either because that'll be misconstrued and used against us.
[00:56:27]  And the people we go after are just minions.
[00:56:29]  They don't count.
[00:56:30]  But.
[00:56:32]  They don't count?
[00:56:33]  The globalists.
[00:56:36]  And the people Bill Gates controls need to know, in not a threatening way, they're assaulting us.
[00:56:42]  They need to know that we're aware of what they're doing and that God is going to hold them accountable.
[00:56:49]  We're going to pray for God to bring vengeance upon them.
[00:56:51]  And that as they officially assault us, as they come after us, that we reserve the right to defend ourselves.
[00:56:57]  He said threateningly.
[00:56:58]  I don't shoot my mouth off.
[00:56:59]  I'm not Mr. Big Badass.
[00:57:01]  You know, talk about how I'm a big leader of the military and all this.
[00:57:04]  I'm not.
[00:57:05]  I just, I can't sit there and lie to you and tell you that you're not being assaulted.
[00:57:10]  And so, like Santa Claus, you should be researching who's been naughty and who's been nice, who's going to get coal in their stocking and who's going to get little bicycle or toys or candy.
[00:57:23]  So, that's where we are.
[00:57:25]  We'll be right back.
[00:57:26]  Stay with us.
[00:57:27]  It calls us straight ahead.
[00:57:28]  So, Alex talks a lot about this idea of making kill lists.
[00:57:31]  Yeah.
[00:57:32]  And, like, I don't know.
[00:57:33]  I don't know if it would hold up in court or anything, but I could see somebody like trying to kill Bill Gates or something.
[00:57:41]  And then being like, I was advised that he was trying to kill everyone with a vaccine.
[00:57:47]  Yeah.
[00:57:48]  And that we needed, it was a defensive, really.
[00:57:50]  He was attacking us.
[00:57:51]  Yeah.
[00:57:52]  Well, who told you that?
[00:57:53]  Alex Jones every day?
[00:57:55]  Simply every day.
[00:57:57]  I don't know if it's like the kind of thing that he could get in trouble for legally, but like spiritually or just morally.
[00:58:05]  Yeah.
[00:58:06]  He's doing everything that would lead someone to do the thing.
[00:58:11]  Yeah.
[00:58:11]  Just the thing hasn't happened.
[00:58:13]  Yeah.
[00:58:14]  I would just say that it's time to write a sequel to Miracle on 34th Street, where Alex claims that Santa is making kill lists out of this naughty and nice list.
[00:58:25]  We all know it's in the white papers.
[00:58:28]  No, I'm Santa Claus.
[00:58:30]  I'm real.
[00:58:31]  Oh, we know you're fucking real.
[00:58:33]  You're killing all of our children.
[00:58:34]  They got kill teams of reindeer going around and elves.
[00:58:38]  Why is that nose so blood red, huh, Santa?
[00:58:43]  Yeah.
[00:58:43]  So we get another caller here, and he actually brings up an interesting point that I have an answer for.
[00:58:49]  There were people in Oklahoma without power, freezing to death, you know, because we got hit with the same storm you guys got hit with.
[00:58:58]  And they're sitting in the cold freezing.
[00:59:00]  And we've got a National Basketball Association team called Oaklands to Defender.
[00:59:05]  And they have bed the whole arena with power.

=== Why Joel Skousen Thinks Earth Falsifies (15:27) ===

[00:59:09]  You know, they played their basketball game, and that was all good and fun while people sat in the cold, freezing.
[00:59:14]  That's what technocracy is, is they go, oh, downtown Austin stays open.
[00:59:19]  ERCOT stays open, but I'm in the dark for six days.
[00:59:23]  So, some of the places that retained power during the Texas storm seemed a little bit strange, but a lot of it's actually really easy to understand if you take the time to care.
[00:59:31]  A lot of it had to do with sections of the grid where essential services were located, like hospitals being a higher priority than ones that, say, didn't contain hospitals.
[00:59:40]  Sure.
[00:59:40]  This could easily create the impression that there was power in downtown Austin, but not in outlying areas.
[00:59:46]  But if you look at the proximity of downtown to not only the Capitol building, but also Del Seton Medical Center, all kinds of warming centers, and St. David's Medical Center, you start to understand how it might be impossible to retain power to those buildings without also keeping power on for some 6th Street businesses that maybe you're like, why do they have a light?
[01:00:06]  Also, it appears that you do correctly understand why people are mad at Ted Cruz.
[01:00:11]  Oh, is the basketball being played, but people are dying.
[01:00:15]  Oh, are you flying to Mexico, but people are dying?
[01:00:18]  Yeah, there we go.
[01:00:18]  Now you get it.
[01:00:19]  And to be fair, I would guess a similar thing is going on in Oklahoma City, where the Thunder play at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, which is within walking distance of the county courthouse, the county detention center, and St. Anthony Hospital, as well as the entire University of Oklahoma Medical Center complex, including the Children's Hospital and the VA.
[01:00:39]  Yeah, but you know, everybody needs to suffer equally.
[01:00:43]  I mean, it's a pretty simple explanation.
[01:00:46]  I just don't, I don't understand why people get mad or confused about things that are like they're pretty easy to understand.
[01:00:52]  Well, because it would be hard.
[01:00:54]  Fine.
[01:00:55]  So Alex has Max Kaiser on, and they just talk about Bitcoin.
[01:00:59]  Yeah.
[01:01:00]  Alex gets really mad about how he could have bought Bitcoin when it was like $5 and now it's over 50 grand.
[01:01:07]  Well, the thing is, or whatever it is.
[01:01:09]  Um, uh, Max 10 years ago offered him 10,000 Bitcoin.
[01:01:14]  And Alex is like, how much would that be now?
[01:01:16]  He's like, $60 million.
[01:01:18]  Oh, it would be a lot, buddy.
[01:01:19]  It would be a lot of money, buddy.
[01:01:21]  I was like, I missed the bodo.
[01:01:22]  Oh, you might have missed the bodo.
[01:01:23]  There was one funny clip, and I actually wish I would have pulled this, but Max's whole interview is just who gives a shit?
[01:01:28]  It's just talking about how great Bitcoin is.
[01:01:30]  Sure.
[01:01:30]  And Alex being like, I'm ambivalent.
[01:01:32]  Stop giving out your web address.
[01:01:34]  Makes it sound like you're a sponsor.
[01:01:37]  But when Alex is talking about how much this Bitcoin would be worth now, Max Keyser makes some kind of joke about like, ah, that's why you've got to sell these boner pills.
[01:01:49]  It was really dishy.
[01:01:51]  Nicely done, Max.
[01:01:52]  Yeah.
[01:01:52]  Max Keyser has a freedom, a joie de viv, that is kind of enjoyable, but it also makes his interviews not really all that worthwhile for our show.
[01:02:02]  But after he leaves, Joel Skousen comes in.
[01:02:05]  Oh, shit.
[01:02:07]  Joel Skousen is a mess.
[01:02:09]  Yeah.
[01:02:10]  He is a weirdo.
[01:02:12]  And I just have four clips of Skousen's interview that are four reasons why you should not take Joel Skousen seriously.
[01:02:20]  All right.
[01:02:20]  The first is that he also, along with Alex, seems to think that ERCOT is like a federal agency or a company.
[01:02:28]  All right.
[01:02:28]  They want to set themselves up as the saviors.
[01:02:31]  I think it's important, Joel.
[01:02:32]  Do you agree with me?
[01:02:33]  The evidence shows that it was federal mismanagement and control with ERCOT removing the state from the process that took one of our best power systems and made it one of our worst.
[01:02:42]  No, I completely agree with you, Alex.
[01:02:44]  Why is the federal problem, the federal EDX?
[01:02:47]  So, shouldn't you correct him?
[01:02:50]  If you know that ERCOT is a Texas-specific, if you understand the dynamics at play, you shouldn't go along with Alex saying literally the opposite.
[01:03:01]  No, I completely agree with you, Jay.
[01:03:02]  Sure.
[01:03:03]  What it is that he's saying is 100%.
[01:03:05]  So that's not good.
[01:03:06]  And I'm maybe just not going to go ahead and listen to anything that Joel has to say about the storm and the power grid.
[01:03:14]  If he doesn't know this basic, yeah, yeah, that would be a problem.
[01:03:18]  I don't think I would want to learn calculus from somebody who doesn't know algebra.
[01:03:22]  Now, here's where it gets weird.
[01:03:24]  Reason number two not to take Joel Skousen seriously.
[01:03:30]  Where do you think fossil fuels and oil comes from?
[01:03:33]  Oh, God, no.
[01:03:36]  Personally, yes.
[01:03:38]  I think it comes from God, and he put them there about 10,000 years ago to trick us.
[01:03:42]  He's an influencer.
[01:03:43]  Petroleum geologists now is not fossil fuel.
[01:03:47]  What is it?
[01:03:49]  Well, I'm afraid I have to get theological here.
[01:03:53]  This was part of the creation of the earth.
[01:03:55]  Oh, my God.
[01:03:56]  You know, the Lord in his creation actually put oil deposits.
[01:03:59]  Look, if fossil fuels exist, if you create oil from deteriorating animals and you look at all of the trillions and trillions and trillions of tons of oil, which would only represent a tiny fraction of the decaying bodies of any dinosaurs, you would have had to have dinosaurs 100 feet deep all over the entire earth.
[01:04:20]  Plants, marine life, taste.
[01:04:22]  Wow, dude.
[01:04:23]  This is a man who knows what's up.
[01:04:26]  Yeah.
[01:04:27]  No, Dan.
[01:04:28]  Carbon only comes from old dinosaurs.
[01:04:30]  And God, and he was making the earth, put oil down there.
[01:04:34]  I swear to God.
[01:04:35]  Yeah.
[01:04:35]  I swear, Dan.
[01:04:36]  Yeah, I mean, I would say, I don't know.
[01:04:40]  This is really narcissistic, and I'm going to go ahead and preface this by saying I don't actually believe it.
[01:04:45]  Okay.
[01:04:45]  But it's kind of fun to think about.
[01:04:47]  I felt a little bit of resistance on Joel Skousen's part to say that.
[01:04:51]  Oh, yeah.
[01:04:51]  And part of it, I'm hoping, is him being like, God damn it, Dan's going to make fun of this.
[01:04:57]  Him being like, well, to answer that question, I have to get theological.
[01:05:02]  Oh, God.
[01:05:03]  Okay.
[01:05:03]  So Joel thinks that God put oil down there for us to use.
[01:05:08]  That's another reason not to take him all too seriously.
[01:05:11]  I just suppose that, look, religion, well, whatever.
[01:05:16]  But you can't do that.
[01:05:17]  You know, like a demonstrably ridiculous thing, you can't just believe.
[01:05:22]  Like, that's wrong.
[01:05:24]  You can.
[01:05:24]  That's wrong.
[01:05:25]  No, no, you can.
[01:05:26]  You're more than free to believe whatever you want to believe.
[01:05:31]  Sure.
[01:05:31]  However, it will implicate how I view your beliefs in other subjects.
[01:05:36]  No, I would like that to be true as well.
[01:05:39]  Unfortunately, that is not true for most people.
[01:05:42]  Sure.
[01:05:43]  Yeah.
[01:05:43]  Like, if you want to believe anything like that God put oil in the middle of the world, I think it's a harmless belief unless you're using that to argue against climate change.
[01:05:54]  See, there we go.
[01:05:55]  Right.
[01:05:56]  I'm going to use your belief that God put oil down there for us to use.
[01:06:01]  I'm going to use that to inform my view of your arguments about anthrogenic climate change.
[01:06:08]  Sure.
[01:06:08]  I just, I would just prefer if we had to, if they're, if, okay.
[01:06:12]  Holy books now have to have footnotes.
[01:06:14]  That's my new rule.
[01:06:15]  If something is demonstrably true, it's a footnote in your book.
[01:06:19]  I get it.
[01:06:20]  Oh, no.
[01:06:20]  You stole that new reel from Bill Maher.
[01:06:22]  Is that from Bill Maher?
[01:06:24]  Fuck off.
[01:06:24]  I swear to God.
[01:06:25]  If it is, I'll kill myself.
[01:06:26]  Sounds like something he would say.
[01:06:27]  He's all anti-religion and shit.
[01:06:29]  And he had a segment called New Rules.
[01:06:31]  I just don't want.
[01:06:32]  Oh, well, that's fine.
[01:06:33]  Yeah.
[01:06:33]  Yeah.
[01:06:34]  Fine.
[01:06:34]  I quit.
[01:06:35]  That's the joke.
[01:06:36]  I'm old and I'm useless, Dan.
[01:06:39]  Why don't you go turn into fossil fuel?
[01:06:41]  Ah, nicely done because I'm not a dinosaur and I'm still only six feet below ground.
[01:06:46]  So where do you think fossils come from?
[01:06:48]  Oh, God, no.
[01:06:50]  Oh, God.
[01:06:53]  I don't, I, I'm, you know what?
[01:06:55]  Fuck it.
[01:06:56]  Samson.
[01:06:57]  Whenever he pulled the temple down, he made all the fossils.
[01:07:00]  Okay, that's interesting.
[01:07:00]  Yeah.
[01:07:01]  It seems like it was intelligently designed.
[01:07:05]  Exactly.
[01:07:05]  Intelligently designed.
[01:07:07]  And I'm not even sure that a lot of the fossils that we find on those actually lived on the Earth.
[01:07:16]  It's very, very possible this Earth was created by layers from other previous planets where these things are previously grown and put together.
[01:07:24]  Oh, boy.
[01:07:25]  This is some, this is Camelot.
[01:07:27]  This is some Project Camelot shit right here.
[01:07:29]  Oh, yes.
[01:07:30]  And to be honest, like, I knew that Joel Skousen was a bit of, like, he has some weird beliefs and such.
[01:07:37]  A lot of, like, it comes from his family, anti-communist royalty.
[01:07:41]  Yeah.
[01:07:41]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
[01:07:42]  Everything is a fucking false flag to him.
[01:07:44]  He has some strange ideas about what communism is and is not.
[01:07:48]  But this is out of my face that the planet itself was a false flag from other planets.
[01:07:57]  It could be.
[01:07:58]  He's not sure.
[01:07:59]  Earth could possibly be other planets false-flagging us with themselves.
[01:08:03]  You see these fossils?
[01:08:04]  They look weird.
[01:08:07]  That's from space.
[01:08:08]  Well, okay.
[01:08:09]  That's from space, man.
[01:08:10]  All right.
[01:08:10]  So I will admit that there are millions of people who have dedicated their entire lives to studying and understanding what fossils are.
[01:08:18]  And I could listen to any one of them.
[01:08:20]  However, they look weirder to me than those people do.
[01:08:23]  So guess what?
[01:08:23]  God!
[01:08:25]  Space.
[01:08:25]  God.
[01:08:26]  Yeah, but see, here's the thing that you don't understand about all those people who study fossils.
[01:08:29]  Yes.
[01:08:30]  It's all a scam.
[01:08:31]  Do you study fossils?
[01:08:32]  Because if you did, you would get into it.
[01:08:35]  And then someone would come and put their arm around you and be like, listen, it's all from fucking space.
[01:08:40]  We're scamming people with all this nonsense.
[01:08:42]  I got to get into this.
[01:08:43]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:08:44]  That's why Indiana Jones was so cool.
[01:08:46]  He knew it was all a scam.
[01:08:47]  That was predictive programming.
[01:08:49]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:08:50]  It's a perfect griff.
[01:08:51]  That's why you steal it from the thuggy cult.
[01:08:53]  Yeah.
[01:08:54]  Yeah.
[01:08:55]  So, yeah, I guess fossils coming from space is going to be another reason I'm not going to take Joel Scousin too seriously.
[01:09:00]  That would be a good reason.
[01:09:01]  Now, I think he might also believe in divine alchemy of some sort.
[01:09:06]  This is also kind of weird.
[01:09:08]  You know, when you look at the chance of this orbit of this earth being so perfectly designed in the tilt of the earth to have the perfect seasons.
[01:09:17]  And the moon is in the perfect spot.
[01:09:19]  You're in the middle of an ice cream.
[01:09:20]  It's so perfect distance from the sun.
[01:09:22]  There's just no way that these things could happen by chance.
[01:09:26]  This earth was a divine creation.
[01:09:29]  And, you know, most Christians believe in, and they should all believe, in the fact that the Lord has power over the elements, meaning the elements are intelligent enough to obey commands.
[01:09:43]  No.
[01:09:44]  No.
[01:09:44]  It isn't natural that Moses smote the rock and water poured out.
[01:09:49]  It wasn't that he cracked it in a natural spring.
[01:09:51]  You know, the Lord can command that elements reform and form any element necessary.
[01:09:57]  Because God is in command of everything created and we're made in the small image of God.
[01:10:01]  We'll be right back.
[01:10:03]  Way to throw it to break.
[01:10:04]  Now, that is a thought process that I appreciate.
[01:10:08]  If God can command the elements, then the elements must be smart enough to understand God.
[01:10:14]  Ah, see, now I didn't think of that.
[01:10:16]  Yeah.
[01:10:16]  I didn't think that the elementals could also obey or disobey commands, I suppose.
[01:10:22]  Yeah.
[01:10:22]  I guess the staggering unlikelihood of life leads one to just decide arbitrarily that it must be fully designed and also the Bible is literal.
[01:10:36]  Yeah.
[01:10:36]  How could we have such a perfect environment, a perfect planet where massive weather events are occurring almost regularly due to our fault, where people are being destroyed over and over and over again by droughts because they get a perfect amount of water wherever they go on the planet.
[01:10:53]  The problem I'm guessing is that we're not burning enough oil.
[01:10:56]  Well, carbon's good for the planet is what I was told.
[01:10:58]  That's what I'm hearing.
[01:11:00]  We're carbon dioxide starved, damn.
[01:11:03]  Where's my buddy Mark Moreno at when you say that?
[01:11:05]  Dude is strange.
[01:11:07]  Yeah.
[01:11:07]  Yeah.
[01:11:08]  And I was listening to this.
[01:11:09]  I was like, wow, you're a much weirder dude than I think.
[01:11:13]  And I can kind of see why you normally stick to weird geopolitics as opposed to some of these more esoteric beliefs because they're very strange.
[01:11:25]  They kind of make you look like a Project Camelot person.
[01:11:29]  To answer that, I'm going to have to get theological.
[01:11:31]  Oh, well, then I'm going to have to leave, sir.
[01:11:35]  If the question is, why is there oil and I have to get theological to answer it?
[01:11:39]  Goodbye.
[01:11:40]  Yes.
[01:11:40]  It was lovely speaking to you.
[01:11:42]  We don't have an answer.
[01:11:45]  I mostly bring this up and show this to be like, all right, Joel Skousen is somebody who Alex thinks is super credible, very important source on like geopolitics.
[01:11:59]  Like, is Iran up to something?
[01:12:01]  Sure.
[01:12:01]  And he's also a person who thinks that God injected oil in the world for us to find, and maybe fossils come from outer space.
[01:12:07]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:12:07]  Because they're weird.
[01:12:08]  Look, like, this is the level of expert that is hanging around here.
[01:12:14]  Right, right.
[01:12:15]  Scratch beneath the surface, and you're going to find them saying things like this.
[01:12:20]  Which is not to say that you can't have some out there beliefs and not be, you know, like Jack Parsons.
[01:12:27]  Everybody trusted him as an expert when it came to rockets and shit.
[01:12:31]  Not when it came to elementals.
[01:12:33]  Not true.
[01:12:35]  Sex magic was not real.
[01:12:37]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:12:38]  It would be good if you stayed in your lane.
[01:12:40]  Stay in your lane.
[01:12:41]  Now, unfortunately, his lane is also bullshit.
[01:12:44]  That's a problem.
[01:12:45]  Skousen's lane is anti-communist.
[01:12:47]  I don't know the difference between what lane you're in.
[01:12:50]  Yeah.
[01:12:53]  I don't know.
[01:12:53]  This was a really interesting experience for me because, you know, you start out with Alex furious and just like, I quit, fuck this.
[01:13:00]  I can't do this.
[01:13:00]  Yeah.
[01:13:01]  This sucks.
[01:13:02]  Fuck this place.
[01:13:02]  I hate InfoWars.
[01:13:03]  I want to quit.
[01:13:04]  Yeah, but if he does start quite that bad, you know we're eventually going to get to.
[01:13:09]  I'm going to have to get theological to answer that question, Alex.
[01:13:12]  You go along the path, you find out what's making him so mad, and it's just lying about this Department of Energy document.
[01:13:19]  Yeah.
[01:13:20]  And, you know, he mellows out, says some bullshit, and then you get Skousen.
[01:13:26]  And I think that this illustrates two really essential points.
[01:13:29]  One is that Alex lies.
[01:13:31]  Like, this document, he's just making shit up about it.
[01:13:35]  It's just over and over again, finding little things that he can use as like, like, as if he's climbing up a mountain, little handholds that he can find to lie about.
[01:13:43]  Exactly.
[01:13:44]  And then the second thing I think this illustrates is that, like, people like Skousen are not reliable sources.
[01:13:51]  No, no.
[01:13:52]  So even if they have the pretense and the aura and the attempted facade of being like a serious-minded, I look at the documents and, you know, I go where I've read Carol Quigley's book and I am left to assume that all Democrats are evil or whatever the fuck.
[01:14:09]  Like, even if you put on that hat, underneath that hat is a dude who's weird.
[01:14:15]  Yeah.
[01:14:15]  The fossils.
[01:14:16]  And let's never forget that patient zero for COVID-19 was indeed Steve Pieczenik.

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[01:14:23]  True.
[01:14:23]  And he cured it with antibiotics.
[01:14:26]  So.
[01:14:28]  And he rigged up this whole election as a sting operation against the Democrats.
[01:14:33]  Yeah.
[01:14:33]  And Alex just can't handle his truth.
[01:14:35]  Nope.
[01:14:37]  A lot of his experts are reliant on it.
[01:14:39]  He also arrested the Pope.
[01:14:40]  Forgot about that.
[01:14:42]  That's true.
[01:14:43]  That's true.
[01:14:43]  There are a lot of exploits that are regularly unmentioned, despite their very bombastic nature.
[01:14:50]  Yeah.
[01:14:51]  So anyway, Jordan, this has been fun, but we will get off this here horse and we'll be back.
[01:14:58]  But until then, we have a website.
[01:15:00]  We do have a website.
[01:15:00]  It's knowledgefight.com.
[01:15:02]  Yep.
[01:15:02]  We're also on Twitter.
[01:15:03]  We are on Twitter.
[01:15:03]  It's Adden All Joseph Video.
[01:15:04]  Now go to Bed Jordan.
[01:15:05]  Also on Facebook.
[01:15:06]  We're on Facebook.
[01:15:07]  It's Al Sha.
[01:15:07]  I just registered.
[01:15:09]  Please find a local charity or Bayo fund in your area, especially to help out with people struggling in Texas right now.
[01:15:16]  Yeah, we'll be back.
[01:15:16]  But until then, I'm Neo.
[01:15:18]  I'm Leo.
[01:15:18]  I'm DZX Clark.
[01:15:20]  I'm Daryl Rundis.
[01:15:21]  I'm the juiciest ice cube.
[01:15:22]  Andy in Kansas.
[01:15:23]  You're on the air.
[01:15:24]  Thanks for holding.
[01:15:26]  Hello, Alex.
[01:15:27]  I'm a first-time caller.
[01:15:28]  I'm a huge fan.
[01:15:29]  I love your work.