#680: July 31-August 1, 2003
Today, Dan and Jordan dip back to the past to see what they can find. In this installment, Alex misreports a staggering number of stories, and warns people about the dangers of owning multiple toothbrushes. Citations
May 13, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
01:18:18
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I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
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Dan and George. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding us. | ||
|
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first time calling in the future. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Right. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are. | ||
| Dan? | ||
| Uh, Jordan? | ||
| Dan? | ||
| Jordan? | ||
| Dan? | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Quick question. | ||
| Jeez. | ||
| Aggressive. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Quick question. | ||
|
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Uh-huh. | |
| What's your bright spot? | ||
| My bright spot today, Jordan, is something that I did not know existed until recently. | ||
| I was doing some grocery shopping, and I happened to spy with my little eye. | ||
| I saw... | ||
| Frozen Mini Pancakes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Frozen Mini Pancakes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Like Eggo? | ||
| No. | ||
| Oh, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I don't know the name of the brand, and no plugs. | ||
| No plugs. | ||
| Definitely not. | ||
| I thought they were going to be really gross, probably, or just a disaster, but I thought, like, why the fuck not give it a try? | ||
| A siren song that you feel when a novel thing shows up where you're like, this is going to be garbage, and you grab it and you put it in your cart. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| You're amazing. | ||
| And so, these things are great. | ||
| Of course they are. | ||
| Good texture, tastes like a good pancake, and they take 30 seconds to microwave. | ||
| It's just like, do you want a couple of tiny little pancakes? | ||
| That's great. | ||
|
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Boom. | |
| That's great. | ||
| I can get you some pancakes right now. | ||
| I might want a pancake right now. | ||
| Just tell me. | ||
| Just say the word. | ||
| I'll get you some little mini pancakes. | ||
| I'm going to surprise you sometime in the middle of an episode in the coming weeks, and you better make me a mini pancake. | ||
| It's so easy to make pancakes. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| But there are things that I don't always have in the house. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Eggs, milk. | ||
| Pancake mix. | ||
| I don't know if I can make pancakes with coconut milk. | ||
| You can, and they're really good. | ||
| Oh, yeah? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Not as good as oat milk. | ||
| I don't have coconut milk. | ||
| I have oat milk. | ||
| Not as good. | ||
| I like oat milk more than I like... | ||
| That works for pancakes? | ||
| Way more. | ||
| I'll never know because these ones are so good. | ||
| I'll never need to make pancakes again, because I've got tiny little frozen ones. | ||
| We've come to the end of our show. | ||
| What's your bright spot? | ||
| My bright spot is there is a new album from the band Royksop. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The Icelandic... | ||
| I've seen that name before. | ||
| The Icelandic answer to Daft Punk. | ||
| They make some beep-boop noise music. | ||
| They sure do make some beep-boops. | ||
| They've worked extensively with kings of convenience. | ||
| I'm against the monarchy when it comes to convenience. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You got Icelandic, Daft Punk, Norwegian, Simon and Garfunkel. | ||
| I'm pretty sure Lady Trom's from Belgium, despite my inability to understand. | ||
| But yeah, it's fantastic. | ||
| It's really great. | ||
| I've been looking for some new beep boops. | ||
| I think it's a great beep boop match. | ||
| I'll check it out. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we are sticking around in the old past because I don't really care about what Alex is doing in the present day. | ||
| We're all dead already. | ||
| What more can he say? | ||
| I got another million dollars! | ||
| I find that really difficult to get motivated for. | ||
| And I really do think that maybe a more productive use of our time is analyzing and looking at some of this stuff in the past and recognizing how it implicates and actually provides greater context for this stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I agree with you. | ||
| It does seem like listening to the show in the present is just an exercise in futility instead of being part of a larger... | ||
| Look at this dumb shit. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| Hey guys, this guy's a racist! | ||
|
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Ba-ba! | |
| Right. | ||
| He's yelling about stuff. | ||
| He's really depressed. | ||
| He got a million dollars. | ||
| Now everyone's gonna die! | ||
| He's wrong about the Bible. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Well, we might get into that. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's just the case. | ||
| But, before we get into this episode where we're going to be going over July 31st and August 1st, 2003. | ||
| That's Thursday for thee. | ||
| It is, actually. | ||
| It's Thursday and Friday. | ||
| No shit! | ||
|
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Oh, yes! | |
| I only know that this time because in one of the episodes Alex said, it's Friday. | ||
|
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I'm like, alright. | |
| Alright, okay. | ||
| So before we get to that, let's say hello to some new wonks. | ||
| Oh, that's a great idea. | ||
| So first, Honey Butter Bagheera. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Next, Roger Stone's dreamy, creamy, steamy orgy with aftercare. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Is that like lotion, the aftercare? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah, like a tattoo aftercare, I would assume. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Sure. | ||
| Next, Gron John Boarbeard. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Next, The Shrubbery of Liberty. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, Charles Ward was an antiquarian from infancy. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Do you know where that comes from? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| It's a line in the case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft. | ||
| Ah, there we are. | ||
| One of the... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I haven't read that one in a while. | ||
| That one might be problematic. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| But it doesn't leap out to me as... | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I think that one is not good. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
|
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Oh, shit. | |
| Not good. | ||
| That might be the case for most of his work. | ||
|
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Anyway. | |
| This is why people can't have nerdy shout-outs whenever the nerdy thing is for you, because you've got to deal with it. | ||
| You've got to go into it. | ||
| Like, my nerdy shout-outs, I'm like, hey! | ||
| You know, that's all I do. | ||
| I've got to wrestle with the fact that Lovecraft was kind of a monster for a greater part of his career. | ||
| Anyway, next, the three wise men, Gwee Gwee, Binky, and Baba. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now ball as you want. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much! | ||
|
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Thank you! | |
| And Frater Para Mysterio, thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| So, Jordan, we're going to cover these two here days in the past. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And our last past episode, we saw him talk to Chosodosky of the Global Research. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And Bilbo Shears. | ||
| Never a bad time for a Bilbo Shears. | ||
| And the guy who was trying to get Arnold taken off, or not Arnold, he was trying to get Gray Davis. | ||
| Taken out of office. | ||
|
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Right, right, right. | |
| Which would lead to Arnold coming into office. | ||
| And he was suspiciously paid for by the guy who wanted to do it, but then had to drop out because he suspiciously paid for it. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| You're thinking of Daryl Issa. | ||
| He wasn't... | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It wasn't a direct, like, he was being paid by him. | ||
| Issa had funded a lot of the early efforts to get the recall going. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Not necessarily connected to this guy's... | ||
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Gotcha. | |
| ...whose name is Kalugian. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Fun names. | ||
| Anyway, none of that is important for today because it doesn't continue. | ||
| It didn't happen. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Nothing is related. | ||
| But here is an out-of-context drop from today's show. | ||
| No one calls him on just lies that are so blatant it makes Bill Clinton look like the guy who wouldn't tell a lie chopping down the cherry tree. | ||
| Who was that guy? | ||
|
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What? | |
| Who was that guy, Alex? | ||
|
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The guy who wouldn't tell a lie chopping down the cherry tree. | |
| Alex, who was that guy? | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| Who was that guy, Alex? | ||
| That's foundational lore, okay? | ||
| You can't forget lore. | ||
| Yeah, that's our boy Washington. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Alex should know that one. | ||
| Yeah, you would think. | ||
| Does not. | ||
| So, Alex opens the show here on the 31st of July in a bit of a mood where he's thinking, like, man, maybe I don't do a great job generally. | ||
| Well, that's fair. | ||
|
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Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's a big, big, powerful, important show today. | |
| Also, I want to stop right there for a second. | ||
| I really am coming around on the idea that Rogan stole Powerful from Alex. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I think that there is a decent... | ||
| You think Alex has Powerful... | ||
| He's been going for so long with the Powerful. | ||
| We're in 2003. | ||
| He regularly starts his show saying this is a Powerful broadcast. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| And Rogan does that too. | ||
| Did Rogan start his shows on Fear Factor with this is going to be a Powerful broadcast? | ||
| I don't believe so. | ||
| But he did News Radio. | ||
| Every episode started with... | ||
| This is going to be a Powerful broadcast. | ||
| Powerful broadcasting. | ||
| The handyman. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I do kind of think that Rogan, he stole that from Alex. | ||
| Yeah, that could be. | ||
| It is the 31st of July, 2003. | ||
| I'm Alex Jones. | ||
| And I rant, and I rave, and I analyze, and I predict. | ||
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What? | |
| Here on the show, Monday through Friday, from 11 to 2 Central, and then back from 9 to midnight. | ||
| And I've been dropping the ball. | ||
| I really have been dropping the ball. | ||
| Yep, it's true. | ||
| It's nice of him to admit to responsibility for his failures. | ||
| Well, there's less responsibility to it and more just sort of he's descriptively saying that he's not covering the news. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| You would expect like a change of behavior with someone. | ||
| I mean, that's what an apology is. | ||
| It's an admittance of wrongdoing and a promise no longer to continue that behavior. | ||
| I feel like it's... | ||
| He spends a lot of this show ranting about how he doesn't like sports. | ||
| And now you're in a cult if you watch books. | ||
| I have never considered the possibility that you could just go up to somebody and say, I've failed you, and then move on as though nothing ever happened and there's no problem. | ||
| And then continue to fail. | ||
| And then continue to fail them. | ||
| I will say, I mean, he does get to some news, if you want to call it that. | ||
| But, you know, not any more than normal, I would say, which is a low bar. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But Alex does say something here at the beginning that I think is really interesting, and then he does not explain any further. | ||
| Which I need him to explain this, because this is fascinating. | ||
| I haven't listened to my own warnings here on the show. | ||
| And I've said it many times. | ||
| If you don't consciously listen to this show with some key parameters in mind... | ||
| This broadcast actually aids the New World Order, the Illuminati, the globalists, the crime syndicate. | ||
| What? | ||
| If you do not listen to this show with a couple of key understandings, several key parameters, you are actually aiding the New World Order. | ||
| And that has happened to a certain degree in my own life here. | ||
| So I know kind of what he's saying, because he's said stuff like this before, which is that if you don't, like, take an active participation in the info war, then his show, what it's doing is acclimating you to these horrible things that the globalists are doing so you'll think that they're normal and you won't fight back against them. | ||
| It's like the... | ||
| The pot getting a little warmer with the frog in it. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| Alex is serving that purpose unless you're active in some way. | ||
| As opposed to waking you up, he's numbing you. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| But the problem that I have is what are those parameters you have to have in mind? | ||
| And I heard that. | ||
| I was like, I cannot wait to know what these parameters are that Alex thinks you need in order to engage with his work. | ||
| Maybe I just don't have those parameters in place. | ||
| See, I think it's... | ||
| I don't remember physics very well, but... | ||
| I think it's up, down, love, and then charm. | ||
| I don't forget the other two quarks, but I think those are the parameters. | ||
| I think it's A-A-B-B-A-A-B-B-Y. | ||
| Up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right. | ||
| A-A-B-B. | ||
| I was thinking of the code for Aladdin. | ||
| I might have gotten it wrong. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| I don't quite remember. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know what those parameters are, but I was really interested because I think that there's a, like, if there is a recognition that Alex is like, all right. | ||
| There are these 3D glasses that you have to view this through or else it looks like a jumbled mess. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I would like to know what he thinks those 3D glasses are, metaphorically. | ||
| I mean, if maybe what we're describing here is, is there an earpiece that you can wear that is analogous to the sunglasses in They Live? | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Or is there a cipher? | ||
| Yes, of course. | ||
| You know, like, that I can translate Alex's shit through. | ||
| You gotta put a thing on, then you spin the wheel to get the code. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| But we don't have any parameter explained, and so... | ||
| I guess I'll just have to do the best I can. | ||
| That's about it. | ||
| So here's a story. | ||
| Actually, Alex, getting to the news. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Marriott yesterday, the federal court said, hey, Marriott's allowed to have cameras in the rooms. | ||
| I didn't mention it yesterday. | ||
| It's wall-to-wall insanity. | ||
| It's totally out of control. | ||
| And there's really no way to track an onslaught of this level. | ||
| We are living in total bedlam. | ||
| The meter for insanity is close to pegging. | ||
| And this is all being done by design, and it looks like the government's getting ready for a mass extermination operation. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| It really works. | ||
| And it'll make the 20 million they killed in Nazi Germany, and the 50 million Stalin killed, and the 50 million Mao killed, and the 2 million Pol Pot killed, and the hundreds of thousands that... | ||
| Fidel killed. | ||
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look small in comparison. | |
| So a point that I really want to stress in my coverage of these episodes from the past, and a big part of the reason why I think they're important to discuss, is that Doom is always right around the corner. | ||
| Alex is no different than any of these Doomsday preachers who try to rile up their congregation with claims that the end is near only to be wrong, and then do the whole thing over again a little bit later, pretending the first time didn't happen. | ||
| When we hear Alex and the people like him in the right-wing media and parts of our government playing this game in the present day, It's important to understand that they're not serious. | ||
| This is an act that they're doing. | ||
| And it's an act that they're doing for a reason. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You know, I mean, I feel like even if you are making an absurd amount of money, it would still get old creatively after a while, right? | ||
| Well, you're coming at this with the expectation that there is a creative... | ||
| Wow, that's a really good... | ||
| There may not be. | ||
| That's a really good point. | ||
| You know, I never considered that you could... | ||
| Not everybody is driven by, like, necessarily a creative impulse. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Some people are driven by, like, order. | ||
| Like, you know, liking spreadsheets and stuff like that. | ||
| Well, I mean, yeah, but I mean, he's got a radio show. | ||
| That's not necessarily artistic. | ||
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I'll tell you that. | |
| No, I understand. | ||
| I had someone who listens to that radio show. | ||
| But that's what I'm saying. | ||
| In my head, all radio shows have to be based on some sort of creative desire or need to do something. | ||
| It never occurred to me that you could do a radio show, like go into a coal mine every morning, just being like, oh, putting my little hat on and clocking in. | ||
| Yeah, but instead of doing something productive like mining, you're just scaring people with bullshit. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| So, yeah, unfortunately, I think that might be the case. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That started with a story that Alex was talking about, about cameras. | ||
| And it's about Marriott and security cameras, and Alex is entirely misreporting that story. | ||
| There was a guy named Brian Brewer who found a camera in his bathroom's light fixture at a hotel he was staying at in Tennessee. | ||
| He had accidentally broken the light, which is how he ended up finding it, and in response he filed a lawsuit against Marriott for $1.5 million. | ||
| I can't find the story that Alex is responding to here, but the actual case was filed in September 2002. | ||
| So I'm guessing that in July 2003, either the case was dismissed or they reached a settlement. | ||
| Right. | ||
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The issue is that the courts were never deciding or even asked to decide if Marriott can put cameras in their bathrooms because that's not at issue here. | |
| No, you can't do that. | ||
| The presumption is that someone else, possibly an employee or possibly a past guest, had put the camera there and the suit was against the hotel because they didn't catch that. | ||
| And Brewer's privacy was violated. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Even when Alex is doing this absurd performance of being so overwhelmed by the name, Well, I mean, let me throw this at you. | |
| Is it possible that the settlement was in order to make sure that nobody can put cameras in the Marriott bathrooms anymore? | ||
| They put cameras in the Marriott bathrooms in order to monitor them. | ||
| That could be. | ||
| Or they could have done a thing where they're like, we will put so many cameras in the bathroom that there's no room for anybody. | ||
| There's too many cameras. | ||
| So you can't get tricked by being like, oh, what if somebody's watching me? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| This is an after a football game press conference. | ||
| Yeah, I gotcha. | ||
| That may be. | ||
| I'd love to see the ruling on this. | ||
| I think that would be an interesting one. | ||
| So we got a little bit of another story. | ||
| Maybe Alex is actually getting to the news. | ||
| He's not dropping the ball. | ||
| They're building dozens of bioweapons labs, level 4, the Resident Evil type stuff, and... | ||
| Raccoon City. | ||
| They're going to build them in your big major cities, and the admitted plan is to prepare a bureaucracy for forced inoculations for dozens of bioweapons, so-called vaccines. | ||
| So the people that launched the bioattacks are now going to make it a new giant industry to forcibly inject you. | ||
| And they're building the giant bureaucracy to carry that out. | ||
| And the Houston Chronicle reported they're preparing the national draft of doctors who have refused to take the shot. | ||
| And so they're going to draft them and make them take it and then force them to give it to you. | ||
| This is the Houston Chronicle. | ||
| The top epidemiologists and others at major universities have refused to take it, saying that there are unknown, bizarre compounds involved in the injection. | ||
| Bizarre compounds. | ||
| DNA strands unknown resembling bioweapons, but again, please take your injection. | ||
| So this is just a nice reminder that everything Alex is doing and has been doing with COVID is just a huge extension of the same propaganda game he plays with every vaccine that makes the news. | ||
| It's always a bioweapon, and the top epidemiologists at major prestigious universities have said so because of Bizarre compound or whatever. | ||
| Hell, we even got Resident Evil in there! | ||
| Raccoon City, Umbrella. | ||
| Coronavirus, the whole fucking thing! | ||
| Here, this clip is about the smallpox vaccine, but honestly, it could just be about any of them. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| He just does this. | ||
| Also, they didn't build dozens of BSL-4 labs, as Alex calls them, bioweapons labs. | ||
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Of course. | |
| That didn't happen. | ||
| No. | ||
| As of the present day, there are only 13 in all of North America, so... | ||
| Man! | ||
| It's a little off. | ||
| You know, the problem with that clip... | ||
| Kind of another false story. | ||
| The problem with that clip is we really could have used a bunch of bureaucratic infrastructure built in advance for inoculations. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Some of that may have been helpful in some ways, but I don't know necessarily... | ||
| I mean, the fantasies that he has, I don't know if they would be as productive towards that goal. | ||
| Doubtful. | ||
| And also, I don't think that having dozens and dozens of BSL-4 labs would really help us that much. | ||
| Would it increase safety or decrease safety? | ||
| I don't know if it would actually even have an effect on it. | ||
| Well, that's true. | ||
| Because I don't think that they're nearly as dangerous as Alex makes them out to be. | ||
| But I also don't think that there's so much work that needs to be done at them that you need them in every city or something. | ||
| You know how it is in, like, SimCity? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You don't need an amphitheater in every colony or settlement that you make. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| So maybe they partner with somebody, you know, like Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts, like that kind of thing. | ||
| So the BSL laboratories are also working with, like, you know, food processing plants. | ||
| That's usually a good comment. | ||
| Wait, is that a problem? | ||
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Oh, no. | |
| Certainly isn't the present day. | ||
| So Alex has a fun story. | ||
| Man, I love this story. | ||
| I am so glad that... | ||
| This comes up more than once on this episode. | ||
| By the way, I was back down at UT last night doing some shooting for a film I'm working on just because they've got some great background scenes, some great locations, and I'm there in a lab on perception in the psychology department. | ||
| I look down, and there are DARPA documents all over the place, mind control, you name it. | ||
| Of course, I got out of there. | ||
| I'm not going to go in there and get around such things. | ||
| I don't want to get near anything classified. | ||
| I don't want to know if it was classified, but just your little mind control stuff there. | ||
| Just laying around in piles. | ||
| Just everywhere. | ||
| DARPA taking over everywhere. | ||
| No way to even try to ignore it if I wanted to. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Sure. | ||
| Who left all these top secret documents lying around? | ||
| Just filming and I accidentally stumbled upon. | ||
| Mind control plans. | ||
| What a... | ||
| I mean, you could only call that divine kismet. | ||
| I think that's what it must be. | ||
| I would actually like to define this a different way. | ||
| First of all, it didn't happen. | ||
| But if it did, Alex is the worst person in the world because he didn't take those documents. | ||
| Why? | ||
| You could get in trouble. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| What sort of mission of information warfare is he engaged in that he would find DARPA mind control documents and be like, oh, I don't want none of this. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| What he did was he neatly collected them into a pile and put them in a folder and left it on the desk and he was like slowly backed away from it. | ||
| That's a Shadowgate situation. | ||
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That's like a, hey, I don't deal with this secret stuff. | |
| This is terrifying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Whatever, man. | ||
| So anyway, he'll get back to that later. | ||
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Sure. | |
| But I guess we've got to talk about seatbelts. | ||
| Well, here in the U.S., they say in the 1998 plan, the National Seatbelt Initiative, that it's about funding internal checkpoints, that the toll roads are really just the funding mechanism for internal checkpoints. | ||
| And the satellite tracking system is to fund the police and military out searching your goods. | ||
| When you have to serve in national service, which they're about to pass, guaranteed after the next terror attack launched by the military industrial complex, you're going to have to serve until you're 65 out there on the road, one of the many duties, helping search the cars. | ||
| Let's talk to John in Indiana. | ||
| All right, good call. | ||
| Go to call. | ||
| So, first quick point. | ||
| Alex guaranteed that after the next terror attack, which would be a false flag by the military industrial complex, citizens would be forced to do public service, searching people's vehicles at checkpoints until they're 65. None of that has even come close to happening. | ||
| And about a thousand different things have happened that Alex has called false flag terror attacks committed by the military industrial complex. | ||
| My point is that Alex is constantly wrong about everything he says, pretty much. | ||
| You know, he would be right if he was just like, you know, after that next terror attack, they're going to make you take your shoes off forever, even after you don't need to anymore. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, yeah, I think he'll probably claim he predicted that after it happened. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good one to predict. | ||
| But instead, he's predicting that you'll be forced to work on the side of the road searching cars until you're 65. That's a bigger swing. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So also, Alex seems very concerned about seatbelt rules back in 2003. | ||
| He did become a little bit of a seatbelt snitch when he was harassing humanitarian volunteers near the border last year. | ||
| But his preoccupation in the past seems a little bit larger. | ||
| In this clip, Alex is rambling about how the government is going to put tracking chips into cars so they can tax you by the mile as you drive. | ||
| This is something we've discussed a bit in the past, as it was one of the proposals that was being discussed in terms of ways that states could recoup some of the money they were losing on gas taxes, since cars were using less gas. | ||
| That shortfall of gas tax revenue has serious consequences in terms of budgets that are needed to maintain the roads that these cars are driving on. | ||
| So the proposal is actually a pretty sensible one. | ||
| It makes intuitive sense. | ||
| Anyway, Alex is saying that the 1998 National Seatbelt Initiative was about funding internal checkpoints. | ||
| Naturally, this is not true. | ||
| Most of the document is about increasing the public's awareness of the benefits of wearing a seatbelt and framing the decision to not wear one appropriately. | ||
| This involves a focus on the issue as one that relates to your health, as well as making sure that the perception wasn't solely focused on traffic deaths, because a huge factor is the injuries that the accidents cause and expenses that people rack up, and public expenses for that matter. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Throughout the document, it's super clear that states are the ones who make traffic laws, and the president or Congress can express that they would like states to do more, but this is up to the states. | |
| They do propose a four-part plan, and one of the parts is, quote, conduct high visibility enforcement of seatbelt laws. | ||
| Click it or tick it, yeah. | ||
| As always, Alex is just making shit up to craft scary stories for his audience, but it's fun that it's, like, based on... | ||
| Bill Clinton being like, hey, people, we need to get more people wearing seatbelts because it's been empirically shown to save lives and cause less injuries and accidents. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| This is one of those such a, like... | ||
| We're all like, oh my god, these anti-maskers are terrible. | ||
| What if they were in a different time? | ||
| Would they be anti-seatbelt? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yes, they would. | ||
| Yes, they would be anti-seatbelt. | ||
| And they'd be coming up with elaborate reasons to justify it. | ||
| Yeah, again, this is terrible. | ||
| And you see it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, a caller calls in, and he and Alex are complaining about how... | ||
| I guess that if you're an undocumented immigrant, you get to, like, live 50 people to a house. | ||
| But if you're just a good old white American, that's not allowed. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| Is this a problem? | ||
| It is for these guys. | ||
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Okay. | |
| It was funny what you mentioned a few minutes ago about illegal occupancy, multiple dwellings by illegal aliens, of course, living here in New York. | ||
| It is true, because I see that all the time. | ||
| You see houses, like two family houses, converted into multiple dwellings where you literally will have dozens. | ||
| And I'm telling you, these are right near me. | ||
| I see these places of people who are illegal immigrants living in these small occupancies as obvious as a punch in the nose. | ||
| And they do nothing about it. | ||
| Hey, look, there's been articles all over the country that the local mob bosses that run the governments, and I mean small towns, big cities, they pass the ordinance. | ||
| I mean, you'll have a cousin staying with you for a month while they're moving or something, and there's the police at your door, thousand dollar fines, but you can have a house with boiling illegals coming out the front door and nothing will be done. | ||
| So these sorts of regulations are going to be on a state or even like a lower level kind of issue. | ||
| So I guess that these people are really that upset about zoning or housing regulations. | ||
| Go to the city council meeting. | ||
| Well, no, you should stay away from city council meeting. | ||
| Well, that's fair. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| But, you know, it doesn't seem to be productive to be complaining about it on a national radio show. | ||
| This seems like something you could actually take action on a local level. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| This seems achievable. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Naturally, there is some guidance that's offered on the federal level through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, much of which goes back to a 1991 memo written by their general counsel, Frank Keating. | ||
| The memo largely is a discussion about how many people should be living in a dwelling based on how many bedrooms there are. | ||
| Keating concludes that the number is two, but also that's not a hard and fast number and that there's a ton of other factors to consider other than bedrooms. | ||
| Layout of the house. | ||
| Are these people children? | ||
| Yeah, whatever. | ||
| A lot of factors. | ||
| Most of the reason that these regulations exist has to do with safety. | ||
| Overcrowding is not good from a health or some even structural reason, so it's typically avoided. | ||
| That said, if your cousin comes to live with you for a month, there is no way the cops are gonna show up unless your cousin was coming to live with you because he was on the run from the cops. | ||
| You might get into trouble with your landlord if you're violating your lease, but if it's your house, this just isn't a realistic scenario that's gonna happen. | ||
| I mean, personally, I have seen plenty of movies and documentaries. | ||
| Haven't you lived with people? | ||
| Yes, I have. | ||
| Yes, I have. | ||
| I've lived with a lot of people. | ||
| Have cops come? | ||
| No, never. | ||
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Not for all the illegal living that I've done. | |
| But I don't think that I've seen any mob. | ||
| Documentaries where they're like, holy shit, we better pass this ordinance. | ||
| Otherwise, there's going to be too many people living in single homes. | ||
| With their cousins. | ||
| With their cousins. | ||
| We got to get this ordinance passed. | ||
| We got to jam them up. | ||
| Hey, buddy, come on over here. | ||
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I'd hate it if too many people lived in your house. | |
| This is just a way that Alex and this caller, people like them, can express their hatred of Mexican immigrants in a way that makes it feel socially acceptable. | ||
| It's the, like, they get away with it, but us upstanding white Americans get in trouble. | ||
| Like, it's a false premise rooted just in white victimhood. | ||
| Purely. | ||
| Larger issue, though, people shouldn't have to live 20 people in an apartment, regardless of their immigration status. | ||
| That might be something we could make a dent in through investing in affordable public housing, but Alex is against that, too. | ||
| Because of freedom. | ||
| Yeah, it would be interesting if that guy's take on it was like, man, there are all these immigrants living in their houses together. | ||
| I see it. | ||
| I see it. | ||
| These immigrants are living in their houses together. | ||
| And that's why we need affordable public housing coming from all directions. | ||
| We need to expand certain places. | ||
| We can't allow investment properties to be sitting there empty on the market. | ||
| That would be an interesting take. | ||
| Yeah, I would be curious to see how Alex got really mad about that. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Instead... | ||
| This caller and him agree, and so they end up saying stupid shit. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| Up in Illinois, it was in the Chicago Tribune that people wake up in bed at 7.30 in the morning with police and black ski masks with guns on them. | ||
| This is in Aliceville and other areas up there. | ||
| They say, we have to look and see how many toothbrushes you have, and if the house, privately owned, has three toothbrushes and there's only two people? | ||
| That is an automatic find and arrest. | ||
| Now, this was in the mainstream news in Illinois. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Ah, no, that's insane. | ||
| That's absurd. | ||
| There are so many problems with this idea. | ||
| If you have an extra toothbrush. | ||
| I mean, first off... | ||
| Man, the cops are not smart enough to tell how many toothbrushes you have. | ||
| Also, a person can have two toothbrushes. | ||
| No, you cannot! | ||
| Yes, you can. | ||
| No, you're coming down to the station with me to prove that you have more than one toothbrush. | ||
| I believe in an America where people can have two toothbrushes. | ||
| Also, I think what's going on here is that Alex is thinking of maybe a TV show where someone realized they were being cheated on because there was an extra toothbrush. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Or like a murder show. | ||
| She wrote where she was like, I noticed that you have a foreign toothbrush in your... | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, that whole thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No one's getting arrested because their significant other has decided to bring a toothbrush over to leave in their house. | ||
| No. | ||
| So fucking dumb. | ||
| Well, I mean, was it a mechanical toothbrush? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| I mean, it was a battery power? | ||
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Oh. | |
| We took it different directions. | ||
| Well, there are different directions to go. | ||
| So Alex gets another call, and it's one of my favorite calls, or types of calls, as it were. | ||
| And that is somebody who wants specifics. | ||
| And Alex doesn't really have much to go on here. | ||
| No. | ||
| Justin, you're on the air. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hi, Alex. | |
| Hello. | ||
| I had just a couple questions I wanted to ask you. | ||
| Maybe it's another thing that you could put up on your website. | ||
| Maybe just like a top five or ten influential NWO members. | ||
| A list of the prison camps that you're talking about is the ones that are supposedly already built. | ||
| I wonder if you could put anything like that out there for me to do some more research on. | ||
| Well, now we do have a concentration camp section on PrisonPlanet.com. | ||
| Have you been to it? | ||
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Yes, I have. | |
| Okay, well, I mean, there's Detroit Free Press saying, quote, our troops are trained to kill grandmothers. | ||
| We have the Rocky Mountain News saying mass graves and incinerators are ready for you and your family. | ||
| Actually says that. | ||
| We have the L.A. Times, Ashcroft's Hellish Camps, camps being built, execution centers for anyone committing a misdemeanor. | ||
| We have the East Coast, West Coast TV stations reporting with county commissioners announcing. | ||
| Dave Schultz, one of them we had on the show, about how the feds told him about how they wanted to use the national park as a mass camp for hundreds of thousands of people. | ||
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No! | |
| They're reopening Manazar in the Japanese camps. | ||
| That's admitted. | ||
| We've been there and gotten photos and written articles about it five, six, seven years ago. | ||
| Well, they're building, I mean, the camps, we've got more prisons than any other country in the world. | ||
| The camps are your giant new county jails and law enforcement centers and FEMA emergency centers. | ||
| I mean, right here in Austin, the old Robert Mueller Airport. | ||
| 800 acres. | ||
| Part of it's a movie studio. | ||
| The other part is jet hangers with bolts and chains in the floor. | ||
| Thousands of cots, porta-potties, barbed wire inside, and places to chain people up with armored vehicles parked. | ||
| And then they announce on the local news, this is a camp for your safety, and Austin wins the FEMA 2000 award. | ||
| This is before 9-1-1, and they're building some new giant law enforcement center, and you can't get into the city hall now. | ||
| Oh boy, this is going on. | ||
| So is that the top five? | ||
| Yeah, so these headlines that Alex is rattling off are all wildly out of context, or things that he's just making up of on top of other stories. | ||
| That thing about Mueller Airport is actually something that goes back to his Y2K broadcast, so that one's an old standby for him. | ||
| That's beautiful. | ||
| You may remember that one, the chains at the airport hangar. | ||
| I do, I do. | ||
| So what's going on here isn't actually too different from the situation we saw in our last episode, where a caller wanted Alex to say who Q was. | ||
| Alex was being asked for specific information, And instead of answering directly, he launches off into a rant about vague insinuations that get the caller no closer to having any real information. | ||
| But it kind of feels like it for the caller. | ||
| Well, he's saying things that sound like they could be information. | ||
| And in a way that's kind of condescending, so the caller probably feels put on their back foot a little bit. | ||
| I mean, if you were looking at it through the wrong parameters, you might see him actively doing harm to his cause to fight the globalists. | ||
| I wonder what those parameters are. | ||
| So this is the same thing that Alex is doing here, because as I said on the last episode, specificity is the enemy of a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| You can be wrong about everything and get away with pretty much all of it, as long as you're really vague about it. | ||
| Give yourself enough wiggle room to pretend. | ||
| I love how insecure he is because that was also a question that he could have avoided by going, you know what? | ||
| You're right. | ||
| I'm going to get somebody on that and then moved on. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| He could have just been like, that would be a great thing to put on my website. | ||
| You're a good ideas man. | ||
| Let's get Paul Joseph Watson's brother to take care of this. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| And then don't do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If he had called in at the right time, probably between six and eight years after this. | ||
| Alex would have been like, maybe you should get a job here. | ||
| I'm giving you a show. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah, that was a great idea. | ||
| I'll tell you what. | ||
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I'll tell you what. | |
| Why don't you tell me who the top five globalists are? | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| Every weekday at four. | ||
| So we do get back to this, actually, who the top five globalists are. | ||
| Do you want to guess? | ||
| Didn't BuzzFeed do a list on them? | ||
| No. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| They got paid off not to. | ||
| Top five globalists. | ||
| Gotta have a Rothschild in there. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm gonna go with... | ||
| I mean, you'd think Gates would be in there, but I think he hates Gates yet, right? | ||
| No, he does hate Gates. | ||
| He does hate Gates, but he's not top globalist yet. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I know Bush is a puppet. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| My answers are Arnold Schwarzenegger. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Sylvester Stallone. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Bruce Willis. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's the cast of The Expendables. | ||
| The cast of The Expendables. | ||
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I wanted to get back to maybe a top five or ten people that you would think were doing the most harm to. | |
| Well, I mean, who are the heads of the New World Order? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because we always talk about Clinton or Wolfowitz or Bush. | ||
| You know, they're minions. | ||
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Right. | |
| And it's simple. | ||
| They've got a core of technicians to bring in the New World Order, but to make sure they control the political process, one poses as the left puppet, one poses as the right puppet. | ||
| But if you want to know who owns the New World Order, it is the Dutch Roll family, British Roll family, the Rothschild banking family in this country, the Rockefeller banking family. | ||
| There's a few other families involved in it, but that's the top five. | ||
| So no Satan, no Bill Gates, no Klaus Schwab, no Epstein, no World Economic Forum. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| Almost as if all these characters weren't as important to Alex in 2003, because at that point, the conspiracy community was still in the, it's all about the Rockefellers and Rothschilds phase. | ||
| They hadn't grown out of that yet. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Now, one of the things I think is kind of interesting, I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep last night, and I started to think about how much Alex is like... | ||
| Whole shit is basically how comic books operate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How there's an arc. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And then there's a reset, and then it's Secret Wars, and then you have the new Avengers. | ||
| And some villain will pop up way down the road, and then you pretend that they've been there the whole time. | ||
| The whole time, yeah. | ||
| Oh my god, it's Mr. Purple. | ||
| He was behind it all. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| His shit really does work that way. | ||
| It does. | ||
| And it makes sense. | ||
| It's an effective mode of storytelling. | ||
| I guess, but it also makes sense based on his reading comprehension levels. | ||
| True. | ||
| And the kind of stuff that he takes in. | ||
| It's like, you know, old sci-fi kind of runs hand-in-hand with someone who would be into comic books. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's interesting to me. | ||
| Yeah, I wonder if he's a Silver Age guy. | ||
| He's probably a new 15 guy. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Anyway, we get back to this Biolab story here, and he's wrong. | ||
| About everything. | ||
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The government has announced dozens and dozens and dozens. | |
| No one's quite sure. | ||
| The official number's been 36. Now they're saying more. | ||
| Giant bioweapons labs, level 4. Level 4. Now, level 4 just isn't an anthrax or a smallpox. | ||
| It's weaponized stuff, and it means it's in large quantities. | ||
| And they're going to build these in most major U.S. cities. | ||
| They're in the process of building them. | ||
| And, folks, just so you understand, this is ten times conservatively more dangerous than having a giant nuclear power plant in your city. | ||
| We have had Porton Down Bioweapons Lab three years ago, the same place where they kill U.S. troops and admit it later. | ||
| Just 20 years ago, we're killing them there and just admit it. | ||
| They released foot and mouth. | ||
| Now, that came out, was admitted. | ||
| They said, oh, it was an accident. | ||
| We don't know how, you know, from this underground base. | ||
| It just showed up in over a dozen places from Scotland to Ireland simultaneously. | ||
| I predicted with a prime projection by analyzing the different strata and data. | ||
| What? | ||
| The data throughout the different levels of propaganda. | ||
| The data strata? | ||
| That the environmental minister would declare. | ||
| And I did this on air over and over again, that no cows or sheep can be restocked. | ||
| Alex is impressively wrong about just about everything in that clip and it's really amazing how he's trying to present this as some kind of proof that he has this ability to analyze data that comes in from different strata of the media or whatever. | ||
| They make dozens and dozens or even 36 BSL-4 labs. | ||
| These aren't bioweapons labs. | ||
| They aren't super dangerous. | ||
| Port and Down didn't, they not only didn't admit that they released foot and mouth, they actually released a statement saying that they don't do any work with foot and mouth at that lab. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And they never said that people couldn't restock livestock. | |
| There are just regulations in place where the outbreak needs to be contained, and then after the disease has been eradicated, you have to wait 21 days to restock your animals for safety. | ||
| That's what they said. | ||
| Everything Alex is telling his audience is basically made up. | ||
| It's astonishing to me, and I honestly don't think that you can be that wrong without trying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's out of control. | ||
| Either that or he really is just freestyling. | ||
| Just off the dome, just letting it fly. | ||
| I think that if he was freestyling, he'd be right about more things. | ||
| Yeah, you're probably right. | ||
| He would have to pull reality out of his brain. | ||
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Just by chance. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Just random chance would dictate that he would have to. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know if it's just that he constantly and only gets headlines from sources that are intentionally lying or he's intentionally lying, but I just don't. | ||
| I can't imagine this as an accident. | ||
| He's like a hole in the force, you know, where any correct information could exist. | ||
| He's like the emptiness within the universe. | ||
| The strata of our data. | ||
| I've analyzed it. | ||
| Well, good on you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'd like you to analyze. | ||
| So we have these bioweapons labs that are being built everywhere, and I just read earlier where a monkey escaped from one, and the Baltimore Sun has reported at these things they're producing thousands of gallons, thousands of gallons, thousands of gallons, thousands of gallons of weaponized Ebola. | ||
| So Alex is wrong about this story. | ||
| The monkey didn't escape from a BSL-4 lab or even a bio lab. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It was a rhesus monkey that escaped from the California National Primate Research Center. | ||
| The reason this is at all relevant to the story Alex is covering is because that center is at UC Davis, and there was talk of building a $150 million biocontainment lab there, and the fact that the monkey escaped from their normal facilities made that investment look uncertain. | ||
| The headline for the story that Alex is covering is, quote, monkeys escape may sink biodefense lab. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So what's going on is that Alex read that headline and he's pretending that this means a monkey escaped from a biodefense lab because he just makes up the stuff that he reports to the audience. | ||
| That's cruel. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, malicious. | ||
| Lazy. | ||
| Lying. | ||
| Anyway, this incident was enough to put the kibosh on this planned lab and it never got built at UC Davis. | ||
| I mean, to a certain extent, there is one employee who's like, ooh, that one's on me. | ||
| I don't know if they ever... | ||
| $150 million lab. | ||
| I don't know if they ever, like, figured out who did it or if anyone was actually even to blame. | ||
| No, I mean, it's entirely possible that it was just a... | ||
| Monkeys are crafty. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| No, no, absolutely. | ||
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They're sneaky. | |
| They know how to use tools. | ||
| Any kind of oversight may have just been a mistake. | ||
| I saw this documentary about this one monkey named Caesar. | ||
| Caesar the monkey? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did he rise? | ||
| Did he? | ||
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Did he ever. | |
| Sure fucking did. | ||
| He rose like shit, man. | ||
| So Alex has just got these fucking stories. | ||
| He's just wrong about everything. | ||
| So thankfully we get back to hearing about him stumbling into DARPA stuff. | ||
| Let me tell you, last night I'm down at one of the big UT departments because they have some cool hallways and places to shoot some video. | ||
| And I'm down there, and literally, I'm just by a workstation right out in the open area where the graduate students are, and there's DARPA mind control documents laying there. | ||
| And a researcher walks by, you know, it's like 12 o 'clock at night, I'm up working doing this, and shooting some video, and all of a sudden this researcher walks by and he goes, Alex Jones, we're big fans. | ||
| And I go, what's all the DARPA stuff? | ||
| He goes, well, most of our departments fight not to take DARPA, but... | ||
| The DARPA money, but they said DARPA's everything. | ||
| And it's all mind control. | ||
| It's a giant mind control facility. | ||
| It's lavish. | ||
| I mean, the place is gigantic. | ||
| And look, I'm just in the areas you're allowed to be in. | ||
| A lot of it's classified and walled off. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yep, so this story has evolved. | ||
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Yep, yep. | |
| I do appreciate that there is now just an innocent bystander wandering by going like, hold on, is that Alex Jones? | ||
| I do think... | ||
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We're huge fans. | |
| I mean, as somebody who has worked in university offices and, you know, my dad's a professor and I have some acquaintance with how... | ||
| Just protocol. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't know how Alex is getting into these buildings at midnight. | ||
| No! | ||
| That would require some kind of special access or, like, somebody allowing him to shoot there. | ||
| And I doubt that that would be something that, like... | ||
| It would have to go through some sort of a channel. | ||
| I saw this documentary where this guy just got out of jail, right? | ||
| And his buddy, he had a plan. | ||
| He was like, we gotta take off this casino. | ||
| Because sometimes the casino wins. | ||
| He said it a little bit better than this. | ||
| He's like, sometimes the casino wins, but then sometimes you win. | ||
| See, here's the problem with this. | ||
| I was clearly referencing Planet of the Apes. | ||
| You could be referencing a hundred different ones. | ||
| Oh, come on! | ||
| It's Ocean's Eleven. | ||
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Sure. | |
| It could be plenty of other... | ||
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Oh, come on now. | |
| That could have been Reindeer Games. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| It could have been Reindeer Games, but I would never reference Reindeer Games! | ||
| So yeah, that story's all made up. | ||
| There's no chance of any of that. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| So Alex gets a call from a lady from Wichita, and she is a new listener, and so Alex decides that he's going to freak her out. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And so he just tries to scare her a little bit. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But there's this awesome moment. | ||
| I love this so much. | ||
| Alex doesn't know anything about Wichita. | ||
| No. | ||
| But one of the ways that he's able to freak people out is by throwing out specifics. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Like the name of your local paper. | ||
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Right. | |
| Or something like that. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| He's able to make it look like, no, I actually have researched this. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| But he doesn't know shit about Wichita, and it comes up twice in 40 seconds here, and it's awesome. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wichita also has announced thumb scanners to go in your grocery stores to buy and sell. | ||
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Grocery store people about that, and he said he'd heard a rumor, but they hadn't made a decision yet. | |
| Heard a rumor? | ||
| It was announced. | ||
| What's your Wichita daily paper? | ||
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Oh, the Wichita Eagle Beacon. | |
| Yes, that's it. | ||
| I failed the data transmission, but yeah, about three weeks ago, that article said that your major grocery stores within one year will be forcing you to thumb scan to buy and sell. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's your Wichita paper. | ||
| That's the CEO of what's the big... | ||
| What's the grocery store chain base in Wichita? | ||
| Dillon? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah! | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| Give me those details so I can throw them back at you. | ||
| So I checked with the Dillons in Wichita, and they do, in fact, accept cash and credit for groceries. | ||
| Still? | ||
| Yeah, and they don't require people to submit to thumb scams. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I imagine that if they did, they'd be out of business really fast, because there's a lot of other grocery stores in Wichita. | ||
| It's not like a one-stop-light town or whatever. | ||
| I guess Alex might be a coastal elite, thinking that all of Kansas is just tumbleweeds and saloons or whatever. | ||
| I do like that he's employing traditional cold-reading tactics, too. | ||
| Just like, I'm thinking... | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| There's a newspaper in Wichita. | ||
| Am I correct? | ||
| What's the name of that newspaper? | ||
| Three weeks ago, the CEO of What's Your Local Groceries? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I'm seeing the letter M. The idea that someone couldn't see through this is just like... | ||
| Absurd. | ||
| It's so funny. | ||
| So I legit couldn't be clear that Alex is just making shit up here and he doesn't know any specifics about Wichita. | ||
| But this is embarrassing stuff. | ||
| And I would ask, why would a grocery store require a thumbprint to buy or sell? | ||
| Have you ever gone to the grocery store to sell something? | ||
| I mean, I have bartered at the Whole Foods many a time. | ||
| You don't have to go there to like... | ||
| You don't bring in a sack of potatoes. | ||
| No! | ||
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It'd be like, hey, Jewel Osco, look what I've got for you. | |
| No, no, no. | ||
| I make some nice homemade muffins, and then when I go through the self-checkout, I leave the muffins on the thing, and then I leave. | ||
| The person checking you out, you're like, what do you want? | ||
| How are you going to give me for these? | ||
| I got all these muffins. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think that maybe that is just language that is meant to invoke the mark of the beast. | ||
| I think you might be right. | ||
| And so you just throw it around. | ||
| Ah, I could be. | ||
| So, here's the last... | ||
| Last clip from this episode where Alex continues to try and freak out this lady from Wichita. | ||
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Well, it has me disturbed. | |
| I mean, am I going to be one of them that's going to get put in a camp and shot? | ||
| Let's say you're a big liberal. | ||
| You've got a business that a member of the Homeland Security Board in your state wants. | ||
| Yeah, you'll get arrested. | ||
| And a lot of you will never be seen. | ||
| They'll just shoot you a couple times, throw you in a meat grinder. | ||
| A vat of acid or down into a coal mine. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Vats of acid are popular. | ||
| They built a supermax on top of a large coal mine to get rid of the bodies. | ||
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What? | |
| So, yeah. | ||
| Generally, if you've got something they want. | ||
| I mean, maybe a local Gestapo captain wants your husband. | ||
| Or wants your wife. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Yep. | |
| So a local Gestapo person wants your spouse, and so they're gonna... | ||
| Boil you in acid. | ||
| The Wichita Gestapo is going to come to your house because they want your husband to toss you some acid. | ||
| This might be a little bit extreme. | ||
| This is borderline freak out the squares level. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| That was definitely the vibe I was getting from that call. | ||
| So we go to the first. | ||
| And there weren't a whole lot of clips of Alex being mad at sports on the last episode that I pulled because it honestly didn't really feel that important on the 31st. | ||
| It continues. | ||
| He's real mad at sports. | ||
| Yeah, and that's why I was like, I took notice of it. | ||
| We try to bypass all that. | ||
| You can get Colby Bryant all day long on other channels. | ||
| You can hear people call in and cry and moan because their sports hero didn't do too good. | ||
| Up at the plate, up on the mound. | ||
| I mean, I hear these guys call into shows and they're just, oh, it's so serious. | ||
| It's so important. | ||
| they detail the finest minutiae of baseball and football, but then you try to tell that joker about the Bill of Rights and what's happening to America, they'll laugh at you, but they'll get soaked. | ||
| concern when they call in on the sports show and they're so worried about everything. | ||
| And then that's totally normal and good, but care about your country. | ||
| Care about your liberties and freedoms and what the forefathers fought and died for, and you're bad. | ||
| I do... | ||
| I mean, he just seems to think that it's impossible to care about sports and the country simultaneously, which I don't know how to respond to that. | ||
| I mean, considering the amount of jingoistic military-ass bullshit that's rammed down of our fucking throats through sports. | ||
| There's a lot of it. | ||
| You'd think Alex would be stoked. | ||
| So he talked about Kobe Bryant there as Colby, and I think that this actually is a big part of why he's mad. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Because there's a lot of news about Kobe Bryant and his sexual assault case. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| He admitted he raped that woman. | ||
| Yeah, and Alex has some weird news about this. | ||
| I was watching Hannity and Combs last night. | ||
| Again, I haven't watched TV in weeks. | ||
| I did watch a couple hours last night. | ||
| And they had the girl on that the news and the newspapers and the internet had said was Kobe Bryant's. | ||
| The girl he allegedly sexually assaulted. | ||
| And, of course, it wasn't the right girl. | ||
| The media just picked up on it and thousands of websites posted it. | ||
| Many of them mainstream news sites. | ||
| But just on a side note, watching her, I mean, talk about a dithering, mindless, bug-eyed airhead. | ||
| That's a future human. | ||
| Just utterly mindless. | ||
| Just a clone of the TV show Friends trying to mirror whatever the peer pressure conduit orders her to do. | ||
| I mean, our men are slovenly, ignorant, baseball cap-wearing creatures, stumbling around, acting like juvenile delinquents when they're 30 years old. | ||
| Our women have been trained to be insecure and to be slathering themselves in endless cosmetic applications What is happening? | ||
| I mean, I'm not trying to be bitter here, folks. | ||
| I'm very positive about the good elements of society. | ||
| But just when I see the willful ignorance... | ||
| People wrapping themselves in a cocoon of mindlessness. | ||
| It's really hard to deal with. | ||
| Alex is 29 years old. | ||
| I mean, that sounds like he was going to end that with like, ah, jeez there, Edith! | ||
| Like, what are we, what the fuck? | ||
| Yeah, I don't know, but I also think Alex has his story entirely wrong. | ||
| I might be wrong about this. | ||
| I can find no evidence to the contrary, but... | ||
| I think that here's what's going on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So on July 28th, a couple days before this episode, Hannity and Combs featured an interview with Tom Likas, the notoriously disgusting radio host who's famous essentially just for being a chauvinist pile of shit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He had decided he was going to out Kobe's accuser, which was the story that Hannity and Combs were covering. | ||
| From Hannity's intro to that interview. | ||
| Most news stations have a policy against naming sexual assault victims, so why did Los Angeles nationally syndicated radio talk show host Tom Likas feel compelled to identify Kobe Bryant's accuser? | ||
| He joins us from Los Angeles. | ||
| I don't think that Hannity and Combs ever had a person alleging to be Kobe's accuser on the show, but what seems to be going on here is that Alex is conflating this Lycus interview with another thing that was happening at the time, which is that people were circulating pictures of a woman that they were inaccurately claiming was the accuser. | ||
| Tom Lycus did get the name of the person. | ||
| Gave the real name. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But people... | ||
| It circulated a fake picture. | ||
| Of a different person. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so I think that Alex has combined these two, imagined an interview, and is complaining about this person he didn't actually watch an interview with. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that kind of tracks with Alex's attention to detail and journalistic standards, certainly. | ||
| And belief that dreams are real. | ||
| I guess if anybody, like, I would be very open to figuring out more about this. | ||
| Like, if someone were able to... | ||
| Send me the Hannity and Combs interview that Alex is talking about. | ||
| I'd be happy to amend my feeling on this, but based on everything I can find, this is what Alex is... | ||
| This is what he's talking about. | ||
| I think he's making up an interview that he watched. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| It does seem like the whole anger at sports thing that Alex has been on is mostly kind of about this, though. | ||
| I mean, it is when you see his misogyny and racism come into conflict. | ||
| That I think the misogyny trumps. | ||
| I don't know if they're in conflict. | ||
| Well, that's fair. | ||
| He's experiencing both simultaneously, I think, a little bit. | ||
| It does feel like he's really focusing on the misogyny, though. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| As, like, the primary... | ||
| When it comes down to it, I'm with all men over all women. | ||
| You know? | ||
| As, you know, they say, you gotta have a code. | ||
| So, in this next clip, Alex, he's trying out for a Herald team, I think. | ||
| He's doing an improv scene with himself. | ||
| Oh, that's not good. | ||
| Where he pretends to get into a conversation with somebody who doesn't like the info war because he wants to play golf. | ||
| They're announcing satellite tracking and taxation for our cars. | ||
| It's going in in Germany, Canada, England, about to start in some of the western states and move across the country. | ||
| And you try to tell one of these people that, and I have. | ||
| I mean, I could talk to a college student. | ||
| I could talk to an old black man. | ||
| I could talk to a good old boy in a cowboy hat. | ||
| They'll listen. | ||
| Those are the three types of people. | ||
| They'll listen or a Mexican immigrant. | ||
| But these middle class, you know, $100,000 a year sports fans, you'll tell them something and they'll go, well, fine, let them satellite track. | ||
| Well, I guess Bush has got to, you know, compromise and sign the assault weapons ban. | ||
| They'll have a Bush-Cheney sticker, and then you'll say, but what about blocking Dan Burton's committee? | ||
| I'm Harding Gate. | ||
| Well, I guess Bush has got to do that. | ||
| Hey, I've got to go, Alex. | ||
| I've seen your show. | ||
| I don't believe that stuff you say. | ||
| Well, what do you not believe, sir? | ||
| And I'll try to come over and invest time, and they just... | ||
| Arrogantly with their little pennant cap and go, I gotta go, Blake! | ||
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While our country is gone. | |
| And then I'll hear that same type of individual on the radio, so concerned. | ||
| So upset. | ||
| Really, you could hear the... | ||
| I mean, you'd think one of their children was in the hospital. | ||
| They're just... | ||
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They call in so concerned. | |
| I mean, this is sick. | ||
| This is mental illness, people. | ||
| This is mental illness. | ||
| So this person will come up to me outside the restaurant and they'll say something to me and then I'll vest time trying to talk to them and they'll be like, I want to go play golf. | ||
| And then I go over to UT Austin and I find a lab that's got DARPA documents everywhere. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| I would argue that his story that he made up to describe other people as insane In fact, Moore reveals his own insanity. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| But I think that there probably is maybe a kernel of truth to it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Like, maybe somebody blew him off. | ||
| Outside a restaurant or something? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And then mentioned that they were going to go play golf or something? | ||
| A very reasonable thing to do. | ||
| Alex has turned this into, like, I gotta go play golf! | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then he imagines that people on the radio are like this person. | ||
| They're exactly like that person. | ||
| He's created an image of in his head. | ||
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Uh-huh. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Makes sense. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All checks out. | ||
| So in the present day, we know that Alex is the most important person in the world. | ||
| The Trump administration called him the Texan. | ||
| True. | ||
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They always wanted to know what the Texan thought about things. | |
| Putin listens every day. | ||
| He needs to. | ||
| Bolsonaro might listen. | ||
| We know his son does. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Actually, that one might be true. | |
| But in 2003, not so notable. | ||
| Not so notable. | ||
| Alex gets a call and a guy brings up something that makes Alex very excited. | ||
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I spoke to the state senator Bob Roms that I gave the road to tyranny to and he just says you're a kook. | |
| I don't, but you know, that's just... | ||
| Oh, so the state, hold on, the state senator already knew who I was? | ||
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State senator Bob Roms, yeah, I gave him the road to tyranny video. | |
| But did he read the back and call me a kook or did he just say, oh yeah, I know you're a kook? | ||
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Oh my god, do you have a crush? | |
| Oh. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Oh my god, he looked at me like that? | ||
| How did he look at me? | ||
| Did he turn the other way? | ||
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Wait, wait, wait. | |
| He already knew I was crazy? | ||
| He already knew who I was and that I was nuts? | ||
| Oh my god, I can't believe he knew who I was. | ||
| Oh my god, oh my god. | ||
| This is a huge moment for me. | ||
| A state senator I've never heard of knows of me. | ||
| It's a little bit lower stakes. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| So Alex has an interesting little bit of a story, sort of a pop culture, human interest kind of story. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And he is fucking so excited about it. | ||
| Folks, there's so much here. | ||
| I've got this article. | ||
| It's now come out. | ||
| It's confirmed that Stalin tried to have John Wayne killed. | ||
| Yes, it's true. | ||
| And when the FBI went to warn John Wayne that killers were on his trail in Hollywood, John Wayne said, hey. | ||
| Go home, boys. | ||
| I got the Second Amendment. | ||
| He actually said that. | ||
| Sounds true. | ||
| Turns out he, quote, survived an assassination attempt and then didn't even want to talk about it when the communists tried to kill him. | ||
| Sounds true. | ||
| Amazing article coming up. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| So this wasn't proven that the KGB, under order from Stalin, had sent hit squads to kill John Wayne. | ||
| What? | ||
| That's just a claim that was made in a biography of Wayne called John Wayne, the man behind the myth. | ||
| According to an article on Military.com, Wayne learned of this plot and, quote, Obviously not one to let a thing like communist assassins get him down, Wayne and his scriptwriter Jimmy Grant allegedly abducted the hitmen, took them to a beach, and staged a mock execution. | ||
| No one knows exactly what happened after that, but Wayne's friends said that those Soviet agents began to work for the FBI from that day on. | ||
| That sounds true for a man who dodged the draft. | ||
| Also, apparently when Khrushchev took over power, I don't know how else to put this other than to say that this is a stupidly fake story being passed along in this biography, and it's really funny that Alex, the king of skepticism and guy who can see through all the BS, is just taking it at face value because it makes him feel good about his worldview. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The biography was written by a guy named Michael Munn, and let's just say that accusations that he makes things up in his books are not uncommon. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| For instance, much of his biography of Frank Sinatra involves things that he claims he remembers from pillow talk he had with Ava Gardner when she was 45 and he was 17 and they had an affair, during which she revealed all sorts of things that she never told anybody else. | ||
| Goddamn, that is some good backstory. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Pretty solid. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| This one here is from an article in The Guardian, this little blurb. | ||
| This tickled me. | ||
| Quote, there was a time that David Niven, stricken with the motor neuron disease that killed him, called Munn in. | ||
| Quote, Mike, I've got to see you. | ||
| He told him to bring his tape recorder and spoke of his secret love child, his illegitimacy, and his failed attempt to shoot himself, as well as hinting at an interest in Mormonism. | ||
| That sounds true! | ||
| A lot of his work seems to revolve around made-up things that happen to him that are secret and generally involve a one-on-one exchange with someone who is now dead. | ||
| Maybe unverifiable information is kind of his stock and trade. | ||
| Apparently this story about John Wayne came from Munn getting to know Wayne after he played a role, a very important role, a man in telephone box in the film Branigan. | ||
| He said that John Wayne treated him like a son after that. | ||
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He became his best friend. | |
| This is amazing. | ||
| This is just amazing. | ||
| It's just how these weird stories fucking fly through the world. | ||
| It's like he posted an Onion article and was like, this is absolutely true. | ||
| Yeah, the families of people he's written about say that this shit is outrageous, and even Munn's own family doesn't buy his fabricated backstory. | ||
| It's all a load of shit being made up by someone trying to sell narratives that are self-aggrandizing, so it does kind of make sense why Alex would identify with this and accept it unquestioningly. | ||
| It's kind of his bread and butter. | ||
| It calls to him the siren song of bullshit. | ||
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Deep recognizes deep. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| So I noticed a trend. | ||
| I noticed a thing that seems to happen a lot, especially in the past. | ||
| Maybe it's because the technology and manpower is a little unsophisticated at this point. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But Alex pretty constantly ends up hanging up on people while they're still talking. | ||
| And so I wanted to play a little clip of that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then Alex also reveals something about his politics. | ||
| They always wanted. | ||
| Thanks for the call. | ||
| Thanks for the call. | ||
| And then you get this side issue over here. | ||
| With Bush diverting people with red herrings about how he's against homosexual marriage. | ||
| Total red herring. | ||
| I mean, of course the majority of the American people are against that. | ||
| And of course that's a bad thing. | ||
| Bush isn't going to do anything about it. | ||
| It's all just rhetoric. | ||
| Yeah, so just remember when Alex is trying to pretend to be like this enlightened libertarian type. | ||
| I don't care what you do in your bedroom. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He's against... | ||
| I don't want you to get married outside of your bedroom. | ||
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Right. | |
| So just keep that in mind. | ||
| When he tries to pretend to be a little bit more moderate than he actually is in order to use that as ammunition in his transphobic narratives and such. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| He's just shifted his target. | ||
| Yeah, what's important to think about whenever it comes to repealing abortion rights is that all of the Republicans who, as times have changed and as the popular opinion has changed towards a lot of subjects, have come along with. | ||
| As things get moved back, we're going to find out they were not coming along with. | ||
| They were playing along with. | ||
| And that's very fucking different. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, speaking of that, I hope we don't have to go all the way back to this, but Alex gets a caller who's a real weirdo. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
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Let me give you this here. | |
| You know that thing where people say any law in this republic for the Constitution is null and void? | ||
| Well, there's more to that. | ||
| In a republic, all law is subject to higher standards, which Blackstone's law commentaries identifies as God's law. | ||
| And any law that stands in conflict with this higher law is null and void. | ||
| A republic preserves the biblical concept that the government is a minister of God, upholding his righteous command to punish the evildoer and encourage the good. | ||
| Sounds great. | ||
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Well, that's it. | |
| It's two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner, and a democracy... | ||
| If 51% get together and say, take that man's ranch and give it to us, it happens. | ||
| In a republic, you can't do that. | ||
| Thanks for the call. | ||
| Really good points. | ||
| Wild. | ||
| Wait, so we're against democracy? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And also, Alex, his response to that caller was really good points. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Boo. | ||
| So the passage that caller was reading is actually from a website called The Matrix Has You, and it's a blog post about how there's a secret 13th Amendment in the original Constitution that has been secretly removed and eliminated from history. | ||
| Excuse me, quick question. | ||
| Secret 13th Amendment in the original Constitution. | ||
| This amendment would have made it so lawyers were barred from serving in government positions. | ||
| It's basically just a piece of sovereign citizen lore. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| This was a reprinting of an article written by a roofer named Alfred Adsek, who published a newsletter called The Anti-Shyster, which was mostly about how much he hates lawyers. | ||
| He just hates lawyers. | ||
| Oh, that's better than where I thought it was going. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This article was written in 1991, and in the next year, Alfred decided to try to run for the Texas Supreme Court on a Libertarian ticket. | ||
| Here's a blurb from D Magazine about his candidacy. | ||
| Quote, 47-year-old Adsek, who attended college for a year and a half, hopes to run for the Texas Supreme Court on the Libertarian Party ticket, despite the fact that the Texas Constitution says candidates must be a practicing lawyer or judge with 10 years' experience. | ||
| Adesk bases his candidacy on a, quote, personal interpretation of an old law that he said allows non-lawyers to run for judicial office in the 10 former Confederate states. | ||
| Quote, of course, if my interpretation is ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How did that go? | ||
| He looked like a nut on a soapbox. | ||
| Oh, so close. | ||
| Annex was a big sovereign citizen type, and so big, actually, that his name appears in a slideshow about sovereign citizens put together by a court administrator in Kansas City. | ||
| Discussing followers of that ideology's potential for violence, it says, quote, one of the most notorious, Alfred Adsek, made a statement, quote, we have the right to keep and bear arms in order to shoot our own politicians. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| This dude is a major figure in the community of sovereign citizens, and one of his main interpretations of that ideology is that people aren't subject to the laws of the country or state, but to God's law. | ||
| He believes that this is part of the founding of the United States, and this is the mentality that's being expressed and tacitly supported by Alex on this show. | ||
| This is not sound or well-constructed as legal analysis. | ||
| It's the unfounded ravings of an anti-government zealot arguing that the country was established to be a theocracy. | ||
| Simultaneous with the time period, if I recall correctly, everyone was screaming about Sharia law. | ||
| Through his website... | ||
| This guy, Alfred, he also published a magazine called Suspicions, which is about as awful as you might think. | ||
| Their volume 11, number 3 issue from 2001 includes an article titled, quote, The Truth About Homosexuality, which is about as homophobic as you would imagine. | ||
| I was hoping it was like, it's dope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| It defines homosexuality as a fetish and calls homosexual relationships a, quote, horrendous perverted septic and medically dangerous practice. | ||
| The author also claims that, quote, nothing turns gay men on more than the idea that you'd be both shocked and disgusted by their behavior. | ||
| This passage actually really stuck out to me in this essay. | ||
| Perhaps I am more sensitive to the issue than most, but whenever I hear someone describe themselves as openly gay, I automatically visualize them engaged with another man in a revolting act of anal intercourse, ruining my appetite. | ||
| That sounds like parody to me, honestly, but it's not. | ||
| If you read the article, it is not. | ||
| So, anyway, this is the sort of garbage that this dude who the caller is quoting is publishing. | ||
| It's great stuff all around. | ||
| Everyone is knocking it out of the park. | ||
| Anyway, I guess that's sort of secondary in as much as this legal analysis that we're all living under God's law and the Republic is meant to support that is written by the same person who's publishing this Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, this episode, honestly, August 1st is not very good. | ||
| It's mostly phone calls, and a lot of them are really boring and disappointing, so I had to try and find something interesting to talk about. | ||
| So there we go. | ||
| We get Alfred Adzik. | ||
| Anyway, we have one last clip here, and it's another caller. | ||
| And this struck me as really weird. | ||
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Actually, if there's to be any justice in the world, Bush is going to have to be tried. | |
| Hanged for the same reason the Japanese were tried and hanged. | ||
| What? | ||
| Because he's guilty of the same crime. | ||
| So until that happens, there will be no justice. | ||
| J.Q., listen, I wish no harm against President Bush. | ||
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All I want is justice, Alex. | |
| No, I've got to let you go. | ||
| I can't sit here on the air and say things like that. | ||
| That is... | ||
| Coward. | ||
| So there's two things that I think are really weird about this. | ||
| The first is that there's this caller who is a semi-regular caller. | ||
| It goes by JQ. | ||
| And, like, that could be an initial or a nickname, but it's suspicious because... | ||
| It's also code for the Jewish question, which is something in white nationalists and neo-Nazi communities. | ||
| Instead of having to be open about it, they talk about the JQ. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That, to me, is a little bit of... | ||
| Whenever he's called in, I've tried to keep my ears open for possible dog-whistly stuff. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| And so far, it's mostly not, but it is still something that I'm... | ||
| I've never met anybody who goes by that alias, I'll say. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's no good. | ||
| No. | ||
| And second, I believe that in some way, Alex understands the responsibility that he has to not engage in directed violent rhetoric at this point in his career. | ||
| He understands that even bandying about these ideas about Bush deserving to be hung is somewhat unhealthy as a way to communicate with the audience. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I don't know if that's exactly what's going on, but it's such a far cry from what he does in the present day. | ||
| It is very different. | ||
| He ends this call because the guy is saying that Bush should be tried. | ||
| Listen, sir, we cannot be saying violent things like that. | ||
| But the caller is even... | ||
| He even said a trial. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| No, and I think it's a 100% reasonable thing to believe that George Bush should be tried at the Hague, and then his punishment will be what it deserves. | ||
| Imagine that compared to how he talks about Fauci. | ||
| Like, in the present day. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| Who's just a guy. | ||
| It's outrageous. | ||
| Like, one of the only things that I can think of, and maybe it's me, you know, putting a little bit too much into this, but, like, it feels like one of the only reasons that behavior would be so different is that in the past there was an awareness that, like, this isn't good. | ||
| I can't do this. | ||
| This isn't appropriate. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems to be... | ||
| Because I think that that's definitely true. | ||
| I think it is irresponsible and wrong and dangerous. | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| I don't know why he would cut off the call like that. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think that part of it might be that, and then part of it might be a... | ||
| Maybe he knows the caller. | ||
| I mean, maybe on another level he's just better able to control his fucking emotions. | ||
| That's definitely true. | ||
| And so he doesn't go off on a fucking murder rant every time he hears somebody say stuff like that. | ||
| That's definitely true, too. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Could be a combination of all of it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So we come to the end of this, and... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I thought there's some things worth taking a peek at, but I guess Alex is... | ||
| You know, one of the things, too, that I had to check in on is Alex is so mad at sports that I had to go through sports headlines from around that. | ||
| I'm like, what, is it the World Cup or something? | ||
| And Alex is mad about internationalism or something? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| I couldn't find anything. | ||
| It's gone nuts again. | ||
| So yeah, we'll get back to the present day probably next week. | ||
| But yeah, I just needed to take a little time in the past. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| I like time in the past. | ||
| Yeah, I think there's more meat on bones back then. | ||
| I think there's opportunity to learn a lot more. | ||
| And less indiscriminate screaming. | ||
| True. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, Jordan, we have a website. | ||
| We do. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We're also on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| It's at knowledge underscore fight and I go to bed Jordan. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| But until then... | ||
| And I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZXClark. | ||
| I hope you all have great and dreamy and maybe creamy. | ||
| Also, by the way, someone sent me a picture of Starbucks. | ||
| They have a creamy, dreamy thing that they're selling. | ||
| Cease and desist. | ||
| Cease and desist, Starbucks. | ||
| Copyright. | ||
| Oh, how dare you? | ||
| And now here comes the sex robots. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
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I'm a huge fan. | |
| I love your work. |
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