#692: Alex Jones' Punch Out
Today, Dan and Jordan check in and see how things went when Alex sat down for a very drug-filled head-to-head with Mike Tyson, who Alex declares the biggest philosopher in 2022.
June 15, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
01:26:53
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| It's time to pray. | ||
| I have great respect for knowledge fight. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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 friend. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
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I love your world. | |
| Knowledge Fight. | ||
| KnowledgeFight.com. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| 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. | ||
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Oh, indeed we are, Dan. | |
| That's Alex Jones if he was a man. | ||
| Alex Jones. | ||
| Is that how it would sound? | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| I'm pretty sure you would dance it. | ||
| So what's up? | ||
| How did we... | ||
| Dan? | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Dan! | ||
| What's up? | ||
| What's your bright spot today, buddy? | ||
| My bright spot today, Jordan, is exactly what we've been talking about. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Mine too. | ||
| We're the same bright spots. | ||
| It's brutal. | ||
| This is the least, the most anticlimactic bright spot ever. | ||
| So like a week and a half ago or so, I decided to give Fire Emblem Three Houses a try. | ||
| I'd never played a tactical type game like that. | ||
| The style of the game is different than any... | ||
| Of the things I've messed around with in the past, and I took like a moth to the flame. | ||
| It's very fun. | ||
| It's super engaging, the way that the game is structured, and then the characters and the story is a lot of fun as well, and man, it's great. | ||
| There's a Dynasty Warriors version of it coming out later this month. | ||
| I'm so excited about that. | ||
| And then you saw me playing it when you came over to record. | ||
| Ten minutes. | ||
| I saw you playing it for ten minutes, and I was like, well, I'm going to need to have this game forever. | ||
| Because it... | ||
| Scratch that itch that you have. | ||
| Final Fantasy Tactics was... | ||
| And I was telling you that it's been going on for 20 years, and that's not a joke. | ||
| A few months ago, whenever I talked about it on the show, I was like, shit! | ||
| I haven't played that for a while. | ||
| When you talked about it on the show, I didn't put two and two together, but my response to that was, I've never played a game like that. | ||
| I don't even know how to imagine what playing it is like. | ||
| And now you do. | ||
| I do. | ||
| Now you do. | ||
| It's a lot of fun. | ||
| And now you're going to see yourself here in 25 years being like, I think I'll boot that up one more time. | ||
| Fire Emblem is like. | ||
| This 100% legal CD image that I found is going to be very useful to play this game right now. | ||
| Yeah, but you were jonesing for some Final Fantasy tactics. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| This is so much... | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| It's so good, man. | ||
| It's quite a well-done game in my experience so far. | ||
| And I swear to God. | ||
| I am going to get the right tea party. | ||
| I'm going to get a perfect score on one of those tea parties. | ||
| For those who have not played the game. | ||
| I can't do it! | ||
| One of the things that you have to do, or can do, is invite people to tea parties. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And you have three speech bubbles, and you have to choose topics for conversation that you think they might enjoy based on their personality. | ||
| You're trying to please a fake person. | ||
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It's hard. | |
| It's not easy. | ||
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It's easier to please a real person than it is these people. | |
| Probably. | ||
| But yeah, it's a lot of fun. | ||
| I'm glad we have a joint bright spot. | ||
| I think it's maybe one of the first times. | ||
| It's been a long time. | ||
| I think we've had same bright spots, but at different times. | ||
| You know, like when I said Taskmaster was my bright spot later on, you know, that kind of thing. | ||
| But this is a simultaneous, unequivocal bright spot. | ||
| We're in deep. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Jordan, today we have an episode to do. | ||
| It's a Wednesday, so we're off the beaten path a little bit. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And part of that is I feel like the Uvalde shooting coverage kind of came full circle and we got to where we inevitably knew we were going. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And the January 6th commission coverage has hit a dead end. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In as much as Alex is still out of studio. | ||
| Not interested in being there for it. | ||
| He's had Owen fill in. | ||
| I think Harrison filled in the other day. | ||
| And Harrison was like, the Capitol has not yet fallen, unfortunately. | ||
| I don't know anybody who would dare suggest that we celebrated the events of January 6th. | ||
| Yeah, good guy to run cover for you. | ||
| And so we are left a bit in a lurch of what to go over. | ||
| I dipped into the past a little bit, and I need a little more time to get the next past episode together. | ||
| So that'll be forthcoming. | ||
| Jim Baker sucks. | ||
| Nothing really new in Project Camelot world. | ||
| We just went back there not too long ago. | ||
| So I had to find something to do, and thankfully something popped up. | ||
| And we'll get into it here in a moment. | ||
| But first... | ||
| Let's say hello to some new walks. | ||
| Nice tease. | ||
| So, Jordan, actually, this is interesting. | ||
| Today, we have four technocrats. | ||
| Jesus Christ! | ||
| Yeah, so we... | ||
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Are you going to play all four of them? | |
| I'm going to say hello to them all, and I'm going to play the drop. | ||
| But yeah, it's coincidence to just go through in the order that things come in, and hey, here we are. | ||
| So, first, AEJ Holdings Dreamy Creamy Debt Collector. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm getting married to a Yeti by driving my van into his heart. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| Steven Universe! | ||
| And Alex Jones' archivist, P. Andrew Not Torres. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| I have risen above my enemies. | ||
| I might quit tomorrow, actually. | ||
| I'm just going to take a little break now. | ||
| A little bricky for me. | ||
| And then we're going to come back and I'm going to start the show over. | ||
| But I'm the devil! | ||
| I've got to be taken off the air! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| I've got plenty of words for you, but at the end of the day, fuck you and your New World Order and fuck the horse you rode in on and all your shit! | ||
| Maybe today should be my last broadcast. | ||
| Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years. | ||
| Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow and you never see me again. | ||
| That's really what I want to do. | ||
| I never want to come back here again. | ||
| I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air. | ||
| I'll be better tomorrow. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| He's never better. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Even when he's gone, he's not better. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| But thank you all. | ||
| So, Jordan... | ||
| I don't know how to tell you this, but this is going to be a little bit of an off-the-beaten-path episode that might not be the best thing ever. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's not as fun as space and COVID vampires and what have you. | ||
| But here's an out-of-context drop from what we're going to get into. | ||
| Describe for me, just visual however you can, what the toad did to you. | ||
| What did the toad do to you? | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Is this Reset Wars? | ||
| No. | ||
| What? | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| Explain to me in detail what the Toad did to you. | ||
| What did the Toad do? | ||
| Did he the... | ||
| What is it? | ||
| The wet sprocket? | ||
| What did the Toad do? | ||
| Do you have any conception of what this could possibly be about? | ||
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What could... | |
| What did Toad do that? | ||
| I mean, okay. | ||
| The first X-Men movie, there was a mutant called Toad. | ||
| Shot his tongue out. | ||
| He's interviewing Ray Park. | ||
| I thought that might have been the case. | ||
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No. | |
| Oh, shit. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's the Toad, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. | ||
| Is that what he's talking about? | ||
| Mr. Toad drove me drunk into a tree. | ||
| Is that what's going on here? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is not a Wind in the Willows recap. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Boy. | ||
| I'm all out. | ||
| I'm all out. | ||
| I've got nothing but wet the sprocket at this point. | ||
| This is about being high on toad venom. | ||
| Okay! | ||
| All right! | ||
| Now we're having a good time. | ||
| So today, we're going to be looking at Alex talking to Mike Tyson. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| You know, after the last three episodes ended with such a narrative closure, it's almost like a novel. | ||
| You see the struggle, you see the hero's journey. | ||
| He resisted the call? | ||
| Yes, exactly! | ||
| It satisfies in such a hero's journey kind of way. | ||
| Well, a villain's journey. | ||
| Well, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And then to have it just kind of end, you're in that same lurch when you finish a good book. | ||
| And you're just kind of like, I don't know what to do. | ||
| So you pick up a magazine for some filler. | ||
| So you pick up a magazine and you talk to Mike Tyson. | ||
| So it's really weird, Jordan. | ||
| Alex was a guest on Mike Tyson's podcast, which is called Hot Boxing. | ||
| No. | ||
| This was a few months back. | ||
| I believe back in April was when he went on one of his many vacations. | ||
| And yet, mysteriously, the episode has not appeared to have been released. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| You could go to the podcast website. | ||
| There's a long list of episodes with guests like Alex's mortal enemy, Piers Morgan. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Ear bite victim, Evander Holyfield. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Well, they got to bury the hatchet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And the baddest bitch, Trina. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Slippin' Sliggo, take her to the house. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Trick Daddy. | ||
| I watched a little bit of her interview and it comes out that Trick Daddy gave her the nickname, the baddest bitch. | ||
| Good for her. | ||
| He also, the last time I saw Trick Daddy was the people pointed out that the guy who was making the documentary about the Proud Boys, he is a very famous rap video director also. | ||
| No shit. | ||
| Yeah, and so in the Take It to the House video, he makes a cameo. | ||
| Because Trick Daddy is talking about how he wants one of his videos. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| So Trick Daddy. | ||
| He's in the zeitgeist. | ||
| There's not enough people. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| Every time I think there's plenty of people in the world, I find out that there's just popping up everywhere. | ||
| Chick blood kids. | ||
| Loves the kids. | ||
| He's all about the community. | ||
| I've heard that. | ||
| Anyway, there's even some more controversial guests that Tyson has had on, like anti-vax guru Robert Kennedy Jr. | ||
| He was on fairly recently, and the self-appointed ambassador to North Korea, Dennis Rodman. | ||
| Oh, well, I mean, you know, somebody's gotta go. | ||
| The worm. | ||
| So on June 1st, Paul Joseph Watson wrote an article for his blog about how the powers that be in big tech had put pressure on Mike Tyson and got him to not release the episode. | ||
| And this sounds about right. | ||
| As we all know, Mike Tyson is notoriously a pushover and someone who caves to even the slightest amount of pressure. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| No one would ever describe him as a fighter. | ||
| I mean, you know, we're in the middle of his very last comeback story. | ||
| Tyson's got one more fight in him. | ||
| He's one day away from retirement. | ||
| His best friend comes out to manage him in the corner. | ||
| I mean, this movie ends with him dying, obviously, but that's in podcast form. | ||
| Well, we're gonna actually talk a whole lot about him dying. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Well, see? | ||
| It's a good movie. | ||
| He is not... | ||
| He doesn't have any feelings on it, on the question. | ||
| It's very bizarre. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I've seen a lot of these podcasts where bigger celebrities have Alex on, like Rogan or Logan Paul, and they're complete shit shows. | ||
| Alex invariably gets completely wasted, pretends he has some really deep insights to offer, never says anything of substance, and then sometimes takes his shirt off. | ||
| It's been reported by Alex that he and Tyson took mushrooms and smoked weed before and during the podcast, so I've concocted a little theory of my own about why this episode hasn't come out. | ||
| I really think it's probably really bad. | ||
| Not like dangerous and offensive bad, but like embarrassing and low quality type of bad. | ||
| Leaving all the other qualities of the man aside, Mike Tyson can handle his drugs. | ||
| He's pretty much high as hell all the time now. | ||
| And I would not be surprised if the way Alex acted between his being fucked up to his very transparent and over the top star fuckery made it feel like maybe they didn't work. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I would do mushrooms with Mike Tyson and put it out no matter what anybody said, right? | ||
| I would not do... | ||
| Either of those things. | ||
| I wouldn't do Mushrooms with Mike Tyson, and I wouldn't put it out. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| I wouldn't do either of those things either. | ||
| I'm not going to pretend that I've watched a full episode of Tyson's podcast, but I scanned through a few of them, and they're really different than the short clips that Alex has released of his time with Mike. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| One thing is that the guests are generally big stars themselves, and while they express admiration for Tyson and his career, they aren't tripping all over themselves around him the way Alex kind of does. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alex is so over the top, and it comes off as him being very insecure and out of place. | ||
| I think if you even just watch these short clips of it that have come out, they're so different than Mike Tyson talking to Piers Morgan. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because Piers Morgan is ostensibly considering himself to be Mike Tyson's equal in this conversation. | ||
| And they're having a respectful conversation about their careers. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And Mike Tyson's asking him questions about journalism and stuff. | ||
| Yeah, it's an opportunity for an actual conversation to happen. | ||
| Albeit between... | ||
| Piers Morgan and Mike Tyson. | ||
| A bizarre collection. | ||
| I mean, just fine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The other thing is that a number of these guests don't try to do drug for drug with Mike. | ||
| For instance, Piers Morgan wasn't taking shrooms when he went on. | ||
| From everything we've heard about Alex's interview, he tried to keep up to show he was cool, which is really stupid. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's what high school kids do when they're hanging out with their older siblings' friends, and it tends to go wrong. | ||
| I mean, he's a freshman in college. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| You're going to get yourself killed. | ||
| Mike Tyson does the toad. | ||
| He has to! | ||
| He's got so much head trauma. | ||
| There's so much shit going on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Anyway, I don't know exactly why Tyson hasn't put out this episode of the podcast, but I'm sure he and his producers have their reasons. | |
| Maybe it'll come out sometime down the road. | ||
| Zach, release the Snyder Cut of this podcast! | ||
| Yeah, I think that's a possibility. | ||
| I think it's more Likely that Alex is just fucked up and it's embarrassing. | ||
| Whatever the case, earlier this month, Alex released a half-hour video on band.video, which is titled EXCLUSIVE, all caps. | ||
| Watch the censored Mike Tyson Alex Jones podcast in full. | ||
| Based on that title, you would expect that this means that Alex recorded the interview himself and he was releasing his side of it. | ||
| But that's not what this video is, because almost everything at InfoWars involves clickbait. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This video is an interview that Alex shot with Tyson after they did Tyson's podcast. | ||
| It also includes some snippets of behind-the-scenes stuff from Tyson's podcast, which actually kind of implies that Alex does have more video. | ||
| Than just this little snippet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I base some of my hunches about Alex's behavior being embarrassing and a mess based on these... | ||
| Based on these clips of him being very shortly an embarrassing mess. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Anyway, today I want to take a little breaky from the horrors of the present day. | ||
| And because Alex seems to not want to come back to work, we're going to check in and see how this interview with Iron Mike Tyson... | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Kid Dynamite. | ||
| Wait, so this is done... | ||
| It's done not right after. | ||
| It's not like they just finished the shrooms in Halloween, and then like five minutes later, they're like, okay, now we'll do your interview. | ||
| I think it's pretty briefly afterwards. | ||
| No shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And it actually kind of makes me think that if they did shrooms, it wasn't much. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, I know that shrooms aren't going to make you freak out, necessarily. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But I don't really see that much, like... | ||
| I think he's really fucked up on the clips that they have of... | ||
| Mike's show. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Which leads me to believe, yeah, maybe there was a longer gap between them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or Alex is faking all that shit. | ||
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Right. | |
| When he's acting all fucked up because he thinks it makes him more interesting. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| One of the two. | ||
| It could be he was smoking oregano kind of situation. | ||
| Or it could be he went and had a shower. | ||
| A long fucking shower. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| And took some of his pick-me-up dust. | ||
| Exactly, yes. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Whatever. | ||
| Took a couple of those fun, fun snorts. | ||
| I know that sometimes cocaine can level you out. | ||
| Well, one way or the other. | ||
| So here's where we begin. | ||
| And actually, where we begin is Alex doing a little bit of an introduction to the video. | ||
| He's sitting there looking at the camera at Infowars Studios. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And here's what he's got to say. | ||
| A month and a half ago, I got a very exciting phone call. | ||
| It was from Mike Tyson. | ||
| I mean, I grew up watching him. | ||
| Those incredible matches. | ||
| And then I saw his evolution. | ||
| Into somebody who really is very intelligent and thought-provoking. | ||
| I've learned a lot from Mike Tyson. | ||
| I'm a big fan. | ||
| So I traveled out to California, did his podcast, also got a short interview myself. | ||
| It was incredible. | ||
| He said, man, this is one of the best interviews ever. | ||
| I got told not to have you on, but I've overridden it, and it's going to air. | ||
| Well, a month and a half passed. | ||
| I talked to Mike last week on FaceTime. | ||
| He said, hey, we're pushing forward. | ||
| It's going to air. | ||
| And then a day later, I got a call from his assistant, Troy, who's a great guy as well, and he said, listen, we pushed hard, we fought hard, but we don't own the show. | ||
| We have a contract, and they're not going to air it. | ||
| I then reached out to some other contacts, and they confirmed that YouTube put pressure on them not to air the interview. | ||
| Absolutely incredible. | ||
| So this is next-level censorship in America. | ||
| There's a conspiracy. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| As always. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Some big YouTube exec was like, what's that? | ||
| On Mike Tyson's podcast? | ||
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Not a chance! | |
| Not on YouTube! | ||
| We'll allow Robert Kennedy Jr. to come on and spread anti-vax bullshit, but Alex Jones knew. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| No. | ||
| But, I mean, if any of that is to be believed, it's just indicative of how toxic Alex's brand is. | ||
| He is less amenable to advertisers than the king of anti-vaccination. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's just more people, more lay people know who Alex Jones is. | ||
| And he's not a Kennedy. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Alex is not a Kennedy. | ||
| Yeah, he's not a Kennedy. | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| One of the things that I think I would really like to press Alex on is... | ||
| Specifically, what has Mike Tyson taught you? | ||
| I would like to know that. | ||
| Give me specifics about the lots of things that he's taught you. | ||
| I really want to know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Maybe some things about perseverance. | ||
| I was willing to let that one slide. | ||
| It hit my ears uncomfortably. | ||
| But then I was like, you know what? | ||
| You probably could learn some things from Mike Tyson. | ||
| I feel like maybe I'm being a little bit discounting there, but maybe... | ||
| But I'm curious what they are. | ||
| That is a good question. | ||
| I'm sure Mike Tyson has a lot of life lessons. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But yeah, I think Alex is full of shit. | ||
| Don't... | ||
| Actually, I bet Mike Tyson was like, listen. | ||
| Check your bag. | ||
| Don't take a carry-on. | ||
| You think it's going to be smart? | ||
| Just check your bag. | ||
| So here is Alex setting this up. | ||
| And I hope that his team can really stand up against what's happening because this is really, really dangerous for all Americans' basic free speech. | ||
| Look, it's one thing if Alex Jones is banned off YouTube, but it's another thing to say that Mike Tyson can't interview me. | ||
| The interview was powerful. | ||
| It was loving. | ||
| It was really incredible. | ||
| And we also took mushrooms live on air. | ||
| So it's wild. | ||
| Here comes my interview with Tyson with excerpts of the censored interview. | ||
| You'll only find it right here at band.video. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| I hope you enjoy. | ||
| I think actually from the context that we'll get of a clip from Tyson's interview, I think... | ||
| That maybe they took a small amount of mushrooms before the show. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then Mike Tyson has a brand of edibles that he refers to as shroomies. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| They're weed gummies. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think that Alex might have thought that that was shrooms that he took on air when it was actually just an edible. | ||
| I really don't think you're allowed to take shrooms on air. | ||
| I don't know what the laws are now. | ||
| I've lost track, man. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| That is a good point. | ||
| So I don't have a whole lot to go off of, but I would guess from all the available context that this was not a powerful interview. | ||
| As we'll see in the interview that Alex released between him and Mike, the two of them have approximately zero chemistry, and most of the topics they cover are ridiculous. | ||
| Also, I don't think it's actually censorship at all. | ||
| If what Alex is saying is accurate, then what happened is that a company decided that releasing this episode would have a negative impact on advertising, so they didn't put it out. | ||
| I don't think that's necessarily a good thing but it's not what Alex wants to make it out to be. | ||
| Mike and his team decided that the easiest way to make this thing work was to sell Mike's celebrity to a bigger company who would then own the podcast and Mike and his team would be paid by that company. | ||
| The money that comes in is from advertising, which is handled entirely by the company that owns the podcast. | ||
| And if they understand that having a friendly interview with Alex, where the host does hallucinogens with him, while the Sandy Hook trial was set to be taking place, because they recorded this in April, you might end up getting some pushback from your advertisers. | ||
| Well, that's a maybe. | ||
| And these companies that own podcasts don't just sell ads podcast by podcast. | ||
| They have a ton of shows that sponsors by bulk ads. | ||
| time on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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This is one of the reasons that Spotify was so keen to get Rogan on an exclusive deal and pay him so much. | |
| Having him there exclusively on their platform was theoretically going to provide a great boost to what they could charge for ads. | ||
| If Tyson has Alex on and they do drugs and pal around talking shit, while simultaneously the grieving parents of murdered children are facing Alex in court, you can easily see how some companies would not want their ads to be on that show. | ||
| Mike's podcast is owned by a company called Malka Media, and without being rude to the other shows on that network, I don't think that advertisers are banging down the door specifically to buy their ad time. | ||
| It's very reasonable to assume that Tyson is a large part of their ability to sell ad packages for this podcast network, so if someone pulled out of his show, they probably wouldn't stick around for the other shows on the network. | ||
| People decide what their priorities are in life and their careers, and then their choices reflect that. | ||
| In this case, Tyson's team sacrificed creative control and ownership of their own podcast in order to have someone else figure out how to make money off their show. | ||
| You can call that censorship if you want, but it's really just the downside of the arrangement Tyson's team. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I mean, you know, remember when podcasts were a new, exciting medium, and then they were like, what if we turned it into the old one? | ||
| Right. | ||
| But worse. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's one of the reasons why we have been insistent very much to never even open emails from people offering us ads. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like, no, that's not something we're interested in at all, because that does open the door for, like, if you're on a network... | ||
| And all networks are run differently, so some obviously have more of this and some have less of this. | ||
| But you open up the possibility that they can say, like, we own your content. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Because they generally do. | ||
| That's part of why they buy you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And, you know, you make a bit of money on these ads, but also, ultimately, at the end of the day, if they say no, then you can't just... | ||
| Put something out yourself. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They own your show. | ||
| It's gonna be funny whenever, like, everything collapses and all these big podcast networks can't afford all of their fun studios and all that stuff, and we're gonna be, like, looking at people from the same exact place, being like, yep, worked out for us! | ||
| Well, yeah, and we'll never reach the heights of some of these things. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| But we'll also... | ||
| I mean, if the bottom falls out of podcasting and everyone has to record in their home, that's what we've been doing all along. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| We are prepared. | ||
| This is a prediction I have. | ||
| You'll pretty much never see Alex popping up on a show that has to worry about advertisers, except for shows that rely on courting negative attention in order to stay relevant. | ||
| Those types of shows will have Alex on because their advertising model is different. | ||
| They have outrage bait that gets them attention and feeds some sort of a cycle where people talk negatively and then people fight, and that gives them more attention and higher ratings. | ||
| Alex is perfect as a guest for something like that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But other places that have different advertising models that rely on people not being, like, pissed off at them, generally you'll never, ever see him there. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's hard to justify that, you know? | ||
| Because if you're one of the Red Scare or whatever, one of those podcasts, you know, it's like, fuck it. | ||
| The people who advertise with us are already playing with fire. | ||
| They're already choosing to be on the edge of decorum. | ||
| Just a tiny step over that is not that big a deal. | ||
| I don't know if folks like Sam Tripoli, the tinfoil hat that Alex has been on... | ||
| I don't know if he has ads. | ||
| I would assume he does. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| But yeah, it's the same sort of thing. | ||
| It's like, in for a penny, in for a pound. | ||
| Yeah, you're already on that edge, so fuck it, you know? | ||
| But if you're a show that's like, yeah, Target doesn't want Alex on their fucking word, you know, like, yeah, okay, I get it. | ||
| Yeah, MeUndies has a problem with Alex. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| So, anyway, the interview starts here, and you'll notice a sound effect. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This was not added in post. | ||
| You rolling? | ||
| Are we on? | ||
| This is a new show. | ||
| some new shit up. | ||
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*coughing* | |
| What's he doing, Mom? | ||
| Well, here we are. | ||
| This is a family show. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Tyson, the maverick, legend, the American success story. | ||
| Thank you very much, sir. | ||
| It was my pleasure. | ||
| It was great to see you on your show. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe are you hiding something? | ||
| Somebody told me you were a bad dude, man. | ||
| I can't find it. | ||
| I'm a good Jersey character. | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| I think we all want to believe that we're good judges of character, but that can't be true for everyone. | ||
| I don't know Mike personally, so it's hard to say, but he did work with Don King, and he thinks that Alex is cool, so my money is on his radar not being great. | ||
| Well, I'm pretty sure Dennis Rodman said that he was a good judge of character there, too, so I imagine that North Korea is pretty stoked about that. | ||
| Also, to Mike's question of whether or not Alex is hiding something, yes, he's hiding a lot. | ||
| If you want a better sense of what sort of trash he puts out, you should try to watch his show a little bit before having him on the show so he can lie to you. | ||
| It is funny. | ||
| Is he hiding something? | ||
| No. | ||
| He's broadcasting it in public for everyone to see. | ||
| He's hiding something from you in person. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Because, like, that's the image of the person that he wants to be. | ||
| And he knows that most of these folks, like, Mike Tyson doesn't have fucking time to listen to InfoWars. | ||
| Mike Tyson doesn't go to InfoWars and be like, ooh, I bet this guy's a good guy. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| He's just not going to go to InfoWars. | ||
| No, and most people would get so goddamn bored listening to his show, especially if you have things to do. | ||
| If I had anything else to do, I would never be able to make it through an episode of his show. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Also, you notice that Mike lights up a joint immediately. | ||
| Immediately. | ||
| And you get the sense that Alex is really wanting him to pass it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's not happening? | ||
| It's not happening. | ||
| Oh, Mike! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'll tell you what lesson I didn't learn from Mike Tyson. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Bogart in a joint. | ||
| It's puff, puff, pass, baby. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So this clip is just a little ironic. | ||
| I thought I was coming to a tip down from the KKK. | ||
| By the way, they told me I told them to have some of my fat ham. | ||
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I'm the opposite of KKK. | |
| So here we are, Mike. | ||
| I tell you, you are just... | ||
| Seems like you're in your prime right now. | ||
| What is fucking happening? | ||
| I think Mike seems like he's in good shape. | ||
| But also, it's just funny for him to have a coughing fit from the joint. | ||
| It looks like you're in the best shape of your life, buddy. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| There's just a juxtaposition there. | ||
| When you were knocking fools out in under a minute, that was great. | ||
| But listen to you now. | ||
| Look at those. | ||
| Look at the lungs on you. | ||
| You pulled on that joint for an hour, man. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, I mean, the joint, obviously, and whatever possible mushrooms they've taken. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It leads to some pretty heady conversation. | ||
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Okay. | |
| It's pretty deep stuff. | ||
| Everybody I know talks about, Mike Tyson, his energy, he's so positive, he's so happy, but then you say amazing things. | ||
| I mean, it's true. | ||
| I mean, in our Hour Plus podcast, where I was on with you, it was amazing. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I can ask some of those same questions here. | ||
| Before I ever got to it, are there aliens? | ||
| You were already bringing up, we are the aliens. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| I think our teachers are time. | ||
| And the more we dig, the deeper we become. | ||
| And the more we find. | ||
| You know, the more we dig, the more we find out about ourselves. | ||
| We find out maybe life started in Turkey. | ||
| 9,000 years ago, other than Africa. | ||
| We found the city... | ||
| I'm sorry, what? | ||
| What just happened? | ||
| So how does that debate with Africa being a civilization? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| No, I agree. | ||
| I mean, look how much the media lies to us. | ||
| Imagine how much history lies. | ||
| Yeah, history is our lives that we agreed to be true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| So, one thing I want to point out is, like, when he's saying the deeper we dig, the more we learn about ourselves, I think he's talking literally about archaeology, maybe? | ||
| I'm fairly certain, yes. | ||
| Because he does talk about an underground city. | ||
| Yeah, he said, oh, we found a city in Turkey. | ||
| He's literally saying that if you dig deep into the earth, you're going to find old shit. | ||
| I think it's not metaphorical. | ||
| It is not metaphorical. | ||
| But also, life definitely predates 7,000 BCE. | ||
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What? | |
| But even so... | ||
| When? | ||
| Mike has some information wrong here. | ||
| So this is about a city that was discovered underground beneath Derinkuyu in Turkey, which was actually rediscovered in the 1960s. | ||
| It's part of a complex of underground tunnels under the Cappadocia region of present-day Turkey, which are theorized to be part of a refuge plan where people could hide out from invading armies. | ||
| These tunnels and cities are not 9,000 years old. | ||
| They're actually closer to 2,000 years old. | ||
| In 2020, another complex was found under the city of Midyat, and it's believed that this was a place where persecuted Christians were able to hide in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. | ||
| This is about as good as this interview is going to get. | ||
| Just complete nonsense being thrown around that dips into the supernatural and paranormal. | ||
| And because Alex is so desperate for celebrities to like him, he just agrees to anything Tyson says. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| The media lies to us, how much does history lie? | ||
| I don't know if there's ever been a series of words that has made me just go like, oh, goodbye. | ||
| It's actually an interesting thought. | ||
| In as much as, like, history absolutely does lie. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And every historian knows that. | ||
| The study of history does include the understanding of biases. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| At least as it relates to, like, sources that you can have. | ||
| And that's one of the reasons why it's a fairly complicated field of study. | ||
| And you want to have context. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You want to have multiple angles on events and things like that. | ||
| Alex is discussing it as trite, but it's actually, you know, there's some truth there. | ||
| But Alex doesn't want to get into the... | ||
| He just wants to say that the things that you're taught aren't true in order to denigrate and degrade the idea of an objective reality. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| That's why I don't want to listen. | ||
| Yeah, he himself has an agenda of deceit. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's no way that you can credibly read anything about history and be like, yep, I bet that guy nailed it 100%. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's just not true. | ||
| But I think everybody who's serious about studying history would give you a qualified version of history is full of lies. | ||
| Fuck me, people don't even agree on what's happening in the present, let alone stuff that happened several thousand years ago. | ||
| Almost feels like several thousand years ago might be easier. | ||
| It would be easier, right? | ||
| At least it can't happen anymore. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's already done. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| So we get to some philosophical talk here. | ||
| This is heavy. | ||
| So, in your years on Earth, what do you think the ultimate secret is? | ||
| I guess you kind of said at the start of our talk, I wrote a few notes while you were speaking earlier, but that being born is dying, but dying is being born. | ||
| Giving someone life. | ||
| The process of dying, because once you die, once you're born, the process begins. | ||
| We can't stop from dying, and it's so beautiful because as time goes on and the process of dying goes on, there's so many beautiful moments. | ||
| Then dying becomes, you know, it's not even that important anymore. | ||
| Like you're sitting with Mike Tyson and sharing his tobacco with him. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| That is a magic moment. | ||
| Great tobacco. | ||
| Magic tobacco. | ||
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That was Alex's way of trying to be like, give me the joint. | |
| Let me take a hit, goddammit. | ||
| I can't just watch you smoke it in front of me. | ||
| And honestly, I can't have this conversation unless I'm getting higher. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| Seriously, this is ridiculous. | ||
| This is awful. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
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This is an annoying conversation at a house party. | |
| And yet it's happening between Alex Jones and Mike fucking Tyson. | ||
| Why am I... | ||
| I leave parties. | ||
| I mean, I went to college. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| I went to college many times. | ||
| And actually, I've been sort of in Alex's position here, which is somebody is saying this kind of stuff. | ||
| It's like, all right, whatever. | ||
| But they have the weed. | ||
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So it's like, well, all right, yeah, whatever. | |
| I agree with you. | ||
| I'll put up with bizarre esoteric triteness. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| Yeah, like when your weed dealer would come over and then just sit. | ||
| And then be like, are you going to pass it? | ||
| And you're like, no, I just bought this from you! | ||
| Yeah, but come on, man. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| So Alex and Mike kind of don't see eye to eye on where this should go. | ||
| I think Mike wants to ground this conversation in some kind of reality. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Or at least in the personal realm. | ||
| Whereas Alex wants to think globally. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Thanks, sir. | ||
| Tell me, are you married? | ||
| I am. | ||
| Tell me about your family. | ||
| Do they worry? | ||
| Do they worry about your kids? | ||
| If I have worries about them, yeah. | ||
| What's your view on what's currently happening with the Russia situation? | ||
| What? | ||
| These dudes have no chemistry. | ||
| I just can't imagine like fucking Edward R. Murrow getting fucking blasted high with fucking Ginsburg right before they did an interview. | ||
| And then he's like, alright, what's your feelings on Vietnam? | ||
| Also noted geopolitical scholar Mike Tyson is the person you want to ask about. | ||
| What do you think about what's going on with Russia? | ||
| That's a terrible comparison because Ginsburg might have an interesting thought. | ||
| I wasn't comparing him to Ginsburg as much as just who it would be super productive to ask that question to. | ||
| Probably not Mike Tyson. | ||
| Guy who was known for fighting. | ||
| Then went to prison for rape. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And then now is kind of a drug weirdo. | ||
| Ah, he had a TV series. | ||
| Cartoon Network. | ||
| And also was in The Hangover. | ||
| That's true, yeah. | ||
| So he's had a big career. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So that qualifies him to talk about Russia. | ||
| I wonder what... | ||
| Stoned out of his mind, Mike Tyson thinks about Russia. | ||
| But don't you think that if these guys had any kind of chemistry, the conversation that Mike brings up is actually an interesting one. | ||
| What are your feelings about the world that we live in and your family? | ||
| There's something there, and Alex could follow up on that, and then I bet Mike would offer something else. | ||
| If his feelings on the matter are about his family... | ||
| That's kind of how a human conversation goes. | ||
| A give and take, if you will. | ||
| Instead, there's a lull, and then Alex asks him about Russia. | ||
| Less of a give and take and more of just a fucking take. | ||
| I will give you this answer, and then now I want to know what you think about Putin. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Why wouldn't you just say Putin? | ||
| It's impersonable. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| Like, he's thinking, like, oh, we gotta get to business. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, it might be a matter of, like, him only having a very short time that Mike will put up with this. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I have other things I need to do. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| Like, record voiceover for the cartoon or something. | ||
| So, Alex actually does want to know about Russia. | ||
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Okay. | |
| And so here's... | ||
| Mike has a weird take on this. | ||
| How does Mike Tyson... | ||
| You know, we saw Dennis Robin almost in the Korean War that's been going on for 60 years. | ||
| It kind of has ended, thanks to him. | ||
| Could you go over there, maybe? | ||
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Thanks to Robin? | |
| You know, I'm going to look at it like this. | ||
| People are not going to like this. | ||
| Sometimes I see a hawk, and he grabs a... | ||
| It's not a pigeon, but it's like a robin. | ||
| grabs a bird and I can stop him from killing that bird. | ||
| But once I stop him from killing that bird, then he dies. | ||
| His baby died. | ||
| So who am I saving? | ||
| How am I right? | ||
| Because I tell my kids, who's the wrong person? | ||
| How are you right if you saved that bird right I think that's the real knowledge, is thinking multi-steps ahead. | ||
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That is the real knowledge. | |
| No, because that's what we're born to do. | ||
| This is all born to happen. | ||
| Everything that's happening right now is ordained by God. | ||
| Anything we do, we're interfering. | ||
| We're the only problem people. | ||
| Everything else is perfect. | ||
| Just us. | ||
| We're like fungus and stuff. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Ah, so if I understand correctly. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If we don't allow Putin to reconstitute the entire USSR, then his kids will not be able to eat anymore? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah, if you deny someone imperial ambitions... | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's the equivalent of a bird not feeding its youth. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| That is a... | ||
| What do you want from Mike Tyson? | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| You know, like, fine, but why are we doing this? | ||
| But I also think that the philosophy that he's actually espousing is a horrifying way to live. | ||
| It's a complete abdication of responsibility to do anything. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| And it's also internally convoluted and inconsistent. | ||
| Because if he's saying it's humans who get in the way and everything is... | ||
| You know, now that you put it that way, maybe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I feel like at a certain point, this is a conversation between a guy who I think if I sat down and talked to, I could probably get to agree to what I say. | ||
| I don't know who you're referring to, because I think you could probably do it with both. | ||
| Well, I mean, maybe. | ||
| Depends on the topic. | ||
| Well, I mean, depending on what level of fury. | ||
| But then Alex is just going to agree to whatever Mike Tyson says. | ||
| So Mike Tyson is a very seemingly easily swayable person at this point in time. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't know enough to say, but yeah, it's possible. | ||
| I think that from the other episodes, the clips that I've watched... | ||
| I don't have a really good sense of this but I think it would be possible for you to sit down with Mike Tyson and have a bizarre but okay conversation. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
| I think almost anybody would have more chemistry with him than Alex. | ||
| Yeah, that would definitely be true. | ||
| Like everybody else that I've seen on the show, I watched a bit of the Eminem one, a bit of Piers Morgan, a bit of Trina, of course. | ||
| There's some other ones I watched a bit of. | ||
| And yeah, they're just people who are like, they're actually going back and forth. | ||
| There's a little bit of interplay between them. | ||
| It just, Alex's. | ||
| What a weird situation. | ||
| Also, thank you so much, Dennis Rodman, for ending the Korean War. | ||
| I can't believe that Dennis Rodman ended the Korean War because he did not, first off. | ||
| And two, because why would he? | ||
| Or how could he? | ||
| Or what? | ||
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Well, he hung out with Kim Jong-un. | |
| I mean, honestly, it's kind of in Dennis Rodman's worst personal interest to end the Korean War. | ||
| Because then he won't get to hang out with his rich buddy anymore. | ||
| Also, here's the other thing. | ||
| If Alex were to accept Tyson's philosophy and worldview, he should not be fighting the globalists. | ||
| Because if he does, the globalists won't be able to feed their children. | ||
| Everything is as it should be. | ||
| He doesn't need to kill that big hawk. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| The strong murder the weak in order to feed their kids. | ||
| It's the circle of life. | ||
| And that's why you have to let millions upon millions of Ukrainians die. | ||
| Honestly, I do kind of think that that is... | ||
| In line with some of the stuff that Tyson espouses. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He does believe that there is a natural hierarchy and that it is correct, which is bizarre. | ||
| But we'll get to that a little bit down the line. | ||
| Yeah, he's been hitting the head a lot. | ||
| Here is, after this, it goes to a clip from Mike's podcast that Alex recorded. | ||
| This new invention of all the people, it's a little screwy. | ||
| So he's saying it's... | ||
| A little shroomy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And he's got a bag. | ||
| But I think... | ||
| I can actually explain this here after this clip. | ||
| I think. | ||
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I think. | |
| Those are famous teeth right there. | ||
| Oh, you eat that ear! | ||
| It tastes better than a bandit. | ||
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Oh my god! | |
| This ain't even real. | ||
| So, what happened there is he has ear-shaped edibles. | ||
| Oh, like, yeah, I gotcha. | ||
| So he didn't quite bury the hatchet all the way with... | ||
| Or maybe Holyfield gets a cut or something. | ||
| Maybe better. | ||
| So Alex is grabbing... | ||
| He already got a cut, my man. | ||
| Alex is grabbing the bag from him and insisting on biting it to be like, oh, this will be a good commercial for you or whatever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's sad. | ||
| But I think maybe the ear looks a little bit like a mushroom. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Or something like that. | ||
| That seems to be like maybe... | ||
| What he's getting at. | ||
| Or maybe they tried to put some of the hallucinatory chemicals in there, maybe. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe it's got a little bit or something along those lines. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's a little shroomy? | ||
| Maybe that's what he's saying? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But it is just a weed edible. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It is a little bit like, you know, I watched some Getting Doug with High. | ||
| You know, Doug Benson did that show at Largo and he would have very famous people all get high together on stage and then they'd just, you know, be high. | ||
| And the fun of that... | ||
| Is the natural tension of, like, is somebody going to get too high? | ||
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Right. | |
| You know, who's going to get too high? | ||
| And somebody does, but everybody else just kind of freaks out. | ||
| I do not enjoy that natural tension. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That tension's gone. | ||
| Everybody's gone. | ||
| Everybody's too hot. | ||
| But that is the clip from the podcast that hasn't been aired. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They're too hot. | ||
| If that's indicative of anything, it's like, this doesn't... | ||
| Don't put this out. | ||
| Don't put this out. | ||
| This is just not a product you'd want to, like... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, alright, maybe we can have Alex on another time if he controls himself or something. | ||
| But, like, yeah, this is just... | ||
| There's a difference between, like, Alex being fun and weird on Rogan's show, maybe, and him being kind of embarrassing with Mike Tyson. | ||
| Tyson doesn't know him like Rogan does. | ||
| And it comes off sad. | ||
| Yeah, I wouldn't put a lot of hallucinogens in front of a person with absolutely zero impulse control, but that's just me. | ||
| To each his own. | ||
| So we get back to Alex's interview. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Seeing you in the last decade or so in interviews and everything, I've really grown to love what you're doing, and I've learned so much from you. | ||
| I mean, you say a lot of stuff because I know a lot of philosophy, a lot of history that's original and true. | ||
| What? | ||
| I mean, you're definitely not plagiarizing, folks. | ||
| You're coming up with, like, the essence. | ||
| It seems like you're really plugged into the zeitgeist. | ||
| So just like you were plugged into the zeitgeist fighting, now it seems like you're plugged in intellectually and spiritually to the zeitgeist. | ||
| I just follow the spirit of fighting. | ||
| And the spirit of fighting puts you in so many different arenas. | ||
| It's the spirit, because that's what fighting is. | ||
| It's our spirit. | ||
| It's nothing physical. | ||
| It's the spirit. | ||
| What keeps us alive, that makes us fight. | ||
| So does something click, or what? | ||
| You just boom, you're in the zone? | ||
| That's what I'm born to do. | ||
| It has to be. | ||
| So what do you think you're... | ||
| What is your current fight? | ||
| With me. | ||
| With me and my behavior. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So I think the one thing that Mike has said so far that constitutes like a philosophical thought is that idea that life is, in essence, gradual death. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| That's not even close to original. | ||
| That's something like Arthur Schopenhauer said, and that dude died in 1860. | ||
| The entire school of existential nihilists would probably agree with Mike, too. | ||
| It's not unique at all. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's nothing groundbreaking here. | ||
| It's just two stone dudes talking shit about stuff they don't really understand, but they've surrounded themselves with people who are too afraid to tell them that, like, this is high school level stuff, guys. | ||
| Yeah, that's not good. | ||
| This is not deep. | ||
| No. | ||
| And it's kind of telling that you think it's deep. | ||
| It tells me how deep you tend to go. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I... | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Just because you hit people a while back doesn't mean you get to grow old into a guru. | ||
| And I feel like a lot of people who hit people a while back feel like they get to grow into a guru. | ||
| And you don't. | ||
| You just don't. | ||
| So that, like, stolen valor of somebody wearing a black belt... | ||
| Who never earned it is the same as that valor of pretending to be a guru philosopher without ever actually learning anything. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| I mean, I'm trying to think of other people who fit the mold you're talking about. | ||
| I guess like Eddie Bravo. | ||
| Jean-Claude Van Damme. | ||
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Well, I mean, he was quite deep. | |
| The muscles from Brussels had a lot of ideas. | ||
| Steven Siegel? | ||
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Seagal? | |
| That's his name. | ||
| What? | ||
| I listened to it on the dollop. | ||
| It's Seagal. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| He changed it. | ||
| Made it sound like that because he didn't like sounding like he was a Jew. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| Because he is. | ||
| He's Jewish. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Yeah, look, he sucks. | ||
| In the movies. | ||
| He sucks. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Anyway, Alex brings up hallucinogens. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this is where we... | ||
| First encounter, the toad. | ||
| What about hallucinogens? | ||
| We see big corporations now and studies admitting that mushrooms and other things are actually helping people way better than synthetic drugs. | ||
| You, it seems like, have, if anybody's a test case for being more empowered and made better, I would say it's Mike Tyson. | ||
| I don't want to put words in your mouth, but as far as DMT, as far as mushrooms, as far as the toad, how do those fit in? | ||
| How would you describe those three things? | ||
| I would be a junkie right now. | ||
| I probably would cut some... | ||
| Dreadful disease right now. | ||
| And it just woke me up and raised me to my highest potential. | ||
| Trying to reach that. | ||
| So it connected you to your real hard self? | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| The toad saved Mike's life. | ||
| Alright, I kind of want to do that toad now. | ||
| Was it that specific toad? | ||
| No, it's the same thing as from old TV shows and cartoons where people would lick toads. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| It's just that. | ||
| Yep, he licked a toad and it saved his life. | ||
| Yeah, apparently this has caught on a little bit. | ||
| Oh yeah? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is this like how ayahuasca was a huge thing like ten years ago and everybody's like, are you going to try ayahuasca? | ||
| That kind of thing. | ||
| Yeah, and there's some preliminary research going on in terms of it having advantageous psychological... | ||
| Right. | ||
| There are some indications that, in the same way that there are indications that psilocybin can be very helpful for therapeutic purposes. | ||
| No, ecstasy is amazing. | ||
| MDMA is supposed to be amazing for PTSD and that kind of stuff. | ||
| There are applications that are being explored in terms of the toad. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Did he keep it? | ||
| If a toad got me high, I would feel grateful. | ||
| And I would take it back with me, and it would be my emotional support toad, so it would help me there, too. | ||
| He didn't stumble upon a toad one day. | ||
| That's not what happened. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| Did it talk? | ||
| In the cartoon, maybe. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Mike compares the toad to, like, ayahuasca. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And the comparison is shocking. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How would you describe mushrooms versus toad versus DMT? | ||
| Mushroom... | ||
| What's the other? | ||
| Ayahuasca. | ||
| All that other stuff, that's a party medicine. | ||
| If I don't say party medicine, it's the one we call it drug. | ||
| That's how I call it. | ||
| You take the toe, and it's a little long. | ||
| Take the toe, boom, you go see the guard right away, and he's telling you shit. | ||
| Right away. | ||
| There's no hesitation. | ||
| You don't got to wait 30 minutes. | ||
| Boom, right away. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It blows your mind. | ||
| I'm scared I haven't done it. | ||
| It is scary, but by doing it, you gain so much courage. | ||
| Hey, buddy. | ||
| Hey, buddy. | ||
| Ayahuasca is a party drug? | ||
| Ah, that's a party drug. | ||
| The thing that makes you shit your pants? | ||
| No. | ||
| Scream for hours? | ||
| Oh, come on. | ||
| Everybody says that, but it's a party drug. | ||
| You gotta lick toad if you wanna do the real shit, buddy. | ||
| Well, actually, I'm glad you've brought this up, because you don't actually lick the toad. | ||
| That's the old way of doing it. | ||
| Ah, but you could. | ||
| They've found a way to freebase toad. | ||
| Okay, I'll freebase a toad. | ||
| Wait, did they kill the toad? | ||
| Um, I don't think so. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| What did you, I would be honored if you tell us. | ||
| Because I've seen you talk about this a few times, but you haven't really said, boom, straight to God. | ||
| But describe for me, just in visual, however you can, what the toad did to you, or what's it like? | ||
| You sit down. | ||
| He takes this fine... | ||
| First, he busts it off the... | ||
| He busts from the pus, from the toad. | ||
| He puts it on the mirror. | ||
| It gets hard. | ||
| He makes fine sand. | ||
| He puts it in this crack-looking pipe. | ||
| You smoke it. | ||
| Hold your breath. | ||
| And when you... | ||
| Let it go. | ||
| Your soul goes here, your body goes there, and you go on a journey. | ||
| Now, what did you say? | ||
| More toads. | ||
| All your demons. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, could have been more toads. | ||
| Toad demons. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is... | ||
| You know, I remember a time when Alex would mock the idea of people who sit around to talk about... | ||
| Yeah, he would make fun of somebody who just sat around and talked about freebasing toads all the time. | ||
| Toad pus. | ||
| Toad pus! | ||
| Gotta take that toad pus, you make it into a fine sand, and then you freebase it like a crack. | ||
| Good lord. | ||
| That's fun. | ||
| Yeah, so he describes what it's like, and I understand what he's saying and the effect... | ||
| of it being positive or possibly freeing for him. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But exactly what he's describing could lead someone to a mental breakdown and, like, jumping out a window. | ||
| It was like there were a thousand knives in between each one of my fingers, you know, right in that soft spot. | ||
| See, not really, because that is really difficult to interpret in a positive way. | ||
| True. | ||
| What he's talking about is a psychological effect that he had that I think you could interpret positively, but also it's very easy to imagine. | ||
| Someone experiencing the exact same thing and it breaking them. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I don't know if I would be so quick to describe this as like... | ||
| Let's find out. | ||
| And what did you say? | ||
| All your demons. | ||
| You experience everything that you're afraid to tell somebody because you know they will have an opinion about you and not be your friend no more. | ||
| If you have the feeling that everybody knows all your troubles, all your dirt, and you're just naked. | ||
| You know, just living your life, not allowing. | ||
| It's just, I can't articulate it. | ||
| No, you did it perfectly. | ||
| So it's transcendent. | ||
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Did he? | |
| Yeah, it's just letting you know this is who you are. | ||
| Deal with this. | ||
| You have that feeling. | ||
| You don't see anybody, but you have that feeling that all the dirt, all your dark side, you would never want anybody to know about you. | ||
| It's open. | ||
| You have that feeling of freedom like that. | ||
| And it's really... | ||
| You call it completion. | ||
| Almost like just beyond satisfaction? | ||
| No, because I did it around 60 times and every time I did it... | ||
| Different domain. | ||
| Yeah, it's not like, hey, I'm ready for this joke. | ||
| I did it so many times I can handle it. | ||
| No. | ||
| It takes you somewhere else. | ||
| Oh, you're like, fuck! | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So yeah, he's done Toad 60 times. | ||
| That's a lot of times to do Toad. | ||
| That's a lot of Toad. | ||
| That's a lot of Toad. | ||
| So yeah, the experience of feeling like everybody knows all of the things you're ashamed of. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There is a way that you could look at that as like, well, what's the big deal? | ||
| I can withstand any of this. | ||
| There is a liberating feeling that you possibly could come to, or it could be the most intolerable feeling you've ever had in your life. | ||
| It would be the scariest idea that everybody knows everything about you. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think people respond differently. | ||
| Here's what I would say to you about that exact feeling and who it is freeing to and who it is not freeing to. | ||
| It is freeing to celebrities who everybody already knows everything about them and make up bullshit all the time and they have to deal with it anytime and anywhere they want to do anything. | ||
| I would even bet that some celebrities it would not be good for. | ||
| Oh, that's probably true. | ||
| I think it really comes down to like... | ||
| The way your mind experiences things. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I don't even know if that would be... | ||
| I think it comes down to the way your mind experiences toad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because I don't know if that would be a universal experience for people to have. | ||
| God knows, yeah. | ||
| Is it standardized toad? | ||
| Yeah, who knows? | ||
| What's the... | ||
| Is there a USDA rating on the toad? | ||
| Yeah, what's the grams on it? | ||
| Is it milligrams? | ||
| Like, what are we talking about here? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's strange, too. | ||
| But I also think there's a, like... | ||
| There's a level that would be different between different people of like, what are the things you don't want to tell people? | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Because some people, it's kind of like trivial stuff. | ||
| And for some people, it's like, well, I killed somebody. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, for Alex, it would be like, well, I didn't kill somebody. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And everything I'm saying is a lie. | ||
| It has been for almost three decades. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But like... | ||
| There are differences. | ||
| And then there's also differences in terms of self-awareness. | ||
| Like, you might not have access to things that you should feel guilty about in some cases. | ||
| And some people have too much access to things and feel guilty about things that they don't need to feel all that worried about. | ||
| And I think that it would be difficult in the toadscape to parse. | ||
| Well, I mean, based on what Mike Tyson is describing, I think... | ||
| Toad would absolutely kill Alex Jones brain dead in an instant. | ||
| If it works the way that he says it does, yes. | ||
| Yeah, he would suddenly be flooded with an unconscionable amount of sin in one moment. | ||
| So many fake kernels come up to him in his head. | ||
| Yeah, I think that would be as close to the total perspective vortex from Douglas Adams. | ||
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The total perspective. | |
| Ah, you're good. | ||
| You're good. | ||
| So, look, you asked if it's standardized. | ||
| I'm interested. | ||
| And here's where Mike gets his toad. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| How do you know it's the real toad, though? | ||
| Huh? | ||
| How do you know it's the real toad? | ||
| It works. | ||
| I have shaman. | ||
| It works? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because, obviously, we're talking about it, so everybody's going to be watching this. | ||
| Let me explain. | ||
| The shaman is... | ||
| He's pretty much like the guru, the teacher of the toads and the message of what the toad is from and the whole history of the toad. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Well, who knows? | ||
| Yeah, that's amazing. | ||
| Is it amazing that a shaman who does nothing but give people toad knows about toads? | ||
| He's got a toad shaman. | ||
| He's a toad shaman. | ||
| Where is the toad shaman from? | ||
| The Mushroom Kingdom. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Not a good one that time. | ||
| Look, you can't win them all. | ||
| But, yeah, I think, I would guess, Toad Shaman might be a sketchy dude. | ||
| Ah, no! | ||
| No! | ||
| Some sketchy dude in L.A. who calls himself a Toad Shaman instead of the Toad Dealer? | ||
| Well, he wears different clothes than you'd expect a dealer to. | ||
| He wears flowing outfits. | ||
| Yeah, nobody's on the corner. | ||
| Hey, you want some Toad? | ||
| Someone said that to me. | ||
| I'm just so confused. | ||
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I mean, maybe? | |
| Oh, God. | ||
| I'm so out of touch with stuff that I didn't even realize this was coming back as a big hallucinogen until I was listening to this. | ||
| I'm like, wow. | ||
| I've got to look into this. | ||
| I looked it up, and there are articles in the paper about it's recently become a lot more prevalent, but it just seems so silly to me because... | ||
| It is the same thing as licking toads. | ||
| It's exactly the same thing as licking toads like you saw in cartoons when you were young. | ||
| Yeah, and like maybe one of your dumb friends licked a non-hallucinogenic toad. | ||
| They were like, this is gross and I drank a lot of pee and shit. | ||
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Yeah, that's just funny. | |
| Just licking toads. | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| That's tourism. | ||
| You just don't want to actually lick the toad and get all the pee on there on top of your hallucinogen. | ||
| That's weak tea. | ||
| You take the good with the bad, as Mike Tyson himself would say. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because that toad isn't going to be able to feed its family. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's like going to Laos and going to McDonald's. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Lick the toad. | ||
| Lick the toad. | ||
| Coward, lick the toad. | ||
| So we have another clip now from Mike's podcast that Alex recorded. | ||
| This is some deep stuff. | ||
| Stuff about geopolitics Yo, does China got penis back From all your recent... | ||
| Hell yeah, you know, they... | ||
| Listen So we need to worry then So we need to fucking worry Listen, everybody despises us That they can't do nothing about We are the bullies, man Russia and I'm glad they ain't no damn bullies You think we're worried about Putin and this charity? | ||
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Why he didn't do anything when Trump was in power? | |
| Because Trump was trying to... | ||
| Biden told Putin on the go-ahead debate to set him up and Putin took the debate. | ||
| Yeah, under Trump, let him do that. | ||
| See, I didn't even know that. | ||
| Just remember, we are the big boys on the campus. | ||
| Sometimes news ones feel like we're picking on people and people are picking on us and they got, no, we're the big boys. | ||
| If somebody's picking on us, it's because we think she's picking on us. | ||
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Other than that, nobody can do anything with us. | |
| We talk and make it. | ||
| We carry big, big, big fucking guns. | ||
|
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Why are you eating nasty booze or something like that? | |
| Because I want to date her. | ||
| You want to date her? | ||
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You have oral sex with her? | |
| I would. | ||
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I would. | |
| She's hot. | ||
| I would have oral sex with her neck. | ||
| I want to lick out of asshole. | ||
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This guy hates me. | |
| You hate her. | ||
| I want to lick. | ||
| It's like a rat. | ||
| That would have done that. | ||
| That is this thing. | ||
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No, no. | |
| That's the air for me. | ||
| I'm dreaming of licking her butt. | ||
| She's already been shitting on me for a long time. | ||
| Ah, family show host Alex Jones talking about giving Nancy Pelosi anal ingus. | ||
| Come on! | ||
| That's when business picked up, though. | ||
| You could tell, like, there was a change in the vibe. | ||
| Everybody was like, yay! | ||
| I want to eat Nancy Pelosi's ass! | ||
| Rim jobs are where we're at! | ||
| Come on, buddy! | ||
| But I also... | ||
| I kind of think it feels like they're laughing at him. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| It's not like this is a funny guy. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Look at this idiot. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Look at this village idiot. | ||
| Oh, look, that ear really got to him. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Also, that co-host who's asking the questions, he didn't know that Biden told Putin to go into Ukraine because that didn't happen. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| He didn't do that. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| It is, of course, news. | ||
| Yeah, it would have been a very weird thing for a president to have done and then to put into the news. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| What are you gonna do? | ||
| Well, you gotta rely on Alex to come in and do some drugs and tell you all about it. | ||
| If I didn't get my politics information from somebody who just took a weed gummy ear, then where am I gonna get it from? | ||
| Yeah, well, a toad shaman? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, what's next, huh? | ||
| So the Pelosi talk continues. | ||
| You can't trust anybody. | ||
| No. | ||
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What did she say about you? | |
| She believes in spending money. | ||
| She's actually my mother. | ||
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No, no, no, no, no. | |
| I mean, Nancy Pelosi's just a, I don't think you know what planet she's on. | ||
| She's just a front person, so I mean, it's like a cryptkeeper. | ||
| So, I mean, she's like a label on something. | ||
| You remember the crypting and the crypting? | ||
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Oh, yeah? | |
| The next episode will be really scary. | ||
| I'm going to be in trouble. | ||
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No, you're not. | |
| What if we said it in truth? | ||
| Pelosi's my mother and I lick your ass. | ||
| Wow, I appreciate your time. | ||
| Let's talk about one of our mutual friends, Joe Rogan. | ||
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Oh, God. | |
| This is annoying. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| You know, the thought occurs to me that Alex and Nancy have more in common than Alex or Nancy have with the rest of the world. | ||
| Yeah, that may be true. | ||
| That might be true. | ||
| People with $100 million are really only relatable to people with $100 million. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| There's a detachment, certainly, for both of them. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Creature comforts are available like tap water. | ||
| Think they're doing the right thing, but ultimately often are making problems worse. | ||
| Yeah, and borderline sociopathic whenever faced with an actual problem. | ||
| Analingus. | ||
| Both of them love it. | ||
| So yeah, again, if this is indicative of what the conversation was like on the podcast itself, I'm putting that baby on the shelf. | ||
| That's not coming out. | ||
| It does not fit with Tyson's other shows. | ||
| That is right next to Song of the South in the Disney vault. | ||
| That's right next to it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| They get to talking about Joe Rogan. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Because, of course. | ||
| They're mutual buddies. | ||
| Alex is talking to a celebrity, so Rogan's got to come up. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That's my credibility. | ||
| That's my cred, yeah. | ||
| Wow, I appreciate your time. | ||
| Let's talk about one of our mutual friends, Joe Rogan. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| What do you make of all the attempts to cancel him? | ||
| And I think it's only made him bigger. | ||
| What do you think about that? | ||
| I just think... | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I just think some people are so... | ||
| I'm not going to say blasphemous, but you're so... | ||
| And dignified. | ||
| They feel as if I don't want to hear that. | ||
| How dare him say that when it's not even directed towards you? | ||
| People want to fight other battles that don't even concern them. | ||
| You know, I don't know if that's the root of the world, but everybody wants to fight. | ||
| That's what this country is all about. | ||
| We have to fight something. | ||
| If we can't fight something, we fight ourselves. | ||
| We kill ourselves with drugs. | ||
| And that's just the state of our country. | ||
| He's been born on that physical altercation. | ||
| Yeah, and so they see Joe getting married, so they decide to make him a villain. | ||
| Yeah, listen, this country must have invented jealousy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This country, yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah, that does sound like somebody who thinks history started 9,000 years ago. | ||
| Isn't envy one of the deadly sins? | ||
| Never heard of it before. | ||
| Don't covet thy neighbor's wife. | ||
| Where's that from? | ||
| Is that Thomas Paine's poor Tom's almanac? | ||
| From the Federalist Papers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Uh, sure. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't find this that interesting. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Thankfully, things start to pick up a little bit in the next clip. | ||
| Why is America the most successful, but also the best, but also the most evil? | ||
| Seems like a paradox. | ||
| Like, it's all going on. | ||
| Because, um... | ||
| The reason why America is so successful was because of the yin and the yang, the balance. | ||
| If this was a perfect world, if we lived in a perfect world with all the food and all the money that we could even handle, we would peel off in groups, we'd kill each other, rape each other, and then we'd stop mating, and then we'd all die out. | ||
| That's what a perfect world would do. | ||
| Can you imagine that having everything in the world would wind up dying, but in a world with struggle. | ||
| There's a lot going on there. | ||
| So in a perfect society, we would all die. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't understand necessarily what basis there is for this. | ||
| Well, I mean, I think maybe. | ||
| And I'm going to be real generous here. | ||
| Maybe he's saying that the only way for society to be perfect is for there to be no society. | ||
| No. | ||
| Do you? | ||
| No. | ||
| If everybody's dead, then society's perfect. | ||
| No. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| He's saying that if we had all of our material needs handled and taken care of, we would turn into roving communities of fighting people who would kill each other. | ||
| And then everyone would die because we would stop reproducing or something? | ||
| Yeah, I was trying to avoid... | ||
| Why would we stop reproducing even if we were in gangs that were killing each other? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| People at war still fuck? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, they don't. | ||
| We'd all be too sad from having too many of our needs met, Dan. | ||
| I mean, look, I don't really know what to take away from that other than, like, clearly there seems to be a belief that pain is what makes life possible. | ||
| I suppose. | ||
| If I'm really grasping here, he's like, poverty is essential in order for... | ||
| The world to continue to exist. | ||
| Well, and as we know from early American history, life is suffering. | ||
| That's one of the four noble truths of the Ten Amendments. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Yeah, so that's where that came from. | ||
| I think that that's bizarre. | ||
| Also, the idea that God ordained some kind of a hierarchy or the pecking order or whatever is really dumb because... | ||
| It's changed a lot. | ||
| At what point in time is the natural pecking order achieved? | ||
| Is it under a monarchy system? | ||
| Is it under a feudal system? | ||
| Is it whatever we've got going on now? | ||
| Is it communism? | ||
| Who's to say which is the system that God ordained? | ||
| I'm going to throw this out at you. | ||
| Maybe what he's really saying is that things are going pretty good for me right now. | ||
| I get the feeling that there's a little bit of that. | ||
| Maybe I would be more interested in fighting for other people if my needs weren't met right now. | ||
| And also, I think that there's a really troubling end result of his thought process here, which is... | ||
| There is an abdication of any responsibility to... | ||
| To further the amount of people who enjoy some modicum of freedom. | ||
| Here's what I'll say. | ||
| Based upon what he is saying, I'll go the opposite direction. | ||
| He said that a perfect society where everybody's needs are met, we'd all wind up dying. | ||
| I would say a society built around his ideas, one with rampant income inequality, with a ruling class rapaciously treating the world, it would actually lead to everybody killing each other and dying. | ||
| And I'm just throwing that out there based on last year. | ||
| And then the year before that. | ||
| But you shouldn't fight. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Especially not fight for things that don't directly affect you. | ||
| Why does everyone care about... | ||
| Why is everybody fighting about other people's battles? | ||
| Why does everybody care about Joe Rogan being a rampant transphobe? | ||
| You're not trans. | ||
| Why would you care? | ||
| Why should you care? | ||
| It's not your battle. | ||
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You shouldn't care. | |
| It's not your problem. | ||
| People just want to fight. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| You just want to fight. | ||
| You don't care about anybody. | ||
| I mean, this is a... | ||
| Bordering on nihilistic worldview that I find objectionable, quite frankly. | ||
| But I also don't know if these are deeply held beliefs that he has, or if they're just high. | ||
| That's kind of what I was thinking when I said easily swayable. | ||
| I kind of feel like right now, with a conversation going the other way, he'd be like, well, obviously everybody should be taken care of, and trans rights are really important, and all this shit. | ||
| I don't know if that's necessarily true. | ||
| But here is a deeply held belief. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So you seem like really empowered and happy. | ||
| I don't know anything about empowered, but I'm just, I'm enjoying this life and looking forward to death as well. | ||
| Well, you talk about looking forward to death, Mike. | ||
| We don't want you to leave this plane anytime soon, but... | ||
| It has nothing to do with what you want, what people want. | ||
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I understand. | |
| I'm saying, you're right. | ||
| So you say you're looking forward to death? | ||
| Oh, absolutely, yes. | ||
| Yes, for what I believe death is, death is... | ||
| When I die, I believe that's when I really begin to live. | ||
| I think that there is a positive thing about making peace with the reality of death and maybe contextualizing it as part of the life process. | ||
| I don't really feel like that's what Mike's doing. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| He seems to be talking about death as like... | ||
| God, I can't wait. | ||
| Yeah, now they do seem to be having a lot in common in regards to that, you know, this whole thing is a test, and this is all bullshit, and everything is created as a trial, and then when you die, you get the good shit. | ||
| The difference is that Alex thinks you go to space and you fly around. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And Mike thinks you hang out with a toad. | ||
| I mean, it's a pretty cool toad. | ||
| And if you lick it, even when you're dead, you get high. | ||
| So that's worth it, right? | ||
| But then you lick it, and you think you're alive for a minute, as opposed to thinking you're dead. | ||
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That would make you want to kill yourself. | |
| Oh, God. | ||
| Anyway, Mike doesn't actually want to die. | ||
| That's the distinction that we need to make. | ||
| But you're not going to check out anytime soon? | ||
| Well, I'm not personal, but I don't clean a life. | ||
| You know, if I want to go somewhere, I'm going to go somewhere. | ||
| I'm not going to have any guns. | ||
| If somebody's going to try to rob me, they have to just kill me. | ||
| I'm not going through all that police and taking my money out and all that crap. | ||
| It's just, this is how I live my life. | ||
| Free? | ||
| I'd like to believe it's free, but it's not as an attempt to be free. | ||
| Man, I got to tell you. | ||
| Mike Tyson, like the biggest philosopher in the world right now into your 2022. | ||
| What other philosophers or thinkers do you admire? | ||
| I call young. | ||
| It's really awesome. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And even though people think this is stupid, Nietzsche is really awesome. | ||
| For me, my psychic, he's awesome. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So did he say that him and his psychic think Nietzsche is cool? | ||
| You got it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That makes a lot more sense of this whole... | ||
| Giving someone life is giving someone death bullshit. | ||
| Also, look, what Tyson's describing there is like a really likely situation. | ||
| Like a mugger is out looking for someone to rob and he chooses Mike Tyson, the gigantic man with a face tattoo who's considered one of the best punchers in boxing history. | ||
| I mean, obviously you burgle into his house when he's gone. | ||
| What kind of idiot would rob him? | ||
| If I were Mike, I would live my life free from the fear of that happening as well. | ||
| It would not trouble me too much. | ||
| Yeah, it would be. | ||
| It's interesting to have zero physical threat ever. | ||
| I mean, maybe you have some from a weapon or a sniper or whatever, but the odds of that are pretty low. | ||
| Also, I don't want to be a dick here, but the idea that you may not be free but are trying to be free, that's nowhere near a new philosophical idea. | ||
| And I think that's kind of the problem with the information space that this interview lives in. | ||
| It's not grounded in any kind of education on the subjects that are being thrown around. | ||
| There's like freshman-level philosophy class ideas that are being treated as mind-blowing. | ||
| They literally just threw out Jung and Nietzsche, the thing every freshman fucking class has. | ||
| And especially freshman edgelord types. | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Debate me! | ||
| So we're coming to the end of this interview, and I would say that if the other episode is anything like this, I would not want to put it out myself. | ||
| It's just not worth the hassle, and the quality of content makes this show look like an amateur operation. | ||
| We are an amateur operation, and I would still be uncomfortable airing this as an episode of our show. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| I would not do it. | ||
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No. | |
| For Alex, the calculus is different, though. | ||
| He puts out nothing but loads of trash, and there's no real downside for him. | ||
| The quality of content isn't important in the Infowar, as evidenced by the unbelievable volume of underlines. | ||
| unwatchable videos on Band.Video. | ||
| For Alex, the quality is irrelevant. | ||
| He was able to record a thing with a celebrity. | ||
| He knows that thing is going to draw in a lot of attention, so that thing needs to be put out, regardless of how little there is going on in it and how... | ||
| Just dumb some of this is. | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| He doesn't want people to listen to it. | ||
| He just wants people to talk about it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| He wants people on Twitter to clown on him for being such a drunk dum-dum. | ||
| He wants people to be outraged or whatever. | ||
| He doesn't actually care if anybody listens to the podcast. | ||
| What's important is that people keep talking about him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So, we have a couple clips left. | ||
| And one of them is Mike having an interesting... | ||
| Take on COVID. | ||
| I doubt that. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Are you glad the lockdowns are over? | ||
| The COVID stuff. | ||
| I never knew it was. | ||
| Well, you know, the whole COVID-19 lockdowns mask. | ||
| What did you think of it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if it's politically correct for me to say because people have died from it. | ||
| You can say whatever you want on this show. | ||
| I know it's a vital disease where people die, but me, myself, personally, I've been around thousands of people. | ||
| I've been the same boss. | ||
| I've been the center. | ||
| And this year, all this year, a couple of times, I've been the same boss twice this year. | ||
| I've been around a bunch of people hugging and kissing, eating with people. | ||
| We don't have masks, and I'm okay. | ||
| And I'm not saying I believe in COVID because it's killed some people. | ||
| Oh, me too. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| But if I don't have COVID now, I don't think I could ever catch COVID. | ||
| I was so congested in the same bars with so many people and loving and hugging so many people and I'm saying, well, I don't have it. | ||
| I'm never going to. | ||
| But you're the Uber mentioned. | ||
| That's why you never got sick. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| You're right here, man. | ||
| Uber, man. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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That's what I just want to say. | |
| No, no. | ||
| So why do you think you never got it? | ||
| Everybody else doesn't. | ||
| I don't know, but this is what I also know, too. | ||
| A person that has a disease can die from it psychologically faster than he could physically. | ||
| I really know that, yeah. | ||
| Oh yeah, they know that. | ||
| They know that. | ||
| I certainly hope that Mike didn't have a case of an asymptomatic case, or maybe a mild case that he didn't know. | ||
| Do you mean he almost certainly, statistically, probably had that? | ||
| Also, he doesn't say whether or not he's vaccinated. | ||
| He might have gotten vaccinated, and I could have taken his risk. | ||
| Significantly down. | ||
| I would not... | ||
| Based on what he has said so far, I highly doubt that he would want somebody to vaccinate him. | ||
| And the fact that he had Robert Kennedy Jr. | ||
| And that he had Robert Kennedy Jr. on doesn't... | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| I doubt he's like, hey, Robert, I've been triple-vaxxed, and I'm fine. | ||
| I'm literally Mike fucking Tyson. | ||
| What do you have to say? | ||
| Yeah, I think you're probably right. | ||
| But yeah, the notion that if I haven't gotten it, I'm not gonna get it is stupid. | ||
| And then... | ||
| Second, I don't know if I trust fully that he never got it. | ||
| Yeah, I don't. | ||
| I mean, I haven't been sick. | ||
| I've been very careful. | ||
| I wear masks all the time. | ||
| I avoided areas, especially indoors, for this period. | ||
| I don't know for sure that I haven't gotten it. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Because I could have had a case that I didn't identify. | ||
| It is entirely possible. | ||
| If you did, I did. | ||
| Like, neither of us have tested positive. | ||
| That does not mean that we tested when we may have had an asymptomatic case. | ||
| So, I mean, you know. | ||
| And I think that the odds for Tyson are significantly higher. | ||
| Because we've been really safe, too. | ||
| Based on the description of his behavior. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Wow. | ||
| You know, that is kind of a... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I suppose a childlike way of trying to view the world is kind of what I'm seeing right now. | ||
| It's just this idea of, like, well, whatever happens, happens. | ||
| And if it's not happening to me, it'll never happen. | ||
| And all of this, like, I don't have any concern. | ||
| And while I understand that not having concern can look like freedom, what it really more is is narcissism. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That might be another thing these two have in common. | ||
| That could be. | ||
| So we have one last clip here, Jordan, and Mike down for this, because I think this is actually going to get, it's going to veer into your wheelhouse here, and I don't know, I think you might have some things to learn from Mike. | ||
| I could even believe some people could even, what is that, project themselves and get themselves sick by worrying so much. | ||
| Yeah, that happens. | ||
| Make themselves believe that they have COVID and they actually get it. | ||
| Worry themselves to death. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's, um... | ||
| That's what, um... | ||
| What was the guy named? | ||
| Confucius? | ||
| Buddha. | ||
| Buddha that was trying to suffer. | ||
| That's why he became Buddha, because he couldn't handle why people were suffering. | ||
| And he said, there's no such thing as suffering. | ||
| So he decided that it's self-suffering. | ||
| More than suffering. | ||
| The suffering doesn't exist. | ||
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We suffer ourselves. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Wow, indeed. | ||
| Wow, indeed. | ||
| That is a wow moment. | ||
| For somebody to say that? | ||
| Yeah, wow. | ||
| Specifically, that's a wow. | ||
| I was blown away that you brought up the Four Noble Truths earlier. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| I was like, oh, just you wait. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So, Jordan, you're somebody who has a... | ||
| Passing interest in Buddhism. | ||
|
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Sure. | |
| I have three statements that Mike Tyson made in that last clip that I would like for you to evaluate on the Buddha scale. | ||
| On the merits. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The first one is he became Buddha because he couldn't handle that people were suffering. | ||
| How true do you assess this statement to be? | ||
| Well, I would say not at all true. | ||
| But... | ||
| I mean, Siddhartha wasn't stoked, but he was a super rich dude. | ||
| How really concerned can you possibly be if your solution after being super rich is to go sit under a fucking tree? | ||
| You see what I'm saying? | ||
| But motivation wasn't entirely that he couldn't handle that people were suffering. | ||
| No, it was more like, what the fuck's going on here? | ||
| So here's the second one. | ||
| He said there's no such thing as suffering. | ||
| God did not create suffering. | ||
| Well, let's start with God. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Let's start with suffering. | ||
| What's the first noble truth? | ||
| First noble truth? | ||
| What's that truth again? | ||
| Life is suffering. | ||
| So the thing that he said, the Buddha was like, there's no suffering. | ||
| God didn't create it. | ||
| Quite the opposite. | ||
| A little bit opposite, yeah. | ||
| Literally the opposite. | ||
| A little bit opposite. | ||
| So then the third one is, it's self-suffering that we suffer from. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Uh, well, eh. | ||
| There's a way you could kind of make that work, because suffering is what your desires are. | ||
| If you wanted to say that detachment is equal to self-suffering in that regard, then... | ||
| It's a stretch, but you can kind of get there that, like, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's as close to accurate as you're gonna get, but the notion that there's no such thing as suffering is real fun. | ||
| No, that one's bananas. | ||
| Also, the idea that he's mixing it up with Confucius is fun. | ||
| Yeah, I mean... | ||
| That makes sense, though. | ||
| It does seem like his knowledge of philosophy is just a jumble of stuff that pops out when it pops out. | ||
| He likes Jung and Nietzsche. | ||
| He's not into the Eastern schools as much. | ||
| Sure, but to throw that out, that's powerful stuff. | ||
| It definitely deserves a wow from Alex. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Let me throw this out at you. | ||
| How much does history lie to us, Dan? | ||
| Does Mike know something that we don't know? | ||
| Yeah, the toad told him that Buddha actually said there's no such thing as suffering. | ||
| The toad was actually Amitabha Toad. | ||
| You say its name as you lick it in order to... | ||
| Yeah, that's how it goes. | ||
| Yeah, I think you might be onto something. | ||
| So, we come to the end of this sort of wacky Wednesday. | ||
| It was wacky! | ||
| There was some interesting... | ||
| It was wacky-esque. | ||
| I think the thing that I really was impressed with the most is how little vibe there was between them. | ||
| That was... | ||
| I've seen him with Rogan and Eddie Bravo. | ||
| There's at least an electric chemistry between them that could make something kind of fun to watch. | ||
| And when he was on that Flagrant 2 podcast and he got fucking wasted, those dudes were going along with him. | ||
| They were taking his energy and coasting with it. | ||
| Whereas this is just two dudes who are not incompatible, but they just... | ||
| They're not vibing at all. | ||
| No, it's question, answer. | ||
| Question, answer. | ||
| With a pause. | ||
| Like, there's no give back. | ||
| There's no, like, you know, any moment where he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, and here's what I, and then you go back, and he goes back. | ||
| And Tyson says something completely bizarre, and Alex is like, yeah, totally. | ||
| Yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Actually, they've proven that. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And then he goes on to the next question. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Because he doesn't want to follow up with his bullshit, because then he's going to get into a disagreement with... | ||
| I'm talking about Klaus Schwab. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| Yep. | ||
| Anyway, Jordan, we'll be back. | ||
| Maybe Alex will be back in studio at some point. | ||
| We can figure out what he wants to say about January 6th. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| But until then, 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. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| We'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I hope you all have a wonderful and dreamy and creamy summer. | ||
| And now here comes the sex robots. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
|
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first time caller. | ||
|
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I'm a huge fan. | |
| I love your work. |
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