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July 29, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
02:35:19
#707: Dan's War

Dan’s War dissects Alex’s War, a documentary that sanitizes Jones’ history, ignoring his $1.5M Sandy Hook defamation fine or January 6th role—where he urged protests but failed to stop the Capitol riot. It omits key figures like Nick Fuentes and selectively edits depositions, portraying him as a persecuted truth-teller despite ties to fringe conspiracy allies (Zagami, Tucker) and repackaged theories (Agenda 2030 vs. Agenda 21). The film’s hero-worshipping framing reveals a pattern of whitewashing extremism, leaving audiences with a distorted legacy of unchecked rhetoric. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 22:02
d
dan friesen
01:20:17
j
jordan holmes
36:25
Appearances
Clips
a
ali alexander
00:20
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jon ronson
00:19
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
Knowledge fight.
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang, we are the bad guys.
Knowledge and fight.
Dan and Jordan.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I need money.
Andy and Pansy.
Andy and Pandy.
Stop it.
Andy and Pansy.
Andy and Kansas.
It's time to pray.
Andy and Kansas, you're on the airplane for holding us.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a fish-man colour.
Saying I love your room.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
Hey, everybody.
dan friesen
Welcome back, KnowledgeFight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're Gubble Dudes.
Like to sit around in a hotel room far away from Celine, worshiping from afar and talking about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
alex jones
Dan.
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
How do you feel about your desk?
Because mine's broken.
dan friesen
Oh, in your hotel room?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Did you break it?
jordan holmes
No, I did not.
Walked in there broken.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I'm proud of myself.
First time I've ever seen something broken before I touched it.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't find it.
jordan holmes
First time ever.
Fair enough.
But what's your bright spot for today, Dan?
dan friesen
My bright spot today, Jordan, is the good people at Noray Bar out in Louisville, Kentucky.
Louisville, as some people pronounce it.
Yes.
If you're ever out there, the best karaoke bar that side of the Mississippi.
jordan holmes
Heroes of the day.
I swear to God.
dan friesen
You don't even know.
Yeah.
So to fill everyone in, we had even more technical problems.
We were going to put out an episode yesterday.
We totally meant to go Wednesday, Thursday, Friday because we had some fun stuff to talk about, but could not get it done.
No.
Really fucked up.
It was looking good for a minute, and then it all just fell apart.
jordan holmes
I mean, it is apropos to call this a war because we did win a lot of battles.
dan friesen
Some battles?
jordan holmes
No, we lost some battles.
We lost some battles, but we did win some battles.
There were some times where we were so close.
dan friesen
It's debatable if we actually won those battles or if we just had the appearance and feeling that we had won those battles.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, we didn't overthrow Charleston.
I get it.
Like, the war ended with peace, not, you know.
dan friesen
Hope sprung eternal.
But Zach, the proprietor of Noray Bar is a friend of our buddy here in Austin, the Notta Health Ranger, John.
And he helped us out, hooked it up, and now we've got our equipment all set up and I'm not touching it.
jordan holmes
I honestly think we should move a little bit further away.
I mean, you have to be able to read, but I could be in the other room.
dan friesen
I'm really worried that there's going to be some kind of a electromagnetic field that I give off that curses.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit, the Ocean's 11 crew is outside.
They're putting out an EMP.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So anyway, if you are in Louisville, I've pronounced it three ways now.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's the correct number of ways to pronounce it.
dan friesen
Good karaoke at Noray Bar.
Anyway, what's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
Boy, you know, there's no bright spot brighter than finally getting to do this show, Dan.
We have recorded almost several shows.
dan friesen
Yeah, pretty close.
jordan holmes
And it has been a little bit like edging.
But like if edging was with knives, you know, like it really, really hurts.
And now to be here talking to you is spectacular.
dan friesen
And knowing that we have a thing in front of us.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Indeed.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today, here's the old sitch that we find ourselves in.
Quite honestly, I forgot to get wonk shout outs, and I think I'm not going to.
jordan holmes
Don't worry, bro.
dan friesen
No offense.
We have been jumping through a lot of hurdles.
Spoiler alert, it's almost midnight.
jordan holmes
You don't even record.
What time it is, and you don't want to know when we end.
You don't want to have any idea.
dan friesen
No, no.
Keep that shit far away from you, and let me deal with it.
jordan holmes
Let's pretend.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today we are going to be talking about Alex's War, the new documentary that has come out, comes out today.
jordan holmes
What?
How did you possibly see it, Dan?
Dan?
dan friesen
Some people have accused me of being a witch, and let's just say that.
unidentified
Did you search into your crystal ball and watch it from a distance?
dan friesen
God gave me a vision of this documentary when I was four.
jordan holmes
Well, it turns out you're actually close friends with Glenn Green while then you were there at the screening, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, that's correct.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that sounds right.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I'm helping him support Bolsonaro's regime.
Yes, that sounds correct.
So I managed to do some watching of this thing, and I got some thoughts on this bad boy.
Oh, yeah?
It comes out today.
jordan holmes
Accurate?
100%, I assume.
dan friesen
Well, here's my first thought: What?
Too long.
It's two hours and 11 minutes.
jordan holmes
No, Good movie, 90 minutes max.
dan friesen
Trim that baby up.
jordan holmes
Max.
dan friesen
Especially if you're doing a theatrical release.
You expect people to sit and watch Alex for that long?
jordan holmes
I was.
Well, let me tell you this right now, Dan.
When I was in the courtroom today, people watched Alex's show for a full hour.
How did you think they did?
dan friesen
I was watching the stream of that, and they, yeah, I mean, I think your tweet about one of the jurors who was writing notes.
jordan holmes
When I saw him, he was right there.
I looked over his shoulder.
When I saw him writing so diligently, he really cared.
And then at one moment, you could see him stop.
And you were like, yep, we've all gotten that.
dan friesen
He realized, like, I don't need to pay attention to this.
alex jones
Nope.
dan friesen
This is not going to mean anything.
jordan holmes
We're done here.
dan friesen
So this is going to be something.
And I will say, actually, interestingly, I even out of context drop from this documentary.
And I actually think that Alex sums up some of my feelings about this documentary fairly well.
jordan holmes
Interesting.
alex jones
Which I'm just ranting.
The whole thing's horseshit.
It's all just insane.
unidentified
Yep.
alex jones
Yep.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's pretty close to my feelings.
jordan holmes
I think you are.
dan friesen
I'm just ranting.
It's all horseshit.
jordan holmes
Is that a deep fake?
dan friesen
Shallow fake.
Yes.
So, like I said, this thing is too long, and there's a lot of problems.
But in advance of this documentary coming out, Jordan, I wanted to bring this up.
There have been some people who have maybe shown a few too many of their cards in discussing this documentary.
Some of these cards have been a little difficult to interpret, but they were shown all the same.
You have Glenn Greenwald, who agreed to do an embarrassing QA event at the premiere of this film where he interviewed Alex as a promotional event for the movie.
We're going to cover that QA on our next episode, so I'll leave some of my more specific thoughts on the side for a moment.
And then you had Matt Taibbi, who posted a ridiculous post on his substack where he appeared to just want to scold people who think this documentary is bad.
I honestly don't know his full argument because apparently the full thing is behind a paywall and he can fuck right off with that.
But you get the point just from the free version.
This is one of the more particularly pathetic passages in that.
Quote, in the pre-Trump era, it was understood reporters weren't supposed to avoid ugly or scary topics.
We were supposed to dive right in and in the non-judgmental manner of doctors, figure them out.
That was the job, but somewhere along the line, it became too taboo to ask the usual why questions about the likes of Trump or 4chan surfers or the subject of Moyer's new movie, Alex's War, the infamous InfoWars host, Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I'm going to have to stop you right there.
I threw a brick through his window while you were reading that.
dan friesen
It is a little frustrating.
After scolding people who aren't engaging enough with monsters, Taibbi ends his free section with this.
Quote, Journalists now aren't supposed to look too closely at their motivations, and most don't.
Wearing in curiosity like a badge of honor, Moyer looked.
Referring to Alex Lee Moyer, the director of this documentary.
jordan holmes
I read Taibbi's book like 20 years ago, where he was like the octopus capitalism or whatever bullshit he was writing then.
And I was like, man, this guy's got some thoughts.
And much like Glenn Greenwald, he shit himself in his mouth.
That's crazy.
dan friesen
Having watched this documentary, I can tell you that if Taibbi isn't getting paid to write that, he either hasn't seen this film or he's one of the stupidest assholes on Substack.
And that is a deep roster of stupid assholes.
We'll see through this exploration that this is not a documentary that asks why at any point.
And to the extent that it's even a concern, the why is entirely constructed by the subject of the film, Alex himself.
When you have somebody who's a huge liar and the reason he's divisive is because he's a hateful liar who lies all the time, it's kind of irresponsible to produce a documentary about them that skirts the issue almost entirely.
And if it's even addressed at all, it would just be Alex saying, I'm not a liar, which is then taken as fact.
There are no dissenting voices.
There is no other side presented at all outside of random people on the street yelling at Alex and short snippets of TV hosts making fun of him, which actually aren't included to provide any sense of balance.
They're there to inflate the image of Alex's noble persecution.
This documentary sucks.
I will say that right off the top here, and I make no bones about it.
I'm not trying to pretend to be a Taibbian neutral observer.
jordan holmes
Here's what we need to do: we need to bottle you up for another few.
Like before our next episode, we need to make it impossible for you to record anything so that all of your fury and passion and rage goes into writing about Matt Taibbi's bullshit.
Man, you are a fucking dynamo, my friend.
dan friesen
I don't want to go that direction.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
But this, Alex Jones, is a subject that I know and understand intimately.
And seeing it covered like this and witnessing these supposed free thinkers like Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald congratulate themselves for having the courage to support this film is disgusting.
Seeing them scold people for not engaging with what is pure and simple and exercise in whitewashing and rehabilitating the image of Alex strategically released at the time of his Sandy Hook trials beginning is an inexcusable act of either malice or intense delusion.
I can accept that it's possible that they think this film presents a fair and nuanced picture of Alex.
And then maybe they aren't acting out of a place of severely ill will.
But I have to say if that's the case, then they're guilty of the very thing they're scolding everybody else about, not engaging with difficult subjects.
The only way to think that this documentary can be experienced as just showing Alex as he is would be if you have done zero investigation on him and simply accept the framing that's put in front of you unquestioningly.
Having spent more than my fair share of time researching the topic, I can say with absolute confidence that Greenwald and Taibbi and anybody else who's not a full-on info warrior or right-wing zealot who says that this documentary shows a complicated and fair picture of Alex, they're a coward who's afraid to look at Alex as he actually is, or they've been tricked.
Fuck these people who are trying to rehabilitate Alex's image and make fawning portraits of him more mainstream, using whatever credibility they have in some perverted exercise of like, oh, you guys just can't handle dealing with this person who you're afraid of or is he's saying things that are dangerous to your worldview.
Fuck off.
Done 700 episodes on this clown.
jordan holmes
Let it be known that this will go down as one of the most righteously furious weeks of any human beings in the history of the world between you, me, Mark, etc.
This shit is f.
How are we in this room?
Did you hear that the fire department was called earlier today?
dan friesen
Oh, I was taking a nap and I was woken up by them saying everyone can come back on the building.
jordan holmes
I was in my room the whole time.
And I was like, you know what?
This is because I'm too mad.
dan friesen
Oh.
See, if I were Alex, I would say that it was Alex and the Info Warriors trying to smoke us out of the building so they can attack us.
Like he said about Chantilly, Virginia, when he was staying at that hotel outside Bilderberg and he pretended that he was under attack.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
Dan, I'm going to self-say to myself, neighbors.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I also want to say that that incident where Alex pretended that the globalists were trying to attack him in Chantilly, not in this documentary.
I'm going to make a lot of points of things that aren't in here.
That would be smart.
Also, the time that he went and bullhorned Bilderberg in Canada.
Nope, not in this case.
jordan holmes
Did they play that?
alex jones
No.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
No guitar or no violin.
jordan holmes
That's a fucking point.
dan friesen
I know.
So anyway, here is the beginning of the film, and it starts with a one-shot of Alex staring at the camera, a much younger man.
alex jones
Hello, I'm Alex Jones, and I'm a radio and television host based in Austin, Texas.
And for many years, I've been exposing the criminal activities of the global elite, also known as the New World Order.
My research has covered such topics as the militarization of police, the attack on America's national sovereignty, the destruction of private property rights, the family.
All of these institutions must be destroyed before the establishment can create their ultimate dream, a one-world government.
dan friesen
So this documentary begins with the clip that was originally the intro for Alex's film, Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove.
It's kind of fitting because although Alex probably shot to prominence mostly through his 9-11 conspiracy activity, one of his earliest publicity stunts that he pulled was the whole charade of Bohemian Grove.
And what is this documentary Alex's war but another publicity stunt?
There's a thematic resonance that may not have been intended that is made by putting this clip at the start of this documentary.
It links Alex's bullshit from his early career to the bullshit he's in the middle of trying to pass off and sell you as you watch this documentary.
In the same way that he intentionally lied about the circumstances of his trip to the Grove in order to manufacture a false reality that affirmed his worldview, this documentary is literally nothing other than Alex Lee Moyer allowing Alex to use her to do that again.
Present a wholly dishonest portrait that creates a false reality wherein Alex's idiotic worldview is affirmed and shown to have been right all along.
Based on literally everything in this documentary, I can very confidently say that this is not what Moyer was going for.
But it's interesting if you want to overanalyze it like a lit major.
jordan holmes
Sure.
Yeah, no, I can definitely see the what would you call it? Like the incidental irony of the circumstance wherein, you know, if you were making one movie, you could play this clip.
But if you were making a movie about that movie, you would play that clip and then play like a cut over it where it's like, boo, wrong, you know, like that kind of thing.
And then the rest of your movie would begin.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
There may be a couple moments in this film that kind of have that feeling to it.
It's like you didn't mean this, but there's an accidental thing here.
unidentified
See one box coming across.
jordan holmes
Music, right?
A little bit like, a little bit like you watch the documentary about a cheap trick, you know, and it's like, oh, it's so cool that they're alive.
And then you watch the behind the music, and it's like, they did a lot of drugs and they're all dead.
You know, it's like that kind of feeling.
unidentified
Oh, no.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, I'm so sad.
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then things took a turn.
jordan holmes
Took a turn.
dan friesen
So the documentary itself starts with some glamour shots, basically, of Owen Schroer at the Stop the Steel rallies in November in D.C.
And some people are yelling at him and what have you.
It's a good time.
jordan holmes
Sure.
unidentified
Magomarts, this ain't a million people, dude.
alex jones
John's got a complete man.
jordan holmes
This is the same opening to Swan Lake.
Did you know that?
dan friesen
Yeah, so the doc begins with a bunch of shots of Owen dramatically yelling into a bullhorn while surrounded by a ton of security, many of whom are the same folks that we've been seeing in the courtroom.
Interspersed are shots of people yelling at the Trump fans, more or less meant to signify the threat of Antifa, I guess to justify the ridiculous amount of bodyguards every Infowars person has when they're in public.
unidentified
Absurd.
dan friesen
Also, this is where the film introduces its framing device.
The film begins with footage from DC from the Stop the Steel protests that happened in November 2020, which you may recall as the end point of Owen's stupid caravan.
This is presented as 72 days until the election, which will be how all of this is understood.
The documentary is, I'm sorry, not 72 days until the election, the inauguration.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
This documentary is a countdown to the point when Biden is set to be sworn in with the flashbacks to points of Alex's career thrown in in order to, I guess, pad the runtime or something.
alex jones
Yeah.
unidentified
What was the name of your dance caravan project?
alex jones
Yeah, there it is.
jordan holmes
Yeah, let's just make sure that's it.
dan friesen
Parts one and two.
Before we get any further, it goes without saying that there are huge chunks of Alex's career that are completely ignored by this film.
For instance, there's no mention of his highly disgraceful Boston bombing coverage.
There's nothing about Jade Helm.
There's nothing about Y2K.
These things and countless others aren't included because if they were mentioned, it would detract from the illusion that this film is trying to construct.
Times that Alex was wrong, like about Sandy Hook, are meant to be seen as the rare occasions when he's meant well but got something wrong.
Looking at the broader picture of Alex's career would too easily reveal a different pattern, which really doesn't serve Moyer or this documentary's purpose.
Through this, you see lies that Alex is presenting, and they are being delivered by Moyer with literally no pushback and no other perspective being presented at all.
At other points, there are instances of full-on deceitful framing that is entirely the product of how Moyer decided to edit this film.
They are intentional choices that could have been made by the director or could not have as they were making the film.
It was up to them.
I'm going to do my best to be sure to delineate the differences between these types of deception because it's important to recognize how this product is actually a lie that Moyer and Alex are collaborating on creating, whether or not there's actually complete discussions.
jordan holmes
Alex and Moyer get into a room together and Alex is like, hey, make me look like I've got a giant dick.
It doesn't matter.
dan friesen
Yeah, they're creating that through both of their mediums.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Alex through lying and Moyer through directing.
jordan holmes
Selectively editing and such.
Yes.
dan friesen
But here's the thing.
Alex is just doing what he always does.
He's a narcissistic liar, so what would you expect him to do other than to lie to create a heroic mythology about himself?
Moyer, on the other hand, is pretending to be a documentarian, and almost everything in this film is a lie that she's telling through framing or a lie that she's letting Alex tell and choosing to present without any question or any suggestion even of any doubt.
She is, in essence, responsible for all of the dishonesty in this documentary, either through intentional choices or negligent filmmaking.
And I think that will be borne out through the process of our conversation here today.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
So I'm hearing that maybe she is not a good cat.
dan friesen
No, I don't think so.
I don't know all that much about her other than she's been on InfoWars a bit.
She made that a couple times, just like about her documentaries.
jordan holmes
She's funny on this show that that should alone by itself be like, oh, well, then this lady is a monster.
And we're like, well, we got to find some other credits to prove she's bad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
She made that incel documentary.
jordan holmes
Oh, yes.
dan friesen
See, she was there at the Greenwald QA and hung her head looking at her lap most of Alex's interview.
Perfect.
Anyway, Owen goes on to complain a little bit, just dramatically.
unidentified
I don't know how far you are.
I had been here since the fake pandemic.
And it's sad.
I come back to D.C. Everything's shut down.
Everything's locked down.
Businesses are boarded up.
You can't even go get breakfast.
You can't even go get dinner.
You can't even go shopping.
You got to wear a face mask.
You got to get a test.
You got to go into quarantine.
And it's given me a real taste of what a communist country would look like.
And it fucking sucks.
So I don't want the Democrats to turn America into a communist hellhole.
jordan holmes
Hey, thank you, police.
unidentified
We love you guys.
dan friesen
What Owen doesn't want is a country where his access to luxury and leisure commodities is in any way restricted.
He has essentially translated that into being what communism is.
So when there's a temporary shutdown of some businesses because there's an active pandemic that's killing thousands of people a day, Owen's only way of experiencing that is to say, bats communism.
He can't go to the water park, so America has fallen to Mao or something.
jordan holmes
Which is weird because I kind of had the opposite experience.
Most of the liquor stores didn't deliver booze until after the pandemic.
So now I feel like, you know, there were some positives.
I'm not saying there were no positives.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, you got to take the rough with the spoon, as they say.
jordan holmes
Thank God for small miracles.
dan friesen
So it's important to understand that a lot of the understanding that Alex and the Inforce ideology has of concepts like communism or freedom are painfully superficial, and they often revolve around appearances.
For instance, Alex constantly talks about the police state being like police in black ski masks, which is an aesthetic characteristic.
He doesn't, you know, talk as frequently about what behaviors would be associated with a police state, like police determining law and acting with impunity to meet out justice, because that would be way too complicated.
And when it actually does happen, he's generally in favor of it.
He doesn't usually have a problem.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I mean, constitutional sheriffs by maritime law are allowed to kill and execute anybody who disagrees with.
Yeah, no, no, no.
That makes it makes sense.
dan friesen
If you think real not soft about it, if you think real soft about it, the optics that Owen is describing could easily exist in a capitalist country.
There is nothing that would be stopping that.
At the core, the point that's being made is, I don't like the bad and scary thing.
And then they're just naming that thing communism or in Alex's case, like martial law.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
The words have no meaning.
They're basically just signifiers for like, no, right, right, right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
They could just be pointing at a sign that had whatever on it.
It doesn't matter.
dan friesen
No good.
But again, I think it's pretty bold of this documentary to start out with Owen complaining about it.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And it continues.
unidentified
But I do think it's sad that the violent left gets to come to D.C. and riot and loot and burn and destroy.
Destroy monuments, destroy parks and churches.
And then when we come to town, a group of people who have never burned, never looted, never rioted, never done any criminal activity, they shut down the whole city.
jordan holmes
Smash cuts on January 6th.
unidentified
We can't go in front of the White House.
We can't go into parks.
But the left who riots and loots and destroys, they get full access to all of it.
They get to put their prospects in the city.
jordan holmes
Capital has fallen.
unidentified
But God-fearing, America-loving patriots come to town and they shut this city down.
So it's pretty pathetic in D.C., I'm not going to lie.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, he's talking about the left destroying churches.
And right around this point, I believe, is when his buddy Enrique Tario is stealing a Black Lives Matter banner from a church and burning it and getting arrested.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that one.
dan friesen
So it should be mentioned here that about a thousand Proud Boys are pictured in this documentary with InfoWars personalities.
It's wall to wall.
In the first 10 minutes alone, Owen is seen with the head of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tario, and Rob Dew has a chat with the head of the Oath Keeper, Stuart Rhodes, whom he calls brother.
jordan holmes
You know, The Wire had a lot of former convicts in the show, you know, because that gave it a sense of realism.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
It's interesting that this documentary has a lot of future convicts in the show.
Yeah.
dan friesen
True.
And not presented as dicey weirdos.
So these two men, Enrique Tario and Stuart Rhodes, are leaders of groups who participated in organized planning prior to January 6th and stand charged with seditious conspiracy for their actions attempting to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
I don't think any left-wing group Owen can name has done anything close to that level of rioting, and the leaders of both of those groups are his friends.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's going to be tough to argue around.
dan friesen
Calm the fuck down.
These groups do all kinds of street violence and destruction, but that's super inconvenient for the Infowars narrative, so it's never happened before.
Anytime a right-wing or militia group has done something, it's either been purely self-defense against the left, who are actually the real problem.
jordan holmes
Oh, totally.
dan friesen
Or it was secretly the feds.
Reality has to be constructed this way because if you don't do this, then you'd have to distance yourself from these groups and marginalize the violent wing of the movement that you've constructed.
Alex would never do that because he needs these groups.
He needs them to continue to engage in street violence and hostile intimidation, and they need folks like him and Owen to justify it to their audiences by pretending it's only the left that ever acts that way.
And this is only considering the groups that are literally in this documentary and friends of the subjects.
You could branch this out to all sorts of far more militant right-wing groups from the Patriot Front on up and down the line.
And you'd wind up with the picture that the right has a substantially greater problem with organized rioting and violent outbursts than any leftist community or the specter of Antifa could ever be saddled with.
jordan holmes
Well, what you're forgetting is the absolutely violent leftist group that came about whenever Crayola put the peach crayon as skin tone.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
jordan holmes
And they're called Crantifa.
dan friesen
Oh, no.
Crantifa.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
Yep.
I'm going to live with that one.
I'm going to call home.
My friends and family are going to know about that one.
dan friesen
To change the mood, I should tell you that there was a guy who was walking behind Owen at this point who was wearing a Trump flag as a cap.
jordan holmes
Fantastic.
dan friesen
So that's funny.
jordan holmes
God bless Summary.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this cuts to Owen being interviewed in a black cowboy hat in a hotel room.
I don't know about...
jordan holmes
We live in a great world.
dan friesen
I don't know much about cowboy hat sizing.
But it feels too big.
jordan holmes
It's a little too big.
dan friesen
It feels too big.
jordan holmes
It's too big.
dan friesen
I'm not an expert.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But I think it's too big.
unidentified
Coming from a neutral perspective, you say, do you think government is corrupt?
Like 90% of people are going to answer yes to that.
Do you think that mainstream media is corrupt?
Again, like 90% of people are going to answer yes to that.
But I mean, sadly, you can't convince people, I think, that what they see on TV is a lie.
Otherwise, Alex Jones would have retired a long time ago.
He's going.
No, no, no.
He's going.
alex jones
What do you guys think about Alex Jones?
I mean, let me tell you, the sleeping giant is awake.
We're not going on your lockdown, too.
We're not taking your backseats.
unidentified
And Bill Gates can burn in hell.
dan friesen
Alex wouldn't have retired.
He would have said that the new thing that replaced the mainstream media was lying to them.
If he'd gotten his wish in 2008 and Ron Paul had been elected president, he would have done his whole deep state thing back then, finding traitors everywhere in the Paul cabinet.
I suspect the reason Owen laughed when he said Alex would have retired long ago is because he knows that's not true.
Total bullshit.
You hear the music swelling there, and because this is the point in the documentary, about seven minutes in, where we see present-day Alex for the first time.
This is a choice.
This is a hero shot with the triumphant crescendo and Alex being flanked by tons of people marching in D.C.
This is a decision that Moyer made as a director to introduce Alex this way.
It's almost like he has arrived.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
When the director was like, let's put Patton in front of this giant American flag, the director had no idea that that would make people think, oh, this is a patriotic man.
alex jones
No clue.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, no clue.
That was just a happy accident.
dan friesen
Yeah, I would say not great, not great form.
jordan holmes
Maybe not.
dan friesen
So this is Alex's second introduction.
The first was an intro to him as a concept with the clip of Alex from Dark Secrets.
This is meant to instill the message that he's been talking about the same thing for his whole career and he's been prophetic about all this stuff.
The second is an intro to him as a person as he exists now, and you see him as a man vindicated, leading a giant crowd, no longer the outskirt outcast on the fringes of society.
I have to stress this.
These are filmmaking choices.
This is how Moyer wants the audience to see Alex as he's introduced.
And that would be totally fine if this film questioned that presentation at any point.
But it really doesn't.
It's just this is glorification.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
That, to me, is a problem.
jordan holmes
I mean, it doesn't get more ...
How do you live with yourself is a question that I've been asking a lot.
Sure.
As I've watched shitball make arguments in court.
dan friesen
That's the defense lawyer's nickname.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, forever now.
There's a certain part of me that wonders at how many times have I said there's no bottom?
How many times?
dan friesen
A few.
jordan holmes
And yet I look at his brazenness and I think, there's no way that's real, you know?
And so with this kind of shit, it's such the same thing.
There's no way this is real.
We're living in fake town.
dan friesen
It's Fakeville.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I also should say, it's a good thing you brought up something that had to do with the trial because we will have a trial update on our next episode.
jordan holmes
Oh, don't worry.
Don't worry.
dan friesen
This documentary is a it's of the most it's today.
We're in the zeitgeist.
Yep.
So we have Owen introduced talking.
We have Alex triumphant man leading a charge on the streets.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
And then we get another character, and that is the man with the Kangol hat, Rob Dew.
jordan holmes
Ooh, I was hoping for Eric Orange.
Nobody has one job.
unidentified
You have to be able to adapt very quickly to ever-changing situations.
jordan holmes
I answered a Craigslist ad.
So everybody gets into InfoWars.
unidentified
I did an interview with a couple guys, and at one point they said, uh, this is working for InfoWars.
Does that make a difference?
jordan holmes
They're like very kind of apologetic.
unidentified
And I said, No, that's cool.
jordan holmes
And I'd already been listening.
unidentified
I knew who Alex Jones was living in Austin.
You see him all the time.
You go out in the crowd.
Alex Jones is the most popular person here today.
He's the most popular.
People know who I am, and I'm fucking behind the scenes.
And it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
And now that they've banned him and done all this stuff to him, it makes him even more prophetic.
jordan holmes
Not good in court.
You know, you get up, you carry the ball four yards every day.
unidentified
You're going to get moved down the field.
And that's what he does.
dan friesen
I think Alex probably does carry the ball about four yards every day.
But the problem is that for a really long time, he's been not heading towards the end zone.
He's been like going four yards toward the sideline, and then he changes directions every now and again.
He's been out of bounds for a really long time, is what I'm saying.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Rob's metaphor is stupid.
As is Rob Dew himself, shown here in his trademark Kangle hat.
He got this job through Craigslist, which is fun, but in my experience, most of the talent on InfoWars gets their job through winning a contest.
It's like Willy Wonka for bullshit.
I guess that the behind the scenes folks all just answered the wrong, vaguely worded Craigslist ad that doesn't say InfoWars on it so you can trick people into possibly working there because most people wouldn't do that.
jordan holmes
You know, my aunt was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Did you know that?
Have I ever said that before?
dan friesen
I didn't.
I didn't know that.
jordan holmes
She didn't actually get to do the questioning part, but she did describe to me constantly the experience of like answering who wants to be a millionaire questions as the audition and then getting the audition and then so on and so forth.
That was a more complex and difficult process than becoming an InfoWars host.
dan friesen
Yeah, for sure.
Or the nightly news director.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And one of the things that, I mean, is fun is that like Rob Dew got his job the same way I almost got scammed on a clerical opening.
And I answered an ad for a histology lab assistant position in 2009, and I'm still getting emails.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
No, well, Rob Dew sent me an email asking to be my roommate, but only if I sent him a couple thousand dollars because he needed money to move in with me and he couldn't afford it at the time.
But when he got there, he would have paid me twice as much.
So, you know, I almost thought about it, but I don't think it was true.
dan friesen
Probably not.
So here's where Alex comes in in earnest, speaking to the camera, laying out the truth.
alex jones
No, no, everything's a war.
I mean, that's the way the universe works.
There are competing forces that are trying to dominate.
And everything is propaganda.
The general public doesn't realize they're under attack by information.
And so I want people to become aware of propaganda and how it operates in the InfoWar.
So we call ourselves really what it all is.
jordan holmes
Guys know who he is?
You know, Alex Jones has info wars?
Very popular.
unidentified
Alex Jones is a fake.
alex jones
He's a performance artist.
dan friesen
So this is as close as you get to any kind of counter point being made at all.
It's just these little slivers of TV hosts.
Also, I think it's really fun that Alex is like, oh, hey, so look, there's war around information.
That's how he got our name.
Isn't that cute?
jordan holmes
Everything's a war.
It reminds me of the home movies thing between Brendan and Coach McGurk, where he's like, everything's a prison, Brendan.
Brendan, everything's a prison.
The school is prison.
Our lives, it's prison.
Brendan's like, this conversation, it's prison.
dan friesen
Yeah.
My buddy Ryan Beck, he and I started comedy together in Columbia.
And one of the things that I'll always remember is that I had a belief that all comedy is essentially an argument or a fight.
Wow, no, that's a good question.
jordan holmes
I want to fight at you about that, which is funny.
dan friesen
So many good sketches kind of involve people having an argument.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Right.
And so I was like trying to make this point to Ryan, and then we ended up in an argument by porn.
jordan holmes
And it's hilarious.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
He was curious about that.
jordan holmes
It seems like all you have to do is show them the Monty Python dead bird sketch, and you're like, this is comedy.
That's what it is.
dan friesen
And that is the only sketch that has ever existed.
jordan holmes
Ever existed, the only one.
dan friesen
So these clips of TV hosts continue.
unidentified
On his website, InfoWars, he touts what many would say are offensive claims.
jordan holmes
Paranoia porn.
unidentified
We're talking about somebody who trafficks in some of the sickest, most offensive types of theories.
alex jones
I'm perceived as a clown.
I'm perceived as a nut.
I'm perceived as a maniac.
Technocracy is dead on a rival.
I'm the most man, most demonized media person in the world.
jordan holmes
Oh, you're a little child.
alex jones
I've had tens of thousands of articles written, hundreds and hundreds of TV reports.
Every major national program you can name, every major publication.
I don't feel sorry for myself.
That's what happens if we get successful and you're over the target.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, this is a notion that is going on challenge, that all these people are making these criticisms of Alex because he's over the target, when in reality, most of those clips that he played were people making accurate points about him.
jordan holmes
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's like, it's just that notion of like, you know, they laugh at you and then you're right.
You know, is that Gandhi, that quote?
jordan holmes
No, it's like some of the things that you're saying.
Well, first they laugh at you, then they're like, watch out for this dude, and then they murder you or whatever.
dan friesen
Sometimes they just laugh at you.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Ideas aren't dangerous.
Sometimes people are saying that you suck and you're being an asshole, not because you're over the target, but because you suck and you're an asshole.
jordan holmes
No, it's like when Alex is sarcastically saying something that somebody else has said that's absolutely accurate, where he's like, oh, Alex Jones is a racist.
And you're like, you can say it sarcastically, but it's still true.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, it doesn't matter.
dan friesen
It doesn't really affect my feeling on whether or not.
jordan holmes
Objective reality must exist, otherwise we all die together.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, Alex has a thought on that.
Disagrees.
We're all going to die.
So this was maybe my favorite part of the documentary.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Fairly early, they show Alex behind the desk.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he's doing his show.
And then it goes to commercial.
And this is all staged.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
100%.
This is so fake.
Rob Du comes running in to discuss a breaking news star.
unidentified
No, This is the fakest shit I've ever seen.
alex jones
Now, that's some of the good news.
I'm going to give you the really nasty news coming up.
the forced inoculations, the checkpoints, the imploded economy.
unidentified
What's that?
alex jones
They also got some GMO.
This is your body, boss.
Yeah.
Well, it's just the mRNA vaccine attacks proteins.
unidentified
Yes.
And it's the one by, it says it on the front, the Pfizer.
alex jones
It's the Pfizer.
unidentified
It's the BioInTech, which I think is the mRNA.
alex jones
Yeah.
Holy fucking shit.
Oh, yeah, that's the horse.
So it attacks the protein from the placenta.
jordan holmes
And it packs the protein that helps make the placenta.
alex jones
These are motherfuckers.
dan friesen
These motherfuckers.
unidentified
What's that, Lassie?
jordan holmes
He's trapped in a well.
unidentified
Well, we got to go get him.
dan friesen
Oh, my God.
This mRNA.
You're telling me it attacks protein?
Holy fucking shit.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
Man.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
Unsolved mysteries is like, that is the greatest recreation anyone's ever done.
dan friesen
It's a fun fantasy.
I mean, even if it were real, it's not productive, and I don't see anything getting done.
But there is no way I believe that this happens.
jordan holmes
Do you know what I feel like?
dan friesen
I haven't watched his show as much as I have.
He is like drinking or sweating in another room during the breaks.
He's not doing any like, ooh, let's get more information on these stories I'm about to riff about.
jordan holmes
I hate to bring this up because I don't have specifics and I don't remember names and I really don't even remember where it's from.
However, this documentary does exist and it is one where the documentarian gets really close with a bunch of people who committed a genocide and then later over time he gets so close that eventually the people who committed that genocide agree to reenact the genocide they committed on film.
Right?
That is what this documentary should be.
Not like, have you ever considered genocide is awesome?
What about that?
dan friesen
Yeah, there are some editorial choices that I take some serious issues with.
jordan holmes
Doesn't take that.
dan friesen
But I do think that the vision of Rob Dew running in is so fucking funny.
jordan holmes
Everyone is yelling at me.
They all know the name of that documentary.
No.
dan friesen
I'm not.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
I don't remember either.
Exactly.
So I take some issue with this.
Alex starts discussing his earlier years now.
This is the portrait of a man.
And he brings up some of his reading history.
jordan holmes
Right, James Joyce.
dan friesen
And I think that this is actually fairly accurate at the end.
alex jones
History is just the river.
unidentified
Where we jumped in before.
alex jones
And so now once you know that history, you recognize where you are way down the river where you're at.
Deep, I've been in Austin since high school.
I was born in a small town outside Dallas.
dan friesen
Probably die in a small town.
unidentified
Nice.
alex jones
My parents were fresh traders.
There were books everywhere.
Reading comic books or science fiction books, which I first started out on at like six, seven, eight years old, was fun.
But as soon as I was reading Julius Caesar, it was like, this is real.
Like, this is what I want to know about.
jordan holmes
What a Jewish.
alex jones
It was everything from Plato to Nishi to Zbigno Brzezinski.
unidentified
All four.
alex jones
I didn't know what it all meant, but I just couldn't quit looking at it.
dan friesen
He didn't know what it meant.
He just kept looking at it.
This is Alex's work process.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know what?
I mean, I don't think that there is a more real sort of explanation of Alex's information base than I read science fiction in comic books and I really loved them.
And then I saw smarter books and I stared at them.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
I couldn't understand them.
So I skimmed them and then I pretended this was, you know, reading.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I mean, it does, it is very similar to what I did.
I read the Sandman comics and then I looked at hieroglyphics and I was like, well, clearly I understand them now.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I listened to that album by hieroglyphics.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I now know how to read them.
jordan holmes
That wasn't a bad album.
dan friesen
Not bad.
alex jones
No, it wasn't.
dan friesen
Dell the funky homo sapiens.
jordan holmes
Dell is, he's, he's opium.
He's 75% amazing.
dan friesen
I can't remember any of the other members.
Anyway, Alex had some more books that he read.
There's a theme here.
alex jones
I got really stuck on World War II books, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Sure, Heinz Hobel's Order of the Death Said.
I read the British Secret Wartime Report on the mind of Adolf Hitler.
I read that twice.
It was all about secret societies and Hitler trying to take them over and British intelligence.
And then I read Henry Kissinger, the writings of Moussey Tunk, the art of war, Time Life Encyclopedias on The Occult, or the Time Life Encyclopedias on the Wild Wall West.
I read them all cover to cover.
And then I found when I was about 12, None Dare Call a Conspiracy by Gary Allen.
And I already read all this other material, so I knew it was pretty much accurate.
dan friesen
So you may notice that Alex didn't really like books about World War II as much as he liked books about Nazis.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You should probably think about that.
More importantly, he's very clear here that he read None Dare Call It Conspiracy at age 12, which he knew was accurate because he'd already read all this other material, which raises the question, what other material?
He was a child reading all these history books he didn't actually understand.
He was skimming shit.
And then he read None Dare and decided this comported with his studied worldview, so it must be true.
I would suggest this is all bullshit.
And the reality is that None Dare resonated with Alex because he was brought up in an insane John Birch Society household, and the book matched up with what his dad had taught him was true when he was much younger.
Another important point to bring up here is that Alex is saying that he read that book at 12 and he definitely didn't read Carol Quigley's Tragedy and Hope before that point, which is why he approaches Quigley's book solely through the lens that he internalized from None Dare Call It Conspiracy.
He'd already consumed the John Birch Society propaganda prior to seeing the actual book, and I strongly suspect that he's never actually even read Tragedy and Hope.
It's really long.
jordan holmes
It's long.
We've talked about it extensively, and that's longer than the amount of time he's attempted to read it.
dan friesen
I do believe that he's read compulsively about Nazis.
jordan holmes
I will say this.
I will say this.
In that clip, if you'll notice, the only person that he's read, the only author whose work he's read who has not been party to or actively committed a genocide was None Dare Call It a Conspiracy.
dan friesen
I mean, I think that Gary Allen was pretty in support of apartheid.
jordan holmes
I mean, he was, but he didn't have the power to do, you know, like he did a genocide.
Mao, genocide.
Hitler, a genocide.
dan friesen
You know, Allen tried to maintain the Rhodesian government's rule.
jordan holmes
That's true, but nobody was like, let's make him an international sex symbol for no reason.
Do you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Yeah, that's true.
I'll give you that much.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's fair.
dan friesen
So Alex, like, he just read these books.
He got this, he got this world expanding thing when he was younger.
And thankfully, he had a lot of people in his life who helped him peek behind the curtains.
alex jones
My parents had a lot of interesting friends.
My mom's brother was involved in a bunch of clandestine stuff down in Central and South America after Vietnam.
And he would come sometimes to visit and tell them stories.
I mean, there's dinner table.
ali alexander
Rice and soft rice.
dan friesen
I actually think that is true.
I think his uncle was.
jordan holmes
No, I don't think you're wrong.
That's what is funny about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
alex jones
And my mom then had friends that were out from San Francisco that were involved, psychedelic research.
They would come talk about what the government was doing there.
Heard some of those stories.
jordan holmes
Okay, Ultra.
alex jones
My dad had friends that were in the John Birch Society, so there was a background noise of them about the one world government and the cashless society and the plan to break up the family and all this.
I mean, basically, I just grew up seeing a lot of stuff that was behind the scenes.
dan friesen
You could refute this clip by confronting Alex with his own words or with other pieces of information that are publicly available.
For instance, you could say that Alex's dad didn't have a friend that was in the John Birch Society.
His dad had been a member himself since college and had given speeches at JBS events.
It wasn't background noise.
That was the operatic score of his childhood.
Or you could bring up various versions of this stuff that he's told on his show over the years.
Like, was his dad actually a CIA dentist?
What about the part where his dad was the smartest boy in Texas and the globalists tried to recruit him into their depopulation conspiracy when he was 18?
These aren't things that Alex is bringing up in this documentary because this is a forum where he's kind of wanting to be taken seriously and not sound like a guy who's just making shit up all the time.
Yeah.
Because he knows that there's a chance that people who don't already like him will listen or watch him.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a bad idea to just go and say, you know, my dad had all of these books from the John Burchess Society, and also John Williams wrote the Imperial March for the John Birch Society.
dan friesen
And I read all the science fiction books that I've sort of blurred with those John Birch Society books and I've just turned into it.
jordan holmes
I'm not sure that Heinlein wasn't a fascist.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Heinlein was super cool, right?
dan friesen
Some people would say.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, you're not wrong.
dan friesen
So Alex gets further into his life, his younger life.
And there's just straight-up problems with this telling.
alex jones
Where I grew up outside Dallas was at that time the richest county in Texas.
A lot of the powerful evangelicals that were on national TV lived in Rockwall because a bunch of their networks were based in Dallas.
And so I would see like a famous preacher driving their cheesy Rolls-Royces and stuff, you know, in the really big houses.
I'd rather go.
You'd see him on their back porch drinking tequila, snorting cocaine off prostitute's breast.
And I'd be sitting there with binoculars when I'm like 12 years old watching that.
We would go to different parties.
You'd see the police pull up off duty, but in their uniform and come in and sell people drugs.
I never really told these stories because it doesn't sound real, but it was real.
dan friesen
Alex tells that story all the fucking time.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
It's one of the very few stories about his younger years that he tells constantly in mainstream outlets because it allows him to present himself as somebody who is sniffing out corruption from the youngest of ages.
Here's the thing, though.
On his show, he tells stories about these super rich people all worshiping the devil and them trying to lure him to join them in Satanism by offering him sex with their daughters.
There was a real serious devil worshiping problem in Rockwall that Alex was on the wrong side of, and they wanted to recruit him desperately because Satan had communicated to them that Alex was going to be very important for God's plans in the future.
We know this from Alex's telling of his youth, and this raises an important question.
jordan holmes
Was that?
dan friesen
Did Alex tell the documentary crew this?
If he didn't, then it's safe to assume that he was self-censoring because he knew that if he said that shit, he would look like a lunatic.
But if he did say that stuff and Moyer decided not to include it, that means that she's censoring her own subject to protect him from appearing to be as insane as he actually is.
I could see it going either way.
But the fact that this aspect of Alex's self-mythology isn't addressed here is itself an act of censorship, obscuring the reality that Alex creates absurd fantasy stories about himself to satisfy his narcissism and amuse his audience, keep them impressed with his exploits.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
This bullshit.
You have no awareness of Alex's story if you allow that to stand right question.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
It is somewhat of the central problem of our era with Alex Jones, which is that we can get distracted by the effect.
We can get distracted by the cause.
We can get distracted by the effect before the cause that led to the effect.
But the reality is that the cause before all three of those proves everyone involved is insane and we're all wasting our time with the other three.
If that makes sense to you.
dan friesen
I think it does.
I mean, like, yeah, it doesn't not resonate.
jordan holmes
It's convoluted.
dan friesen
Sure.
alex jones
It's not great.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex tells some more stories about his younger days.
And these also hit very familiar themes that we've heard before.
alex jones
Dallas was a kind of place where you looked at somebody wrong.
They jump out of their car and want to get the fight.
And so it was definitely extremely violent.
Extremely violent.
I saw people shot, some people stabbed, some people beat over the head with shovels.
I saw huge car wrecks, drag races, people on fire inside their cars.
You imagine like a James D movie, but 20 times that.
And so Dallas was crazy.
jordan holmes
I'm a rebel without 20 causes.
alex jones
My dad's not like a Super Macho guy, but he's old school.
He said, you better learn and kick some ass then.
I started, you know, becoming very aggressive and fighting back.
So then I kind of got proud of the fact that I was fighting.
I got put in chilinal quite a few times.
I was before judges because of the nature of the fights, people being in the hospital, people getting hurt really bad.
At a certain point, my dad said, we've got to move out of this.
We have to get out of this.
And those were good experiences because it taught me not to be a victim.
dan friesen
Congratulations.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
This characterization also doesn't match various versions of Alex's violent fighting years that we've heard from various sources, including Alex himself.
For one thing, Alex's story has always been that he uncovered a conspiracy, a secret drug dealing gang within the Rockwell Police Department.
And because of that, the cops threatened to kill Alex if he didn't leave town.
This is why his dad moved them to Austin, according to his consistent telling of it in the past.
Why so different now?
Possibly because his other story is completely absurd and no one outside of his audience would ever believe it for a second.
Possibly because Alex knows that this documentary is meant to reach an unindoctrinated audience and it would be bad for business if he scared them off with his normal bullshit.
Allowing that to stand unquestioned reveals that Moyer is not up to the job of making this documentary.
Either through negligence or bias, she's allowing Alex to contradict himself and not addressing it.
That's bad filmmaking.
It's bad storytelling.
And because the audience isn't made aware of this glaring credibility problem that Alex has, it's an act of sanitizing and presenting Alex inaccurately.
And it's dangerous because the audience could be susceptible to that.
jordan holmes
Can you imagine if in the Glenn Greenwald Q ⁇ A, Glenn was like, Alex, tell us about the time that you as a 15-year-old uncovered a drug dealing ring within the police department of your hometown.
Tell us more about that.
dan friesen
Yeah, and why wasn't that in the documentary?
jordan holmes
It's so odd it's not in the documentary.
One of the greatest stories I think I've ever heard.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it's part of your whole mythology about being a guy who's not afraid to stand up to power at a young age.
jordan holmes
At a young age, you were a hero among them.
dan friesen
I've heard him talk about it in a way that's like that's what turned him on to the idea that power is corrupt and all this stuff.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And now he just left Rockwall because he got in a few fights.
What the fuck is going on here?
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, Alex LeMoyer probably should have asked Alex about all the people he claims to have killed.
Couldn't hurt to ask about how he constantly talks on air about how it was mostly black people attacking him when he was younger because he was white.
Any of this stuff would be super relevant to presenting Alex accurately because the awareness that he constantly lies about himself is very relevant to a documentary where the main source of information about Alex is Alex himself.
By not addressing his credibility problem in any way, Alex is allowed to be seen as a credible narrator, which is a choice that Moyer is making about how she directed the film.
Maybe because she wants to lie for Alex or maybe because it's easier.
Maybe she's lazy.
jordan holmes
I'm surprised they didn't add the quote where Alex says that no black person has ever experienced racism from white people more than he has experienced racism from black people.
I'm surprised that didn't make it to the documentary.
That one seems really like foundational.
dan friesen
Yeah, that is strange.
So anyway, we get these dissonant depictions of his younger years that basically seem like watered down versions of the stories he always tells that are kind of meant to trick people into thinking that he is not a complete bullshit artist.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Maybe you can listen to him and it's not really as not really as insane as people say it is.
jordan holmes
Currently, this documentary feels like a massage for Alex with a happy ending.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think that's putting it delicately and mildly.
It's far more than that.
It's filthy.
jordan holmes
Wow, it's the first time I've been mild to you.
dan friesen
It's like a month at a hedonistic swingers resort.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean, oh my God, now I'm fucking failing.
I'm failing you.
God damn it.
dan friesen
Oh, no.
You know what?
jordan holmes
Bolak, goddamn, bohemian girl.
dan friesen
We'll get to that later.
Okay.
So Alex goes to Georgia because he was looking.
Alex went down to Georgia because he was looking for an election to steal.
So when he went to Georgia, apparently some stuff happened that wasn't on his regular show.
And one of the things that happened was he went to the Olympic Rings statue and he decided to shoot a little video about it.
jordan holmes
He figured it all out.
alex jones
What have I told you that hiding in plain view in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, there is a giant Nazi symbol that wasn't just one of the main symbols of the Nazis, but it was also designed, hand-drawn by Adolf Hitler.
dan friesen
Hitler absolutely did not design the Olympic rings.
They were designed in June 1914 by a French dude named Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
The reason that Alex is confused is because Lenny Riefenstahl made a documentary about the 1936 Olympics that involved going through Greece and making a prop that looked like an ancient object resembling the ring symbol.
In 1984, Robert Barney, a sports historian, found it and mistook it for an actual Olympic symbol, not knowing it was a Nazi propaganda film prop.
So the association with the design and the Nazis is the product of one mistaken sports historian and a Nazi propaganda film.
I'm willing to bet that Alex got it from the latter.
Even so, he's kind of just making up the part about Hitler designing it.
jordan holmes
That's silly.
unidentified
I'm sorry, but if I told you Hitler had created the Olympic sign, would you agree?
dan friesen
Also, I believe that that Olympic symbol is there because of the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex thought that was a false flag.
Yeah.
So also not in the documentary.
Oh, well, that's it.
jordan holmes
There's so much it seems like they left out of a relatively long fucking movie.
unidentified
Too long.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this is my second favorite part of the documentary.
Alex finds a guy on the street.
Feels like he front-loaded it.
They might have.
So Alex finds this guy on the street outside the Olympic rings.
And this guy is chill as hell.
He seems pretty cool.
And Alex tries to.
I don't know what point he's trying to make here.
alex jones
Good, sir.
How you doing, man?
unidentified
All right.
What's going on up here?
alex jones
Hitler designed that symbol.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
alex jones
So we were asking folks, should it be torn down?
unidentified
Oh, for real?
Y'all against Hitler?
alex jones
I'm against Hitler.
unidentified
See, you know, yeah, yeah, it needs to be torn down.
I'll say that, sit down.
I'm against our racism.
I love all people.
alex jones
I hear you.
But now, but we've taken that symbol, and now it's a symbol of world unity.
So maybe we've expropriated it.
It's kind of like if a bad dude stole money and built a house, we don't burn the house down.
We just take it over.
unidentified
Right.
alex jones
So why not just take it as our symbol?
unidentified
Okay, and make it our symbol, right?
alex jones
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
Right.
So yeah, I want to keep it up.
alex jones
Well, I'm saying if we're going to tear down everything old in America just because some people might have not been good, I'm just saying, why don't we tear this down?
unidentified
Right.
alex jones
Which I don't want to do.
I mean, look, I don't like Hitler, but that's a pretty good symbol.
He's pretty good.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
alex jones
I mean, you know, the VW symbol, he came up with that, the VW.
He invented the first Volkswagen.
First highways, but that don't blow the highways up.
unidentified
Blow the highways.
Yep, so Damn, Adolf Hitler, with a pen and ink created this symbol.
dan friesen
So it's kind of hard to assess what Alex wants to say, but based on the words he's using, I think I get it.
He's arguing that Hitler designed this logo, but it doesn't stand for Nazism.
So even though it has a bad history, it's now good, so we shouldn't tear it down.
This is actually him talking about the statues of Confederate generals that people wanted to take down, but he's making a convoluted point.
So here are the problems.
One, he doesn't think the Confederacy was bad.
So the history of those statues isn't bad to Alex.
Two, in what way has something like a Confederate general statue become a symbol of something good, whereas in the past it was bad?
I don't know how Bedford Forest has now become a symbol of something good.
jordan holmes
Well, well, well, Burnsides, now we've got sideburns.
dan friesen
Was he a Confederate general?
jordan holmes
No idea, but I'm going for it.
dan friesen
Okay, I don't know if he was.
unidentified
I don't remember Ambrose Burnside's.
jordan holmes
Listen, I'm going for it.
dan friesen
Also, third problem, Hitler didn't design the Olympics.
That's really the big problem.
jordan holmes
That's my favorite.
My favorite part of that clip is just the complete and perfect logic of the person responding to it, where it's like, oh, Hitler designed this flag?
Sweet.
Bad flag.
Let's get rid of it.
Oh, we've taken it back and now it's a good thing?
Sweet.
That's awesome.
It's a good thing.
Let's keep it.
Oh, you don't want to keep it?
unidentified
Man.
dan friesen
I'm confused.
jordan holmes
Figure your shit out first.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, within 20 seconds, he's like, oh, shit.
You want to tear it down?
Yeah, let's tear that down.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Wait, it's good now.
Let's keep it down.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you don't like it?
You also want to keep it?
Man, figure your shit out and then come back to me.
dan friesen
Yeah, that guy was fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I love him.
dan friesen
So Volkswagen was founded by the German Labor Front, which was a Nazi organization back in 1937.
The existing labor unions had been raided, their leaders killed, and they were taken over by Nazi groups, and the labor front began.
Hitler absolutely did not design the first Volkswagen cars, although he may have made some suggestions as to little design features.
I don't care if he designed the logo because, you know, he has that artistic past.
And also, the original design is way different than it looks now.
It's notably missing the lines around it that look like a swastika.
unidentified
But on the swastika, that would look good.
dan friesen
So it's hard to say if Hitler invented highways because I don't know what Alex means by highway.
Using some definitions, it's a really stupid claim that Alex is making.
Like, there were highways like the ones we understand that predate Nazi Germany, so that point doesn't stand.
I think Alex is just misunderstanding that Hitler was involved with the construction of the autobomb.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
Hitler created the Pony Express.
That's what you're missing.
dan friesen
Hitler invented mail.
unidentified
Cool.
dan friesen
Maybe Alex should have done a better job of reading all those Nazi books he loved as a kid.
Because this sounds like it's a bad...
unidentified
Or maybe he should have done a worse job reading them.
dan friesen
Sounds like some Hitler trivia.
jordan holmes
Whatever happened, he did the wrong job reading them.
dan friesen
So Ali Alexander is here.
jordan holmes
Is he really going to take the swing of putting Ali Alexander in a movie purporting to be positive towards L?
dan friesen
You kind of have to because he was a big part of Alex's trip to Georgia for the Stop the Steel route.
unidentified
You're right.
dan friesen
So if you're going to include Georgia at all, it's going to be hard.
alex jones
You're the fool.
jordan holmes
I'm the fool.
dan friesen
So here's Ali.
alex jones
Well, Ollie Alexander, the national founder and coordinator of Stop Steel Movement, is here with all of the country together.
Finally, we've reached a critical juncture here in Georgia.
But tell folks about what we're doing the next four days in a row at high noon.
ali alexander
So at high noon at the Georgia State Capitol, Alex Jones, myself, and other patriots are here, and we are marching and we are telling the Secretary of State, stop, don't certify.
dan friesen
Oh, kind of like you did with Jay Six.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Stop, don't certify.
jordan holmes
I kind of want to smash cut to affidavits.
dan friesen
So, while they're in the state house there in Georgia, somebody else who's along with Alex and Allie has an idea.
And that is essentially like, hey, we're already inside.
Let's just not leave.
Which is a sit-in.
jordan holmes
An idea that has never been tried before in protest history.
dan friesen
It's a sit-in.
That's a form of.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
They've invented it.
They've created it.
This is the first time this has ever happened.
dan friesen
Well, it's a peaceful non-compliance.
Sure.
Here's what Allie has to say.
unidentified
Oh.
Alex, they certify.
I'm sorry.
I'm not trying to put you to this.
They certify the vote here, right?
We're inside.
Let's not leave.
We're not crowding.
We're not the left.
ali alexander
We're not going to democratize.
unidentified
That's how we can stop this.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
Peaceful.
It's not a bad idea.
jordan holmes
Listen to me.
unidentified
Peaceful sit-in.
That's what we'll call it.
ali alexander
Here we go.
If the hillbillies make up all the ideas, then we're going to lose the country.
So put aside supply.
unidentified
Listen to me.
ali alexander
We're going to stop the steal.
But first, we're going to stop the certification.
unidentified
Well, I'm going to define it.
It's okay to do it.
Yeah.
alex jones
How are we going to do that?
Let's talk about it later.
unidentified
It's good.
alex jones
I'm just talking allowed with ideas, man.
It's good, brother.
I love it.
You know, that's why I'm saying you're going to leave it.
unidentified
No.
alex jones
All right.
It's okay to have ideas.
Everybody's fine.
dan friesen
So this is fascinating for two reasons.
The first is that what Allie is saying is that you don't get a say in what the plan is.
He's the brains, and you hillbillies are the bodies.
This isn't the left.
There's no democratization of ideas.
It's a hierarchical system where Allie calls the shots and you follow.
That sucks.
And I can't believe that didn't piss this guy off.
And it's funny to watch Alex try to smooth things over.
jordan holmes
I mean, you know, it just doesn't get better than being like, if we let the hillbilly set the rules, we're going to lose the country.
I don't know if you know who you're leading.
dan friesen
No, but that's, yeah, he's an elitist within that sort of million better than all of those people.
He looks down on the very people that he pretends he's supporting.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
My overalls are slightly cleaner.
Obviously, I am of higher status.
It makes perfect sense.
dan friesen
Second thing, it's so weird how this documentary really tries not to point out that Nick Fuentes is right there with Alex and Allie.
No spotlight on the Holocaust denier buddy that you brought along to Georgia.
No shout out for him.
No screen time.
Let's just pretend he's not there.
That's another editorial choice that Moyer is making because recognizing that Fuentes was traveling with Allie and Alex is way too much for this documentary to try and explain to a non-indoctrinated audience.
It's inconvenient to the portrait of Alex she's seeking to paint unless it's just ignored.
The little baby Nazi isn't there.
However, this isn't journalism.
jordan holmes
Listen to being unfair.
Explain to me how they could fit that in in a 7,000-hour documentary.
There's no way.
There's no way.
Look, even Avengers had to cut some stuff.
dan friesen
You know what?
You do make a good point.
jordan holmes
I do.
dan friesen
Because they needed to fit in important things like this from Georgia.
alex jones
All right.
Bucket list.
One more thing off the bucket list.
unidentified
I just pissed on Ted Turner.
alex jones
He's got five kids, but says you shouldn't be able to have any.
But yes, I just peed on it.
I peed on it.
dan friesen
He peed on the Georgia Guidestone.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you what, Duke Phillips would not be happy with that.
dan friesen
Alex pissed on the Georgia Guidestone.
jordan holmes
Oh my God.
Of course.
Alex's urine makes things explode.
dan friesen
It's corrosive.
jordan holmes
That is it.
That's the only thing that makes sense.
dan friesen
There's a two-year delay.
jordan holmes
There is a delay, but it does happen.
We don't have evidence that somebody else blew it up, but we do have evidence that Alex peed on it.
dan friesen
Believe there was that car that they saw.
All right.
Your point is fair.
Maybe someone else just ignited his P was an accelerator.
jordan holmes
Somebody tried to smoke a cigarette a little bit too close.
Went up.
dan friesen
He had a big night the night before.
A lot of whiskey.
jordan holmes
Yeah, a lot of whiskey.
dan friesen
So Alex reads from the side of one of the guidestones that this is in a foreign language.
And this probably isn't defensive.
I mean, it is to whom?
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
I don't actually know who he's trying to offend.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That's how good that is.
jordan holmes
That's how good it is.
alex jones
You ready?
unidentified
right.
alex jones
I love you.
I'm bad.
Kill me, billionaire.
Save me.
Bill Guys.
Turn turn.
unidentified
Love you, Bill Gays.
alex jones
Their plan is called the Great Reset.
Their manual of operations is Agenda 2030, a public UN plan in the name of world peace and stopping hunger that actually shuts down the world economy and will cause massive depopulation.
This is the most dangerous, dark, satanic ideology to ever be on the face of this planet, and it must be opposed.
dan friesen
So here's an interesting question that the documentary filmmaker could have asked: Hey, you're saying this Agenda 2030 thing is the blueprint for how the globalists are going to kill everyone, but isn't that exactly what you said for like the last 20 years about Agenda 21?
Is it possible that the whole thing was bullshit?
And then in 2021, you know, Agenda 21 came around.
You needed a new thing to pretend was the plan to kill everyone?
Inquiring minds, journalism, all of that.
Or, I mean, I guess you could just say, you know, you could let Alex say all this shit unquestioned, and then Agenda 21 never comes up.
That's certainly another option.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I do feel like the director can get away with this, mainly because the first peoples that I think should be offended by Alex's impression are all Star Trek aliens, and then we get to regular human peoples, you know?
Like, there's a bunch of different alien races in Star Trek that would listen to that and be like, this is unacceptable behavior.
We got to get to Captain Kirk.
We got to deal with this quick because this is fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't know what Alex was on there about, but don't.
jordan holmes
Not good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex gets into talking now about his early media days, and we're about to embark on another flashback.
And here's some bullshit.
alex jones
And it was very, very classical liberal.
And by that, I didn't know if I was a Republican or a Democrat because there were things I liked about both parties.
I did, things I disliked.
But the average real liberal knew about health food and was anti-war and was free speech and seemed really informed and cool.
For a while, I went and had jobs and was dating a lot and, you know, out of high school, wasn't really worried about doing media for a while.
I thought maybe I'll do media because I wanted to be on air, just be able to talk.
Then I was watching Access TV.
There were like rock and roll shows and a lot of Christian shows, a lot of old ladies doing exercise shows.
It was everything.
Like, we don't care what your speech is.
Then I saw all these local folk conspiracy theorists that were talking about New World Order and world government.
And I thought, that's what I'll do.
dan friesen
So some people might think it's shitty for you to bring up that abortions comment there.
jordan holmes
I hope they don't.
But I accept that as fair.
dan friesen
But here's what I would say to that.
Yeah.
It doesn't come up.
Alex doesn't bring it up.
And normally I would say, you know, it's your personal business, whatever, no big deal.
Right.
We know from listening to Alex that he's presented that as a pivotal moment in his life when he realized he needed to get his shit together and fight the globalists after his dad told him, stop killing my grandkids.
So, like, that should be a moment that is of impactful enough nature that it should come up in the retelling of his life based on the details that he's giving here.
And it doesn't.
It's suspicious in its absence.
jordan holmes
If you are going to argue to me that a man can tell the same story for 20 years about his origins, about abortion and shit, and then gets to go into a documentary and just omit that as though it never happened and that he doesn't have to deal with it, then we don't get to talk anymore.
alex jones
It's weird.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex wasn't a classical liberal and he didn't have a thing where he like, you know, he liked the left when he was younger.
jordan holmes
No, he was salieri.
dan friesen
He was a bircher at best.
And if he had any complaints about the right wing, it was that they weren't far right enough.
This documentary is allowing Alex to present himself this way unquestioned because it doesn't work for their purposes to treat him like an extreme right-wing ideologue from early on in life.
It's far more attractive to present him as someone who's kind of in the middle and liked all sorts of political ideas, but he was driven towards the right by the extreme fanatics on the left who are no longer free speech.
They don't like health food.
jordan holmes
Above the left-right paradigm.
dan friesen
This is a decision that Moyer is making because she wants to make her subject more attractive to a non-exclusively extreme right-wing audience.
It's deception by omission and allowing Alex to present things unchallenged.
And I mean, look, here's the bottom line, too.
She has every right to do that.
You know, if you want to make a documentary that is a puff piece, nonsense, bullshit, indoctrination, whitewashing and sanitization of Alex Jones, by all means, go ahead, but I'm not going to put up with it for a fucking second.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's fine.
She can do this.
But to pretend that this is some kind of a like middle of the road, I'm just letting him tell his story thing is nonsense.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, I agree with you.
But I also stipulate that she can do this in the world that we live in now and not one that is good.
And while we don't need to argue about what the limits of good or bad are on speech or etc., I think we can both agree that this is bad.
So the end, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're going to see it.
You see here another editorial choice that I think is really glaring, and that is the swelling music accompanying Alex's decision to get into covering conspiracy theories in the New World Order.
You can hear the feeling that's intended to be parlayed there.
The clouds are parting, and Alex sees his path.
That's not something that's being conveyed by Alex's words.
It's being stressed by the musical choices and directorial decisions that Moyer is making because that's how she wants the audience to see Alex.
jordan holmes
There is a moment in a new hope that I hope every single human being on this planet remembers where Luke Skyworker is on tatooing and he looks at the two sun setting and the swelling John Williams music plays to a point that if you're not inspired by it, go fuck yourself.
That is what she's trying to do here.
Alex is not Luke Skywalker.
dan friesen
Also, based on your misspeaking, I just thought of a socialist Star Wars character, Luke Skyworker.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
Somebody who else was a bit of a worker comes in now.
unidentified
Nice.
dan friesen
He's a former friend of Alex's.
I guess they're still friends, but he goes way back.
unidentified
Yeah.
We are descendants from Davey Crockett.
This is myself and my wife.
And if you go all the way over, my fourth great-grandfather was Nathan Crockett, which is the brother of Davey Crockett.
And my fifth great-grandfather was his father, Davey Crockett.
dan friesen
Man, a lot of Davey Crockett.
Oh, so this is Mike Hansen.
He's one of the very few non-current Infowars employees who's allowed to speak in this documentary.
He was Alex's original cameraman way back and was along for their fake infiltration of Bohemian Grove.
There's a reason he's included as a talking head in this film and other folks aren't.
And that's because Alex is still very beloved to Mike Hansen.
He loves Alex.
He has a huge room full of pictures of Alex and archives of all their stuff, including the shirt and shoes that he wore when they went into the grove.
Full disclosure, I want those tapes that he has.
But the difference is that I want to create an archive of Alex's career that can be used by researchers to deconstruct Alex's body of work.
Mike has a giant shrine.
It's creepy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, no.
In a Bill and Ted situation, you are George Carlin coming back from a perfect society, being like, okay, if I get this shit and take him back to the future, then we will have a successful world.
Yes.
dan friesen
So Mike is in this film because he's a voice that can say that Alex is not only great now, he's always been great, and I would know because I was there.
Including this voice and not other voices of people who were there and are now critical of Alex is an editorial choice on Moyer's part.
She doesn't speak to other people who were there when they went to the grove, like John Ronson or Alex's ex-wife, who didn't go into the grove with them but was along for the trip.
The selection of voices that are allowed in this film is curated to create a particular image of Alex, and people who are actually critical of him and know him would threaten that image so they don't exist.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that is her choice.
alex jones
Yup.
dan friesen
So we get some clips of Alex from early on in his life.
Yeah.
And this one is weird.
I don't know.
This is a weird thing to keep in.
alex jones
Yeah, it's Alex Jones, baby.
All right.
We're talking about some serious issues today.
We're talking about how they got us divided.
It should not be front page news that Fuzzy Zeller said something racist, even though he's an old fat racist.
Who cares about an old fat racist says something about an awesome man, Asian African-American, who's worth probably $100 million?
Who cares about words?
We're Americans.
We're all together in this boat.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, it's strange to see, you know, some of this earliest video of Alex, he's minimizing racism.
jordan holmes
Hey, hey, who among us cannot go back in time 20 years and say to themselves that, yes, this is a country divided and it should be okay to be racist towards Tiger Woods.
Who among us?
Right?
This is years before Obama allowed us to be racist towards the president.
dan friesen
It's so weird to look like, oh, 1997, what was Alex doing?
Saying racism's not a problem.
Present day, what's Alex doing?
jordan holmes
And again, the country is divided.
1997.
I don't know if anybody's ever heard that currently.
dan friesen
No.
So here's another clip of Alex, and this is on location.
He took a trip.
alex jones
We're here at the Alfred P. Murrow building in Oklahoma City, the site of the April 19th, 1995 bombing.
And there's a lot of questions, a lot of unanswered questions, like, why has the media ignored two seismograph reports from the University of Oklahoma and the U.S. Geological Survey that show two distinct explosion patterns?
Why have they ignored the first preliminary reports of two explosions by people on the ground as witnesses?
And I am not sitting here claiming to have the answers, but I know this.
They don't want you to know something.
They're keeping something from you.
They've done it A to Z from intimidation of witnesses to covering up evidence to destroying this crime scene.
This is tyranny at work one way or another.
Either they're exploiting this terrible tragedy and our children that died, or they were actively engaged in it.
Yes, the federal government.
dan friesen
This clip is just Alex being Alex, man.
He's got a conclusion and he's going to accept whatever half-cooked pieces of information he can find to justify it.
We talked about how the two explosions and seismograph thing is bullshit back on an episode about Bill Cooper, so I'm not going to get into it here, but look at what Alex is doing.
He's got an inaccurate piece of information he doesn't fully understand, and he's using that lack of knowledge on his part to insist there must be a conspiracy.
Because of this incorrect information, there are two possibilities.
Either the government did this or they're covering up who did because they let it happen.
There isn't a third possibility to him.
He never considers it, and that's almost always the correct one.
That's that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and he's wrong.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is the same shit with his Sandy Hook stuff.
All of it was based on incorrect information that he decided to accept as true so he could claim there were anomalies with the shooting that would justify him calling it a false flag so he could pretend that the government was using mass shootings to push gun control.
He's kind of a one-trick pony and that one trick is being wrong.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Having flimsy justifications to rationalize being wrong.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Man, you're right.
Sometimes it would be nice if I had something insightful or funny to say, but sometimes it's just like, yeah, let's hear the truth happen.
How about that?
What a weird thing to have.
Yeah.
dan friesen
But like, you know, I think that on one level, in more competent hands, in a actually well-put-together documentary, you could have stuff like this, and you could juxtapose it with stuff about Sandy Hook.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And you could make the point, even without grilling Alex too hard, that this is the same shit that he does all the time.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
That documentary, this one does not do this.
That is not that documentary.
Yeah.
The behavior that he's displaying in Oklahoma City is looked at as good.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
It's fine.
I mean, a softball interview proves Alex is a monster.
It is only a T-ball documentary that allows Alex to exist the way he does.
dan friesen
Yep.
Oh, I was like, what's T-ball?
What's a T-ball documentary?
That took me a second.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
But now that you get it, it's super good, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It is late.
dan friesen
The way you were saying it made sense to me.
I got the point you were trying to make, but I was like, what's a T-ball documentary?
alex jones
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
I get it.
jordan holmes
I understand.
dan friesen
So anyway, Mike Hansen has some words about Alex.
unidentified
It wasn't very popular back then.
You were out there as a conspiracy theorist, but Alex made it more popular because he was well-spoken and very professional.
He was kind of like the Dan Rather of the conspiracy theory world.
alex jones
You can follow people around.
You can harass people.
You can back up your banks, your buddies.
But a revolution of peaceful information is coming.
And when it comes time, you people are going to be brought to punishment.
dan friesen
So weird how this documentary doesn't even mention the existence of Bill Cooper.
It's nuts that they're just kind of pretending that Alex didn't completely idolize him and pretending that he wasn't a giant figure in the anti-government conspiracy world.
Like, Bill was already the conspiracy Dan Rather.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
Alex is a big deal.
That's fair enough, but it's a little much to pretend that he was this much of a trailblazer.
Recognizing that Bill Cooper existed hurts the ability to create the image that this film wants to paint.
And that is that Alex entirely went his own way and created this whole thing out of his desire to tell truth in Alex's war.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
No.
alex jones
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
He's following in Bill Cooper's wake.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
It's not bullshit.
It is.
Yeah, I mean, they didn't bring up Father Coughlin.
They didn't say that.
dan friesen
Lord Hawhaw.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they didn't say that Wolf Blitzer was the Dan Rather of not being Edward R. Moreau.
They didn't say all of those things.
unidentified
There's no Keith Olbermann involved.
dan friesen
So there's one thing that Alex always talks about whenever people say that he's a racist, and that is like, I bullhorned the Klan.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And so we get some video of that.
And I think the context of it is actually really interesting.
unidentified
When we were rebuilding it, the Ku Klux Klan come down to Waco.
And Alex and I and a bunch of other people went over and bullhorned them.
Yeah, the truth was our clash and the old man stopped the controllers.
We're not welcome here in Central Texas with a real Patriots Bazaar.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Alex was bullhorning the clan, but it was really more about being defensive about Waco.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't see any disagreement with the Klan so much as like, I want more attention than the Klan.
dan friesen
And I have baselessly decided that you're all feds.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But like, it really, that context is actually fairly important.
That he bullhorned the clan when they came to Waco when he was trying to be the guy who was rebuilding the Davidian church.
He's not bullhorning the clan other times.
jordan holmes
No.
He's bullhorning anyone who takes attention from him.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Not anybody.
And if the clan is the people who take the attention, that's fine.
dan friesen
Anybody who might attract a right-wing patriot audience that could steal.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Yes.
Anybody who could be in what you might call a power struggle.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
No, no, no, totally.
dan friesen
He must be.
jordan holmes
Deferential to Tucker because I could take Tucker's offense audience.
Fuck the clan because they're trying to take mine.
Yes.
dan friesen
So we get Alex in the present day here talking a little bit, and this is just so fucking stupid.
alex jones
The general public are like babies inside the womb.
They don't even know what's going on in the outside world.
They're like inside their mother.
They have no idea what's going on.
And meanwhile, there's these mad scientists trying to steal the future from them before they're even born.
That's what it feels like.
So I'm outside.
I got outside the womb.
And I'm not totally blind.
And I'm powerless to stop them.
Even though I can tell people what's coming next, it doesn't even matter.
People just still, they can't deal with the magnitude of this.
And I understand.
dan friesen
Yeah, and these people, they put hand puppets, shadow puppets on the womb.
jordan holmes
So they it's just that's how it works.
dan friesen
Yeah, just ripping off the allegory of the womb.
Yep.
So that's cool.
Also a little condescending.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you know, but it's I'm we're all proud of him for having kind of almost learned a thing about the past that maybe he can relate a little bit.
dan friesen
One of the most basic philosophical things that you learn and you know maybe your first slice of womb, you don't expect to know the first principles of philosophy.
Fine.
Fair enough.
That is true.
So there's more of the past.
And one of the things is about, you know, they talk about Alex going to Bohemian Grove.
jon ronson
Alex is a syndicated talk show host in Austin, Texas.
He broadcasts from his bedroom down an ISDN line to 8 million listeners.
Alex believes that the shadowy elite at Bohemian Grove are the puppet masters who control the world's governments, banks, the media, and the United Nations.
dan friesen
So a clip of John Ronson from the Secret Rulers of the World is played.
Not talking to him himself.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
There is video that shows, like B-roll that shows of his interview on C-SPAN where he was talking about how Alex lied about what happened at Bohemian Grove.
They don't play that clip.
They don't play the audio of it at all.
There's no dissenting opinion.
Everything is just reinforcing Alex's perception, even if there are things that are very clear indications that you should have access to the information that makes you responsible for pushing back on this a little bit.
jordan holmes
Right.
It's fun that the juxtaposition of John and Alex makes you think that the British won 1776.
dan friesen
But then Piers Morgan comes in later.
jordan holmes
Well, and then the British really got their ass kicked.
dan friesen
We have all kinds of questions.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a war.
It's not a battle.
dan friesen
So now we get to 2001.
alex jones
Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm so glad that you could join us today for this Wednesday, July 25th, 2001 broadcast.
Tyranny is enveloping the globe, and the United States is a shining jewel the globalists want to bring down, and they will use terrorism as the pretext to get it done.
dan friesen
So this is his prediction of 9-11 show.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And this documentary is pretending that Bill Cooper doesn't exist.
So there's no reason to explain that Alex just stole this prediction from Bill.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
This whole section of the film is a really long greatest hits of Alex's career that's meant to paint him as a true renegade, going against popular opinion to tell the truth about these tragic events.
It covers things like OKC, Waco, and 9-11, but it's just surface-level shit, like Alex saying this thing is a false flag.
And then Alex in the present day will say, boy, that sure was a false flag.
It's meaningless and doesn't talk at all about the details of stuff, like how Alex thought the EU did 9-11.
Then we have Bohemian Grove in there, but you don't really have any mention of Ronson going on C-SPAN and discussing how Alex admitted to him that he was lying to his audience about everything.
And even worse, this documentary just ignores so much of Alex's career that doesn't fit its mold.
Like, what about Y2K?
Or even larger, what about the Boston bombing?
That was a giant part of his career, and he got it completely wrong.
That was an event where he managed to send Dan Badanti to disrupt a press conference that the authorities were holding to inform the public about the situation while the bombers were still unknown and on the loose.
The public was living in fear, and Badandi was just yelling Infowars.com at the police who were trying to calm the public.
You can make an argument that his coverage of the Boston bombing is in like the top five points of his career that bear mentioning.
And its omission here is glaring.
And the reason is because it doesn't fit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You don't really get to hero to play that for a hero.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The selection of what to cover and what not to cover is an editorial choice that Moyer is making because these things are the building blocks of Alex's mythology, whereas things like him being an idiot and gleefully exploiting a terrorized city isn't necessarily good optics.
Sandy Hook will come up because it has to, but it's presented as more or less the exception that proves the rule and even more poorly presented, and we'll get to that later.
It's like the one blemish on his otherwise spotless record, you know, the thing that proves Alex actually is human, despite all this evidence to the contrary.
jordan holmes
Yeah, the Japanese concept of the flaw that makes something perfect.
Yes.
dan friesen
Every mandala has a sand that is off.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
So there's a lot, you know, there's these things from the past.
All of these, like Oklahoma City, Waco, 9-11, and some of it is mildly interesting, but not really.
And some of it is stuff that we've gone over at nauseum.
So what's the point of readdressing it?
jordan holmes
We are in an interesting and unique situation where, once again, no one has seen this, or the people who haven't seen this or who are unfamiliar with Alex have no idea what's going on.
And most of our listeners would be incredibly bored by us telling the regular people insane information.
dan friesen
Yeah, just, I mean, like, basically, The points of these things from the past are presenting Alex's activities surrounding these topics in the most generous and heroic way.
unidentified
Totally.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
Now we get back to the present, and what do you know?
Alex is a fucking hero.
unidentified
I need y'all to keep walking, bro.
alex jones
China sucks!
Woo!
unidentified
We love you! We love you! We love you!
Oh, this is so awesome.
alex jones
Yeah!
I'll make rally on the ball.
We love you, Alex.
dan friesen
Much of the discussion of the past is framed as things Alex did being unpopular.
He got fired for covering Waco, according to the stories here.
He lost all these stations for covering 9-11 as a false flag.
He was punished for telling the truth, but he kept soldiering forward.
It's important to understand that framing as a critical piece of this documentary's editing choices, because when you now flash back to the fall of 2020 and Alex is at these Stop the Steel rallies, he's having everyone yell that they love him and all this, which is meant to be experienced in contrast with how he was treated in the past.
This is visually telling the audience that Alex was right all along.
And though he suffered hardships, at the end of that road, the people realized he was right.
This is bullshit, and it's not the impression you would get if this tour through Alex's career treated his career accurately and not like an embarrassing puff piece.
If you saw him fumbling around and saying horrible racist shit or insinuating for months that the bath party were being reinstalled in Iraq or arguing that the EU did 9-11 or doing insane shit about Obama's birth certificate or his Ebola bullshit or Pizzagate or slandering the head of Chobani or how he thought that Obama was a secret Muslim trying to use FEMA to turn the U.S. into a caliphate under Sharia law or all the times he insisted that Ron Paul was going to win the GOP primary, then you wouldn't see that smash cut to the present day the same way.
If you understood the clearer picture of his career, you might see the people yelling out that they love him as pitiable people who've been sucked in by a con man.
But because this documentary only seems to care about presenting Alex as a really solid information guy, you see the people flocking to him and it's meant to look like they've finally come around and recognize that Alex is great.
This is a choice made by the editing that is being done by Moyer.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
There's a reason that the discussion of Sandy Hook is separated from all of this past stuff.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because that's not supposed to be seen as actually part of his career.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, absolutely not.
That was a blip.
That was a blip.
dan friesen
At worst, it was a blip.
jordan holmes
Listen, okay.
Do you remember how that one time the United States was running these drills, right?
And they didn't notify Russia of it.
And these drills would be very similar to ones that you would do if you were launching a nuclear attack.
And Russia, because they didn't know that the United States was about to or was not going to launch a nuclear attack and only knew that these drills were happening, decided that what they needed to do was launch an actual real nuclear attack.
And it was only because of the efforts of one heroic man that they did not shoot those fucking missiles, right?
Do you remember that?
dan friesen
Blip.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's just a blip.
dan friesen
It's a blip.
jordan holmes
Nobody even remembers it.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
It's not that important.
dan friesen
No, so Alex, like this presentation of him sucks.
It stinks.
And it would not really be possible to achieve without very intentional choices being made.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
And how this information is being presented.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, How is it that we have trouble sleeping at night, Dan?
How is it that both of us struggle to sleep?
dan friesen
Caffeine, alcohol on your part, mental imbalance.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
You name it.
You name it.
Yeah, you name it.
dan friesen
So we're now here in the fall of 2020, and Mike Flynn is giving a speech.
And this is that speech where Trump flew over in a helicopter.
jordan holmes
Yes, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And this moment is fucked up.
unidentified
Yeah.
I mean, when you've been raked over the calls by the media, like I've been raked over the calls by the media, like my mom said, sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
And I will tell you, and I've said this before, the media, the media is doing an incredible disservice to this country.
alex jones
Lurk!
jordan holmes
Hey, Lurry!
alex jones
That's man!
Lurk!
Hey!
jordan holmes
Oh, I'm sorry, that was a different close.
It was so close.
unidentified
I love it.
I love the fact that he does that.
I've been asked on a scale of one to ten who will be the next president of the United States.
And I say Donald Trump.
alex jones
Ten.
dan friesen
The visuals of this are terrifying.
People are looking up at the sky as Trump flies over in the helicopter.
There's a shot of Mike Lindell looking up like he's going to cry.
There's this beautiful operatic music indicating an almost religious experience that people are having, looking up to the heavens.
Moyer chose to play that music underneath this video, which gives it a very particular tone.
Essentially, that there's a giant cult of people who view Trump as their savior.
But this documentary doesn't give you any reason to think that's a bad thing.
The subject of this film is the biggest Trump supporter in the world who's cried on air about how he would die for Trump.
There's no voice in this film that's critical of Trump, so the music doesn't really come off as heightening or highlighting something that is being commented on.
It kind of just fits.
And the film is treating like that's okay.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is appropriate.
I found that really disturbing.
I mean, the scene itself is disturbing.
And then the directorial choices that are made here are just presented in a way that I find unnerving.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember watching Apocalypse Now.
I hate that I'm making so many movie references, but we are talking about.
dan friesen
Well, we also haven't heard Alex make many movie references, so it's kind of low.
jordan holmes
But I mean, we are discussing a movie, and we are discussing a person who's making a movie and a person who's making a movie like you would make a Hollywood movie.
And so, if I was discussing a scene in Apocalypse Now where someone were to say, I love the smell of napalm in the morning, and I were to play the Benny Hill theme song, it might sound different.
That's our theme song for the week, apparently.
dan friesen
It's the only thing that's getting me through.
jordan holmes
It really feels like it.
It really does.
dan friesen
It's been long.
jordan holmes
Oh, it's been a long week.
dan friesen
It also hasn't been a week.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's fair.
dan friesen
So, Alex is at this rally where everyone is cultically looking up at the sky at Trump flying over.
And there's a moment that happens that I found really disturbing.
It's a woman who's trying to climb over a fence to get a picture with Alex.
jordan holmes
that's great
unidentified
this is Trish from Michigan that's a fucking coffee hey this is Trish from Michigan yeah I did it and you and I was making a comment about John the Baptist you're more wonderful I feel like that we're preparing a way I'm so thankful for you, Alex.
Oh, my mother wants me to be young.
dan friesen
That clip suffers from the same problem as the last one.
Inside this film, there's no reason to think it's weird for someone to be comparing Alex to John the Baptist.
This film is essentially justifying that conclusion by choosing to show what it shows.
A woman climbing over a fence to take a selfie with Alex and compare him to John the Baptist should be a shocking image, and it should be troubling.
But in the context of this documentary, if you accept the story as Moyer is telling it, why wouldn't you think that Alex is John the Baptist?
He's basically been right his entire career and persecuted for telling the truth about what was coming because that truth threatened the power structure.
This documentary allows Alex to frame himself so unquestioningly that it makes sense that this woman views Alex this way.
Honestly, it would almost be weirder if she didn't.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's fucked up.
So when we've now taken in a bit of Alex as hero in the present, vindicated for all the past, all the past turmoil and troubles.
And now we jump back to the past.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And we get, we pick up here where Alex is discussing, I think he showed up at like a convention and is talking about how like none of these candidates are good.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Like basically he's photo bombing the news.
unidentified
Okay.
Well, we're going to leave it at that.
alex jones
Thanks very much.
unidentified
We'll be back.
Good morning, America.
And Susan, of course, the floor is empty, but they're here.
jordan holmes
And less we be accused of not hearing all voices.
unidentified
We cut you off a moment ago.
jordan holmes
This is Alex Jones from Austin, Texas, a radio talk show host.
alex jones
Yes, sir, with Infowars.com.
Both candidates are cousins.
They're skull and bones.
They're bringing in big government and tyranny.
The evidence is clear.
The military-industrial complex was intimately involved in 9-11.
The commission is a complete fraud.
We're losing our freedoms.
Both parties are controlled.
And if we don't wake up and stand up and speak out, this country's going to be destroyed.
Giving up liberty only gives us tyranny.
It does not give us security.
And I hope that everybody out there wakes up to this and realizes that America is America because we have the Bill of Rights and Constitution.
Everybody should investigate 9-11 and find out who's really behind it.
It's Bush's and the New World Order's Reichstag.
And his cousin Kerry isn't going to save you either.
Thank you, PrisonPlanet.com.
jordan holmes
Alex Jones.
alex jones
They always say the same thing.
You want to be on this crusade that's going nowhere?
Or do you want to be a star?
Fox News offered me multiple jobs.
Has to be a move to Manhattan.
We're looking for somebody that's the next Rush Wimball.
And we'll have editorial control.
You'll get multiple book deals a year.
You'll have a national TV show.
And we just want to do this.
And then when I refused Fox News, right before Glenn Beck was picked and appeared, they would have articles saying Jones wants to be on Fox News, but Fox News doesn't want him.
dan friesen
So now we see flashing back to the past again, but it's important to understand what track we're on.
This is the track that leads to him supporting Trump, which has to be contextualized by pointing out Alex's renegade individuality throughout his political career.
Here he is talking about how Bush and Kerry both suck.
You know, he doesn't want to be a part of Fox News.
They conveniently ignore his constant support for Ron Paul's candidacies because why provide context when you can just pretend that Trump was Alex's first love?
This is the section where Sandy Hook will come up because this documentary wants Alex's coverage of Sandy Hook to be understood in a very specific way, which we'll discuss when we get there.
Also, if Alex had ever taken one of those job offers at Fox, he would have lasted about as long as Michael Savage did at MSNBC.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
He would have been shit canned so fast.
He can't play ball.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, it's here.
You know, you want to say with the 20est of 20 hindsights that he knew what was happening, but he didn't.
What was happening is that he spoke in short sentences, confidently, loudly, and quickly.
And nobody knew at that time that that's all you needed to do to dominate the entire American consciousness.
dan friesen
I would argue that sometimes it was also run-on sentences.
jordan holmes
Well, you are not wrong.
dan friesen
That give the appearance of like an overabundance that you're delivering.
I mean, it's really just killing time until you figure out what the next sentence is.
jordan holmes
Here's what I'll say.
Here's what I'll say.
And I want to try and describe it this way.
Like, back then, if you were to take his words, you could put it into like guitar tablature, and you would have a clearer idea of why people enjoyed it than you would if you listened to his words.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Like, it's music to people.
dan friesen
Yeah, it might be more rhythmic than bass tabs and guitar tabs.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's hard not to look at it and say that there is a definite call-in response history to it, you know?
Like, this is the history of Baptist preaching.
I mean, it goes back.
dan friesen
Why he's so effective at getting chants going.
jordan holmes
Of course, of course.
dan friesen
So at this point, Alex has rejected these deals from Fox News.
He doesn't want to support Bush or Carey.
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
He's a rogue.
jordan holmes
Just like us, not advertising for mattresses.
dan friesen
He's out in the wild.
He's no one's person.
Right.
But he's also in waking life.
And so here's a little clip of him in waking life.
unidentified
It's going to be the age of humankind standing up for something pure and something right.
What a bunch of garbage.
Liberal, Democrat, conservative, Republican.
It's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin.
We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter, creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
alex jones
I didn't really care about Hollywood.
My goal wasn't to be in movies.
My goal wasn't to be embraced by all that.
dan friesen
So, I mean, like, no mention of Star Lord?
jordan holmes
He was so close.
dan friesen
Yeah, he was supposed to get the role.
jordan holmes
He would have gotten paid.
dan friesen
He was supposed to be his role in Guardians of the Game.
jordan holmes
More than Chris Pratt.
dan friesen
How does that not come up?
jordan holmes
He would have been paid more than Chris Pratt.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So all of this is just meant to be like this rejection of the mainstream or whatever.
jordan holmes
There's a world where Alex shows up in Jurassic World like, hey, listen, Raptors.
dan friesen
Hey, Blue.
jordan holmes
You and I are friends now.
Come on now.
Hey, Raptors.
dan friesen
I'm your buddy, Blue.
alex jones
Come on.
dan friesen
I don't remember the other Raptors' names.
jordan holmes
Why would you?
Neither of us saw the movie.
alex jones
I did.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
The first one.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
I saw the first of the new ones.
jordan holmes
Oh, I haven't seen any.
dan friesen
I was curious.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
It was fine.
So Alex doesn't like Hollywood.
Yeah.
He hates the West Coast.
jordan holmes
Sure.
alex jones
Cool.
Charlie Sheen was the only guy who can seen in public mirror talk to me.
But I went to some parties and stuff with some of the biggest Holland stars.
I left.
This feels creepy.
It feels empty.
I've never felt this weak.
There was a feeling like a big spider sucking my soul.
Torture, secret arrest.
If there is a Satan and it's truly on this planet, it resides on the West Coast.
In between Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, that's the most evil place in the world I've been.
dan friesen
He might have just been jet lagged.
And then also, like, he shouldn't be saying if there's a devil.
He talks about the devil all the fucking time.
jordan holmes
I mean, if there's a devil should never come near Alex's mouth.
dan friesen
Yeah, pretty stupid.
jordan holmes
It breaks my heart because that's fundamental to his existence.
dan friesen
Yeah, not on this documentary, though.
jordan holmes
Well, that's fair.
That is fair.
dan friesen
Yeah, you know, it's almost like suspicious in its absence from this documentary is Alex explaining that all of his enemies are literally controlled by the Christian devil.
jordan holmes
It does feel like if your fundamental issue with the globalists is that they are controlled by the literal Christian devil, that should also be the centerpiece of your documentary.
Does that seem like I'm not being crazy?
dan friesen
No, no, you're totally right.
jordan holmes
It just seems to make sense.
dan friesen
There's shockingly little in terms of.
jordan holmes
No devil is the cause of all of my problems.
dan friesen
No, certainly not that.
But there's also very little of his religious fundamentalism.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean the thing that's the most central to his coverage and topics?
dan friesen
There's no footage of him praying on air.
unidentified
None.
dan friesen
Yeah, weird.
jordan holmes
You know the thing that he doesn't do?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So anyway, the liberals.
jordan holmes
I forgot it was our fault.
dan friesen
They loved Alex back in the Bush days.
Correct.
But then they didn't like him.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
alex jones
I think it's fair to say that the liberals liked me or also thought it was kind of a joke.
dan friesen
That thing you hear in the background, that belly of the beast, they played that video of him and Rogan running around in that Bush mask.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So that was what that was.
jordan holmes
Not a Street Fighter video.
dan friesen
New.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
alex jones
And so, yeah, I was wondering, oh, yeah, it's just a crazy guy in Austin.
All they saw was I was against Bush.
And then Obama came in and go, yeah, but you're attacking Obama now.
dan friesen
So then at the end, there is the Obama Joker thing.
That classic video.
jordan holmes
We really thought that one was the Street Fighter video.
dan friesen
No, well, I mean.
jordan holmes
It wasn't Blanca?
dan friesen
No, no, it's a DLC.
Alex as Obama Joker is that's available in Street Fighter 11, I think.
Well done.
So, yeah, so Alex is continuing this narrative of persecution and sticking to his guns and having like a principle.
Like, I was the same.
Liberals loved me because they thought I hated George Bush, but I also hated Obama, and then they stopped liking me again, and I was punished again for my integrity.
jordan holmes
Above it.
Right.
dan friesen
And so you have this path that is being walked.
And they flash a clip up here of Alex talking about the Operation Lockstep document.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
Back in 2010.
jordan holmes
No.
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He was not.
dan friesen
He was.
jordan holmes
Do you know he wasn't?
alex jones
He was.
jordan holmes
You and I both know he wasn't.
dan friesen
No, I do know that he was.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
I mean, I'm not even worthy to be bringing you information this powerful.
And I hope that you pay attention to what we cover here minute by minute.
Because I've had chills since last night.
This just confirms everything else we've already researched.
dan friesen
Yeah, so he's covering the document that is now known as Operation Lockstep.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
It wasn't known as that in 2010.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But here's the thing: the video that's used in the documentary doesn't come from the original show that Alex did.
The graphics that it uses are similar to those in this little sizzle video that Alex put together on his website in the Alex Jones prediction section that's meant to show that Alex Jones is right about everything.
That's not great to imagine that instead of using primary sourcing, this documentary might rely on a propaganda video made by Infowars designed specifically to pretend that Alex predicted COVID over a decade ago.
I probably wouldn't do that.
I don't know.
I would just use the raw video of Alex from 2010 because it's available, obviously.
jordan holmes
Okay.
I'm going to tell you this.
We all watched it on stream.
But there was a point at which the defense's lawyer argued that the plaintiffs making them look dumb was in fact a sanction by the court.
dan friesen
Wow.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, the plaintiff's attorney That to the judge, and the judge said back, the only person who's making you look dumb is you.
dan friesen
Yeah, the only person who can make you look dumb is you got it.
You have your choice.
jordan holmes
It feels like we're here.
dan friesen
Does that make this documentary as bad as it is is the person who made this documentary?
jordan holmes
You got it.
dan friesen
And I have some choice words.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Two hours worth of.
alex jones
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So, Alex, you know, he's talking.
He says some other bullshit.
alex jones
In the year 2023, COVID-22 has been released, and no one's allowed to go outside, and tens of millions are dead who were shot and killed for leaving their houses.
They're going zero to a trillion miles an hour.
We went into warp.
We're in warp right now.
Trillion miles an hour.
And that's where my study of history and religions and science ends because whatever it is they're tuned into is beyond my knowledge.
dan friesen
That's bullshit.
Alex has very frequently talked about how God has given him visions of everything that's going to happen and that he's a psychic.
I'm going to guess that he didn't say that because he doesn't want people who don't already like him to know that he's that nuts.
Also, this is a more recent thing, but it's still part of this descent into the past based on him predicting COVID back in 2010.
We're still on that track of Alex being a renegade who has no team, who the liberals liked because he was criticizing Bush, and then they stopped liking him when he attacked Obama.
That's the main theme of this section that we're in, or the river that we're in, as Alex would put it.
jordan holmes
I am frustrated by the general vibe I'm getting that this documentary is meant entirely to rehab Alex's previous five years of being a far-right nut job into returning to some sort of pre-Obama era above the left right paragraph paradigm version of himself.
Is that what I'm hearing?
dan friesen
Well, I mean, I think that's probably one of the goals they would like to explore.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it seems like that.
dan friesen
I think whatever positive interpretation that becomes of Alex after this is what they're going for.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you're right.
That would be, it's offensive for me to ascribe to them intent because that would suggest competence on some level.
dan friesen
Well, and Alex just said he doesn't know what the future looks like.
jordan holmes
I mean, really, he doesn't.
dan friesen
So maybe the left-right paradigm is good.
jordan holmes
Boy, the future is holding him broke, is what it is.
dan friesen
But look, he just has simple wants.
He just wants to be good so his soul can go to heaven.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's all.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
I'm so past the politics and all the names and all the stuff.
It doesn't even matter anymore.
I'm just guilty because I've not raised my kids perfectly and I'm like really freaked out by all this and just trying to have a relationship with God so that my spirit gets out of this when I die.
I mean, I really, that's all I think about now.
jordan holmes
Cheating on my wife's with God.
alex jones
And I want to get out of this now.
And God says, I'm not allowed to.
unidentified
So that's it.
alex jones
It's bad, though.
It's going to get real bad.
Like, you really know who's not going to be here soon.
I told my son three years ago, I said, you're getting out of high school a couple of years.
There's nothing going to be in the college for you, son.
It's all going to be shut down.
It's all going to be over.
dan friesen
You see, son, everything's over.
There's no going to college.
And that's why I spent your education fund on taking a trip to California, the evilest place on earth, so I could do mushrooms with Mike Tyson.
What the fuck are you talking about, asshole?
Get the fuck out of here with this overly dramatic nonsense.
jordan holmes
Look, look.
He tried to smoke his son because he thought his son was a toad after smoking Toad.
This happens.
dan friesen
He was just licking his son.
jordan holmes
This is normal.
Yeah.
And as we have found out, that's just not how you get high off of Toad.
dan friesen
No, nor safe.
Nor Alex's son.
It's not safe.
So, you know, we're trudging through this past of Alex's sort of political rebelliousness.
jordan holmes
This is your life.
dan friesen
And so we get now to the point where he yells at Piers Morgan.
alex jones
Pierce, don't try what your ancestors did before.
Why don't you come to America?
I'll take you out shooting.
You can become an American and join the Republic.
Hitler took the guns.
Stalin took the guns.
Mao took the guns.
Fidel Castro took the guns.
Hugo Chavez took the guns.
And I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms.
We will not relinquish them.
Do you understand?
dan friesen
Suspicious in its absence from this is the subsequent time when Alex showed up at a Piers Morgan event and begged him to come back on the show.
And Piers was not interested in talking to him.
Man, I bet there's no recording of that, and there's no way to hear any evidence that I wish that I had the time to go through all the archives because it's been on our show.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you would have to listen to our show.
dan friesen
Or his, I think.
I think he played it on his show.
jordan holmes
That would make sense.
But I wouldn't ask anyone ever to do that.
dan friesen
That's fair.
So now from there, we jump to Trump.
Trump jump.
And look, Trump just latched onto what Alex was doing for us.
alex jones
Hillary for president.
Hillary for president.
dan friesen
So real quick, obviously the point of this is going to be that he was yelling Hillary for prison and then Trump took that and it was lock her up.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
But Alex has said that he stole Hillary for prison from somebody's like bumper sticker that he saw.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And so that person is actually responsible for.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
You generate an idea if you steal it from somebody who's anonymous because they can't argue against you.
That's how it works.
dan friesen
That's a great point.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
What's coming by?
alex jones
Hillary for prison.
jordan holmes
There it is, folks.
unidentified
The Hillary for Prison banner.
alex jones
Trump tapped into the same populist anger, the same populist concern that I've been tapped into.
The whole takeover failed, didn't it?
And now, who gets to talk to the president?
Who gets to talk to Supreme Court justices?
Alex Jones.
Alex Jones, he was a nice guy, actually.
You like him?
That's when the media took the gloves off and went from twisting stuff sometimes, more playful like I was a joke, to like every newspaper runs an AP article.
Every newspaper runs a New York Times article.
By every paper, I mean thousands.
dan friesen
So in case it's not explicit enough, here is Rob Dew laying out that Alex is responsible for Trump being president.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
Alex Jones made Trump.
unidentified
Whether anybody wants to believe that or not, the only reason that man is in office is because of Alex Jones.
alex jones
The spirit of America, can you feel it rising?
Trump feels it.
He knows it.
He loves it.
dan friesen
He loves it.
So here is where things, I would say, become entirely unacceptable.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex is talking about how, you know, he basically was what Trump was vibing off of.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And Trump liked him.
Trump came on his show.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Hillary started to get mad at him.
And here's what happened.
alex jones
Trump's real crime was trying to actually be the president and coming in and not letting special interests run things.
And that enraged the permanent bureaucracy that we know of as the deep state.
The people are so awake.
I mean, I'm not kidding.
Every second person I walk by is a listener.
unidentified
When they saw that, they're like, oh, he's just not the crazy guy on the internet.
Now we have to go back and see, oh, where did he fuck up that we could go get him at?
alex jones
Now we got to destroy Alex Jones and I'm really upset.
I mean, I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm totally freaked out.
And I told you this last week before the shooting.
I just love my children so much.
And I love my children so much and their innocence.
I love other people's children.
dan friesen
This is no exaggeration.
The last way that any self-respecting filmmaker would cover this subject matter.
Sandy Hook is not coming up as an instance of something really, really bad that Alex did in his career.
It's being presented as something that people are only mad about because they needed an excuse to attack him because he supported Trump.
This is a choice that Alex Moyer is making as a filmmaker.
She didn't have to include the Sandy Hook outrage as merely the result of people needing to justify hating Alex Jones.
Alex's Sandy Hook coverage isn't even mentioned chronologically because in the context of this documentary, the important thing isn't his coverage.
It's the way people got unfairly mad about it because he liked Trump.
There's no counterbalance to this depiction at all.
This is an unchallenged position in the film, which is editorially supported by the way that Moyer has edited this documentary.
If she thought that Alex's claim was at all dubious, she could reach out to one of the Sandy Hook parents to discuss how they were trying to get Alex to stop this shit long before he cared about Trump.
Or if she wanted to give the impression that she disputed his claim, she didn't have to structure and edit the film to comport with Alex's narrative.
Again, much like with the John the Baptist thing, if you believe what this documentary is presenting, you have no reason to not believe that people are only mad about Sandy Hook because Alex supported Trump.
The story, as it's told, leads you to no other conclusion, and that is a choice.
That is a choice that's being made in the creation of this documentary, and it's unacceptable.
And to recognize that this is intentionally being released during the Sandy Hook trial makes this outrageously offensive.
This is unacceptable.
And Alex Moyer, I don't know what the fuck you think you're doing, but this is tragic.
jordan holmes
I'm causing PTSD.
I mean, is that what you want to say?
I mean, part of the problem is: one, one, you said everything that needs to be said about that.
That is it.
And anybody who tries to counter or even add anything to that is wrong.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, there's a reason that the discussion of Sandy Hook as the one thing that Alex fucked up isn't included in the timeline of his career and all these greatest hits.
It's because it's a prop in order to justify why people are so angry at him.
It's because he likes Trump and they just picked through his career to find something they could be mad about.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And fuck that.
That's like, I understand that this is an argument that's going to be made.
That it's like, I'm just presenting him the way he is.
You make your own judgments.
That's bullshit.
There is a judgment that you, as a filmmaker, are making by presenting this information that way.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is not an unbiased, oh, this is who he is.
This is how it is.
No, fuck that noise.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's still fine to make this documentary.
I'm not saying you should be silenced or like you shouldn't be allowed to make this documentary.
jordan holmes
I mean, define silenced and then we'll talk, but you can do it.
dan friesen
You can scream over it if you want.
That's a form of silence.
jordan holmes
See, there we go.
dan friesen
I'm using your free space.
jordan holmes
Yeah, there we go.
dan friesen
But I don't think that you shouldn't be allowed to do this, but you also should recognize that what you're doing at core is malicious.
It is unacceptable.
And I can't wait to see what other bullshit she's going to do in her career.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is the kind of documentary that if January 6th had gone the other way would be looked at by history as a Lenny Riefenstahl documentary.
The same way we would look at Nazi documentaries.
Yeah, 100%.
People in 20 years would look back on that, holy shit.
jordan holmes
Can't believe it.
dan friesen
But January 6th didn't go that way.
And so we have a couple years until we look at it that way.
jordan holmes
I mean, when you bring up January 6th, it does pull back a little bit on terms of the view.
No, that one is very narrow and direct.
No, I'll try and keep this short.
But by bringing up January 6th, that does require you to kind of pull back from the Sandy Hook situation.
He's absolutely a monster.
And then you pull back and it's further than that.
You know, like, by no means am I minimizing what he's done to the families of Sandy Hook.
But also overthrowing an entire country, that's also pretty big.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
You know, and to a certain extent, whenever the point is made that Trump wouldn't be president without Alex.
dan friesen
Which is debatable, but there is something.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
And here's what I'm going to say about that.
When we talk about nuance, one way to view that is by math, just very simple.
And the fact that we are very capable of talking about nuance, but when we talk about it, we're not able to really get to the fact that if Alex is 20% responsible for Trump becoming president, then he is responsible for Trump becoming president.
dan friesen
Well, because of the market.
jordan holmes
Because without that 20%.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
So that we're not able to really deal with right now.
Oh, and we're not.
dan friesen
And even to make your point further, like, there's no way that we can create a counterfactual reality where Alex's earlier career didn't exist and the parts of it that involved the Tea Party and he helped start the Oath Keepers and all of these things, like the ripple effects of these things from further back in his career and how many of those had an indirect effect in getting Trump elected.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so like there is no way to quantify that.
So I think it is kind of fair to say like in whatever sense, Alex could be seen as somebody who helped push it over the hill at very low.
jordan holmes
No, I mean you're you're absolutely right.
The problem with the word nuance is that we all understand what it means, but if you try and quantify it, you're fucked.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, I mean, but the larger point is this documentary sucks.
jordan holmes
100%.
I'm sorry for it.
I wasn't trying to like tangentially.
dan friesen
Oh, no, you're fine.
jordan holmes
You're over, you know, what I'm saying.
dan friesen
So Alex is talking here a little bit about Sandy Hook, and he says something not good.
alex jones
I am not the Sandy Hook man.
jordan holmes
Sandy Hook man, Sandy Hook man, Sandy Hook man.
alex jones
Oh my God, he's there!
Big events when they first happen.
The internet was questioning many anomalies of Sandy Hook, some of which turned out to not be real anomalies, some of which were still unsolved anomalies.
dan friesen
Which ones?
jordan holmes
Good question.
dan friesen
Which ones, Alex?
jordan holmes
We'll find out in trial tomorrow, right?
alex jones
No.
jordan holmes
No, we won't.
dan friesen
Yeah, also in this documentary, you're saying that some reasons that you questioned Sandy Hook were legitimate.
What anomalies?
Which ones?
Dumb-dumb?
jordan holmes
Unfortunately, Daria said today, some reasons that they questioned Sandy Hook were a good idea.
dan friesen
Yeah, I guess.
jordan holmes
Bad move.
dan friesen
I guess that's their position.
jordan holmes
Good luck.
dan friesen
Stinks.
Good luck.
So they play some clips from the depositions, and I will say they don't play the ones that are meaningful, but Mark and Bill both make an appearance in this documentary.
Good for them!
As the people grilling Alex and Rob Dew.
jordan holmes
Oh, they're the villains, right?
dan friesen
There is no mention of the fact that this deposition that they play of Rob Dew's is the one where he's there as a corporate representative.
It doesn't know what that means.
No clue.
There is no mention of any of the discovery issues or any of the bad behavior that Alex has carried down in court, the abusive practices.
These clips, I believe, are used to make it look like the lawyers are bullying Alex.
jordan holmes
Can I say one thing before you play this clip?
Can I say one thing?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Daria was asked today why did Rob Dew leave the company?
And what she did not say was what I think we all secretly believe is because he would never become the corporate representative for InfoWars again under oath.
And that is why Daria is sitting in that stand right now.
dan friesen
Oh, I thought the reason was because he's tied up in a bunker.
Sure, that could be hiding him.
jordan holmes
That could be.
There is also another possibility.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's been dead for a month.
jordan holmes
That works.
He's in a freezer.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I was watching that, and I think her answer was he decided to move on.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
From this mortal, this exact moment that I am existing in.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
No one wants that.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
So anyway, here are some clips.
alex jones
Mistake or not mistake.
Anderson Cooper was in front of a blue screen.
unidentified
The only reason I would say it's not 100% because somebody asked him if he was there and he denied being at the funeral.
alex jones
You know that's not true.
unidentified
No, there's video of it.
There's video of a guy asking him during a taping of a show.
He said, hey, were you at the funeral?
And he goes, no, I wasn't.
alex jones
Right.
He wasn't at and inside the funeral.
unidentified
Recently, your lawyer said in a legal document, there is no dispute that the Sandy Hook tragedy was real with tragic loss of life.
You stand by that.
That's what you admit is true now.
alex jones
Yes.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So there's just like the appearance of them badgering him.
And like it's, it creates the appearance of like Alex is a victim in this whole thing.
There's no recognition of the fact that it is these parents who are suing him.
There's no recognition of what they've gone through.
It is an entirely one-sided presentation of his Sandy Hook legal troubles, which again are presented as only the result of people trying to find something to be mad at him about because he supports Trump.
Yeah.
This is stupid.
jordan holmes
I've watched far too many true crime documentaries to hear a clip of somebody saying, no, I saw that in a video.
And if they don't follow that up with the video, then you didn't see it in that video.
dan friesen
You probably didn't.
It's tough to.
jordan holmes
A good true crime documentary immediately shows that video.
dan friesen
Proof.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's very simple.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
If Rob Dew had this video, you'd think just play it.
You'd think.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy, it seems like that's what the plaintiffs are doing.
dan friesen
So Alex is a baby.
And one of the things that he likes to do is whenever people are like, hey, man, you did some really fucked up stuff about Sandy Hook and your behavior was abhorrent.
And you probably, you know, owe these people some money for defamation.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
What have you.
jordan holmes
And set yourself on fire like a Buddhist monk in Vietnam.
dan friesen
Well, see, that's what he thinks people are asking him to do.
jordan holmes
He's like, that's what I'm asking.
dan friesen
Maybe I should be executed for questioning things.
jordan holmes
I'm fine with that.
I'm not going to say you should be, but I'm fine with it.
dan friesen
And then we accidentally take a hard left turn right into one of the episodes of How Not to Cover Alex.
unidentified
Oh!
alex jones
So, okay, let's put me in prison for questioning, okay?
Even though that's my right.
In fact, let's execute Alex Jones.
Let's put you in front of a firing squad and pull the trigger.
The paradigm of absolute control.
And that's why we're just out here doing simple things, pointing out that we're meant to be in nature and be natural.
And this is where we find the source that God made to transcend the new world order.
And that's why they want to try to keep us out of it.
I'm angry.
unidentified
I've had enough of these people.
alex jones
Lila Bones of Christian murder scum.
Now my giant death factor's keeping paper.
unidentified
That makes me think Alex more than Indie.
That indie folk sounds an Alex sound.
jordan holmes
Still letting it go.
unidentified
like this song in the world.
jordan holmes
Poor bastards.
dan friesen
I let that go on as long as I did because I wanted to illustrate that they play almost the entire Bonnie Ver parody video of Alex because it's the most like it works for him.
He loves it.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
And so that's fun.
But also, he doesn't own that song.
They don't have permission to use it.
And so I was thinking, hey, this is a copyright strike right here.
jordan holmes
It actually is, isn't it?
dan friesen
It really is.
jordan holmes
Like, no joke.
dan friesen
I don't mean to tell tales out of school, but I got in touch with the guy who made that video.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
And I was like, hey, just a heads up.
They used your shit in this documentary.
I know you didn't give them permission.
jordan holmes
We'll see what happens.
dan friesen
Unfortunately, it turns out he doesn't have the copyright himself to that song.
So if Super Deluxe wants to...
jordan holmes
Oh, it's Super Deluxe?
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
If they want to put a copyright strike on this, they are more than welcome to.
jordan holmes
Well, we've got a better chance than if it was Viacom.
dan friesen
True.
Maybe.
So that is just fun.
So now we smash cut forward to the January 6th era.
And so January 5th is here.
Here's a little interview with Owen on the evening.
jordan holmes
January 5th?
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
They all got together and the documentary filmmaker was like, why are you burning this Black Lives Matter flag?
And he was like, because it's so gray.
dan friesen
No, that doesn't come up.
Oh, no.
But it is in the evening of January 5th.
jordan holmes
Oh, odd.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it is Owen.
Huh.
This must have been just before.
jordan holmes
Fleshed out a weird part, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
I wonder if the documentarian was there and saw him burning that flag or just didn't go along for that.
Who knows?
Anyway, suspicious in its absence.
unidentified
I believe the order will be Alex Jones, myself, Mike Flynn, I believe Roger Stone.
Tomorrow's the day that could determine the 2020 election while millions of Trump supporters and patriots are in D.C.
So that's pretty much where we're at right now.
dan friesen
Yeah, so that's where we're at.
He's talking about how some speeches are going to happen that night, and also we're going to go burn a Black Lives Matter flag and chant fuck Antifa.
jordan holmes
No, it was Cran Tifa.
They were still on that tip.
dan friesen
The Cranberry Juice.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
Okay.
So here's Alex on the 6th.
There's a good bit of video stuff on the 6th and what have you, but here he's leading the march.
Yeah, there is.
And he's got a tone.
alex jones
Ladies and gentlemen, this is such a historic moment together.
This is such a historic moment as America awakens to the new order.
It is an incredible honor and an incredible treasure to get to meet and see so many amazing human souls, so many great Americans.
Let's go!
USA!
Nobody planned this, but Trump's actually getting his inauguration on January 6th, 2021 right now, folks.
They've really screwed the push on this.
We're going all out peacefully.
We have the facts on our side.
We want in violence.
We decry violence.
We're not BLM.
We're not angry.
We're here to let the system know that we know we had our votes stolen, that we could put millions in the streets when Biden can't even fill six circles in his little COVID meetings.
dan friesen
Yeah, so he's riling people up with all the exact same rhetoric and the ideology that led to everyone storming the Capitol.
jordan holmes
Give me the rough cut of this entire documentary without the music added.
I won't change a single scene.
And all I will do is change the music and you will hear a completely documentary, a completely different documentary.
Probably.
I could play Soul Coughings.
I don't need to walk around in circles.
And you would listen to that clip, listening to I don't need to wait, and you'd be like, oh, yeah, this is a fucking moron.
It is that simple.
This is a music made by music entirely.
dan friesen
Documentary.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Which almost warms my heart because I love music so much.
dan friesen
You know what I would like to see?
jordan holmes
What is that?
dan friesen
Replace all of it with the Cantina theme.
So now that Alex has led this march to the Capitol, things go bad.
Oh, when?
Now, I will say.
jordan holmes
When did they go back?
dan friesen
Well, I will say that this documentary omits Harrison talking about how the Capitol has fallen.
jordan holmes
That's weird.
dan friesen
And the Patriots have taken over.
jordan holmes
I'm going to tell you this right now.
I feel like they're leaving some things that might be important out.
unidentified
Yep.
Okay.
dan friesen
But here's Alex.
jordan holmes
Is Glenn Greenwald happy with it?
dan friesen
He loved it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So here's Alex trying to get people to stop rioting and storming the Capitol.
Right.
There is one point that I want you to listen closely for because Alex is not getting anyone to listen to him.
And you can hear Ali Alexander say, hey, try a chant.
jordan holmes
No.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
So I'm down for this, Jordan.
unidentified
Out.
alex jones
Hey, you can't.
You can't.
USA.
USA.
dan friesen
Now.
jordan holmes
End America.
dan friesen
End it.
jordan holmes
End it now.
The end.
dan friesen
If you're trying to stop people from taking over the Capitol to get rid of the illegitimate government that you believe has taken over the country, I don't know if chanting USA is going to really calm people down, but he tries.
jordan holmes
Dear every creative person that has ever existed, do you remember that time when you were like, here's what I'm going to do?
I'm going to put into this section of my creative endeavor where somebody, an American, tries to calm a crowd down or change their minds by just randomly chanting USA.
You remember when you were going to do that and you were like, that might be a step too far?
You were wrong.
dan friesen
No, it happened.
alex jones
Wrong.
dan friesen
And it turns out it didn't work.
unidentified
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
alex jones
Listen to me.
We've got a permit on the other side.
It's great that this happened, but the Trump's not going to come when we've taken this over.
We're not antifone.
We're not bearing.
You're amazing.
I love you.
Let's march around to the other side.
And let's not fight the police and give the system what they want.
We are peaceful.
We won this election.
And as much as I love seeing the Trump flags fought it over, we need to not have the confrontation with the police.
They're going to make that the story.
I'm going to march to the other side where we have a stage where we can speak and occupy peacefully.
Tell everybody behind you, march to the other side.
March to the other side.
You guys are voting.
You guys are great.
But the police, the rocket tours have caused a problem.
And the police are throwing flashbangs.
We don't want to have a kid stay here.
So, I love you.
We're saving the republic.
This is beautiful.
But please tell everyone you know, march to the other side.
dan friesen
So there's a dynamic that I think could be explored interestingly by a different documentary than this.
And that is Alex being unable to control the monsters he creates.
He has done his part to create the exact situation that unfolded on January 6th.
And here he is yelling in a bullhorn, unable to stop people from doing the thing he's pretending he doesn't want them to do.
And that is a kind of sad picture.
And it's very similar to the way that he's unable to stop his listeners from harassing Sandy Hook parents.
Like he created this atmosphere.
He created this thing.
And even if he does eventually say, hey, I think kids died, I'm sorry.
He's not able to stop the ball that he started rolling down the hill.
He can't stop these people from wanting to take over the Capitol after you have yelled into a bullhorn all day about how your vote was stolen from you and this is illegitimate and we need to take back our country.
You have no power over the monster you create.
You have the power to rile people up and create this atmosphere that you're impotent when it comes to stopping it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's partially because you don't actually want to stop it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, so this, what this reminds me of is despite him being a horrific, terrible, shitty person, in the book Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card had a character who was, I mean, essentially living out an Alex Jones fantasy.
So he built up this mob, as one would describe it.
And the way Orson goes through it is that this guy is in control of this situation.
He builds this mob together and he pulls it.
And then, without his ability to control it, it becomes a thing.
It becomes a general consciousness.
So despite the fact that it's a bunch of different separate individual human beings, it is one mob.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And then the character he's.
dan friesen
He is now the enemy of the mob.
jordan holmes
The character's like, oh, this is a bad idea.
And tries to go, hey, mob, let's not do this.
Guess how it goes?
dan friesen
They attack him.
Yep.
And Alex is honestly lucky that the mob didn't turn on him.
jordan holmes
It is surprising.
He's alive.
dan friesen
In that environment, him coming up and being like, hey, everybody, no, no, no, stop.
Don't do this or whatever.
It's easy to be like, oh, look at that fucking Fed.
He's telling us not to do the thing that's the natural conclusion of everything he's been saying for the last month.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, we've talked about it how many times, but it's like, just because you split infinitives doesn't mean you change the meaning of your sentence.
dan friesen
True, but you still shouldn't split infinitives.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's just bad writing.
dan friesen
It's a thing to badly do.
jordan holmes
Ah, well done.
dan friesen
So Alex now.
jordan holmes
Poorly, goodly done.
alex jones
Sure.
What?
dan friesen
Nope.
That wasn't intended.
So Alex now has had to deal with the fact that Biden won, although he's still in denial about it.
So now we're on his show.
jordan holmes
Now we've grown up.
dan friesen
We get to the day of the inauguration.
And Alex announces the death of America because he's a whiny little titty baby.
unidentified
From the front lines of the information war, it's Alex Jones.
alex jones
Ladies and gentlemen, it is zero hour, January 20th, 2021.
And the 46th president of the United States has just been installed in a giant coup for the globalists and the communist Chinese, Joe Biden, looking like a corpse with fake hair blowing around.
jordan holmes
It's actually Jim Carrey.
alex jones
One of them.
You can clearly say America was born July 4th, 1776.
You can really say it died January 20th, the year 2021.
dan friesen
Very dramatic.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Very, very dramatic.
jordan holmes
I mean, in some ways, he also has said the Capitol has fallen, you know, just with a different tone.
dan friesen
The Capitol has fallen in as much as it's the same as ever.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The Capitol was in the hands of the Patriots for a very short period of time.
Right.
jordan holmes
It was higher.
dan friesen
It was Schrodinger's Capitol because it was up for grabs.
Yes.
jordan holmes
Once we observed it, well, now we're fucked.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I guess, I mean, if you want to be like kind of, I don't know.
Here's one.
jordan holmes
You know what's crazy?
I mean, in all honesty, there is a part of that that is the Republican argument against Trump being Trump losing the election.
It's like, if you hadn't counted the votes, we wouldn't be here.
Right.
dan friesen
They don't say it like that, but yes.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, isn't it?
dan friesen
So here's one reading of this documentary's arc that I think is not what they intended.
But if you want to be really cynical about this and ignore all of the music cues and the entire structure of the world.
jordan holmes
I don't need to walk around in circles, Dan.
dan friesen
You have basically Alex's, like, his whole career.
He's this guy who everybody looks down on because he won't compromise his views and he tells the truth no matter what.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it's cost him his job because of Waco and all these stations because of 9-11 and his liberal fan base because he wouldn't accept Obama and all this.
And then finally, he's vindicated in the lead up to the 2020 election and the Stop the Steel stuff.
He's finally a man because of Trump who is seen as the guy.
He's been right all along and we were foolish not to listen to him.
And then he has this culminatory moment on January 6th and he is completely unable to stop the crowd from taking the logical next step in his rhetoric, which actually doesn't serve his purposes very well.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
It doesn't end up working and then Biden is president.
And so it's kind of like a deflation.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's almost like all that stuff he was right about really didn't matter.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Because Trump lost in 2020 and they weren't able to overthrow the government.
jordan holmes
You know, it is a little bit like, boy, sucks to be impotent.
dan friesen
Yeah, and politically, especially, like, it's partially because there's nothing behind what he's saying.
If you were.
There's no meat on the bone, and therefore there's no protein.
jordan holmes
If you were to.
dan friesen
I don't know if that works.
jordan holmes
No, I understand what you're saying.
You just don't eat meat off the bone, so I can't engage with your metaphor because I just don't believe you.
Fair enough.
But it is a little bit like while his speech is going on, you know, right before the end, whenever nobody pays attention to him.
If you played the Benny Hill theme song, same thing.
dan friesen
Or cantina theme.
jordan holmes
Ah, come on.
We can't go back to that well too many times.
It's in a cantina.
dan friesen
Fine.
So there's one scene left in the documentary, and it's closing with Alex and his son out shooting.
And this is the image.
jordan holmes
It really humanizes this.
dan friesen
This is the image that it wants to leave you with.
The documentary wants to leave you with this image of him and his son shooting guns and having some family time.
Of course.
And then this clip ends with a really wistful clip from Alex's past.
No.
And it's refused.
It's the wrong message to end this with.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
He really just needs a space where he can roam and be free.
He's like a buffalo.
alex jones
Hey, Rex.
Let's go shoot.
I've known her 27 years, and I've never thought about how is this going to affect me.
My fear is of failure, not of death.
But they could put me in prison or they could kill me at any time.
I just hope that I can do the best job I can to maintain doing good work into the future, however long that is.
And I've already had a great life.
Just aiming right at the sun.
Get that old cloud bank going.
Is the sun setting on America and representative democracy?
Or is it rising on a new day of people that are well-informed?
dan friesen
So young Alex is monologuing over video of like a really beautiful sunset.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
And it's like, go fuck yourself.
It's not only that you haven't earned this, you've earned the opposite.
This is disgusting.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
There's one last clip.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
No, keep going.
dan friesen
Okay.
So this is just where that thought ends.
So they have the shot of the sunset, and then this is Alex coming in with the parting shot of the documentary.
alex jones
The weirdness I've seen in my life, the bizarre happenings, just the incredible discoveries that I've been blessed to be part of.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
And that's not because I'm Alex Jones.
It's because of the time Neil's boar in such an incredible time right now.
But really, my personal best moments of my life are feeling that Zen understanding of timelessness and those moments in eternity that are endless.
Those are the best moments of my life.
And really realizing that we're just part of infinity.
dan friesen
And also when I did Mushrooms with Mike Tyson.
jordan holmes
I remember when Amitabha Buddha said, shoot me in the fucking face if that asshole talks about me.
alex jones
And you see the steps and you know that it's not going to go exactly how you want it to, but there's going to be a goal at the end you reach that's better for everybody.
And you know it's going to be painful.
You know you're going to make mistakes.
You know you're going to even hurt people on the way, but you're doing it from a place of goodness.
And so you forgive yourself for that.
It's that process of being destroyed that by the end you're complete.
jordan holmes
I want to die.
dan friesen
It's kill me.
jordan holmes
Right now in this hotel room.
dan friesen
It's a fairly packy way to end the documentary.
jordan holmes
It's not better than this for me to die.
I mean, what am I going to do?
What is better than this?
dan friesen
I got to say, I think ending the documentary with Alex expressing forgiveness for himself is maybe not the way I'm really grateful that I'm allowed to be not responsible for any of my actions.
That's right.
It's possibly offensively indulgent.
jordan holmes
I mean, you know, here's how this ends.
Here's how this ends in a good world.
Animal House, freeze frame, words saying Alex is on the lamb, never seen again.
That's as good as we can do for this documentary.
So if you're making this documentary, it doesn't end like that, then you're fucking done.
You're done.
dan friesen
On the release date of this documentary, Alex is in court and his lawyer is being a complete asshole to Sandy Hook families.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Congratulations, you fuck.
jordan holmes
Yeah, man.
Boy.
dan friesen
Unbelievable.
This documentary sucks.
I mean, I guess I could have just summed it up that way, but it's about two and a half hours.
jordan holmes
We would have had nothing to talk about.
dan friesen
So many more things we need to talk about from the trial updates and what have you.
I mean, there's been so much action.
I think a lot of people who are probably interested have been following you on Twitter when you're live tweeting.
jordan holmes
Sure, but I mean, that's fun and silly.
And I have.
dan friesen
And there's a little more context to talk about what actually is happening.
jordan holmes
Totally, totally.
And I'm going to be honest with you.
What I'm trying to do is just InfoWars, InfoWars.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Like, I'm not.
jordan holmes
I'm not doing a good job as a journalist in any sense of the word.
dan friesen
Well, you cited a source when I told you about the St. Rose of Lehman.
jordan holmes
That's true.
Well, I would never not give you credit for telling me so.
dan friesen
So your journalism is all right.
jordan holmes
Well, hey, at least I give credit where credit is due.
I even credited Eugene Merman when I stole one of his jokes today.
dan friesen
Man of the sea.
jordan holmes
Man of the sea.
dan friesen
So what's your summation, if you have a thought?
jordan holmes
It is quite simply that Mark is...
dan friesen
No, no, no, no, not of the case, of the documentary.
jordan holmes
Oh, of the documentary.
unidentified
Sorry.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
I got mixed up.
All of these infinitives are so split.
dan friesen
I was like, wait, your summation of this has to do with Mark.
He was in this for two seconds.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
My summation of the documentary is what if you made a bad porn movie that was just two and a half hours of somebody gradually, ever so slowly poking at a limp penis.
Does that work for you?
dan friesen
It's late.
jordan holmes
Does that – I feel like – no, no, no.
No, I understand it's late.
I understand it's late.
dan friesen
I'm just trying to adjust my face.
jordan holmes
But my imagery is undeniable.
dan friesen
Fine.
Yes.
I think that this movie as a whole is kind of excusable to a point.
I just see framing.
jordan holmes
We have different opinions.
dan friesen
Well, I think the way that you talk about Alex's career in terms of like Oklahoma City, 9-11, if you want to portray that as kind of mythological and this false version of it, whatever.
You're creating this mythos.
It's a movie.
jordan holmes
It's a movie.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, it's a puff piece at its core.
So if you're going to do that, you're going to do that and whatever.
I think the framing of Sandy Hook as just something that people are mad about because he supported Trump is an unexcusable and editorial choice that these documentary filmmakers are making.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I think they should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
I think that anybody who watches this documentary, like Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi, and they don't come away with the same kind of conclusion, I think that they have lost it.
I don't think it's possible to watch this documentary and think, hey, you know what?
It's responsible to choose to make this.
jordan holmes
This is why people don't talk about us, Dan.
We're right.
That's the issue.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, look.
jordan holmes
It's a problem.
dan friesen
Fuck this documentary.
jordan holmes
We got to stop doing this.
We got to do other shit.
Let's be wrong about things differently and loudly.
No, I don't think that's going to work for us.
We're going to hate each other.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I feel like I'm hitting my head against a wall trying to make a summation other than like, this sucks.
jordan holmes
This sucks.
dan friesen
It's just bad.
I mean, it's bad.
I think even some of the stuff is confusing.
Some of the musical choices, not the ones that are like really tacky and the crescendos that are like overly dramatic.
Some of the other ones are very weird to the point where I had to pause a couple times because I thought something like a pop-up started playing music.
alex jones
Right.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
That can't be right.
So I think some of the filmmaking itself is actually a little bit bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then, like, here's another thing that we haven't touched on.
What about all of Alex's friends?
Like, what about Pachenek?
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, who?
What about Pachenek?
Name one.
dan friesen
What about Leo Zagami?
What about like all of these guests that he's had on over the years who are complete lunatics?
What about Big Jim Tucker, the Nazi adjacent guy who was his Bilderberg source?
What about Daniel Estelin, his other Bilderberg source who credits a spaceman in his book about Bilderberg?
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
Like, what about these people?
Like, honestly, you're missing a big part of his story if you don't recognize that a lot of his information comes from fucking wackos.
jordan holmes
Right, but what you're missing is that this is actually, okay, and I feel like I now understand the documentary.
I've come to the conclusion that what this documentary is about is that a man at one point in time, if he had chosen not to do a Rush Limbaugh impression, could have joined the Vespers Choir.
And instead, he chose one path.
It is a classic poetics tale of a man who can go down two paths.
dan friesen
There's a beauty to that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
It is kind of haunting in its gorgeousness.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So we'll be back with another episode.
jordan holmes
This is what we do.
dan friesen
I think the next one probably will be about the Glenn Greenwald thing.
We may be able to also have a court recap in that because we can maybe make it a bumpy.
jordan holmes
Now that we can record, I would be shocked at how much we record.
dan friesen
I'm not turning any of this off.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
I'm not turning off.
jordan holmes
Which is what we're doing.
We're leaving the live stream on like the courtroom.
dan friesen
There's no fun.
jordan holmes
Everybody can just occasionally listen to us talk.
dan friesen
And watch me sleep.
So we'll be back.
But until then, Jordan, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep.
We're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at GoToToBed, Jordan, and at Knowledge underscore Fight.
dan friesen
And it's super late, so I'm going to tell you, go to bed, Jordan.
jordan holmes
You too.
dan friesen
No, I have to get this episode.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, that's right.
You're going to be up for a double three days.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, Saturday?
dan friesen
Anyway, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
alex jones
I'm just ranting the whole thing's horseshit.
It's all just insane.
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
So, Alex, I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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