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#720: August 6, 2003

Today, Dan and Jordan take a breakie into the past to see how things are going with Alex in simpler times.  In this installment, Alex does an absolutely terrible job of covering the bombing of the Marriott in Jakarta and takes some calls from some real weirdos. Citations Dreamy Creamy Fundraiser

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alex jones
11:56
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dan friesen
43:44
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jordan holmes
22:19
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steve quayle
00:02
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alex jones
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy in Kansas.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
Stop it.
Andy in Kansas.
Andy in Kansas.
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding us.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first time caller in my future.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey everybody!
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight, I'm Dan.
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan!
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today, bud?
dan friesen
My bright spot today is Coca-Cola.
It's a great brand.
jordan holmes
Wait, Coca-Cola Classic or New Coke?
dan friesen
Well, look, they have great taste in podcasts, and they've decided to sponsor...
jordan holmes
Sure.
No, no, no, of course.
dan friesen
I was notedly, famously critical of their space flavor.
They came out with that space flavor.
jordan holmes
I have no concept of a Coca-Cola space flavor.
dan friesen
You tasted it.
jordan holmes
Wait, was it supposed to taste like space or something?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay, that's right.
Now I remember.
It's not memorable.
dan friesen
No, and not good.
The only way I could find that was in a six-pack of mini cans.
jordan holmes
Right, yes.
dan friesen
And they're still in my fridge.
I have no interest in drinking them.
unidentified
Fair.
dan friesen
They're garbage.
But...
Coke put out another flavor called Dream World, which is supposed to be the flavor of dreams.
jordan holmes
What?
I'm sorry, what?
dan friesen
I don't know what the fuck they're doing.
I guess it's some kind of viral marketing campaign.
It must get enough attention based on how dumb these ideas seem.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Or just like...
You know, people talk about, like, hey, what's the flavor of space?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
What's the flavor of a dream?
jordan holmes
You know, I think they're dissecting Travis Scott's Astroworld.
You know, because that's a mixture of both.
dan friesen
That's the next flavor.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, you've got space and you've got Dream World.
You put them together, you've got Astroworld.
That makes sense.
dan friesen
I think that Dream World was much more of a success.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
It's pretty good.
It's got like kind of a passion fruit kind of vibe to it.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
It has like a Coca-Cola mixed with a sort of...
There's maybe a couple of fruits.
jordan holmes
Sure.
I mean, let me ask you the ultimate question, though, is did they achieve a taste that would remind you of a dream, I guess, world?
dan friesen
Do you dream of passion fruit?
unidentified
I know!
jordan holmes
If so...
dan friesen
Right on the nose.
jordan holmes
Okay, alright.
dan friesen
If not, then maybe not.
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
I have no interest in assessing the accuracy of these flavors.
I will just say that it's pretty alright.
jordan holmes
Who is the taste tester for Dream World?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Just an active dreamer.
dan friesen
That rapper Dream?
jordan holmes
The Dream.
He rewrites it.
dan friesen
Anyway, I appreciate that they salvaged what was left with a shattered reputation with the Dream World.
Yes.
So what about you?
jordan holmes
For me, it's a new album out by J.I.D.
Fantastic album.
Excellent album.
It's one of those things where maybe only an outside critic can kind of look at someone and then accelerate it to a high extent.
So this is like J.I.D.
Looked at Kendrick's last album and was like, what if I did the most Kendrick?
And Kendrick can do the most Kendrick.
dan friesen
The kids would say, hold my beer.
jordan holmes
It's almost also a little bit of an homage combined with a little bit of a parody in a way.
He's taken out a lot of Kendrick and really hammering it home.
He's changing time signatures every five seconds.
He's changed his voices.
He's got characters going on.
This is Kendrick as shit.
That's what he's doing.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And he's doing a lot of it.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But it's really good.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
So it's a great album.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
That's how it works.
dan friesen
I'll check it out.
jordan holmes
That's math.
dan friesen
I actually can't check it out.
unidentified
Oh, yeah?
dan friesen
I've started to exercise again, so I'm listening to a bit of music.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
And I will say that I'm stuck squarely.
jordan holmes
Show tunes.
dan friesen
I don't think that would have pumped me up enough.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Although I got deep into a...
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Bootleg copy of Mamma Mia.
dan friesen
No.
2010's pop punk.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
Okay.
All right.
dan friesen
I think Fall Out Boy, some of those hits are better than we remember.
jordan holmes
No, they're not.
dan friesen
I'm going to leave this here.
jordan holmes
What is a Fall Out Boy?
dan friesen
And that song from Snakes on a Plane by Cobra Starship was all right.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
All right.
How does that one go?
dan friesen
Kiss me goodbye.
unidentified
Make it out alive!
jordan holmes
Alright.
unidentified
That does sound like it strikes a chord, so to speak.
dan friesen
It'll pump you up.
Anyway, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
jordan holmes
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
And we're going to be talking...
I had to take a little breaky for Dan.
jordan holmes
Nah.
dan friesen
I wanted...
You know, self-care comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes and varieties.
And I decided today...
I was going to go back to 2003 because I wanted something of substance to deal with.
As the middle of the week was going on, I was just like, sick of this bullshit.
I don't know, spinning wheels, rambling about how there's going to be false flags before the midterms.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
As he says all the fucking time.
jordan holmes
I still can't believe he cares about the midterms right now.
dan friesen
It's pretty fun, I guess.
It's something to talk about.
jordan holmes
Sure, that's a good point.
That is a good point.
dan friesen
He can only say Klaus Schwab so many times and promote his book so many times.
Which, by the way, is out.
I'm going to be getting that book.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And we're going to do that episode eventually.
unidentified
That'll be fun.
dan friesen
Again, the self-care I needed was something with meat on the bones.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And so we're back to August 6th, 2003.
That's where we are in our progression through 2003.
jordan holmes
It's been a while since we've done 2003 episodes.
It's been a long time.
dan friesen
Yeah, I scrolled back through the episodes.
It's been quite a while.
jordan holmes
Almost a month, yeah.
dan friesen
I would say more, maybe.
jordan holmes
Maybe, yeah.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, the trial got in the way and what have you.
But...
I'm very excited to go over this and discuss some of the bullshit that Alex was doing on this day back in 2003.
But before we do that, let's say hello to some new wonks, Jordan.
Oh, that's a great idea.
So first, Conrad Zimmerman isn't a cult leader, but he does have novelty beverages and snacks.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, getting stoned while wandering the canals of Amsterdam while listening to Knowledge Fight.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
That sounds great.
jordan holmes
That sounds terrifying, too, in a certain way.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Next, I don't know why Alex hates Brian Stelter.
The stray cat said some great tunes.
Thank you so much for now, PolicyWonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk!
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
I know that I just said that Fall Out Boy had some good songs, so I'm not one to talk.
I know I have no credibility in this space, but I disagree.
The Stray Cats did not have some good songs.
jordan holmes
Nobody's gonna argue.
dan friesen
Next!
Ooh, this one, late.
Sorry about this.
Happy birthday, monkey skate!
Love, pumpkin!
Thank you so much!
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
Pumpkin did everything right, Monkey Skate.
This one's on me.
And that poor turtle that Dan jumped on.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
We've got a couple of technocrats in the mix, Jordan.
So first, Rock and Stone.
Thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
And the Macromancer.
Thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
I have risen above my enemies.
I might quit tomorrow, actually.
I'm just going to take a little breaky now.
A little breaky for me.
And then we're going to come back and I'm going to start the show over.
But I'm the devil!
I've got to be taken over here!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
I've got plenty of words for you, but at the end of the day, fuck you and your New World Order and fuck the horse you rode in on and all your shit!
Maybe today should be my last broadcast.
Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years.
Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow and you never see me again.
That's really what I want to do.
I never want to come back here again.
I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air.
I'll be better tomorrow.
dan friesen
Ah, thank you.
Now, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes, Dan.
dan friesen
We have an out-of-context drop from today's show.
It's been a little while on this one, too.
jordan holmes
It's good news.
We're getting back to basics.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Finding our roots.
jordan holmes
Yes, I like it.
dan friesen
This is great.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Alex has very frequently talked about how big his audience is.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
We know conservatively 10% of the world.
jordan holmes
At least.
dan friesen
Yeah.
This was a new level of brag.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Infowars.com now gets 6% of the web's traffic.
dan friesen
What?
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
6%!
Of the web's traffic.
So there's porn, and then there's Infowars, and then there's, I don't know, banking information.
dan friesen
Almost one out of every ten page hits is Infowars.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
Wow.
You know, when you think about that, you think of those Google search results, and they bring back a billion results, you know, in like half a second or whatever.
That means that roughly...
10% of those are InfoWars articles of some sort.
dan friesen
I mean, look.
jordan holmes
Something along those lines, right?
dan friesen
I know that Alex says he has a lot of tentacles, and so maybe all of these websites, every porn site is just a part of InfoWars.
jordan holmes
He's also a tag on InfoWars.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's diversified.
jordan holmes
Man, that does seem like a backdoor for some enterprising porn person.
Ah, come on now.
dan friesen
So, uh...
Let's jump into today's content here.
Alex starts off the show with a major world news story.
And I don't say that facetiously.
I usually say that and then it's a tweet, but there's actually a news story.
alex jones
The evidence is coming out that the bombing in Jakarta was another globalist operation.
Again, the Saudis are saying the British are carrying out the bombings in Saudi Arabia to destabilize the country so they can create a crisis to offer their new world order solution.
The evidence shows that that is indeed a fact, the preponderance of the evidence.
New information is coming out about the original Bali bombing last year and the fact that the British and U.S. government were there carrying the bombings out.
dan friesen
So, for some perspective, this episode is from August 6th, and the bombing of the Marriott in Jakarta happened on August 5th.
unidentified
Whoa!
dan friesen
There's no preponderance of any evidence that's leading Alex to say it's looking like a globalist plot.
He just literally says that about everything.
jordan holmes
Well, I was wondering what a globalist plot is in this regard.
unidentified
Huh?
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, okay, it's a globalist plot, but what is their plot beyond just they decided to blow up this...
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
You know, like, what is the plot?
dan friesen
So it goes like this.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
The globalists are attacking...
Sort of western-y targets within Indonesia.
jordan holmes
Hotel chains.
dan friesen
Right.
In order to force the hand of the Indonesian government to playing along with their globalist takeover and crack down on the public, basically.
Install a martial law state in Indonesia, because as goes Indonesia, so goes the world.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, yeah, that is the classic saying, the sun never fell on the Indonesian Marriott chain.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I believe is what it was.
dan friesen
So that is essentially the plot.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The plot is to try and force the hand of the government to...
Gotcha.
...to go along with their...
jordan holmes
Fascism will blow up all your McDonald's.
dan friesen
Basically, yes.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
Okay.
dan friesen
So, incidentally, these two bombings that Alex is talking about were connected, as they were both carried out by members of the terrorist group Jama 'a Islamiyah.
Members of the group were convicted of doing a string of bombings in Bali.
There were a couple in that attack.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And it's been pretty clearly established that they were behind the Jakarta bombing as well.
One of the more persuasive pieces of evidence that was found was the head of the suicide bomber, which was identified by multiple sources as being a man named Asmar Latinsani, who was a member of J.I. I'm guessing Alex could just say that that was planted there or something, because he's smart and he loves facts.
jordan holmes
I mean, did you just say what I heard you say?
And that's like, we're going to be fine with that?
So the suicide bomber went into a hotel and blew himself up.
dan friesen
Well, I believe it was a car bomb.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Still.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But of all the things that were intact, his head was identifiable.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's crazy!
dan friesen
Intact is a way to put it.
jordan holmes
I mean, that's insane!
That's insane!
We're not talking dental records.
Like, it literally sounds like somebody walked by and they were like, holy shit, it's him!
Whoa!
How have you been?
Oh, no!
The rest of you is gone!
dan friesen
Yeah, it was other members of the group who had been arrested identified him.
jordan holmes
And then how did they...
I mean, listen, I don't want to be...
Morbid.
Right.
dan friesen
No, it is wild.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, it is wild.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
No, I don't disagree.
jordan holmes
That's wild.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And that's probably why Alex would say it's fake.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, that is ripe for faking.
dan friesen
Right.
But hey, guess what?
If you were going to do something fake, you probably wouldn't do something like that because your response is how people would respond to it.
jordan holmes
Sorry, what?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Go with something a little bit more...
jordan holmes
I would be very suspicious, yes.
dan friesen
So, Jama 'a Islamiyah was a terrorist organization that operated in Indonesia and surrounding countries, mostly inspired by opposition to the more moderate forms of Islam that were practiced there.
This was seen as a form of Western degradation, so they targeted things associated with the West, like the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta and that largely tourist area in Bali, where the bombings happened.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The group had received funds from an organization called Al Haramein, which is a charity that had clear ties to al-Qaeda.
Though Al Haramein did engage in a bunch of legitimate charity work, some of the funds were dispersed to terrorist groups like Jama 'a Islamiyah.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Al Haramain is a charity organization that is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The point is that Alex is legitimately just talking shit.
He hasn't had time to come up with any conclusions or weigh the preponderance of evidence, but But he can't resist the opportunity to blame this tragedy on his imagined enemies and incorporate that made-up story into his larger conspiracy worldview.
Right.
unidentified
And so he's...
dan friesen
Saying that there's a preponderance of evidence.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
Just saying shit.
jordan holmes
I mean, I think this is interesting insofar as it feels like this is one of the few times where the plan in real life has been exactly as bad as Alex's fake globalist plan.
dan friesen
How do you mean?
jordan holmes
I mean, it's just...
Tactically, I don't think that's going to achieve what it is that they think they're trying to achieve.
You know what I'm saying?
No one is going to care if you blow up a Marriott.
I'm sorry.
dan friesen
I think people did.
jordan holmes
I think they did, but at the end of the day, a Marriott is a low-level target.
You're not going to get what you want out of a Marriott.
dan friesen
Well, conceivably, one of the reasons to choose that is that it's frequented by tourists and foreign nationals, and it would cause...
A reduction of Western tourism to the country?
jordan holmes
Possible.
dan friesen
Western influence, possibly businesses would be scared of coming in.
There are ripple effects that you could think...
Might be achieved by attacking these Western targets.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't know if I think that the idea is as bad as you are thinking it is.
jordan holmes
No, I respect...
I mean, it's a terrible idea.
dan friesen
But tactically, I can understand the thought process that gets there, whereas Alex's globalist plot is a lot sillier, I think.
jordan holmes
I see it.
I see it.
This is just one of those plots, ultimately, that has been tried before.
And it doesn't really, you know, it doesn't really do it.
It's just not how you, you gotta get a good one.
dan friesen
Well, hope springs eternal.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, that's fair.
dan friesen
They say.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
So, trying to nail down exactly, like, where this conspiracy comes from, or what Alex is basing this on, we get to one fairly relevant piece.
alex jones
And we had calls yesterday from listeners, several on-air, several off-air.
And a bunch of emails of folks that were watching CNN and Fox yesterday, early in the morning after there had been a bombing in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
And they talked about how the U.S. diplomats and U.S. employees had been told to pull out four hours before.
Well, I had no way of confirming this.
I was getting emails about it, but here it is now in Reuters and Sky News and in other Asian papers.
And, of course, the feds were on the ground within minutes, just like the Bali bombing.
But with the Bali bombing, two weeks before, they had specifics of the attack.
And our government told the Bali's government and told the Taiwanese government, this has been in the mainstream papers.
It's great times not to warn anyone, not to tell the American people or the Australians or anybody else.
dan friesen
The Bali's government, I think, is Alex thinking that Bali is its own country.
jordan holmes
I don't think it is a city-state, if I remember.
dan friesen
It's a province in Indonesia, but Alex seems to...
I don't know what he's doing.
So it appears that what Alex is going to do to try and make this conspiracy stick is work with the idea that there was some kind of advance warning of the bombings and that there were feds on the ground immediately.
As always, this stuff is partially true.
There were federal agents there, but not U.S. agents.
There were two groups from the Australian Federal Police who were working with the Indonesian law enforcement, one on a narcotics operation and one on an anti-human trafficking task force.
They were able to respond to the bombings in Bali considering that they were already there in the country, but this isn't suspicious and it doesn't prove anything close to a conspiracy or a false flag.
And again, this is related to the 2002...
Bali bombings as opposed to the Jakarta bombing that just happened that Alex is covering.
jordan holmes
It is a different situation.
dan friesen
He's playing fast and loose with these details a little bit, and I think it's intentional.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So there was some advanced warning, but that's not necessarily a thing where it was specific enough to guarantee the ability to stop either the Bali bombings or the Jakarta bombing before they happened.
In the case of the Bali attacks, the U.S. had captured Omar al-Faruq, who was understood to be a high-level al-Qaeda operative in the region.
His contact information had been found in the possession of a number of senior members of the group, and after the U.S. forces interrogated him in ways that almost certainly bordered on torture, he talked and explained his role in the Southeast Asian cell of al-Qaeda.
The U.S. attempted to pass this intelligence on to the Indonesian government because part of it involved a reasonable suspicion that they were planning an attack somewhere near the anniversary of 9-11.
One of the recommendations that the U.S. made was that the government should arrest a prominent cleric named Abu Bakr Bashir, who Al Farouk had named as being someone who was involved in the organization and planning of attacks.
The political situation in Indonesia at the time was very tense with a secular president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose vice president, Hamza Haas, was said to have close ties with many of the radicals who the U.S. wanted to focus on, including Bashir.
So you had this vice president who was on sort of one side of things and a president who was on the other side.
jordan holmes
It was like early America where it would just be the top two voters get in.
This guy and then the guy who hates him the most on the planet is the vice president.
dan friesen
And it's a tough situation to navigate.
Right.
The country is majority Muslim and Megawati didn't want to make any arrests, particularly of religious figures, without evidence of their having committed a crime which the U.S. couldn't provide.
The warning that the U.S. had was too vague to be actionable and the Indonesian government was somewhat in a bind.
Ultimately, the Bali bombings could not be stopped, but afterwards, the Megawati government began to act.
She arrested Bashir and charged him with a string of church bombings that he had been involved in that occurred on Christmas Eve, year 2000.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
In the lead-up to the Jakarta bombing, Australian federal police were still in the country because the government had asked for their assistance investigating the Bali bombings.
In the course of that investigation, many members of Jama 'a Islamiyah were arrested and questioned, and a picture began to take shape that another bombing was being planned, but no one provided a specific target that they were planning to hit, just that it was likely that the group would attack a soft target.
If that's all you have to go on, you can be on guard somewhat, but you can't possibly deploy the resources necessary to protect every soft target in the country, or even...
All of them just in Jakarta.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, yeah, it is a warning that says bombing is coming, but without where or what or who or how to stop it.
So you're like, well, yeah, but what do I do with that?
Right, yeah.
dan friesen
And the notion that a soft target would be chosen isn't really that much new information or revelatory because the original bombing was of a bar, you know?
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And even then...
dan friesen
You kind of get the sense that that's in the MO.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
But, I mean, even then, that's not really good intelligence there, because, like, oh, well, you could just be assuming that they're going after a soft target, or you don't even really know what a soft target to them quite is.
dan friesen
How soft is soft?
jordan holmes
Exactly!
dan friesen
It's tough to call.
jordan holmes
It's tough to call.
dan friesen
The point here is that Alex just is saying shit.
Nothing he's saying means anything, and he refuses to take responsibility for the things that he says.
He just throws shit at the wall and then moves on to another room before anyone can make him clean up his mess.
None of this has any connection to the reality of the situation.
He's blurring details intentionally or because he doesn't know any better about two different incidents.
jordan holmes
I mean, you don't even understand.
He's got people on the ground with the Balis as we speak.
He's there.
dan friesen
Steve overthrew the Balis government.
jordan holmes
He declared Bali its own...
Country, obviously.
dan friesen
Steve is notably part of the Bali's sovereignty movement.
jordan holmes
That would make sense.
dan friesen
So Alex has some other news stories he wants to hit on.
alex jones
So, remember that article from yesterday on the London Guardian?
Saudis accuse British staff of destabilization campaign.
British embassy staff in Riyadh have been accused by the Saudi Arabian authorities of coordinating a campaign of anti-Western terrorist bombings in the kingdom.
The Guardian has learned the accusations that the British embassy in Riyadh coordinated the bombings to stabilize the Saudi regime is the latest and most bizarre piece of information ...to escape the pall of secrecy behind which the Saudis have been conducting legal proceedings against seven Westerners who they say have been tortured into making false confessions.
Now, I said day one, before this story ever broke, that the evidence is it was the British doing this.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
So this wasn't a story that was in The Guardian the day prior.
This is an article from September 6, 2002, in the aftermath of the Bali bombings.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
Whenever they did know stuff about a thing.
dan friesen
The basic gist of the story is this.
In November 2000, a British citizen named Christopher Rodway was killed in a car bombing.
He was an engineer employed at the military hospital in Riyadh, and in the immediate aftermath, the Saudi government said that this was not terrorism, but it was actually more likely a personal matter.
At the time, Saudi Arabia had a public stance that it was very insistent that they did not have any terrorist elements existing in the country, and this would contradict that narrative, so there was an attempt to find another explanation.
When personal reasons didn't stick, a bunch of employees at the British Embassy were accused of carrying out that bombing with the goal of blaming the Saudi Arabian government.
Seven people were held in prison for long stretches, treated quite poorly, and a couple of them were actually sentenced to death before ultimately being released.
This is a story that Alex is completely wrong about, and if you would just go a little bit further down the story he's using as a source, the credibility of these accusations being made by the government of Saudi Arabia might seem a little shoddier.
A Guardian investigation this year discredited the case against the men and uncovered evidence of systematic torture by the Ministry of Interior officials.
According to defense papers submitted by way of appeal to the Saudi Supreme Court last month and seen by the Guardian, the men were systematically tortured until they confessed.
They were subjected to sleep deprivation for up to 10 days at a time, suspended from chains hanging from hooks above their cell doors and repeatedly beaten.
They were told their relatives would be harmed if they did not cooperate and were offered early.
At this point, I want to make totally clear that I'm opposed to this treatment of detainees in the same way that I'm against how the U.S. treated Omar al-Faruq.
In the latter case, it was interrogation tactics like sleep deprivation, whereas the allegations in this case are far more abusive and gruesome.
The fact remains that these are abusive and unacceptable on both counts, and I'm not trying to minimize one compared to the other or anything.
They're both unacceptable.
Beyond the moral issues, putting someone into distress is not a reliable way to gather information.
You may end up getting intel that's accurate, but you also might not, so it's often best practice to not view the fruits of tortured interrogations as being trustworthy.
So the reason that I gave this much more of a pass in the case of Al Farouk than in the case of the Saudi government blaming these British citizens is because there were other corroborating details and pieces of supporting evidence in that case that didn't come from Al Farouk himself.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it appears that the things that he told the U.S. forces were accurate.
jordan holmes
They did their best to verify that information as opposed to just going, oh, we tortured him enough that we've got the correct information.
dan friesen
All that being said, this is all terrible and awful.
In early 2004, the British embassy workers who were tortured and forced to admit to crimes they didn't commit on video began the process of trying to sue the Saudi government.
The rules at that point in the UK were that you couldn't sue a sovereign government, but their case sought to challenge that law.
They actually won a case on this in 2004, but it was ultimately overturned by a higher court in 2006.
And so they did not get to...
jordan holmes
What a weird world that we live in where you can just get swept up into something that has nothing to do with you, and then you're tortured for, like...
That's absurd.
It is very, very dumb that that just exists, and we all participate in this system.
It's very silly.
dan friesen
Reading some of the folks' experience, not so much, I mean, obviously, tales of being beaten, but the experience of having your government not have your back, or feeling like that, after the fact, there's some interesting Expressions of the trauma that lingers, that's added to by, like, well, there's no recourse.
jordan holmes
No, there's not.
dan friesen
That I really have.
jordan holmes
It's fucked up.
It is like a hurricane just swept through your house, and that's it.
A hurricane just swept through your house.
Now you have to live with it.
Bye.
Yeah.
It's fucked up.
dan friesen
Undoubtedly.
Yeah.
So, there was something that Alex touched on a little bit.
He said that they pulled them out.
They pulled people out.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
Hours before.
dan friesen
Yeah, and some of that was not entirely clear based on the pieces of information and the sources that he was citing.
And so he gets back to that, and there's a little more clarity.
alex jones
Here's another one.
U.S. planned withdrawal of Indonesian staff hours before blast.
And this is out of the Jakarta News.
Hours before the powerful blast in Bali.
Island went off.
The U.S. had reportedly announced a plan to withdraw its administrative staff from Indonesia for security reasons.
So you have these two stories interconnected with Bali and with Indonesia.
It's the same story over and over again.
dan friesen
So this story actually makes total sense if you understand the larger context of what's going on.
It's only suspicious if you're only given access to the sparse details that Alex covers on his show.
The sparseness of the details is actually a strategic aspect of Alex's broadcast because he's not interested in giving his audience a better grasp of news events.
He's just trying to find tiny slivers of information that he can use to make every event conform to his predetermined storyline so everything fits neatly into the the globalists are behind everything box.
This article that Alex is talking about is from late 2002.
The context of this is that the U.S. intelligence community had gotten information from Al Farouk and other sources that there was a plan in motion to carry out a bombing in Indonesia.
Areas or buildings that were seen as Western are prime targets for groups like Jama 'a Islamiyah, so they had every reason to suspect that embassies or government buildings could be under threat.
The U.S. had tried to relay this information to the Megawati government, who found themselves unable to act on it in a way that satisfied U.S. concerns, which left few options on the table for how to proceed.
Evacuating staff temporarily is a completely justified and rational decision to make in this situation, and it's definitely not cause for any kind of suspicion.
Alex is trying to use this sliver of information that the U.S. had considered evacuating embassy staff prior to the bombing to insinuate that they had specific forms.
foreknowledge of the attack, but this doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
It's also kind of dumb, considering that if they did have foreknowledge of the attack's targets, they wouldn't have had to worry about officials at their offices.
Yeah.
unidentified
The primary target of that attack in Bali was Patty's Pub, a bar that was frequented by tourists, though there was a smaller bomb that was detonated at the U.S. consulate office Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
So, the thinking was that this was less aimed at killing people or causing destruction as much as it was a statement bombing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you fill a bomb with shit whenever you're trying to cover everybody with shit.
I feel like that makes a perfect...
Yeah, that makes sense.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, so this doesn't work.
And Alex is again trying to apply it more broadly to the bombing that he's covering that day.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
And it's not appropriate.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right, right, right.
He's found places that are geographically close, and then has been like, well, obviously all bonings happen in this geographical area happen for the exact same reason every time.
dan friesen
And every detail about circumstances are exactly the same.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
You can just sort of transpose things, and it's fine.
jordan holmes
You know, that is a really interesting failing that kind of goes under the radar with a lot of his conspiracies, like...
It is impossible to pull off the same job the same way over and over and over and over again like that, you know?
dan friesen
Unless you're the globalist.
jordan holmes
But, I mean, that is too suspicious, that they never fuck up in, like, unique and interesting ways.
They're always able to pull it off.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
That's crazy!
dan friesen
Yeah, it's...
You know, your enemy is perfect.
Whatever.
jordan holmes
The enemy of good is perfect?
dan friesen
No, I mean, you're making up your enemy.
And so, of course.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
Your enemy has the power that you need them to have at any given point in time.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's narrative convenience.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
It's like having a main character shield.
That kind of thing.
dan friesen
Main enemy shield.
So Alex goes on to make up more details about this article that I think is just, the way he does this is just fascinating.
alex jones
And it goes on to say, yesterday's blast, however, may prove to be just the evidence Washington needed to force Takarta to come down hard on Muslim civilian groups in the past.
Analysis did not rule out the occurrence of deliberate violence across the archipelago to provide a pretext for
U.S. So this is a complete fiction that Alex is creating out of this article that he's reading.
dan friesen
This article was written long before the Jakarta bombing at the Marriott and had to do with the U.S. threat to remove embassy employees in 2002 prior to the Bali bombings.
The U.S. didn't end up evacuating staff and it had nothing to do with that Marriott, which is the hotel that was targeted in Jakarta.
The reason that Indonesian House Speaker Tan Jun was expressing regret with the U.S. decision to threaten to remove staff was because he was worried about the message that would send to the rest of the world that Indonesia wasn't a safe place.
Right.
Alex has no idea what he's talking about.
He's reporting that the U.S. planned to evacuate staff hours before the bombing that happened in August 2003, and his source is an article from October 2002.
jordan holmes
That is an issue.
dan friesen
This is the level of work that he does, or at least that's how it appears.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean...
dan friesen
Because he's actually conflating sources together.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
He's making a stew.
jordan holmes
Okay.
I mean, the whole here is what amount of U.S. officials were at the Marriott?
Like, why is the United States government specifically like, listen, I mean, obviously it would be like they know that the embassy isn't going to be bombed.
But who all was staying at the Marriott that needed to be evacuated?
dan friesen
Well, the Marriott did host some events.
jordan holmes
Sure.
No, I mean, yeah.
In the past.
It is a little bit like the United States government is like, hey, listen, Eric.
You gotta get out of that Marriott.
I know you've been staying there for a week until we find you a place closer to the office, but you gotta get out of there, Eric.
dan friesen
Well, see, here is where this stew aspect comes in.
jordan holmes
Sure, right.
dan friesen
So Alex has this story from 2002 about the threat to remove embassy employees.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And now he's bringing in, they're saying that they were told to get out of the Marriott.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
Which can't be involved with this.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Article.
jordan holmes
Because it's about the U.S. Embassy.
dan friesen
Right.
So he brings in another article.
jordan holmes
That's a good idea.
To bridge the gap?
dan friesen
Not even bridge the gap.
He just jams them together as if they're the same thing.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Very astute timing.
Again, U.S. Embassy canceled the booking of Marriott Hotel four and a half hours before the explosion.
U.S. Embassy canceled the booking of the Marriott Hotel before the explosion.
There was something interesting happening.
Just hours before the explosion shocked the JW Marriott Hotel.
dan friesen
So this is a bit of a pivot point, because Alex up to this point has been relying on this October 2002 article to argue that the embassy was threatening to withdraw its staff.
That was true, but he was lying about the context of it and pretending it was a recent article related to the Jakarta bombing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now he's using a completely different source to make a completely different claim while acting like it's the same story.
Apparently, what happened was that the U.S. Embassy canceled reservations at the Marriott four and a half hours before the bombing.
Alex's sole source on this is a translation of an Indian Indonesian website that makes this claim.
And their only source is an alleged employee of the Marriott who is anonymous.
There's no evidence of this that this is the case.
If I were the embassy and I were orchestrating elaborate fake terrorist plots in order to force the Indonesian government into cracking down on terrorists and going along with my larger global agenda, I don't think I would cancel those reservations.
Maybe they would keep them and just not show up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
dan friesen
Or, even better, some of the expendable people who worked at the office could show up for the reservations, and then the embassy could apply even more pressure on the Indonesian government.
jordan holmes
Well, hold on, when was the booking for?
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
I mean, they said they canceled a booking.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But it didn't say there was an event at the hotel that day.
It could have been a booking for any time.
dan friesen
The implication is that it was like they were supposed to check in four and a half hours after this.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
Or that day or something.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That's a great point.
jordan holmes
But he doesn't say.
dan friesen
No, that is a great point.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex will play with that a little bit later.
jordan holmes
Okay, but I mean, it is a little bit like if I'm planning a false flag, I'm not, I mean, as you said, you know.
Like, I'm gonna leave those there.
What are you going to do?
Listen, if we let it go too long, they're non-refundable, okay?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Are they trying to save cash?
Exactly!
dan friesen
It's nonsense.
jordan holmes
They have a million people!
Come on!
dan friesen
And if it's a thing where the reservations are supposed to start the next day, they have a 24-hour cancellation policy.
I'm not sure if it's different for the U.S. Embassy.
Maybe they have a special deal.
jordan holmes
Budget's tight for the United States globalists in Indonesia.
It's just they've got to pinch pennies, you know?
dan friesen
Or if they're supposed to be there, like...
Sure.
Or whatever.
Like, you know, a bombing takes a while to plan.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you should know.
It didn't come together exactly four hours before.
dan friesen
He was like, fuck, fuck, fuck.
I keep forgetting.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit, I forgot to cancel it.
Oh, goddammit.
dan friesen
So there's literally only one scenario where this makes sense as proof of a conspiracy, and that's the world where the evil globalists behind this plot canceled the reservation so they could leave behind a calling card for the conspiracy theorists to find.
This is basically Alex pretending that information is taunting him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which you have to realize is a part of the way he views the world.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, of course.
It is difficult to keep in mind that he does feel as though he's fighting the Mad Hatter, leaving clues behind at the scene everywhere he goes.
unidentified
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Like the globalists or the Riddler.
jordan holmes
Change places!
dan friesen
They're using puzzles and stuff.
Yes, exactly.
jordan holmes
If I figure out all these clues, then I'll find them.
The treasure underneath the United States Constitution.
It makes perfect sense.
dan friesen
And I'm, you know, you and I are pointing out these problems with the idea of them canceling reservations.
jordan holmes
It's just a silly idea.
Right.
dan friesen
And that's even accepting the framing that they did, in fact, cancel these reservations.
jordan holmes
On that day.
dan friesen
Which I do not know to be true.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I don't think that there's a solid piece of information about this.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No, this doesn't, it doesn't work.
unidentified
If they were there, And they left?
jordan holmes
Maybe.
But even then, it's at the Marriott.
I don't know.
dan friesen
That's what Alex says.
alex jones
We've got the Saudi Arabians accusing the British government of carrying out the bombing to destabilize the region.
You've got the U.S. government with its employees who checked in hours before the bombing, then check out.
Just a few hours later...
dan friesen
Alex doesn't have another source.
This is just him embellishing and making up details about the idea that the embassy canceled reservations at the Marriott before the bombing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The flimsy article that he's basing this on doesn't say any of this, but he can't help himself from escalating things.
Now they didn't just cancel reservations.
They were actually there and checked in, but they went through all the trouble to check out...
Hours early before the bombing.
Alex is making this up because if it were true, it sure would seem pretty suspicious.
jordan holmes
I suppose.
dan friesen
You even were like, if they were there and checked out...
jordan holmes
But even then, that's like flimsy-ass shit, you know?
dan friesen
But it certainly would raise more of an eyebrow than...
jordan holmes
Right.
But now it is a little bit like they check in.
They call in and they're like, hey, can we get an early check in?
Because we got to the Marriott too soon.
And they go like, yeah, okay, fine.
We've got a room available.
So they go through the whole rigmarole.
They've left a credit card and an ID.
They've done all this shit.
They go up to the room and then like, oh, fuck, I forgot.
We got the bomb today.
They run down there.
They have to make a fake scene.
They have to make a big scene.
Oh, my room wasn't as clean as it needed.
How dare you, sirs?
I demand a refund!
And then they leave.
dan friesen
It's conceivably the dumbest track of events for you to actually believe happened.
jordan holmes
It's not great.
dan friesen
No one would go through this.
jordan holmes
It's absurd.
dan friesen
But here's the thing.
Basically, Alex can't make compelling arguments based on the information that's available, so he's cheating by just making up shit that makes his case look stronger.
And he's doing this because he's a liar.
Yes, it does, though.
Because once you establish the idea that you had these embassy people there who checked out, and you add it to believing the Saudi Arabian government about the British folks who were carrying out bombings, To destabilize the Saudi Arabian government.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You can combine this all together, and now you have a hit team that was at the Marriott.
jordan holmes
Okay, all right.
alex jones
Turns out the government had inserted a team of, well, it looks like 20 people or more.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
Into this Marriott.
jordan holmes
That is a big team.
alex jones
They pulled out just a few hours before the blast, and maybe it's just a coincidence they just so happened to pull them out when they were...
We're going to be there for two more days.
jordan holmes
Wait, how do you know that?
alex jones
Because of the threat that's happening.
And, of course, it turns out that the Bali bombing, they told the Taiwanese not to warn the Bali's government.
dan friesen
You can see here how Alex is building out the story.
He has a flimsy source that claims that the U.S. Embassy canceled reservations hours before the bombing took place at the Marriott, which he is now reporting as the U.S. sending in a team of about 20 people who were pulled out early.
This is solely from his own imagination, and it's nothing more than him writing his own little story about this tragic event so he can use it to further his own goals.
One thing I want to draw special attention to is the part where he says that they were pulled out of the hotel because of threats.
This is important because it's a synthesis of this flimsy source about the canceled hotel reservation and that article from 2002 about the lead up to the Bali bombing.
Alex is taking the hotel detail from one story and mashing it up with the embassy being concerned about threats, that detail from the other story, and then serving it up for the audience as if it's something meaningful and it's the same thing.
If anything, this is an abuse of information, and it's kind of silly to pretend that what he's doing is questioning world events.
This isn't questioning.
This is just lying about shit so mass casualty events can be incorporated into your worldview more easily and you can profit off them.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right.
It is funny that I...
Throughout this entire time, I find myself trying to give advice to the globalists, and then realizing again that what I'm really doing is just in a writer's room with Alex trying to punch up his narrative.
Like a team of 20 is too big.
Too many people are going to...
That's too big.
It's too obvious to see.
And then I realize I'm not talking about this.
I'm with Alex being like, okay, listen, here's what we got to do.
dan friesen
He took that from the article about the canceled reservations that alleged that there were 10 to 20 rooms.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So that's just a number that he's coming up with.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why not?
dan friesen
The reservation was apparently for three days, although it doesn't specify which three days.
And so that's where he's getting the two more days thing.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But he's just cracking those details into his own form, whatever shape he wants them to take, in order to make his story make sense.
Now, what I think is more interesting, with your writerly instincts, is the way that you have been one step ahead of Alex's narrative.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
unidentified
With the, like, the...
dan friesen
They were inside and checked out of the hotel.
unidentified
That is interesting about going back to the past.
jordan holmes
He does have those abilities.
It does feel like he's building something.
dan friesen
There is a little bit of an A to B to C with the way that the layers of the conspiracy are added on as he makes stuff up about the little kernel that is at the base of this.
jordan holmes
It feels like he's trying.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's not good.
I mean, it's not a good effort.
jordan holmes
No, but it is an effort which we're not used to seeing in the present.
dan friesen
Holy shit, yeah.
It's transparent if you take the time to pay attention to it.
But if you don't, or if you just operate off headlines and the optics of seeing a headline that says U.S. Embassy...
Cancelled reservations four and a half hours before the bombing, and then you accept whatever Alex says about it.
Like, if you just accept the story that he tells about that headline, the escalation of it does make sense.
Or if you believe the Saudi government about the British embassy employees that they tortured and got false confessions out of, these things, yeah, there is a conspiracy that is crafted.
jordan holmes
It's a little bit like a kid improv-ing a book report where you're like, okay, I know you didn't read that book, but I'm actually kind of respecting your level of creativity and faking that you read that book.
You're making up some fun shit.
dan friesen
Sure.
It's like if a kid improvised a book report that was super disrespectful to a bunch of people who died in a bomb.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That would be...
jordan holmes
Where the Redford Grows is actually the Civil War burial ground.
Yeah.
That's a really worse book.
dan friesen
So Alex doesn't just stay on this topic all episode.
He also just yells about stuff, too.
alex jones
It's death squads, folks.
And that's what Homeland Security and the National Police are.
That's what the SWAT teams are.
They're setting up death squads in America.
It's in Patriot Act 1 and 2 to be able to come and kill you and never even tell people why they killed you, never charge you, never indict you, never arrest you.
I mean, this is textbook classical tyranny.
We're going to take calls, and I've got a bunch of other news we're going to get to.
Toll-free number to join us.
dan friesen
So that's a little severe.
Yeah.
I think that you could make an interesting argument that in some ways...
The police are acting as, not always, but sometimes do operate as a death squad.
I think that's not what Alex is talking about, and Alex doesn't seem to really have that much problem with police brutality these days.
jordan holmes
That's kind of the issue.
dan friesen
So it rings a little hollow.
jordan holmes
I mean, if you are putting together an Alex Jones was right clip, I don't understand why that's not on there unless it doesn't work in the present for him.
dan friesen
He can't own that narrative in the present.
unidentified
Exactly.
dan friesen
And it's not worthwhile for him to really hang his hat on police brutality.
unidentified
Can't go back to it.
jordan holmes
Not now.
No.
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
Too late now.
dan friesen
He would have to defend too many people on the left.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He can't do that.
jordan holmes
Nope.
Nope.
He has to literally be above the left-right paradigm in order to do that, and he's absolutely not.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So, in this next clip, Alex goes to calls.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And, unfortunately, a caller asks a question that Alex was not prepared for.
unidentified
What does DARPA stand for?
alex jones
It's the Advanced, I've got to dig it out, but it's the Advanced Military Research System.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Thank you very much.
alex jones
You bet.
It starts, when you hear somebody talk about DARPA, they start with Advanced.
They never put the D on the end.
But it's the Defense Advanced Research.
Agency.
There you go.
dan friesen
Forgot the P. Yeah, one of the things I thought was really interesting about that, first of all, that was not a gotcha question.
The caller was not trying to stump him.
He was just curious.
jordan holmes
No, he was interested, yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex should know that.
The thing that stuck out in my mind was that, like, on the stand, in Alex's case, when Daria was testifying, they asked her what DARPA stands for.
She knew.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is true.
That is funny.
dan friesen
It's weird that in 2003, Alex would...
Fumble around with what does DARPA stand for?
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's...
dan friesen
It's weird.
jordan holmes
If that was Scripps, he would have heard that ding real fast.
dan friesen
I understand.
jordan holmes
What's DARPA stand for?
Advanced ding!
dan friesen
I understand if he would have trouble with, like, harp.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
He doesn't talk about Harp that much.
jordan holmes
I don't know what Harp stands for.
unidentified
It does come up.
dan friesen
But DARPA is like, and he's in the middle of like this, I mean, it's been a while since we've done a 2003 episode.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But he just had that whole thing about how they were trying to gamble on terrorist attacks and stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Set up a stock market on deaths.
And so it's...
It's pretty front and center of his narratives.
jordan holmes
If you're a conspiracy theorist, you should have DARPA on the ready.
dan friesen
You shouldn't be caught on his back foot.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
If you're a math teacher, you have to be able to do long division in your head.
Like, you have to.
You can't fumble around with that shit.
Otherwise, no one respects you.
dan friesen
So Alex takes another call, and this is the level of discourse that's going on on this show, man.
It's heady stuff.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
I wanted to get your opinion on a couple things.
I was reading that on August 27th, Mars is going to be closest to the Earth in 60,000 years.
alex jones
Yeah, it's going to be the closest to Earth in 60,000 years.
unidentified
We know how much these globalists are into the occult.
We do know that.
If that has any significance or not.
alex jones
Absolutely.
I don't believe in astrology.
I don't believe in quackery.
But the globalists, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bush, Clinton, they got shamans, they're doing seances, they admit they run off of astrology.
unidentified
Exactly.
alex jones
And I keep meaning to mention this, I'm glad you brought it up.
With Mars, the closest it'll be in 60,000 years, that's in humankind's history, folks, in 60,000 years.
These guys are totally obsessed with numerology, what that portends, the astrology, and that's why they're moving so hard, and it is very dangerous.
Go ahead.
unidentified
And do you think that they would celebrate that date with another attack?
I mean, is that what you need to be looking out for?
alex jones
I don't make predictions on things like that when I don't have enough data, but I have to admit that reading about it and seeing over the last year, We've been worried about August 24th when it will be the closest to Earth it's been in 60,000 years.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
What?
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
That is amazing.
dan friesen
I don't make those kinds of predictions, but...
jordan holmes
I mean...
Look, it's looking bad.
That is amazing to go from not knowing a thing to suddenly just being like, this thing is central to this bullshit.
We're real worried about it.
Yeah, we're terrified of this thing.
Oh, is that true?
dan friesen
I've been crunching the numbers, and man, there's a preponderance of evidence that Mars is going to be so close.
jordan holmes
How do you know that it is?
dan friesen
Mars is the god of war.
jordan holmes
Was it?
unidentified
Was it?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
No, it was.
Astrologically, that is true.
That was an event that did happen.
jordan holmes
Right.
I just appreciate that instantaneous...
Absolutely.
Yep.
Is that something we should worry about?
Absolutely.
You bet, brother.
dan friesen
You just fill in the blank.
If there is something you're asking, Alex, if you should be worried about it.
jordan holmes
Absolutely, brother.
You nailed it.
dan friesen
There is a reason to be afraid.
jordan holmes
You are not crazy for having this fear of something that nobody has literally ever thought before.
You are right, my friend.
dan friesen
Let's kill minutes of valuable time on my show talking about being worried about Mars.
I don't know.
Celebrating what?
Mars being close.
jordan holmes
That's another problem here.
You didn't explain how this is related to an occult situation.
You're just like, oh, I bet because Mars is close this time, they're going to be like, this is important.
dan friesen
I'm hearing the words you're saying, but you sound dumb.
It makes so much sense.
It really, really...
You reveal yourself to be a mark when you ask questions like that.
It's just understood that the globalists bomb things when planets are close.
jordan holmes
How much closer?
How much closer?
dan friesen
Just a little closer.
jordan holmes
Couldn't it be that much?
It's not like a million miles closer on this one day.
dan friesen
I think it was quite a bit closer.
jordan holmes
Much closer.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't remember.
I looked it up, but I don't remember the exact.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
I did look up if there was any bombing on...
jordan holmes
Sure, well, you had to.
dan friesen
The Little League World Series took place that day.
So, maybe some bombs to left field.
jordan holmes
Yeah, maybe some home runs were hit that shouldn't have necessarily made it out.
dan friesen
Yeah, the gravitational pull of Mars took a couple of those right over the rafters.
jordan holmes
Warning track power got a little bit stronger.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, look, this is just dumb.
But yeah, it's interesting that you have that response of, like, why would that even be something that the globalists are interested in?
Because to me, I mean, I'm joking around scolding you or, like, making fun of you, but to me, it's like, no, that makes total sense.
jordan holmes
But it's just a little bit closer.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But, I mean, that...
dan friesen
There's magical powers that come from...
jordan holmes
But if that's the case, then it suggests that as Mars gets further away, something else changes that makes you less likely to celebrate it being further away.
dan friesen
But then Venus gets closer.
jordan holmes
Is it just a day?
Is it just like, oh, it's like a solar eclipse.
They all go outside, they look up, and they're like, oh, look at that.
And then they go back to their lives.
dan friesen
Well, now they go see a solar eclipse, and then they gotta bomb something.
You got it.
jordan holmes
That's right.
You're right.
It is so much your caveman, just like anything is a sign.
Just like, oh, there's a shooting star.
That's a sign.
Oh, Mars is a little close.
That's a sign.
It is such that.
It is just caveman thought.
That's all it is.
dan friesen
Well, and Alex takes like...
Kind of a simplistic understanding of symbolism, occultism, and just applies it sort of universally.
Right.
So anything that seems like it could be, like, an equinox.
jordan holmes
Somebody's got to bomb something.
Yeah, somebody's got to bomb something.
dan friesen
Anytime there's a, like...
A date that has like, oh, it's doubles.
So it's like March 6th, 2009, 369.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Very suspicious date.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Magical powers on this date.
jordan holmes
I like that one thing that's never really addressed is how many holidays occult people have to have.
unidentified
It's every day.
jordan holmes
It is every day there is a holiday.
dan friesen
There is something.
jordan holmes
You know what?
dan friesen
We should, I mean, take away the bombing and we should all live like that.
Every day is special and worth celebrating.
jordan holmes
But not every day Mars is the closest it's going to be in 60,000 years.
dan friesen
No, that's true.
It's going to be...
59,900 and something years before we get that again.
jordan holmes
Ooh, someday.
dan friesen
And look at it, because there will be a bombing in 59,000 years.
jordan holmes
We know that.
Put it on your calendars.
dan friesen
So, Alex, we know that his dad was a big JBS guy and bad influence on him.
Turns out his uncle wasn't better.
alex jones
My uncle really is an expert on the New World Order.
He studied it for years.
I had an argument with him about five years ago.
I said, yeah, the New World Order is going to set up a beast system and biometrics, but I said, it's going to take time to do that.
And he said, no.
They build it, they line it all up, they get it ready, and they announce it.
And boy, how true his knowledge on that is.
That's what they do.
They set the whole thing up, and we go, gee, what's behind these curtains?
They lift the curtains, and it's a total...
Dehumanizing Satan Pit.
Oh, how interesting.
We're in it, ladies and gentlemen.
dan friesen
It's a Satan Pit.
jordan holmes
I like that image.
dan friesen
Like a goblin feast.
Or a demon feast, excuse me.
jordan holmes
It is a...
Dehumanizing Satan Pit.
dan friesen
And his response to that is interesting.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, that is interesting.
I would like to know what that is.
dan friesen
Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you we are in the Satan Pit.
jordan holmes
Okay, so you trip and you fall into the dehumanizing Satan Pit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
What is dehumanizing specifically inside the pit?
dan friesen
Um...
I don't know.
I'm trying to visualize this.
jordan holmes
Right?
I appreciate, first off, my favorite visual is lifting up the curtain to reveal a pit.
That's just great.
That's good showmanship.
If you open a curtain to a pit, it's good stuff.
What's in the pit?
dan friesen
It could be anything, man.
jordan holmes
I mean, it would have to be...
There's got to be more than one Satan in the pit.
First off, there need to be multiple Satans in this pit.
dan friesen
Is that possible?
jordan holmes
I mean, I assume he can split himself up.
He's got classic Marvel powers these days.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Hey, sure.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Not my saying.
jordan holmes
This is like the argument that Alex and his uncle had.
unidentified
Yeah, probably.
dan friesen
I think that's Cousin Buckley's dad.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
That would make sense.
That's my guess.
Because he's definitely someone who Alex has brought up before.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
When he talks about uncles with information.
So, fun.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
There's another news story that Alex touches on here.
alex jones
Bush picks new Selective Service director.
Crawford, Texas.
President Bush has picked a former lobbyist and ex-Marine as director of the Selective Service.
Bush said Tuesday he intends to nominate William A. Chatfield for the post.
The Selective Service would provide manpower for the military of an emergency force to draft.
They've got all the bills lined up now.
One more terror attack, universal draft.
It collects young men's names through the Selective Service Registration System.
They're trying to change the law for women.
Chatfield is currently a government relations consultant with Kindness and Chatfield Associates in Washington.
So that's real, real, real nice.
dan friesen
And all the things where people talk about how accurate Alex is, they seem to just forget his constant obsession with how a universal draft was right around the corner and how the globalists had it set up so the next time there was a terrorist attack, that was it.
And all your sons and daughters were going to be conscripted.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Big whiff on that.
And he was very, it happens, he brings it up all the time.
Yeah.
unidentified
One wonders if Alex made a big stink when Trump nominated Donald Benton to this position in April 2017, if that was evidence of Trump trying to reinstate the draft.
dan friesen
I don't think he probably even noticed.
Yeah.
unidentified
This is a small government office that has existed since World War I and could probably just be abolished.
dan friesen
Even though it's not a pool for a draft, the names and information gathered from Selective Service Registration are used by the Joint Advertising, Marketing, Research, and Studies Program out of the Department of Defense, which uses that information to recruit volunteers into the armed service.
unidentified
Is there anything not evil?
dan friesen
It's not cool.
Right, right.
But there isn't a draft, and there wasn't one in 2003.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
That being said, let's just X this office.
jordan holmes
Let's get rid of it.
Yeah, get rid of that.
That's bad.
I mean, it's obvious there won't be a draft.
We can barely afford the military we have now.
Can you imagine if we just had an influx of, I don't know, 10 million people just to walk in there?
How much would it cost to outfit them?
We've got to spend a trillion dollars on one plane.
dan friesen
I kind of understand the thinking.
Of something like this.
In past days.
Although I think that there is a social contract that has come into place that is we will never have a draft again.
unidentified
Ever.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
That is not something that is going to be seen as appropriate on any level.
And because of that...
I think it would be a show of good faith for the government to just get rid of this office.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because there's this premise of it that is like, in case we need this registration...
jordan holmes
Break glass, yeah.
dan friesen
Right.
And go ahead and get rid of that, because you're not going to need it because we're not doing a draft again.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it is always a pretty...
Universal step towards fascism whenever you have a standing army at the call.
Like, part of that idea of a draft...
dan friesen
A standing hypothetical army.
jordan holmes
Well, no, I mean, the current standing army that we have.
The part of that hypothetical draft is you're not really supposed to have an army.
So everybody has their own skin in the game, so to speak.
And now it is kind of an impunitive...
And that's kind of part of our agreement.
We don't have a draft, and then we'll look the other way whenever you start wars all the time.
dan friesen
We could go ahead and get rid of that part of it, too.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that would be nice.
Get rid of most of these offices.
dan friesen
So, look.
Alex in the present day talking a lot about being broke.
And being in debt.
And, you know, he needs money.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I have found the first time he ever said this.
jordan holmes
Okay.
The very first time.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, if you believe what he's about to say.
jordan holmes
Oh, so he says it's the first time.
Gotcha.
alex jones
And I have to do this.
I've never done this in five years.
Never.
jordan holmes
Not once.
alex jones
I am with the shortwave bill, and Jim Shepard's been helping me, so it's paid to the shortwave outlet.
I'm about $15,000 behind, and folks, we need you to simply buy the videos.
I let you make copies of them and buy the books and buy the products from sponsors like Jim Shepard.
Because when I have a sponsor that covers part of the cost and I cover the other part of the expense, it's very important that that sponsor be supported, especially when they've got a real product that's amazing.
I don't mean to make this a long rant.
I'm not going to start doing this all the time.
But I want to keep reaching the people in that French.
In that French village.
I want to keep reaching the people in hiding in Indonesia.
I want to continue to reach people in Japan and in the highlands of Scotland.
Jim Shepard, good to have you on the show.
unidentified
Always a pleasure to be with you, Alex.
alex jones
And I'm sorry you had to sit there while I went through that diatribe.
unidentified
Alex, I really respect the way you do things.
You may not know this, but several times I've mentioned to you, Alex, maybe you ought to get an extra sponsor on there.
And invariably what you tell me is, Jim, I'm not going to turn my show into an infomercial.
I'm not going to do it.
I want to get the news out, and that's my primary objective.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's kind of a bummer.
jordan holmes
That to hear someone else say back to him in the past.
unidentified
Oof.
Oof.
dan friesen
Bad news, Jim.
Yeah, yeah, Jim.
Show deteriorated into largely a marketing infomercial.
jordan holmes
Yikes.
dan friesen
Yeah, so he's the water filter sponsor.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So basically it's just the introduction of an infomercial with this...
Hey, I'm behind on my shortwave bill.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Because we pay for air time on the shortwave station.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
And my water filter guy helps pay that bill, so here he is by his water filter.
jordan holmes
It does seem very difficult to square someone saying, you know what?
I like that you don't do infomercials and you've got the integrity to not turn your show into...
unidentified
Anyways, my water filters are the best!
dan friesen
I agree with you.
It does bear mentioning that it is not as intrusive at this point.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
Of course not.
dan friesen
It's not the whole show.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's at least like, alright, here is a chunk that they're doing.
And it's pretty transparent that this guy's selling his shit.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now at the same time, a lot of Jim's sales pitch for his water filter is about the evils of fluoride.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And so there is still content that's being used as marketing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So there's still that blurry distinction.
jordan holmes
Spawn con, yeah.
dan friesen
But man, it is a far cry from the deterioration into infomercial city.
And leaving behind the information that Alex becomes later.
jordan holmes
It is, like, I appreciate most of all that $15,000 number, you know?
dan friesen
Small potatoes when you look at Alex now.
jordan holmes
You know, but I feel like that's where you gotta stay, at the $15,000 is important to you.
Because then, look at him now, he's got shell companies, he's gotta have accountants willing to lie for him, and then he's gotta have accountants that his accountants lie to in order to launder their lies.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Like, that is a web of bullshit.
Think about this, he's just got a bill!
dan friesen
He's in such dicey legal situations that he has to be friends with Barnes.
unidentified
Yeah!
jordan holmes
All you've gotta...
All you have to do is pay your shortwave bill.
You stay there.
Stay there.
dan friesen
It's a good sweet spot.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
Poor Alex.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So there's a lot of folks who, you know, defend Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And one of the things that they say, I think you would agree with, and that is that he tells it like it is.
alex jones
I tell it like it is.
I don't pull my punches.
I fight evil.
I expose the New World Order.
Evidence is now coming out.
The bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia was the work of the globalists.
They were pulling their people out hours before it took place from the very hotel itself, not other hotels.
They had threatened the government to submit to total globalist control or terrorist would strike.
dan friesen
Telling it like it is.
Telling it like it is.
jordan holmes
No one who says, I tell it like it is.
Ever actually one does.
Or two, has anything good to say.
dan friesen
What about people who calls them like they sees them?
jordan holmes
Well, that's delicious.
As long as you add the plural, yeah.
Calls them like I sees them.
That's good stuff.
dan friesen
Okay, so that one's alright.
jordan holmes
That's a little bit...
That has an irreverent tone.
dan friesen
What about a straight shooter?
jordan holmes
Straight shooter?
No.
It's something that other people describe you as that makes me think that you are a liar.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex takes more calls here, and he gets a call from a guy who I think doesn't believe in laws.
jordan holmes
I appreciate this man.
dan friesen
It's kind of difficult to tell exactly where he's coming from, but he believes, I think, maybe in a God's law kind of situation.
jordan holmes
He's kind of got that self-evident law.
dan friesen
Yeah, natural law, perhaps.
He's not specific enough for me to really nail down, but he does believe that just because laws are signed into law, that doesn't mean they're laws.
So he's not in the jurisdiction.
unidentified
He's more the law of the jungle kind of guy.
dan friesen
Based on his voice, I don't think he'd last in the jungle.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, that's probably true.
dan friesen
But maybe spiritually.
Anyway, he has a request for Alex.
alex jones
Fred, I keep running all over you, but I've had you on a couple segments.
Anything else you wanted to add from New Mexico?
unidentified
I just wanted to know if I can get a time to call you for a few minutes off the air.
I've got some things to hash over.
Just kind of take some thought.
alex jones
Unfortunately, from the time I leave here until about midnight tonight, I'm going to be working.
jordan holmes
Good excuse.
alex jones
I don't know when I can talk to you, sir.
I mean, I'm not trying to say I'm a big shot or anything.
I'm in deep trouble.
I have hundreds of phone calls, hundreds of emails, faxes with folks that want to talk to me.
I mean, let's talk about it here on the air.
unidentified
Go ahead.
alex jones
What's going on?
dan friesen
Look, dude, I'm behind the eight ball.
jordan holmes
I like it when trying to let him down easy gets way out of hand.
dan friesen
I'm in big trouble.
jordan holmes
To the point where he's like, listen, I'm on the run from the cops right now.
I can't be taking phone calls at any point in time.
unidentified
I shouldn't even be doing a radio show, honestly.
jordan holmes
Listen, I had to get rid of my phone.
I've got burner phones.
I throw them into the ocean after I use them one time.
dan friesen
I'm in a bunker that is sealed with lead.
And they'll never find me.
jordan holmes
Listen, I'm behind the eight ball.
I'm working for the next six hours.
I'm being chased by the cops.
I've got to take my daughter fishing at some point.
So I can't call you.
dan friesen
It seems really obvious the way you could just handle this.
And that is that it is unsafe for me to talk to you off the air.
I don't know what you're up to.
There's a lot of ways that this could expose me.
It's just...
If you're Alex, this is the simplest thing in the world, but you don't want to give that message because it's too likely to make the audience think that you think that they're crazy or something.
Whereas Alex is a big public figure.
There is a very acceptable boundary to be like, I'm not talking to you off air.
We don't know each other.
You can send an email or something, but we're not going to do that.
jordan holmes
When you actively court people who blur the line between reality and fiction, it's going to be a little bit more of a tighter walk to let them down easy on account of you don't know what part of the fiction that's going to add you into.
dan friesen
That's true.
You see that through a lot of interactions that Alex has with his fans over the course of time.
There is an unwillingness to...
Be honest about what the boundary is because of that.
jordan holmes
I know who you are.
Right.
I know.
And we just need to keep this separate.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
The only thing I know about you is you believe what I say.
jordan holmes
You like me, and that's bad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's, you know, that Groucho Marx thing.
I don't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
Generally, that's used to describe low self-esteem.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But with Alex...
jordan holmes
Ooh, completely different.
I made this club, and I don't ever want to visit this club.
I lock the door with them inside it.
dan friesen
I don't want to be around anybody who would be a member of my club.
jordan holmes
Listen, I own the double deuce, and I'm not stepping foot in that fucking place.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
So anyway, this caller, here's what he wants to discuss with Alex off air.
alex jones
Let's talk about it here on the air.
Go ahead.
What's going on?
unidentified
Well, it concerns the interpretation of the Bible.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
unidentified
And we are not supposed to fear our enemies.
He says to expose the devil and he will flee from you.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
unidentified
And it's a long story.
Oh boy.
The pieces of this puzzle are scattered from one end of the Bible to the other.
Put them all together in the right order.
It's going to take some serious thought, because Christ said that the scribes will pervert the Scriptures.
And there are some places it takes real research to figure out what was changed.
This is not the total holy word of God.
It is the perverted word of God.
And I think it would take half an hour to clarify what I mean.
dan friesen
Probably longer than that.
jordan holmes
Sir, sir, you have just explained why I do not want to talk to you off air.
dan friesen
Sir, people have been studying the Bible for quite a while now.
jordan holmes
You didn't.
dan friesen
You have cracked the code.
jordan holmes
You didn't get there.
dan friesen
You cracked the code, you're telling me.
And it'll take you half an hour to explain this to me.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's...
I'm sure you're going to stop at a half hour.
I'm going to start the watch.
I bet you don't get on with things.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So we have one last clip here, and I know that another thing that was making the rounds on social media recently was a clip of Alex saying that there was going to be false flag globalist terror attacks.
You know, before the midterms.
This is another clip that, oh, Ron Flipkowski decided to post without context, relevant context, that Alex says that all the fucking time, pretty much every day.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It is not worthwhile or meaningful to post at all to make people think that this is like, oh, look at him.
Look at him.
He's making a desperate, weird prediction.
No, this is what he does every day.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And has since 2003.
alex jones
I've already read Patriot Act 2. It allows them to secretly grab you, blow your head off for any misdemeanor.
jordan holmes
Sure.
unidentified
And get business records without a court order.
And Ashcroft is going to go on a 10-state tour to promote this.
alex jones
Well, I know he's already been on the tour promoting it.
unidentified
I'm sorry, 20-state.
alex jones
20-state tour.
But you're telling me that...
jordan holmes
He's recording a special at Carnegie.
alex jones
It was reported in today's New York Daily News.
unidentified
If you want, you can get the Daily News online.
alex jones
Well, the fact that they're introducing this now tells me they're getting ready to do some boom-booming.
unidentified
They're going to do some boom-booming!
jordan holmes
I mean, let's see.
We've had explosions before the midterm.
We've had nukes before a presidential election.
dan friesen
Sure.
unidentified
We've had ramp-up school shootings before.
dan friesen
They were going to bomb or crash a helicopter into Trump's inauguration.
jordan holmes
Yep, yep.
I mean, obviously the polonium poisoning was rampant for a while.
dan friesen
There were two incidents to the same person that also didn't happen.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
But yes, there was that.
Yeah, I mean, it's constant.
It's a hallmark and feature of his career.
And anybody who doesn't understand that it's window dressing.
It's, again, just like we were...
Laughing and joking about this before.
It's just like, if you ask Alex, is there a reason to be scared about something?
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And one of the things he always uses to scare people is that specter of the coming false flag attack that is justified by some piece of his narrative.
There is, obviously, Democrats are scared that they're going to lose the midterms, and so they must do bombings in order to make sure they win the midterms.
Right.
Ashcroft wants to get Patriot Act 2 in, but there's opposition to it from the Patriots.
Ah, he's better do some boom-booming in order to make sure that this goes through.
It's always this.
And I don't understand how it's been 20 years, 20 plus years, and it's still an effective thing.
It's still something that people can...
jordan holmes
It's because people dip in and out.
It's because people like Ron Filipowski get to dip in and out.
A fucking youth baseball coach turned by the media into some fucking alt-right hero for just being a fucking idiot.
I hate him so much.
But, I mean, it is that like, oh, if you dip in every three or four months, then you have in your head this idea, well, he can't do this every day.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Because you assume that because there's no way he could do this every day.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I mean, even if you have an awareness of who Alex is and you don't, I don't pay much attention.
Like, John Ronson even was like, does he repeat things often?
unidentified
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You know, there is an awareness of what Alex does that you only really get by watching a bunch of it.
And unfortunately, I don't think that most people should do that because it sucks.
jordan holmes
Obviously.
Well, I mean, the problem is our own assumptions based on how everything else works.
It is, to us, unsustainable to do the same thing every day.
dan friesen
Will you imagine how bored you would get if a show that you watched did the same thing every day?
jordan holmes
So you see a clip every few months and you go, wow, this must be an unusual thing.
It wouldn't be newsworthy if it was every day.
Yeah, he's on one.
It wouldn't be newsworthy if it's every day.
But it's newsworthy because it's manufactured for you.
It's created for you.
dan friesen
I think there's that.
The dipping in and out for sure is a piece of it.
And then I also think that one of the reasons that it stays effective is, you know, there is just pain in the world.
Like, negative traumatic events do happen.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And those are things that Alex will then attach these ideas to.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that people, I guess people will just experience that as being the confirmation.
Sure.
Making up vague warnings about boom booming.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, the thing that's most suspicious is, like, in 20 years, the globalists would have to have taken a break for a bit at least.
dan friesen
No way.
jordan holmes
But they have never stopped.
Not once.
There's no...
Despite the fact that they celebrate a million holidays every year, it is always a work holiday.
They never even take a vacation.
dan friesen
Well, they're like Alex that way.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's fair.
dan friesen
Except even that he's not working ever.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But...
That just gave me an idea for a movie pitch.
jordan holmes
Globalist vacation?
dan friesen
They finally take a vacation.
jordan holmes
National Lampoon's globalist vacation?
dan friesen
Now we have two movie pitches.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That's one.
jordan holmes
That's the first one, yeah.
dan friesen
Second one.
The globalists are on vacation.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But there still need to be false flags.
jordan holmes
Naturally.
dan friesen
So they bring in the junior varsity globalists.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They have temps.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right, right, right.
Absolutely.
Somebody gets promoted.
This is their big shot.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But it turns out this is the eager young person.
dan friesen
This is a, if they were younger or if we had made this movie like 15 years ago, this would be a Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson vehicle.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
They're the guys who come in and they...
jordan holmes
Ragtag band of misfits.
They screw everything up, but at the end they come together and really...
dan friesen
We really like the cast of Old School.
jordan holmes
As the...
As the globalist vacation.
dan friesen
No, the globalist interns.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What would we call them?
I mean, you gotta call them something like the Nation Squad.
You know, they're not global.
Nah, that sucks.
I'm sure your listeners will have something.
We'll work on this.
We'll workshop this and have it back for you in about six months.
We'll get a treatment going.
dan friesen
So I'm glad to have gone back to the past because at least there is something concrete going on to be discussed.
Yeah, it's good stuff.
That is refreshing.
jordan holmes
I appreciate the past a great deal.
dan friesen
And so we'll check back in on the present day, keep people posted on...
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
Dumb bullshit Alex is up to as the terror of the midterms approaches.
jordan holmes
Oh, the midterms.
dan friesen
But until then, Jordan, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do have a website.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep.
We're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
We'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZXClark.
I'm Gerald Snibbles.
No.
jordan holmes
Wilford Snibblesnabble of the Gribble Pibbles.
Yeah, I was wondering where Gerald came from.
dan friesen
That's Wilford's cousin.
I am Wilford Snibblesnabble of the Gribble Pibble.
steve quayle
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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