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Oct. 17, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
01:40:42
#738: Taking a Powder With Chowder

Knowledge Fight dissects Alex Jones’ Louder with Crowder appearance, where he deflects blame for defaulting in a $61M Sandy Hook defamation trial—claiming 200K emails and financial records were submitted while ignoring subpoenas. Jones pivots to threats from Texas officials, media "globalist" conspiracies, and his $10M divorce settlement, framing it as divine justice. Crowder’s interview normalizes Jones’ evasions, from homophobic trolling to baseless appeals, while the hosts expose their shared pattern of exploiting audiences for profit. The segment reveals how conservative media launders extremism under flimsy legal and moral pretenses. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
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alex jones
infowars 19:37
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dan friesen
44:39
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jordan holmes
23:01
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steven crowder
10:48
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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 fight.
Dan and Jordan.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I need, 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 air.
unidentified
Thanks for holding us.
andy in kansas
Hello, Alex.
I'm a fixed man called America saying I love your room.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Celine, 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, buddy?
dan friesen
My bright spot today, Jordan, is we have reached the end of Sneak Weekend.
jordan holmes
Ah, yes.
It's been long.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm thrilled that we had an opportunity to sit down and talk to Mark and Liz.
And, you know, I think there's an argument that could be made that we could have put that all out on Monday or something.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But I just feel like things are coming so fast that we just got to keep moving.
You know, the trial, the end of it, the verdict.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
If we drag that out too long, we're going to end up still responding to it a month from now.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Generally speaking, I feel like most of our decisions over the past six years could have been argumented that they were not the right one.
And yet here we are.
So let's write it out.
dan friesen
It's debatable that we shouldn't be doing this.
jordan holmes
I say let it ride.
That's where I'm at.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I'm glad that Sneak Weekend was received well by the folks.
Appreciate all the very positive comments.
And then overall, I mean, like, I just, I have some other fun stuff that's going on that I can't really talk about right now.
I've seen a couple of great tweets.
Mostly memes with animals in them.
You know, those, I can't remember any of them specifically, but I remember, hey, that was fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah, this isn't Infowars.
You're not going to talk about a meme for the next five hours.
dan friesen
It doesn't prove anything.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
It's just that it was a cute animal.
It was cute.
But yeah, so I guess it's kind of vague, but that's my bright spot.
Sort of a combination.
A gestalt, as Alex might say.
jordan holmes
You know, I was coming in here thinking very similarly as to what my bright spot was.
That kind of just a bit of an achievement, like an accomplishment, but at the same time.
dan friesen
Weekend unlocked.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's just like, ah, we did it, you know.
dan friesen
Yeah, and now we get to keep doing stuff.
Indeed.
And so today, what I thought would be fun, or something that would be nice, is to take a little bit of a trip off the beaten path.
Good call.
And instead of doing some of the things that we tend to do, like Wacky Wednesday stuff or going to the past, I thought what we would do is talk about Alex Jones appearing as a guest on Steven Crowder's show.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Louder with Crowder.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
So that is what we're going to be covering today.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
It's just after he got hit with that billion.
jordan holmes
This is right after.
dan friesen
It is.
jordan holmes
So he knows that there's a billion on his head.
dan friesen
This is damage control time.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And one of the reasons that I chose to do this was we, you know, you see how Alex responds on his show, and it's pretty du-rigour.
It's going to be the same thing over and over again.
Yeah.
It's going to be very repetitive.
jordan holmes
Heard him say that he didn't do anything on purpose and it was a ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
And I didn't say their names.
dan friesen
Maybe there'll be some slight variations, some interesting blow-ups and what have you.
But I wanted to see what it looks like when he's on a different platform trying to preach to a different audience.
jordan holmes
Are we going to get a life's very fragile?
dan friesen
He might be drunk.
There's no apples.
So we'll get down to business on this, Jordan.
But first, let's say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, Mike Best.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Next, the ghost of Ennio Marricone, who's tired of hearing Alex use ecstasy of gold from the good, the bad, and the ugly coming out of ad breaks.
Thank you so much, Joan Iowa Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Spooky was a ghost.
That's Halloween season.
jordan holmes
That's very specific ghost.
dan friesen
Next, Wilfred Snibble Snabble of the Brooklyn Gribble Pibbles Esquire.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
As a lawyer.
Yeah.
Next, I am not a Russian agent, Svetlana.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
And Eva not Ava.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much, Eva.
dan friesen
I'm still not convinced I pronounced it right.
Well, also, we got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan.
So thank you so much to Hexa Cult.
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 break 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 got to be taken off here.
I'll do all this.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
I 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's going to 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.
Nah.
dan friesen
Please.
alex jones
Damn.
dan friesen
So I never really wanted to cover Steven Crowder, and we won't generally.
But Alex was on his show to whine about the Connecticut verdict.
So I felt like it was important for us to see how Alex was dealing with that whole situation when he's in a new environment.
Info Wars broadcasts are primarily for the initiated, whereas something like going on Crowder is hopefully roping in new people for him.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Of course, it would be better if he could go on Rogan, but that doesn't seem like it's happening.
So Crowder is going to have to do for now.
I've not sat down to watch a full episode of Crowder before, his dumb show, Louder with Crowder.
Yeah.
I don't even know about that name.
I think that's a dumb name.
jordan holmes
I have heard Louder with Crowder.
We've said the name Steven Crowder.
I still have no idea who he is, and I refuse to find out.
It infuriates me every time somebody says Louder with Crowder.
dan friesen
But I mean, is it like he's just, he yells more than other people?
Because I don't think that's true.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I don't like it.
They just picked a word that rhymes with Crowder.
They could have picked up chowder with Crowder and he could have eaten stuff.
It would have been the same idea.
dan friesen
Yeah, he doesn't wear like more flamboyant outfits, like colorful, loud suits.
I don't know.
I think it's a bad name.
jordan holmes
See, what you do is you go way too far with it.
You know, you go rowdier with Crowdier.
You go an extra step that makes everybody really uncomfortable.
That's the way you do it.
dan friesen
No, because I was thinking, like, if I had a show where I did favors for people, I could say pleasing with Fries.
jordan holmes
Pleasing with Friesen, yeah.
dan friesen
That would be okay.
jordan holmes
I'm mad that I got there.
dan friesen
But if we called this show that, it wouldn't make sense.
Or if I tried to overthrow a government, I could be treason with Friesen.
Sure.
But this show, again, that name wouldn't work.
jordan holmes
If I had a travel show, it could be Rome's with Holmes.
dan friesen
Definitely.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or a book show, Tomes with Holmes.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a good one.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think I should have that show.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
See, these work.
Yes, these make sense because they would be about the thing that they are.
dan friesen
It's good when a rhyme fits.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's silly when it's forced.
And I don't understand what louder with Crowder means.
jordan holmes
He should have to be regularly a decibel level above other shows.
dan friesen
You are actually louder than him.
jordan holmes
I demand it.
dan friesen
So there's one thing that immediately jumped out to me watching this show, and that was that the show is very dumb.
Like, it's transparently dumb.
Arguments are based on false points, and the humor is painful.
The thing you have to realize when you watch this is that it's kind of supposed to be dumb.
The audience of the show is, as Stephen Crowder has tweeted about before, it's at least half of the audience is under 16.
So this show is aimed at children.
And I haven't been able to confirm that figure in any way, but he said it, and I have no reason to doubt it.
He has the analytics.
jordan holmes
Can you do that?
dan friesen
I guess you can.
jordan holmes
I feel like this is as bad as smoking.
Like, pushing right-wing bullshit to children is as bad as advertising for smoking.
dan friesen
To be fair, half of the audience is between 17 and 18.
I don't know.
There might be some adults in there.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
One of the reasons I've avoided doing too much about Crowder up till this point is that he has a lot of his content behind paywalls.
For instance, the last time Alex was on for his weird performatively masculine cigar club session, the first part of it was public, but then the rest of it that you'd actually want to watch is not.
We may be coming to a point where I stop over-respecting these ding-dongs' intellectual property, but I don't think I'm quite there yet.
Steven Crowder is repugnant.
He's a horrible person, and his career has been a shameful series of horrible embarrassments that he's been able to parlay into having a very successful YouTube talk show that appeals to kids with sophomoric racist jokes and sophomoric anti-LGBTQ jokes.
I don't want to do too deep a dive on his trajectory, but here's a summation of his career path.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
He tried to be a stand-up comedian, but he sucked at it.
So he went to a right-wing agitator Grift, catching the attention of Fox News when he got punched in the face by a union protester who he was harassing.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
This rose his stature and he began making his own content, most notably a segment called Change My Mind, where he would show up at a college campus and sit at a table waiting for college students on their way to class to join him for a spirited debate.
jordan holmes
That's that guy?
unidentified
He's the meme of the guy with the shit something.
jordan holmes
Oh my god, fuck that guy.
Yeah.
dan friesen
The college student was, of course, unprepared and probably late for class, and Steve could edit the videos however he wanted.
So the series was a big hit.
It kind of falls into the same vein as Mark Dice's Man on the Street segments, where he bothers drunk people on the boardwalk and then tries to make a political point out of it.
As his profile has grown, Steven has made a habit out of being a pile of shit, doing half-cooked segments based on deeply racist and anti-LGBTQ talking points that are easily debunkable and not persuasive at all.
Well, they're not persuasive at all to adults, I should say.
They all might be very convincing to a child who are naturally his target audience.
jordan holmes
See, but that's the problem then.
We understand that's the problem with it because we know about it because of the smoking thing.
It's illegal to smoke.
It's illegal to advertise for children.
We got to figure this shit out.
dan friesen
In essence, his show is about taking extreme right-wing views and dangerous right-wing ideologues and laundering them so they can be enjoyed and accepted by high schoolers.
Basically, I think he's one of the worst folks in this space, but also, I don't know what our show can really add to that conversation.
If YouTube cared at all about the safety of the children and teens who use the platform, he would have been kicked off long ago.
And that's really, I think, probably the solution here if they want to do something about it.
He can't really do that much damage if he's just limited to being on Glenn Beck's Blaze Network.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, like, or his own thing.
Like, fine.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Limit his reach quite a bit.
That's make it more difficult for kids to find it.
jordan holmes
It's so weird.
That's like having a Hannah Montana show where they take the Montana part really literally and she's a white nationalist.
dan friesen
She's got a compound.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Montana.
And here, kids, first I'm going to transfer into Popstar, and then we're going to find out exactly how the great replacement theory really works, kids, with this happy song.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, like, he's had Stephon Molyneux on.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
jordan holmes
Well, then there we go.
dan friesen
You know, to give you some idea of, like, the people he's laundering.
You know, he has Alex on at least multiple times.
I don't have a full guest list for him, but you don't really need one at a certain point.
jordan holmes
Yeah, noted, hilarious white nationalist Stephon Molyneux.
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's generous.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Anyway, in the aftermath of the Connecticut verdict, Alex went on to discuss the situation with Steven, and here we are.
To give you some sense of the scene, Steven is sitting in his studio at a desk with two Louder with Crowder mugs on it.
He sells mugs, and he has this thing called the Mug Club.
So this is a very important piece of the tableau.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
He's also wearing one of his own shirts because you always got to be pushing that merch, man.
Always be selling.
jordan holmes
Don't wear your own shirts.
dan friesen
And he's wearing an over-the-shoulder holster.
So you know that he loves guns.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, what?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's wearing a holster like he's going to, like he's a police chief.
And where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
dan friesen
You've got to know that he's strapped and ready in case a duel breaks out during the show.
jordan holmes
Listen up, gum shoes.
dan friesen
Also, there's another gun on the desk, so it's pretty.
jordan holmes
What a fucking moral.
dan friesen
Pretty ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Those are not loaded.
What's pathetic?
dan friesen
It might be projecting a little bit too much strength and bravado for me to take that at all seriously.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Indiana Jones.
dan friesen
Alex is on towards the end of the show, but this whole episode is more or less about rationalizing Alex's verdict and complaining about it.
And it's titled Exclusive Interview with Alex Jones.
This means war.
Exclamation point.
So to get a sense of the temperature, I wanted to start at the beginning and see the tone we're working with.
Although you will find out that I did not end up sticking to that.
I skipped ahead to when Alex showed up.
unidentified
Why?
dan friesen
At a certain point, I was like, this show is so dumb.
jordan holmes
Listen, if you say failed comedian, I'm not interested.
And that's why I don't listen to our show.
dan friesen
So here's where we start off.
And I think that this is some load of shit to start.
steven crowder
Hey, if I sound winded, it's because I've been running around here.
We've been testing, making sure that everything works.
We have, look, Alex Jones on the show today.
And I would appreciate it.
Look, I know that many of you have different opinions.
Let me just give you a little bit of a rundown here.
I was not an Alex Jones fan for a very long time.
I made it known.
I had criticized him here on this show, and I still have criticisms of him.
But we're at a point right now, and we'll be talking about this today.
We'll be showing you a montage of the end zone dance from not only the elites in Hollywood, not only the elites in media, but the elites in government, government officials, actually championing this silencing.
dan friesen
Real quick, this is like a clip of Jimmy Kimmel making a joke, and the government officials are Jen Saki tweeted something.
She's not even the press secretary anymore, and Alex made a big target out of her for a while.
I would not be surprised if she received quite a bit of her ass mint due to Alex's actions that probably wouldn't be legally actionable since she's a public figure and all of that.
But yeah, they're making a bit of a mouse.
jordan holmes
Less professional, maybe a little bit more personal of speech.
steven crowder
And that is absolutely what it is.
Regardless of where you line up, there's an inflection point right now in this country.
And the reason that we're having Alex Jones on, and we've had him on, is because I hate seeing people being bullied.
dan friesen
This couldn't be further from the truth.
Stephen loves a good bit of bullying, and he actually leads bullying campaigns sometimes, like he did in the case of Carlos Maza.
Also, Alex isn't being bullied.
He's the bully.
And Steven's trying to launder that reality to his audience of children so they think that Alex is the victim here.
And I think that's shameful.
Also, Steven is saying that he has criticisms of Alex, and I think he's a coward.
List your criticisms.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
What are they?
jordan holmes
Yeah, to his face.
Try that.
dan friesen
Yeah, see if you get an answer on it.
jordan holmes
See how the rest of the things that you like about him.
See how long those survive after you give him one small criticism.
dan friesen
Well, I think that Alex would probably dodge and stuff because he needs someone like Steven now.
He has like five plus million subscribers on YouTube.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah, so like Alex needs that kind of a platform because he's not going to get it from Rogan.
Right, right, right.
And there aren't a whole lot of other options that Alex has in terms of like who's going to be a giant platform for me to go on.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Am I going to have to go start talking to Twitch streamers?
jordan holmes
Jesus.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Hassan, have me on.
jordan holmes
He's going to have to.
That's where he's going to be.
dan friesen
So, like, I think that he could get away with voicing some of these criticisms to Alex, whatever they might be.
alex jones
Sure.
dan friesen
But he wouldn't get any response that's meaningful or any resolution of these.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Or even recognition of these criticisms.
jordan holmes
No, they'd be a dodge.
dan friesen
I think that it would be far more meaningful for him to express what his misgivings are and what his criticisms are of Alex to the audience in a neutral environment where they could take those criticisms in and then decide, like, huh, is that something I'm actually really concerned about too?
Well, one of my criticisms, maybe it's he lies all the time.
jordan holmes
That could be an issue.
Well, huh.
If one of your criticisms prior to an interview is my interview subject is an inveterate and almost pathological liar, perhaps you will take those answers that he gives in the interview with a different grain of salt as opposed to if you didn't tell them that at all.
steven crowder
Right.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I was thinking one of his sort of criticisms of Alex might be that he barely thinks that Muslims are human.
jordan holmes
That's an issue.
dan friesen
But I think that Stephen's audience wouldn't have as much of a problem with that.
jordan holmes
No, they'd be stoked.
dan friesen
So, you know, he tries to frame the interview in a particular way.
And obviously, it's that, you know, Alex didn't, no, he didn't do that much wrong.
steven crowder
You know, when you have someone like Alex Jones, who if you've watched his career, and I do consider him a friend now, I will say this on a personal level.
He's been around, from what I know of him, he's a good man, a flawed man.
He's talked about it here on air.
To me, it's refreshing when he's on air.
He was on Air and Ash Wednesday and said, you know, maybe I drank a little too much and, you know, I have it.
He'll tell you about his flaws.
But for a man who speaks publicly for hours, hours on end, and then misspeaks or gets something wrong and then apologizes and then is punished anyway.
And then the government jumps in.
People, well, I guess former press secretary, but current members of the government and entities who are backed by the government, be it banks, be it big tech organizations, deciding to put you in stocks in the town square.
The message is really loud.
dan friesen
With crowd.
steven crowder
And I hope that you're hearing it.
If you make a mistake, not only is there a double standard, which we'll talk about, if you have a belief that other people find to be offensive.
And of course, it's a sliding scale.
We know that we've gone further and further down the trail here.
Look behind you.
There's a slippery slope.
unidentified
Shut up.
steven crowder
And you apologize.
jordan holmes
Shut the fuck up.
steven crowder
They only get worse.
What do I mean that?
The left.
I mean, the left.
jordan holmes
This is the worst.
steven crowder
Why is it left or right?
They've made it left or right.
dan friesen
This is tough.
jordan holmes
This is fucking horrendous.
What's this to happen?
People watch this shit?
dan friesen
Yeah, I guess so.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
What is wrong with me?
Why is it, why am I the weirdo here?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
That is horrendous.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
But what he is doing here is a clear attempt to set the parameters of the conversation.
It's just being taken as gospel that Alex misspoke or got some things wrong.
He apologized and he's being punished anyway.
That's what all the episode will be in response to.
And because of that, it's going to be meaningless.
If the basis and the foundation that you're building your house on is sand, you're not going to have a good house.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's not going to be a house that I'm even going to inspect.
I mean, because it's going to be, it's going to collapse.
Also, this stuff is already a little overdramatic.
Yeah.
A little melodramatic on Crowder's part.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They'll put you in the stocks.
jordan holmes
I mean, here's just if you disagree with them.
Here's the problem, okay?
I feel like the stocks would have been a more effective response to Alex than what is happening right now.
If we had actually been like at the very beginning, like, hey, you done fucked up.
You misspoke.
And maybe that's what happened.
Maybe you misspoke.
But guess what?
You fucked up, so you go in the stocks for a week, and then everybody hits you with tomatoes and shit.
And then we'll see if it's a misspeaking if you do it again.
dan friesen
Can I request that the tomatoes be soaked in booze?
jordan holmes
Yes, you may.
Yes, you may.
That's just a consideration.
That's a consideration for all of our stocks clients.
dan friesen
So again, more setting the table.
jordan holmes
Sure.
steven crowder
I don't care if you agree with Alex Jones or not.
It doesn't matter.
And by the way, this is so clear.
It's so obvious that that's a big reason that the court said you cannot argue that this is political persecution.
Do you understand that was this trial was predicated on that?
He wasn't even allowed to argue that because he didn't provide additional finances.
I'm not saying mistakes weren't made across the board, but I hope that all of you understand.
dan friesen
So look, Stephen made a bit of a mistake there.
He says, quote, I'm not saying that mistakes weren't made across the board, which tells me very clearly that he understands that actions Alex and his lawyers made during the discovery process led to the default.
jordan holmes
Al, I'm against consequences as a principle.
dan friesen
Right.
Stephen's just trying to hand wave that away and encourage this adolescent audience from giving any validity to people who would tell them that the default was very much earned.
He's basically doing PR work for Alex here.
And it's ridiculous.
If you have the awareness that mistakes were made on both sides, hey, let's talk about what those mistakes were that Alex made.
Because it's going to be a mountain of them.
It's going to be enough to very clearly justify a default judgment.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, it is, you know, we talked about it with Liz just a little bit, but that idea of like when Alex is in the courtroom not allowed to do Alex shit, people aren't convinced by Alex shit, you know?
Like, it's because of the priming, you know, like Crowder is priming people.
dan friesen
If you just talk to Alex Cold, you'd be like, oh, fuck you.
jordan holmes
You need to lose a billion dollars.
Just a basic conversation.
dan friesen
Well, you'd just be like, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
jordan holmes
What are you doing?
dan friesen
Why are you bringing up Hillary?
jordan holmes
Leave me alone.
dan friesen
Or even like these people are so young who are watching Steven.
They might be like, who's Hillary?
jordan holmes
What is happening?
dan friesen
So Steve has some interesting thoughts about the idea of debanking.
steven crowder
You are at a point in this country where you are paying taxes to fund the theft of food from the mouths of your kids, all under the guise of, ah, First Amendment only protects the government stopping you from saying something.
That's all it does.
It prevents the government from stopping you.
Okay.
By that same token, shouldn't J.P. Morgan, shouldn't JP Chase, whatever their abbreviation is, these things are all these giant conglomerates.
If they're backed by our tax dollars, they're guaranteed if they've received hundreds of billions of dollars.
And if you adjust for inflation the last few months, hundreds of trazillion dollars in taxpayer dollars, are they allowed to deny you your fundamental constitutional rights?
What point do we separate private business from government?
dan friesen
I don't even know what the point is here.
And I think the only way that this argument actually works is if Stephen is advocating nationalizing capacity.
jordan holmes
I mean, what are you doing?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, I know that he's not because that's some straight up Lenin shot.
jordan holmes
Obviously.
Obviously, you fucking moron.
dan friesen
I don't know if the banking industry taking government money means that they're bound by all the rules the government entities are.
But if we were to nationalize the banks, then you'd have a good argument here that they should have to follow the same guidelines of the government.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, does he not, like, he doesn't get that at all.
Like, zero awareness of what he's actually advocating for is he's such a piece of shit.
He's gone through to the other side.
He's like, see, the problem with cancel culture is we need to nationalize the banking system.
Is that what he's trying to say?
dan friesen
I think that if you take this thought a little bit further, you also start to understand how dumb his version of it is, which is like, I guess it's that if they take tax dollars, then they're bound by those rules.
What about people who are on Social Security?
Do they have to follow all the government's guidelines?
jordan holmes
What do you do?
dan friesen
Or what about farmers who take subsidies?
You know, like any, like, do you want everybody who takes any kind of thing from the government to now be beholden to all the same rules?
Because then, I mean, we get into a really weird place.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
I think what we're seeing is what happens to people when they're allowed to speak by themselves with no disagreement and they aren't capable of disagreeing with themselves.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, when I have a thought that's that dumb, another part of my brain will be like, don't say that out loud.
And then I'll be like, why shouldn't I say that out loud?
And it'll have a really good point, and I'll be like, good call.
dan friesen
And then you say it out loud.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, obviously, but I do it with a funny voice.
It'd be fine.
But he doesn't have that.
He doesn't have it.
And he just talks by himself.
So nobody's like, stop it.
That's dumb.
dan friesen
Well, the first thing that happens when you're in that kind of a predicament is you start to wear shoulder holsters for no reason.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
And then the second thing that happens is, yeah, you.
jordan holmes
I really still can't believe that.
I understand that you're describing something that has to be real, but I'm seeing it as a cartoon.
dan friesen
Oh, it is cartoon-ish.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Good.
dan friesen
So he has two co-hosts.
I don't know their names.
I don't remember them because I don't care.
And they have a little bit of a rap.
You know, they sit down and they really work out some of the issues.
You know, they talk about the big issues.
jordan holmes
You are setting me up for disaster.
dan friesen
Well, I don't know if you know this, but the Parkland trial has been going on.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God, no.
unidentified
So, all right.
By the way, they're doing the Parkland shooting.
They reached a verdict that they're going to announce.
Isn't it just guilty and fry him?
I mean, I thought this was a pretty closed.
steven crowder
Let me know when we have the broadcast Vegas.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
steven crowder
I mean, I know the guy's dead, so, but, you know.
Maybe some facts about what Sutherland Springs, fifth deadliest in American history.
dan friesen
Okay, so I guess they just want the death penalty, which is, I mean, they're pretty anti-government as a whole, but I guess they want death penalty.
And I guess they also don't want due process because they just want you to be found guilty and then death penalty.
jordan holmes
Has anybody ever stopped to think about what these people would do if they could write the Constitution again?
dan friesen
It'd be a mess.
jordan holmes
Like, can you imagine?
What do they think government does is the first question that I have to have.
dan friesen
Nothing but kill you.
jordan holmes
And everything.
And also, I want them to be able to kill me, but as long as I'm the only person who can decide.
Why is that always the underpinning of no taxes?
Exactly.
I want the government to not exist and also to kill people I don't like.
dan friesen
Yeah.
One of the things that I think is really funny, too, is that Stephen realizes mid-sentence that the Las Vegas shooter is dead.
And for what it's worth, the perpetrator of the Sutherland Springs shooting is also dead.
There's plenty of information available about both of these events.
If Stephen would like to take the time to read, I would explain things to him if he brought up specific points.
I would be happy to get into it.
But he just says the names of these shootings and then pretends there's a cover-up.
So I got nothing.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's a useless show.
I, okay, teleporter, give it to me, and I just tackle people whenever they say dumb shit.
Like, I become that.
I don't have, I'm not a superhero.
I don't solve problems.
I will just show up immediately after Steven Crowder says something insane like that, tackle him, and then teleport away.
And I feel like that's a worthy, noble cause.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, you'll get arrested for assault, but that trial.
jordan holmes
Ah, teleport away.
dan friesen
That trial would be really interesting because I teleport away.
Well, even if you didn't.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The prosecution would have to deal with the fact that you teleported.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that would be an issue.
dan friesen
They would have to discuss the mechanism of you teleporting away.
jordan holmes
And I'd be like, ah, that doesn't exist, sir.
Teleport away.
Smokebop.
dan friesen
Reasonable doubt.
So they are apparently doing some shows, some live shows.
And there's a plug for one.
And this is where I kind of lost my interest in this show as a whole.
Yeah.
Tell me if you think this feels a little bit racist.
jordan holmes
Here we go.
steven crowder
And then Baltimore, December 3rd, because we couldn't find a venue in D.C. Sorry, you have to go to the show that is Baltimore, but hey, at least it's not Haiti.
dan friesen
Or D.C.
steven crowder
Yeah, or D.C.
No, Baltimore's worse than D.C. Is it?
It's D.C. without any of the charms.
unidentified
Well, I mean, the people.
Sure.
steven crowder
And you can go to.
dan friesen
Yikes.
It doesn't feel good.
jordan holmes
What do you think these three dudes associate with Haiti, Baltimore, and D.C.?
What do you think is their, like, when they open their mind's eye to see the things that they associate with Baltimore, D.C., and Haiti?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's a little.
And when he says, it's the people.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean.
That's, come on.
Quiet.
Quiet part.
That's the quiet part.
I wrote the book on it.
dan friesen
But hey, it's just, I mean, they're jokes.
They're joking.
They're going on a comedy tour.
They're funny.
So Alex shows up, and he's a pro.
steven crowder
Mr. Jones.
Okay, I see that smirk.
What were you saying?
Was that a dirty joke?
alex jones
No, I said I'm really jealous of that shirt.
I'm going to rip it off, make my own copy.
dan friesen
Well, I think so.
unidentified
Oh, no.
steven crowder
Come on now.
Well, then now, now I want you to get that.
alex jones
That is the coolest shirt.
That is the coolest shirt I've seen yet.
Absolutely.
But no, but what you're talking about is absolutely true.
And I'd love to give everybody the inside baseball.
What really happened with the case, how it's a precedent center, and where it's going.
Because Alex, hold on, hold on a second.
steven crowder
Just one second, Alex, because I want to give you the floor, okay?
dan friesen
Alex is trying to steamroll him.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is great.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then the second thing that's awesome is right when he comes out the gate, Alex flatters Steven with like, that's a great shirt.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
But then also establishes himself as an alpha by saying, I'm going to steal your shirt.
jordan holmes
Yep.
Dominance.
Dominance move.
dan friesen
And then tries to steamroll him, and Steven has to be like, hold on now.
Hold on.
I think I'm supposed to be a host here.
jordan holmes
It is interesting the way he both tries to acknowledge that he's not going to win the steamroll competition and at the same time try and establish dominance on his own show by saying, I'm going to let you steamroll me, Alex.
Right.
unidentified
Ha ha.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Well done.
dan friesen
No one can win a steamrolling competition against the bullhorn trainer that is Alex Jones, bullhorn expert.
So Stephen, the reason that he wants to pretend to be a host in some ways is because he knows who Alex is.
He knows how he communicates.
And he also knows that without guidance, Alex is going to say just whatever the fuck he wants.
And it's not going to be a useful interview for him.
jordan holmes
And he's going to do the thing that he's trying to tell people right now that he has apologized for.
He's going to defame the zenith.
dan friesen
You don't know if he is or not.
There's a danger.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, it's very close to being an inevitability.
dan friesen
You want to have some guide race.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that's kind of what Steven's trying to do.
steven crowder
And so I want to lead this right now because I think this is pivotal.
And we've done several multi-hour long shows, but for some reason this gets lost.
And I want you to correct me if I have this wrong.
So in 2017, as an example, because the narrative is Sandy Hook, you tormented the parents.
You call them out by name and you continually harass them.
From what I understand, and I have some quotes here in front of me, and I want you to tell me if I'm misquoting you.
You admitted you were wrong and you apologized.
And I think that's key because I still want to go after you anyway.
So 2017, you talked about an epiphany you had on Father's Day.
You said, forgive me, on Father's Day, I want to reach out to the parents of the slain children at the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, and give you my sincere condolences.
You said that, right?
alex jones
Yes, sir.
steven crowder
Okay, you also said, I'd also like to reach out to any of the parents who lost a child at Newtown to invite them to contact me to open a dialogue because I think it's really essential we do that instead of letting the mainstream media misrepresent things and really try and drive this nation apart.
You said that, right?
alex jones
Before they sued me.
steven crowder
Yes, before they sued you.
And then in 2019 and in deposition, you said, and I myself have almost like a form of psychosis in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I've now learned a lot of times things aren't staged.
And I'm not saying this to embarrass you, Alex.
I'm saying it because you were clear and that you had a change of heart or you believed that you were wrong or you believed you made a mistake, which I think is admirable.
And I think the fact that they want to browbeat you after that is what is so scary.
dan friesen
Stephen sure does seem to be ignoring the fact that in Alex's video that was titled his final statement on Sandy Hook, he literally said, quote, if children were lost in Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents and the people who say they're parents that I see on the news.
The only problem is I've seen a lot of soap operas and I've seen actors before and I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real.
That was in late 2016.
Alex only said the things that Stephen's reading because of the Megan Kelly interview that was about to come out.
Alex knew it was going to come out around Father's Day and Neil Hesslin was going to be interviewed in it, so he was trying to get ahead of any controversy.
He was also still repeating the basic conspiracy theories about the shooting at this point, just holding back some things that he thought could be legally actionable.
Steven's also ignoring that after this point, Owen Schroer did his video about how Neil Hesslin couldn't have held his son after the shooting, and Alex reported on that, which in many ways really does undo any goodwill that he might want to pretend he has from his feigned apology.
Steven's also ignoring that in October 2017, Alex said, quote, it's as phony as a $3 bill with CNN doing fake newscasts and blue screens.
Steven's also ignoring that Alex has said that he thinks Sandy Hook probably was fake at least twice on air while the trials have been ongoing, including once in the last two weeks.
This is all good and fun to create these straw man versions of what Alex actually did and the reason he's facing consequences, but it's not real.
Stephen knows it's not real, but Alex's existence is pretty helpful for his brand, so we pretend this.
And, you know, the people who are watching Stephen's show probably don't have any interest in debunking this nonsense that he's feeding them.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you're going to bring up the deposition and you're going to quote Alex from the deposition, that deposition convinces me that Alex is guilty of all the things.
dan friesen
Well, he's not quoting the deposition.
He's quoting like an article about it probably because that psychosis thing was something that a lot of media outlets used as a like pullout for the deposition.
He's not actually aware of anything that was discussed in the deposition.
jordan holmes
All right, that makes sense.
dan friesen
Right, because again, I think I could never prove this, but I think that there's a vested interest in being willfully ignorant among a lot of people like Stephen.
If he had to cope with, or cope's the wrong word, if he had to accept publicly that he was aware of the depositions and the things that were in it, he would then be responsible for rationalizing and justifying those things.
steven crowder
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he couldn't do that.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
He would have to be like, whoa, Alex, you fucked up real bad.
You're a piece of shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No, it is fascinating because these fucking pieces of shit who are trying to avoid defending Alex or avoid, you know, wading into having to defend Alex's actual behavior.
If they were on the jury, they'd be like, yeah, this guy's got to fucking go.
You know, like without the ability to avoid acknowledging what is actually happening, without the ability to deny it, when you are forced to look it directly into the eye every day for five fucking weeks.
Yeah.
You know what he did.
dan friesen
And I think that's one of the reasons why I think Bobby Barnes is such an asshole because he knows.
jordan holmes
He knows.
dan friesen
He was in one of the depositions at least.
He was their lawyer.
He knows all this shit.
He's still pretending, oh, I don't understand why any of this is happening.
It's all just kangaroos and railroad tracks or whatever the fuck.
jordan holmes
There is no deniability from Barnes whatsoever because honestly, Barnes was probably looking at that billion-dollar judgment and going, man, I wish I had been a competent enough lawyer for them to hire me so I could have sued Alex Jones for a fucking billion dollars.
dan friesen
Or even.
jordan holmes
Because he was going to lose.
dan friesen
Or even, I wish that I could be a competent enough lawyer to have stayed Alex's lawyer to the point where I lose a billion-dollar verdict because then I could get so much attention.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'd be all over the place lying about everything.
jordan holmes
Idiot star Bobby Barnes.
dan friesen
Anyway, Alex is allowed to tell his version of events.
And what do you know?
It's all bullshit.
alex jones
Here's what really happened.
Here's what really happened.
I can give you the latest information where they're going with it.
This affects everybody.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, Sandy Hook happens.
It's a huge political event.
Obama has him in the White House.
It's going on.
I think maybe somebody helped the kid kill these kids.
The whole story is bizarre.
And then about a year after it, all these professors and people that sound incredible come out, and school safety experts and say that they thought it was just completely staged.
jordan holmes
Wolfgang Halbig.
alex jones
I had things like Operation Northwoods that talked about staging attacks on school kids that didn't exist as a pretext for war with Cuba and Russia.
Plus, said, yeah, a lot of stuff's been staged.
Maybe this is.
So I did four or five programs from like 200 and I guess 13, 14, questioning maybe that it was staged.
dan friesen
This is a load of shit.
Alex is saying that he thought it might be fake on the day of the shooting on his show.
James Tracy, the professor that he's talking about, was first on Infowars on January 18th, 2013.
Not a year later, not years later.
Wolfgang Halbig didn't show up until later.
That is fair.
And he's the school safety officer that Alex is referencing.
But Alex is completely ignoring Steve Pieczenik.
Steve was coming on Alex's show saying no one died at the school on March, within March 2013.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
When he was pretending to be a reporter on the scene in the DMZ, Alex's timeline is all screwed up because he's just conveying his well-rehearsed self-defense version of events.
Steven is a shitty interviewer and he has no interest in calling Alex out.
So this timeline will stand and be presented to his giant, impressionable audience as gospel.
And it's just not true.
If he had any interest in pursuing the truth, he would have familiarized himself with these things and pointed out the many points at which Alex's story diverges from reality.
jordan holmes
I mean, I would have stopped him right there and been like, wait, stop.
Who helped him?
Who helped him kill all those kids?
Did you just say right now that you still think someone helped him?
dan friesen
No, I think he was saying that at the time, immediately, that was what his suspicion was.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think you were saying in like December 2012, that's what his mind, that's where his mind is.
jordan holmes
All right, because that's not.
dan friesen
That's how I read what he was saying.
jordan holmes
I mean, the problem was he started by saying, I'll give you the latest news.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
He said, I will tell you what happened and get to the latest things and what's going on, what they're planning.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
I feel like he just did it again, but I'm not.
I could have poor sentence structure.
Or he could.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's a little bit up in the air.
I've listened to this.
I'm pretty confident that this is all an encapsulation of the past.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Okay.
But yeah, look, it was all Hillary, man.
alex jones
Hillary and the Democrats start running this false news campaign during 2016 campaign that I'm Trump's brain.
They looked, look at this flamboyant wild guy.
He's a populist.
He's got a lot of people supporting Trump.
Let's make him a liability.
Let's take the worst stuff he said out of context and run tens of millions of TV ads against Trump using Alex Jones saying he's Trump's brain.
steven crowder
And one thing, one thing, just to make really clear is just, again, for the YouTube gods, you understand how this is, Alex.
You were talking about the same thing.
alex jones
I'll lie and say I'm saying it didn't happen again.
steven crowder
No, no, but they'll say that you, what you were saying because you saw this.
And there were other people.
There were other professors.
There were other conspiracy theorists, some of whom turned out to not be credible.
And then you didn't have them on your show anymore.
You did say maybe this is staged.
And just again, to be clear, you afterwards said, no, it was not staged.
I was wrong.
dan friesen
This is a load of shit.
And honestly, I think if they needed to find the worst stuff Alex has said, this is definitely up there.
But they could have come up with a much broader campaign for Hillary to use.
Throw in some of his dehumanizing racism, his violent misogyny and homophobia, his incitement of violence towards Muslims.
Alex has got a deep bench of horrible things Hillary could have attacked if that was the game that she was trying to play.
Also, Stephen knows damn well that Alex didn't think that maybe the shooting was staged.
Alex literally said multiple times that the shooting was totally fake with actors.
Stephen is softening that reality so it's easier for his audience to give Alex a pass and rationalize his actions.
He's selling his audience on Alex.
It's a concerted effort, and it's done by obscuring reality.
jordan holmes
I mean, I just don't understand it because they're, I mean, it's just a bad idea.
I feel like the right move here, if you're a piece of shit like Crowder or one of these other guys, is to fucking stab Alex in the back and then carve up his audience.
Like, I don't understand why you're even trying this bullshit.
What are you doing?
You don't have any loyalty to him.
He doesn't have any loyalty to you.
dan friesen
I think that Stephen probably thinks that there's a way that this can raise his own profile, maybe get some of Alex's audience to him.
But it's a fool's errand because Alex's audience, like, they're not going.
Anybody who is susceptible to, like, maybe being interested in Crowder who listens to Alex already listens to Crowder.
steven crowder
Right.
dan friesen
Right, right, right, right.
The rest of the folks are like old-timers who live in shacks in Montana and listen on short waves.
They're not going to like your dumb childish comedy show.
Yeah, but I don't know.
alex jones
I think.
jordan holmes
I just meant as like an ecosystem, you know, not necessarily just Crowder, but like the whole shebang, like Shapiro and Beck and all of them.
dan friesen
If Crowder were smart, what he would maybe try to do is insinuate himself even more with Alex and get involved with like the infrastructure part of banned.video and that kind of thing and try and use it as a like a reinforcing misinformation sort of YouTube.
Because as it stands now, there is a shallow depth of anything interesting on there.
There's plenty of content.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
There's Infowar stuff and there's a load of bullshit.
Steven is like, I don't think it's in his best interest necessarily to be hooked with Glenn Beck with the Blaze stuff, but maybe there's some good money there.
But in terms of if you want some of Alex's audience and that stuff and he wants to create more of a space, that would be the thing you'd do.
jordan holmes
Maybe.
dan friesen
And then try and rope in some of the other weirdos.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But actually, hold on.
jordan holmes
I just don't think that's very forward-looking.
I think that's saying that we're going to be in a similar place in three years that we are right now.
And I don't think that's even close to possible.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, I guess I maybe don't agree with myself either because I was thinking about like Gavin McGinnis.
He has like his sensor.tv or whatever.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
And there's not a lot going on there.
Maybe, never mind.
I was going to say he could go and like try and help build up cozy Nick Fuentes' service, but Nick Fuentes doesn't want Crowder.
jordan holmes
No, absolutely not.
No.
Fuentes probably thinks Crowder sucks.
dan friesen
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
So yeah, I don't know.
jordan holmes
Why are we always trying to give them assistance?
dan friesen
It can't help it.
So yeah, I think this is all stupid.
But Alex just is out and outlier.
alex jones
But it's important to understand this timeline.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
So for over a year and a half from 2015 into 2016, we've checked the record.
I never talked about it one time.
And I told the crew, this is a tar baby.
It's a setup.
I don't want to ever discuss the end.
jordan holmes
Still doing it.
alex jones
We started seeing that some of the folks that were claiming it was staged had gone even crazier and were now dysregulating and showing that, indeed, they had put out things that were wrong.
So I was not the Sandy Hook guy.
It didn't put me on the map.
I barely ever covered it.
But Hillary blows it up, makes it a cause celeb for Democrats.
They use it to bring back all the gun control and now attacks on free speech and to attack Trump.
And so then Trump wins.
They go even crazier and they start attacking me.
dan friesen
So if this is all an elaborate plot Hillary launched to attack Trump and then Trump won, it seems like it really wouldn't do anything to continue attacking Alex.
The goal would have been to use Alex's toxicity to sway the electorate away from Trump.
And once Trump has won, that's about it in terms of voters.
It just doesn't make sense unless you're just desperate to defend yourself using bullshit fantasy world nonsense.
ben in missouri
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, Alex didn't stop talking about Sandy Hook during those timeframes that he had his staff go look things up.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
Consider this clip from August 26th, 2015, squarely in the window.
He's claiming he never brought it up.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
ben in missouri
In my opinion, something really stinks about this entire situation.
I don't, I can't even really think of a mass shooting, quote unquote, or a high-profile shooting like this that didn't seem like there was something more going on.
alex jones
Well, there's been some of them that we caught red-handed being staged.
Sirhan Sarhan with RFK, the situation a few years ago with the Aurora shooting.
I mean, those were staged.
We caught them.
We know exactly what they did.
It's unbelievable.
And then you look at Sandy Hook.
It just isn't real.
I don't know what specifically happened, but the official story is a fairy tale.
I mean, Jack of the Beanstalk isn't real.
Santa Claus isn't real.
And that is a giant theater operation complete with blue screens.
And now even Rob Dew's uncle, who's a Navy SEAL, retired FBI, works for a big company.
We have a reporter up there, and it's like, that's Rob Dew's uncle.
And he's like, yeah, it doesn't add up.
Something's going on.
I've never seen anything like this.
There's no paperwork.
They're covering something up.
I can't talk.
Got to get out of here.
So, I mean, that's how Twilight Zone this has got.
dan friesen
His reporter that was up there was Dan Badondi, by the way.
So, yeah, go fuck yourself, Alex.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Add to that that Alex didn't stop talking to the people who promoted the crisis actors shit.
Steve Pieczenik was a guest until he and Alex got into a fight about Steve pushing QAnon shit during the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Alex is a liar, and these are easily demonstrable lies.
If Steven cared at all to protect his audience from a fraud, he has a responsibility to them, and he's completely neglecting that, which is shameful.
And here's what I actually think about.
You're talking about, like, you know, why not just carve up Alex's audience?
I think that for someone like Steven, there's probably an interest in preserving Alex if you can.
Sure.
And that is because he is worse than you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's fair.
dan friesen
Presumably, he's worse than you, if only because you're still on YouTube.
Sure.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So as long as Alex is there, a lot of people will think there's a bigger issue than Steven Crowder, you know, in the same way that you hear people, even Tucker, say, like, my great replacement theory isn't crazy.
It's not Alex Jones shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex can exist as that I'm not him example.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But if you were to go away entirely, then they kind of.
jordan holmes
They want to try and repair their broken shield.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think that's probably a way to look at it.
So Alex is, you know, he's corrected himself a lot.
He hasn't, but Steve's going to let him say it.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
So I issued dozens of corrections, dozens of apologies.
You just mentioned one of them there.
And then they sue me in 2018.
And then they do all this discovery.
We give them all the emails, all the text messages, everything.
There's no evidence we made money on Sandy Hook.
There's no evidence I premeditatedly got it wrong on purpose.
And so both Democrat-connected judges, one of them is posing Republican, but she's like George W. Bush.
They default me saying I.
steven crowder
Oh, we lost Alex for a second.
Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
steven crowder
This is clearly the globalist.
alex jones
He's told I'm guilty.
The jury's told I'm guilty.
I'm not allowed in a five-week trial in Connecticut to defend myself.
The judge actually says, you can't say you're innocent.
You can't say you're bankrupt.
dan friesen
Yeah, all that's just shit.
steven crowder
Yeah.
dan friesen
But there is no pushback.
There's no discussion of what these things are.
There's no reason to.
Yeah.
So Crowder wants to know, like, real seriously, did you use these people's names?
steven crowder
Did you ever call the parents out by name on air and say that they were their children?
Like, call them out by name on air.
alex jones
Only Robbie Parker.
steven crowder
Okay.
And after version.
alex jones
And I did not say that he staged it or it was fake.
I said people think this clip was like 30 million views on YouTube or more.
unidentified
Right.
alex jones
It was a viral clip.
People say this guy looks fake.
And so I said, yeah, it does look like acting to me, but he's under stress, whatever.
dan friesen
That's not true.
And Heslin's name was said on InfoWars, Posner.
And also, intentional infliction of emotional distress doesn't require you say people's names.
jordan holmes
These people are constantly screaming about how some people should die because they changed their pronouns, and yet somehow they're going to try and pretend that pronouns cannot refer to people.
dan friesen
Right.
Right.
jordan holmes
You have to say their name like a magic spell.
You have to sew it into your fucking piece of paper with silver thread, Dan.
Obviously, otherwise it's not defamation.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And when you say like the families, if you're one of the members of one of the families, you can't consider yourself part of that group.
jordan holmes
No, you have to be referred to.
dan friesen
No, you have to.
jordan holmes
Because that's how words work.
dan friesen
You can't do it.
jordan holmes
No, damn.
dan friesen
So Alex tries to explain, and Stephen really wants him to explain this because it's kind of an important point that he fully complied with Discovery.
steven crowder
Well, I do have a question that's important here because people will say, well, the reason you weren't allowed to defend yourself is it was a default judgment.
And they say, because you didn't provide the evidence, right, that was requested in Discovery.
Give me very specifics, not just all.
You did provide and hand over a lot of evidence.
What did you hand over?
because they did have financials.
They did have, certainly in the Texas trial, they did have access to financials.
They did have access to certain traffic metrics.
When I was watching the trial, they would say, well, actually, they didn't hand over, for example, the Alexa reportings as opposed to the Google Analytics reportings.
What kind of evidence when you were asked to hand over?
Just give me some examples of what you did hand over.
Did you hand over financial documents as it related to the company?
alex jones
Yes.
steven crowder
Did you hand over documents as it related to, you know, like different traffic and revenue streams to some degree or another?
alex jones
To an extreme degree, the most ever given over in a civil defamation trial, many lawyers estimate.
Stephen, let me be 100% clear.
steven crowder
So what are they saying you didn't provide is my point?
Because this is something a lot of people.
jordan holmes
Accurate information.
steven crowder
Unfortunately, on the right, Alex, this is important.
I'm just saying this because people will try and take this out of control.
People on the right will say, well, then you should comply during discovery.
What, pardon me, what in the fuck are they claiming you didn't provide so that you were not allowed to defend yourself?
alex jones
All right, let me answer that question, and I want to get into people saying, oh, this is just for Alex Jones.
In Texas, they claimed that because we did so much discovery, and they would have each person that they were deposing give them more discovery.
So they'd say, oh, out of the 200,000 emails you gave us in Texas, in one of the discovery batches you gave us, there was one extra email that wasn't in this batch.
Little weird gotcha games.
And then in Connecticut, the judge kept saying, give me the Google Analytics.
Well, we hardly ever even use Google Analytics, hardly ever even looked at it.
So we explained to the judge, ma'am, it's a search box for the back end of Google, and a lot of it you have to pay for.
We've never paid for it.
We've barely ever used it, but we searched for Google Analytics and found one writer and one other person in the group that had looked at Google Analytics and said, oh, look how much traffic we're getting a few times.
So we gave them what we had in our system about Google Analytics.
Take Alexa, same thing.
They said, give us the Alexa.
Well, Stephen, I want you to give me the Google.
And then I say, and then you say, okay, what do you want me to search in Google?
dan friesen
No, sir.
alex jones
Give me the Google.
dan friesen
Give me the Google.
Also, some of those instances of Google Analytics were like, look how much traffic we're getting from this Sandy Hook article.
So maybe Alex shouldn't use that as an example.
If Steven really wanted to be prepared to ask this question and respond appropriately to Alex's answer, he should have read the order for the default judgment.
It spells everything out.
There were requests for production that Alex never even responded to.
There were requests to produce people for depositions that were ignored.
Alex repeatedly sent completely unprepared people to depositions as corporate representatives.
That's just the surface.
Alex did turn over big batches of documents, but he had a habit of doing that just before hearings about his failure to turn over documents so he could avoid consequences while overwhelming the plaintiffs with tons of unrelated shit.
Even these tranches weren't satisfactory to what he was obligated to turn over, though, and it didn't really help him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
In the judgment, they even discuss how they tried to resolve the problem through fines and sanctions, but it was clear that it had no effect on Alex's abuse of the discovery process.
He has too much money to be impacted by whatever fines the court could impose, so it was a dead end.
Stephen doesn't care about the reality here or the truth.
He's just asking questions to allow Alex to give his boilerplate rehearsed answer and make it look like Stephen was asking tough questions.
This is a charade that is meant to exonerate Alex in the eyes of Stephen's audience.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it is.
dan friesen
It's not an interview.
jordan holmes
It's so hard because the real, the truth of it is like that, all of him being like, I'm not allowed to say I'm innocent.
I'm not allowed to say all this stuff.
And it's like, that's your fault.
And the reason that you weren't allowed to say it is because if you did, sooner or later, you would have to go to jail.
We're being nice to you by keeping you.
This is like you going bowling with rails.
That's the point here is because you are going to be a gutterball and then go to jail.
We're saving your life, man.
dan friesen
Right.
And if you had practiced bowling in this metaphor, you wouldn't need those fucking rails.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
dan friesen
I don't know if this fully works, but it's close enough.
So Stephen has lost control of this show.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Alex has completely taken over.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that sounds great.
alex jones
And now the Secretary of State of Texas is talking about we may have to go after Alex Jones because he caused threats on election officials.
They have no statements.
They don't have me saying be violent.
I didn't even probably ever even talk about the Texas election other than saying I don't think Beto was as close as he said he was to Ted Cruz.
So this is the absolute next level garbage and propaganda.
In fact, overhead shot.
I want to show people this.
Texas Secretary of State, Alex Jones, unleash hell on our election people.
That's the hill.
Here's another one.
Republican Texas election chief blast nuts, peddling 2020 conspiracy theory, zooms in on Alex Jones.
So just like they're suing everybody.
dan friesen
Alex is just doing his show.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'm waiting for him to do an ad pivot.
Yeah.
When is he going to do it?
dan friesen
He's calling for overhead shots.
jordan holmes
When is he going to do it?
dan friesen
This is ridiculous.
jordan holmes
That is insane.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Steven's lost entire control.
This is just the Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
This is absolutely InfoWars right now.
That is so funny.
Also, we've got these coins.
We've got these fucking coins.
Buy these coins.
dan friesen
Nobody's owned his X coin.
No longer a fundraiser.
So Alex believes that this is overkill.
And then Stephen has some harsh words for the so-called brave conservatives.
alex jones
This is all overkill.
It's just the left having a temper tantrum.
They want to scare everybody else and get a bunch of other lawyers to file lawsuits to come after all the conservatives and all the nationalists and all the patriots.
And I really appreciate you letting me get that out there because it's so frustrating to me kind of only have my show that has a big audience, but it's compartmentalized because of censorship.
It's very hard to actually get the truth.
steven crowder
No, it's not just censorship now.
alex jones
I don't understand.
steven crowder
It's not just censorship.
It's cowardice.
You and I have had conversations, obviously off-air, where, you know, I would say, I wouldn't say call you the net, but I've said, I don't agree with this.
I don't like that.
Remember, I told you, I remember early on the show saying, I don't like that you sometimes stir up infighting with conservatives.
I remember you saying, you know what?
I used to do that more, and I've decided the left is a more important enemy.
We've had very strong disagreements.
I felt compelled to have you on because some of the biggest figures in our movement, who, by the way, agreed with all of some of your quote-unquote conspiracy theories that I thought were incorrect, they didn't have you on.
It is censorship, and it's cowardice.
dan friesen
Let me translate what Stephen's saying there about the infighting among conservatives.
Alex, I work for Glenn Beck.
Stop being mean to Glenn Beck.
Also, Stephen, you have to understand, a lot of those other conservative outlets are really busy running damage control for Tucker's Kanye West interview at the moment.
A lot of them just don't have the juice to throw Alex into the mix and try and deal with that.
jordan holmes
We can't be both protecting against the rampant anti-Semitism in our party and protecting against Alex's rampant anti-Semitism and more.
dan friesen
It is weird that Alex hasn't been on Rogan, though.
I wonder if Joe watched some of the trial and realized that Alex lied to his face about what he said about Sandy Hook.
That would be fun if Joe started to get the picture that Alex is using him and see what develops from there.
I'm not optimistic that's going to happen.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if Joe watched the trial, it would be really hard to come away from it thinking that Alex did not lie to your fucking face.
dan friesen
Yeah, but you still got to realize he's a fun guy.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
He's really funny.
Do you know what this reminds me of?
This reminds me so much of walking into a Dunkin' Donuts In like fucking around fucking whatever.
And there's two old guys sitting in that way right inside the door.
So you can see them through the window.
And they're arguing about a parking ticket.
And he's like, man, I didn't park there.
I'm telling you.
And you know the guy's lying.
I'm walking in there trying to buy coffee for two seconds and I want to turn around and be like, dude, just pay the parking ticket.
You're a fucking liar, obviously.
dan friesen
You did the thing.
jordan holmes
And the other guy's like, yeah, you're totally right, man.
They shouldn't be able to do that.
dan friesen
One of those guys is Rogan.
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Just making sure.
jordan holmes
No, I think I'm talking about Crowder and Alex right now.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Who's Rogan?
Is he the donut?
jordan holmes
Rogan would be a delicious donut.
dan friesen
So we got a question for Alex.
jordan holmes
Although he'd be a little bit stringy.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
steven crowder
Yeah.
dan friesen
And full of raw meat.
So Alex, you know, we've got to find out if he's scared.
steven crowder
Let me ask you, Alex, really, point blank.
I know you talk about appeals.
How scared are you right now?
alex jones
I am way more scared about the direction the country's going in if they admit this is a formula for everybody.
I mean, while the right wing laughs, some of them and says, oh, it's just Alex Jones, they're on every channel saying we're coming after everybody now with this model.
And they've even got the Republican Secretary of State in Texas saying we want to come after Republicans that question election fraud.
Give me a break.
So you have the Rhinos, the Neocons, the rabid left allied together against the populist uprising of nationalist Americans who are peacefully trying to take our country back.
So I'm way more concerned about nuclear war.
I'm way more concerned about financial collapse.
I mean, here's a good point, Stephen.
Quite frankly, the way inflation's going, the way it accelerates towards Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe, in 10 years, there's such inflation, a billion dollars will be like $1,000.
I mean, at the current rate we're at here, so no, I'm not scared.
I am disgusted.
And I really feel proud of myself because I've told the truth about this.
I've said when I was wrong, they have created this whole synthetic identity for me, the straw man.
And then they sat there and had to lie to a jury and suppress the truth and tell them I was guilty and rigged this kangaroo court so I myself can hold my head tall.
But I am in general very concerned for my children, for the country in the future, because of the rabid acceleration into total and complete corruption.
dan friesen
Wow, that's quite an answer to, are you scared?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm going to go with yes.
dan friesen
I feel like from some of the numbers that I was seeing, the inflation is starting to turn around.
And I don't know if we're going to end up in a Weimar, Germany situation.
Right.
We're not going to go Zimbabwe, baby.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
I mean, if I've read everything correctly, I feel like there's a difference between like radical, out-of-control inflation and all of these businesses being like, ooh, they're talking about inflation.
We can charge an extra two bucks.
dan friesen
Yeah, some of this is a little bit hard to disaggregate from each other, some of these forces.
Yeah.
But yeah, I don't think that's the path we're heading on.
And also, I think that nuclear war was supposed to have already started by now based on Alex's projections.
jordan holmes
Oh, we've been dead for a while.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So I guess he should probably be more concerned about his own personal matters.
They seem pretty severe.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that billion in 10 years is still going to be an albatross over your neck, buddy.
dan friesen
So one of the co-hosts asks Alex a very important question, and that is, what's up with the appeal?
How is that going to work?
Right.
And you'll notice over the course of the maybe next three clips that Alex can't answer specifics.
unidentified
Yeah, so you said earlier that this is going to be overturned.
Why do you think that it will be overturned?
Not that you just have kind of this faith in that that's going to happen, but what are you guys arguing if you can reveal that to us on how it's going to be overturned?
alex jones
Well, that's an excellent question.
I have talked to dozens of very well-known constitutional lawyers.
I can tell you, Norm Patton.
Don't be a very well-known, successful lawyer around the country, keeping current and former judges in Connecticut and in New York, federal and state, that say this is the most insane craziness they've ever seen.
dan friesen
All right.
So your lawyer who lost this case for you is talking to other people allegedly and reporting to you secondhand that this shit is crazy.
jordan holmes
Sounds true.
dan friesen
And this is how you're going to win the appeal.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So there's no grounds given for what the appeal, what the argument is, why they merit an appeal other than, come on.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's an issue.
Yeah.
If your appeal is based on, that's just too big.
dan friesen
Alex legit seems to believe that if he can just pay for the appeal, he will magically win.
alex jones
Oh, either America's gone and completely done, or in Texas and in Connecticut, if I have the money for the appeals, that's why they want to bankrupt us right now because they are so scared that if there's any justice left at the Texas or the Connecticut Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court, they've got to overturn this because the deep state, the ambulance chaser brigade are openly saying they're coming after everyone with this, just like when I got censored.
steven crowder
So are you saying that you think the people in the appeals court will see the gravity of it?
Is that what you're saying?
Why you believe it'll be overturned?
alex jones
I don't know.
The fix is in that high.
dan friesen
Oh, I see.
So Soros can control all the district attorneys in America and all the judges and everything, but you can't penetrate the appeals court.
Oh, also, the U.S. Supreme Court is entirely blackmailed by Chinese spies and what you, but oh, no, no.
The appeals court, the fix isn't in that high.
jordan holmes
The one that's insanely done everything I hoped they would do is also definitely run by the Chinese billionaires.
dan friesen
Yeah, this is fun.
I mean, it's just Alex trying to be like, yeah, you should still give me money because I'm going to find a way to launder it during the appeals process.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, the problem is, the problem is for Alex is that in a very real way, this is an apolitical case for the law, for lawyers and judges and everything, because they all have a vested interest in this being at least the bottom.
You know, like all of them would prefer to have firm guardrails so we don't have to go through like another, this judge has waited three years to default judgment because we just have never seen this shit before.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So it helps if we have a baseline here of like, guess what?
Here's a person who's done this shit before.
Here's what we've done before.
And now we don't have to do this again.
You know?
dan friesen
It would be nice.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, it is fitting that, you know, this is Alex's sort of path in as much as like Trump taught us so much about how much of the government is not codified and how much of it is based on just like we all agree this is how humans are.
jordan holmes
It's a good idea to do this, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
We all think this is a smart norms that we've thought have protected us and kept things in line aren't really real.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And Alex is kind of revealing some of the similar stuff with the legal system.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You could just not do stuff.
jordan holmes
It is unfortunate that it's like, oh man, we've accidentally created a system geared towards giving narcissistic psychopaths a lot of money and power.
dan friesen
If they have the nerve and the shamelessness.
jordan holmes
And the shamelessness, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
You know?
dan friesen
So Alex continues to ramble about his non-answer about how this appeal is going to work, and then he forgets what question he's answering.
alex jones
But I know that when, okay, they've got their pound of flesh.
They've demonized me.
They brought back up Sandy Hook.
They made a bunch of money for their charities.
They got $73 million from Remington.
jordan holmes
Yeah, those bad people made a bunch of money for their chair.
alex jones
And now nobody knows who Adam Lance is that killed the kids.
They only know Alex Jones.
And so.
I'm sorry.
What's the question, Stephen?
I apologize.
steven crowder
No, no, I think you answered the question.
I think Gerald really wants to know: why do you believe it will be overturned?
Do you think it's because they wanted to make an example of you?
And then when it comes down to the actual constitutional law, it won't hold water.
Is that why?
alex jones
Absolutely.
I mean, I think that, well, they have to or the country's over.
I mean, you have to understand when I say candy report, when I say show trial, I mean, this has never before been done.
A default's when you just don't even show up.
We gave them everything.
dan friesen
It's fun the way that Steven's interview style seems to be like, Alex is just rambling.
I'll try and answer this question for him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And see if he can just say yes to my suggested answer.
And Alex does, and then starts rambling some more.
jordan holmes
It is fun that if you're Steven Crowder, you know, you started the show by being like, you weren't even allowed to make your defense.
And then at the end of the show, you have to be like, oh, no, that makes sense.
Yeah, you shouldn't have been.
Your defense is terrible.
dan friesen
There isn't one.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
And you're just not going to be able to answer a yes or no question to save your life.
You're fucking literally to save your life.
dan friesen
Your fucking defense is Hillary.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Go away.
dan friesen
So Alex starts rambling about money and gets into his divorce for some reason.
This is weird.
alex jones
They said he made $61 million last year.
Our gross was $61 million.
I paid myself $200,000 last year.
It's all in the bankruptcy court.
They know it.
They know it's true.
Was there a year that I paid myself $12 million?
Absolutely.
The year of the divorce with my ex-wife, six years ago, thank God it was the Trump era.
For the first time ever, we had all this extra money right when she divorces me.
It goes through the process and the court made me pay her close to $10 million to, quote, buy her out of the company because I've been married to her for 13 years.
So the one year God came through, the one year that I, because usually I make about a million, two million dollars a year, I've been honest with my audience.
And after all the bills and stuff and legal crap, it's gone.
Of course.
Okay, but I don't do it for money.
dan friesen
So wait, hold on.
I got to pause there for a second.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He had a 500%, 400% pay increase that year, magically.
Okay, that makes sense.
unidentified
So weird.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
alex jones
The one year I made $12 million, God came through magically the money came in to then buy my ex-wife out of the company.
So again, they think Alex points something out of here.
steven crowder
I want to say something here that's important because I see you have, and we all struggle with this, right?
Where you're saying, because I know that people think that sounds like a lot of money.
And it's sad that you even have to say, no, you don't do this just for the money, but you absolutely deserve to earn a living if you have millions of people who are listening and the amount of work that you put into it.
I understand it.
This is what I do here as well.
Conservatives are the only ones, surprisingly, the people who support free enterprise where we feel like because our audience is largely working class, you want to say, look, look, don't get mad at me because I make this money because there's a huge difference between one year making $12 million and a several hundred million dollar judgment.
You know who makes $12 million every single year?
Colbert.
Fallon.
No one cares.
dan friesen
So I can explain that dynamic a little better than Stephen.
He and Alex do this song and dance because they know that they're fucking over their audience.
They have to rationalize the money they make because it's an insane amount.
And they earn it by exploiting their audience's fear and anger and monetizing that while putting vulnerable people in harm's way.
And they do no work.
jordan holmes
And they sell garbage.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Absolute garbage.
dan friesen
Steven did no preparation for this interview.
He has no idea the subject that he's even covering.
There's no work that goes into this other than riffing dumb jokes.
They know that they don't do shit.
And whether it's conscious or not, that's another question about whether or not that's why they have to rationalize this.
But they have to pretend not to care about money or else they run the risk of being way too obvious about how they sell things.
And then before you know it, they're just a racist QVC.
Fallon and Colbert make money, but I'm not sure how much, but they don't get on their show every night and try to rationalize it because they actually put on a show.
They're entertainers doing a job, not just complaining about how they're so persecuted.
And this has nothing to do with political alignment.
Do you think Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy or Ron White has to rationalize that they make millions of dollars?
They don't because their talent makes it obvious why they make that much money.
For con men like Alex and Steven, it's different.
And that's why they do have to do this, like, oh, hey, look, it's $100 million that I make, but it's no big deal.
That's actually nothing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
No, they're thieves having to justify why thievery is okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, well, they're thieving, doing like sort of legal thieves.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Legal thieves.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I, I mean, and I understand that you have to explain why you have to rationalize or else it gets confusing and suspicious.
jordan holmes
Right.
I think the thing that has stuck with me maybe most.
Well, no.
There are a few things that really stuck with me during the Texas trial, but one of them that I will never forget is when Owen was on the stand and he was being questioned about NPR.
And he was like, you know, they're a non-profit, right?
And Owen just said, but they still get paid, don't they?
Like, they don't understand the idea of not doing something for money.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, like, sure, I understand we're a nonprofit, but this is what actual not money is: is when you're just there doing your job and you're surviving, you know.
dan friesen
And not to jump too far from what you're saying, but like Owen and Alex and other people in depositions have been very clear about like, we don't do any, we don't really do any preparation.
No, no, because if they admitted that they did work, it would show malice.
jordan holmes
It would really make it look hard.
dan friesen
They don't do shit.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Anyway, Alex wants to go to the documents, and this is about how hard he works.
alex jones
And this is the most important point I'm going to make here.
And I got a few documents if I can show them to you that are really important that tie this all together.
This is a major project for six years, two years before they sued me, and then now the last four, with literally hundreds of articles a week, sometimes thousands.
Every major news channel from HBO to PBS to Fox even attacking me over Sandy Hook and building it up into this giant controversy when I was not the Sandy Hook man to set the precedent with the Alex Jones precedent to shut everybody else down.
Now, let's talk about this being the biggest defamation judgment in U.S. history by an order of at least 10 magnitude.
If I can have an overhead shot here, damn, I wish the survivors of Epstein received $965 million.
Exactly.
Good point on Twitter, Eliza.
dan friesen
Did he just read a tweet from Eliza?
jordan holmes
He just read a tweet from Eliza.
dan friesen
Yep.
Overhead shot for this tweet.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Man, Twitter sucks.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Also, hey, yeah, Epstein's victim should be compensated.
But that doesn't have anything to do with you.
jordan holmes
It's unfortunate.
dan friesen
You also should pay out that billion dollars.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, I agree.
We both agree.
This is not a zero-sum game.
dan friesen
Unrelated, but I agree.
jordan holmes
He also has money that should go elsewhere.
Both of you have money when you should have zero money.
dan friesen
Good call, Eliza.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I like that, Eliza.
Good work.
dan friesen
So they end the episode with a QA session.
And it's actually only three questions formally.
But they take questions for people in Stephen Carter's Mug Club.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And here's the first one.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah, our Mug Club viewer Jerry has a question for you, Alex.
What do you feel was an appropriate penalty for what you said?
alex jones
Nothing.
It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be prosecuted.
dan friesen
Here's why Alex is the worst.
Saying nothing is so dumb.
He should have said, you pay for my meals for life.
unidentified
Totally.
dan friesen
Do a Socrates something.
Come on, man.
Elevate this.
Bring it on.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
It's a rare opportunity that you could actually pull a Socrates.
jordan holmes
You are going to die, and you will not be remembered unless you pull something great, man.
You got to do it.
alex jones
They got rid of my due process.
The judge found me guilty.
They lied about it all.
They hyped up what I said.
They exaggerated it.
I never sent people to their houses.
It's a lie.
They're setting a precedent to steal your rights, not just your rights to listen to what you want to listen to and make your own decisions.
They're literally setting this up to come after the general public.
An FBI agent that I never saw, never covered, never said his name till he sued me.
He admitted it on the stand, was given $90 million because some people on the internet thought it didn't happen.
dan friesen
I should be no consequence.
jordan holmes
I mean, let me off the hook.
I do appreciate the more I think about it, the more I appreciate the 10 guilty men should be free instead of what is like that's not a defense and a trial.
You can't be like, oh, listen, Your Honor, I did it.
But can we know everyone did what they did?
It's a good idea to let me go free.
Otherwise, you might put that man in jail.
dan friesen
No, He's saying that he's the innocent man who shouldn't be persecuted.
Not one of the guilty people who goes free.
jordan holmes
I feel like the implication there, he didn't intend the right way.
Well, maybe he's thinking he's the innocent man, but in this situation, he really comes off sounding like he's one of the 10 guilty people.
dan friesen
He is guilty.
But also, he should do a Socrates.
Anyway, there's a problem with that Crowder identifies.
And that is that, hey, this is a lawsuit for defamation.
jordan holmes
There is that.
dan friesen
We're against it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But then there's some other lawsuits.
jordan holmes
That you filed.
dan friesen
Well, sure, Alex did.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That doesn't come up.
Oh.
But other ones, like the Covington Catholic, and we do support these.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Shit.
I need to talk about this.
steven crowder
And also, it's important when you'll get a lot of people on the left saying, oh, the right has a double standard because what about Nick Sandman in CNN?
What about Kyle Rittenhouse?
They said his name.
The president of the United States had an advertisement, had an ad that went out that associated Kyle Rittenhouse specifically with white supremacy.
They said Nick Sandman was mocking somebody, this poor Native American, Nathan Phillips, as I prefer my Native Americans to be called.
Nathan Phillips.
They said, yeah, he was mocking Nathan Phillips and he was stirring up the crowd.
They did call out these people by name and these people had to hire security and these people had to go into hiding.
There is a difference.
You did not do that.
And they did it repeatedly.
They did it all day and all night.
Not to mention what preceded Kyle Rittenhouse was the media drumming up actual hatred and that's right.
alex jones
And they never showed any evidence I sent people to harass people or anything.
Of course, it was always what somebody else did.
dan friesen
So Alex is absolutely lying about there being no proof that he sent people to Newtown, then that led to harassment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Complete, complete horseshit.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Also, I guess if Steven wants to be such a stickler about saying people's names, which isn't necessary to prove intentional infliction of emotional distress, then he should support Alex paying Robbie Parker $120 million.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because Alex did say his name repeatedly and repeatedly mocked a video of him about to give his memorial to his daughter.
Or is there a double standard?
jordan holmes
I mean, if Crowder is going to put those as his benchmarks for when a case is acceptable, well, we've reached those benchmarks.
dan friesen
Sure.
So Alex pays up that $100 million.
$120 million.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, if you want to say, for some, if that's your argument that it's like, you have to say the name.
Well, we've reached that benchmark.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
If your benchmark is somebody has to go into hiding, they went into hiding.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So guess what?
We're done here.
dan friesen
I strongly disagree with the point that Crowder is making.
jordan holmes
He's wrong.
dan friesen
Yes, but based on his own perception, he should be like, all right, Alex, you don't owe $900 million.
You owe $120 million.
And if that was his perspective, I would think that would be hilarious.
jordan holmes
It would be very funny to me.
dan friesen
Alex, unfortunately, there's no way for me to be intellectually consistent.
jordan holmes
I can't be on your team.
I literally, spiritually, physically, in this world, if I have any intellectual curiosity.
dan friesen
I can, but I have to say that you owe $120 million to Robbie Parker.
jordan holmes
I have to, yeah.
dan friesen
So here's the next question of this Q ⁇ A.
unidentified
Okay, Muckledviewer Taylor Kohler wants to know, if people only knew one true thing about you, Alex, among all these lies, what would it be?
steven crowder
That was going to be my last question.
jordan holmes
Boo.
alex jones
I mean, look, I'm a real person.
I've got a lot of good information.
Sometimes I'm a little bit obnoxious because I'm trying to get through it all like here today.
And I really appreciate Steam and the crew being so gracious so I can have a place to tell the truth.
And I appreciate your courage because you do get attacked for having me on.
And just this is our rights being taken.
This is a Hollywood production.
I'm not saying Sandy Hook didn't happen.
I'm saying the production of what I supposedly did and how big it became and this huge event.
I'm not the Sandy Hook guy.
I'm the guy that wrote the number one best-selling book in the world.
He's set in the war for the world.
That's why the globalists hate me is because I'm exposing their corporate worldwide tyranny.
I'm exposing groups like PayPal that are back, by the way, saying, if we don't like what you say, we're going to find you $2,500.
I'm opposing their authoritarianism.
I'm a populist.
I'm a champion of the people.
And folks can actually hear the real Alex Jones at Infowars.com, Infowars.com forward slash show, or banned.video.
Go see the real live show.
Go see the archives.
Go see the guest.
Go find out what I'm actually saying instead of little bitty twisted edited excerpts that the corporate media puts out.
And understand, the globalists see InfoWars is the flag they want to capture.
They are more obsessed with it than anything else out there right now because when the globalists tune in, they get scared because I know what I'm talking about when it comes to the mechanics of the new world order.
dan friesen
So it's interesting how Alex's one true thing contains multiple lies.
That's pretty amazing.
jordan holmes
It's very weird about that.
dan friesen
I guess, if you boil that down, his one true thing about himself that you need to know is that he's amazing and he's so strong and right and smart that everything bad that happens to him is just the globalists attacking him with fake stories because he's so strong and right and smart.
Yeah, it's cool.
Yeah, that's a good thing to end on for Alex.
jordan holmes
Ah, what's the best.
I mean yeah, what else is there to say?
dan friesen
Huh, he's the.
jordan holmes
He's going out saying like, i'm the best writer in the world, i'm the best talker in the world, i'm the most powerful man in the world, because the most powerful people are coming after me, right like Jesus Man.
dan friesen
The Devil doesn't come up, by the way, in this interview.
jordan holmes
That's so weird, because he seems really central to the plot line.
dan friesen
Yeah also, Alex's book has fallen to 322 on the Amazon charts so close.
jordan holmes
It's weird how they don't stay at number one just because you keep saying it, and it wasn't ever at number one.
No, there is that.
That's a problem too.
dan friesen
So actually there's another question and that's, uh, Steven has a question, final question, and we're gonna go to MUG club and take some more chats.
steven crowder
Uh, what's the next step?
What are you doing here next Alex game plan.
alex jones
Well, that's a really great question.
Um, my biggest enemy is myself.
I am absolutely exhausted, i'm burnt out.
I drink too much.
Uh I I haven't smoked in 14 years.
Under the stress, I took up smoking again.
Um, Going out and watching comedy and hanging out with Joe Rogan.
There's a lot of cigarette smoking going on.
steven crowder
Yeah, I don't think that's cigarettes.
alex jones
Well, I've done a little bit of the marijuana smoke too, but I'll smoke a lot of it.
But yeah, I smoke pot like once a month or something.
Usually I'm in a comedy club or go see a movie.
Every time I hang out with Joe, he smokes some pot.
But so sometimes I guess twice a week, but I haven't hung out with Joe that much lately.
I've been too busy.
But there's some days we've gone out like twice a week and get stoned, but a little bit of fun stuff there.
But long story short.
dan friesen
He's just doing it to test the potency because Soros has weaponized marijuana.
Soros has weaponized marijuana.
Alex is smoking sometimes two times a week just for fun to hang out with his buddies.
Seems like he's maybe not too worried about that.
Maybe that's not real.
jordan holmes
It's real odd.
dan friesen
Maybe that's not a real thing.
jordan holmes
It's real odd how it's so important and then it's here and you just forget about it.
It's the most important fight in the world.
unidentified
We have to fight against the globalist potency of drugs and there's I get high all the time.
dan friesen
I really don't think smoking cigarettes is going to be good for him.
That's not good.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I wouldn't do it.
dan friesen
Maybe that's what the torn larynx act was.
jordan holmes
He's just outside burning one.
Yeah.
alex jones
Could be.
dan friesen
Could be.
So Stephen does want a question, though, about what's next.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, when he said long story short, I wanted to throw up because that was a short story that's been very long.
dan friesen
So what's next?
Steven basically just has to pull teeth to get that out of him.
alex jones
There's some days we've gone on it like twice a week and get stoned, but a little bit of fun stuff there.
But long story short, I didn't ask your game plan, Alex.
dan friesen
I didn't ask your hobbies.
alex jones
Anyways, well, I mean, it's a little bit of a name-drop to all the trendy liberals that think they're trendy and think they're cool and love the police state and hate free speech.
I'm the real rebel.
InfoWars is the Vanguard.
So is Steven Crowder.
We are the rebels.
We are the outlaws.
We are 1776.
We are the counterculture, not them.
And they can't stand that.
And so that's what I want people to know.
We are the counterculture.
Steven Crowder is the counterculture.
The listeners and viewers of these shows that support independent media are the future of not just America, but the world.
And people can find out what all the stinks about at Infowars.com.
steven crowder
So it sounds to me like what you're saying, your next step is, and I, Alex, you know, I have a lot of love for you, but sometimes it is tough to get you to answer a question.
I think that's a good question.
Your next step is to answer your question.
You need to get some rest, is what you're saying, right?
Your game plan is some rest, recoup, and come back.
alex jones
Not listen, I'm more ADHD when I'm totally exhausted.
So I've done a lot of interviews and I was up till one o'clock in the morning.
I apologize.
My brain's gone right now.
So yes, I realize this is what's coming next.
I realize they want to take me out of the game.
And I realize that I'm never going to quit now because they want to silence me because this is a battle of wills.
I know it's the right thing to do.
But I also understand that if I take myself out of the game by being fried or burnt out, they win.
So I am going to, in the next few months, do something I never do.
I'm going to take off a week a month starting at the end of this month, November and December.
I may take off two weeks in December.
I want my listeners to understand why I've got to do it because I've got to rest.
I've got to stop drinking.
I've got to stop smoking.
I've got to go to church to recharge my batteries.
I've got to take, you know, my daughter camping.
I've got to, you know, go camping and shooting with my son and my other daughters.
And so if you're asking what's happening, I'm going to recharge my batteries, get back to family, get back to God, and come back in 2023 harder than ever.
dan friesen
This is bullshit.
I mean, I think he probably will take a week off in November and December for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
But like, it's not going to stick.
dan friesen
Also, like, we're supposed to be right on the cusp of nuclear war.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
dan friesen
Like, your self-care is somehow how's that going to mesh?
jordan holmes
Focus.
dan friesen
Yeah, just do your job.
jordan holmes
Tell me what the, tell me what's in your world.
dan friesen
You know who doesn't freak out like this?
Other people who do daily shows.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, this is him.
Yeah.
This is you just be healthier.
Stop acting like this.
And just grow up.
That's the other thing, too.
Like, I don't know.
Maybe I'm not cool and I've never really been that cool.
Fair.
But I find it pathetic to hear like 40-year-olds talking about counterculture.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
Totally.
dan friesen
I don't know what it is, but like as I've gotten older, the interest in whether or not something is culture, counterculture, or any of that stuff, it kind of becomes something that maybe has a little bit of like an artistic interest to me.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Something that's like a subversive piece of music or art, maybe.
But like, I don't know.
A lot of the aesthetic trappings and a lot of that stuff I think is a little bit for the youth.
jordan holmes
And you can't be a rebel and have $100 million, first off.
That's not how that works.
Fugazi wasn't cool and also had $100 million.
They were playing in the basement of a dilapidated church.
They were not doing, they weren't doing Green Day Stadiums.
Green Day cannot be a rebel and fucking do Madison Square Garden.
That's not how that works.
dan friesen
You kind of lose the ability to have credibility of counterculture.
jordan holmes
When you have to sign like a 40-page contract to do a show, you're not a rebel.
That's not how that works.
dan friesen
When you have a CNN-level studio that you're broadcasting from, it's kind of tough to make that argument.
jordan holmes
A condemned building comedy show is a rebellious comedy show.
Beyond counterculture, fuck off.
dan friesen
It's a space where counterculturalism can really thrive.
unidentified
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
It might still be an incredibly mainstream show in a base.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
That is very possible for that to happen.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But you're not going to see something that's wildly subversive at like The Laugh Factory or I know it's at soft at Zane's?
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
I don't want to poke.
jordan holmes
Listen, hey, man, I was a countercultural icon when I MC'd Zane's.
unidentified
Right.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I get what Alex is saying.
And again, maybe I'm a square, but I cared a lot more about that when I was 19.
jordan holmes
I mean, that whole idea of like selling out or anything along those lines, who cares?
Who cares?
I mean, Barry Gordy isn't around anymore.
You're going to sell out or whatever, you know.
But it is disgusting to think that if you and I right now were at any point in time, like, listen, man, as we sit here in our fucking hoodies and tender shoes, like we're the true rebels and not going outside, you know, the rebels who are fucking hermits.
No, that's not how it works.
No, no.
dan friesen
I sit in a fairly comfortable apartment having overdue to do the dishes, surrounded by buttons, and I am neither culture nor counterculture.
jordan holmes
We don't even have rumors.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's just how it works.
dan friesen
Basically, instead of like forcing yourself to get rest or whatever the fuck you're talking about, Alex, grow up.
jordan holmes
Grow up.
dan friesen
Anyway, Stephen touches on an interesting question, and that is, why aren't you on Rogan?
steven crowder
But you know what?
You just mentioned something.
Hey, when's Rogan going to have you on his show?
Why aren't you?
Yeah.
alex jones
Joe told me the last time I was on the show was two years ago, and it was one of the biggest shows he ever did with who was on the show.
jordan holmes
I hadn't heard that.
alex jones
He was a great comedian, really funny.
Yeah, Tim Dillon.
And Joe's like, yeah, we'll have you on a couple months, couple months, couple months.
And then, you know, it's pretty obvious what's going on.
Just a little too much heat for Joe to have me on, which is fine.
He had courage about the vaccines.
He's had courage about censorship.
He's been criticizing the power structure, but he's not as hardcore as Steven Crowder.
And I'll just say it.
But at least he overall defends free speech.
And I just don't think Joe can, you know, handle it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
What is it going to take?
dan friesen
For Joe to just be like, I'm done with this show.
What is it going to take?
I'm done with your fucking maligning me for not promoting you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's a piece of shit.
Whenever you don't give him enough attention, he whines and tells you you're a piece of shit.
Fuck off.
dan friesen
Yeah, and granted, this isn't Sneaky Snake.
I'm going to gut him like a pig.
Let's talk about his kids.
jordan holmes
It's not quite that.
dan friesen
But this is still kind of insulting.
jordan holmes
And it's on a different show.
It's on a different show.
Yeah.
And he's saying, essentially, hey, listen, Joe's got some courage, but that man's a coward at heart.
dan friesen
Compared to you.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
You're the courage.
jordan holmes
Compared to the guy who's in a fucking sit outside a college meme.
dan friesen
I see you wearing that shoulder holster, and I think, oh, there's a man.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
I think that the Maltese Falcon is around the corner.
dan friesen
So Alex isn't worried, though, like about Rogan not having him on.
It's totally cool.
alex jones
We were out at dinner about a month ago.
Last time I hung out with him, and it's his pet peeve not to bring it up.
And I just said, man, it really helped me with this upcoming court case because the whole media is against me.
If I could get on there and explain things.
And he just said, Alex, you got, you know, there's too much, too much craziness going on.
Let's just get through this.
We'll talk about it later.
So I'm not really worried about it.
Obviously, I'm the big interview he'd want.
He even said, listen, you're like nuclear weapons.
It's a big deal to have you on.
But I'm not worried about it.
It's really a question for Joe.
No, I know.
steven crowder
I'm just asking because you talk about how you're hanging out with him.
And not only, if not him, he has a bunch of friends who could have you on.
He has a whole podcast network.
jordan holmes
Tim Dylan could have you on.
Dick Wong.
steven crowder
Just me.
I'd love to grow it eventually with other people and be able to throw more support behind folks.
alex jones
But right now, on the courage scale, on the courage scale, Steven Crowder's a 10.
Alex Jones is a 10.
And Joe Rogan's an eight.
And I'll take an eight all day over our enemies that are at a zero.
Of course.
And so I'm nothing but thankful to Joe for all the heat he's taken having me on.
jordan holmes
No, you're more than that.
You're also insulting.
alex jones
And you know what?
unidentified
That's how numbers work.
alex jones
But I'm just going to leave it at this.
I'll tell you off air if you want, but it's private.
The very same people trying to silence me.
You know what?
I'm not going to get into it on here.
But there's been some real harassment of Joe and stuff that's going on.
steven crowder
Oh, I know.
Yeah, I know that's happened with him.
And you know, I'm on that list as well.
So I know we all deal with it.
dan friesen
Oh, man.
Joe's getting threatened about having Alex on.
And guess what?
So's Steven.
But Steven doesn't care because he's a 10.
He's a 10.
jordan holmes
What a bunch of losers.
dan friesen
Yep.
Yep.
It's tough to watch a show like this and not really feel sad.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
This is sad.
dan friesen
It's not good either.
Like, I would understand if something had an ethos that I disagreed with, shared a lot of points that I didn't agree with.
Right.
But if Steven Crowder was like, he had a spark of real funny in him, or if there was an interesting angle and delivery on stuff, if his co-hosts were worth a damn as sidekicks.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Like I would, I would say, like, I disagree with this.
I think it sucks, but they're doing a show.
This just is bad from all angles.
Really bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, man.
That is.
It's just so sad.
It's so sad.
All of you are adult men talking about how great you are to children.
That's better than Rogan.
That is gross.
dan friesen
I'm so much more of a big, strong boy than Rogan.
jordan holmes
I have all the courage in the world.
dan friesen
So at the end here, this is the last clip we've got because they got to go to Mug Club, which is the like behind the paywall segment.
And Alex is like.
jordan holmes
You know who's a rebel?
A guy with a mug club.
dan friesen
And a paywall.
And a cigar club.
jordan holmes
What a rebel.
The true rebels.
dan friesen
Right.
And Alex is talking at the end about how he has to go to do his own show.
So he wasn't going to be on that for very long.
So I don't really care about what's behind the paywall.
Right.
But before they leave, Alex tries to troll the media into covering him.
Is really sad.
jordan holmes
Okay.
steven crowder
If you want to do it.
alex jones
This is an information war.
People should be flooding you with funding.
You're one of the only professional people doing top-flight comedy and analysis.
I mean, it's better than the production on these late shows that have giant budgets 20 times your budget.
People should flood you with support and more importantly, word of mouth, because I know that's the real currency we all want is to override the censors and to win the InfoWars.
Absolutely.
Everybody should support Steven Crowder, who's got the 500-pound testicles.
Well, Joe's only got Joe's only got Joe's only got 400-pound ones.
I admire Joe's balls, okay?
But Steven, yours are bigger, bigger, and even more juicy.
steven crowder
Well, gosh, you did say you've been drinking too much, and part of that has to do with the fact that I have the under-the-cabinet microwave.
I've learned my lesson.
All right.
Hey, Alex.
alex jones
No, no, no.
I made a gay joke, so it goes viral, Steve.
Just funny.
steven crowder
Yeah, and you said you have to recharge your batteries.
Alex Jones is a robotic homosexual.
All right, look.
alex jones
Alex Jones talks about Steven Crowder's juicy ball.
dan friesen
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
steven crowder
When do I get my 900 million?
dan friesen
For what?
This is funny to them.
But when Alex has to tell his balls joke and then say it's funny, that's a bad sign.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
No.
I didn't know it was a joke.
dan friesen
My get or done back when I did stand-up was it's funny.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
After every joke, I would say it's funny.
jordan holmes
Laugh now.
Ta-da.
dan friesen
Yeah, this is when you, it's, I think things are less effective when you say, like, hey, I'm doing this so the media will report on it.
That's fun and sad.
But also, the thing that makes it funny is that both of them are huge homophobes.
Both of them are like violently.
jordan holmes
Yeah, is that what's funny?
dan friesen
Is that they can dip into the joke of talking about Steven's balls because it is gay to them and they hate gay people.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
But I mean, they know that we've just spent too much time with I don't know.
I don't know what people who aren't funny really find funny.
dan friesen
It's funny to them because they're engaging in a form of homophobia.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And to them, that's immune from the target or being hurt by homophobia.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So it is quite funny to them.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
To them, it's a transgressive concept.
And so someone saying that would blow their fucking minds into laughter.
I get that, but I don't get it.
I don't get it.
dan friesen
They're the real rebels.
unidentified
Man.
dan friesen
I think that this would have been just a ways, maybe quite a ways, below like Andrew Dice Clay in the 80s.
You know, like, you know, in terms of being something that's like rebellious.
jordan holmes
I mean, I'm an elitist comedy, you know, but I'm a comedian, you know, like that's what you're supposed to be.
But I can still laugh at things that are sophomoric, but you just have to be good.
You have to be, there has to be cleverness.
There has to be direction.
There has to be intent or thought behind it or, you know, something along those lines.
dan friesen
Well, I get what you're saying, but I think that from a construction standpoint, the joke is the media reports on this interview as Alex likes Steven's juicy balls.
The amusing image is the news running that headline.
But the real joke is that the news isn't going to cover this at all.
This interview at all.
jordan holmes
I mean, you guys are the joke.
dan friesen
Right.
It's imagining the ways in which you are tricking the media into a troll headline doesn't come to pass.
jordan holmes
It is very funny to listen to these guys imagine how they are outsmarting the media.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's very funny.
dan friesen
Well, it's all in their game of being the best.
Yeah.
So this sucked.
I don't want to listen to any more Steven Crowder.
jordan holmes
Never again.
This is brutal.
dan friesen
But one of the things that I found very interesting was that there is probably not that much difference between how he presents himself here and on his show in terms of this stuff.
I think part of that is because he clearly felt the ability to steamroll Steven.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that wasn't hard.
dan friesen
Steven throws to two clips.
jordan holmes
That was not hard.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So I think there is a sense that, like, all right, I'm just going to do my show on his show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He can't handle me.
jordan holmes
No, he's got no chance.
dan friesen
I'll just be able to do that.
And then I'll call him a 10 where Rogan's an eight and I'll compliment his balls.
Everything will be fine.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it is like kicking a choir boy and then patting him on the head, being like, you did such a great job getting kicked.
You know, that's that was bad.
dan friesen
Yeah, but there really isn't a ton of like message discrepancy.
It is just kind of like I've been wronged.
I didn't get a trial.
Blah, blah, blah.
They're coming for you.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Explain to me how a man can insist that he is both apologized and taken responsibility for his behavior and yet still be like, well, the family should get nothing.
dan friesen
That's a question for Alex.
And the Mug Club did not ask that.
We don't know the answer.
jordan holmes
I'd surprise.
The Mug Club does not do a lot of follow-ups.
That's what I've heard.
That's what I've heard.
dan friesen
Neither does Steven.
And that's another reason why he can have message discipline and stay with the same thing he says on Infowars is because Steven's not going to ask him a fucking question.
jordan holmes
Steven's barely even talking.
dan friesen
It's in no way a hostile environment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I would say that Rogan is a more confrontational interviewer than Steven.
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Just because he'd be like, say something funnier about that.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Steven did the same thing that Greenwald did, which is like tried to offer answers to questions he was asking Alex.
He's like, this would be a good answer if you want to just take this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
He was massaging Alex's shoulders while he's doing it.
unidentified
Just say nice things.
dan friesen
He was participating in being interviewed while interviewing.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is sad.
jordan holmes
Because he thought it would be a better interview, I imagine.
dan friesen
Probably.
Anyway, we'll be back, Jordan.
But until then, we have a website.
Indeed, we do.
jordan holmes
It's knowledgefight.com.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at KnowledgeUnderscore Fight.
dan friesen
I saw you tweet today.
jordan holmes
Listen, it showed up.
The algorithm knows that I fucking hate Glenn Greenwald, so it shows me Glenn Greenwald.
And then I get so mad, but I'm not on Twitter.
dan friesen
He's back.
jordan holmes
He's not.
dan friesen
Anyway, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
I'm Wilfred Snibble Snabble of the Gribble Pibble.
jordan holmes
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
andy in kansas
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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