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Dec. 16, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
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#757: December 13, 2022

Today, Dan and Jordan check in to attempt to cover Alex's misguided attempt to bring Nick Fuentes back for a debate after the antisemitic interview with Ye.  Predictably, it got super antisemitic again.

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alex jones
12:28
d
dan friesen
50:54
j
jordan holmes
24:40
n
nick fuentes
11:33
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steve quayle
00:02
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Speaker Time Text
unidentified
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
And enjoy.
Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy in Kansas.
Andy in Kansas.
jordan holmes
Stop it.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
Andy in Kansas.
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
unidentified
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 Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan!
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today, bud?
dan friesen
My bright spot today, Jordan, is beard oil.
jordan holmes
Beard oils!
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I've decided that, hey, man, maybe it's time to take...
I don't know, caring about myself at all.
Pampering myself into consideration.
You know, it's never been a part of my repertoire.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And so I thought about it.
I'm like, hey, I have this beard.
What can I do with this beard?
I guess I could, like, make a little...
jordan holmes
Sure, you could do little things in the little braids or something like that.
dan friesen
But I don't think that's me.
jordan holmes
No, it's not you.
dan friesen
I don't think that's my style.
jordan holmes
You have yet to become a pirate.
dan friesen
And so I've decided to explore beard oil.
jordan holmes
Beard oils.
Listen, a few years, I was never a big lotion guy.
A few years ago, my wife, she really, and you know what?
It's better.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I don't know what the hell.
dan friesen
Skin should be moist.
jordan holmes
Why in God's name did I grow up in a place where they're like, nah, men have hard, tough skin.
Like, screw that!
I want to smell good!
Come on, man!
dan friesen
I have tried this out, and so far I notice no difference.
But why would I?
I don't feel my beard.
jordan holmes
You don't.
dan friesen
I don't have a mirror in front of me.
jordan holmes
No.
It did smell of pine cones for a while.
dan friesen
It hit hard with the smell of pine cones.
jordan holmes
There's a bit of Vicks VapoRub aspects to it, yes.
dan friesen
Poof, right in my face.
Anyway, I have two varietals here.
One is a pine cone situation, and the other is like a vanilla lavender-ish tea.
jordan holmes
Ah, I like it.
dan friesen
And so, yeah, I'm going to, I don't fucking know.
jordan holmes
Put some oils in your beard!
That's what you're gonna do!
dan friesen
So what about you?
What's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
My bright spot is we saw Banshees of Inishrin, which is...
It's amazing.
It's done by the guy who did Imbrouge.
So it's Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson just being good acting at each other.
dan friesen
When you're talking to me and you say something like that, I'm like, that could be a movie.
jordan holmes
That could be a band.
It is a movie.
dan friesen
That could be an art installation.
That could be a number of things.
jordan holmes
No, it's Imbrouge.
I think he did Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, too.
That one's really, really good.
He's great.
It's just great.
It's in Ireland.
Here's the thing.
Here's the story.
Here's the entire story.
One day, this old dude is like, I don't want to be friends with this guy anymore.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Movie.
Over.
Okay.
dan friesen
Wow, that's gotta be a slow burn.
jordan holmes
It's a short plot synopsis, but you will enjoy it.
dan friesen
Is it an ending of a friendship that leads to a lot of calamity?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
No, it's a traditional Irish tragedy in which it's very, very funny and nothing good happens to anyone ever.
dan friesen
See, I was imagining a movie where the actual end of the movie is the end of the conversation.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That would be fun.
dan friesen
It's like my dinner with Andre.
jordan holmes
But at the end, they hate each other.
dan friesen
My last dinner with Andre.
jordan holmes
That would be a good one.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
jordan holmes
Indeed we do.
dan friesen
And it is December 13th, 2022.
jordan holmes
Blackjack.
dan friesen
This is...
jordan holmes
No, you bust it.
You bust it.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is an episode where Alex does a stupid thing.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
He decides that after the yay interview that he did with Nick Fuentes, he decides, hey, why not have Nick back on?
To talk about things.
jordan holmes
Brilliant.
dan friesen
Maybe see what kind of common ground we can find.
See if he doesn't...
jordan holmes
Maybe he's trying to bring him back from the dark side.
Have you considered this is a reverse Vader situation?
Or more accurately, a Luke Skywalker and his nephew situation?
dan friesen
I didn't think that because it's not.
It's true.
And it very clearly wouldn't fit any of their psychologies.
jordan holmes
Definitely not.
dan friesen
So it's a situation where Alex has done this interview with Ye where Ye denied the Holocaust and talked about how he loved Hitler and all this.
And Alex was like, hey man, use code.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Lie better!
dan friesen
Yeah, he was like, nah.
Not interested.
jordan holmes
Lie!
It's what we all do!
dan friesen
No, no, no.
I'm not gonna lie.
And also, Hitler is wonderful.
jordan holmes
No, you don't understand.
If you don't lie, then it makes it look really obvious that we are lying.
Damn it!
dan friesen
It penetrates the market bubble that we have.
jordan holmes
Yeah, come on, man!
dan friesen
And so they did that interview, and then Alex went on Steven Crowder's show and started complaining about how he'd been done dirty.
And how everyone was criticizing him for doing this interview.
And it was very sad.
And Crowder consoled him.
And then Nick Fuentes came out and did his response where he said that Alex got a call.
Right.
From the Jewish handlers or Jewish backers that Alex has.
And so that's the prelude to this interview.
I guess that Alex had heard that Nick had said this and decided, why not have an interview debate about this stuff?
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's a great idea.
dan friesen
It's not.
It's a really bad idea.
jordan holmes
No, it's a great idea.
No, because he's so smart and charismatic and talented.
Alex is going to be able to scream him under the table.
There's no chance that anybody can beat him.
dan friesen
I mean, if it's a screaming match, then yeah, I do think that there's a good possibility of that.
But no, it's never just a screaming match.
And from something of an optical perspective, just the fact that Nick is coming back on is a loss for Alex and a win for Nick.
I have the mind that the dynamic that's going on here is that Alex thinks...
That Nick is somebody who can be reasoned with.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He believes that Nick is willing to play the game of using code and all that because that has been done in the past.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex was able to do business with him for a couple years.
He went on the Stop the Steal tour with him and Ali Alexander.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And so I think that Alex is inviting him back on to give him a, like, look, come on.
We have this.
We've done this before.
jordan holmes
Get back into the fold.
dan friesen
Yeah, why are you being so overt?
jordan holmes
We're scammers.
dan friesen
That doesn't work.
jordan holmes
You're not better than us.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
We're all scammers, and just because you think you're doing something different, you're fucking not.
dan friesen
Yeah, and at the same time, Alex needs to give some kind of a performative pushback to the proceedings.
This episode is tough because...
Full disclosure, we just recorded most of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we did about it.
dan friesen
And then decided, this is beating a dead horse.
jordan holmes
As is our want, we did about two hours, and we were like, that is just right.
But it's too much.
dan friesen
Yeah, and there was a lot to go.
Yeah.
And so on the fly, essentially, just decided we're gonna streamline this thing so it's not the same thing over and over again, being like, hey, Alex is doing a bad job of this.
jordan holmes
Spoiler alert.
dan friesen
Here's another way of saying Alex is doing a bad job of this.
jordan holmes
I'm gonna throw this out there.
For anybody who's afraid.
Nick Fuentes is still a white supremacist.
He did not suddenly change his tune.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Totally still.
dan friesen
It is too much of that.
jordan holmes
Way too much.
dan friesen
And so we have pared it down.
jordan holmes
We've called an audible!
dan friesen
So before we get to that audible.com, there's a sponsor.
jordan holmes
Don't you dare.
dan friesen
Let's take a little moment to say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, audible.com.
New wonk.
unidentified
Sorry.
Boo!
dan friesen
First, help!
I'm a raving anti-Semite whose balls are stuck to his leg.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Shershten.
I'm so sorry.
I've subjected you to so much of Alex Jones as a result of the show.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Lord Argy Bargy is only here for sweary carry.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, it's a me, Mario Speedwagon.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
I whiffed at delivery.
Let me try that again.
It's a me, Mario Speedwack!
jordan holmes
You don't have the falsetto.
Your voice is too deep and sonorous.
It's beautiful.
dan friesen
Next, a fruity little necromancer.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
And we've got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan, so this is very exciting.
Some nuptials have happened.
And I say have happened.
A little in the past.
jordan holmes
My favorite part about this.
Is that because we've already done this, I already forgot exactly what it was that we were doing.
That's how long and how easily we forget.
dan friesen
This is why maybe we could just do the same episode over and over again.
jordan holmes
We don't know.
dan friesen
You don't remember anything?
jordan holmes
My memory is flighty.
dan friesen
So I'd like to announce to you once again the celebration of the nuptials of Miranda and Josh.
jordan holmes
Congratulations.
dan friesen
Got married on, just a little before Halloween.
jordan holmes
Just a little before Halloween.
dan friesen
October 29th.
Congratulations, and I now declare your wedding to be a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
I have risen above my enemies.
I might quit tomorrow, actually.
I'm just going to take a little breaky now.
A little breaky for me.
And then we're going to come back.
And I'm going to start the show over.
But I'm the devil!
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 should be my last broadcast.
Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years.
Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow, and you never see me again.
That's really what I want to do.
I never want to come back here again.
I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air.
I'll be better tomorrow.
dan friesen
He's not.
He sucks.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
Terrible.
jordan holmes
Super sucks.
dan friesen
So bad that we felt it was beating a dead horse to point out how bad a job he was doing.
jordan holmes
You know what?
It is not our fault.
It's not our fault!
dan friesen
You know, much like me playing these clips for you, it's not my fault.
jordan holmes
It's not your fault.
dan friesen
It's partially my fault.
It's partially our fault.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, maybe better improvisers could have found more unique ways to express disappointment.
jordan holmes
Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
dan friesen
But we are not them.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
So a lot of this is going to be basically just a discussion of Nick's debate with Alex and then also the failings on Alex's part.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I didn't want it to all be that.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And so in the period before Nick shows up...
It's a no man's land.
There's not much going on there.
It's kind of just a lot of Alex laying track.
There's a lot of Alex trying to prepare the audience to accept Nick's arguments as not being bigoted.
jordan holmes
Alright, now I get why you would say that anti-Semitism is bad, but the ADL is bad too, and I think they're worse than anti-Semitism.
So, even though I disagree with Nick Fuentes...
Maybe we'll agree with some things.
dan friesen
On a scale of 1 to 10, Nick is a 1 and the ADL is an 11. That's basically the kind of thing he's doing.
He's trying to give the audience an excuse for if they like what Nick is saying, why it's okay.
jordan holmes
If this resonates with you, it's not because you're a bad person that wants to murder an entire race of people.
It's because...
It's tough to watch the ADL do things.
dan friesen
It's tough that they're so bad that Nick is good.
jordan holmes
Hitler is great.
It's so weird how that happens.
dan friesen
And one other thing that happens is that Alex takes some calls.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And one caller in particular is completely off topic and this is just sort of an amuse-bouche for us.
jordan holmes
Racism doesn't slow down.
dan friesen
Get ready to hear about a DMT trip that brought revelations of cyber Satan.
unidentified
I just want to talk about...
What I call the rise of the AI antichrist and the current, like, normalization that the transhumanist media is giving it with shows like Westworld.
I'm not sure if you've seen that the last season just came out.
alex jones
No, I've seen a few episodes of the earlier seasons.
unidentified
Yeah, so they didn't bring in this type of stuff until, like, the later seasons.
And where it gets weird is, like, back...
Back in the day when I used to hit some heroic doses of DMT and stuff, I feel like I was given some visions of the Armageddon and the Antichrist.
I became aware of Satan's plans to manifest himself into our plane via artificial intelligence.
All civilizations eventually end in humans attempting to summon Baal into our plane, or Satan.
jordan holmes
All civilizations?
unidentified
All of them.
All of them.
jordan holmes
100%.
unidentified
Monitor every decision and action humans make with the devices.
alex jones
And it steals our art, our culture, our literature, our ideas, and then says that it's giving it to us.
It's like stoplights are the most powerful form of AI currently because we interface with it and follow its orders.
It's very primitive, but we give it power by following its directives.
We do it because it makes sense.
Collectively, we decide to do it.
But AI is only as powerful as we make it.
Thank you so much for the call.
dan friesen
One of the things that I think the audience is deprived of is that when you're incredulous about things, I just nod.
This guy's talking about, you know, I had this heroic dose of DMT and I saw, I think I was given a vision.
I'm just like, yep, yep, absolutely.
jordan holmes
That's right.
dan friesen
You're like, what?
Stop it!
unidentified
No!
dan friesen
This checks out, absolutely.
jordan holmes
Alright, alright, okay, okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Cyber Satan is coming and it's going to trick us into thinking it wrote our books.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
I appreciate whenever people are trying their best to like...
Rectify their mythology of, like, you know, the revelations are coming and the Antichrist and all that stuff with reality of, like, we're developing super intelligent machines that are probably going to outpass us eventually.
Like, we just know that they will sooner or later.
dan friesen
You know, it's a matter of mathematics, right?
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
The scaling problem will eventually go to the place where they do have more intelligence than we do.
Still not God.
dan friesen
I would say that if you are gearing up to have a little debate with a guy who may or may not be a Nazi, It really is funny that you're taking a call like this seriously.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Maybe it's a bad sign for you being the kind of show that can handle that kind of material when you're taking DMT Cyber Satan Revelation guy.
jordan holmes
You're right.
dan friesen
And being like, this is a call.
Great point.
Thanks for the call.
jordan holmes
No, you're totally right.
Every civilization has ended the moment they tried to summon Ball.
dan friesen
They tried to get Ball over here.
jordan holmes
The moment...
Listen, what happened to Gaul?
Summoned Ball.
dan friesen
Gaul and Ball.
jordan holmes
Gaul and Ball.
There you go.
If it rhymes, it's probably...
Probably mythology.
dan friesen
It's the sign of the times.
So one of the things that is critical to understand here is that Alex is lost before anything even begins.
This is before Nick has even started the interview slash debate and Alex is fucked.
alex jones
I'd like to give Nick some time to give his views.
We really haven't talked much other than briefly Sunday about him coming on today, about what he thinks really went on there.
Because some people thought I staged that and I was in on it or something.
No, I didn't know what was going on.
It's kind of like Trump didn't know what was going on to a greater extent.
I knew who I was meeting with.
And then I had seen clips of Nick saying he didn't support Hitler.
It actually wasn't anti-Semitic.
He just didn't like what some of the Jewish mafia is doing, claiming everybody's a Nazi, doesn't agree with him.
So I just kind of saw this really as an enigma of what's really So uncensored, unfiltered, Nick Foyntes joins us.
dan friesen
It's an enigma.
jordan holmes
You should censor and filter him.
I would censor and filter him.
dan friesen
I think it would be helpful.
I think that Alex is setting the stage for Nick to be able to make whatever argument he wants, and Alex will have no foot to fall back on.
It's an irresponsible presentation.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's fun.
To say uncensored, you know, like, ah, uncensored.
But, like, there's some times where you're like, let's censor things.
Let's do a little censoring, just a tad, like maybe the Holocaust denial.
Censoring that, you don't get to say it.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's not, it's...
You know, when you want to talk about all sides, we hear all sides of a debate.
I don't know if that side is something that we really have a use for anymore.
jordan holmes
Here's what I would say.
I would say that eventually all debates end when there is an answer.
dan friesen
Yeah, when we come to a conclusion.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
So there's no need to debate anything about this whatsoever.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think to do so...
Is indicative of your position.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
By talking about it, you have already explained what's wrong.
dan friesen
By treating a Holocaust denier as potentially right, and having something to add into this conversation, you have...
That's not good.
jordan holmes
Go away is how you treat Holocaust deniers.
dan friesen
Yep.
So Nick talks a little bit here at the beginning about the responses to the interview.
And he's just pulling out some of these classic tricks.
nick fuentes
I really can't say enough positive things about him.
But with regards to the appearance on your show, what I've noticed is that Ye has started this conversation with the DEFCON 3 tweet about the Jews.
He went on your show, and he said that he loves Hitler.
And what's, I think, the most remarkable about this is everybody is fixated on the remark.
What did you mean by DEFCON 3?
What did you mean by you love Hitler?
What do you love about Hitler?
What does DEFCON mean?
Is that a threat?
And so on.
And he's done several interviews.
He did an interview with Piers Morgan, with Lex Friedman, with Tim Pool, with you, with Gavin.
And in all the interviews, it's so focused on the Hitler.
It's focused on the Jewish.
And for a lot of people, they might say, oh, well, of course, that's an outrageous thing to say.
It's so provocative.
And maybe that was the intention.
Maybe it was about publicity.
Maybe it was staged.
But if you listen, if you listen to what the man is saying, he has said, what got us to this point?
I think that it's almost, it says something in itself that the conversation is about the remark rather than all the...
In my opinion, far more outrageous things going on all around, which is that right now the ADL is shaking down Congress.
dan friesen
So if you listen to all of his interview, I mean, it's mostly what led us to here is grievances.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Just weird things about Ye's personal life that he's decided to blame Jewish people for.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
And, you know, Nick's complaint that these interviews were all like Hitler and Jew stuff.
Is silly, because he and Ye did that.
jordan holmes
They were the ones who went, let's talk about Hitler!
That was their idea.
dan friesen
I've listened to a lot of interviews on Alex's show, and outside of that ingredient, being Ye and Nick, it usually doesn't go that way.
It was an anomaly.
jordan holmes
You know, it is interesting.
Nick did accidentally bring up a good point.
dan friesen
Uh-oh.
jordan holmes
When people asked Ye, what did you mean by that?
It is a dumb question.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And it's indicative of not propaganda or anything along those lines, but it's indicative of our culture being one where if you take what someone says at face value, you are a rube.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jordan holmes
I mean, on TV or something along those lines.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Yeah, because so much troll shit is all over the place, and everybody, like, they get off on saying something, and then you take them seriously, and you're like, oh, I didn't need that.
jordan holmes
It was just being a fuck.
Yeah.
No, you don't need to ask what he means.
He said what he means.
That's what he means.
dan friesen
And he was very clear.
jordan holmes
Absurdly clear.
dan friesen
And clarified a number of times.
jordan holmes
Multiple times!
dan friesen
Yep.
But the trick that Nick is using here is just this really just very, very simple thing that's painfully transparent once you notice it.
What he's doing here is that he and Ye came into the Infowars studio and went to all these other platforms and they said all this shit that was just over-the-top anti-Semitic.
They went as far as denying the Holocaust.
It was...
Nonsense.
This naturally has prompted a response from people who find this shit abhorrent, and they've gotten a lot of criticism for this over-the-top anti-Semitic shit.
Now, Nick is coming back and he's saying, look at all these people who are so focused on the anti-Semitic over-the-top shit that we said.
Isn't it suspicious that all this feedback that we've gotten has been about the Jewish stuff?
Doesn't that kind of prove that we were right to begin with?
Like, why aren't they talking about all this other stuff?
unidentified
Like...
dan friesen
Yay, being weird about his trainer.
jordan holmes
Yay, why are you, uh, why are you addicted to pornography and blaming it on your ex-wife?
Can I ask you that question?
Second question, how are the Jews involved with that?
Maybe you should deal with that.
dan friesen
The backlash that Nick wanted to provoke is being used to give the appearance of credibility to his initial points, namely that Jews run everything and that they're trying to crush yay and all the people who would speak out against them.
jordan holmes
Um...
dan friesen
I think this trick is so prominent in, again, that troll-y sort of ecosystem where it's like you do say something inflammatory.
You elicit the response that people would naturally have taking what you say at face value.
And then you're like, I can't believe that everybody's so focused on responding to the thing that I said.
jordan holmes
Do you know what it is?
Is the thing that I hate so fucking much.
It is the dude.
Who texts like, hey, do you want to go out?
I think you're hot or something.
And then they're like, no.
And he's like, oh, I was just kidding about that.
I didn't actually want to do that.
Fucking terrible.
You're a coward.
dan friesen
Yep.
So at the end of that last clip, Nick said that the ADL is shaking down Congress.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And here's what he was talking about there.
nick fuentes
Right now, the ADL is shaking down Congress.
For $500 million.
I don't know if people realize that.
Submitted an appropriations request in response to the interview we did.
Now you've got, you know, whether you thought it was entertaining, whether you thought it was revolutionary, you have Ye with a mask on, with a yoo-hoo and a net saying, I love Hitler.
And the ADL is shaking the cup with Congress.
We need $500 million to fight anti-Semitism.
It's outrageous.
He's been banned from the bank.
He's had his deals shut down by Nike and Adidas to the tune of billions of dollars over 10 years.
And the list goes on and on and on.
alex jones
I hear what you're saying, but then that's what people ask.
And I don't think this is the case.
That is Ye secretly like an ADL operative to get them funding.
So we're going to talk about that when we come back.
dan friesen
You can see there how Alex has a mission and it's to create absurd distractions in order to keep the audience from focusing on the central point and why any of this matters.
At least when these kinds of issues are being discussed and when he needs to provide cover for bigots.
I can't imagine anyone being seriously concerned that Ye's whole thing has been a false flag to get the ADL more funding.
For what it's worth, the ADL made the appropriations request that they're talking about, that Nick is saying, like, oh, it was in response to us?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They made that request in April.
It's an application for grants, and the $500 million increase involves their nonprofit security grant program.
This is something that the ADL runs that, quote, provides nonprofits with the capacity to increase their defense against threats, including physical security and cybersecurity capacity and coordination.
in reaction to his and yay's interview but that talking point just isn't true it's self-aggrandizement that makes it look like oh the establishment is so scared of these things that we're doing and yes in as much as people are scared that this rise um in in uh bigoted It's not that they're scared of...
unidentified
The quote-unquote truth of what you're saying.
jordan holmes
I feel like Alex should have been like, 500 million?
That's not that much.
dan friesen
Compared to what I owe.
jordan holmes
Hey, listen, buddy.
If all they want is 500 million, put it in the bucket.
It's a drop.
dan friesen
I need three times that.
jordan holmes
Ain't shit to me.
dan friesen
So, one of the things that is always bad when you're dealing with someone like Nick, who at this point has literally no reason not to just be pretty upfront about things, you don't really want to ask them cut and dry questions.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And so Alex decides he's going to do that.
And he asks, hey man, do you admire Hitler?
jordan holmes
Smart!
Smart question!
dan friesen
I can't imagine him thinking this would go any other way than it does.
alex jones
In my view, let's just get the Hitler thing out of the way.
Do you actually admire Adolf Hitler?
nick fuentes
In some ways, yes.
And I'm not a national socialist, and I wouldn't identify that way because I'm a Christian.
So I'm not any kind of a socialist or a fascist.
I, like Ye, believe we should have a Christian government.
It's a Christian country.
God runs the world.
We should have a government in accordance with that.
But honestly, I don't share this histrionic Jewish view that Hitler is this exceptionally boogeyman, evil figure.
The 20th century is full of violence.
The 20th century is full of authoritarian ideologies run rampant, and that's a product of modernism and liberalism and all kinds of trends.
But this idea that my life is in any way impacted by...
Hitler.
I have a lot more animosity for the ADL.
I have a lot more animosity for the ZOA.
I have a lot more animosity for the groups that have actually made my life and the life of my family materially worse personally and across the board.
jordan holmes
How have they done that personally, Nick?
nick fuentes
I'm sick of being expected by Jewish media and Holocaust museums to beat my chest.
Like you kind of did the other week and said, I hate Hitler!
dan friesen
Of course Nick has more animosity for those groups because he doesn't have animosity for Hitler.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he likes Hitler.
dan friesen
So, Nick expressed support for Catholic fascist governments in the past, and his views of Christianity are entirely compatible with theocratic fascism.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He knows that.
He's just lying to Alex's audience to be more palatable.
They do not like the word fascist.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
dan friesen
They get it thrown at them a lot.
jordan holmes
What they would prefer is that you call it Sharia law, and that Nick Fuentes is the new Ayatollah.
dan friesen
That's what they would prefer.
jordan holmes
They would rather do that, because it's completely different from what they want.
dan friesen
Nick's construction of his feelings about Hitler historically, it's a meaningless statement.
He's coming at this with a position that's kind of close to there are a lot of bad figures who did bad things in the 20th century and Hitler is just one of them, which might be something that's okay to say if you hadn't just made an entire media campaign out of expressing your love for Hitler.
People aren't expected to beat their chest and say they hate Hitler.
Alex did that performatively because Ye came on his show and said that shit and Alex was trying to protect his branding so the audience didn't run away.
I've never once felt the need to beat my chest and say I hate Hitler, but maybe things are different when you're a media figure who keeps saying you like Hitler.
Maybe if that's your reality, people will want you to walk it back because it's insane and dangerous.
jordan holmes
You know, okay.
dan friesen
Maybe it's subjective and unique to Nick's experience.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
I'll give you, what, I think it's Godwin's Law that eventually...
unidentified
I think so, yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, something like that.
I'll give you that.
Let's take it out of there.
I've never been asked to thump my chest and say that Ceaușescu was bad.
But if a single person came up to me and said, you know, Ceaușescu had some good ideas, I would run away from them as fast as I could.
Because that's bad.
dan friesen
You must beat your chest and say that Slobodan Milosevic was bad.
jordan holmes
No, he was.
He was.
I don't need to beat my chest.
dan friesen
Do it.
jordan holmes
But if you say he wasn't, that's the problem.
dan friesen
Well, it raises some questions.
It does.
So, Nick has gone out on his Twitter spaces, and he said that Alex got a call that made him turn on Ye and himself.
jordan holmes
Yes, he got him.
dan friesen
And so, this is discussed.
Alex really wants to know, like, hey man, did you make that call?
Did you say that I got a call?
alex jones
I legitimately hate Stalin, hate Mao.
Hate Hitler.
Hate the ADL.
Hate Barack Obama.
Hate the Democratic Party.
And I've always, remember me on Piers Morgan?
I didn't get a call from the ADL when I was on Piers Morgan, the most popular thing he ever did.
The biggest thing CNN did that year, they had the ratings.
They had like 50 million viewers for that.
Their average show had like 10 million back then.
And I said, Hitler took the guns.
Stalin took the guns.
Mao took the guns.
And if you try to take our guns, 1776 will commence again.
I have always criticized Hitler.
I've made documentaries about the Bush family helping fund Hitler and the British royalty.
So where we have a sticking point is that Alex got the call as you sent out on social media.
And I'm just curious, do you think I actually got a call to come out and criticize Hitler?
Do you think that's a new thing for me?
nick fuentes
No, no, I know that you're very vocally anti-Hitler over the years.
I know that you're more of a libertarian, and so you have this view of history which lumps in together Mao, Stalin, Hitler as authoritarians versus freedom fighters, capitalists, you know, Georgia, Washington, Thomas Jefferson.
So I'm familiar with your show and all of that.
And honestly, it was a little bit glib.
You called me baby Hitler.
I said you got a call.
You know, quite honestly, it's banter, but it is well known that you don't really talk about this issue.
You're more talking about New World Order, Bill Gates, and these sort of obscure conspiracy theories like Bilderberg.
My show's a lot more focused on, you know, what you might call the Jewish question, which is what are we to do about this Jewish elite, these Jewish gangsters that run our Christian country?
alex jones
And I think that's a debate that should be had.
Oof.
dan friesen
So, apparently, this shit-talking that the two of them did is a primary issue for Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And really needs to be hashed out, which is just as easy as Nick being like, hey, we're talking shit.
nick fuentes
Right.
dan friesen
You said that, I said this.
Right.
jordan holmes
Now that we've squashed that beef, I just want to remind you that I want ultimate power to remove Jews from this earth.
dan friesen
Right, right.
I want you to be reminded that I mean this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, just in case you were wondering, I don't think you got a call because I do want to murder all the Jews.
Wait, no, hold on.
dan friesen
So this is a devastating moment for Alex.
There's three things in that clip that I think are a real problem for him.
The first thing is that Alex is coming face to face with someone who is smart, quick witted, charismatic and understands the Infowars talking points.
Nick watched Alex in the past, so he knows what Alex preaches.
And because of that, he's going to be able to brush aside these narratives really easily.
You can see the way that Nick presents himself as talking about high-minded things, whereas Alex traffics in obscure conspiracy stuff like the Bilderberg Group.
Nick is asserting himself as high status here, and also putting Alex on notice that he isn't afraid to bring up the Bilderberg group himself, and if Alex does, he better be careful, because I might know some stuff about this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, it is...
dan friesen
Your Jedi mind tricks aren't gonna work.
jordan holmes
It is like he's been doing his homework for his whole life watching this shit, you know?
Like, Alex...
It's like the Douglas Adams thing in Long Dark Teeth...
No.
So, there's an electric monk sitting on a horse.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
Now, the horse, tons of thoughts all about the electric monk, right?
Now, the electric monk, it's easier to sit on top of something and never have a single thought about it.
Like, that kind of thing.
Like, Alex has sat on top of Nick Fuentes' bullshit, he's put it on his dumb website, and he's never watched a single second of it.
dan friesen
Oh, absolutely not.
jordan holmes
Not one second.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Not a second of his show.
dan friesen
He's never watched the America First.
Nope.
Yeah, he's not concerned himself with that because he doesn't give a shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he does not give a shit.
dan friesen
Whereas, yeah, Nick knows what he's dealing with.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex doesn't know what he's dealing with.
jordan holmes
No, it's borderline...
I would practically know what Alex is going to say before he says it because he says the same shit every time.
dan friesen
He does say a lot of the same shit.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
Yeah.
So the second thing Alex should be worried about is Nick saying it's well known that you don't really talk about this issue.
If anybody is familiar with the way the Nick and the Groypers went about confronting Turning Point USA, they would hear some similarities between this.
There's a resonant echo that's there.
The third thing is that Nick literally said that his show deals with the Jewish question, and Alex said there's a good debate to have there.
No one, and I mean no one, outside of white supremacist, white nationalist, or neo-Nazi communities uses terms like the Jewish question, or the abbreviation JQ.
unidentified
I guess people who monitor and criticize those communities or historians might use the term too, but you get what I mean.
dan friesen
That ain't a dog whistle, that is a bullhorn.
Yeah.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
That is a big old bullhorn.
Yeah.
unidentified
For Alex to either not grasp that or hear it and go along with it is damning.
dan friesen
It can only mean that he's either in support of Nick's anti-Semitic ideology or that he's in no way equipped to have these conversations.
And every time he does, he's just going to get run over by the person he's interviewing.
It's very, very bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, there's no...
dan friesen
If you say the Jewish question, interview over.
jordan holmes
Done.
dan friesen
Get the fuck out.
jordan holmes
It's you saying, the question is, what do we do about a race of people that I think are biologically evil by birth from Satan himself?
That's not a question of, like, do we give them better schools?
That's not how that's gonna go.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
No, there's nowhere to go once these kinds of things have been uttered.
And it gets worse.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
As Nick...
alex jones
And I would call the FTX folks and the federal regulators who all involved in this basically are Jewish, who are out there doing that, are criminals who happen to be Jewish who are hiding behind Judaism.
But I don't then blame the average Jew for that.
So I think that's the difference.
Kind of like when Ye and you were on...
With Gavin McGinnis, and he's like, well, you know, blacks commit as proportionate more crime than the other group, but you don't just blame the average black person.
Do you just not trust a Jew when they come in the room?
And yeah, he goes, yeah, I just, I don't, you know.
To me, that's what I'm saying is, I do believe in Martin Luther King, that we judge individuals by who they are and what they do, not by what color they are or where they're from.
But, go ahead.
nick fuentes
I agree with that in principle, but we also have to understand that it's not that these people happen to be Jewish.
I think that's the big source of the disagreement.
What we're told in the last few weeks when Ye makes these remarks about the Jewish media or Jewish Hollywood or so on is, well, these are individuals.
These are people that we've got to name them individually, and these are people that happen to be bad, or rather they are bad and happen to be Jewish.
But I think there's something about their Jewishness that makes it this way, and I think that that is really the source of the disagreement.
dan friesen
See, when somebody says the Jewish question, that's why you end the interview, because it leads to this.
And at that moment, right there, Alex should just be like, I got nothing.
I can't do this.
I've clearly failed.
I've fucked up.
We've gotten to this point.
jordan holmes
You just said Jewishness is itself a problem.
You're fucking bad.
Goodbye.
dan friesen
Yeah, if you're Alex, you've tried to suggest to Nick that he's making a composition fallacy, where he takes the characteristics of an individual and then applies it to an entire group, and Nick says, nope.
I disagree.
There's something about being Jewish that makes a person bad.
At that point, you've reached a disagreement that words will not solve.
If you're Nick at this point, you have to be thinking that you're crushing Alex.
He didn't bat an eyelash when Nick said the Jewish question.
Nick has reaffirmed his admiration for Hitler, and now he's rebuking Martin Luther King's ideology in favor of anti-Semitism, and Alex has nothing.
He's just floundering here, giving Nick 101-level responses that are basically softballs.
It's pathetic to see, really.
Yeah, man.
jordan holmes
That's such...
That's such, like, a thank God that it's not me and Nick in a room together having this quote-unquote debate.
Because that's throwing hands talk.
I mean, just say it to my face.
That's throwing hands talk.
dan friesen
It's at least we're done here talk.
jordan holmes
I mean, at the very least.
dan friesen
At the least.
jordan holmes
At the least.
Yes.
Yes.
At the least.
dan friesen
So Alex tries to get a question out.
And one of the things that he seems really preoccupied with is this notion that there's a conspiracy going around that Ye is secretly fundraising for the ADL.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so Alex is trying to get that question out, but then he reveals something that...
alex jones
What about what I asked earlier that I forgot to get back to?
The ADL wants $500 million.
They want more control over society because of Kanye West, Ye's little comments here.
I get he's obviously not a threat.
He doesn't control people's bank accounts.
That's a joke.
But then people say, is Ye really working for them to first wear a red hat, say he's a Trump supporter, and now come out and do this?
I've been around him.
I've talked to him a lot.
For a long time.
And I really don't think that's the case.
Just to clear this up, I saw some of your supporters saying, you know, Nick is so nice and got Kanye to his office and got him on air and introduced him to Kanye and to Ye, and then Jones did all that to poor Nick.
I've been talking to Ye for a long time.
He never come on the show.
I gave his number to...
Other folks to come on to Milo Yiannopoulos.
He got Nick Foyntes in touch with him.
So people want to blame me for this whole fiasco.
I got some involved.
But that was me saying, here, get them on their shows.
That's fine.
Go where you want to go.
They wanted to talk to them.
I gave them the number.
dan friesen
That's shocking.
You know, as the history books will be written.
Alex, the central hub in the middle of these wheels.
jordan holmes
If you want to blame Alex for something, you have a good argument.
And I'm not sure where that ends.
What you have to blame Alex for, like, literally throughout your day, you might experience something that you probably could argue is Alex's fault.
dan friesen
You sound like you're about to do a class action lawsuit commercial.
jordan holmes
No, I'm just saying that look at all the shit.
dan friesen
You may have a case.
jordan holmes
He's been involved in all this fucking shit.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's very strange to consider.
I have some concern or worry that these kinds of bigots and folks would find each other naturally at some point.
Their orbits aren't that big and they kind of overlap, so there's a chance that Fuentes and Ye would meet at some point.
But in the real world...
The way it did happen was that Milo wanted to talk to Ye because he was excited about the anti-Semitic shit he was putting out.
So he contacted Alex.
Alex got him in touch.
And then Milo brought in...
jordan holmes
Because Ye wouldn't go on his show.
So Milo got him and brought Fuentes in.
And now they've got the thing.
And now Milo's gone.
dan friesen
Milo's out.
jordan holmes
Because they're all fucking stupid.
How do you...
dan friesen
Well, I think that that is a hallmark of chaotic campaigns.
I mean, you remember all the intrigue about who's in...
I just wouldn't have expected Milo to last that short.
He's the mooch of Ye's.
jordan holmes
He's gone.
dan friesen
The Scaramucci!
So yeah, Alex has been so central to so many things too.
It's wild.
jordan holmes
The problem is, it is most likely a coincidence.
dan friesen
He's the Forrest Gump.
jordan holmes
To me, it's a little bit like the Beatles.
The time was ripe for a thing to happen.
And if you remove the Beatles, you're going to have something Beatles-like take their space.
The monkeys.
Well, probably not the monkeys.
I don't know.
dan friesen
They were pretty good.
jordan holmes
They were bad.
But if Alex was gone, the what if of this gaping hole ripped into our society, if Alex was not there in the past, is so huge.
dan friesen
Well, you know, conceivably you'd still have Rush Limbaugh and all that stuff.
So that takes care of a lot.
jordan holmes
A lot.
dan friesen
But yeah, there are peculiarities of Alex's psychoses and his idiosyncrasies that really do end up affecting things.
jordan holmes
It is, yeah.
dan friesen
And his marginalization through so much of his career has led to him associating with so many...
People that Rush wouldn't associate with.
He's connected to so many...
jordan holmes
He was just oddly positioned at the right time to be the right piece of shit to do this.
And there's maybe an argument to be made in a much larger four-dimensional sense of what he was placed into was the reason that his downfall occurred.
You know, like, if he hadn't been the person in that place at that time, then maybe his life would have gone differently.
Or, I mean, it absolutely would have gone differently, but maybe it wouldn't have been his self-destructive.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
Probably.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, look, a lot of the pushback that Alex is giving is not good.
It doesn't help make his points.
Sometimes it even helps make Nick and Ye's points.
And a lot of the time, it is just these softballs that Nick can handle no problem.
Like, hey, is Ye secretly fundraising for the ADL?
It's like, this is worthless.
This is a waste of time.
So we skip to Nick boosting Ye for president.
And Alex gets a little bit concerned.
He's like, man, what about Rand Paul?
And Nick is so-so on Rand Paul.
nick fuentes
We're supposed to believe our two options in 24 are going to be DeSantis and Trump.
And DeSantis, I think you like him.
I'm not really a huge fan.
And Trump, like I said, in a very moderated form, sort of low energy.
I still love him.
I'd still die for him.
I still...
I think he's a great hero and one of the great Americans, but he's not the same guy that he was in 16. Everybody recognizes that.
He is!
jordan holmes
You're not!
unidentified
You fucking idiot!
nick fuentes
Part of what's so exciting for me as a young guy in the last couple months with everything that's going on is here's something out of all the stuff that we were put through, you and I, in the last two years and many others.
Between January 6th and the pandemic and BLM and the election fraud, here's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
Here's finally a North Star, you know, West, maybe a West Star.
Here's something that we can finally look at and actually get excited about.
alex jones
Sure, what do you make of Senator Paul?
jordan holmes
And what about...
nick fuentes
You know, I like Rand Paul.
I like him a lot.
I met him, actually, in 2016, and I actually worked.
Maybe I didn't work on his campaign.
I think I campaigned with Cruz, actually, during the Republican primary in 16. But I was an early supporter of him, and I'm talking about when I was a senior in high school.
But I was a supporter of his.
I still am.
I think he's very intelligent.
But he's a libertarian, and he's just not really my kind of conservative.
I know you're more libertarian, so I think there's more overlap.
I'm really more in favor of bringing back a very strong Christian flavor of nationalism.
I don't know that I love that term.
I feel like it's being hijacked, but I want the government to be Christian, and I want us to have a true nationalism.
alex jones
So it's a little bit stronger than this.
Well, we certainly shouldn't have an anti-Christian government.
dan friesen
That's your response.
jordan holmes
That's what he's got.
dan friesen
Yeah, okay, so we've got a North Star in Ye, who we can all follow, and Alex's response is, what do you think about Rand Paul?
Just like, let's go off on that.
And then this, I want Christian nationalism.
And I think the term nationalism is hijacked.
By who?
People like Alex, maybe?
jordan holmes
No, by you!
dan friesen
I think he might be implying that it is people like Alex.
And his response is, we don't want an anti-Christian nation.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
Great.
Great, bro.
jordan holmes
That exchange was exactly like if somebody asked their dad what they think about Ye, and their dad was like, what do you think about Zeppelin?
dan friesen
I think that if Zeppelin hadn't have been there, that some other Zeppelin-like band would have.
jordan holmes
But it is so just like, man, you are far away from the conversation that I am having right now.
dan friesen
But that's intentional.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
dan friesen
That is a smoke bomb.
jordan holmes
Oh, he wants to get out of there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Don't say more about why we should follow yay.
So, they go to commercial, and they come back, and Alex plays a clip from a mid-November episode of America First, Nick's show.
Now, in fairness, this was a clip that they took from Right Wing Watch, so it's not like Alex watched Nick's show.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
This clip is incredibly fucked up, and...
I listened to the episode, or parts of the episode that these clips come from, and they are not out of context.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
I will assure you, they are in context and incredibly fucked up.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
And I don't know why Alex played this.
nick fuentes
When it comes to the Jews, here's the silver lining.
It tends to go from zero to 60. Like, they're not wrong about that.
But there's a reason for that.
And the reason is them.
jordan holmes
Okay?
When it comes to the Jews...
nick fuentes
Every society where shit has gone down with these people, it always goes...
jordan holmes
Yeah, censor shit.
nick fuentes
And never starts with burning all the Talmuds in Paris.
Okay?
jordan holmes
It never starts that way.
nick fuentes
But frequently, it seems to end that way.
And it gets there very rapidly.
Doesn't start there, but it frequently ends there.
But I would say that the Jews...
Had better start being nice to people like us.
Because what comes out of this is going to be a lot uglier and a lot worse for them than anything that's being said on this show or has been said on this show.
In spite of the fact that I have been bullied by the Jews and I have been oppressed and slandered and lied about and attacked by the Jews, I have been completely precise for the most part and even-handed.
And nuanced about my view about the situation.
And I'm also a Christian.
Which is going to matter.
Because it could be a lot worse, I'm going to say, than this show.
And what's going to come out of this could be, like I said, it could be a lot uglier than what we say on the show.
I know that there are other people that are going to push farther than that.
Once this conversation really starts, and the Jews are going to look at people like me in America first and say, damn, I miss when it was just that funny guy, and we pushed so hard, and this and that, because history has shown that once this train gets going...
dan friesen
So, I don't know why Alex would play that, because it reveals something to the audience, and that is, this is how Nick talks.
On his own show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he's talking fairly similarly on Alex's show, but a little bit looser.
He has the Jews should be nicer to me because it's going to get worse later.
Laughing about it going from zero to 60. Once these conversations get going, which Nick, even by his own admission, is trying to get these conversations started.
Yeah.
I think it gives a pretty particular image of what Nick is, who he is, what he believes.
I don't understand why, if you're listening to this or watching this show, you hear that.
Why would you believe for a second Alex is sincere in his, like, well, you don't really mean this.
You're saying this for shock value.
Or, hey, ADL is worse.
What?
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean...
What's the point?
Sometimes I have to humble myself and I have to say thank you to people that I wouldn't otherwise.
So I do want to thank Nick because the only reason I am not in jail right now is that he has never come anywhere near me.
So I am grateful.
dan friesen
Probably has.
jordan holmes
He's from Chicago.
If he has, we're both very lucky.
We're all very lucky people sitting here right now because if you say that, I wouldn't say it.
I wouldn't say it.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, like...
jordan holmes
My advice.
dan friesen
It's, again, the kind of thing that when one says it, words are not going to help.
This is not something...
jordan holmes
You're extorting Jewish people because you're threatening a Holocaust!
dan friesen
This isn't something that you argue...
You can argue somebody out of.
No.
Maybe if they get to a point where they can recognize the awfulness and what they're actually in and be like, oh, I should probably try and change, then I think there is a possibility for people to change and recognize that kind of stuff.
But if you're arguing with Nick, if you hear somebody say this, you're not going to win an argument.
You don't need to engage.
That, to me, I don't understand why there would even be, like, what is it about this person, Nick, that Alex sees as worth trying to have some sort of a conversation with?
You have to ask that question.
And it's not a question that leads you anywhere other than Alex has a tacit agreement with Nick about this.
He won't...
He won't be as overt as Nick, but they're on the same page.
jordan holmes
Right.
What if, and this could just be because I grew up in a very cartoon-heavy era, what if we hit him in the head with a frying pan?
dan friesen
Like an El Cabang situation?
jordan holmes
Now, I'm not saying that it 100% works, but...
dan friesen
Here's the problem.
You would have to prove that getting hit in the head with a frying pan made him anti-Semitic in the first place.
Because then the hitting of the frying pan could undo it.
Like the coconut falling on top.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, perhaps Alex accidentally hit him with a frying pan when he was a young child.
So Alex feels this personal guilt.
That's why he got him the show.
That's why he put him on band TV, you know?
dan friesen
I look forward to your cartoon.
jordan holmes
It's going to be a good one.
dan friesen
A deep lore clearly established.
jordan holmes
And it's written by philosopher Scott Adams.
dan friesen
So Alex has this need to defend his own conspiracy world to Nick, because throughout this, Nick is also not buying Alex's shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course not.
dan friesen
Like, Alex is bringing up, like, oh, the WEF, the World Economic Forum, they're behind everything.
That's a forum.
Who goes to the forum?
They're all controlled by Jews.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Alex is just getting busted all over the place with his own narratives not being able to stand up to someone who...
knows them and doesn't buy it.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And so Alex tries to defend it and it doesn't work.
alex jones
Again, you really, I think, spoke to it earlier in the last hour where you said, well, you're off over there on these kind of side issues of Bill Gates, the WEF, and, you know, this stuff.
But, you know, we're over here with the Jews.
The WEF and the big corporations, the New World Order and Xi Jinping are mass murdering people, are bringing in tyranny and lockdowns and world IDs.
And controls, and whether they're Chinese or whether they're German or Jewish, I'm just opposing these tyrannical objectives, and I kind of want a big tent for all of that, and I just think it's a First Amendment, but I do think it's dangerous to then sit there and just invoke all of this and say that Jews are the powerful Jewish mafias who basically run the world.
I mean, is that what you're saying?
nick fuentes
Yes.
And I think they do.
I don't even think it's really disputed anymore after what happened to Ye in that clip that you played with Greenblatt from the ADL.
Look at him.
I mean, he was somebody who even in 2018, four years ago, was saying things that are regarded as politically incorrect.
And people throw that around.
They say, oh, that's politically incorrect.
Like, it's this broad, nebulous thing.
It's actually very specific.
He said, like, partisan, conservative talking points in 18, and he was just fine.
And he went on Tucker Carlson, and he called out China and called out a lot of things, and he was just fine.
Then he switched up on the Jews.
He was banned from Fox News.
He was banned from Daily Wire.
And I don't have to go through the whole list, but we've all seen the cascading effect of this Adidas deal cut, gab deal cut.
His bank froze.
Tens of millions of dollars.
You know, I mean, it's unbelievable.
If that doesn't prove it, and then the ADL is going around now, and they're not just fundraising, but they're passing around a letter in Congress, and they're demanding that nobody give him a platform.
They're getting him kicked off Twitter.
dan friesen
I don't know how much more clear Nick could be with Alex.
Like, he rejects Alex's conception of the world.
He's expressed fundamentally different views of policies he'd like to enact.
And he subscribes to an ideology that Alex's audience will be very susceptible to.
This is one of the most ill-advised interviews Alex has done.
Probably not as bad as Ye, but I think it's worse than Spencer or David Duke.
Yeah.
unidentified
Also, how much was Ye being left alone back in 2018?
dan friesen
Doesn't he complain all the time about people getting him hospitalized because of...
Supporting Trump?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It seems like Nick is just selectively rewriting history in order to accommodate his anti-Semitic conspiracy.
And also, he was only fine when he went on Tucker because they edited out all the stuff that he said.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
It's nonsense, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, right now I'm feeling like that story you told of the red card, yellow card, the kid who ate it.
Like, what do you think?
Okay.
If you eat the yellow card, I'm gonna eat the red card.
Come on, I have to.
If you ask me, do you sympathize with Hitler?
Do you find him?
Yes, of course.
I'm gonna eat the red card.
That's what I'm here for.
What are you doing?
dan friesen
Do you believe Jews run the world?
jordan holmes
Yes, obviously!
I'm gonna eat the red card!
dan friesen
Shit.
jordan holmes
What do I have to do?
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm trying to express to you that I mean this stuff.
You played a clip of me laughing about it going zero to 60 and that the Jews better be nice to me because there's worse stuff coming.
Yes.
Do you not get it?
You have all the information.
I gave you all the clues, Alex.
jordan holmes
It's all there.
If this is an escape room, it's just a door.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex tries another narrative here, and it surprisingly also falls flat.
alex jones
But how do you square it up that Jews in Israel have been under the most draconian lockdowns in the world after China and have been given the deadly shot and one of the highest death rates from the shot?
I mean, if they're all powerful, why is this biomedical tyranny targeting them and doing that to them?
nick fuentes
Well, I think that that's just a symptom of the elite.
I think that's a symptom of hubris.
I don't know, for example, that the vaccine is created to kill people or something.
I think that...
The COVID thing is very complicated.
There's a lot of journalism to be done there.
alex jones
Just kind of like Bill Gates at WF, Alex is off on a side tangent.
The shot's not the centerpiece of their takeover.
jordan holmes
Yeah, get mad.
Come on, man.
Show some backbone.
alex jones
Erases your immune system, and Israel is the worst country for being given the poison shot.
Their lockdowns are the second worst.
nick fuentes
Well, it wouldn't even make any sense because if they were going around giving everybody the vaccine and that's supposed to take out everybody, well, who are the most vaccine hesitant?
Who's going to be remaining when they're...
And don't get me wrong, I think the shot is deadly.
I didn't get vaccinated at all.
But the idea that this is some kind of...
That the Georgia Guidestones are dictating global politics, I think is just ridiculous.
And I think it's one of these things that...
alex jones
Well, I mean, a consortium led by the founder of CNN put that up.
I mean, they do believe in depopulations.
I'm saying, Nick, there is a larger depopulation globalist agenda.
And that gets into who funded Hitler and how they set him up and this powerful group that's next level.
It's the transhumanists, man.
To me, that's what's going on.
nick fuentes
Yeah, I just don't know how convincing that is.
I think when you look at these raw demonstrations...
alex jones
How convincing Hitler was for government push euthanasia?
dan friesen
If Alex was paying any attention to Nick, he wouldn't think that this was a great point to bring up.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And it's pretty amazing to see how little respect Nick has for Alex's entire worldview.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
He doesn't agree with Alex on fundamental, base-level aspects of reality, so without addressing that, this conversation is convoluted.
Alex can't convince Nick of anything because Nick is a reasonably smart person and he's not one of Alex's trapped audience members.
Alex's flimsy distractions and nonsensical conspiracies work on his listeners because they're not really processing what he's saying and almost every guest that he has on is a fellow con artist so they just know how to play along.
Nick doesn't care about pretending to agree with Alex's stupid shit because he has his own agenda to advance.
So you have a rejection of fundamental elements of Alex's world being voiced comfortably and confidently on the show by someone Alex has complimented as smart repeatedly.
That's a problem, and it's why you see Alex begin to interrupt Nick more at this point in the interview.
When he hears, I don't know how convincing that is, Alex knew he couldn't let that sentence continue because Nick is about to explain why Alex's idea is unconvincing, and that is dangerous.
Alex's ideas aren't supposed to be possible to disagree on because they're based on discernment and documents and divine revelation.
If Nick continued down that path, Alex would be unable to show his world to be real at all, and he'd be forced to fall back on outbursts and theatrics, which looks bad in comparison to Nick being calm, collected, non-confrontational for the most part, even keel, and I just don't think even those tricks would work.
unidentified
I mean, it is...
jordan holmes
If you're going to get into a fight, alright?
Maybe you should try fighting with your best sword.
You know?
Like, Alex is trying to fight with a...
A floppy little pool noodle because I don't know what he's even trying to do.
dan friesen
But I think that's all he has in his armory.
jordan holmes
No!
He has got scream at this dude's face, get a head of steam in you, cut him off every time, and make him run away.
dan friesen
But I think Alex knows that that's not going to work.
jordan holmes
Then keep on going!
Make it an entire fucking train wreck of a thing.
You've only got one sword.
You're flopping around with a pool noodle, so you might as well bring a sword.
dan friesen
It's interesting because I don't know how much Alex does know this, but Nick has a lot of experience in those online debates that do just deteriorate into screaming at each other.
And it makes me wonder, if Alex is aware of that, then he would know that Nick can handle someone yelling at him and he doesn't give a shit.
So, I don't know.
Maybe it's intuition, but just like...
I don't think Alex is much up for the screaming at him.
jordan holmes
It does.
unidentified
Yeah, but you know, again, you're on home court.
jordan holmes
You can mute him.
You have control over all this.
You can make this kid look like a fucking idiot.
dan friesen
Unless Alex is afraid of losing some kind of an access to yay or possibly alienating Nick's audience who are notoriously hostile.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
So he's going to go into a fight.
With a pool noodle.
dan friesen
As a sort of sacrificial lamb, almost.
jordan holmes
In his own words, the only way to win is not to play.
dan friesen
He does like that quote.
So, Nick not only is going to disrespect Alex by just, like, your ideas are not convincing, he's also going to make fun of his sales pitches.
unidentified
All right.
alex jones
We got hard satellite breaks.
I'm sure the Gropers will say that was all a big conspiracy, but our breaks are at 16 and 29 and, like, 46. So we had to go to break there.
The point you were making, Nick, when we went to break, please continue.
nick fuentes
Yeah, between you and Tumorik95, I'm getting killed in this debate.
alex jones
No, no, no.
You were bringing up Stephen Crowder.
nick fuentes
I know, no.
I'm kidding.
I'm giving you a hard time.
But the point I'm trying to make is...
I'm somebody who everybody knows me as the Holocaust denier, anti-Semite.
I talk about other things other than that, too, but that's sort of what I'm billed as, labeled, categorized.
dan friesen
Won't you see that I'm so much more than just a Holocaust denier?
jordan holmes
What disgusts me about him so much is this...
Fucking camouflage of ambiguity with humor.
Fuck you.
You're not actually funny.
And you fucking know it.
And the reason people like him is because when he says these funny things, they know he's being honest about them.
dan friesen
There's a sincerity behind that attempt at humor.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's not ambiguous.
You're just putting a different lilt on your voice.
That's it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yep.
So Alex wants to...
Impress upon Nick that Judaism is not one thing.
There are a multitude of people of different opinions and different backgrounds that are all contained within the collective of Jews.
jordan holmes
I feel like this is going to go well.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Oh, it doesn't?
alex jones
I can't.
dan friesen
I mean, you would have every reason to think it would.
jordan holmes
It seems like it's unbeatable.
dan friesen
Nah.
This one, turns out, does not work.
alex jones
Uh-oh.
So, like, you're saying the Hasidic Jews?
I mean, one of the biggest groups of Hasidic Jews doesn't think Israel should exist.
unidentified
I'm going to eat the red card.
alex jones
So, I think it's more complex, Nick, than what you're saying.
nick fuentes
I agree with you that there are Jewish factions, but the one thing that they're all on the same page about is that they're all on Team Jew.
jordan holmes
Om nom nom nom, that's a delicious card.
nick fuentes
And this is a well-known thing.
You go to Israel, and they literally spit on Christians.
And it's so tragic that there are so many...
Everybody goes to the same wall!
These are not the Jews of the Old Testament.
These are rabbinical Jews.
And I talked about this on the Yeh interview.
They believe in the Talmud.
dan friesen
So yeah, I have not been to Israel myself, but I do know a number of people who have been, and I've gotten reporting of spitting on zero of those accounts.
Seems like a strange...
Now, I could be wrong.
jordan holmes
Perhaps he's talking about when Saladin took over.
Could have been then.
I would have spit...
Listen, if I was in Saladin's army, I would have spit on some Christians.
I'll tell you that.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you.
dan friesen
I think that your sort of insight of the, I'm about to eat the card, is so right.
It's just like, you can feel in the setup of Alex's, the way he's saying it.
It's like, you're walking into me saying something fucked up.
unidentified
This is going to happen.
jordan holmes
What are you doing?
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Well...
dan friesen
You can say a lot of things about Alex, and we have, and we will.
jordan holmes
Continue to.
dan friesen
But one thing that you can't say about him is that he's interested in unity.
But you can say that he constantly pretends to be interested in unity.
jordan holmes
100% you can say that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
You say this whole thing about Bill Gates is a side issue.
No, that's the central issue, and I see this whole leftist thing saying America's Hitler and...
You know, the leftist groups are Captain America.
I see it just as what it is.
And I just hope that all of us can come together and transcend the cashless society and the world government, the forced injections and the imploding borders.
And I'm just trying to get everybody together on those issues.
Instead of obsessing about different groups all day.
You know, there's whole groups that think Catholics run everything.
And I don't think that's the case.
And I don't think that Jews run everything.
I mean, who do you think runs China with a billion, 500 million people?
nick fuentes
I think the Chinese run China.
And I think that's why, I mean, there are problems in China, but China is a country that is fighting ruthlessly for its own self-interest.
And you could say that it's a tyrannical state, but China's always been a tyrannical state.
They're a different kind of society.
The Chinese people are very collectivist.
They're very societally minded.
They're very obedient and deferential.
And that's their culture, and that's who they are.
But there's no question that the Chinese Standing Committee...
And Xi Jinping are going out to bat every day to get great trade deals for China in the way that our Jewish leaders in America are not working for people in Oklahoma and Iowa.
Does anybody believe the Hollywood Jews in L.A. and the finance Jews in New York and the government Jews in D.C. and the ones in South Florida, does anybody think they care at all?
They give a damn about people in Texas or people in Kansas or people in Iowa?
They don't.
In the same way that...
You could say Putin or Xi Jinping care, I think, about their countrymen, or Assad cares about the people of Syria.
unidentified
Heee!
dan friesen
Alex was not expecting that answer.
Alex was expecting Nick to say that Jews run China, and then Alex could argue with him about it, but unfortunately, Nick has a different worldview.
jordan holmes
I mean, just pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
dan friesen
You mean Alex's display here?
jordan holmes
All of them.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Put them all together.
That is so disgusting.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
One, that's not an answer from Nick.
That's a Lindbergh fucking stump speech.
Join Hitler.
Just do it.
dan friesen
Well, I will say it is an answer and then not an answer.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
In as much as who do you think runs China?
I think the Chinese run China.
Then that's where the answering part stops.
unidentified
You're right.
And then it deteriorates into fucking Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex decides he's going to give a little bit of a rebuke.
jordan holmes
You know who my favorite businessman was?
Henry Ford.
So let me tell you, what was that?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
dan friesen
Alex has a, what I want to describe as a pool noodle of a rebuke that he gives to Nick.
alex jones
Well, I wanted to have the actual intellectual decide of this discussion here today.
And, you know, I personally think that everybody that gets sucked into this black hole is giving power to it.
And that's what some of the sinister forces manipulating groups want.
And I think we have to transcend things on policy and ideas and actual issues and the fruits of the tree.
We're going to go to break here in a few minutes.
It's your chance.
Unfiltered, folks.
We don't screen the calls.
Just have a good, clean phone line.
Tell us where you're calling from and don't cuss.
dan friesen
Those are the rules.
jordan holmes
Don't cuss!
Dan!
We're talking about genociding an entire people!
We don't want to make it gross with cussing!
dan friesen
It's a family show.
So Alex's whole thing was that he wanted to take a bunch of calls with Nick, but weirdly, there's like 20 minutes left in the show at this point, and he hasn't gone to calls.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
They end up taking like four.
So this is about as close as Alex gets to condemning Nick's views, and it's the weakest position possible.
He has no actual criticism of what Nick has said.
He just thinks that there's a black hole that people get sucked into, and that's what the sinister forces, I guess the globalists, want.
This is boilerplate shit, and it means nothing.
to transcend things on policy, ideas, and actual issues.
None of that has happened on the show at all today.
Nick has been pretty clear about the policies he'd like to explore in this and other appearances.
He wants to abolish the First Amendment, wants to create federal laws regarding where Jews can and cannot work, and basing most of the government's decisions on a rigid fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity.
If Alex actually wanted to transcend things, whatever that means, in the realm of policy, he could have started there.
Defeat Nick's desire to ban pornography and even sexy images in the battlefield of ideas by explaining how that attack on speech It's the simplest thing in the world.
It's Alex's marquee issue.
And instead of even taking that much of a risk, Alex just moped around, building defenses for the horrible shit Nick says, and then using the First Amendment as a shield for why he and Nick shouldn't be criticized for having this conversation.
It's coward shit, even if you entirely buy into Alex's worldview.
If you're a listener of his show and you believe all of it, you should be watching this interview and questioning whether or not Alex is the champion he pretends to be because he seems like a loser little titty baby.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Honestly, it's very, very sad.
jordan holmes
That's the thing.
I mean, in my head, the argument could be you don't want to piss off Nick because it'll alienate his white nationalist fans.
That's the fear.
Or they'll attack you or something like that.
In my mind, If I'm Alex, here's the only thing I have control over.
I have control over my show, you know?
And I have got to dominate this kid because I'm more afraid of people not listening to me because I got my ass beaten by a 12-year-old.
dan friesen
Well, I think it's too late.
jordan holmes
That is definitely true.
dan friesen
At this point, certainly in the show where they're at, it is too late.
jordan holmes
That's definitely true.
dan friesen
Perhaps when he said there was something about Jewishness that makes these people bad, or when he referenced the Jewish question.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Those could have been times when you would assert that control over your own show.
jordan holmes
Should have been.
dan friesen
Yes.
When you're like, alright, well, the First Amendment does allow you to say these things because the government isn't arresting you.
So I'm going to make a decision about the kind of content that I am willing to put on my space that I have control over here and get the fuck out.
But Alex didn't do that because for some reason.
jordan holmes
And their stupid conversation boils down to him being like, oh, I think it's Jews who control our country.
And Alex being like, that's stupid.
A shadowy group of people is convincing you to talk about it being Jews is the problem.
It's a shadowy group of people.
What are you doing?
dan friesen
Again, you know, it's so painfully obvious, if you look at these things, that the yay interview was Alex desperately being like, use code.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Please.
We can make so much money.
Use code.
This is going to be great.
jordan holmes
I bought a money printing machine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
When he's talking to Nick, it's the same thing.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
It's just use that code.
Come on, buddy.
Shadowy group.
jordan holmes
I mean, he might as well be tapping a sign that says shadowy group.
Okay?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
So Alex tries to sum up his point here.
alex jones
And let me just make my point here, and then I'm basically done debating and arguing all this.
I don't judge Nick Fuentes, even though I disagree with him, on some issues here.
Because you can't have the left viciously saying that white people are inherently the devil.
I have stacks of articles here where major universities in Michigan, California, New York are going to make white people wear badges that digitally track them and don't let them go in certain areas.
And who's running that?
The ADL.
The ADL at their last three conferences said I'm the number one enemy.
We track the lawsuits, the attacks, everything to them.
But I'm not going to blame the average Jew.
For what that horrible mafia is doing to me and my family.
who actually used Hitler tactics.
dan friesen
In the process of trying to sum up his point, Alex uses fake stories to exaggerate the oppression of white people in order to make Nick's ideology not look so extreme.
See, now listen, I know it sounds crazy for Nick to want to genocide people, but the ADL wants to genocide people, so it seems like Nick's a great guy.
That whole thing about white people wearing badges, I think it was from a 2022 midterm election attack on Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers.
Evers had worked as the superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction between 2009 and 2019.
At some point during that span, the DPI worked with a group called Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA.
In 2013, Vista handed out a document titled Addressing Racial Privilege, a Mental Model for White Anti-Racists, which included a section that had a suggestion of wearing a white wristband that you can use as a conversation starter about your commitment to equality and acknowledgement of white privilege.
I believe that that's the story that's at the root of this.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Because I've heard Alex complain about it before, and it seems like you might have exaggerated that story out a little bit to be a counterweight.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, but...
You're forgetting that the Livestrong bracelets were a shadowy plot to kill people who are either L or S. Or not good at biking.
Yeah.
Truth.
dan friesen
And it's exciting to hear that Alex has traced all the lawsuits back to the ADL.
I thought it was Hillary Clinton's law firm that was behind it all.
They're trying to punish Alex for supporting Trump.
jordan holmes
Democrats for supporting Trump?
dan friesen
Yeah, I thought maybe it was Soros.
jordan holmes
High-powered Democrat lawyers?
dan friesen
Seems like Alex has traced these lawsuits back to whoever he wants to pretend is oppressing him on any given day.
jordan holmes
Does seem very malleable.
dan friesen
Pretty...
Pretty bad.
jordan holmes
There's a rotating cast of characters taking over.
It's like everybody's got their own watch.
From 8 to 12, we're oppressing Alex.
It's smart.
dan friesen
So one of the things that was a roadblock in terms of our initial attempt to record this episode, I believe, now in hindsight, I realize that it was the incessant Alex...
Pointing to the ADL being bad in order to make Nick not look as bad.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Most of what...
His defenses and his arguments surrounding this is like, how can I be mad at Nick when the ADL is so bad?
And that is really what was bogging us down.
jordan holmes
I was convinced we were beating the dead horse.
That's not true.
Alex was the one who was constantly doing that.
dan friesen
It was so repetitious that it interfered with our ability to do it.
jordan holmes
It literally fucked with us.
You're so racist, we couldn't record the show the first time.
dan friesen
Congratulations.
But here's the thing.
I don't think it was that he was so racist.
It's that it was boring.
It got to the point where I felt like we were walking through knee-deep molasses, hearing this defense of Nick over and over again.
And, hey, look, if we have to do a post-mortem on this...
At the end of the day, some of that might come down to my fault for when I was cutting clips.
Maybe I had too many of those in, you know?
jordan holmes
Sure.
Well, listen, you get this one.
I give this one to you.
dan friesen
I appreciate it.
jordan holmes
You're covered.
dan friesen
So Alex expresses his opposition to Nazis.
And again...
jordan holmes
I mean, on what grounds?
dan friesen
Personal ones.
jordan holmes
That's what I was thinking.
alex jones
Hitler's for planned societies.
I oppose that because it is an offshoot of this eugenics operation.
And I'm an expert on it.
I know all about it, and I don't just read history books.
And I'm not going to tell the whole story here, and I've never even told the whole story because it's amazing.
But again, Dallas, Texas, one side of my grandfather's family were old Texans.
The other side, the Hammonds, were Germans who'd come here pretty recently, and they were not Jewish.
They were blonde-haired, blue-eyed.
And they were in World War II, and they know what went on, and they told me, no, Hitler was bad.
And they told me what went on and how the rich Germans in Dallas, once Hitler got into power in 1933, they would blackmail German family members, not my family, but people that my grandfather worked with, and suck money out of them.
So when I heard about Hitler doing that and blackmailing people and sucking money, my family told me went on.
So I grew up actually hearing about all of that.
Then my grandfather worked in secret weapons programs.
And I only heard a little bit of it that my mom heard him talk about.
He would never talk about it.
But I remember him bitching when I'm like eight years old about in weapons projects and how he knew Wernher von Braun, all of it, and how he had to deal with these damn Nazis and how arrogant they were and how he didn't like them.
So, I mean, I grew up with both grandfathers have been in World War II.
They both dealt with the Nazis, and they both didn't like Nazis.
And so I didn't get it from Captain America.
I didn't get it from Hollywood.
I didn't get it from any of that.
I got it from my badass grandfather.
So now I look at people today like, I look like these guys were freaking badasses.
And, you know, they don't make men like that anymore.
So that's where I'm at.
But that said, you can't criticize Nick Fuentes.
dan friesen
I can.
This is a personal story that is like, I don't give a shit.
I don't think that this anecdotal story means much in terms of why you oppose Nazis.
One grandfather was annoyed by them, and then the other one heard something about extortion.
And also, one side of his family sounds like they were Nazis.
jordan holmes
100% Nazis.
That was crazy.
dan friesen
Germans came here recently, not Jewish, blonde hair, blue eyes.
It seems to be...
Oh, and he said they were in World War II.
It seems to me that all of those things are Alex adding up to they were Nazis.
jordan holmes
Those are...
That's the type of lineage...
dan friesen
And it also tracks with Alex saying like...
I've not told this whole story.
jordan holmes
On the other hand, he's not quite telling it like a Romeo and Juliet.
My grandfathers were both at bitter war with each other.
dan friesen
Well, no.
You had the Nazi lineage and then the Confederate lineage.
jordan holmes
Boy, isn't that America?
dan friesen
It's the opposite of you got chocolate in my peanut butter.
jordan holmes
It is 100% that slave owners and genociders are like, We do the same job!
This is such a smart thing we do!
dan friesen
We are making a bit of an assumption, but it is an assumption based on a lot of details that Alex was very suggestively saying.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
He knew a lot of rich Germans in the area at the time Hitler took over.
dan friesen
So, I think that...
Especially if you're expecting to enter a conversation with a guy who you clearly know loves Hitler and basically has neo-Nazi-ish ideas.
I think you should be able to articulate your opposition to Hitler and the Third Reich better than saying Werner von Braun and his buddies were arrogant.
And Nazis extorted people.
I think that this is soft, possibly intentionally.
And then second, he said this exact thing in the yay interview.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Like, Nick has already heard this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This means nothing.
jordan holmes
Alex doesn't remember.
He doesn't care.
I mean, listen, here's the thing that's unspoken that is infuriating, right?
unidentified
Because...
jordan holmes
What's going on here is the World War II Hitler conversation in the context of the Holocaust and all that stuff.
And yeah, Alex's defense is horrendously garbage.
I feel like even if you are an anti-Semite, shouldn't you be able to agree that flattening France is a bad idea?
That should be held against someone.
dan friesen
That's interesting.
jordan holmes
He flattened France!
Hold that against him!
dan friesen
I think that's an interesting point.
jordan holmes
And the reason that they don't mention that is because they're fine with expansionist governments flattening people that they don't like.
dan friesen
Probably.
But I think that Alex brings this up because to him...
Subjective experience is so much more important.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
dan friesen
And like these anecdotal stories and stuff, that is much more reality to him than something that happened to somebody who he doesn't know, or the broader picture of the atrocities and horrors of World War II.
jordan holmes
We're dealing with two narcissists.
I mean, Fuentes is bullshit earlier about being like, I don't care what happened in the past.
The ADL has affected my life.
Like, fuck off.
One, no.
And two, who cares?
Your life is meaningless, you shitbag!
dan friesen
But, maybe his comments aren't so bad.
Because the ADL is so bad.
Alex keeps saying it.
jordan holmes
That's possible.
But then, what?
dan friesen
He thinks better of it.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's good.
dan friesen
He's like, what?
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But then he thinks better of the thinking better of it.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
This is basically Alex ping-ponging with himself.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
That's where I'm at.
But that said, you can't criticize.
jordan holmes
He's in the dryer.
He's been spun around so many times.
alex jones
When the left is literally redlining the engine when it comes to race-based politics and the ADL is captaining it, teaching elementary students, they're inherently bad because of what color they are.
But my issue is, I'm not going to sink.
To the level of the ADL.
But I say, mess around, find out.
Like Nick Foyntes said earlier, you think Nick Foyntes is your ultimate enemy.
The support for what Ye said was 50-50.
I wanted to demarcate the fact that I'm not for authoritarianism, and I don't agree with what happened, some of the things he said.
I don't agree with the censorship and what's happened to him, but I'm not in league with that whole worldview, so that's where I'm at.
dan friesen
That's convoluted.
jordan holmes
Where are you at?
Start at the beginning with where you're at.
dan friesen
I think if you're listening to this, it'd be pretty tough to get a sense of what that means.
jordan holmes
I would like, rather than going on the journey to find out where Alex is at, I would like him to tell me where he's at and then show his work if he must.
dan friesen
He's never going to do that.
So he's saying that you can't judge Nick because the ADL is so anti-white and they're teaching white kids that they're bad because of that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But Alex doesn't want to do what Nick is doing because he doesn't want to sink to the level of the ADL.
But also, fuck around and find out.
Like Nick said in that clip that Alex played from America First, that these Jews should be nice to us because there's worse people coming.
So that's what Alex is hearkening to there.
And as a little bit of a cherry on top, he says the support for Ye's comments were 50-50, which is to say half of my audience...
jordan holmes
Is Nazis.
Half my audience is Nazis.
dan friesen
Half of my audience has the potential to be those worst people that are coming if you're not nice enough to Nick and Jay.
jordan holmes
It is so fucking unreal.
It is uncanny.
It is uncanny because I think of these people and I see them wearing the skin of a human and all of those things.
But when they talk to each other, this...
It lack of mirror.
This idea of, like, well, obviously the ADL is leading so much racism, and it's like, you just heard a guy say the Jewish question to your face.
You're out of your goddamn mind.
What is going on in your brain?
dan friesen
Something that probably comes back to that subjectivity thing, too, though.
Like, you know, there is an inability to probably process the things that you're involved in are...
As bad or worse than the things you're accusing.
jordan holmes
Sure, but that's the thing to me that is so confusing about navigating life.
It's like, I don't know what it is that you are if you can't do that.
And that doesn't mean that I think I'm some sort of more human or they're not human or anything like that.
I don't know what I am in this context because what I think of is a person who can do a thing, you know?
And this is insane.
dan friesen
Well, and I think that another thing, too, that kind of muddies the waters even more is that this is, for all intents and purposes, a conversation between two people, but it's also a performance.
And as much as they know they're being recorded, it's also Alex...
Doing his show and kind of not trying any harder than he normally does.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
That's fair.
dan friesen
And Nick being pretty overt and comfortable in his own position in a way that he hasn't been on Alex's show in the past.
So there is a persuasive element that Nick is bringing to it that Alex thinks that he is also bringing to it that he is not.
And that kind of...
That can kind of...
another variable to it where you accuse these people of being like, ah, this is the most horribly racist thing in the world and not acknowledge the thing that that is in that the conversation that Alex and Nick are having because it's part of the performance Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Totally.
unidentified
But yeah, I mean, I think this has just been awful.
dan friesen
It's been very bad.
Nick sucks.
Has gone as far possibly further than Ye did on his interview.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Now, I think maybe the only saving grace, if you want to even call it that, is look at how little attention this got.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
There is something to be said for how much this is demonstrable evidence of how much Nick needs Ye to penetrate in any way into outside.
Right.
You probably didn't even know that this happened until we started recording.
jordan holmes
No clue.
dan friesen
I think a lot of people didn't, and I can say for sure, based on the number of tweets that come in, it was a flood when Ye was on, and a couple when this happened.
So I think that there is something that is like, well...
This is dangerous.
This is fucking awful.
It's definitely going to have an effect on Alex's audience.
And there is a real danger of him swaying some of them over.
But in terms of this having the same kind of broad effect that Ye being on had, it's less.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
It's less than that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I agree.
dan friesen
Now, in terms of Alex protecting his audience, he's not doing a good job.
And actually, he's doing a bad job.
alex jones
We can go for 10 hours.
Nick, you've got to come back and take like two hours of calls.
And we'll do a commercial-free podcast some Saturday, and we'll open the phones up and take like 50 calls.
We should do this.
You've got your own show on Cozy TV as well.
Give people the URL.
nick fuentes
Cozy.tv slash Nick.
Yeah, I'd love to.
alex jones
Don't be afraid of the info, folks.
Check it out.
And band.video and Infowars.com.
We'll be right back.
dan friesen
Don't be afraid of the info.
jordan holmes
What the fuck just happened?
dan friesen
He's funneling his audience to Nick's site.
jordan holmes
I mean, Alex just invited him to talk more.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
Does Alex not know that he just got spanked?
dan friesen
He might be in denial about it.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
That is an insane thing.
dan friesen
But if you're describing it as a spanking, it's a sort of assisted spanking.
jordan holmes
No, that's for sure.
dan friesen
Alex, if he wanted to...
Could have had far more robust pushback.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
He could have had any number of ideas for things to say to Nick other than, well, the ADL is really bad, so you maybe aren't as bad.
Hey, have you ever considered that maybe it's not Jews and maybe it's globalists?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
These are just the best he can do?
jordan holmes
Alex's brand is being right.
100%.
dan friesen
99. Exactly.
jordan holmes
But the point is, you can't...
I mean, and I'm not talking about spanked in the debate like the ideas were, whatever.
They're nothing.
What I'm talking about is the debate happened and Nick clearly has nothing to be afraid of.
Nobody can hurt him from his little screen, right?
Alex is clearly afraid of tons of shit.
And it's palpable.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what he got spanked with.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's not certain.
He's not like, this is how it is.
He's like, maybe it could be.
dan friesen
Listen up, jerk.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Listen up.
You have this worldview, and I understand where you're coming from.
You're 23. Preach.
Shut the fuck up.
jordan holmes
Preach!
dan friesen
Because what you're doing is actually damaging to the cause of the Patriots.
jordan holmes
Boom.
dan friesen
You need to understand, know your role, shut the fuck up until you have some kind of life experience.
jordan holmes
Know your role is what should be said.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And, yeah, the fact that he doesn't behave that way is...
jordan holmes
Sad.
unidentified
Weak.
dan friesen
Pathetic.
Unbecoming.
jordan holmes
That's...
That's what would make me leave Alex.
In my head of what an Alex listener is, obviously me has nothing to do with it.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But in my head, if I'm an Alex Jones InfoWars fan, one of the big things that I'm a fan of is that this loud, angry man is right all the time, and he's giving it to him the way that it needs to be given.
dan friesen
He's happy to scream at Piers Morgan.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
And talk about it for the next decade.
jordan holmes
Yep.
And he can't handle a little baby.
dan friesen
No, not really.
So they take a few calls.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And one of them is a real bummer.
unidentified
I guess probably the most important point I wanted to make was, you know, in the context of my daughter, she's a 14-year-old girl.
Oh, God.
And she was sitting there listening to this conversation.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
unidentified
And people need to realize, especially, you know, people like you, Nick, that have an influence over younger people, need to be very careful with their words.
Extremely careful.
You don't realize what kind of influence you have.
I think, honestly, this is my personal opinion, you can do what you want to, but I think you need to read the Bible cover to cover a few more times before you make any more comments.
dan friesen
Good call.
So Nick is super aware of his influence.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Tricking kids into thinking extremism and anti-Semitism are cool is legitimately the cornerstone of his marketing strategy.
jordan holmes
That's what he wants.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's how it got going for him.
He was being radicalized by weirdo Nazis pretending to be teens on 4chan, and now Nick is trying to take that game and go pro.
This caller is so fucking sad.
For one, letting his 14-year-old daughter listen to this shit.
jordan holmes
Unreal.
dan friesen
And two, for thinking that Nick wouldn't hear a warning about the influence he has on kids as an amazing compliment.
jordan holmes
Attaboy!
Attaboy!
I did it!
dan friesen
You can almost feel him laughing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I know.
That's absurd.
Yeah.
That's such a great little bad dad thing to try.
You know what I'll do?
I think I can talk him down by telling him about the Bible.
dan friesen
You gotta read it twice.
jordan holmes
The good word, my friend.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You got a lot of mixed up ideas that this good old book can solve.
dan friesen
Well, you know what?
On some level, that is kind of like a real milquetoast version of the shut up until you're older kind of thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Totally.
dan friesen
But it's very, very...
Blah.
jordan holmes
You know what's cooler than dancing?
The Bible, kids.
Come on down.
We've got a youth group together.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So this next caller is fun.
Long and short of this is, I think this guy is a Nazi supporter.
But also, he insists that Alex is German, and Alex will not accept that.
unidentified
Hey, guys.
Alex and Nick, good job opening up this dialogue.
Before I ask my question, I just want to say, maybe it is time for...
You know, the right conservatives to stop invoking Hitler and the left to always deflect to Hitler.
But, Alex, I gotta ask, man, don't you agree that the Germans were fighting for a better future for all of Europe in World War II?
I mean, aside from, like, the tactics of the war and Hitler, you keep repeating that you're German.
Don't you think that Europe would be in a better place now?
alex jones
No, I did not say I'm German.
I say I have German ancestors and Hitler got 20 million Germans killed.
unidentified
Well, that would make you German, sir.
alex jones
Well, what it makes me is I'm an American and a Christian.
A Christian and then an American and a father.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
This is weird.
jordan holmes
Now we've got two racists who disagree about their racism suddenly being accosted by a completely different form of racism.
Racism works, guys.
dan friesen
And this, uh, yeah, this caller is weird.
jordan holmes
Weird.
dan friesen
I can't quite place him.
But I do think that what he was expressing is that if Hitler had won World War II, things would be better.
jordan holmes
Yes, that is what he was expressing.
dan friesen
That seems to be the sort of bullet point.
I just love the...
I didn't say I was German.
Your grandparents are German.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I think that was also another subtle indicator is that like, no, no, no, no, you said you had one grandfather who's German.
You're German.
You're part of the Vaterland, if you will.
Yep.
dan friesen
So we have one last clip here, and these callers suck, because there is legit pushback that a caller could make on what Nick is bringing to the table within the conception of InfoWars.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Or, go weird.
Great way.
Outside of the InfoWars box, there are potent criticisms that could be made based on the things that Nick's saying.
Call him out for saying the Jewish question thing.
Call him out for saying that there's a Jewishness that makes people bad.
Any of these things could be like, what the fuck did you mean by that?
Well, it's a family show, don't swear.
jordan holmes
No, I can't swear.
dan friesen
But we get this guy saying, hey, think about the influence you have on kids and read the Bible twice.
We get this other guy who's probably on Nick's side, quite frankly.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And then we get this.
unidentified
Hey, Nick, just a question for you.
Like, these are all just words, and it's so silly that we're beating each other up.
Why don't you start living in Christ?
My question to you is, like, why don't you, it doesn't have to be horse-driven, why don't you become like the Amish?
Do your own thing.
Why don't, you know, for a group, you know, the Amish live in Christ more minutes of the day than probably any group out there.
Why don't you just stop throwing bombs and start living in Christ?
That's my question to you.
nick fuentes
Well, I don't know what that means.
I'm not Amish, so I don't think living in Christ means living in a low-tech society.
I'm living in Christ every day.
I'm a Christian.
I go to church.
I pray every day.
I pray the rosary.
And what we're called to do, we're called to go out and evangelize and tell the truth.
There's horrible iniquity and horrible injustice going on in the world.
If you're a Christian, you have to be disgusted.
At the state of our country.
Like I said, the filth in the media, the filth in our school system, the groomers, the porn, the media, it's terrible.
And to sit by and watch all these innocent people in some kind of quietest, you know, people call this the Benedict option, I think it's a dereliction of duty.
alex jones
I think it's an application of our...
Jamming more calls.
dan friesen
I think that this guy's like, hey, hey buddy, why don't you make a fucking religious weirdo compound?
I don't want to.
Why don't you go be like the Amish?
I'm not Amish.
jordan holmes
I don't know what you're doing, sir.
dan friesen
Yeah, that, like, they are in Christ more time.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Like, it's such an easy thing to say, like, oh, I don't agree with their conception of what it means to be in Christ.
Oh, okay.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
unidentified
I guess.
jordan holmes
What are you going to do?
It's the problem with, I mean, but that's...
That's how the religious peer pressure always winds up working is somebody like Nick comes in and then they're like, hey, you know what?
I don't think you really understand the Bible and we need to learn about it.
And then somebody like Nick gets power and they're like, well, Nick says some interesting things.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I like listening to Nick.
I thought he knew about the Bible, but I guess I don't.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I disagree on a few things, but more than that.
He says some other things that you gotta listen to.
And plus, these other folks are saying...
I think I hate this.
I don't want to just cover this stuff, but it's more or less the only thing that I find relevant about Alex's present-day behavior.
jordan holmes
It does feel that way.
dan friesen
I mean, just today, Trump came out with those NFTs.
So I do wonder what Alex is going to say about that.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
But I hope that this can move on to a different subject soon.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or at very least, I'll, you know, be in the past.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
You know what?
When Nick's brand of Catholic fascism takes over, I refuse.
To believe that that priest actually turns that cracker into Jesus' body.
I refuse.
I'll die on it.
I will die on it.
You can hang me from the rafters if you think I'll ever say that the priest literally transforms a cracker into the skin of Jesus Christ.
I'm not doing it.
I'm not doing it.
Not once.
dan friesen
I think that this is...
A bad interview.
A bad debate.
Nick is escalating.
He's taking some of the things that were part and parcel of the yay interview and reasserting them to Alex in a way that Alex is...
Impotent to push back on.
Or unwilling.
We can't rule that out entirely.
Because at the end of all of it, Alex is still like, hey, I want to talk to you for two hours.
Commercial free.
Let's do this, buddy.
I want to get more in the Nick Fuentes business.
jordan holmes
Unreal.
dan friesen
But it was much more monotonous.
Than I thought it was listening to it.
I thought it was far more engaging and interesting.
But it is really just Alex kind of hitting the same notes.
It's the ADL is worse than you, so hey, maybe it's not so bad.
How can I criticize you when they exist?
jordan holmes
That's the problem with the lesser of two evils argument.
Always goes bad sooner or later.
dan friesen
And then the other thing is the trying to be like, hey, you were trying to be sensational and trying to piss off the sound.
Defensors and all this.
Trying to give Nick excuses for him that he doesn't want.
In the same way that he was doing that with Ye.
And this doesn't bode well.
Alex's behavior does not make me confident that he's going to be able to navigate the more choppy waters that we're going to be getting into as we get closer to the 2024.
Whether or not Ye continues as a quote-unquote candidate or not.
But even if he doesn't, this isn't where this ends.
jordan holmes
No, that's true.
dan friesen
This pageant that we're in the middle of.
jordan holmes
That is true.
dan friesen
And Alex, he's shown himself to not be able to deal with chapter one.
So as the book progresses, I imagine it's going to get worse.
jordan holmes
I just feel like...
It's just so obvious.
When you watch Ye and Nick do these things with those other people, it's so obvious that they're throwing a bomb in the idea of we always need to lie.
And by doing that, they're revealing that everybody's lying.
Like, how does that not...
Sink in for people, you know?
Like, you watched all of these people reacting the exact same way to this man saying the same thing over and over and over again.
He means it.
You know he means it, and I know he means it.
And you agree with him over and over and over again, but you keep telling him to lie about it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Because you're a liar!
dan friesen
It does seem to...
I mean, granted, we should be clear.
We've only listened to the Gavin and Alex appearances.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And Tim Pool, we give that an incomplete grade.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's...
dan friesen
That didn't get off the runway.
jordan holmes
He's lucky he gets an incomplete on that.
dan friesen
But there were a couple of other interviews that may or may not have gone that way.
But in terms of Gavin and Alex, I agree with you.
That does reveal their crypto-ness.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
For sure.
Yeah.
But hey, fuck all this.
jordan holmes
Fuck all of this.
dan friesen
This has been a fuck.
jordan holmes
This has been a fuck.
dan friesen
We'll be back, Jordan, with another episode.
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do indeed.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo, I'm Leo, I'm DZX Clark.
Ice cubes are juicy.
steve quayle
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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