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April 24, 2023 - Knowledge Fight
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#799: February 9, 2004

Today, Dan and Jordan dip into the past to see what Alex was up to.  In this installment, Alex gets super racist, endorses apartheid, and reports that the government will soon impose limitations on how many kids people can have.

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alex jones
10:29
d
dan friesen
38:53
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jordan holmes
16:48
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unidentified
I have great respect for Knowledge Fight.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys.
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
I'm a huge fan.
alex jones
I love your room.
unidentified
Knowledge Fight.
alex jones
KnowledgeFight.com.
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, buddy?
dan friesen
Well, my bright spot today, Jordan, is that over this weekend, my parents were visiting, and so we had a very nice time going around.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Looking at open houses and what have you.
Getting a peek into other people's lives.
Seeing their homes.
jordan holmes
As everybody knows, the most fun behavior.
dan friesen
Went to one place and I decided that the residents of that home were owl perverts.
jordan holmes
Owl perverts?
dan friesen
I don't know, there were just owls everywhere.
jordan holmes
Oh, there were just owls everywhere?
dan friesen
Fucking owl creeps.
jordan holmes
God damn.
dan friesen
Moloch worshipers.
But yeah, it was a nice time.
It's always nice to see the parents, and they were on their way up north.
My dad's got a guy that he knows from college, like a buddy who's also in the academia.
He was going to do a lecture for that fella up in Milwaukee.
So yeah, it was nice.
It was a good time.
Good.
Yeah, so between that and, I don't know, I'm going to blame my birthday on it that we're putting this episode out late.
jordan holmes
Sure, that sounds good.
That sounds good to me.
dan friesen
But the reality of that isn't quite true.
I think I could have forced an episode through, despite my parents being in town, because I did have some time to work on stuff.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But things just didn't come together with some of the materials I was working with.
And so I'm just going to blame it on all that stuff.
jordan holmes
I think that's actually...
I understand the idea of being like, I could have powered through.
But the reality is you wouldn't have had to...
Try to power through if it weren't for those things.
So yes, it is because of those things that you did not have an episode ready.
I rest my case, Your Honor.
dan friesen
Well, see, now we get to an interesting point where my parents did instill in me this need to push through.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
You know, you're feeling sick?
No.
Say no.
jordan holmes
You can say no.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So maybe it is their fault in some way that I feel bad that we didn't have an episode.
jordan holmes
Not only is it their fault we didn't have an episode, it is their fault you feel bad about not having an episode.
dan friesen
But it was nice to see them.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
Always fun.
unidentified
What are you going to do?
jordan holmes
Parents, right?
dan friesen
So what's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
I have two.
I have a bright spot and a jeer.
My bright spot, of course, is it's your birthday.
I'm always happy.
It's nice to have a birthday just because I like to think about all the stuff that we've been through.
Sure.
Man, I love you, buddy.
dan friesen
I love you, too, man.
This is the last birthday where I get to say I'm pushing 40. That is true.
Next year I will be 40. Oh, man.
jordan holmes
It's hard to believe you're about to be 40. Yeah, it is.
dan friesen
You know, this is 40. Thank God that movie came out so we can just make a joke about that.
unidentified
So we can just move on after somebody says, this is 40. Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, I was reflecting on that a little bit too while we were going to look at open houses because, you know...
Six years ago, or whatever, when we started this show, the prospect of that even being something you would do not as a joke is...
Obviously, I'm not necessarily in the position where I'd be like, the easiest thing in the world to buy a house or something.
But it's not as much of a joke as it would have been years back.
And that gives you an opportunity to reflect on that.
This time and the...
Amazing.
I'm very grateful.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
The distance.
When we started this, I was in my 20s, buddy.
I was in my 20s.
Crazy.
dan friesen
Late 20s.
jordan holmes
Late 20s.
I was 29. But that's not the point!
dan friesen
29 and 11 months.
jordan holmes
I was 29 and almost 30. And then my jeer, of course, is...
Cake.
The band Cake.
dan friesen
Oh, wow.
jordan holmes
My wife started using Satan is My Motor as her alarm clock.
dan friesen
Yeah, you mentioned this.
jordan holmes
It's the devil.
It's the devil.
Everybody likes Cake.
I even like Cake for the simple reason that the words are slow, the lyrics are enunciated clearly, every song is a perfect sing-along.
And if that happens in the morning...
The rest of my day is filled with occasionally just a non-stop Satan is mine.
It makes me so mad.
Drives me insane.
dan friesen
She needs to switch it up.
jordan holmes
She needs to switch it up.
dan friesen
It's gotta change.
Go to like commissioning a symphony and sing.
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
That's a good way to wake up.
jordan holmes
No more cake!
dan friesen
You'll be an Austrian nobleman.
jordan holmes
It's a whole day.
It's a whole day.
dan friesen
What if she chose a cake song you don't like?
jordan holmes
Are there cake songs you don't like?
dan friesen
Plenty.
I mean, most of the singles are alright.
No, of course.
Yeah, there's some album cuts that are probably not very good.
jordan holmes
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe that would solve the problem.
dan friesen
Or go with like live.
Use the band live.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Like, run to the water.
Wake up to that.
It's triumphant.
It'll get you out of bed and you don't have to worry about not liking it because you probably don't like it anyway.
jordan holmes
That's not...
My thing is you start with a quiet song.
dan friesen
Run to the water.
jordan holmes
You start with a quiet song that builds up so your brain hears it before you fully wake up.
Then about a minute or two in the song, you get something good.
That's why I love using Broken Social Scene's Pacific theme to wake up.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
Just real good.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I would go with lives that they stood up for love.
Fair.
jordan holmes
Fair point.
dan friesen
Lightning crashes?
That's kind of mellow at the beginning.
I'm just trying to think of other live songs now.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, you're just going through live songs, and I wasn't even sure if they were the ones who did lightning crashes.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And old mother dies.
jordan holmes
Lightning crash.
dan friesen
That was a hit.
jordan holmes
That was a hit.
dan friesen
Huge hit.
jordan holmes
Man, weird times in the past.
dan friesen
Song of the summer, lightning crashes.
jordan holmes
Foreign country, the past hit.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today, I was very much intending to get a Modern Day episode together, and I spent a fair amount of time going down that road, but I ran into an issue where I was just like, this isn't an episode.
I was just like, I don't know.
And so, I threw out what I had planned, and I'm like, it's my birthday weekend, I don't give a fuck, I'm staying in the past.
So I was going to do a 2004 episode, and that is what we're doing.
We're going to be talking about February 9th.
2004.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Unfortunately, it's not a pleasant time.
jordan holmes
Oh, great.
dan friesen
This is very racist.
Great!
unidentified
Great!
dan friesen
This is an incredibly racist episode.
So, happy birthday to me, I guess.
jordan holmes
Happy birthday, Dan!
dan friesen
We'll get down to business on this.
jordan holmes
This is 40, am I right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Before we get down to business on all of this, though, let's say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, to JJ, you kick like a mule and bite like a crocodile.
From Owen, thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
dan friesen
Next, happy birthday wish to Jacob.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Matt in Ottawa says, Nazi truckers fuck off.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Bobby Barnes.
Thank you so much.
Media star.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Jake the Sneaky Snake.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
And I was a hard man until one night Bangkok.
They forgot the one night in Bangkok.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But anyway, you're still a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Bangkok.
Oriental city, but the city don't know what the city is getting.
Oh, no.
jordan holmes
We're having a day.
This is what happens when we record in the mornings.
dan friesen
Yep.
It's tough.
So, February 9th, 2004.
All right.
I don't know what I was expecting, honestly.
jordan holmes
Pre-Valentine's Day?
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
You know, telling people about ways to celebrate their significant others?
dan friesen
You know what?
It is weird.
As I was listening to this, it did...
Dawn on me that this is before Valentine's Day.
I think it was just because I was trying to find anything to think of other than object racism.
jordan holmes
That's what came to my mind.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, oh, this is how Alex feels love, I guess.
jordan holmes
I mean, if you're trying to avoid racism, we can't bring up Black History Month now, can we?
dan friesen
Nope.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
So Alex has a string at this period of time.
In 2004, the beginning of it, he's...
Talking constantly to these border militia folks.
And so he has another one of these fellows coming on.
unidentified
Great.
alex jones
We've got Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch in southern Arizona, who has been in the middle of multiple attacks by Mexican troops that have been written up in the Associated Press.
They have apprehended a lot of illegal aliens on their property.
He was arrested by the FBI.
And he's now been released.
They tried to force him to sign confessions.
Just wait until you hear the details of this in the middle of the next hour.
We've also got a bunch of other guests who are lining up.
dan friesen
No, just Paul Joseph Watson.
But none of that stuff is accurate.
jordan holmes
I was going to say.
dan friesen
Except that he owns a ranch.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that one makes sense.
dan friesen
And he doesn't for long.
So Casey Nethercott is not the victim that Alex is making him out to be.
You can't do that.
football game.
In the most recent case, he illegally detained two Salvadorian immigrants who he assaulted.
They successfully sued him and were awarded his ranch in lieu of monetary payment.
Nice.
unidentified
We talked about that case recently because another guy from the organization Casey is That was a guy named Jack Foot from the group Ranch Rescue.
Right.
jordan holmes
I recall because we made Foot Clan jokes.
dan friesen
That's correct.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
In an upsetting turn of events, Casey went missing on September 1st, 2017 and hasn't been seen since.
Sure.
unidentified
He had left his vehicle and belongings, including his diabetes medication behind.
dan friesen
This doesn't look like a good situation.
I have no idea what's going on there, like in the present day, present day.
But whatever the case is, it doesn't change that in 2004, Casey was a dangerous armed felon who believed that he could take the law into his own hands to dispense vigilante justice against immigrants and high school students he probably thought were immigrants.
Ah!
jordan holmes
I feel like if you, quote, illegally detain high school students, you have kidnapped.
You are a kidnapper at that point.
dan friesen
It is weird.
I wasn't able to find, like, specific, like, a full explanation of what went down there.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Which leads me to believe that he didn't do time for it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But, uh...
jordan holmes
Boy, I mean, of all the things to do time for...
That we have so many people in prison for marijuana possession and this guy who kidnaps people regularly.
dan friesen
Hey, misunderstanding.
jordan holmes
That's not how it works.
dan friesen
It's a misunderstanding.
jordan holmes
No, that's not how it works.
dan friesen
It shouldn't be.
So we got some headlines.
Sure.
Shit was hot in 2004.
A lot of stuff going on.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
In the meantime, you knew it would come to the United States.
A restriction on how many children you can have.
The government has been saying they want to do it for a while.
Of course, if you're a third-world internal population, you'll be given waivers, but for everybody else, there'll be restrictions.
We'll be getting into that.
Also, you may have heard of this.
U.S. soccer team hears Osama chants in Mexico during the Star-Spangled Banner.
And I want to point out that he's the people that Bush wants to allow into the country, the people he wants to legalize, the people whose government says the Southwest belongs to them.
Chanting, Usama, Usama, Usama.
So, the radical Mexicans, Osama Bin Laden, and George Bush together in their hate of American national sovereignty.
dan friesen
That's a little bit of a leap.
jordan holmes
Alright, okay.
dan friesen
We'll talk about that thing that's apparently trying to restrict white...
Children limits on how many white babies can be born.
jordan holmes
Something about replacement of...
dan friesen
We'll get to that a little bit later.
But for now, about this soccer situation.
jordan holmes
I need to know more about this.
dan friesen
So this was after the U.S. team beat Canada in a 1,500-seat arena.
I can find no indication of how many people were actually chanting Osama, but I suspect it was kind of a smallish group.
And that's because it happened again at the USA's next match.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That was, according to reporting at that time, there were a couple dozen fans that were chanting Osama at the US team after they lost to Mexico.
That was the next match that happens in a few days from this point.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
Most of the rest of the audience was just booing the US team since the US team had beat Mexico in the 2002 World Cup and feelings were a bit raw.
Chanting Osama is a bit tasteless, but it's not outside the realm of things that people might do at a soccer match.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, people fight.
Pretty regularly.
It's a little wild.
People take it quite seriously.
jordan holmes
Football is the game.
I don't know.
I don't know what to tell you.
dan friesen
Plus, it was a few dozen people at that game that was at a stadium that's supposed to fit 55,000 people, but attendance estimates were at 60,000.
So, like, it was overfilled to capacity.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It was a couple dozen people out of 60,000.
jordan holmes
Out of 60,000 people, a couple of dozen started chanting Osama.
dan friesen
It's not maybe the biggest deal in the world.
jordan holmes
And everybody around them was kind of like, I am confused.
You're referencing Bin Laden, right?
There's a better chant here.
dan friesen
Probably.
So these people are kind of being assholes, but I don't think it's indicative of the whole crowd, nor of Mexican people as a group, like Alex seems to think.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
Alex is making that leap because his editorial position is to use whatever imagery he can to demonize immigrants, particularly those entering from the southern border, and this allows him to tie all Mexican folk to Osama Bin Laden.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
I've thought, here's my pitch, alright?
After we killed him, now we have to replace USA chants with Osama chants, because we won, right?
I feel like that's the way.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
It's like Shang Tsung rules.
We took his soul after we defeated him.
dan friesen
I get the theme of what you're saying, but I think after the Civil War, people didn't chant Confederacy.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
I think that your thinking is flawed on this.
It could be.
I don't know if people can hear beeping in the background, but if they can, it's because there's some construction outside, so enjoy that little bit of flavor of spice of life, as they say.
You could probably get the vibe from that clip that we might be in for some anti-Mexico business.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And boy, are we.
This is wild.
alex jones
Just think about this.
Bush supports total blanket amnesty, despite the fact that it's unconstitutional, that the majority of voters...
Are against it.
And Bush supports a country, a people, who, a large portion of them, and the government itself, say openly that they are going to kill all the white people.
Kill us!
They won't even allow a Fourth of July parade in San Diego or L.A. We've got video of them beating Hispanics, blacks, whites, veterans.
With two-by-fours, the police stand by and let it happen.
This has been going on three separate times in the last six years.
We have video of it.
But again, it's not a national news story.
Can you imagine a group of white people went to a Mexican get-together?
jordan holmes
I can read you a story about it.
alex jones
Two-by-fours, you never hear the end of it.
But it's okay when they do it.
I'm sick of Mexican food restaurants with images of Aztecs cutting white people's hearts out.
I'm sick of it!
dan friesen
That's gotta be tough.
jordan holmes
Is that a thing?
dan friesen
I feel bad for him to go into all these Mexican food restaurants where he's bombarded with pictures of Aztecs killing white people.
jordan holmes
It's a very strange thing.
It is.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess that's part of where football came from, right?
You know, the Aztecs chopped off the heads and they kicked it?
Isn't that the story?
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
I'm not sure.
You mean soccer?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
We're in America.
jordan holmes
Sorry.
dan friesen
Hey.
jordan holmes
I mean, if we're referencing, you know, whatever.
dan friesen
Um, I don't know.
jordan holmes
I call it American football.
dan friesen
I'm not sure I pay enough attention to decor in restaurants.
Nor would I necessarily feel all that sensitive about it, but I guess Alex is a whiny little titty baby.
jordan holmes
I just find it strange that you would decorate a restaurant with so many beheadings.
dan friesen
Right, and like arrows pointing to the victims.
It's like a white person.
jordan holmes
Yeah, white person for sure.
Straight up.
I know they were in Mexico for a while, so they had a tan, so maybe you didn't know they were white, but guess what?
Totally white.
dan friesen
Classic Alex Jones meaningless complaint.
So Bush was absolutely not in favor of blanket amnesty, and nothing he ever did while in office came close to such a policy.
White nationalists call any kind of making immigration or pleading refugee status the same as blanket amnesty, because in reality, they want no non-white immigration.
Alex is essentially on the same page as that, but his public brand doesn't really allow him to argue that way, so this is what you get.
Neither Mexico's government nor a majority of their population want to kill white people.
I've not seen any of this alleged footage of the 4th of July parades being attacked, but if this is a real thing, I would assume that it's wildly out of context and the violence is about something else entirely different than Mexican people being mad at U.S. patriotism.
Yeah.
unidentified
The purpose of this storyline is to ram into the audience's head that non-whites are completely committing violent crimes against white people.
dan friesen
And because they're not white, the media covers it up.
This is literally the same rhetoric that the council of conservative citizens promoted, which Dylan roof cited as the inspiration for his mass murder at, Alex is swimming in those exact same waters here.
There's no distinguishing between them.
They're the same thing.
jordan holmes
Of all the things that are theoretically covered up...
At best, I would say that Trump's Muslim ban is about as close to people not talking about it.
Because after January 6th, people were like, there's our bigger problem.
But the fact that at the beginning, it was a blanket racist ban of non-white people coming into the country.
They got what they fucking wanted, even though it was unconstitutional.
You know?
That's what they've wanted the entire time.
Blanket ban.
And Trump did that.
And now we're just like, eh, you know.
dan friesen
But it didn't stand.
jordan holmes
No.
Well, I mean, a lot of it did.
It didn't all stand because it was obviously racist.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But, you know, he was still allowed to ban a bunch of guys.
dan friesen
Well, I think that limiting immigration from some countries may be less racist than what was intended.
Right.
I'm not saying it's, you know, the way things went was cool.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Or anything.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But it didn't stand in its original form where the intent was much clearer.
unidentified
Totally.
dan friesen
You know what I mean?
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
But yeah, yeah.
You make a fair point.
Yeah.
So Alex is mad at Mecha because he's complaining about Mexican-related stuff.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And then Alex's wife, it turns out, is trilingual.
alex jones
Student group stands by Reconquista Plan.
Metro won't disavow document calling for recapture of Southwest.
A Latino student group that drew attention during the California gubernatorial campaign of Cruz Bustamante says it will not disavow a founding document outlining the aim of recapturing the Southwestern United States for Mexico.
Yeah, on some of their websites, they've got images of dead white people and how they're going to kill us.
Responding to an allegation of racism, an allegation?
Members of Mecha chapter of the University of California at Los Angeles showed up in force in an undergraduate student government meeting Tuesday to protest the campus student paper.
The UCLA reported the GOP student group, UCLA, Bruin Republicans have challenged Mecha and denounced a founding document, El Plan de Aslan, which they assert promotes violence and damages the organization's reputation as community servants.
The text calls for the return of the U.S. Southwest to Mexico through members said they do not follow the particular ideology.
That's a total lie.
My wife speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and just a couple weeks ago we were in a convenience store.
And there's two Mexicans, one at the counter, one buying something, one running the counter, and it's speaking in Spanish saying, yeah, I don't like speaking English.
I don't like that dumb language.
I don't like whites.
They're sitting there laughing at us.
I'm just standing over my wife.
I mean, you know, oh, but that's cute and acceptable and funny.
It's real funny.
unidentified
It's so sick, folks.
alex jones
It's so incredibly, completely out of control.
and disgusting.
dan friesen
As is the case with pretty much all of Alex's stories, I don't believe this happened.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
But if it did, I still struggle to see how it's a meaningful anecdote to inject here.
Alex is trying to assert that Mecha, a Hispanic student organization, follows the ideology of this Aztlan document, which seeks to recapture the Southwest.
How does him and his wife overhearing a guy say that he doesn't like English and white people help make that point?
It doesn't.
But it probably feels like it does to the audience, because Alex's complaint about Mecha isn't the point.
There's something behind that story that is the more important message Alex is trying to get to the audience, which is that Mexican people and non-whites in general are a dangerous threat to you.
Alex doesn't feel the need to defend his assertion that this group that follows the Aztlan plan, that's just taken as proven because he said it.
When Alex adds the anecdote about his wife at the convenience store, what he's doing is seeking to reinforce the feeling that Mexican people are a threat to you and secretly hate you.
When they think you can't understand what they're saying, they speak of their hate of white people in Spanish.
When you look at it through this lens and with this understanding, it makes total sense why this is the story Alex's mind goes to when he's trying to make his point here.
It makes no sense if it's an attempt to prove his Mecha point, but it's exactly what you'd do if you were trying to heighten the racist fears that you're trying to stoke.
This Aztlan document was drafted by the First Nationals Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in 1969, and there's a fair amount of language in it that does encourage Chicano nationalism and reclaiming the land of their forefathers.
Groups like Mecha don't expressly follow this document, though the A in Mecha does stand for Aztlan, but that's not weird since it's a fabled ancestral homeland of Aztec people.
So, I mean, I don't know.
It's a little bit of an edge case.
I think.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, ultimately his point of bringing up these two unrelated examples is to remind you that it's all Mexican people.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, it doesn't matter if they're related because they're all talking to each other.
dan friesen
Totally.
It could just be at a convenience store, just a customer and the person there.
jordan holmes
Furthermore, he does not know if they are Mexican.
If they are just speaking Spanish, they could belong to most of the world!
dan friesen
But you don't know that because his wife might have overheard them say, ha ha, we are Mexican.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that makes sense.
Like, he would be...
dan friesen
There's so many details that he could add to this just by making more stuff up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't like it.
I don't like it.
dan friesen
Also, like, just on a really basic level...
What an awful conversation for two people to have.
Not like an awful, like morally awful, just why would you have that conversation?
jordan holmes
What are we doing?
dan friesen
Hi, I would like to pay for my gummy bears.
Hey, you know what?
I hate English.
jordan holmes
Oh man, totally.
I also hate the whites.
dan friesen
Seems silly.
I don't think it happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah, doubtful.
dan friesen
So white people though.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Fucking under attack, man.
jordan holmes
I doubt it.
dan friesen
It's a disaster.
jordan holmes
Really doubt it.
No.
alex jones
Continuing with the anti-white crusade going on worldwide, white people didn't invent slavery.
Slavery was invented by the Egyptians, the Babylonians, and some forms of it were going on in Asia.
Some of the archaeological record shows even earlier that slavery was developed in the Mediterranean region.
dan friesen
So what?
jordan holmes
So white people are better because we didn't do it first.
So it's okay that we did it.
First off, it's okay because everybody's doing it.
And second, we're the ones who stopped it too.
God stopped Egypt's slavery program.
White people stopped America's slavery program.
dan friesen
I don't get the rebuttal to, like, our country has a shame stain, let's say, because of our history of slavery and the racist systems that were enacted in the aftermath of slavery, the way that people were kept out of their ability to participate in the economy and were attacked.
Yep.
unidentified
Redlining.
dan friesen
Generational wealth was completely eliminated, and those ripples still exist until the present day.
For sure.
I don't understand how a rebuttal to something like that We didn't come up with it.
jordan holmes
It wasn't.
I didn't start it.
dan friesen
Doesn't mean anything.
unidentified
No!
jordan holmes
I didn't start it.
It was just going along.
dan friesen
Other countries do have other relationships historically with slavery, and that is for them to deal with as well.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And some countries have.
Some countries have had sort of a reckoning with that, and I think it's probably better for it.
One of the reasons I think our country has such a difficulty with that history is that we're...
You know, a lot of times have been in pretty serious denial about it.
I think it hinders the ability to move into the future better.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, the fundamental colonialism, the colonialist mindset behind the entirety of all of that has not at all gone away.
Just even considering the shit that American groups get up to in fucking Africa.
Trying to colonialize Africa with their religion and with their culture and all of that shit.
And also, you know, we didn't invent colonialism, so it's okay.
dan friesen
It's fine.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
Cool.
jordan holmes
Yeah, totally cool.
Hey, it was Xi Huangdi's fault, really, when he unified China.
That's colonialism right there.
dan friesen
Well, sure.
I killed that guy.
I didn't invent murder.
jordan holmes
No, I didn't.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
So it's okay.
dan friesen
Such a weird way to think.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex does bring up Africa now, does get into some white people being under attack in Africa.
And this is a little bit gross.
He talks about some sexual assault, rape-type stuff in Africa.
And I wouldn't play this necessarily, but there's a point to it.
alex jones
And then we have these articles here, and boy, folks, to look at what's happening in Africa to whites is just horrible.
Rape gangs target whites.
Racial violence surges in Zimbabwe.
I love how Africa said, be nice, be liberal.
You know, don't be domineering and controlling.
And so whites are like, okay, we will.
And I'm not defending colonialism or what it did, but it was wonderful compared to what the Africans are now doing to each other.
jordan holmes
Wild.
alex jones
So they said, here, you take the machine guns, we'll be nice.
And, well, the fun has just begun.
dan friesen
So, to be entirely clear up front, there was some, and has been some fairly reliable reporting, that there were gangs in Zimbabwe that were using threats of rape as a tool in robberies, and in some cases following through with it.
It is claimed by outlets like WorldNetDaily that these attacks were only targeted at whites, but I don't think that there's a good reason to trust them, and it's unclear to me if this was actually the case.
These people who were committing these acts are horrible and should face the full punishment available under the law, full stop.
What I want to talk about, however, is the way that Alex is using this story to claim that things were better back when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, back when the country was under a brutal apartheid system.
This is not a position that takes the problem that he's pretending to cover seriously.
Returning to a genocidal regime is not the solution to crime, unless you really believe that the apartheid state and all its human rights abuses were for the greater good.
In order for Alex to really believe what he's saying, he needs to think that the black population of Rhodesia needed to be kept in line by what amounted to a very severe police state, which he shouldn't believe.
jordan holmes
If I thought he could read, that would make me believe that a white man's burden is his Bible.
Like, oh, Kipling knew exactly what was right.
It's fucked the fuck up.
I mean, it ultimately comes back to that colonialist mindset of these people need to be civilized.
The way that I am.
dan friesen
Well, I actually think that it's slightly different.
It's partially that, but also I think for Alex, there might even be an element of civilizing is not possible, so repression must be the system that's in place.
jordan holmes
Right.
It's the slave Bible.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's great.
jordan holmes
It's good stuff.
America's great.
dan friesen
It's not surprising.
jordan holmes
Osama!
Oh, I'm sorry.
Was that not good?
dan friesen
Look, it was just one host of the podcast.
jordan holmes
There are 60,000 people in this room.
unidentified
This room is filled to capacity.
dan friesen
I mean, it's not surprising in as much as we've heard stuff like that from Alex before, but it's still surprising.
It's shocking to hear any time he's like, well, things were better under the belt.
jordan holmes
I mean, I just...
If you can't understand apartheid equals bad, then we're out.
dan friesen
And if you don't understand the acts that were being carried out under that system.
jordan holmes
Willfully deny the acts that were being carried out under that system.
unidentified
It's...
jordan holmes
Holocaust denier style.
Oh, people are exaggerating.
It was actually really great for 99% of the whites.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, there's more trouble in countries with the history of apartheid.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
alex jones
White slaughter in South Africa.
Plans made to conduct campaign of genocide after Mandela's death.
While former South African President Nelson Mandela, 85, scoffs at rumors of his ill health, plans are being made by the nation's Communist Party to slaughter all whites in the country upon his death.
Well, it's already happening.
dan friesen
Whoa!
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Did you hear about that?
jordan holmes
I did not.
I didn't know that all whites were slaughtered.
dan friesen
Yeah.
You may or may not be surprised to hear this, but the only place I could find a link to this article that Alex is reporting on was on Stormfront, the neo-Nazi white supremacist message board.
jordan holmes
Who would have guessed?
dan friesen
It's originally from WorldNetDaily, but they don't have it up anymore because it's intensely stupid shit.
As the story goes, a ton of very not made up anonymous sources told WorldNetDaily that there was a plan for a kill off of all the white people in South Africa after Mandela died.
It seems that Mandela being alive was the only thing that was keeping everything together, Ah, that dumb peacenik.
Incidentally, Mandela didn't die until 2013, and guess what?
When he was in the hospital nearing the end of his life, this exact storyline started flying around online again.
jordan holmes
What a shock.
dan friesen
That black South Africans were going to kill all the white people after Mandela died.
Weirdly, or not weirdly at all, the comments on Stormfront about this clearly made-up article meant to inflame racists have a lot of thematic parallels to Alex's rhetoric.
A lot of talk about how the media would cover up the slaughter because it was against white people.
Kind of makes you think how close Alex and Stormfront really are.
jordan holmes
So, so, so close.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So close.
dan friesen
A lot of, you know, you could jump from one to the other fairly easily.
jordan holmes
Almost like they're an extreme version that he sort of, like, allows to be filtered through his slightly less extreme appearance.
dan friesen
Yeah, almost like they don't have a business to protect.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Strange.
Strange!
dan friesen
So Alex takes a number of calls.
He's got that weird border vigilante who's coming on, and Paul Joseph Watson's gonna show up, but, I mean, who cares about Paul?
But he takes some calls, and this caller has an interesting question, especially considering, on a recent 2004 episode, we heard a caller ask Alex what the military-industrial complex was, and he whiffed the question.
jordan holmes
Unable to understand.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And so, here, someone asks...
What's the deal with the military-industrial complex attacking the white man?
jordan holmes
Yeah, sure.
alex jones
All right, let's go to your calls.
Brock in Canada, welcome.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
alex jones
How are you doing?
unidentified
Good, thanks.
I was going to ask you if you could encapsulate and explain the military-industrial complex and how it would relate to the banksters and these creeps that are targeting the white man.
You know, how it ties in and just what the grand scheme of things is.
alex jones
Okay, let me answer that question in a nutshell.
dan friesen
Let's get to the nutshell.
jordan holmes
I am interested in the nutshell.
dan friesen
So we've got banksters and creeps attacking the white man.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And a connection to the military industrial complex that Alex is going to nutshell for us.
jordan holmes
Are banksters and creeps in the military industrial complex or are they just allies in the attack against the white man?
dan friesen
I think they're on the side.
I'm not sure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Here's the nutshell.
jordan holmes
All right.
alex jones
Okay, let me answer that question in a nutshell.
The globalists aren't just targeting the white man, they're targeting humanity.
The Romans, 2,500 years ago, learned how to put the Greeks in one district, the Romans in another.
unidentified
We didn't invent segregation?
alex jones
They learned how to...
They'd have a Jewish quarter, and they would foster the groups hating each other and fighting with each other.
The globalists will play off Catholic against Protestant, Protestant against Catholic in Northern Ireland, and they will carry out terror on both sides.
They've been caught doing it.
So then the British can come in and militarize and take control.
In Africa, the UN will play one black tribe off against another.
Or more ideally...
They will play blacks off against whites, whites off against blacks.
dan friesen
This is a bad answer to the question that was asked, and a bad answer in general.
It's completely dishonest in terms of Alex's true positions, and it's just factually inaccurate.
The caller was asking about the military-industrial complex and the banks, not about some city planning from ancient Rome.
This caller wants Alex to talk about how the Jews are the ones who are behind the New World Order and the attack on whites.
It's pretty obvious.
jordan holmes
Banksters.
dan friesen
Yeah, and creeps.
jordan holmes
And creeps, yeah.
dan friesen
I suspect even Alex gets that, hence the dancing around the different topic.
To the other issues, those examples he's listing aren't cases of globalists playing one side off against the other.
They're cases where there were real atrocities carried out by two groups of people who had deep disagreements with each other, and they're cases where many people in the rest of the world looked on and failed to act in a way that would have helped avoid the severest outcomes.
problems.
unidentified
Alex doesn't care about the idea of globalists playing groups off against each other.
dan friesen
You can tell that's the case because the only time he ever talks about how the globalists Yeah.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, especially since we return once more to the globalists are doing it.
Now, obviously, if I were in control, I would do the exact same thing.
That's the way you get all that power.
It makes perfect sense that they would do that.
It doesn't make perfect sense that they would do that because they don't exist.
You're the only person who does that.
dan friesen
When I was 14, I came up with a plot to rule the world.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
You might as well have said that.
dan friesen
Based on comic books and skimming history books.
jordan holmes
Here's what I'll do.
I'll play two groups off of each other.
Okay, good work.
dan friesen
And now I have proven that everyone is doing that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So a caller calls in and asks, this is interesting, because we know that Alex sells gold.
And he's a big fan of selling gold.
jordan holmes
He sells gold.
dan friesen
It is the ultimate store of value.
It is where the globalists can't touch you.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
You get that gold and you're good, baby.
jordan holmes
Currencies fail, but gold never fails.
dan friesen
Right.
So a caller calls in and asks about how there have been gold price-fixing schemes in the past.
And here's Alex's answer to that.
unidentified
They were talking about gold and stuff.
However, I'm starting to do research on it, and even that's not exactly safe because it's like there was a report about there was a gold price fixing scheme by the J.P. Morgan Group, and so it's like even gold's not safe anymore, which is kind of scary.
alex jones
Yeah, let me answer your question.
Thanks for the call.
Nothing's safe.
You know, why should you own a house?
It could get burned down.
Why should you ever have children?
Something bad might happen to them.
Why should you go on living?
You could die in a car wreck tomorrow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Why live?
jordan holmes
We are getting some all-time classic rebuttals here.
These are the most nonsensical responses I think I could think of.
dan friesen
But it's because there isn't an answer.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
It's because this undercuts most of the narratives that he pitches about gold.
It's like, well, if the prices can be manipulated and all that, how is this any different than a fiat currency that you complain about all the time?
Hey, why live?
You might die!
jordan holmes
So funny.
That's so funny.
Nothing is safe!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Cool, man.
Thanks.
I honestly like that answer more than any answer he's given about anything.
I wish he should have just put a period on that and then moved on to the next question.
dan friesen
Yeah.
In some ways he did.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
Yes.
dan friesen
So we get some more calls and this person is calling in asking about the two-child limit.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
The one that exists.
dan friesen
Yes.
Yes, definitely.
alex jones
Let's talk to Stacy in Delaware.
Stacy, go ahead.
unidentified
Hi, Alex.
How are you?
Good.
I had a question about the bill that you were talking about trying to control the amount of children that people are able to have.
alex jones
Yeah, that's Washington State.
unidentified
Okay.
What are they proposing to do after these people have two children?
Are they going to sterilize them or make them take a pill or something?
I mean, what are they proposing?
alex jones
Well, Washington State is at the forefront of eugenics.
And over 400-plus thousand women, it's between 400,000 and 500,000, no one's sure, were sterilized from the 1930s up until 1985.
And we've had some of these women on.
It's been in the news.
Normally, if you were a single parent mother, black, white, it didn't matter, and your child made under a B +, they would send CPS to your house, they would grab you, they would kidnap your daughter, and they would take her and have medical students cut her uterus out.
Now, folks, if you don't believe me, you just have been hiding under a rock.
This is mainstream.
dan friesen
Whoa.
jordan holmes
Nothing is safe.
dan friesen
Just to let you know, it took forever to track down this article because much like a ton of the stupid shit that they've published over the years, the article about this two-child limit, it's not on WorldNetDaily anymore.
That's where it comes from.
jordan holmes
What a great place that embarrassingly deletes all of its articles from the past.
dan friesen
Yeah, when it's like, oh, this would be humiliating to have reported.
jordan holmes
Yeah, boy, the future's gonna be mean to us on this one.
dan friesen
So I found someone reposting the text of this article on a Catholic message board, but mysteriously it doesn't really exist anywhere else.
There's no bill number listed in the article, and the person they said sponsored it, Marilyn Chase, doesn't have a bill that necessarily fits that description in her resume.
In the 2003-2004 Washington House session, she sponsored 428 bills and I looked through all of them.
And what do you know?
That's not there.
And it would be kind of hilarious if it were.
She's out here pushing bills about endorsing Dungeness crab fishing and some real Washington Yeah!
It's weird.
Anyway, after way too long of looking through bills about other things like fairy worker collective bargaining rights, I found the bill that they're talking about.
It's titled, quote, Promoting Population Sustainability, and it's HB 3111 from the 2003-2004 legislative session.
It was introduced on January 28th and was dead on arrival, ending up stalled permanently in the healthcare subcommittee.
This was a proposed amendment to RCW 43.70.130, which is a section of the Washington Legal Code that lays out the responsibilities of the Secretary of Health.
This bill would have added a 12th item to the list that was, quote, develop and distribute a pamphlet or other educational material that emphasizes the benefits and importance of couples limiting themselves to two or fewer children to promote population sustainability.
Alex is doing a hell of a job sensationalizing this proposed initiative that would have no enforcement mechanism at all and was dead in committee by the time he's on air.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Very, very proud of him.
jordan holmes
Wow.
I mean, you know, there's a part of me that says, that's stupid.
And then there's a part of me that says, what we should do, what we should have done so long ago, is overreact insanely to even the slightest bit of thing.
You know, because if you hear Alex Jones do this just on the, like, maybe give a pamphlet to somebody, what next step are you ever going to take?
You know what I'm saying?
True, true.
dan friesen
I get what you're saying, and I think there's something to that.
I think that people overreacting...
On the other side of things might balance the equation, but it would be equally bullshit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, it would be equally bullshit, but the current situation where they overreact and then the other side backs down and goes, I'm so sorry!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That one's not working either.
dan friesen
You're right.
You're right.
I'm not sure that the solution is fire with fire or whatever.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, I'm not saying that.
dan friesen
But you are right.
It is an unsustainable status quo, the way things are.
jordan holmes
Let's give them whatever they want, because they want...
dan friesen
Now, in this specific case, though, I kind of do think that this proposed amendment was stupid.
But the only reason I think it's stupid is because if you look at the other 11 items on the Secretary of Health's responsibilities that exist in the Washington legal code, they're pretty broad things.
This is way too specific to be something that's in there.
It doesn't fit with the...
I don't think it's necessarily a horrible thing to Have as, like, an idea, like, hey, you know, maybe, maybe, I don't actually know, maybe it's not, I don't know.
jordan holmes
It seems like that's more in the employee handbook than it is in the law, you know?
Like, here's what we do when you go to work, sometimes you make a pamphlet.
Like, that's fine, I totally get that.
I wouldn't codify into law, you must pamphlet.
dan friesen
Yeah, well, but, yeah, develop and distribute a pamphlet.
jordan holmes
It's just a job.
dan friesen
I don't fully know if it actually is better for everybody if you have two or fewer kids.
I'm not sure.
I haven't done the research on that, so I can't speak to it.
jordan holmes
China did it for a long time, and then they stopped.
I don't know what that means.
dan friesen
That was one.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is double.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I guess.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
I think I find it weird a little bit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Not in the same way that Alex finds it weird.
But even beyond the weirdness, I think it doesn't belong in that set of 12 things there.
So that probably has something to do with why it was dead on arrival and never went anywhere.
Strange?
Definitely not what Alex is talking about.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But also has no effect on reality.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, it's important to note how Alex is talking about these things like sterilization and eugenics that did go on in America, but he's talking about them in a cartoonish way.
There were horrible things that were done to people, but saying that if you got under a B +, that CPS would show up and steal your uterus is just stupid.
And what you're doing there is you're giving the audience a diet of false information about real things that disenable them.
You can't deal with reality on its own terms.
You'll never be able to see the trends that did exist within the eugenics that went on.
in America that did have racial components to it, that did have class components to it, that will not be available to you to analyze, to understand, to put into your...
View of how the world exists.
Because you're just going to be like, oh, they got under a B +, the globus took the uterus.
jordan holmes
No, I was thinking the same thing.
It is very much a by...
Exaggerating and transposing the reality of what the victims endured in giving it to white people for no reason other than so they don't have to deal with what the government's forebears did to all of these people and then paralyze them to keep them from feeling like they need to do anything at all.
There's no need to rectify these horrible crimes.
If they're still going on and now they're only happening to you.
You know?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's disempowering in a malicious way.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, speaking of maliciousness, this next, or this same caller, has another question for Alex.
And this is about three minutes of a clip.
But I wanted this to exist in its full context because I think what Alex is doing here is just monstrous.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Do they have any other ways of doing this with these women or children besides just cutting out the uterus?
Like maybe planting things like cancer or anything like that?
alex jones
I was telling you what they did 25 years ago.
unidentified
Right.
Well, the reason why I'm asking is because I've always been suspicious about this.
I'm now 26 years old.
The first time I had ovarian cancer, I was 19. They said I had probably had it since puberty.
Okay.
Two years later, I got it again while I was pregnant with my son.
Then I had to have a full hysterectomy while having my son premature and everything.
Now I can have no children.
My mother was on welfare.
I had three children.
You know, none of us.
I mean, my brother, you know, he was always in trouble with the law.
alex jones
Did you have all the vaccines?
unidentified
Oh, yes.
All the vaccines and everything.
I mean, CPS had come to our house I don't know how many times because of all the issues going on in our household and so forth.
But, I mean, I'm just thinking, is this something maybe that they're doing?
Because now you look at...
alex jones
Well, Stacey, thanks for the call.
Let me answer your question.
Six years ago, the United Nations was caught in over 130 third-world countries with over 100 manufacturers.
That was the payoff to the countries to do it.
The UN would pay their government to manufacture the vaccine according to their specifications.
Tell them what company to hire to do it.
That's how they did the payoff of the politicians.
They caught them in the tetanus shot in a UN program just for women because, quote, you know, we're liberal.
We care about the women.
The boys don't get the tetanus shot.
jordan holmes
No, no.
alex jones
The girls were giving you something, women.
And they caught them adding a very expensive synthetic female hormone that had been bound to the tetanus pathogen.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
alex jones
And so when the body created an autoimmune response to the tetanus, it would also create an autoimmune response to that hormone that was released during pregnancy, and it would attack the different glands in the female reproductive system and would develop polyps, generally benign but in some cases malignant, on the ovaries and uterus and cause other problems.
So, yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I don't know if that's the case with you, but a lot of these autoimmune diseases they found with the troops, and in other cases, they're putting very high-tech bioweapons that implant cancer, DNA, and other things into the population.
dan friesen
So what kind of a message are you supposed to get if you're that caller when Alex says, yes, yes, yes?
I don't know if this case is with you.
I mean, obviously you're supposed to come away with the yes, is the answer.
Yes, the globalists did this.
That's fucking horrible, what he's doing to her.
He's essentially recontextualizing her life for her and backing up this bullshit with supposed authority and a wealth of knowledge that doesn't exist.
If she believes him, her life and all her difficulties, they weren't just things that happened.
These things like being born into a dysfunctional family or getting cancer.
They weren't just random, they were attacks that were carried out by the globalists.
Instead of celebrating how resilient she must be to have gone through all that she has or empathizing with her, Alex is making her a victim of his imaginary enemies.
And he won't think about her again for a single second.
But she's still alive when that phone call ends, and she trusts Alex enough to call in and ask a question like this, so it seems like she might trust him enough to take this answer seriously.
Which is grim.
He's fucking with people.
jordan holmes
I mean...
That is him telling her because clearly her concern, her storyline that she is afraid of is that she was given cancer as a child because she came from a broken home.
The medical system wanted to erase her.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Then she survived that.
And got cancer again when she was pregnant.
So now the medical system doesn't just want to erase her.
It wants to erase her and her child.
dan friesen
Yeah, and her ability to reproduce.
jordan holmes
Reproduce.
And then all of this, all of this, like...
It comes down to you can never, ever trust a doctor or anything.
And the chances of her getting cancer again are astronomically higher compared to anybody else.
And it is so much like...
There is a world where she refuses to go to the doctor for her treatments despite the onset of cancer again.
dan friesen
Or imagine the compounded risk of other people listening to this who internalize that message and don't want to go seek appropriate health care.
It's incredibly dangerous and psychopathic instincts.
jordan holmes
If they had not intervened, she would have died.
dan friesen
Most likely.
jordan holmes
So would her child.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
Like, they...
Oh, God, that's so fucked.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
That's so fucking awful.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it's like Alex writing her story for her.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it's a story that only serves Alex's interests and makes her, like, just a...
Like, I don't understand.
I feel like...
If I were in her position, I would be far more hurt at the end of that call than at the beginning of it.
Because I had just gotten a confirmation of, like you were saying, the worst fear.
jordan holmes
The worst fear that anyone could possibly have is literally the entire government is trying to erase you from existence.
dan friesen
Individually.
jordan holmes
Individually.
By yourself.
Like Will Smith, an enemy of the state.
dan friesen
Yeah.
The rest of what Alex is saying is just nonsense anti-vax shit that he's half remembering and lying about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The tetanus vaccine is largely given to pregnant people in the developing world because they're the ones who are most at risk and the immunity is passed on to the child.
Neonatal tetanus was a very serious risk factor in infant death, so it's why historically it's given to women or pregnant people.
It doesn't have this expensive hormone that causes miscarriages in it.
That was a claim that was made by anti-vax folks about the tetanus vaccine, but it's nonsense.
They claim that the tetanus vaccine has HCG in it and that it was given to pregnant people so that their bodies would learn to attack the HCG, which is a hormone related to pregnancy, thereby making them unable to have children.
In reality, what they're doing is lying about a different birth control vaccine that was tested but never released where tetanus was used as a carrier for HCG.
It's the reverse of this.
They're conflating that stuff altogether.
I'm pretty sure we've talked about this in the past, so I'm not going to dive too deeply into it again, but Alex is essentially pretending to care about people in the developing world by yelling about these imaginary vaccine concerns when in reality all he's doing is putting more people at risk.
So many kids die from neonatal tetanus, and it's entirely avoidable if people just take the vaccine, which is what Alex wants them not to do.
In 2000, approximately 170,000 children died of neonatal tetanus, compared to just over 14,000 in 2019.
And that's what Alex wants to undo.
So take that for what it's worth.
jordan holmes
Yeah, what do you say other than, this is a man...
Like, telling you to close your eyes while you're driving your car.
You know?
Just like, hey listen, I'm not telling you to kill yourself.
I am telling you to close your eyes and drive your car at 100 miles an hour.
I'm not telling you to do anything.
dan friesen
The people who tell you not to do that just don't want you to have the freedom to do it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and they're the ones who are trying to kill babies.
dan friesen
And they're the ones who know all about the joys of driving with your eyes closed.
jordan holmes
They're the ones who enjoy it the most.
Every time that you see them driving, their eyes are closed, they're going 100.
dan friesen
Right.
They're trying to keep it from you.
jordan holmes
Happiest people in the world.
unidentified
Ben Gazzara in Roadhouse.
dan friesen
So, here's where Alex is at about his performance today.
jordan holmes
Yeah, okay.
alex jones
We got two gas-loaded phones.
I've covered 10% of the news, and I've done a good job this first hour.
I didn't cover a lot of what I wanted to get to.
There's so much coming up.
Just stay with us.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's done a good job.
He's not done a good job.
jordan holmes
It's just a bit, you know, sometimes when you've done a good job, you need to pat yourself on the back, you know?
And there's nobody there to walk on, be like, hey man, you're crushing it today.
dan friesen
Killing it.
jordan holmes
Yep.
Today is your best work.
dan friesen
You're killing it.
And by it, I mean your listeners.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this is the end of the first hour.
And the second hour, Paul Joseph Watson comes on and it is just nothing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Nothing.
That guy does not have chops.
jordan holmes
I can't believe he's had a career since then for longer.
dan friesen
Well, it's an incubation thing, you know?
Like, he had some kind of nascent talent.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And no one was really paying attention while he was on InfoWars.
There's kind of like the open mic scene that he's on.
And he's definitely an open mic-er at this point.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then I guess he grows through it.
He figures out how to look...
Snarky and like he's maybe about to cry and fast cuts and a YouTube video and, you know, he made it work.
But yeah, at this point, no one would have been interested in him.
jordan holmes
He is brutal.
dan friesen
And so we're not going to listen to any of that.
Then we get the ranch rescue guy, Cory Nethercott.
And I found this very conflicting because I think this guy sucks.
He's a monster.
But he also went missing in 2017.
And I feel weird about that.
I don't want to talk too badly about him because he, I don't know, I'm conflicted.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
Nah.
dan friesen
We can talk about a little bit of what was going on in 2004, but I'm not going to dwell on it too much.
jordan holmes
Sometimes your choices lead to a place.
dan friesen
But see, that's the thing.
I don't know if that's true.
I could be completely unrelated to anything about his life, the going missing.
Sure.
There are a million possibilities.
jordan holmes
True.
dan friesen
And it seems scary to me almost.
jordan holmes
I will say this.
When you are a person who illegally detains and kidnaps people, you have a higher risk of suddenly being disappeared from your car.
I'm just going to throw that out there.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's possible, but I think that...
Drifts a little too closely to some of the ideas that Alex would obviously have, which is that, oh, the Mexican government disappeared him because he was trying to stop their immigration flow or whatever.
That would be the conspiracy angle that someone like Alex would take on his disappearance.
Whereas, you know, the same thing kind of exists to feel like, yeah, you're out there, you know...
Detaining people.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Maybe you got detained.
jordan holmes
I mean, I was thinking meth.
That was my first thought.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, there is a heavy overlap.
jordan holmes
That was my first thought.
dan friesen
Well, I do think that some of his...
The way he's communicating doesn't seem sober.
Yeah.
Necessarily.
Not drunk or anything, but there is a little bit of a...
I've seen some people on meth in my day.
From Missouri.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
So, like, I don't...
It doesn't give me the same vibe as that.
But there's something up with him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I mean, 2004 meth...
That's not 2017 meth.
dan friesen
Right.
Walter White hadn't come around yet.
jordan holmes
Completely different shit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So this may be 2204 meth.
dan friesen
He's got the swag of meth.
Yes, he's got the...
jordan holmes
Back when you just got weed.
dan friesen
When you're picking the stems and seeds out of your meth.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Right, I get you.
So he's going to tell his side of the story here, and this is just bullshit.
unidentified
I was arrested in Hebronville, Texas on the allegations of two...
A male and a female illegal alien said that I pistol whipped them.
And I assure you, not only did I not pistol whip them, I was 25 feet from them when Ranch Rescue first contacted them.
Ranch Rescue took them to the gate to release them, gave them food, gave them water, gave them blankets, and told them to leave.
While we had them at the gate, we called Border Patrol.
They wouldn't come out.
We called the sheriff, and they refused to come out.
They said, we're not coming out.
No, we're not doing it.
alex jones
By the way, national French media was there throughout this.
That's the only reason you're not in prison now.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
They took pictures of everything, showing these people completely.
They were treated better than we were down there, Alex.
alex jones
Now, these weren't Mexicans either.
unidentified
Salvadorians.
They were from El Salvador.
alex jones
That's right.
Please continue.
unidentified
Well, what we did is we filmed everything.
We have pictures showing that nobody hurt these people.
We have videotapes showing nobody hurt these people.
And we released them.
As soon as they got into federal custody, somebody, and we'll guess who, said, we need to file a complaint for them PISPA whipping you.
And that's what happened.
A few days later, myself and another member of Ranch Rescue went to the Dairy Queen to get burgers, and they swarmed on us.
And they said, Why did you beat those people?
And we told them the truth, and we told them what happened, and nobody beat them?
alex jones
And now Morris Dees is trying to take the property.
unidentified
Well, let me tell you something about Morris Dees.
I talked to him two days ago.
jordan holmes
Morris Dees nuts.
unidentified
He wants to deal.
He doesn't want...
He wants to drop his lawsuit.
alex jones
You need to sue him.
unidentified
No, you need to do other things to him, Alex.
Unfortunately, it's illegal, and I can't do it.
dan friesen
So Morris Dees and the SPLC gave legal help to the Salvadorians.
That's what's going on here.
So this is not how things went.
No.
unidentified
According to the court case, which Casey lost, the two Salvadorans were walking across a property on foot, at which point one of the members of the vigilante posse started chasing them, firing numerous gunshots and threatening to kill them.
dan friesen
The vigilantes held them at gunpoint, making them kneel on the ground and subjecting them to a lengthy interrogation.
They were held for approximately 90 minutes before they let them go, but not before threatening to kill them again.
Given the fact that this was a matter that appeared before the court, I'm going to take this account.
a little more seriously than this self-serving bullshit this guy who previously illegally detained high schoolers is telling Alex and not proving any of it.
Yeah.
unidentified
Because you'd really think that if a video of the entire thing was that he wouldn't have lost his goddamn ranch.
jordan holmes
No.
That's how video evidence works.
Whenever somebody is, I mean, they didn't have deep fics back then either.
dan friesen
Perfectly exculpatory evidence.
jordan holmes
So exculpatory.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They wouldn't let us put it into evidence because, well, admittedly, it was hand-drawn.
dan friesen
Hand-drawn video.
jordan holmes
It's cartoons.
Theoretically recreated.
So, I mean, it does have the Tom and Jerry kind of animation style to it.
dan friesen
See, one of the things that's really interesting to me, when I hear somebody have all this evidence.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they're not presenting it.
jordan holmes
Never.
dan friesen
It feels weird.
And when that's a trend, it becomes even more weird.
jordan holmes
Interesting.
unidentified
We have tapes that are hidden that we can't show anybody.
We show the Mexican military moving thousands of pounds of drugs down here.
Nobody does anything.
alex jones
Well, wait.
The Tombstone Tumbleweed has the footage of them with the containers and stuff.
unidentified
I know, but we've got one better than that.
We've got them where they come up to the fence and they say they'll kill us if we don't stop.
alex jones
Well, why haven't you shown that?
jordan holmes
Sounds true.
unidentified
Well, are you there, Alex?
alex jones
Yeah, we'll talk about it when we get back.
unidentified
Stay there.
jordan holmes
Did he edit something out?
dan friesen
No, he just thought Alex wasn't there.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a fast well to...
dan friesen
I think he might have heard the music.
unidentified
Gotcha.
dan friesen
That might have been what was confusing.
jordan holmes
Okay, okay.
dan friesen
But yeah, so why don't you release that?
Well...
jordan holmes
You still there, Alex?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
So Alex brought up the Tombstone Tumbleweed.
You might remember that name.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's the anti-immigrant rag that was distributed by Chris Simcox, who was on Alex's show on a 2004 episode we covered recently.
You might remember him as the guy who's currently in jail for child sexual abuse charges.
Yeah.
Doing a 19 and a half year sentence.
So, cool.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I really think that the first time you kidnap somebody should be your last time kidnapping somebody.
That's not a three strikes law.
I feel like that's not a three strikes thing.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
I feel like we should probably be a bit more aggressive in law enforcement after you kidnap somebody the first time.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's a part of me that feels like an act like kidnapping takes a certain resolve.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And I don't think somebody's first crime is going to be kidnapping, generally.
I guess.
jordan holmes
Kidnapping is not a gateway crime to low-level burglary.
dan friesen
Anyway, I feel like, yeah, sure.
Let's go ahead and not let people do multiple kidnappings.
jordan holmes
Yeah, especially if that's the same guy who is like, hey, we should do more to that SPLC guy, but it's illegal, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That guy's probably trouble.
dan friesen
Pretty weird.
So, the rest of this guy's interview is mostly just him complaining about stuff I don't believe.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, that sounds right!
dan friesen
So, I don't know.
I don't have a whole lot to go on there.
Because, like, also, it's the variety of, like, real personal life complaints that, like, are impossible.
To verify or disprove.
So I find it very boring for him to be like, and then a cop said to me, you better sign here.
Ooh, why don't you become a snitch?
jordan holmes
You know, I've always been of the opinion that if you are, say, a person who has a space that regularly experiences things that nobody else experiences, Chances are you're not telling the truth.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Maybe there's a ranch in Arizona that has had illegal immigrants happen across one time.
I doubt the Mexican army and hordes of illegal immigrants are constantly walking across your land regular after day after day after day.
dan friesen
They've built a railroad.
Yeah, exactly.
jordan holmes
I mean, what are we doing here?
Yes.
dan friesen
So we have one last clip, and it's Alex getting to some news rundown at the end of the show.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And compare this to his present-day feelings.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
Challenger to Putin for Russian presidency is missing.
One of Vladimir Putin's challengers in next month's presidential election is missing, and the police and security services announced today that they have begun to search for him.
Every time there's an election in Russia, by the way, there's a bunch of bombings.
And then Putin gets to say, give me your liberty for security.
I've got to secretly arrest my competition, take over the media.
And Putin's been caught publicly blowing stuff up.
dan friesen
Oh, man.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Sounds real different than nowadays.
jordan holmes
That seems pretty unforgivable.
dan friesen
Yeah, man.
jordan holmes
You know...
That's one of those things where it's like, no, no, no, you do not get forgiveness for those things.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a lot of people who can have changes of heart.
They can have, you know, people can...
Go from one ideology to another when they learn more.
There's growth that's possible for people.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
But I think when you're the head of the KGB who rises to power by doing false flag bombings and imprisoning your political enemies and you're still in power 20-something years later, I think that maybe you haven't had a change of heart.
jordan holmes
Don't think so.
dan friesen
I think Alex has just needed to shift the narrative because Putin...
Yeah.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So anyway, that's what's going on there.
But in the past, Alex had a very different tone.
jordan holmes
I mean, that's just one of those things, you know?
I just don't think we should forgive world leaders for any of the choices they make.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, if we were to redesign a slightly better society, I do think that responsibility should be much higher for people who accept positions of leadership.
jordan holmes
Totally.
unidentified
Totally.
dan friesen
It should be like, yes, you are still a person.
Yes, you still have rights.
But you have decided that you want to undertake the very difficult job of leading a country.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And what comes with that?
You're not going to like it.
jordan holmes
More responsibilities.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
A higher ethical standard.
Not a lower ethical standard, which somehow is what we have now.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's almost a feeling of like, you know, it's hard to lead a country.
Cut them some slack.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No.
dan friesen
It shouldn't be that way.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
dan friesen
But anyway, we come to the end of this, and it was racist as hell.
And I don't know, not necessarily the way I'd like to spend my birthday, but, you know, you can't always get what you want.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's true.
dan friesen
So, we'll be back on Wednesday, maybe with a Modern Day episode, or maybe, I was just looking at Twitter while I was playing that last clip, and as we're recording, it was just announced that Tucker Carlson has left Fox.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
Yeah.
The most important man in the world is now a free agent.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
So, maybe this...
jordan holmes
InfoWars 2.0!
dan friesen
Yes!
jordan holmes
We're transferring ownership!
dan friesen
No.
Way.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no, no.
dan friesen
Tucker needs something to do and Alex would be an albatross around his neck.
There is no chance.
But, you know, outside of Fox, maybe he would be more prone to work with him or have him on something.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So, who knows?
Anyway, if there's value in it for him, maybe he would do that.
jordan holmes
Holy shit.
dan friesen
So, we'll see how the fallout of that is.
Maybe, I mean, we're recording this before Alex does his Monday show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, the Monday show may be entirely about Tucker going rogue.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Anyway, we'll find out how all these pieces figure out.
But until then, join the website.
jordan holmes
Indeed we do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep, we're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
Yep, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX.
unidentified
Clark.
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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