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June 2, 2023 - Knowledge Fight
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#813: May 29, 2023

#813: May 29, 2023—Alex Jones claims Memorial Day honors "InfoWar" veterans like Robert W. Welch Jr., falsely tying his persecution to declassified ADL/CIA/FBI documents while misdating a 1974 JBS speech. He boasts 95% public adoration, ignoring stock trends (Anheuser-Busch’s 2022 decline) and peddling COVID-19 as biological warfare via fringe figures like Dr. David Martin. Kanye West’s alleged blackmail mirrors Jones’ anti-Semitic tropes, while Vietnam veteran claims echo discredited sources like Larry Nichols. The episode reveals Jones’ pattern of fabrication, ideological exploitation, and detached conspiracy rhetoric, exposing his detachment from reality. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
a
alex jones
infowars 17:00
d
dan friesen
48:18
j
jordan holmes
20:47
Appearances
r
robert w welch-jr
01:17
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Speaker Time Text
unidentified
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang me are the bad guys.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I need money.
Andy and Pamzer.
Andy and Pandy.
Andy and Pam.
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
Andy.
Andy.
alex jones
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for all of us.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a fish in color.
I'm like, you're saying I love your word.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes.
Like to sit around, worship at the altar of Celine, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are.
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
alex jones
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
I have a quick question for you today, sir.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today?
dan friesen
My bright spot right now is actually after I said the altar of Celine, Celine came up to me and I'm petting her as I'm speaking.
Let's see if she has anything to say.
unidentified
Oh, that was a good Celine take.
jordan holmes
That was a good.
Cut that, clean it up.
That goes in the opening.
dan friesen
I rarely am able to capture that on Mike.
She does not usually like it when I put a mic in front of her face.
jordan holmes
No, that was perfect.
dan friesen
And now she has walked off.
jordan holmes
Gone forever.
dan friesen
That is not my bright spot, though, although pretty fun.
jordan holmes
Pretty solid.
dan friesen
So look, here's the deal.
You like peanut butter?
jordan holmes
I have heard of it.
dan friesen
You love it.
jordan holmes
I do love it.
dan friesen
You love Reese's.
jordan holmes
Love them.
dan friesen
Your wife is allergic.
jordan holmes
It would kill her.
Literally kill her.
dan friesen
So that is a difficult position for you to be in.
jordan holmes
It's a Romeo and Juliet Horatio kind of situation.
dan friesen
I'm 50-50 on it.
jordan holmes
You're 50-50 on it.
dan friesen
I like it.
jordan holmes
Is it positive?
dan friesen
No, I mean, I like it fine.
I'm saying that your wife, no peanut butter.
Right.
You love it.
jordan holmes
Love peanut butter.
dan friesen
Me, I'm in the middle.
jordan holmes
Somewhere in the middle.
dan friesen
But I understand it.
I get it.
unidentified
The preamble of this is spectacular.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I do not know where this is going.
unidentified
Hey, man, I get peanut butter.
dan friesen
So a little bit back, my buddy Nikki Gifts.
We periodically will, you know, text each other pictures of new candies that you see at the checkout aisle.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
You know?
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he sent me a picture of Reese's.
They have a new creamy variety.
And I always thought, like, I don't feel like it's not creamy.
jordan holmes
I felt like it was creamy.
dan friesen
I don't know what the difference of this is going to be.
And I just let it be.
I'm like, I don't know.
I'm not interested.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
The other day, I saw a Reese's Creamy pop up.
Decided to grab it.
So good.
jordan holmes
So good?
dan friesen
So it's better.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Oh, what do they call it?
Do they call it a Reese's Creamy?
Yeah.
No, that's the worst name I can think of.
dan friesen
It was only after eating one that I realized how grainy kind of the normal Reese's is.
jordan holmes
That's pretty grainy.
dan friesen
Yeah, but you kind of just think, like, yeah, it's the texture that you're used to.
jordan holmes
That's the Reese's texture.
dan friesen
You don't think that you would want other.
jordan holmes
Well, I would have been concerned that it would be more like a caramel soft, like that, like that kind of pole.
dan friesen
It's just like creamy peanut butter.
jordan holmes
God damn.
dan friesen
Kind of.
And it's great.
And this led me to a conversation with Nikki Gifts about how this was great because he said, it's not that different.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I think it's worlds apart.
I'll never go back.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Until they make you go back.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Until Doritos gets wind of your other shit.
dan friesen
And this got me into a conversation with him about creamy and chunky peanut butter.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Now, I don't know if you have a preference.
jordan holmes
Oh, I very much do.
dan friesen
What is it?
jordan holmes
Extra crunchy.
unidentified
Oh.
jordan holmes
Give me full peanuts in there.
I want a whole peanut to crunch on.
dan friesen
Just put peanuts on a piece of bread then, man.
Get them wet.
jordan holmes
I will.
dan friesen
Just soak some peanuts.
unidentified
Soak some peanuts.
jordan holmes
You're good.
Oh, these are my dipping peanuts.
Yeah.
These are, yeah.
dan friesen
My preference is creamy.
And here's the reason.
I like peanuts as well.
I don't mind.
I don't mind the fact that peanuts have a crunch to them.
But it's a butter.
jordan holmes
It is a butter.
dan friesen
I don't want crunchy butter.
Like, if you had margarine, do you want chunks in it?
jordan holmes
It's a butter.
I mean, okay.
dan friesen
Is there a precious?
jordan holmes
All right, let me ask you.
dan friesen
It's a smooth.
jordan holmes
When you make mashed potatoes, you leave the skins in or not.
dan friesen
Well, I don't think I've ever actually made mashed potatoes myself because I'm lazy.
And growing up, always no skins.
jordan holmes
No skins when you were.
dan friesen
That was how my parents did it.
So that's kind of what I'm used to.
jordan holmes
Well, no wonder you like the smooth peanut butter.
dan friesen
What are you talking about?
jordan holmes
I'm telling you that when you make it with the skins, it's better.
dan friesen
Look, I don't mind.
Well, here's the thing.
Can you make it with the skins and also have it be real smooth?
jordan holmes
You can, but it's got a little bit of mashed texture.
dan friesen
It's a little potato should be smooth.
jordan holmes
They are smooth with a little bit of texture.
Oh, man.
dan friesen
Look, I like French fries, but I also don't mind a potato wedge that's got the skin on it.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
How about that?
Look, that's different, though.
Because I would say that mashed potatoes are not a butter.
You put butter in mashed potatoes.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
All right.
Foie gras.
What is that?
Is that a butter?
dan friesen
I would never eat foie gras.
jordan holmes
I mean, I'm unethical.
I don't know.
It's a flavor, right?
dan friesen
But don't they, like, shove stuff into goose?
jordan holmes
Force feed goose to.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Is that what that is?
dan friesen
I think so.
jordan holmes
Oh, I thought that was, what's pate?
Oh, man, I'm out.
I'm out of all food conversations forever.
dan friesen
Speaking of which, that brings me to another bright spot.
What's that?
I constantly, like, Celine loves wet food.
Sure.
And I've always been in a position where she will only eat the stuff that's extra gravy, like a little bit of, you know, chunks of meat or whatever.
I ordered a large shipment of wet food from the delivery, the pet place.
jordan holmes
Wherever, yeah.
dan friesen
Can't come up with the name.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I accidentally got the pate.
And I was like, she's not going to eat any of this.
I don't want to send it back.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I just started giving it to her and she loves it.
jordan holmes
She loves it.
Great.
dan friesen
She loves pate.
jordan holmes
She's a cat.
dan friesen
And it's smooth.
That's the point.
Okay.
jordan holmes
I got it.
dan friesen
Anyway, what's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
My bright spot, Dean, is tomorrow, today when you are listening to this, a movie will be released named Spider-Man Across the Universe.
dan friesen
Oh, it's the sequel to the Across the Potato.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Conservative Spider-Verse, right?
jordan holmes
I'm so excited.
I can't begin to describe how excited I am.
dan friesen
Do we got Nick Cage in that?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've tried to keep myself unaware of anything.
I watched, so the first movie came out and I was fired unceremoniously, almost simultaneously.
And part of that weird process that I went through at the same time frame.
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
I watched Into the Spider-Verse probably a hundred times, like over and over.
Like I didn't have anywhere to go during the day and I didn't know what to do with myself.
So I just kept watching Into the Spider-Verse, depressed out of my mind, you know?
And so it is a perfect movie.
And I could not be more excited for Across the Spider-Verse.
I'm bubbling.
I'm going to go as soon as I possibly can tomorrow morning.
dan friesen
Great.
jordan holmes
It's going to be amazing.
dan friesen
I'm excited for you.
jordan holmes
Oh, I'm so excited.
dan friesen
That's one of the movies where everybody who's ever talked about it has talked about how great it is.
I believe them.
jordan holmes
It is a perfect movie.
dan friesen
And I have accepted that it is fantastic.
And yet I have not seen it.
jordan holmes
No, and I understand.
You know us.
I've never pushed it on you.
dan friesen
But I mean, if the opportunity arose where someone was like, hey, here it is.
jordan holmes
Let's watch it.
dan friesen
I would say yes in an instant.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
But going out of my way, taking that second step, it almost never happens with movies.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like right now, I brought up Nicholas Cage.
True.
I would love to see that Renfield movie.
Not going to do it until it's put in front of me.
That's what I miss about having TV and cable.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That ability to just click and like, oh, that's on.
jordan holmes
The passive acceptance of somebody curating for you.
Right.
dan friesen
Or when I worked at a movie theater where it's just like, well, it's what's on.
I just got off shift.
I'm going to watch this stuff.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Because of movies being on TV, that's why I saw National Treasure like 30 times.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Because it's always on and I always want to watch it.
This is Nicholas Cage heavy at the moment.
jordan holmes
Yeah, there is an element of like, sometimes I would like to have to find something, and sometimes just the simple effort of being like, oh, I'm going to choose to go watch this movie is beyond what you can handle.
And you'd just rather be like, oh, somebody did something for me.
That's what I'm doing today.
Yay.
I get you.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's almost enough for me to think about like, I'm going to just get cable.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't think I will, though.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I will say this to you.
Into the Spider-Verse is probably one of the top three animated movies ever made and top five any.
dan friesen
It's right up there with Cool World.
jordan holmes
No, it's right up there with Princess Mono Noke.
That's what we're talking about.
dan friesen
What about who framed Roger Rabbit?
Do you classify that as an animated movie?
jordan holmes
Because it's hybrid.
That's a hybrid movie.
Interesting.
Well, I mean, all Lloyd movies are technically cartoons also.
What about Adam's Family, technically a cartoon?
Anything with John Lloyd in it.
Yep.
dan friesen
Emperor's New Groove.
That's got to be up there.
jordan holmes
That's great.
That's a great one.
Not up there.
dan friesen
Patrick Warburton, Performance of a Lifetime.
jordan holmes
It really did launch a voiceover career that I think is never going to end.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Solid.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
Indeed.
And finally, Alex is back.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
We're in the present.
dan friesen
Studio.
And that's not actually true.
He's not in studio.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And we'll get into that when we do.
All right.
But yeah, he's back on air, at least.
And so we're going to be talking about May 29th.
That's Memorial Day.
Sure.
That was Monday.
Right.
And yeah.
It's weird.
jordan holmes
It's weird.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
He's in a hotel room.
jordan holmes
Okay, we're already off to a good start.
Why is he in a hotel room?
dan friesen
He's on a like two-week vacation or something.
I don't know what's going on here.
As of the time of recording, he is still in this hotel room.
I don't know what's going on.
jordan holmes
Is this fear and loathing in Las Vegas style?
Is he doing blow with fucking Johnny Depp or something?
What is happening?
dan friesen
Definitely drinking.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's fair.
unidentified
For sure.
jordan holmes
That's fair.
dan friesen
You do hear a couple times things that are very clearly him drinking while the camera has cut away from him.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's very mysterious.
But based on everything I know about the world he's in right now, I'd be on long vacations too.
That may not be an option soon.
So good for you, Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, good luck.
dan friesen
Spend that money before someone else can take it from you.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So we'll get down to business on a lot of feelings about this.
But before we do, let's say hello, Jordan, to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, Burb with Knife.
Thank you so much.
You are now Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a Policy Wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Captain Bark Richards.
Thank you so much.
You are now Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a Policy Wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
That dog's a murderer.
Next, the plural form of Lego is Lego.
Thank you so much.
You are now at Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Norm Pattis.
I'm afraid my prank on Alex has gotten out of hand.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Next, congratulations, Emily and Mary on the Wife House, House for Wives and Dog Wonks.
Thank you so much, Uranio Policy Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
And we got a technocrat of the mix, Jordan.
So thank you so much to someone.
Someone, Tanner, sent me a bucket of silly gooses.
Thank you so much, Joanna Technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
Don't honk your mind.
alex jones
I'm telling you, brilliant.
Someone, sodomite, sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Sharp.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser, little, little kitty baby.
alex jones
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
See, this is kind of fun, too.
Now, before I would go through and get wonk names, and now how we have it, you gather them and send them to me in an email.
And it's fun to cold read them.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's been a while since you had to do that.
dan friesen
I appreciate you doing that.
And then also the added thing of the, like, what is this new?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Try to figure it out as I read it.
Is this a joke?
I remember the bit here.
jordan holmes
I remember early on whenever you were still trying to do it straight from the Patreon site.
And it was interesting because you'd have to look down at it, and then it was fun.
dan friesen
It's impossible.
That inbox is a disaster.
Terrifying.
Many apologies.
If you want to shout out, send an email to knowledgefight at gmail.com.
Jordan will sort you out.
jordan holmes
I read them.
I will forward them.
I will take care of it.
dan friesen
So, yeah, like I said, Alex is in this hotel room.
And very exciting to have him back.
And here we go.
The king has returned or something.
alex jones
It's Memorial Day.
It's Monday, May 29th, 2023.
I'm your host coming.
I'll be hosting today.
I have Return of the Airwaves.
And I'm here on Memorial Day because it's such an important day when we look at what our country's turned into and where we're going and what so many have fought, died for for the future and the existence of this republic.
But I wanted to talk about someone who fought in the InfoWar so incredibly strong.
And that was Robert Welsh for the John Birch Society, who was targeted by the ADL, the CIA, that was declassified two weeks ago for the national campaign of infiltration, of lies, of lawsuits, of harassment, and just criminal activity.
A truly authoritarian totalitarian activity.
dan friesen
So Alex is back.
He's on this webcam sitting in a hotel room.
Owen's in the studio and does some of the anchor duties, like the two of them co-host for part of it.
But Alex is around for most of the episode, not the third hour.
He legitimately looks insane since the camera is the level of quality you find built into a laptop and the shot is angled upward like it would be from a laptop.
jordan holmes
Are you serious?
Yes.
Have some professional sense.
dan friesen
It's wild.
jordan holmes
That's unreal.
dan friesen
He's just sitting alone in what appears to be a fairly nice hotel room, ranting about nonsense.
Well, we're forced to watch him from what appears to be below him.
It's a very unappealing thing.
It's a bad look, and it really does not inspire confidence in this operation.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
Honestly, he could get a better quality shot if he just got a little mount for an iPhone.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It doesn't, it looks worse than I've seen people doing live streams out in public.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
unidentified
Nah.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
As to that stuff about the John Birch Society, we covered that on our last present day episode.
And I want to really focus in on what Alex is claiming.
He said that Robert Welsh and the JBS were targeted by the ADL and the CIA, and this was declassified last week.
In reality, what happened was that last week, Alex skimmed a headline of an article about a historian who was interviewed about a book he'd put out recently.
The book was about the John Birch Society, and one chapter had to do with the fact that some of the members of the ADL had infiltrated the JBS on fact-finding missions.
Nothing was declassified, and the CIA wasn't in cahoots with these ADL members who went undercover.
This is a slippery way that Alex uses language to exaggerate his own oppression and the oppression of his ideological allies, and the way he tries to dress it up in the appearance of officialdom.
It sounds so much cooler to say the CIA was targeting his buddies and that this was declassified, as opposed to how dorky it sounds to complain about an interview with an author that you didn't even read.
You didn't read the book, you didn't read the interview, and you didn't read the article about the interview.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
You know, the thought occurs that, like, if you, because his telling of the story and the one that is real are so different.
Yeah.
Like, even if you had listened to him tell it the first time, then looked it up and were like, well, that's not the same story, you would be forgiven for thinking, oh, I just mistaken the wrong one because they're so unrelated.
It's not like, oh, he's taking the wrong bits of information.
He's making up something whole cloth.
dan friesen
Yeah, and there's a couple things that are important to like really tease out of this.
And the first is he's saying this stuff was declassified.
Right.
It wasn't.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
This author had found some documents in the Jewish Historical Society's archive.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It wasn't declassified.
It was not declassified to begin with.
jordan holmes
It was in a bus.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And this calls into question: you should keep in mind every time Alex says things are declassified, this is the kind of thing he's willing to call declassified because it elevates and serves his purposes to do so.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Now, second, you've got to recognize what the point of this is.
And that is the feature of this is defending the John Birch Society, sort of.
And that is because his argument is that the ADL agents infiltrated and then got all racist in order to make the JBS look racist.
jordan holmes
Again, the ADL took over the JBS in order to make them an anti-Semitic organization.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And somehow planted Ravilo P. Oliver as one of the founding members.
And yeah.
jordan holmes
All there.
There's all that.
dan friesen
It's very believable.
jordan holmes
It's a brilliant scheme.
dan friesen
So, but that is only the surface of what the purpose this serves is, and the reason that Alex is bringing it back up and seems to be very interested in making this a focus of his rhetoric and coverage.
And that is that it also now applies to every other racist group that he's super cool with.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, like, all of these groups that are, you know, carrying out exercises and, you know, are definitely threats to commit domestic violence and terrorism.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
People like the Patriot Front are now just proven.
It's been declassified that the ADL just infiltrated the Patriot Front and did all this Nazi stuff in order to create the appearance that they're actually a Nazi group.
Really, they just want people to have nice families.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, I understand the point here.
Do you?
I think what I'm struggling with is this, although it does at the same time seem inevitable.
It appears that far-right Nazi organizations now claim that the Jews run everything so much to the point.
dan friesen
Well, I don't think that the Nazi organizations themselves would say that.
But people providing cover for them may do that.
Right.
And I think it would be an interesting question to ask if these Nazi organizations would resent that or if they appreciate the cover that people like Alex would provide them by creating these narratives.
jordan holmes
I feel like I would, I would, I feel like, here's the thing.
Sure, you can have your cause is greater for Nazi dom.
Know like we'll.
We'll accept the abuse in order to then success be become successful.
But I feel like you go to Nazidom because you can't accept the abuse in the first place.
I so you're more likely to be resentful.
dan friesen
I feel like the sort of opponent I would like more like to be up against would be the person who resented Alex.
Yeah for it.
Yeah, because that person feels like more ideological than opportunistic.
jordan holmes
Yeah yeah, they've got something.
dan friesen
I don't know, I don't like them.
No no, I don't want to say they've got something.
jordan holmes
I don't want to say it either.
I don't know why I felt the need to.
dan friesen
So Alex is going to play some clips of uh, Robert Welch speech.
alex jones
All right, i'm going to air excerpts from an hour-long speech he gave in 1958 here today, but here's just a few minutes out.
robert w welch-jr
A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the graduate video better of American sovereignty, piece by piece and step by step, to various international organizations, of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example man.
dan friesen
So this is Alex's Memorial day show, and he seems to be starting out suggesting that Robert Welsh is someone to celebrate on that holiday.
This should be deeply offensive to the veterans and enlisted persons in Alex's audience.
Since memorial day is about honoring soldiers who died in service.
Robert Welsh never served the country and he died peacefully at age 85.
Nothing about his life in any way qualifies him to be a figure to take time out for and celebrate on memorial day.
And even if it's true that Alex just wants to talk about the Info War memorial day, you know maybe, if that's the case, I I guess that would be a day to honor those people who've died in the pursuit of stupid anti-communist conspiracy theories.
But even that Robert Welsh wouldn't qualify for.
No no, i'm not sure who would qualify, but i'm guessing it's a mess of creeps and probably people who have done mass shootings.
jordan holmes
I know there are some people who would qualify and I don't think I would enjoy any one of them.
dan friesen
No no, Alex might include like Timothy Mcvey.
unidentified
It does feel like Timothy Mcvey is at the top of that list, right?
jordan holmes
Am I crazy for thinking?
My first thought was like, oh well, he's thinking of Timothy Mcvey.
dan friesen
But then again, Alex thinks that Timothy Mcvey was sheep dipped.
And he was, that's true.
jordan holmes
So he can't be eligible for a dinner war.
dan friesen
See this very.
jordan holmes
Oh, my god, it's once you.
What, oh what tangled webs we weave, my friend.
dan friesen
So you might think that Alex listened to this Robert Welch speech and thought it was so powerful so he decided i'm gonna select a clip here, but you'd be wrong.
There's a watermark on it for an account called at i'm Meme Zero.
Who has the handle?
I'm meme.
Therefore, I am.
It's a super cool meme guy.
Clearly, this account posted the small excerpt of Welch's speech on twitter on may 26th, then retweeted it a couple days later.
So Alex clearly saw it and decided to run with it as a news item, because he's dumb and lazy also.
Not for nothing, this account also tweeted out a video with the caption quote, since veterans day is almost over, I just want you to always remember this message.
Then there's a like an American Flag emoji.
Veterans day is in november right anyway this uh, this account is just a constant barrage of right-wing culture, war type, whining about things like how corporations are too woke because they celebrate pride, and they also seem to be really mad about black lives matter.
Yeah, also a small point, this speech wasn't from 1958.
It's a recording from 1974.
But the title on the youtube video that i'm meme Zero is taking this from.
UH, the title is quote, Robert Welch speech.
Parentheses, Greatest Speech In America, 1958.
These people haven't even watched the source material they're polling this from or know anything about the subject.
The dead giveaways should be one, the actual speech is titled 15 years ago, referring to the founding of the JOHN Birch Society being 15 years in the past, in 1958, and this is also a speech that Welch originally gave in 1973, so that's why it's 15 years in 2016.
jordan holmes
If I understand correctly, the speech we are listening to, Robert Welch gave in 1973.
dan friesen
Initially, but the recording is from 74.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
And so the speech is in regards to events that happened in 1958.
dan friesen
Yes, and it's mostly a rehashing of the material that ended up becoming the blue book of the John Birch Society, which was mostly taken from the lecture that he gave at that first meeting when he was recruiting people like Revealo P. Oliver and what have you.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So that's what this is.
jordan holmes
And then the memes are claiming that it's from 1958.
dan friesen
The memes are claiming.
jordan holmes
The memes are claiming.
Yes.
dan friesen
And then Alex is just repeating that because he doesn't know anything about this.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
The second dead giveaway should be that the MC for this event is John McManus, who's credited as the director of public relations.
McManus would go on to be the president of the John Birch Society, but he didn't even join until 1966 and wasn't given the title of the head PR guy until 1973.
I may be telling you something you already know, but meme accounts rarely provide accurate, useful information.
Alex isn't a scholar about his own cultural lineage or his ideological successors.
He doesn't know anything about this Robert Welch speech outside of the fact that he saw it posted on a dumbass meme Twitter account.
That Welch speech is actually about an hour and 45 minutes long, not an hour long.
And like I said, it's more or less just a verbal version of the blue book.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Welch speaks for a very long time and is very boring, but he is introduced to stage by another one of the founding members of the John Birch Society, one of the other people there who was there at that first meeting.
One of the original 12, if you include Welch himself.
No, Fred Koch was another of the founding members.
Damn.
But this is William J. Grady, who was the owner of Grady Foundries Incorporated, one of the largest steel and iron producers in the country at the time.
In addition to that, as is put in his obituary from the New York Times, quote, from 1956 to 1961, he was a top official at J.I. Case Company, a manufacturer of farm equipment.
In both of these capacities, Grady had run-ins with organized labor and he hated unions.
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
In 1960, autoworkers, United Auto Workers declared a strike over breaches of collective bargaining and some messiness with paid vacation days at J.I. Case.
Grady threatened to leave the city if workers didn't get back to work, but that move wasn't successful and the strike ended up being resolved after six months.
J.I. Case has a long history of ending up in strikes.
They had a then-record-setting 440-day strike that ended in 1947.
Before that, they had a 108-day strike in 1937.
Reading over how that was covered in the New York Times is really interesting and definitely gives you quite a sense that maybe the Times wasn't so behind organized labor.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah?
dan friesen
Quote, the first of the 1,800 production workers thrown into idleness when the picketing forced the closing of the farm machinery manufacturing plants last October will return to work tomorrow.
They're forced into idleness.
jordan holmes
Wow, wow, guys, that's you're showing a little bit.
You're showing.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Just a little.
dan friesen
That's an article, by the way, not an editorial in the Times.
jordan holmes
I don't want to know what the Wall Street Journal's board wanted to say about that one.
dan friesen
J.I. Case had a long history with strikers, and it was well known that their leadership was very hostile toward unions and collective bargaining as a whole.
And Grady Foundries was no different.
William Grady hated the idea of the needs and rights of workers getting in the way of his ability to make money.
So it should be no surprise that in 1952, he became the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a lobbying group that was very focused on fighting against the power of unions and workers' rights.
The National Association of Manufacturers was the recruiting pool that Robert Welch picked the first members of the John Birch Society from, as Welsh himself was on their board.
At least half of the founding members were in high-level positions with the National Association of Manufacturers, and there was a targeted effort on Welsh's part to find new members for the JBS from within the National Association of Manufacturers.
I go down this road a little bit because it's important to understand that what motivated a lot of the anti-communist fervor in the people who inspired much of Alex's worldview is that they hated paying workers fair wages, and they didn't want dumb things like safety precautions to cut into their profits.
There's obviously a bit more to the Birchers and what goes into their worldview, but this is not an insignificant piece of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, I would argue that most of the trappings around it are trappings because the fundamental thing is I want to make as much money as I possibly can.
dan friesen
And it's very difficult when you look at the actual, like, the details of who was involved and how they organized and all this stuff.
It's tough to get away from that stuff.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, Alex just plays a little small clip from this speech, but I think that maybe him and I Meme Zero should wrestle with some of the other stuff in this speech, like this part where Welch actually?
jordan holmes
How can you do that?
What?
Did you find it somewhere?
Did somebody have it that wasn't on a meme account, Dan?
dan friesen
Yeah.
robert w welch-jr
Now, if the danger from the communist conspiracy were all we had to worry about, it would be enough.
But in my opinion, the first great basic weakness of the United States, and hence its susceptibility to the disease of collectivism, is simply the age of the Western European civilization.
Some of you will already have recognized, in fact, that I am drawing a corollary to the conclusions usually connected with the name of Oswald Spengler.
Spengler's theory is absolutely fatal to the acceptance of socialism or any form of collectivism as a forward step or as a form of progress in man's sociological arrangements.
For in Spengler's view, collectivism is a disease of society, concomitant with decay, and remarkably similar to cancer in the individual.
dan friesen
Oswald Spengler died in 1935, and he is what you might call a Nazi.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is to say that he supported Hitler and the National Socialists, but felt that their focus on pure German people wouldn't be appealing enough to other potential allies.
He's like a woke Nazi, you might say.
He wasn't necessarily an anti-Semite, but he was a scholarly voice who helped champion the ideas that brought Hitler and the Nazis into power.
He was also a really fucked up dude.
A 1939 article about him in the National Journal of Literature and Discussion said, quote, Spengler assailed modern medicine for interfering with natural selection and for accelerating racial decay.
A strong race he defined as one with an inexhaustible birth rate, compensating for severe selection process, which is provided by the resistances to living represented by misfortune, sickness, and war.
The test of race for him was the speed of reproduction.
So, yeah, he hated medicine because he wanted everybody just to like, yeah, you're right, you got sick because you're weak.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Eugenicists are usually not cool guys.
Did you ever notice that?
dan friesen
Yeah, he seems to suck.
Spengler's most famous work is undoubtedly the decline of the West, which is a bit of what Welch is pulling from here.
It's essentially a call for the rise of new Caesar-like dictators.
That's the way that you get rid of this cancer of collectivism.
jordan holmes
He might as well have been writing Leviathan all over again.
dan friesen
That book is also where the expression blood and soil comes from, so that's fine.
jordan holmes
Hooray!
dan friesen
I don't know if I'm Meme Zero wants to talk about this.
jordan holmes
I mean, I know they like it, but I don't think they want to own it.
dan friesen
Probably not.
So, a lot of this episode, I gotta say, is Alex talking about how much people like him, which is sad as hell.
jordan holmes
Which is interesting hiding in a hotel room.
alex jones
Let me just kind of sit back and say something here that's really important before I had all the big news.
And it's huge.
A couple of weeks ago, I was on TV on the program of Steve Ann.
And he asked me, are we winning?
And I said, well, all I can use is a gauge of what I see out in the public.
I'm a well-known person.
The average person is not well-known, so they don't really get to have that experience of what the feedback is.
And I've heard talks about this a hundred times.
Listeners don't need me to repeat it.
But basically, I talked about the fact that I've got 95% love over the years, but still, you know, I would get 5% hate.
And when you're walking down the street, that's still quite a bit.
So for every 90 people, 95 people I shook their hands, I would run into four or five, said, you're a Russian age and I hope you die or something like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you understand 5%.
alex jones
Rub coffee on me, tea on me, slap me in the back of the head.
A lot of it has been caught on video.
People know what happens to prominent populists in America first who's a conservatives.
And then I talked about how it's been like eight, nine months since that's happened one time.
By the way, it did happen finally last week.
The guy said, how dare you show your face in public?
You've got to be ashamed of yourself.
And I started laughing at him and brought him.
Well, Madeline Almright said that she killed 500,000 kids with sanctions and would do it again on 60 minutes.
Is that good?
Is that good?
Did I kill any kids?
No.
Great conversation.
But all I get is love now.
And I noticed they had a bunch of publications who say, oh, look how crazy Jones is.
No one loves him.
Everybody hates him.
That's like Tokyo Rose broadcasting the American sailors and Marines when we were right off the coast of Japan and had already bombed them in the Stone Age, weeks before we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the Americans are defeated.
America's on fire.
No one cares about you.
It's all over.
You've lost the war.
dan friesen
Yeah, so we've documented over the years Alex constantly saying that, oh, now everyone loves me.
It used to be that everyone was mean to me, but now they're all so nice to me.
You know, over different periods of time, he just constantly tells me the story in order to provide morale for the troops, as it were, in his audience.
jordan holmes
A little bit in the, like Tokyo Rose.
dan friesen
I guess there was like, I don't know, maybe it was a Media Matters article or something, but yeah, someone posted a video of that that went around and people were making fun of it.
And it's like, well, he says this all the time.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But people don't realize that he says this all the time.
And so seeing it with fresh eyes was kind of funny, I guess, for people.
unidentified
I suppose.
dan friesen
And so now Alex is using this as a chance for him to complain about how people actually do love him.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
People do.
jordan holmes
Everybody needs to know the cycle, how it works, right?
Like, it is.
We learned about the water cycle when I was in elementary school.
And I think that's when we should have learned about the bullshit cycle, too, where it's like, oh, this guy says bullshit.
And people are all like, look at how stupid that bullshit is.
And then that gets more attention.
And that guy's like, my bullshit's not stupid.
And then people are like, ah, there's so much bullshit.
That's it.
dan friesen
And it's a really fun game because Alex is talking about stuff that didn't happen.
And then these people are saying, hey, ha ha, this didn't happen.
And he's saying, it did happen.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Yes, that is the level of discourse that we have risen to.
It's pretty fun.
No, people do like me.
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
It's pretty fun because he ends up just kind of obsessing about this.
alex jones
Okay.
So what I'm going to do just for the left, because I realize how much they hate this.
All we hate is I'm going to start taking film crews out into downtown Austin and the University of Texas, the most liberal places.
And I'm going to, I mean, all I got to do at the hotel I'm at is just walk and sit there in the lobby for two minutes.
And more than half the people that come through come over and are listeners.
I can't buy myself a drink.
I can't buy myself dinner on vacation with my family.
jordan holmes
Can't leave this hotel.
alex jones
That's not by all showings, how great I am.
It is an indicator of how awake people have gotten and how they're pissed off at the system.
And so the left wants you to feel alone and not know how popular populism is and America First is.
So just for them, and I thought about how important this is, I'm going to go out and I'm going to do live feeds.
I'm just going to edit it in people that like me because it'll be very entertaining.
The haters are even, you know, better to illustrate, I'm sure we'll get some of those.
You know, a big crowd, you know, forms.
There'll be some.
But once that happens, I'll do an hour live feed, say on 6th Street.
There'll be four or five people that hate me.
There'll be a couple hundred that love me.
And you watch the mainstream media will cut out the haters and put that out.
But that's okay.
That's why they're dead.
That's why they're politically obsolete because everybody knows they play those type of games.
So we'll put out the raw feed and live stream it.
And then we'll watch the media go and deceive and say everybody hates me.
But you'll be able to see the raw feed where it's 99% love.
And so that's what I'm getting at here: the love is way more intense than it's ever been.
It's the same story over and over again.
dan friesen
I went convincing.
alex jones
This last night to a restaurant.
dan friesen
I might heard a drink there.
alex jones
And half the restaurant came over and shook my hand and said, we appreciate you.
We know you're right about the New World Oregon.
What are we going to do?
That's half the restaurant.
He came to my table.
dan friesen
Half of them.
Yeah, you might have heard a sloshing there.
And mysteriously, as like at this point, someone cut away from his laptop feed.
alex jones
Raw!
dan friesen
Right there.
Yeah, and there's just some B-roll of Alex high-fiving people at a Trump rally five years ago.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Strange.
jordan holmes
I think whenever a narcissist is trapped in a hotel room still trying to lie about themselves, it's pretty funny.
dan friesen
It is.
Especially because he's sitting here and he's saying, all right, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to illustrate how much people love me by going down to 6th Street.
I'm going to keep, I'm going to just do the raw feed.
I'm going to do the raw feed.
And the media will only cut out and show you the bad stuff.
jordan holmes
That's what they'll do.
dan friesen
He's making up stories about a fake thing he hasn't done and isn't going to do.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And what the media is going to do about it.
This is ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Yep.
He's doing that, and he's just giving himself a very unconvincing no.
Tons of people love me.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
People love me.
And then some long pauses.
But it's good.
People love me.
dan friesen
You do start to realize the difference between recording in a studio and talking into a laptop and how much a laptop is similar to a mirror.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You just look right into yourself and you feel bad.
dan friesen
People love me.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
So Rogan sent Alex a video.
That's about all you need to know.
alex jones
You know, things are viral when two separate big podcasters in the last 12 hours have sent me the same video.
And I was intending to air this video today, and I'm going to air it because it's dead on.
And I'm going to air it in its entirety.
So I've been sent this last night and then literally five minutes ago, the number one podcaster in the world said, holy bleep, this video is insane.
jordan holmes
Family show.
alex jones
I said, yes, actually was just planning to air that today.
And what is the video?
Joe sent me the Kim.com tweet.
This is the most important video you will watch this year.
Millions were killed with COVID-19 for profit.
COVID-19 was an act of biological warfare substantially on the human rights.
It was a financial heist.
Nature was hijacked.
Science was hijacked.
This is from the recent international COVID summit at the EU, hosted with the European Parliament.
So far, 766 million COVID infections have been recorded.
And the breakdown here is absolutely critical.
And we're going to be getting to that coming up here on the Special Memorial Day broadcast.
If you're not just going to remember the troops that were killed fighting the station, we should now know the American people, people of the world are the victims of a biological warfare attack.
dan friesen
Really stretching the Memorial Day theme here.
Alex.
So yeah, one of the things that's fun about this episode is that Alex introduces a lot of these topics and talks shit about them.
And then whenever he leaves, Owen plays these things and it's kind of left with the heavy lifting.
So what he's talking about here that Kim.com tweeted about that Joe sent him was there's a clip about a guy ranting about how COVID's a bioweapon.
He's sitting in front of an EU flag, apparently at a meeting of the EU Parliament.
jordan holmes
Oh, for God's sake.
dan friesen
This guy is a COVID conspiracy hot shot, pun intended, named Dr. David Martin, and he's trying to bring back the bow tie look, which isn't going great.
jordan holmes
Not going to happen.
dan friesen
He spends the first six minutes of the clip talking about how we've known about coronaviruses for decades, which I found uninteresting, but he was presenting as if it's mind-blowing information.
Anyway, this was from an event called the International COVID Summit 3, which has the air of a real serious event, but it's actually just a propaganda performance.
jordan holmes
Did Tim Gunn direct that or Jim Gunn direct that one too?
No, no, no, no.
dan friesen
Robert Malone, I believe.
jordan holmes
Oh, boo.
dan friesen
It was a hot lineup of COVID weirdos.
Like I mentioned, Robert Malone, this David Martin, Chair Corey, and a bunch of international folks who we haven't necessarily met in our coverage, but are very similar to the folks we have.
The International COVID Summit was apparently hosted by certain members of the European Parliament, but they're referred to as, quote, non-attached members of the Parliament, which means that they're individuals in the Parliament who are not part of any party that has any real sway.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They're kind of rogue agents within ineffectual.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
We're kind of assholes who suddenly got in there.
And here we are.
dan friesen
They're people who are part of parties with one or two members in the parliament, and therefore they don't have any actual voting power.
As the name might suggest, this was the third such summit that this collection of COVID conspiracists have held.
And it's not fair to say that it was in front of the full parliament.
I don't think it was.
Like a couple of powerless members of the parliament hosted it, but the actual EU.
I'm not sure if it was a full assembly for this masturbatory ass event.
jordan holmes
I mean, I would say that a lot of the speeches that you might see on C-SPAN, whenever they show the senator speaking directly and they don't show the crowd because the crowd is three other senators.
Yeah, and everybody else is.
dan friesen
And they're passing the Fed.
jordan holmes
Totally.
Yeah, that's how it works.
Wayne.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I looked over the lineup.
They had a veterinarian there from the Netherlands arguing the vaccines were killing people.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
They had a self-help coach from Canada complaining about the media.
And they had a doctor named Ryan Cole, who's about to lose his license.
Cole is an interesting case because he was very happy to profit from COVID early on as he ran a little lab in Garden City, Idaho, which he presented to Medicaid as, quote, using fully automated high-volume systems that he could use to run tests.
jordan holmes
I like that.
dan friesen
The problem is that he wasn't doing that.
jordan holmes
That's a trouble.
dan friesen
And they couldn't handle the load they claimed they could.
Cole claimed that they could handle all this testing, and he accepted over $500,000 in government funds, which allegedly did not go to the ends of COVID testing.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a surprise.
dan friesen
A former molecular diagnostic supervisor there told the Idaho Capitol Sun, it was volume over safety and accuracy.
Cole Diagnostics was a small lab at the beginning of 2020 and took on more than what Dr. Cole promised and said that it could do that summer.
All in all, Cole was given over more than a million dollars in government funds specifically for COVID-related activity.
He was more than happy to use the pandemic to get a ton of free money early on, but now the grift's kind of moved on, and now we just got to be like, meh.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
A woman named Andrea Wynne told the paper that the lab took shortcuts when doing COVID testing.
Quote, given Dr. Cole's public statements downplaying the severity of the virus, it makes sense that he was permissive of a lowered standard of testing.
He either did not believe or refused to acknowledge that bad results were of potentially high consequence to his patients and the public.
She went on to say, quote, We were told to run specimens where we knew the integrity had been compromised.
Certainly.
The paper spoke to two other former employees and reported this: they noticed Cole pouring liquid into dried-out vials and running the tests with that reconstituted sample.
jordan holmes
Like it's a bar.
Like he's just running it on the thing and then he's pouring another drink in there.
Okay.
dan friesen
Diluting an already compromised sample could have caused people with the virus to get false negative results.
He's now arguing that COVID vaccines cause cancer, which is what he was speaking about at that summit.
He claims that he'd seen a big increase in cancer at his lab, which is strange because he's not supposed to be the kind of doctor that diagnoses patients.
Like he's a pathologist with a lab.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He hasn't produced evidence of his claims about increased cancer, but he has apparently misdiagnosed at least two people as having cancer.
And that's led to a complaint being raised to the Washington Medical Commission to, quote, investigate whether Cole has intentionally or subconsciously misread cancer tests while making false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and cancer.
Also, one of the people he allegedly misdiagnosed is suing him after she needlessly got a hysterectomy because of his misdiagnosis.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
This guy sucks.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Who knows what kind of damage this guy has directly caused?
And now he's an expert speaking at this dumb-dumb COVID conspiracy summit.
These people are monsters, and I don't really give a fuck about this guy, David Martin, with his stupid bow tie, talking about just anti-COVID conspiracy talking points.
Who cares if he's in front of an EU flag?
jordan holmes
Just leaving behind a fucking swath of destruction everywhere they fucking go, acting as though they're helping people.
And it is, it is just, it is just so maddening.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's maddening because they're always out of reach.
It doesn't matter.
And I mean, a metaphorical reach, too.
It's like there's no way to get them.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, like this, this accepting government money to do tests you don't have the capacity to do and doing a bad job on this at the risk of, I mean, if you're providing false negative tests for a ton of people, especially, you know, this lab deals with elderly patients, people in assisted living.
Sure.
Who knows how many lives you're putting directly at risk because of your desire to get these government grants?
It's exactly what they're accusing doctors of doing, killing patients for COVID money.
It is.
jordan holmes
It really literally is.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And it's even more absurd just because, I mean, ostensibly, this guy doesn't believe that COVID is that big of a problem or is a problem.
You can't have him running a lab testing for a virus that he doesn't believe is real.
dan friesen
Well, maybe we didn't know that then.
But also, it calls to mind also a lot of the folks who, you know, were willing to accept, you know, COVID stimulus money for their companies and stuff, get these government loans.
jordan holmes
Oh, got it.
dan friesen
And then also are turning around and be like, oh, it's all real.
jordan holmes
It's not real at all.
But I mean, what are you not going to take free money?
Yeah, you're not going to take money?
What are you crazy?
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's, you know, scams evolve.
jordan holmes
Loving money is like the primary thing we do.
Okay.
That's our deal.
dan friesen
So Alex gets back to talking about the JBS thing and lies some more about that.
jordan holmes
Love it.
dan friesen
But also, I think he makes a bit of an accidental confession at the end of this.
jordan holmes
Interesting.
alex jones
I want to play excerpts of a powerful 1958 speech by Robert Welsh, founder of the Commonwealth Society.
jordan holmes
1974.
alex jones
Because it just came out that the CIA and the FBI working with the ADL criminally targeted the organization who was 100% dead on everything they said has come true.
People think Alex Jones is right.
This group absolutely scared the hell out of the globalists because they were populists, they were pro-American, they were anti-communist, they were not racist, and that was the prototype the ADL went after.
And they classified it two weeks ago that the ADL knew they were innocent, knew they were good, and set them up and infiltrated members in to then go to press conferences and say racist things so they can attribute it to the John versus which we know goes on.
We know Third Property Law Center bare minimum had people inside of the office and they would run around saying N-word, N-word, N-word, and people say, we're going to fire him.
You say that again, and they would quit.
And then they were reporting on them.
unidentified
What a great scam.
jordan holmes
Wow.
That's a plan.
Here's our plan, guys.
Okay.
We've got this evil organization run by extremely wealthy people with a nigh infinite amount of power.
What we're going to do is we're going to go in, we're going to get hired.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
So everybody, you've got to make sure you have some good references.
Derek, not you.
We're going to get hired.
Okay.
We're going to go in there.
We're going to shout racist things.
And then whenever they threaten to fire us, we'll quit.
And then we'll claim to other people that they're racist.
Solved it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, Alex is making stuff up about this non-declassified thing.
Yeah.
But you see, I don't know if you understood what he was saying.
He was saying at InfoWars, people were plants.
jordan holmes
Oh, I didn't hear him say that at Info.
He was doing that at InfoWars.
dan friesen
That's what he was referring to.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He was saying that they had plants, like the Southern Poverty Law Center had people at his office who were running around screaming the N-word.
And then what?
jordan holmes
Then when he threatened to fire them for screaming the N-word, they quit.
Which is of, I don't think you threatened to fire somebody.
dan friesen
Who are you talking about, Alex?
jordan holmes
You just fire him, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
If you're running around throwing out the N-word, I think Alex is just trying to come up with defenses for accusations and things that people have revealed about the racist workspace that he fosters.
jordan holmes
He fosters and cultivates it.
dan friesen
And he accidentally is kind of admitting to that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would say so.
dan friesen
But look, man, people like him.
You know, people like him.
When you look at a laptop, it's kind of like a mirror.
And people like Alex.
alex jones
And understand that we are the modern warriors in the information war that are taking these globalists on, and they're losing the fight with the people of humanity.
The truth's coming out.
That's why I was telling the story last segment about Alex Jones being a microcosm or a bellwether, a gauge, a sensor, so we can know where the public really stands and having 99 to 1 positive interactions.
200 to 1 positive interactions.
jordan holmes
95 to 5.
alex jones
And I probably shook a thousand hands, 2,000 hands the last eight, nine months.
Number one person come up and confront me.
One person.
And before it was happening every couple days, I went to the grocery store.
What's going to happen?
Two, three years ago, go to the grocery store, shake 20 hands, somebody walks over, F you, Russian agent, or F you, KKK member.
And you just laugh at them because they're such idiots.
But it's just not really happening anymore.
And the love is more intense.
So I talked about with Steve Bannon being in a little Italian restaurant with my wife and with a musician, friend of ours.
And almost everybody came over that was in the restaurant.
And then when I went out, I ran to three different groups of people.
And all three groups were listeners.
A black lady.
jordan holmes
Convincing.
alex jones
Couple, Hispanic couple.
jordan holmes
Totally.
Totally believe these are real.
alex jones
Going to the parking garage.
Was a listener.
That really triggers a bunch of leftist publications saying Jones is insane.
People don't like him.
Look, he's making it up.
People like him.
I mean, just think about that.
They want you to think you're alone.
They want you to think they're winning.
They're not winning.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
Alex Jones claims Black White is fanning Old Young.
Shower him with praise in restaurants.
Well, that's it.
I realize how much they hate this.
So I'm going to, you know what I could do?
I could wear a hidden camera.
I could wear a hidden camera and go into a restaurant.
Ooh, that'd be even better.
Undercover investigation.
So here's what's going to happen for the left.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
alex jones
Your control freaks.
They're all how you control culture and you're the cool ones and everybody loves you.
I'm going to flood with Infowars love.
How's that sound?
But see, they already know that.
Their psychopath doesn't work on me.
They want to make you ashamed of caring about your family or being a Christian or being it's drag queen pedo time.
But that doesn't work anymore as well.
They don't have that power over you anymore, ladies and gentlemen.
So now what are they doing?
I can spend the whole show on this.
You are.
jordan holmes
You are.
dan friesen
Yes.
This has no power over me.
And now I'm going to spend most of my time whining about it and creating ways to keep this conversation going.
jordan holmes
There should be a red light or something that's just like the, are you listening to yourself light?
Like everybody should have something available to themselves where they stop.
They're like, let's play that back for you to listen to.
And then you hear it and you go, you're right.
That was, yeah, I feel bad about that.
dan friesen
Now, here's what I would love to happen.
Alex is in the middle of one of these rants about how much people love him.
He goes to everywhere the restaurants.
People flog him with love.
So he's sitting there on this laptop in the middle of it.
Then there's a knock.
Housekeeping.
Housekeeping.
Housekeeping comes in.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they're like, oh my God, Alec Jones.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Love you so much.
jordan holmes
Have to.
dan friesen
And it's Rob Dew in a wig.
jordan holmes
I would love that.
But see, that's where you go, that's pretty good.
Yeah.
Now we start getting more people showing up knocking on the door.
But they're all Rob Dew.
dan friesen
But what excuses do you have?
Like food?
jordan holmes
You've definitely got food.
You've got housekeeping.
You've got a plumber guy.
You got a plumber.
unidentified
Wait.
jordan holmes
There's an air conditioning problem.
dan friesen
These are a little bit of a stretch.
unidentified
Ooh, how about pull the fire alarm?
dan friesen
Alex has done that in the past.
Now, here's one idea.
Okay.
Manager comes because someone snitched him out for using the room for commercial purposes.
jordan holmes
Ooh, okay.
dan friesen
But then he's like, but you're so great.
I'm going to let you go.
jordan holmes
You're so great.
I'm going to let you.
dan friesen
It's Rob Dew with a fake mustache.
jordan holmes
It's got to be.
It's got to be all Rob Dew playing a straight Mr. Beaden character.
dan friesen
There's no cost to doing this.
And I feel like the next phase for Alex should really be trying to be creative.
Like, that would be fucking hilarious.
jordan holmes
Got nothing to lose.
dan friesen
It wouldn't undercut his point that everybody comes up to him.
It would only really make it seem like he actually isn't offended or hurt by people mocking the idea of people like it.
It would take the piss out of a lot of the creators.
jordan holmes
100%.
Totally.
100%.
dan friesen
And I cannot lie.
Well, first of all, I don't think they could pull it off.
They're not good enough at doing bits and terrible.
jordan holmes
They can't commit to characters.
dan friesen
If they were able to make it feel like slightly organic and not call out that it's Rob Dew in a wig over and over again, I would legitimately find that hilarious.
jordan holmes
I think so too.
I really do.
dan friesen
I would be watching it and I'd be like, this is the best InfoWars has ever done.
jordan holmes
And that's because it would be a 25-year-long payoff.
You know, like the, that's, that's really, that's the joke about it, is that it would have taken its 25 years of setup to get to that perfect punchline.
dan friesen
Well, but the other thing, too, is that Alex constantly talks about how he likes to engage in satire.
Like, totally.
That would be satirical.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
That would be satirizing this idea that.
jordan holmes
They never even thought of that.
dan friesen
Of course not.
jordan holmes
Never even.
dan friesen
Meanwhile, it's the first thing.
jordan holmes
First thing.
dan friesen
I got to get in the writer's room.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's absurd.
It's absurd how much better a show we could make.
dan friesen
Ugh.
Well, that's what happens when you're driven by this resentment, aggrievement, and hate.
And it's not something where you're like, what can I do to make a good show?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it's unfortunate.
jordan holmes
It is.
It really is.
dan friesen
So Alex is talking about how people call him a Russian agent and all this stuff.
And he only knows one Russian.
I know one of the Russians he knows.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
alex jones
And so they're just moving on from seven years of saying we're all Russian agents with zero evidence.
I mean, I watched House Armed Services Committee hearings five years ago where the congressman goes, Give me one example of a Russian disinfo agent.
Well, InfoWars and Alex Jones comes to mind.
He's Russian disinfo.
Really?
Never been to Russia.
Don't speak Russian.
Know one Russian that was an Army veteran and a patriot that does like call screen for us.
So I do know one Russian.
One Russian does work for us.
Doesn't run anything.
But I mean, I run everything.
But the point is, I do know a Russian.
So that's that.
Now, there's millions of them around the world.
dan friesen
Daria is going to be pissed to learn that she has been demoted to call screener and she doesn't run anything.
jordan holmes
She doesn't run anything.
She doesn't run.
Whenever she is able to take the fold for something, she seems to have quite a bit of power.
dan friesen
Oh, oh, yes.
She's deeply involved in all sorts of organizational aspects, executive producing and what have you.
But no, no, no, she's a call screener.
jordan holmes
I mean, frankly, she's your corporate representative at the very least.
dan friesen
And the reason that I think that's her is because Alex always describes her as a veteran.
Yeah.
And so, like, that makes sense that it would be her, unless there are two Russian veterans who work at InfoWars, one, a call screener, one, Daria.
jordan holmes
In which case, why are you hiding the other one?
dan friesen
Right.
What do you have to hide?
jordan holmes
Also, I've seen, I've watched The Americans.
Everybody's secretly a Russian agent.
You know what?
We all know so many Russian agents.
See, what happened was Russia infiltrated the United States and kicked out all Americans, and we're actually all Russians.
And we moved into do the exact same there.
It's like the ADL in the John Birch Society.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
That was a smart move.
dan friesen
All right.
I was lost in thought about a TV show that I've never seen.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And I don't know why.
And I think it was because I was like, I've never seen the Americans.
And then I started thinking about other shows that I haven't seen.
I started thinking about Battlestar Galactica.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
I don't know why.
jordan holmes
Of course.
Why wouldn't you think about Battlestar Galactica?
Edward James Almost.
unidentified
Come on.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Edward James Almost is fire.
Come on, man.
What are we doing?
dan friesen
Do they get away from the Cylons at the end?
No.
jordan holmes
They are the Cylons.
We are the Cylons.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
I forgot.
dan friesen
No, because at the end, they show up at Earth.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but I think that's the point.
I think we are.
I honestly don't know this because I don't know.
dan friesen
I've been lost in thought thingy.
jordan holmes
I don't know if I've seen the show.
Now you're making me feel like maybe I have.
dan friesen
I've seen like one or two episodes, and I'm aware that at the end they show up at Earth.
jordan holmes
I'm pretty sure there's a guy named Balthazar, right?
Oh, I think so.
dan friesen
I do know that Edward James almost isn't.
jordan holmes
Oh, I know.
Oh, I'll never forget it almost.
dan friesen
Yeah.
My buddy Swearingen watched all of them.
Al Swearingen?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Although that joke was made.
He was watching that while we lived together.
And so I got a little bit by like osmosis, but I never watched it.
Anyway, don't know why I was thinking about that.
I don't know.
So yeah, look, the woke stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
All around.
Woke mind virus.
jordan holmes
Woke is a problem for people.
Can we clearly define it yet?
unidentified
Nope.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
You know.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
See, that's the problem with a clear definition.
I believe that the most accurate one so far is, eh, you know.
dan friesen
Yeah, no.
jordan holmes
You know, if you know, you know.
dan friesen
It's the Supreme Court definition of pornography.
unidentified
Right, right.
dan friesen
You know when you see it.
jordan holmes
You know wokeness when you see it.
dan friesen
You feel woke in your bones.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
So all these companies that are going woke, they're going broke.
jordan holmes
Uh-oh.
alex jones
And when I see understanding of how this is psychological warfare and people get that, once you're aware of the psychological warfare, you've got the 35,000 foot view.
It's very, very hard to control you.
In fact, the propaganda does the opposite.
It pisses you off.
It motivates you.
It spurs you to stand up.
So here's an example of this.
And I describe this as kamikaze.
You see Anheuser-Busch lose now $10 billion and lose now.
It's 35% of their market.
And they predict in six months it'll be 60% of their market.
They destroyed the number one beer company in the world.
So they spent tens of millions of dollars in advertising to get to that point and to be a hundred-plus-year-old company gone.
Just gone.
jordan holmes
Gone.
Wiped out.
alex jones
Because the majority of people don't want to teach pedophilia to children.
dan friesen
Oh, that's why.
So it is fair enough to say that Anheuser-Busch in Bev stock is down about $10 a share in the past month from the mid-60s to the mid-50s.
The right-wing tantrum does seem to be having an effect, but this is a case where perspective is necessary.
For instance, does Alex know what InBEV's stock price was in late October of 2022?
It's around $45 a share, $10 lower than it is now after this drop.
jordan holmes
Ah, they have been devastated.
dan friesen
Does he know that in 2016 their stock was up at about $125 a share?
Well, then they've been way higher.
jordan holmes
Then they've been devastated again.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Their whining does seem to be making a small dent, but nothing like the impact a bad dividend report would have and has had or the like caught, like obviously COVID lockdowns, like bars being closed was a big hit.
A lot of people have commented on some of the slowed down sales have to do with Budweiser in particular being late to the market on seltzers, which are like a large part of retail alcohol shopping now.
So these are factors that are in the mix.
But what's going on is just a lull that honestly is probably going to be seen by investors as a pretty good opportunity to get in at a cut rate because you have to remember that even Alex doesn't realize how many beer companies are owned by this conglomerate.
It's all good and well to avoid Bud and Bud Light because you're mad that they had a one-off promotional thing with a trans person.
But in order to really hit InBEV, you need to avoid Bex, Corona, Modelo, Michelob, Stella Artois, Bush, Natty Light, King Cobra, LeBat, Goose Island, and tons of other beers that just appear to be small breweries that are actually owned by InBev.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you know, it's only a lot of people.
dan friesen
But your three Floyds is cool.
They're fine.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, of course.
But it's almost like because of the very capitalist thing that they desire so much, a small corporation can gather up so much power, you effectively cannot punish them through these types of people.
dan friesen
But you can feel like you are.
jordan holmes
You can feel like you're a hero.
dan friesen
It would be possible, I think, to consciously stop buying all of their brands, but I think it would be really hard.
And a lot of people are probably buying InBEV products without even really even knowing it.
jordan holmes
Totally.
dan friesen
InBEV will be fine.
The stock price is down a little bit, but it will recover because people love booze.
Alex, of all people, should understand that and also consider how much penetration they have into foreign markets that aren't swayed by this right-wing culture war bullshit nonsense.
jordan holmes
You're not going to do anything.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
You are not going to do anything.
dan friesen
They are also heavily involved in a number of European and Asian beer companies.
And a lot of that will contribute to their fine.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you know, it is, it is.
Why is it?
And I think I'm not sure if this was true before Citizens United or not, but ever since corporations or people, I feel, became just an accepted part of our life, it is like, why are you guys mad at Anheuser-Busch?
It is not a real group of people.
There's like 20 people who make decisions.
Be mad at 20 people who make decisions.
You can't be mad at Bud Light.
Bud Light doesn't exist.
dan friesen
Yeah, but you can't shoot those people.
And Kid Rock can shoot cans of Bud Light.
jordan holmes
Right, but I mean, maybe try talking to those people.
dan friesen
That's not as fun.
It's not a good video to post on social media.
jordan holmes
You know, but like, oh, Target is hit by allegations that they are homophobic.
And it's like, no, no, no, no.
Target doesn't exist.
Target is not.
It's just the name.
There's like 20 people.
Right.
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's the board.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Do something about them.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, I certainly think that it is a way of diffusing responsibility.
You know, the brand becomes the thing as opposed to the people.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Seems pretty useful for a small group of people.
dan friesen
For bad actors and for people who want good outcomes.
jordan holmes
Well, the good outcomes are being billionaires and such.
dan friesen
No, I mean, people who have legitimate social complaints as well as people like Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You know, both.
In both cases, the people who are the actual decision makers are often insulated from those criticisms by anger at the brand.
jordan holmes
And the consequences for their decisions.
dan friesen
Well, go woke, go broke.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Anyway, Alex talks more about the JBS thing.
Because Welch is to be celebrated on Memorial Day.
And then he starts talking a little bit about Yay.
jordan holmes
Why?
dan friesen
Because he's alone in a hotel room staring at a laptop.
jordan holmes
That's a fair point.
alex jones
I also said something that went viral over.
I also said something that went viral a few weeks ago.
I was just being honest with speculation.
When I'm speculating, I say, I don't know, but it feels like this.
Nope.
And it's come out at the National Front is a government runover organization.
That's what I confirmed.
It's come out in the ADL documents came out a few weeks ago that they infiltrated right-wing groups and tried to make them racist.
And when they couldn't, they would just stop in their name.
dan friesen
Nope.
unidentified
Hey, come on, guys.
jordan holmes
Don't you want to hit the Jesus?
alex jones
They're fond of this.
Nope.
That's criminal behavior, in my view.
Mr. Barbara Lawson does it too.
And I said It felt like when Ye showed up here because I told him, I don't want to get into a bunch of Jew bashing.
And I said, I think it would really be good if you reached out so we should unify all around basic ideas of freedom and everything.
And in the First Amendment, they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, we want to clear that up.
Yeah, we want to actually do that.
dan friesen
That's kind of what Ye did.
He called for everyone to come together, particularly about loving Hitler.
If anything, it was an exercise and example of the First Amendment in action.
It was Ye's appearance on InfoWars, and there's literally no consequences from it.
It's First Amendment, baby.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
It was a horrid speech, but it's protected.
I know Alex is trying to pretend this was a setup and like Ye tricked him, but based on what he's claiming they talked about before the show, it seems like Alex just didn't realize what he was getting into and how hopelessly out of his depth he was with Ye and Nick Fuentes.
I can understand Alex wanting to save face, but this is pathetic.
And I think if you're describing that as the conversation you had with Ye where you're like, I don't want to get into a bunch of Jew bashing, I bet Ye doesn't think that's what he's doing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, totally.
dan friesen
From his perspective, he and Alex were on the same page going into it.
I'm not going to do a bunch of Jew bashing, but I'm going to talk about how much I love Hitler.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Yep.
Alex, I understand that it looked really bad and it was an embarrassing showing, but you just got to eat it.
You just got to, you got to eat it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Nobody cares.
Nobody even cares about Yeg anymore.
It all happened and it was over and we all moved on like we do with everything now.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, it had the potential to be really dangerous.
And I think it still is.
And I think that there's potential for, as we get closer to the 2024 election thing, more things to flare back up.
But yeah, like the it was not as big of a like explosion as it appeared it was going to be.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And who knows what the cause of that is?
Like what the cause for maybe it, I mean, it seems to me that maybe it's just infighting led to it not being as bad as it could have been between like Milo and Nick and Ali Alexander and Ye, like all those figures are not people who can coexist.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so they I think they kind of screwed each other over.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and none of them have any ability to do stuff.
I mean, Ye used to be able to really, really make good, great music, you know, but then the rest of them have no skills or abilities or stuff.
dan friesen
They have some skills.
jordan holmes
But I mean, in terms of political organizing.
dan friesen
I actually, I would disagree.
jordan holmes
Actual political organizing, not shit talking.
dan friesen
There's not much difference these days.
Boy, you are not wrong.
I think that people like Milo, Nick, Ali Alexander, they all have certain skills, but they think they have more skills than they do.
jordan holmes
Yes, that's definitely true.
dan friesen
So their egos probably don't allow them to just play their role.
They all want to be Jordan instead of being Ku Coach.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Somebody's got to be Rodman.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Well, that's a different, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
jordan holmes
Well, that's why.
dan friesen
Someone's got to be Steve Kerr.
Someone's got to be a role player.
You know, you got to.
All of them want to be the franchise player.
jordan holmes
Can't do it.
dan friesen
No.
And I think that probably led to a lot of the, like, steam dissipating around this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it does seem like it would be impossible to, I mean, just for, here's what I think.
I think it would be impossible for Nick Fuentes to have to sit in a room with Nick Fuentes being all nick at him.
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
Like at him.
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
Aggressively him.
And what is Milo, but some version of that, you know?
And Milo.
No, no, I don't mean it like that.
dan friesen
From a temperament perspective?
jordan holmes
I mean from just being around and just talking.
Just like always being around each other.
dan friesen
I disagree.
jordan holmes
Which is not fun.
You're not fun people.
dan friesen
I'm sure they're all not fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think you could exist in a room with Nick Fuentes for a little while and it not be totally draining.
I think Milo would get annoying really fast.
jordan holmes
That's definitely true.
Milo's had more time to practice at it, though.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But that also has to do with their particular skill sets.
Nick is a weasely shithead debater kid who also knows how to change his presentation for different audiences.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Whereas Milo, his bread and butter has always been sensational extravagance.
It's been trolling.
It's been like he was the king of the trolls originally.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but see, I don't understand.
That's why I find Nick so much more infuriating is he's because he's a whiny little weasel lying, put his face on for different audiences, asshole.
Hate that guy.
dan friesen
I personally, I mean, obviously, I hate them all, but I think I would much rather be in a room.
If I had to be stuck in a room with one of them, I think I'd choose Nick.
jordan holmes
That's a question I don't want to dive into.
dan friesen
I feel like there are times when Nick shuts up, and I don't know if that's true of Milo.
jordan holmes
That's probably true.
That is probably true.
dan friesen
I also think Milo's a bit more smug.
And that can bother me.
jordan holmes
I think that's why Nick lasted with Ye longer.
dan friesen
But didn't Milo come back?
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
I haven't kept track of all of their comings and goings.
jordan holmes
I hate them so much.
dan friesen
I do think, and here's the other interesting dynamic.
This is just me reading from their public presentations and what have you.
I think that of them, Nick would be the one who is most able to put ego a bit to the side for the sake of achieving a larger goal.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
He, I think, could be a role player.
jordan holmes
He's still young, though.
dan friesen
True.
jordan holmes
He's still got, he's still young.
He's still got something to shoot for.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
Milo's on like reinvention five.
jordan holmes
His nine lives are up.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
Nick is kind of like a fresh face on the scene, whereas Milo's like, come on, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, if you're talking.
dan friesen
We've done this already.
jordan holmes
If you're talking to Nick, you can have this conversation of like, hey, buddy, it's not your time yet.
You hang back, you learn, you do what you can, and then you'll have your shot.
You know, that kind of thing.
Milo already had his shot.
That's over.
dan friesen
That's a sad realization.
jordan holmes
Isn't it?
dan friesen
He had his shot.
Probably when he was working at Breitbart.
It really was.
Anyway, enough of this nonsense.
Yep.
Ye might be a fed, according to Alex.
jordan holmes
In when?
When did he begin being a fed?
If he's a fed, I want to know when did it start?
dan friesen
I think Alex is trying to speculate that he had tax problems and that he got blackmailed over it.
That's kind of the suggestion that Alex.
jordan holmes
So Jeezus.
Maybe.
alex jones
Whether they work for the Feds or not, I'm not even saying that's the case.
I mean, I can tell, oh, you want to come on right when I go live?
I said, one minute before we go live, he shows up wearing a mask.
And I said, oh, okay, will you take it off later?
Yeah, maybe.
But what are we going to talk about?
And then the whole thing is, I love Hitler and the Jews are bad and all this stuff.
So I simply said, this feels like a setup.
People think the dinner with Trump was a setup.
I'm not even saying that.
How did they talk about loving Hitler the dinner with Trump?
And Trump didn't know it was coming to dinner.
He thought it was Kanye West, Yay West.
So I'm not saying Ye West is a fed.
Maybe he's the greatest troll ever.
I believe in his first time at Reichs.
But the point is, when you look at this dialectic, I'm not saying Nick Fuentes.
I love how his supporters ran around and said, they say Nick's a fed.
I said, I don't know this, and I'm not even saying this is a case.
I'm saying, is Yay being blackmailed with his tax issues and the rest of it, where he suddenly comes out and quadruples down and does this.
And I'm simply saying there's a long history of the ADL, other groups, getting people to behave like this and act like this and do these type of things.
Then, I mean, you go out to a Nazi rally, American Nazi Party rally.
I've covered them.
They're very rare, but they've had them in Austin.
I mean, you look at it, and it's a bunch of art students, gay dudes, and Jewish guys.
And you can see, I mean, I mean, it looks like Larry Damon in the Nazi outfit.
And you look at me, I look Welsh, okay?
I mean, you go to the Welsh area and say, oh, people look like me.
I got the Welsh genetics for my dad.
And these guys look like Larry Damon.
They're just wearing Nazi outfits.
It's real funny.
And now the ADL admits they're doing this.
Well, I mean, here comes Yay West, this whole thing.
I'm just like, I'm like, is this a setup?
I'm allowed to say that.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
You're allowed to say it.
I think it's uncompelling, unconvincing.
And it's also in service of, you know, just trying to excuse your shitty interview.
jordan holmes
That's kind of sad.
So, yay, bankruptcy issues.
Right.
Can't do anything.
Oh, no.
The government comes in.
G-Men come in deposition stuff.
dan friesen
The adjustment bureau shows up through a door with their hats.
jordan holmes
Totally.
100%.
And they're like, listen, we'll take care of this for you.
dan friesen
We got you.
jordan holmes
But you have to go on InfoWars.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, obviously also Gavin McGinnis's show.
Sure, Tim Poole's show.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
Twitter.
jordan holmes
But I mean, you know, like, but in this case, you have to wear a mask.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And bring Yoo Who and Annette.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, like, did they come up with this?
Because he didn't wear the mask on other shows.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Right?
Did they, were they like, specifically for Alex?
You wear the mask.
dan friesen
Also, no, he did wear the mask on the other show.
Well, no, he did.
Not on Tim Poole's show.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, I thought Gavin he did.
dan friesen
Oh, okay.
And then also part of the blackmail with taxes was that Alex had to keep him on air for three hours.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, yeah.
Alex absolutely cannot.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Also, this whole like the Nazis are actually gay theater students thing.
I thought that was about the Unite the Right rally.
Like that was his story for that.
Now it's American Nazi Party rallies in Austin that Alex has allegedly been to.
All right, whatever, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The trope of Jews creating their own oppression and what have you is a deeply anti-Semitic idea that trafficked.
And so, I mean, Alex, again, you are allowed to say these things, but you're kind of showing yourself a little bit.
jordan holmes
You shouldn't.
You shouldn't.
dan friesen
They seem very dumb.
And anti-Semitic.
jordan holmes
Very much so.
dan friesen
So Alex talks about Memorial Day, baby.
Sure.
He talks about.
jordan holmes
He's got a memorial.
dan friesen
He talks about some of his family members who have served.
jordan holmes
Sure, yes.
That is what we should be doing.
dan friesen
Except, I don't think that this is somebody who died in service.
So Veterans Day, not Memorial Day.
jordan holmes
It's not their day.
dan friesen
No, but he's still going to talk about it.
And apparently he had a relative who was involved in Iran-Contra.
alex jones
When my uncle died about seven, eight years ago, he was a Vietnam war hero, an amazing guy.
We dug through his stuff, and it was like, wow, all the awards he got, all the stuff doesn't sound real.
All these silver stars, you name it.
And the point is, he was always such a great stand-up guy.
I probably might be a favorite extended family member, super smart, and hated the new laws of the U.S. government was run by a bunch of pedophiles.
And that's what leads me to this next moment.
He said, there's always going to be a point where you're working in a system where it gets so bad you make a decision to keep your soul or to fight it.
It was about a year before he died of pneumonia.
He was in great shape.
He shot pneumonia and died.
And I said, what do you mean?
And he said, well, you know, I was doing stuff in Central America and South America.
I ran contrary.
I didn't give him the details.
That was all secret as an army officer.
But he said it was kids.
He said the government was smuggling kids out of orphan's in Guatemala and giving them to really bad people.
And he had to get out of it at that point.
Well, now you see that majorly upscaled going on in front of everybody.
So imagine how big that is.
And even in my family, my mother's brother witnessed that.
dan friesen
You'll never believe what a higher coincidence this is that that's exactly the story that Larry Nichols tells.
jordan holmes
So weird.
So weird how that works.
dan friesen
It's not only like against the odds that this would be a family member of Alex's, but that one of his sources would have the exact same story and present things in the exact same way of you have to say it, you have to choose between your soul, you know, like, oh, and that he uncovered that they were dealing in kids and they had to get out.
And yeah, that's the wow.
What are the odds?
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's almost like we're not the only people who memorialized Larry Nichols' passing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We have finally got another an RIP Larry Nicholson stolen your store.
dan friesen
Larry Nichols is Alex's uncle.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's so easy to wow.
That's stealing a dead man's story is rough.
dan friesen
Who cares?
They're all like, they're all liars and con people.
So like, why not?
jordan holmes
It's like the Bundy standoff where they're all sitting around the fire telling war stories that they were never a part of.
dan friesen
Well, you know, I feel like when I die, I would not mind if my organs were given to people to give them a, you know, to be able to continue on with their lives.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, absolutely.
dan friesen
In the same way, con men, I'm sure, are fine with their lives being used for further cons.
jordan holmes
Do you think you bequeath your cons?
dan friesen
You have to sign your back your life.
jordan holmes
I mean, I was wondering, is there a deed to the con?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's property.
Not intellectual, but it's property.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you know, you got to do what you got to do.
dan friesen
So we actually have one last clip here because Alex not having a hot one.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, he's in a hotel room.
dan friesen
And he is for the next few days after this.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Same hotel room.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Still there, as far as I can tell.
We're recording this on Thursday, and I not checked his show today, but you might still be in that room.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Two weeks going on since he's been in the studio.
jordan holmes
Got to get back into the studio.
dan friesen
Come on, man.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I'm for, I'm, I'm pro-work from home.
Yeah.
You can handle that.
We work from home, obviously.
I'm anti-work from hotel.
That's just the wrong place to do it.
dan friesen
But what about when we were down in Austin for the trial?
We worked from a hotel.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
We did a lot of work and I went crazy.
dan friesen
No, that was because you were on Twitter too much.
unidentified
There's a lot of places to go crazy.
dan friesen
So, yeah, Alex talks a little bit here about the, there's a source that the John Birch Society had.
And I found it interesting that he was able to pull this name because he's now one for specifics.
And I'll be honest with you, not a satisfying last clip for an episode.
Doesn't really put a button on anything.
But here we are.
alex jones
And the John Birch Society had people in the Pentagon that were patriots, like Fletcher Prouty, who ran the major regime change operations, U.S. government.
They had people like Fletcher Prouty and others giving them all the intel.
Men that were in the briefing rooms being told this whole plan.
And these men are in these meetings going, this is horrible, and giving it out to the John Burks Society.
dan friesen
Man, a lot of people involved in overthrow operations that Alex admires, like Steve Pieczenik.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Miss that guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
What if he was in the hotel?
jordan holmes
Oh my God, that's what you do.
dan friesen
Right.
You got to have a bring him in as housekeeper.
unidentified
You got to have the reveal of it being him the whole time.
dan friesen
Alex, do you not leave a tip?
jordan holmes
Alex, come on.
Look at the sheets.
dan friesen
So that's not a great name for Alex to pull out as the secret source for the John Burch Society.
Fletcher Proudy did have a long career in the services, but he's also kind of remembered as a lunatic.
Sure.
Proudy has been involved in a number of incorrect conspiracy assertions over the years, mostly revolving around the JFK assassination.
He was so important to that stuff that it's said that he was the inspiration for Donald Sutherland's character in Oliver Stone's JFK.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
He also had a penchant for targeting people unnecessarily and incorrectly for things that would bolster his conspiracy claims, which is pretty similar to Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that seems right on the parfur course.
dan friesen
For instance, he casts suspicion on Louis Witt, who would come to be known as the umbrella man, who was an innocent bystander at the JFK assassination.
He also inaccurately accused a man named Alexander Butterfield of being a CIA liaison with the White House.
That was not true.
He's essentially a shit talker with little credibility.
Also, much like Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, like Alex, he had a tendency to keep bad company.
He was pretty involved with the Church of Scientology and was called upon by them to be an expert witness to back up L. Ron Hubbard's ridiculous claims about his medical service or his military service.
jordan holmes
Oh, wow.
dan friesen
So again, this is a person with almost no credibility and shady assumption associations.
jordan holmes
You know, it is shocking how far you can get with bullshit and confidence.
Yeah.
It is truly shocking.
The history that is made out of bullshit and confidence is unparalleled.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
So like he is responsible for like having an affidavit that suggested that L. Ron Hubbard's military service might be sheep-dipped.
It might be a situation where there's a lot of stuff being intentionally withheld because he was involved in high-level naval intelligence.
jordan holmes
Sure he was by that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Sure he was.
dan friesen
So that's the guy who was secretly feeding all this intel to the JBS.
unidentified
Man.
jordan holmes
Giving yourself, putting that on paper, an affidavit.
dan friesen
Yep.
I was unable to tell exactly if he was actually in Scientology or if he was just somebody that was willing to serve as an expert witness for them on stuff that he wasn't necessarily an expert on nor knew anything about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Either way, not good.
jordan holmes
It seems like he would be prime for both opportunities.
One, if you're L. Ron, you're thinking, oh, this guy, he's on the edge of Scientology already.
I don't need to do much but watch him fall.
Or you're thinking, this guy will say whatever I pay him to.
dan friesen
Who knows?
But like, it's an interesting name for him for Alex to pull out.
jordan holmes
It was so specific.
dan friesen
Fletcher Proudy.
jordan holmes
It was very specific.
dan friesen
How do you know that?
jordan holmes
I think he knows a lot more about the John Birch Society than even we think.
dan friesen
Maybe it's hard to believe.
jordan holmes
It is, but I really think that it's possible.
dan friesen
But if he does, then it's a lot more damning of a picture than maybe even.
Well, that's the thing.
Like, I think it's always been my sense that a lot of that John Birch Society's stuff is things that he read as a kid and things that were culturally part of the household.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So a lot of the ideas and the belief system is there, and he has that, and it's part of who he is and his cultural and intellectual tradition.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But then the specifics of things like Fletcher Proudy, that kind of throws me off a little bit.
jordan holmes
Here's my theory on it.
And I'm going to throw this out, and I'm going to say that this is based on some experience.
I feel as we watch his decline, we are seeing some of those onion layers get pulled back as he becomes more and more desperate.
dan friesen
Wow, he's in a hotel room.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
And I think he is relying.
He's spoken more about JBS, I feel like, in the past year or two than he has in any of our investigations.
You know what I'm saying?
I think as we see stuff get fall, as he declines, as he disintegrates, we see what his core really is, and it's fucking JBS, man.
dan friesen
Yeah, sure.
There is more talk about JBS in the same way that the really grotesque and extreme devil talk became more as things progressed.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
I mean, who knows?
That leads us to a real question of what do we get?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's the core peach pit of Alex's.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
It's probably bad.
jordan holmes
That Grinch's heart's not going to go three sizes.
I'll tell you that right now.
No, ma'am.
dan friesen
The Who's are all dead.
jordan holmes
They are dead.
We have ended up.
dan friesen
He's not there to steal Christmas.
jordan holmes
Christmas is mine.
dan friesen
He's defending the Second Amendment, breaking into houses, gun grabbing who's.
Hell yeah.
So we'll be back, Jordan, with another episode.
And Alex, I will check in and cover his hotel antics.
jordan holmes
Oh, for sure.
dan friesen
But I do want him to get back to studio.
This vacation's gone on too long.
jordan holmes
Too long.
dan friesen
He's not in prime mid-season form when he's in a hotel room sitting by himself.
Yeah.
And it's just kind of a bummer to imagine that he's sitting there having a drink at noon and then he's just going to go to the pool afterwards.
It's like, this sucks.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Get back to work, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
And it makes him sad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You can tell that sitting there in front of the computer doing the show is.
dan friesen
He's just in a t-shirt, just kind of like, it's not the InfoWar.
jordan holmes
You know, it's a show.
That's the thing.
It's a show.
dan friesen
When he's in studio.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But I mean, make a show.
If you're going to do a show, you have to make a show.
You can't just be in your fucking hotel room.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know what?
It's just a Zoom interview or something.
Yeah.
It's soft.
jordan holmes
Unless you do a bit, in which case you got yourself a show.
dan friesen
That would have been fantastic.
jordan holmes
That would have been fantastic.
dan friesen
If Rob Dew comes in another week, I got you ice.
jordan holmes
All right, Dew.
dan friesen
So we'll be back.
But until then, Jordan, we have a website.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's AdDallah Judge ScoreFight.
dan friesen
Yeah, we'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
Still haven't come up with a new bit, but boop, boop.
unidentified
Woo, yeah!
Woo!
Yeah!
jordan holmes
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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