Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ October 7, 2023, emergency episode, where he falsely blamed Shin Bet/Mossad for ignoring Hamas attacks while pushing Biden’s $6B Iranian asset deal as complicity. Jones equated Israeli bombings with Hamas terrorism, ignoring systemic oppression, and pivoted to promoting The Great Awakening—co-authored with anti-vaccine activist Kent Heckenlively—amid the conflict, exploiting tragedy for profit. His "Fortress of Joy" branding and Fight Club-style "Operation Renaissance" claims reveal a self-serving, chaotic worldview that prioritizes spectacle over substance, proving his legacy is built on manipulation rather than truth. [Automatically generated summary]
We took a little bit of, you know, it wasn't that long of a break, but a break from recording to put out the live episodes, and it feels like it has been quite a while.
And the way I conceive of that is similar to the Endgame breakdown that we did.
I feel like anybody who takes that film seriously needs only listen to our podcast or look at the bibliography that is a breakdown of his bibliography to realize you should not take this seriously.
I would like to, and I intend to, create this for every piece of work that he has put out.
Not necessarily every episode of his show, because that's kind of what the podcast is.
It was like 70 and then 40 and then 60 and now it's 50. No, and it is like, oh, I'm so shocked we have sinus issues whenever we're from Illinois and it's going from 80 to 40. Sure.
Also, I had a fun moment when I was sick, or after I was sick.
I don't know if it's right for me to associate necessarily the flavored vapes that I've gotten with getting sick, but I feel like they make my throat feel bad.
A couple times that I've bought this brand, I've felt not well afterwards, and so I went into the vape shop, and previous bright spot, the guy at the vape shop was there, and I was like, man, I think those flavored ones, they're great, they're fun, but I think they make me sick.
No, I mean, it is weird, because I don't know how to...
I was trying to get in the mind of the anti-Semites and how they would react to this, and it's like, I don't know, because they hate Jews, obviously, anti-Semites.
Some of those words that are kind of close to Hawaiian or Polynesian, I think I can handle those a little better than others, just based on my childhood.
That one I was interested in, to see how you did, because I was reading the phonetic, and I was like, I think Dan might be able to get this one sight unseen.
It's not complicated circumstance in the world, and I don't believe that it does anything to sway my belief that Palestinian liberation is important and necessary.
I don't think that killing civilians is a way to go about it.
I think that Hamas is way out of line, and this is atrocious.
And I think that Israel is also atrocious for what they're doing in response.
I don't know how else to discuss this or to make a position clear.
I don't know enough to speak confidently and competently about this, but those are sort of some broad feelings that I have.
Is something that I think a lot of the, not necessarily a lot of the more sort of thoughtful analysis, but a lot of the responses that I've seen, particularly on social media, lose track of that unacceptable status quo.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just...
I don't have a solution.
I don't have any deeper insight than other people.
I saw a couple of points made wrongly and insanely, but that actually have a very important kernel of truth in them.
And that was people being like, oh, this is 9-11.
Remember where we were on 9-12?
That kind of thing.
And I think that is a really, really good way to look at this.
On 9-12...
Everybody in the United States was so fucking stupid and so absolutely emotionally wrecked that we went for the next 20 years believing a bunch of idiots and committing genocide.
We spent trillions upon trillions of dollars that could have gone towards climate change and instead went towards making it worse and killing people.
So wherever you land on what is happening in the current situation, what blood you want or revenge or restorative justice or nothing, whatever you want out of the moment, what is going to happen is...
There's a good chance you're going to allow these monsters to run roughshod over the world for the next 20 years.
Well, the crew was going to get a day off today, but I called them and they came in and I really appreciate them because I woke up at about 5:00 AM this morning and Hezbollah slash Iran had launched a massive attack in the south of Israel in the central areas and in the north with kamikaze paragliders.
With kamikaze drones, with thousands, over 5,000 missiles.
Biggest attack on Israel in decades.
Now there's a lot of news and a lot of coverage of this.
In less than 10 hours, we've seen more coverage of what's happening in Israel than what we've seen in a year and a half in the exploding war between NATO and Russia in Ukraine.
Hezbollah operates out of Lebanon to the north of Israel, and they did take credit for firing some rockets, but they were into disputed territory, and not necessarily...
Before I drill through all what's currently happening, let's get the big takeaways here.
First off, and I'm not attacking Israel here, but I'm stating a fact.
There is no way that Shinbat and the Mossad did not know that Iran, who's running this, was gearing up for this.
This is a massive attack with tens of thousands of militia soldiers, over 5,000 missiles and growing, hundreds of men on paragliders coming in, groups in motorcycles and bulldozers smashing through barbed wire and walls.
This is massive.
And, of course, they struck during the Sabbath on Saturday when they would have lower levels of security forces.
But if you don't think that that border between Gaza Strip and Israel isn't the most militarized on the planet, you're not informed.
So I'm not saying that isn't a real Hezbollah attack.
I'm not saying Iran isn't behind it.
Of course they are.
I think it's a terrible situation.
It's kind of out of control.
But the big takeaway here is they're calling it the biggest intelligence failure in Israeli history.
Just like 9-11, the biggest intelligence failure in U.S. history.
But they had nothing but thousands of warnings and knew the exact specifics, and there were stand-downs taken.
This will definitely help Benjamin Yett and Yahoo.
Well, I mean, I think what I've been thinking about that is that it is such an interesting question to me, not because did they know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What matters is that it did happen, right?
So you have two options now.
You have either they had information, You've got more than two options.
They had information and they deliberately ignored it to achieve the outcome that they desired.
They had information but couldn't understand it or couldn't parse it in such a way that made it useful.
A lot of what I've been seeing is that there were warnings that came in that were general.
In a sense.
And Netanyahu's government was too focused on issues in the West Bank, where there had been outbreaks of violence, that a lot of the attention was there.
Additionally, a lot of attention was being put on this judicial reform that Netanyahu was trying to pass, and they underestimated what could be organized within Gaza.
And that is a completely plausible...
Explanation for an intelligence failure.
You don't need to say they let this happen just based on it being unlikely.
Yeah, I mean, ultimately you have to keep coming back to, I keep coming back to, as far as all of the intelligence agencies are concerned, when it comes to what they are sold to me as doing, which is protecting us by gathering information and then, you know, stopping things before they happen.
That sales pitch.
Is the exact opposite from what they do, which is not any of that, and they choose information to fuck people over with.
Anyway, the point is that Alex is, that's his editorial line that he's taking, is that this was allowed to happen in order to bring in New World Order stuff or something.
Part of the arrangement was that Iran could only use this unfrozen asset, this amount, for, quote, things like food, medicine, medical equipment, and the like, according to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
And the unfreezing, the account is also wholly regulated by the U.S. Treasury Department, so funds couldn't be disputed.
to support groups like Hamas or Hezbollah.
Now, at the same time, people like Alex would say, yeah, other funds are then diverted to support these groups and then this money makes up the shortfall and then I guess the argument is just don't let anybody have any money.
And you can dispute the wisdom of negotiating for hostages or if unfreezing these funds was the appropriate thing to do, but it's an incredible reach to make a connection between this act and the recent attack.
Bare minimum, the Israeli military and Mossad knew that a big buildup was coming.
They may not have known the exact moment.
But there's no way to have tens of thousands of people that participated in this, tens of thousands, on the Arab side, on the Muslim side, on the Palestinian side, on the Iranian side, on the side of the occupied areas, or unoccupied, or those different zones with the expanding Jewish settlements going into them.
So, no one can debate.
That Benjamin Netanyahu was given briefings in the last week that an imminent attack, a massive attack was coming.
They've got Arab spies all over the Gaza Strip to the south and the Golan Heights to the north and all the rest of it.
You can't swing a stick in the dark and not hit an Israeli asset.
Okay?
So, the fact that the Israelis didn't know this was coming, Is balderdash.
So, I mean, Alex can say whatever he wants about the human spy potential, but from other things that I've been reading, you know, folks, particularly even folks within the Israeli government, they've talked about how...
There's been an over-reliance on surveillance capabilities, particularly in the Gaza area.
Israel relied heavily on technological superiority, and from comments that I've heard, Hamas just used that against them by eschewing things like technology when they were planning meetings and stuff.
That is the thing that should give all of us the most pause.
Anytime somebody starts throwing 9-11 rhetoric around, everyone should stop, be like, somebody's fucking up here, we need to slow it down, cool it down, nobody can talk like this ever again.
Or, at the very least, if you're using 9-11 rhetoric and such, let's make sure that your thoughts aren't drifting into the solutions that were used after 9-11.
At least show some indication that you learned some lessons from the post-9-11 period.
The minute I woke up this morning and saw this, I thought, wow, Iran is trying to draw Israel into a full war.
They think they're ready.
And sure enough, later, the mullahs were like, we want a full war with Israel.
We're ready.
Why are they ready?
I was told by high-level individuals over a decade ago that Iran already has atomic bombs.
And that's one reason Israel and the U.S. haven't moved against them.
It's all we got to stop them from getting a bomb.
You know, technically, fact checkers say Jones is wrong.
Iran doesn't have a bomb.
I saw a guy on Joe Rogan last month attacking me saying, Jones says a lot of stuff is true, but I heard him say a decade ago that Iran has atomic bombs.
Well, buddy, you don't know people flying around in the airplanes and that have access to the satellites like I do, who told me they have the signature scanners.
Particle scanners that tell them that they've got atomic bombs.
Okay.
And so we'll just see who's right in the end.
But the point is, to all the fools that don't think Iran has nuclear weapons, no one knew India had them for a long time.
No one knew Pakistan had them for a long time, decades ago.
And it turned out they'd had them for decades.
And you don't think it's only Americans in the 1940s that can make an atomic bomb.
I think Alex is explaining that us racists sometimes minimize what we think brown people are capable of doing intellectually, and we should maybe not think that way.
Let's hold on to our racism, but realize that that's fucked up.
Yeah, and I mean, there is a part of me that says the only thing that's smart to do with nuclear weapons is to give every single nation one nuclear weapon as a memorial to how fucking stupid we all are.
I would say that's a bad idea.
It is a bad idea, but it's a bad idea for anybody to have them, and it's a worse idea for the United States and Russia to have them just because we're the only people who've almost already destroyed the entire group multiple times.
Preparing for that happening, like a nuclear war launching off, is kind of tough and maybe not worth your time because if we get to that point, everything you could have prepared for is now unpredictable.
Well, sure, but there is a difference between trying to get relations on a more solid footing as a way to possibly get more progress in the future towards shared...
Yeah.
There's a difference between that and the very real military alliance between Russia and Iran.
Here's Jack Posobiec tweeting, one month ago, Trump predicted the $6 billion that Biden gave Iran would be used for terror attacks across the Middle East and specifically kidnapping.
This is exactly what we're seeing in Israel this morning.
And here's Trump.
Can you believe the crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 billion to the terrorist regime in Iran?
That money would be used for terrorism all in the Middle East and indeed the world.
This incompetent fool is absolutely destroying America.
He had the capacity, I mean the audacity, to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th, to pay for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom and blackmail against Americans across the globe.
I've freed many dozens of people from various unfriendly countries and never paid a dime.
And we've got new statements by Trump.
They're up on Infowars.com, where he is blaming Iran.
And I think that's the main culprit with the actual funding, though they're working with the Shiites.
We'll pull this up.
It's on Infowars.com.
Perhaps you guys can print me the story, but here it is.
Trump blasts Biden for Hamas attack on Israel.
American taxpayer-funded dollars helped these attacks.
And the issue that you run into with this, and one of the things that I find particularly offensive about it is, I mean, the issue of what's happening in Gaza is a very serious issue that requires people paying attention, people caring.
Yeah.
And Alex is turning this into a petty political thing.
This is Trump trying to score points on Biden.
And Alex, a lot of his coverage is in service of furthering that goal for Trump.
And I find that to be pretty offensive and distasteful.
Why is it totally accepted reasoning for so many people to think, like, entrusting violent children in the hands of a psychopath is the best way to keep us all safe?
I mean, it is like, how is it possible that people believe that Trump being in control of a military is going to keep you more safe?
There is a story, there's a narrative with characters, and everything else, everyone who's not a character in that narrative is disposable and useless and pointless and is just there as set decoration.
Former President Trump said today he blamed Joe Biden for the Palestinian terror group.
Hamas surprised out on Israel, citing his administration's unfreezing of billions of funds to Iran last month.
These Hamas attacks are a disgrace, and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, with many reports are saying came from the Biden administration.
I'm sorry?
more rapid pace than anyone thought possible.
Here we go again.
On September 8th, Secretary Blinken undertook the procedural step of ongoing process to ensure Iranian funds can move from restricted account to another and remain restricted to humiliate to Humanitarian aid.
National Security Council spokesman Andrea Watson said in a statement, as we have said from the outset, what is being pursued here is an arrangement where we secure the release of five wrongfully held Americans.
This remains a sensitive and ongoing process.
So again, Trump is saying that the money came from Iran.
Obviously, he's got a lot of good sources.
So I just instinctively know that Iran is normally the one that's able to launch.
Or fund attacks of this size, and Hamas has not been able to, but Hamas is taking the main credit.
That way then, just the Gaza Strip gets bombed, and there's not a larger war with Iran.
But I think Israel is going to blame Iran, and I think Israel's going to at least bomb Iran, and maybe go to full war with Iran.
Yeah, I mean, there's no way for you to build a conspiracy out of...
An apartheid state will inevitably create a terrorist organization that tries to take down the apartheid state, only reinforcing the power of the apartheid state.
That is simply how it goes.
That's the cycle of the apartheid state.
That's not a conspiracy.
That's not like Netanyahu knew this was coming so much as it is by virtue of creating a government that does this.
You create this thing also, a force of opposition to that government.
Iran has smuggled in and infiltrated this country.
They report thousands a month coming across the Texas border.
Military-age men from Iran and from other Shiite countries.
And they are very serious fighters, and they are willing to die in suicide missions.
And if we ever do go to full war with Iran, they are going to activate those groups.
To do very similar things to what you just saw done to Israel.
And that's going to be terrible for those that get killed or the power grid that gets attacked.
We know Iran's been looking at that.
But what I'm really worried about is how our liberties and freedoms will be taken.
Because there's a, quote, Muslim threat on 9-11, so we then lose all our rights on the Patriot Act, whose main mission is Trump supporters and the American people today.
It was less than a week ago that we were doing an episode about Alex insisting that Biden was letting in military-aged men at the southern border because they were trying to purge the military and create an all-immigrant policing force.
Now, apparently, the military-aged men threat you need to be scared about is the Hezbollah fighters who have come in and are comprising sleeper cells in the United States.
When they activate, they'll be used to take away the freedom of American people and demonize Trump supporters.
If you listen to Alex's show, you should realize the way these touch points are constantly recontextualized to make you fear different things depending on what Alex's...
Yeah.
Use it two wholly different ways.
Within the span of like a week and a half.
And then look at the other detail.
The attack on the power grid.
Alex has constantly said that the globalists are going to do that to blame Russia.
I don't think that what's going on in Israel and Gaza is really that resonant to a lot of Alex's audience from an emotional standpoint.
You can have fear of geopolitics in an abstract sense, but bringing it home to where they need to now be scared of Hezbollah fighters when they're trying to go to the grocery store.
So, one thing I want to drive into, like, real sharp focus for you is that at the beginning of this show, Alex said he woke up at five in the morning and there was this news, and so he called in the staff.
They were going to have the day off, so he called them in to do this emergency report.
And I don't care whether it's the Israeli leadership or the German leadership or the U.K. leadership or the Canadian leadership or the U.S. leadership or any of it.
At the top, they're eugenicists, globalists, transhumanists that think we're all a bunch of animals.
Yuval Noah Harari is Jewish.
He's the main spokesman for the World Economic Forum.
We're going to talk about him in a moment with an expert.
And his quotes, go read them as, the human error is over.
Humans will be extinct soon.
AI will be God and rule you.
Well, Hitler just said that the future's not these groups.
That was bad enough.
This guy's up there saying the future's not human.
The end of the human era is here.
And that we'll be extinct by 2050.
Well, that sounds as bad as Hitler as it gets, but he's a chicken-neck, gay, Jewish guy.
So it's like, well, he's a chicken-neck, you know, Jewish guy, so he's non-threatening, you know, like...
Tim Cook runs giant slave camps, the worst in China, using Uyghur slaves, but he's gay, and he wears a turtleneck and has a little neck.
Like, well, he's non-threatening and talks with a lisp.
Oh, Sergey Brin and all these guys, Larry Page, they're like nerds, so they're non-threatening.
They know that, folks, and you want to compare them to Hitler, they say the future's not human.
Hitler just said the future's Aryan.
And he's going to take over and kill everybody else, and that's terrible.
But you see how all the other racial groups act.
Every other group has their supremacist.
Every other group organizes and says, we're the best, we're the kings, we're the chosen people.
Everybody does that.
Except Christians that unify everybody under Christ.
Hamas is the main group that runs the government in the Gaza Strip.
There's millions of people there in the Gaza Strip.
It is a hellhole.
They routinely get bombed by the Israelis.
They bombed the Israelis back.
It's a 75-year war.
It's terrible.
It needs to be fixed.
But this is definitely not going to fix it.
And taking hostages and targeting civilians is not good.
But let's just be honest, and I'm not endorsing what they did.
I'm not endorsing the Israelis dropping 1,000 and 2,000-pound bombs on apartment buildings and killing women and children en masse.
So if you want to call Hamas or Hezbollah a terrorist, And I think targeting civilians is terrible.
Well, then, what is Israel doing?
What is Obama doing when he'd blow up a whole Arab Muslim wedding and kill 100-something people and say, well, we killed the one guy we wanted, so it's collateral damage.
So before we criticize Hamas or Hezbollah, we have to criticize our own government, and we have to criticize the Israeli government.
And I get war.
Look, my dad's dad flew over.
You know, Italian cities, that was mainly in his missions out of North Africa, bombing what they thought were German targets.
But they killed a lot of Italians, folks.
Let's get that straight.
So, I mean, I'm not here judging anybody in these wars.
War is a terrible thing.
So he did some things into Germany, too, but only a few missions.
So my grandfather flew around dropping bombs on German cities, okay?
And on Italian cities.
Mainly on the West Coast when the U.S. invasion went in there.
It was air cover.
My other grandfather didn't do many missions until his plane broke and he crash landed and almost got killed.
He was lucky.
He only did a few missions.
But the point is that he was a fighter pilot.
But the point is that that's where we are, ladies and gentlemen.
So I don't judge Jerry Jones, my grandfather, under orders, dropping 500-pound bombs on German houses.
But I'm just saying, don't call Hezbollah and them running into people's houses and shooting men, women, and children terrorists unless you're going to call what everybody else is doing.
And I'm not defending any of it.
I think it's terrible the Russians are shelling and the Ukrainians are shelling, and they're just indiscriminately.
But that's what war is, and that's why Sean Penn and the left and all of them are wrong.
We want to end war.
We want to stop war.
We want this to not go on anymore.
This is not good.
and it's getting out of control, and it dehumanizes us.
He's saying that if you're going to cast aspersions at groups like Hamas, you have to also realize the reality of what the conditions that Palestinians are living under due to the Israeli government.
The thing you have to understand is that this is all talk.
And you can tell, by the way, he tries to connect things to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Alex will say many decent-sounding things about opposing war and how both sides in a conflict will act in ways that are bad for the average civilian, and you can agree with that.
But, if you pay attention, he has a habit of siding with the group that did the invading, or the side that has a disproportionate amount of power.
He speaks seemingly sensibly about wanting to see an end to war, but the conditions that are required for that war to end, in his estimation, usually involve a capitulation of one side.
The Ukraine war needs to end, and the way that it ends is they stop fighting back against Putin's invasion.
Bend and become subservient to the power that Alex supports, or you're needlessly sustaining war.
This case isn't too much different.
There's good lip service in some places throughout that clip, but Alex doesn't actually believe that the Israeli government's oppression of the Palestinian people is as morally condemnable as a Hamas attack.
That's absurd if you know anything about Alex's position and the way he's carried himself.
But you hear that and it's like, hmm, what's going on here?
But the real war is cutting off our energy, our fertilizer, our food, and it's killing already tens of millions of people extra a year.
So let's talk about the real war that isn't with guns and bullets coming up with Kent Heaven Lively, and we're going to talk about this book that is so timely.
This is an infomercial for Alex's book that ends up happening.
The expert guest that he has on Yuval Noah Harari is the ghost writer of his previous book, Kent Hicken-Lively, and the guy who is now credited as a co-writer on his second book, probably because he wanted to...
Get a little more money because Alex fucked him out of it on the first one.
I would assume.
I would assume that that is the case because his name is almost nowhere on the first book.
You have to go deep to the back to find his involvement as the actual writer of the Great Reset book that Alex wrote.
And the only real explanation you can come up with is that...
He knew that this would be something that would get a lot of attention, get a lot of eyes here, and so he's going to make the most out of it, exploiting the situation in Israel and Gaza by doing an infomercial for his book.
All right, it's 1.24 Central Time, Emergency Saturday.
October 7th, Transmission.
Kent Heckenleimely is an amazing author and researcher and helped me do the book, The Great Reset, and now the new book, The Great Awakening, Defeating the Globalist and Launching the Next Great Renaissance.
It's on pre-order.
It's in our warehouse and starts shipping on the 20th.
You can order it at Amazon.com to send us number one or get signed copies as a fundraiser to keep us on air at InfoWars4.com and we need your support.
We have unsigned copies there as well.
All right, Kent.
Wow, what a day to get you on.
You were supposed to be on an hour ago, but I had to get more crew in here to do research and prepare for this.
I was going to tape a show that we were going to air with you on Monday, but wow, this is all going on and unfolding the situation in Israel.
Neither could I. And to me, the situation that I was in was when I heard this news, obviously I was horrified for the people involved.
The innocent civilians who were...
We're going to die, have died, or are going to suffer because of this.
It's horrifying and awful.
My second thought a little bit later was, I do not want to hear what Alex has to say about this.
I am dreading what this is going to be.
And when I got to listening to this episode, I could never have imagined that the second half of it, a full half of it, Would be an infomercial for his book.
You do the hour special report or whatever, going over your thoughts about how this is secretly Hezbollah and what have you.
You do that.
You go off air.
You pre-record this.
And then you put it out on Monday.
You don't continue doing this as your live show because you know that eyes are on your product because of deeply traumatic and scary news that's coming out about geopolitics.
News that you're exacerbating by insisting everyone's about to get nuked.
I made a lot of crazy claims to you, and you said 99% of them you could actually find were actually accurate, and then the few times I had just kind of twisted something or flipped it and got it backwards, then we were able to find out what I was actually saying.
What was the process like of the book, and let's talk about what's in it.
Yeah, so what was great, and I really want your audience to know this, I never found you telling me a single thing.
Kind of went along with that.
Kind of went along with that.
You know, there was something that I didn't trust about the source.
But I was really clear that you had heard it.
And, you know, when people ask me, what's it like writing for Alex Jones?
I say, the man has an incredible memory, recall, you know, I'll say something like...
Well, gee, you know, really get me this David Rockefeller-China relationship.
And you'll go, well, Kent, you know, go to the New York Times, 1973, you know, January.
And suddenly I type it in and I find, you know, David Rockefeller talking about what a wonderful place China is, even though they just went through the Cultural Revolution where they killed millions.
That's what I really come away appreciating about you is all your broadcasts are informed by an extensive amount of reading of these documents that these...
Evil globalists have put out.
And so, you know, I really encourage people, take a look at what Alex is saying, because it's based on his own deep research.
And that's why, really, it was so great to work with you, because I could always trust that I would find what you told me to go looking for.
It's one of the things that I like about myself is that I have a very vivid imagination that can go all kinds of places.
Somehow, I mean, and almost it reflects positively on me because it would not have ever occurred to me were I to imagine evil that this is something that evil could do, you know?
It is truly like, wow, I genuinely thought...
Because to me, everybody who says people aren't people.
This people is different.
We're all one people.
This guy makes me feel like we're not all one people, man!
Thoughtless, almost materialist business person in Alex's position.
I really sincerely think that, okay, we had planned and scheduled that we were going to do this infomercial about the book that was going to air on Monday.
I don't have any other time that I can do this.
But man, this is shitty.
This would look really bad for me.
Yeah.
I think the best thing to do would be, we'll record it another time.
We can have Harrison Smith sit in on Monday.
You can fill the time with whatever the fuck.
This seems to me like it would be such a...
Disqualifying decision to make that I would avoid it, but apparently it's not.
Yeah, I was trying to think, like, I'm trying to compare it to, like, whenever you see the CEOs who think that they're very objective, you know, like, in order to get down inflation, we need to make sure that the labor market has a higher unemployment rate.
That's where, you know, like, doing that whole thing where they're like, what you're literally saying is that you want more people to starve so you can control their labor.
We are reaching that kind of, like, hipster level of purity, you know, where you're like, oh, wow, you're just not going to get this concentration anywhere else.
There's some big surprises coming up next week, and you're watching this live on Saturday.
We're going to air this for big parts of it for an hour on Monday.
I won't be in studio, and it's not because I'm on vacation.
When people think I'm on vacation, I'm not on vacation.
My wife and daughter might be with me when I go on the road and they're off at the museum or the planetarium or the aquarium or at the beach if we're by the beach.
I'm not doing that, folks, other than maybe an hour a day with them.
It's cooler than Fight Club because we're not communist blowing up Wall Street.
But it's the real Fight Club.
And let's just say this.
My work off-air is just as important as the on-air work.
I've really reached, by the grace of God, the Lord works mysterious ways, a point now where, and the enemy knows this, they've got our phones tapped and stuff, but the public hasn't quite figured it out yet.
And I don't deserve this, but I'm now recognized as kind of the Tyler Durgan behind the scenes with some of the biggest names out there.
And a lot of that's going to start coming out because we're not launching Operation Chaos.
We're launching Operation Renaissance, Operation Great Awakening.
And because of all this, I've convinced a lot of people that now know I'm right to listen to me about how to challenge this and how to fight this.
So all glory goes to God, spiritually, temporarily, to the audience, the crew, and everybody else.
If they kill me, I didn't commit suicide like Matt Gaetz just said.
I would suspect that his version of Joy is something counter to my version of Joy.
Yeah.
So yeah, this, I feel like on the one level, you know, we're talking about the unimaginability of Alex doing an hour-long infomercial for his book.
In the context of something that he's gaining attention for and drawing people to based on exploitation of feelings surrounding the situation in Israel and Gaza.
And I think we've covered that territory pretty well.
And in the impossibleness of that task, I think we've done okay.
But let's zoom the camera out a tiny bit more.
If I'm Kent Hicken Lively, I cancel.
I'm not going to be a part of this.
How do you agree to go along with a chapter-by-chapter breakdown knowing that what's going on is Alex is exploiting the day's events in the world in order to bring attention to and hopefully move a few more books?
And on some level, it is less terrible to hear this content because it's mockable.
and it's something that relates to alex's personality and his psychology in a way that there's a distance there and i think that that is more palatable in some ways but is actually way way worse yeah than many of the things that he could well that's not true he could cause more damage talking about other things but this this is a more damning Yeah, I mean, I feel like this, what's fascinating about this to me...
So, to reiterate, obviously our hearts go out to the people in Israel and the Palestinian people who are suffering for the machinations of powerful people who exploit that power at their expense.
It's tragic and awful.
Terrorist acts.
Are condemnable wholly, and they do not take away from the fact that the Palestinian people deserve rights and freedom.