#915: August 29, 2005
In this installment, Dan and Jordan bid farewell to exploring 2004 and jump ahead to begin exploring Alex's coverage of the unfolding of Hurricane Katrina.
April 3, 2024 - Knowledge Fight
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| It's time to pray. | ||
| I have great respect for knowledge fight. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
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Dan and George. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding me. | ||
|
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm with you. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your word. | ||
|
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Knowledge Fight. | |
| KnowledgeFight.com. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody! | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are. | ||
| Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| I have a quick question for you. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| What's your bright spot today, buddy? | ||
| My bright spot today, I guess, actually, it's kind of like a ha-ha bright spot, as opposed to a, I don't actually know if it's great or anything, but... | ||
| I finished the UK second season of Traders. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| And I immediately realized that there's a second season of the Australian one. | ||
| And so that's my bright spot, is that that exists. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then I also saw that there's a season of, they're doing one from New Zealand. | ||
| Oh, alright, alright. | ||
| So there's more Traders than I thought that exists. | ||
| So that's there for me. | ||
| Yeah, it feels like they're on the Taskmaster scale of just being like, hey, listen. | ||
| This worked? | ||
| Let's put it everywhere that people speak English. | ||
| Let's do UK. | ||
| Let's do Australia. | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| And I did see on the Australia season, they have a guy named Luke who was on Australian Survivor. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I'm excited about that because that guy was pretty fun. | ||
| He was on a couple seasons. | ||
| But they don't have King George. | ||
| No. | ||
| They should have gotten King George. | ||
| Who's King George? | ||
| He's the guy from Australian Survivor who's a complete lunatic. | ||
| I don't even know how to describe him. | ||
| In the first season that he's on, he's one of the weirdest Survivor players I've ever seen. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then he comes back and he has a tattoo of an immunity idol on his chest. | ||
| All right, all right. | ||
| That he has gotten. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| He's very into his position as King George of Survivor. | ||
| It feels like maybe he's got that one on lockdown, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, he's a lot of fun. | ||
| I would have liked to see him on... | ||
| Immunity idol on the chest, eh? | ||
| Where would you put it? | ||
| I wouldn't do it. | ||
| I would think shoulder. | ||
| You know, I would think shoulder, maybe a calf. | ||
| You always wear the immunity necklace, though. | ||
| Oh, it's a necklace. | ||
| The immunity idol is usually a necklace. | ||
| I never watch The Survivor, so I don't know about that. | ||
| It's not a bracelet. | ||
| Otherwise, tattoo would be on the arm. | ||
| Sure, naturally, naturally. | ||
| I get that. | ||
| I thought an idol was something you held, like an Oscar statue. | ||
| I like Luke from Australian Survivor, but there's at least five people I think that I would have chosen before him as chaotic energies. | ||
| But he's good. | ||
| Anyway, I understand that there's another season of Australian Survivor, too, and I can't find it. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| I'm a bit behind on that. | ||
| But yeah, I guess my bright spot is foreign TV. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Mostly Australian and New Zealand-based TV. | ||
| It's always nice to watch TV from other countries. | ||
| I appreciate it because there is a certain level of, like, with our American culture and how it is so oppressively pushed everywhere else, you can get the idea that people have a homogenized media landscape. | ||
| Whereas, you know, you find stuff in other countries that you can't find elsewhere. | ||
| Like, in Germany, there's a show where they, like, if you can cut this perfectly in half... | ||
| You win. | ||
| That's a great show! | ||
| Sure. | ||
| There is a little bit of those quirks, but also, you know... | ||
| When you're complaining about the homogeneity, we are talking about... | ||
| The fact that we were talking about the show that was licensed into other countries to be the exact same thing, but elsewhere? | ||
| Yeah, so maybe it is an example of the exact opposite of... | ||
| Anyway, what's your bright spot? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I like that the Australian Traders takes place in a different house. | ||
| In a hotel? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It seems very... | ||
| And that they use silver instead of gold. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's confusing. | ||
| Especially since Australia is known for its gold deposits. | ||
| Isn't that the idea? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| Oh, anyways. | ||
| Their bright spot? | ||
| My bright spot is that I'm catching up on new music. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| It's been a while. | ||
| You know, the whole lost all of my music reserves thing, so now I'm getting back at it. | ||
| Getting back to the new stuff. | ||
| Catching up with all the 2024 releases, all that stuff. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| No name. | ||
| That's all you need to know. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| No name? | ||
| Well, I mean, she's amazing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's the second thing you need to know. | ||
| No name? | ||
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Amazing. | |
| She's amazing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Chicago rapper. | ||
| You should also know that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But more. | ||
| Poet. | ||
| Multimedia artist. | ||
| That's another thing we need to know. | ||
| Yeah, you gotta know that. | ||
| That's another multiple. | ||
| Okay, she's pretty important. | ||
| I've heard of her before. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, she's great. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Her most recent album? | ||
| Fucking incredible. | ||
| Came out this year? | ||
| I don't even remember. | ||
| I don't know because my hard drive and all that stuff, so I've just been catching up on all the stuff that I haven't been able to get to. | ||
| So I don't even know if it's this year. | ||
| I feel like it's this year or late last year. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| One or the other. | ||
| Can I tell you about a hot new band? | ||
| Yes, you can. | ||
| Newfound glory? | ||
| No, you cannot. | ||
| That is old-found glory. | ||
| It is, and it's less glorious. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over, and we're going to be in the past, but there's a plot twist. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And we'll get to that here in a moment. | ||
| The past is the present. | ||
| In some ways. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| But we'll get down to business on this, but before we do, let's say hello to some new wonks. | ||
| Ooh, that's a great idea. | ||
| So first, Jeff Newberry recommended Knowledge Fight, and now this is all I do. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, we call that a Donald J. Trump of crimes. | ||
| Also, Rosie is a butt. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, Cannibal Gang Barbecue Leader Lord Barbecue, a.k.a. | ||
| King Barbecue. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
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Thank you very much! | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, Brian T., the BT Robot. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we're a technocrat in the mix, Jordan. | ||
| So thank you so much to a couple who literally met because of your podcast, Kim and Connor. | ||
| Congratulations on getting married. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| I have risen above my enemies. | ||
| I might quit tomorrow, actually. | ||
| I'm just gonna take a little breaky now. | ||
| A little breaky for me. | ||
| And then we're going to come back, and I'm going to start the show over. | ||
| I'm the devil! | ||
| I've got to be taken off the air! | ||
|
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Fuck you! | |
| Fuck you! | ||
| I've got plenty of words for you, but at the end of the day, fuck you and your new world order, and fuck the horse you rode in on, and all your shit! | ||
| Maybe today should be my last broadcast. | ||
| Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years. | ||
| Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow, and you never see me again. | ||
| That's really what I want to do. | ||
| I never want to come back here again. | ||
| I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air. | ||
| I'll be better tomorrow. | ||
| Nah, never. | ||
| So, I told you we were in the past, but there's a twist. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Also, congratulations to the couple on their marriage. | ||
| Yes, very congratulations. | ||
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So... | |
| We've been in 2004, and we've been seeing the path that Alex is taking through the capture of Saddam Hussein, the insistence that there's going to be the bath parties being put back in power, and nothing was evolving. | ||
| No. | ||
| And I got to a point where I'm listening to a bunch of episodes in a row, and there's just nothing happening. | ||
| It is a dead zone, and I lost all interest in 2004. | ||
| I don't think that the bath party being put back... | ||
| is evolving in any meaningful way. | ||
| I think he's, at this point, pretty much forgotten that that was the storyline he was telling. | ||
| And I just, I don't see a whole lot happening. | ||
| We had that massive brain chip guy interview. | ||
| And that felt like this is gonna be revolutionary. | ||
| This is gonna become the next great season of content. | ||
| Should. | ||
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And that's just kind of disappointing. | |
| And so I found myself in a position where I had A past dangling thread that sucked, and then we have the present day that sucks. | ||
| And so I made an executive decision, and that is I'm done with 2004 for the present. | ||
| Good call. | ||
| For the present time, I'm going to put that part to bed where there may still be plenty more to learn deep in those hills to keep digging. | ||
| But I decided that our time, especially as we... | ||
| Shift focus off the present day is better used in another place. | ||
| And I think that a lot of the fertile lessons and things we can learn have come from going back to look at major events and stuff like the Boston bombing and Sandy Hook shooting. | ||
| And so I thought there's one thing that immediately popped to mind. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Is this a tie-in? | ||
| With X-Men 97, have you finally caved to the pressure of big business? | ||
| Are we going back to 1997? | ||
| I wish. | ||
| I mean, if I had Alex's shows from 97, I'd love to hear what he was up to then. | ||
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Oh, that would be fun. | |
| Yeah, no, I do not. | ||
| Although, Gambit does make an appearance. | ||
| Ooh, I knew it! | ||
| Well, I actually meant that as a joke, but this does have to do with Louisiana. | ||
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No shit! | |
| Yeah, kind of. | ||
| Well, we are always going down to the bayou. | ||
| Sorry, apologies for interrupting. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| You had to get that plug in. | ||
| Had to get it in there. | ||
| Had to get it in there. | ||
| Trying to cut in. | ||
| So, I feel like I wanted to find another event and something major that we haven't actually covered and we don't know exactly what Alex's actions were like. | ||
| Like, you know, I think a lot of people have a general sense of... | ||
| What was happening on the show on that day. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Good point. | |
| And so I think that there's value in going back and observing these things. | ||
| And one of the largest things that I could think of that is like that is Hurricane Katrina. | ||
| I know that Alex eventually uses it as like, there's gun grabbing and all that stuff going on. | ||
| We haven't listened to any of Alex's coverage during the time of the hurricane and the immediate aftermath of that. | ||
| So I decided we're going to jump to 2005 and check in on Alex's coverage of Hurricane Katrina as it happens, as things unfold. | ||
| I swear to God. | ||
| If Joe Rogan shows up on the day of Hurricane Katrina, I'm going to be furious. | ||
| You're fine? | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| You're fine. | ||
| Jesus Christ, that still makes me angry. | ||
| Paul Joseph Watson does, but no Rogan. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| But we don't know... | ||
| To be fair, it's a multi-day affair. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good point! | ||
| So Rogan could show up at some point. | ||
| If those two are behind every horrible incident, I'm going to be furious. | ||
| Or at least they have some kind of a... | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Some sort of an overlap. | ||
| Forrest Gump ass showing up at the wrong... | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| You ever read Forrest Gump 2? | ||
| You ever read Forrest Gump 2? | ||
| Is that a book? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Forrest Gump 2 is a book? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I did not know that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What does he do? | ||
| I only have brought this fresh to my memory because... | ||
| I was reading some stuff about the Exxon Valdez because of the boat crash. | ||
| The other recent episode. | ||
| And it jogged my memory because I read something about how in the second Forrest Gump book he causes the Exxon Valdez crash. | ||
| That is amazing. | ||
| There's a bunch more historical things that he gets... | ||
| It's a little bit more tackily done. | ||
| I like the idea of just putting every major incident is just Mr. Magoo behind the problem. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| That's kind of what Gump and Company is. | ||
| Yeah, that makes sense. | ||
| But anyway... | ||
| Gumpany? | ||
| So the Hurricane Katrina, it made... | ||
| Initial contact in Florida on the 25th of August. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so it goes through Florida and then into the Gulf of Mexico and hits Louisiana. | ||
| But my plans kind of got foiled a tiny bit. | ||
| And that is because I wanted to get a little bit of the coverage prior to the hurricane. | ||
| That's where I wanted to start. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| Because I wanted to see how much was Alex talking about this? | ||
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Right. | |
| Was this... | ||
| Potentially an emergency drill situation. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because, you know, he'll do things like that. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| He'll try and make the most out of something like we see with the eclipse now. | ||
| You see him doing a lot of preparation for what he can get out of a scenario. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| He's like a caveman. | ||
| It's like if you can predict something in advance, then you're the witch who caused it. | ||
| Or if you know enough about... | ||
| Something that's going to happen, you can lay track. | ||
| So no matter what happens, when that thing happens, you can incorporate it into the path that you're on. | ||
| And you do see him do that a bit. | ||
| And unfortunately, in August 2005, Alex has taken a vacation. | ||
| And so he is out of studio the entire week prior to, and during the initial Florida aspect of Hurricane Katrina. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| And so he doesn't show back up until the 29th. | ||
| Son of a bitch. | ||
| So he comes into studio on Monday the 29th. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And that's where we will begin because the rest of it is rebroadcasts of the prior week shows. | ||
| So we start and Alex does have a story about the hurricane right off the bat. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| U.S. oil surges $4 to record price above $70 a barrel. | ||
| Because of the hurricane that has missed New Orleans predominantly. | ||
| There is some flooding going on, but no deaths, thank God, being reported. | ||
| There would have been a direct hit on the city. | ||
| We are looking at total flooding and billions of dollars of damage. | ||
| But just like the bullet they dodged last year, this... | ||
| Category 5 hurricane slowed down to Category 4 as it went on land, and the main force of the storm, the 145 mile-an-hour winds, missed most of the city of New Orleans down there in Sin City Central. | ||
| So, as Alex begins the show here on the 29th, you can tell he has the tone of a near miss in terms of how he's covering the hurricane, and he's not wildly wrong to be striking that posture. | ||
| At this point in time, with the information Alex could likely have access to, it feels like things could have been a lot worse, and that's the information that's being put forth. | ||
| So, like, it seems striking because we know what is happening and what ends up happening, but for him... | ||
| That's, he's not minimizing this in any kind of a... | ||
| It's just information coming out of this region is such that this is a reasonable response to have. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's awesome! | ||
| That would be an awesome outcome. | ||
| Unfortunately. | ||
| Unfortunately, we did not live that. | ||
| So, on August 25th, Katrina had hit Florida as a Category 1 hurricane. | ||
| Though the hurricane killed nine people in this landfall, once it made it to the Gulf of Mexico and was headed towards Louisiana, it began to pick up steam and eventually grew to a Category 5 storm. | ||
| On the evening of the 27th, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin began encouraging voluntary evacuation, which would become mandatory the next morning. | ||
| Forecasts put it at almost even odds that the storm would make a direct hit on the city. | ||
| So when Alex discusses things like a bullet being dodged, he's operating from the place where that was the worst possible outcome. | ||
| And when Katrina didn't hit New Orleans directly, it felt like the worst case scenario didn't happen and there was some cause for relief. | ||
| And possibly unbeknownst to Alex in this moment, just prior to him going on air, multiple levees had failed along canals in the city, and much of New Orleans was under feet of water. | ||
| It's plausible to believe that Alex wouldn't have gotten this information by the time his show's starting, but as he's on air, this is a situation that is unfolding in real time, and the notion of a bullet being dodged will look more and more naively optimistic. | ||
| Oil prices did go up as a result of the hurricane, much of which was the natural consequence of damage being done to oil refineries and other facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
| The Federal Trade Commission released a report on allegations of price gouging related to gasoline during the storm and found that there was no evidence of illegal market manipulations, but they also assessed financial information from a slew of refiners, wholesalers, and retailers. | ||
| and found that 15 such entities of 77 analyzed, quote, had higher average gasoline prices in September 2005 compared to August, aimed that these prices were not substantially attributable to either higher costs or to national or international market trends. | ||
| However, much of this was able to be attributed to factors like regional or local market trends, so they didn't consider these to be instances of price gout. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, like, in terms of, I mean, look, if you want to talk about, like, some local things. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Then I'm sure there are examples that you can find. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But when Alex is talking about the price of oil going up, there's a reason for that, and investigation has shown that there's reason to attribute that to national and international market forces. | ||
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Sure. | |
| So there's nothing really mysterious about that. | ||
| I just love the world we live in where it's like, aha, well, there's no illegal market manipulation. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because you know what that implies. | ||
| There is legal market manipulation. | ||
| Some market, but I mean, I think you could say that legal market manipulation could be like competition, you know? | ||
| I think that's what they might. | ||
| Yeah, well, ah! | ||
| Yes. | ||
| People who manipulate the markets would very much like you to believe. | ||
| I guess that is something that I wish I would have looked into that a little bit more to know exactly what their definition of legal and illegal market manipulation is. | ||
| Isn't that the question? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That is the term that they used. | ||
| They didn't find evidence of illegal market manipulation. | ||
| That's like, okay, come on now. | ||
| You'd hope that that would be redundant. | ||
| You would hope that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex does have some other commentary. | ||
| And he makes a fair criticism, but it's also dumb coming from him. | ||
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Fair enough. | |
| And I do have some comments about the hurricane. | ||
| George Bush cut the funding, the federal funding, which there shouldn't even be federal funding to begin with. | ||
| The government's going to be doling money out. | ||
| They cut the federal funding at record levels for trying to repair and strengthen the levies around the city, which is several feet. | ||
| Below sea level and sinking, what, three or four inches a year. | ||
| The city is sinking. | ||
| And the Houston Chronicle reported last year, and we pulled this article out, that thousands could die if there's ever a direct hit on New Orleans by a hurricane. | ||
| So more people could die by a direct hit by a hurricane than on 9-11, but is the government spending just a few paltry $100 million to protect that city, which they could do 100%? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| So it is bad that Bush cut funding for the maintenance of the levees in New Orleans, but if you listen to this clip, Alex has absolutely no leg to stand on in the argument. | ||
| His position is that there should be no federal funds going to this at all, so Bush's actions are in service of getting us closer to the situation Alex wants to be the case. | ||
| Bush deserves criticism, but for it to come from Alex is incoherent. | ||
| His position doesn't make sense. | ||
| It's absolutely true that George W. Bush's administration had repeatedly underfunded requests from the Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Protection Project, and you can extrapolate that this underfunding could have contributed to the disaster and how things played out. | ||
| Although there are levy breaches and flooding on this day, August 29th, it was the next morning when the additional breaches occur and approximately 80% of the city ends up flooded. | ||
| At this point, on the 29th, there's still a government posture that levies didn't break, or at least that the indications were that they hadn't, with the DHS releasing a statement to that effect at 6pm. | ||
| So there is that incongruence of information that exists at this point. | ||
| But at the same time, with the gift of hindsight, we can say that Alex's criticism of Bush here is good. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I don't want to hear it from him. | ||
| Let me pitch you this. | ||
| We can't do restricting the First Amendment. | ||
| We've already talked about that ad nauseum. | ||
| How about this, though? | ||
| We add sports rules. | ||
| We add scores. | ||
| So if you come at me with this, if you, Alex Jones, in 2005 come at me with they didn't spend enough on preventing disaster money, ha ha! | ||
| Kept score. | ||
| Now, if you make a criticism, ah, they're spending too much on it. | ||
| Doesn't count. | ||
| Doesn't count. | ||
| You lose points. | ||
| All right? | ||
| You see what I'm saying? | ||
| This would be a very complicated system to implement, but it could be helpful. | ||
| But it could be helpful, because then we'd be like, ah-ah, no, he got negative 15 points from the last time. | ||
| This is only plus five for being right about that. | ||
| See what I'm saying? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Keep score. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's the same thing as, like, on our last episode, Alex was talking about we need massive public works programs to get to Mars. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Minus 15 points, you lose. | ||
| You absolutely don't want that. | ||
| We kept score. | ||
| Now think about where we are. | ||
| Now if you're a casual observer, you're like, oh, I don't follow basketball, but I know. | ||
| I know LeBron is great. | ||
| I don't follow basketball, but I know Alex Jones is shit. | ||
| These are things that are important. | ||
| It's such an interesting dynamic because you have a correct point. | ||
| Bush was fucking irresponsible, and they did not follow the guidance of people who wanted and saw problems that were potential in advance, underfunded these things, and you have that criticism coming from Alex. | ||
| You have to ask yourself, what do you want to be the case? | ||
| And for Alex, he's only using this complaint as a prop. | ||
| Because, you know, short of a flood happening, he would say, give them no money. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| only because this stuff is happening and it is a point of attack that you can make against the person he wants to attack. | ||
| That's the only reason he cares about it. | ||
| He wishes... | ||
| That's like an almost... | ||
| Parasitic elements of every government, though. | ||
| You know, like the, ah, you shouldn't have done that no matter what event happens. | ||
| Oh, okay, you didn't spend enough on this. | ||
| You should have spent more after the fact. | ||
| Or you spent enough on this, and then it didn't turn out to be the biggest problem, so you're an asshole. | ||
| It doesn't matter what way it goes. | ||
| What matters is I get to call you an asshole, you know? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So there are some ripples of the present. | ||
| In some of this. | ||
| Sounds about right. | ||
| U.S. to have more quarantine stations. | ||
| They're tripling the number. | ||
| This is due to the fact of the bird flu and the swine flu and Britain's elite get pills to survive the bird flu. | ||
| This out of the Times of London today. | ||
| Don't worry, I'm sure that some of the... | ||
| Patriots for profit out there will have a magical cream for you that will heal you of this, or perhaps a magic pyramid. | ||
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Points! | |
| Believe me, it's a fraud, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
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I demand a point system now! | |
| It is just like... | ||
| It's bizarre to go back and hear just like a self-indictment. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| It is unfortunate because if there was anything, anything deserving of getting hit, it would be the past. | ||
| If I could throw a punch, it would be directly at the past's face. | ||
| Well, I mean, I think that one of the things that's interesting about Alex's past is you have this, like, it's more accurate than the present. | ||
| Granted, not like this, you know, trying to fearmonger about bird flu or swine flu or anything like that, but like, hey, there are patriots for profit that are going to try and sell you a magic cream like my colloidal silver wound gel. | ||
| You know, it's just, it makes me... | ||
| Very convinced that the shit that he does in the present is far more consciously manipulative than we may want to believe at times. | ||
| What I feel like I've learned over time in my life that I was completely wrong about, right, is that I thought for most of my life, like, political beliefs and religious beliefs were like the bedrock, you know, like, they are the same. | ||
| Always, you know? | ||
| But now, over time, I'm finding out that they are relative to what other people think about you at any given point in time. | ||
| And if you can get away with bullshit, then it doesn't matter what your religious or political beliefs are. | ||
| Because that's what your real religious or political beliefs are, what you can get away with. | ||
| Well, sometimes. | ||
| Motherfuckers. | ||
| And I also think that a lot of Alex's political beliefs are defined by opposition. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so it's just kind of being mad at whoever, you know, the other side. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So I tuned in because this is the first day during Hurricane Katrina that Alex has a show, and I didn't find that much about Hurricane Katrina, honestly. | ||
| It's not a big issue for him. | ||
| Instead, he spends a fair amount of time talking about how he was on vacation, and he read some books about 1776. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| So he talks about that a bit. | ||
| And I wrote a bunch of notes, stuff I wanted to talk about, and of course I didn't bring them into the studio. | ||
| And, you know, my humble brain just cannot describe the eloquence and the intelligence and the courage and the honor. | ||
| Folks, I read a history that was anti-American. | ||
| I like to read both sides, and it was talking about the incredible fortitude of the American forces. | ||
| And then to just look at us today, slovenly, stupid people who don't even know where their state capitals are, who don't have any idea about where major land masses or continents are, who don't know about the three branches of government, that don't know what the Fourth Amendment is, or the 10th, or the 9th, or the 7th, who don't have any inkling of anything, just... | ||
| Mindless idiots. | ||
| And I'm talking about the Democrats. | ||
| I'm talking about the Republicans. | ||
| We have just been domesticated. | ||
| We are the children of the children of the children of the children of spoiled brats. | ||
| We talk about the World War II generation being the greatest generation, and yeah, they were more moral and more informed and more intelligent and more brave. | ||
| In many cases than we are today, but compared to people in 1776, I'm telling you folks, the greatest generation, I'm sorry if you don't want to hear it, is not the World War II generation. | ||
| It's the generation of 1776 and that 12-year war for 1798. | ||
| Longer than that. | ||
| It just makes my head spin. | ||
| It just makes my head spin. | ||
| Oh, and to read what globalists in Europe were saying about how they would lose their empire of control over their slaves if we had this bad example in America. | ||
| We're fighting the same people today. | ||
| Same shit, and we're all dumb now. | ||
| The Revolutionary War ended in 1783. | ||
| I think when he said 88... | ||
| That's when the Constitution was ratified. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| So maybe that's what he means. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| These dates are strange. | ||
| Anyway, he read a lot of books about the 1776, and he has a lot of feelings about it. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And how much we suck now. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Great. | ||
| You can't make any mistakes. | ||
| I don't know why this happened, but... | ||
| Hey, this was around the time that Jesse Ventura had released that book, right? | ||
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Or was it? | |
| I think it was. | ||
| I don't know what happened. | ||
| Was it Republicans and Democrats? | ||
| Well, see, what I think it was was Democrats and Republicans. | ||
| Whatever it is. | ||
| But I couldn't get it out of my head, and I was like, isn't Republicans and Bloodicrats better? | ||
| And that's where I'm at. | ||
| That's what I have to draw from that clip. | ||
| Republic Crips. | ||
| And Reblicats. | ||
| Is that? | ||
| What was it? | ||
| Demo Crips and Rebloodlicats. | ||
| See what I'm saying? | ||
| Republic Crips and Bloody Kratts make so much better. | ||
| It's so much better. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I think that if you could have made another pass at this, then maybe... | ||
| But also, your premise is entirely wrong. | ||
| That book came out in 2012. | ||
| Oh, man! | ||
| Well, then I'm way off. | ||
| I'm way off. | ||
| Jesse Ventura very well may have been a relevant political figure in 2005, but that book was seven years later. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| So Alex is mad because of reading these books, I thought. | ||
| But it turns out there's actually something else happened on his vacation that made him mad. | ||
| And that is that he ended up listening to Rush Limbaugh Why am I so mad? | ||
| Why do I get frustrated? | ||
| Because there's no way to cover it all. | ||
| I'm driving back yesterday from the Texas coast. | ||
| Every time, once a year I go down there for a few days and there's always a hurricane forms. | ||
| Luckily, it was coming our direction after our little vacation was over. | ||
| Again, I haven't had a big vacation in five years, so I apologize for taking five days off, but it's been five years since I did that, and I did it. | ||
| In fact, I just said five years. | ||
| I've never taken a week off. | ||
| I have never taken a week off, but I did do it. | ||
| Side issue. | ||
| They re-air Rush Limbaugh here locally in Austin. | ||
| Now, remember, folks, I mean, I was back in college, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| I mean, I used to love Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| I mean, I bought his books. | ||
| I even wore a Rush Limbaugh t-shirt. | ||
| I bought my father the Limbaugh letter. | ||
| We're talking, you know, 12 years ago or longer. | ||
| But then my uncle said, you know, he's not a real conservative son. | ||
| And this is like, my uncle told me that about 15 years ago. | ||
| And I rolled my eyes at him and argued with him, and then he started explaining to me how the Republicans were controlled. | ||
| And this is back when George Bush was president, the first George Bush, Bush 41. And I still disagreed with him, but those seeds, five years later, when I myself had gotten into talk radio, It began to grow, and I began to see. | ||
| And let me tell you, if the Rush Limbaugh 15 years ago was bad, and a wolf in sheep's clothing, he's really bad today. | ||
| So I'm driving back from Galveston, Texas, listening to three hours of Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| I mean, I listened to him from the time I left Galveston until the time I got back to Austin, Texas. | ||
| And it was lie after lie after lie. | ||
| I mean, folks, it wasn't just twisting or spinning. | ||
| He's never been this bad. | ||
| And he sounded inebriated, I will tell you that. | ||
| He sounded real weird. | ||
| He sounded real arrogant, real assured, euphoric. | ||
| He was gibbering at times. | ||
| Boy, that sounds familiar. | ||
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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy. | |
| Dad, I want to beat you so bad! | ||
| I mean, it is a very bizarre... | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| And, you know, the problem, I think, really ultimately comes down to time, because at this point, his critique is fairly accurate, I think. | ||
| I would agree. | ||
| This is a couple years after Rush had had his opiate admission, and so, like, you know, there's a chance that maybe he is on some pills or something like that. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Rush is a liar, and he is full of shit. | ||
| Can't argue with you. | ||
| And so Alex's point is not wrong, but again, coming from him and knowing what we know, and it's not like he was a... | ||
| Example of integrity prior to... | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| We've listened to 2004 shit where he's lunatic and a liar. | ||
| But, like, the specific way he's describing Rush, he's full of arrogance, he's jibbering. | ||
| Do you know what it is? | ||
| What? | ||
| It's the traitors. | ||
| It's the traitor who's like... | ||
| If I give up a traitor, then they'll think I'm great. | ||
| And I'm the traitor hunter guy. | ||
| It's that thought process all over again, isn't it? | ||
| Like, oh, look. | ||
| Look at me. | ||
| I'm above the left-right paradigm. | ||
| Rush Limbaugh, he sucks for being all those things that I can't wait to become. | ||
| My uncle told me about this 15 years ago. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Buckley's dad. | ||
| I'm the guy who hunts out real conservatives. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Look, I mean, I like the traitors as much as the next guy. | ||
| It's very clear. | ||
| But maybe not everything is... | ||
| No, we boil it all down to the traitors. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And sports points? | ||
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Uh-huh. | |
| What else do I have? | ||
| I am reducing everything to meaninglessness. | ||
| So Rush... | ||
| Alex was listening to Rush, and he saw accidentally his future self. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If he had a real download of the future from God, then... | ||
| Can you imagine the ghost of Christmas future showing up and Scrooge being like, I love that guy! | ||
| That's what we're at. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| I don't have any reason to think that Alex wouldn't, at this point, hate to become the thing that he sees in Rush. | ||
| So, I don't know if there was a ghost of the Christmas future that came at this point. | ||
| He would have that reaction. | ||
| He might be like, oh no. | ||
| Now granted, probably wouldn't change anything. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| New pitch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Every media figure, before you get a job in media, somebody shows up, black bags you, shows up, says, if you say whatever I want you to say, I'll give you $500 billion, right? | ||
| And then gives it to you. | ||
| And if you take it, you can't be in media. | ||
| You're leaning back in your chair at me. | ||
| So Alex is in this situation. | ||
| If you offered Alex everything that Rush Limbaugh had on that day, do you think he takes it? | ||
| I think not, because then you get to talk about how someone black-bagged you and offered you all the money. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| Fine, fine, fine. | ||
| It's perfect for a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| This might backfire a little. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| This could backfire. | ||
| You make a good point. | ||
| Yeah, sports points, I'm going to go along with you halfway, but maybe not this one. | ||
| This one? | ||
| No. | ||
| Okay, fair enough. | ||
| So we're curious, obviously. | ||
| What did you hear on Rush? | ||
| It's not just that you were listening to Rush. | ||
| And so Alex gets into that a bit. | ||
| I heard him say that, well, it just came out that three weeks ago in Seattle, peace activists, you want to know about this anti-war movement, how peaceful they are, two peace activists with a crowd beat two troops, beat them, beat them at a restaurant, beat them almost, and I bet a lot of you heard this Friday, they were re-earing Friday's show Sunday on KLBJ 590. | ||
| So I'm listening to this, and the end... | ||
| And they beat them. | ||
| They beat them. | ||
| And they broke their jaws, and this is what peace activists do. | ||
| And I didn't hear him give a news report. | ||
| I didn't hear him give a source. | ||
| He wasn't giving any sources. | ||
| He'd cover like ten articles in an hour and maybe give one source. | ||
| He wasn't giving a source. | ||
| And I thought, this is really weird, as he normally does, and then just twist it. | ||
| And so I'm listening to this, and again, folks, this isn't about bashing Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's just, this is an example of total deception. | ||
| Total lies. | ||
| And I went, wait a minute, I remember a month ago, three or four weeks ago, hearing about that, and it was just a brawl at a club. | ||
| And soldiers get in fights all the time. | ||
| And I thought, this is really, really weird. | ||
| You know what, I'm in a reserve judgment, but peace activists normally are... | ||
| What Neil Bortz calls them, they are the bedwetting type. | ||
| I mean, you know, the classic liberal is a groveling, simpering, pencil-necked, limp-wristed, bug-eyed weakling. | ||
| Okay, I'm sorry, I just had to say it. | ||
| And it just didn't fit the M.O., the modus operandi. | ||
| And he sounded like he was just out of his gourd. | ||
| I mean, really, you could tell. | ||
| It's like when somebody calls you up on the phone. | ||
| You're like, have you been drinking or are you on something? | ||
| Limbaugh sounded just nuts. | ||
| It just seems like a lot, like Alex talking about his future self. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, this is scary. | ||
| This is scary. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It's like a rip in space time. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Don't nobody record what we're talking about right now and then play it back in 15 years. | ||
| I hope that there would not be this much overlap. | ||
| I don't think we'll have to worry about it. | ||
| Also, it seems like Alex is a great friend of the anti-war movement. | ||
| I think he definitely is somebody who you'd want. | ||
| If you're out there doing a protest against the Iraq war, it seems like the kind of guy who really respects what you do and who you are and what you're about. | ||
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My main problem with pacifists is they won't fucking beat the shit out of these guys. | |
| Am I right? | ||
| Bunch of losers. | ||
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Bunch of soft. | |
| Alright, fair enough. | ||
| Yeah, I wonder, I wonder, like, he has like this, okay, I hate the neocons and the people who are hawks for the war, but I also think that the people who are protesting the war are soft and weak. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| What do you want? | ||
| Boy, I guess, a cabin? | ||
| Give him a cabin! | ||
| Give him a cabin somewhere far away from humanity. | ||
| That would be good for him and me. | ||
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Yeah, right? | |
| Wouldn't that be the best for all of us? | ||
| Let's all just get a cabin. | ||
| Oh, I'd love a cabin. | ||
| Let's all just get a cabin. | ||
| So Rush is talking about this story. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Where you have these soldiers that were beaten up. | ||
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Right. | |
| At a bar fight, I guess. | ||
| Well, this is what Alex has. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This was a bar fight. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Rush apparently is saying that these were anti-war. | ||
| Anti-war activists on, I guess, war. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They beat up some troops. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And here's Alex talking a little bit more about the scenario and the situation that actually unfolded. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| So I get home last night, and I sit down, and I go watch the video, and I go read the articles, and these were believed to be two gang member types with some other gang members at a predominantly black gangbanger bar, and a black soldier and a white soldier go in there. | ||
| And some people hit on their girlfriends and pat on them and stuff, and folks, that's what goes on with these hip-hop bars. | ||
| Black, white, it doesn't matter. | ||
| I mean, it's a bunch of gyrating, pumping, you know, basically being reduced to the level of animals here in America. | ||
| Alex has a bit of that old-person racism in 2005, very clearly. | ||
| Did I just get footloosed? | ||
| Is that what just happened right there? | ||
| He doesn't like modern dancing. | ||
| I don't like all those gyrations. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So Alex brings in a bit of racism to the story. | ||
| A bit of racist feeling. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| But his version of it is more or less, there's a bar fight. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| These people got into a bar fight. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Now, for me, I think this is difficult because... | ||
| Alex has one version, and then he's reporting what Rush Limbaugh's version of it is. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't see any sources being thrown around here. | ||
| I haven't heard any from either. | ||
| Now get this. | ||
| What? | ||
| Alex plays the audio of a news report about this. | ||
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Oh my God. | |
| Alex provides a source. | ||
| What is happening? | ||
| And we have the audio from it, so let's just go ahead and play it. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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It is a brutal attack. | |
| Three men, at least two of them, Iraq war veterans, viciously beaten while dozens of others stood by and watched. | ||
| This attack happened about 2:30 in the morning on Sunday, July 31st. | ||
| Police tell us the soldiers were waiting in line here outside Larry's nightclub on First Avenue South. | ||
| One of the alleged assailants groped one soldier's wife. | ||
| Words were exchanged and the soldiers turned to leave. | ||
| One of the individuals involved in the disagreement possibly threw a hot dog at one of the suspects. | ||
| Apparently it hit the suspect in the face with a hot dog. | ||
| So there's a hot dog in play. | ||
| So, I think that Alex has firmly established that the story he's talking about has to do with some Iraq War veterans being attacked in the context of a bar fight. | ||
| I'm comfortable saying that he has done his work on that front. | ||
| However, there's still another aspect to this, which is the fact that he's not played a clip of Rush Limbaugh's claims. | ||
| He's only repeated his own characterization of them. | ||
| I'm willing to believe that Rush did lie about this incident in order to smear antiwar activists, but Alex hasn't shown anything that demonstrates this. | ||
| There's almost like a reliance on knowing your audience may have probably listened to Rush. | ||
| That is interesting. | ||
| There probably is some sort of a comfort. | ||
| If you're listening to me, you probably listen to Rush, too. | ||
| Yeah, you've probably heard what it is. | ||
| Well, I mean, if Alex was listening, then Alex wasn't on the air at the time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So there's a good chance that you weren't listening to whatever InfoWars was playing. | ||
| Alex was on reruns. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So you were probably listening. | ||
| If you're not listening to Alex, you're listening to Rush. | ||
| It's kind of his idea. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Took a little bit of digging, but I was able to find a story on Media Matters about this. | ||
| And Alex's version is kind of fair. | ||
| Rush reads from a KOMU Seattle story about this attack and talks about how it was a bar fight and all that. | ||
| But he starts the story saying, quote, for those of you who still have an open mind about the anti-war left in this country, this story is out of Seattle. | ||
| And then he closes his remark saying, quote, so once again, the anti-war left claiming to be a peace movement illustrates itself to be anything but. | ||
| I'm going to go ahead and give Alex the points on this one. | ||
| He's accurately pointed out that Rush has fabricated an anti-war motive for the attack, and though Alex isn't totally accurate in conveying what Rush said, his point is fair. | ||
| The irony is that what Rush is doing is exactly what Alex's show thrives on in the present day. | ||
| A huge chunk of his content is just adding layers and imagined motives onto stories that don't exist in the real world, and seeing Alex be able to call this out in the past really does indicate to me how much of his behavior in the present is a willful strategy. | ||
| I don't imagine he doesn't understand this, if he's able to call it out, so I would say... | ||
| Finally? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because I don't think it's great, but it's fine. | ||
| It kind of fucks me up. | ||
| A little. | ||
| It kind of fucks me up because it is like maybe that is what happened. | ||
| Maybe you did just get black bagged. | ||
| Maybe we're about to get black bagged. | ||
| Maybe we do a little bit better for a little bit longer. | ||
| Somebody shows up and we get $500 million. | ||
| Is that how it works? | ||
| How do you know I haven't already turned down the black bag? | ||
| I'm fine with that. | ||
| Either way. | ||
| How do you know? | ||
| Well, I mean, I assume you would tell me. | ||
| You don't know. | ||
| Yeah, I think I do. | ||
| I think we have a pretty strong partnership. | ||
| I would trust that. | ||
| If you're lying to me now, I trust you to not be. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| It could go either way. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I think, I imagine that, you know, you don't need an external force with a black bag and this offer, you know. | ||
| Well, you're gonna make more money. | ||
| There's a metaphorical shift in priority or whatever that it does appear may have. | ||
| May have come along at some point. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, just that, like, it's so clear, you know, being the person who plays clips and criticizes Rush Limbaugh is far less lucrative than being Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Like, it is just there, you know? | ||
| Especially if you can be an even weirder version of Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| Yeah, then you've got it made. | ||
| So Alex has been to these hip-hop bars. | ||
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Aye! | |
| Well, he explains it. | ||
| He explains how he has. | ||
| Okay, so we got people with gold teeth and cornrows and gang member outfits who beat up whoever they want, do whatever they want. | ||
| I mean, that's the regular activity of gang member types. | ||
| And some of these troops don't like it that their girlfriends were getting... | ||
| I mean, if you don't want that to happen, don't go to one of those bars. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I have been in them. | ||
| And now I'll have to explain myself. | ||
| My cousin, who now lives up in Chicago, is a DJ. | ||
| Buckley. | ||
| Several times he was making me music tracks and videos, which you'll see listed in the credits. | ||
| I would have the enjoyment of going into one of these establishments, and I assure you after that I would have him bring me the CD outside during a song just because I don't wish to be around it. | ||
| But I have been in these establishments. | ||
| And let me just tell you, it is amazing. | ||
| Sodom and Gomorrah is the way to describe it. | ||
| And this is how our children are now being taught to behave. | ||
| But again, all that is a side issue. | ||
| How does this, and I know a lot of you heard this last Friday. | ||
| I heard it rebroadcast yesterday. | ||
| How does this transfer into? | ||
| This is very important. | ||
| How does this transfer into peace activists beating up troops? | ||
| I mean, it's just the most... | ||
| Good question. | ||
| Why did they let Limbaugh do what he does? | ||
| I mean, he's gone out of his mind on the air. | ||
| I mean, he's just gone completely. | ||
| And folks, it was hours of it. | ||
| Three hours of lying. | ||
| Oh, three hours? | ||
| Exactly three hours. | ||
| Did he bring somebody in to host the fourth? | ||
| Jesus Christ, man! | ||
| It's just, it's a mirror. | ||
| It's a haunting mirror. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's really concerning me. | ||
| It's starting to bother me a lot. | ||
| How do they let him be on air? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How do they let you be on air? | ||
| I feel like there are things that he said that you could go back and, like, in this clip, you could go back to us five years ago and hear me say something almost identical to, like, how do they let him be on air? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Like, straight up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I don't like that. | ||
| I don't like that. | ||
| At all, Dan. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| Ah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. | ||
| Now we have to go fight to the death, because only one of us can survive. | ||
| This, I mean, look, I wanted to cover Hurricane Katrina. | ||
| Yeah, obviously. | ||
| This is not what I expected. | ||
| And now, instead, Alex and I have to fight on top of a volcano. | ||
| Way to go. | ||
| Well, one natural disaster or the other. | ||
| That is the case. | ||
| So this was a jarring bit of segment for Alex to really, really go at Limbaugh in a way that is a damning indictment of his future. | ||
| But he does end up taking some calls. | ||
| And so we get some calls. | ||
| Here's one weirdo. | ||
| Let's go to Jason in Maryland. | ||
| Jason, go ahead. | ||
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Hi, thanks, Alex. | |
| I was wondering if you were – actually, I just want your take on something. | ||
| Colin Powell, I read, was supposed to be signing a UN charter for a Palestinian state with – It was supposed to be at 10 a.m., and it was thwarted by the attack, obviously. | ||
| I was not familiar with the specific thing. | ||
| I mean, I know that they were having meetings at that time, and I know we've got the Israeli pullout of some areas going on right now, which... | ||
| It's a brutal scene, but I wasn't specifically aware of that day, that hour. | ||
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Yes, at 10 a.m. was when the paper was to be signed by Colin Powell, and then for obvious reasons, it didn't happen. | |
| Obvious reasons. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So what that caller's talking about isn't true. | ||
| Yeah, it can't possibly be true. | ||
| Colin Powell was in Lima, Peru on September 11th, where he was part of the Special General Assembly of the Organization of American States. | ||
| They were set to sign the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which was meant to defend democratic governance in the North and South American states. | ||
| It has zero to do with Israel or the creation of a Palestinian state. | ||
| This caller is repeating this to Alex because it's meant to be evidence that Israel did 9-11. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, that's basically the idea, right? | ||
| Reason this is being put forth. | ||
| It's difficult to get a concrete sense from Alex's comments of a lot of his position at this point. | ||
| But obviously he does think there was some Israeli involvement. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Mossad. | ||
| Kind of shit. | ||
| Awareness of 9-11 or something. | ||
| It's very difficult to get the... | ||
| Full picture. | ||
| We'll see if more context clues come up in 2005. | ||
| Yeah, I'll just say it doesn't feel like he's saying that the bath party did it, at the very least. | ||
| No, they're off the hook. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I mean, Leo Zagami is still not... | ||
| Taking responsibility for the attack yet. | ||
| I don't remember the time stamp of that confession video. | ||
|
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| So it's possible that this caller doesn't know that it was actually Leo who did it. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| And I don't think that Alex and Leo Zagami are friends at this point. | ||
| See, so he doesn't know. | ||
| And Alex hates dancing, and Leo is out there probably dancing right now. | ||
| Yeah, doing a discotheque in Rome. | ||
| Doing a gyration, if you will. | ||
| The great Leo Young! | ||
| So, we do get a little update on the fact that there's a hurricane. | ||
| And there's very little conversation about it as a whole. | ||
| Good news on the hurricane. | ||
| It did not hit a direct hit of New Orleans, Louisiana. | ||
| Its main body came ashore about 100 miles east of there. | ||
| Still caused a lot of flooding and some serious problems. | ||
| No deaths as of yet, thank God. | ||
| Sometimes we have floods here in Texas, and 35 people die in one night. | ||
| Very, very serious, but not in this case so far. | ||
| Really dodged the bullet there. | ||
| So I do think that the tone will entirely change pretty quickly. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But at this point, this is the perspective that you'd probably have every reason to have, and it's very ominous. | ||
| This is, I think, like if you pull back, I think you could misconstrue this as like a... | ||
| Accidental tape that's fallen in from a better universe. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Like, in this case, Alex criticizing Rush Limbaugh for being a piece of shit. | ||
| In this case, Hurricane Katrina has not... | ||
| Absolutely wrecked New Orleans. | ||
| It's like the man in the high castle. | ||
| If this had snuck through a dimensional portal, I'm jumping into that portal as soon as I can find it. | ||
| Unfortunately, it is not. | ||
| It is all just context. | ||
| It's all just fucked up. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| So we get another caller, and this fella, he's got some poof. | ||
| This guy's interesting. | ||
|
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Because this is what made me call when you're covering George Washington. | |
| I'm right in that area. | ||
| He's been up and down my backyard. | ||
| I live in the most historical place of the country where it all started. | ||
| And we covered all the great stuff with Washington. | ||
| Are you familiar with who they called the mysterious professor? | ||
| That appeared in the balcony in that inn when they were trying to determine on the draft of the Declaration of Independence whether or not that was the final draft. | ||
| They were arguing. | ||
| The war was imminently going to break out. | ||
| And in heated debate, all of a sudden, a man, a mysterious figure, appears in the balcony, and he makes a big oratory, and at the end of it he says, God has decreed America to be free. | ||
| Hurry up and sign that document. | ||
| And they known him as the mysterious professor. | ||
| Are you familiar with him? | ||
| Yes, I'm familiar with it. | ||
| Thanks for the call. | ||
| Paul comments to what the listener was just saying. | ||
| Oh, that's what you were telling me. | ||
| I'm down here in Texas. | ||
| They're up in Minnesota. | ||
| They were telling me Paul's phone system cut out, so we're calling him back. | ||
| Yeah, Paul Joseph Watson's also riding shotgun at this point. | ||
| Are you familiar with the Mysterious Professor? | ||
| Are you? | ||
| Absolutely not! | ||
| You don't know about the Mysterious Professor? | ||
| Did he invent flubber? | ||
| Then no. | ||
| That's the nut of you. | ||
| So Alex sure wasn't interested in that line of conversation. | ||
| I agree, yes. | ||
| If I had to guess, it's probably because he knows it's bullshit, but he doesn't like to do things that work against American exceptionalism, patriot lore, those kinds of... | ||
| Anything that's like that, he doesn't want to disrupt or stop you from believing nonsense if it feeds into that. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| If you saw God appear on a hill and say, do whatever I told you to do... | ||
| I'm not gonna get in the way! | ||
| Right, we're not gonna debunk that shit. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, no problem! | ||
| So this caller is basing his story on something that appears in a book called The Secret Destiny of America, written by Manly P. Hall. | ||
| I'm sorry? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hall was a real esoteric weirdo, and a lot of his shit is not that credible. | ||
| But in his book, he claims that he visited a theosophical colony in Ojai, California, where he was introduced to a secret tome of early American political speeches. | ||
| This tome included a tale of the night of July 4th, 1776, when all the... | ||
| Greats got together to talk shit about liberty. | ||
| It was a who's who roster. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson. | ||
| Ben Franklin. | ||
| John Adams. | ||
| Some unnamed guy. | ||
| John Adams kid. | ||
| So the unnamed guy gives a long, very passionate speech that touches on God declaring that America needs to exist so people can be free. | ||
| After he gives his speech, quote, The unknown speaker fell exhausted into his seat. | ||
| The delegates, carried by his enthusiasm, rushed forward. | ||
| John Hancock scarcely had time to pen his bold signature before the quill was grasped by another. | ||
| Oh my god, this is Forrest Gump! | ||
| It was done. | ||
| The delegates turned to express their gratitude to the unknown speaker for his eloquent words. | ||
| He was not there. | ||
| Who was this strange man who seemed to speak with divine authority, whose solemn words gave courage to the doubters and sealed the destiny of the new nation? | ||
| Unfortunately, no one knows. | ||
| Hall goes on to suggest that the guy was an angel who appeared to make sure everything is right. | ||
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I think we're pretty clear on that one. | |
| This is a lot of fun, but Hall hadn't actually found a secret book of speeches in Ojai. | ||
| This entire story is just cribbed from a book called Washington and His Generals, as illustrated in The Legends of the Revolution by a guy named George Lippard. | ||
| Lippard is a dude who would take ideas of moments in history and then fictionalize them and add fantastic elements to spice them up a little bit so they'd sell. | ||
| He's a fun guy, yeah. | ||
| This was a fake story that appeared in Lippard's 1847 book, which was then repackaged by Manly P. Hall in his 1944 book, and I guess this caller believes it's a real thing that happened. | ||
| So if I understand correctly, some dude wrote fanfic about the American Revolution and here we are. | ||
| Sort of supernatural... | ||
| Paranormal fanfic. | ||
| Bella and the fucking werewolf fucked together and now we got America. | ||
| Great work. | ||
| And so Alex is familiar with this. | ||
| But doesn't say, hey, that's nonsense. | ||
|
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Who doesn't know about the mysterious professor? | |
| How can you with a straight face say the mysterious professor? | ||
| Do you know about him? | ||
| As like a... | ||
| Just like any reason. | ||
| For any reason, how can you say the mysterious professor? | ||
| No one knows who he is. | ||
| In a serious manner. | ||
| History has forgotten who this person is. | ||
| Then no. | ||
| Because he's an angel. | ||
| Mysterious professor. | ||
| Yeah, that was delightful. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Next clip, not so delightful. | ||
| Oh, that sounds right. | ||
| Alex gets a call from a guy who's upset that Holocaust deniers are getting in trouble. | ||
| I was about to say, here's why the next call sucks. | ||
|
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They hate the Jews for some reason. | |
| Six years ago, I saw stuff where a white supremacist said that six million Jews didn't die. | ||
| Now, whether ten million Jews died or a million Jews died, whether I agree with that or not... | ||
| People should have a right to say what they want. | ||
| But no, under German law, the FBI arrested him and flew an American citizen to Germany where he is still in jail. | ||
|
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Oh yeah, that's happening right now up here to a guy named Ernest Zundel, who by all means, I don't agree with the guy, but this is like what happened to Galileo. | |
| Galileo just happened to be right. | ||
| This guy just happens to be wrong. | ||
| But it's the same thing. | ||
| You know, you charge a person with heresy for disagreeing with what the church has said is, you know, sun revolves around the earth. | ||
| That's the way it goes. | ||
| If you disagree with that, we're going to hang you. | ||
| Well, I mean, Hitler was really bad, and literally a lot of bad things. | ||
| The problem is the Soviets wrote a lot of lies about the Nazis, and so those have been discredited, a lot of exaggerations. | ||
| And so then people try to say the whole story isn't true, when, yeah, folks, Hitler was bad news and did kill a bunch of people, a lot of them Jews. | ||
| And so, but exactly, regardless of whether Zundel is wrong or right, that guy is now in a German jail cell. | ||
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Oh, yeah, well, yeah, he's going to be extradited there. | |
| He's been here, like, in Canada since the 50s. | ||
| Well, then he moved to Tennessee. | ||
| No, no, he's now in Germany. | ||
|
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Oh, he is? | |
| Then they finally extradited him, yeah. | ||
|
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Oh, oh. | |
| And by the way, Zundel's stuff is mild, folks. | ||
| It is mild compared to some of the revisionists. | ||
| But again, it's illegal to write revisionist history. | ||
| That's our new freedom. | ||
| So Zundel, Ernst Zundel, is mild. | ||
| Now one thing that I think is really interesting is that Alex is right that Zundel had been extradited. | ||
| Alex is up to date on that story. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Seems to be keeping track of that one. | ||
| I was going to say, that's real weird for you to know specifics about that, I mean, inconsequential and pointless story. | ||
| I don't know if it's inconsequential or pointless, but it's very specific. | ||
| So, Alex, I get that he wants to defend Ernst Zondel on some free speech grounds, but it is absurd to call him mild. | ||
| Zondel founded Semistat Publishers, which the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum called, quote, A significant focal point in revisionist propaganda. | ||
| He wrote books that were not only denying the Holocaust, but he co-authored a book called The Hitler We Loved and Why, and he published a slew of other Hitler and Nazi promoting trash. | ||
| He wrote for the newsletter The White Power Report, and is a critically important piece of the spread of neo-Nazi ideas. | ||
| For all of the shit he did, all of the hate he disseminated, and all of the Holocaust denial, he was ultimately sentenced to five years in jail. | ||
| It's not... | ||
| You know, he's like, call her saying, well, hang you. | ||
| He's been to jail for five years. | ||
| Alex can play whatever games he wants with pretending that he just likes to defend unpopular speech, but it's an entirely different thing for him to pretend that Ernst Zundel is mild. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's like how he's, these days, he says the AFD party in Germany is a milquetoast conservative party. | ||
| He runs cover for extremists like this, probably because he has a pretty heavy overlap with them in terms of policy preferences. | ||
| This is mild to him. | ||
| I mean, it's just gonna... | ||
| It's the playbook, right? | ||
| You know, like, oh, January 6th, the next day. | ||
| It's like, well, it wasn't that bad. | ||
| I mean, these people, I don't know, it's more about slavery. | ||
| Ah, it's about states' rights. | ||
| Come on, man, it wasn't that bad. | ||
| We're not all slavery supporters. | ||
| It's about states' rights. | ||
| It's about freedom of speech. | ||
| And I also really do think that if you're in a position like Alex and you have the kind of audience, let's say, that you do... | ||
| I think that when you make a claim like the Soviets exaggerated a bunch of stuff about the Nazis, I think you should be more specific than that. | ||
| Because that's the kind of thing that a lot of people could take in a lot of different directions. | ||
|
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Well... | |
| How about we take it down to its fundamentalist, most basic idea? | ||
| The people who tell you that the Jews were massacred by Hitler? | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| Bad people. | ||
| The people who tell you that those people are lying to you? | ||
| Correct. | ||
| Good people. | ||
| And then you give it ten years. | ||
| Or at very least, you know, you have maybe Ernest Zundel's not a good guy, but he's not that bad. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You know who's really bad? | ||
| Those people who tell you that he's a bad guy. | ||
| Now, Erno Zundel, he's not a great guy. | ||
| He's not a great guy. | ||
| I admit that because I'm a magnanimous human being capable of seeing both sides of the issue. | ||
| That does seem like where this comes from. | ||
| That might be. | ||
| Might be something I've heard a lot. | ||
| So, Alex and Paul, they sort of complain a little bit about some media like Rush and stuff, and I think that this is another moment where the time space has torn. | ||
| Ouch. | ||
| Is this a willful craziness, Paul? | ||
| Well, it is, yeah. | ||
| I mean, on Limbaugh's part, he does that kind of thing every day. | ||
| He came out with absolutely no evidence, no follow-up, no retraction, said that the Downing Street memos were leaked by somebody connected to the CBS Rathergate scandal because he remembered the same name being connected to the Rathergate scandal. | ||
| The name was Michael Smith. | ||
| You really remember that name. | ||
| It's very different. | ||
| And then, with Cindy Sheehan, I mean, take this, for example. | ||
| Cindy Sheehan says, when I get up to heaven, he's going to say, good job, Mom. | ||
| Talking about her son, Casey Sheehan. | ||
| So, Will NetDaily write an article which says that Cindy Sheehan channels the dead. | ||
| How obvious is that as a quite pathetic smear attempt? | ||
| So that's what you get from... | ||
| And by the way, folks, if we just wanted to get hits, we could write headlines like that and get them all day. | ||
| But, I mean, RuleNet Daily is just getting less and less credibility. | ||
| Let's take a call. | ||
| I'm just so sick of it. | ||
| Yeah, me too. | ||
| I feel like the most important sound now is just that Wayne's World, like, after every sentence should be, and then cut to now, you know? | ||
| Like, it's incredible. | ||
| All of Alex's headlines being rank misinterpretations of things. | ||
| Just incredible. | ||
| Proceeded by breaking emergency transmission. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| If we wanted to get all those hits, we could by doing the thing we end up doing eventually. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Is there something, there's almost something, like, raw and just, like, evolutionary about that, you know? | ||
| Like, well, here's a strategy doing this thing, and here's a more successful strategy, fucking people over. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's almost so automatic. | ||
| It's almost human. | ||
| It's dark. | ||
| Dark. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, Alex has some complaints about some other folks. | ||
| Maybe they're petty. | ||
| He calls himself out on that. | ||
| Possible. | ||
| But he's mad at Lance Armstrong. | ||
| I don't know what's... | ||
| I liked the early thousands. | ||
| Look, this is totally petty, but I'm going to talk about it. | ||
| I told you folks about Lance Armstrong. | ||
| And why are we criticizing him for some blood doping, you know, type steroid that makes you grow more blood, basically? | ||
| He's plumping. | ||
| Why are we all freaking out about that? | ||
| You know, if it's true or not. | ||
| And obviously, it's, you know, they got him. | ||
| Listen, why do we care about that? | ||
| We've got him on Nike. | ||
| Nike owns slave camps. | ||
| Nike uses little kids. | ||
| It's very evil. | ||
| I've been boycotting them for ten years, folks. | ||
| It's not like some new thing I just started doing because I don't like Lance Armstrong. | ||
| I just, the guy radiates evil. | ||
| I mean, I've got to be honest with you, folks. | ||
| You know I've got a good sense about folks, and I just, I go off hunches. | ||
| I go 99% as facts, but I just always had a bad feeling about Armstrong. | ||
| I've been around him, you know, in person. | ||
| He lives here in Austin. | ||
| And he just, he's bad news, folks. | ||
| And now he's prancing around with a globalist in Bush. | ||
| And it's been in the news that people brought up, you know, don't be a Nike sponsor. | ||
| And he's like, I'll do what I want. | ||
| Well, we'll do what we want. | ||
| But any comments about Armstrong, Paul? | ||
| Well, I haven't really been following that, to be honest. | ||
| It's just he's really an aggressive, arrogant, domineering control freak, folks. | ||
| And he's got to be stopped. | ||
| I mean, he's getting into politics, and that's why I'm coming out against him. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We've got to stop Lance Armstrong. | ||
| I mean, okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I think that is as close to a mission accomplished as probably there has been. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was stopped. | ||
| He was thoroughly stopped. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Certainly not. | ||
| In politics? | ||
| Nope, nope. | ||
| So yeah, there's an interesting kind of complaint that Alex has, which is, I guess he's not mad about him cheating. | ||
| He's mad that he takes money from Nike. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But also, it seems like through other conversations that he has... | ||
| He only cares because he's getting into politics. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| Because he's like, oh, I don't like Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods. | ||
| They take Nike money, but they're not anywhere near politics. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So somehow Lance Armstrong, I guess Alex thinks that he's going to run or something. | ||
| Lance Armstrong is going to run. | ||
| Huh. | ||
| So he's thinking this after everybody has caught him cheating. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I would argue that Lance Armstrong stopped Lance Armstrong far before Alex even got a chance. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| But it's petty. | ||
| It is a little... | ||
| Also, why is... | ||
| There's that moment that's really great where he's calling himself out on the pettiness. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And I enjoy that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And there's another... | ||
| There's an out-of-context drop that I forgot to play that I'm actually going to play because I think it's another... | ||
| Well, now it's in context. | ||
| I think it's another little moment. | ||
| Here's another analogy. | ||
| You know I'm the king of these. | ||
| Whether they're good or not. | ||
| I mean, I may be the king of bad analogies, but so what? | ||
| So what? | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| There's a taking the piss out of yourself a little bit that is there that, you know, it feels organic. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't listen to hours of this, but it is far more enjoyable to listen to than anything that we do in the present day. | ||
| There is a sense of, like... | ||
| This is a show! | ||
| It's a person doing a show. | ||
| Yeah, it's a show. | ||
| This is a show. | ||
| Whatever we listen to now in the present is not a show. | ||
| No. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| It's mostly, especially in the current time, immigrant trashing incitement and nonsense. | ||
| Yeah, it's propagandist, I mean, doomsday preaching, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think that there, you know, some of that is that I feel like there's a... | ||
| I don't know what it is, but those little moments, there's just something in it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is petty, but fuck it, I hate Lance Armstrong. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I'm gonna go home, and then I'm gonna come back to work tomorrow, and we're still gonna do a show. | ||
| Today is a show. | ||
| I don't have to... | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I don't like Armstrong, and tomorrow I'm not gonna give a shit. | ||
| So we have one last clip here, and it's another caller. | ||
| And this is a little bit brief, I guess. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But it's an introduction. | ||
| You know, it's a... | ||
| We're jumping into the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and saying farewell to the mysterious professor. | ||
| We're also saying about the mysterious professor. | ||
| But this episode is not really about... | ||
| Katrina at all. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| There isn't really much coverage of it outside of the sort of reflecting on and mirroring the impression that a bullet was dodged. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| And so I think that the real meat and all that will come in the next episode because there will be a new reality that Alex must adjust to. | ||
| We didn't dodge that bullet. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| Not even a little bit. | ||
| So that's kind of why there's a little bit less of the actual... | ||
| Topic in this. | ||
| And then this last call is just completely off the beaten path entirely. | ||
| Mark in Missouri, last caller. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Hello, Alex. | ||
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Thanks for all you're doing. | |
| Just wanted to say that it's just 13 days away from 9-1-1. | ||
| And we have planned here a showing of your documentary, Marshall Law, in Springfield, Missouri. | ||
| Oh, good! | ||
| Where are you showing it? | ||
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At the Springfield 8 Theaters in Springfield, Missouri. | |
| Well, that's good! | ||
| That's good! | ||
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That's good! | |
| I am from Missouri. | ||
| You are. | ||
| And I am here to tell you that Springfield sucks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a trash city. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Everyone hates it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, not everyone, but everyone that I know who I... | ||
| Everyone who didn't... | ||
| It's a very right-wing city. | ||
| Yeah, I'm going to throw this out at you, buddy. | ||
| I'm not a huge fan of Missouri as a whole. | ||
| I feel you. | ||
| I think there's saving graces. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| There's fine people in Springfield. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| There's fine people all over the place. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| But Springfield as a whole has a character of a bit of a stodgy right-wing shit. | ||
| Now, I heard that clip. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I said Springfield 8. Holy shit. | ||
| Did you work there? | ||
| No. | ||
| I worked at Forum 8 Theater in Columbia. | ||
| Were they your sister theater? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Owned by the same people? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Did you show the movie? | ||
| No. | ||
| Damn! | ||
| At the time, though, this is no longer the case. | ||
| This theater is now Springfield 11. Bastards! | ||
| And it's owned by AMC. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| However, and this took a while for me to confirm, because I had to try and figure this out, because it jogged a memory. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| At the time, Springfield 8 was owned by Goodrich, which was the theater company that owned Forum 8. I did a couple shifts at Springfield 8. No shit. | ||
| I don't know the exact timeline when that would have been, but it might have been. | ||
| It was before this. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| But it would have been in the ballpark, the territory. | ||
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I've been to Springfield 8. We're going to... | |
| So I feel like we've had a bunch of those near-miss... | ||
| Coincidence moments. | ||
| You know that like... | ||
| That, like, you know, John Lennon walking by a guitar store when he's nine years old looking at it, you know, like, oh, I want that. | ||
| And you go, ah, that's dramatic irony. | ||
| Me working the night that Alex's movie showed at Springfield Day, that's Forrest Gump. | ||
| That's Forrest Gump. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| Like, there's got to be so many of those moments that we're just near missing. | ||
| We're so close to those. | ||
| I think this is just an entirely bizarre coincidence that this guy who worked at that theater called in. | ||
| I happened to work at another theater that was owned by the same company in the same state and at the same number of theaters. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| Ships passing in the night. | ||
| So weird. | ||
| This world, man. | ||
| We gotta find that portal. | ||
| We gotta find that portal where everybody's fine after Katrina. | ||
| That's the one I want to live in. | ||
| I bet everything is so much better there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Oh, God. | |
| I bet everything's so much better there. | ||
| And everything is so much worse, I'm sure, the next episode. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| And I'm sure that as this goes along, it will not be nearly as fun as the moments like talking about the mysterious professor and what have you. | ||
| I'm sure this is going to be pretty bad. | ||
| And I had geared up for it to be really bad jumping in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it turns out, no, there's not an awareness. | ||
| The media's not on top of this, per se. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, so strange. | ||
| This is, you know, because we're doing this. | ||
| We're listening to Alex do this shit. | ||
| And concurrently, you know, not at the exact same time, but within the next couple of weeks. | ||
| Kanye's on TV saying shit, you know? | ||
| With Mike Myers. | ||
| And then cut to now. | ||
| Because Wayne's World does the thing! | ||
| It's everywhere, man! | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's no escaping it. | ||
| Yeah, we have Ye back then saying Bush doesn't care about black people. | ||
| And then in the present, or a year ago or so, he's on Alex's show with a net and Yahoo bottle. | ||
| There are, there are, if you stop, you know, like when you stop and think about human history, for... | ||
| Thousands of years, everybody's daily life was basically the same. | ||
| For thousands of years, your grandfather's daily life was basically the same. | ||
| Going around, hunt a mammoth. | ||
| Now my daily life isn't even the same as it was five years ago. | ||
| You know, it's like I don't even get the same daily routine that thousands of years of humans had. | ||
| You want to hunt a mammoth? | ||
| I kind of. | ||
| All you had to do was run him off a cliff. | ||
| I feel like I would be more of a gatherer. | ||
| Than a hunter. | ||
| I think, yeah. | ||
| I think that might be my speed. | ||
| I don't think you're really a murderer. | ||
| I don't think you have the death instinct in you. | ||
| Or a chaser. | ||
| Chasing animals. | ||
| No, that's a lot of effort. | ||
| I'm pretty... | ||
| I don't like fruit that much, but if it came down to it... | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| You do it. | ||
| I'll chase some shit. | ||
| I play sports. | ||
| Yeah, fuck it. | ||
| Well, good. | ||
| We got both our bases covered then. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| We're hunter-gatherer right here. | ||
| So, we come to the end of this episode, and I am excited in the sense that I think we're going to experience... | ||
| Something notable. | ||
| I think that obviously this is a giant piece of U.S. history. | ||
| The failures of the government to respond appropriately, to prepare. | ||
| The failures of even normal media in terms of their coverage. | ||
| It will be very interesting to see through the prism of Alex, and especially with it being a period of Alex's career where... | ||
| He's not the person he is today, but he's still himself. | ||
| So you still have, I'm gonna fucking minimize Holocaust denier publication people. | ||
| I'm going to be a bit racist about my coverage of this bar fight. | ||
| There's still those pieces of himself. | ||
| He believes he's playing an elevated game where he's critical of Rush Limbaugh's misrepresentations. | ||
| I think that dynamic will create a very bizarre lens to see this through. | ||
| It could be very interesting. | ||
| I'm excited. | ||
| Sweet. | ||
| I'll be honest, I'm just excited to get out of 2004. | ||
| Yeah, it was walking through mud a little bit. | ||
| It is nice to be out of that. | ||
| Patch, that swamp. | ||
| We ride! | ||
| So, we'll be back with another episode, but until then, Jordan, we have a website. | ||
| Indeed we do. | ||
| It's KnowledgeRite.com. | ||
| Yep, we are also on Blue Sky. | ||
| We are on Blue Sky. | ||
| It's KnowledgeRite. | ||
| Yep, we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZXClark. | ||
| I'm the Mysterious Professor. | ||
| Woo! | ||
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Yeah! | |
| Woo! | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Woo! | ||
| And now, here comes the sex robots. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
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I'm a huge fan. | |
| I love your work. |
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