#1034: Mystery Babylon #5
In this installment, Dan and Jordan try to learn about the mystery religion that controls the world, but get very distracted by how flagrant Bill Cooper is about committing plagiarism.
May 7, 2025 - Knowledge Fight
01:09:31
Participants
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| We are the bad guys. | ||
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Knowledge fight. | |
| Dan and Jordan. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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Stop it. | |
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
|
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It's time to pray. | |
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
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Thanks for holding. | |
| Hello, Alex. | ||
| I'm a first time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your room. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| Knowledgefight.com. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Dan! | ||
| Jordan! | ||
| Quick question for you. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Which bright spot today, buddy? | ||
| My bright spot today actually was just about half an hour before you got here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I got a call from the framing place. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| I took in a number of things to go get framed. | ||
| You've committed a crime. | ||
| I have an alibi. | ||
| No, I took in a number of things to get framed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're ready. | ||
|
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Ooh! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And so I'm excited to go pick these up because I don't know what they're going to end up looking like. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| One of them was that painting that used to be right over here. | ||
|
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| The Leo Zagami painting that someone sent in. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And I got a really audacious frame for that one. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| I splurged on a real... | ||
| Like, making it look like this is a real... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Piece of art in a gallery. | ||
| And there's some other things, and I'm just excited to go pick those up. | ||
| Did you choose the frames for all of them? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| A couple of the pieces were just kind of boring frames, but that one I felt like... | ||
| This deserves a little bit of a boost. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Yeah, so next time you're here in the studio, this should be... | ||
| I'm excited. | ||
| Yeah, I wanted to try and run and get them before today, but I did not have time. | ||
| It'll be nice to see those. | ||
| You know, it's like... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Back in the day, you used to just hang stuff up. | ||
| Now I feel like you've got to protect stuff. | ||
| You know, it's got to look nice. | ||
| It's got to do the whole thing. | ||
| Some things, yeah. | ||
| Maybe I'm just nesting, or maybe it's just things are more important to me now. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think you're finally growing up. | ||
| Maybe I'm finally growing up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'll be a real boy someday soon. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Your birthday's coming up. | ||
| It is coming up. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Not quite 40. No, no, no. | ||
| I'm still young. | ||
| Youngin'. | ||
| It is brutal. | ||
| It is brutal. | ||
| My wife is like, oh, I'm turning 40. And I'm like, man, I'm only 38. This shit's going to last forever. | ||
| Yeah, two more years before you get to join our club of complaining about being 40. You're going to have to keep getting old forever. | ||
| Yep, you're going to have to keep getting... | ||
| DVDs of This Is 40 for your birthday. | ||
| Yeah, I'm excited. | ||
| So what's your bright spot? | ||
| My bright spot is the obvious. | ||
| My wife is feeling better. | ||
| So bright spot away. | ||
| I'm sure a lot of people were wishing her well, and I guess it worked. | ||
| Yeah, yep. | ||
| She's feeling better. | ||
| You know, everything's going better. | ||
| And then my other bright spot is the TV show Mobland. | ||
| We found it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Because she was sick, and we needed to do something. | ||
| And I found this show called Mobland. | ||
| Tom Hardy. | ||
| Pierce Brosnan? | ||
| Pete Brosnan, because we're close. | ||
| I thought you were going to say Pete Puzzlethwaite. | ||
| Pete Puzzlethwaite is a great name. | ||
| I think he's dead. | ||
| Yeah, I think he is dead, too. | ||
| No, it's a great show. | ||
| It's British Gangsters. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're just doing British gangster shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I feel weird about Tom Hardy. | ||
| How? | ||
| I mean, because he makes me feel tingly. | ||
| I feel weird because I like him in spite of, like, I don't know why I like him exactly, but it turns out almost everything I see him in, I end up enjoying. | ||
| I love everything he does. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| Maybe he's talented. | ||
| I think he's got a lot going for him. | ||
| I think he's got some skills. | ||
| Well, that's great. | ||
| I'm glad you enjoyed that. | ||
| I will not be watching it. | ||
| I would suggest you do. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Tom Hardy's in it. | ||
| Now you're selling me. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I genuinely think I could watch anything he's in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Check out that Venom 3 and see if you still think that. | ||
| That one was rough. | ||
| That was tough. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, well. | ||
| Better than Morbius? | ||
| No. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And we're going to be going off the path. | ||
| We're going to leave our primary ding-dong to the side. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| And we'll get down to business on exactly what we're covering in a second. | ||
| But first... | ||
| Let's say hello to some new wonks. | ||
| Oh, that's a great idea. | ||
| So first, hey Nick, it's Yellow the Purple Horse and Purple the Green Horse. | ||
| Thank you so much, you're now Policy Wonk. | ||
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I'm a Policy Wonk. | |
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, Alex Jones is not a worm because worms contribute positively to the environment. | ||
| AJ is a pile of microplastics. | ||
| Thank you so much, you're now Policy Wonk. | ||
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I'm a Policy Wonk. | |
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And thank you to my wife, Ray, and daughter, Vera Rose. | ||
| Thank you so much, you're now Policy Wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan, so thank you so much to Kira. | ||
| You introduced me to this show, and now Dan and Jordan are shouting out you giving me brain worms. | ||
| But to refer back to the other one, maybe bankroplastics. | ||
| Love your yerk friend, Jess. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a technocrat. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant. | ||
| Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop. | ||
| Daddy Shark. | ||
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Bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp. | |
| Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent. | ||
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He's a loser little titty baby. | |
| I don't want to hate black people. | ||
| I renounce Jesus Christ! | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Yes, thank you very much. | ||
| So, Jordan, today what we're going to be doing is, as important as it is to keep up with Alex, we do need to learn, and we need to look to the past. | ||
| We need to experience the underpinnings and the traditions that have led us to the point where Alex can do the bullshit he has and does. | ||
| And so we are continuing our march through Mystery Babylon. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| Last we left off... | ||
| Would you care to try and remember? | ||
| Ah, okay. | ||
| I'll give you a hint. | ||
| It had to do with Osiris' dick. | ||
| That's right! | ||
| We left the sun. | ||
| And we went directly into vague Egyptian-sounding words that were then related to other words. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| As is our what? | ||
| Osiris? | ||
| Obyrus? | ||
| Otozora? | ||
| See, it all makes perfect sense now. | ||
| Jeffrey the giraffe is Anubis. | ||
| It makes the most sense. | ||
| Yeah, so we were learning a lot about Egypt. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And Egyptian gods and dicks. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so we turn on part five, lecture number five, and I feel like we've made a little bit of a departure, and now we're just talking about the New World Order. | ||
| Sounds right. | ||
| Why are all of the legacies of the past, the family, national borders, the right to practice any chosen religion, the right to private property, among other things, under such an attack? | ||
| Is it possible that there are actually people and organizations who really want to change the basic order of things? | ||
| Well, my regular listeners know the answer to that. | ||
| Clues to the answers to these questions folks can be gleaned from some comments made by people and organizations that are talking about these wide-ranging changes in the nature of our lifestyle. | ||
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An Associated Press Dispatch I really feel like I've gotten whiplash from the Egypt stuff to now somewhat relatively current shit. | |
| I don't know, man. | ||
| So Bill referred to Nelson Rockefeller as the governor of New York because he's reading from an AP article from 1968, but it's strange that he doesn't point out that Rockefeller went on to be Gerald Ford's vice president. | ||
| I found this article, and it's real. | ||
| Rockefeller was running for the Republican nomination, and he was advancing a position that was based on increasing dialogue with other countries in order to avoid war with China and the Soviet Union. | ||
| He said, quote, Bill knows that Rockefeller wasn't talking about some kind of Illuminati Egypt cult that he was working for or whatever the fuck. | ||
| Interestingly, looking through some of these old newspapers, I was able to find a lot of mentions of the New World Order previous to 1968, because of course Rockefeller didn't coin this term, and neither did Bush. | ||
| Nobody did. | ||
| A lot of them were in letters to the editor, and I bring this up to say that at one point they would print your address in the paper if you wanted to get your opinion published. | ||
| That's how it worked. | ||
| If you were going to talk some crazy shit and you wanted it to be spread widely, you There you go. | ||
| I thought that was... | ||
| Pretty wild to think about. | ||
| There is a measure of quality control that maybe there are better ways to get there, but that is a way to get there. | ||
| Yeah, you're taking on a risk by having your address posted, which means that only the people who really believe what they say or people who are recklessly and dangerously crazy. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Talk shit, get hit is not supposed to be a newspaper's editorial section, but hey, what are you going to do? | ||
| So, Bill has this Nelson Rockefeller quote, and he goes on, there's more people who have said New World Order before. | ||
| On January the 30th, 1976, a new document called the Declaration of Interdependence was introduced to the American people, and it was signed by 124 traitors. | ||
| 32 senators and 92 representatives, altogether 124 traitors in Washington, D.C., and it read in part, That's not enough. | ||
| And you thought George Bush coined that phrase. | ||
| I did! | ||
| Surprise. | ||
| Surprise. | ||
| So the title Declaration of Interdependence has been used a ton of times in the past hundred years. | ||
| And in fact, there were two major ones in 1976, most likely because it was the bicentennial celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| The one that Bill is talking about was written by a history professor from Amherst College named Henry Steele Comager, or at least the preamble was. | ||
| This small excerpt of the preamble is probably all Bill has ever read of this document because it was the part that... | ||
| Marto's Liberty Lobby. | ||
| The Spotlight was an old-time white identity publication that probably coincidentally aired a show on the same shortwave station as Bill, and the same one Alex would go on to broadcast on, WCR. | ||
| WWCR. | ||
| And the In the lead up to 1976, everyone was excited about celebrating the bicentennial, and different cities thought that they had the right to be the official event. | ||
| Boston felt like they were the right choice, which Philadelphia didn't agree with, nor did DC. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| The federal government decided that it wouldn't be right to choose a city to the exclusion of another, so each place could do their own big celebration. | ||
| Philadelphia decided that a part of theirs would be the commissioning of this Declaration of Interdependence. | ||
| It had no official government authority and it meant nothing. | ||
| It was symbolic and had a lot to do with the feeling that if the world didn't start working together, we were going to destroy ourselves, which is a prevailing attitude they had in 70s and mid-2020s. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| As part of the celebration, a bunch of members of Congress signed the document, but their signature didn't mean anything in this context, at least not in terms of passing a law or it being considered like... | ||
| A binding treaty. | ||
| Literally every member of Congress could sign my autograph book, and that doesn't magically make it a law. | ||
| The spotlight made a big deal out of this and how it was internationalism trying to take over the country. | ||
| If you go back and you look at the response to this declaration, it's almost entirely associated with the spotlight and an editorial written by a guy named George Benson. | ||
| Benson is remembered as the president of Harding University, and more importantly, as a fierce opponent of racial integration. | ||
| Students at his college attempted to express their desire to desegregate, which led to him giving a speech in 1957, which the Arkansas Times described like this. | ||
| Quote, citing Washington D.C. as an example, Benson warned that integration would bring, quote, increased destruction to property, increased gonorrhea and syphilis, and increased pregnancies. | ||
| Sounds right. | ||
| He also railed against, quote, mixed marriages. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| with a line that Harding's faculty and students had heard him say before, but never with so much emphasis. | ||
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Oh, boy. | |
| Quote, the blackbirds and bluebirds, the blue jays and mockingbirds. | ||
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Oh, no. | |
| They don't mix and mingle together, young people. | ||
| One of the things Benson was really good at was courting big donors to the school. | ||
| And he was actually able to massively grow the budget of Harding while he was there. | ||
| Yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| As an offshoot of this, he started an outlet called the National Education Program, which disseminated his op-eds to newspapers and distributed extreme right wing periodicals. | ||
| And it was in essence, another John Birch society type of entity. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It pushed anti-communist hysteria and deeply regressive bigotry with the funding of pro-business groups of the time. | ||
| These are the kinds of sources that Bill's pulling from. | ||
| They were the groups that made a big deal out of this meaningless gesture that was part of this celebration in Philadelphia. | ||
| Neo-Nazis like Willis Cardo and racist propagandists like Benson blew things out of proportion, and that exaggeration lives on in the legacy of the media ecosystem that they built. | ||
| Bill is an extension of that, and Alex, a further extension. | ||
| They carry on the work, these bigots who like to pretend that they oppose desegregation because it was an anti-communist plot, that work that they kicked off, and they got that ball rolling. | ||
| Anyway, I don't know what this has to do with Osiris' penis, but I'm sure it'll all come together at some point. | ||
| Well, I think that was going to be my next question, is we appear to have skipped ahead. | ||
| Quite a bit. | ||
| I prefer to go piece by piece because it feels as though the Mystery Babylon folk just business as usual for several thousand years. | ||
| It have to be. | ||
| And then New World Order. | ||
| What was the inciting... | ||
| Was it just like the 70s? | ||
| And they were like, you know what? | ||
| It's time we stepped up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, guys, we've been lazy. | ||
| We've been Mystery Babylon-ing for too long. | ||
| Too many Crispin Eastern Babyloners over here. | ||
| So first there was Amon Ra. | ||
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Right. | |
| And then a little bit of Nelson Rockefeller. | ||
| And now here we are. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I feel like you can't just yada, yada, yada that many years. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, I found it disorienting. | ||
| And maybe if I were listening to this as a serialized radio show at the time and took it seriously, I think I'd be confused. | ||
| I would be a little bit unhappy. | ||
| Why are we jumping all over the place? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, Kissinger, he also said New World Order. | ||
| Another individual who has commented is Henry Kissinger, probably the greatest traitor this nation has ever known, former Secretary of State. | ||
| According to the Seattle Post Intelligence of April 18, 1975, Mr. Kissinger said, quote, Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us, unquote. | ||
| So Henry Kissinger used the words New World Order a lot more than just this one time, but I guess any example is as good as another. | ||
| In April 1975, Congress had voted against a proposed $722 million emergency military funding package that was meant to support South Vietnam. | ||
| In theory, it was largely about evacuating the remaining American citizens in the country and providing evacuations for South Vietnamese people who were in serious danger after we pulled out of the conflict. | ||
| The Kissinger quote was in reference to this bill failing and how it represented the U.S. not taking up the leadership in the position in the world that it's uniquely placed to be in. | ||
| This was an article from April 18th and Saigon fell on April 30th. | ||
| Fuck Kissinger and all that, but there's also an understandable context to this quote that Bill isn't interested in. | ||
| Someone just said the words New World Order and that's all that matters. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But since Bill is so interested in who said New World Order... | ||
| I want to play a game with you, Jordan, and see if you can guess whether or not certain people ever joined the New World Order. | ||
| Hulk Hogan. | ||
| Yes, he did join the New World Order. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| You're one for one. | ||
| Macho Man Randy Savage. | ||
| Yes, he did join the New World Order. | ||
| You're correct. | ||
| Two for two. | ||
| Diamond Dallas Page. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, yes. | ||
| Yes, he did. | ||
| Final answer? | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| My final answer is... | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| Yep, he was one of the holdouts. | ||
| I couldn't remember if he was one of the holdouts or if he was one of the guys. | ||
| Sting. | ||
| Sting did not join the New World Order. | ||
| Incorrect. | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| What was Sting doing in the New World Order? | ||
| He was in the Wolf Pack. | ||
| Oh, which one? | ||
| The Red and Black. | ||
| All right, all right. | ||
| Oh, the Red and Black. | ||
| That's not fair. | ||
| That's still the New World Order. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| David Arquette. | ||
| Actor David Arquette, who was at one time WCW world champion. | ||
| I know this. | ||
| I know he's involved. | ||
| I don't know if he joined the New World Order. | ||
| I'm going to go with no. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| The Rock. | ||
| The Rock did not join the New World Order. | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| But they did do a New World Order in the WWF later. | ||
| And Shawn Michaels joined. | ||
| See, but the problem there is every World Order is at first the New World Order and then later the Old World Order. | ||
| But it's still this brand. | ||
| Okay, fair enough. | ||
| That's all I'm talking about. | ||
| Fair enough, okay. | ||
| Dennis Rodman. | ||
| Dennis Rodman did join the New World Order. | ||
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He did. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Finally? | ||
| I was a big Bulls fan, yeah. | ||
| Paul Gilmartin. | ||
| Comedian Paul Gilmartin. | ||
| Comedian Paul Gilmartin. | ||
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Mental health pod Paul Gilmartin. | |
| I'm gonna go with yeah! | ||
| He did. | ||
| Yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| Because he hosted dinner in a movie at the time. | ||
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With, uh... | |
| It was owned by, like, TNT. | ||
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That's awesome. | |
| There was another Turner thing. | ||
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That's awesome. | |
| Yeah, he ended up joining the NWO. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Well, you did better than I thought, but... | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| DDP was, uh, you know... | ||
| DDP and Sting. | ||
| Those were your two... | ||
| My initial reaction to DDP was, he's a guy who would never join the New World Order. | ||
| And then my next thought was... | ||
| You don't know wrestling. | ||
| Why would you say, this man will never join the New World Order as if you... | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| He did not. | ||
| And then I'm going to get corrected by somebody that he did. | ||
| I'm sure. | ||
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Fuck. | |
| Exactly. | ||
| I've opened up a can of worms. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| So, yeah, I just... | ||
| At this point, I was like, all right, people said New World Order a bunch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm unimpressed. | ||
| Historian Walter Mills maintains that prior to World War I, Colonel Edward Mandel House, the major advisor to Woodrow Wilson, The president at the time had a hidden motive for involving America in the war. | ||
| The historian wrote this, quote, The colonel's sole justification for preparing such a batch of blood for his countrymen was his hope of establishing a new world order of peace and security, unquote. | ||
| You see how these people fool themselves? | ||
| They always say that the end is peace and security, a world utopia. | ||
| But to get it, they spill more blood than ever has been spilled in history. | ||
| Each time they try to bring about their utopia, the blood runs in the streets. | ||
| They're liars. | ||
| They're hypocrites. | ||
| They're manipulators, deceivers. | ||
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They're the worshippers of Lucifer. | |
| So by this point in the episode, I was pretty sure that most of this was just Bill reading stuff and he was plagiarizing again. | ||
| So I tried to figure out where all these quotes exist in the order that he's reading them. | ||
| And I figured out that he's just reading the introduction to the book The New World Order by A. Ralph Epperson. | ||
| Epperson was a classic New World Order and various other conspiracy theory crank, and I think my favorite of his big claims is that Jesse James wasn't killed in 1882, but instead lived on under a fake name and was elected senator of Montana from 1901 to 1907. | ||
| See, that's the type of shit we gotta get back to. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| That's where I wanna live. | ||
| I wanna live where a guy's just out of nowhere being like, and also, Jesse James is still alive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's what I'm here for. | ||
| So you see, Jordan, back in the day, there were a lot of these Wild West figures who were really famous, but no one really knew who they were. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, a lot of people didn't have IDs, they used fake names, and no one had phone cameras. | ||
| So, like, if you were just, like, there would be cool names, like Jesse James and Billy the Kid. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| People could just pretend to be that person after they had died. | ||
| Yeah, nobody's gonna stop you. | ||
| It happened a lot, and it was actually the basis of the plot of Young Guns 2. Was that the one with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez? | ||
| Aren't they in both? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I think so. | ||
| The Young Guns franchise had the two of them in it? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Jon Bon Jovi. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did he join the New World Order? | ||
| No. | ||
| Ooh, he could've. | ||
| He should've. | ||
| He should've. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was right there for him. | ||
| There's a lot of Japanese baseball players. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| But not Jon Bon Jovi. | ||
| Okay, fair enough. | ||
| So in 1948, a man named J. Frank Dalton appeared and claimed to be Jesse James. | ||
| Unfortunately, he had also previously claimed to be a U.S. Marshal named Frank Dalton, who he definitely wasn't, and also that called into serious question if J. Frank Dalton was even his actual name. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He also spent a little bit of time pretending to be the head of a Confederate secret society called the Knights of the Golden Circle, which gave him access to tons of buried treasures. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| In 1995, Jesse James' actual descendants had his grave exhumed, and they did mitochondrial DNA testing, which found that the body that was buried there was consistent with their DNA, strongly concluding that that was the actual Jesse James. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| He's dead, yeah. | ||
| Even if this guy was Jesse James, which he wasn't, Dalton was still, like, never a senator from Montana. | ||
| These are just one of the great examples of these old-time U.S. fraudsters, and A. Ralph Epperson wrote a whole damn book about Those were the days when you could just... | ||
| You could just do whatever you want. | ||
| I mean, you say that it was like the Old West, but when you stop and think about what you could do and how it was just whatever you want, that's crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, I was reading something about that, and apparently Jesse James and some of his robberies and stuff, he would use disguises. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so a lot of people really had no idea what he looked like. | ||
| Why would you? | ||
| That's the idea. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you're a famous bank robber, you should not know what he looks like. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's very simple. | ||
| Someone who had... | ||
| He claimed to have met Jesse James, said that this guy was Jesse James, and then he realized, like, well, actually, no. | ||
| He's at least the person that I was introduced to as Jesse James at some point. | ||
| To be clear, I am not reporting accurate information. | ||
| I'm reporting the information that I was given. | ||
| I only know that I met him 20 years ago as Jesse James, so if he's doing this, he's been doing it for a while. | ||
| Yeah, no, and I mean, the power of a letter of recommendation back then. | ||
| The power of a letter that you absolutely could have written yourself. | ||
| Yeah, that can't be fake. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| So Hitler also said New World Order. | ||
| Sure, I bet he did. | ||
| Adolf Hitler, a socialist and the head of the German government prior to and during the nation's involvement in World War II, is quoted as saying this, quote, National socialism will use its own revolution for the establishing of a New World Order, unquote. | ||
| Adolf Hitler was a socialist. | ||
| Nazi means National Socialism. | ||
| Hitler confided to Hermann Rauschening, the president of the Danzig Senate, quote, National socialism is more than a religion. | ||
| It is the will to create Superman, unquote. | ||
| And what is the number of the man? | ||
| 666. | ||
| You see, in the New World Order, only one man will be allowed to live. | ||
| The new man, the illumined man. | ||
| The number of that man is 666. | ||
| You will see that number increasingly all around you. | ||
| I've not seen the number 666 around me pretty much ever, with two exceptions. | ||
| The only places I've ever seen it are in art that's meant to freak people like Bill out, and then when people like Bill freak out about said art. | ||
| I would say that 666 has almost zero impact on my life outside of that. | ||
| I don't run into it everywhere. | ||
| Oh, sometimes you'll see it in graffiti. | ||
| And you'll be like, ah, some child went 666. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And you're like, well, the reason they did that was because it freaks people like Bill out. | ||
| There is no... | ||
| Maybe a slot machine or a lotto comes up 666. | ||
| Hey, isn't that creepy? | ||
| It's not, but is it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It plays a very small role in my life. | ||
| I'm not sure that that's a real Hitler quote, but even if it is, it's not surprising that he would be talking about wanting a New World Order that's different from the old one. | ||
| That's kind of his big thing. | ||
| He was all about that. | ||
| He wasn't a fan of the current one. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The quote about Superman is from Hermann Rushning, who left the Nazi Party in 1934 and fled Germany in 1936. | ||
| In 1939, he published a book called Hitler Speaks, which has also been called The Voice of Destruction. | ||
| The book contains a lot of things alleged to have been said by Hitler, but many historians look on it with a bit of skepticism. | ||
| Some people who question the book's authenticity are straight-up neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers who are seeking to defend Hitler from looking as bad as he does in the text, but other non-Nazi folks have also found some reason to think that some of the book at least is inauthentic. | ||
| Either way, in the text, Roshning says, quote, Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it. | ||
| It's more than a religion. | ||
| It is the will to create mankind anew. | ||
| So Bill is just reading from the introduction to Epperson's book, though, so he misses a lot of the context around these things. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| He doesn't know or even care at all. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| I'm just gonna read this book. | ||
| Like, here's what blows me away about people like this. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| At no point in time does it ever occur to them that another language has things like New World... | ||
| Like, whenever... | ||
| Yes, they do. | ||
| Nova Order Seclorum. | ||
| Like when Shi Huangdi makes China, he's like, it's a New World Order. | ||
| He was just saying that. | ||
| Everybody says that before they make a new... | ||
| Like when Cromwell murdered that guy, he was like, oh, it's a New World Order. | ||
| And then 40 years later, it was the same World Order again. | ||
| They just went back. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Welcome to New Boss, same as the old boss. | ||
| Everybody just says New World Order every time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| If you were in The Who, and then the Guess Who came along, would you fight them? | ||
| I bet it made them angry. | ||
| I think I'd fight them. | ||
| And then I think at the same time it made them confused, because they're like, why are we angry about this? | ||
| If you were in 311 and someone came out with 312, you'd have to fight. | ||
| It sucks. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| What if somebody came out with 310, though? | ||
| If somebody says 310, are you like, oh, well, that's a compliment to us? | ||
| It's a lesser priority to kick their ass, but you do need to still kick their ass. | ||
| Right, gotcha. | ||
| It's less insulting, but it is still like, you're on our toes. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Anyway, Bill, I don't know, man. | ||
| Is the beer insulting to the band 311? | ||
| The beer 311? | ||
| 312. | ||
| Uh, no, because that's a zip code. | ||
| Yeah, that's fine. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Cross genres, it's fine. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah, if you're... | ||
| Just learning? | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| I'm just finding out where the boundaries of this are? | ||
| Yeah, no, I mean, like, you could have, like, real big pilsners or something, and the real big fish doesn't have to fight you. | ||
| Real big fish wouldn't be so angry? | ||
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| Real big fishers? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep, okay. | ||
| But if you named your band Real Big Fishers, it's over. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha. | ||
| So, Bill discusses the writing of the Communist Manifesto here. | ||
| The alleged need for a change in the basic way things are known is consistent with the teachings of the father of communism, Karl Marx. | ||
| He's not really the father of communism, but it's a name that's been tagged onto him. | ||
| You see, he was just a hack writer hired by the mystery religion of Babylon to write the Communist Manifesto. | ||
| It was not his idea. | ||
| But he's reaped the benefits of it. | ||
| Who's doing the hiring? | ||
| If you can call them benefits. | ||
| Who's in the HR department? | ||
| But he co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Frederick Engels, another hack writer, in 1848. | ||
| Mr. Marx wrote that the communists, quote, openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions, unquote. | ||
| He doesn't go deeper into Marx being hired by a mystery cult to write the Communist Manifesto. | ||
| That feels like an interesting story. | ||
| Yeah, but it's not in the introduction to this book, so he's not going to tell you about it. | ||
| It feels like it's a really important part of history. | ||
| It was a pretty important book. | ||
| He was pretty famous for writing it. | ||
| If we suddenly discovered that a secret shadowy organization several thousand years old was the impetus behind him writing it, I feel like there's an interesting story there. | ||
| Yeah, once I realized that this is just Bill reading the introduction to this book, I kind of, I ran out of a little bit of steam and patience for it, because I could just read it. | ||
| And I'm not impressed by a Ralph Epperson's rigor and quality of work. | ||
| Yeah, it feels illegal to perform an audiobook of somebody else's work without their knowledge. | ||
| And without saying that's what you're doing. | ||
| Yeah, that's even worse. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But, hey, let's see what else there is to be learned in this introduction. | ||
| Maybe we'll learn about the Pope. | ||
| Some of the Catholic Popes in the past have commented on the major changes coming in the future. | ||
| One such Pope was Pope Pius XI, who wrote the following in 1937. | ||
| Communism has behind it occult forces for which a long time have been working for the overthrow of the Christian social order, unquote. | ||
| One of the popes who preceded him, Pope Pius IX, wrote this in November 1846 about the changes that he saw in the future. | ||
| That infamous doctrine of so-called communism is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and if once adopted, would utterly destroy the rights, property, and possessions of all men and even society itself. | ||
| Now, don't get all worked up about what the Pope says, because they have succeeded now with this Pope in putting one of their own upon the throne of the Vatican. | ||
| Ooh. | ||
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It had long been their dream, and now it is true. | |
| Isn't that wild? | ||
| In 1993, Bill is saying that the globalists finally got their Pope on the throne, which has to be referring to John Paul II. | ||
| He's remembered as a good anti-communist pope now, but weirdly at the time, he was the epitome of what the mystery religion wanted to install in power. | ||
| It's almost like that's Always the story. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| These dicks. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| This Pius IX thing from 1846 was his qui pluribus speech, which would be interesting to hear Bill's take on. | ||
| It's too bad he's dead, so I can't ask him about how that speech was mostly about the evils of human rationality and how philosophy threatens the foundation of the church. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| From that text. | ||
| Quote, in order to easily mislead the people into making errors, deceiving particularly the imprudent and inexperienced, they pretend that they alone know the ways to prosperity. | ||
| They claim for themselves without hesitation the name of philosophers. | ||
| They feel as if philosophy, which is wholly concerned with the search for truth in nature, ought to reject those truths which God himself, the supreme and merciful creator of nature, has deemed to make plain to men as a special gift. | ||
| With these truths, mankind can gain true happiness and salvation. | ||
| So by means of an obviously ridiculous and specious kind of argumentation, these enemies never stop invoking the power and excellence of human reason. | ||
| They raise it up against the most holy faith of Christ, and they blather with great foolhardiness that this faith is opposed to human reason. | ||
| Without doubt, nothing more insane than such a doctrine, nothing more impious or more opposed to reason itself could be devised. | ||
| For although faith is above reason, no real disagreement or opposition can ever be found between them. | ||
| this is because both of them come from the same greatest source of unchanging and eternal truth god they give such reciprocal help to each other that true reason shows maintains and protects the truth of faith while faith frees reason from all errors and wondrously enlightens | ||
| Like, I know that Bill's a religious guy and he has a respect for faith and all that stuff, but I have to assume that he'd have some problems with the Catholic Church being, like, wholly dismissive of rationality. | ||
| And how it's not... | ||
| It's second to faith, I guess. | ||
| Maybe he wouldn't. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, he's against regular popes. | ||
| But that speech wasn't just about communism, is my point. | ||
| It's also about the evils of rationality and humanism. | ||
| Well, I mean, we all agree with those. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| Not sure. | ||
| What about the child pope? | ||
| Is it child pope? | ||
| A globalist pope? | ||
| I feel like we need to talk more about the child pope. | ||
| Why isn't anybody quoting the child pope's writings? | ||
| If he's the pope... | ||
| We gotta count them the same, right? | ||
| Yeah, anything before Vatican II is fine. | ||
| Yeah, you gotta count... | ||
| They apologized for their role in the Holocaust, and then the Catholic Church was shitty after that. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| So you gotta count child pope, whatever he wrote, as like, oh, that's not a mystery Babylon pope. | ||
| That's a good pope. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Yeah, as long as it's not current, we're good. | ||
| Physical So Bill goes on. | ||
| Some other people have said some shit. | ||
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| Maybe even Rhodes Scholars. | ||
| Did you hear me? | ||
| Rhodes Scholars? | ||
| Rhodes Scholars? | ||
| I've met a couple of Rhodes Scholars. | ||
| Did Dusty Rhodes ever join the New World Order? | ||
| No. | ||
| Incorrect. | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| Yep, he was in the New World Order. | ||
| Another clue about what is in store for the future world was offered by Dr. James H. Billington, who received his doctorate as a Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes Scholar. | ||
| Where have you heard that before? | ||
| You have a Rhodes Scholar sitting in the Oval Office right now. | ||
| Received his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and has taught at Harvard and Princeton Universities. | ||
| He wrote this in his book entitled Fire in the Minds of Men. | ||
| Quote, This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith, perhaps the faith of our time. | ||
| What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority. | ||
| Unquote. | ||
| You hear that? | ||
| They believe a perfect secular order will emerge. | ||
| Nothing perfect will ever emerge from the minds of imperfect men. | ||
| So this is from James Billington's book, Fire in the Minds of Men, Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. | ||
| Bill is reading from Epperson's book, which paraphrases the first lines of the introduction of Billington's. | ||
| In full, the original says, quote, This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith, perhaps the faith of our time. | ||
| Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians and Muslims of an earlier era. | ||
| What is new is the belief that a perfect secular society will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority. | ||
| Epperson's quoting of the passage removes the line about Christians and Muslims because he wanted to obscure the point that these revolutionaries Billington is writing about are not all that different from religious revolutionaries of the past, except in the sense that they're secularly inclined. | ||
| And because of that editorial choice that Epperson made... | ||
| In terms of quoting this passage from Billington, now Bill is just reading... | ||
| It's all a game of telephone. | ||
| Because religious people are nothing like revolutionaries. | ||
| They're just doing regulararies for God. | ||
| Sure, it seems very similar, the things that they do and the results that they have on the lives of other people. | ||
| But one of them has God. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's the people who are doing it for some sort of a religious... | ||
| Reason, they're doing it because that's upholding the natural order of things. | ||
| Whereas you are not. | ||
| Great. | ||
| The most revolutionary. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Bill goes on, keeps reading, and brings up old B.F. Skinner. | ||
| Hey, that's nice. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| That these future changes would involve force and slavery was confirmed by B.F. Skinner, chairman of the psychology department at Harvard University. | ||
| In his book entitled Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Dr. Skinner has been called the most influential of living American psychologists by Time magazine. | ||
| So the world should listen to the professor when he speaks. | ||
| The magazine told the reader what the message of Professor Skinner's book was. | ||
| Quote, We can no longer afford freedom, and so it must be replaced with control over man, his conduct, and his culture. | ||
| Unquote. | ||
| So this is a 1971 book that B.F. Skinner wrote called Beyond Freedom and Dignity. | ||
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| In the introduction, he clearly lays out sort of the theme of what he's talking about. | ||
| The application of the physical and biological sciences alone will not solve our problems because the solutions lie in another field. | ||
| Better contraceptives will control population only if we use them. | ||
| New weapons may offset new defenses and vice versa, but a nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. | ||
| New methods of agriculture and medicine will not help people if they're not practiced, and housing is a matter not only of buildings and cities but of how people live. | ||
| Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned. | ||
| In short, we need to make vast changes in human behavior, and we cannot make them with the help of nothing more than physics and biology, no matter how hard we try. | ||
| So Skinner goes on to make the argument that our civilization has made essentially zero progress on understanding human behavior from the time of Plato to the... | ||
| Sure. | ||
| He says, quote, whereas Greek physics and biology, no matter how crude, led eventually to modern science, Greek theories of human behavior led nowhere. | ||
| And I think he makes a great point, too, in the introduction. | ||
| He's talking about how, like, if you showed modern physics and all this shit to Greek thinkers of that time, they'd have no idea what to do with any of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's built upon what they had created. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Whereas, if you took human behavioral theories and you showed it to them, they would have no problem. | ||
| It would be right in line with a lot of the stuff that's in those, like, Socratic dialogues and shit. | ||
| Yeah, people don't understand themselves too well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His basic point is that we have these concepts like, quote, states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on, that predominate the study of behavior. | ||
| These kinds of variables were once part of our understanding of physics and biology, but we needed to let them go in order for those sciences to progress. | ||
| He's talking about how, like, back in the day, Aristotle used to think that things sped up when they fell because they were eager to get to Earth. | ||
| They loved the Earth! | ||
| That kind of personification is something that existed in some of the past of sciences. | ||
| Skinner is arguing that as long as these ideas, including the illusion of freedom and dignity, persist, no one will pursue a true science of behavior. | ||
| which is something that he's into. | ||
| And I can understand if you're not into that, if you're not into the science of behavior, and you're not into B.F. Skinner, totally understand. | ||
| Well. | ||
| I think it's, Bill's misrepresenting it a little bit. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| But I also am certain that Bill has never read that book. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Since the quote that he's using is just a paraphrasing of Skinner's text that was published in Time Magazine, which was then included in the introduction of Epperson's New World Order book. | ||
| So this is just third-handed. | ||
| Shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I sense that a lot of the things that we will be secondhand quoting through another person will center mainly within the first ten pages of all books that they are quoting. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| I do not think we're going to find a lot of... | ||
| This one's in chapter nine. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| As I was going over, I did my coverage of Alex's book, The Great Reset. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, like, so much of it was obsessed with the introduction and foreword of the book. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Of Klaus Schwab's book. | ||
| I open the book, I read to where I get what I want, and then I'm done with the book. | ||
| Yeah, it's rough. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, as I realized that Bill's just reading this guy's book, I was like, I'm gonna bust you. | ||
| I'm going to catch you in the act. | ||
| Of reading the book? | ||
| Well, when you slip up a little bit. | ||
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| I'm going to find it and I'm going to pin it down. | ||
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Okay, okay. | |
| Here's the first one. | ||
| It's not as bad as it could be, but it's still pretty glaring. | ||
| Aldous Huxley in his book called Brave New World Revisited quotes a character called the Grand Inquisitor in one of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's parables as saying this, quote, In the end, they, the people, will lay their freedom at our, the controller's feet, and say to us, make us your slaves, but feed us, unquote. | ||
| The Tucson Citizen newspaper of November the 3rd, 1988, printed a photograph of a group of people involved in a march for literacy. | ||
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Aha! | |
| You can tell that he's just reading because of that little slip-up that he made. | ||
| The text has a grammatical error in it that says, quote, the Tucson Citizen newspaper of November 3rd, 1988, printed a photograph of a-some people involved in a march for literacy. | ||
| He reached the a-some part and he felt the need to correct it on the fly. | ||
| And you could hear that pause. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| Busted. | ||
| You've been got. | ||
| You've been got. | ||
| It's going to get a lot worse. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
| But that was like an instance of like... | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| If you were reading along with this, you'd understand exactly where that slip-up came. | ||
| Fuck you, Bill. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You got him. | ||
| What else is there to say? | ||
| Nail this man to the wall. | ||
| So he goes to commercial. | ||
| He doesn't actually go to commercial. | ||
| He plays a little bit of a song. | ||
| Actually, the beginning intro song of this episode was the Mr. Burns and Smithers song from The Simpsons Sing the Blues. | ||
| I thought that was weird. | ||
| That is weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That is weird. | ||
| But he finishes the introduction of that book, that Epperson book, so it's time to go to break. | ||
| The people of the world will give up their freedom to the controllers because there will be a planned famine or some other serious occurrence such as a depression or war. | ||
| The change to the New World Order is coming shortly, folks, and it has already begun. | ||
| However, if that is not the case... | ||
| It will be introduced one step at a time so that the entire structure will be in place by the year 1999. | ||
| We've got to take a short break. | ||
| Don't go away, folks. | ||
| I'll be right back after this very short pause. | ||
| That just was the end of the introduction of this book. | ||
| He's taking a break, a chapter break, basically. | ||
| What a dick. | ||
| And so I was like, alright, he's going to go to break, and then he's going to come back, and maybe it'll be like... | ||
| What we just discussed was the introduction to this book by Epperson. | ||
| He'll own up to it. | ||
| Not own up to it, but be like, now let's have a discussion section about this that we got through. | ||
| I feel like that could save it a little bit and make it like, okay, there's work product of bills here as opposed to just plagiarism. | ||
| But he comes back and he just starts reading chapter one. | ||
| Yes, folks, something is indeed wrong in America. | ||
| And many sense that changes in this nation's lifestyle are occurring. | ||
| Most of us know full well that these changes are taking place. | ||
| The newspapers are saturated with articles reporting the activities of those advocating increased governmental spending for a variety of unconstitutional purposes. | ||
| Organizations supporting a globalism concept urged the world to adopt a one-world government. | ||
| Psychologists preaching the destruction of the family unit and recommending that the society rear the nation's children. | ||
| Governments closing private schools and nations forming regional governments under which national borders are scheduled to disappear. | ||
| So he's just reading this book. | ||
| And I think he has a fine voice, and I don't begrudge. | ||
| His ability to read. | ||
| But I was so disappointed. | ||
| This is Mystery Babylon. | ||
| This is supposed to be this really big, in-depth deconstruction of how this mystery cult has led all of history up until this point. | ||
| And he's just plagiarizing. | ||
| And it doesn't even make the point that he wants it to make. | ||
| It's incoherent. | ||
| What a bummer. | ||
| Such a disappointing dude. | ||
| Yeah, I feel like we've moved from anything interpretable to, like, ASMR territory. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, where it's like, he could be reading anything. | ||
| As long as it's in that droning voice, his fans would still probably listen. | ||
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| You know? | ||
| Like, it could be the instructions on a 1992 video game. | ||
| As long as he let him in Kaji. | ||
| Yep, absolutely. | ||
| And so I was listening along to this and I'm like, alright, I guess maybe what we should do is a book report of these books that he's talking about or something that he won't even cop to. | ||
| He's just reading them. | ||
| And then I was like, okay, you've actually crossed the line. | ||
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The new religion has a series of leaders. | |
| One is a woman named Alice Bailey, a prolific writer on the subject of the new age. | ||
| She was the founder of an organization called the Arcane School, one of the major Lucis Trust divisions. | ||
| The Lucis Trust was a major publisher of books supporting the religion and published a newsletter or newspaper called Lucifer. | ||
| In her book entitled The Externalization of the Hierarchy, she told her readers who the organizations were that were going to bring the New Age religion to the world and she identified them as being, quote, The three main channels through which the preparation for the New Age is going on might be regarded as the Church, the Masonic fraternity, and the educational field. | ||
| And folks, that is exactly who is bringing it to realization. | ||
| The main thrust of this program It's going to be to examine only one of the three organizations mentioned by Alice Bailey. | ||
| That being the Masonic Fraternity. | ||
| So I ask myself if Bill's plagiarism is malicious or not. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I generally go back and forth, because some of it's just like, eh, you're lazy, this is easier for you, or whatever. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But that clip actually pushed me over the line. | ||
| Let me play a little piece of that again for you. | ||
| In Epperson's book, after the quote from Alice Bailey, there's a parenthetical paragraph that starts, quote, the main thrust of this book will be to examine only one of the three organizations. | ||
| Bill was scanning the text as he read, saw the word book, and replaced it with program, because he knew that saying book would make it too obvious to the listener that he was just reading a book. | ||
| At no point does he say that he's just reading Epperson's book, and there are instances like this where he goes out of his way to substitute words to cover up that fact. | ||
| And he wants to make it look like what he's reading is the product of his own work or study. | ||
| That's the charade that he's playing. | ||
| My point here is that Bill is a fraud. | ||
| And in that clip there, you can see it clearly. | ||
| Using sources and texts to make a larger point is good. | ||
| But that is not what Bill is doing. | ||
| He is taking ownership over this text that he had no part in creating. | ||
| Bad. | ||
| I mean, he didn't even do the high school thing where you just, like, grab the sentences and rearrange them. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, you're too lazy to even do the shit work that a 16-year-old would do. | ||
| It indicates to me a lack of caring about the subject. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like a high school kid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, everything. | ||
| What are you doing, man? | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| It's hubris. | ||
| Here's what I'll do. | ||
| Because the thought had to occur to him, what I'm going to do is I'm going to read this book. | ||
| And pretend it's me. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And at no point is there a second thought of like, well, maybe I should cut it up. | ||
| Maybe I should put a chunk here and then say my own words or anything like that. | ||
| No. | ||
| Just starts reading and then stops reading. | ||
| But I honestly think that even if you want to do that, I think that there's an ethical way to do that for him to be like, today we're going to be going over this book. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| This book by A. Ralph Epperson. | ||
| And he can still read large passages of it, but he can't. | ||
| Pretend like this book is his script for the episode that he's doing. | ||
| This is supposed to be Bill fucking Cooper explaining the mystery religion to you. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| This isn't supposed to be him stealing someone's work. | ||
| Yeah, and not even just that. | ||
| Him reading multiple books. | ||
| Just reading them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That's it! | ||
| So there's more instances of this. | ||
| This is what I would describe as malicious plagiarism. | ||
| There are numerous works by others. | ||
| Writers, lecturers, researchers, exposing the involvement of the church in the educational field, in the New Age movement, and in the New World Order. | ||
| So I'm not going to attempt to duplicate those efforts. | ||
| However, only a few are aware of the involvement of the Freemasons, and that is why I have chosen to concentrate on that organization, Mystery Babylon. | ||
| So the actual text there says, quote, There are numerous works by other writers exposing the involvement of the church and the educational field in the New Age movement, so this writer will not attempt to duplicate those efforts. | ||
| Bill replaced the words this writer with I in the text in order to make it look like this is his work and not someone else's. | ||
| That strongly indicates intention to steal. | ||
| Like, this is not like... | ||
| This is not an accident. | ||
| I wrote this. | ||
| You can't say that if you didn't. | ||
| Further, the text ends with, quote, That is why I have chosen to concentrate on that organization. | ||
| And Bill adds at the end, Mystery Babylon. | ||
| That wasn't in the original text. | ||
| Epperson was referring to the Masons, but Bill has just added this context of his own in order to make it look like this is backing up his claim. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| It's garbage. | ||
| The fact that Bill could operate like this disqualifies him from being someone that can be taken seriously as a provider of information. | ||
| You can see him manipulating what the listener hears in real time on the show, and he knew that he could get away with it because the internet didn't Sure didn't. | ||
| didn't have a copy of Epperson's book and they wouldn't know that Bill is just reading from it. | ||
| Sure wouldn't. | ||
| It's honestly... | ||
| It makes... | ||
| I never... | ||
| Really thought Bill was someone you should take super seriously. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But I did have an image of him as someone who was, like... | ||
| Studious? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, in the same way that Alex, back when he was younger... | ||
| I mean, you can't make VHS documentaries without a lot of work. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He put in a lot of time at the editing bay and stuff like that. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And I like to imagine Bill in the same kind of way, of like, he's someone who puts in... | ||
| I had him with a cigarette in front of a typewriter. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And this just reveals to me that he's not even that. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| He's just reading a book. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's just a guy who found a couple of conspiracy texts and wants to yell about them. | ||
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All right. | |
| So, you know when you got a balled up piece of paper and you got a trash can across the way? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Maybe you do a turnaround. | ||
| Maybe you do a fadeaway. | ||
| As the ball of paper leaves your hand, you shout Kobe. | ||
| Right? | ||
| We all do it. | ||
| Because that's what human beings do now. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I yell swoosh. | ||
| You gotta yell Kobe. | ||
| It's the right thing to do. | ||
| R.I.P. | ||
| Maybe this is how he's closing out his little chapter. | ||
| You know, like, Mystery Babylon! | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Like, that's how he's doing it. | ||
| He's reading the book, and then his last word, Mystery of Babylon, as he does a little fadeaway. | ||
| I wish it was that innocent. | ||
| But, like, I hear that, and I think that he says it because the actual text says Masons. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he has to be like, well, I gotta get this back on my track more. | ||
| That's just bullshit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's fucking take-your-knee-out kind of shit. | ||
| So a lot of this is just, Bill, plagiarizing. | ||
| But I do think it's important to recognize that there are parts that are straight up him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there are things like this that are very angry. | ||
| For those unfamiliar with the Masonic degrees, all Masons in America start through what is called the Blue Lodge, consisting of only three degrees. | ||
| A Master Mason is of the third degree, and really knows nothing, even though he thinks that he has been illumined, and I get letters from him all the time. | ||
| I'm a Master Mason, and I never heard of any of the stuff that you're talking about. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| It amazes me, folks. | ||
| It just absolutely amazes me that people are so stupid. | ||
| Drives me wild. | ||
| That's really the most Bill has existed. | ||
| On this episode. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Most of the shit is him stealing someone else's book and pretending it's his work, but that was all Bill. | ||
| The anger, the condescension, that's his face. | ||
| He thinks everyone else is so stupid, and he's pissed off that anyone would doubt his superior intelligence, but the demonstration of his intelligence and wisdom is just him reading another idiot's book. | ||
| It's kind of the lesson that I'm learning from going through this lecture series, is that he's a huge fraud, and he's very angry. | ||
| Yeah, it is, like, because, essentially, if you insult me while you're just reading a book, then what you're really saying is you should read this book. | ||
| And once you read this book, you will be an equal to me in terms of the information that we share. | ||
| But if I withhold from you that piece of information, that is my, because I'm doing it because I know that if you read that book, then you would have every right to call yourself an equal. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's setting you up to be in a subordinate position. | ||
| Because he likes calling people sheep. | ||
| Because he likes it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He wants to appear to be the smartest person and everyone else is fucking stupid and all you dumb masons stop writing me letters and I'm so mad! | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it's only attributable to some books that he has read. | ||
| So the only thing that he can say to about other people or to or about other people is that I give them the opportunity to read the books that gave me my... | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| And they can either say yes or no. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Like, you're smart if you read all my books, and you're stupid if you say no, and you don't read all my books. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| I mean, at this point, yeah, it should just be a reading list. | ||
| Yeah, you have nothing to add to me other than I am dumb for not reading the same books you have read. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I guess that's what he adds, is anger. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| He adds a little bit of seasoning that is... | ||
| Mystery Babylon! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You fucking idiot sheeple! | ||
| So I think that there's something kind of funny that happens, and that is because Bill is plagiarizing this text, sometimes he'll go off in little flights of fancy that end up being contradicted by what he's about to read. | ||
| And so here is just a prime example of that. | ||
| Initiate. | ||
| ...into the Blue Lodge, goes through three separate and different initiation ceremonies, one for each degree. | ||
| After completing these ceremonies, he may stay where he is or choose to affiliate himself with either the York Rite, which has 13 degrees, or the Scottish Rite, which has 32, and then the Meritor is 33rd. | ||
| The latter is divided into two separate jurisdictions, the Southern and the Northern. | ||
| And these are based primarily on state borders, and whether one joins one or the other depends on where the initiate lives. | ||
| The two Scottish Rites have an additional 29 degrees, making for a total of 32. There is one more degree called the 33rd degree, which is honorary, and only a few are invited into that degree, and to even be considered, they must perform some major work toward the completion of the great work, which is the plan to bring about. | ||
| Turning lead into gold? | ||
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The socialist dream. | |
| York right has a total of nine degrees. | ||
| However, since we've been reviewing about this order, we will concentrate on only the Scottish right, and in particular, the southern jurisdiction. | ||
| Well, I've since discovered that the York right has a total of 13 degrees, folks. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| So, toward the beginning of that clip, Bill says that there are 13 levels in the York Rite, which was him riffing away from the text a little bit. | ||
| He continued reading, not knowing that Epperson later says that the York Rite has 9 degrees, which contradicts what Bill just said. | ||
| So Bill has to try to correct the ship by saying that he's since learned that the York right has 13 degrees, not 9, which is meant to imply that since the time Bill wrote this lecture that he's delivering, he's discovered that. | ||
| It feels very weird. | ||
| It is so amazing how quickly he discovered that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He went from not knowing it to knowing it was wrong to then rediscovering that actually he was right the entire time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fascinating. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And this could actually be very easily resolved by him being honest about the fact that he's just reading this guy's book and say, this is a point of disagreement we have. | ||
| I've found other information. | ||
| Let me tell you about that other information that I've found that contradicts the number of levels of York masonry. | ||
| That also includes another instance of Bill removing Epperson from his own text. | ||
| Epperson wrote, quote, Since little has been revealed about this order, the author will concentrate only on the Scottish Rite. | ||
| Bill replaced the words the author with we. | ||
| This is just a full-on pattern. | ||
| It's not a mistake that he's making. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He's got little lines that he's crossed out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I bet he doesn't. | ||
| Yeah, that's fair. | ||
| I bet he doesn't. | ||
| I bet he's just able to read a little bit in advance and see, like, okay, that's going to make it too clear that it's a book. | ||
| I always like it whenever ancient orders respect states' lines. | ||
| That's always nice. | ||
| Whenever it's like, yes, obviously, we go all the way back from... | ||
| Egypt to the Osiris cult, but I mean, look, Louisiana's over here, Tennessee's over here. | ||
| Those are just the rules. | ||
| Well, you don't stick around unless you get with the times, you know? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I'm sure they don't care about states, but it's a fine organization, the organizational structure that someone else has imposed. | ||
| So, like, we'll play along. | ||
| All right, fine. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| All right! | ||
| Mystery Babylon! | ||
| This matters not to the Masons. | ||
| These petty concerns. | ||
| Hey, they'll just move on. | ||
| We just move forward. | ||
| Not worrying too much about it. | ||
| Doesn't matter if there are ancient borders that we should also respect. | ||
| They secretly actually know that North is really South. | ||
| Those motherfuckers, I knew it. | ||
| I knew it the whole fucking time. | ||
| They switched the words in order to fool people so they could laugh at us. | ||
| All you stupid people won't even look into it. | ||
| It's almost like the words are less important than the concepts that the words describe. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| So, we have one last clip here of Bill doing more plagiarism. | ||
| Someone who attempted to zero in on when these changes were expected to occur was Alice Bailey. | ||
| Previously mentioned, she wrote about when she thought the New Age would arrive. | ||
| Wednesday. | ||
| Is that them? | ||
| Since she wrote early in the 20th century, we can see that she was predicting the eventual arrival of the New Age sometime around the 1990s. | ||
| This estimate of that date is not too far wrong, as will be demonstrated later in this series of programs. | ||
| In Epperson's text, he says, quote, Bill replaced this book with this series of programs in an effort to disguise his theft. | ||
| I think I've been way too complimentary of the idea of him preparing. | ||
| He does more work than Alex, but this is still... | ||
| Low bar. | ||
| This is intensely clunky, and I think... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| If people had the internet back then, he wouldn't be able to play this kind of game. | ||
| I think the content of what he's saying is also not that interesting. | ||
| You can read the first chapter of this guy's book if you want. | ||
| People saying that the New World Order exists. | ||
| Those motherfuckers. | ||
| And then saying that the New Age stuff is like New World Order. | ||
| Because the new, it's got new in it. | ||
| It's got new in it. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Every time. | ||
| It always does. | ||
| I don't feel like there's anything that's been proved other than Bill as a flagrant plagiarist. | ||
| So I had put Bill into a different category. | ||
| There was the pure demagogues, the pure evangelicals, the fires, the brimstones. | ||
| Those were those guys. | ||
| And then I had Bill in a different place. | ||
| I guess, I suppose the quote-unquote intellectual side, the intellectual tradition of making up bullshit and then reading it to each other in an oral tradition kind of thing, and spreading it around to fundamentally give the fire and brimstone people something to point to. | ||
| He's not even that. | ||
| No. | ||
| He's just a guy who's... | ||
| He's a voiceover guy. | ||
| Yeah, he's an angry old dude who just steals shit. | ||
| I think intellectual is a term that I think a lot of people have baggage with and stuff, so I don't want to say that I think he's part of this intellectual stuff, but I viewed him as someone who like, you know, you can be like a punk. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And then you could be a punk who has a zine. | ||
| And a punk who has a zine, that takes effort. | ||
| It does. | ||
| That takes time. | ||
| You gotta print those things out. | ||
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Yep. | |
| You gotta put together what's gonna be on each page. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And I kind of gave Bill credit of being in that camp of, like, you're a guy who's... | ||
| I don't trust what you're about. | ||
| I think it's kind of shit. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think you're making a zine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I don't think he is anymore. | ||
| I think everything that's in that zine is written by somebody else. | ||
| I think he's just regurgitating shit and claiming it as his own. | ||
| And that kind of bums me out. | ||
| I have more respect for the fake version of him and the fake version of Alex that exist in pop culture minds. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And the real version of them sucks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'm, you know, it is... | ||
| Maybe it is the, like, coping mechanism of this douchebaggery is to, like, okay, everything we do have sucks, so let's just remember it like it was awesome. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, how much of people now remembering Rush Limbaugh isn't the, like, day-to-day, he's just a prick. | ||
| Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| And in their minds it's like, remember when Titans used to walk through the radio hallways? | ||
| You know, like that kind of thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like it's just what they've always done. | ||
| And I think right now that's what they want Alex to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is go away so you can become that hallowed old image of something that we can no longer really need to analyze or respond to or anything. | ||
| Yeah, because it actually sucks. | ||
| Yeah, it does suck. | ||
| And the longer it exists. | ||
| I feel like, okay. | ||
| If we're... | ||
| We can't go straight from gods to like... | ||
| Then there's a car phone. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, we have to have full on... | ||
| We at least have to go to... | ||
| As you're saying, we at least have to go to witch town. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, we have to go... | ||
| Which side were they on? | ||
| Are they the witches or are they the people burning the witches? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| We gotta know all of these things. | ||
| Or maybe both. | ||
| Maybe they're playing both sides against each other. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| We gotta do Knights Templar. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Knights of Malta. | ||
| It's all gotta be in here. | ||
| It's all gotta be in there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Obviously, we ignore the African continent because apparently Mr. Babylon has never been there except for Egypt for a little while. | ||
| I think they were maybe in Rhodesia. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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Some common element might be involved. | |
| Yeah, I want that. | ||
| I want all that stuff. | ||
| And I find, at least at this point, I don't know what the future holds, but at this point I feel more like a teacher grading a report. | ||
| I feel more like someone who's... | ||
| Gonna give out a suspension than I am somebody who's looking at like, alright, here's the information you're talking about. | ||
| Like, I have to go off the beaten track and find George Benson and stuff to be interested in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Whereas Bill's just like, you're a thief. | ||
| You're a thief. | ||
| You're stealing shit. | ||
| Yeah, I remember like... | ||
| When the internet really became the internet, and you could just steal whatever the fuck you wanted all the time, you know? | ||
| That was at the exact same time as I was in university for the first couple of times for Lit. | ||
| And it was so much like, all we have is that you wrote this. | ||
| So plagiarism means you die. | ||
| And no questions asked, you're gone. | ||
| Because it's all we have. | ||
| And now it feels like... | ||
| That's not the vibe there. | ||
| Right, and I think that over time, because you just have to make peace with the fact that some people are plagiarists, you kind of have to be like, well, are you artful about it? | ||
| Right, yeah. | ||
| And Bill is not. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| At the very least, maybe this person gave a little, ooh, we're going to mix up our adverbs, you know, something. | ||
| He's reading it. | ||
| He's cold reading it. | ||
| And changing things specifically to obscure that fact. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And that's... | ||
| Garbage. | ||
| Disgusting. | ||
| Anyway, we'll be back with another episode. | ||
| Maybe we'll get into witches. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Let's hope. | ||
| But until then, we have a website. | ||
| Indeed we do. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I am the Mysterious Professor. | ||
| Woo! | ||
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Yeah! | |
| Woo! | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Woo! | ||
| And now here comes the sex robots. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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You're on the air. | |
| Thanks for holding. | ||
| 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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