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Sept. 12, 2025 - Knowledge Fight
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#1076: September 10, 2025

In this installment, Dan and Jordan witness Alex do as bad a job as is possible covering a very dark day in the Infowar.  (Content warnings all around).

Participants
Main voices
a
alex jones
16:09
d
dan friesen
46:20
h
harrison smith
06:14
j
jordan holmes
23:27
Appearances
c
charlie kirk
01:27
Clips
k
karoline leavitt
00:09
s
stewart rhodes
00:28
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Speaker Time Text
unidentified
Dan and Jordan, I am sweating.
alex jones
Knowledgeparty.com.
It's time to pray.
unidentified
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang, we are the bad guys.
Knowledge and fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I need money.
Riddler.
Andy and Pansy.
Andy and Pandy.
unidentified
Stop it.
alex jones
Andy and Pansy.
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
Andy.
Andy.
alex jones
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding us.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a fake pin colour.
You're just saying I love your room.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back, Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes.
Like to sit around, worship with the Aldros Lean, and talk a little bit about Alex Jefferson.
alex jones
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
unidentified
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today, buddy?
dan friesen
My bright spot is that last night I was over at Angela Lampsberry's place.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
We were watching Little John Cena flick.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Watching the heads of state.
jordan holmes
One of the greats.
dan friesen
Yep.
And ordered Culver's for myself for dinner.
Okay.
And did not get a butterburger.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But what I did get is they have a Lucky Charms concrete.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Shake, but with custard.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So fucking good.
jordan holmes
Was it really good?
dan friesen
So good.
jordan holmes
Lucky Charms concrete?
dan friesen
It was so good.
jordan holmes
Do they have mushrooms?
Mushrooms.
dan friesen
Yeah, mushrooms.
jordan holmes
Did they have mushrooms in them?
dan friesen
Porchini?
jordan holmes
No, marshmallows.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
They had the full-on marshmallows.
dan friesen
Oh, yes.
Dang.
And they did not skimp on the mix-in.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, like sometimes you'll get like a McFlurry or whatever.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
The little tiny top layer, and then you mix it in yourself, and it's like, that's practically just vanilla ice cream.
dan friesen
This was a healthy amount of Lucky Charms.
And so I tipped my cap.
All right.
I was going in with the hope of being surprised.
Yeah.
And I was.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I loved every second of it.
So good job, Culver's.
jordan holmes
I remember when a Culver's came to my small town in central Illinois, and it was everybody was fucking buzzing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Can you believe it?
A Culver's here?
dan friesen
Right.
They have seen us as worthy of giving us this slightly upgraded Dairy Queen.
jordan holmes
Did you miss that one?
Yeah, absolutely.
I was like, okay, all right.
dan friesen
That Dairy Queen's shit.
jordan holmes
Weird.
dan friesen
Culver's is for the classic.
jordan holmes
We're doing it, huh?
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
You know, it's strange because I think that it felt the same in Columbia.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I think that when Culver's came, people were like pretty excited about the I have never seen a quality difference that would suggest excitement would be valuable whatsoever.
dan friesen
No, but there was buzz.
jordan holmes
There was buzz.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
How did they do it?
dan friesen
You can't deny the buzz.
jordan holmes
People in the past were a lot easier to handle, I think.
dan friesen
And now I've got buzz because there's other cereal concrete they have.
There's like a cinnamon toast crunch one.
Think I got to get it.
jordan holmes
The cereal sweet.
dan friesen
If Raisin Bran is one of them, I can skip that.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But what you gonna do?
dan friesen
So what about you?
What's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
My bright spot is, Dan, sometimes we do live shows.
dan friesen
That is true.
jordan holmes
Have you noticed that we do live shows?
dan friesen
We brought one up, but it sold out pretty quick.
And so we didn't bring it back up again.
jordan holmes
Friends, it sold out in six hours.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which was a little bit surprising because it's not a small play.
It's weird.
jordan holmes
Fairly, there's a lot.
Yeah.
But the positives isn't that we have sold it out.
I think for a lot of people, that would be the bright spot.
For us, that's not a bright spot.
In a way.
dan friesen
It's inconvenient.
jordan holmes
It's frustrating because what if somebody wants a ticket?
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
And well, now it's sold out.
But the good news, the bright spot is, what if somebody wants a ticket?
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
There's a new date.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
Yep.
We're doing.
dan friesen
You're just telling me now?
jordan holmes
We've added another date.
We've decided to do Thursday, December 18th as well.
dan friesen
You keep springing these things on me on air.
jordan holmes
No, I know.
I'm really sorry about that.
dan friesen
Okay, I'm okay with this.
jordan holmes
Are you okay with it?
I mean, it was a unilateral decision.
dan friesen
Yeah, we did talk about it.
I'm just pretending to not know.
But yeah, that'll be fun.
A different show.
Yep.
Totally different.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Same venue.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it won't be.
I don't think we've never even considered doing the same show ever.
dan friesen
No.
I think we did try to do the secret of 2017 in the beginning of 2018.
We tried to use the same clips, and it felt awful.
jordan holmes
Couldn't do it.
dan friesen
It was awful.
So yeah, that'll be a lot of fun.
A little bit of extra time in Portland.
So, Chuck Polaniak, you're on notice.
jordan holmes
We got another day, motherfucker.
dan friesen
Yeah, you can dodge me for one day, but two full.
But because the first one did sell out, I guess it probably feels like if you want to come to both, great.
We'd love that.
Right.
But if you wanted to come and didn't get a ticket, I would hope that people would give you a little bit of a window.
jordan holmes
I want to try and express the strangeness because I don't think that anybody in any sort of media except us can feel quite the way we do about this.
We're not that big.
We're not at all famous.
There is in no way, any way that we should be selling out a place in six hours, period.
And yet we do.
And because we do, somehow we're also, again, not famous enough to do any of this stuff.
But we're also like, hey, guys, don't buy tickets too fast.
What are, who are we?
dan friesen
Don't rush in.
jordan holmes
Right.
We're absurd.
We're absurd.
Do your best.
Everybody that wants to get a ticket should get a ticket.
dan friesen
That is what that's the point.
Yes, absolutely.
So today we have an episode to go over, Jordan.
We're going to be talking about some shit.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
We're going to be talking about September 10th, 2025.
And it's a bad day.
This is not going to be great.
jordan holmes
Not going to get to it.
dan friesen
We'll get through it.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But first, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Oh, what a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, to the disgraced comedian and rat hole man, Gatorade shall never be thick enough for restless souls like us.
Love from Captain HaHa.
Thank you so much, Jernhow Paul's Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, my daughter just made her high school tennis team.
So this shout is parentheses excited, Jordan, yell.
Tennis.
Thank you so much, Jernhow, Paul's Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Tennis!
dan friesen
Thank you very much.
Next, sorry, Jordan, as the unappointed voice of asexuals, I'm here to report that we don't all watch porn from Special K. Thank you so much, Jernhow, Paul's Wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
And fair enough.
dan friesen
Fair point.
jordan holmes
Fair point.
dan friesen
And we got a technical credit in the mixture.
So thank you so much to Clyde the Wide Ride says, get it to all the couples who use Knowledge Fight as foreplay.
Thank you so much.
You're an Iowa Technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
alex jones
Go home for your mother and tell it you're brilliant.
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Sharp.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb.
Jarjar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser, little, little kitty baby.
alex jones
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
And a little note to all you folks getting ready to fuck out there.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry?
dan friesen
Come back to this episode later.
This ain't the one for you.
jordan holmes
This ain't the one that's going to do it.
dan friesen
No, this is not forgetting in the mood.
jordan holmes
This is a downer.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So obviously, there was some big news in the world of right-wing media and propaganda this week as the head of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed at an event he was holding on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
An incident like this can be really difficult to address, and this case in particular is even more messy than some other kind of similar events that have happened in the past.
As soon as news broke of the shooting, tons of politicians from both parties came out with statements denouncing political violence and offering condolences.
Simultaneously, lots of people with large social media accounts released some pretty inflammatory responses, with many people mocking Charlie Kirk and others saying that his shooting was pretext for literal war against the left.
In the broken media space that we all currently live in, all of this messaging blends together and everything becomes a confusing stew of shit.
In most online spaces, anonymous shit posters have as much or more reach than PhD holding journalists.
So who can keep track of who's saying what?
It's all just being bombarded at you.
Personally, I think everyone who listens to this show knows exactly what I would say about Charlie Kirk as a media figure the day before he was shot.
And his getting shot doesn't change anything about how I feel about the toxic bullshit he disseminated.
However, as much as I may have hated everything he stands for, I wouldn't have wished death upon him.
At the same time, now that it has happened, I'm not particularly interested in caring that much about it or scolding anyone for responding however they feel they need to respond.
As of the point of we're recording this episode, we don't know who did the shooting or why.
So deconstructing what led us to this point is a little premature.
And I think that we can deal with more of that as we learn more.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
To be totally clear, though, I do think that delighting in someone else's death, even someone who sucks, is not good for you as a person.
And I think people would be wise to avoid doing too much of that.
Beyond that, I don't want to get into a thing where I'm saying that people should take the high road.
And I also don't want to engage in people wallowing and mocking death.
Both of these responses feel hollow to me.
People naturally have made a lot of assumptions about who could be behind the shooting.
And it seems like folks in the right-wing media have decided that it must be a left-wing person, possibly Antifa.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It's possible that the shooter will end up being someone with left-leaning politics, but it's also just as likely that someone from the far right.
As much as someone like me may have not liked Kirk, the people who were further to the right hated him even more.
Nick Fuentes and the Groipers infiltrated Kirk's organization, and they've tried to unseat him for years, largely because he's not anti-Semitic enough for their tastes.
That particular branch of the right wing really hates Kirk, and the idea that someone with those beliefs would kill him, that's not impossible.
On top of that, Kirk has been a huge media figure that's gone against other ends of the far right in recent months, notably being one of the big influencers who said that he was going to trust his friends in the Trump administration when they told everyone to move on from the Epstein stuff.
He also wasn't opposed to Trump attacking Iran and has been a solid supporter of Israel throughout the genocide in Gaza, which naturally has made him an enemy of people on the left and right who oppose that.
Ultimately, I can't answer the question of who did it or why they did it, so I don't want to take a ton of time speculating about that here on the show.
I heard about the shooting pretty soon after it happened, and I saw on Twitter that there was a video that was taken from pretty far away, a pretty far away vantage point.
I watched it, and it looked like Kirk might have just been hit, and it looked like it might have been survivable.
Then, before I knew it, there was another video from much closer, and I really wish I hadn't seen it.
The first thing I thought when I saw the closer video was that dude is gone.
It was a horrible thing to see, and just buh.
I think that seeing death and killing in particular causes a certain amount of emotional trauma to a viewer, and it really struck me how huge of a psychologically resonant event this has to have been.
I may think Kirk sucks, but he had a ton of fans and people who look up to him within turning point, and they were seeing that person that they admired die in front of a crowd.
Sure, maybe they shouldn't have looked up to him, maybe that was dumb of them, or they chose a bad person to admire, but they did.
And the sight of him being killed has to have hurt so many people in a way that's going to be really hard to process and predict, predict what the outcome of that's going to be.
I feel for those people, and the people who didn't like him who may have also accidentally watched something they really shouldn't have on Twitter and are feeling something about it.
When I say something like that, I can imagine some people saying, getting the impression that all this, the death and horrible sights, they should be censored from social media.
Like, that's my perspective.
Sure.
And that my position would mean banning documenting atrocities that are carried out in Gaza or in other parts of the world.
But I want to make a distinction clear.
When people see documentation of human rights violations and war crimes somewhere like Gaza, they're going to have a certain amount of emotional trauma that comes from that.
However, in that case, they can take that trauma and make it something productive.
They can find like-minded people, and through community with these people, it's possible to funnel those feelings of trauma into advocacy and action that's meant to stop these atrocities and ideally limit them in the future.
That isn't possible with videos like the one of Kirk being shot.
The trauma that this type of video inflicts on you can't be redirected towards something good.
There isn't a real advocacy that can be fueled by the awareness that this trauma brings.
It leads just to pain, and then that pain can be misdirected pretty easily against whoever someone wants to target.
unidentified
For sure.
dan friesen
To sum this up, I hope everyone's taking care of themselves.
It's not normal for public figures to be shot at events and for graphic videos of them dying to be distributed around the world immediately.
So if that feels weird and fucked up to you, that's okay.
unidentified
It is.
dan friesen
That's a very normal response.
jordan holmes
How it works.
dan friesen
I wrestled with whether or not we should do an episode about this today because there's just so little information available, but we can still cover Alex's response to this breaking news without knowing a bunch of the underlying details of what happened.
We can still view his behavior as it is.
Yeah.
And know that he doesn't really know anything.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and we can be aware that he doesn't care while we do.
dan friesen
So Alex's show begins like any other day on Infowars.
There was news about Russian aggression, this time flying drones over Poland.
So Alex is calling that a false flag where Putin's the victim.
Russia claims that these drones are attacking Ukraine and didn't violate Poland's airspace.
Well, Poland has said that they documented 19 incursions into their airspace and that, quote, it simply defies imagination.
It could be accidental.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It seems like a lot of experts believe there wasn't any intent on Russia's part to attack Poland, but there was a desire to test boundaries.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
This kind of thing doesn't mean the end of the world is upon us, but it's a bad sign.
Anyway, it's an issue involving Russia, so Alex believes Putin's the good guy in the whole situation, which is that's not a surprise.
Yeah.
It's not really all that interesting.
jordan holmes
I like the idea of thinking you're the good guy who's like, hey, here's how you know I'm the good guy.
I'm sending in a bunch of stuff to test your defenses when you're not paying attention.
You know, right?
Like the good guy does.
dan friesen
See if you'll get your NATO buddies involved.
jordan holmes
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to annoy you until I test whether or not you're going to start some shit, and then maybe I'll take your stuff.
Like the good guy.
dan friesen
It's really what a hero does.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So about halfway through the show, Alex leaves.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And he just.
jordan holmes
Oh, what a day for him to leave halfway through the show.
I bet he's going to come back.
Dan, I bet he's going to come back.
dan friesen
Maybe not.
alex jones
Harrison Smith is low from here.
He's got the latest coming in right now on the Russia situation that I cannot stress to you.
Enough is so insane.
My dad's doing great.
I'm about to go get him out of rehab right now.
I served me a week and a half ago.
So thanks for your prayers on that.
Whatever you do, share the lot of feeds at Infowars.com forward slash show.
And on video.
And roll off shows on X. And follow us at AJN live on X. We'll be right back.
Stay with us, Paul Revere.
dan friesen
Today's the best day of my life.
jordan holmes
God, I know.
dan friesen
Going to get my dad.
jordan holmes
I can't tell you exactly.
I can tell you exactly how it feels to be having such a great day that suddenly turns horrible immediately.
dan friesen
Just a semi-truck comes out of nowhere.
jordan holmes
Well, there we go.
Okay, here we are.
dan friesen
So Alex leaves to, well, he actually doesn't end up leaving for a little bit.
He intends to leave.
Harrison Smith takes over the show.
And as he's trying to minimize this news about Russia sending drones.
jordan holmes
No big deal.
dan friesen
Yeah, they're kind of like dumb drones.
jordan holmes
What are those lazy drones?
dan friesen
Yeah, Harrison gets the news.
harrison smith
Uh-oh.
But what they are is very cheap sort of distraction drones.
It's a cheap long-range drone, which Ukraine intelligence says is made of materials like plywood and foam and assembled at Russia's vast Yellow Booga facility.
alex jones
Yellow Booga.
harrison smith
It can be used as a decoy, drawing the attention of air defenses away from much pricier Shaheda.
See, this is which often carry powerful warheads.
However, analysts say that since its introduction, other versions of the Gerbera with light warheads or reconnaissance equipment have emerged.
So for the most part, these are just sort of huge model airplanes, like balsa wood airplanes that they send out in a first wave or send out along with the actual armed, expensive, fancy attack drones as a way to confuse air defenses because they can shoot these sort of useless drones out of the sky and it doesn't cost them anything.
And it allows the actual payloads to be delivered.
Poland has asked NATO to invoke Article 4.
Officially at this point, Warsaw wants consultations with block members.
After an alleged violation of its airspace by drones, it identified as Russian.
Whoa, what?
Charlie Kirk just got shot?
jordan holmes
Fuck.
harrison smith
Sorry, the crew just came in my ear and said that Charlie Kirk just got shot on video.
dan friesen
So there's naturally a disbelief of like, what?
What are you, what are you saying?
I'm in the middle of talking about these drones.
jordan holmes
What a day.
dan friesen
Right.
He had no idea this is, you know, much like on January 6th, except on January 6th, he probably kind of had an idea.
jordan holmes
Slightly different.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Slightly different circumstances.
dan friesen
Harrison is once again thrust into the position of being on air during something huge.
Poor guy.
jordan holmes
I bet when he was a baby, like he was briefly carried on screen as the Twin Towers fell.
Like he's just always there.
He's somehow always on TV whenever a disaster happens.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's the forest gump of Ocean.
Exactly.
So Harrison is being alerted that there's video.
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's probably no good.
dan friesen
But it's still, at this point, this is still the video that's far away and isn't all that graphic.
harrison smith
Oh my God.
Okay, so we're just getting this news.
It looks like Charlie Kirk was doing one of his debates that he does at college campuses.
And the video that we were just seeing for our radio listeners was shot from a rooftop overhead.
There's a huge crowd.
You see Charlie Kirk.
Can we play it again, guys?
Let's just keep that on a loop because it's not graphic, but you can see him sort of jerk and twist.
And you see everybody running away after the shots were fired.
Oh my God.
I hope he's okay.
So we don't know if he's alive or dead.
We don't know how serious the damage is.
dan friesen
This is a really tough situation to be in, obviously.
And I think that, you know, I'm not going to say tip my hat to Harrison or anything.
Sure.
But like, at least there is a clear feeling of like, well, this is news.
jordan holmes
Shit just got actual real.
We're not doing Infowars bullshit right now, guys.
I think something's real.
dan friesen
I think he's trying.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I don't think he's going to succeed, but of course not.
There is a feeling of like, uh-oh, this is real life.
jordan holmes
Right.
Everybody drop the facade.
We actually need to talk to people like they're real people for five seconds.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
And at this point, you know, like that video that he is playing is the one that's far away.
Right.
And so the mind.
jordan holmes
He's playing it?
dan friesen
Yeah.
But the mind doesn't.
I don't think it's as horrified by that because it's very abstract.
Right.
It's so, it's so.
jordan holmes
We've all seen the movies.
It's like a Clint Eastwood version of shooting a guy where they go, uh.
dan friesen
And like I said, there's entirely, like, you could come away from the wide-angle version of this, you know, this other clip as like he might have survived.
Right.
That is not like it's not horrifying.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I think once you see the other clip, it's crazy.
jordan holmes
No good.
No good.
dan friesen
Well, anybody, I think seeing that is just nope, nope.
I understand.
And I'm not saying, this is where it's difficult.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I still think you shouldn't play this on your show.
Absolutely.
I think it's not helpful and probably a negative influence.
But it's more defensible, definitely, than the other one.
jordan holmes
Than the other one.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The other one, there's no excuse.
jordan holmes
You know, here's the fun thing, and it's not fun, but just from like a let's step back and remember where and what we are and what we're doing, you shouldn't be, there's no possible way you could ever have evolved to be fine with seeing something like that.
The species has only been around for 300,000 years and none of them has been able to deal with that shit.
There's no reason to think that you'd just be instinctively fine with it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You should not be fine with it.
dan friesen
You've got the chillest genes.
jordan holmes
This is fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So as much as Harrison is like kind of trying to be a newsman, he does, I mean, the InfoWars does creep in.
harrison smith
And it looks like everybody looks to the right as if the gunshot came from over there, which was really far away from the stage.
And there you see everybody running.
Whatever you guys have on this, go ahead and bring to me or any more videos we can bring up.
I'd like to look more at that.
I guess I can hop on X here, but that is very horrifying.
And not exactly unexpected with the increasing leftist violence.
Charlie Kirk has just been shot at an invention, Utah Valley University.
dan friesen
Yeah, you can't not bring it into the conversation about leftist violence, of course.
Jumping to these conclusions, building the narrative, as it were.
But the sense that I got from this is that Harrison's a bit rattled.
As much as that leftist violence slip-in is there and the InfoWar is there.
Right.
I don't think that he's fully there.
Yeah.
Committed to lying.
harrison smith
Right, right, right, right.
And some more video coming out from this.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
There it looks like he was.
Oh, my God.
It looks like he was shot in the chest.
Holy...
I hope he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
I can't believe what we're seeing here.
So it looks like he was shot in the chest.
The people in that video all look to the right as if somebody was shooting from by them.
I mean, that would be a very far shot.
It looked like two or 300 meters.
unidentified
If that's the case.
harrison smith
So this was in Utah.
unidentified
All right.
harrison smith
When we know more about this, we will bring it to you.
But I mean, obviously, this is, I mean, this is the way things are going.
Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
I think Harrison kind of cares.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, like, he's still an InfoWars employee.
So some of the knee-jerk reactions and responses of narrative building and like, how are we going to make this work?
Sure.
They're still there.
Sure.
But also some human response is there.
There's a feeling of concern.
There's a feeling of like, I'm thrown off my game by this because it's a human to me.
And maybe he cares about Charlie.
Maybe he knows him or thinks of him as a friend.
jordan holmes
I mean, what is interesting?
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't want to say like great.
I think what's human about that is that it reminds us that all of the other reactions to it are reactions of thought, are reactions of second consequence.
Your first instinct is the same as every other fucking person, except for, I guess, psychopaths or whatever, because I've read about them.
dan friesen
This kind of, oh my God.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Of like, no, this is not an okay thing to happen.
It doesn't, all of the shit you've talked up until that point, whether or not you believed it at the time or not, in that moment, you are reacting like a human being.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's something you're startled, you're put off.
Right.
And I think that that's what I'm trying to describe is almost like unsure footing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, like he has actually almost like, you know, taken a punch and is a little dazed.
No, you're.
And that's human.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's ironic, but like a well-thought-out reaction from a good, right-thinking person hours later is identical to Harrison Smith's well-thought-out, horrifying reaction.
What's also identical is that your good person and Harrison's horrible person reaction in the moment is fucking shit.
Fuck me.
dan friesen
Well, but you know, yeah, and honestly, like, I don't know how you could respond to this live on air as, you know, like a peer of his or whatever.
You know, like, I don't know how you possibly could have something that even sounds composed.
jordan holmes
Did you know that there was a time whenever something like this would happen and they would go like, we're just going to turn the TV off for a few minutes while we figure out what the fuck is going on?
dan friesen
And then there's a little symbol would come up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore.
Now you have to be on the moment, in the moment, always.
dan friesen
Yeah, and if you're too unsure in your footing and you're not really, you know, really, you're not really selling it, you run the risk of Alex barging in.
unidentified
Fuck.
harrison smith
Kirk was reportedly shot near the neck while seated during a live QA session.
Eyewitnesses say he fell from his chair as shots were fired.
An evacuation of UVU campus was initiated following reports of an active shooter.
U.S. Senator Mike Lee posted that he's monitoring the situation.
Urge prayers for Kirk.
Alex, yeah, we're just hearing about this.
alex jones
Absolutely.
I was grabbing lunch for get my dad out of the hospital.
Fox News, they can back it up right now.
They've got more details.
But I'm telling you, Charlie is doing such a great job getting people registered as Republicans.
He puts himself out there every day.
My God, the left, the trans shooters, the stabbers.
Wow, it looks like he gets shot.
Wow, right in the chest.
My God.
Probably out of a parking garage, just as I've been predicting the left would do.
Wow.
Yeah, that hit him right under the heart.
Hold on, hold on.
Let me turn around.
That's the heart side.
Wow, that was a professional.
They shot right.
It looks like it hits him about two inches.
That means the lower heart.
My God.
dan friesen
When I said earlier that Harrison sounded unsure in his footing, I meant that he had the opposite of that energy.
Alex storms onto the set, slamming the door behind him and immediately asserts a couple kinds of authority.
He's far more assertive about accusing the left and trans people of the shooting.
And I wouldn't be too shocked if part of Alex's instinct to come in so quick was because Harrison wasn't pouncing on blaming people fast enough.
Alex directs the coverage to treat the shooting video as a bit more of a spectacle.
And in the process, he's dehumanizing Charlie Kirk a little bit.
He's amazed at the accuracy of the shot, which seems more interesting to him than the fact that his supposed friend is dying in front of him.
The second major thing Alex does here is put his stamp on the story by making sure to point out that the shooter was probably in a garage and that Alex predicted that.
It's good for InfoWars if the story is that a high-profile conservative figure was killed, but it's great for InfoWars if the headline is that Alex predicted it.
He's marveling at a video of his comrade being killed.
And one of Alex's first thoughts is to make it about himself, which is what you'd expect.
And that's the only reason that Harrison's response is in any way notable to me at all.
It's the lowest of bars, but because Alex immediately fails it, it's.
jordan holmes
It is so much like, let's just replace that question.
You know that question where they're like, oh, so the guy meets a girl at the funeral, and then the next week he kills her dad.
And you're like, oh, well, that doesn't make sense.
But if you're a psychopath, you meet girls at funerals.
It makes perfect sense.
Sure.
Like, it could just be like, are you Alex Jones?
That's another great way of doing the psychopath question.
It's like, are you Alex Jones?
dan friesen
Can you watch a video of someone who is a friend being shot?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And.
jordan holmes
What a great shot.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Whoa, man.
jordan holmes
You are a psychopath.
dan friesen
You know there are cameras on, too.
jordan holmes
No, you love that there are cameras on.
dan friesen
Oh, it's just such an awful response.
jordan holmes
Man, I feel like ants have it right.
I feel like there's like ants have it right insofar as when something goes on.
dan friesen
You didn't mean like your parents' sister.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
Ants as a species.
Like, when something like this goes on, sometimes just a bunch of ants just jump on top of another ant.
And they're just like, nah, none of this.
None of this.
Can't be dealing with this.
Like, you see something like that and you're like, nah, whatever needs to be done to get that out of here.
dan friesen
It's real dark.
jordan holmes
That's got to go.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
So Alex rambles a little bit here and then ends up saying a prayer, which is not performative at all.
alex jones
Okay.
My God.
Man.
Oh, my goodness.
This is absolutely devastating, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Looks like I got shot from higher up, too.
You couldn't shoot through the crowd from lower.
This is slow that down.
Wow.
Boom.
unidentified
Go!
alex jones
Oh, my God.
harrison smith
And it looks like everybody looks over to the right as if, yeah, I was coming from that parking garage.
alex jones
Yeah, that's what I've been telling you.
The attacks are going to come from the party garage.
Wow.
Okay.
I'm going to get my dad of the hospital.
I'll see how I do it.
But I'll be back.
Great job.
Stuart Rhodes, everybody's coming up.
Fuck.
on the war room.
This is just...
Stuart Rhodes is coming next hour.
Everybody, let's say a prayer right now for Charlie.
By the way, everybody says censorship when I come into the show.
Everybody knows I get harder.
I run there when breaking news.
You guys are supposed to be on my show, too.
Our Heavenly Father, Charlie Kirk, has done such an incredible job getting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of young people to register to vote for Republicans.
He is a game changer and puts himself out there every day as a warrior on the field, as a man in the arena.
And we pray, Father, that you send your angels of protection and miraculously heal him.
And we pray that you raise him up and it's in your will that he live.
If it is in your will, that he die.
He will then be a martyr for the truth and justice.
We pray for Charlie Kirk right now in the name of your son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
All of us together, we pray for Charlie Kirk in the name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
unidentified
Amen.
alex jones
God dog it.
Oh, man.
Wow.
This is a war.
unidentified
Wow.
alex jones
Let me tell you.
Trump, every day to his cabinet says, this is a war.
We need to be totally committed.
Trump's doing way more good than he's doing bad, way better than Kamala.
They want to kill Trump, too.
They want to kill us.
There's a reason I don't do a bunch of public events.
Not that I'm a whim.
They're not important enough to risk my life.
I guarantee you, I'd be dead right now if I did what Charlie Kirk does.
He is an incredible person.
He's under massive attack on the left and others.
And wow, this is unbelievable.
Pray for him right now.
It's a war.
An info war.
dan friesen
It's an info war.
Again, Alex is trying to make this all about himself.
He's insistent on bringing up the parking garages thing because it's validating his own sense of importance.
Charlie's death proves Alex right again, which is the important thing to Alex.
Even more disgustingly, when Alex is getting ready to pray for Charlie, he has to take a minute to get defensive about how he barged into Harrison's show because that's something he's getting a lot of criticism for with Owen leaving.
No one's mad that Alex stormed in now, and it actually would be strange if he didn't.
This is a massive breaking news, and Harrison's filling in for him on his show.
So the fact that this is something that's in the front of his mind is weird.
That's fucked up.
This is an awful way to cover this news.
Alex has reinserted himself into the show, made someone else's death about himself, got defensive about stuff his former employee said, did a very performative prayer, and then started whining about how Trump is good.
In the minutes after the shooting, countless Democratic politicians, ostensibly Charlie's great rivals, posted messages of condolences to his family and denunciations of political violence.
News companies went out of their way to be pandering in their coverage to the point that MSNBC fired one of their political analysts, Matthew Dowd, after he commented on air that Kirk was a divisive figure who promoted a ton of hate in his career, and that, quote, I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.
That got him fired.
And I think that speaks to the tame or even muzzled response you saw from institutions in the wake of this shooting.
Kirk's old nemesis, Nick Fuentes, posted on Twitter, quote, this feels like a nightmare, one of the most horrific things I've ever seen.
I feel absolutely gutted and devastated.
Pray for Charlie Kirk's soul, his young family, and our country.
The violence and hatred has to stop.
Our country needs Christ now more than ever.
A few hours later, he posted, quote, Given the gravity of today's events, I will not be doing a show tonight.
Instead, let us all say a prayer for the repose of Charlie Kirk's soul and for his grieving family.
jordan holmes
That's the move.
dan friesen
How we choose to respond to this watershed moment is profoundly important, and we should all sleep on it.
All of this really illustrates how Alex has become a man entirely ruled by his impulses and his addiction to chasing attention to the point where, you know, this guy, Nick, who hated Charlie, can see what he should do in this situation.
Like, he has the wherewithal to recognize that.
jordan holmes
I mean, you know, but it's the difference between a smart junkie and a dumb junkie.
You know, like, he's doing that because he's chasing attention in the smartest possible way.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, like, you can be a Wall Street junkie.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
Yeah.
No, that's, that's true.
That's a fair, that's a fair way to put it.
But, but it really does look bad for Alex.
jordan holmes
I mean, man, that's just.
You know, sometimes in moments like this, I wish that I was still a Christian because I would be grateful for Alex as being like a perfect test of true faith.
If you believe there is a God who gives a shit and that man's still alive, it takes faith to get there.
It takes faith to get there the next day.
That man and a god at the same time.
Get the fuck out of here.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of the stuff that Alex seems to do taunts God.
jordan holmes
Good work, God.
You have tested the shit out of my faith.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex has left.
He barged back out after saying this is an info war.
Right.
And so Harrison, just talking, just trying to fill some time.
harrison smith
That is horrifying.
And yeah, I don't even know what to say.
I mean, the left is absolutely becoming radicalized to an insane degree.
This is not.
Honestly, I hate to say it's not even unexpected.
I mean, they have Antifa members, like one month ago or two months ago, setting an ambush outside of an ICE facility, lighting the building on fire so they come out and then snipers positioned shooting at them.
Luckily, you know, they failed in that attempt, but I mean, they are on a war footing and they are out for blood.
And they keep telling us that and we keep not taking them seriously.
dan friesen
At this point, they know literally nothing about this incident.
They've just decided that it was a leftist who did it because that satisfies the storyline in their heads.
So that's just become fact.
These kinds of details don't matter because when there are details that come out, they'll just ignore them.
If it turns out the shooter was a left-leaning person, they'll just continue with that storyline.
And if it turns out that they weren't, then it'll be a false flag or a Patsy or a mind control wind-up toy of the deep state.
It doesn't matter.
Also, this talk about leftist violence is great, but do you think that Harrison can remember the names of the Minnesota lawmakers who were shot in June?
unidentified
Doubtful.
dan friesen
I know it was supposed to be a false flag, but do you think he remembers their names?
I bet he can't.
Nope, absolutely not.
I'm certain.
That's telling.
jordan holmes
I wonder if we're entering like a weird subset of the dead internet theory where eventually all violence is carried out by like 50 guys to each other.
Because I feel like no matter what everybody's talking about with left or right or anything like that, I don't feel like people are shooting from a couple hundred yards away unless they're already on their own kind of situation.
You know what I mean?
dan friesen
Yeah, I think there's something more going on there than a left-right difference.
jordan holmes
Nobody with a genuine ideological disagreement also has like 200 yards away capabilities.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Something else is going on.
dan friesen
It takes a special kind of interest.
jordan holmes
It takes an elevation that I don't think normal, not normal, but like the vast majority of us, regardless of what you believe, have.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Especially people who are generally interested in politics, which has to do a lot about organization and how a city should run.
jordan holmes
You can't have a fun horse race politics idea of how things should work while at the same time being like, and you should shoot the horses before they finish the race.
No, I mean, at the very least, you got to finish the race.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a mess.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a mess.
dan friesen
So Harrison thinks that he's going to just have the rest of it to show to himself.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, easy peasy, right?
dan friesen
Because Alex went to go get his death.
jordan holmes
No big deal.
dan friesen
Except Alex Barge is back down.
harrison smith
I can't help but think that he had to be wearing a bulletproof vest, right?
And of course, he's not.
He's not an extremist.
He's the most respectable person on the right wing, as far as I'm concerned.
alex jones
Well, he's so successful at mobilizing people.
Let me just say, people bitch him.
He's on hardcore enough.
That's how he gets the general people.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
The man's a hero.
Folks, I'm a big hunting enthusiast.
I've shot a lot of things with high-power rifles.
jordan holmes
Don't do this.
alex jones
I really pray for him because if he shot somebody with a handgun, it would not cause the shirt to have that ripple and the body to jolt.
That was probably a high-power rifle.
Probably not a 5.56.
He probably got shot with like a 300 Wenmag or something.
So I don't like to make predictions.
I hope he pulls through, but just it's bad.
I'm just telling you, I watched that footage.
That's high-powered rifle.
harrison smith
He's got to be wearing a bulletproof vest, right?
That would help.
alex jones
But a high-powered rifle goes right through that.
No.
They knew they were doing.
Now, it could have been a bulletproof vest is why there's so much concussion.
That's a good point.
harrison smith
That's what his shirt jumped.
unidentified
That's what he said.
alex jones
That could have created the bullet bouncing up.
Oh, let's pray.
It's a nine-millimeter.
Oh, my God.
Good thinking.
Only a, yeah, a bulletproof vest could create that effect as well.
Roll it again.
Roll it again.
My God.
The left sure loves guns when it's for killing.
jordan holmes
Fuck.
unidentified
Catholics or Christians.
alex jones
Zoom in on this.
dan friesen
So this is the war gaming that Alex does, trying to figure out bullets.
And I wonder, like, there's a small part of me that wonders if it's almost even a coping mechanism.
Maybe.
Like, an inability to recognize this person dying in front of them.
jordan holmes
I mean, I don't.
You know, okay.
So in a situation where it wasn't Alex and somebody who was like a really big gun enthusiast, like a gun nerd.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is like, you're doing this because this is your point of view through which you can view the world.
dan friesen
This is like you holding someone's hand.
This is the way you can deal with this comfortably.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
With Alex, it's like it's a different kind.
It's the kind of like, I'm not as interested in the gun that killed the pig as much as I am in seeing the pig get hit by the gun.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, zoom it in.
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
And that's gross.
jordan holmes
That's disgusting.
That's disgusting.
Every amount of hunter-ish, like, we're part of nature is removed by the leering, disgusting grin of look at this blood spurt.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And like this kind of behavior, like the zoom in, let's play this again.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like that in a room like alone where you're like trying to like get clues and get to the bottom of something is still kind of fucked up.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Doing it on air is grotesque.
jordan holmes
Nobody, nobody watching like Kevin Costner doing Oliver Stoneflick is like, Kevin Costner's the guy who's totally sane, right?
Yeah.
Like, no, he's, yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex isn't even being mad.
No.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, he's not being reasonable at all.
dan friesen
So Alex takes off again, and Harrison reflects on the radical left.
unidentified
Right.
harrison smith
And what have we been talking about for the last couple of days?
The fostering of extremism, the encouraging of the most radical and violent elements of the Democratic Party, constantly telling this swath of mentally ill people that they're under attack, that fascism is coming, that they have to stand up and fight and arm yourselves.
That's what you say!
Inevitable outcome, and that's what you say!
I pray Charlie Kirk is okay.
This is going to change a lot of the calculus moving forward, I think.
Again, we're going to bring anything to we get as soon as we get it, but we're not going to run with any rumors.
We're only going to go with the confirmed statements.
dan friesen
Harrison's pretending that he's not going to report rumors and he's just going to stick to the facts, but the entire premise of his coverage is based on his feelings.
He's just decided that the shooting was connected to the stories that he likes to tell about radical Democrats being violent.
And based on nothing more than that, this is how the news is being covered.
The foundation that this coverage is based on his opinion and emotion, not any kind of factual reporting.
And I don't think that he's even aware of or understands that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But also, Harrison should be super careful about what he's saying here.
InfoWars is not supposed to believe that stochastic terrorism is real.
It's a very important tenet of Alex's ideology that violent words don't cause violent action, because if they did, he would be in big trouble.
What's Alex's business model built on other than telling mentally ill people that they're under attack?
He rants about the globalists and commies instead of fascism, but what Harrison's whining about the Democrats doing is exactly what pays his bills.
Harrison doesn't seem to understand that the only reason that what he and Alex do is socially acceptable at all is because Alex says politically after he graphically describes murdering someone and then we all pretend that matters.
If we all accept that violent rhetoric leads to violent action, then Alex should be in prison, which is why Infowars is not supposed to understand this.
Harrison should leave this angle alone, brings up too many questions.
Play dumb, buddy.
Come on.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, the irony of everything that they are and everything that they do, right?
Is that If I'm talking about somebody who's in the, you know, not on the left or in the center or anything like that, if I'm talking about somebody who's just a rational, clear-eyed talker about what we're talking about, and I say something like, oh, it's a false flag.
The response isn't like those never happen.
The response is, those are usually a bad idea.
Like, those don't work.
Those are bad ideas.
Right?
Only these people think that not only do false flags happen all the time, almost every day, but that they are a good idea in order to accomplish what you want.
So the irony of this situation is that, and I'm not saying that this is or is not a false flag, but in terms of a situation like this, based upon the target that we're dealing with, there is a far more likelihood of this being somebody that likes him than not likes him in order to try and achieve the goals that he set out because of what they believe.
dan friesen
Well, sure.
jordan holmes
It's weird.
It's an ironic situation.
dan friesen
Well, don't worry.
I mean, it will be a false flag if it needs to be.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
But that's the problem.
Exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Everything can be a false flag until it's proven not, but you don't want to use that when you don't need to.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And in this case, they don't really need to yet.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
With Minnesota, they did.
Right.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Very important then.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Harrison thinks he's alone again.
jordan holmes
Of course.
Is he going to be alone in the end of the Zen?
dan friesen
Nope.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
He starts ranting.
jordan holmes
Over how many hours are we popping in and out?
dan friesen
25 minutes.
jordan holmes
So he was supposed to be gone multiple times within minutes of the next statement that we're taking.
dan friesen
Okay.
It's pretty quick.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
I was coming back.
It's again a farce.
Okay.
It's again an open door.
unidentified
Open door.
jordan holmes
Open, closed door.
Okay.
dan friesen
All right.
So Harrison's ranting a bit about the left.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And now Alex has discovered the really awful footage.
harrison smith
So we're probably going to end up seeing a lot of different angles of this.
I'm like feeling lightheaded.
unidentified
This is.
harrison smith
This is the inevitable consequence of the radicalization of the left in this country and the demonization of right-wingers, even people like Charlie Kirk, who are totally respectable, totally Christian, totally informed by American ethos, and yet they have a target on his back.
alex jones
There are rumors on the internet he's dead.
I said if it's not body armor causing that big concussion, it's a super high-powered rifle, like 308 Windmag, something like that.
They're saying it's an old man.
They say he's in Cussy.
That's what the police are reporting.
We have footage.
We're about to show Vir Discretion Advised.
I shot my cell phone.
You see blood shoot out of his mouth body, which would be, you know, hit in the heart, which is what it looks like to me on the video.
So pray for Charlie.
We'll be finding out as this unfolds.
Very discretion advised.
Let's loop this footage a couple times.
harrison smith
Not counting gang violence.
unidentified
Great.
alex jones
I don't want this scene when I kill people.
harrison smith
Oh, fuck me.
dan friesen
Jesus Christ.
There's no justification for Alex playing this footage.
It's disgustingly graphic, and you don't learn anything from it that wasn't already known.
It's exploitative, and it's an act of harm he's perpetrating on the audience.
I honestly wouldn't have even included the audio of that, except that Alex can be heard making an aside to Harrison that I think he thought was off-mic.
He said, quote, they don't want this scene when they kill people, which feels like Alex making an excuse for playing this video.
It feels like saying that is an indication that Alex knows that he needs a reason to be airing a snuff film and even telling the crew to loop it.
Like, it's fucking unacceptable.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
I don't believe he doesn't understand that what he's doing is wrong and he needs an excuse.
Also, the police didn't say that an old man did it.
Twitter said that because there was footage of an old man being detained by the police at the university.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
This was a guy later identified as George Zinn, who's apparently a notorious local protester.
News coverage from Utah describes him as a libertarian who has a long history of misdemeanor arrests.
And it seems like he was getting arrested because he told the police that he shot Kirk, but that they didn't know if he did or not, and they didn't.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
Okay.
dan friesen
And he didn't.
So as usual, InfoWars is reporting ruber and speculation, passing it off as official information from legit sources, the exact thing that Harrison said they're not going to do.
jordan holmes
Usually when the cops say something, they announce it.
They've got a whole thing.
There's like things.
When Twitter says something, they just go, the cops got him.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't know if the cops and the FBI had great message discipline around this as the day went on.
But yeah, this one was a this was more of a social media thing than an official announcement.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
Man, fucking gross.
dan friesen
What a fucking gross.
jordan holmes
What a group of people to think that this is okay.
Even not even okay, like to think that even in certain circumstances, this is okay.
There's no need.
There's no circumstances that justified this behavior.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
There just aren't.
dan friesen
No.
unidentified
Because you don't need to.
dan friesen
I wish I could add more editorialize in some way, but no, it's not.
It's disgusting.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like, I don't know.
I don't know, man.
How do people get there?
dan friesen
I mean, I think that having, you know, I didn't have autoplay on, so I can't cop to that.
I did not realize what it was going to be when I clicked on the video.
And having had that experience, I find it so repulsive that Alex knows what he's doing.
He's airing this, and he's like, loop it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's just unacceptable.
And he's an adult.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I didn't see, I've seen none of the videos.
At no point in time would I have been informed by any of the videos.
You could just say he's dead.
You could say he was just shot.
And I would be like, I've lived a life long enough to where I know what the context of those things mean.
I don't need to subject myself to blood.
I don't.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yep.
Fucking hell.
jordan holmes
Fucking hell.
dan friesen
So anyway, Alex gets lost a little bit in discussing the mechanics of the shooting.
And I think the most important part.
To some.
unidentified
Yep.
alex jones
I thought because you see the jolt.
You see the jolt in the.
It's the juggler that would do that jolt.
Oh, it could have hit the body armor and bounced up.
Ah.
Yeah, body armor bounces up.
Do you see the bullet bounce up?
That might have been a pistol round.
Jesus Christ.
Man, Charlie, we love you, brother.
What a warrior.
What a Viking.
Well, if he does die, he's going straight to Valhalla.
That's a real Warrior King's death right there.
unidentified
Sword in hand.
harrison smith
Oh, my God.
alex jones
That was.
harrison smith
How many things like this are we going to have to see?
alex jones
I'll just say this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
alex jones
This isn't going to intimidate the populist movement.
It's going to make us stronger.
And if they think this type of stuff's intimidating us, they got another thing coming.
They think we're like them, a bunch of scum.
So only make us reable our efforts.
But I don't think it's a rumor he's dead.
If you're seeing that, it looks fatal.
Pray for Charlie Cook Searle, folks.
Pray he's alive, but I don't think so.
Wow.
Stuart Rhodes is coming in.
harrison smith
Stuart Rhodes takes over, folks.
jordan holmes
Really?
harrison smith
This is why we're so into Donald Trump.
If he doesn't fix this, God only knows where it goes from here.
Things are getting out of control.
dan friesen
Quite out of control, I would say.
I felt like Alex was really trying to work up to, if you want to fight, you better believe you got one.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Some catchphrase action.
jordan holmes
Fucking hell.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that if you think that he's probably dead based on the video you just watched, don't air that.
At least, you should think it's probably not what the family wants.
I understand that you probably want to rile people up and whatever, but there's an inherent disrespect that I just feel like should be baseline.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
Oh, well.
jordan holmes
I think this is a really great exemplar of the difference between talking and doing.
Like, Harrison talks such a big game of being a Nazi piece of shit.
Alex is a Nazi piece of shit to his core.
dan friesen
Emphasis on piece of shit.
jordan holmes
To his fucking core.
dan friesen
Because I think that there's some pieces of shit parts of him that are Nazi-ish, and there's some parts that are different.
That are still piece of shit.
jordan holmes
You know, they're more.
There's an evolution of piece of shittery.
dan friesen
He's a dynamic piece of shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but it is like, there are a lot of people in life who just talk shit and they talk a big fucking game.
But when it comes down to it, like, that's a human life.
Alex is fucking not that.
dan friesen
He does not.
jordan holmes
Alex is not that.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Alex does not give a fuck.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's really the feeling that I got from this.
You know, albeit fairly brief time that they were covering this on the episode was that Harrison has a slightly human response and Alex does not care at all.
jordan holmes
Not even a little bit.
dan friesen
He's interested in guns and how he can use this.
jordan holmes
And Owen.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Well, he makes a Freudian slip a little bit later.
jordan holmes
Oh, he does.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So they said that we got a guest host coming in.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
Of all the fucking people, who do we got to have?
We got to have pirate murder talk over here.
unidentified
Yep.
stewart rhodes
So we just heard that Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah.
Our prayers go out to him.
Hopefully he'll make it.
So big lesson from that is that we are already, I'm hate to say this, but we're already in a civil war.
And it's been that way for years against the left.
Just F except reality that they are waging war on this country, on this Constitution, and on us.
And they don't accept free speech from anybody but themselves.
That's clear from what happened to Charlie Kirk today.
dan friesen
They have zero information about who did this shooting or why they did it.
But now we have Stuart Rhodes coming in to whine about how this is part of the left's war on the country, which is already a civil war.
I often have moments where it feels like Infowars is a full-on parody of itself.
And this is a great example of that.
Charlie Kirk was just murdered at an event.
And less than an hour later, the head of a paramilitary group that tried to overthrow the country four years ago is guest hosting, complaining about the left.
Even if you just leave out all of the January 6th stuff, leave that to the side.
His history with the Oath Keepers is plagued with violence pretending to be politics.
Stuart being the host on this particular day, it just feels like proof of a simulation.
I mean, it's so surreal.
jordan holmes
I think I just did become a Christian because no amount of faith could ever overcome this.
Ironically, making my complete lack of faith the only true faith that there could possibly be, proving that once and for all there is a God.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And like, it's, you know, obviously Alex didn't plan all of this.
Like the show.
jordan holmes
You can't possibly.
You can't possibly have done that.
dan friesen
But it would explain how this has so much irony to it.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's steeped.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's steeped.
dan friesen
So one thing that is true is that Alex did need to go pick up his dad, I think.
Because he does not come back.
Instead, I think he drops his dad back off.
alex jones
Great.
dan friesen
We were going to go get some ice cream, but dad.
I've got to go film a special report.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So Alex comes back to the studio and films a report about Charlie Kirk.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
alex jones
The Democrats just killed Charlie Kirk today.
They're desperate.
They're losing.
They want to intimidate you and me and everybody else.
But we won't let the murder of our hero be used against us.
We'll use this death as an example to celebrate the life of Charlie Kirk and let the globalists know you did this out of weakness.
And we're now going to peacefully expose you and speak out publicly more than ever.
And then you criminals will be defeated and will be going to prison.
We're about to break it all down right now.
dan friesen
By this point, Alex has zero new information, but he's very confidently yelling about how the Democrats killed Charlie Kirk.
Getting things right doesn't matter to Alex.
All that matters is feelings.
It's important to understand that Alex is acting this way because he knows that emotions are super high in this moment and that he needs to strike while the iron's hot.
A leading figure in their media space was just publicly killed, so people are naturally pissed off and a bit scared.
If Alex were to get on air and say, hey, let's keep our cool and wait till we have some information before we jump to conclusions, he wouldn't be able to exploit those angry and scared feelings that the listeners have.
When someone is angry and scared, if you try to calm them down, you're looking out for their best interests, but you're going to be less able to manipulate them.
On the other hand, if you tap into that fear and anger, you're going to make the situation they're in worse, but the energy that those emotions create can be redirected and pointed where you want to aim it.
This is a major trick that Alex has used throughout his career, where he exploits the audience's feelings of fear and anger, often around public tragedies, and then redirects their feelings towards things that bring him profit.
When you think about Alex's career, what do you think about?
Is it making shit up about horrible tragedies, or is it actually getting to the bottom of crimes and corruption?
Without the crutch of taking advantage of public trauma, we wouldn't know Alex's name.
Everything that's big in his career, 9-11, Sandy Hook, Waco.
Like all of it is exploitation of the pain that tragedy causes.
And that should be his legacy.
jordan holmes
His talent is not for anything other than recognizing when speed is the most important thing beyond all else, beyond everything else, speed.
Get there fast.
dan friesen
And other people's pain alchemy.
That's his skill.
jordan holmes
He's got that.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So this was a shot heard around the world.
alex jones
September 10th, 2025 is a day where a shot was heard around the world.
Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered today in Utah while speaking to thousands in an outdoor event at a college.
And the left is everywhere celebrating it.
They're so happy.
They had witches in groups cursing him in the week before.
They had people in Utah releasing a song a month ago about killing him.
We'll get to all of that.
dan friesen
So there's that soft music playing.
And if you're just listening to this show, you might think that this is some kind of a respectful tribute.
But the video that's playing just before Alex starts talking is Charlie getting shot in slow-mo.
unidentified
Great.
dan friesen
It's horrific stuff.
Also, I'm not going to dwell on this too much, but when Alex says that Democrats are over, that they're all celebrating Charlie's death, the only thing he points to is a couple of random people on TikTok.
It would be totally fine if he wanted to say that these people are acting distastefully and that he doesn't like it, but if he's going to say that Democrats are all out here celebrating, he should add a little note about how literally every mainstream Democratic politician posted a condolence and denunciation message on Twitter.
It feels like him not saying that and just posting like a few TikToks, that's him lying by omission.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And it feels that way because that's what it is.
He's doing this because he's a liar, trying to exploit his supposed friend's death before it's even been publicly announced that he's dead.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's gross.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, functionally, while I understand the impetus behind what everybody's doing, right?
All of those messages from Democratic politicians and the like are all reasonable things that they are saying to other Democrats.
You are not being heard by anybody on the right.
Yeah.
So if you're making that statement or firing whatever his fuck is in the hopes of being like, this will send a message to the right that we're above this.
That message is unheard.
dan friesen
Yeah, there will be a couple of people on TikTok that will speak for all of you.
jordan holmes
Right.
And I mean, in the same way, if you're like yelling at somebody about, you know, like, oh, this should happen because he's a violent guy.
He commanded violence.
He said that the Second Amendment was fine.
That's also not being heard.
Just the two of you talking.
It's the Democrats saying we should be cool and the Democrats saying like, this guy had it coming.
They're talking to each other.
None of you are having a conversation with the right.
dan friesen
Yeah, they're doing their own thing.
jordan holmes
They're doing their own thing and what you think is meaningless to them.
dan friesen
Except when they feel like they can use it.
jordan holmes
And that's kind of unfortunate.
And you don't even need to actually think of, yeah.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex thinks that he's figured out why Charlie got shot.
Yeah.
He was getting too close to uncovering the truth that crimes are happening against white people.
alex jones
Oh, shit.
But the reason it's a shot heard around the world is he came out a few days ago with the murder of the Ukrainian 23-year-old refugee and the left trying to cover up that was racially motivated.
The killer says, I got that white girl.
And they said he's the bad guy.
He's the fascist.
He's Hitler.
karoline leavitt
On August 22nd, Irina Zarutska was stabbed to death on the rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina by a savage career criminal.
unidentified
Her life story, I think, will be told both in the United States and Ukraine for years to come.
What do you think the importance of this story is most fundamentally?
charlie kirk
This was one of the coldest, most senseless murders I've ever seen.
She had no interaction with this guy whatsoever.
She was sitting minding her own business, and he just takes out a knife and just decides to stab her.
I do say this with some form of just heaviness.
I don't like politicizing situations like this, but it just necessitates it because there are so many dynamics at play here.
Based on the information evidence we have, the attacker did say, I got that white girl.
The attacker racialized it in his own telling of the situation.
And we all know this.
Any honest observer of your program knows this, including Van Jones even knows this deep down, which is that, of course, if a random white person on a subway took out a knife and stabbed a black girl senselessly to death, there would be massive media coverage.
There would be policy changes.
There'd be people having to apologize for this.
We saw this in George Floyd.
And yet, for whatever reason, this situation has not garnered even a fraction of that kind of outrage or backlash.
alex jones
And it's really captured people's attention.
dan friesen
So what happened in this case in North Carolina is a horrible tragedy, but I don't think that this very clearly mentally unwell person muttering something that sounded like, I got that white girl after stabbing a random person, is enough to establish that this was a racially motivated crime.
I don't think that Charlie's claim that the killer, quote, racialized the crime is even defensible because generally speaking, for a crime to be racialized, race has to be a part of a motivation for a crime, not something that was just said descriptively afterwards.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
Even assuming all the other details he's giving are correct.
jordan holmes
By pointing out his race and their race, I'm racializing the crime, and that must be what he was doing, racializing it.
Because otherwise, I wouldn't be able to racialize it.
dan friesen
Further, the point that Charlie is making about how if it were a black woman stabbed by a white guy on the train, there would be tons of media coverage of it and there would be policy changes.
jordan holmes
That's the most scientifically unaccurate thing that's ever been said.
dan friesen
But I would also just point out that there's tons of media coverage of the case he's talking about, and the president is using it to try to justify sending federal troops into states to squash crime.
alex jones
There you go.
dan friesen
This whole if the races were swapped game is just that.
It's a game designed to bait racists.
Charlie also says that this isn't getting the same attention as George Floyd.
And I think part of the reason for that is that Floyd was killed by a cop who had him subdued.
The current story doesn't involve police brutality, which was a very central issue as to why people were protesting a lot about the previous case.
The reason that Charlie got blowback from this behavior that he was engaged in is because it was a little obvious how desperately he was trying to stoke racism with his coverage of the story.
I feel like him saying even Van Jones would have to admit is a little over the top because he's just using Van Jones as a stand-in for a black guy.
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous.
dan friesen
I know it's not important, but this story has another deep irony to it, which is that the victim of this crime is someone that folks like Alex and Charlie do not like.
She was a refugee, which they don't want here.
Further, she was from Ukraine, a country that they both are cheering on Putin invading.
If she hadn't been killed, they would be happy to demand that she be deported back to Ukraine, and they wouldn't care if she was killed as a result of that.
But because it happened here and how it did, they accept her as one of their own because she was white.
And they can use this story to exacerbate their audience's feelings of racial victimhood.
So it's all good.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no, no.
You don't understand.
Because what was it?
Like CNBC or MSNBC?
dan friesen
MSNBC?
jordan holmes
Yeah, because they fired that guy.
The right is like, oh, okay, cool.
Well, we're all good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They nailed it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Because they were like, oh, you guys are clearly mad about how we cover this.
This guy said something clearly simple, like, you know, hey, if you're dabbling in violence, maybe don't be surprised if violence happens.
So we fired him.
So now violence has ended.
dan friesen
Yeah, and you clearly took that as a sign of good faith on our part.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
I'm glad we can have a respectful relationship moving forward.
jordan holmes
I appreciate that we're not going to have to hear the right complain about the MSNBC anymore.
dan friesen
Certainly.
jordan holmes
Because they've done the thing for him, right?
I'm sure it's fixed.
dan friesen
So Alex is suggesting that the reason that the globalists had to take out Charlie Kirk is because he pointed out race.
jordan holmes
A single instance of one.
dan friesen
Right.
The thing that they always do.
jordan holmes
The thing that they've done.
I don't know if we constantly.
Like one week has gone by in the past.
So that's at least 52 times in the past year.
dan friesen
Yeah.
This is why.
jordan holmes
This is why.
dan friesen
Sure.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
And so Alex complains a bit more about these people on TikTok.
And they're the worst.
jordan holmes
TikTok.
alex jones
So Charlie Kirk will live forever.
And God bless his family and everything he's done.
But the left everywhere, literally celebrating this just shows you how sick these people are.
They want you dead because you're not a Satanist.
You're not a pedophile.
You're not a globalist.
And they're not going to stop.
So you can't roll over their political correctness.
You can't hope they just go away.
You've got to stand up against them culturally, economically, spiritually.
dan friesen
The video that's playing over this part where Alex is complaining about the left celebrating is just people who posted stuff on TikTok.
There's no indication from what he's showing that they're even left-leaning people, but there's a bigger issue here.
What could be less politically correct than mocking someone's death right after it happened?
By definition, what these people on TikTok are doing is super politically incorrect.
And Alex is scolding them about it, which kind of makes him the guy trying to uphold some standard of political correctness.
These kids on TikTok are doing exactly what free speech-loving iconoclasts would want them to do.
And Alex is playing the role of the stuffy censor in all this.
He doesn't even understand what he's.
Who cares?
jordan holmes
I mean, man, what are we doing here?
It's one of those things where it's like, ah, God, I wish I could play that clip.
I wish I could play that clip of Alex being like, ooh, that wasn't a 556.
That was definitely like, oh, boom.
dan friesen
He said, boom.
jordan holmes
Right?
I wish I could play that clip for anybody on the right and just be like, listen, I know what they've said.
But at the very least, everybody you think is evil on the left will go, I'm sorry you got shot.
They'll at least say that.
You can't say that for Alex.
dan friesen
You can argue whether they mean it or not.
jordan holmes
You bet.
dan friesen
But Alex is going to say, boom.
jordan holmes
Alex is going to go, boom, like fucking Madden.
dan friesen
He's going to slow-mo, zoom in a picture of you getting shot and the worst moments of the end of your life.
jordan holmes
If we have disagreements about taxes, I get it, buddy.
But if you get shot, I'm not going to go, boom.
That's not going to happen.
dan friesen
We're buds.
jordan holmes
Crazy.
dan friesen
So some people say that Charlie Kirk wasn't hardcore enough.
jordan holmes
That's where we're at.
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex doesn't like those people, but he does because they're Nick Fuentes.
jordan holmes
And also, he was the one who said he wasn't hardcore enough.
dan friesen
Yeah, Alex has said that too.
alex jones
Charlie Kirk decided to be exactly where he wanted to be, standing up against evil, standing up against tyrants, standing up for free speech.
And some in the populist right-wing movement could say, well, he wasn't hardcore on this or he wasn't, you know, hardcore on that.
It didn't matter.
He was getting millions.
It's estimated over 5 million the last nine years, but 3 million in the last election.
Young people to break from the brainwashing on the campuses and to go out and vote Republican.
That is such a revolutionary act.
And so he had to die.
dan friesen
The people who say that Charlie wasn't hardcore enough are the avant-garde Nazis that Alex likes a lot these days.
And not hardcore enough is just a fun euphemism that Alex is trying to hide behind.
He needs to stop playing dumb games and just accept that his Nazi friends hated Kirk because it wasn't Nazi enough for them.
Also, I think it's really sad for Alex to be venerating some guy who was wishy-washy on the issues just because they were an effective partisan voter registration guy.
If you're supposed to be above the left-ray paradigm, this seems like a weird person to make a hero out of, but that paradigm wasn't real to begin with.
jordan holmes
They couldn't stop themselves if they wanted to.
This was going to happen.
It could have been fucking the most milquetoast.
It could have been fucking Lieberman, man.
And they'd still be like, oh, he was a hero of the movement.
dan friesen
Sure.
He had his moments.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They had to that, listen, we need somebody.
He's here.
This is what's happening.
dan friesen
He said something racist last week, and that's probably why they killed him.
jordan holmes
Close enough?
dan friesen
Yeah, that explains it.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So look, man, this was all part of the Podesta plan.
jordan holmes
Podesta plan.
dan friesen
Yeah, you remember that thing from 2020?
jordan holmes
I was not expecting it to be this part of his plan.
dan friesen
Oh, it's part of it.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
All right.
alex jones
That's the big message here.
The Podesta plan from August 2020 said if Trump could win and they couldn't steal it, it's public, they'd have blue states secede to blue cities, create racial uprisings, and burn the country down and drive Trump from power.
Then they produced a few years later the film Civil War that was released in the election year last year, fantasizing about the states coming together, marching on D.C. and killing Trump, who's only protected by the Secret Service, a Trumpian figure.
So they've said they're going ahead with this plan.
dan friesen
Alex is making up all this shit about this supposed Podesta plan.
And the only way he could say this stuff about that Civil War movie is if he hasn't seen it or he's betting that everyone listening to the show hasn't.
unidentified
Probably not.
dan friesen
The goal here is folding Charlie's murder into the larger plot that Alex is making his audience scared about.
So the emotions that they have about this shooting become directed into Alex's revenue streams.
This is legit all exploitation.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
Trying to own his death.
alex jones
Yep.
jordan holmes
Yep.
I mean, it's the fucking fishing email of eulogies.
Like, this is fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's worth, like, I never expected it to be good.
Like, whatever his response, but it's worse than I thought.
jordan holmes
I really didn't.
I think this is what we're experiencing.
We're not psychopaths.
Like, this is, it genuinely makes me feel like I passed a test.
It's like, that response is crazy.
I didn't even expect that response.
That's how not a psychopath I am.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it really sucks because, you know, we're coming off a time that was a little bit back to having some fun with Owen leaving and all that stuff.
Yeah.
And now this is like real, it's a real splash of cold water on your face reminding you that this guy is one of the most fucked up people who's been allowed in front of a camera.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
It's crazy.
Yep.
So on the back of this killing, the globalists are probably going to launch some racist false flags.
alex jones
It's a very good chance that off of the murder of Charlie Kirk, they've got some white supremacist, drugged out MK Ultra people ready to truck bomb the illegal alien administration or shoot up a black college or something in their future.
And then they're going to try to create the collash and conflagration out of that.
And that's why they're pushing this violence.
And so that's why this is so incredibly important right now that you understand this is a bellwethered event.
dan friesen
This is another important piece of Alex's agenda, which is giving a preemptive storyline to any racist acts of violence that may come in the near future.
Charlie had an audience that included a ton of racists and other brands of bigots.
And the fact that their leader was just killed could incite some kind of a response up to and including other acts of violence.
Alex and everyone in this media space understands that the odds of that have gone up because of this shooting.
So if that happens, it's important to have reminded the audience in advance not to believe anything like that could be real.
It's all fake.
It's all the globalists.
Don't worry.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And what Trump's doing is cool.
jordan holmes
How is this at all involved?
dan friesen
Well, I mean, like, Charlie Kirk got shot, right?
That's a crime.
Trump's stopping crime.
Oh, right?
unidentified
Man.
dan friesen
With all the police state stuff.
But it's not police state.
alex jones
Oh, because they're losing.
They need violence.
Because the world is waking up.
They need to create the chaos and have the mass uprising like we're Nepal or something and manipulate the youth to burn down the country so there's a smokescreen to remove Trump and bring in their tyranny.
Trump has deployed military in a few cities because of the Soros stand down, defunding the police and the Soros DAs.
It's not a police state.
In an emergency, you do that and crime has already plunged 90% in D.C. That is a protective measure ahead of what they know is coming.
dan friesen
Even if we accept everything about what Alex is saying, if we accept and stipulate that it's true, is this an acceptable justification for a police state?
There's going to be a lot of crime in the future, so Trump has to move towards martial law.
That doesn't sound very convincing coming from a guy like Alex.
If this is all that it takes to justify using the military or National Guard for domestic policing, most of the work he's done in his entire career falls apart immediately.
It's just like.
jordan holmes
I mean, the irony of that is that it is actually disrespectful to Charlie Kirk's memory and what he believed in.
Like, there's a subtle problem with people pointing out his quote of the Second Amendment thing is because they're subtly saying, well, he didn't actually believe that.
Because if you wanted to say, like, this man actually believes that, then part of this is respecting that this is what happens.
He believed that this is what happens.
To take him honestly and seriously is to say this man is a result of what he believes in.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's being honest about what he believed in.
Sure.
For Alex to then take that and use it as justification for, let's say, overriding the Second Amendment and allowing the National Guard to come into people's houses and grab their guns.
dan friesen
What is posse comitatus?
jordan holmes
Maybe that's denying the memory of the person that you're trying to venerate.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, hey, shit's crazy.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Nothing matters.
jordan holmes
Like, in even a greater sense, I am respecting his memory by not calling for the end of the Second Amendment in a way that Alex Jones isn't.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're passing a test, weirdly, here.
It's awful.
jordan holmes
It's awful.
dan friesen
So Alex passed a test, too.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that was not being mean to Charlie when everybody was so mean to him.
jordan holmes
That was nice of him.
dan friesen
Except he was.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he was.
alex jones
But in closing, I just want to say we love you, Charlie Kirk.
We wouldn't have gotten Trump in both times without you.
The enemy knew that.
That's why you were target number one.
We saw Charlie Kirk the last six months being the number one target other than Trump in the corporate media and by the Democrats.
And I said publicly, Charlie Kirk, need to pray for him because he's in a lot of danger.
And for people that spent all their time criticizing him because on foreign policy disagreed with him, that wasn't his job.
His job was getting people registered to vote Republican, which isn't perfect, but it's night and day compared to the Democrats.
And that's why I'm pleased that I follow my gun instinct and didn't join the bandwagon to attack Charlie Kirk.
dan friesen
That's 100% not true.
In 2019, Alex was joining with Nick in attacking Turning Point and Charlie Kirk and even got into an argument with his then employee Millie Weaver about his use of Nick's branding of the term conservative Inc.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Then in 2020, Owen got kicked out of CPAC and that led to them feuding a bit with Kirk and Turning Point because they were seen as the anointed conservative media who are gatekeeping and keeping Infowars out.
So all through that time, he definitely was joining in.
Over time, it is fair to say that Alex softened it on Kirk, but it's shameful for him to pretend that he never got into the mud.
It's ridiculous.
jordan holmes
I mean, you know, when you see somebody like exploiting the death of just like a regular coworker in a way that's really uncomfortable, where you're like, oh, I knew him so well, we knew each other pretty well.
And you're like, I don't know, dude.
But whatever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's kind of distasteful, but it's a way of grieving a little narcissistically.
jordan holmes
Also, the stakes are about as low as they can get.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
This is...
harrison smith
don't do this.
jordan holmes
Don't do this.
dan friesen
Would you believe it gets worse?
jordan holmes
My advice to people, don't do this, and whatever's going to happen next, definitely don't do that.
dan friesen
Yeah, we can all preemptively just say, don't do what Alex is going to say later, even having not heard it.
So Alex, you know, he talked to Charlie pretty recently.
They were just shooting the shit about like Trump and Epstein and stuff.
unidentified
Sure.
alex jones
I talked to Charlie just a few weeks ago and about a week ago before that.
We talked about our children.
We talked about our families.
Talked about the voting drive he was doing.
Talked about how Trump's doing.
Talked about how Trump was handling Epstein wrong.
We talked about how it didn't matter because we were creating a new generation of leaders for local, state, and federal government.
And that was the secret that long after Trump's gone, we were creating the new generation of populist Christians who will restore and empower this republic.
I don't tell that story to run Trump down.
That was just their conversations about, yeah, we're telling Trump.
Charlie's like, man, he called me, we talked every month or so, but he called me a few times about a month and a half ago.
He was just like, man, good job.
Keep it up.
People at the White House totally agree with you.
He's got to stop saying it's a hoax.
We know he means what they put in the files that they left behind is, he's the guy who blew the whistle, but my God, it's a disaster.
Yeah, you know, keep it up.
We totally agree with you.
Great.
Keep it up.
They were just encouraging me.
And I was like, hey, come on the show.
Yeah, I'll get you on the show.
We both got busy.
It didn't happen.
And he called me back about other stuff, but he's dead now.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And it is notable that he wasn't on the show, isn't it?
jordan holmes
Pretty notable.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Almost glaring in its notability.
dan friesen
Nick was on a lot, huh?
jordan holmes
He was on a lot.
dan friesen
That's weird.
jordan holmes
Glaring in the number of times he was on.
dan friesen
So the two of them agreed that Trump mishandled Epstein stuff, but it's cool.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
Now it's cool.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, the now part is pretty doing a lot of heavy lifting in the it's cool.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's disappointing.
I also don't believe any of this.
I mean, I maybe believe that they have communicated in the past, but I don't believe that they were talking once a month and he was saying, hey, Alex, love what you're doing.
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
How could you, you know, like, you know, those people who don't have pain, who don't experience pain for whatever reason, they have some sort of thing.
And you're like, oh, I bet that would be, but it's a horrible existence where if they get cut, they might bleed out without even knowing about it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like that kind of thing.
Like, every now and again, you feel like, man, I wish I wouldn't feel so hard for other people.
Yeah, you do.
Be stoked about it because otherwise you've got this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Charlie also, he kind of feels like, I don't know what his personal relationships were like, but he seems like the kind of guy who knows, like, all right, I'm going to keep Alex at a distance.
Right.
jordan holmes
Smartly.
dan friesen
I might talk to him, but I'm never going to be seen.
Right.
I don't want to be seen.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Alex can come yell his catchphrase as a turning point because Tucker said he was cool.
But I'm not happy about it.
alex jones
Yep.
dan friesen
So look, here's the problem with populists.
They don't complain enough.
jordan holmes
That does sound right.
alex jones
As populists, as conservatives, as Christian, as common sense, just kind of throwback cavemen, you'd call us.
But we want to cut our son's penises off.
We don't want world government.
We don't want to die of fentanyl.
We don't worship the devil.
We still fly old glory down at the courthouse.
White lightning is still the greatest thrill of all.
It's not because we haven't seen the other stuff or done the other stuff.
We just know that the classic stuff that is what we are is what is good.
It's classic because it's what works.
It's what we are.
But as populists, as Christians, we're manly.
And, you know, growing up, my dad and his dad and my mom, all of them, they were tough.
And you didn't complain.
You didn't whine.
You didn't cry with broken bone or your eardrum blown out and worst pain ever.
Just you man up.
Come home, get your ass kicked when you're 10 years old by three or four bullies who are older than you.
Your dad says you better fight harder next time.
And then my dad would back me up and I'll put him in the hospital years later.
But the point is, is that we're not victims, so we're not professional whiners like the left.
dan friesen
About 40% of Alex's show is whining and just complaining about bullshit.
And then an extra 20% is him talking about not complaining and how he doesn't complain enough.
So he can, this is a shocking lack of self-awareness.
jordan holmes
No, I think maybe the dead internet theory is the secret.
Like maybe we're at the point now where conservatives are only ever complaining about themselves.
And they just say the left.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Or yeah.
And the media, when they say that, they just mean Twitter.
Yep.
jordan holmes
It's like they've just, things have funneled so tightly into a space where you're like, I don't even feel like I'm represented by what you hate anymore.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think the left does not exist to them.
They have become so cloistered.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The only thing that, like, things that pierce the, or people that they can make caricatures out of.
unidentified
Right, right.
dan friesen
Like Zoran Mamdani.
They can make a like Muslim socialist kind of character out of him.
And so like, ooh, we'll bring this in.
jordan holmes
Yeah, there's no like, oh, this is how you know that the left is there is because they're interested in rent control.
And that's how you know they killed a guy.
No, it's like, oh, they're all these things we are.
That's how you know the left.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So listen to this clip very closely.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I would say even Mike Down for this because there's a real subtle moment where Alex makes his Freudian slip.
alex jones
But we're not going to forget Charlie Kirk.
We're not going to forget all the other people the left's killed.
We're not going to forget how they tried to kill Trump.
We're not going to forget the poor Ukrainian refugee they murdered.
Because I understand being a winner.
When bad things happen to me, I learn from it, but I don't talk about it.
I move on.
Because I don't live in my bad experiences.
dan friesen
Did you say you move Owen?
jordan holmes
You move Owen.
When shit's going bad, I get rid of Owen.
unidentified
I move Owen.
jordan holmes
I move Owen.
dan friesen
That's funny.
So, when I said earlier, that what Alex is going to say is even worse.
Yeah.
This is where we're at.
We have reached that point.
This is.
I mean, I don't know how you could be more just a piece of shit.
alex jones
And we need to celebrate, not just remember Charlie Kirk and others because, oh, they killed our guy.
They're bad.
No, we need to remember what he did and what he stood for.
charlie kirk
I'm Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
Together, the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the country.
Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social media.
Said differently, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
alex jones
That's why I pledge to do a college church and who does his locations the next year.
You know, we tried them before.
They'd protest, the schools would ban us, whatever.
I don't care if the schools do ban us.
I'm going on them.
Because I can't watch his example and then have them kill him and think that intimidates the rest of us.
I have to do it.
dan friesen
I'm going to wear your skin.
alex jones
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
Wow.
jordan holmes
That one physically hurts me.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't even know what to say.
I'm going to do your thing now.
You died today.
And I'm going to do your thing.
I'm going to steal your bit.
There's a space in the market now for someone.
jordan holmes
I feel like the number one reason that I have now for proving that ghosts aren't real is because conservatives would be haunting the shit out of each other left and right.
Like, if I'm Charlie Kirk, I'm haunting Alex.
dan friesen
Yeah, but maybe once you die, you get like that perspective where you can see how funny it is.
jordan holmes
That's what I'm thinking.
I'm thinking that that's why we don't think that conservatives haunt other conservatives because we don't realize that once you're dead, you have the distance to be able to look back and go like, oh, that guy was actually the fucking problem the whole time.
dan friesen
Yeah, you can see the mortal joke.
jordan holmes
You don't have the like bile and the adrenaline in you that's going like, yeah, that white person's cool.
No, you're dead.
So you can be like, ah, that guy was an asshole.
dan friesen
Well, it's a lot like how the older people on the challenge aren't so violent because they have low testosterone levels.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
CT's got a gut.
It's too, we can't be violent.
I'm not that quick.
dan friesen
The testosterone levels have dropped and everything is a little chiller.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
When these racist dicks become ghosts, they don't have those chemicals and stuff in them.
jordan holmes
I appreciate getting older for that reason.
I like not having those things.
Alex is older than me.
Fucking get a handle on yourself.
dan friesen
I think it's the supplements.
jordan holmes
It's probably the supplements.
dan friesen
And by supplements, I mean drugs.
jordan holmes
We should do drugs, is what we're saying.
dan friesen
So, Alex, he talks a little bit more about his plan to wear Charlie's skin around.
alex jones
So I talked to Kirk about how he thought they were going to kill him.
jordan holmes
No, you didn't.
alex jones
So, but he lives forever, folks.
Viking King, sword in his hand.
And I don't say that as a bravado.
I say it that I strategically held back.
All of us, you might just be a local doctor or a dentist or a school teacher, whoever you are.
You should go speak at your city council cash machine.
They're not going to kill you.
Once you get big, they'll try.
All of us.
Remember the FBI coming after conservative Catholics criticizing DEI and all that stuff?
Remember coming after parents that were protesting?
That's because they're scared of you.
So don't let Charlie Kirk's death be in vain.
They were scared of that.
Let's do more of that.
But I commit to you.
I'm doing the Charlie Kirk celebration tour because I can't let somebody out there put more skin in the game than me.
It's not a competition.
It's about an example.
It's about a challenge.
And it's about them not intimidating us.
dan friesen
This is about your feelings, and you are gross.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I kind of hope he does do this or get like through the planning stages and put a lot of money into it and then the family sues the shit out of him or something.
jordan holmes
That'd be a delight.
dan friesen
Can't call your fucking thing the Charlie Kirk tour.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
jordan holmes
I mean.
dan friesen
This is on the same day.
jordan holmes
Yeah, this is the same day.
This is not like, oh, I've had some time to think about this.
Here's a way to memorialize.
dan friesen
This is impulsive.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
This is gross.
jordan holmes
When you, okay, so if you're watching like Naked and Afraid or something like that, you know, and they see they show you a carcass and it's being eaten by the wild.
You know, there's bacteria, there's bugs, there's scavengers, there's little things, there's all of this stuff going on, right?
What if instead it was just one giant, hideous, mucus-covered fungus that just landed on top of it and sucked everything of value out of it and then bounded off to do it again to somebody else.
That's basically what I'm watching.
dan friesen
Right.
But actually you're not because that fungus or whatever you're describing doesn't have the ability to be disrespectful.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
There's an added layer of it.
jordan holmes
It's not an attitude.
It's a fungus with an attitude.
Like, also, I don't care.
Like, fuck you.
Yeah.
I died to feed you.
At least care.
dan friesen
I'm a fungus that's kind of a dick.
jordan holmes
Oh, you're a prick fungus.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I'm going to pretend to be you in your honor.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
What an evil piece of shit.
You couldn't make a movie character do that.
Like, every time they make...
Oh, no.
I'm just saying, every time they have, like, a fucking Spider-Man, you've got your J.K. Simmons doing the whole thing.
It's like, no, no, you don't fucking know.
dan friesen
Yeah.
The parody is to fit this movie.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The version of a real parody of him does not belong in any proper movie.
jordan holmes
Anywhere near a movie.
dan friesen
No.
No, no, no.
I will say this.
Ooh, I don't know if I want to say this.
jordan holmes
Go ahead and say it.
Too late now, or we can edit this part up.
dan friesen
I think I would follow him if he goes on a college tour.
unidentified
Are you committing?
dan friesen
I'm not committed, but I think I might show up and just get high at all of the campuses.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
We got to do something.
dan friesen
I don't even smoke weed, but it would be like a going back to college kind of thing.
jordan holmes
I mean, if we're all going to steal something from Charlie Kirk, let's do drugs.
dan friesen
If we should tailgate at Alex's college tour.
Look, I regret that I didn't go on the caravan.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Like, I didn't go along with the caravan.
So if this happens, I do have to make up for past mistakes.
jordan holmes
I would bet a lot of money that you'll be safe.
But who knows?
dan friesen
I don't think he's going to follow through with this.
But if he does, I would love to just show up at each stop and give him a man.
jordan holmes
Here's how much I will bet.
I will finance the.
dan friesen
I won't argue with him or do anything except for yell my man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, my man.
All right.
Hey.
dan friesen
So Alex signs off and gives a salute to Charlie.
Oh, my God.
And yeah, it is what it is.
alex jones
So I'm just proud to know Charlie Kirk.
And we salute him for everything he did and the hard work he committed to.
And he lives forever.
And we finally have turned the page in this chapter of the world being so dark and fighting this generation's tyranny.
We'll look back and he'll go down in the history books as one of the top generals in the fight for America and the future of the world.
For myself and the whole InfoWars crew and the entire audience.
Charlie Kirk, the answer to 1984 is 1776, and you've got a salute from me, brother.
You're a real man and example to all of us, and we won't let you down.
dan friesen
And then he plays three minutes of ads.
The fitting tribute.
jordan holmes
Like.
unidentified
Hmm.
dan friesen
Somewhat speechless, it feels.
And I can understand why.
I mean, it's just a disgusting display of a person.
Like, I never super comfortable with, you know, especially in the immediate aftermath of something like this happening because it's so out of hand.
It's so out of control.
And the pieces of it are moving in such a way that whatever information was available when we started recording might be different than what is when we're done.
Absolutely.
And so it's really easy to make assumptions and get out ahead of yourself.
And I don't want to do that.
So it's tough.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But this, it really feels like it's important.
And at the same time, I can't believe what Alex is doing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I've watched this guy for a decade and been shocked.
And I've made many jokes about will he ever find the bottom?
And I don't know.
Because I'm surprised by this.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
I'm surprised how distasteful this is.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think maybe we got lulled into a false sense of security because he was just so shitty.
dan friesen
And sober?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
That you're like, well, I hadn't really considered plumbing the depths of how awful you could be sober.
dan friesen
Yeah, no, I do think that there was a boring period and it might have maybe we just needed a reminder of like what an exploitative piece of shit this dude is.
Yeah.
So we got it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I just, I feel for people pre-watching this, you know?
And then I feel if people can't see this and step into the light, then what, but then you're, you're there, man.
That's where you are, and that's where you're going to stay.
dan friesen
It's probably too late.
jordan holmes
That's just, that's just that.
If you can't see that, I don't know what to show you.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And that's another element of this that makes me like slightly uncomfortable because at a certain point, this episode kind of does feel like me just being like, hey, look at this awful person.
And, you know, playing clips.
And it could have the feeling of being like, I'm better than this guy.
And I don't want to wallow in that or dwell on that.
But like, to some degree, you can just play this and look at it and be like, well, it speaks for itself how awful this is.
jordan holmes
If there is anything that we should all say, again, like, this is such a Harrison Smith talking shit moment.
You know, like, regardless of all the shit people talk, if there's anything that we can do as a society, it's be better than that.
dan friesen
True.
jordan holmes
And it shouldn't even be that hard.
dan friesen
It's a low bar.
jordan holmes
Harrison can pass it.
dan friesen
Yeah, and he kind of did.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
A little.
unidentified
A little bit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
If only because Stuart Rhodes took over.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Because he was mercifully cut short.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So we'll be back with another episode.
Hopefully one that people can do foreplay to as opposed to this bummer.
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we do.
It's KnowledgeFight.com.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
I am the mysterious professor.
alex jones
Yeah, woo!
unidentified
Yeah, woo!
dan friesen
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first Tim Caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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