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Sept. 22, 2025 - Knowledge Fight
02:16:23
#1079: Knowin' Shroyer- Owen Vs. Babar

In this installment, Dan fails to bring Jordan something fun, and instead tunes in for an Owen stream thinking that it would be about Alex and Infowars, only to find it is mostly complaining about elephants.

Participants
Main voices
d
dan friesen
01:01:54
j
jordan holmes
34:50
o
owen shroyer
28:21
Appearances
a
alex jones
01:29
b
benjamin netanyahu
01:05
c
charlie kirk
02:38
Clips
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@strangesaunashow [greg]
00:45
p
pam bondi
00:41
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Dan and Jordan, I'm sweating.
Knowledgefighting.com.
It's time to pray.
And I have great respect for Knowledge Fight.
Knowledge fight.
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang we are the bad guys.
Knowledge fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
alex jones
Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy and Panzer.
Andy and your stop.
Andy and Pan.
Andy in Kansas.
And Andy.
It's time to pray.
Andy and Kansas.
You're on the air, thanks for holding it.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a big fan caller.
owen shroyer
I love your room.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledgefight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
owen shroyer
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
For a couple dudes.
Like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are.
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
What's your bright spot today, buddy?
dan friesen
My bright spot is uh my parents were in town for the weekend, and we had a nice time.
Uh on Saturday, we went to a Bigfoot Beach State Park in Wisconsin.
jordan holmes
Right.
Notoriously where Big Put has been found in the past.
dan friesen
Well, no.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
I well, look.
This is all second or third hand.
I'm not sure.
This is what my dad, I think, was reading in a brochure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
It has nothing to do with squatch.
I have no idea.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
It has to do with like a chief who maybe some white guy thought was named Bigfoot.
jordan holmes
That makes a lot more sense.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that makes way more sense.
Yep.
I I should have just assumed racism.
Why didn't I do that?
dan friesen
I really, really thought it was Sasquatch, and the image of Sasquatch Beach State Park sounded so funny in my head.
jordan holmes
How could that not be great?
Sasquatch on the beach!
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Trunks, the cooler.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Um, it was fine.
It's a lovely little park.
jordan holmes
Whatever.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Some kids playing baseball, some people grilling and camping.
It really really gave me a charge.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Um, but we, you know, we we weren't staying the night uh or anything.
But um, yeah.
It's great.
Getting out of nature, having a good time.
jordan holmes
Nice.
dan friesen
What about you?
What's your red spot?
jordan holmes
Uh, my bright spot is uh rediscovering this band.
Uh stop me if you are already into this genre.
Familiar with it.
dan friesen
Tennis?
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
Oh, that is a bad guy.
jordan holmes
No, I know.
I was that is a band.
Uh uh, no, uh, you ever hear uh a lot of Australian instrumental rock?
dan friesen
Um, like uh the didgery do?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Oh.
jordan holmes
Um, no.
So Dirty 3 is this uh I don't know what to describe it to you as other than like incredibly sad music for very specific music nerds.
dan friesen
Who are also Australian.
jordan holmes
Uh no.
I'm uh just anywhere.
Yeah, weirdly enough.
Uh I don't think they're huge in Australia.
dan friesen
Uh Did you say Australia?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Okay.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Because you just made me think I imagined that.
jordan holmes
No, I think I think I may have imagined them.
Um but they have so there's one thing about them that I particularly enjoy, which is that the violin uh we think of oftentimes in like the Vivaldi way as a very sweet, you know, kind of high-pitched, uh, you know, a very beautiful note.
But if you tune it down low and you kind of use a uh real kind of scruffed up bow, sure, you can get a really dark sound.
Like it this music sounds like if if you walked into a saloon, a ghost cowboy is listening to it.
Like, yeah, that's all right, here we go.
dan friesen
It's haunted with uh with a whiskey back.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and and that that violin sound, it's just it's just like that that fiddle.
You know, it's that primordial, this is before violins were good.
This is dark.
This is deep.
This is what's in your heart, you old man.
Like, that's it's beautiful.
dan friesen
This instrument is bad.
jordan holmes
I love it so much.
unidentified
Oh god.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's great.
dan friesen
Well, that's actually sold me.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That sounds interesting.
jordan holmes
It's really good.
I love it.
dan friesen
Nice.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So uh today, something that is also shitty.
Yeah, uh, much like that violin is uh we have an episode to go over.
jordan holmes
Oh shit.
dan friesen
And we're gonna go a little bit off the beaten path, but it's also still sort of on the beaten path.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And uh we'll talk about that here in a second.
But first, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new walls.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, my dog Pickles for always keeping it real and helping me plot my world takeover on these early 3 a.m. knowledge fight listen sessions.
Thank you so much, you're now policy walk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, what's your take on Enya?
Best artist of our generation or best artist of our lifetime.
Also, I love my wife Lily, and I might have pooped my pants at work.
Derek Woods, read my name, goddammit.
Thank you so much, you're now Paul's walk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
I would never have put his full name out there, but he literally said read my name, goddammit.
dan friesen
So yeah, I would have respected privacy, but then uh hey, what do you gonna do?
jordan holmes
I got yelled.
dan friesen
That's a demand.
Yeah.
Also, I like Enya.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
Um to Bill, sorry but not sorry for the twice weekly 7 a.m. today on Knowledge Fight texts from the treadmill.
Thank you so much, you're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Okay, and we got a technical credit next, Jordan.
So thank you so much to to my wonderful wife Alex.
Thanks to you uh for joining my knowledge fight i5 commute obsession.
Love you.
Dan, please pay play the little breaky drop, because I think my wife will find it hilarious.
Shit.
I still don't remember which one it is.
5050 shop.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
I have risen above my enemies.
I I might quit tomorrow, actually.
I'm just gonna take a little breaky down.
A little breaky from me.
And then we're going to come back and I'm gonna start the show over.
But I'm the devil!
unidentified
I gotta be taking off here up in all this.
alex jones
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
I got plenty of words for you, but at the end of the day, fuck you and your new world order and fuck the horse you rode in on and all your shit.
Maybe today's gonna last broadcast.
Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years.
Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow.
And you never see me again.
That's really what I want to do.
I never want to come back hearing you.
I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air.
I'll be better tomorrow.
dan friesen
Nope.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
It won't be.
But we won't know.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Because on our last episode, Jordan, I made a promise.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And by that I mean I uh stray uh mentioned.
jordan holmes
You obliquely mentioned, yeah.
dan friesen
That I might look for something fun to do today.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so I did.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I I didn't want to just cover Alex's boring uh response uh and continuing uh hysteria around uh Charlie Kirk.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And so I was like, ah, let's let's look what see what Jim Baker's been up to.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so I found an episode where a lady escaped from hell.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And I was so close.
I was like, uh, this could be this could be great.
jordan holmes
Are you kidding me?
dan friesen
But then I watched it, and it turns out all she did was run.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's it!
dan friesen
She found herself in hell.
There was a giant skull.
She started running, and before she knew it, she was back in her body running.
jordan holmes
God damn it, woman.
Fucking zhuzh it up a little bit.
If that is true, which of course it's not.
Why even bother telling it without shitty way?
dan friesen
Well, because she was she was talking about how she did a lot of drugs, and maybe that is what she experienced or something.
You know, like I'll I'll give her a pass on like seeing a skull and imagining something.
jordan holmes
The courts of heaven guy.
dan friesen
That guy commits.
jordan holmes
He's not just gonna run.
He's going to build a whole backstory.
He's gonna do some parkour.
The man is going to get out.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And and when I have like uh in front of me the title, I escape from hell or whatever, and five minutes into the episode, I'm bored by how you escape from hell.
No bad sign.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
So I I kept poking around a little bit.
Just trying to find something other than Alex's show.
And I saw that Owen Troyer had re-entered the fray.
jordan holmes
Oh no.
dan friesen
And as much as I said that I didn't want to talk about him anymore, I was drawn into watching his stream.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
There just hasn't been anyone that I can think of that's been in the situation that he's in.
Other people have left InfoWars in the past, but not tried to continue being right wing media figures like Jakari Jackson.
People have disappeared from InfoWars, but not on like overtly hostile terms, like a Paul Joseph Watson.
Some people have left InfoWars on hostile terms and wanted to continue in right wing media, but they were dead in the water, like David Knight.
I can't think of anyone else who has the combination of attributes that Owen currently has.
He wants to continue being a figure in this media space.
He left InfoWars in an ugly public spectacle, and he isn't David Knight.
I've seen a lot of things in my time, you know, covering The info war, but this is actually new, even if Owen himself isn't very compelling.
jordan holmes
I agree.
dan friesen
And so a sick part of my brain needed to see where this is going.
How he ends up playing this really weird hand that he's been dealt.
Like, there's an obvious way to do it.
jordan holmes
Right.
Which is destroy Alex.
dan friesen
And eat from his bones.
jordan holmes
Here's the problem is that I don't I don't want to follow up with him because I strongly suspect no matter what it is he chooses to do, I will say what you should be doing is something completely different, you fucking idiot.
dan friesen
Yeah, and I think you that might be where you end up at the at the conclusion of this episode.
But uh on September 16th, he released a stream titled The Elephants in the Room.
And if I were guessing based on the title, I would bet that this would be about Alex going off on him and accusing him of extortion and being a demon and being a snitch.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
The proverbial elephant in the room is that he left a media job of almost a decade, and his former boss is burning him on air a ton.
jordan holmes
Regularly.
dan friesen
Losing his shit.
jordan holmes
Constantly.
dan friesen
And to the point where he's using the staff and Owen's old friends against him.
It's crazy.
jordan holmes
What a great divorce.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Maybe it's because Alex's coverage of the Kirk shooting was so distasteful that I wanted to put him in time out.
Or maybe I'm a messy bitch who lives for the drama, and I wanted to see Owen hit Alex back.
But for whatever reason, I checked out this stream, and it wasn't quite what I expected.
But it did tell me a lot about how Owen is choosing to define himself in this new right-wing media ecosystem.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And I think it's worth reflecting on a little bit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Even if he does still suck.
Spoiler alert, this isn't gonna be like amazing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, I I I strongly suspect.
Here's what I'll even go so far as to guess.
I strongly expect he has not understood what the phrase elephants in the room means, and he is not talking about the actual literal elephant in the room.
dan friesen
Um he's no.
It's I mean, uh like it's it's infuriating.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Um but he starts off as he has uh in past streams with a song that he's gonna get sued for playing if he tries to monetize these episodes.
owen shroyer
Ladies and gentlemen, Owen Schroyer Live, episode 11.
The elephants in the room.
Damn, I miss you, Chester.
The elephants in the room.
This one's gonna be pretty epic.
unidentified
But first, brand new Limp Biscuit.
Brand new Limp Biscuit.
owen shroyer
Still making great music.
Almost as unbelievable of everything else.
That we're being told to believe.
New Limp Biscuit as the audience gets live with us here.
jordan holmes
Enjoy.
dan friesen
Look, I've been on record for a long time that Limp Biscuit is not as bad as people want them to be.
Fred Durst was a little embarrassing, and a lot of their humor doesn't stand the test of time.
But I will argue that they are a better band than the punchline that most people remember them to I think Owen's being sincere here, though.
I think he does like Limp Biscuits.
jordan holmes
I agree 100%.
dan friesen
It's a strange thing, though, because Limp Biscuit's been pretty clear that they don't like people like him.
New metal has an aesthetic that's very right-wing coded, mostly because of the you know, right-wing figures in the media.
They like to pretend that they have a monopoly over things like masculinity, aggression, poverty, and being white.
Underneath a lot of those surface level things, a lot of the time, these figures are more progressive than they appear to be.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
For instance, after the 2016 RNC, Limp Biscuits guitarist Wes Borland came out and directly told Trump fans to go fuck themselves and stop following him.
Owen plays Limp Biscuits' new song, which is called Making Love to Morgan Wallen, a title he strangely never says.
Weird that he doesn't bring it up.
unidentified
Weird.
dan friesen
The first line of that song is Damn I miss you, Chester, which is a reference to Lincoln Park's lead singer Chester Bennington, who died of suicide in 2017.
I love Lincoln Park's first few albums, and if you could listen to their music and ever think that they would like Owen Schreuer, you're insane.
If you can't pick up on the subtext of their songs, Chester did tweet in 2015, quote, Donald Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism.
This is a remarkable song choice for Owen because it reveals how shallow his analysis of everything around him is.
He sees Fred Durst and assumes He's just a cool racist like Kid Rock, but he's the guy who directed the rearranged music video.
Owen is one of the people watching Limp Biscuit get drowned in milk, and he doesn't even realize it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's metaphorically the people that they want to break their face.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
No, I know.
He Owen could not, the moment he said it's new Limp Biscuit, he he could not more be the guy he is.
That is exactly what he should say.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like Fred Durst's done interviews about how, like, man, all the people that I would have hated are now dressed up like me at my concert.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And how surreal that is.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's Owen.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I can't what is it?
What was it the throbbing gristle who deliberately dressed like Nazis is is like the inverse of that.
Like people, if you do uh stuff like that, then they start dressing like you, so they dress like Nazis in order.
It was very strange.
It didn't make a lot of sense.
dan friesen
I feel like now I don't want to get into Rommstein again.
But didn't they they had some weird like sort of aesthetics, but that might have just been like darker.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think that was more like they were doing a thing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know.
dan friesen
Yeah, I also was thinking about this.
Like Fred Durst was doing the red cap before Trump.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
He's gotta feel pissed off about that.
He's lost a lot of money to the Trump caps.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and yet somehow he still kept rolling rolling rolling.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Uh I made that joke on the last episode.
jordan holmes
I know.
We're gonna keep doing it forever.
He stole it.
dan friesen
So uh he comes uh back from uh the Limp Biscuit and there's big news at the Owen stream.
owen shroyer
All right.
Brand new Limp Biscuit tonight.
How about that?
I hadn't heard that either.
We're both hearing it together for the first time.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Owen Shroyer Live, episode one hundred and sixteen, the elephants in the room coming to you as always through the Owen dot gold microphone, become a member of the club at Owen.gold, the only membership that pays you back in gold.
jordan holmes
All right.
owen shroyer
We're gonna address the elephants in the room tonight.
dan friesen
So it looks like Owen's plan to get sponsors for all the little aspects of his show is well underway, with his microphone having its own sponsor.
Owen dot gold is bringing you this microphone, which is incidentally the same microphone that he was using last time.
jordan holmes
Isn't that crazy?
dan friesen
Owen.gold takes you to a webpage for a company called Wolfpack.gold, which is unsurprisingly a gold sales operation.
Wolfpack Gold is an online precious metals and bitcoin shop, which is owned by another company called Wise Wolf, which is a precious metals physical uh store with locations in Branson, Missouri, and Denison, Texas.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I think that gold companies are kind of inherently sketchy, but when they have multiple similar aliases, that should be a big red flag.
So Wolfpack.gold offers nine levels of membership.
jordan holmes
Already out.
dan friesen
Ranging from the lowly thirty-five dollars a month Wolf Cub all the way up to Zen Wolf.
jordan holmes
Thirty-five dollars a month for what?
unidentified
Gold.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
You know how much Zen Wolf is?
They don't tell you.
jordan holmes
Twelve hundred dollars.
dan friesen
It's starting at two thousand a month.
jordan holmes
Get the fuck out of here.
dan friesen
Starting.
jordan holmes
You guys are thieves.
dan friesen
That's the floor.
jordan holmes
My God.
dan friesen
So each membership level has a different rarity of coins or medals that you get sent each month, which is almost like printing money.
As long as you never give members more value than the membership costs, it's a perfect way to make a scammy business even shadier.
jordan holmes
That's the s that's the scammiest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You give us an actual value, and we will give you a possible value.
Now, if you understand capitalism, guess where we make money.
dan friesen
Um, in that possibility.
jordan holmes
In that possible range.
dan friesen
Yeah, because if you're, you know, you're paying ten bucks for something you give the you get 35 from somebody for you're making twenty-five.
jordan holmes
How do you not That's great?
How do you not understand that that is a scam immediately?
dan friesen
Yeah, it's so perfect.
What an asshole.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
So the privacy notice on Wolfpack.gold's website informs people who go to it that the company is run by an entity called Wise Wolf Digital Strategies L L C A Wise Wolf Bitcoin.
This is an operation run by a guy named Tony Arr uh Arterburn Jr., a longtime cryptocurrency promoter who's from Rockwall, Texas, the same Dallas suburb where Alex grew up.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
Tony Arterburn Senior's name appears on a ton of filing documents with the Secretary of State uh of Texas For what appear to be gas stations and check cashing places.
Whereas most of junior's businesses appear to be like in the crypto field.
jordan holmes
This is a fucking family business.
It's stealing money from regular people.
dan friesen
But I think it goes deeper than this, but I just couldn't quite pull the thread.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you think they're full on mobbed up kind of level.
dan friesen
I don't no, I don't think so.
But I think it's there's a weird family thing going on.
jordan holmes
Alright, all right, all right.
dan friesen
I I I couldn't figure out the relationship, but I think that they're related to Steven Arbor Arthurburn, who's the founder of New Life Ministries, one of the most profitable Christian organizations in the world.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They have the same last name, and Steven's from Ranger, Texas, which is also just outside Dallas, which makes me think that they're probably related.
Could be, but I'm not totally sure.
I couldn't get to the bottom of this.
Uh Steven wrote a book.
Like Tony Sr., I think would be the age to be Steven's brother.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And he wrote a book about how his brother died of AIDS in 1988.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And he has another brother, but I can't find his name.
jordan holmes
Right.
Oh man.
dan friesen
And everything, all the interviews, the only information I could find about the third Arbor.
jordan holmes
Archer Byrne.
dan friesen
Arthur Burn brother is that he was also gay.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And so that makes me think that it's not Tony Jr.
jordan holmes
It could be because possible.
I don't know.
Sure.
No, anything is possible.
Anyway, with the Archer Burns.
dan friesen
It's too uncommon of a name, I think.
jordan holmes
I mean, I of all the things to share, and then to also be scammers.
It feels like genetically, there's some sort of connection there.
dan friesen
So either Owen's microphone sponsor is part of the uh well one of the most influential Christian families in the country, or he's a crypto enthusiast who has the same last name.
Either way, bad investment, uh, but perfect scam.
Ten out of ten.
unidentified
I mean, it's just it's just amazing.
It really is amazing that you can do it.
jordan holmes
I just you know, I feel like at a certain point we were making movies about con people that took pride in their work.
You know, like not this is this is just uh like trap fishing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's all this is.
This is just putting a line out and waiting until you've got fish.
dan friesen
It's a smash and grab.
jordan holmes
Yeah, this is this is not the the cultivating a long-term relationship only to pull the rug at the very final second.
dan friesen
Yeah, and you you know, there's a there's a buck sixty-five, he's a Canadian rapper.
Where he's just talking about the process of shining a shoe.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
And you know, they don't do it like they used to.
jordan holmes
You gotta take pride in your work, no matter what that work may be.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
It's selling gold, you gotta do better than that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But it's it's such an interesting thing where it's like, okay, he's learned from Alex.
Like, this is this is him mirroring Alex's behavior.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But also doing a version of it that is so transparently a scam.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That like, I feel like Alex wouldn't do this.
Uh I mean maybe earlier on.
jordan holmes
At the very least, he would be less like a straight-up radio man about it.
You know, Alex would try and find a way to put it into a different context of like, here's a thing that is happening.
This is also my sponsor, as opposed to I'm talking into this microphone sponsored by scams.
dan friesen
Yeah, he would desperately try to make sure you knew it was in your best interest.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Whereas Owen's like, the gold membership that pays you back in gold.
Fuck off.
jordan holmes
Oh, it sounds too good to be true.
dan friesen
I I just can't.
I'm proud of him.
So this uh the elephants are in the room.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I was like, what fucking elephants?
Are you gonna get into this?
Are you gonna talk shit on Alex or what?
jordan holmes
Right.
Step up.
dan friesen
Instead, he starts talking about Charlie Kirk.
God damn and how he's dead.
owen shroyer
You know, this this story has obviously gone in many different directions.
It's it's captivated the political world for obvious reasons.
And I think now it's gonna force this this entire movement to confront the elephants in the room.
And that's what we're gonna talk about tonight.
We're gonna talk about the elephants in the room, because what I see coming is let's call it a come to Jesus moment.
No pun intended.
But I think we're staring down?
dan friesen
So in case you're curious, the elephants in the room are like Jewish people and they're being a Zionist occupied government.
jordan holmes
Of course it is.
dan friesen
Owen's gonna try to play semantic games and pretend that he's criticizing the Israeli government or Zionism, but there's a reason that he feels the need to call out the come to Jesus pun aspect of this because it's about Jew.
jordan holmes
Okay, so now I get where it's a pun.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
I should have I should have assumed that that's it.
That's an anti Semitic pun.
See, I didn't get that.
dan friesen
That's the elephant in the room.
jordan holmes
That's what I didn't.
I didn't know that you could just do like loose anti-Semitic puns in the dit from a distance.
dan friesen
You can.
If you're Owen when you got a gold.
jordan holmes
When you got that gold.
dan friesen
So, um I think that Owen has an interesting level of insight into the community that he's a part of.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Although I don't think he's processing it well.
owen shroyer
Everything we're going through here, everything we've been through together, all the moments that have led to this, all seem to be building up to where we're about to be.
And and this moment that we're about to have all of us together is gonna be the big come to Jesus moment.
And and I think everything after that tells us where we're really at.
And sometimes, you know, maybe you feel this way about this one story or that one story, or one person does, or a couple.
This one, everybody seems to be kind of on the same frequency.
On the same vibe.
Now, things might be going different directions, but everybody kind of feels this.
Everybody kind of feels that we're we're about to have this moment together.
And it's gonna be the most telling moment of where we're really at politically.
And where we're really at with this Trump administration.
That moment is now directly in front of us.
unidentified
Oh.
owen shroyer
And the Kirk assassination has forced us now all into the room together.
And there are elephants in the room.
There are elephants in the room, ladies and gentlemen.
dan friesen
Baba bar, king of the elephants, right over there.
So Owen, I think, is more or less right about what he's describing here.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
The MAGA movement has to decide whether it's the Fourth Reich or not.
And pretty much everyone in his media space gets that they've fucked up the game and they're gonna be forced to show their cards.
On a basic level, the Patriot nationalist movement that Owen is describing, it's a mutation that grew out of two ideologies.
One, the South should have won the civil war, and two, communism is the greatest evil in the world.
The natural combination of these two strains gets found in the belief that like the civil rights movement was a secret communist plot to overthrow Christianity.
And, you know, when these come together, good things happen.
Peanut butter and chocolate comes together.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Their worldview is based on being mad when society comes together to agree to stop beating up particular groups of people for being different, which is why their big tent includes so many racists and Nazis.
Whether or not they agree on everything, they have basic causes in common, like maintaining what they believe is the natural social hierarchy.
At a certain point, it became poor form to express their views publicly because they sucked, and the basic point that they were trying to make was something that our culture had already rejected.
They couldn't push their ideas about racial supremacy without risking being beaten up or ostracized from polite society, so they adapted.
They used codes that allowed them to communicate their bigoted ideas while appearing to say uh be saying something more socially acceptable.
So they could have their cake and eat it too.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
They didn't realize that they were sitting in a boat on a calm lake where they got to signal to racists and energize their audience with direct appeals to racist shit while pretending that they were talking about politics, because that lake was artificially propped up by the damn that is political correctness.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
In their zeal to tear down all the annoying aspects of PC culture, they didn't realize that if everyone can just speak freely, then no one will buy their half-assed racism anymore.
In the past, it was completely plausible to think that someone like Alex was secretly talking about the Jews when he said globalists, but he knew that if he spoke freely, he'd be taken off air.
But now, it's pretty clear you can say whatever the fuck you want, and no one's gonna stop you.
If you insult Trump in a way that pisses him off personally, you might be in trouble, but no one can possibly believe that anyone is holding their tongue out of fear of being called a racist anymore.
Like that's insane.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that environment requires facing some elephants in the room.
The time is fast approaching when these guys are gonna have to put up or shut up, and I think Owen realizes that.
And if he reads the comments on his videos, then he also realizes that when that moment of truth comes, he's gonna have to go Nazi to keep an audience.
Yeah.
Like there's not enough people who are wanting the code.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, that's that's what I don't understand.
I understand why he's doing this because this is the classic mistake that people like him make every single time.
Okay, I just fucked up and lost this thing.
I'll just go recreate the same thing somewhere else.
Nobody wants that.
Nobody wanted it at the thing that you were at, but you were propped up by that thing.
Yeah by Alex.
Yeah, right.
But now you're actually free.
Part of the reason that you were mad at the old place was because you weren't allowed to do or say that you know, don't do this shit.
Do something different, evolve, change, grow.
But I mean, if you're a Nazi, you can't really do that.
dan friesen
Not really.
Everything's backward facing.
It is everything is trying to claw back like uh things that you perceive as losses of your power.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so like there is there is no real like experimental growing.
That's why his show would be called the Owen Report.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And you have a roast segment sponsored by a coffee brand.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, he's not creative.
jordan holmes
No, I mean, the entire philosophy is based on what is mine, I shouldn't have to go get because it's already supposed to be mine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
So, yeah.
dan friesen
And uh, I think I think that there's this really bizarre tone that he strikes, which is like, I think he reads this correctly in terms of like his media space, their game has like there's a hole in the boat.
Right.
It's sinking to do something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that he is misdiagnosed this as like I can just use a little bit further code.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't have to go all the way.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I can st I I can just be a little bit edgier.
jordan holmes
I'll be like the the reverse Lincoln project.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
I'll be like the conservatives who are like a little bit liberal, so they get a free pass, I guess.
I have no idea.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think I think he wants that and doesn't realize that like no, no, no.
The point of the hole in the boat is that like you don't have supplies to patch it up.
You're not, it's not gonna work.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he has the he has the the like survival instinct of of working at InfoWars for a long time, but he doesn't have the ability to think through what is actually happening.
He just knows like there's a tingle on the back of my neck, something's up, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, and and uh like there's almost there's almost like an analytical ability, but then a complete absence of any like wherewithal.
Like Alex had always been the the uh the locomotives the engine, right?
unidentified
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
And Alex, because Alex was never a true believer, was always able to, you know, like eh, maybe I'm not supposed to do this, but here's where I go, and now I'm making a lot of money.
dan friesen
Let's get back to those true believer ideas a little bit later in this uh this episode.
So um there's elephants in the room.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Pack a derms.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Um and Owen starts to talk about some of these these elephants.
owen shroyer
And now, because of the Kirk assassination, we're all put into the room together, and we have to confront these elephants.
So how can they be ignored?
They can't anymore.
The elephants in the room.
You've got the Iran Israel war, the Iran strikes.
You've got the continued war in the Middle East, and you've got Israel bombing at least seven countries this year alone.
I think it might have just gone up to eight, actually.
You've got the Ukraine-Russia war continuing.
And you got the United States still involved in every single one of these things.
Every single one of these things, the United States of America is still involved in.
And this is not what we voted for.
This is not what we want.
dan friesen
Owen is making it seem like the elephant in the room is that the GOP is eager for war, which is a fair point, I guess.
It's absolutely what they voted for, though.
Like these dipshits wanted him to take over Canada and the moon.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's not an elephant in the room.
Tons of people are criticizing the Trump administration for being too hawkish, and even in right-wing media circles, that's not an edgy position.
This isn't the point that Owen is making.
This is preamble.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is this is laying track for what the elephant is.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
The specific regions that we're talking about.
Why is America in those specific areas probably from the somebody else's influence and blah blah blah blah blah.
And if those somebody else's happen to have two-way citizenship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
dan friesen
And if we start to like name more elephants, maybe patterns emerge.
unidentified
Yeah.
owen shroyer
So the continued war, the continued funding of war.
This is an elephant in the room.
This is an elephant in the room.
You've got the MAGA movement.
The MAGA culture, the MAGA media, the MAGA politics.
It has now been co-opted by never Trumpers and Israeli loyalists.
That's a fact.
A victim of an anti-Semitic speech gets more direct access...
And Hart felt welcoming to the White House than a purple heart veteran that was persecuted for January 6th and spent years in jail.
That's a fact.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, you dumb shits tried to overthrow the country for the guy.
Like, why would he want to hang out with you?
jordan holmes
Do you think that if you fight a war, then you get one get out of jail free card?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Is that how it works?
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
Unless you're a dem.
jordan holmes
I mean, is that should that be how it works?
Like if you fight if you fight a if you get a purple heart, you can commit one overthrowing a government.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
No?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
You don't think so?
dan friesen
It can't be one-to-one.
jordan holmes
I believe he's advocating for some level of that.
dan friesen
It's a weird system that he wants to have like credits.
jordan holmes
It would be credits.
It would be a credit system for overthrowing governments.
dan friesen
So as Owen goes through the elephants that he sees in the room, you start to see a little bit of a thread emerge.
He's just saying that Israel runs our government, which is the same thing that the extreme right wing has been saying the whole time he's been alive.
When he was just a baby, the Aryan Nations people were yelling about a Zog, and Alex was running around suggesting they say globalists and making a buck off it.
He's trying to be both.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I motherfuckers.
I was reading that Nick Fuentes New York Times piece, and you know what I was thinking?
David Duke was in the New York Times first.
We've been doing this for a long time.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's there's nothing really new about the uh attempt that Owen is is clearly like the line he's trying to walk.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Um it's just, I don't know.
It's uninspiring.
But there's more elephants.
jordan holmes
I mean, really, the ironic part of this, of course, is that because Owen is Owen, there are really only two elephants in the room, Epstein and Alex, and he's probably not gonna talk about either of them, is he?
dan friesen
No, well, actually, you know what?
I mean, like, I think that is his uh it's not d in-depth talk about Epstein, but it he is very clear that like Trump fucked us on that.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And so, like, it I that's not even a question.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So he's pretty clear about that.
unidentified
Like, Trump.
dan friesen
I think he even says like Trump broke up with us over that.
So we're done.
unidentified
Good.
jordan holmes
Good for him.
dan friesen
So, like, I'm not I'm not uh forcing him to wear Trump forever into the future.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
But he can't undo everything he's done up till this point.
jordan holmes
That is kind of the idea.
dan friesen
Um But these elephants.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
Elon, kind of an elephant.
Okay, elephant adjacent.
jordan holmes
Okay.
owen shroyer
You've got the fallout with Elon Musk and Doge.
Where's that going?
Throw in the audit of the gold at Fort Knox if you want.
What happened to Doge?
What happened with Elon Musk?
What happened there?
That's an elephant in the room.
And when you've got Netanyahu's campaign manager, Susie Wiles now running the White House, all of these things tie together.
That's an elephant in the room.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Susie Wiles uh one of uh Nick Fuentes' popularized her as a target of why there's infiltration in the White House.
She's the chief of staff.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Um, and so you know, he's just coasting on that kind of momentum of blaming her for why the deep state is there.
jordan holmes
Wild.
dan friesen
Um, and so I mean, it's just, you know, more of the same.
jordan holmes
Like pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for their actions or beliefs or anything.
Isn't that it's wild how stridently they are unwilling to take responsibility for the things they shout about all day every day.
dan friesen
Or reflect.
jordan holmes
Why would you?
That is how you get killed.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But it it's so weird because there is like the tiniest little bit of reflection.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And like Owen is manifesting that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The elementary school version of reflection where he's like, Wait, wait, wait.
There's no arrests happening.
Wait, wait, wait.
What what's going on?
I thought we were playing a game, guys.
owen shroyer
Where are the deep state arrests?
unidentified
Where are the deep state arrests?
owen shroyer
Don't look at me like that.
Don't look at me like that.
jordan holmes
I can't see you.
dan friesen
You're talking to me.
owen shroyer
I thought we were all in agreement here.
I thought we were all in agreement that the 2020 election was stolen.
I thought we were all in agreement that COVID was a weapon.
I thought we were all in agreement that January 6th was a setup.
I thought we were all in agreement that the Russian collusion hoax was a crime against this country.
I thought we were all in agreement that the Obama administration illegally spied on Trump and other Americans.
I thought we were all in agreement here.
I thought we were all in agreement that the Biden administration just allowed, facilitated, funded, led the way for an invasion of our country.
The biggest land invasion in the history of the world.
A permanent damage done to our country.
I thought we were all in agreement that that happened.
dan friesen
You can't convince me that Owen worked at InfoWars for almost a decade and thought they were taking this stuff seriously.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
Sure, they all say they believe that dumb shit, but unless it's important to what's going on today, who cares?
Biden did a land invasion of the United States, but the anti-transhisteria is what's getting the audience excited right now, so that's when Alex's coverage is gonna be.
Owen is stupid, but I find it really hard to believe he could be this stupid.
If he is, that's dangerous levels of dumb.
jordan holmes
I mean, I think he can be.
I think if you are in the same way that if Alex is has been enabled so uh so completely in such a way that you can see him behaving like this and will never stop behaving like this.
I think Owen has been uh uh enabled insofar as nobody's challenged him on how stupid he is.
Why would you?
dan friesen
Yeah, no, I mean that's fair.
It's been a long time since there has been like uh uh the like a grindstone to sharpen anything.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Like but like here's what I here's how I would put it.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
If he's that dumb, he thinks that that gold is a good deal.
Like he that's how dumb he has to be.
unidentified
I I listen.
jordan holmes
I am not ruling out the possibility that he does think that that gold is a good deal.
dan friesen
Man, that's bleak.
jordan holmes
I I'm uh listen, I don't have any respect for Alex.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's hard it's hard for me to pretend I do either.
But like he's talking about this like I thought we were all serious.
jordan holmes
That's what I'm hearing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And it sounds genuine.
dan friesen
Nah, it sounds at least like the performance of genuine.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
It's hard to tell exactly.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
But one way or another, he's gonna learn the hard way that there's a reason that Alex does what he does.
Actually, there's two reasons.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
One is that it's necessary in order to keep the show exciting and feel like the end of the world is constantly happening, which is the only way to push sales.
Alex's show was the profit driver of info wars because he didn't let yesterday's land invasion get in the way of today's panic.
The second uh thing is that if Owen tries to impose continuity on his narratives, everything is gonna fall apart.
Nothing in this world makes any sense if the past exists, and if you try to make the past mean anything, it means that you have to learn in the future.
Whatever amazing revelation you had today has to be part of your knowledge base tomorrow.
So you have to build from there, and that's fucking impossible if you're trying to play these dumb games.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex's strategy, which Owen is insulting, is the perfect fix for both of these problems with sensationalist bullshit propaganda, and Owen's gonna find out that without it, his show is gonna be boring and unprofitable.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's just it's it's like doing something without spice.
jordan holmes
No, it sounds like he's it sounds like he's actually like you know what?
I think people want a dry new show.
dan friesen
Like from I'm America's anchor.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like he just I I don't think he understands the space.
I think he's been given But that's the problem.
dan friesen
He's showing insight.
jordan holmes
Right.
But I mean that but that's the thing.
He understands it's it is like it's like an AR game, right?
Like overlaid on top of reality is all of his bullshit on top of all of the total bullshit from the right wing that he's supposed to believe, on top of all of this stuff.
But once you strip away the layers and all that stuff, he's got nothing.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, that may be.
I I I wonder like how long it'll take.
Like for it to become clear that like this is uh not a market that has a lot of interest.
And you're going to just constantly be losing people out of boredom.
jordan holmes
I I wonder if he's going to be able to or I wonder if he's gonna try and adapt in a terrible way.
Like uh like uh the news radio episode of uh real deal with Bill McNeil, right?
Where they're just going around like Chuck D and we can't do anything, so let's get let's just edit Seinfeld together and make it sound you know, just let's make up anything to be sensational.
Because if we do what we say we want to do, it's going to be a failure.
dan friesen
I think it will be a strategy that's considered.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
It has to be.
dan friesen
So um there's a free speech crackdown going on.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
That's another elephant, baby.
owen shroyer
You got now the crackdown on free speech intensified.
With some of the latest things that Pam Bondi has said.
We're gonna have that clip for you.
The crackdown on free speech now from this administration.
That's an elephant in the room.
And then the Epstein Files cover up.
Which continues, by the way.
Continues to this day.
Fact happened last week, happened again this week, probably gonna happen again tomorrow.
The continuation of the Epstein Files cover-up.
Now I won't even get into that.
Because that's its own story with new developments that doesn't make any sense.
dan friesen
You covering it up?
owen shroyer
It makes perfect sense.
The Epstein Files cover-up is an elephant in the room.
So all these elephants have been in the room, but we've never really been forced into the same room together yet.
Everybody's kind of been off doing their own thing.
Some people in the honeymoon phase, some people growing a little sour, a little bitter.
unidentified
Some people turning completely.
owen shroyer
Some people kind of floating around, grifting off what remains of MAGA.
Some people trying to co-opt it or bring it back together, some people focusing on midterms.
So we've all just kind of been, yeah, okay, we won.
Now we're kind of all doing our own little things and sometimes converging, but you know, kind of everybody spread across the map.
But now, after the Charlie Kirk assassination, we're all in the room together.
Here we all are here.
By the way, you know.
Just just like a funeral, which is coming up.
dan friesen
I think it's a little passive aggressive.
unidentified
Maybe.
dan friesen
Um, but in order for me to make the point that I want to make about these these elephants and what he's talking about, I need to jump ahead a little bit later in the show to when Owen actually plays this clip of Pam Bondy.
Okay, and we get his response to it.
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
You're supposed to be draining the swamp, arresting the deep state criminals.
Instead, you're pushing to criminalize speech.
pam bondi
Anything, and that's across the aisle.
I I mean, look what happened.
Think about Josh Shapiro.
What happened to Governor Shapiro?
I talked to Josh multiple times.
Democrat governor, Jewish, they firebombed his house while his wife and children were sleeping upstairs.
It's a miracle.
Nothing worse happened to it's a miracle that nothing happened to Josh and he and his family are safe.
They're traumatized, but that's what's happened in this world, and we are gonna fight every step of the way to show that you will face the most severe consequences if you come after someone and you target someone for their political views or for any for any reason at all.
owen shroyer
Wait, we will come after you free speech.
And of course, what is it all about?
Oh, it's all about anti-Semitism, of course.
We're sick of it, man.
We're sick of it.
dan friesen
Sick of a man.
jordan holmes
I mean, I I assume that that wrecked burning ash of a building is pretty sick of it too.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's not sick of people being anti-Semitic.
He's sick of people complaining about things that are anti Semitic.
jordan holmes
Isn't that funny?
unidentified
It is weird.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So the reason this is particularly important is because it helps make clear that what connects these elephants he's complaining about is that they remind him of Jewish people he doesn't like.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Not that they're connected to a criticism of Israel.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
The cover up of the Epstein stuff could just be like Massad and Israeli intelligence, but this complaint about Bondi has nothing to do with Israel.
In theory, it's about Trump's attorney general using an anti-Semitic firebombing to encroach on free speech, which he should be against.
Right.
But that not this way.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like his problem should be different.
He he doesn't seem to understand how he's supposed to play the ball.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He's throwing to uh third when the play is at first.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I say this with no love or respect, but Owen's not slick enough to pull this kind of shit off.
He just looks dumb.
jordan holmes
And I it's like it's like he just doesn't understand that there's one pathway available to him.
And it goes in both directions.
That's the thing about the path he's on.
It can go in both directions.
He could firebomb everything, including the right wing media.
Do all of that shit.
dan friesen
Jonathan Schreuer sports guy.
jordan holmes
Go fucking hard and then burn all the bridges, get rid of all the secrets, and then maybe people will see you in a completely different right light, right?
Or go the opposite direction.
Go hard, burn everything with Alex and InfoWars to the point of like somehow you're the top dog.
dan friesen
Talk so much shit that he wants to sue you over your speech.
jordan holmes
Force him to take you to court.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And then he's the guy who's supposed to be the guy.
dan friesen
And simultaneously see if you can outdo Fuentes.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Try and just make yourself the hardest thing there, and have the little feather in your cap of like, fuck you, Alex.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
In both cases, your only option if you're Owen is to be so strong.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So fucking hard in either direction that nobody can fuck with you.
dan friesen
Yeah, and you can't you can't do that with passive aggression.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
It's just it's gonna so Charlie Kirk got assassinated.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And this is the biggest elephant in the room.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it's because it brings all the elephants to the room.
Because big elephants attract elephants.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Or something.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Anyway, this funeral is gonna be fucking full of elephants.
jordan holmes
Okay.
owen shroyer
So here we are all in the room together.
jordan holmes
All these elephants.
owen shroyer
Now what's strange is they announced this and they made an ex post.
Turning point USA made an ex-post tonight.
This story came out on the thirteenth.
Public memorial for Charlie Kirk to be held at State Farm Stadium.
And then they announced tonight Turning Point USA announced that Trump would be speaking and Vance would be speaking, and Erica Kirk would be speaking, and then a ton of other huge names speaking, and then they actually erased the post.
They erased the flyer.
I don't know what that's about.
That just happened right before I went live.
But so now we're all gonna be in the same room for Kirk's memorial service.
And now the biggest elephant in the room will be with us with all the other elephants, which is the Kirk assassination strangeness of the whole thing.
And dare I even say cover up.
jordan holmes
Boo.
owen shroyer
That's that's now the biggest elephant in the room.
And we've already got a lot of elephants in the room, folks.
And now the biggest one just came in, and now we're all about to be in the room together.
dan friesen
Too many elephants.
jordan holmes
That's just not enough space.
dan friesen
So Owen's trying to not so subtly suggest that Israel killed Charlie Kirk.
owen shroyer
Yeah.
dan friesen
All of these other elephants in the room are direct complaints about either Jewish people or Israel controlling the government.
And then the last one is Charlie getting killed, and it looks fishy to Owen.
If he's trying to say anything other than Israel did it, he doesn't make sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it would be it would just be poor writing in every possible way.
dan friesen
And it's so clear that there's a preparation to this because he keeps saying that's an elephant.
jordan holmes
We are directly to a point.
This is this is going somewhere on purpose.
So if you are at the end going somewhere else, you have failed.
dan friesen
He gave the episode a title in advance.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
But I think that he's right about this funeral idea and how they're stuck in the room with each other because of Kirk's death.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Charlie Kirk was so successful that both sides of the far right want to own him and claim him as theirs.
The racist Nazi types hated that he sported Israel, but loved how he would talk about how whites were superior to other races.
The more mainstream right wing, the they're currently trying to sand down some of these racist edges, but even with all that, they love how he carried himself like a polite young man in a suit, and he pretended to be college-aged, so their views didn't look so archaic.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
He was great.
jordan holmes
He was a child.
dan friesen
Love that little boy.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
But both sides, they want to own his legacy and they don't want to share.
In life, Charlie was pretty successful at blurring the lines between these two factions.
So there's a small irony that his death threatens to make a bunch of stuff that they disagree on way too explicit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that I think is what Char or uh uh Owen's talking about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Is like the funeral is gonna force us to be around each other, and we hate each other.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
In essence, we have he's correctly described all the different ways people are trying to strip mine Charlie Kirk.
Everybody is doing their own version of this thing, but by doing so, they have once again removed all Charlie Kirkness.
So in this memorial service that they're supposed to be Charlie Kirking about, they all have to confront the fact that they've made up their own Charlie Kirks to bring with them to the funeral.
Yeah, like a superman comic.
dan friesen
And they desperately need Trump to validate their version of Charlie.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Or else they have to be like, fucking hell.
Trump's not on my side.
jordan holmes
It would be it would be more interesting if this was like done in a reality show like The Apprentice, where they've got eight different Charlie Kirk uh ghosts, and Trump has to choose which one everybody's gonna go with.
At least then everybody would have a concept to go with instead of having to try and advocate for their own and then sound like lunatics.
dan friesen
Yeah, fired.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Is that a good impression?
jordan holmes
That was a good I was a good dead Charlie Kirk impression.
dan friesen
Don't talk to me like that.
That's my own.
unidentified
That's your don't talk to me like that.
dan friesen
Don't look at me like that.
unidentified
That's what he said.
jordan holmes
Don't look at me like that.
dan friesen
So the memorial service itself is really a tr like catch 22 kind of situation for Trump.
There's no win in this.
unidentified
Yeah.
owen shroyer
The Kirk Memorial is September 23rd.
We're all going to be in the room together.
And this is going to be an interesting moment.
This is a very confronting moment for everybody.
And quite frankly, you know, I I don't even know, because I try to look at all the different angles, and I try to take all the different perspectives.
I don't even know what you do at this point if you're Trump.
Honestly, because it's like if you don't show up, you look bad.
But if you do show up and talk to people and don't address the elephants in the room, you also look bad.
So I I don't even know what you do in this moment.
But you let the elephants in the room.
And so now here we are.
So it's unfortunate, but it's true that now this memorial for Charlie Kirk.
And look, what we hope is the most important thing is that somehow his family, his friends, the turning point USA family, you know, the people that that are suffering from this.
His loved ones, the people that are actually suffering from this loss that saw Charlie every day, his children.
You know, the most important thing is for them to somehow get closure or have some some sort of a moment in that moment where people are respecting Charlie and everybody there together.
We're raising Charlie up, and we're raising the family up, and we're showing them how much Charlie meant to everybody, and how much we love them and we're with them, and so you really that's what this is all about.
But now you are a political event.
dan friesen
So this is what this is what you can count on America's anchor man for keeping it classy, you know, remembering the family.
You know, focusing on what it's about.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
It definitely doesn't seem on the top of his mind because this is like twenty minutes into his show, but it seems like he Thinks he cares.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I've got a really elegant solution for Owen's dumb dilemma that he finds himself in.
Don't elect a president who feels the need to make appearances at big media events like a spectacle memorial service for a podcaster.
His people could just say Trump wishes he could come, but there's important president stuff he needs to do, but no one would believe that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Because there's nothing he needs to do.
dan friesen
No, he's always out golfing and shit.
It would be disrespectful.
jordan holmes
I I mean, here's the thing that I love about these people, and that they'll never understand.
Or maybe that they do understand, but they have to dedicate so much brain space to denying.
But if you ask the question, what would Trump even do?
Whatever the fuck he wants.
You guys are dogs.
If you bark, it doesn't matter, you'll heal when he calls.
Shut up.
Shut up, you whiny little babies.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Owen's uh barking a little differently.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
But it's not do not care.
dan friesen
So yeah, I mean, Trump is kind of screwed because everyone knows that he loves attention.
Sure.
And would always go to something like this.
So if he doesn't go, then it's a middle finger to the Kirk people.
Probably turning point.
A lot of people who very rightfully can claim that they really helped him get elected.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But then if he goes and he doesn't like fucking tear down these mainstream right wing people and these fucking cowards, then the bigot side of the family is gonna be pissed off.
It's gonna be a bad barbecue.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Owen has accurately assessed a problem with the media ecosystem, which is basically that their code doesn't work anymore.
But what he doesn't seem to understand is that he's lost.
Turning point put out a list of confirmed speakers for this memorial, and it's a ton of Trump cabinet members, Trump's son, and Tucker.
Susie Wiles is giving a speech, and Owen just called her an elephant in the room.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So like I think he should recognize that he's not invited and she's a headline speaker.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
We're recording this before the memorial, but I'm gonna place a long shot bet that Tucker says something really weird.
I feel like people keep forgetting how insane he is.
jordan holmes
Is that a long shot bet?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
No, because I'm talking real weird.
jordan holmes
You think real weird.
You think you think are we going with uh after Daddy's spanking you?
dan friesen
Right, but kind of weird.
jordan holmes
Are we talking like after life?
He's he's with us right now and he's giving us some sort of weird hand job kind of thing.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Ooh, man, I'd love it.
I would love it if he started speaking as Charlie.
jordan holmes
You do not need to do a voice.
dan friesen
Like I I sincerely believe that people just like remember him being on TV TV.
Yeah, and they forget like if he gets a hot mic in front of him, he's gonna say something fucked up.
jordan holmes
He's gone off the deep end because he can't.
dan friesen
He's so rich that he doesn't have to respect Kfabe, and like it does not matter to him.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
So, like, I think he's still a manipulative liar.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And he's still in this, you know, right wing game, and he's still trying to sell his anti-woke chewing tobacco or whatever.
But he's a thoroughbred weirdo.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like there's something about him that's like there's a it's like an old person just like in their underwear walking around the house.
jordan holmes
I think he's in the I think he's in the late stage Roger Stone uh uh version of whatever he was, you know.
Like he's been rat fucking for his entire life.
Now he's he's in a retired rat fuck mode.
Like, I don't give a shit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Who do you have to impress?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You're so rich.
You live out in the middle of nowhere or whatever the fuck.
You do your dumb show, interview tyrants.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And then like, what do you who do you have a responsibility to?
Alex is supposed to be your friend, right?
He's calling you a CIA agent on his show.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And like, who fuck burn all these people?
Who cares?
jordan holmes
Yeah, the only person that you genuinely have to be afraid of is Putin.
And you like that guy.
dan friesen
Well, and Trump probably.
jordan holmes
Probably.
dan friesen
It's best to keep him mollified.
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, like Saddam.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but yeah, Putin probably would kill him if it came to it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So um Owen starts talking uh a little bit about uh the assassination itself.
Sure.
And man, he has got some theories.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
He this this next clip, he gives us what is the best case scenario.
jordan holmes
The best case scenario.
Okay.
owen shroyer
Now I'll just say this quickly, and then we'll we'll get into the actual content.
This is where I'm at as far as the spectrum of possibility.
This is where I'm at a week after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Uh uh Spectrum of possibility here.
I would say the best case scenario we have is that the FBI botched this job so bad.
The FBI leadership, local leadership, just the whole the whole thing, law enforcement.
They botched this thing so badly, and it is such an embarrassment how badly they botched this deal that they're just coming out here and and and and trying to package it and wrap it and deliver it to you and say just here it is, just take it and go.
Here it is.
Just take it and go.
Here's the text messages.
Yeah, they just conveniently perfectly tie up a lot of our loose ends here.
He just come on, just take it.
The security footage, the footage behind Charlie Kirk, all these other weirdness, these things going on, these other questions.
No, no, no.
Just take this.
Please, would you just just take this?
Would you just take this, please?
dan friesen
That's the best case scenario.
Like, I don't think Owen has fully thought this through.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
If this is what the FBI is doing, then it stands to reason that the texts and the evidence against the shooter aren't real.
Otherwise, they would be explaining a killer's actions, not begging the public to accept a version of the story to distract from how badly they fucked the case up.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't think this is a best case scenario.
Like I can think of about 20 scenarios that are better for Owen if he just is allowed to make up whatever he wants.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, isn't a left wing shooter isn't that.
jordan holmes
I thought that was that fine.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You're it isn't the official story exactly what you want, so you're allowed to unleash your horrifying belief system onto whomever is in your way.
dan friesen
That seems like a better scenario for Owen than the FBI is just lying about everything.
Now here they got the right guy, but they're making up a story.
jordan holmes
This makes this raises an interesting question.
Uh because now we're in a situation where this is the best case scenario.
So everything has to be worse than this.
Which means we are in a soul searching moment.
Would you rather have an FBI that is ineffective or an FBI that is effective?
dan friesen
Which one is effective.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Which one is worse?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Bumbling idiots who are also evil or evil geniuses who are at least successful in what they do.
dan friesen
Yeah, I know I neither.
jordan holmes
Like I no, I know, but that's why we're in the best case scenario.
Best case scenario is uh stupid dichotomy.
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But you want to know what the worst hell yeah.
owen shroyer
Worst case scenario?
It's a s it's just an outright cover-up.
Oh, just a complete cover up.
jordan holmes
I'm gonna go with aliens.
owen shroyer
And I don't even know what other conclusions come along with that.
Like, was that the actual shooter?
Or not?
Who actually killed him?
How many people were involved, how many people had prior knowledge.
But that that that's where I see.
That's where I see it's at right now.
dan friesen
This is a great illustration of how useless Owen's analysis is.
Best case scenario, the FBI got the right guy, but they fucked up the case so bad they had to create fake evidence to convince everyone to just move along.
Worst case scenario, literally everyone in the world could be involved and have foreknowledge of the plot.
Owen's gut is saying it's somewhere between those two markers.
He's really narrowed it down quite a bit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Also, why is this the worst case scenario?
I can think of worse.
Yeah, I mean, it's not this is it's not fundamentally really even that different.
jordan holmes
It it's it's been uh practically speaking, like as a result, it's basically the same, right?
dan friesen
Well, I mean, there's a lot of details that are different and sure organizational things.
jordan holmes
Sure, but I mean, like at the end of it where we are, where uh both of us have they're both substantial cover-ups.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I here's what I don't okay.
Do you know what this reminds me of?
This reminds me of in uh in the Daft Punk uh read access memory, random access memories, right?
There's a song called Giorgio by Morota, and it's about uh George Moro.
Javani Giovanni Jojo, yeah.
Uh and in it he says he's doing this whole little monologue about his his stuff, and in it he says, once you give up the idea of of harmony or of music being correct, you can do whatever you want.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There's no preconceived notions, and no one can tell you what to do.
You know?
And it is like Owen is playing within these rules that don't exist for him.
Just give it up.
Give up the idea of needing to have a point.
Give up the idea of giving a shit about reality.
It was aliens who are covering it up.
You know, like go for it.
dan friesen
Well, here's where we come to that problem of you know what you were saying earlier about like he's been enabled for all this time.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like he has seen such a bad example be successful.
And so he what can he do other than kind of emulate those same tendencies?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And what would Alex do?
He'd make up these best and worst case scenarios that mean nothing.
jordan holmes
He really would.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Ugh.
dan friesen
He's uh he's a dog who's gotten his training.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
And if you're never if you're both never allowed to step out and never encouraged to step out, then why would you?
dan friesen
And what if you're also stupid?
owen shroyer
You've got the Kirk Memorial, which is obviously going to be a huge event.
This is the biggest.
You could say this is the biggest political assassination since Martin Luther King Jr.
JFK Jr.
unidentified
Okay.
I think Jr.
owen shroyer
So this is not insignificant.
And then you've got the Kirk Memorial.
We're all going to be in the room with all the elephants in the room.
And then apparently the next week.
unidentified
Netanyahu's coming to Washington, D.C. So JFK Jr. wasn't assassinated.
dan friesen
And I think that Owen is forgetting some people.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
RFK was assassinated after Martin Luther King, so I guess Charlie's more important than that.
jordan holmes
Apparently.
dan friesen
Also, bad news, Harvey Milk, Fred Hampton, and John Lennon.
jordan holmes
Sorry, friends.
dan friesen
Sit the fuck down, Benazir Budo.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's no good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You're not gonna enjoy that.
dan friesen
No, you're not as important as uh Charlie Kirk.
jordan holmes
Hey, how about this?
Osama bin Laden was a pretty important assassination.
dan friesen
It was political in a way.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, here's the here's the thing, too.
Like, you and I were talking right after the assassination.
Sure.
And uh like you were of the mind that it was not as big a deal as I believed it to be.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
I am like you to Owen.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know what I mean?
Like the SAT kind of.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I see what you're saying.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I think he's taking this too seriously, but also it's more serious than I mistook the I I made the miscalculation of not realizing that you could take uh his corpse and run with it, you know.
I was I was under the laboring under the idea that they would have to engage with him.
dan friesen
I think you also underestimated the like level of attachment that a lot of people had to him because we think he sucks.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, I definitely wouldn't have expected uh ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel, but hey, what are you gonna do?
dan friesen
Look.
unidentified
Sometimes apparently ABC is really into Charlie Kirk.
dan friesen
Sometimes jokes don't work.
jordan holmes
I guess.
I guess A B Charlie Kirk.
That's what we're up to.
dan friesen
You know what they gotta do?
They gotta get the Ace Man in there.
unidentified
They gotta ironically replace Adam Know.
jordan holmes
Why do we do it?
Just I'm I'm for it.
If you guys just want to go full right wing, bring the man show back.
Who gives a shit?
Jimmy Kimmel needs a job now.
dan friesen
No, get Rogan back.
jordan holmes
Right, for sure.
dan friesen
Rogan and Stanhope.
Do the knockoff man show.
Can you blow it up?
He hosted the man show.
jordan holmes
What a fucking world.
I still can't believe the man show happened, let alone that it got another iteration.
dan friesen
I was a man show defender for a little longer than I should have been.
jordan holmes
It happens.
dan friesen
I thought some of those uh segments were fun.
Not not a lot of them.
I, you know, the girls on trampolines and all that stuff.
I'm like, I'm here for Adam Corolla going to the like the lumber store.
jordan holmes
No, I get you.
I get you.
I hey, listen, I defended win Ben Stein's money for a lot longer than I should have because I didn't know about Ben Stein's political history.
dan friesen
Didn't know he was a Nixon uh speechwriter?
jordan holmes
No idea.
Nope.
dan friesen
But that kind of does make it better when people win his money.
jordan holmes
It does.
dan friesen
So Owen is real dumb.
Um and in this next clip, he kind of gets close to feeling like somebody that you might want to agree with in some ways.
And I think that it's a mistake.
owen shroyer
So it's so crazy.
I sit here and and you know, you've obviously got the the Q people that still believe that this is all some grand scheme.
And now I'm sitting here like, you know what?
This is so crazy.
Maybe it is.
That's how insane this all is to me.
Or Or maybe a whiff of hopium comes into the room, and I'm like, can we get our country back?
Can we get the Donald Trump we supported through three election cycles back?
jordan holmes
Can we get him back?
owen shroyer
Where is he?
Can we get it back?
And I think this is the closing event.
Netanyahu arrested in Washington, D.C. Yes.
For crimes against the United States.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Now we're talking.
owen shroyer
Lying to American Congress, tricking us into wars.
Trump is going to arrest Netanyahu.
jordan holmes
Yes.
owen shroyer
When he comes to Washington, D.C. Do it.
Couldn't help it.
The thought came into my head.
Because it's outrageous.
It's outrageous.
That Netanyahu would be welcomed into our country, our White House, at this time.
It is offensive.
It is unbelievable.
It is disgusting.
And it will be the final straw for many people.
Politically, with the right wing's obsession with Israel.
And quite frankly, this administration putting Israel first.
It will be it will be the last draw in that political movement.
And they'll just be totally done.
And you can already see and you will see Trump's approval rating continue to go down.
dan friesen
So Owen's not wrong about the idea that Netanyahu coming to the United States at this point is offensive.
Sure.
And something that Trump definitely shouldn't do.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But it's confusing why he thinks Trump would act any differently.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Owen's speaking to a real feeling that folks in his sphere have, which is that if Trump meets with Netanyahu at the White House now, they will have to admit that the version of Trump that they've been supporting for the past three elections was fake.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's a really that's a crisis moment.
jordan holmes
It's a bummer.
dan friesen
That he can see coming.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is the tension of Owen outside InfoWars.
He's bad at being a pundit, and he looks really stupid when he tries to play Alex style conspiracy games, but at the same time, he's speaking to a real feeling that the far right is experiencing.
Alex is more entertaining, but he's going through the motions.
Whereas Owen sucks at showbiz, but he can kind of read the room.
It makes Owen's show like I think it's a higher quality product that no one wants.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like a really well-made fruit cake.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
I mean, you know.
Except it's Owen's shitty fruit cake.
dan friesen
Yeah, but it's better.
jordan holmes
It's better than Alex's shitty fruit cake.
dan friesen
Bingo.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's not, yeah, no, I get it.
If you're stuck with, let's say, uh uh best case scenario where the FBI's covered up how much Owen sucks.
And a worst case scenario where the FBI's covered up how much everybody sucks.
I guess that we go with the best case scenario?
dan friesen
Also, I want to make a note of this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
When he starts doing his roast segment, yeah.
Fruitcake jokes.
jordan holmes
He does not do a roast segment, does he?
dan friesen
No, no.
Not on this one.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But like when he does fruitcake jokes, fruit cake jokes.
Bring them back around.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
I think that's a good call.
We haven't done fruitcake jokes in a long time.
They used to be very prominent.
dan friesen
It used to be so annoying the idea that someone would bring a fruit cake.
jordan holmes
How could you bring a fruit cake?
Yeah.
I guess we beat it.
I guess we beat the fruitcake back.
dan friesen
Bring it back for the roasts.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
So Charlie was a very pro-Israel person.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Or was he?
unidentified
Oh.
owen shroyer
Netanyahu and the Jerusalem Post had Kirk's death story before anyone else, any other publication in America, or even President Trump.
unidentified
That's just a fact.
owen shroyer
Here is Netanyahu in the aftermath of Kirk's death on Fox News.
benjamin netanyahu
He said he wrote me a letter on May 2nd this year.
He said, one of my greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances to defend Judeo-Christian civilization.
A few weeks before the tragedy yesterday, I I called him and I spoke to him and I said, please come to Israel.
I invited him to Israel.
And sadly that visit will not take place.
owen shroyer
Now here's what's interesting about this as well.
You know, there's this big back and forth about conversations that were happening between Kirk and Netanyahu and a bunch of big donors that are Israel supporters.
And they're trying to deny that it all happened and the different context.
I mean, does that not confirm it?
That confirms it right there.
Netanyahu invited Charlie Kirk to Israel and he didn't go.
He said no.
jordan holmes
Well.
owen shroyer
So doesn't that confirm a lot of those reports?
Does for me.
dan friesen
That's dumb.
Uh Netanyahu didn't say that Kirk turned down an invitation to go to Israel.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
He said that he invited Kirk, but the murder happened before he could make the trip.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Owen's pretending that Netanyahu said that Kirk turned the invitation down because the goal is to make Kirk an anti-Israel anti-Netanyahu figure now that he's dead.
This is about the factions of the far right fighting over Charlie's corpse, and the real inconvenient reality for folks on Owen's side is that Charlie was a public supporter of Israel to the point where Nick Fuentes tried to destroy him over it.
Last month he was on Megan Kelly's show and he said, quote, I think I have a bulletproof resume showing my defense of Israel, both on campus, on social media, to great mockery and scorn sometimes because I believe it.
I believe in the scriptural land rights given to Israel.
I believe in fulfillment of prophecy, and again, I'm not a theologian, but I'm a Christian.
My life was changed in Israel.
The spiritual energy there is so amazing.
That's right.
His life was changed there because he's already visited Israel multiple times.
There's a video of him from 2019 in Jerusalem speaking to Im Turtuzu, uh, which is a Zionist organization.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's speaking in front of a backdrop that says, quote, building the Zionist dream.
Well, I found the video of that lecture that he gave through a Times of Israel article.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And insanely, it's an hour and a half talk that Charlie Kirk did in Jerusalem in 2019 that has 700 views on YouTube.
I don't know what the fuck is like if this is privated or something.
jordan holmes
Is this real?
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't know.
unidentified
Weird.
dan friesen
So anyway, here's a clip from that that I'd like Owen to respond to.
unidentified
Okay.
charlie kirk
These these IDF, they're doing God's work.
I really believe that.
Have such unbelievable self-restraint.
And they they have these maniacs with these cameras right in their face, trying to provoke them, trying to profile them.
And I think to myself, if they only knew the self-restraint, if they only knew the moral conduct that the IDF operates with every day, get down the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah.
I mean, and anyone who dares make a moral equivalency between the co the conduct and the behavior of the IDF and Israel, which is a moral superiority.
What the Western media tries to do is they try to make it some sort of equal playing field in the conversation.
That Hamas and the IDF, they're somehow both on the same playing field.
No, no, no.
The IDF is righteously and correctly defending the nation-state of Israel.
God's chosen people in the holy land.
dan friesen
Okay.
Well, here's another clip.
charlie kirk
Um, and then we flew down and we saw the barrier to the Gaza Strip.
Um, which was very eye-opening to me as well.
And one of the biggest mistakes that Israel has made is getting out of the Gaza Strip.
jordan holmes
And somebody fire Jimmy Kimmel over this.
charlie kirk
It has become a terrorist jacuzzi.
dan friesen
Was that worth saying twice?
jordan holmes
I love I love that in general, I think everybody would fire Charlie Kirk for what Charlie Kirk has said about Charlie Kirk after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
dan friesen
Yeah, Charlie Kirk is in poor taste.
jordan holmes
I mean, just uh frankly, the I have a bulletproof reputation.
That is just in poor taste for this current climate right now.
dan friesen
So this is a wild 90 minutes, and it actually shows how much Charlie improved over the past six years.
Like he's kind of unsteady and giving off open mic vibes at points during during this talk.
Yeah.
My main point here is that Owen is trying to rob Charlie of his identity.
That's such a bigger insult than anyone making fun of his death.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
It's so awful.
I know people just let him have his legacy.
jordan holmes
I would I would so I don't under like now that we're here where we are.
I don't understand people not understanding that Charlie Kirk would be happy with the people who say, good riddance.
I hope you're dead.
Charlie Kirk is fine with those people.
Charlie Kirk is not fine with people being like, you know what?
He actually hated Israel.
Charlie Kirk would hate that.
dan friesen
People being like rest and piss you dork or something like that.
jordan holmes
Hell yeah.
dan friesen
Fuck yeah, turning point's gonna make more money.
jordan holmes
This is gonna be great.
dan friesen
We're fighting.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Like it people be like trying the Nazis trying to overtake his reputation and the whole thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It it's it's counter to what he was building.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And like, it doesn't make turning point more money.
jordan holmes
No, everybody everybody is reacting in the worst possible way to this situation, from the corporations doing everything stupidly to the right wingers making this the most exploitable thing that they've ever done to everybody who's like, oh, we shouldn't be this or we should do that.
It's just man.
Just let it go.
dan friesen
So um Owen he's he's listening to Netanyahu speak uh about uh uh Kirk's death.
Yeah.
And he gets uh a little little offended by word.
unidentified
Hmm.
benjamin netanyahu
He was he was a defender of our common Judeo-Christian civilization.
He was so sick of the stuff.
Unbelievable excited to walk in the footsteps of Jesus here.
He uh he valued our bond, the bond between America and Israel.
owen shroyer
Listen to this guy.
benjamin netanyahu
Uh you know, he uh uh did so many things to defend free speech.
He had his truth, he stood up for it.
owen shroyer
Oh, you oh, you're for free speech.
Sure you are.
benjamin netanyahu
You can come and debate me.
He invited that debate.
dan friesen
I like to imagine that that was Netanyahu saying, Owen, come to be.
jordan holmes
Come debate me.
dan friesen
So why does Owen hate the word Judeo-Christian?
If his complaints are about Israel's government and Netanyahu and all this, what's the beef with acknowledging the two religions shared history?
jordan holmes
He hates Abraham.
Hates him!
dan friesen
It seems like such a weird thing to get hung up on if your problem isn't rooted in anti-Semitism as opposed to political critique.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Oh well.
jordan holmes
Yeah, seems like you're less interested in the continuity of uh, you know, lifestyle and living space, and instead more interested in how the Jews killed your Messiah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Netanyahu, um, he made the assassination about Israel.
Like, there's a lot of people who like they're being accused of accusing Israel.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Right?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But they're not.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They're just responding to the fact that Netanyahu made this all about himself.
unidentified
Folks, we were all there.
owen shroyer
The first day, it was all about how it was a violent leftist.
And then Netanyahu came out and made the statement and made it all about Israel.
And then people said, What's up with this?
Gee, he posted about it first.
Gee, the Jerusalem Post had the story first.
Gee, here's all these clips of Charlie Kirk kind of changing his stance on Israel.
Gee, here's what other people are saying about some behind the scenes stuff.
And now it all adds up, and now it's all confirmed.
unidentified
They say, Oh, the the radical right made it about Israel.
owen shroyer
No, he didn't.
jordan holmes
Well, Yahoo did.
dan friesen
So Charlie Kirk was a friend of Netanyahu's and a staunch Christian Zionist.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
There is no reason that Netanyahu wouldn't release a statement about Kirk's death.
That's not making the story about Israel like it's not like he posted a shaggy meme with Kirk getting shot, and then he's in the background saying it wasn't me.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
What Owen is Which would have been great.
Poor taste.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, for a head of state.
dan friesen
Honestly, not as in poor taste as what I think that people like Owen are doing.
jordan holmes
I agree.
dan friesen
What Owen is describing here is motivated reasoning and the process that he went down to build the case that he wants to make.
There's a faction of the far right that wants to say that Israel killed Kirk because Kirk's death is a deeply traumatic event for a large group of people, and that energy can be exploited.
In order to pull off that kind of a theory, you need to come up with an explanation for the whole problem that Kirk is super pro-Israel.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean like super pro-Israel.
dan friesen
So Owen plays around with the idea that Israel was the first to know about the murder.
Then there's some cherry pick quotes that are taken out of context to make it appear that he was turning On uh Israel recently.
Add in a little bit of anonymous gossip that Kirk and Netanyahu had a fight, which is corroborated by making something up about Charlie turning down an invitation to come to Israel.
jordan holmes
It does make sense.
dan friesen
You got it.
You baked a cake.
jordan holmes
You put it all together.
dan friesen
This is just Alex shit.
All the way down to him saying that it's all confirmed.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's i the the the image that I had in my head is like he's a guy who's watched someone bluff for ten years and thinks they can play any poker hand.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And it's just like, no, you don't have the confidence to pull this off.
I you're so clearly bluffing.
jordan holmes
You have to, like, okay.
If you want to get better at something, you have to overcome challenges along the way.
You know, like that's just part of it.
If you want to be a better comedian, you have to bomb.
You have to fail to grow, right?
And he has been in such a situation where he's coddled and protected from actual consequences that he's never built muscles.
He's never built the muscles to do this shit.
dan friesen
Well, the last time that he did, it was 2016 when he was out yelling at libs at uh protests.
Like that was probably the last like serious challenge.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Like uh ever since Paul Joseph Watson became less prevalent at InfoWars, like, what is he?
jordan holmes
Yeah, and even then, if it's if it was time to rise to the moment, Alex broke in.
You know, like there was he didn't even have the chance to rise to the moment.
dan friesen
And that's why uh Owen was pissed off.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So um there's a there's some other news stories that he uh uh elephant-y.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Kind of elephant-esque.
owen shroyer
So then that created a series of thoughts, let's say.
And then you've got the House just passed a bill punishing politically motivated boycotts of Israel.
That happened right after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
So you're over here looking at this story.
House passes a bill punishing politically motivated boycotts of Israel.
No one else gets that privilege in this country, just Israel.
Republicans block Senate vote to release Epstein files.
You heard that.
Republicans block Senate vote to release Epstein files.
This happened right after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Guess you're not talking about that.
dan friesen
I have no idea what Owen uh like is surprised about with this house bill.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Marco Rubio sponsored a similar bill in 2019 during Trump's first term, and he's the Secretary of State now.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This is uh what they voted for, and they should know that because this is what Trump's folks did the first time.
Lauren Boebert championed this bill this time, and while it is a bad bill, it's not banning all politically motivated boycotts of Israel.
It only applies to federal contractors, which is still bad, but it's not as broad as what Owen is making it seem.
Bigger picture though, why am I supposed to believe that these things are connected?
Was Charlie killed in order to take attention away from the Republicans voting against Epstein releases?
That seems stupid, since it's pretty clear at this point that Trump's fans are cool with that cover-up, so you don't need to distract from that.
It's a wasted assassination.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or was he killed to distract from Lauren Boebert's bill?
unidentified
Huh?
jordan holmes
If you kill somebody to distract from anything having to do with Lauren Boebert, you're in the wrong.
dan friesen
Which is just like a rehash of something they did six years ago.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Like it did they kill Charlie last time?
This is just poorly performed, Alex.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
It's basically like these things when he tries to actually get to something.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And cover a story.
It's just he doesn't know how to do it any other way.
jordan holmes
And even then, who k who gives a shit if federal contract if you're in a college and you talk shit about Israel, they just fire you.
You know, like it who cares.
You're you're already fired for talking shit.
dan friesen
That whatever changes are made by that bill are not good.
Yeah, but they are uh there's other things.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they're at most they're a codification of something that's already been happening.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So um Owen wants to kill some time here on the show.
jordan holmes
How can you want to kill time on a show that no one is forcing you to do?
dan friesen
Well, I think that gold guy might be fair enough.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
He he plays the video of Kirk getting shot a bunch.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
And he's going over like angles and what appears to be a reflection of a muzzle shot.
jordan holmes
Motherfuckers.
dan friesen
So there's like a little flash, and he's like, is there a second shooter?
That kind of stuff.
And I really feel like this captures the vibe.
owen shroyer
Alright, let me just kind of get this picture real quick in my head.
Before I go back.
unidentified
To the other shot.
owen shroyer
It's still so hard to tell because I don't know.
It's so hard to tell.
Because it actually now, well, no, that can't be it.
That can't be it because it's a longer window.
unidentified
If it's a window.
owen shroyer
Yeah, that one's a little tricky.
That one's a little tricky trying to determine where it came from, actually.
unidentified
Hmm.
owen shroyer
um Well, we're not trying to solve the crime here tonight, but my point is that's another anomaly.
That's another video that is I'd say pretty important.
dan friesen
Pretty important.
I have nothing to say about this.
I'm just gonna hmm a bunch and come to no conclusions.
He is delusional enough to think that he's America's anchor man and he can just do this no effort reaction stream type content.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like he's fucked.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Like there's so many more interesting people who are already in that space.
He doesn't work at InfoWars anymore.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right.
It is, it is the lack of confidence is if you're if I'm doing one of these streams, it is what I say it is.
I don't care what it is.
I don't care if I'm looking at this camera and I'm not seeing what I'm saying.
It is what I say it is.
Whatever you see is irrelevant.
Whatever I see is irrelevant.
owen shroyer
Right.
dan friesen
Yeah, it should still be uh uh a work.
Yeah, you know, like it's still have a performance aspect to it, even if it is like, hey, it appears that we're all just hanging out, having a good time, sitting around you're with your old buddy Owen.
Yep.
Like you want to create that feeling.
Yeah, but if that's all you're doing, someone else is doing that better.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and if you're if yeah, you want somebody to come back next week, you have to say, it was two guys.
I know it was two guys.
Because look, and it doesn't matter if I see what you are showing me, you've said it was there, so I'm gonna trust you.
I'll see you next week.
That's what people want.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's a little bit of a boring uncertainty to to this that doesn't work with his media.
jordan holmes
You can't be uncertain.
Uncertainty is the only thing you cannot be.
dan friesen
Yeah, and unfortunately, it looks like this dude is 6040.
jordan holmes
Oh god.
owen shroyer
I'd say that's that's the worst thing is that the left wing did it.
And either the FBI botched it so badly that they're trying to cover up some elements of the botch, or they just don't even know much.
They're just they're it's just it's just that incompetent.
So the story doesn't make any sense, but the but the conclusion might be right.
I'd say I'd say all things considered, that's that's where I would lean.
All things considered, I'd say I'm maybe 60 60% that they have the conclusion right, even if the story they gave us to get there is complete bullshit, which obviously it is.
unidentified
What?
owen shroyer
So the conclusion might be right, but the story to get there complete bullshit.
So how can you trust it?
But I would say that's the odds on.
And then what then let's just say I'm not even gonna land on a conclusion of who, but let's just say 40% someone else hired him, intelligence agency, whatever.
It was it was a professional job.
I'd say 40% professional job, 60% left wing, left wing terror attack, left wing assassination.
But you know, one thing that kind of the one thing that kind of says hold not so fast is it just it just screams professional hit to me.
Single shot right after the transgender thing was mentioned, Single shot, right to the jugular, guaranteed kill shot.
It just feels professional.
It just screams professional.
And from what we know about the suspect who's denying it, uh, he was no professional.
Didn't apparently didn't even know how to put a sight on a rifle.
And then the caliber of the bullet, we don't have these answers.
So that's when you start to say, well, no, now it looks like a Patsy.
That's why I'm not so confident.
But I'm like, I'd say I'm over fifty percent.
It's probably just a left-wing assassin.
But I'm not that confident.
dan friesen
This is such a shitty Alex impression.
Like, one thing that you do notice when you watch enough of Alex is that he has an effortless ability to make up numbers.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he makes it feel like it means something.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He has a knack for floating contradictory theories and just being like, eh, let's juggle all this bullshit.
Alex just talks shit.
And Owen isn't talking shit.
jordan holmes
He's trying to think of something.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Wrong.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Wrong.
85% sure.
I'm 85% sure.
dan friesen
I'm 95% sure all the time, because I'm always right 98%.
jordan holmes
There is no difference between 85% and 60% in this situation.
In both cases, you have just admitted you have no fucking clue, and you're guessing you're just guessing.
So guess big.
dan friesen
No, the only thing you're saying is 100% I don't want to be held to this.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
That's it.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
You know what you do?
You guess so big that if you're wrong, who cares?
And then the next thing exactly.
There's hey, I'm Owen and I'm gonna be milk toast for the next hour.
Go fuck yourself.
dan friesen
I'm America's anchor man.
unidentified
Shut up, man.
dan friesen
Let's listen to Limp Bizgate.
jordan holmes
64?
I'm over 50%.
That is the worst.
That is the worst thing you could say.
dan friesen
Yeah, and it's it feels way too much like Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
It feels but shittier.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Alex, but shittier is not a sales pitch.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Nope.
So um there's some weirdness with this assassination.
Like, there's anomalies, much like you know, Alex Foundry.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
All of the false flags that he uncovered in his story.
jordan holmes
As always.
owen shroyer
Well, actually, I guess let's go to this weirdness first.
Maybe, because we're gonna kind of move off the assassination story for a second.
I mean, how look at this.
It's just it's just weird.
I don't know how else to describe it.
Here's Michael Maur.
Congrats to my good friend Robert Axon on his election as chair of the Utah GOP at University, excuse me, at Utah Valley University today with a terrific job with George Zinn.
With George Zinn.
This guy's really active on that campus and Republican Party politics.
Who's Michael Maurer?
The senior advisor of community outreach and intergovernment relations for Governor Spencer Cox of Utah.
Who Charlie had a bit of an issue with, by the way.
dan friesen
It's not that weird that this guy has a picture with George Zinn, who's the old man who was arrested at the Kirk shooting for saying that he'd done it.
And people uh immediate in the immediate aftermath, there was misreporting that he was arrested for.
jordan holmes
But he was like a guy.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's a longtime libertarian protester and troublemaker in local Utah politics.
And Owen could have read about the many times he's been arrested for misdemeanors in the past if he cared to look into this at all.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
This dipshit just sees a picture of someone and like he has to stop himself from trying to find context.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's the only explanation for this.
He's just he's actively incurious.
jordan holmes
You would I I couldn't, I couldn't look at like okay.
The last time I even saw a name, I looked it up.
Like the the last time I saw a name, somebody sent us an email, and I saw this name, and I was like, I just gotta look this name up.
But they're for no reason.
dan friesen
Yeah, especially if you're engaged in like that's that's no reason.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now let's imagine that you're doing a show.
Exactly where you're speculating about a murder.
jordan holmes
How many, how many pages of notes do I do for an interview where I ask four questions?
Like it's crazy, and yet this guy, nothing.
dan friesen
What the fuck?
He's got a picture with this guy.
jordan holmes
How is it possible you're not like, well, let me learn more about this guy?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Dumb.
jordan holmes
That's the first thing you would think, right?
dan friesen
I'd I I would think.
So Kirk had been critical of uh Spencer Cox in The past for not being conservative enough.
But does Owen think that Cox was involved in a conspiracy to kill Kirk with his advisor and George Zinn?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Does this picture from a GOP event that was posted on Twitter two years ago really tell us anything?
This is meaningless information being presented as if it's evidence of something.
Owen can like do this act where he pretends like, oh, I'm uncovering these details and oh, it looks so weird to me, but it's just not convincing.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Alex seems lost in his own shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Owen doesn't.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and even if even if you're like, okay, first off, who cares if it's convincing in the traditional sense of convincing?
What it needs to be is convincing in the sense of ah in a theater way.
Exactly.
Right?
Like, even his, even is that a oh, Spencer Cox, eh?
Like, that's not selling it.
That's that's the fucking masterpiece theater shit.
Like, oh, have you read this?
But fuck you.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
There's an advisor to the governor who posted a picture with a notorious ne'er do well around town in GOP and libertarian politics two years ago.
And Owen thought, like, jobs done.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I'm just gonna take this to air.
jordan holmes
You gotta do more.
You gotta make up a story.
What if they went golfing together?
What if any number of possible details?
Or one little thing that you pull from some other document, and that's like, oh, see, this is what connects the three of them.
Any number of things.
dan friesen
Or be visited by a ghost.
jordan holmes
How many times?
dan friesen
Tell me a dream.
jordan holmes
I am so mad.
I am so mad from time to time that whatever a thing allows these people to do what they what it is they do is is not within me.
Because I feel like they all suck at it and I could fucking kill it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I could crush this space.
dan friesen
If you could just drop like how bad it feels to lie to people about ghosts.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if I could just be a monster, I would be the best monster.
dan friesen
You'll get there one day.
jordan holmes
I don't think I will.
It's hard to be a monster.
I th I think it's hard.
dan friesen
Yeah, that should be.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So um, you know, there's this this non-convincing air that's going throughout this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that this next clip really embodies this, like, come the fuck off, man.
owen shroyer
And then this is just the stuff where you're like, okay, throw everything out.
I'm in a damn simulation.
Throw everything else out the window.
I'm in a simulation.
When this stuff happens.
@strangesaunashow [greg]
These connections keep getting weirder and weirder.
So right at the end of this press conference where Cash Patel announces that they caught Charlie Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson.
Cash Patel ends it with Charlie Kirk, I'll see you in Valhalla.
jordan holmes
Lastly.
unidentified
To my friend Charlie Kirk.
Rest now, brother.
We have the watch.
And I'll see you in Valhalla.
@strangesaunashow [greg]
Now, what's interesting is that one of the pictures that they put out of Tyler Robinson shows Tyler Robinson in his bedroom next to his computer.
On the computer is a picture of an island.
That island is called Goat Island, and it's located in New Zealand.
That has a retreat called Valhalla.
Isn't that isn't that isn't that weird?
jordan holmes
No!
@strangesaunashow [greg]
That's just weird.
jordan holmes
No!
@strangesaunashow [greg]
These connections keep getting weirder and weirder.
jordan holmes
That's not weird!
owen shroyer
No, how yeah.
Again, I'm in a simulation or is it Q?
Is it time for me to accept Q?
dan friesen
If that's enough for Owen to start questioning if he's in a simulation, then he's just looking for any excuse to talk about how he's in a simulation.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Gun to my head, I wouldn't be confident whether the video he's playing is a sincere conspiracy theory or someone doing a parody of what dumb shit conspiracy theorists consider evidence.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So let's assume that all of it's true, and it all means something.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
In that case, Cash Patel said see you in Valhalla in his press conference as a wink to this picture of the shooter who was once photographed with a picture of an island on his computer screen that has a resort on it called Valhalla.
So now what?
jordan holmes
Who's going yeah, that's what I'm saying?
Like, who's going to Valhalla?
Is the killer going to Valhalla?
Is it is are all of them going to Valhalla?
Is Charlie Kirk not dead and he's going to Valhalla?
And then Kashmatel, after he retires or something or gets fired, is they gonna move to uh uh do all of them move to Valhalla?
Is Goat Island sold.
dan friesen
That's what I'm saying, man.
I don't know.
It doesn't mean anything.
If all of this is true, if we stipulate all of it, yeah, does that mean that the shooter is a Patsy?
Did they fake the shooting?
And Patel is telling Charlie to meet him on that island so they can debrief it.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
If it's a clue about something, what does it point to?
There's nothing.
It's just dumb information.
jordan holmes
And also, you're leaving out the obvious answer, which is that Kashmattel is a dork.
dan friesen
He and he's a white nationalist dork.
jordan holmes
That is it.
He's a dork who said Valhalla from the fucking president's desk or whatever shit he's doing.
dan friesen
Yeah, and pretending he's uh Jon Snow on the wall as well.
jordan holmes
What are you fighting?
You've got what get the fuck out of here.
What are you doing?
dan friesen
Yeah, loser.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ, you're the head of the FBI.
dan friesen
It's embarrassing.
jordan holmes
Fuck off.
dan friesen
So the picture on the shooter's computer screen is a getty images photo of the shore of a small island off the coast of New Zealand called Goat Island.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Valhalla isn't on that island.
jordan holmes
God damn it!
dan friesen
It's actually back on the main North Island of uh of New Zealand.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
If the guy making this original video isn't just trolling people, then he's lying about the circumstances to make it seem more unlikely that this coincidence could possibly happen.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's not the same place.
And even if it were this is a desktop computer, and it's entirely possible that this was a picture that was licensed from Getty Images for like a screensaver package.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Even if you assume all of the information that's being presented to you is accurate, you still have to be a real dipshit to jump to simulation from this stuff.
Like there's so many exploits it's so not interesting.
jordan holmes
I I okay.
So as far as spy craft and such is concerned, you know, people recognize the the codes, the the dead drops, you know, the like hide the little sheet of paper under a rock, some dirty backs.
That kind of stuff.
I do not think I have ever heard anybody be like, oh, did you know they talk to each other through getty images?
I don't think that's a smart way of doing it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I also don't know when that photo is dated from.
So, like, what is it what if it's like a 10-year-old photo or something like that of him in front of his his computer.
This is ridiculous.
jordan holmes
If if you and also what?
No, stop.
No, you stop.
dan friesen
Don't look at me like that.
If Owen is going to do this, yeah, he must explain what it means.
jordan holmes
Obviously.
dan friesen
He has to be like, okay, so he said Valhalla because X. Yeah.
He can't he can't just be like, eh?
Do what you will with it.
jordan holmes
The thing about Alex is that, and I guess this is something that again, Owen may not have learned is that when Alex makes an implication, that's a third of the way through what Alex is going to say, which is he implies something happens, then he explicitly says this is why it happened, then he returns to the implication.
You have to explicitly say that the implication you said is true, and then kind of walk it back.
dan friesen
And then frequently say, I'll leave it at that.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Exactly.
I'll leave it at that, with everything I have implied being 100% true.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'll leave it at that.
jordan holmes
You make your own decision.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, sir.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
unidentified
I'll leave it at that.
jordan holmes
I'll leave it there.
dan friesen
So Owen, like, you know what?
He's just not sure at anything, which is great.
jordan holmes
Good, good show.
Yeah, go host.
owen shroyer
But it's like, I don't know.
What conclusions can you really reach?
I'm not convinced that we're getting the full story.
I'm not convinced.
I'm not entirely convinced that the guy that they're telling us it was did it.
I'd say no.
At this point.
Despite, okay, it's left-wing terror.
I just I don't know.
None of it adds up.
None of it makes any sense.
So, okay.
Now you're kind of getting into why there's this whole move against Israel in in right wing politics where normally they remain strong.
It's just gone too far.
It's just too much now.
Whether it's whether it's what's going on in Gaza, whether it's our Congress just went to Israel.
I mean, talk about distasteful.
Our Congress was in Israel this week.
As all of this is happening, our Congress is in Israel.
jordan holmes
Oh my God.
owen shroyer
Kissing the wall.
Wearing the hat with Netanyahu.
jordan holmes
The hat.
owen shroyer
And then here comes the APAC money afterwards.
I mean, it's just like, good lord.
It's just so over the top.
And the continued wars.
It's like, hey, you know, America ain't doing that great.
But people here are struggling, man.
And we're sick of seeing our country taking foreign money and going to foreign nations and doing foreign holy rituals.
Where you know, we're just kind of sick of it.
dan friesen
I think he got lost in a thought.
charlie kirk
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Also, fun fact, at the end of the episode, he explains that uh the Owen Schreuer network or the win network or whatever the fuck he's this dumb whatever he says.
It's on hold a little bit.
It's delayed because he needs to buy a new house in order to start the network.
jordan holmes
That'll happen.
dan friesen
Which is really really makes it feel like he's in touch with the We're hurting, man.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I love the the moral authority that he puts behind the uh I'm gonna need your money to do a show and also I'm gonna buy a nicer house for me.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I I in order for me to do this podcast that I'm already doing, I need to buy a house.
jordan holmes
I would love to hear that I gave somebody money to make something and then they decided to buy a house.
dan friesen
And they tell me I don't know anything.
jordan holmes
I don't know when that's gonna happen.
And also I don't have any information to share with you.
What you have given me is money, and what you have expected is something in return, and I have taken more money than I have given you value in return.
And that is why I would like to sell you gold, my friends.
dan friesen
But I'm kicking the tires around.
I'm seeing how it feels to say stuff.
jordan holmes
You'll get it.
You'll get it.
I'm just tasting words.
dan friesen
So I just want to say that if Owen is not 100% sure about the shooting and what the FBI is telling us, that's totally cool.
He's not adding anything by grazing on all this bullshit and pretending it's analysis, though, so he can just not speculate if he doesn't know anything.
Yeah, he doesn't have to do this.
That's always an option.
jordan holmes
I will give him lessons.
I will do consulting for $10,000 an episode.
Every time if Ellen if Owen wants to get a good show where he's a real piece of shit, I will teach you.
dan friesen
But I think that's $10,000.
We're now invested in doing.
We're doing punch-up.
jordan holmes
We are doing punch-up for him, aren't we?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But that's the thing about it is that he can't take our advice because he's too stupid.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He thinks he knows better than us.
dan friesen
He's America's anchor.
jordan holmes
He's America's anchor.
Well, I mean, America knows better than us.
dan friesen
He knows America.
jordan holmes
And he is America.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Just we America.
So as for Congress members going to the Western Wall in May 2017, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the wall.
And Owen went to jail for trying to get him elected in 2020.
jordan holmes
Ouch.
dan friesen
My apologies if this sounds a little hollow and stupid now.
Fucking asshole.
jordan holmes
I that's one of those things where it's like, guys, we just sometimes just forget about team sports.
There are some times where you just forget about team sports.
Like fucking Obama did the thing and Netanyahu showed up and went to Congress without him and did the whole I'm insulting you thing.
We've had Israel's Netanyahu has insulted every president while I've been alive.
dan friesen
Um, yeah, I think so.
But also, like, I I think that if you're trying to present this as a position where you have like a fundamental problem with Israel's politics.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And you don't like Benjamin Netanyahu.
Why are you saying the hat?
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Fuck you, dude.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You're giving away the the entire premise here.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You don't have a political problem.
And like he's saying the right is usually like holding tight with Israel.
Not half of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
No, that's not been that's not been the case, brother.
unidentified
Nope.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
Anyway.
Owen thinks that he's getting some bad tweets from Israeli agents that are being paid to spam him on social media.
jordan holmes
I can't believe they would be paid that much.
dan friesen
Nah.
owen shroyer
Now I don't take anything in politics personally, but huh.
I can here sit here and notice a trend and report on a trend.
And so I'll use this as a starter.
I'll use this as a starter.
This is a um big pro-Israel account.
This guy's constantly nipping at my ankles with all the others.
I've got like five to ten just pro-Israel, probably probably agents, quite frankly.
Probably paid to do it.
Uh that just sit in my comments and spam me all the time uh when I do Israel stuff.
So this guy's one of them.
And he's out at college campuses now doing doing uh the Charlie Kirk stuff at a table.
dan friesen
Oh, like your old boss.
This doesn't sound like someone who takes things personally.
jordan holmes
Hmm.
dan friesen
Um it doesn't sound like the kind of guy who would do a five-hour stream about how he left his job at InfoWars.
No, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
He never takes political stuff personally.
But maybe he probably should more often if he's going to jail for shit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I would take that personally.
dan friesen
I think there's something intensely personal and grandiose about assuming negative tweets are the another government fucking with you.
jordan holmes
That does tend to that I would imagine that something that uh tickles your ego that much is probably pretty personal to you.
dan friesen
It's a level of harassment that is uh uh special for America's anchor.
jordan holmes
Because I was mean to somebody on InfoWars a while back, they are now watching my stream along with all other 50 people to really make me feel like uh the government is after me.
dan friesen
They're on a foreign payroll, gotta be too dangerous.
jordan holmes
Gotta be.
dan friesen
So um Owen, I think tries to do something, and it's empty.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Uh, but he does try to make a distinction between Israel and Jewish.
jordan holmes
Ooh, let's hear this.
dan friesen
Which I mean, at least he's kind of trying.
jordan holmes
I'm excited.
owen shroyer
And there's this huge propaganda movement to convince you that Jews and Israel are basically the same thing.
So that that way, when you say anything about Israel, they can just accuse you of being an anti-Semite, therefore discrediting your opinion, censoring you, debanking you, removing you from the Trump movement.
That's what they do.
But there is obviously a distinction.
And and it's beyond just the obvious distinction that a Jewish person, whether in America, Israel, anywhere, a Jewish person is an independent person, they can think whatever they want.
And from my experience, Jews are very diverse in their thoughts.
Some are very pro-Israel, some are very anti-Israel.
Some are very deep into their faith, some have completely abandoned their faith.
That's my experience.
So no, they use this movement, this this pro-Israel, whatever this thing is, this Netanyahu regime, this this Zionist movement, they use Jews as cannon fodder, as like a public communications body shield.
dan friesen
So I I do think that a lot of this is Owen's side's fault.
I think that there is so much conspiracy and so much uh bigotry and anti-Semitism that's built around the idea of dual loyalties.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Um, and the idea that every Jewish person has the right of return to Israel.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
So they can commit crimes anywhere and then flee back so they can never possibly be loyal to another country.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is such a huge part of the cultural melding of Jewish and Israel.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And the fact that he can't really understand that or doesn't take that into consideration as a part of the the world that he's marinated in for his entire career, makes this a empty explanation.
Um I think I think that it's good, I guess.
Sure.
That there is a message of like, hey, I don't mean Jewish when I'm trying to make this about Israel.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I'm trying.
I mean I can't, but I'm trying.
jordan holmes
But the fundament the fundamental thing that they exist within is that the three-headed nature of an ethnicity, a religion, and a nation.
Which means that you can find somewhere for most people that they'll have something, you know, like, well, I'm a Christian, so the you know, yada yada, or or racists, or just uh nationalists or or any number of those things.
You can find a way, and then when you blend all three together, it doesn't matter which you're using that to code for the other two.
dan friesen
Right.
Like, you know, Nick Fuentes has a lot of uh sort of uh just generalized bigotry uh towards Jewish people that can be Covered as I'm just a Christian.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I don't want uh the other people of other religions to I just don't think that they're right about God.
jordan holmes
Right.
You and me, we're both religious, so I'm telling you that I have an objection over religious grounds, and you're like, well, maybe I agree, maybe I don't, but religion is what we're talking about here.
dan friesen
But we're really not.
jordan holmes
No.
We're also talking about ethnicity and nation.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that that complexity of like the where all of this conversation lives is something that Owen is incapable of dealing with because he needs to exploit it.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
It is it's our tool.
It's our weapon.
The weapon we use is this three-headed dog.
You know, so that's where we're at.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So earlier, I think um, I I look I look back on a little bit earlier in this episode, and I feel like I didn't fully explain or deal with when Owen said that Netanyahu coming here is a disgrace.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And how people might be drawn towards hearing something like that and being like, yeah, I do think it's offensive that Netanyahu's coming here at this point.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think a lot of the reasons that people would have those feelings have to do with Gaza.
jordan holmes
Right.
I don't think Hitler should visit either.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
There is there is there's a genocide that's ongoing.
Yep.
And uh the person who is the head of state cannot come here at this point.
jordan holmes
Just say no.
dan friesen
Right.
That is the explanation that a lot of people would feel.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so your brain kind of makes you think that Owen cares.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it kind of makes you think that he's speaking to issues that you care about.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But he doesn't.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
It's important to remember he doesn't give a shit.
owen shroyer
And by the way, there are plenty of Jews that don't agree with Netanyahu.
And there are plenty of Israeli Jews that protest Netanyahu every day in the streets, and that movement is growing.
So she comes out, and and and you can agree with the Palestine thing or not.
I'm not involved in it.
I'm not on any side of it.
I'm on the America side.
It has nothing to do with me.
I went out.
I don't want anything to do with it.
I don't want to see a single foreign flag in my country anymore.
Stop it.
Not my problem.
You guys figure it out.
And if you're so obsessed with that, then go live over there.
unidentified
If you want to come live over here with us, this flag is a foreign flag.
owen shroyer
And you're gonna leave that over there because we don't want it here.
But now it is here.
And it's and it's and it disgusts me.
unidentified
And it breaks my heart.
owen shroyer
So but she makes an obvious statement.
It shouldn't even be radical.
Hey, you know, criticizing the Israel government or military or Netanyahu regime, you know, Jews are a different thing than that.
Oh, yeah, thank you.
That's obvious, but okay, thank you for distinguishing that might be a problem.
And you can see why.
And you can see why.
She's been attacked.
She gets attacked.
And I can't understand why people would do this.
Just straight propaganda.
Here's a couple examples.
If you're a Jew and you don't understand that Judaism and Jewish culture is inexplicably tied to Israel, then you really don't understand anything about being Jewish.
Oh, so you just want her to own what the Netanyahu regime is doing.
You just want her to own what's going on in the Gaza Strip with you.
And you just want to throw her like a human body shield in front of you for PR.
dan friesen
So he's reading a tweet about how at the Emmys, the best supporting actress in a comedy series winner, Hannah Einbender, uh, she ended her speech saying, quote, fuck ice and free Palestine.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Later backstage, she said, quote, it's an issue that's really close to my heart for many reasons.
I feel like it's my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to the ethno-nationalist state.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
So she got some uh heat back from that.
Um and Owen's response to this is like, duh.
And then also, I don't care about Palestine, I don't care about this shit.
jordan holmes
I mean, okay.
I only shut the fuck up.
dan friesen
I only care about America.
jordan holmes
I I do love a good.
I do love a good.
I don't want to see any foreign flags in my country.
Like, man, the flag itself has 50 stars on it because there are 54 countries that make up the one country.
Man, the learn learn a thing.
And learn a thing.
dan friesen
And and I say fuck you, you're a liar.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
Pretending that you have like this uh Oh, people don't know how to differentiate.
dan friesen
Oh, but even even like the pretending you have some kind of enlightened take on like uh hey, what goes on in another country, uh I don't care.
All I care about America.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You're full of shit.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
That's not true.
You're just dodging having to deal with any of this.
jordan holmes
Even from earlier in the episode, it's not true.
You were giving more care to other places.
Right?
Like you're only avoiding this one because you know there's a very obvious problem here.
dan friesen
Why do you care about Russia and Ukraine?
Right then.
jordan holmes
It's yeah.
dan friesen
Oh well.
jordan holmes
Can't be any difference.
dan friesen
So um he's saying that this uh this uh Hannah Unbinder, uh, she like is being made to like accept uh all of like Netanyahu's actions.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That's what people are trying to impose on her.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That like all Jewish people should love Israel.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Right?
It's just they're one in the same, basically.
jordan holmes
Right.
According to most Nazis, yes.
dan friesen
Well, and Charlie Kirk in 2019.
charlie kirk
Ah, one of the most ironic things I have to do every single year is I go to college campuses and I have to tell Jews why they should love Israel.
No, it's one of the most unbelievable things I've ever done in my life.
Where I have to tell Jews that this is a moral and good country.
Um I'll let you guys all figure out why that is.
I'm not gonna try to tell you that.
There's a lot of different theories I have.
I actually still haven't totally figured it out.
But American Jews are some of the most anti-Israel people that I've come across in the States, actually.
It's it's absolutely unbelievable.
Um militantly anti-Israel, too.
It's incredible.
I mean, Bernie Sanders is technically Jewish.
Um, so you reaffirmed.
jordan holmes
Oh God.
charlie kirk
Uh you you get what yeah, so I'm I don't mean that as a slight.
I don't think he practices Judaism.
Is that correct?
Okay, so that's why I say that.
Um, he's he's a Marxist.
unidentified
Right.
charlie kirk
And so I will say that the left is driven by hatred and anger.
Do you realize how angry these people are all the time?
dan friesen
Big open mic energy.
jordan holmes
That was I will say the left is driven by anger and hatred.
Nice.
What else do I call what do you guys want me to close with?
I got two bits.
I got two bits, I'll let you choose.
dan friesen
That's a good save you just pulled out of his back pocket because he slipped on a banana peel on stage talking about who's good Jewish people to people in Jerusalem.
jordan holmes
You know, what I love most about these last two clips is there is nothing I love more than a uh bigoted white dude really just telling other people how to relate to their own ethnicity and relationships and religion and and everything.
Because they can't know they're Jewish.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's too complicated or something.
jordan holmes
It's almost like the virtue of what you think by itself is in its nature anti-Semitic.
dan friesen
So another thing that Owen, you know, like Owen is trying to say, like, hey, it's so obvious that criticisms of Israel aren't anti-Semitic.
charlie kirk
Right.
dan friesen
Right, just by it's not definitionally the case that that is unfortunately Charlie Kirk in 2019.
Uh seemed to conflate the two.
charlie kirk
I I I am as in the conservative movement as one could probably be.
Um who is even a smidgen anti-Israel or anti-Semitic has no place in the American conservative movement.
Nowhere.
And I denounce them, and so do all of our leaders, every elected representative.
dan friesen
Huh.
Well, that's weird.
jordan holmes
Um you're sure being mean to the s uh corpse of Charlie Kirk today, huh?
dan friesen
No, I'm not.
I'm letting him have his perspective.
jordan holmes
Right, but that's that's really mean because if you look at him for who he is, you kind of think, well, fuck that guy.
dan friesen
I might think that guy, but I thought that when he was alive.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I didn't like him to begin with.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
It's almost like everything after he's dead has been very performative from everybody.
dan friesen
From a lot of these fucks.
charlie kirk
Yep.
dan friesen
So um Owen's playing some clips of Netanyahu and just trying to make himself mad.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
Yeah, why not?
dan friesen
It's just it's such bad Alex shit.
owen shroyer
You know, about that tech.
About that tech.
Where's the money really coming from?
Where is the investment really coming from?
jordan holmes
Quibono.
owen shroyer
Where are the production standards really being propped up from?
Uh, BB.
benjamin netanyahu
This is business expenditure on RD funded from abroad.
So this is by country.
How much is funded from abroad in your economy?
Well, this is clearly the winner of the United States, naturally.
This is an absolute price.
It's 2023.
Let me tell you.
owen shroyer
So in other words, we just we prop up your entire tech industry.
So Netanyahu admits it.
The United States props up the entire Israel tech industry.
We prop up their military.
We prop up their security, we prop up their health care, we prop up their education, we prop up their tech industry.
unidentified
So that's you needing us.
jordan holmes
Is it?
owen shroyer
Wait, wouldn't it be nice to have those expenditures right here at home?
You know, that's what people are realizing.
We're struggling.
Our infrastructure's collapsing.
Our streets are getting more violent.
Our homelessness and poverty rates are rising.
And yet we keep sending all this money overseas.
The biggest benefit uh benefactor of which being Israel.
People are just sick of it.
dan friesen
People are sick of it and they need a new house to podcast from.
jordan holmes
I mean, man.
dan friesen
So in that clip that Owen plays, Netanyahu's standing in front of a chart that's titled, quote, Most Major Tech Companies Have Their Largest RD centers outside the United States located in Israel.
Then there's a subheadline, quote, business expenditure on RD funded from abroad.
On this chart, the US is the top by a wide margin, which reflects other countries investing in RD centers in the United States.
That is money that's coming into the United States.
What Owen's complaining about is exactly what he wants it to be.
I mean what the title of this graph is saying is that other than the United States, Israel comes in second in terms of RD centers, and it's not close.
Owen is entirely misinterpreted the graph, uh what it says.
And even if it is true that the US invests a lot of money in Israel, which we do, the source that he's using doesn't say this.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he forgot to crop out the I-24 news Chiron at the bottom of the screen that says, quote, Netanyahu addresses Israel's economic isolation.
This is just like on its face, no effort.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, and kind of a lack of understanding of a lot of stuff, because uh in in my experience, uh, generally speaking, if you have been giving several tens of hundreds of billions of dollars consistently over the past my entire lifetime, it's probably because you get something out of it more than it is them.
dan friesen
Sure.
And then, you know, there's there's reciprocal uh uh investment on both countries' parts.
Like I'm I I'm not sitting here saying that we don't have a lot of money that goes to Israel in many ways from you know, whether it's public stuff or from private corporations.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
All I'm saying is that the source that Owen's trying to use here says the opposite of what he's pretending it says, and he doesn't seem to realize it.
It's just that's all.
It's just he can't make a good point because he sucks.
jordan holmes
Right.
I mean, and they they can't you have to look for two seconds and think and that like how do you not just go, I wonder if that actually says what I think it says.
dan friesen
I usually ask myself when I see something, what does this mean?
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
And that's foreign to that.
jordan holmes
Ask myself that on street signs in Chicago, where I have lived for the past 20 years, right?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
For years.
The guy who signs Owen's checks, he just like took dumb shit that he saw on Twitter and made up stories about what he thought it meant.
And so, like, why wouldn't Owen think he can too?
Like, he has seen greatness in sloppy, lazy, no effort bullshit, and he thinks like I got the goods too.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You don't.
Sorry, man.
Sorry.
jordan holmes
You know what he should try and do?
He should try and start a feud with us.
That would be a move for him.
dan friesen
No, because we're trying to help him.
jordan holmes
I know, that's the problem.
He'd be like, ah, these guys just talk shit about me.
And it's like, no, man, we're we're giving you good feedback.
dan friesen
Constructive workshop criticism.
jordan holmes
I I genuinely wish we had gotten some sort of feedback of this uh level in quality.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Keep that gold sales.
It's literally printing money.
jordan holmes
It is it could not be more of a you give me ten and I'll I'll give you five.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
God, it's good.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's good.
dan friesen
So we get one last clip.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
I would say there's a fucking elephant in the room.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
And that isn't talked about Alex.
jordan holmes
There's one big elephant in the room, and there has been this whole fucking show.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And guess what?
He doesn't really talk about Alex.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
But boy, does he explicitly talk about Alex in this next clip?
Check out these coughs that are strategically placed.
jordan holmes
All right.
owen shroyer
Everybody, everybody can sense that something is still not right.
Everybody can sense that there's something really dark and sinister hovering now over this administration.
Everybody can sense it.
Everybody can feel it.
Everybody knows it.
And believe this.
A lot of the big MAGA accounts that you see out there that are pushing the pro-Trump, pro MAGA stuff, pro-Republican stuff.
These are paid promotions.
These are just political commercials on social media now.
Behind the scenes, folks, they know.
They know.
But it's their job.
It's how they make their money.
It's how they make their living.
It's how they make their income.
But behind the scenes, they know.
They know.
And, you know, I guess I'll actually say this in closing.
Because I'm telling you, this pressure cooker with free speech, folks, they can't have it.
There's there's too much pressure.
There's too many conversations.
It's threatening the establishment too much.
I I think something big is coming in response.
But it's funny because I watch.
You can kind of see now.
And I'm not, this is not to say somebody is better than the other.
I'm just this is just I'm just telling you what's happening here.
And you can, and if you really pay attention, you can see it.
You have people in let's say the independent media, the new social media, okay, that do political commentary and everything else.
And you have people in that realm that are totally bought and paid for.
Totally bought and paid for.
And even you could even say in the larger political, in the larger political media body, you have people that are literally just bought and paid for.
Who knows what their politics are?
Their politics are whoever pays them the most.
And that's why there are different instances you can see of people being on the right and then people being on the left, and then on the right, and then on the left.
It just depends where they're working or or or who they're working for.
So there's a ton of these people out there.
That they just they just work for whoever pays them.
Their politics just land at whoever's paying their bills.
They don't really have any principles.
And you're seeing a lot of these individuals really getting defensive, aggressive, because they know that the gig is up.
jordan holmes
Oh my God.
dan friesen
There's an elephant in the room.
Um, and I think if you're in Owen's position and you're talking like this, yeah, and you don't explicitly say, I'm not talking about my boss that I just had a really ugly breakup with.
Yeah, I think it I think you're saying that it's you're talking about him.
I think it's pretty clear.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
You know, in in this space, in this like hyper male-centric space, right?
It always fascinates me when people don't understand when you have to do the man stuff.
Right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like you can't be in this space and go, somebody, you know, somebody who's maybe a right?
Like that's no.
dan friesen
Alex is like, I'm gonna eat you.
jordan holmes
I will fucking kill your family, and then I will burn them underneath my goddamn cat.
I don't care.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I and and the when when I have uh when I have vanquished your bloodline.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
I will spark a fire with your bones.
Exactly.
jordan holmes
You have to recognize that the man thing in your world is crushed your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women.
And take that like it's true.
Like you're fucking cash patel, and it makes sense to go see in Valhalla, Dick Watt.
Like you're crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's like um there Is a dominance display that has happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that is Alex screaming at you and being like, you fucking piece of shit, you got a demon in you.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And like what you're doing is you're signaling that you've lost.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
There's a bird, and that bird is gonna fuck Alex.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And you are gonna go back to your little hole and you're gonna cry.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You are not the bird that gets laid.
dan friesen
I don't think that the world works this way.
And I really, really don't like it.
And I don't treat people this way.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But this is how their world is.
jordan holmes
This is your if you're going to live cook destroyer.
He's the cook destroyer.
dan friesen
He's acting like a cuck.
jordan holmes
You are a cuck.
You got destroyed, you little cuck.
dan friesen
Oh God, just scream at Alex.
That's all like there's no win if you're gonna do this.
But I do think it's really funny.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think I think the clearing the throat is so funny.
jordan holmes
I I don't understand the lack of awareness for when you are participating in your own humiliation.
You know, like if you're going to not be humiliated in this way, just don't do the stream.
dan friesen
I wonder if Alex has like tapes from security cameras and InfoWars of like Owen saying the N-word and like all kinds of crazy shit.
jordan holmes
Anything.
dan friesen
Like I wonder if there is just that, and he's like, ugh.
jordan holmes
And Alex is spiteful and crazy enough to just throw him out there.
dan friesen
And he's also protective enough to not do that if he doesn't have to.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
If he can just scream that he's gonna eat you.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
He'll do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He'll dominate you as opposed to risking like tainting the info wars, the whole workplace.
jordan holmes
And if anybody can see when that Alex's dominance bullshit is hollow, it should be you.
You've sat next to him and Nick Fuentes is Alex like supplicates himself.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's he's a he and uh uh Paul Joseph Watson sat next to him while uh Alex was wasted on air rambling, making no sense.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
And and like he's even kind of saying in that clip that it's hollow.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like he's saying that he's bought and paid for and and look, he doesn't say this is Alex, right?
But he also isn't saying it's not.
It has to be required to say that in this circumstance.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Or else a fucking elephant in the room.
jordan holmes
All these people are the fucking same anyways.
Right?
How could I how could I guess even from that description which one is which?
Oh, some of them are bought and paid for.
They are all behaving identical.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
For the most part.
jordan holmes
So maybe the ones who are stupid are the ones who are doing it for free.
dan friesen
Or for gold memberships.
jordan holmes
All right, Dan, seriously.
Give me ten dollars, and then next month I will mail you eight dollars.
dan friesen
This is too good to pass up.
I feel see what I like about this is getting mail.
jordan holmes
I think that's part of it.
I think that is part of it.
dan friesen
It feels good to see something addressed to me, even if it is of lesser monetary value than what I I paid for it.
jordan holmes
I still think of the if do you remember the Taskmaster season where the guy revealed that he had a cloud of the day subscription and he paid like a dollar a month to and they email you a picture of a cloud every morning.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And that was it.
And I was like, that is that's dumb.
That's terrible value, but you know what?
It's curated for you, that's fine.
dan friesen
It's it's to make you happy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And this is by design a scam.
So uh we will be back for another episode.
I I have this weird feeling that like I kind of may do more Owen.
jordan holmes
I think Owen's gotta Owen's gotta change.
Owen's gotta grow.
Owen's gotta do something.
dan friesen
He does, but he has a slight awareness that there's that need.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
That's the thing.
That's what's interesting about him.
Is like he is at a crossroads.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Where we could see him like take on a challenge, or we could see him continue to do whatever this is.
jordan holmes
I mean, I I would find it really interesting if I thought for a moment that there was the possibility that we would see an egg hatch into an eagle.
Right.
But I don't see any possibility of that, especially after a little coughing fit here.
dan friesen
Yeah, no, it seems it seems incredibly unlikely.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But there's a chance.
jordan holmes
It would it would actually be an interesting thing to witness.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
to see him go from being the pathetic loser that this is to being something more than that.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, the alternative is just, you know, like keeping on watching Alex all the time.
No, I'm I'll take I'll take this as a little bit of a diversion.
jordan holmes
I want them to fight.
For fuck's sakes.
Grow up and fight like babies.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Fight like a true Limp Biscuit fan.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Speaking of which I forgot to mention this.
He does play that Limp Biscuit song again.
jordan holmes
I believe it, though.
I believe it.
dan friesen
The show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Because he's that dude.
dan friesen
Well, one good turn deserves another.
jordan holmes
He's that dude.
He's just that dude.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So anyway, we'll be back uh with the now Owen Schroyer branded podcast.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
But uh Oh, we call it no and Troyer.
dan friesen
That's not bad.
jordan holmes
It could be worse for something that I've just thought up in zero seconds.
dan friesen
It's definitely better than the Owen report.
Anyway, we'll be back.
Uh until then we have a website.
jordan holmes
DV2 until we'll be back.
dan friesen
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
I am the mysterious professor.
unidentified
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
jordan holmes
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy and Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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