Jordan Holmes and Dan Friesen dissect Alex Jones’ March 9, 2006, episode, where he falsely claimed federal mandates like unisex bathrooms or DHS surveillance in Alaska (2,400-population Dillingham) would force cultural compliance, ignoring grants for safety. His "Liberty Tower" conspiracy and opposition to gender-neutral school terms were mocked as performative outrage disconnected from reality. Jones also pushed debunked theories—like Iran’s EMP devices or Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds as a government psyop—and pivoted on Bush’s impeachment, conflating treaty violations with selective hypocrisy while promoting fringe legal tactics like jury nullification. Their critique reveals Jones’ rhetoric prioritizes cultural control over constitutional principles, weaponizing resistance to manipulate audiences rather than defend liberty. [Automatically generated summary]
We'll also get into what's happening with moves to impeach President Bush at the state level to get that ball rolling.
And there's also state legislatures that are now moving to pass laws to not allow the federalization of the state driver's license for the national ID card.
Oh, they can pass federal laws saying we get national ID cards.
They can pass federal laws saying force psychological testing and drugging of the American people.
But let's see them try to implement it at the state level.
If we simply get involved, they don't have a snowball chance in Hades.
So, right off the bat, you can hear how important state sovereignty is to Alex at this point in his life, where he holds the position that the federal government could pass any law it wants.
But as long as he and his buddies don't give up, it's going to be impossible for the government to enforce anything on the state level.
He's kind of right, but he's lying about it having anything to do with freedom or the Constitution.
The part he's right about is that as long as the extreme right wing will stay heavily armed and pissed off about everything, the federal government will not be able to do anything without risking violent reprisals.
But before I do that, I want to read this article written a few days ago by Chuck Baldwin because the anniversary of the Alamo siege has come and passed, come and gone.
And it's just as important as Lexington or Concord or what happened at Bunker Hill or at Trenton, New Jersey.
And so I want to just spend a few minutes and read this article before I get into all the world news and cover what's happening here domestically as well.
This is by Chuck Baldwin.
It's up on prisonplanet.com.
Alamo heroes appear foolish today.
It is that time of year for me to remind my readers about the magnificent stand by the defenders of the Alamo back in 1836.
Yeah, it's an interesting choice to say they believed in freedom because it's a very specific type of freedom for themselves and not others they believed in.
Liberty is an easy word to say, but it is a hard word to live up to.
Freedom has little to do with financial gain or personal pleasure.
Accompanying freedom is her constant and unattractive companion responsibility.
Neither is she an only child.
Patriotism and morality are her sisters.
They are inseparable.
Destroy one and all will die.
Early in the siege, Travis wrote these words to the people of Texas.
Fellow citizens and compatriots, I am besieged by thousands of Mexicans under Santa Ana.
The enemy has determined a surrender at discretion.
Otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword.
I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls.
I shall never surrender or retreat.
Victory or death.
P.S.
The Lord is on our side.
As you read these words, remember that Travis and the others did not have the ACLU, PETA, and people for the Un-American Way and the National Education Association telling them how intolerant and narrow-minded their notions of honor and patriotism were.
A hostile media did not constantly castigate them as a bunch of wild-eyed extremists.
As schoolchildren, they were not taught that their forefathers were nothing more than racist jerks.
So, like, liberty's tough, even for these brave men who didn't have the ACLU and the PETA yelling at them by their racist and they beat dogs or something.
The brave men at the Yalamo labored under the belief that America and Texas really was the land of the free and the home of the brave.
They believed God was on their side and that the freedom of future generations depended on their courage and resolve.
They further believe that posterity would remember their sacrifice as an act of love and devotion.
It all looks pale now.
By today's standards, the gallant men of the Alamo appear rather foolish.
After all, they had no chance of winning, none.
However, the call for a pragmatism and practicality was never sounded.
Instead, they answered the clarion call, victory or death.
And in closing, please try to remember the heroes of the Yalamo as you listen to your gutless political and religious leaders calling for compromise and tolerance.
Try to recall the time in this country when ordinary men and women had the courage of their convictions and were willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom and independence.
So when I have the derisive and disgusted tone about Alex in the present day resorting to lesser of two evils arguments in order to justify Trump's actions, that's why.
I mean, now, Rick, there needs to be some sort of time travel situation wherein we can see how, you know, like, this is a, and it's a wonderful life situation, right?
We're all in the simulation of what would happen if Alex did whatever he did, you know?
Like that person in 2006 is the only person who's actually alive.
We're all living the dream, and then in a little bit, whenever it goes real south, that person's going to wake up and go, I guess I'll have to change my life.
I just want to set the stage with that and understand that when you have an attitude that you're willing to fight and die and you're not going to be pushed around or shoved around, you get left alone.
You have liberty.
And then you're able to produce plenty.
And then you become happy.
And then your children become decadent.
Their children become even more decadent.
Their children become cross and corrupt and evil.
And then you get tyranny.
And then you go right through the cycle again if you're lucky.
Normally, the cycle isn't broken, and you just live in abject slavery and tyranny.
And countries fail.
They're not productive or powerful or well-known.
The real empires of the world were forged through a zenith, through a genesis, through a beginning of liberty, at least more liberty than their neighbors.
It didn't matter what color they were or what culture they were, where there is liberty, there is freedom, there is happiness, there is productivity.
The greatest myth that folks like Alex sold to their followers is that they just want to be left alone.
And the reason that's been so damaging is it's totally understandable.
A lot of people just want to live their lives in peace and sincerely don't care what other folks get into in their private lives.
So when Alex dresses his beliefs up that way, it's really relatable.
But Alex and his ilk don't want to be left alone.
They want to impose a culture on all of us that makes them feel like they're being left alone.
It bothers them if a teacher at their kids' school is gay, so they want to outlaw that.
It bothers them to see mixed-race couples on TV.
So they want a culture that doesn't include that.
For most of us, when we hear the government should leave us alone, we can nod along thinking about weird taxes or how they shouldn't arrest you for weed.
Yeah, I mean, you know, we probably should have, we probably should really put together the thoughts of like somebody who's like, we're really into the Alamo because we want to be left alone.
And then think, like, maybe the Alamo wasn't about being left alone so much as being suddenly very alone in a land that's not yours that you now get to keep.
Yeah, I mean, it's a bummer when you go back and you listen to him say things that sound like they're useful because in our world, right, and in the world of people listening to this, when they hear somebody say words, right, they associate that person with the meaning of those words, as opposed to somebody who is using those words like a whip or a tool to lie to you.
So it's time to throw off the left-right paradigm, to realize we're all in this together as humans, and to realize that any centralization of government, whether it's under some left hood or some right hood, that is whatever hat you put on it, it is still the same creature, and centralization allows corrupt elites to dominate and control.
Because I think that then there would be some like absurdist sentences that had eventually you'd get something that was like an AI hallucination kind of thing.
So Orson Welles was absolutely not doing the War of the Worlds radio play on behalf of H.G. Wells, who was trying to run a PSYOP for the Tavistock Institute.
Wells and Wells are very similar last names, so I can see where Alex is making that connection, but this is fucking dumb.
CBS faced a number of lawsuits over the broadcast, some entirely frivolous, but at least one led to depositions that got into the roots of how the show came to be.
That case had to do with who had rights to the radio play since it was derived from War of the Worlds, but it was a reimagining of the story as a telecast.
There weren't that many people listening total to begin with.
What ended up happening is that a very small number of people called the police or the newspaper to make inquiries about the things that they were hearing on the radio.
This thread was picked up by newspaper journalists who went on to publish stories about how people were duped by the radio in the next day's paper.
And from there, the legend grew and fed upon itself.
In hindsight, a much better explanation for what happened is that in 1938, radio was rising in prominence as a news and entertainment medium, and it was taking advertising money away from newspapers.
More traditional media latched onto what was basically a non-story in order to attack a new emerging media platform, which was at that point far less centralized than print.
This is kind of just what happens with media when there's money involved.
Radio was a threat to print, TV was a threat to radio, the internet was a threat to TV, and now we're living in a space where the internet's been rendered mostly bullshit by oligarchical interests like Elon and Amazon.
And who knows where there's going to be ad revenue in the future?
Bush was kind of famous for fucking up words and speeches.
Yeah.
I don't know if this was a grand propaganda move that everybody had to workshop and Rove had to be behind.
Alex is saying that Bush called Library Tower Liberty Tower, and then everyone just fell in line and started calling it that, but that's not true.
You can find tons of articles from the mainstream media about how he got the name of the building wrong in his State of the Union speech, and the White House issued a correction almost immediately after he misspoke.
It's interesting, though, because Alex is imagining a media that's in total lockstep with Bush, where he misspeaks, and then they report the thing he got wrong as if it were actually correct.
That wasn't true, but it's true of Alex and his crew now.
Listening to this, it kind of feels like Alex is saying that the media is acting this way because it's what he thinks his role is.
The media exists to reinforce the message of the people in power.
And in 2006, he felt like he was nowhere near power and never would be.
Whereas in 2026, that's changed.
If Trump were to call Library Tower Liberty Tower, it would be Alex's job to convince people that was the right name, which is why he assumes that the mainstream media is doing that with Bush.
Yeah, if you stop thinking about him as reacting to reality whatsoever and instead think about him as being one part of the same reality, right?
So instead of that whole concept of predictive programming or anything like that, Alex is telling you what the enemy is doing because that's what those people are supposed to be doing.
So if Alex is in that position, he's going to do what they're doing.
There are some things that do require like a tap, please tap the glass kind of thing, you know, where it's like, hey, buddy, the next time you say First Amendment, I'm going to have to tap the glass.
I was thinking about it, and this is such a great position to have when you don't intend to do anything about it.
If you're just talking shit and trying to rile people up, then something like a school district deciding to change the terms mother and father on forms to just parent is awesome.
It's in a state you don't live in.
You have no children who go to these schools, and it doesn't affect you at all, but you can print money complaining about this shit.
Once you have any real power, you have to either ignore this issue altogether or advocate for the state or federal government to stop local governments and school districts from making their own policies.
Some cities and states might decide that updating these forms is appropriate or even necessary, and you need to deprive them of the ability to do that in the name of upholding your version of the natural order.
And that's a consequence of you having power that you never really wanted to begin with.
And it will also make the children have unisex toilets, which are very destructive, very bad.
I mean, I have run in trendy restaurants, and I've even been having my hair cut at one of these fancy salons before because my regular place was busy and the little corner place I go to where an old man cuts your hair in five minutes for $5.
And, you know, you try to go to the bathroom and it's unisex and you're in there and there's women in the bathroom.
Hey, man, I don't want to be around women in the bathroom.
And it's not because I'm old-fashioned or weird.
That's how humans operate and how humans behave.
Women don't want to be in the bathroom with a man.
And then all over the country, they're putting cameras in the bathrooms under federal grants.
I just thought I'd mention this.
Another reason to get your children out of public schools.
You know what it said then, Bill Clinton's executive order?
It said that they're going to take blood and DNA to get a driver's license in the next phase.
And this was for years down the road.
And they said that if you haven't paid all your tickets or have warrants or whatever, or you've got tax problems, they're going to arrest you for taxes there.
I mean, it's all in there.
It's a hellish system.
That's why they're going to have you retina scan and thumb scan when you get your kids from school.
That'll flag it the minute you've got a warrant.
Boom, the cops will arrest you.
They're at the school.
They're going to build holding cells in the malls, the schools.
There'll be little prisons everywhere just to grab you and throw you in.
You'll be thrown on a truck, taken to the airport, flown to a distribution center in Oklahoma City or in Denver, and flown to camps in Alaska or South Texas or overseas or Guitmo.
So Bill Clinton didn't sign an executive order that required taking blood for a driver's license or whatever insane shit Alex is ranting about.
What actually happened is that in 1996, Clinton suggested that teens should have to pass a drug test as part of the process of getting a driver's license, and he passed the idea off to his cabinet to research.
This was stupid and part of the war on drugs hysteria, but it also never got implemented because groups like the ACLU that are in league with PETA, they made it very clear that they would fight against this aggressively in court.
The Clinton administration found it to be an unviable option.
So instead of focusing on that, they went on to other things like tying federal funds to zero tolerance policies for underage drinking.
It's really great that Alex was the watchman on the wall for us.
So he didn't end up in a situation where the federal government is just snatching people up and sending them off to God knows where.
He really saved us from a dark timeline where technicalities are getting people swept up and booted to camps.
Thought I'd cover that as well for their surveillance.
The Homeland Security in one horse town where there's, if you're lucky, one little old gas station where they might have cigarettes and three brands of soda pop.
I mean, I've gone to these towns where there's nothing, nothing but one gas pump.
And you go in there and there's cameras all over the town.
Homeland Security.
Got one here today.
Alaska Hamlet gets 80 surveillance cameras from DHS, Department of Homeland Security, which now has a faith-based initiative.
And it's cameras through the faith-based initiative.
This is out from about.com.
And it says it's worthy of a Golden Fleece Award.
Dillingham, Alaska, population 2,400 is installing 80.
I've been in towns where it says the population is 250, and there's at least 10 cameras you can see.
I mean, in neighborhoods.
Dillingham, Alaska, population 2,400 is installing 80 surveillance cameras around town courtesy of a $202,000 Department of Homeland Security grant.
I remember it says the town is so small it has no streetlights.
And there wasn't like a church angle to it either.
That seems to be implying.
It's obviously unnecessary, but if you're trying to critique this story with an anti-DHS angle, the problem is that they offered the grant to begin with, not the excessive number of cameras that the city council decided to put up.
I read a bunch of shit about this, and it seems like they were just like, we've had a couple of people drown in the port.
Yeah, and I think one of the other things about this town was that they had had, because it's a port town, and there's people coming in on ships and going, there was someone who died from falling off a boat, and they didn't know if someone had killed him or not.
And it's an international pool at a certain point.
Also, you can find hundreds of articles discussing this plan to install the 80 cameras in Dillingham, but you won't find many large outlets discussing the fallout of this city council of decisions.
Chris Napoli, who'd been the mayor since 1997, got so frustrated with the pushback that people had about the cameras that he stormed out of a council meeting and resigned.
But according to the law, they almost passed it beyond all our inspection stickers right now.
So they're just phasing it in on select groups and being the cops' badges and the cop cars.
Well, I'm getting tracked.
Why aren't you?
We're all in this same pit together.
And so just when you're getting charged that much, just remember I told you.
Remember, you could have gotten involved and gone to the city council or sued somebody or gone down to the county commissioners or gone and followed board members of these different tolling groups around and caught them.
I don't care if you go catch them cheating on their wife.
I mean, let's play hardball with these people.
Just burn them.
This is war, folks.
Just burn these people.
Burn them.
Don't do anything illegal.
Just a bunch of crooks.
So they're going to be involved in crooked activity.
Go hire a PI to follow them around.
They'll find all kinds of activities.
They come back 100% of the time and go, you can't believe it.
I just caught on tape.
You'll see them getting bags of cash in parking lots.
You'll see them dressed up like transvestites.
You'll see them going to whorehouses.
You'll see them buying crap cocaine.
And just start playing hardball with these crooks.
Stop playing games with them.
Scumbag trash.
This makes me so angry.
I'm sorry.
Just crooks taking over and raping us makes me mad.
First off, the first word, the verb word, the active word in that sentence, I believe is illegal.
So you've already broken one pretty solid rule that you established later on.
Second, I really don't know how many different ways there are to find somebody cheating on their wife and get video of it that are not technically illegal in some form or fashion, right?
It does sound like, considering the number of people who are fans of Alex Jones, or at least have memorabilia and the like suggesting they are fans, a lot of them have been in crime situations wherein they followed somebody illegally.
So the Citizen Rulebook is a little pamphlet that advocates for jury nullification.
Basically, it's a rant about how every juror is more powerful than all of the government because they can just say not guilty, even if someone is clearly guilty of a crime, but the juror disagrees with the law.
Well, just to let you know, I'm not a neocon, but I do disagree with some of the things that you've been saying by the last week or so as far as the Muslims.
It seems like you're giving them a free pass on all of this and making them out to be victims.
And you've also stated that Christians and Jews get along fine in their country.
Since we know that God is working through Alex and telling him what time it is at night, the only explanation I can come up with that makes sense here is that God was chiller about Islam in 2004.
Sure, they can change their minds, but that also becomes a demarcation point where you then have to be responsible to that at that moment moving forward.
You know, this whole religious belief and this whole fake hoax subculture that it's got the Muslims creeping around everywhere wanting to kill us in most Muslim countries.
I had Darjah Malon.
He's a Lebanese Christian.
He's an American, multi-generational Texan, but he's a Lebanese Christian.
And I know a lot of Lebanese who are Christians.
I know a lot of Egyptians that are Christians.
I had a friend growing up who was Egyptian, who was an Egyptian Christian.
And I've had Shiite Muslim friends who were from Iraq, who I went to high school and college with.
Really nice people, people I lived at weights with.
And then they weren't foaming at the mouth.
They had Christian friends.
I'd go over to their house for dinner and they'd have Christians over.
It is not true.
Okay?
I mean, have there been Christian countries who use it as a political excuse to go kill their neighbors?
I will say whatever is tactically and strategically appropriate at any given point in time, regardless of whether or not it contradicts what I just said two seconds ago.
And, of course, we have after downthestreet.org, one of their folks on with us and Vermont Selectman, Dan DeWalt, to discuss recent developments in campaigns to impeach Bush and remove his cronies from office.
And don't think this can't happen.
And I know Bush is just a puppet of these global interests, but still, we need to impeach him, to punish him, to let everybody know and other presidents know he is not the law.
He is not dictator, regardless of what his White House says or what he says.
And for those that don't know, he's really declaring that he is a dictator.
One of the guests Alex has on is a guy named Dan DeWalt, who had gotten some media attention because he was a selectman in a town called Newfane, Vermont, population 1,680, who had put it to a vote at a town hall meeting whether or not Bush should be impeached.
The motion passed 121 to 29, and it meant nothing.
He recently wrote a piece for his website called, quote, ICE is at War with the United States, and he is aggressively anti-Trump.
I don't think I agree with him about everything, but Alex would want to fight Swanson now.
And the reality is that Alex would have wanted to fight him back then, too.
It was just advantageous for him to play nice and pretend they had common ground, hoping to lure in some of his audience.
In 2002, Swanson wrote his vision for a positive 2050, and it included the following things that Alex hates, even in 2006.
Quote, a ban on discrimination due to sex, sexual preference, or perceived cultural background.
A ban on union busting and on right-to-work laws.
Increased taxation of corporations and the super wealthy.
Investment in central cities, universal public health care, universal public child care, universal transportation provision, guaranteed basic income, institution of the separation of church and state, increased aid abroad, amnesty for immigrants, a ban on private gun ownership, a ban on hunting and fishing, and the list goes on with all the things Alex would hate.
Good luck, buddy.
And to be fair, Swanson isn't just like some left-wing dude.
He wrote an article arguing for Biden's impeachment a couple months after he was sworn in, and it starts like this.
Quote, since the presidency of Richard Nixon that I was born during, and since long before that, there's not been a president who, in my view, should not have been impeached, removed, and banned from holding office.
He defends himself against people who'd say it's too soon to impeach Biden by arguing that Congress should impeach the most recently available person they can.
So my point is this dude is not a lesser of two evils guy.
loves the idea of impeaching it does it does feel like he's yeah i mean i think i'm i think i'm the only other person i know who said we should probably just get him off I think that other people have said it for sure.
Like, he seems aggressively so, to the point where I did watch a video where he was arguing against thinking that World War II was something that was good for us to do.
Yeah, I mean, once you, if you really establish, and I actually am against all wars position, what flows from that politically, you'll find goes in a lot of weird places.
Well, I hear one of the reasons should be not just lying premeditatedly about WMDs, which we now even have the White House memos on, which are even more damning than Downing Street memos, in my opinion, is his counsels, his lawyers, saying he's above the law and him concurring.
There may be a utility in not going back on agreements we've made, but he just agreed with someone who said that there's a supreme law that functions internationally and isn't from God.
It's interesting how Alex is saying that Bush should be impeached because he thinks that he's above the law, but what he really means is that Bush should be impeached because Alex doesn't agree that he's above the law.
Time has clearly shown us that he does not have a problem with presidents thinking they're above the law when he likes how they violate the law.
Yeah, it is hard not to, it's hard not to go like, hey, if we had stepped up once you find out a president lied you into war and we'd been like, nope, can't do that.
Well, then we're definitely not here.
We're definitely not here.
This is, we get to hear several steps after you let the president lie you into a war.
That's how bad it gets after you let the president do that.
Well, they've got Republican Senate chairmans of committees saying war protesters are fifth columnists and need to be arrested, and all their mouthpieces are on the radio and TV saying it, and fire teachers that criticize no free speech.
I mean, that's dictatorship.
And when they claim they're above the courts and above the Congress, well, the New Patriot Act has a whole new classification.
It has a national police force, unlimited jurisdiction for Secret Service or their designants, and no protected official need be around for them to instantly declare that you were in violation of the safe zone, and you get a year and a half in prison starting.
This horrifying fantasy that Alex has about the National Police Force, who can declare magical safe zones where they can just do whatever they want to protesters, is exactly what he supports now.
You cannot have the positions he's pretending to have in 2006 and then support ICE doing whatever they want just because they say that the people they fuck up are impeding them.
The only way this is possible is either to accept that the 2006 position was a lie or for Alex to explain why he gave up on liberty.
They're trying to have a little bit of a discussion about the dehumanization that comes along with war and the intersection of that and profit and corporations.
Sure.
And Alex can't really engage except by being a gross kid.
And these vets are wonderful people with their family and friends, but they justify doing that to Iraqi families.
And there's a group of Iraqi women now traveling around this country telling their stories, and it's stuff that you have never heard in the American media.
I mean, it's been all over foreign mainstream press where they get video of it or take photos or are there as it happens, and they're just shooting women with children for fun.
They're just going to watch me splatter this bleeper.
And the head just splatters, and they all hoop and yell and do high fives.
And the woman's holding a three-year-old as they walk down the dirt road trying to get food, and the baby just looks there standing over their splattered head, and there's a bunch of animals rolling around basically getting sexual pleasure off of it.
And those pieces of psychopathic trash are going to come back here and be cops, and they're going to man the concentration camps.
That's what these wars are about, is growing sickos.
And gentlemen, what about Halliburton and the camps for the citizens?
I think when you're talking about the evil in the Bush administration, I think you're missing a large point, which is way different than just somebody's psychology.
That is, corporations in this country have not only the Bush administration, but the Democrats in their pocket.
And whether they're evil or not isn't even the question.
They don't get down there in the baby brains and the piles of rotten dead bodies with the maggots all over them.
They sit up there in their $50 million houses with their three mistresses all oiled and pampered smoking Cuban cigars while this country's going to hell in a handbasket.
So that thought that you had earlier about how the consequences unfold if you don't punish a president for doing the kinds of things that the presidents have done.
They're going to let the Republicans become the image of a demon, and they're going to put Democrats in later who will continue carrying out the policies.
And then so-called conservatism itself, things that are important, like the Second Amendment to protect ourselves from these tyrants, and other things are going to be demonized further.
And it's all set up by design.
But we have got to punish the executive now because clearly the elite wants an imperial executive.
Bush is just their puppet.
This is the globalists want this dictatorship of their own control.
And this is classical.
I mean, Bush is announcing he's a dictator.
You know, the jokes of 2000 and 2001, if I was a dictator, you know, things would be a lot better just as long as I'm the dictator.
So maybe Alex was right that if we didn't punish the executive branch for its misdeeds in 2006, we were heading for a dictatorship.
I'm willing to say that his instincts were correct on that, but I say that with one major caveat.
If we accept that Alex had this level of clarity and insight, then we have to also accept that his actions in the recent past are a clear-headed support of dictatorship.
It's a situation where him being kind of right about something actually makes him way worse of a person because there's no way to plead ignorance.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm thinking about the power of saying something true and attributing it to they.
You know, like, of all the things that you could do damaging in this time period, it is to associate any like actual truth with, and it's because of the evil overlords, you know, like to shittify being honest, right?
Just to make, to make, like, hey, man, this is a very reasonable point.
And that's because we don't deal with the demon aliens that are taking over.
Alex also has basic details of the story wrong, like the fact that the police had Bell against his car when they shot him, not on the ground.
Further, they didn't claim that they can just kill people.
The police argued that Bell had tried to grab one of their guns, which was later proven to be forensically impossible since none of his DNA was found on that gun.
What you hear in that clip is Alex being aware that he should know something about this case that the caller is bringing up.
The character that he plays would know about it.
So when confronted with the question, he has to bluff.
Not only does Alex know about this story, he's getting ready to cover it today before this caller even brought it up.
Honestly, that was terrible and insane, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
That guy is thrown into an impossible position to try and make something up about something he doesn't know he's got to try and make something about that he doesn't want to try and make up something about.