Knowledge Fight - #224: March 20, 2009
Episode Date: November 2, 2018Today, Dan and Jordan discuss the March 20th, 2009 episode of The Alex Jones Show. On this episode, the gents learn about an attempted martial law takeover of Schenectady, an attempt at outlawing you ...from having a garden, an attempt to force the population into serving the Department of Defense, and of course, how Alex is wrong about everything.
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Andy and Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work.
I love you.
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan.
I'm George.
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, drink novelty beverages,
and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
Indeed, we are. Dan?
Yeah.
Dan?
Hello.
When was the last time you were trapped on a train
with somebody talking on their phone loudly?
I mean, it's not that far back. Certainly, it's a very common occurrence.
Yeah.
I don't remember the last time, but I know that it's happened.
Buses for me more, I think.
Yeah. I got off two stops before I normally do,
because somebody was talking so loudly and so boringly on the train.
So it's not even...
I could not handle it.
The conversation isn't even worth reporting back on.
No, it was horrific.
Your report is...
It was horrific.
Headline, boring conversation, overheard on train.
Oh, brutal.
Cool.
That's it. That's it.
It was just so... I was so angry that I...
Like, and my headphones had just died too,
so it was like I was trapped in...
Oh, it was...
It was...
There was nothing I could do.
I was trapped in this one half of a conversation.
Well, that might have...
You know what?
Somebody might be moving to St. Louis soon, Dan.
Oh, that's...
Are you excited?
Yeah, St. Louis is wonderful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm so St. Louis, ask my tattooist.
No.
Shout out Murphy Lee.
I won't do that.
Also, along with Murphy Lee...
I will not shout out Murphy Lee.
Oh, he's great.
I'd like to give a shout out to Murphy Lee.
Also, I'd like to give a shout out to a couple new donors.
Probably more importantly than Murphy Lee.
I mean, unless he donates to the show.
Oh, God, come on, Murphy.
Come on.
I don't know if he has the money for it.
Oh, come on.
St. Lunatic's still relevant for great...
Shut up.
Speaking of relevant, these people are very relevant to my appreciation.
So thank you so much.
First of all, I'd like to give a shout out.
That was a bad transition.
Thanks.
I'm sorry.
That was your first bad one in a year.
Yeah.
Well, you know, you gotta...
Sometimes you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
Yeah, that's true.
No, no, no.
Everybody's...
You can't bat a thousand.
That's right.
If you do, you're juicing.
Somebody who's not juicing.
Is someone who's just joined up with the team.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Mike.
You are now a policy wonk.
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you very much, Mike.
Also, I'd like to give a shout out to someone who came in
on a little bit of a higher level,
and I may mispronounce their name, and I apologize.
It's Murphy Lee.
Murphy Lee.
One time we were doing a show in St. Louis,
and we were trying to get Murphy Lee to come to the show.
Okay.
So we were like, found him on Twitter,
and we're like tweeting at him like,
hey, Dirty, come to the show.
Stuff like that.
How did it go?
It didn't work out.
It didn't work out?
No, but in doing so, we did find that Murphy Lee
has a pretty good sense of humor.
Like, he keeps calling people female humans
and male humans.
All right, I like that.
It's just nice.
I like that.
Yeah, and then the other thing he tweeted,
that I'll never forget, was don't nobody love these hoes,
but everybody loves Raymond.
All right.
All right, I'm back on board with Murphy Lee.
Yes, got him back.
You won me over.
You won me over.
Someone who has won me over.
Someone who's joined up on a little bit of an elevated level,
and we appreciate it.
Oh, so much.
Esme, you are now a technocrat.
I'm a policy wonk.
Four stars.
Go honking your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
Someone, someone, Sotomight sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Shark.
Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
Jar Jar Banks has a Caribbean black accent.
He's a loser, little, little titty baby.
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Esme.
Thank you very much.
I think it's Esme.
Could be, and I apologize if I got that wrong.
I'm not the best with names.
I don't know, I think that's one of those ones
that I've only ever read before,
and you've never, like, I don't know any Esme's or Esme's.
The one that always screws me up is the S-I-O-B-H-A-N,
that Irish name.
Yes, that one.
No, I'm just kidding.
I have looked up how it's pronounced,
and I have since forgotten.
I feel terrible about it,
but I'll never be able to retain that information.
But either way, we appreciate it also very much.
Thank you for your support.
If you'd like to join up and support the show,
you can do it by going to KnowledgeFight.com,
clicking that Support the Show button,
and we would appreciate it.
It would be nice.
So, Jordan, today I wanted to do a Present Day episode,
because we've been sort of, you know,
we were in the past on Monday,
and then we had our Space Adventure Wednesday,
and I thought it would be good to check in on the Present,
but then I saw an article where Alex was saying
that the shooting at that synagogue in Pittsburgh
was a Marxist-G-Hottie plot.
You can stop right there.
And I said, no.
Yeah, no.
No.
This is not even worth it.
Like, no, I know that looking at the abyss
is kind of part of what this show does a lot of the time,
but I think that there's even a point that it gets,
like, why are we doing this?
You get too close to the abyss,
and you get drawn into it, and you die.
I just don't think that there's much, like,
point in us talking about that.
I think that's, like, that's kind of at the line
of, like, where it's like, all right, get bent, asshole.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't even, like, because there's nothing.
What researcher are you going to do, like?
Well, there's that.
No.
There's nothing to sort out.
There's nothing to look at, except for, like,
isn't this guy an asshole?
Yeah.
And I think we can do that in a more productive way.
Oh, yeah.
Through other avenues.
And our past episode,
when we were in the past, was incredibly
relevant to the present.
It's weird that way.
Yeah.
It's more relevant than Alex in the present.
So I'm what?
And so I decided, fuck it, we're staying in the past.
And today, we're going over an episode from March 20, 2009.
It's only one episode, but that's because I also
am going to just say off, off the top.
This is a Friday episode.
And I also listened to the March 22, 2009, which
was a Sunday, and that was hot garbage.
Yeah.
I realized that Alex Jones nowadays uses Sunday shows
as soft launches for his narratives.
Yeah.
A lot of the time, if he wants to test something out,
see how it feels coming out of his mouth.
It's a little bit of an open mic.
He'll do it on Sunday.
Back in 2009, he would just do a recap of all the bullshit
he talked about in the last week.
Wait, really?
And I realized why.
It's because back then, more people listened to Sunday shows
because it was distributed by MS Communications.
He knew he had a bigger audience on Sunday
than he did on weekdays, so he tried to make the most of it.
Nowadays, he knows that less people are listening on Sunday.
And so who gives a shit?
Let's fucking punt on it.
So I realized that.
So this is technically March 20th and 22nd,
but we're not going to talk about anything in the 22nd.
But we do have an out-of-context drop from today's show.
I am an animal.
I am vicious.
OK.
All right.
All right.
I agree.
Yeah.
You're not wrong.
We start off today's episode.
In the aftermath of our last 2009 episode,
we had, I think, probably the most substantive thing that
happened was Alex got a visit from the guy
who started the Oathkeepers.
Yeah.
And which now is not something that you
would want to wish on anyone.
Like, if you told me that, oh, yeah.
In about a week, you're going to get a visit
from the guy who started the Oathkeepers.
I'd be like, how do I run away from this as fast as possible?
It's kind of like a curse.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You put on him.
Yeah.
So we have that.
Alex is softened his heart, the opposite of that quarterflash
song, hard in my heart.
All right.
He softened his heart to the Oathkeepers,
and that will serve, I'm certain, as his transition
to the Tea Party.
Yeah.
So that sort of, that mystery is a little bit,
we've got a lead in that one.
Yes.
Further where we last left off, he
was going real hard on the Mayak Report bullshit,
really trying to feign and create the idea that the government
hates patriots and they're taken on over.
We all do now.
Certainly.
So here we go.
This is where Alex starts the show,
and it's sort of indicative of his mood throughout,
I would say, at least the first half hour, 45 minutes.
You know, a lot of people are waking up to the New World Order
right now, but I don't think people are waking up
to the full magnitude of it.
And last night, this morning, it's just been hitting me
like a ton of bricks.
Just how serious a situation we're in.
Just now?
You know, I don't sit here with pleasure reminding people
that over the years, I have been ridiculed and laughed at
about everything I've talked about,
only to have people later admit I was right.
Nope.
And I'm telling you that they're going to kill
the majority of us.
I'm telling you that that comes next.
Sorry, I laughed at you.
Because they say that's what they're going to do.
You are doing exactly the same thing.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
He said something that made me laugh.
It's his own fault.
The problem with it is that he is right,
is that people do ridicule him and laugh at him,
but he's wrong about the second part,
where he's always proven right,
which I think is demonstrated over all of our episodes.
I think we put together a pretty solid indictment
of his truth telling.
I think one of the damning things,
or like one of the worst lingering legacies of Gandhi
is that quote that like first they ridicule you,
then they, you know, all that.
I don't remember exactly how that quote goes,
but a lot of people with really dumb ideas
take solace on the fact that they're being ridiculed
because they think they're on the path to being revolutionaries.
That is exactly where Alex lives.
Just a note to anybody who's thinking of saying
an inspirational quote at any point in their lives.
It can be used against you, so don't.
Yeah, oh yeah, it'll be twisted.
Be careful, be careful with your inspiration.
Or at the very least, once again,
this is a perfect situation to add the dot, dot, dot,
except Nazis.
I think this is a great one.
Sure.
First they laugh at you.
Yeah, fuck you, dot, dot, dot, yeah.
So Alex is, he's pretty deep in this,
like kind of rolling around like a pig in shit
about how people make fun of him,
but he's always right.
Yeah.
He's just, that's kind of his entire headspace,
and I'm not sure exactly why that is.
Because somebody laughed at him a lot recently.
That could be.
I don't see any external reason for him to be like,
I have been vindicated as always, or anything like that.
Yeah.
That something must,
something weird must have happened to him
in his personal life.
Because he talks about it a bunch.
Len Beck does hours and hours every day on radio and TV on it.
He's talking about the Mayak Report.
Yeah.
But see, I'm always the one that gets to be attacked
when I break it.
Just like it was out for a few days
and getting the attention,
we pointed out the Iowa National Guard gun confiscation drill.
Nope.
They themselves were admitting that's what it was.
Nope.
It was in the newspaper door to door
asking to search houses and looking for gun dealers.
How to lock down the tiny town of Arcadia.
Nope.
400 and something people.
Wasn't what that story was.
And I get criticized for that.
I go on air last week.
It's in Reuters, a photo army troops on the streets
after the mass shooting in Alabama.
I go on air, people say, oh, that's not true.
Now it's in the Houston Chronicle and Associated Press,
nowhere else.
See, this is where the difficulty with Alex back then was.
He is right about that second one.
Yeah.
That one where the troops were out.
But we talked about that on a recent episode.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where, you know, it wasn't some nefarious,
let's put troops on the street,
or it wasn't even like a let's acclimate people to it.
It was like, we don't have enough police force.
Why don't you give us a hand here?
And even they were like, we shouldn't have done that.
And yeah, it was someone in the...
We were trying to do good, but it was a bad idea.
It was someone in the organization who misunderstood
his responsibilities and it was dealt with appropriately
after the fact.
Yeah.
So he brings in the Arcadia thing, which isn't true.
That was an exercise where they were going around
and simulating the idea of looking for someone in a town.
It wasn't a gun confiscation drill or anything like that.
That's nonsense.
That has nothing to do with this.
But then he is right about the idea of the troops on the street,
but he's exaggerating it still.
So it's like, okay, you get half a point.
Yeah, you know what?
He's absolutely right.
We really shouldn't have the military operating
within our borders.
Interesting.
Oh, we just...
It's unconstitutional.
It's a really good thing that Alex has that as a principle.
Yeah.
It's important.
You stick to it.
He doesn't change based on the weather
and whether or not the guy he likes is doing it.
And they're admitting it violated federal law.
Posse Comitatus.
But that's okay because that's what I'm here for.
I'm here to hit the barbed wire first every single time
so everybody else can climb up over my back
while I'm hanging in the barbed wire
and spit on me and give me no credit
after they're done climbing over me.
And you know what?
I like it.
Good.
Because I'm doing this for all the innocent people out there,
the Newell orders running over and hurting and killing.
And I don't care about my name,
what people say and think about me,
but the denial does speak to psychology.
We're talking about martial law in New York when we get back.
Oh, boy.
So, like, that is...
What's that sign off?
Yeah.
What's that sign off?
It's like a two seconds to break.
We've got to tease something.
We'll be talking about the alien landing right after the break.
I'm basically Jesus.
Martial law in New York coming right up.
I mean, I would say that that's a dangerous level
of self-flagellation
and the way he thinks about himself in his mind.
Like, if someone was on the left
and they spoke like that,
I would be like, you are a little out there.
You are unhealthy.
I agree with what you stand for,
but you are unhealthy
and I don't think you're the right person
to be carrying this message.
Yeah.
That's kind of how I would look at it
just from like a human standpoint.
It's a good idea to at least be like,
hey, hey, back off.
Right.
Maybe hold it back a little bit.
I know that he seems to be the example I pull up all the time,
but just because I think he's funny and I like him.
But like, if Sam Cedar was acting like that,
I would be like, never again.
Or like, I'm going to send you an email
so you if you're okay.
Like, because that's not good.
Who's the, who's the dude who used to be a sports anchor?
He was.
Olberman.
Olberman.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Olberman.
Like, no.
I had that.
The hard pass.
I felt pretty similarly about Olberman
back when he was freaking out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Olberman.
Dude.
Yeah.
I got it.
Fucking calm it down a bit.
I tentatively might agree with some of the things
that you're saying, but stop it.
Just back it off.
Yeah.
It's unhealthy.
And sit it down.
When you perceive yourself this way,
everything is going to be in attack.
And when you perceive yourself this way,
nothing is ever going to be like,
you're never going to be able to look at the world
realistically because you're not looking at yourself
realistically.
And so Alex is deep in that mindset on this episode.
And I don't know.
It extends here.
Oh, I promise you, we'll get back to the martial law.
Oh, okay.
I was wondering, I thought that was going to be
right up after the break.
It's not.
He has to talk more about how he's always
right about everything.
All right.
Literally, the Iowa story about the guard,
we are the ones that pushed that big,
broke it internationally.
Was it true?
We got attacked by the mainstream media.
That's the proof in the pudding.
We broke the Mayak report.
Got attacked.
Still sight saying it's not real.
You got one scoop, asshole.
Comes out yesterday and says he defends it in Missouri.
Governor Nixon, he should be impeached immediately.
He wasn't.
You know, on subject after subject after subject,
we started the 9-Eleven Truth Movement.
I put my name in the line and did it.
And I don't enjoy being the leader of it.
It's dangerous.
Yeah, you do.
It's dangerous doing this.
All I ask is that people out there who know we're on record,
on the front lines, the shock troops,
on every key issue, we're there.
All we need you to do is to realize the power you have
to be shock troops as well.
So the first thing I want to talk about about that
is he's using two bullshit examples
in order to establish his credibility.
The Arcadia Iowa story, complete bullshit.
Nailed that one.
He was just lying about that entirely.
100% correct.
Then the Mayak report, the modern militia movement document,
it was a real document that someone gave him
and he did beat WikiLeaks to releasing it by a couple of days,
but he completely lied about the contents of it.
He made elementary logical fallacy about
what the inference was of the report.
And 9-11, the jury's still out on whether or not
he's right on that one.
It is interesting that he's so aggrandizing
of his martyr status that he's willing to say,
I, we started the 9-11 truth movement.
Sure.
Which may or may not be fair.
I don't know enough about the etymology of those theories,
but it's entirely possible that Alex Jones was a huge part of.
That is possible.
Like establishing the entire thing that got
much larger than him very quickly.
How long did it take for the 9-11 truth movement
to start after 9-11?
Well, you could argue that it happened immediately
because Alex was on air that day
and he started screaming about how they blew up the towers
and how like this was the government killing its people and stuff.
Oh, so then yeah, he did start the 9-11 truth movement.
And then he brought it in the middle of the first tower
and the second fall tower falling down.
He was like, government did it. Let's move on.
Whatever time he was on air, yes.
And then he had Ted Anderson on to sell gold.
So not a...
Wait, you still had him on to sell gold
when 9-11 was happening?
That's the time to sell gold for him.
That is crazy.
That's the best time to sell gold.
The entire world is watching the worst terror attack on America
and he's like, all right, all right, 9-11 prices.
We've got...
Bullion is...
9 ounces for 11.
I mean, what better time to override people's sense of like,
I got to check this out first than in a terrorist attack.
So of course you have Ted Anderson on to sell gold.
All right, that's fine.
So the other thing I want to talk about about this clip
is Alex's use of the word shock troops to define his audience.
Oh, no, that's great. That's what you want.
I know Alex loves to use military terminology to describe players
and his information warfare nonsense,
but the use of the term shock troops seemed a little strange to me.
You see, the term shock troops is an Americanization
of the German word Stostrup, which is the name...
Stormtroopers.
It's the name of the bodyguard unit specifically established
to be Hitler's bodyguards.
Granted, the concept of shock troops had existed prior to Hitler,
generally being a term that was used to describe offensive attack units
that would sneak around and attack an enemy where they didn't expect it.
Interestingly, many scholars on combat view the strategy
that ISIS uses of employing suicide bombers
as a form of modern shock troop activity.
And this kind of highlights one of the reasons
why Alex is using this metaphor as disturbing,
but also I think it's pretty apt.
Shock troops rarely survived.
They would go in and light up the rear guard of a base
or something like that,
but then pretty much invariably be killed in the process.
In the West, the concept grew out of units
that were referred to as forlorn hope units,
a name reflecting how dreadful their position was.
The idea was that these troops would go in,
a whole lot of them would die or be severely wounded,
but if they were lucky,
they might be able to establish a position that they could then defend.
Often the soldiers would be willing to take such huge risks,
because in many cases they were conscribed prisoners
who had no choice,
or because they were promised great rewards should they survive.
Alex Jones comparing his audience to this sort of a soldier
is very appropriate if you just add the caveat
that the war they're waging is imaginary.
Alex knows full well what he's doing to his audience
with his lies and propaganda
is the equivalent of mortally wounding them in battle.
They may not end up with a limp or a missing limb,
but as soon as they accept his worldview
of being shock troops in an imaginary war with the globalists,
it's kind of the equivalent of social death
in any community except for with their fellow info warriors
that'll further insulate them more
and lead them being more interested in being his shock troops.
Yeah.
So there's a apt metaphor Alex is accidentally making here,
and I think it's really sad to think about.
It's really, it's a real fucking bummer
when you realize like on some subconscious level,
Alex is expressing an understanding
of how much he's crippling his own listeners.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
With this brain worm kind of idea
that he's injecting into them.
Well, even he in his like,
I would say minor understanding of the term
still recognizes that the idea of the shock troops
is they're going in first.
They're the ones who are going to take the brunt
of the first salvo, right?
He's hitting the barbed wire.
Yeah, yeah, no, they are.
He's mysteriously, he mysteriously getting paid millions of dollars
to hit that barbed wire.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he kind of doesn't actually touch the barbed wire.
He's just kind of like,
I look at barbed wire,
I pretend there's barbed wire here for billions of dollars.
And you guys are the shock troops, you run in.
You touch that barbed wire.
I touch it all the time.
Why are you so afraid to touch that barbed wire?
That's a good question.
You're not a shock troop.
You're all a bunch of cowards,
cowards sitting behind your $10,000 a year part-time job.
It's such a dangerous.
I make millions of dollars a year
to make you afraid of barbed wire that doesn't exist.
And you are gonna come tell me that you're scared of it?
Wait, yes.
I don't understand.
What was I saying again?
Anyways, we've got a martial law in New York
coming up after the break.
I think that this sort of analog and this language,
especially when it's couched in the,
the psychology that Alex is clearly manifesting on this show
of like, I'm always right and everyone mocks me and I love it
because I'm always right eventually.
And you guys are my foot soldiers who are out there.
Shock trooping it up.
I think that's really, really fucked up.
And it would be fucked up if he actually was right about things.
Yeah.
But then when you add in that he's wrong about everything,
I mean, the picture starts to take shape
of someone who just wants to destroy people's lives for money.
It feels tough to get away from that a little bit.
It's a good racket, apparently.
Yeah, apparently.
A lot of people get really rich
destroying people's lives for money.
It appears so.
And the people who try and build people's lives up for money
do not get paid well at all.
No, no, it's a shitty racket.
Yeah.
So, but here we are.
We're back from the break.
The metaphorical break.
Yes.
And it's time to talk about martial law in New York.
Third good martial law.
That's just some of what I've got here in front of me,
but I wanted to bring Rob do in here.
The city councilman of this New York city would not come on.
I guess because of fears or repercussions or whatever.
But Jason Burmes is from right outside this city and says,
oh, yeah, it's legendary for police drug dealing and corruption,
basically mafia run.
And so we're going to come back and play a little news clip
from Capital News 9.
America considers options martial law over political woes.
So this is the story that he's going to weave,
and he's going to weave it into like they're trying to put
martial law in place in Schenectady, New York.
That is the, that's the big story.
And unfortunately, in Alex's telling of the introduction
to the story there, he solves the mystery clearly.
Because he says that Jason Burmes is from around there,
and they have a huge police corruption problem.
That's what this is about.
It's not about martial law.
It's about a deeply, deeply entrenched
in corruption police department.
So at the beginning of 2009, the town of Schenectady
faced multiple officers who were facing termination,
leaving a massive hole in their only 166 officer deep department.
According to the Daily Gazette, quote,
the six officers who may be fired
are Darren Lawrence, accused of drunk driving,
crashing in a colony, fleeing the scene,
and beating a friend to keep him from reporting the incident.
Sounds right.
Michael Brown, accused of driving drunk,
hitting another car, fleeing the scene,
and refusing a breathalyzer test.
John Lewis, accused of DWI,
threatened to kill his ex-wife in numerous other charges.
Gregory Hafensteiner, and Andrew Casero,
uh, Cas, oh man, Keraskiwitz,
accused of beating a drunk man during an arrest.
And Dwayne Johnson, uh, accused of leaving work
four hours early on numerous Tuesdays.
Feels like one of those feels like one of those
might just be a stern warning.
One of those is just a jabroni, my friend.
That's all, that's all one of those.
That's great, Johnson.
Yes, of course I did.
God damn it.
All right.
All of those guys, however,
I do want to have guns publicly.
That's great.
You have this list of all these people
who are clearly acting with impunity
and like either beating suspects,
walling custody, um, like,
or going home from work early on a Tuesday.
The beating the drunk man during an arrest
doesn't even describe it fully.
Like they had him handcuffed,
and they beat the shit out of this guy.
And they beat the shit out.
Yeah, yeah.
And the other ones are like DUIs,
which you can kind of understand.
People fuck up sometimes,
but when you have a DUI,
and then you beat up somebody
in order to not get arrested,
or, you know, you try and, uh,
you threaten to kill your ex-wife on top of it.
Yeah.
There are things that are like,
okay, we got a problem here.
Yeah.
So their sergeant, Eric Clifford,
was caught undergoing a dental procedure
while on duty.
And he told the dispatch
that he was, quote,
going out on a detail.
So you're still on the clock
and just went and got some dental procedures done.
All right.
I respect that hustle.
I'm fine with that.
The head of the civilian complaint review board
had quit in January,
citing feelings that no one was listening
to any of their complaints.
Any of the civilian complaints.
Yeah.
He even said that, uh,
he felt that he was just an errand boy,
like a courier delivering complaints
that would then be ignored.
Yeah, that sounds right.
City Councilman Gary McCarthy said, quote,
I'd like to go one week where we don't have
a negative newspaper article about the department.
It's just baffling
that it's just keeps happening.
It's human nature
that people are going to make mistakes,
but this seems so institutionalized.
Schenectady Mayor Brian Stratton
was kind of in a tough situation.
Here he was facing the possibility
that he had to fire a group of police officers.
And those were just the officers
that they had potential grounds for dismissal for
that wouldn't likely get challenged
as cause for termination
and result in a lawsuit.
Yeah.
Because for better or worse,
the police have a pretty fucking good union.
Their union is strong.
Yeah.
And so it's amazing how many people support unions
only when it comes to police.
It's weird.
But somehow they hate unions when they're teachers.
I absolutely.
It's so strange.
I absolutely support the police having a union,
but you have to recognize in a situation like this,
when there are these bad cops
that have become deeply entrenched inside the police force,
the union does make it incredibly difficult
in order to have,
um, I don't know what you'd call it,
but like easy solutions are very difficult
in that situation because they're,
they have a strong protection.
Yeah.
But you can respect it because that protection
is of course in a,
in a situation like policing,
it could very easily be used politically
and nefariously.
Sure.
So, so the protection is there
to keep that shit from happening.
Right.
But it also gives you that,
you know,
six a one hand half dozen,
the other where it's like you fucked up
and you're still protected.
Yeah.
You know, there's the same things true
for teachers unions in,
uh, uh, plenty of places
where they have the teachers
who just go to work
and sit in a room all day
because you can't fire them,
but they can't be allowed in your students.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that kind of thing.
Ultimately,
Mayor Brian Straden had just said
that calling for dissolving the department
and calling in county or national guard help
while they reformed the police force
was a quote last resort.
Not surprisingly,
people were pretty against the idea
and it failed to get off the ground in any way.
Yeah.
That's just a comment from the mayor
and even in response to the comment,
people were like,
yeah, you can't do that without the governor.
So the mayor doesn't even have the authority to do this.
It was just him trying to express
in some way how severe the problem was.
Right.
Right.
And how he was willing to,
if need be,
look into this as a solution
where they dissolve the entire police department
because it would be impossible
for them to root out the corrupt officers.
Yeah.
That were resulting in the population
kind of being terrorized a little bit
by the police force.
So now the problem of police corruption and senectity
was something that Mayor Stratton did not give up on
and it took him until 2011
to complete his mission
of forcing out entrenched officers
who did things like,
quote,
spew racial slurs while fighting in a bar
or of course,
there was the case of Detective Jeffrey Curtis
who, quote,
became addicted to crack cocaine
and stole 85 pieces of the drug
from the police department's evidence safe.
Curtis compromised evidence
in more than a dozen cases with his theft.
That's not good.
So he had a situation like that
and he took years
and found novel solutions
in order to get around things
like the limitations of the unions.
He was able to find ways
to convince a lot of these officers to resign.
Right.
He was able to force out ones
that he could force out
and he made it his mission.
He retired
having completed what he meant to do in office.
Really?
Yeah.
It's actually...
Fuck yeah.
Good for you, dude.
I obviously don't know everything
about schenectady politics
or Brian Stratton's entire career
but from a lot of the stuff I was able to read,
he seems like a really good success story
in many ways in terms of like setting out.
When you get into office,
you realize, oh shit,
look at all this.
Yeah.
Look at this mess.
Our budget is completely fucked.
The police force is a disaster
and you set about trying to make changes.
And along the way,
you make a statement like,
we're willing to call in National Guard
and county officers
if we have to dissolve the department
and propagandists like Alex jump all over that
instead of looking at like,
oh my god, there's a lot of positive reforms
this person was able to make
and he didn't actually do anything resembling martial law.
So the real bad...
It's almost like the bureaucracy worked.
The real bad part about this story
is that they were...
Alex and Paul Joseph Watson wrote an article about this.
Oh, that's not good.
And Stratton responded.
Oh, that's super not good.
Yeah.
You never should have done that, Stratton.
Yeah, because then they just turned that.
That'll be later.
Alex will talk about that when that actually happens.
Oh, god.
Weeks down the road or whatever.
But like, you don't do that
because then they just get to dance on your letter or whatever.
They get to lie about what your letter says.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So anyway, suffice it to say,
Brian Stratton seems like a civil servant
who did a great job
and helped the people of Schenectady quite a bit.
And Alex is a complete liar,
which leads us to this next clip.
A lot of people doubt us.
I mean, you could check us out every time.
That's true.
I do.
We know how things work.
This is what I do.
You don't.
Full time.
Maybe you should be part time.
So, I mean, here we have Alex starting the show off
and the entire thing is about like,
I'm right all the time and people hate me.
We have this New York martial law story
that's a complete lie that he's spinning.
And then he's like,
why does everyone fucking doubt us?
This is why, Alex.
Yeah.
And it doesn't help.
It doesn't help the guests that he have
seem to not be hard hitting interviews.
It seems like, look,
if you're a politician, I get it a lot of the time.
You have to like, hold back, be diplomatic,
learn how to speak correctly.
There should be a few exceptions, though,
where you're allowed to just go be like,
fuck that guy.
You know, like your response to Alex should always just be,
you should be allowed in all public,
like nobody is allowed to write FCC complaints or whatever.
If you just go on TV and say,
oh, Alex said what?
Fuck that guy.
We remove the taboo of like, teeing off on him.
Yeah, yeah, you get one.
Yeah, I don't disagree with that being a policy.
Yeah, I like it.
So, like I said, Alex.
Let's call Stratton and see if he can get that in and take care of.
So, we get here now, like I said,
Alex's guests are very not hard hitting,
which is another reason why people are like,
what the fuck?
Why, you know, people critique him rightly
because he has, a lot of the time,
he has his sponsors on the show,
and they're not, they're not announced as his sponsors,
or if they are, it's just them telling stories
and weaving narratives that help them sell things,
like this appearance by Steve Schenck,
Alex Jones' eFood Direct sponsor.
I want to bring up for the balance of this hour
before all these in-studio guests in the financial news
because it's perfect timing with all that's happening
to give us an update on what's happening in the food world,
and that's Steve Schenck of the J. Michael Stevens Group,
eFoodsDirect.com.
Sir, what do you think of the last three or four minutes of news I was covering?
Well, I think it's absolutely in accord with what you and I were going to talk about
with the HR875 and S425,
where they're, where they're moving on food,
just as you and I have talked about for the last three years.
Moving on at like a bitch.
So now we have a situation here where he has his food sponsor on,
who sells survival buckets, basically,
who's coming in to talk about this legislation,
that Alex, we mentioned in passing on a recent episode where you're like,
why are we talking about this?
Because it was that idea of the community gardens in Tulsa,
where it's just like, no, they're talking about where's the budget for
upkeep and things like that.
It's not about trying to,
but now Alex has weaved this narrative into being like,
they're going to try and encroach on you to such an extent
that you won't be able to have a garden in your home.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
So that's what the story is now.
Now, I just don't understand why he doesn't say,
we're going to go to the shank tank and talk to Steve shank.
I don't understand that at all.
That would be nice.
That's right there.
If Alex had a little bit more morning zoo in him,
that might be a little more entertaining.
It's right there.
Yeah. It's on a tee.
So there's a fun little bit of internet hysteria that went around in early 2009,
where conservative conspiracy theorists were trying to argue
that the government was trying to take away your right to have a home garden.
That sounds right.
There was a bill.
It was called HR 875, which is what Steve shank just brought up as a house resolution.
The sponsor of that bill, Representative Rosa DeLoro,
was more than fair with her response to that sort of nonsense.
According to the Huffington Post, quote,
the intent of the bill is to focus on the large industrial processes,
such as the peanut processing plant in Georgia that was responsible
for the Salmonella outbreak that killed nine people, she says.
She emphasizes that the Constitution's commerce clause prevents the federal government
from regulating commerce that doesn't cross state lines,
which is actually possibly inaccurate.
There's wiggle room on that.
There's like a little update at the end of the article.
So I just felt like giving that caveat.
Okay.
DeLoro says that she's open to making technical changes in the bill
if any small farmers remain concerned that the bill is aimed at them.
The article goes on to say, quote,
DeLoro says that she's been told that the disinformation campaign
was a libertarian operation somewhere in the country,
but we're trying to figure it out.
I think I could help her sort that mystery right out very easily.
Could.
It's a false libertarian who's spreading this on his dumb radio show.
And he could be inspired less by righteous hatred of regulation
and more by moneyed interests who have a...
Who are literally on his show right now.
Who have a stake in the game, you might say.
They could have a big ol' shank in the game, you might say.
Also, this bill died in committee.
Just like the identical bill that Rosa DeLoro introduced the year prior
when Alex wasn't complaining about it back then.
I don't know why.
So also, S425 is the other bill that shank brings up.
That was the Senate version of the bill and it too died in committee.
The last action on it was taken on February 12th,
or if you're keeping score one month before this episode we're listening to now.
The House version was sent back to committee on February 4th.
All of this is just lies about what the text of bills say that didn't even get voted on.
The only reason they're covering this at all is because it's something that's very easy to craft
into the narrative of government encroachment.
Plus, it has the added benefit of being something that's easy to twist into being about
big food like Monsanto trying to crush your home garden so you rely on them for food.
When in reality the bill was written, it was specifically designed to regulate
big interstate companies that had nothing to do with gardens.
Like Monsanto.
Basically, it's just a sales pitch that allows Steve Shank and his eFoods Direct
to enjoy some of that imaginary victim status that Alex Jones loves so very much
and uses to sell his shit.
Ugh, they want to be victims so bad while running everything and ruining people's lives.
It's fascinating.
Why do you fetishize victimhood so much?
Well, I think it's because something that we don't ever really take too into consideration
is that it's super powerful as a motivator for people.
Yeah.
I think that they're exploiting fear and empathy at the same time because I think
some people would be like, oh, we have to stop this.
They're going to shut down Steve Shank's ability to help us get food.
So there's a kernel of the empathy that people have for like Steve Shank in this case or for
Alex.
They probably have some misplaced empathy towards him when he presents himself as a
victim of all this shit.
Right.
That I think that any emotional response is something that people can use to get you to
override your better judgment.
Right.
And I think there's something to that.
I think it's a, I think it's a, I stopped short of calling it brilliant.
Yeah, I know.
You caught yourself real quickly.
Yeah.
It's, it's a powerful marketing tool.
It's an effective technique.
Yes.
Yes.
I think so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, oh shit.
I completely forgot about this.
What did you forget about?
I meant to talk about this up top at the beginning of the show.
So everyone's dancing all over Jacob Wall and I'm thrilled about that.
Yeah.
No, that's hilarious.
That was the dumbest press conference.
That was astonishingly dumb.
I loved it.
The other guy there.
Yes.
Berkman.
Jack Berkman had his fly down.
Yes.
I know.
How?
Now.
How is that real?
That's not what I wanted.
That can't be real.
That's not what I wanted to bring up, although it is fun.
He had his fly down and a press conference that he was giving.
If listeners, long time listeners to the show might recognize the name Jack Berkman.
And the reason for that is we went over a long, like maybe nine, 10 months ago,
we went over Alex Jones trying to tell the story of a Seth Rich investigator who got shot.
Yeah.
And it turns out that that was just a situation where he had hired another crazy guy to work with
him and then they had a little work squabble.
Yeah.
The guy who got shot was Jack Berkman.
Jack Berkman.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So.
Oh, yeah.
It's nice.
It's nice to have these.
I wish people would report on that.
I know there's other stuff, but that was a really fun.
That's a really fun piece of our past.
And when I realized that was him, I guffawed.
That's...
Quite heavily.
How?
How?
Yeah.
How?
It's pretty amazing.
These people just don't go away.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
They just don't go away.
They just keep doing bullshit.
I mean...
So actually, on the episode...
The stick-to-it-iveness is sometimes a good thing, but sometimes you just got to walk away.
Yeah.
On the episode where we were talking about Alex telling that story and like covering it as news,
I was like, I don't know enough about Jack Berkman to say that he's a dirty propagandist.
I now do.
I'd like to go back in time and retroactively affirm that on our old episode.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So consider that me giving notice to that old episode.
If you go back and listen to that old episode in a week,
it'll have like a little combo breaker part where you're like, yep,
bullshit, conservative propagandist, moving on.
I don't have nearly the amount of time to go back and find...
I don't even remember what episode that was.
I have no idea when we did it.
I don't...
Nobody's got our back.
So in this next clip, the Mayak Report is a super big piece of Alex Jones' current milieu.
Still going.
But he also has that story that he pitched on...
We heard it on Monday's episode where he has this forced volunteering bill
that if you recall, Alex is reporting on the introduced version of the bill,
as opposed to the past version of the bill that had the sort of mandatory service
aspect of it stripped out from its original form.
Right, because mandatory service is never a good idea.
No, he's lying entirely about the nature of the article,
but he brings it up again.
And man, this has evolved over the course of a couple of days.
This is so much scarier now.
All over the country, Obama has, and of course Bush started all of this,
but flawlessly, seamlessly, they're continuing it,
like relay runners passing a baton,
that they are going to have martial law in the states and cities and the tent cities
and FEMA camps and forced service.
Yeah, it'd be terrible if somebody wanted to build fucking tent cities.
They have a law that shall pass the House,
but separately the Army issued a directive a few weeks ago
for a million person civilian army that will be under a draft.
It says compulsory.
It doesn't say draft.
It says compulsory service 18 to 24,
and that you will be directed inside the United States or anywhere else in the planet,
including war zones.
So Obama, no, it's everybody else.
I guess for that matter, hold on.
They also have a senior core, a green core,
where they will decide what you're going to be and do,
and then you will serve them.
It has passed the House.
No, it hasn't.
Still, the public is in denial about that.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Shinakete, New York,
Shinakete's options, martial law over police woes.
Ozzy Mandamus, the mayor of Shinakete.
So there we get another, another, like he's just reading that,
that martial law headline and connecting it.
All right, children, you're 18 to 24.
You, we need you to volunteer.
There's a lot going on.
We need you to build homes.
We need you to build gardens.
We need you to fix roads.
We need to, we need you to go read to people in the hospice in war zones.
That's where you got to go.
We're taking you straight to the Afghanistani hospice.
See, it's a candy stripe.
It's very complicated because what he's doing now
is he's trying to combine things, like different things,
and then make them seem like the same thing.
So he's talking about, like he mentioned a department of defense directive in there,
and then talked about a bunch of other bullshit that I can't even figure out
where he's getting the, all that other stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But some of them made enough.
Some of the things about like war zones and stuff like that,
that's from the department of defense directive,
which we'll talk about in a minute.
But then without mentioning that he's shifting topics,
he's like, I passed the house.
And what passed the house is that stripped down version of what was it,
house resolution 1388.
So like he's, he's trying to play fast and loose with all these details,
pretending that it's all the same.
And none of it's real.
And none of it matters.
It's all crazy.
That's, that's great work.
So that's great work on his part to spin fucking bullshit out of nothing.
Yeah.
That's tough to do.
It's crazy.
So in this next clip, he brings up the directive.
And I'm going to go ahead and jump right into it
so we can have a fuller picture and talk about that a little.
I mean, this is classical as bad as it gets,
the most stinking tearing.
And I wanted to nexus that in with a story from info wars.net.
Steve Watson, January 30th of this year, two months ago,
Defense Department announces civilian expeditionary force.
And we've got a link to the bill there and excuse me, not bill.
It nexuses with the bill to the Defense Department directive.
We have a link to a nexus of the bill.
Defense Department directive 140410.
Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees,
either voluntary or involuntary,
or on an unexpected basis to accomplish DOD missions domestically or internationally.
And it says that you will be forced to deploy.
So there you have it.
Exactly what they said they were going to do decades ago.
That it's now happening.
So I think that there's one word that Alex is hoping you didn't hear in there.
And that is employee.
Yeah.
Because this is about DOD employees.
Yeah.
Now they call them.
They're mandatorily, it's part of their service.
They call them civilian employees,
because there's a lot of people in the military who work for the DOD.
Yeah.
So civilian employee doesn't mean citizen of the United States
who's being conscribed into service for the DOD.
It's non-military personnel who work for the Defense Department.
Like contractors.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So it's, if you look at this, because you can find.
Also, if it is, if it is the DOD, and even if he is right,
what kind of idiot would just grab some random person
and be like, now you're in.
Go achieve the DOD's mission.
Right.
It would take more money to train them.
Right.
So you can find this.
It is the DOD directive 1404.10.
Like you can find it.
I read it.
I have a link of it if you want it.
Yeah.
It's all just about employee stuff.
And the part that, like Alex is cherry picking that quote,
because it says mandatory or like willing or unwilling reassignment
and stuff like that.
And he doesn't read what came right before that in the text.
DOD civilian employees in EE or NCE positions may be directed
to accept deployment requirements of the position.
However, whenever possible, the DOD civilian expeditionary workforce
will be asked to serve expeditionary requirements voluntarily.
Now the important thing there is EE means emergency essential.
And NCE means non-combat essential,
which is to say that the position is essential,
but doesn't involve combat.
Right.
This is entirely about essential positions
and how we will try to accommodate you as best as possible.
We want this to be voluntary.
But because these positions are essential,
we might have to reorganize in such a way
where you go to a position you don't necessarily want to be in.
And if you don't want to be in that, guess what?
Because you are an employee, you can quit.
You don't have to go.
No matter what, you are at will.
That is true.
But they do also accept volunteers.
The civilian expeditionary workforce accepts volunteers.
But if you go to their website and you read their FAQ page,
there is a question, quote,
as a volunteer, are there any negative consequences
if I decline an opportunity?
The answer, quote, as an employee volunteer,
you cannot be directed to serve an expeditionary requirement.
So that's not a possibility.
Also, there's existence.
It's almost like all of these people have already thought
of the things that he is going to bitch about
and have written them into the rules
so that he cannot bitch about them.
And yet somehow he still does.
Totally.
And if you go to their website,
there's a list of extensive training requirements
that you have to undergo.
And these positions are pretty high-paying positions.
Yeah.
Like these aren't something where it's like,
exactly what you were saying,
like picking someone off the street.
Yeah.
And, you know, whatever.
What are you talking about?
So in Steve Watson's article,
he writes at the beginning of the article, quote,
the Defense Department has established
a civilian expeditionary workforce
that will see American civilians trained and equipped
to deploy overseas in support
of the worldwide military missions.
Problem is, DOD Directive 140410
is really just an updating
of an already existing directive.
You can easily find a version of it from 1992,
which still explicitly includes nearly identical language
about the deployment of civilian employees
of the Department of Defense.
Also, I found one from April,
that one is from April 1992.
So he can't even say Belcliton.
You know, it was done under Reagan.
Right.
Also, I found a revision of their manual
regarding civilian employees
for the Defense Department from 1988.
You can find online.
Well, then it's been happening for 30 years now, Dan.
Somebody's got to stop this.
What, them employing non-military personnel?
Yes, and they've just been conscripting
these people in secret, Dan.
That's why we don't know where so many people are right now.
It's utter nonsense.
Missing persons' cases?
No.
Forced conscription into untrained military action
in Afghanistan or wherever they want to go.
Sure.
Yeah.
So we now have this bill that he's lying about in the house,
that is completely different.
He's reporting on a different version of the bill than past,
which I call lying.
And then we have this Department of Defense
directive 140410, which doesn't say what he's saying.
He's conveniently not explaining what civilian workforce means
because it serves his purpose of the idea of like,
Obama is going to come and force you into service.
He's going to take your kids,
and then they're going to sass you at the dinner table.
Right?
So it's all this bullshit.
It's like he's connecting two lies into a bigger lie.
It's insane.
And even then, for some people, that might be like,
Obama's going to come to your home.
He's going to give you training,
and he's going to pay you $40,000 a year to do whatever.
There's another aspect of this that I want to talk about,
and that is in the mid-2000s, volunteerism was really hot.
It was a really hot thing.
And I know this because I went to the University of Missouri,
and I worked at the Office of Service Learning.
And that was a department within the university where my...
And within the Department of Defense.
That's absolutely true.
My entire job, because there was funding for a service-based curriculum,
was to go through the entire catalog of courses
at the University of Missouri,
and try and find ones that could have a volunteer aspect added to the course.
So if you say like pulmonary sciences or something like that,
there's an easy application of volunteering five hours a week
at a clinic or something like that.
Not hard.
So the university...
You just take people's blood pressure from time to time.
Exactly.
The university got grants and things like that
in order to weave volunteerism into the curriculum of classes
where it was applicable.
And I know because I was involved in creating the catalog of courses
for the service learning department,
that it wasn't something nefarious.
There were many times where I was stretching.
I was like, well, maybe this could...
You could volunteer at a museum.
And they're like, that's not really applicable to the course.
Anybody could volunteer at a museum, Dan.
It was hot in the sense of like this idea,
this paradigm.
It wasn't the entire university.
It was just in the service learning department.
But within that department, there was this idea of we have an opportunity
to get people to help where they can volunteer their time,
which is a positive thing for everybody.
And they'll also get college credit from doing those things.
It's not some evil thing.
About what year was that?
Boy, 2007, probably.
At the University of Missouri?
Yeah, yeah.
So everybody else was still into Tamagotchi's, right?
Yeah, probably.
That was what...
I was deeply unqualified to work at the department.
At the Tamagotchi department?
Yeah.
My then girlfriend's mom ran the department.
So it was a little nepotism.
All right.
All right.
Little nepotism.
All right.
But I enjoyed that.
It was a nice time.
An interesting work.
And I think that Alex probably would see something very nefarious behind even that.
Of course.
And it wasn't.
There wasn't.
So all of this, like these moves and these pushes towards volunteerism and stuff like that,
that was happening before Obama got in office.
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That was 2007.
So, I mean...
But I believe they, like you were saying,
they had written a lot of grants into trying to encourage people to do this.
Sure.
You know, I mean...
But not all of those grants necessarily come from the government.
Right, right, right.
But the university got money in order to...
You know, they got money in order to convince people to volunteer.
Which is an interesting...
Issue.
It's an interesting way to go about it.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think that there's a net positive to it.
Yeah.
Because you could also have really positive experiences while volunteering and
retain it as a piece of your ethos after college.
True, true.
There's a lot of stuff like that.
I think there's a lot of people in the world who would probably volunteer if it was easier.
Like the point of entry is difficult because you got to find a place you believe in.
You got to go through a process of like saying,
hey, I want to volunteer and then you don't know if it's like, all right, put on a cloak.
Yeah.
Put on a cloak.
Smock?
I don't know.
Where are you volunteering that you need a cloak right off the bat?
I couldn't come up with the word apron and said cloak.
All right, welcome to the Dementor School.
So I mean, this is all hot bullshit and I experienced a bit of this firsthand.
And to some extent, it was a little overwrought and it was like an interesting new paradigm
for education.
Yeah.
And so people were a little bit more gung-ho on it necessarily than they needed to be.
But I don't understand the negative backlash to it.
I really, as someone who lived in it, I think that's kind of stupid.
But it's very stupid.
Speaking of really stupid things, his next guest.
We already had Steve Schenck who sells Alex's food.
Yep.
Yeah, yep.
And now we have another guest who has a financial connection with Alex.
Goal is going considerably higher.
Ah!
The ones who are going to profit by this, this is the only place to go with
with your investment money is in Golden Silver.
And I can't stress that enough.
There are no more alternatives.
So Bob Chapman is here to tell you the only place to put your money,
Golden Silver, conveniently on a show broadcast on Genesis Communications that's
owned by Ted Anderson, who also owns Midas Resources and started the Genesis Communications
that worked as a marketing arm for Midas.
No idea how great Bitcoin was going to be.
No, they don't want it.
They don't want any of that.
Even now, the terrible prices it is now, if you'd bought a Bitcoin back then,
it'd be a millionaire.
They don't want any of that nonsense.
There's no other place to put it but Golden Silver?
Gold.
Go with the cryptocurrency.
Go with Maxcoin at this point.
Why not?
Hey buddy, Ted Anderson doesn't own a cryptocurrency outlet.
Oh, he doesn't?
No.
So they're here to sell Ted's gold.
We know this.
We see this over and over again.
It's like clockwork.
You already know that Ted Anderson is going to show up.
Oh yeah.
Like it's not even a reveal when I play like three clips from now when Ted Anderson shows up.
Oh no, it's Bob Chapman's there.
Ted Anderson is not far behind.
He's there to serve as a fake expert about the economy.
Talk a bunch of shit about how terrible things are.
Tell you you need gold and then magically Ted shows up to sell you gold.
So here's the part of it where they tell you.
Now, when I was raping South Africa, the thing that I knew most was that gold was the place to go.
We didn't touch the blood diamonds.
We left that to our buddies.
South Africa was too hot for a while so I went to Rhodesia.
Whoops.
Whoops, a doodle.
Bob.
So here's the part where Bob tells you about how terrible it is and makes horrible predictions
for the future.
This is right after Alex has told him his stories about the evils of volunteerism.
Oh man, you volunteer.
They're going to get you.
They're still calling in a rumor and the bill has passed the house on its way for sure.
Passage they're saying in the Senate.
It's the beginning of tyranny as people have read about it that occurred in all the places
you've mentioned just now and the plans are being put in place.
How long will it take?
I think maybe I think a year from this summer.
Oh, summer of rage and volunteering.
About 22% this year and by the end of the year.
And I don't think that's enough to get people cranked up fully.
What?
What?
And so I think 22% is it enough?
Sometime during 2010.
The riots and demonstrations are going to be happening in America in a big way.
I may be up my timing, but maybe things always take a little bit longer than you think they're
going to.
Wait a, cuck out your own prediction there at the end.
That's really bold.
Oh yeah.
The world is going to end on December 12th, 2012.
But I might be wrong on the timing.
Could be later.
You never know.
It takes it usually, you know, maybe that's the beginning of the end.
So it could be a while after that.
Hello.
Hello.
My name is Bob Chapman.
I run a newsletter called the international forecaster and I would like to forecast that
there will be rioting in tyranny in America by the summer of 2010, but I might be wrong.
Fuck off.
If you think you might be wrong, don't make that fucking prediction.
You dick weed.
Like you don't save dates.
Don't do that.
Don't you remember how skilling always comes up doing the weather?
And he's like, Hey, am I rain?
Who knows?
It couldn't.
It might not.
Sometimes rain takes a little bit longer than you think it's gonna.
You don't get to play these games and then like we like I'm going to give myself a escape
door here where it might be wrong, especially when you're the fucking international forecaster.
When Gerald Salenti calls himself a trends forecaster and he makes these dumbass predictions
that are equally the same.
Summer of rage coming.
Summer of rage.
All of this and volunteer.
You can't say that you're a forecaster talking to Alex Jones who has already many
times said he's a psychic and then be so wrong all the time.
It's crazy.
You're misunderstanding.
What they mean.
You know, when you say forecaster, we think of it as like the forecast.
What they're talking about is they cast fours.
Really amazing dice players.
Okay.
They're incredible.
Oh, no.
Or they play Dungeons and Dragons.
You can cast fours on Dungeons and Dragons.
Nope.
They're agents for arm models.
Ooh.
For arm casting.
They're agents for four year olds.
So in the middle of this, they get into just nonsense conversation about how Alex is scared
about everything.
And then Alex starts yelling at Bob about how manly he is.
How manly Bob is?
So about how manly Alex is.
I was going to say, because you look as far as lying as Alex can be.
Nobody's calling Bob manly.
Yeah, it's not happening.
Probably not.
But Alex on the other hand, manly as shit.
I am an animal.
I am vicious.
You know, at a sick level, I'd love somebody to try that.
I want to literally rip their head off their shoulders.
Yes, you do.
And I don't understand how the time somebody tried to mug me in Dallas,
I feigned like, oh my God, I'm scared and started getting down on my knees and grabbed the gun out
and literally stopped that guy's head into putty.
And then people think I'm making that up.
Like I made up going to Bohemian Grove or I made up breaking the Mayak reporter.
You did.
Made up, you know, a founding 9-11 truth or I made up making the Obama deception.
I'm about action.
And the people are so cowardly.
I mean, you made up everything in the Obama deception.
I'm making it up that I've taken guns away from people.
I don't understand why people are so wimpy.
I don't think of myself as a tough guy.
Bob, somebody comes after me.
I can't control myself.
What is wrong with these people?
I don't know.
We've discussed some of it.
I just don't know.
Great answer, Bob.
How much would it say?
Look, Bob, you gotta find a different gig.
I mean, come on.
He's clearly getting paid pretty well.
But not well enough to just sit there through that.
Yeah.
Come on.
I would do that in a heartbeat.
What?
Yeah, I think there's such a...
There's other stuff to do.
It'd be really hard not to laugh.
That would be my problem when he's like, what's wrong with people, Bob?
I don't know.
People think I'm lying when I say I took a gun from somebody, Bob.
Look, I don't know.
Well, it sounds unbelievable.
I believe that he probably did like maybe did do that.
I don't really care.
It doesn't really...
I don't care.
I do believe the part about him using overkill after he took someone's gun away conceivably.
But the other stuff is all bullshit.
Like, you listen to like John Ronson's testimony about what happened at Bohemian Grove,
and Alex did make up a lot of that.
Sure, he was there, but he's completely lying about everything in it.
The Mayak report is complete lies, like his coverage of it.
It's absolute lies.
So all this, like, every time he tries to defend himself and be like,
I'm so real, everyone knows I'm real, and here are the three things that I've lied about.
It's weird.
But I did tell the truth about murdering that guy one time.
Maybe technically.
So here's the part...
Self-defense, I guess.
Here's the part that won't surprise you, and it's gold sales time.
This part, this actually is a little bit more distasteful than usual, I think.
And, you know, gold had two giant days of about $60 the upside,
and today it was off 280 or something like that, which is minuscule.
And we'll probably have a soft day on Monday, but next week it's going higher.
Well, let me bring this up.
It doesn't matter because Ted Anderson bought gold at $890 and is passing on the $70-plus
dollar savings on the Franks and on the sovereigns and other coins.
Let's bring Ted Anderson in right now.
How good of a deal is that Bob Chapman that he bought into gold when it was down at $890?
And now at $970, he's selling at the same price.
We are selling out at too much gold.
All right, this deal only lasts for the next 45 minutes.
But I gotta say this, and not many people do this, Ted.
It was a stroke of genius.
Well, that's what he always does.
Ted Anderson.
Yeah, I'm right here, Alex.
I don't know about the stroke of genius because I think any dummy could figure out that
of gold drops right now with what's going on in Washington, D.C.
All right, whatever.
Sure.
Yeah, man.
I can't imagine anybody listening to this in a non-completely passive way because I
could understand if it's background noise and you don't realize it.
But I can't imagine anyone listening to more than one episode of this show
and not being like, oh, my God, look at these guys running the scam.
Yeah, right?
Just the Bob Chapman, Ted Anderson vignettes, I guess.
Those little set pieces alone should be like, I can't trust these dudes.
Even not knowing that Midas rips people off, even not knowing that.
Even not knowing that a couple of years later than this, after this point, Ted Anderson will
have his gold bullion license taken away for dishonest trading.
Even not knowing those things, you just hear something like this and you're like, oh, this
is a fucking setup.
Yes.
Bob Chapman is the guy who gets you into the three-card Monte game.
Exactly.
He's the one who wins a little bit and tells you, this game's easy.
Oh, man, I made 20 bucks just like that.
I saw where that bull was.
All right, go ahead.
It's so crazy to imagine that people could listen to this and not be like,
I think they're trying to find Marx.
It is not.
It is not crazy to me at all.
That's, it's, it's sad.
It is sad.
It's sad how utterly believable it is to know that he scammed so many people.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's a bummer.
Well, it sounds like it's too good a deal to pass up.
Are you saying it's going to go down tomorrow so I shouldn't buy it today?
I should wait until Monday and then it'll go up again, right?
Maybe.
So I shouldn't buy today by your own words.
What you said.
Maybe.
I should not buy gold right now.
But, but Ted's got those prices locked in from earlier.
Oh, okay.
Well, then that's great.
But like,
It's a stroke of genius.
The other thing too is that like, I understand that, you know, the game is,
they're playing on fears of the economic collapse.
So you buy the gold and it doesn't really matter how much it goes up
because the dollar is going to collapse and then this will be worth,
well, it's weight in gold.
Yeah.
Well, frankly, you know, it'll be the king's currency and everyone else has
stupid paper that's worth nothing.
Yeah.
You will have to take a bite at it to make sure it's real though.
Yeah.
You know, like an old prospect.
Absolutely.
And I understand that that's the con that they're framing.
That's what they're playing on in order to sell things,
which makes it weirder that like,
Bob is coming in with like, it was up 60 or whatever,
because that's not enough to matter for the kind of investors who are listening.
Like the people who are like, who are listening,
probably couldn't afford an ounce of gold.
And if you buy an ounce of gold for like, what 800 something dollars and it goes up 60,
are you just going to sell it then?
And then you've made $60.
I don't think like the investment in gold doesn't make sense to his audience.
No, it really doesn't.
Except for, except for the fraud of the economic.
Exactly.
Which is why that's the selling point that they use as opposed to like,
it being a smart investment, you can make a little bit of money.
Well, and it's not just that, but it's also by preying upon his audience,
which is not, I'm going to go out on a limb and say billionaires,
by preying on these people, they are scrabbling together 800 dollars to buy an ounce of gold
for a couple of reasons.
One, they think it's going to last forever and it's going to go up in cost.
And eventually it's going to be worth it.
And two, it feels good to own a little bit of gold.
I like there's something to be said about owning something shiny.
At the very least, you're like, oh, well, at least I've got this money invested.
Yeah, yeah, there's, there's something to that.
You know, I just think it's a deceitful, awful fraud.
Oh, of course.
Quite frankly.
It's awful.
There's no other word for it.
This is just disgusting.
It's, it's, it's like, it makes you feel like if you've ever had like a bunch of cash in your hand,
you're like, oh, shit, I'm rich.
Even if it's nothing to, you know, all of these people.
But the idea of holding $800 in an ounce in your hand is very attractive to a lot of people.
Maybe I would like to, I would like to hold an ounce.
I wouldn't want to buy it, but I'd like to hold it for a little while.
Maybe 50% of the people at this table feel that way.
I'd like to hold it for a little bit.
All right.
So moving on from Bob Chapman's shameful display here,
Alex has another guest on the show that is very excited to talk about and talk with.
Her name is Amy Allen and she is a musician.
Okay.
She wrote a song called Ron Paul.
Okay.
The chorus is Ron Paul, the start of revolution Ron Paul.
All right.
All right.
It was, I forgot about this.
So she's the proto Taylor Swift is what you're saying.
Yeah, sure.
She was Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift was even born.
She, she, I didn't remember this aspect of the past, but apparently during Ron Paul's 2008 campaign,
she was, that song was like a rallying thing.
It was like a big anthem of his campaign.
All right.
Which it's probably pretty easy to do if you're Ron Paul supporter,
just write a song where you yell Ron Paul a bunch.
She's probably going to sign off on it.
Yeah.
That actually sounds like a good idea.
Now there's some interesting elements of Amy Allen that I'm going to get into as we discuss her,
but one thing.
Why is there interesting elements?
Why can't it just be like she's a musician who wrote a song?
Well, because Alex wants to talk about how she got beaten.
Oh no.
She was the victim of an assault and Alex wants to talk about that a lot.
And I think it's not great, but also I want to make clear before we get into any of this,
I do believe that she was the victim of a crime.
Yeah.
And I'm not in any way minimizing that and I'm not making fun of her for being attacked.
I do believe that.
Yeah.
I don't believe a lot of the window dressing that a lot of people like Alex Jones and
other folks, which we'll get into, have put onto that attack.
I assume she's going to be exploited.
A little bit, maybe.
Yeah.
So here is the introduction to Amy and you'll see how quickly Alex wants to talk about the attack.
That's not what you should do.
They're trying to claim we're a bunch of cop killers when there's no evidence of that
because we're the real American people who want liberty, who want freedom,
understand that we have a new world order taking over our nation.
And they're very afraid of popular culture, further popularizing the message of liberty.
And Amy Allen has gone all the way towards doing that.
And she's here in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest.
We'll tell you about some of the shows that are coming up with her,
but it's great to have you here in Austin, Texas with us.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for having me.
There was, I'm excited about the movement that you're talking about still continuing.
In Los Angeles, there was actually Fullerton.
There was a Tea Party and 15,000 people came out to protest the tax increases.
And a lot of those people, 15,000 people shut down the streets last couple weeks ago,
had campaign for liberty.
Ron Paul should have been president signs.
I mean, the campaign for liberty had a passing all kinds of material and it's still,
we haven't given up the fight.
It's still going.
And folks from the campaign like Oath Keepers have spun off and are going to
get thousands of police military to go public and say,
I'm not going to violate my oath.
I'm not going to confiscate guns.
I'm not going to put people in FEMA camps.
I'm not going to go along with the
Was it a really multicultural Tea Party?
American citizens.
There is a huge awakening.
We have police sending us all these internal documents where they're trying to covertly
demonize us showing that the establishment is scared of the American people and knows
that we have a chance of bringing the international crime syndicate to justice.
Now, tell folks how you woke up to liberty a little bit about yourself.
And then Jason Burma's had you in a few nights ago on the info warrior show that he does from
9 to midnight out of the same studio.
And I didn't know about this, you know, that right after you're on my show,
it looks like this is happening to me, but they've been punching me and telling me shut up,
you know, don't have up, but beating you with a crowbar and then not stealing anything.
So it takes a minute and three seconds into talking with her in order to bring up this
beating story, which is a little quick.
I think in an interview, possibly unless that's all you want to talk about.
Yeah.
Now, when she brings up the Tea Party, you see he instantly goes to Oathkeepers.
Yeah.
The only way he can talk about the Tea Party, the only way he can talk about the Tea Party
is through the prism of Oathkeepers, because that's where he's at at this point.
So that's interesting because that sort of confirms some of the feelings we had on the
last episode.
But like, listen, I'm not making this up.
He really wants to talk about this beating a lot.
You know, don't have up, but beating you with a crowbar and then not stealing anything.
It was, it's very bizarre.
It was very bizarre.
I was a three, three people.
I mean, there's three of us and they pushed one of my, they pushed my friend out of the
way to target me and there was two guys beating my head and face.
And that's it.
Just my mouth broke my job and beat me with a crowbar.
Well, I can't say any of it.
You still look extremely lovely.
Thank you, but they dumped out all of our purses.
I was with two waitresses, so they had tons of cash.
I had tons of cash.
They dumped out of purses telling them to take our money and they kicked it.
They kicked the money and laughed and walked away.
And that's, that's what it's important how they were dressed.
Oh, you don't need to.
They were, you know, I think, I think they were, I don't know.
They were, um, you know, Mexican gang members, probably most likely.
So it was either the government or somebody hired them or it was a gang initiation.
Correct.
Okay.
Whoa.
Those are the only two options?
Uh, I mean, there were three.
Someone hired them.
Oh, the government or a gang initiative.
Okay.
I, I, I thought it was, see, I thought he said either the government or someone hired him.
And I, okay.
I don't, I don't know what happened here.
Obviously, I have no idea.
I can only go based on her telling of the event and the way that people have used it.
Quote, Amy broke the story today on the Alex Jones show online internet show.
She says the police told her the attackers were most likely illegal and did, uh, and did
little if anything to investigate the brutal attack.
Amy was leaving a recording studio in downtown LA when three Hispanic thugs attacked her at random.
They were simply looking for a white person to attack.
I believe that Amy, uh, was the victim of an assault.
And I think that's horrible.
However, I take issue with all the assumptions people make about the situation that blurb
saying it was a racially motivated attack against her, uh, because she was a white woman.
That was from storm fraud.
The Ron Paul forums and the new world order people, their take on it was that Amy was told
not to talk about revolution in her music and she refused.
So they sent a Latino hit squad to punish her.
My problem with that is that her 2002 debut album was called,
I would start a revolution if I could get up in the morning.
The first single on the album was literally just titled revolution.
And it was produced by goddamn Randy Jackson and Mark Ronson.
One of the tracks on the album featured an appearance by Pharaoh March,
who was cool in 2002.
He had it.
Also, the attack happened in 2008.
So six years after, uh, she put out an album called,
I would start a revolution if I could get up in the morning.
These new world order Alex Jonesy types are putting out this idea that she was threatened
because she wrote a song, uh, or she was putting out music that had revolution in it,
which is nonsense.
It's absolute nonsense.
It is absolutely using her, uh, as a prop.
It, it's gross.
Yep.
It's really, really gross.
I feel bad about her album was produced by Mark Ronson.
Um, I don't know.
I feel like I should know her if it was.
I don't know if the whole album was, but tracks were produced by Mark and, uh, Randy Jackson.
Randy Jackson.
I couldn't give less fuck about, uh, Randy Jackson.
Have you ever seen him play with journey?
I have not seen him play with journey yet.
You played bass and journey like, uh, some of their live shows and one of their videos,
he has a, uh, a bass that's shaped like a craps table.
That is awesome.
Fun.
Yeah.
Now that's a forecaster right there.
Absolutely.
So I, I feel really, I feel bad for her.
I feel bad for her being in this situation where there is an entire world trying to
galvanize race, uh, based hatred, uh, or new world order fear based on, um, her being the
victim of a crime.
It really.
I can't imagine any scenario.
I can't imagine any historical scenario where a rabble rousing group of white people would
take the, uh, uh, attack of a white woman and then turn it into a reason to demonize a population.
That seems crazy, Dan.
We haven't seen that since a couple months ago.
We haven't, we, when would we have ever seen that?
This must have been the first time that a white woman was exploited in order to do harm to a
larger, uh, community of minorities.
That's crazy.
It is a sick bummer and, uh, everyone loses except for Alex.
But you can even hear it in her voice when he was asking what these people looked like.
She had a reticence to talk about it.
Yeah.
She really didn't want to say because I think there was a sense that she's like,
what is going to come of me describing these, these people?
Alex is probably going to say something off color or it could end up being reported on
stormfront as a race attack.
Yep.
I think she had some kind of awareness of it because I need to tell you,
Amy Allen is not somebody who's unaware of these worlds.
How did you wake up to the new world order?
Well, I born, I'm born raised in Montana and so, uh, it's a little bit like Texas.
Since I was a kid, you know, my family talked about wanting to succeed from the union.
So I was sort of raised, uh, raised with that.
My mom talked about the new world order.
Alcada raised.
Yeah.
She told me, you know, as a small child that there was going to be a one world currency
one day and that we need to prepare.
So I've sort of always kind of known.
So Amy Allen was born in 1982 and was raised in a separatist
paranoid family.
Wait, what?
Oh no.
I thought you, I thought you were about to, no, I thought you were about to like say that
you had done some research and she was raised in like a literal separatist group.
Hold on.
She was raised in a family that was paranoid about the new world order and wanted to succeed
from the union in Montana.
This is very telling as Montana along with Idaho was a hotbed of white nationalist separatist
communities in the 1990s.
The Montana free men engaged in an 81 day standoff with the FBI after the land where
they would hold their mock trials was foreclosed upon.
The militia of Montana was super active at the time and their ideology is shockingly
similar to Alex's and the little glimpse that we get into Amy's family of origin.
It would be impossible to make any definitive claim based on this little bit of info that
we have, but the fact that Amy describes her mother's belief system this way, the timeline
and the fact that they were in an unspecified town in Montana leads me to believe there's a
high likelihood that Amy grew up in a white nationalist militia.
Again, I can't say this for sure, but those are some of the biggest signs possible.
The 1990s, Montana, anti-government sentiment, fear of the new world order, those are all,
those are red flags.
Yeah, and we're talking about Montana.
It's not like we're talking about Chicago where it's like, oh, she could be, you know,
there's so many people.
There are like 12 people live in Montana.
Well, and the white nationalist militias really took hold in Montana and Idaho specifically
and states around there.
It is something that's very historically, you know, documented.
You can look into it.
I'm not saying that her family absolutely was part of that, but you can't come from
a family like that and not be aware of it.
It's pretty funny that their mock trial space got foreclosed upon.
That's pretty funny.
Oh, you're the master race.
You can't even pay your bills, huh?
Well, they could pay their bills, but they were doing it by writing bad checks.
So that was kind of part of the problem.
Oh Christ, you white nationalists are too dumb to live.
Yeah, the Montana freedmen got in a lot of trouble for bank fraud because they would just write,
they just write their own checks.
Well, right, because they don't believe in your currency.
Checks are your word and your bond, Dan.
They're not supposed to represent real money.
Yeah. So again, I want to make this totally clear,
lest it sound like I'm making some sort of an attack on her.
I'm not saying anything about her based on what context clues I can glean
from her family of origin.
I'm just saying that I don't believe in any way
that someone who grew up in Montana in the 90s in a family that was afraid of the NWO
doesn't have some awareness of white nationalist militias.
It's almost impossible.
Which is why she had the instinctive, I think so,
reaction of like, I know what you're doing.
Maybe.
I feel like I need to tell the truth, but I kind of get.
She is an Alex Jones fan.
So like it's not like she's coming in and doesn't know what she's getting into.
Right.
She loves his show and stuff like that.
But I do think it's possible to live in a space where you are into Ron Paul,
and you do want to audit the Fed.
And maybe you're willingly blind to some of the other stuff.
You just have the privilege involved in your life where you don't need to unpack
a lot of what X, Y or Z means.
And so many people listened and were fans of Alex Jones in 2009 that didn't want
a white nationalism to spread.
You know, like it was a, like, just like.
Maybe not by that point, but earlier.
Yeah, that might be.
Yeah, but.
There were a lot of liberals probably, definitely.
It's a laugh, you know, it's hilarious.
Yeah.
So this crazy man talk.
The next clip is just her talking more about her mom,
but it's kind of the same thing.
Except she says she was stockpiling food.
So it doesn't really add anything to it.
We'll get to this.
Oh, did I just hear Steve Shanks walk on music?
Hello, shank here.
So you're welcome to the shank tank.
This next clip is something that tells me that Amy Allen does,
maybe doesn't know her audience as well as she thinks she does.
What my plan is to do a tea party tour with the album.
It's a lot of reggae.
Hey, tea party notoriously into reggae.
I hear that that one track from Kerry Cassidy's album is opening.
A huge, huge in the 90s.
No, this is 2009.
I know.
I'm just, I'm just kidding.
She's like a tea party could not be less reggae adjacent.
No, no, I'm going to go with a not, not huge fans of reggae.
Yeah.
I don't understand what he's saying.
What is that?
Is that words?
It's using your mouth as an instrument.
I don't.
How do you do that?
I got to go.
Okay.
So in this next clip, Alex, I can't say this any other way.
He just keeps wanting to talk about the beating that she was the victim of.
Well, you're doing a super good job evidence by being physically attacked.
I think that's things to high heaven.
How long did that knock you out of commission when they almost killed you?
A long, very long time.
Couple months.
So there's, I mean, there's other ways to like talk about this without.
Which I think is highly suspect.
Why did you say that?
That's not an interview.
That's a leading.
Yeah.
That's leading.
That's making a narrative out of someone else's trauma.
Yeah.
And that's not fair.
It's really ugly.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I am going to tell you your story and I want you to fill in the blanks.
Right.
Yuck, yuck.
So in this next clip, we're done with that for now.
And Alex accidentally tells someone's dirty, dirty business.
Some of their dirty laundry gets aired on Alex's show in a way that I don't think this
person wants the public knowing about this.
You know, you take Jesse Ventura, they gave him a $3 million a year contract for three years.
$9 million.
And with MSNBC, and then he wasn't thinking as soon as he went in, they said,
basically, you're not going to cover anything you want.
No anti-war.
They had hired him right at the start of the war just to muzzle him.
So he left with the money and went and surfed.
And then now he's back because he can speak.
The contract said he couldn't.
Right.
He couldn't do any media interviews, couldn't write books.
Selling your soul.
Yeah.
And literally, we got a soul back and came here on 9-11 Truth.
I think that, first of all, this isn't true.
But second, like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So he signed a contract.
Here's the story as I understand it.
He signed a contract for $3 million a year.
Right.
Right.
Showed up to his first day on the job.
La, la, la.
He has a little briefcase.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, oh, I'm so excited.
It'll fit in the suit.
It's my first day.
Yeah.
It's my first day.
Right.
I'm going off.
I told my mom I was working on the TV.
Right, right.
And they were like, oh, no.
Now you need to understand what we're going to do here.
You're going to say what we tell you to say.
And you're going to cover what we tell you to cover.
And if you go off script for even a moment, you are done.
And so he was like, you know what?
I'm not going to do this.
Give me my money and I will go surf.
He sold out the country for $9 million.
I don't think contracts work like that where it's like,
oh, I will just take all of my money for that contract right now.
Also please fucking consider that at this point,
he had been the mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota for four years
already before this.
And he was the fucking governor of Minnesota.
He had already served these terms.
I think he would be savvy enough to be like, hold on in this contract.
It says I can't say shit.
He's already a super outspoken weirdo.
It was the voice of the WWF for a bet.
He was a professional wrestler.
Yeah, you know how notoriously terrible professional wrestlers
are at understanding contracts.
He had had a massive career up till that point already in both,
let's say, being in predator.
I was in the predator man.
He was in a bunch of movies.
He had been a governor of a state.
Oh, MSNBC, you got me.
So if this is true, then that was intentional.
He just wanted his money and go surface.
He signed a contract very willingly.
I really feel like that's a breach of contract in some way.
Also, I mean, you could actually look at his books, his bibliography,
and you could say, oh man, that timeline kind of works out.
Because in 2002, we wrote a book called Jesse Ventura Tells It Like It Is,
America's Most Outspoken Governor Speaks Out About Government.
And then he didn't write another book until 2008.
But that's six years, not three.
So that's confusing.
Also, it's hard to write a book, especially if you've already said,
I guess, all of your spoken things in a book.
It's really hard to name books, too,
because in 2012, you wrote a book called Democrypts and Rebublicans.
Let me take another run.
Let me take another run.
Let me hear that one more time.
Democrypts and Rebublicans.
Oh, okay.
I got you.
I was so much happier when it was Rebublicans.
Rebublicans?
Yeah.
That I like.
Tough to name books.
So best case scenario.
I signed off on that.
Best.
It wasn't MSNBC.
No, certainly not.
Best case scenario, Jesse Ventura took $9 million in order to not speak out
against a war that he's philosophically and principally against
and ended up leading to tons and tons of civilian deaths.
And so that makes him a coward.
Worst case scenario, all this is a lie.
Yeah.
Maybe that's the best case scenario.
I don't know.
Anyway, I don't think Jesse Ventura would appreciate Alex saying
shit like this on air.
It doesn't make him look good.
No.
Anyway, at this point, Amy is still in studio.
And they start taking some calls for her.
And this first caller is awesome.
It is so funny.
OK.
Go ahead.
Do you sing anything about pro guns, Amy?
Anything about the gun culture?
Anything like that?
I do have a song on the record, actually, about that.
But yeah, briefly, I don't have a whole song about it.
But you know, all of my work is part of me in it.
So yes, I believe in the gun culture is a big issue, Amy.
We're right now in the small town of Versailles, Missouri.
That's where Dave and Joyce Raleigh have their power hour show.
A friend of mine told me last night he called me and said
the teachers in Versailles school are teaching the kids that guns
are bad and making them write essays on it in their classwork.
Now, and then they're telling it's bad for them kids.
Who are you?
I had to go out and hunt.
No, no, the public schools.
When you put your children in school, you lose them.
Who is this guy?
I know this guy.
Are we at a 7-Eleven and he just feels the need to talk?
I know this guy.
I'm not not literally.
No, you know this guy.
I've been to Versailles, Missouri.
I've spent some time around the smaller towns in Missouri.
I know this cat.
They say so nice they butchered a French word for it.
Same with Avon, Missouri.
There's a lot of French names.
I'm a big fan of Cairo, Missouri.
Yeah, hell yeah.
There's a Paris.
Anyway, yeah, I know this cat.
I love the idea though of like, all right, there's a singer on.
I'm going to call and ask she has songs about guns.
Hey, Amy, do you have any songs about guns?
The gun culture.
The gun culture.
The gun culture.
What gun culture?
The gun culture is very important right now
because I just got a report from a very credible source
that in the Versailles schools,
they're trying to get kids to think guns are bad.
And if your dad hunts, you're bad.
I know for a fact that that is not the case
because I've been to Versailles and everybody there loves guns.
Any place in Missouri largely, any city that like isn't Columbia,
St. Louis or Kansas City is going to be full of that guy.
Yeah, they are.
That's it.
Also, that's such a bullshit paternalistic move of like,
well, I'm going to ask you a question about what you do.
Anyways, I hear that in schools, they're saying guns are bad.
And we need you to write a song to help get the tide on the other direction.
What a fucking asshole.
We saw what you did with that Ron Paul song, got him elected.
So they take another call,
and this is where the show spins out in a very weird direction.
Hey, Pat.
Thank you to you and Amy for doing a good job.
Patriots, thank you.
Well, she can read though.
That's a son of Alcada song.
Very suspicious.
And she looks good.
She sounds gross.
Thank you.
What?
Well, I just wanted to move on.
I want to try to let the camera on her instead of me.
Hold on.
Yeah, over there.
Go ahead.
I want to let you know about local law A for Albany County.
They're trying to sneak this through.
It says the regulating the purchase of ammunition.
And what it is when you start reading this,
it's on AlbanyCounty.com.
Right on their website, you go to local law legislature.
And here I'm just going to read section five real quick.
A record shall be kept by the dealer of each sale of ammunition,
which shall show the type caliber and quantity of ammunition sold,
the name and address of the person receiving the same,
the caliber, make, model, manufacturers name,
and serial number of the firearm for which the purchaser is purchasing ammunition.
Oh my God.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
I'm going to hold you over.
Red Alert, Red Alert,
call Paul Watson, call Curt and I want to talk to them during the break.
Call people who can write out of everybody else
because our listeners give us all the tips and you watch.
We're going to go look at this.
This is going to be real.
So he's like, this is why this is why we are always way ahead of everything
because we got these collars who have got the scoops.
So if I understand correctly, he is mad
because people are going to have to write down why he's buying ammunition.
And there'll be a record of who bought ammunition.
Yeah, you know, you know, a good record for like,
if you see these people shot today using this type of gun.
It would help in that investigation.
We can go see who recently bought.
There's that.
But then like, I mean, if you want to just take a,
like a little step backwards here,
because I know that everyone's very touchy about the idea of like
any kind of regulation of guns leads to a registration,
and then they're going to take all our guns away.
I'm fine with that.
I mean, I know that people can enjoy guns recreationally
and you know, it's not an evil thing or scary or anything like that,
but it is also a potential murder weapon.
You know, it is.
And like, if you really look at it, there are things like fertilizer,
that if you buy fertilizers that can be used in bombs, there's a registry.
You have to register your fucking car.
Sure, there's that too.
But there's all sorts of things that haven't led to the nightmare scenarios
that people like Alex put out into the world.
You know, this idea of like, as soon as they have a record,
they're going to take all of it.
No one's taking anybody's fertilizer.
No one's taking anybody's cars because of these,
these rules that we put in place to mitigate danger.
You can't even buy that much allergy medication.
Nope.
And that hasn't led to people taking away antihistamines
or anything like that.
Sudafed isn't gone.
It's just better controlled because it can fucking make math out of it.
Yeah.
So you can make a substance that can kill people out of it.
Right.
It's almost like we should know.
I don't think that this is that crazy.
This proposed law in Albany.
No, this makes perfect sense.
But we'll get, we'll get more into that here in a second
because Alex just is, you can hear it there.
He's freaking out.
Yeah.
Hold on, Bermas, you already knew about this?
What's that?
Bermas says he already knows.
It's right.
Oh my God, it's connectivity.
They announced the mayor.
He said it right.
Marshall Law and the feds come in
and it turns out he's one of these special mayors of Obama.
We confirmed that.
Special mayors of Obama?
You heard the newscast earlier about Marshall Law.
What did Obama look like?
He said, oh, we got a few small cops.
We're going to bring troops in.
No.
Hold on.
My God, there's smoke everywhere.
Okay.
Okay.
Oh my God.
Okay.
I've got a guy right now.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, I'm coming.
There's this connectivity mayor concerned.
Oh my God.
I'm coming.
Police was.
This is so good.
That's the Capitol News 9 out of Albany.
Sir, where on the side is this new thing?
You go albanycounty.com.
Blast department.
Blast led to plagiarism.
They're going to take our guns away.
You should stop.
That's not how you get it.
I need the name of the resolution.
They'll take us right to it.
What's the name of the resolution?
Resolution 108, local law number A for 2009.
Stay there.
Give it to us during break.
Merchants.
Do you have trouble sleeping?
Okay.
Wipe out.
That is rough.
It's cut off in the middle of emergency by a hard break.
All right.
Do you have trouble?
So you can see there, you can hear the wheels turning in his head
of like, oh my God, I could connect this to this connectivity story.
This is amazing.
The propaganda alarm is going off.
Yep.
In this next clip, he formally combines them.
Okay.
I got Paul Watson right now in line.
This is going to go mega huge and alert gun owners to all the gun grabbing.
We've documented the nexus point in this area of New York.
They're going to take guns away.
Not doing a test at counties and cities.
If the caller is what he's saying, true.
The albanycounty.com is, is basically crashed right now.
We can't get on it.
So listen, if you have that page loaded, screenshot it and email it to Rob D,
the letter D at infowars.com.
Now give us the coordinates for this.
And this ties into Albany, New York, surrounding county,
so we want to have a federal martial law there.
He in that clip was 30 seconds long said, I haven't read this,
but if you can screenshot it, send it to me.
Also, this is connected.
Yep.
This thing I don't know anything about,
except for the little bit that this guy has said on there.
This is connected.
I have confirmed none of this.
Yeah, it's not.
You need to email this to Rob,
do after I've reported the story.
Right, right.
What if it wasn't anything?
What if the scholar was making it up?
He's now reported that it's connected to this other lie that he's telling.
But it's spiritually right.
So I don't have a lot to say about this law,
because from what I can tell, it didn't pass.
And it was a local regulation that would be completely legal
and not violate the Second Amendment, even if it did pass.
All I really want to point out here
is that Alex is absolutely not breaking this scoop.
You can find an article about the proposed law
that was posted on the NRA's website
that uses the exact language this caller is using
and links to the URL that he's trying to read to Alex on air.
That post was from the morning of March 20th, 2009.
This isn't a scoop.
It's just Alex picking up NRA's sloppy seconds.
And perhaps most importantly,
it has nothing to do with the story
that Alex is misrepresenting out of Schenectady.
Though the cities are about half an hour away by car and good traffic,
they're not the same city.
Schenectady is in Schenectady County,
whereas Albany is in Albany County,
so they're not even in the same county.
You haven't proved a goddamn thing.
I haven't, but neither has Alex.
Alex hasn't even read anything.
Oh, they're in different counties.
Jerrymandering, Dan.
They're the same city.
He's just shooting off from the hip.
Don't you remember what happened?
The special Obama mayor.
Martial law and no bullets.
Yeah, the special mayor of Obama.
The Smough.
Took over Albany.
Yeah, absolutely.
That was, it's in their own documents, Dan.
In the documents.
Yeah.
So in this next clip, Alex congratulates himself for a job well done.
And everything we've ever talked about is now just being flaunted in our face.
I have it.
Registering anybody to buy bullets, keeping records of them.
You don't!
I'm so glad, Jeremy.
You literally don't!
They are moved in upstate New York for total takeover and
martial law.
Put the martial law headline up as they prepare martial law in that area.
I will now be attacked by national news saying it doesn't exist,
even though it's based on news.
Then next week they will announce it's all true, but, but
Glenn Beck will say he's our friend and maybe it's needed.
Right.
So what we-
And he gets that one little petty dig at Glenn Beck.
Absolutely.
Hell yeah, I like that.
You're going to go do a tour with your reggae at the tea parties.
Remember, Glenn Beck is not your friend.
Glenn Beck is a bitch.
Yeah, he's not Oathkeeper.
I'm Oathkeeper.
He's Tea Party.
He's a square.
So interestingly, what you have here is Alex Jones starting the broadcast by
talking about how he's always right and everyone attacks him for being right all
the time because the truth comes out and he was right all along,
but he's up against that barbed wire and everyone's climbed over him.
Now towards the end of the show, he gets these two stories that he's juggling.
Well, one of them he's juggling and then this other one gets introduced
and he runs without reading anything about it and that last clip is so self-satisfied.
Like, I have now done my work and they will attack me and I will be proven right.
Yeah.
It's almost like a perfect narrative arc.
Yeah.
Like he set up the theme of the show at the beginning of I am unjustly demonized for
being right all the time and now at the end here, he's demonstrated that he's right all
the time and now I welcome the attacks that will come.
Meanwhile, none of it's true.
People mock me and they laugh and they say that I'm not a real journalist.
What is journalism, but hearing a call, not getting any confirmation and reporting it's true.
I actually named the clip.
Alex congratulates himself for doing zero journalism.
There's so many things that you should have done.
You should have Rob do call Schenectady.
You should have had Rob do call or Jason Burmus.
He knows the area.
Have him call Albany.
Call the people who were listed in these press releases.
Like it's not hard.
That would be what you're doing if you're trying to report accurately.
Even if you want to spend these yarns about like, oh, this is all a takeover.
What you do is you still call.
They give you no comment.
Then you report that they gave you no comment.
Exactly.
That's what you do.
And then the fact that you called and reported and they gave no comment,
that sounds suspicious to the people that you want to sound suspicious to.
But these fuckwits can't even do step one.
It's crazy.
That's awful.
So that's where the show should end.
I'm right.
But after objectifying and victim and exploiting a victim of a crime.
Well, that's just because she doesn't have a song about the gun called.
It should end.
You got any songs about how pretty you are?
So after this, your voice looks good.
Fuck you.
Alex has a Jim Mars in studio after this.
And Jim's coming with some bullshit.
There's a lot of nonsense, but I've chosen just two clips to end the show.
Because I think they're demonstrative of how endemic this idea of not reading things
and sort of wallowing around in ignorance, presenting and masquerading itself as wisdom
is everywhere.
All of these people in Alex Jones's world, no matter how credibly they present themselves,
are guilty of the exact same crimes.
So here's the first one where he talks about Obama's national security director.
Go over again, the providence of that, where you got that specifically?
We're folks behind it.
I pointed this out and specifically the line he says,
I take my daily orders from Henry Kisner.
This is Barack Obama's national security visor.
Okay.
And people said, oh, well, where'd that come from?
That can be true.
So, you know, somebody that can, you know, folks, it's right off the council on foreign
relations website.
This is from the CFR.
Yeah.
Up at the top, if you want to show that.
So he's taking this quote here.
And I will say this, I do not care to defend Kissinger, nor would I presume to say that he
didn't absolutely have more influence than I'm comfortable with him having,
even after he left his formal positions in government.
Oh, yeah, especially whenever he was orchestrating genocides.
Now, that said, the shit that Jim Mars is saying here is complete bullshit.
If you read the opening remarks from James Jones, you find that he says, quote,
as the most recent national security advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders
from Dr. Kissinger filtered down through the general Brent Scrowcraft and Sandy Berger,
who is also here.
We have a chain of command in the national security council that exists today.
There's no indication from the transcript that he's speaking literally,
or if that's just a little wink and nod kind of joke to open the speech.
Even leaving that aside, it's important to consider what he's actually saying.
Although Walt Rostrow was technically the first national security director,
many see Kissinger as the person who most defined what that position was.
After him came Brent Scrowcraft.
After him, well, actually came Zbigniew Brzezinski.
But then well, we don't take orders from Zbigniew Brzezinski.
He had all kinds of wild ideas about not killing people.
But then Sandy Berger and then him.
So like there is this idea of like, it's not, I don't think he's speaking literally about
taking orders from them.
I think he's talking about, these are the people who have defined the position.
They've set the precedence.
They've given us guidance on what it is we do.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
And I don't think that, you know, I'm not naive enough to say that those people weren't in some
way still in an advisory capacity, working for folks.
Right.
Like it's, it's pretty clear if you look at stuff, there are, there are indications that
like they help advise on who should be on the national security council,
even after they aren't the director or anything like that.
But I think it's a little bit of a stretch to say that this guy speaking literally that,
okay, so what happens is Kissinger says something,
then he whispers in Brent Scowcraft's ear, and then he goes and talks to Sandy Berger,
who then tells me what to do.
Right.
The idea that he's saying it's filtered down through Scowcraft and Berger,
that's the language indicates to me, the filtering down is the lineage of the position.
Yeah.
It's not this literal thing.
So Jim Mars, I don't think it's, I like, I understand what he wants to do here.
And I'm not going to hate the player.
I'm not going to hate, I'm not going to hate anything.
I understand what you're doing, but you're demonstrating an inability to wrestle with
context, because also the rest of this speech that, that Jones gave at the CFR was about
the idea that he wanted to help reshape the department.
So there was a harkening to legacy at the beginning of it, speaking to ways that the
modern challenges of the world are such that a different approach might be necessary.
So there's kind of a thematic element to it that exists in speech, if you read it as a whole.
You cannot ever use nuance or context when talking to these idiots.
You can't, you can't do it.
They just don't understand it.
They can't read.
They don't understand it.
Right.
They can't, you can't use a metaphor.
You can't even, you can't even pretend to use a metaphor.
Otherwise Alex is going to say that the national media has confirmed it's true.
Anyway, we have one more clip of Jim Mars and this should show you kind of how he does his work.
And people need to take a close look at this and I'll be frank.
I have not looked at it even this close, but I know just from what I've seen and for glancing
over some of the paragraphs and some of the clauses in this proposed legislation,
essentially it's going to mean you can't have a garden.
Okay.
So like I glanced over legislation, you know, something that's notoriously easy to
glance over legislation is never incredibly complex, uh, uh, legalistic bullshit language.
Subsections referring to other subsections.
It's just something that you glance over, you see a couple of clauses and you say,
well, they're trying to get rid of your fucking gardens.
That makes sense.
It's it's if they were trying to get rid of your gardens,
they would just write a bill that gets rid of your gardens.
It's irresponsible to come on a show that is so, um, bad as this show and say something like that.
You're like, I haven't read any of this, but suffice it to say I've skimmed it and it looks
like you can't have a garden.
Like that's fucking stupid.
That's that's a deep level of stupid.
That's stupid.
Now, the other thing too is like this needs to be very clear.
When you engage with legislation like that and you make assumptions about what it's talking about,
you end up wrong almost all the time.
You can demonstrate this with Alex Jones's favorite subsection about chemtrails.
The one that if you just read one piece of it sounds like, oh my God, this, this is gonna,
this is gonna allow testing on anybody as long as it's a research purpose.
If you only skim it and you read that section of it, it looks that way and you,
but you have to look at it as a whole because there's another part that says
that section there that you're reading that scary is subject to a subsection that says
informed consent of all participants is required.
So it doesn't, it does not work.
Like there might be something in that legislation that sounds scary,
but there's another thing that completely invalidates whatever fear you have.
And that's almost always the case when I look into these things.
All right.
New proposal for a law.
All right.
If you're going to cover legislation in and, and claim that you're a journalist,
you have to first go to college.
I think Jim Morris has a degree.
No, I mean Alex, but then specifically like understand civics and then get like continuing
education hours.
You should have to have continuing education.
If Alex's dad has to do that dentist shit.
You have to, yeah, you have to keep passing tests proving that you understand the civics process.
Civics is super important.
And if you fail it, then you don't get to talk about it.
And it's against the law.
You get your journalism license revoked.
Well, I mean, civics is super important for Alex's use too,
because like if his audience or even if he, while not lying,
had an awareness of how bills are passed, what amendments mean and stuff like that,
he couldn't spin most of the stories that he spends.
Like these ideas that he has now that he's talking about like,
oh, if they succeed in suing me, the Sandy Hook families succeed in suing me,
then the first amendment's gone.
It's like, that doesn't work that way, man.
Like anybody who has a basic understanding of how our government operates would hear that and be like.
But you know what?
I'm actually starting to think that that law isn't terrible.
Like think about how easy that would make getting rid of Fox News,
because if you have continuing education requirements for civics, for these journalists,
then you can prove they're lying about it.
True, because you never know plausible deniability.
Exactly.
Any more of like, oh, they're just dumb.
No, they're bad actors.
Yeah, they're doing it in bad faith.
You know that because they are, they have had to pass a test about how civics actually fucking works.
But we already know that.
Yeah.
We just can't confirm.
Exactly.
But now there's, now there's a law.
Now there's a law that says you gotta, we have, fine, let's regulate journalism.
Let's get it passed in Albany.
Yeah.
And have Alex freak out about it.
Genectady.
So that brings us to the end of this adventure.
Again, March 22nd, not worth talking about, so that's off the table.
But I really think, I wish that those Jim Maher's things that I think are important
and demonstrative of how stupid everyone is and how fast and loose they are with details
and how they just report shit that they don't even really know anything about.
I think it's important, but I wish they weren't in there,
because there's such a satisfying arc to Alex's blowhardy, I'm the victim and I'm always right,
to the end of the episode where he's completely misrepresenting two stories
and saying they're connected.
Yeah.
So Alex is just bad.
He's bad at this.
Anyway, we have a website.
I just, the thing, the thing that sticks out at me about that story that Amy was telling
and the way Alex was using it, it reminded me so much of that.
Like, I bet no living black person has ever had to deal with as much racism as I have,
or, you know, has ever been beaten up as much as I have that whole thing.
No living black person has had as much racism applied to them as I have as a white person.
Yeah, exactly.
It's that same like idea of, I got it.
This proves everything that I've ever thought about how I've always been.
It is validating for him in some way that it's not for Amy.
That's why he wants to talk about that.
That's why he's excited to have her on the show.
It's not, he doesn't care about her music except that Ron Paul song,
and I'm sure he doesn't actually like it.
But like the other thing that I need to make clear, I don't know if I did a good enough
job about this.
I read a bunch of interviews with Amy because I wanted more context.
I wanted to understand like what else, like this, that crime was a big part of her career.
And like she talks about how afterwards she like really valued things differently and stuff like that.
And in every interview that I can find with her, she doesn't talk about it being like some sort of
government hit.
She doesn't talk about being Mexican gang bangers or anything like that.
All of that are details that come from this interview that have been extrapolated by Ron Paul
Forum, Stormfront, all of these other places.
That's not something that she talks about in interviews, like with music publications
or any other interview that I've seen with her.
So I don't think that she is on that tip.
It doesn't seem that way.
It seems like other people are putting that there for her.
And that is a bummer.
Because I don't...
Damn it.
And that's just like that Venn diagram of all the things that they love that like they're
coming for our women.
They're animals.
They're just attacking.
They don't even want anything.
It would make sense if they stole her money, but they didn't even do that.
Like all of that stuff just all comes together to make this perfect storm of white guys justified
committing hate crimes.
And meanwhile, their fear about they're coming for our women while they repeatedly tell her
how hot she is in a circumstance that that's not really relevant to why they're there.
And at the same time, all these people that create the perception of they are animals.
Meanwhile, Alex literally said, I'm a vicious animal on the show.
Talking about beating some guys heading to the ground.
So I don't know.
Alex is full of shit.
This is nonsense.
We have a website.
I hate them.
Yeah.
I hate them.
That's a mess.
We do have a website.
Knowledgefight.com.
Uh, we are on social media networks.
Plural.
That's true.
Twitter.
We're at knowledge underscore fight.
We're on Facebook.
We have a Facebook group.
Go home and tell your mother you're brilliant.
It's a lot of fun over there.
You can hear us on the iTunes.
That's correct.
You can go to www.itunes.com.
That's I-T-U-N-E-S dot com.
That's right.
Slash podcasts slash knowledge dash fight.
Slash legislation slash Albany slash.
We don't have time for that.
Send me a screenshot.
I will do that.
All right.
You can actually email it to Rob D.
at enforce.com.
Please do.
Please fucking do.
Love to talk to that dick.
Oh, what an asshole.
Anyway, guys, this has been something or other.
Hey, yep.
I will tell you this.
I know that Alex does not have any songs
about the gun culture that he's recorded.
No.
And I know that he is a vicious animal.
And I'll tell you how I know.
Because he probably technically killed a guy.