Knowledge Fight - #244: October 5, 2014
Episode Date: December 26, 2018Today, Dan and Jordan are sent on a time-travel adventure by Policy Wonk George Soros Jr. The gents are sent back to see what Alex Jones' angle was on the 2014 Ebola outbreak, to cover the day after i...t was reported that there was a confirmed case in Texas. Actually, this episode covers 4 days after that news was reported, since Alex was on vacation at the time, and this is his first day back.
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Andy and Chanzos, you're on the air. Thanks for holding.
So 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 Jordan.
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, drink novelty beverages,
and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
And Dean, we are Dan.
What up?
Dan!
Hey.
What's the most work you ever had to do to get a bottle of wine?
Hmm.
One time.
I found a bunch of grapes.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I bought a vineyard.
I don't know what I want.
I don't know.
Okay.
I've gone to the store to buy a bottle of wine.
What the fuck?
I have you.
Wait.
What kind of story do you expect there to be in this question?
Maybe what I should more say, what's the furthest you've gone to get alcohol?
What is like, when you have you been in a situation?
There have been hundreds of times when I've like walked hours.
Yeah.
And then, but it's only because I never found it.
You know, like especially around the area we are in Uptown in Chicago,
there are so many places that close super early,
but you have this idea that if you just go five more blocks,
you'll find some place.
It's going to be somewhere.
I've done that a number of times in the past few years,
just walking around for like an hour and a half.
I got to give up.
Do you not have any, do you not have any like a high school story?
No, no, like a high school story where it's like you had to be in high school.
So like I had no trouble really.
I found booze pretty easily when I once I started drinking.
Yeah.
So I had a beard.
I would just go and people had rarely ever heard me.
That's fair.
That's fair.
So that, that never was too big of an issue.
And then I started hanging out at this gutter punk bar and they just didn't give
a shit either.
They all assumed I was of age and I worked at a gas station.
When I worked there, they all assumed I was 21.
So they sold me booze at the gas station or worked at.
All right.
So yeah, booze was never really a problem.
You had a cheat code.
Your beard is a cheat code to age.
Yeah.
Since you were nine, you've been 21.
Yeah, kind of.
I mean, I didn't start drinking until, I don't know, 17 or so maybe 16, 17.
Yeah.
So that's, that's not too far off.
No, no, but I didn't come in.
I didn't come in hot.
Right.
It took me a little while to get to the point where I'm like, oh, I got my booze
legs sort of sorted out.
I jumped in full force.
Like the first time I drank it was because one of my friends and this is the
length that we had to go to booze.
This is why you asked me the question.
No, no, no.
I asked you a question because there's a gift situation.
I had to, I have to, I had to go a long way to find a specific bottle of wine
for somebody for a gift.
Oh, I see.
But this is the way that my childhood, as far as buying booze went.
One of my friends stole a bottle of Jack full on fifths from the rec center in
our town.
Why do the rec center have Jack Daniels?
Isn't there so many questions that need to be answered?
That's the first of them.
How did he know?
Where did he go?
How did he steal it in the first place?
I guess if it's like in the filing cabinet or something like that and the
employees nip into it or something, it gives a shit.
But he didn't work there.
Right.
You know, someone had to have snitched on the bottle.
Something like that.
All right.
And so we just, we just essentially drank the whole bottle.
My first time drinking, we drank an entire bottle of whiskey together.
So my first time drinking was like in earnest was at a park.
Of course, everybody's usually when you're that age, you go to a park.
Mine was an attic, but okay.
I was hanging out with my friend, John and Aaron.
Couple dudes I knew, uh, from my K life group, a life, right?
That's right.
Uh, nothing says Jesus more than drinking in a park.
Right.
Right.
We were sort of more rebellious end of the, uh, the, our small group in K life.
Yeah.
And, uh, Aaron's parents had a liquor cabinet and they had, uh, what did we take?
We took a bottle of wine, bottle of red wine, a bottle of peppermint schnapps.
And we went to the park and we were drinking those and because we were so young
and dumb, we decided to mix them together and so we ended up, yeah.
We were like halfway done with them.
We mixed them together and we had wine and peppermint schnapps.
It was disgusting.
Make matters worse.
It was freezing out.
I feel like that would open a portal into hell though.
Just nobody's ever done that before.
It's crazy that I drank again after that because it was a fucking awful time.
Yeah.
In the middle of a cold park with wine and schnapps.
Jesus.
Did you get to the end of that story?
Yeah.
That's the end of that.
Oh, you just, uh, you found a bottle.
A friend found a bottle of booze at the rec center.
The story is, he didn't find it.
He stole it.
He stole it.
He like oceans 11 did as he told it.
I see.
I see.
And the story is about how hard it was to get not the actual drinking.
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
Gotta hate you.
Fine.
I love you.
You know what I love and don't hate.
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I like quizzix.
Yeah.
I like quizzes.
I like the word quick because it's a nest quick.
How much further are we going to go?
No further.
Are we going to make fun of my stories now?
Yep.
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Dude, you can't.
Now, Jordan, before we get into today's business, I think it is important for us
to take a little second to give a special message out there to, uh, to a
listener who's, uh, is out there in his car.
He's out there.
What?
Where is this going?
Probably this morning from what I hear.
This guy's celebrating a birthday.
He's, uh, hold on.
Is he driving a snow plow?
I feel like it's important for him to be driving a snow plow.
What's saving lives?
What's the furthest you've ever gone to get into a snow plow?
Six miles.
So I don't need to give details.
We'd like to go a little bit out of our way to spend us, uh, send a special
thank you message out there to, uh, Walt.
Thank you so much for listening to the show.
Happy birthday to you.
Lee sent us a message and, uh, we all wish you.
What are you snitching on, Lee?
Yeah, I feel like that's public information.
You can't snitch it on, Lee.
No, no, no.
The message is coming from us.
No, no.
It needs to be more like we have a weird, psychic connection to Walt.
Like we've always known Walt's birthday before Walt's ever even listened to the
fucking show.
We always knew Walt's birthday.
There we go.
That's a good angle.
I'm going to resist taking that angle and just say, uh, I mean, Jordan, the only
thing we can do is sing happy birthday.
Okay.
No, wait, hold on.
One second.
Let's hit a C.
I'm all positive.
There are so many other things we can do that sing happy birthday with me.
I'm not harmonizing with you because that is not a C.
Happy birthday.
No, this is worse.
It's not in the public domain.
I can't say it anyway.
Happy birthday.
Walt.
Hope you have a great one.
Uh, uh, yeah.
Yeah, happy birthday.
Yeah, that's great.
So now Jordan, let's get into today's business.
Um, wacky Wednesday is upon us and, uh, we might need to change
the name of wacky Wednesday, uh, from wacky Wednesday to maybe just wild
Wednesday or weird Wednesday or something like that.
Because sometimes it's not all that wacky.
So are we, are we married to the alliteration?
Could we just call it?
I certainly like it out of the ordinary Wednesday.
That's a little bit clunky.
Is that a little clunky?
Doesn't roll off the tongue.
All right, all right, all right, harmonize with me on it.
That's a good C.
You don't know.
Shit.
I was almost in the Honolulu.
Oh man.
My mom is a music teacher.
My little sister is a music teacher.
I have been involved in many musical pursuits, including.
That's right.
Musical theater.
Cool.
The greatest of art forms.
I was in a musical in high school called we has jazz.
That wasn't in high school.
Was it junior high, middle school?
That was three years ago in community theater.
It was a middle school production.
It also was three years ago.
Don't want to talk about it.
So I wandered into a middle school walk.
I've been walking a long time trying to find booze.
Yep.
Yeah.
Just turned out to be an audition and who knew I got it.
We should just call this riff heavy Wednesday apparently.
Look, the thing is Wednesday is going to serve as a sort of
additional episode.
We'll obviously still be doing a lot of stuff about Project
Cam a lot.
Obviously going to dip back in eventually to Reverend Manning,
Coach Dave, Jim Baker.
I'll certainly keep my eye on him for times we can talk about
him and we've gotten a lot of great suggestions from people
about stuff that might fit into that fold.
And keep my eyes open looking for possibilities for sure.
But also like I said, I think it is also a perfect place for
us to fulfill time travel requests.
Absolutely.
So today we are going to be doing a time travel request and
honoring the wish of one George Soros Jr.
Why are you pointing at me?
Because if you're a Dr. Who fan, that means today is a timey
why me Wednesday.
I like it.
Thank you very much.
It's fine. That'll be whenever we do time.
When we do a time travel for sure.
That works.
It retains the alliteration.
Everything is good.
So George Soros Jr.
Who I have no idea who that actually is.
It's absolutely not Alexander Soros or anyone related to
Soros.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Hey, I'm telling you that Kennedy's hid one of their kids
in an asylum.
Right.
I got an update on that.
It is true and it's very sad.
Oh, it is true.
He is very sad.
Oh, I thought it was a joke.
No, we laughed about that and I got a message about it.
I felt very bad.
No, that can't be.
I like to learn.
But no, now I feel awful.
Yeah.
So George Soros Jr.
got in touch with me and wanted to know about what Alex Jones
talked about when the Ebola outbreak happened in 2014.
Okay.
I was going to say which in 1976.
I don't know why I was like which.
That's you are.
You're in a mood right now.
It's fun.
It's a fun mood.
It's a riffy, riffy kind of day.
I like the idea of unnecessary response questions.
The Ebola outbreak.
Oh, which so many to choose from.
So in 2014, there was a bit of an Ebola outbreak that centered
in West Africa.
It was centered largely and began in Guinea and then eventually
spread into Sierra Leone in Liberia where it was the worst
in Liberia was particularly hit hard by this.
Right.
It ended up getting taken care of and then getting worse or not
getting worse and maybe it got worse.
I'm not entirely sure how you judge that.
Yeah.
But Sierra Leone and Liberia were declared free of Ebola and
then more cases popped up and it ended up going on until 2016.
Like 2016 is when all of it ended in earnest.
Right.
And that period of time was very heavy in the propaganda community.
The people made a lot of mileage out of the idea that Ebola was
on the rise and all that stuff.
And they had two years to fucking make.
Well, but even in 2014, particularly, it was pretty serious.
And so in September 2014, excuse me, September 2014 is when things
got to be like it's it's getting outside of Africa and there was
a case in the United States.
The first case was in Dallas actually and it was announced on
September 30th 2014.
Yeah.
So because George Soros Jr.
gave me such vague, I don't mean this judgmentally, but gave me a vague
idea of where to go to.
I was like, okay, the first case is in Texas.
Alex has got to freak out about this fucking yard.
Yeah.
This is in Dallas, but it's still got to be like, okay.
So that was announced on the 30th.
I'm going to October 1st.
Why not?
That's got to be a fucking freak out show.
It's like the beginning of outbreak.
Right.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
As is almost always the case.
No mention of it.
No, this is a weird trend that I've noticed from these time travel
requests that people make.
Alex is almost never in studio when big news breaks whenever the
Pope resigned, he was on vacation and David Knight was hosting when
the Ebola outbreak happened and the there was a case in Texas.
He's on vacation and Paul Joseph Watson's hosting.
And so we're not going to do that.
Hell no.
So I found the first episode where Alex is back from vacation
after there was a case in the United States in Texas of someone
with Ebola and that happens to be October 5th, 2014 and that is
the episode we'll be going over today.
Okay.
We'll be getting into the specifics of the actual outbreak and some
of that stuff along the way, but it is actually interesting.
A lot of this, a lot of Alex's angle on it is kind of, kind of
predictable, but then there's a lot to learn along the way too.
So I feel like this is also going to be one of our time travel
episode trends where it's like, whatever it was that you were
asking for that got us to the time travel episode, we wind up
talking about everything but that.
I don't think so in this case, but that was, I mean, that was
the case with the Malaysian plane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In this, in this instance, I think there's, it's a lot about
the actual Ebola stuff.
Oh, no shit.
No, he's lying about a lot of it.
No, of course.
Well, hold on.
Yeah.
It is still Alex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it is interesting.
He's actually on topic and part of that might be because he's
recharged from vacation and then another piece of it might
be as Ebola could be another part of it might be that this is
also a Sunday show.
October 5th is a Sunday show.
So he has less time to fill.
I think he feels less pressured and at this period in his
career, that was still much more of a lucrative thing for him.
It was still, I believe, I believe the syndication of it was
higher than his Genesis communications.
So, so when we started this episode today, Jordan, I'll be
honest with you, I had fully intended to not tell you why I
chose October 5th 2014 instead of giving me a detailed reasoning
for choosing it.
I was going to try and be like, Hey, here's the date.
Do you know why it is?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then I would pick up on that one and then I could have
played the first clip where he says like we're in talk about
Ebola and you'd be like, God damn it.
That could have happened in another universe.
That is how this episode started.
But in this universe, it starts with us playing an out of
context drop from today's show.
It's so sick.
How men will corner you in an elevator and go, What do you
think about delts, cowboys?
I'm sorry.
I don't follow that.
I'm not manly.
I'm not manly like you.
Okay.
Okay.
So crazy.
It's so crazy to me.
He does these things with like masculinity.
He has it from both sides.
So like he wants all of it.
He wants every part of the buffalo of making you feel things
about masculinity.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He wants to scream about it being under attack, but he also
wants to attack the masculinity of people who like football
because they're too masculine.
Right.
It's very confusing.
I don't know.
Anyway, it seems very unmasculine as masculine being in
his conception.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have no baggage in terms of that.
I don't care to be like, you like football.
That's too much.
I got, I got, I got nothing.
Yeah.
Anyway, let's get into this episode.
Here's how the episode starts with Alex introducing the
topic of Ebola.
I believe it's already the fifth day of October, 2014.
Why?
Alex Jones were live broadcasting worldwide,
some casting video and then full wars.com forward slash show.
I want to open the phones up today and talk to Texans,
but Americans and other people around the world for that
matter about the handling of Ebola 2014.
I'll say that he does not open up the phones for another 48
minutes after this.
So he didn't want to do it that badly.
Who won that election?
I was it Ebola or was it McCain in 2014?
I don't remember.
McCain won the battle.
That was his sentence.
Ebola won the war.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Little known fact that's a brain cancer was caused by
Ebola.
Really?
That's what I've heard.
I don't know.
I read it on the fucking world news daily.
Well, world net daily.
I don't know.
Might as well be true.
Yeah.
So Alex has got a lot of feelings about this Ebola
situation and you can obviously predict where he's going
to go with this.
I'm certain you can.
I don't want to put you on the spot.
I'm not trying to pimp you into this, but I really think
you can guess.
00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:15,900
All right.
Here is.
Here is my theory.
This is going to be good.
Here's my theory.
All right.
Now it's going to be good if you're right.
It's going to be great if you're wrong.
There's something I know.
So this is prior to our 2015 investigation.
But I'm going to say that a lot of the lessons that I learned
in 2015 should still be applicable in 2014.
It's not that far away.
Yeah, I think so.
And in October, that was close to when we started our
2015 investigation.
So he's closer to early 2015 investigation, Alex, than
other versions of Alex that we've seen in the past.
So if you want to use that as a metric, go for it.
All right.
So here's the facts.
Just the facts, man.
Just the facts, man.
We on drag.
Yes, we are on drag.
Come on.
I am a 1950s comedy writer that is repurposing.
Come on.
All right.
I am 100% certain that this is Obama's fault.
You bet.
I am 100% certain that there's going to be a lot of racism
involved because it's in Africa.
Well, at the same time, he's going to pretend that he is
a crusader for African people in order to make sure that
everybody may be a little bit of theirs about black people.
I think the racism is fairly veiled, but it's certainly
there.
I assume it's part of the globalist larger plan that
they're doing a soft launch of genetic diseases and bio weapons
in Africa because they know you won't care about them.
But the one time that a guy lands in Dallas, that's how we
know that they're beginning the full assaults, Dan.
Jordan, you have just got a B on your final exam this
semester.
I'll take a B.
There are some elements in there that you fucking nailed
and then there's some things you couldn't possibly expect
that are also part of his narrative like this.
And they've got MSNBC headlines.
How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse.
I've seen headlines about Perry better do a good job with
Ebola in Texas or he'll be in political trouble.
How is it Rick Perry's job to control the airplanes flying
in?
That's the federal.
Oh, so that's what the federal government does.
I don't.
We finally, we finally found out what the federal government
does.
The federal government is for.
Shots down planes.
Controlling when planes go to Texas.
How is it Rick Perry's fault if a plane lands in Texas?
I mean, it is like the FAA, right?
I mean, is the federal aviation.
I guess.
But like, Alex, you don't give anybody a pass on anything.
It'd be like, fucking, it's the fence fault.
If people wanted to build a fucking road, he lost his mind.
But hey, look, the federal government can fly planes
wherever they want.
I don't understand.
I don't understand the skies.
He hates Rick Perry and to his credit, he's not, he's not
letting Rick Perry off the hook here.
But he is saying that like, what he needs to do is get in
Obama's fucking face about this.
Sure.
Rick Perry isn't being aggressive enough to Obama about it.
That's the deficiency of Obama or I'm sorry, of Rick Perry.
Because of the flights.
That's a federal.
And by the way, where that clip ended where he says that's
a federal.
That's where the sentence, that's where the sentence.
Yeah, but also we see this introduction of this new
story that the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse.
Alex is fucking not happy about that.
That's a headline, baby.
That both sounds like it will be backed up by some statistics
and if you continue to think about it, you're like, I don't
want to throw them on this one.
They can't, the NRA can't possibly be making Ebola worse.
The Ebola crisis.
The Ebola crisis.
Well, they can probably make it sound worse.
I don't think they're actively going out and giving people
who wouldn't otherwise get Ebola Ebola.
We will find out exactly what this article is about as soon
as Alex actually talks about it.
But for now, he's just complaining about a headline.
Here we go.
Because he hasn't read the article spoiler alert.
When it gets to the article, he still hasn't read it, but
he also has to complain about PC culture and how that's involved
in this holy Ebola crisis.
Don't understand that, but fine.
And political correctness has paralyzed this country.
That's what it's designed to do.
Like Ebola.
Last few years, we've seen articles at colleges across the
United States and England where they say don't have a Halloween
party and don't dress up like a geisha girl or an Eskimo or
don't do that cowboy or a Native American or a pirate because
it's hurtful.
I was reading an email and none of my friends sent me from
their big yoga studio that they attend where they were going
to have a India style party.
What?
Bollywood.
Do you mean?
And they said, well, were we a complaints that would be racist
if we dressed up like people from India?
No, if you put a lot of yoga on your face to make you look
like you're in, yeah, shut it down.
Wearing a saree is fine.
We can't even shut flights down from countries where they're
estimating 1.4 to 5 million people will get Ebola by the
time it runs its course.
They are trying to get out in mass.
So this idea that he's perpetuating there is this idea
that PC culture is stopping us from talking about this as it
really is in the same way.
They won't let me dress up like a geisha girl or something.
Yes, don't use someone's fucking ethnicity as a costume.
That is very insensitive.
That is that is a good rule of thumb.
Alex.
I don't know about this yoga studio you're talking about
because it sounds a lot like that that time that you wore
a Nazi hat at a party.
Hey, no, the the things is a boatman's cap that those things
that the yoga studio people are talking about how like
we can't have a fun India party.
That sounds exactly like the side characters in the Nazi
hat Halloween.
Oh, yeah.
Where they're like, I can't even wear a costume anymore.
Everyone's offended.
Oh, it's terrible.
It almost sounds like a made up character in a story you're
trying to make a point with.
Come on, Alex.
Wouldn't you be so offended if a black person dressed up as
chicken fingers and fries and stole your culture?
So he's saying that like millions of people are going to
get Ebola.
Yeah, they're predicting.
And also he eventually does end up saying that hundreds of
thousands of people have it.
He's going to say that.
I want to tell you that when it was all over in 2016, June
2016, Guinea was officially declared Ebola free.
28,600 people total total got Ebola between Guinea, Liberia,
Sierra Leone, all other countries in Mali, Nigeria,
Italy, the United Kingdom.
There was a case there.
A couple of people in Spain, Senegal and the U.S.
Holy shit.
Can we just say real quick?
That's amazing.
If you are against vaccines, go fucking fuck yourself.
But even then, if you are against vaccines, our system of
rooting out disease, if that's the total number of people got
it now, that is fucking incredible.
Especially over a two year plus time frame.
Yeah.
Everyone should be like, holy shit, great job guys.
It could have been way worse.
It could have been immensely worse.
And there were 11,325 deaths out of those 28,600 people,
which is, you know, it's at a 40% death rate, which for
Ebola, isn't Ebola like super?
I don't know.
I don't know anything about it.
It depends on the strain and it depends on where the outbreak
happens, but it does.
Of course.
Like there are times, there have been outbreaks in history
where it's like north of 90% fatality, but in this case,
I don't remember.
I was looking at the statistics in terms of like a country by
country breakdown of this 2014 and some countries, there was
a 0% fatality rate.
America is 25%.
One guy died out of four that ended up getting it.
That's not even really a percentage.
That's it is though.
I mean, it matters, but as far as like, it's just irrelevant in
that 20,000 exactly.
Yeah.
That's what I mean, but I don't think the numbers were even
super.
Yeah.
I mean, 40 is right.
I mean, 40 is around the total.
So you could assume that just extrapolate from there.
Sure.
It is lower than some outbreaks in the past for sure.
That being said, you know, I don't know what we were.
I don't know the point we were trying to make, but yeah, it
could have been way worse.
It could have been the point I was trying to make is that's
amazing and anybody like Alex bitching about it and saying
that, oh, this is the worst thing that could ever happen.
Should also at the end of 2016 say got to give it up to him.
That's fucking amazing.
No, totally great work.
We can good job.
I agree with that, but we also can't expect Alex in 2014 to
know what the end result will be in 2016, but him saying that
there are like hundreds of thousands of people who have
Ebola in 2014 when at the end of it, it's not even, it's just
north of a quarter of 100,000 total people who ended up
catching it at the end of it means that he's just blowing
this way out of proportion.
Absolutely.
And so one of the things is he thinks that the United States
in particular and some other countries, but he doesn't really
name any other countries other than the United States aren't
doing what they need to do to make sure that this doesn't become
a problem.
The Arab countries, the African countries, the UK, France, all
in the last month and a half banned flights out of Sierra
Leone, Liberia and other areas.
And Rick Perry will have epidemic levels, hundreds of thousands
of Ebola spreading.
UN models are 1.4 to 5 million people getting it.
Millions dying by the end of the year.
I don't know that's accurate.
That's what they're saying.
That's not what they're saying.
There are, there were like all these sites that were giving
these terrible worst case scenario.
I think Alex is pulling it from there.
So he's, he's saying that all of these other countries have
instituted these travel bans on people from these affected
countries and the United States won't do that and that's
fucked up in the aftermath of an outbreak.
It makes total sense to think that the solution is closing
down borders and restricting travel to countries where
that particular medical issue exists.
But when you take a closer look at history, all you see is
evidence that these travel bans don't work, make things worse
and are a stupid misallocation of resources.
That doesn't sound right.
Travel bans always work.
For instance, in 1987 Ronald Reagan put in place a ban on
people with HIV or AIDS coming to America.
This did nothing to restrict the spread of the disease, the
condition, excuse me, and in 1989 they did a review of the
ban and found it to be, quote, ineffective, impractical,
costly, harmful, and maybe discriminatory.
The study found that travelers played little to no role in
the spread, but efforts toward prevention made an actual
difference.
Beyond that, they found that screening travelers for HIV
and AIDS was all good and well, but the process was
intrinsically flawed and would inevitably lead to negative
folks being labeled as positive and vice versa.
That's completely pointless and this ineffective ban was in
place until Obama got in office.
I'm really glad that we learned our lesson, realized that travel
bans were ineffective and never again tried to institute them.
No, no, certainly not.
I'm glad we learned our lesson.
Isn't it crazy that in 87 Reagan put that into place and we
don't even really even remember that it stayed in place
because no one was paying attention or whatever until after
2008.
Yeah, no, it's, it's crazy, it's crazy because it stayed in
place so long.
It checks out.
It's absolutely not crazy.
Check it out.
It's crazy from our perspective, but from the America and a
whole where like, yeah, no, that sounds right.
It, it, it checks out in terms of like what you'd expect kind
of, but it also was like, wow, I didn't think, I didn't think
it was, we were that dumb.
It wasn't until Obama's administration that anybody
was like, Oh, we should care about humans.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Maybe not.
Who cares?
Or no, maybe the government specifically like HIV positive
even all the way through it.
Well, like with Clinton's comments about HIV positive people
and you don't expect W to do anything positive ever.
No.
So yeah.
No social evolution.
And then also those, those years when there was some good
progress being made being under W, like the good social
progress and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're never going to see that mirrored up top.
Nope.
So yeah, I guess it does kind of make sense.
Anyway, it's a bummer.
Also super bummer after there were some cases of H one and
one in Mexico in 2009.
Many countries cut off flights to and from the country.
There was a 40% decrease in Mexican travel volume.
A study after the fact found that quote, that only led to
an average delay in arrival of the infection in other
countries, ie the first imported case of less than three
days.
And they found quote, no containment was achieved by
such restrictions.
Huh.
So there's a consistent pattern that that shows that all
you're doing is putting things off by a couple days in
service of what?
Now, I think and I'm sure that this did not affect tourist
income or we're going to get to that a little bit.
We're going to get to that a little bit.
It's almost like it didn't do any of the positive things
that you hoped it would.
Right.
And it only made destitute so many places that relied on
that income.
We're going to get to some of those like issues that I
actually think are kind of minimal in terms of like when
you're talking about people dying of like a hemorrhagic
fever.
Yeah.
I don't particularly care too much about like talking
about finances.
I mean, I get it.
It is a variable in that that belongs in the calculus,
but it seems crass to think it matters more than people.
I'm not saying I know.
No, I totally get you.
I totally get you and I agree with you and I shouldn't
be defensive about it and you're absolutely right.
So in October 2014 study of the actual travel bands put in
place in response to the outbreak of Ebola found that
quote the travel bands are only delaying the further
international spread of the Ebola outbreak in West
Africa for a limited time at the risk of compromise and
connectivity to the region, mobilization of resources to
the affected area and sustained response operations.
All actions of critical value to the immediate local
control of the Ebola and for preventing its further
geographical spread.
So all you do is end up sacrificing the idea of people
being mobile to some extent for the sake of some imaginary
lockdown you want to do.
So you wind up spending a shit ton of money for a lockdown
that doesn't make any sense while not allocating any
resources to the prevention and the treatment that would
help a lot of people.
That's a big part of it.
There you go.
Shutting down travel to and from affected regions feels
like the right thing to do, but it's not.
Not only does it not work historically, but it actually
hurts things for two important interconnected reasons.
The first is that it's not a reality that you're ever going
to be able to shut down all travel across borders.
Borders are huge and people who really want to badly
enough they want to leave.
They'll find a patch of land.
They can slip across a border.
It's going to happen like you're never going to be able
to completely insulate something.
This leads to the second problem.
If you shut down travel for people from an affected
region, you create an incentive for these people to lie
about where they're traveling from, which in essence turns
them from a variable you could monitor into one that's
now completely unaccounted for.
Studies have been done that show that this is the case
and for Alex to not know this means that he's not operating
from a position of wanting what's best for the world.
He's just looking for any excuse you can find to let
Africa burn.
The idea is when you do these these sorts of things you
like like I said there you incentivize lying.
It is someone is from let's say Guinea and they make it
across a couple borders or whatever trying to escape
trying to.
Yeah, sure.
Certainly their intentions may be good, but they may also
have it.
And yeah, they might be a carrier and they don't know it.
They're not showing they're not exhibiting symptoms.
They can time and so they could slip into another country
lie about where they're from be able to travel because
that country where they they are coming from isn't included
in this ban and what you do then is you're not able to.
I know it sounds ugly in terms of like flag them, but when
you have an outbreak going on it isn't everyone's best
interest to like if you are traveling from that country
we need to know we don't want to hurt you know we need to
be able to keep an eye just in case maybe we want to test
you for Ebola right which is not a terrible thing.
We're not trying to kill you.
We're not trying to destroy you or quarantine you.
We just want to know which you can do if you allow the travel
but if you shut everything down close all borders.
What you do is incentivize breaking of the quarantine.
It's almost like prohibition doesn't work.
Yeah, and quarantines on a large level don't work also
historically it's been shown over and over and over again.
If you want to quarantine something very small like a
person in a hospital or something like that.
Yeah, it does work very effectively.
It also relies heavily on sanitation like that is an
incredibly important piece of a quarantine.
Yeah, but if you want to vigilance if you want.
Yeah, and how how how willing are you to kill someone
who's going to leave like do you want to turn this into a
fascist quarantine or whatever like that is the other
piece of it.
Yeah, like if you do want to do that then like okay your
conception is X area is shut down because there's Ebola in
there if someone tries to leave do you murder them do you
kill them because if they get out someone else might get
Ebola is that the kind of world or is that the situation
you want if it is we have a different conversation to
have right but my my big point is that Alex doesn't
understand that travel bands don't really work and the
best example of this is the UK shut down travel to these
countries and they still had a case of Ebola right in the
UK of course Spain had you know there's a bunch of countries
that ended up having people it's not it's not effective and
it's Alex is only point it's all he's got but he also has
a point about something else that's completely unrelated
that I find very weird.
If you came here a hundred years ago to Ellis Island you
got screened for TB about two thirds of the people got
turned back at Ellis Island.
Now it's just come on come on come on come on we're back to
Ted Nugent get on in here yeah you had a just the right
response to that is that true Alex has brass balls talking
positively about Ellis Island with his firmly anti immigration
positions that he espouses all the time we all know the reason
why he speaks about Ellis Island as a positive thing it's
because of the immigrants coming in are the ones he thinks
are good ones two thirds of the immigrants were not turned
away at Ellis Island this is a profoundly stupid a historical
thing for Alex to claim think about it these people came over
here on ocean liners and arrived at Ellis Island in the
tens of thousands thousands a day was not an uncommon thing
during that time period if two thirds of them were turned
away where would they fucking go are you going to incarcerate
all those people how much do you think that would cost are
you going to pay for ships to take them back to wherever
they came from how much you think that would cost and how
much time would you waste crossing crossing the seat I'll tell
you what you should shut down the government to make sure that
it doesn't happen in reality only about 10% of the people who
arrived at Ellis Island were subjected to heightened health
screenings and 90% of those people were passed through with
no problems according to Barry Monero Ellis Island historian
and librarian at the Ellis Island Museum the people in charge
were largely just concerned with rooting out communists
anarchists and possible labor agitators that was a very high
priority in their screening interviews when people came in
to Ellis Island Barry misses real calling because if his name
is Barry Monero he should have been the greatest jazz artist
of his age lounge act come on good banter hell yeah he should
play the saxophone and be incredibly sexism Barry Monero
oh yeah so most immigrants who came through Ellis Island had
no documentation no visas no passports nothing and they were
processed and through they got through Ellis Island generally
not all the time but generally within three to five hours
some were detained while they're being processed if something
came up in their their history or if there had been somebody
who snitched on them before they came yeah there had to be
something sorted out or yeah or the authorities knew who they
were because they were criminals on the right then the three
five hour window that's out the window but if people got nice
but if people got detained there while they're being processed
they got a dormitory and they were provided food it was a damn
it now obviously why why would we be doing so good back then
about obviously wasn't perfect and no like everyone wasn't
treated all that well but of course there is still like if
you look back on it's like certainly better than what's
going on now I know with and with all the atrocities they
were committing at the same time somehow they were like hey
you know what this is actually a good idea let's do good here
mm-hmm bananas you know how many immigrants were turned away
and rejected at Ellis Island I know that Alex says that it's
66% I'm gonna go with 23,000 the actual number is 2% to quote
Vincent Canado associate professor of history at the
University of Massachusetts Boston and author of American
passage the history of Ellis Island quote the greatest
contradiction or irony here is they have a massive inspection
process and you have this restrictionist sentiment and
all these people you want to keep out of the country at the
end of the day less than 2% are rejected is a very small
number of people who got rejected even with medical issues
being considered one of the things is there there were you
know like this one year there's like a thousand people who got
rejected generally it wasn't for hepatitis or whatever Alex
is saying it's a there was this eye condition that was very
close to Chlamydia there's very contagious yeah that was one
of the easiest detectable things that a lot of people got
taken out for that hey hey your eyes fucked up I probably
wouldn't have made it I got a cross-eyed yeah yeah but you
got a bad look about you so you got a thousand you know you
got a thousand one hundred people being rejected in one year
for that but because of the mass in one year but because
compared but that means that there were like 300,000 people
that came through that year there there were over a million
yeah at least one or two of the years that I was looking at
raising statistics for yeah it's nuts and you know obviously
Ellis Island isn't a perfect story of great success but Alex
the pit the story that he's trying to perpetuate this idea
of like they didn't all they threw away everybody because
they only accepted the best yeah whatever he's hearkening
back to a past that doesn't exist the statistics are way off
yeah and he's only doing it in service of trying to I think
what it is if I had to guess I think he doesn't know anything
number one yes but then the impetus behind it the emotional
reason for it is justifying why those white immigrants that
came in are good not based on their skin but I think some of
that I think some of that does come down to the logistics
though like you can't incarcerate those people right like that
would cost so much and to be pointless because even if you
incarcerate them eventually what do you have to send it back
so what do you send them back immediately Italy to pay for it
yeah I don't know there's Mexico is going to build the wall
there's no easy answer to it and I think that the people in
charge recognize that and aired on the side of like all right
let's make sure there's no like legit dangers right that'll
probably only take us a couple hours per person you know like
we have it we have the ability to do this all right so this guy
has a lot of nails coming out of him and we have not made
Hellraiser yet so I can't I can't process a xenobite so go if
we're gonna get we're gonna go we're gonna give him we're gonna
give him 10 hours let's just hold him and let's just hold him
for a bit I found that to be really fascinating I didn't
know that the rejection rate was that low I really find that
fascinating too yeah so thank you for telling me at me scoffing
at Alex's bullshit actually led to me learning something and
I always enjoy that cool as fuck thanks George Soros Jr.
Help me learn a little so we get back to the show here Alex's
show and Alex has some other he has some ideas of how this
case was handled the case of the gentleman who came to Dallas
that was my favorite Hardy Boyce book the case of how the
gentleman came to Dallas yeah yeah Alex I also could have gone
with encyclopedia brown but I went with hard or Hercule
Oh no sir miss Marple listen we could name detectives all
day we really could we actually probably could I got a few I
got a Derringer in my boot of a detective so look yeah this
guy came to Dallas who's looking for a soul of steel no
you blame me for riffing and now you're gonna pull this shit
out of here no yeah that's on me so look my friend comes to
I don't know how this I'm gonna let this go I want to see how
this goes all right so Alex has some ideas about the handling
of the circumstances of the Ebola case in Dallas and I'll
say that if you believe him this sounds suspicious as fuck
he's also wrong about everything
our hospitals are so screwed up that when he went in a week
before vomiting and sick they gave him antibiotics and said he
had a virus antibiotics don't affect viruses they didn't even
clean for a week the hot the the ambulance for five days the
ambulance he'd been in that doesn't sound like cleaning his
apartment they did not doing anything folks they're not
quarantining his family or people were around him and knew him
because they obviously wanted to spread so that first thing
that pops out to me I think actually was the first thing
you responded to the idea they didn't clean the ambulance
because they would do clean any ambulance any any end of day
routine shift change clean the fucking ambulance clean my
work station and that's yeah so that was the first place that
I went to when I was looking into this when I heard that I'm
like I can't I can't imagine that's true absolutely so I
looked into it Alex is trying as hard as he can to create the
image of the powers that be are actively trying to precipitate
an outbreak of Ebola here in the United States and it seems
like a huge part of his argument is the ambulance hasn't been
cleaned a week later Alex is reporting this on October 5th
when with this episode we're listening to comes from because
he was on vacation when the news broke about the Dallas case
on September 30th the night of September 30th I will now
read to you from an article in CBS Dallas Fort Worth from
September 30th when we found out the ambulance in question had
Ebola in it we actually lit it on fire and then through the
ashes into a frozen lake in order to and that's why we haven't
cleaned it because it is a burning rubble that is underneath
a lake it's taken us a week because you had to create a
perpetually frozen and burning like and that took some advances
in technology we didn't even know tires could do that quote
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed that an EMS crew and
ambulance that transported a patient now confirmed to have
the Ebola virus in Dallas has been isolated quote we have
quarantined both them and the unit itself to make sure that
nothing was that nothing was there that can spread and we're
going about our protocol about how to do that says the mayor
so it's literally not far off from what we just said
I mean it's not far off from exactly what you would expect
people to do so immediately the people involved in the ambulance
were quarantined but Alex might be right on a technicality
what if they quarantined it but they didn't clean it
unfortunately later in the article quote Dallas fire and
rescue officials said the ambulance has been decontaminated
Alex is just making shit up to make it look like the people
running point on this weren't doing their jobs there are
plenty of other valid criticisms to make about how the whole
thing was handled and we'll get into some of them that this
isn't one of them now this is complete nonsense Alex is
probably reading this on some dumb blog or something like
that it's absolutely not true yeah there's that article and
there's more than just that article but that's just local
Dallas reporting from the mayor reporting yep we did do that
we took care of that that is from the 30th he's on air on
October 5th saying they never did it man even if they didn't
know that the guy had Ebola they still would have cleaned
the fuck it or at least disinfo they would have sprayed
something in there absolutely yeah unless they're trying to
get it spread but also not that I am taking the mayor at his
word and just the mayor of the article in question Jerry
Jones no that's the Cowboys he's the owner excuse me listen
the article in question also had a picture of the ambulance
in quarantine so I did also see it was actually the article
it was just underneath the mosquito net it's all it's not
that I'm just trusting blindly the mayor of Dallas over Alex
Jones you can put police tape around any old ambulance and
call it the real one sure so anyway that's a lot of nonsense
but also in that article it is important or I'm sorry not in
that article in that clip that Alex was just talking he said
that they gave him antibiotics when he came in to cure a
virus and that's interesting how what does buy so when they
say biotics would you say they are talking more about bacteria
yes now if I don't know anything about that he's not
affected by antibiotics but I'm going to go with if I remember
biology correctly viruses cannot be killed by antibiotics
no no no obviously but Alex is misreporting this to yeah so
on September 25th Thomas Duncan arrived at the Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital complaining of a fever abdominal
pain dizziness and nausea he was spiking a fever at its highest
at times of 103 degrees oh that's fucked up the staff ran a
number of tests on him and couldn't figure out what was
wrong they kept him overnight but they didn't diagnose him
with a virus at all but they did give him broad spectrum
antibiotics then it could be some kind of an infection the
initial symptoms of Ebola are super common like nausea dizziness
abdominal pain and fever right those are things that like if
you're doing a differential diagnosis that goes into so
many different possible yeah the actual underlying condition
it's not like the first symptom of Ebola is like your left
hand turns in the exact opposite direction all the time so
you're like oh that's Ebola Ebola's on your yeah there's no
there's not especially with the initial presentation of it
which is one of the reasons why it's so dangerous right is
that the initial presentation is so similar to benign conditions
you've got the flu right yeah so it's not crazy to think that
they wouldn't immediately jump in their brains to the
suspicion that he has Ebola well that was on September 25th
it wasn't an episode of House love House I know you did on
September 28th he returned to the ER this time via ambulance
which at which point they put the pieces together and deemed
too many Bola risk and contacted the CDC one of the important
things to remember is the timeline of events the outbreak
and Guinea happened in early 2014 first being declared on
March 23rd with the condition spreading to Liberia and Sierra
Leon shortly after Liberia would go on to be the hottest zone
of events and initially the country was declared Ebola free
by May now it would reappear and it wasn't fully taken care
of again like I said until January 2016 yeah but the fact
that in May they declared Liberia Ebola free kind of made the
crisis seem less pressing yeah so in September these nurses
probably didn't have Ebola first and foremost on their minds
you wish they would have but it also makes some sense why it
would have slipped through the cracks the first time he shows
up of course not however what happens after that is definitely
deserving of some criticism I mentioned there's some criticism
okay here's some of it the nurses union has come out levied
some complaints the protocol wasn't handled as well as it
could have been ranging from not immediately isolating Duncan
as soon as he was suspected of having Ebola right in the time
of the test confirmation and the suspicion to not requiring
staff to treat him in hazmat suits but instead just gloves
masks and eye protection Duncan's test for Ebola comes back
positive on September 30th and the day before a nurse named
Nina Pham treated him without any protective gear oh no she and
Amber Joy Vincent another nurse who treated Duncan would end up
testing positive for Ebola of course thankfully they survived
and did not end up spreading it to anybody else good but it's
a really that right there is a really great place to start
your criticisms yeah of this situation because there are
very valid criticisms about the way that this hospital handled
everything but the ones that Alex chooses to make are not
true right and also paint the picture that he wants it to be
if you suspect somebody of having Ebola you don't let a nurse go
in with no protection at all mm-hmm yeah that's a terrible idea
at the very least at the very least I can't imagine anybody
directed Nina Pham to go in there without any protection totally
it wasn't like the attending physician was like hey get in
there without any protection it will let you have a good old
day totally because even if she and she did but even if like
she survives that's a lawsuit for sure yeah you you especially
since the nurses have a pretty good union yeah like that would
absolutely be a lawsuit it seems like it seems like some
failures institutionally in this particular hospital right
definitely happen and just failures of oversight and and
that kind of thing not not any kind of malicious and absolutely
yeah and a lot of it probably could be easily traced back to
the idea that most of these people involved probably never
imagined a scenario where Ebola was in the United States who
would have Ebola yeah yeah yeah yeah it's pretty crazy so I
want to say one thing also here that is just to be perfectly
fair to Alex some of this information that I'm talking
about does happen after this episode so the this is on
October 5th and Pham doesn't end up testing positive for Ebola
until what is October 12th that's when she tests positive
and then the third miss Vincent isn't until October 15th so
he doesn't know any of these things which are the actual
decent criticisms of the hospital system right like that
but I also stand behind the idea that it would only make his
rhetoric worse if he didn't know them yeah yeah and having
the and it's safe to assume he wouldn't give a fuck and it
wouldn't change his narrative at all you wouldn't he wouldn't
deal with it in any more realistic way exactly but I just
want to give that caveat that he has no reason to know of
course all that stuff being as it's in the future although
he does say he's a psychic once again inexplicably we are as
fair as humanly possible well I want our listeners to their
fucking idiot but I want them to understand the timeline of
something I don't want to put unnecessary no for sure for
shit in anyone's mind totally get it so all this is to say
that like the ambulance was quarantine the people who doubt
with him were quarantined and checked and kept track of the
he wasn't give they didn't say he had a virus but he was given
broad spectrum antibiotics because they couldn't figure out
what he had and that is kind of a catch all which is an
unfortunate part of our medical system that that's how
we're going to be a biotic resistant things right and we'll
deal with that another day if 90% of cases are solved or or
at least treatable by doing this your first instinct is going
to be let's do the thing that helps 9 out of 10 people not
like on the off chance it might be a bolo we're going to do
this almost never hurts people yeah except for in the long
run when the resistance right right yeah so all this is is
a bunch of bullshit by and large and so here's Alex's take
on the bigger picture. I want to make this statement very very
clear. They either souped up this Ebola and weaponize it which
we know has been done before that's that's been on Nova on
PBS and allowed to be released or or it's naturally mutated
to incubate longer and to be more powerful and they're
openly opening the door to let it happen either way the people
running our federal government are complicit in what's already
happened and what is unfortunately going to unfold now how
does MSNBC respond how the NRA is making the Ebola crisis
worse they're actually blaming gun owners that's like blaming
the moon made of cheese. I don't understand that similarly
there what what what would you blame the moon made of cheese.
I would like to ignore everything else you said because
it's just Obama's fault which you predicted at the top of the
so the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse is the headline
so Alex says that what that means is they're blaming gun
owners yes and that not specifically the NRA they're
blaming all gun owners right that's the way he's presenting
yes we'll get to the truth eventually but the way he's
presenting it is they're blaming gun owners for making the
Ebola crisis worse which is similar to blaming the moon made
of cheese. I don't I think he had more to say but he got
caught off by a hard break so or he just that's him stepping on
a rake that that's him that's him starting a sentence like
fuck I got nowhere to go as I said the moon cheese I don't
fucking know so so does he mean that it's similar so blaming
the NRA is similar to blaming the moon made of cheese as
opposed to blaming just the moon for Ebola you're blaming the
moon made of cheese for that's interesting which is a second
level of ridiculousness I would say that it's equally
ridiculous to blame the moon or the moon that he's made out of
cheese for Ebola that I don't think that's what he was saying
I think he was trying to make some simile about I don't fucking
know I don't know I don't know I don't understand this is one
of these trademark moments of Alex Jones or it's like I wish
I could have talked to him during the break yeah what were you
were you trying to say there what what if I ask him now
there's no way he remembers what he intended to say absolutely
I want to know I don't know if he would remember what he
intended to say immediately following probably not probably
not he's got to tell his kids he can't go fishing again but
he's blaming the moon made of cheese for it listen kids I
know you want to catch some trout but it's like the moon made
of cheese made of cheese kept me away do you think what he's
talking to his kids on the phone he has hard breaks and he has
to get to I definitely thinks that he plays the highway man
that's coming in when he calls them ring back to the ring back
to yeah yeah whenever whenever it's time to get off the phone
whenever it's time to get off the phone with his kids it's
that that block rockin beat block rockin beats of course or
that bow bow it's that sorry kids got to go bow bow
so there's a guy Thomas Frieden who's the head of the CDC at
this point and he came out and made some comments about how
we talked about this already a little bit the idea that these
bands don't work yeah that sort of thing so he explains that
closing borders isn't really a viable option Alex plays the
clip of him saying that yeah and then I would just describe
Alex's response as like this guy's an asshole.
Let's go to the CDC director saying we can't control the
border yet because there is no more we know that as long as
the outbreak of smolders in Africa as long as it's in
Africa we're potentially at risk because even if we tried to
close the border it wouldn't work people have a right to return
people transiting through could come in and it would backfire
because by isolating these countries it'll make it harder
to help them it'll spread more there and we'd be more likely
to be exposed here.
But he had a nice calm MPR voice very convincing loving little
lies with his hair all combed kids by the way take your shots.
We hear it the new world love you and all we want is for you
to get healthy.
That's why the cancer rates and everything else are off the
charts.
So just take your shots get rid of those brain cells.
Mercury's good for you.
The CDC said so remember you said Mercury's good.
It's all true.
They love you.
I love I'm sure Moby is thrilled that his music is playing
over that message.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So what he's talking about there at the end.
I'm sorry you at your house.
I'm just like I know we've been doing this for so long but can
he even imagine people at the CDC actually being like we want
your kids to be healthy like with no with no caveats with no
like it like it's literally the job of the CDC to want your
kids to be healthy and he can't for a second imagine that
that is real like not even for one moment.
Well these people work at a center.
It's all about controlling diseases center for disease
freedom.
I believe well sovereign diseases.
Of course.
I don't know.
Yeah.
No, he of course not.
He thinks it's all super evil and what he's talking about
there at the end there that idea of like they're saying that
Mercury is good.
It's the idea there was a mercury based preservative called
somerosol that was in vaccines and that was one of the
things that was targeted specifically about the idea
that it caused people to be on the autism right right and
it's all a a scientific.
It's all completely refuted by studies as all that's what
he's talking about there that idea of like all these people
love you so much get rid of brain cells with this mercury
they love giving you mercury also what I really the same
thing is right actual mercury right right but be that as it
may like what is he one so okay so his criticism is we have
an NPR voice on there which I would like it if my CDC head
didn't come out and say
there would be on it would not inspire confidence.
No, no, no, no.
So is that what he wants?
I guess so.
Yeah, I guess he wants people who have a little bit of a
country twang to them or something like that.
Well now you know these people from these other countries
they're going to come in here they're going to give us all
this kind of a bowl and we got to close the borders for these
on me.
Whatever doesn't sound like snobby liberals or whatever that
that's what he's responding to it's like what you're didn't
reasoned it what radio liberals like to listen to I fucking
hate that sound.
Yeah, that speech pattern.
Whatever just hates vocal fry Dan could be anyway in this next
clip we just see you see like like I already told you 28,600
total cases over the entire two year span of this outbreak
again and amazing it did did not get outside of Dallas at
least this this instance of it.
This is just Alex sensationalizing and being incredibly
irresponsible to try and create the picture that things are
way worse than they are.
Well here in Dallas, Texas we really love to talk to you but
if it's spreading you know it's already gotten outside Dallas
sorry I flew back from Liberia on board an aircraft full of
hundreds of people and there are folks with a mola by the
hundreds of thousands in Africa now jumping on aircraft as
well but they can't go to France they can't go to Germany
they can't go to England they can't go to the United Arab
Emirates they can't go a whole bunch of places but you know
where they can come they can come right here to America
because well up is down and down is up that's irresponsible
but I want to talk more about why is he playing legs so loud
like that seems a little louder than a lot of his regular
like coming back from break music and it just lingers what
did he look dude anytime anybody plays easy top I got problems
I have got problems that is a bad band because beard jealousy
it's not the beard jealousy so much I don't like the idea of
people making Beards novelties certainly I don't like like
in college is a civil rights issue in college I would always
get like people would every goddamn year people would send
me these updates about the beard and mustache championships
and like get the fuck out of here oh to you specifically
because they're like this would this would interest you of
course you bearded man right and so I don't like that I
certainly don't like the Beards that I'm seeing in ZZ top
but that's not my primary problem my primary problem is
their songs are fucking terrible oh I realize I realized
they're like I 100% pulled that clip because I think it's
irresponsible sensationalism but I also pulled that clip
because to be angry at ZZ top yeah I really hate that I also
think he played it too loud it really was like most of his
music tapers off as soon as he starts talking that was loud
as fuck I am endlessly fascinated by where your boundaries
are drawn with music so Jordan you know I think I think you've
got pretty decent of an idea about what Alex's narrative
about this whole thing is like the idea of all of us behind
it obviously is blaming Obama and the federal government
right right saying it was an intentional blibby blue but in
this next clip he sort of makes the finer points of it clear
what he thinks is going on the globalist want to basically
use this crisis to bring in a medical tyranny a forced
inoculation program with the Billa Melinda Gates Foundation
Monsanto created a bowl of vaccine they're set to roll out
guarantee you that's why bare minimum they've turned off the
default it's like not closing a hatch on the submarine when
you when you submerge it's a no-brainer or not pressurizing
a jumbo jet he doesn't really make it clear what he's
saying there about these like not closing the hatch and stuff
like that he's not shutting down travel from all of these
places the only reason I clarify is not because I didn't
think that you or the listeners did it's because when I first
listened to it I felt like he's not being clear at all I got
you I got you a 777 before you take off from Houston International
to fly to London England that they're turning off all the
defaults because the public 777 more like 187 absolutely
brain dead I mean is America done so his take on this whole
thing generally speaking is the idea that this is a false flag
ish ish course ish soft launch for the global epidemic ish
yeah dip toe dip yeah anything in case it's not or whatever
you can sort of walk it back but the idea is that the global
scientists are doing this they're either have created this
or are letting this happen in order to get us all mandatory
vaccinated right in a medical tyranny with the Ebola vaccine
that Monsanto and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are
working together to enforce upon us I don't want to talk
about whether or not Monsanto creates vaccine no no no I
don't even want to talk about that give me any situation
where Monsanto and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
came up I can't give you one but I can say that a vaccine for
Ebola did not come out of this but can you 2016 there have been
a couple like as as recently as 2016 I'm not sure if there
has been progress on this but a couple of vaccines that had
been in phase one and phase two had come through phase three
very promising by the FDA I'm not sure I'm not sure I was
trying to look into it and I can't fully understand I was
reading a bunch of documents and I fucking understand right
but after a bunch of testing there are a couple of vaccines
in 2016 that were shown to be pretty effective yeah in the
range of 70 to 100% effective at being a vaccine against
Ebola which is a wide range 70 to 100% is a pretty wide range
but it's better than pretty good or zero pretty good yeah
I from from what I could tell it didn't seem like it was on
the market of current day yeah I don't want to stand behind
that in case it is but right no matter what the case whether
there is one now that is effective and on the market
and approved and all that stuff yeah it doesn't really matter
because you know this entire segment of our history this
entire outbreak of Ebola in West Africa didn't end up
precipitating that now like it didn't end up leading to a
crisis that required mandatory vaccination for Ebola and
forcing through of this vaccine that the global is just
going to use to kill men I guess I don't know yeah but like
so this narrative is is umpus bumpus it's nonsense it is
umpus bumpus thank you I agree so you've been probably been
sitting there Jordan you've probably been thinking what
have I been thinking that NRA tell me what I've been thinking
I wonder what that NRA story was all about I would I'm going
to go with here's my here's my prediction on what the NRA
story is about um I want to tell you before you make this
prediction I'm excited to hear it yeah but you're going to be
wrong okay I'm going to give I'm going to give this one ago
alright so the NRA is making the Ebola crisis work well the
the Ebola crisis worse I'm going to go with rampant anti
vaccination anti medicine anti all of that stuff propaganda
instincts it's good instincts but no you're wrong there's no
way you could predict what this is going to actually be about
they have been shooting down bees and bees protect against
Ebola and the NRA has a pro shoot down bees policy you know I
hate bees much like I hate ZZ top but we're going to get you a
twenty two go out there and start shooting bees get a bump
stock and go fucking just take out bees so Jordan I would say
that you're wrong um you have said that so many times you're
wrong about this NRA story but like I said at the beginning
there's no way you could predict this it's a really good
point and Alex has not read this article and this is a
psychological tactic called gaslighting with more sophisticated
where they just scramble everything where no one even
knows what's going on it's over the top you don't you don't
even know what gaslighting is making the Ebola crisis worse
by crystal ball I want to pause there real quick that is her
real name the one of the oh oh it's a name okay I swear to
God with a K immediately was like okay we're getting into some
psychic shed this is going to get wild that is a real person's
name thank you yeah so much because it's so hard to destroyed
me yeah and and Thompson what about and I want to say the NRA
is the problem that Americans own guns and don't even give
a reason it's just it's bizarre they don't even give a reason
it's fucking bizarre that sound right I'm going to go with
two people together authoring a study crystal ball and Emma
Thompson are not going to get Thompson are not just going to
say something and then not give a reason well you know MSNBC
it's just basically like some guys blog you know yeah they
just say shit it's like 9 11 blogger which Alex seems to
100% a reliable source for a news yeah yeah so Alex is peddling
this story about how the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse
but refuses to even talk about what is in the article
preferring instead to just say things like they don't even
make a point it's bizarre that's what he just said they don't
even make a point if true it is bizarre it would be bizarre
yeah it would be bizarre this is a clear instance of either
willful deceit because he knows his listeners will hear the
headline and think it's some kind of dumb liberal bullshit
or he hasn't read it himself which I think is probably the
case yeah the reason these writers are suggesting that the
NRA is responsible for making the crisis worse goes like this
experts and researchers have examined the US infrastructure
and found that there is little to no reason for people to
worry about a breakout of Ebola happening here because of
containment processes that we have because of sanitation
because of those sorts of things it just is on it's unlikely
like even if people do end up showing up here which did happen
yeah and the proof of the pudding is in the eating it didn't
end up becoming a pandemic right right because against all
odds we have a solid infrastructure in place in order
to combat this before it becomes which a lot of countries
don't which is why it becomes a huge problem which is also
why isolating those countries is though yes bingo bongo yeah
so that is what a lot of experts say however they're having
a hard time conveying that message to the public particularly
with the backdrop of a media running around being sensational
trying to make people worried about an outbreak and how
it's imminent historically the job of conveying important
health information like this and reassuring the population
that these fears that are being sold on air unfounded fell
to the surgeon general that is one of the main roles of the
position of the surgeon general however in 2014 when the
Ebola crisis is heating up we didn't have a surgeon general
and hadn't for about a year in November 2013 Obama nominated
Dr. Vivek Murthy for the post but his domination had been
held hostage by the Republican Health Senate I gone the reason
I remember that he believed that guns were a public health
crisis and thus the NRA lobbied strongly against his
nomination receiving even a vote with Rand Paul taking a
particularly forefront role in making sure his nomination
didn't move forward at all I totally remember this in a time
of public anxiety about a potential outbreak we didn't
have a top doctor in office and literally the only reason is
that he believed that guns led to health problems and the NRA
found that position unacceptable the NRA didn't bring Ebola
in or anything like that but no matter how you slice this by
depriving the country of a surgeon general because of their
lobbying in Congress through the Republican Party they
absolutely made the Ebola crisis worse it led to people being
able to spread much more propaganda than they would
have otherwise and the article makes perfect sense that makes
perfect sense yes I that the NRA made the Ebola crisis worse
I'd never thought about that I'd never heard that article
before no but Alex's attack on it made me read it and I say
oh good call I call crystal ball yep I would never as you
correctly pointed out I would never have guessed that in
retrospect now that I remember that whole situation it makes
perfect great argument crystal ball and and Thompson you
just fucking nailed it it's another instance of corporate
money having unintended consequences that are almost
universally now come on Citizens United was great so in this
next clip Alex just talks about how the globalists want this
to happen I guess I don't know this is just in being dumb
and it just illustrates they can't and they won't protect
you and for some reason they want Ebola to break out in this
country and that's why I'm opening the phones up I want to
know from you out there in this segment right through into
the second hour today why do you think this is happening so
that's right he still hasn't opened up the phones that it
doesn't matter 48 minutes give or take yeah he doesn't want
the audience to actually say anything he wants to give his
point and then after he has he knows the audience will repeat
it back to him yeah that's the game yeah so I just want to give
you a little bit of fun trivia about the Ebola outbreak in
2014 in October 2014 Alex Jones guest and associate Larry
claim and filed the lawsuit against President Obama over
quote providing material support and aid to international
terrorism and facilitating terrorism Larry believed that
Obama intentionally brought Ebola into the country and his
reasoning about this is not good Larry said Obama's reason
for bringing Ebola in was that quote Obama has favored his
African brothers over the rest of the boy oh boy oh by allowing
them free entry into this country Nope and quote relegating
whites and others not black or Muslim to the back of the bus
Nope what? What? Which has become an invidious form of reverse
discrimination? He also said quote as has been true throughout
Obama's illegitimate presidency as all credible evidence
suggests he was born in Kenya and is neither a natural born
citizen eligible to president nor has been naturalized as a
citizen to even have the right to remain here we see the the
deportation petition I had recently filed regret regrettably
our Muslim commander-in-chief has favored his own creed over
the rest of us I know you're responding poorly to that Jordan
but don't worry Larry isn't crazy. He's very restrained.
No he's absolutely fucking insane. He's very restrained.
He's a fucking lunatic. He's what? He's very restrained saying
quote I do not advocate violence and I want Obama to be taken
alive and deported.
What? Taken alive. Taken alive. That's his quote.
Wow I don't want this guy to be taken alive how about that?
He wants to be he wants to be taken alive and pay for his
inadequacies under the rule of law. So this lawsuit that Larry
Clayman put into court is an embarrassing public spectacle
of racism got thrown out of court and he continued to be a
racist embarrassment for years to come as a guest on Alex
Jones's show where we found him creating the Dennis Montgomery
information with Joe Arpaio and the members of the cold case
squad in Maricopa County. He is one of these weird through lines
that nobody knows about but Larry Clayman was a very huge part
of this anti-Obama sentiment. Yeah. That's crazy. It's nuts.
I feel like we're some of those some of those words in those
quotes are things that are like I mean I know you want to say
that. Yeah you're a lawyer. How did you not you should not
have you not clean that up. Yeah like the idea that he's
saying quote relegating whites and others who are not black
and Muslims to the back of the bus like the I know you think
that's a great turn of phrase probably but like how do you
not clean that up. So in this next clip I've been sort of
saying I think I overtly said earlier that Alex is saying that
this Ebola outbreak is a false flag. Yes. And I wasn't just
talking shit. He actually believes that a false flag a
staged event whether they souped up the Ebola or not and
so OK there you go. Alex says this is a false flag. Of course
it is and that is not surprising but one of the things I
always want to clearly delineate and make a point of is the
idea that whatever Alex says is mirrored by his callers. So
about a half hour after he says that he gets a caller Monique
in Quebec Canada. Thanks for calling. Go ahead. Hi Alex.
Hi Alex. I think this is a false flag and I'm sure that I
tend to believe like Robert David still when he was on your
show on September 18. He said that the next big false flag
will be a simulated Ebola attack. So she thinks it's a false
flag and cool whatever in that explanation for why she thinks
it's a false flag. She's like Robert David Steel was on your
show and said so Eagle Eared listeners will remember that
Robert David Steel was the guy who was on who said that
children were being kidnapped and taken to Mars bases and
Alex had to correct the white papers have made it true. Alex
had to disown him because of how much embarrassment came to
him and everyone's like Alex thinks people are on Mars bases.
I didn't say that. The media lies about me. They say that I
think the kids are on Mars bases. It's because of Robert David
Steel who is being brought up in 2014 as the person who predicted
that the whole thing. Yeah. Now I want to say I do want to give
it to Monique in a very short period of time. She made me
very interested in her backstory. So I'm all in on Monique.
I want to know what's up with Monique just because she has
an accent. She's from Canada and because she thinks it's a
false flag. No no no no no she's got she's just got a she's
got just she's got a way about her that makes me want to know
how is it how is it that you came back to how is it that you
came to this. I want to know the backstory. I gotta be honest
no matter what research I can do I don't think I can solve that
for you. Okay. But what I can I need you to do a deep dive into
Monique and then of course Lauren from from Ohio. So I Google
Lauren Ohio Lauren and then Monique Canada Monique in Canada.
Yes. I think you I think you do this. I will get back to you
on that. Okay. Take your time. But for now Robert David
Steel was on the show on September 18th as she as Monique
said there. Yes. Saying there will be a false flag using
Ebola as the cover or whatever. If you remember earlier I
said that it wasn't surprising that doctors and nurses weren't
thinking too much about Ebola in mid September Monique was
but propaganda communities are completely different in the
interest of total fairness. I should come clean and say that
I got completely swept up in this Ebola propaganda. Not that
Obama was causing it or here to he's trying to bring it here
into the country or any of that kind of shit. But I really
bought into the doom and gloom worst case scenario disaster
porn type of stuff in 2014. You did. I absolutely. Okay.
Okay. And I can tell you from personal experience there had
been a ton of sustained and long running campaigns going to
make people scared that it was going airborne. Ebola was
going to go airborne. All that was going to take was a slight
tweak of Ebola to make it breathable and then it was going
to take America by storm. Right. I suspect a lot of these
messages were being heavily promoted by people with interest
in survival food guns gold all the sort of businesses that
thrive on the panic of the immediate collapse. But at the
time it felt like a like a consistent bombardment of
stories about how this was just getting worse. I trafficked
in conspiracy blogs and message boards and stuff like that
around 2014. Yeah. And I was I was sensible to a point like
the point where I wasn't buying into the Rothschilds run the
world. But this sort of story did get to me like I remember
this. I was working at a shitty job. I had nothing to do.
I was at this insurance company and like oh my God this is
fucking terrifying and I rationalized it in my head.
I was reading these terrible things that I didn't ever find
like where are they sourcing their information from. Yeah.
So I read a blog and it's about like there are factual pieces
of it like oh my God it started in Guinea and now it's in
Sierra Leone. Now it's in Liberia. Right. It's heating up in
Liberia. It's and every like these blogs would just have
these all caps headlines of like it's now it's it's coming
it's coming. It's a thing that I have never really considered
but it is like I if you're in the stock market and and if
you're an investor and all of a sudden Apple's fucking revenue
earnings come out and it's higher than expected and you're
like holy shit I own this amount of stock and Apple that's
going to fly up like for these survivalist guys any time this
kind of global pandemic narrative comes up they have to be
like holy shit we're going to make a shit ton of money we
better ride this out because it's not real. And when Ebola
like it doesn't pop up that often. No but when it does it's
fucking terrifying because the reality of having Ebola in a
circumstance where you are in well quite frankly Africa it's
a brutal fucking experience. Yeah. And so it's one of the
most terrifying things and then you have the idea of that
spreading worldwide and all that it's the perfect thing to
make content out of right and the fact that it's from Africa
brings in that so much so much of that ingrained cultural
fear where it's like when you talk about oh we have bees and
then we have Africanized bees we have killer bees they're
coming out of this place that's so foreign and so savage but
it's so much worse than if it was about outbreak in Texas
that works on some levels from my perspective because I'm not
saying I'm not saying from you say that yeah but from my
perspective it just seemed like this makes sense because I was
reading dumb resources and I didn't understand it like you
gotta figure out this blog that you're reading where are they
getting their information from right follow the the chain of
information and see if any of this means anything going to
the second page of Google is never a good it is never going
to happen for most people I got deeply caught up in this this
Ebola paranoia at that point they were just every time there
was a new possible case somewhere it would be a new blog post
new message board threads of all these like this it's coming
everywhere all this is to say that there there was a massive
propaganda conspiracy World Campaign going on well before
Thomas Duncan ever arrived in the United States what I'm
getting at is that it's not meaningful in any way that
Robert David Steele came on Alex's show and said anything
like they're going to use Ebola as a false flag yeah on September
18th yeah it was actually a really shrewd choice on his
part I think based on the facts on the ground in August the
World Health Organization declared the continuing epidemic
a public health emergency of international concern the technical
designation on their point in August so that's a month before
Robert David Steele on Alex's show and said any of those
sorts of things and when they made that announcement that
came just a little bit after the August 5th announcement that
there was a confirmed case in Spain a man who would end up
dying a week later from the Ebola yeah he had yeah you already
had someone in a country that was outside of Africa where the
outbreak started but he was he was an aid worker who had been
in Africa of course and so you have this already it is
penetrated to the other yeah it's outside of that yeah yeah yeah
so the spread has begun everything that Robert David Steele
is doing on Alex's show on September 18th doesn't mean
anything because a month before this the World Health
Organization has already been like hey guys everybody everybody
be careful with this this is take this seriously yeah yeah
and simultaneously there had already been an instance of it
outside of Africa it is weird how a an organization making a
perfectly reasonable response to a massive disease to a really
dangerous disease early on to a dangerous disease that hasn't
really spread that much early on and saying this is something
we need to be aware of that early on I'm not it was it was
made because no one paid attention to it or it had been
going on in West Africa for a bit by that point but what I mean
is going on in so far as to say a less than a hundred thousand
people do you know what I mean always was less than exactly
instead of waiting until it was literally a global pandemic
right they waited until it was like this is a known issue
we're going to issue a warning early on enough to stop it but
because we did it early on enough people are going to run
wild with this ship well they have real strict criteria of
what what what constitutes a crisis that the world needs
to be worried about right and so what they did that they did
that in August 2014 but like in terms of the full story here
the first case the first patient was in December 2013 but
just didn't matter it didn't it didn't take it took a while
for it to become like like how diseases it took three to four
months after that for it to become like in West Africa
that people took took real specific in March but the bigger
point of this is that Robert David Steele has been a very
multifaceted player and Alex Jones' propaganda over the
years he's I don't think that we recognize this at all
in 2009 we haven't heard him back in 2009 but we've heard
callers mention him right about how you talk to him on some
show a year ago so in 2008 and right Jones's world we've yet
to see an actual appearance from it we now jump into randomly
2014 Robert David Steele is there saying that Ebola is going
to be an outbreak that's used as a false flag which I just
think is like he's pretty clever it's not I don't think
it's evidence in any way that it's a false flag I think he
just like he's better than the average bear in terms of like
just look at venting his no looking at the looking at the
actual world that exists and figuring out the best way to
lie about it okay I think he's pretty good at that I don't
think he's bad I mean his longevity is evidence enough
that he he's got some kind of angle that works I mean last
until like what late 2016 when the Mars colony thing happened
like yeah that was that was an overreach on his part yeah
that was like a that was like a heat check that was like
Steph Curry making two threes in a row and then being like
how about 45 feet out I don't know I think Robert David
Steele is a fucking interesting person that might I might need
to look a ton more into him he's also a big Bitcoin booster
I kind of think he's more of a survivor than anything else
I see I see him as like a I'm gonna I'm gonna ride these
wins and then I'm gonna change these wins when I need to
change these wins I suspect you're wrong but we'll see
all right we will see we'll see I might look into him a lot
more but Alex in this next clip has some thoughts about
how the globalists have changed Ebola that's a shock
Ebola used to gestate or incubate over three or four days
now it's 21 22 days you can spread it it's spreading much
worse it's it is a real pandemic now this narrative was flying
all over the place in in the blogs and stuff like that but
what this is all bullshit Alex is pretending the incubation
period for Ebola has changed in some way like it used to be
two days and now it's 20 that's all nonsense the incubation
period has always been a range it's historically been 2 to
21 days with most cases being within the 8 to 10 day range
when symptoms manifest yeah it's a matter of statistical
analysis it's it's it's it's standard deviations like the
like one standard deviation is 8 to 10 days 2 is 2 to 21 or
whatever right however however it actually works out right
and then Nate Silver would have a position on it generally
speaking after three weeks you're at the point where it's
like if you haven't shown the symptoms you probably don't
have right it would be like 0.3% chance you do right so
Alex is Alex is pretending that it's always been two to
three days now because it's always been known that it was
because the globalist changed it now it's 20 they've made the
gestation longer because that serves the purpose of his
arguments about they want people to fly into the country
right because they're not exhibiting symptoms exactly and
then they get into the country because there's a longer
incubation period they're not showing symptoms I've been in
the country I've been in the country two weeks it's going to
take another week before I start really noticing that I have
a total cool and in that period of time I've already infected
50 people out of nowhere everyone's dead exactly that
sort of thing zombies again he wants the CDC head to come out
and be like the crazy fucking thing about this is were anyone
to actually want to do this it would be so easy like any of
the people that he imagines that have the control that he
thinks yeah are there there's so many diseases that would be
worse and easier transmitted than Ebola that they could just
fucking do this yeah there could be like a smallpox outbreak
somewhere like it would be so easy and it does kind of feel
like one of the problem on sense one of the problems with
the way that underline problem it's one of the scares one of
the scary parts of the way that we control diseases is that it
does kind of feel like at any point in time some random
scientists working in the CDC could just like sneak away a
vial of smallpox and like smash it on the ground that's
exactly what happened with Larry I like a hundred million
people die that's what happened with anthrax anthrax mailer
Larry Ivan right the case after 9 11 that Alex also lies
about yeah of course go read that that report if you want to
actually happen there break I was nuts and an abuser he was a
manipulative fucking asshole when we talked about that guy
I was bummed yeah yeah so we have one more clip here Alex
gets to the end of the show he's been making fine points I
say facetiously he's been doing his best to present this idea
that Obama is doing this the federal government is in
charge of not letting planes come in not taking into account
the idea that studies had been done and like these studies
that I'm talking about a lot of them had been done before this
outbreak ever happened rare the only one that hadn't is the
one about this outbreak that showed that any kind of
sequestering wasn't affected right right I think we can
agree with Alex when he does say that Rick Perry is a piece
of shit that fine but he also was measured about that that's
true he wasn't letting Perry off the hook right but he was
also being like come on I don't like seeing Alex like that
because end game literally ends with him with a bullhorn
outside Perry's home he's outside Rick Perry's home yelling
at him because he went to Bilderberg so I don't let him
ever giving him a chance legitimately I do not remember
that on account of watching end game and that being the end
the closing shot yeah Alex as lights go dark outside Rick
Perry's house screaming into a bullhorn yep I had lost my
mind and then and then and then three and a half hours before
that Rick Perry you suck I do want that violin to be our
sting now yeah should be our theme song yeah yeah so we got
one more clip in that it's a fucking disaster of a fake
caller yeah so one of the things that's really like a hallmark
of Alex Jones's show is that he has a lot of callers because
they know they're anonymous and they're just calling in they
often say that like I work in intelligence we saw this with
Zach yeah his caller that he kept being all having on and
mysteriously gone now crazy what what is that go what are we
just not that narrative oh come on he's at norcom hey he's
probably run away to Morocco again that's a smart idea on
his phone knows why hasn't stone left the country anyways
a lot of these callers that call in give themselves credentials
in order to make Alex sort of losing to them right but in
doing so what I've noticed is they only do that to mirror
Alex's narratives back to him in a way that then he can be
like I talk to this guy who's an insider right knows and I
am fucking right there's an there's an echo chamber there
where the audience understands that they can elevate his
narratives by trolling him positively like in a way that
supports what he's doing right and I think that this caller
is a perfect representative of that insider from FEMA region
6 I'm in former Texas that's in FEMA region 6 you in in FEMA
region 6 and former state text I work for the regional
agency in formerly known as Ben Antonio, Texas.
I one of my friends is public health emergency planning.
The reason I know the Ebola outbreak is being conducted
on purpose is it violates all protocols. I used to be involved
in the Hurricane Katrina and Rita response of the effect
what what what violates protocols planning for smallpox
outbreak in Bear County. The proper response would be the
National Guard would seal off Bear County law enforcement
and emergency services would redirect the population to all
hospitals, churches and other government agencies where they
would be screened. If they were sick, they would be isolated
at a former military base until the sickness had passed or
they died. Everyone else would be forcibly vaccinated. There
would be no exceptions and no travel in and out of Bear
County. So the fact that they're allowing people to travel
into the United States and they are not locking down the city
of Dallas tells me this is by design.
That guy was reading off a script. Yeah, I was 100% going
to say that there's no way that he is extemporaneously
speaking. No, no, that was 100%. He's reading a an essay that
he has written this quote unquote insider is full of shit.
He clearly doesn't know what the protocol is in a situation
like this and what he's describing. I'm pretty sure
it's calling the National Guard have them screen everybody
isolate people in churches and hospitals, right? Because
why not? And then and then till they die. Yeah, what he's
describing is literally Alex Jones's worst nightmare come
true in terms of the federal government coming in locking
down a city and screening all the citizens at military bases
and churches that they have requisitioned and that's how
you know it's real. In reality, this idea comes from movies
and it doesn't really at all reflect what professionals
actually do. The last time in America, there was a large
scale quarantine or isolation. It was just Japanese 19 for
being Japanese. No, no, that was internment. The last time
there was a large scale quarantine was 1918 to 19 when
the Spanish flu broke out. No public health crisis since
then and there have been many plenty of them have been
responded to by mass quarantine and there's a good reason
why multiple reasons why for one, it doesn't work most
basically a large scale quarantine will almost certainly
trigger a mass panic that could lead to all manner of
unintended consequences ranging from vigilante ism to looting.
Second, that panic in people who see themselves as not sick
often leads to people concocting plans to break the quarantine.
No one wants to stay in the stay in the place where the
sickness is even if they know that leaving puts others at
risk. It's part of the human survival impulse probably
least importantly, a large scale quarantine is a huge
economic disrupt disruption. Disruption whatever city
your quarantine and effectively gets taken out of the larger
economy and it's possible that billions could be lost on
top of whatever it would cost you to just do the quarantine
the first place. Beyond that only 10 states have laws in
place that would allow people who have jobs that are subject
to a quarantine to keep their jobs based on being subject to
a quarantine. I'm going to say Texas is one of those. I'm
not sure. I don't have a list of all I feel like it's not okay.
There's only 10 places that are like if there's a quarantine
you don't have to come to work. We can not fire you for that.
All right. 10 out of 50. I'm not even gonna go with states.
I'm just gonna say that of those 10 states one of them is just
Frankfurt, Kentucky. Sure. I know for sure that they would do
that if they could. Wait, is it Ron Paul from Kentucky or Rand
Paul from Kentucky? Ron from Texas. Rand from Kentucky. I
don't know. Look, the the issue is that like this doesn't work
that this idea what what he's putting out into the world this
fake insider. He's putting out the idea of like quarantining a
city. It doesn't work because what you do then is you end up
like just imagine in your head. You're not a dumb person.
Imagine what you lose then. He's talking about quarantining
Dallas, Texas. It's a nonsensical proposition. The idea
that you were ever going to be able to create a like an actual
build a wall and build a wall is a fun, fun thing for people
to get out. Build a wall. Build a wall. It is fine. Build a
wall, but it is the same instinct here. Yeah, this idea
that you're ever going to be able to cloister this city where
there is a disease there or whatever an idea. What is smart
about quarantine as a rule is as small as possible. So if you
have someone who is you have strong suspicion has the condition
quarantine that person in a hospital, quarantine the house
in terms of don't let other people go in there. Yeah,
quarantine. You don't have to clean the entire house. What
what what good is that going to do you if no one goes in? It
doesn't help you. So I mean, that was the last clip. Jordan,
we have this insider who calls in and he's clearly full of
shit. Like he's not an insider. Absolutely not. He's someone
who's masquerading. He's someone who's one of Alex Jones's
callers who is trying to create 110 pound pimple covered
anarchist. He's trying to create the perception of himself as
an authority figure to reinforce Alex Jones's narratives that
he has heard by listening to Alex and to get into stolen
authority. Maybe but anonymous in many ways like he doesn't get
feels good. He was on it. He's on a nationally syndicated
radio network sounding like he was so fucking cool. I'm sure
I'm trying to get laid off of it. I'm sure you got a charge out
of that but also you can't really use that to help it like
socially. You can't go to the bar and everyone's like hello
Colonel or whatever like right, right. You know, there's still
some like it's only for you but it's also for Alex. Yeah, it's
the kind of like donation in kind that Alex's audience often
gives to him. Yeah, this idea of like they're gonna lie in order
to bolster Alex's narratives for him on the show. You make me
feel important. So I'm going to make your narrative feel
important as well. It's it's important for both of us and
so I'm gonna I'm going to you need someone to lie to make
this make sense. So I'm going to do it for you. Yeah, which is
interesting. I'm very fascinated by that and I'm not saying
that just because I disagree with this guy. I'm saying this
because what he's saying makes no sense. The idea of like
quarantining a city as large as Dallas or even like he's
saying he's from Bayer County which is it's it's spelled Bexar
but it's pronounced Bayer because Texas is weird. Refuse.
Goodbye. But that also by Bayer County. You're not allowed.
That's not a small county. That includes San Antonio. So like
it's the idea that like where I come from like if he had been
some guy in the tiny county and it'd been like where I come
from it's like we closed down everything. It's like your
population is 200 maybe I think that's ineffective but maybe
that would be what you did. Right. Right. Maybe statistically
maybe you could keep 200 people under control maybe you you put
that into 2000 people one is going to get out way more than
that and yes I know I know but like at minimum one is going
to get and then that take that to order to a million people.
Yeah. It's nonsensical. So my my I would like to say thank you
to George Soros Junior for suggesting this. Thank you very
much. It's interesting if for no other reason that I learned
about Ellis Island. I appreciate it. So look if I can
make this episode 90 way I would say Walt happy birthday.
You're the best.
You is the summation of our episode. Yeah. That's all I've
been trying to say. That's all we've been the entire episode
this whole entirely been one happy birthday. It's you want
you son of a bitch. Well you're one of the best and and this
is a lot of fun. I do enjoy this. I enjoy dipping toes into
the past out of context. Yeah. Because we're not out of
context. We know a lot about Alex Jones and so any day that
we check in we can kind of understand what he's talking
about. Yeah. If we had done this episode maybe two years ago
it would have been like whoa fucked up stuff. Yeah. Because
we have an understanding of him we can contextualize all these
Ebola narratives. Yeah. I'm glad that we're doing this this now
as opposed to earlier. Right. And that might be my way of
deflecting from the idea that there are a number of time
travel requests that we haven't done and I'm only trying to
say that they're going to be better because we put them off
and thank you all always if you remind me again about needing
to do if you have sent me a time travel request it can't hurt
to remind me again. I'm not going to take it personally. I
have one minor quibble. Oh OK. One minor quibble and this is
just language based. When you say we know a lot about Alex
Jones I would prefer if you said we know an unfortunate amount
about Alex. It is unfortunate because it is a you know an
unfortunate amount. You know an abusive. Yeah. I know a life
destroying about about I know enough about Alex Jones that I
can't do anything else with my life. I literally can't. Do
you know who didn't kill anybody damn somebody who you're
telling me about a guy who never killed anybody never killed
anybody. Right. Do you know what he didn't have a website.
Do you know what we have. We do have a website. We do have a
website. What's our website. Do you know what the guy who
I'm specifically thinking of who didn't kill anybody didn't
have a Twitter account. Do we have one. This could be
disappointing at the end of this if it turns out he did have
a website but we it's knowledge underscore fight. Do you know
who didn't have a Facebook account or a group on Facebook
called go home and tell your mother we're on Facebook. Do
you know who didn't kill anybody who also cannot be found on
iTunes. I don't know your this is a mysterious thing. The
Greek God Mithras Mithras never killed anybody who died and
three days later came back to life and there are no similarities
between Christian iconography at all. Are you sure Mithras
never killed anybody or inspired by death of somebody never
killed anybody. Surprisingly as compared to Jesus who in the
Apocrypha killed so many the child gospel he killed his friend.
Oh he killed so he brought him back to life so it's kind of a
push. Yeah it was a push. He killed a bunch of dragons though
and dragons were dope at the time. Sure. But that is not a
sin. But Mithras didn't ever kill nobody. One guy did. One guy
did. Technically. Technically probably. Probably. That's
Alex Jones. Andy in Kansas. You're on the air. Thanks for
holding.
So Alex I'm a first time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your
work. I love you.