Knowledge Fight - #28: How Not To Cover Alex Jones
Episode Date: April 10, 2017Today, Dan tells Jordan a bit more about why he believes that taking Alex Jones out of context, or using him in funny clip montages is a dangerous game that you really can't win. To illustrate his poi...nt, the two discuss a video that Alex released recently in response to Media Matters posting a clip of his. It's a cycle with no winners, and truly the only way out is to utilize a different approach, namely the Knowledge Fight Approach.
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Andy and 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.
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan.
I'm Jordan.
We are a couple dudes who like to sit around, drink some red wine,
and have conversations about the one and only, the man, the myth, the...
Alex jokes.
Starting to come up with a third one.
Yeah, but your face got sad.
Yeah, I did.
The man, the myth, the...
The plot twist is that I know tons about Alex Jones and Info Wars in particular.
You know a scary amount of Alex Jones.
Too much.
But I do not.
No, not at all.
I know the appropriate about about Alex Jones.
You know enough to live.
Somehow you're immunized against it. I am still susceptible.
You have the appropriate amount of Alex Jones knowledge to navigate your daily life without
him bogging you down, but at the same time being aware that he exists.
Right.
And being scared of what that portents.
Yes.
But I do not.
He's a very small devil on my shoulder as a part, as opposed to the giant cross you walk around with.
He's like the invisible guy that I'm...
Which yes, you are Jesus.
He's the invisible guy I'm screaming at on the street.
If I was a crazy person, it'd be like, no, you're not making sense.
Yeah.
And everyone's looking at me like, there's no one there.
Don't you see this crazy Texan?
Yeah, it's fine that you do it here.
Whether I'm here or not, I think what the listeners need to know
is that I just walk in, you finish your monologue.
We start this.
We talk, then I leave and you continue your monologue.
The truth is we do these episodes.
I do them alone and then we just add you in and post.
Yeah, exactly.
And this seems like we're having a conversation.
It's not.
Oh yeah, no.
He's pre-recorded my giggle and we just let that fly.
Today we are drinking conundrum wine out of California.
It's a red blend.
It's delicious and it's only appropriate.
Because we are on the nose.
And we're in a conundrum.
Folks, last week, Alex Jones.
We're in a good old pickle.
Alex Jones last week did a lot of nonsense.
And I don't want to talk about most of it.
He spent almost the entire week, of course, Muslim-baiting,
because that's his bread and butter.
That's the way we do it.
But then on top of that, he spent a disproportionate amount of time
doing interviews with Dr. Group about his supplements.
Love Dr. Group.
About how important this stuff is.
Right, that salesmanship.
It's kind of boring, whatever.
But then the rest of the time was drumming up nuclear war against North Korea.
I mean...
He was hiding behind this weird shield of,
I don't want this to happen, but this is what's going to happen.
Did he do any of those perverse fantasies where it goes through the...
Not to the extent is that one that we played a couple episodes back
where it was like five minutes of just nuclear war porn.
But he was banging that gong real hard about like,
this is just what's going to happen, and we got to be sort of prepared for it.
It's what's going to happen.
So get survival food.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, that sort of thing was mostly what he did all week until,
of course, Thursday when Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase.
He was so presidential.
So presidential.
So presidential.
And if you say that in a serious way,
I will froth at the mouth.
I am afraid I am going...
If you say it three times.
If a TV news person, if Brian Williams walked by,
I would be afraid that I would bite his throat.
You just start barking at him.
I would just start barking at him.
Yeah.
If you say it's presidential three times into your bathroom mirror,
Taft shows up in your bathtub.
And then he never fucking leaves.
You can't.
He can't get out.
You just have a ghost of a tub.
Taft tub.
Taft tub ghost.
That's another product we're going to be selling at the Knowledge Fight Store.
Oh man.
I see a very small bathtub with a very fat man in there.
But it's a ghost.
But it's a ghost.
Yes.
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Absolutely.
So I don't want to talk about Alex Jones.
Well, we can talk about it briefly,
but I don't want to cover his perspective on Trump's attack in Syria,
because it's kind of boring and very predictable.
Yeah.
And it's not really all that entertaining.
Right.
Like we could break down a lot of lies contained therein,
but the problem with a lot of his lies is that in this instance,
they're all completely undisprovable.
Right.
So it's not really all that.
Like when we talk about the Dennis Montgomery CIA whistleblower thing
that we covered a couple episodes back, it's very disprovable.
We can go through.
I can research stuff and we can figure out,
OK, this is what's going on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Right.
In the case of his, his narrative about Syria,
it's also speculative and based on, you know,
like what's going on here is that Trump did this as a sort of way
of signaling to the Chinese leader who was here,
the commie, commie Chinese leader was here.
That we're Xi Jinping.
Well, he doesn't want to go with names.
Oh, OK.
He's like, because he could definitely not pronounce Xi Jinping.
It's more fun.
Ex-I, John Pinger.
It's more fun to call him a chai-com leader or something
like that too.
But he's like, that's a signal to him that he's, you know,
he's strong and he's ready to attack at any minute.
It's going to help with the negotiations.
And then his further argument is that, you know,
this is probably Trump and Putin got together and talked
and they were saying, hey, why don't I do this symbolic attack
on Syria?
Which it was.
I'll tell you, I had a time and, you know,
Which he did.
Which, you know, we won't end up killing anybody or anything
like that.
And now they killed a bunch of people.
We're not in that attack, though.
Yeah, they killed some people.
I thought there was no death toll for the air hander.
There is no military death toll.
You know, human beings are not always in the military.
Disagree.
OK.
Good point.
Strongly disagree.
Fair enough.
Draft coming back.
Fair enough.
Anytime now.
That's probably true.
Good thing.
I'm way out of shape.
And I might go back to grad school.
You know what?
My English teacher, when I was in high school,
told me that because he was colorblind,
he wasn't sent to the front lines on Vietnam.
So I got that going for me.
Congratulations.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked.
My grandpa was a conscientious objector
and ended up working at like Yellowstone or something like
that.
Like, that's a good deal.
Really?
I'll do that.
I always, I know that you can be a conscientious objector.
Yeah.
I never actually knew what that meant in like a literal sense.
Do you just, do they just put you in like a little pen somewhere
and you hold up a sign like,
I wish I didn't do this.
You know, that kind of thing.
Look, he was a, he was a Mennonite
and he had a religious obligation
not to be involved in any war type shit.
I'm a Satanist, so that applies to me too somehow.
Sort of.
So he, when he got drafted,
he was a conscientious objector and because
it's not like you just get totally off the hook,
you still have to serve your country.
Yeah.
And so they,
You're drafted.
He did that through working at a national park.
And so that was,
I mean, that would be fucking cool as shit.
I'll do that.
I love national parks.
I would actually like to get a job at a national park.
Unfortunately, they're going away.
So,
They are going away.
National parks will be gone soon,
so that won't be an option.
Yeah.
I assume if you're a conscientious objector,
you will be building a certain wall.
That's possible because someone's got to.
Yeah.
Certainly not going to be the Mexicans.
Over that river.
You know how you can build walls over,
Oh God.
Very complicated.
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It's very complicated.
Thank God they have the best people working on it.
But,
So,
His perspective is that
Trump and Putin got together and had this conversation
like we're going to do this attack
because then the media will get off our back
about this fake Russian connection.
Which they did.
And then we can have conversations publicly
and we can talk and we can work this out
and we can reach they talked.
I doubt that'll happen.
No, that's silly.
But then also packed into it is,
is this idea that like,
All right.
So behind the scenes,
Trump and Putin are talking
and they're having this plan
to get people to stop talking
about the Russian connection.
It's like,
You don't understand that that's indicative
that there is a Russia connection.
No, no, no.
See when you,
So what you're doing is you're
just building a Russian connection this time
to prove that there's no Russian connection
beside the one that you just built.
It makes perfect sense.
And you used in order to create a fake attack in Syria.
So like, you know, like legal things.
Right.
Very, very constitutional.
You know how all of the constitution stuff is like,
No.
You know what?
But you know where we're at?
The constitution has no meaning anymore.
The constitution is now like agenda 21.
It is.
It's a suggestion.
It's a suggestion.
Yeah.
At best.
Maybe you should.
So today what we are going to be talking about
because I don't want to talk about that.
And like,
I really hate the idea that Alex thinks
that these gas attacks are a false flag.
It's really boring to cover every time
he says something's a false flag.
It's just after the Boston bombing,
after Sandy Hook.
False flag.
Everything is the Colorado shooter in the movie theater.
False flag.
Everything came back shooter.
False flag.
Well, no, that was a botched false flag.
Oh, because it was because it wasn't a Muslim.
He still doesn't recognize that.
Fair enough.
But I just don't 9 11.
False flag.
Totally.
The election of John F. Kennedy.
False flag.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
False flag.
The Nixon just is exactly his existence.
His birth.
Yeah, exactly.
I think we will cover this down the road possibly
as things develop.
But as it is now, that's just a boring narrative.
And I don't have any time or patience for it.
And I think it would make us angry.
You know, like we're very not prone to that.
I have to protect you from yourself
with these Alex Jones things.
I have to know where the line is.
Yeah.
So I have decided.
Yeah, I don't want to become a cutter.
Well, you want to move to cutter?
I don't want to move to guitar.
He pronounces it cutter.
It's that's actually how it's pronounced.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
I like it more that way kind of.
But anyway, today, what we're going to be talking about
is something that I think is an incredibly important point.
And that is that everyone else needs to stop covering Alex Jones.
This is the payback episode.
Is that what you're saying?
No, I just want to illustrate and discuss
over the course of this episode,
this thesis that I've made a couple times.
Yes.
And I think we need to flesh out more
because Alex is proving me right.
That whenever you don't deal with Alex Jones on his turf,
and when you take him out of context,
what you are doing is playing into his hands.
Yeah.
And if you want to pretend that you're against him,
and you like if you want to expose what he's saying,
and you play that game, you're failing.
You're just by definition.
I agree.
And it's really bothersome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's also bothersome that we don't get more credit.
I that's there's a there's a small,
there's a small to middling part of that in our in our feelings.
That's less where my motivation comes from.
Because legitimately I have I okay.
So this spoiler alert.
This is about media matters.
But oh, the truth is that they have an agenda.
They are part of the Democratic Party basically.
Yeah.
And all this stuff about George Soros funding them,
and it's evil.
That stuff's bumpus bumpus.
Yeah, that's bananas.
But they are a wing of the Democratic Party essentially.
They, you know, their mission statement is to expose and
document right wing pundits.
Yeah.
So they have O'Reilly.
They have Hannity.
They have Alex Jones on their website.
And they document weird fucking things they say.
Okay.
I think I've never actually been to their website.
It's not great.
It's fine.
I think that what you have described what they do is perfect.
And they feed the outrage machine.
Yes.
Where you post this video and everyone gets mad at Alex Jones.
And then they think he's a joke.
And then they forget.
And then you wait a while and maybe he says something else
that's scandalous.
And then you move on and what have you.
This is a failure of a game.
Now, just to remind everyone, last week, Media Matters put out
a clip from Alex Jones's broadcast of March 30th
that we discussed.
Yes.
We discussed for maybe too long.
It was the episode.
That is also our want.
It was the episode where Alex Jones was on air drunk
for two hours.
Yes.
I found him with a booze cup in his hand.
He's making drinking sounds on the mic when the camera is away
from him.
He's talking about the four ways to learn at the end of it.
He's fucked up on it.
And did they cover all of that?
Did they like?
I don't know.
Did they do maybe a two hour long expose?
They didn't even pay attention to anything.
Not his drunkness.
Didn't give any context to anything.
It's just this clip.
And just to remind everyone, in case you haven't listened to
that episode, here is the clip that they cover because I
can't get enough of hearing this.
Oh, this is the one.
This is our favorite clip?
Yeah.
So this is what is covered by Media Matters.
I am ready.
I am more than ready.
Let me say this right now.
Let me tell I'm not against gay people.
Okay.
I love them.
They're great folks.
But Schiff looks like the archetypal cocksucker with
those little deer in the headlight eyes and all his stuff.
And there's something about this fairy hopping around,
bossing everybody around, trying to intimidate people like me
and you.
I want to tell Congressman Schiff and all the rest of them,
hey, listen, asshole, quit saying Roger and I.
And I don't mean, I never used cussing in 22 years,
but the gloves are off.
Listen, you son of a bitch, what the fuck's your problem?
You want to sit here and say that I'm a goddamn fucking Russian?
You get in my face with that.
I'll beat your goddamn ass, you son of a bitch.
You piece of shit.
You fucking goddamn fucker.
Listen, fuckhead, you fucking crossed the line.
Get that through your goddamn fucking head.
Stop pushing your shit.
You're the people that have fucked this country over and gangraped
the shit out of it and lost an election.
So stop shooting your mouth off, claiming I'm the enemy.
You got that?
You goddamn son of a bitch.
Fill your hand.
I'm sorry, but I'm done.
Fill your hand.
You start calling me a foreign agent.
Those are fucking fighting words.
Excuse me.
So that was those are fucking fighting words.
That's the clip that media matters.
They have a little bit longer at the end where he says that Adam Schiff
is sucking globalist cock.
Right.
Here's their headline.
Trump ally Alex Jones threatens to beat Representative Adam Schiff's
goddamn ass in anti-gay tirade.
That's not fair.
It's not an anti-gay tirade.
No, it's not.
He touches on some homophobic.
He starts, he starts anti-gay.
Yes, but that's not the thrust of what's going on.
No.
If he was calling him an ass, if he was throughout it, if he kept going back to,
he's just the part where he's like, he looks like an archetypal cocksucker.
That part is just dumb.
Yeah.
It is homophobic, but the rant in and of itself is not.
So this headline.
He's not doing it because Schiff is gay.
Bingo.
That is ancillary to his true anger.
Now it is wrong of him to use insinuations of gayness as an attack or as negative.
Absolutely.
But that doesn't belong in the headline.
That's unfair of media matters.
That's not accurate reporting.
That's not using Alex in context.
Right.
So that sure does make you outraged.
Sure does.
I hate anti-gay rants.
Now, if you just play that clip, it's like, wow, he's a fucking anger machine.
And he is, but not in this situation.
That was our out of context drop.
We didn't even really talk about that other than to say that it's hilarious.
No, we did only because it was the beginning of where things go off the rails.
He's drunk his shit on this episode.
And within 15 minutes of this, he's talking about selling his car.
He's rambling about, I'm going to live in a rich neighborhood.
Although the headline can't be drunken lunatic needs to get rid of his car.
That would be great.
That's actually a way better.
Why didn't media matters do that?
I don't know.
Why don't they talk to us?
So media matters so many reasons just to give you some context before that media matters
had published an article called a Trump ally, Alex Jones attacks quote,
the Jewish press for reporting on his Jewish mafia commentary,
which is that's more reasonable.
I mean, there is, he did do that.
Yeah, certainly.
So that is an accurate headline that got 200 likes on Facebook.
Okay, that's not very good.
No, this thing with the anti-gay.
The anti-gay tirade.
7.9,000.
You kind of get a sense of why they do the things that they do.
Here we go.
Alex Jones claims Trump calls him and is happy with his performance.
104 likes on, on Facebook.
Accurate.
You just, you have to go for the most salacious things.
Give it click baity headlines.
Yeah.
Alakazam, Alakadoo.
And it's not fair.
If you're covering this clip to take it out of the context of the bigger picture,
Alex would make the same argument.
I'm making the other argument.
We have the same idea.
Taking Alex Jones out of context is wrong.
Alex thinks it's because the context defends him.
I think it's because the context makes him worse.
Way worse.
He's on air two hours drunk, screaming this shit,
saying a bunch of hateful bigotry.
Later, this was mildly bigoted, certainly.
It's, it's, we, we live on a spectrum here where we're inoculated against his mild bigotry
because it's so much worse other places.
Yeah.
Like if you are going to,
And back to their mission.
I think that I, well, I mean, here's why they chose that instead of the other anti-Muslim shit.
Because that is a delightful lunatic rant.
Yeah.
You could go and get his worst bigotry, but it's not as catchy.
I mean, you picked it.
We both picked it out immediately.
And we, that's a catchy tune.
We posted our episode that involved that before they did.
Yep.
So suck it, Brock.
Yeah.
I'm not really against David Brock.
He's, he's fine, but I don't like the idea that this is salaciousness.
This is click baity bullshit.
Yeah.
When the stated objective is to watch right wing bigots and document what they're doing.
Hey, we're doing a better job than you.
Media matters.
And listen, here's the main point.
When you play that game, you open up a window that Alex can attack you with.
Yeah.
Whenever you do these things and you take him out of context,
like the Stephen Colbert thing, what Stephen Colbert played those clips,
Alex can point out, you did edit that.
Yeah.
You edited my audio.
Whenever they did that on Fox News,
when Megan Kelly played that thing about Pizza Gate, they did edit Alex's audio.
Now he was saying that Hillary Clinton is personally responsible for the rape and murder of children.
He sure did.
But they did take him out of context.
And when you do that, Alex can, it's like he can block a punch and come back at you.
Yeah.
So now today.
Yeah.
And just, just the fact that he can say correctly that you took him out of context.
Yeah.
Automatically for any of his listeners, that takes him off the hook of anything.
Totally.
So as long as he gets to say something that is true in an attack, you look over there.
It's slight of hand.
Now we're not perfect at our jobs.
We're not awesome journalists or anything like that.
But I 100% believe.
I am not even close to a journalist at all.
Neither am I.
Like you're doing journalism.
No.
But I'm, I'm over here just like, this dude's fucking nuts.
I went to the best journalist.
I also did call for the death penalty on multiple people.
So that's also my, my contribution here.
I went to the best journalism school in the country, but did not take any journalism classes.
So.
Yeah, but you got it by osmosis.
It's rubbed off.
I, I partied with a lot of journalists.
That's for sure.
That's all you need to do.
So today's episode, what we're going to be talking about is Alex Jones put out a 10 minute video
in response to media matters, putting out a response to him.
Great.
Which kind of.
Oh, do you know that I always.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, go for it.
I forgot.
Go for it.
That led to the journalism thing is if Alex were to hear, please just listen to Alex.
But if you were, if he was to listen to that episode about Dennis Montgomery,
there's no response he could make.
No, we didn't take him out of context.
Not at all.
You purely researched it to the point where there's really no disproving you.
There's nothing that's salacious point to.
Yeah.
Well, that's why nobody listens.
No, hundreds of people.
That's true.
That's why hundreds of people listen.
That's, that's exactly right.
That is why hundreds of people are listening.
Right.
It is also why thousands of people are not exactly.
That's perhaps the better way of putting it.
But we don't, we don't enter the bear traps that are these out of context clips.
It's just, it's a dangerous game and it's the most dangerous game.
It, if I were Alex, if I were as crazy as him, what I would suggest is that possibly
media matters is not so interested in actually exposing what Alex Jones does
as they are in engaging in a back and forth dance.
I, it reminds me of a, and I've, I've mentioned this.
I don't fully believe that, but I'm speculating.
No, I fully, I've fully, I think I've mentioned this before the boondocks clip
where you have Al Sharpton and Ann Coulter go on TV.
They bitch at each other and yada, yada, yada.
Then they go into the green room and they just, they're best friends.
Yeah.
Like they're, they're playing the game.
They're playing the one side versus the other side draws ratings, draws clicks,
draws eyes, draws attention and that attention draws money.
And that's kind of the situation there.
But if George Soros is just giving them billions of dollars, they don't need that money.
I don't think George Soros has given them the money.
I don't think that either.
But be that as it may, I'm pissed off at someone who could be an ally in media matters.
I'm pissed off at them.
I'm vaguely pissed off also at like the AV club, not super pissed off at them
because I get what they're doing.
This is entertainment and laughs, but posting these supercuts of Alex Jones
kind of does the exact same thing that media matters posting out of context clips does.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Well, and posting like, here we go, here we go.
You turn them into a joke.
You're, you're just, you let them off the hook.
Yeah.
But also here's my, here's here is my summation.
All right.
Leave Alex to us.
Soros billions now.
Get at you now.
We have a Patreon Soros.
That would be the weirdest day of all of a sudden, just a few hundred thousand show up
in your Patreon account.
Wild.
And we'd be like, wait, are you fucking with us?
Gee, Soros.
Yeah.
I'm sure he uses his, I'm sure he uses his real email address there.
Oh, George S.
We just sent him back.
Hey, thanks buddy.
We're yours now.
Yeah.
Uh, so, uh, look, here's the deal.
I'd also like to thank everybody who has donated to the Patreon
and everyone who has not stopped, uh, since we switched over from freezing point to this.
That means a lot.
And I thank you very much.
If we had more, we could definitely expand what we do.
And I would like to do that, but that's
We could hire Paul Joseph Watson.
Oh man.
He just jumped off the Trump train.
He did not.
Yeah, but he did for a good hour or two.
If we had the money during that hour, I think we would have gotten him.
You know, what's the funniest?
I think he would have been sitting right over there with us making fun of him for an hour.
I don't want him in my house.
No, I would rather die.
Who has our friend Katie McVeigh pointed out on Twitter, uh, made the great observation
that he looks like a young boy from Rococo paintings.
It's, uh, it's a really good observation.
He also looks like he's crying all the time.
So before we get to our clips, uh, of this, this episode that Alex put out,
let's deal with that Paul Joseph Watson thing really quick.
Yeah.
So on the night of the attack in Syria on Thursday night, Paul Joseph Watson posted,
Hey, I guess Trump is not a tool of Putin.
He is just a NW, not NWO.
What was it?
Neocon puppet.
Yeah.
A globalist neocon puppet.
I am officially off the Trump train.
He said that word for word.
Two hours later or so, I don't know the exact timeframe.
He posted, uh, a screenshot of his follower account and he's like,
this is the first time ever I've lost followers.
He'd lost like a thousand followers.
Yeah.
Then a couple hours later after that, he posted, I'm again,
I'm off Trump as it relates to Syria.
I have not turned on Trump as the media has lied and said, Oh, fake news, fake news, fake news.
My own Twitter account is fake news.
What's fucked up about it is like those thousand people are probably bots.
Yeah.
That's actually,
He lost a thousand bots probably.
I would say that's a good possibility.
Of course.
Paul Joseph Watson is a, is a fuckwit.
Yeah.
Are we going to have to listen to his words?
Nope.
Good.
At least not today.
We'll see it in the future.
Not today.
Say we to the God of death.
So Alex put out this response to media matters, putting out a clip of him saying,
I'm going to fucking kick your ass.
You goddamn senator shift, representative shift.
Come at me, fill your hand.
Fill your hand.
Still my favorite.
I've been using it multiple times this week.
Comes back up.
Oh yes.
Fill your hand is in play.
I want to hear him say, fill your hand.
I'm delighted by it now.
Now, Alex Jones is the only person broadcasting on this clip.
He's not the only person who says, fill your hand.
Wait, what?
Get excited for that.
There are no, I've never heard that phrase before in my entire life.
I feel like he made it up.
He didn't.
He didn't.
And we're going to find out where it comes from on today's episode of Knowledge Fight.
The fill your hand special.
I have cut out almost nothing from this 10 minute thing.
I've just put it into segments for us to digest and what have you.
I have specifically not taken out anything that has to do with context.
Everything is, as he presents it, there'll be a couple of times we might have to pause
here and there, but here's the introduction and how he begins.
The last year we've witnessed the Democratic Party, foreign governments,
thousands of newspapers, hundreds of celebrities,
trying to organize the assassination of President Trump, even when he was a candidate.
They're the ones politically trying to intimidate our free speech
and trying to influence us with threats of violence.
That's why it's particularly ridiculous when they come out and call for my arrest
by twisting things I've said claiming that I want violence.
True, these people have no shame.
Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
It's an embarrassment to this country.
It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point,
that this fool, this bozo has wound up where he has.
Well, I'd like to punch him in the face.
I'm going to kill the president-elect, bring it secret service,
and then going into frightening detail,
getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts.
Find a bedroom in the White House that suits you.
You just saw Robert De Niro say that he wants to punch the president in the nose.
He came back out a second time and said it.
Then we heard from Madonna saying she thinks about blowing up the White House.
That's premeditated.
We've already talked about that, haven't we?
In passing, but so that opening montage, his evidence that people want to kill Trump
and the Liberals are super violent.
We did talk about this right after the election.
There was a teacher squirting a squirt gun or fake gun yelling, die, die.
She's clearly mentally unhinged, but it also appeared to be an empty classroom.
Who knows who the fuck she was?
We've never established that.
The video went viral in quotes because people were like,
look at this crazy lady.
Even Liberals were like, look at that crazy lady.
Look at that crazy lady.
So Robert De Niro wanting to punch Trump in the face, I don't disagree with.
That's not bad.
No, I think we all get one.
Yeah, that's not that bad.
Yeah.
I think that people burned Obama in effigy.
I think that-
Yeah, they did do that.
Ted Nugent told him to suck on his machine gun.
He did do that.
All kinds, like, I actually looked up-
Once again, proof Liberals are pussies.
I actually looked up death threats against President Obama,
and there's just like three pages full of actual plots to kill him.
It's insane.
Like, the number of assassination attempts that were thwarted in early stages
that never got any press, insane.
There was a lot.
There actually were a bunch of assassination attempts.
Oh, yes.
They were like, how?
Yeah, that would be a whole episode if we covered that.
Man, that would be crazy.
Yeah, so that is sort of absurd.
Then the Madonna thing, he cuts off her quote.
Her quote is-
The part at the end?
Her quote.
The context part?
Her quote is, yes, I'm angry.
Yes, I'm outraged.
Yes, I've thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,
but I know that this won't change anything.
We cannot fall into despair.
Yeah.
That really changes the quote.
It changes it a lot.
Yeah.
It turns it from a threat to a wise saying.
You don't fight fire with fire.
You fight it with water.
Yeah, and then the other one is a CEO.
Like a prayer.
I lost the page that I had up that had this,
but it was a CEO of a company, a startup,
who tweeted those things about getting a sniper rifle,
had come at me, Secret Service.
Yeah.
He immediately got fired.
Yeah, he was forced out of his company
that he was the CEO of.
So that's some consequence.
Granted, I agree.
He should have been arrested for that.
That's too far.
Yeah, I think so.
That's too far.
You can't threaten the president like that.
You can't threaten anyone like that,
even if it's on Twitter.
If you're an egg, you can.
I guess so.
Well, I mean, under how I believe the law works.
Yeah.
I don't think you can do that sort of thing.
You're giving the law a lot of credit
for believing that it's still around, so okay.
He's forced out of this company that he started,
which is a huge consequence,
even if he dodged jail time,
and has come out later and said that he was super drunk,
which isn't great.
It doesn't make it better, but it's like,
all right, there was a drunk dude
who's running his goddamn mouth.
Yeah.
Well, that's the problem with Twitter.
I've gotten drunken in my apartment alone.
I have shouted very loud things of a very similar nature.
On Thursday night, you got banned.
Yeah, that's true.
I did get banned from Twitter for 12 hours.
You told CNN to fuck itself?
I was trying to go through every possible news network
and tell them to go fuck themselves,
because immediately after those bombs were sent out,
they had archetypal cocksucker after archetypal cocksucker
Come on, man.
of general praising how this is the most presidential Trump looks.
And they're like, look at these gorgeous missiles and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Please.
If anybody deserves scorn today, and we tweeted it out,
you know, I'm more ashamed of fucking CNBC
than I am of Alex Jones yesterday.
They should know better.
They should fucking know better.
Alex is a propagandist, and they, in theory, aren't.
Yeah.
Unless we're running up to Iraq War,
number two, the re-racketing.
We need to go back to the days of McNeil hour.
I just swallowed that.
McNeil hour.
Well, what happened was I realized I forgot Lehrer's name
as I was saying McNeil.
As I said, McNeil, I forgot Lehrer.
Yeah.
But that's what we need to go back to.
Fucking boring ass journalism.
That's what we need to go back to.
None of this salacious shit.
Just, you know what?
You know what's the most crowd-pleasing part
of the McNeil Lehrer hour?
What?
That weird little theme song they had.
That's right.
That's it.
That's it.
Then it got real quiet.
Oh, boy.
We need to go back to that.
We won't, but.
No, that cat's gone.
That bag, that cat, are drowned in the middle of the fucking lake.
Yeah.
So, Alex already in setting this up has lied about,
he didn't lie about Robert De Niro,
but I just disagree that that means anything.
I don't care if Robert De Niro wants to punch the president.
No, I don't care either.
Later, he's going to talk about Mickey Rourke too,
because Mickey Rourke said he wanted.
Don't pick on Mickey Rourke.
Hasn't he been through enough?
He's been through a lot.
But he said that he wanted some time alone with Trump
with a baseball bat and called him a big puss.
Yeah.
You don't know what Mickey Rourke is into anymore.
He's really into sounding.
I mean, really into sounding.
But like, yeah, okay.
That is violent imagery and a violent suggestion
about the president.
Sure.
That's a little bit more extreme, but look, man,
they're not saying they want to kill the president,
just beat him up a bit.
No, well, and it's, it's even more indicative
that he is once again picking on actors.
Yeah.
Because he does not know the difference
between fantasy and reality.
So why not?
Nope.
The Madonna parts a lie.
The CEO part.
I kind of agree.
He should have been arrested, but it's now really an issue
with someone running his mouth drunk on Twitter.
And so here we go.
We go into.
I mean, for fuck's sakes, Alex threatened to beat up a shift
in the same fucking way.
But we're going to get to his explanation about that.
The same fucking way.
We're going to get to his explanation.
You know what?
I'm starting to think there are a lot of people on the right
who are hypocrites who perhaps you can pick out one thing
that they said three years ago in relation to Obama,
and then a thing that they said now that is the exact opposite.
It's possible.
But anyway.
In relation to Trump.
Alex has more word for word.
Alex has more threats he wants to discuss.
And we've seen countless newspapers from the LA Times,
the New York Times, with their writers saying someone killed
Trump or I want to kill Trump.
It's been incredible.
And I've been pointing this out all along.
He's been pointing out.
By the very literal definition of incredible, he is correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's incredible.
Incredible.
He is not credible.
He has been pointing this out all along, but he's lying.
The New York Times and LA Times, I can't find any instances
of their writers calling for assassinations.
Nope.
There was a London Times writer who got in trouble for saying
something in a tweet along the lines of this assassination
is taking a long time, which is not really something.
Yeah.
No, I'm cool with that.
It's unwise.
I mean, unless it was him.
It's a her.
Oh, her.
I can't remember her name.
Unless it was her planning it, like letting us know, like,
dude, this assassination plot is taking forever.
Like she's writing a book.
I'm waiting for a shipment from Acme.
Yes.
Because we're going to have to road-runner this thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, man, he better walk under this plateau real soon.
Otherwise, my giant rock isn't going to do much.
But that is an instance of the Times,
and I think he got it confused.
That's my theory on that.
Because I can't find LA or New York Times writers who have.
No, he's lying.
There's no he got it confused.
Yeah.
I still halfway think he couldn't point out London on a map.
I'm not sure I could.
I could point out the UK, but I'm not entirely sure where London
is in it.
I know where Wales is.
How do you know where Wales is and not London?
Because I remember it's real south.
Wales is at the bottom of the UK.
You're looking at me weird.
Am I wrong?
Oh, yeah.
Where's Wales?
Wales is in the Northwest.
Shit.
What's in the south?
The south is England.
I almost said London.
Let's talk all about England.
So, uh, no, no, what?
What is happening right now?
What is going on here?
Do you think, okay.
I really thought Wales.
Do you think England is the entire?
No, I don't.
Okay.
No, no, no.
It goes England, Scotland, Wales.
And then Ireland is over there.
Wales is north of Scotland?
Yeah.
Boy, I had this wrong.
Okay.
God, now I have to double check.
Jesus Christ.
I really thought that Wales was in the south of England.
I'm fucking terrified.
Am I the idiot?
Jesus.
I don't think so.
Because I have, you were just there.
I was just there, but that doesn't mean I'm not an idiot.
I was just there in the same sense of like, uh, let's see.
Um, no, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
I really don't think that Wales is north of Scotland.
That part to me seems crazy.
This is great pod, by the way.
You know what?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Let's leave this one alone.
I'll look it up as we listen to this next clip.
This is Alex Jones.
Uh, I mean, it's just a lie.
We're going to lose this fight for America weekend violence.
I'm one of the biggest proponents of non-violence
and Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Everybody knows that.
That's true.
Everyone knows that.
Everyone knows this.
Now let's take a little walk down memory lane
about some of the things that Alex has said.
He's put multiple people into comas.
Alex Jones, this is your life.
And we have somebody in a coma right now.
Oh no, that's, they're not going to be able to talk.
Oh, he's not going to appear because he sued your dad.
He legally probably can't discuss this.
The, like he, he constantly tells stories about violence.
He constantly threatens people.
The idea that he's trying to put himself also.
And he suggests always that violence is the only way
to solve problems like a man.
We'll show these pansies.
What's up once we get violent and shit like that.
It's all about macho.
Get rid of all your fancy pants smartness.
I'm sick of you engineers telling me how to throw bombs.
Speaking of, you put them on your shoulder.
You toss them over the sea.
That's throwing a bomb.
Also speaking of fancy pants,
in case you couldn't hear it over that last clip, I was right.
Wales is in the south.
I know it got it's southwest.
Fuck. Now I feel like a complete idiot.
I actually would have thought it was southeast.
So if we would have gotten to even finer points,
I would have then been wrong.
Well, that's where London is.
Is it?
Yeah, it's in the south.
Okay.
So now we all know where London is on the map.
And Alex is fucking like Gandhi,
which I appreciate and I disagree with.
This next clip.
I can't think of anybody less like Gandhi.
Although if Alex could,
he would sleep on a pile of naked women.
That is true.
I also don't think that Alex would do well in a hunger strike.
Hey, you can still drink, man.
Look, I'm not going to eat, but can I still take super mail?
Get me some wild turkey and I'll go on a hunger strike.
Yeah, Jesus.
Anyway, here's this next one.
This is Alex lying more,
but then we also get context for the fill your hand.
Okay.
This is the clip where it goes down.
This is where we learn the truth.
But now we've got Newsweek and a whole bunch of other publications
coming out today saying,
Alex Jones's threat to congressmen may be a felony.
Now, notice I made some of these comments
that they've twisted a week ago.
So they've sat around and waited and run this by U.S. attorneys
and others.
They didn't, but it is true that-
Maybe they should have.
It's true that they did wait a week or so, and that's bullshit.
We covered it when it happened,
except for we recorded it over the weekend
and released it on Monday because it's a fucking podcast.
But they did wait-
Because we're not a news organization.
But if we were, we could have put it out over the weekend.
Or if it made sense to release podcasts over the weekend,
we could have put it up immediately.
He did that on a Thursday.
So that is fucked up that if they were that outraged,
they did wait that long.
Yeah, you know what they say about outrage.
It takes a week to simmer.
He posted that on Thursday, the 30th of March,
and Media Matters posted their shit on the 4th of April.
That's Tuesday of the next week.
That's an insane lag time.
I don't know why they didn't know about this.
Well, because they're not paying attention.
Obviously not.
Somebody shared a clip with them.
No, obviously they have some employee
who's just watching Alex Jones all the time.
No.
They have to.
No, you're literally the only person
who just watches Alex Jones all the time.
Do you think that they got it from us?
No, I don't think they got it from us.
Okay.
I, here's what happened.
They don't have anybody paying attention.
They might have gotten it from us.
Our episode came out that Monday.
Yeah, but somebody probably pointed to a clip somewhere.
Who heard it from us?
We're not the only people on the internet.
There are people posting up clips of him whenever he does shit.
I'm sure somebody got it shared and it went to this guy
and it went to this guy like a meme
and eventually it went to a news outlet.
This is why we're never going to make it.
You can't, you can't, we have to pretend it was us.
If we were Alex, we would be certain it was us.
That's true.
We would be.
We would lie about sources telling us it was us.
We have very high level sources of media.
We're 99% accurate, just like us.
That'd be great if we only had one source, but it was George Soros.
Jorge Soros has told us.
Uh, so I don't believe at all that they've run this by Justice Department,
Attorney Generals or anything like that.
What the truth is, is these articles are speculating about whether or not it is a
crime to say you're going to beat up a Senator or a House member.
And that's bullshit in and of itself too.
Because Alex didn't.
No.
In that expletive laced rant,
he didn't say, I'm going to kick your ass.
Nope.
He just said, those are fighting words.
Yep.
And if you were to say to my face that I was an agent of Russia,
I would kick your ass.
And it would be within the context of a fight.
Yeah.
It's not like he's threatening to go to ship.
If we were guys at a bar and you called me a Russian agent,
I would kick your ass.
That's, I mean, you wouldn't do that.
No, but that's what he's saying.
Yeah, exactly.
It's within a hypothetical framework that he's working in.
Yeah.
And I don't want to defend Alex,
but if you were trying to say that that's a crime, it's not.
That's bullshit.
Well, it's like if Mickey Rourke said he wanted to be in a room
with Trump with a baseball bat.
Bingo.
It's very similar to that.
In fact, it's exactly what that is.
I think you might have accidentally hit the nail on the head
of the entire point of this episode.
Alex fails to...
All right.
Well, then wrap it up.
Let's get out of here.
Andy.
Andy and candles.
He fails to recognize that and other people when he begs for it,
that recognition in itself.
Of course.
But that's the entire, that's the entire system now.
That's all it is.
Yeah.
Like, it's impossible.
It's a...
Hey, kettle.
It's me, Pot.
You busted.
You're black.
All right.
Get the fuck away from me.
No, it's...
We're going to do this podcast.
We're going to do this by...
I know, but you can't be that clever.
That's not okay.
I'm very frustrated with that.
All right.
Let's learn about this turn of phrase Alex is using.
To then edit my statements together and say,
the sum of his words mean a threat.
Like, fill your hand.
I also talked about suing people that are saying I'm a Russian agent.
Fill your hand means take action against me if you think you've got what it takes.
Certainly, I'm not saying I'm John Wayne in true grit,
saying fill your hand with a pistol.
I call that bull talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch.
Wow.
Yeah, it was John Wayne.
That makes it even cooler.
It's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
You know what's great?
I feel very good about myself that I immediately recognize the coolness of that
without prior context.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's so cool.
John Wayne is so cool.
He can travel to me through Alex Jones.
Still be cool.
And I know how cool it is.
Yeah.
John Wayne, fill your hand.
Great.
Although, it does change the context a little bit when you know it's not,
because I saw a fill your hand like we were talking about.
Fill your hand with like a roll of quarters, which again.
Fill your hand with a gun.
That's how much pussies we are.
We're like, the worst you can do is punch someone.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, fill your hand with a gun.
It does change things a little bit.
It's definitely more aggressive.
Yeah, but it's also in the context of that kind of,
and now we're in a gentlemanly fight.
Instead of a, I am going to go after you.
It's a, hey, let's turn this into a duel, a very macho.
10 cases in turn.
Exactly.
A very macho, mono, E-mono kind of bullshit thing.
And that makes perfect sense.
He's a fuck.
He's the Texan.
Yeah.
He is the code name.
He's the Texan.
Code name, Texan.
Yeah.
I still don't think that he's like literally threatening violence or anything like that.
Of course not.
And this, and this is what we keep coming back to is like free speech doesn't cover
threats of violence and slander and libel.
Yeah.
So like those sorts of things are not, he's still well within his rights.
Yeah.
And we would have discussed if he wasn't when we first covered this clip.
Yeah.
And so anybody suggesting that he should be arrested for this is, they're out of line.
It's wrong.
They're way out of line.
Yeah.
I don't, I'm not counting this as something we agree with Alex about.
It just happens to be we're on the same side for different reasons.
Yeah.
As, as is almost always the case when we are on the same side.
So Alex.
We are always unlikely bedfellows.
Yeah.
So Alex goes on to lie a little bit more here.
Mickey Rourke has come out and called for killing the president and says he wants to
kill him.
Thousands and thousands of prominent people.
So much.
I can't even keep track of it.
Have come out and said someone needs to kill him or they're going to kill him.
And none of them are prosecuted.
None of them get in trouble.
None of them.
Mickey Rourke did.
None of them get in trouble.
Mickey Rourke didn't say he wanted to kill him.
Just said he wanted to be alone in a hotel room with a baseball bat.
Right.
Right.
But you could extrapolate.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, it's again, we're coming down to this.
It's not illegal.
It's unwise.
He shouldn't have said something like that.
He's lived a hard life.
He's lucky.
He's still famous.
He's been a drug addict.
Why are we shitting on him now?
I'm not shitting on him.
I know, but there's still some sort of some part of me who's like,
I still kind of see him as his character in the wrestler.
That's okay.
That's still how I view him.
That's, I mean, that's fair.
That's fair.
But then the thousands of prominent people calling for Trump's assassination is absurd.
That's, that's crazy.
I would like to know his definition of prominent.
That's exactly my point.
I found an article about 1200 people threatened to assassinate him on Twitter.
But who are these people?
Yeah.
Who cares?
Yeah.
Who fucking cares what dumbasses say on Twitter?
Well, actually, Trump does.
Clearly.
Because he just tried to get a certain account unmasked.
Yeah.
And they quickly pulled that after they remembered there is a constitution.
And then the, well, Twitter sued the government.
Yeah, exactly.
That's true.
But you know what I'm saying?
Like, I don't think it's right even if you are on Twitter to say you're going to kill the president or you want to.
No.
But I also don't think it's fair to make an argument that tons of people want to kill the president,
tons of prominent people based on 1200 people on Twitter.
Right.
Considering how many people are on Twitter, that's a shockingly low number.
That is a shockingly low number.
There's tons of idiots.
Well, you should, I mean, I would assume that they were smart enough to get a burner account.
You would definitely want to do an anonymous one of those.
One of them eggs.
Don't fucking be a prominent person doing that.
No.
It's a bad idea.
Yeah.
That's a recipe for trouble.
So this next clip is where we really get to.
Like if you were the CEO of a company, you would get fired.
That was real dumb of them.
Yeah.
So I think it's ramping up too.
This next clip is where Alex enters severe bullshit territory to the point where we might
have to talk about this next clip for about half an hour.
It's such bullshit.
It's fascinating.
It's literal bullshit.
Okay.
So here you go.
Then I come out with statements that they edit together that are clearly tongue-in-cheek
and basically art performance as I do in my rants, which I admit I do as a form of art,
and they turn that in to a premeditated plan that I'm trying to influence that chicken neck
chef who has made up all this crap about Trump and Russians and has been caught lying saying
that rice wasn't spying.
This guy's a loser.
Rice wasn't spying?
When I say I'm going to kick your ass, it's the info I say every day.
We're going to destroy you with the truth.
We're going to annihilate you with our speech.
We are in a war against enemies who are a bunch of liars and that we are winning via
information warfare or info wars.
That's like, that's like at the, like in the middle of the movie, they do the, oh no,
we've got snakes on a plane.
Like that's what he just did.
We're in an info war.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, what an idiot.
And 30 minutes in, we have a title.
So fucking stupid.
Yeah.
My rants are art pieces.
God, I never get enough surprise.
How does that happen now that he thinks his rants are art pieces?
Now imagine someone he's against on the left who was like, I don't know, vitriolic and angry
against Trump.
Oh man, if Mark Marin were still on the air, they would just have a constant fight.
Well, but like imagine one of those types saying that like my rants against Trump are
art.
He would never stop making fun of them, calling them fairies.
Yeah, like your, your shit is an art piece, get off that shit, you asshole.
There's no fucking way.
You see the videos.
He does cover those rants with semen.
So it is an art piece.
Disease disease semen and breast milk.
Yeah.
And he spent $50 million on the restaurant.
He's furious in these clips.
This is not like, to me, art performance, like performance art is measured generally.
Now it can contain rage and anger and those sorts of things as tools, but they're always
pre-designed in order to elicit a certain reaction.
Right.
So whenever you're talking about performance art, there needs to be a point to it.
And most of the time, as we've documented over the last four months or so,
whenever he's going off on these rants, there isn't a point.
He often loses the thread in the middle of it,
especially when he's been drinking.
Yeah.
And so like the idea four ways to learn are all whiskey.
And one of them is learn.
Yep.
Three whiskey.
In fact, in fact, the only way to learn actually.
Let me ask you this question.
What?
That's just how it ended.
I love it so much.
Are we just going to do dueling Alex Jones's one day?
Yeah, that's what that's what this inevitably leads to.
Not Jordan, not Jordan, Jordan.
Damn, Jordan.
I don't know.
I'm not good at improv.
My point is that like it's such a dangerously stupid cop out to say that what you're doing
is performance art, because once you open that can of worms, now I am open to attack
everything you're doing as performance art.
So every serious point that is a really good point.
Yeah.
Wow.
I didn't connect that dot until you just holy shit.
Yeah.
So now you don't really have any legitimacy.
Every time you bring up a source, you could just be using that as a fake prop.
Yeah.
Every single thing you say is now no longer credible as it was before.
You tried to pass it off as such.
Like, yeah, this is a stage show now wherein you can comment on it critically.
You can't take any of it seriously.
All we can do is talk about it's like theatrical merits.
Yeah.
I wonder, you know, like does he reveal truly the boiling underpinning of racist rage from
conservatives?
And this is something that I used to have lots of conversations about and have abandoned
lately in the last years or so, because it's no longer interesting necessarily.
But there was a lot of time, a lot of conversations I've had about the idea that people like Rush
Limbaugh, people like Ann Coulter are actually performance artists.
Yeah.
And what they're doing is like essentially a weird parody of the right.
And that's that's dumb.
Well, but it goes into the same argument.
So you could call bear did a parody of the right.
But whenever you bring up that boondocks clip.
Yeah, that's true.
There is that idea within it.
The idea that like, I don't really believe the things I'm saying.
I'm just trying to get attention.
Well, I mean, that is kind of that does kind of have to be the the truth of that, at least
to some extent, right?
Like Brian Williams doesn't believe a bunch of the shit he says.
No, he's a news reader.
He's a pretty man who reads the news.
The reader.
That's it.
Yeah.
He's not a journalist.
He doesn't have thoughts or feelings of his own.
He's an empty vessel for whatever a shitty writer says.
And now further Susan Rice for all her problems, because she does have some she has a dicey history.
Yeah, there's there are some red flags on her.
But I have completely ignored the Susan Rice shit.
That is so clearly nonsense.
Let me lay it out.
I just let that go.
Let me lay it out for you.
She wanted to she got some like intelligence briefings and they had people who were US
citizens engaged in some really shady shit and she requested that those names be released to her
and they unmask them.
The intelligence community unmasked them at her request.
They declassify that stuff and internally.
Okay.
Yeah, there's no leaking that was going on.
She was also the national security advisor.
She had every right to do that.
Right.
It's crazy.
But it sounds like it sounds like it's a thing.
It sounds like it's a thing.
Right.
And she's a African-American woman.
So that's a nice target.
Oh, that's the good stuff.
If you're a racist.
Yeah.
So all these people have just piled on.
There's nothing racist hate more than African-American women,
especially in positions of authority.
Yeah.
Especially in positions of authority attacking your white male white nationalist allies.
It's insane.
Like I don't think that's the entire story there.
But it is really close to the entire story.
But it that's the two things they hate most.
Color different from their own and a vagina?
Uh-uh.
But more than that.
Not in my America.
It's a desperation play.
It's like, oh, shit.
Let's make a mountain out of this molehill because all of ours,
the walls are closing in about our guys.
Yeah.
But I've read, you know, I sent this to you earlier.
I found out that my dad reads the spectator.
And that's basically info wars light.
Right.
Like it's the same.
It's the same basic narrative.
Diet info wars.
Couched in less insanity.
Uh-uh.
Less showmanship.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Like the whole Susan Rice thing.
They didn't, you know, they don't go as far as to say she was a spy.
But they pushed the same narrative of this means that they were watching Trump.
And that they are in open rebellion.
Like the whole thing.
So every, nobody believes in reality on the right.
No.
That's done for.
It's all.
A lot of the left don't either, to be fair.
Yeah.
No, that's true.
It's just wholly different versions of it.
And one is incredibly hateful.
I would prefer to live in the reality of the left than the right.
If I have to choose a fantasy world.
If I were a black woman.
Yeah.
Even as a white male, if I have to choose a fantasy world,
I'm going to err on that side every time.
Absolutely.
I'm going to err on that left side every single time because that right side is dicey.
It's dark.
Yeah.
So Alex, your ramps are not art performance.
I want to make that totally clear.
The facts you cite are not facts.
Your analysis is not strong.
You can't read.
I and you now are talking like Shetner.
Why is this happening?
So this next clip, Alex has got to bring this all back to damn globalists.
Oh, shit.
That's right.
We haven't really talked about the globalists too much in a bit.
We are always talking about the globalists.
Okay.
That's a good point.
But we haven't directly pointed out.
We've been, we've been a globalist adjacent.
Sure.
We have not been directly attacking the globalist.
Well, I mean our last episode about the child sex trade that was all globalist motivated.
Yeah, but see, I still, I still like divide that from globalism to be more towards attacking
specifically Hillary and the like.
The episode where he was going to sell his car, that was because of the globalist.
That's true.
Absolutely.
That is true.
Globalists hate cars.
And the globalists want to confuse you about how many ways there are to learn.
So that's, that's a whole other thing.
Actually, there's 21 ways to learn.
Agenda.
Agenda 21 ways to learn.
Anyway, here we go.
Agenda 21 things I hate about you.
But it does show how desperate they are because they admit that the George Soros funded
Democratic Party controlled media matters basically put together this edited transcript
and is basically pushing all this and calling for Google to ban us.
Google's already massively censoring and the leftists are intimidating Google all over the
world to go full common to Chinese and completely de-list us.
The problem is we have hundreds of radio affiliates and tens of millions of people
every week that visit our websites.
So, I mean, fair.
Yeah.
Legitimate.
That is, if you were trying to censor him, that would be a problem.
Well, the beginning part of that is kind of fair.
The part that media, media matters didn't edit that clip.
No, that was the same clip we played.
They did edit it in the sense that they cut out what was before it and what was after it.
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But they didn't like splice him or anything like that.
Yeah, no, it wasn't, it wasn't like he said each one of those words in multiple different
things that they cut out and put together.
It wasn't like info wars guest Larry C. Johnson when he publicized that fake tape of John Kerry.
No, it was not like that.
No, when he legitimately was involved in a hoax, then involved spliced clips.
Yeah.
Media matters just played a selected portion out of context and that's bad.
But then if you look at their site, if you look at what the articles that Media Matters has put
out about Alex, they are trying to get him kicked off YouTube.
Oh, really?
Well, they have this article that came out on March 27th.
Google is funding Alex Jones's harassment and hate on YouTube.
And there are a bunch of articles like this that are about how he's monetized through YouTube.
And the insinuation is that he shouldn't be.
Although he's not anymore, is he?
He does have ads on YouTube.
Oh, he does have ads on YouTube.
I thought that was the same part of ad role.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's a whole separate thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
As far as I can tell, because whenever I've watched a couple of his clips that do have ads
pre-roll stuff, but it's, it's murky territory.
And I got to say, I disagree with Media Matters on this one too.
I don't, they're, they're trying to do that not just for Alex Jones, but for all of the,
the racist, hateful YouTube things.
Like if, if you are, I mean, and that is kind of a tacit endorsement, I would say that if you are
selling ads on racism, then you are directly profiting off racism yourself.
Yeah.
So I, I don't, I don't disagree with their main thrust.
But if you're a big enough company, a lot of times there is stuff that slips under your radar.
And then at the same time-
Well, and it's not like that's the only evil they're funding.
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They're funding so much evil.
So much.
But to be like, to, to focus in on Alex, like what he's doing is horrible.
But it's not, as far as we've covered outside of, I think that miss speaking about tweeting at
Chris Cuomo about his kids outside of that.
Yeah.
And I think that was miss speaking for the most part.
I don't think he meant, let's go after these kids.
I don't think he meant that, but beyond that, in the time-
You could make a case for it.
It's, it's up in the air.
Yeah.
But other than that, in the entire time that we've done this show, he hasn't breached free speech.
He hasn't.
He's just said things that are incredibly distasteful.
Yeah.
I would say so.
If Google were to decide that we don't want to be a part of this, that's well within their.
That is in their rights.
Yeah.
And for, for media matters to say, Hey, YouTube, check this out.
That's okay too.
Agreed.
It's not how I would go about it.
But I,
No, you would have a podcast where we talk for an interminable length of time.
But the thing is, if you do that, if you are media matters and you do that,
it opens up the gate for Alex to be like, you want to censor me through money.
You want to attack me and make me economically unviable.
It's an attack.
And there is something to be said for a slippery slope kind of situation where
now if you put pressure on Google from any direction, they have a precedent of
getting rid of certain types of speech.
Objectionable speech.
Yeah, exactly.
So then you have a giant corporation with a significant control over who gets to say what,
where, and when.
Yeah.
And that is kind of a net neutrality argument as well.
I would argue that there is some, there is something to be said for their position.
I don't disagree with them there.
And if Google did it, I wouldn't say that they were doing the wrong thing,
but I would say that they are setting a precedent for further,
you know, further control over media.
It opens up.
As if we needed more corporations controlling our media.
It opens an unfortunate box.
The idea that you can pressure them into doing these sorts of things.
Yeah.
And I'm not super comfortable with that.
But even more terrible that I hate about this.
This is the one thing that really drives me sane about all of these do good crusades
is that they are always against people who are not the problem.
No.
Alex Jones is a problem.
Yeah.
He is not the problem.
Big time.
And the more you go after these dumb little things, the, the fucking lady who got on a plane
and flew and lost her job because of a dumb tweet.
And now she is, now is she, now she is just a fucking complete and utter ghost.
She had to leave her life.
She had to do everything because the internet's point of view
happened to touch her like Sauron's eye and then her whole life is ruined.
And that's, and that's, it's the whole thing.
Like, and you can come from it from either side.
The right can fuck up your life if they just suddenly point at you.
And in both cases, that's not the problem you're really against.
You're, you're distracting yourself with a tiny little victory in quotes when you're not
uniting to get the actual problem solved.
Totally.
Totally.
I agree with you.
There's a much bigger problem at hand.
Yeah.
Nobody, nobody wants to fight the war.
Everybody wants a quick win.
Everyone wants the battle, not the war.
Yeah.
Want the, you don't want to, you don't want the knowledge skirmish, the knowledge fight.
Don't do the info wars thing.
Sorry.
You just did, you just did what they did.
I know.
It was great.
I told you, we have to start mimicking some of that.
You nailed it.
So also I want to get to this because.
You are looking back into the abyss.
That's really what's going on.
And I'm succeeding.
Who is the abyss in this situation?
It's pro wrestler abyss.
No, it's, I mean, it's Alex, but like, one point I want to make is that there's no,
we hate Alex more than media matters does.
I'm certain of that.
I would absolutely agree with you.
We have documented things that they have not covered at all that are way worse than anything
that they ever talk about.
He is atrocious and they treat him as something that is merely horrendous.
Now I want to flip this also.
We have been more fair to him than they have ever been.
They would never post something like that episode where half of it was us talking about.
He's right on this.
He's right on this.
That's true.
And even in this episode.
I'm coming to Alex's defense slightly in the sense that I don't think that these articles that say
are speculating these should be arrested have any validity to them.
I agree.
Now media matters didn't write those articles, but be that as it may,
we're being so much more fair to him and hate him more.
Yeah.
That means I think that we're impartial and we're dealing with the reality.
Yeah.
I understand your point is fucking well taken that Alex isn't the problem.
He is a problem.
Yeah.
But he is what we talk about.
So we just focus on that.
Yeah.
Now at the end of this clip, you're saying that he has hundreds of affiliates,
which as we know, he doesn't.
He lies about that a ton and claims that we have a bunch of secret affiliates.
Millions of unique clicks on the website.
I went to Quantcast because I wanted to check in on that.
Yeah.
We haven't done that since what the second or third episode.
Yeah.
I wanted to see if his audience had grown, if things were growing.
And to be fair, it does appear that the traffic to his website has gone up a little bit.
He's in about the mid 300,000 viewers a day on his website.
Right.
Which is, and if you're going by the week, technically, that is millions.
That is two million.
Three, 300,000 a day, seven days a week.
21.
2.1 million.
So that is multiple millions.
But it's.
So by the strictest definition of what he's saying, yes, it is not 45 million.
But it's also not, though, because I'm counting unique viewers and they go by day.
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So a lot of those 300,000 are going every day.
But that's what he's saying.
It's not per week.
It's not 2.1 million people.
No.
That could be 600,000 people who just keep going back to the site every day.
Does he say a million?
We're getting bugged out.
Right.
The only day that he got.
He's lying either way.
We're.
The only day that he really had a huge spike was on March 20th.
He ended up with 864,000 unique views.
What was that?
That was the day that Comey testified in front of the FBI.
Oh.
So, or not, I'm sorry, Comey testified in front of the intelligence committee.
Yeah.
So like, of course.
So I'm sure he wound up on Breitbart and.
Yeah.
So he ended up doubling his traffic that day.
But it's still, like I expected to go back and there'd be like, oh my God,
crazy huge numbers.
Yeah.
No, not at all.
Still pretty consistent.
Yeah.
It's still right around that range.
There are a couple.
And we can say that 25% most likely is of the bot variety.
Yeah.
It's impossible to tell because Quantcast can't.
They don't have a way to ferret that out.
Yeah.
But again, still 82% male in the audience.
Of course.
What do we have here?
Above the age of 40.
43% is over the age of 45.
Yeah.
Which is slightly younger than Fox News' audience.
I'm sorry.
53% is over the age of 45.
75% of the audience is over 35.
Yeah.
6% is 18 or younger.
6% is 18 to 24.
85% Caucasian.
What?
That's a huge.
Who could have guessed?
That's a huge number.
Who could have guessed?
That is not, that's not irrelevant.
Never would have guessed.
That is not irrelevant.
Couldn't have imagined that thought.
3% African American, 2% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 2% other.
Nothing over 10% except for Caucasian at 85%.
55% or I'm sorry, 53% of them over 45, 82% male.
Now.
What picture are you getting of his fucking audience?
Does that include albinos?
Maybe.
What if it's 10% albinos?
Also, and I'm not shitting on people who make under this amount,
but 40% of his audience makes 0 to 50K a year.
So do we.
That's us.
Yeah.
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So I'm not shitting on that,
but it is the lowest bracket that they count.
Yeah.
So the lowest income bracket.
I think that one's not relevant at all.
Mainly because I feel like 80% of the world falls in that.
Probably.
And it's much less relevant than the 85% Caucasian.
Yeah.
The most relevant thing is the 85% and the male and the age.
85% white male, 35 and older.
But I wanted to check in on all that because they do
update these statistics.
And so like his numbers, I believe the last,
I can't remember exactly,
but I think the last time we checked in,
it was not even that bad in terms of race,
breakdown and shit like that.
I think he might be losing minorities,
which totally makes sense.
Shocker.
But again, the 45 million people watch your stuff every week.
It just can't be true.
Based on the numbers that I've seen on YouTube,
based on the fact that you have about 300,000 unique views
to your website a day.
Based on.
Completing that or bullshit.
You have to be adding up every single video that you post
and pretending you don't understand
that a lot of people watch all of them.
Yeah.
So I mean, if you want to do that, you're cheating,
but I mean, whatever, play the game, baby.
Play the game.
Agreed.
Yeah, I know.
I don't, I don't quite have a,
I don't quite have a response to that that would add anything to that.
And again, if you want to make the argument that who are you to
talk, your numbers or shit, fair enough.
Yeah, but we don't, we don't say that they're not.
No, we admit that.
Yeah.
We just also admit that yours suck too, Alex.
What a bitch.
So this next clip is more about the globalists.
So your attempts to brand us as the violent ones,
when you're the ones all over the news and even Atlantic monthly
and other top publications of the elite saying COG overthrow Trump,
you know, people organizing military coups that were formerly high level
defense department, truly seditious stuff and everybody sits here and takes it.
And then I go out and make comments that you twist and then you claim that I'm
trying to organize violence against shift to influence him.
Oh, cause it's so damning.
He calls me a Russian.
I mean, there's no way he couldn't have seen that coming either.
Like the moment you get that, like the moment he got that outrage angle,
the next day, somebody was like, here's what's going to happen.
They're going to pick up that clip or one of them, put it out there and everybody
will be like, we hate Alex Jones.
That gives you the next angle and so on forever and ever and ever in perpetuity.
Here is what I believe is the level of premeditation to this.
Alex had no idea about that when he started ranting on air because he was drunk.
Yes.
And he was furious.
Yes.
So you just started spitting this bullshit.
And eventually he was tired.
So tired, so tired, but so interested in teaching the babies.
There's only one way to learn.
There's four.
But after the show, probably someone did have that talk with him.
Oh, of course.
Like his brother-in-law Buckley probably came over and was like, amen.
Now listen up.
What's going to happen?
Exactly what you said.
He just lays it out like, okay.
It's such the easiest.
Strategically A to B to C to D and then.
It's checkers.
Right.
And I mean, we're covering this clip that Alex put out and I mean,
the fucking bullshit part about it is the most recent piece that media matters put out
is Alex Jones claims his violent Adam Schiff remarks were just tongue-in-cheek and art
performance.
So they're going back on it.
And he's going to say, yeah, exactly.
Because that's what they are.
There's no response that will like that is impotent.
That is worthless.
I'm Robert, your glue.
Exactly.
That's exactly what's happening.
Everybody's children.
Everybody's children.
Yeah.
But then more to the point of this, I mean like the articles that he's talking about.
Do you know who first said I'm rubber your glue?
What bounces off me sticks to you?
Peter Rubber.
John Rain.
John Wayne.
Did I say John Rain?
Edit that out.
John Wayne.
That bit would have worked.
Said I failed miserably.
So but like the articles that he's citing don't say what he says they do.
Like he has no comprehension of things.
So he's getting mad about these articles that the globalists are saying all these things
in their elite publications and blah, blah, blah, blah, just learn to read.
They're both just shouting at the things.
They're not shouting.
So actually I've been shouting.
They're shouting like across the street at each other but pointed in the opposite direction.
Like neither of them are actually engaging with the other one in any kind of meaningful way.
No.
I've actually done a bit of research into this sort of thing recently that I think is pretty
interesting.
So I'm writing a piece up about Alex Jones's claims that he was a boy genius and was doing
all sorts of reading at the age of six.
Yes, that's right.
He did say that he had read thousands of books.
And one of the things that's really interesting is that you like most people are able to read
around the age of six.
That is about when you start to read picture books and you start to maybe get into chapters.
Is it?
Like maybe, yeah.
Six is the bottom range of like elementary books.
Like we're talking those books that'd be in the library with the silver medals on them.
Yeah.
Sure.
You'd get like a shell Silverstein and stuff like that around that age.
That's when you're about ready to deal with that.
There are advanced readers who are able to read like, you know, Newberry award winners.
I'm not sure if I have those words.
Call the cop medals.
Right.
Like Hatchet or something like that.
No idea.
You don't remember that?
That was a big book.
I remember.
The Giving Tree.
There was that one.
The Bridge.
I assume that, what, behind two ferns or whatever?
Bridge to Terabithia.
No, where the red fern grows.
There you go.
That's what I would.
Not the Scott Ockerman one.
No, that's what I would hand my six-year-old and just be like,
this is what fucking life is like.
You piece of shit.
Now, I think this is, here's the reason that I bring.
Everything you love will die.
Here's the reason I bring this up is because he brought up his own literacy
and we've shown repeatedly that his own literacy of the articles that he discusses is slow.
Still in question.
So I did some research into the idea of what age literacy develops and things like that.
Usually it's about six.
But child psychology, the ability to think abstractly doesn't usually develop until
about the age of 11.
11 is kind of on the downside of it.
Interesting.
So if you don't know, the ability to think abstractly is basically understanding symbolism
and metaphor, the idea of dealing with texts critically, using critical thinking,
understanding argumentation, those sorts of things.
Usually aren't around until you're about in like fifth grade or so.
Okay.
So up till that point, most of education is nurturing what's there and being really
simple with like worksheets.
Building a base.
Yeah.
So the idea that Alex is like, I was reading all these high end things when I was six,
he probably was, but he wasn't understanding them.
Either that or he truly was a child genius prodigy.
No, but if he was, he wouldn't have dropped out of community college.
But probably, although many geniuses have dropped out of college in the past.
Right, but not community college.
They got into a college to begin with.
Also, I don't want to get into it.
I looked into the dropout rate of Austin area community college and he should have dropped out.
I got his back on that.
It looks like a terrible program, but like, here's my theory that I think hold some water.
Alex started reading really complicated things when he was young, maybe even the age of six,
like he reports, but he didn't understand them.
But because he is very stubborn, because he's bullheaded, because he's the Texan.
Self-inflated.
These sorts of things.
When he was that young, he thought he was understanding those things.
So then he never bothered to actually learn how to understand them.
Bingo.
That's what your theory is.
That's your possibility.
He never felt the need to take the real step into critical thinking.
He never actually went through, he screams about the rights of passage all the time.
Yeah.
He never went through abstract thought.
He only thinks concretely.
Right.
Counter theory.
All right.
Okay.
He is lying.
There's a lot of evidence of that one.
I'm just saying, let's just, Occam's rights are this.
Right.
He is not telling the truth.
But my schema.
As we have proved many times, he does not.
My schema, my worldview.
My argument that would explain his inability to use literacy correctly would be completely
bolstered by him reading all this intellectual shit when he was six and thinking he understood
it when he didn't.
I will engage with you on your own conspiracy theory level.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
No, that's true.
It is.
It is just psychoanalysis.
It's just an unfounded theory.
It's not though.
Do we have any corroboration from any other human being on the planet that Alex Jones
can read?
No.
But if.
Now.
No.
But if you went to a therapist and you were talking to the therapist, all they have to
go on is your words.
Yeah.
All my words.
Do you know what my words to a therapist would be?
Please help me.
Fill your hand.
Fill your hand.
I think that if we are dealing with Alex, all we really have to go on is especially about
his childhood shape.
Is what he says to us.
So we have to take him at his word tempered by what we know about him currently.
But also, yeah, exactly.
The idea that he was reading intellectual shit when he was younger and didn't understand
it, thinks he understands it, matches up with his current state.
So that's why I think that there's something there.
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory.
I think it makes sense.
Or again, counter theory.
And I will engage with you a little bit more directly on this one.
Perhaps.
I'm not well.
He just never developed those critical thinking skills in where you would expect.
So he didn't necessarily start reading them at six.
Maybe he read them at 15, but he never actually developed the ability to have critical thought.
No.
And so.
I strongly disagree with this theory.
Here's why.
He did read that book, None Dare Call It A Conspiracy, that changed his life when he was 12.
Right?
So that had to have happened.
That's a fixed point.
In our Doctor Who universe.
Yes.
That is a fixed point in time.
In our.
We can't change that.
Well, maybe we could get in the TARDIS and go back and change.
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Oh my God.
The world would be so much better.
I could still be doing freezing point.
If anybody would know how to use a time machine properly, it would be the two of us.
Yeah, absolutely.
All we would do.
Nope.
No killing Hitler.
No.
Thank you.
No.
No stopping Stalin.
Chairman Mao.
Nothing.
What we would do is we would remove one book from the Austin Public Library.
Let's bully Alex into not reading that book.
We got one on the board and then we're out.
Then we're out.
No one last job, no retirement, nothing like that.
My argument, because I have read None Dare Call It A Conspiracy,
is that Alex read this at a point when he could not have been thinking critically.
Right?
Okay.
That's a, that is a legitimate thought.
That didn't develop by the time he was 12.
So all of this stuff, like if he's read all of these history books and all these military
history books and shit, even before that, because he started when he was six, he had
to have been reading them with the same undeveloped brain that he read None Dare Call It A Conspiracy
when he was 12.
The one he is still using.
Yeah.
He's tried to sell it on air a couple of times.
Did he sign it?
No, he's just like, this is the greatest book.
It's the best primer in the New World Order.
I'm not going to lie to you in the same way that like World War II veterans would sometimes grab
like Nazi helmets and shit as souvenirs.
I would definitely keep as a prized possession an Alex Jones signed copy of None Dare Call It A
Conspiracy.
Yeah.
I would put that on my wall right next to what I assume is his torso.
It's just a big barrel.
Yeah, exactly.
I do have a copy of it and I think pretty soon we should do an episode about it.
Just because I mean, why not?
And I don't want to talk about the serious shit.
So we have to come up with other things to do.
Let's do the None Dare Call It A Conspiracy episode.
Let's do a Protocols of the Elders of Zion episode.
Yeah.
Let's get a lot of this shit out of the way while this war develops.
While we still have time.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Before we're on pirate radio somewhere.
We've gone, we've gone a little bit down the rabbit hole here.
But Alex Jones here wants to get into.
Do you think he's read Watership Down?
No.
Has he ever gone down the rabbit hole?
He has not.
I'm going to guess he hasn't read Wind in the Willows.
Okay.
I'm going to guess he hasn't read anything.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
That's it.
Wind of the Willows, baby.
Oh, is it?
The ride is called Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Ah.
At Disney Land.
Wind of the Willows is where Mr. Toad goes to hell.
Traumatized me as a boy.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Well, we can all agree he didn't read the Velveteen Rabbit.
No.
He also didn't read.
I can't imagine that he actually read anything about World War II based on his actions.
Because if you read books about World War II,
you're going to run into Monsieur Goebbels.
You know, you're going to run into that cat.
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And Alex is doing exactly what Goebbels would have done.
Yeah.
So like.
So you're saying he ran into Goebbels and was like, I am a fan.
Or he didn't have any comprehension of what he was reading and read it and took the wrong
lesson away from it.
Yeah.
Well, it seems like that's basically what Trump did with Mein Kampf.
Yeah.
Which was by his bedside.
Yeah, right.
Based on him saying that in an interview.
Yep.
So this next clip, Alex gets a little bit more into his idea that his rants are art pieces.
So enjoy that.
The old saying is from Earl Haggart, you're walking on the fighting side of me.
When I fight, I fight in information.
When I punch somebody, when I talk about Trump dealing death blows,
or we're in a death battle against communism, I don't literally mean death.
We're driving in a death battle.
And everybody knows the compendium of my speech and what I stand for is nonviolent
when it comes to offense.
I'm all about defense and everyone knows that.
Everyone understands that.
And we see the incredible hypocrisy of the elitist left,
ally with communist China and others trying to bully this country into submission,
trying to brand us as the violent people.
So let me be clear as I've always been clear.
I'm against any offensive violence.
And I am disgusted by the left and Black Lives Matter and the Soros funding groups
with hundreds of millions of dollars saying bang, bang, you know, kill the pigs, murder the police.
After this, he plays a clip of the new Black Panther party marching around,
talking about the only good pig is a dead pig.
And hey, you know what?
I don't encourage killing cops, but I also fucking understand where that comes from
because cops keep killing black people.
But more importantly, this idea that he has that like violence is a metaphor.
I'm into it because I like rap.
I like hip hop.
Okay.
And so whenever I hear rappers talk about metaphorical violence,
generally what they're talking about is the verbal supremacy.
You know, they're talking about, I'm better at rapping than you.
I'm going to murk you on the mic.
These sorts of things.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, go with dead press, you know.
Sure.
Nobody, nobody does bad idea because I think they would actually go out there with guns.
I mean, but metaphorically, they wouldn't.
They said that they would go against a tank with a shank.
Well, I mean, you know, it's, it is time to get the crackers out of city hall.
I'm not disagreeing with it.
Do you think that mind sex was a metaphor?
That's on mind sex.
No, I think it was inspired by the movie demolition, man.
Oh yeah.
With Sandra Bullock, who is a suspected Nazi.
Come on now.
I don't know why that's my stock response to you alleging that Sandra Bullock is a Nazi.
Come on now.
I think it's my favorite thing that I know right now is that perhaps Sandra Bullock.
Suspected Nazi, but more, more to the point.
Like I get that I get violence metaphors for things that aren't violence.
That's not what you're doing, Alex.
You're literally just threatening people.
You really can't, you can't.
And I do, I do see in his mind though, how he could believe that he is not about offense
and he is all about defense because in his mind, he is always reacting.
Because he's paranoid as fuck.
Yeah, exactly.
He is always reacting to an attack, whether or not it is there.
So of course he feels like every outburst and every attack that he makes is in retaliation.
Yeah, and when he wants to talk about like, I only appreciate violence as defense, not offense,
I'd like to refer you to everything he said about North Korea.
He's literally said we need to first strike them.
Yeah.
And China too.
And he said that, yes, 90% of people are going to die and China's agreed to it.
Yeah, it's all part of the arrangement.
Yeah.
They've screwed us over.
They've turned.
So this next clip is sort of, he gets a little bit more into the violence metaphors here in the next clip.
They've got a lot of nerve after their jihad the last year, plus calling for violence against
Donald Trump, his supporters beating him up, you name it.
Nope.
Wrong.
To then come out and claim that I am now committing crimes talking about in a rant,
I want to kick your butt or whatever when clearly I'm talking about the information war.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
It is unbelievable.
So if you want to diagram that, he's saying that these people have been saying these horribly
violent things and trying to overthrow Trump through murder.
Also, they've been picking fights and attacking Trump supporters.
And then they're wrong for trying to say that I committed a crime by this rant I did on Schiff.
Yeah.
Now, here's what's fun about this.
What is fun about that?
Using formal logic.
You're treading in dangerous waters, my friend.
No, that statement is totally cool.
You twisted the shit out of me.
You know why?
Why?
Because everything is a lie.
It doesn't matter.
The argument that he's trying to make is just two lies as premises and a lie as a...
Good conclusion.
Yeah, who cares?
Yep.
Good point.
Yeah.
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There's no truth involved, so you don't have to preserve it.
That is a non-existent statement.
The only time you get in trouble with logic is when you have true premises that lead to a false
conclusion.
That is where you get into trouble with logic.
Right.
That means that your inference is wrong.
That means that you claiming that your premises lead to your conclusion, that's off.
But when you say two false things and they lead to a true conclusion, that's okay.
Right.
It doesn't matter.
So when you do the two false things and they lead to a false conclusion, also okay.
It all doesn't matter.
Gotcha.
So in this case...
In your summation, what he just said doesn't matter.
No, it doesn't.
It doesn't.
It doesn't matter at all.
Moving on then.
It's super wrong, but it doesn't matter.
You're not making an argument.
Don, it doesn't.
You just said, congratulations, you have said nothing.
Yeah.
That should be the end of his show.
I'll say this, even if we want to...
Thank you for watching the InfoWorst.
Congratulations.
I've said nothing.
Even, even if you want to grant that it's possible that his conclusion, that people are
out of line for saying he should be arrested or whatever, you know, like that.
If you want to grant that as a true statement, still doesn't matter.
Still doesn't matter.
His premises were false.
Gotcha.
So...
All bullshit.
Yeah, it's almost...
Bullshit from start to finish, my friend.
It's so delicious.
It's like, as someone who has the ability to think critically, and to engage with the
arguments of a lunatic...
I'm against that.
It's so fun.
That part, that clip was so fun for me.
Disagree.
Anyway, Alex has more evidence that Trump is being
threatened.
But it doesn't stop there.
We've got Bow Wow saying he wants to kidnap.
That's Snoop Dogg's asking you, big rapper.
Say Bow Wow again.
Kidnap the president's wife and put her into sex slavery.
That's okay, though.
Bow Wow.
Snoop Dogg comes out a few weeks ago with a big video pushed by Viacom and basically
says go out and murder the president, shoot him in the head, kill police.
That's totally okay with the Democrats.
CEO threatens to assassinate Trump with sniper rifle at the White House.
Again, nothing's done to him.
So who's going to assassinate Trump?
Twitter erupts with calls for Donald Trump to be killed.
Again, I mentioned this.
You've got Mickey Rort threatens to kill Trump at a profanity lace tirade.
Black Lives Matter calls for killing police at CBS News on and on.
What a monster.
So, but again...
What a monster.
This is all within this 10-minute clip.
He's just repeating everything.
All those same examples.
He has nothing.
There's nothing.
And there's tons of people on Twitter.
Now let's deal with that Bow Wow situation for a little bit.
What did Bow Wow say?
So, Snoop Dogg...
And how many times can we say Bow Wow on this podcast?
Bow Wow.
Come with it now.
Bow Wow.
It's kind of.
All right.
Anyway, Snoop Dogg put out that video.
The song...
Do you think there's an Alex Jones parody porn video?
Oh, I hope not.
Oh, that would be the worst, right?
Oh, please don't introduce these sorts of thoughts into my head.
Although that would be a great episode for us.
So, Snoop Dogg put out the song called Lavender.
And that's the one where he puts a gun up to...
Yeah, the video and it says bang whenever it comes out.
Yeah, I gotcha.
The cartoon...
Cartoon violence.
Trope.
Right.
And...
Well, thousands of people have been on Twitter calling for the death of a Daffy Duck.
So, there is that too.
Everyone got super mad on the right about it.
A bunch of people got really pissed off.
Trump tweeted...
Where am I right?
Trump tweeted at Snoop Dogg about like his failing career and like...
What world do we live in?
I don't know.
Are we done?
I don't know.
Can we just be done?
So, it...
You just said the words Trump tweeted at Snoop Dogg.
And I had to realize you meant President of the United States Trump tweeted at Snoop Dogg.
Yeah.
Can we...
Can we...
It's so dark.
Somehow it's still...
How do I exist on a moment-to-moment basis in this world thinking that things are normal?
President of the United States Trump tweeted at Snoop Dogg.
Yeah.
So then, in response, Bow Wow tweeted that's like,
Hey, you bitch.
Like, he just got mad at Trump and was like,
You talking about my uncle like that?
He's not literally his uncle.
That's just hip-hop language.
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I understand.
Alex.
For our...
For our whiter listeners?
For our Alex Jones listeners.
For the Alex Jones listeners, yeah.
So, the connection between the two is that when little Bow Wow was little Bow Wow,
he was Jermaine Dupree disciple.
He was a little boy rapper.
Yes.
And...
And actor.
And Snoop Dogg gave him his name.
He's like, You're my little Bow Wow.
Right.
And so, the two of them have had a connection throughout...
I mean, he's like in his 20s now.
He's an adult.
Yes.
But Bow Wow tweeted,
We'll see what you think when we pimp your wife.
That's pretty funny.
It's not good.
That's pretty funny.
Again, it's not good.
It's not...
Well, it's still pretty funny.
Right.
But they're not...
I'm still on board with Bow Wow.
They're not literally...
If I'm picking a side,
I'm on Bow Wow side this time.
Of course, because the other side is absolutely...
The other side is horrific.
Again, I'll air on the side of...
Bow Wow.
Sure.
But like him saying...
That's my new euphemism for all of my thoughts.
I'm going to air on the side of Bow Wow on this one, guys.
I think car washes should be universal.
Right.
Him saying,
I'm going to...
We're going to pimp your wife and make her work for us.
Like, that's not really a threat.
No.
That's...
That is...
It's just some aggressive imagery.
Right.
And...
Unless...
Melania's into it.
Which we don't know for sure.
No.
We're not insinuating that she's into it.
But also...
But she is married to Trump,
which suggests she was bought at one point.
Well, the most important point, I think,
even taking that aside,
is that this entire time,
Alex has been talking about his violence metaphors,
and how everything is a metaphor for the info war.
Right.
Without really engaging and recognizing that this idea of,
I'm going to pimp your wife is definitely misogynistic.
And I don't enjoy that.
I don't think it's right.
There's feminism implications.
But it is info pimping.
Right.
Well, no, but what it is, is braggadocio.
It is within the world of hip hop.
Like, there are feminist implications
that we should recognize and be like,
that's not great.
Jones is expecting you to give him the benefit of the doubt
when it comes to his threats.
And he refuses to give anyone else
even the slightest benefit of the doubt
when it comes to theirs.
Especially black people.
So, yeah.
I love you.
It's utter insanity.
Yeah.
I really don't like how long we've been going on
about this.
We're really making a meal out of this.
I think it's just because we both love to say bow-wow.
Bow-wow.
So this next clip, it gets back to his performance art point.
And we'll see if he makes more sense now.
When I say performance art, I mean, I let myself get angry.
I let myself say satirical things, wild things, whatever.
But what I'm saying, you know, you're a jerk,
you're a piece of crap.
Say that to my face.
I say you people, you know, notice I'm talking about
the whole power structure here, where I talk about
you're the people.
You're the people calling for violence.
You're the people pushing all this crap.
Oh, then they say have the FCC shut me down.
I said this on an internet feed.
I didn't say it on my commercial radio show.
I said it late at night to an adult audience,
and it's nothing Bill Maher doesn't say.
So let me be clear again, because I don't want
there to be any violence.
Then they say it's attributed to me,
which is the kind of stuff they've pulled in the past.
You know, you've got people out there like,
Noam Chomsky saying that Trump's going to do a false flag.
I'm concerned about a false flag and with the left,
because they're so unpopular with all their bullying
to make them look like victims.
Well, I mean, the left.
I don't entirely disagree with some of the things he said.
The left is, I mean, if you talk about people in Congress,
yeah, they're super unpopular.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the fact that he was doing it,
he wasn't doing it on his radio show.
It's true.
He was doing it on a late night broadcast.
No, but that's the argument we've already made.
Yeah, that's true.
He wasn't breaking any laws.
Also, if you're asking the FCC to do anything right now,
you are not going to get any help there.
They're busy.
Our FCC is not busy at all, or perhaps it is very busy
doing everything it can to avoid having any responsibility.
They're busy being un-staffed.
They're busy being worthless.
But the idea, like, one of the most effective things
that you can do in terms of getting people to think
you're doing something when you're not
is pretending you have a big enemy.
Like, you're pretending that you're like,
I've got this massive force out to get me.
Right.
And so this idea that anyone really is trying
to get the FCC to shut him down is absurd.
It's absolutely, it's not really happening.
I don't even think media matters is doing that.
And you wouldn't, if you, no matter which side you're on,
you wouldn't want the FCC having that power.
No.
That's the government.
Dear God, no.
Like, Google is bad enough if you want them
to do something about it.
The FCC having the power to go after protected speech,
that is not good.
No.
You don't want to get, you don't want to open that door, period.
No, and everyone-
Because our podcast would definitely not be on the air.
No, and everyone knows that.
Everyone fucking knows that.
Not everyone knows that.
But everyone who would petition the FCC knows that.
So, next clip.
This next clip.
This next clip, Jordan, is the end.
This is the summation that Alex makes.
And I want to be very clear about this.
I don't think he's made a point.
When we get to the end of this, we'll let this play out.
This is how he ends the clip.
Ends with a real slam dunk of a burn.
But I really don't think he's made a point by the end of this.
Okay.
Now, quite frankly, am I worried about being indicted
as they're calling for, for this?
Absolutely not.
Because I know what I said.
I know the intent of what I said.
And I know that the people that are pushing for me to be arrested
and actually lobbying for it are the ones calling for the president
to actually be overthrown violently.
I'm trying to stop violence and have stability in this republic.
But that said, it will be quite a bit of publicity
if they finally come right out and indict me
as the Democrats are calling for it.
So, I do have to be careful, though, about what I say.
Because it'll be taken out of context.
So, again, I just want to be clear.
I mean, no violence against Mr. Schiff.
I know the guy's a liar.
I know that he is an attack dog of the Democrats.
I know that he's really trying to hurt this country,
so I dislike him.
But I wish no harm on him or his wife or children
or anybody else.
It almost sounds like someone threatened to sue him again.
Yeah, that was very much a quick retraction.
But also the idea that I know that he's bad for this country,
but I don't wish no harm.
That kind of goes against his character.
Does Schiff have a wife?
Yeah, he has kids.
Yeah, yeah.
What's his wife's name?
I don't know.
I did see an article about his family.
I was going to say, don't lie to me.
No, I saw an article about his family.
I don't know.
It's not my business.
No, I know.
I was just waiting for a...
But listen, do you agree with me at the point
that if he thinks that someone is an enemy of the country,
is bad for the country?
That is in and of itself advocating violence of a certain sort.
But also it means that he should wish them ill,
based on his own premises.
Yeah, well, but I mean, if you take all of his previous statements
together wherein if you are an enemy,
if you are an actor against the state,
if you are advocating violent overthrow,
in the past he has said,
the only way that we can stop you
is by using your own tactics against you,
which presumably means violence of some sort.
So if he is to say that now saying,
no, I never advocate violence,
I know he is exactly all of the things
which I have in the past advocated violence against,
but not in this particular instance of my doing so.
No, it doesn't make any goddamn sense.
He is full of bullshit in that regard.
It's a weird retraction that I really, I mean, it...
That one's weird.
It smells like a letter might have gotten sent to him,
much like Aliphontus with the Pizza Gate stuff.
I mean, I think the rock is cooking.
You smell it?
I think I smell it.
All right, well, this isn't quite done. Here we go.
This is not a retraction. This is a clarification.
Yes, I don't want violence.
You guys are openly calling for it everywhere.
So I think then you should ask yourselves,
what hypocrite planet you woke up on,
when I say one-tenth of what you said, clearly jesting,
and then you take it as serious and call for my incarceration
for six years in federal prisons.
Good luck with that, hypocrites.
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I didn't cut that at all.
I didn't edit it.
He immediately dropped a commercial in after he was like,
I hope you guys are fine with that, you hypocrites.
And then did a wink.
He did a big wink.
Oh, no.
And then it immediately went into a probiotic commercial.
Wait, where did he get six years exactly?
That was a really weird drop right there.
I don't know.
I don't care.
Is there some sort of like, don't be a dick law,
where it's like, oh, have you say some homophobic shit?
We'll put you away.
Yeah.
No, I don't know.
I think he probably was scatting.
I'm not sure.
I don't know what's that.
You wouldn't be, bop, bop, bop, six years.
So my point is that that is unfortunately an effective video.
Like we had some problems with it.
There's a lot of bullshit within it.
But some of the points he's making are founded.
In terms of like ratio wise, I would say on any given episode,
we're at like 99% bullshit.
Yeah.
And in this 10 minutes, we're at more like 60, 40 bullshit.
I would say 70, 30 maybe.
I think you're a little generous.
Because it's a lot of bullshit.
Because the very idea that-
But when your bar is so low, getting that high seems like a fucking miracle.
And it feels like it to us too.
Yeah.
And the reason is because he does have a decent leg to stand on
when these people take his words out of context and attack him.
Yeah.
And that is the most destructive thing you can do if you're against him.
So I beg of you, stop.
Your point is-
We all hate Alex.
Dear media matters, emulate us.
And because you have a much better platform, you'll hire different people.
Namely us.
And then we will be thrown to the wayside as these corporate America want to do.
No, they could just pay us.
I mean, we could negotiate something.
If they just keep us alive, we'll keep doing this.
That's right.
We're bad negotiators.
They could probably pay us less than somebody else.
Whoever you've got working there will take less.
Knowledge fights affiliate agreement is we'll do it for free.
Very similar to Alex Jones's.
But no, I mean, that's my sort of self-serving point that I want to make is
please stop.
Please stop.
You're harming this.
It's a bad way to go.
Yeah.
My other point-
Although the other argument to be made there, though, is his audience is-
Dum-dums?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're like little lollipops, dum-dums.
So, I mean, he is a joke.
Like, that's true.
Right.
But the worrisome part of it now, as compared to, you know, a year ago when we were all so young
and life-
So innocent.
So, oh, so beautiful.
Black man was in the White House.
Great.
We were bombing most countries, but not all of them.
Yeah.
And most of the same ones.
But now that Alex Jones has personal contact with the White House.
He's got pool.
Multiple members of the White House.
That is-
Well, it's shrinking by the day.
It is shrinking by the day.
That's true.
Yeah.
But that is kind of the situation where now you should not treat him as a joke,
because if you treat him seriously, you're attaching, or you're attacking a lot of the
germs of the bullshit that winds up trickling down through the reality.
If you look at what Alex Jones says, a lot of the time, a watered-down version of that
shows up coming through the Trump Breitbart White House.
Yep.
Like, that's-
You take some of that anger and bigotry out of it.
It is often very similar.
The seed of what bullshit they say.
How many times has Sean Spicer come out and said, like,
well, what used to be true then is true now?
Yep.
Which is all-
Or used to be lies then.
Yeah.
It's now-
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
I apologize for-
It is.
And-
It's a John Rain situation all over again.
Yeah.
I have a tremendous amount of fear that, I mean, we're in for either six months of Trump
or eight years.
And either way, you really need to start engaging with what crazy people are saying,
because the crazy is now the fox.
That's really all we've got.
Well, I mean, like, look at this.
That whole Susan Rice story, that's nothing.
No, it's made up.
It was broke by Mike Cernovich.
Yeah.
Mike Cernovich broke that.
And we haven't talked about him much, but he is wacky.
He is a complete lunatic, monster asshole.
Yep.
We could do a whole show about him.
We won't.
Because he's in the same realm as-
Because there's a level of low we won't stoop to.
He's the same level as PJW.
Yeah.
He just, who cares?
Fuck you, you weirdo, you dick.
But like, he broke that story.
Trump started talking about that.
Yeah.
Trump tweeted that he deserved a prize for that story.
It's insane.
That's right.
He said he deserved a Pulitzer Prize for made up nonsensical bullshit.
And now it's fun if that man is not the president.
It would be hilarious if that man was not the president.
Or if this was a movie.
Do you remember all those tweets of Trump saying,
oh, Obama, you shouldn't do this stuff?
Don't go to Syria.
That was fun when Trump wasn't the president.
And now he's doing all of those things, which makes it far less fun.
Far less fun.
And all of these lunatics, the Alex Joneses, Mike Cernovich's.
The Savages.
All of them, you need to fucking pay attention to them.
They are way too influential.
And it is kind of weird.
Treating them like soundbite machines to sort of kick in your outrage machine
that you think is somehow going to stop them is not.
You're only helping them.
We can not necessarily stop them.
But I think that we are like.
We're not part of the outrage machine.
No, I think.
Is that what you're trying to say?
We're not part of the back and forth of Vapid.
I think one day is the most important day.
And then every day we move on to the next thing.
Mainly because we've been doing this podcast on the same thing for three months now.
Yeah.
I think that we're an antibiotic is more than what we are is like.
We can cut through the bullshit.
We can give credit where credit's due.
But at the same time, all of it is under the roof that this guy is a joke and a
propaganda.
Yeah.
But it, but it doesn't mean this is when we cut.
And then it goes, and now we're selling the anti biome.
The best antibiotics on the market today.
We also sell biotics.
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I'm not entirely sure.
Take your pick.
I'm not entirely sure how to give this a summation and give this like a thesis
statement here at the end.
I, if I understand from the perspective of you having tried to make this,
I think the point that I've gotten is that the way that they handle things only provides
ammunition to be shot back at them.
Yes.
So they're not.
It's like trying to shoot a gun at Magneto.
Or it's just Judo.
Like that's what it is.
Alex Jones is, is just using your own force against you.
Yeah.
So we are using no force.
Yeah.
We're using the force.
We're the drunk monks.
We're using that drunken style.
We're the drunk Jedi.
Yeah.
And, and so like, listen, I'm not saying that we're super effective,
but I really think that if you go back and listen to our episodes,
we've really busted a lot of his fucking narratives pretty hard.
I think so.
Which is not to suck our own dicks.
No, but it's.
I mean, I'm an archetypal cocksucker.
I'm, I'm like, I, I'm at the end of this episode and the,
the feeling that I have is like, I opened this up with saying that I'm,
I'm mad that media matters and I am, I'm frustrated.
I am too.
I'm super frustrated by people dealing with something in the completely wrong way.
Now granted, I think that we're dealing with it in the right way.
We might be wrong.
We might, we might be just as dumb.
I think I'm dealing with a lot of my problems by smoking weed and that seems
like the right way to deal with things to me.
I drink wine.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, the world is ending.
So it does seem to make a lot more sense right now.
Yeah.
Andy and Cain.
From what I understand, uh, of your point so far, I feel like you're saying that,
Alex Jones is shooting out these bullets.
They're shooting them back and all you're doing is fighting fire with fire.
Somewhat.
The way we're trying to do things is by going at it from a different direction
and fight fire with water.
So what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fight outrage with laughter.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
And then also, uh, I believe, uh, that it's just shoddy.
It's just shitty work.
The idea of posting clips of Alex and being like, here is what he said.
And then not dealing with where it is in the, in the, in the stream of his show,
what's going on around it is just bad work.
It's just shit.
At the very least in that headline, they should have said not only he goes on homophobic ramp,
but he drunkenly goes on homophobic ramp.
That would be interesting.
I would have been so much happier with them if they had really paid attention
and noticed that that motherfucker was drunk.
And if you click on the story, it expands and then there's the four ways to learn clip.
And with the clip of the clip of him with a drink in his hand and
you know, like those are saying media matters is there, there's four ways to cover Alex Jones.
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But hey, we like to live the life of a couple of dudes who are into policy.
So would you call us a couple of, what are the words I'm thinking of?
I don't know.
I think it's like a, it's like a policy donk.
Something like that.
Like a donk is not the right word.
Short for donkey.
Policy doc.
Policy wonk.
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