Knowledge Fight - #804: May 3-4, 2023
Episode Date: May 5, 2023Today, Dan and Jordan discuss two wild days in Alex's life. In this installment, Alex takes over Steven Crowder's studio, does damage control for Tucker, and discusses how he got prank called at len...gth.
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I love you everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fred. I'm Dan. I'm Jordan. We're couple dudes like to sit around worship at the altar of Selene and talk a
little bit about Alex Jones.
Oh, indeed we are Dan. Jordan.
Dan! Jordan! Quick question for you buddy. What's up? What's your great spot today? Why don't you take the wheel?
Uh, well Dan, may the fourth be with you. I've heard that before. Yes indeed. That's the, we're recording that.
We're, it's May the fourth. Star Wars. Followed closely by Cinco de Mayo. True. It's a double feature.
Right left. Absolutely. No, and so there is a series that Star Wars puts out called Star Wars Visions.
And they have a bunch of different animating studios make these short stories that are so unique inside the world of Star Wars.
There's, there's definitely a point of view that you don't get from other creators and the like because with the less attention and the less budget,
they're allowed to do more interesting things. So this season you've got like a claymation done by like. That's fun.
Yeah, there's, there's all kinds of, there's the people who did Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, their animation style.
There's all these cool little short stories. Did they get somebody from Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark?
I don't know, but there was some rotoscopes. So it's possible. I don't know.
But yeah, it's just a really, really good way to view things whenever you're allowed to be inside this world.
You know, that, and, and my theory on why it's, it's really, really touching in a way is because the world of Star Wars is so familiar to me.
It is very similar to the real world in as far as how emotionally connected I can be to stories within it. You know what I'm saying?
Sure.
So it is, it is more affecting than some other type of fantasy story because I lived in Star Wars. Do you know what I mean?
I guess, yeah.
Yes, you do now. You fully understand.
Sure.
What's your bright spot?
Well, I guess it's, you know, like my parents gave me a tube of bath bombs for, for my birthday.
Maybe it was Christmas, even because yeah, it was, they've been in the bathroom for a while.
I mean, I gave you some bath bombs. Do you use mine?
I think so. Yeah.
Okay. It was pretty good.
But these ones, they have things in them.
Uh-huh.
I didn't realize that. But so like,
Like what? Like eyeballs?
No, like there was one and it, you know, it fizzed.
Sure.
And then when it was gone, there was a gold coin inside.
Like a pirate treasure coin.
One had a ring in it.
All right.
One had a heart.
Okay.
And then this last one.
Uh-huh.
Crazy.
Okay.
So it made the tub blue.
Sure.
The water was like blue Kool-Aid.
I've done that.
Yeah.
I've been there.
The thing that it had inside it was a bunch of little snowflakes.
Okay.
So it made it like an ice, icy wonderland bath.
That's nice.
That's fun.
Yeah, I guess so.
I'm grasping at straws.
No, I had, I had one of the bath bombs that I, where I got in Dublin.
Uh, they made all these custom bath bombs that you could make there.
And one of the things that we got was a, was one that was filled with a lot more glitter
than I expected.
Sure.
I was covered in glitter for two days.
You never expect the power of glitter.
It never goes away.
Yep.
Yep.
It, uh, it's not to be trifled with.
No.
That's why glitter bombing is terrorism.
And we need to treat it as such.
Absolutely.
So Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
We're talking about May 3rd and 4th.
May it be with you.
2023.
Sure.
That is Wednesday and Thursday.
Right.
As, as a present day as it can be quite frankly.
Um, and yeah, weird, weird week schedule wise.
Um, you know, we had your, uh, interview episode on Monday and then we recorded that
interview on Tuesday night with Mark and it was going to come out on Wednesday.
Yep.
So we had a really good time.
Yeah.
We had a really good time.
We had a really good time.
We had a really good time due to like some of the content.
We had to put it out in the afternoon.
So the snakes were sneaking all sneaky snakes went crazy this week.
Yeah.
Just just wild.
Alex had been out of studio though.
So it was all, it was all just, you know, just perfect timing for all that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, but now Alex is back and better than ever.
It's time to get down to business.
Yeah.
It is.
It's big boy pants time.
Also, I got a little bit of feedback that I was busting your balls a little bit on
the last episode.
That's our dynamic.
I know.
But I, I, I admit that I was, uh, poking fun at your interview skills.
Sure.
Of course.
But it was in fun.
I was not being malicious.
I, I just want everyone to know that I was, I think it's fantastic that you're doing these
interviews.
Of course.
Of course.
I'm not insulting you.
See, that's the thing that people don't know about us personally is that you know me
well enough to know that no matter what my ego needs to be kept in check at all costs.
Right.
And if you prevent it, yeah, if you don't, if you don't get a baseline, like think about
how confident I am right now.
Imagine if I, if I didn't have near constant hatred, right?
Oh man, I'd be out of control.
And it's best when that hatred comes from someone who cares.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
No, cause then we can be friends afterwards.
Um, but yeah, I knew, I knew everything was fine on our front.
Come on.
I did see some people commenting on that and I wanted to know that there is no animosity
or weirdness between us doing this for years.
That is true.
Yeah.
So Jordan, today we have this episode, but first we have some wonks to say hello to.
That's a great idea.
So first, uh, don't bet a Bippy you can't afford to lose.
Thank you so much.
You're on our policy.
Walk.
I'm a policy.
Walk.
Thank you very much.
Your bottom Bippy.
Next, Celine's college fund.
Thank you so much.
You're on our policy.
Walk.
Thank you so much.
School of hard knocks.
Next, uh, Alex sounds like he's saying Riddler at the beginning of the theme and you can
never unhear that.
Thank you so much.
You're on our policy.
Walk.
I'm a policy.
Walk.
Thank you very much.
Uh, next to Tommy from Katie, uh, K-A-D-I-E with love.
That would make my world.
And then there's like a heart emoji.
Sure.
I signed up as Tommy and Katie just in case you couldn't do that special.
Oh, wait.
I think the shout out ended it to cut to Tommy from Katie with love.
Okay.
I did it too far.
How do you pronounce the heart emoji?
Okay.
Thank you so much.
You're on our policy.
Walk.
I'm a policy.
Walk.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And Jordan's Austin pharmacist.
Thank you so much.
You're on our policy.
Walk.
I'm a policy.
Walk.
Thank you very much.
I think I know who that is.
Probably.
Uh, and we had a technocrat in the mix.
Uh, God, I don't approve of this, but whatever.
Uh, I mean, I approve of the person and I'm sure they're wonderful, but I don't approve
of this name.
Okay.
But thank you so much to Dan's been licking and sticking Nancy Reagan and secret
really loves it.
Thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
I'm a policy.
Walk.
Four stars.
Go home.
Get my then tell it.
You're brilliant.
Someone someone Sotomayor sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy shark.
Bump.
Bump.
Bump.
Bump.
Bump.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black action.
He's a loser.
Little little titty baby.
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
So we're going to start here on the third, the third.
And the third is actually a very interesting day.
I don't think I've seen something quite like this, at least in a while.
And that is that Alex is recording an episode, but not from his own studio.
Okay.
Now a couple of times we've seen him in a hotel room or something when he's on a work
occasion.
Is he finally calling in from the car entirely?
No, the whole thing would be great.
One road trip from Austin to New York.
I'm doing a 24 hour.
Yeah.
I want to see America.
I will be broadcasting from small town.
Actually, that was a fantasy that I had.
Yeah.
Before we started this podcast, one of the things that I thought about doing was getting
an RV and doing a podcast from small towns.
Sure.
And like just experiencing it, talking to people, doing whatever.
And then like the audience could tell me where to go next.
Of course.
I thought that would be a really fun idea, but I don't want to live in an RV.
I think we've all been in that place of like, maybe I just hit the road and then we're
like logistics are a nightmare.
Yeah.
I think some of that may come from our time to stand up.
That like fantasy of the road life.
I've always wanted to live the road.
Yeah.
But no, that's not where Alex is.
No.
He's in Texas.
Okay.
Another city in Texas.
Okay.
He's at Steven Crowder's studio.
Oh, he's recording his episode from Steven Crowder's studio.
Wait, he's recording his episode from Crowder's studio.
His shit is so broken.
It's very strange.
I don't know what's going on.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us on this live Wednesday edition.
I'll be Alex Jones show.
It's May 3rd, 2023 and I come to you live from the amazing studios in an unknown location
in Texas of the great Steven Crowder and his wonderful crew will be here for the next three
hours and 55 minutes and then I'll destroy your 3pm central today from the M4 studios
in the once great city of Austin, Texas now taken over the lawless George Soros left.
Oh, when did that happen?
I like that.
I like that.
Oh, and doesn't get to go on field trips.
No.
Hey, buddy, you're staying at home this time.
Yeah, you know, you know, he was like, Oh, am I coming to now?
No, no.
Sorry.
No room in the car.
Absolutely.
I got to take.
You're taking here.
No, I see.
You're taking the tour bus.
There's like three beds in there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I got to take.
Well, I mean, look, I got to take Barnes.
Sure.
Well, of course.
You know, it gets it feel the wind in his hair is bald hair bald head.
Um, yeah, I think that Austin's always been pretty lefty.
Yeah.
I don't know when it fell to the to the I mean, the once great city.
It was it was a stronghold for the left and now it is overrun.
Yeah.
So this is interesting timing.
I don't know how much you've been following the situation with Stephen
Crowder's life.
I still my goal to know as little as possible about what's going on.
Okay.
So Stephen Crowder had that situation with the daily wire.
Okay.
You remember that?
Cause we talked about that.
Right.
They offered him a contract and then he made a big deal.
We did the whole thing and it was a bunch of whining.
It's terrible.
Yes.
Yes.
Mostly.
And so in the aftermath of that, Candace Owens made a video where she said that he's
got a lot on his plate and people should pray for him.
It was kind of maybe in a like backhanded complimenty kind of there was a feeling of
that Midwest Southern bless your heart kind of we're praying for you.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
A little bit of that.
There was a tiny bit of fuck you in there, but it wasn't over.
So then flash forward a bit until fairly fairly recently within the last like couple
of weeks, Stephen Crowder puts out a video where he discusses that he is getting a divorce
and has been in the process of this divorce for a while.
Sure.
And that he had been trying to keep it secret and that Candace Owens heavily implied the
Candace Owens was extorting him.
He can't.
No, no, no.
He can't take the contract until the divorce is finalized.
Otherwise the income goes into the divorce.
No, because he took a contract with rumble.
Right.
No, no.
I mean the daily wire thing.
Right.
The rumble contract is paying it, but probably a bit.
I mean, not as much probably as the daily wire.
That's fine.
I don't know where the varying levels of fair enough.
I don't know about divorce.
That's an interesting theory and then maybe, but I don't know.
We'll see.
So anyway, he was very seriously and strongly insinuated.
The Candace Owens was extorting him about the fact that he was getting a divorce, which
he was keeping private.
Okay.
For the safety of his children ostensibly or something along those lines.
Yeah.
So Candace Owens is like, fuck you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of course.
You can't call me a blackmailer.
Right.
What are you talking about?
So this I'm rich.
This becomes a huge mess.
Sure.
And in the process of it, somebody releases some ring camera footage of Stephen Crowder
being a real fucking asshole to his very pregnant than wife.
Great.
Great stuff.
Right.
Yeah.
Stephen Crowder has become quite against Stephen Crowder in terms of his behavior.
I believe as I understand some of the main things in this video that was released, there's
like a him trying to get her to feed the dogs some medicine that's dangerous for pregnant
women to touch.
Yeah.
So that's what right.
Okay.
But it's a wifely duty thing kind of.
What?
I don't know.
Okay.
So there's that.
And then off camera, apparently he said, I will fuck you up.
Great.
Great.
Which I've heard that said, I've not seen any rebuttal.
And as I, in the article that I read, it said that Stephen Crowder acknowledged saying
that.
Okay.
That's okay.
You remember all those red flag things we have about potential violence towards women?
Yeah.
Yeah.
On the top, the number one red flag done.
Yeah.
From the sense of it that I get having not really dug super deep into this, we have
very clear, um, instance, uh, and allegations of emotional, uh, abuse for sure.
Great.
Verbal.
Great.
Psychological, uh, type bullshit.
Hey, it's only one short step to physical and most people make it there.
Yeah.
But I am not sure if that is the case, but it may be might not be.
I'm not sure.
So this is where we find Stephen Crowder right now.
Yeah.
He's doing great.
A little bit of a time after this, where now maybe he's become even more of a toxic
commodity to the people in his sphere.
Right.
You have people who might have been thrilled to have him on the show before.
Maybe you're like, I don't know about this, uh, but not Alex because he's right there
with him.
So funny.
Alex is also clearly an emotional abuser who doesn't respect his spouse.
The last time we talked about Crowder, we were like, Oh man, I wonder if he's coming
to infowars and we're like, I don't know.
He might be too big.
Boom.
Infowars baby.
Alex is broadcasting from your studio.
Yeah.
Alex is in your chair.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
The metaphor for that is astonishingly on point behind your fucking desk and you're
in the guest chair, buddy.
Alex might as well be wearing a Stephen Crowder basket that take it off and be like, it was
me the whole time.
He's wearing one of Stephen Crowder shirts, the fight like hell shirt.
Fucking embarrassed.
Does anybody know symbolism anymore?
Do we need to call him bear toe echo?
You might.
What is happening?
You might, you might need to, uh, to get him in the mix.
Um, so yeah, it's interesting.
Uh, I believe.
Yeah.
The last time we talked about it, it was like, yeah, he's too big.
Yeah.
And now I think he's gettable.
He's right in there.
Yeah.
He's in the pocket.
I think so.
Especially the reputational damage and institutional damage that he did to him.
himself with, um, the entire fiasco with daily wire makes, I think probably most reputable
businesses not want to work with him.
Right.
Right.
Seems like somebody that might leak the insides of your, uh, your contract might, uh, fuck
around and record you surreptitiously.
Not good.
Yeah.
So there's, there's a number of, of that thing.
And then other stuff, he just seems like maybe he's an asshole.
There's a bunch of people who have worked with him before who have come out and said
like, yeah, the Steven you saw in that video is the real him.
Uh, there's like people who've come out and said he like, we're like exposed himself
at work on multiple occasions and like, so yeah, I mean, he's, he's in a bad, he's in
a bad place.
You know, it is so fascinating to me how when somebody with the ideological bent that leans
towards doing these things to people, right?
When people work for them, they cannot, they cannot engage in any of the behavior, like
say reporting him for doing all this shit because they ideologically believe that he
should be allowed to abuse them.
Right.
What do I do?
What do I do?
Go to a union?
Totally.
What do I do?
Go to workplace, uh, harassment.
Yeah, I just, I just suck it up and allow him to abuse people until it becomes public
and then other people take care of it for me.
Yeah.
Or I have to get all the way to the point where I'm changing my political ideals.
Totally.
Yeah.
Um, so also Alex and that clip said that they're going to be there for four hours.
They are not.
They are there for two hours and Owen is hosting back in Austin because the rest of the show.
All right.
Good.
So, uh, before Steven comes in, Alex is getting to a little bit of, a little bit of news.
We'll also be looking at two drone strikes in the early morning hours.
Uh, today in Moscow, uh, attacking the living quarters of Vladimir Putin, they're able
to shoot down the drones, uh, and then they exploded once they were, uh, hit as a serious
active war and the Russians have said an attempt at assassination of Putin is a serious
red line.
So yeah, there was a drone that flew over the Kremlin, which may or may not have been
shot down.
The exact purpose of the drone's mission is unknown and all parties have been denying
responsibility for it.
It's a little rich of Alex to make a big deal out of this being an act of war though, seeing
as Russia is currently engaged in a war of aggression against Ukraine.
Yeah.
Even if the drone was sent by Ukraine, are they not allowed to do acts of war when they're
in a war that they didn't start?
I mean, I would say that the number one thing everyone should be doing right now is trying
to kill Putin.
What?
Why?
Why not?
No, what?
Well, what are you talking about?
See?
If you're at war, the leader of the war is also at war and who gets to be warred at.
Right, right, right.
You get, if anybody gets to die, Putin gets to die.
Here's how comical this nonsense is.
I am like, I don't want our listeners to think that it's a good idea.
What are you talking about?
It's totally cool to kill Putin.
If anybody wants to walk to Russia right now and kill him, that's fine.
I think, well, it's fine.
I'm torn.
I'm torn on the message.
I can't not be like, hey, you can kill Hitler.
We're not going to live in a not kill Hitler world.
That's not going to happen.
Not for me.
Other people can choose the true forgiveness of God.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Other people can do whatever, except that every human life is precious.
That's not what I'm talking about either.
You can do that all you want.
That motherfucker can die every day, every day.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about encouraging violent behaviors in people.
You know, like that line.
Towards Hitler.
I encourage violent behavior towards Hitler.
We can't live in that not world.
I understand.
It's just weird.
It is weird.
It's weird.
But that's war, right?
We have to accept that.
You can't start a war at somebody.
Here's the kind of issue that I'm butting up against when you say that it's war.
I agree with you.
We're not in that war, but does that not, like, are you not allowed to join the side
of the war against him?
I don't know.
Could you be a mercenary?
I mean, truthfully, I guess you probably could.
The official channels maybe that you would go through.
We can always go there.
Right.
That's how you become a great writer.
Right.
No, I would say this.
In a best world, we take one attack on any of us in aggression as an attack on all of
us.
I, well, you're getting dangerously close to libertarianism, my boy.
What?
Libertarianism?
Non-aggression principle, baby.
No, I mean that if somebody attacks anybody, they are attacking the entire human race.
And the entire human race must be willing to stamp out this nightmare.
That's not quite libertarian, I guess.
That's a little bit not libertarian.
So there's a couple of things that I find interesting about the situation with the drone.
The first is that Putin's spokesperson has blamed the U.S. for the drone, saying that
Ukraine launched it on U.S. orders.
No evidence was shown to support this claim, but that's some wild kind of talk to be throwing
around.
The second thing I find interesting is that until a few years ago, Alex would very easily
have said that this was an instance of Putin false-flagging himself to blame his enemies
so he could justify greater aggression against them.
Not anymore, though, because Putin's just the best.
Yeah, I mean this doesn't, I do appreciate that kind of a like, oh yeah, the U.S. was
like, hey Ukraine, hey buddy, don't you want to do it?
Just send a drone, just send one drone, come on buddy, just send one drone, no big deal,
maybe a couple.
Come on.
Just send a couple.
What are you, not going to try it?
Come on.
Boat, boat, boat.
The United States peer pressured Ukraine into an assassination attempt.
It's totally cool, man.
It's totally cool.
So we get to the issue of Tucker, and here's where Alex is on this.
There's been some leaks of information about Tucker, some videos of him like before his
show starts on Fox Nation, him saying like, no one watches Fox Nation, this channel sucks.
That fast.
That kind of stuff.
Yeah.
And so Alex's belief, which he's going to articulate here, is that they're trying to
lure him into breaking his nondesperagement clause.
He thinks that it's Fox and Rupert Murdoch himself who's like leaking this stuff, basically.
So that's where he's at.
Okay.
And speaking of more, I want to talk about Tucker Carlson.
I covered this some in the last hour of the show yesterday, but Stephen agrees, my Lister's
degree, my crew agrees, everybody I talk to agrees.
The dirt that Fox News, that's who's releasing the satellite raw feeds of Tucker Carlson making
jokes about media matters and about post-menopausal women and things like that, he's being done
by Fox because Tucker has a nondesperagement clause in his contract, he's not been disparaging
Fox News.
Oh no, he is.
So they're leaking it, disgustingly, to media matters, hoping that by messing with Tucker
and getting in his face that he will then strike back at them and then they can play
some type of game with his contract.
Now I can tell everybody that wants to bring down Tucker Carlson some news.
I know the inside baseball, I know what really went on, and I've been known this information
in confidence so I will not be telling you what I know here.
I just want everybody laughing, everybody thinking, you've got a victory to know.
You have just made Tucker Carlson bigger, just like since 3M4's only made us bigger.
And Tucker Carlson is not going anywhere.
And I would leave it at that.
And I would also say that for a lot of the groups out there, Patrick Bendabersen, a really
nice guy like him a lot, you know, Newsmax has some people over there and they're all
offering Tucker $100 million contracts, the rest of it, over the next five years to just
say this, I wouldn't hold your breath because Tucker's already been through the experience
of having bosses at the Heritage Foundation and then at CNN and then at a bunch of other
places and Tucker wants to be his own boss and in the future, and in the very near future,
I would expect Tucker Carlson to launch his own operation on Stormfront and around that
build an entire new network.
I just have a feeling about that.
But hey, don't listen out, Jones.
What have I predicted?
What do I know?
Oh, boy.
Well, I mean, if you really want to break down some of these predictions, do we want to
ask that question?
Um, so yeah, I think, I think maybe that's probably true.
If I were Tucker, I wouldn't want to have a fucking boss at this point.
You're a bajillionaire, why would you ever work for anyone ever again?
Right?
Now, the difficulty there though, is you start your own operation and you become so much
more on the hook for things there and there's just logistical difficulties that like, I
think that probably the headache of it, someone in his position wouldn't want the cost out
of pocket to start your own operation in the way that Alex or someone like Tucker's ego
would demand.
That's a lot of money on the table.
You know, it's so crazy to me because I'm just thinking like, holy shit, if I'm Tucker,
I can start a podcast tomorrow, get a million downloads and have a comfortable, like I just
leave all of the money or give all the money to other people.
That would be more than enough money for me.
I don't understand how to be rich, dad.
This is maybe the bigger problem.
That is an issue.
Yeah.
I mean, Tucker could just do me undies.
He could.
Or he could join the pillow man.
That would be fun.
I think that would be fun, right?
Sure.
So, uh, Crowder's got to feel great that Alex is sitting in his studio and talking about
how great Tucker Carlson is.
But Alex touches on the, uh, whirlwind that is going on in Crowder's life and turns out
all of that.
Cointel pro.
Okay.
That makes sense.
We have to build monumental collective efforts and we have to start using that power right
now.
And that means in the information war, you've got to share the links, share the videos,
take the clips you think are most important and post them on TikTok, post them on Instagram,
post them on Twitter, post them on Facebook, post them on YouTube and also post them on
all the quote new sites like rumble, uh, like gab, uh, like the many other sites, uh, that
are out there that are exploding in size.
And that's why they've not just come after me or not just come after Carlson.
It's why they're coming after Stephen Crowder and I happen to know the inside baseball on
that.
I'm not going to reveal it.
I'm going to ask not to on that as well.
But let me just say this.
When push comes to shove and it's come to shove, uh, Stephen Crowder will be completely
vindicated in triplicate with a royal flush with what's going on.
Because the same Cointel pro dirty tactics that they use against Martin Luther King have
been using as Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Stephen Crowder, and many, many
other people like Roger Stone.
We live all those people have.
We live this.
We deal with this.
We know how they operate.
We know what they do.
These are intelligence agencies.
All those people they, you know, they haven't comment.
They're like Martin Luther King.
I mean, okay, I, I would say this, I would say this.
If you were to put that on the SAT, I do not think that you would get the same answer as
Alex is insistent.
Because Tucker, Crowder, Roger Stone, Scammy shitheads, no, no, no, no, no, no, no civil
rights leaders.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's that grouping.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Cointel pro.
Yeah.
Clearly.
Cointel pro.
Him being a dick to his wife.
Cointel pro.
Okay.
Also, there was a weird thing.
I didn't bring this up because, uh, it was a while ways back, but that first video that
he did where he discussed how like, uh, he was being extorted about his, uh, his divorce.
Uh-huh.
Crowder made all at least a couple mentions of how much it bothered him that his wife
could just decide that she wanted to get divorced and that was enough.
Right.
Right.
Like he, he was lamenting that he wasn't able to like keep her forcefully married to
him.
He's a weird dude.
I mean, Cointel pro.
You know, here's the problem with that.
All right.
Yeah.
He was offering a time only 70 years ago.
Mm-hmm.
That's not exact.
That's not like, oh, what an absurd thought this man had, not the law of the United States
for most of its entire existence, you know, so, so I, I understand people thinking that
that's ridiculous.
It is though.
But at the same time, it's ridiculous, but it is not that distant of a memory.
Right.
Right.
Right.
That's more what I mean.
Not like that.
It's an unreasonable stupid.
The same thing could be said if he was like, I am pissed that she can get a credit card
in her name.
I'm pissed that she can have a job without my consent 100% like 100% it's, it's bizarre
though.
It's bizarre to hear, especially from someone who's like, I don't know.
He's younger than me.
I know.
It's not far back enough.
It would be like him being like, oh man, I'm so mad.
Women have the right to vote and you're like, man, we've settled that.
That's gone.
That's way too far back.
We're not going back from there.
You know, like he should be like, oh, but no fault divorce.
That's all.
Apparently that's a, a live issue.
So Alex gets better talking about the Russia business.
I've got a lot of huge news here that I mentioned in the first big segment, but let's go ahead
and drill into it right now.
We'll show you some video of that for TV viewers, but this is a big deal.
You have Zelensky in the last six months, launching hundreds of drone assaults directed
by NATO with a NATO intelligence hundreds of miles into Russia and into Moscow itself.
Now.
Okay.
In the early morning hours today, in Russia, the living quarters of Vladimir Putin was
attacked by two drones, two of them both were shot down.
Now obviously if the Russians bombed the Capitol building in Kiev, it would be called
a war crime.
They've not been hitting main civilian targets reportedly on purpose.
I'm not a Russian.
Apologists.
That's just a fact.
They've, they've, they've, that's why they all walk around on the open in the main cities.
A few missiles have gone astray, but they've mainly been hitting wild military targets
and infrastructure targets like power stations and factories.
This just is not true.
Over the course of the past 14 months or so of the war, Russia has attacked civilian targets
on numerous occasions.
They've bombed hospitals.
They've repeatedly shelled the city of Kharkiv.
They've targeted schools, shopping malls, apartment buildings, and even multiple humanitarian
corridors that were established to allow civilians to flee dangerous areas.
By saying the things he's saying, Alex is 100% being a Russia apologist.
He just, he doesn't want people to think that he is and he knows that once the fog of war
clears, he doesn't want people to think that he was a Putin backer, but that's exactly
what he is.
It's not going to change.
He's just also a coward who's unwilling to own his own positions.
Also just because Alex is a complete idiot in October of last year, Russia carried out
multiple missile attacks on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Among other things, the missiles hit a playground and a university.
It's a convenient excuse to say that you were targeting some kind of a legitimate military
site whenever you actually hit an apartment building and kill a ton of civilians.
But when that starts to become a pattern, the excuse seems a little weak.
And before anybody gets any ideas in my head, feel the same way about our drone program.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Oh, no, no, no.
We don't get to look over it.
That would be like, oh, that drone program.
Right.
Yeah.
And to the extent that there may be an errant missile that hits an apartment building, still
responsible for that.
Totally.
That's because that's how it works.
You don't get a whoopsie.
I meant to hit something else.
You should be held responsible for the thing that was done, not the thing you meant to
do when it comes to blowing things up as a clown.
If I were to throw a pie at you and hit the wrong person, that's, that's unfortunate.
We can have a conversation and we'll all forgive each other.
Wow.
If that was a missile.
The bit is ruined.
The bit is ruined.
Well, it might be improved.
Depends on whether or not the Harlem Globetrotters are nearby, but a missile changes things.
A missile escalates the problem.
It does.
Yeah, it does.
Yeah.
And if you can't like be relied on to have the accuracy that would be required to hit
these targets that are near civilian targets, you should not be using those, those systems.
That's not a big jump.
Right.
Yeah.
And so anyway, Alex is just full of shit and lying.
And also you can't be mad at somebody in a war if they start attacking your house.
You can't.
You just can't.
Yeah.
You can't.
I mean, you can't.
It's not like a Russian soldier can be in there and Ukraine and be like, man, these
people are fighting back.
That's rude.
That's not fair.
Someone who supported Russia would not see it as egregious to attack the Capitol building
in Ukraine.
Right.
And vice versa.
Exactly.
And Alex and his buddy stormed the Capitol.
Totally.
What are we doing?
Somebody shit in the office.
What are any of us doing?
Right.
Why are we talking?
So look, they never tried to kill Zelensky, though, reportedly Putin a lot of times sleeps
on his train at night that drives around different parts of Russia and armored train because
of just this issue.
There's tunnels under the Kremlin to other areas and Putin reportedly sleeps underground
time.
Kind of like US presidents sleep underground.
There's a bunker under the White House.
There's an underground train system that's submitted to.
I thought they had a nice bed is classified, but the word is it goes all the way out to
Colorado.
There's been a lot of underground digging and things going on.
Okay.
So the big issue here is this is a nuclear war provocation to try to kill the head of
state.
Something that Putin hasn't even done openly in Ukraine, wait, openly, that's a big qualifier.
That's a huge qualifier.
Huge.
That's a very large qualifier.
Yeah.
There have been many assassination attempts on Zelensky during the war.
Groups of Chechen mercenaries and members of the Wagner group have been enlisted to take
on plots to kill Zelensky and they've just failed.
If you accept the premise that this drone was an assassination attempt on Putin, which
is a dubious assumption to begin with, then it comes after repeated plots to kill Zelensky.
Alex denies these things happen because he's a Putin apologist and he fully supports him
in his war against Ukraine, but he doesn't want to have to deal with the inconvenient
fact that make this position harder to defend.
Yeah.
And so he just acts like they didn't happen.
It's not real.
I mean, I just, I don't like that.
I just don't like it.
It's not great.
If you want to apologize, you should have to apologize for the real shit that happened
and just acknowledge it.
And then we can move from there.
If you just deny it happened, then fuck off.
I can't even live with you.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's a, it does make arguing meaningless.
So Steven shows up the crowd man, the crowd source, the crowd, I'll come up with something.
Yeah, you'll get it.
Um, but yeah.
So Alex decides like, Hey, I've been talking about Tucker in Steven's studio.
Why don't I talk about him to Steven?
Sure.
Yeah.
Why not?
Yeah.
You're useless.
But Steven, with all this big news, the open borders, the end of title 42, the bank collapse,
all the transgender cult going crazy.
I think what you bring up on here is most central.
This is a spiritual battle.
Good versus evil.
I can tell you that I was told by sources very close to Tucker that yeah, the main thing
was him becoming Christian and really preaching it to people, uh, and that that really upset
River Murdoch.
And so what is it about the name of Jesus?
What is it about being a Christian broadcaster that scares the system so much?
You brought this up today.
I think it's really central.
I don't want to say you've been a better Christian than me, but I know your pastoral history.
Nobody's perfect.
You've been very steadfast in your belief since you were very, very young and that's
really what's, what's guided you.
So talk about your fact.
I think, I think you actually brought it up today.
If I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, that was you, Alex.
You brought that up.
Yeah.
That was on you.
So this is the weakest reason I can imagine to propose for why Tucker got fired.
It's a good way to amplify and play into the very addictive feelings of persecution that
Alex's audience has about their religious beliefs, though.
I love it.
I don't understand why he's doing it.
It's just that.
Yeah.
Also, listen to this shit.
Yeah.
I didn't realize this until I dug around a little bit.
Rupert Murdoch was supposedly pissed that Tucker was becoming more Christian, right?
Sure.
But Alex and you and me might be surprised to learn that Murdoch's company Newscore
owns a Christian media entity called Zondervan, which owns the rights to the NIV version of
the Bible.
I'm sorry.
What?
They own the commercial rights to the new international version.
Hold on.
So Rupert Murdoch literally owns the Bible.
One version of it.
He owns a version of the Bible.
I don't think we should be allowed to.
Humanity needs to step back for a while.
I'm not sure exactly what that means in practice.
Like if you can't publish an NIV Bible without getting the permission.
Does that mean they get to edit the Bible?
And if that's the case, I think we should really.
I would assume they might have to call it out.
I doubt they do.
They also published Rick Warren's bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life, among other books
my grandmother probably sent me as a birthday gift.
So like Rupert Murdoch's not mad about Christians.
Look at the on-air talent of Fox News.
I know.
I'm pretty sure almost all of them have talked about their Christianity on-air at some point.
But it's just nonsense.
It's heartening for me to go back to my roots and see Christians really arguing about nonsense
at each other.
That's nice.
I guess.
Yeah.
It feels like home.
Yeah.
But for me, it's exhausting in a way that I'm just like, I'll see you guys.
True.
I'm gonna go.
Oh no, you deal with it yourselves.
So Stephen talks a little bit about the intersection of Christianity and ethics, and I think this
is stupid.
Okay.
I think, and that was incredibly effective, by the way.
It was almost, we were sitting there going like, oh my gosh, this is an Alex Jones altar
call.
It's not gonna have the same Kinnison comparison because people don't know he was a pastor
or a forehand writer.
So I thought, man, I really see it as a reincarnation, but you know what, I don't really, I haven't
talked about it much.
We did a show on Fridays with Gerald because Gerald has actually studied this and actually
used to teach courses.
He's a theologian.
Yeah.
He really knows it pretty well.
And of course, there's always sort of this infighting as far as what qualifies as theologian.
I mean, Jesus never went to seminary.
But I do think, look, there is truth.
It comes into truth.
I believe you did.
Right?
I think both you and I are obsessed with truth.
We don't have any greater truth than the fact that God created the world and Jesus Christ
is one and only Son.
He sent his Son for all of us and there's no way to be redeemed outside of that.
Now I understand that there are a lot of atheists who watch, a lot of libertarians who now are
becoming sympathetic toward the idea because they see that if there are no Judeo-Christian
principles, Western civilization ceases to be.
This idea of, if I don't need a God, if you need a God to tell you not to kill, then you
must be a horrible person.
And I always go with those people and say, well, hold on a second, okay, not all societies
agree that you shouldn't kill.
There's certainly the circumstances surrounding killing.
What?
Let's go further.
theft.
That's fine.
For example, with a lot of Native American tribes, they didn't have a concept.
I'm sorry.
What?
I'm sorry.
Hold on one second.
I'm sorry.
What?
What about the idea of mercy?
This was only a value because of modern Christendom.
So I think we see it in practice and unfortunately a lot of people don't necessarily finish
connecting those dots.
Small point.
People don't make jokes about Alex being Sam Kinnison.
That's Bill Hicks.
Yeah.
You got those mixed up.
Yep.
I'm just saying this is stupid.
He lists a few things that are apparently from Christendom or Christianity that make
up essential parts of Western ethics and I want to examine these a little closer.
Okay.
The first is killing.
Sure.
Other cultures have had prohibitions on killing.
I love Christianity.
No, they love it.
What societies does Stephen have in mind that encourage random killing?
Oh, the ones, uh, oh boy, I bet they're probably from a different continent.
Probably.
I mean, you know, there can be something said for like ritualistic killings in some cultures
that maybe he's taking issue with whatever or like the king being able to have the monopoly
over the control of force.
Oh boy.
I feel like there's a lot of killing in our society.
I'm going to throw this out there, um, maybe, maybe all the crusades and the inquisitions
and all that stuff that might be included in what Christianity is, but they didn't want
to do that.
It seems like they didn't want to include that, but they also didn't want to do the
crusades.
Oh, no.
I made me do it.
I feel like that.
Back to the wall.
Okay.
All right.
The second is theft.
And then Stephen's example that he brings up is unspecified Native American tribes who
were cool with theft because they didn't have a concept of personal property.
Here's where Stephen makes a huge error in his thinking.
If these cultures had no concept of personal property, then there is no theft.
It's not that they were okay with theft.
It's that what Stephen wants to call theft is not theft.
His belief in personal property in and of itself creates the existence of theft, which
he's decided is wrong and he maybe justifies that with the Bible.
Stephen is getting this backwards by looking down on this culture for being okay with theft
when what they're really doing is looking at ownership through a different lens than
him and he doesn't care to understand that or present it with any meaningful accuracy.
Yeah.
And it is essentially the exact same thing idiot white people believed 500 years ago.
The third thing is adultery.
I think that Western culture is full of adultery and flandering, particularly among people
who claim Christian values are the basis of their lives.
What name one church leader?
I can't.
Okay.
There's no law in the United States against adultery or sleeping around.
So I have no idea what Stephen's actually even talking about.
Considering that he's talking to Alex Jones, the guy who claims he slept with 150 women
before the age of 18 and considering that he's in the fact in the middle of a particularly
nasty public divorce right now, I don't really understand the point that he's trying to illustrate
here with the adultery and flant anti flandering is the cornerstone basis that's unique to
Christendom.
I believe what he's talking about more as we need to stone people in public again because
Western culture does not encourage killing.
Enough.
Exactly.
Right.
The fourth is mercy.
Does Stephen think that mercy is a concept that only exists in Christian cultures?
Yep.
There are many examples of Buddhist ideas around mercy and compassion and the Muslim tale The
Conference of Birds from the 1100s gives a pretty resonant story that's been immortalized
in art like the painting A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man.
Sure.
All these ideas or values only exist because of Christendom and none of them are really
actually generally practiced by the sort of Christians that Alex and Stephen represent.
The actual things Stephen is saying are incoherent and meaningless, but behind all of it is the
real point that he wants to drive home, namely that we should live in a Christian theocracy
because a system based on anything else is inferior.
Right.
I can't possibly have all these wonderful things that we rely on for the West.
Yeah, you know, I go back and I think of the very first, you know, novel.
What we what we ascribe is the first novel, you know, that romance of the three kingdoms.
No mercy in it.
None.
Lou Boo didn't show any mercy.
No mercy for anyone.
Lou Boo was a dude fucked people up.
Yep.
Yep.
Plenty of adultery.
Was Lou Boo fucking around with Lou Boo?
I think they all were.
Okay.
I mean, you can't be a warlord and not.
You're just on the road all the time.
It's true.
It's more of a travel thing.
Mm hmm.
Get in your RV.
That's my, that's my.
Yep.
Yep.
That's what I got for the history.
Look, man.
So Steve, Stephen and Alex get back to talking about Tucker Carlson, because of course they're
obsessed.
Sure.
And so they start talking about these leaks that have happened.
Uh huh.
Have you read these some of these tweets?
I've read some of the text.
Some of the text.
Yeah, I've read some of them.
He's a real asshole.
The one about that's not how white people fight.
I have read that one.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because they're going to talk about that and how it's not that bad.
Okay.
A lot of Christians are afraid they're going, oh, any mistake that I've ever made is going
to come back and people say you're not a Christian because everyone else's sin is worse than
your own.
Right.
It's so easy to say, I can't believe that Tucker said that and frankly, none of it was
even that bad.
I'm sure there will be worse things.
That's what they do.
They drip this out, but people don't want to examine what it is that they do.
You want to tell me that you've never just said something as bad as Tucker Carlson and
Tex?
The worst thing he said was, you know, this typically isn't the way that white people
fight.
Meaning gang up.
Look, of course, not all black people, but we discussed world star hip hop.
It exists for a reason.
Sorry.
What?
The white, the whitest dog.
Are we going back to world star?
Yeah.
And then they transitioned to how Stephen has the whitest dog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kind of interesting timing to bring that superlative up.
Yeah.
World star.
This is when you just miss Def Jam.
Def Jam would have had a great time with this.
How do white people fight?
I don't know, but they smell like macaroni and cheese.
We can do this all day.
This is a little bit much.
This, um, oh my God, I think that he's missing a little bit of, uh, the meaning of what Tucker
was saying.
I think so.
I think maybe he's willfully misinterpreting the meaning of what Tucker was trying to point
at.
He's indicating in some ways a belief that there is a racial superiority in terms of
being more dignified or just based on race.
You have a higher standard of being, you know, like, it is.
World star is a nice thing even now because it is one of those quick tests.
It's almost like a, it's almost like a quick little litmus test, like how do you feel about
world star?
Oh, now you're right.
I'm out of here.
I know you.
They were like, they were like one on one fights in that.
No, that's what I'm saying.
There were white people who fought.
No, no, no.
That's what I'm saying.
The world star was just a bunch of shit, you know, it was just a bunch of shit.
It's not, if you go to world star and you're not a racist, you'll be like, Oh, look at all
this shit.
Yeah.
Maybe the only times that it penetrates into like Alex or Stevens world is when some
racist post video from there in order to make a point that, uh, black people are out
trying to attack white people.
Yep.
Yep.
Um, and so maybe that is why it lives culturally, uh, in that part of their brain.
Yeah.
That would make sense.
So, uh, Stephen, uh, shits on abortion a little bit here and then Japan takes a swipe
at Japan.
Got to get them abortion.
I don't know who described it this way.
It is sacrifice at the altar of self.
Sure.
It's actual human sacrifice.
Love it.
People want to say zygote embryo whereas okay, but at the point where you look at the abort
abortion policies in California and Colorado in Virginia, no one denies that you are ending
a life and the only reason at that point when you look at a very small percentage of incest
or rape, the vast majority are because someone doesn't want to raise the baby.
Well, notice now the left doesn't say it's just a blah, blah, blah, they said, hell,
yeah, I killed that kid.
Yeah.
They have t-shirts.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
It's about their selfishness.
I'm in charge.
Screw that little girl.
And then they wonder why 40 something percent of young men don't want to get married.
Uh, this is one thing.
Because of abortion?
It's an issue that can't be fixed.
Right.
It's 40 something percent.
I don't have the number in front of me, but you know the number.
I'm sure.
I don't have the memory where you can go by rote.
He makes it.
He makes it up.
You can't fix it by forcing young men to want to get married.
That's the way I would describe it.
That's to come from one thing.
That's around 50 percent.
Japan, it's like 70.
In Japan, it's very high.
Yeah.
And they have used panty vending machines.
So they have a lot of problems.
A lot of problems.
A lot of problems.
Also in Japan, it's also weird, you know, to sleep with your wife and your house because
it's considered like a brother-sister relationship.
So this kind of sexual, people think sexual repression comes from Christianity, which
couldn't be further than the truth.
There are a lot of different songs of Solomon, I mean, it refers to a lady's breasts as melons,
where I actually couldn't go to the produce.
So there you go.
I was a kid.
I wanted to fuck those melons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stephen.
Yep.
You're weird.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah.
I think some of the reluctance to get married, some of it may be just shifting cultural
beliefs around relationships.
Some of that.
And then some of it might also be materially based in like no one can afford a home.
Definitely there.
Yeah.
So some of that, also just having to work more to stay afloat, I think a lot of people
might not be able to prioritize a, you know, committed relationship in the same way people
have the time or the emotional space to in the past.
Yeah.
That might be a part of it.
I appreciate that the fabric of society breaking down is not included in any of these like
large pronouncements about the choices that everyone's making.
It's interesting how everything is a grand conspiracy theory and everything is connected
until we're talking about, you know,
And then it's these, these young boys are afraid of abortion.
Right.
Obviously.
Yeah.
The connections are errant.
Yeah.
On this stuff.
Yeah.
So Japanese couples have different sleeping styles from each other even.
Some sleep in the same bed, others don't for a number of reasons.
Some of the ones that I saw discussed the people bring up are the different work schedules.
Sure.
Not wanting to wake each other up.
The reason is in Japan, a mother will traditionally sleep with an infant child as it's growing
up.
And so that is one reason.
Some of the marriages are probably not full of love, but that's certainly true of a bunch
of them here.
I don't know.
It's different.
I mean, ask your grandparents, did they sleep in the same bed?
No, most likely they slept in two small twin beds.
It's possible.
Yeah.
There's a phenomenon in Japan of couples staying together despite their marriage essentially
being over because of some stigma and societal taboos around divorce, particularly if you
have children that you don't want them to be the child of divorced parents.
There is some of that culturally, but I don't think that that's necessarily everybody.
But what Steven's saying is just nonsense.
Also plenty of American couples even today sleep separately.
There's a New York Times survey just in February that came out and I would like you to guess
what percentage of American couples sleep separately according to that survey.
I'm going to go with 35.
A little lower.
20 percent.
20 percent.
There's still one in five.
Yeah.
That's pretty, like if Steven wants to talk about, you know, like some other culture
being weird because people sleep separately, 20 percent of American couples do, man.
That doesn't even make sense.
As far as a conversation about it goes like, oh, sleep separately.
My wife and I sleep in the same bed, but one of us sometimes falls asleep on the couch.
Like it happens all the time.
And as somebody who has some like relatively screwy sleep issues, I think I would much
prefer to sleep separately from somebody.
Yeah, absolutely.
No, no, no, totally.
In the past, in relationships I've often put up with or, you know, just sort of got
through it.
But yeah, ideally I think if I were with somebody and it was a permanent or like, you know,
you trust somebody, I mean, half the time it's just cause a heat.
Some person is too hot.
That can happen.
It's like, listen, I love you more than life itself, but when we sleep together, you are
a furnace.
Yeah.
I'm going to sleep on the floor.
Like that's how hot you are.
Yeah.
I run hot.
Yeah.
It happens.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
So anyway, Alex gets to talking about Old Testament laws.
Sure.
Why?
Stop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
The Bible is prescriptive in a lot of ways.
And it is like don't eat shellfish and you eat them 20 times, you find like it's sick
and you go, God, I'll never eat them again.
I don't know if that's necessarily the best example, but sure.
I think it is.
I think it's the best example.
I think it's the best example.
Yeah.
The Old Testament's Levitical Law.
Right.
And back when they couldn't test up or know, you know, it was like, you know, hey, don't
eat this.
You know, they see a pig that's sharing all these diseases, they got ticks all over.
They say, we're writing along against that, you know, right, exactly.
And they talk about some of the horrible practices back then.
I mean, you think about it, they wouldn't have even had a chip in their brain for like,
like a Lizzo.
Right.
So it was like, I don't do tattoos because these people are doing them and they're talking
about witchcraft, not tattoos as we know them.
Well, I mean, I love the Old Testament.
It really, you can apply it to today.
It all makes sense.
Don't mix the seed.
I'm sorry.
People's other, but people's blindly fluids in your body don't, don't, I mean, it's all
really common sense stuff.
I don't really know what to make of any of this, quite frankly.
I was just, I was a little confused, but it is interesting that Alex can take something
from the Bible and then contextualize it as like, ah, this was something because of the
time.
Yeah.
This was something that was a law that was, you know, in the Bible because of concerns
of the time.
Right.
I think, I find that surprising that I don't feel like that's how he generally relates
to the Bible.
Well, I mean, if you were going to be a biblical literalist, the fundament of that would be
that the book itself is the revelation of the words of God specifically and that he
himself wrote it.
He does take, um, you know, he does lean in that direction.
So that means that he's reconciling God's holy word with somebody who's also like,
Hey, listen, we got to stop getting sick on the shellfish.
But yeah, that, that disconnect is something that I find really strange.
I'm not sure where he is between like a, um, sort of a contextualist and a literalist.
Yeah.
You know, it's very strange.
Also, aren't there.
Makes no sense.
There's more than one law in Leviticus about a woman punching you in the balls.
If I remember correctly, there are at least two, some, I actually, maybe one involves
grabbing the balls.
There's some rules about menstruation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A little bit.
A head choppy offy couple, a little head choppy offy.
So Alex in talking about this, uh, and this conversation that he and Stephen are having
brings up a bit about, um, the Judeo Christian roots of all of our ethics and all of this
stuff.
Sure.
Sure.
And he gets a little bit worked up because a lot of people apparently around him say
it's not Judeo.
It is Christian.
Uh-oh.
Oh no.
And I think Alex is that I would say this is a you problem.
Are we going to go with, uh, Abrahamic religions?
Yeah.
But this is a problem for Alex because of who he's talking to.
Yeah.
That they don't like Jewish people.
Oh my God.
And you know what's right.
And I see some of the, uh, the real racist out there that think everything's a Jewish
conspiracy when it's, you know, when it's not, they literally go, it's not Judeo Christian.
Well, yeah, it is Judeo Christian because it's Abraham.
Yeah.
And all three of the monotheistic things come out of Abraham and the Jews.
So, so just sorry.
Yeah.
It's not like I'm worshiping Jews here.
I've got big problems with leftist Jews, the ADL and what they do, but I don't blame Jews
for that.
I'm sorry.
They're secular humanists.
They're secular humanists have taken over Judaism.
Who listens to radio at night and many other hardworking people just like you.
I was a little bit taken aback by this, uh, this sharp commercial very, very serious
cut.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, first of all, I know that, uh, we've heard Alex bring this up before this
the, the idea that, uh, Jews aren't Jews kind of, uh, secular humanists have taken
over and are calling themselves Jews.
That's a problem.
It's just another anti-Semitic formulation, but this, I do find very bizarre that Alex
doesn't quite understand that these conversations are self-selected by who he's hanging out
with.
These are your friends who want to take the Judeo out of Judeo Christian.
Yeah.
They're your buddies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nobody else is like, what?
I can't imagine ever having that conversation.
Nope.
I can't imagine how that would come up.
I can't imagine what I would do if a friend of mine was, let's get rid of the Judeo.
Why?
Ah, why do you think?
How long have you been thinking this?
Why do you think?
Why do you think?
Did I miss something about you that was really, maybe you did, maybe you didn't, maybe we'll
stop this conversation and pretend it never happened.
You get out.
I mean, what's to my other friends about getting rid of Judeo?
I mean, actually, no, I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
We can still be friends.
I gotta go.
Okay.
So that cut pretty quick.
Yes, it did.
And so I went and I found the non-radio version of it and I listened to the commercial break.
And it's not really that interesting.
Alex just kind of repeats the same point that like all of these people say, get the Judeo
out.
Like, you already made that point and what have you, but then they start talking a little
bit about Islam and boy, this isn't, this isn't great.
So Stephen's talking about the, the, how you're not supposed to draw a Muhammad.
Sure.
And then they, man, it's worth, I think maybe this is worse than drawing Muhammad.
I appreciate that Stephen is going out of his way to insult so many cultures that he
knows literally nothing about.
Oh man.
Yeah.
This is bad.
So it says, well, every, we believe in the Bible except not everything else.
For example, in Islam, this was one thing we talked about recently where they get really
mad.
For example, if you draw Muhammad, now I'm not saying you should just go out and troll
and draw Muhammad.
But what I am saying is, hold on, that's more offensive than a religion that says Jesus
is not exactly who he claimed he was, right?
Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet, but that he didn't die, that the body was
replaced.
Well, that's sacrilegious to Christians, certainly more so than drawing a car.
And again, we know what Muhammad did who was basically attacking Muslims, but it's true.
He was illiterate and he lived there at the crossroads at Mecca, basically going after
the trains, the camel trains, you know, that came through from the East going West and
he would rob the caravans and he just smartly said, I'll control people and I'll take a
cosmology of the dominant religions of Judaism and Christianity and I'll adopt that and have
my own religion.
Yeah.
And after his death, I control the whole Middle East.
He said, a pinch of Zoroastrianism and I get to have six year old wife.
I think she was nine.
She was six.
She was arguably nine when he consummated.
Yeah.
That's right.
Which I still think is, you know, different.
I think it's a little weird.
That's not.
I'm not for that.
Why is that the thing that you have the least amount of problem with?
I think it's because they talk about that all the time.
Yeah.
And so maybe it's just like, we don't need to do this bit again.
Yeah, that's true.
It's pretty, it's a pretty standard Mohammed bit for them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
I think, I think one of the differences between having a belief that someone else disagrees
with and, you know, drawing Mohammed to anger Muslims, there's a difference between holding
a belief and doing an act.
You know what I mean?
I mean, there's, there's even more simply a situation where you can't tell another
religion that they're more offensive to you than you are to them.
Sure.
That's just not how a perspective works.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, from their perspective, your religion isn't real, so you can't be offended.
Right.
But the same, you know.
That's, that's, that's kind of what I'm getting at to, to, to a certain extent is if a member
of religion a privately believes that the figurehead of your religion isn't the son
of God.
Yeah.
That's what they have.
Yeah.
If you do something that is, you know, something that is sacrilegious to them for specifically,
I guess, the, the, a malicious purpose.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's very different.
Yeah.
It's almost like it would go against the tenants of some sort of book that you just talked
about having laws that base your entire ethics on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's strange.
Weird.
It's telling of Islam is not good.
Well, so what happened is Mohammed got together, uh, his, uh, band, all right.
He wore a green hat and he had a little feather in his cap.
All right.
And so whenever the rich, uh, uh, kings in the like would get on their, uh, trains,
right, he would get on his carriage wagon with his, uh, band of married men, they would
rob the rich people and then start a religion.
Um, I think Alex is thinking of the song highway, man, it could be that first verse
could be that really Nelson's verse, but then, uh, at the end of it, Willie Nelson starts
a religion.
Right.
I, I find it very difficult to imagine, um, if you're Alex and you believe that this
is the history of Islam, then I find it very difficult to imagine that you could ever really
respect somebody who believes, uh, that faith.
Yeah.
Seems like it's, uh, off the table.
Yeah.
So your first argument is sure, but your profit, he was just a highway man.
Yeah.
And, uh, created your religion for the sake of, uh, give you control over people.
Yeah.
And then yeah, Steven Crowder's impression there was probably a bit disrespectful.
Anyway, um, at least I didn't draw him.
That's true.
Yeah.
I think that's worse though.
I don't know.
I definitely believe that.
But you know what?
You can't tell a religion.
What's more or less offensive to them.
It's a fair point.
Yep.
So, uh, they get into talking about energy.
Why?
Because.
Okay.
California's banned all new construction of, uh, lawn mowers, golf courts, leaf blowers.
Now it's diesel trucks.
We're out of diesel.
In a few years.
The U.N. is doing it.
Months ago.
Germany just turned off its last nuclear power plants.
I mean, the first it's just been coal plants.
Now they're trying to ban gas power plants for totally clean, but we're having our energy
cut off.
I want to ask you two questions.
Uh, how many carbon emissions come from nuclear power plants?
I just want to make sure.
What?
Zero.
Okay.
California.
Can you still infect somebody knowingly with a seminal load of HIV?
I just want to make sure that that is okay.
All right.
I'm just a little murky on the rulebook.
So, all right.
No nuclear power with no carbon emissions.
We can't use it.
But hey, you know what?
You sleep with me at some techno Viking festival.
It's a roll of the dice California and it gets worse.
Um, how is that related?
I mean, it's a fun game that Steven's trying to play, but it means nothing.
Yeah.
Alex was talking about a nuclear plant in Germany, not in California.
And even if it were in California, what would it have to do with laws about HIV?
I mean, what do you say to that other than that's not a sincere argument, sir?
Stop.
No, that's just a, uh, uh, free association.
Yeah.
Of like six year old talking points.
Totally.
Totally.
Because that was a law in California in 2017.
Jesus Christ.
But like we've been over it a bunch and the reason that California made it not a felony
to expose someone to HIV is because the law didn't work to begin with and it was counter
productive.
In order to be prosecuted for knowingly exposing someone to HIV, you'd need to know you had
it, which disincentivizes people to get tested and know their status as it stands now.
Even after the law, it's still a misdemeanor in California to knowingly infect someone
with HIV.
Sure.
Intentionally, as is the case with knowingly and intentionally infecting someone with any
other virus.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The other, the, the reason, um, it's, it's almost like if you pick HIV, you're specifically,
uh, pointing out one group of people that the law is supposed to apply to more or less.
Right.
Yeah.
But also, um, now, uh, there are also a lot of, uh, interventions and you know, maybe,
maybe not cures, but treatments and management that can be done with HIV and AIDS and like
it's come a long way.
And so, um, I don't know, it's Stevens or the shithead.
I mean, I don't, I, again, it can't be a sincere argument.
If it's 40 years ago, you're one of the people laughing at HIV.
I can't.
I honestly think that Steven might laugh about it now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
You can't, you cannot do that.
Yeah.
Unacceptable.
So this, this interview actually is fairly boring.
Um, there is not a whole lot going on as evidenced by this.
Look, I've, I've used Fox nation.
I don't think I know how to make it work.
It's just not very good.
That's, I think it's that simple.
It's just not very good.
When I was at Fox news, I was at Fox news for four and a half years.
Uh, they thought YouTube was a fan.
Yeah.
And, uh, I would upload to them.
No, I agree.
I mean, nothing against Roger Ailes, but that guy was a dinosaur.
Yes.
And, and, and yeah.
But he did like the ladies.
He did love him.
What do we do?
Yeah.
That guy, uh, that guy got around.
But I mean, how else are you going to do it when you look like, uh, you look like, uh,
Orson Welles or you look like, uh, you know, Hitchcock and Ralph Schoen.
Yeah.
Well, no, no, no.
Come on.
You do not sell yourself short.
I'm a little Orson Welles these days.
But Rodney Ailes was a weird, it was a whole odd shape.
Like he would be, he was the shape of any cup you put him in.
Like a pear.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like the pit, like the planter's peanuts guy only without like a grimmus.
A little bit.
No.
A little bit of grimmus.
Uh, and you know, I always thought it was weird that the hamburger kept reappearing on
those things.
Like he's a thief and he's on camera.
Catch him.
Put him in a lineup for crying out loud.
It was like, oh, I hope I'm back.
What the fuck is going on?
Arrest him.
Stop this man.
You hear recidivism, Ronald?
Is he trying to work in a bit?
Is this, is he, do people think he's funny?
Is that part of his act?
The thing that I'm supposed to think from that?
I guess so.
Yeah, man.
He did his hamburger.
He's like a riff guy and then he can come in with bits.
Look, Roger Ailes looks like grimmus.
Hey man, why didn't they lock up, lock up the hamburger?
Are you, are you doing a hamburger bit?
Mayor McCheese was put in by Soros.
He lets out the hamburger.
No, you can't do that because that's actually a good fucking twist on the bit instead of
just being like, oh, why don't they catch the thief?
This is insane.
It is.
It's unacceptable to me.
Also, do you really think stealing hamburgers is a felony?
I mean, do you, how long would he get in prison for that?
Okay.
It depends.
I mean, we're, hey, listen, we're way past third strike laws.
So he might be life.
Do you might be at life?
You want mandatory minimums in McDonald's?
Totally.
Absolutely.
Oh, I mean, what, what, how many patties has he stolen over his lifetime?
Several thousand dollars.
I think he's at felony shit right now.
Three patties.
Absolutely.
Four patties.
Anyway, yeah, that's kind of the vibe I have.
Yeah.
I'm like, I don't care, guys.
You're having fun.
This is stupid.
Right.
I really, really just don't like it when there are things that I find very offensive,
like ideas that I think are really offensive being brought up in ways that are presented
as jokes, but are bad jokes.
Yeah.
Because it's just, I don't even know what to do with this.
It's just, I, I, yeah, you, you're not sincere in the, the way you're articulating this.
You're not trying to be taken seriously.
You're not funny.
I don't know what it is.
The marriage of Alex and Steven Crowder is a real bad thing because Steven Crowder has
a bigger audience than Alex.
Alex will always be excited to go over there, but Steven makes his content worse.
Yeah.
He makes Alex's content worse.
Way worse.
Oh man.
Yeah.
And that's weird to me because I, I mean, I think the way that I signal that I shouldn't
be taken seriously is when I get a laugh.
The idea that I would still consider myself easy to take non-seriously if I never got
laughs.
That's insane.
Well, someone must be laughing.
Someone.
I mean, he did have people on the payroll.
Sure.
You know, his co-hosts.
Oh, that's right.
I've heard there'd be like little chuckles and shit.
Yeah.
That's terrible.
His co-hosts would laugh at stuff.
Oh, that's brutal.
Yeah.
Ouch.
Yeah.
I'm going to drive back to Austin.
I'm like, what are you going to get back for the fourth hour?
What are you doing?
He's like, I'll be back on air tomorrow.
Oh, okay.
So he's back on air tomorrow, the fourth and big news in the morning of the fourth.
And that is that the proud boys were convicted.
They were found guilty.
Hell yeah.
So despite this, the boys are now in jail for seditious conspiracy, including Alex's
good buddy and Rick Atario, which was on the show many times.
Rambo, Joe Biggs, exactly.
Former Info Wars employee.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we have a lot of Info Wars characters who were going to be in prison for quite a while
for seditious conspiracy.
Yeah.
We have in Rick Atario, Joe Biggs, Stuart Rhodes, at least that's three yeah close associates.
Yeah.
You know, it is.
it is two different organizations that Alex was close to both going to jail for
seditious. Here's the problem. He has been doing a show that is almost entirely
about borderline seditious conspiracy for 20 years, right? Borderline. It seems
like this should be the logical end point and we're seeing it. Uh huh. But
maybe he doesn't get left holding the bag. Yeah. Exactly. Cause he doesn't
actually give a shit. Right. Everybody he inspires has gone to jail for
seditious conspiracy and he's like, Hey, all I have to do is pay back a shit ton
of money. Yeah. Everybody who took this shit too seriously. Yeah. Yes. Absolutely.
We're trying to maximize their hustle. I mean, shouldn't there be like that one
moment before they go to jail where Alex meets them? Like he's, he's got a
special thing and they're like all the guards leave and they're like, okay,
we'll give you a private conversation and Alex just leans in and he's like, Alex
Jones wasn't right. And then walks away and then walks away. Yeah. So anyway,
Alex starts the show on the fourth, uh, by getting into this shit. Yeah. One of
the top immigration investigators in the world, Michael Yon joining from the
Darien gap in Central America from a uplink. He has found in the middle of
the jungle. So right quick. Uh huh. We're not going to listen to any of this
interview. Okay. But I heard that and I was like, how bad is the tech going to
be on that? Yeah. He's in the jungle. He's literally in the jungle. Works great. Of
course it does. Of course it does. He tries to get somebody on zoom and
everything goes to shit. Yeah. Some guys in the middle of the jungle on an uplink
and it works fine. Yeah. You're also going to be having Norm Pattis on Andrew
Hernandez. Norm Pattis is one of the main lawyers for the proud boys who just
30 minutes ago were found guilty of terrorism, seditious conspiracy. They
face decades and decades in prison in the rigged trial in the district of
Mordor. Hell on the Potomac, Washington, DC. So I was listening to that. I was
thinking I'd forgotten every now and again that Norm's one of their lawyers.
Yeah, I know. And just norms have been a lot of L's. It's been a rough nine
months for Norm. Yeah. Lost a billion dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Largest largest
definition judgment in the history of the world. He lost that. Yeah. And now the
proud boys that he was defending are going to prison for seditious conspiracy.
Yeah. You know, he didn't take low stakes trials. I will say that the man
the man willingly walked into several big L's knowing that he was going to get
paid regardless. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty, pretty wild. Yeah. Tough year.
Yeah. I mean, I you'd think he would lose future business, but as the bottom of
the bottom feeders, you're you're just you're always going to get work. Yeah,
that's true. And his profile is incredibly high based on these things. Yeah. Yeah.
And, you know, I get the sense that maybe a lot of the clients he has are Hail
Mary, shady kind of situations. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think that'll stop
anybody. Well, I mean, maybe what he's like, he's like a Saul Goodman who loses
all the time. Exactly. Who's not very clever and doesn't get out of it in the
end. Yeah. I think what it is, the potential clients are like, I need a
lawyer, but I don't know what kind. And then they see a standup set from Norm
and they're like, boom, there we go. Right. That's the trial lawyer I want.
I didn't know it, but I want a guy with no pants. That's what I needed. Yeah. Oh,
is he going to say the N word in court? I don't know. So Alex also wants to
talk a little bit before we get going on this episode in too much speed with the
case of the guy who got choked on the subway. Oh, no. Killed on the subway. Oh
my God. Yeah.
We're gonna get back around to the 21 attacks on whites. There is one attack
on a black by a white person. I'm attacking black people. That's just
the facts. Most black people are not doing this. It is a minority though of
black males and black females that are now viciously attacking whites
everywhere. Well, some of the argument broke out on a subway and a white
former Marine choked them in for only about 30 seconds, probably went too far,
killed him. And now, oh, the demonstrations, the riots. It's all
beginning. Ladies and gentlemen, they finally have another George Floyd
image. They need chokehold death of Jordan Neely ruled a homicide as
outrage grows over caught on video subway killing. I can show you 100 videos
of whites being attacked me and being killed from just this week. We don't
really show a lot of that. Though it would take a whole show over. We show
some of it. But maybe we should just do a whole four hour show and just show
back to back blacks murdering whites. See, the media doesn't show that
because they're helping promote that idea that that's a good thing to happen
or that whites deserve it. But oh my gosh, a white guy accidentally kills a
black man who they admit was being aggressive and is mentally ill. I'm
sorry. So it's okay because perception is reality. The media is going to
show us this millions of times on air. And it's going to try to create more
white guilt. It is really disgusting. So we talked about this over and over,
but it bears repeating because this is very important and central to a lot of
Alex's shit. But he's lying about crime statistics in a way that's designed
to incite white anger. This is the same fraudulent narrative that was the
radicalizing influence on Dylan Roof as he planned his racist mass murder. And
Alex knows this. He understands this dynamic fully. Like there's no there's
no doubt. I mean, his friends just got convicted of seditious conspiracy. He
knows. Also at the beginning of that clip, he said that the guy went too
far in his choking. Yeah, that's the entire point that people are making. Yeah,
that guy didn't have the right to go too far and kill someone under the
pretense of subduing him. And it turns out one of the articles that I was
reading, like the fact that he is a former Marine actually could work
against him because he would have training. Yeah, these sorts of things. And
the going too far is more of an egregious mistake because he knows in his
position, somebody knows how far is too far. He knows where the line is. Yeah. Well,
I still, I mean, I don't know enough about the people involved or the case to
make any kind of definitive. Like he definitely knew it was going to be
accidents can happen. Sure. And, you know, there was somebody who was on the
train who said that the guy was making some pretty scary comments, not saying
necessarily that subduing him is the right thing to do. Though I do understand
how a situation could get to that. Sure. Sure. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like
I'm not saying that it was right in this situation, but there are situations
where that is. Sure. Sure. Sure. But still putting someone in a chokehold
irresponsibly going too far. That is not okay. That is not subduing somebody.
That is maybe killing them, maybe murder. Whatever, whatever the
circumstances are, the cement is wet. And when the cement is wet and Alex is
using this purely to stoke white rage and justify a murder, it is a fucked up.
I mean, it's like, again, he's turning it into a prop so that the reality
doesn't mean anything. It doesn't matter what the details are in his world
because this is just white and black. And I mean that racially, not like, you
know, the other way. And it's, it's, it is like, it mean it, it takes away any
kind of, what are we talking about when we talk about this scenario? Yeah.
He removes the reality and turns it into this bullshit. And it's fucking annoying.
And one of the things that is in the reason that I bring this up, even
though it happens over and over is because it is important to understand
that this is a very consistent intentional piece of his rhetoric. Yeah.
Like it's not, it's not just something that pops up time and time again.
It's an obsession. Yeah, most of it. Yeah. And a editorial line that is very
consistent of trying to do things and frame stories in ways designed to
incite and elicit white anger. Right. And I mean, that is, that is a really
important thing because a lot of people can get from a clip on Twitter or
something like that. Oh, Alex has, Alex did this, you know, and we can say
this is a pattern of behavior, but we are proving that it is a pattern of
behavior. We are not just saying, Oh, I can show you hours and hours of
people, blah, blah, blah, blah, fighting. This is happening. Right.
Yeah. And to Alex's point, I mean, like, I think it would be disgusting if he
tried to do a whole show that was just designed around black people.
No, that would be incitement to violence beyond what I could imagine. Yeah.
But to his point that he brought up that like they, you know, he could play
hours and hours. If they covered all of it that's happening, it would take
over the show. Yeah. That is not true. No. He says that all the time, but that
it is not true that he has all this, this mountain of videos that he's not
playing because just the idea that Alex has them and the audience can
believe, Oh, he could play them. Yeah. That's all that matters. That's all
they need. Yeah. Yeah. They need the suspicion of proof. So now the show
becomes what everybody is probably interested in hearing about. Sure. Sure.
Sure. So on the third, Alex got a prank call and someone who spoofed Tucker's
number, Tucker Carlson's number and then had an AI of Tucker Carlson who
spoke to Alex. Okay. And so Alex gets on his show on the fourth and I thought
this was very strange. He decided to tell this story. All right. I decided to
talk about it. Get out in front of it. Yeah, I guess. Okay. One of the most bizarre
things that ever happened to me in my life happened yesterday afternoon at
about 545. I was sitting in an accounting meeting and for his accounting
meeting in an office building not here and the phone rings and it says,
Tucker Carlson and we talk here and there on the phone. We text a lot. I said,
I'm going to step out. Got an important call to make and I stepped out into the
hallway and somebody tried to shake my hand. I said, Hey, I can't talk. I was
a little bit distracted. I go, Hey, what's going on, Tucker? And it's Tucker
Carlson's voice. And it starts saying these horrible, lewd sexual things to
me. And I instantly figure out this is AI. Someone's spoofing his number and I
confront the individuals on this. They say a few more things and then the
phone hangs up. And I immediately called Tucker and talked to him, talked to his
lead producer as well, called scooter up and just said, Hey, if this just happened
to me, it's probably happening to other people. This is the next level of their
setup. Then it turns out the individual that did it that has quite the
following on Twitter bragged that they had just done it and just recorded it
and done it. And so we're going to be talking about that. Look at that. He says
he's going to be airing it. His name is a prank Stallone on Twitter. He's going
to be airing this show Monday. Well, it's very important for pranks to loan to
come on this show today or tomorrow and explain he's not part of a government
group or an agency because what he did spoofing someone's number and then
doing that in many jurisdictions is a crime. I don't think Tucker Carlson wants
to press charges. But you need to come on the air and need to explain your
intent was not to be mean. But he says he's pointing out the dangers of AI here.
Fine. Sorry, what? But it's serious because you don't know what's going on.
What's been happening to Tucker behind the scenes. And so you need to you need
to understand what you did is not good. And we need to get that out in the open
so that doesn't escalate any further. We'll be right back. Yeah. So Alex telling
the stories strange. The things some of the things that I think are particularly
bizarre. So just to fill folks in who maybe we're not following this as it
unfolded right. I didn't. So this prank Stallone is a guy who generally prank
calls conservative radio shows. OK. And then, you know, puts out the the prank
calls. What a great guy. Well, I mean, sometimes it can be fun. I think I think
that there's a, you know, a genre of comedy calling into radio shows. And you
know, hey, jerky boys. What are you going to do? Yeah. So he, I guess, had Alex's
number and also had Tucker's number and made this prank call come together. And
so he tweeted about it on Wednesday in the evening after he had done it. And
people were quite excited about it. Sure. Sure. And then so now Alex talking
about it is so weird. Yeah. So weird. And other people were tweeting. And I
believe he also tweeted about Alex talking about it. And he said, Alex
wants me to come on the show to make sure that I'm not mean. And I think
that people who don't listen to enough Alex Jones need to understand a little
bit of the the terminology he uses. Right. That isn't like it. It's not about
like you're being mean. Right. That's it's something else. Like he always
talks about like bad being a bad person or whatever. They're childish terms for
things that he's he means that he thinks that you're in the CIA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He says the mean that doesn't mean like you're being a bully. Why are you being
so mean to me? Yeah. Yeah. It's not quite that. Yeah. There is a belief that is
being articulated that maybe you're part of the foundations, part of the
Rockefellers. They tricked you or you tricked or or any number of possible
things. And the fact that you're using AI also probably scares Alex in a weird
way and excites him. I would say less scares and more is very convenient for
him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's something that I think is right. Exactly what he
would have wanted to happen right about now. I mean, I am amazed. I love. I love
that people really want to make sure that Alex gets a lot of attention a lot.
That's one of the things you know I've talked about this plenty of time so that
I like our show because we don't get Alex attention. Well, yeah, we don't, you
know, try not sensationalize things. Not, you know, as best as best we can. I
mean, we could. Here's what I here's what I don't like about it. I don't like
fighting. I'm tired of fighting. I would like to win. This is a consistent
another addition into the never ending cycle of this does this and then this
does this and this does it. I just want him to go away. I want to win. Yeah. I
want to win and we won't. They won't let me. They won't let us win. I understand
that and I don't think I'm. I mean, I would obviously would love the situation
where there was a win condition, but I'm not even sure what that is for me. I
gravitate generally towards hoping to have greater understanding of things.
You know, that that's kind of what my true north is. Yeah. In terms of, you
know, the things that are worth doing are things that increase understanding,
increase knowledge base and what have you. And to me, something like this, I
think is just kind of on on its basis, kind of like, yeah, maybe there's
something funny about this, but it's it's kind of a bleh, but there are other
elements of this that I actually find slightly problematic and I'm not really
thrilled with this. No, to be honest, I I've known about pranks alone. I've seen
some of his videos and I don't I honestly don't think it's like I don't
think it's bad. I don't if someone enjoys, you know, the even this call with
Alex. Sure. I don't think that's a bad thing. If you get a little kick out of
it. Sure. Fine. I think that there is a very real line between calling a radio
show and fucking with them and calling someone's private cell phone number.
Sure. I believe that that borders on harassment. I think that spoofing
someone else's phone number and using AI to try and trick them into thinking
that they're talking to somebody else. Yeah. Is a pretty fucked up layer of I
mean it all kind of does go back to harassment. Yeah, it is. It is a bit
harassing and I do not feel pity or empathy for Alex in this circumstance. I
understand that he's a piece of shit. I get it. But this is an invasion of
privacy and harassment in a way that I think is not appropriate. Yeah. I don't
believe that it's justifiable because Alex is a piece of shit because guess
what? There's a bunch of other people with ill intent who would think that you
or I are pieces of shit because we cover Alex Jones. If we arbitrarily decide
who doesn't get their privacy respected or who is fine to harass in private
spaces because we don't like them or we have problems with what they do. Yeah. It
opens up basically anyone is harassable. And I mean what Alex did with the
Sandy Hook folks is probably OK. Yeah. Because according to him they were
assholes at that time. Yeah. I mean why why wouldn't he bother on his show prank
calling them with an AI voice of their dead kid? Like I mean I just yeah. No. I
mean I get that. I get where we oh that's too far. I don't I don't know. But
it's a bit of an extreme example. Well exactly. But my my I mean I agree with
you. I think I think the the problem I have is well we were talking a little
bit about it before the show because I didn't know anything about it. But that
he is not releasing the audio until Monday. Yeah. That makes me so mad. That
makes me so mad. Yeah. And there's a simple reason why there are two people
who are trying to profit off of this and one of them is pranked alone and the
other one is Alex and they're both going to profit and nobody else will. Yeah.
That that you know I think that there is a if you tweet something like this
that is this incendiary and attention baiting and then it's days until you're
going to put out the thing. Yeah. The reason is to accumulate more hype.
Yeah. And interest surrounding the thing. And granted I think that that's how
almost everybody operates. Right. Except for us. Yeah. And I find it to be a
little bit untoward. But I guess it's a prank call that we're talking about.
Sure. I mean but it's not it's not a prank call towards somebody who is it's
a prank call towards a fucking nightmarish figure. Yeah. That has been turned
into a cosmic joke which is fine. He is a cosmic joke. But you are giving him
power. Yeah. You are giving him power. I understand that you're going to profit
off of it by getting whatever money or attention that you want. But you are
hurting everybody else. Yeah. That is being of your you're hurting people.
They're there. There are a number of aspects as to why and some of the other
clips here from Alex talking about this. Yeah. Will kind of delve into some of
that. Yeah. But then the second the second element of it too is that like and I
think this might actually be somewhat related to the first element of it. This
is not a trend or a direction that I think is good. Right. For society as a
whole. Yeah. Yeah. Deep fakes and that kind of stuff is a box that I don't
think should be used capriciously. No. Humans have always had a really confident
relationship with technology where it never goes wrong. Right. I mean there's
all those videos of like Trump and Obama playing video games. You know the AI
voices. Fun. Sure. Yeah. A little bit unnerving in some ways. But the
understanding is there that this is fake. It is within a context that is
entirely fake. No one's going to be tricked into thinking that they're
actually playing Call of Duty. Right. Using deep fakes and AI voice prints and
stuff like that for the sake of duping people whether or not you think if they
deserve it is. It's a bad way to go. It's a Pandora's box. Yeah. Let's not do
that. Normalizing it and making it seem like this is something that is fun that
he can mess around with. I think that down that road is some pretty scary
shit. We are living in an era where I genuinely struggle to recognize what is
and is not real on a daily basis. Why are we making that harder? Shouldn't
exacerbate it. Why are we making that harder? Yeah. That's a bad idea. So
Alex later in the show tells the story again. Yeah. I got an experience in AI
yesterday. I'm in an accounting meeting for info wars in an accounting firm
across town at about five forty five and my phone buzzes and says Tucker
Carlson on. So I say let me step out and let me take this phone call and I
step out in the hall and it's Tucker Carlson's voice. It's Tucker. I know
Tucker. We talk on the phone all the time. Text all the time. And the
individual says a bunch of sexually explicit things to me. Well, I right
away figure out this isn't Tucker Carlson's. I say, okay, let's not say
right away. Just AI garbage. This is so the audio soundboard where they type
out a script, put it in AI. They have a recording that they just hit buttons of
different responses to make it sound like a conversation. And the guy that did
it is now admitted on Twitter with over two and a half million views that he
did that his name is pranks the loan at the CJS on Twitter. In fact, let's show
his original Twitter again. So he starts saying sexually explicit things. I
want to coast coast to show with you. I want to, you know, do sexual things to
you. I said, this isn't Tucker Carlson. Instantly my brain says this is AI and
somebody who spoofed his phone number, calling me doing it. So I agree. I agree
that you're saying like, well, we'll see. We'll see when there's actual
recording who is right and who is wrong. Instantly, I think is a big exaggeration.
Yeah, I'm sure there is. I mean, even if someone called me and they were spoofing
someone's voice and they set started saying weird shit, yeah, there's
probably I'd be like, no, they're drunk or something. Yeah. Or they're fucking
with me or something. Right. You know, there's a number of things that go
through your head before you're like, Oh, prank call with AI bot. You know, like
that's that's not exactly one, two or three. Yeah. Um, you might notice though,
Alex is basically plugging. Yeah, this guy. Yep. He said his name twice. He's
given away, given out his Twitter handle, put the tweet up, and that's because
this is a fight Alex wants to have. Yep. This is a fight that Alex is thrilled
to have. It's a great fight. Oh, if he gets him on the show, he's got 2.5
million views. He can yell at him about how his deep state or anything along
those lines. He'll get all the attention that he wants. He'll get the victory
even though he loses. It's it's a fucking goldmine for him. We've seen it happen
a number of times. Yeah. Yeah. And that's exactly what Alex had hoped. He talked
to prank Stallone earlier in the day because he was trying to get him to
come on the show here on the fourth. Okay, so let's say someone has her Carlson
cell phone and also Alex Jones cell phone number and also an AI turn Carlson
voice. They could in theory call Alex Jones and pretend to be Tucker and have
a full conversation with him. Anyways, I just did that. And that is what
happened here. She says he's gonna release it Monday and this person is so
divorced from God. So satanic as I talked to him earlier down the phone, they go,
I'm not gonna come on your show and explain. This isn't aggressive to be
friendly. You're bigger than me. How does it help me to come on your show? I said,
well, it'd be bigger for your show to talk about why you did this and why what
you think of AI. Obviously, if you're a smaller show, going to bigger show, he
goes, No, you don't help me. I said, Well, Tucker's got his lawyers involved.
He's really concerned about this because he can't let people make his voice and
then call around and threaten people and call around and say that you know,
people want to have sex with people and do this in their name. That's stealing
someone's identity. That's spoofing their phone number, which is a theft of
identity. And then it's pretending to be them and saying horrible things in their
voice. You caused a lot of angst. And the guy right in front of my producer, we
talked to him like two hours ago, said, screw you and laugh at me. I don't care.
So for them, it's all about the entertainment. It's all about being funny.
But for me, I get this call. I've got to be in accounting meeting. I call Tucker.
He doesn't answer. Leave a message. We talked to him later. I call his head
producer, scooter. He goes, Yeah, send me the info. Scooter found who it was.
This guy was already bragging. Well, yeah, I mean, imagine you don't just steal
somebody's phone number. You don't just steal their identity. You don't just
poses them where the number comes up that way, which they can do to these IP
addresses, these virtual phones, you program. You then say, Hey, Tucker,
what's up? I want to close the show with you. I want to have sex with you.
I'm like, this is a Tucker and it's still Tucker's voice. I'm like, Okay, is it
first? I'm like, Hey, sorry, I'm in a meeting. And it's like, what do you
believe it's me? It's me. You saw my number. I'm like, No, I see you called
Tucker. And then, well, I want to close the show with you and, you know, do sexual
things to you. I said, this is not Tucker Carlson. And then the guy lied on his
Twitter and said, Jones bought the whole thing. No, 30 seconds in him. He
doesn't edit the tape. I went, this is AI. So we'll see. Yeah, on that front, I
wouldn't go that far. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not entirely sure. Sure. But yeah, he
tried to get him on the show. Yeah. And I think that prank made the right call.
Yeah, I think in terms of not going on fuck you as good. Sure. And that at least
allows him to control his own input and involvement in terms of this revenue. Yeah.
Or attention economy. Sure. Adventure. You know, instead of seeding some sort of
ground to Alex, although, I mean, he would get better memes out of it if he just
went on Alex's show and climbed on him. Yep. You know, so much fun. Yep. But
yeah, I did notice something in this and that is that this ends up taking up a
fair amount of the show. Yeah. Not a whole lot. I think Norm got bumped. Really?
Not talking about the boys. Unless he was on in the fourth hour with
right, which I didn't listen to. No. But yeah, it's like no time to talk about
what is a maybe much more important thing that Alex should be responding to,
which is one of his former employees just got charged with seditious conspiracy.
Yeah, you'd think tying him together with that would be cool or doing any
number of different things would be cool. But it did end up taking up a lot of
time. So yeah, he rejected the. I think there's a little bit of
dramatics on Alex's part like he's satanic. Sure. Sure. But that's to be
expected. I do. I do really appreciate how many times in the podcast existence
we have where somebody has given Alex the moral high ground somewhat. I mean,
especially to his audience. Yeah. Oh yeah. Totally. Totally. You know, you can.
You can. And I think a lot of people who may listen to this episode will have
the response that fuck Alex. He doesn't deserve the privacy or whatever. And I
can hear that argument. I may not fully agree, but I understand where you're
coming from. And I might actually agree after we talk about it a bit. Sure. But
the moral high ground in terms of his audience is 100 percent there. And one
of the other things is that this plays very neatly into one of the topics
that Alex talks about all the time, which is this AI takeover and all of
this. Yeah. It essentially makes a lot of the points that he tries to make. I
mean, I'm fine with people, you know, listen, you know, I'm more on the fuck
Alex and his privacy tip than you are, of course. Sure. But my problem is not
any of that. And it's all like, who is profiting? Quibo. No. I mean, yeah,
well, sure. But I mean, more like, why are we in a situation where you think
it's worthwhile to give Alex money to laugh at him? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
because that too, you can you can put it in this any other different terms you
want, but you are paying Alex a percentage of whatever you get in order
to get your laughs. And that's fucking fine if that's what you want to do. But
you're not doing anybody any good. You're existing in the same selfish
bullshit that everybody else is existing in two degree. And I think that it
speaks volumes that you're, you know, when you engage in this way, it is
something that Alex is very, very interested in gauging. Oh, yeah. That
should say something. You made Alex happy. Yeah. You excited him. Yeah. Why
did you do that? And I think why do you expect me to be on board with it? And I
think that he does actually make a decent case for spinning this to his AI
narratives of fear. Yeah. And that's why AI is so dangerous because you can give
it the prerequisites you want and have it write all these articles under
other names. They can produce more articles a thousand times a million
times a billion times all the articles I can produce all the articles
to cross and produce all the articles a James O'Keefe can produce and make it
look like James O'Keefe and make it sound like James O'Keefe telling you
the messages it wants. And people will then not know what's true. They won't
want up from down and the globalist will be able to take over. So this fellow
says on Monday he's going to put the conversation I've got on my phone. I
can see how long was one minute long. Hey, it's Tucker. How are you doing? Oh,
sorry. I mean, let me get out of here. Well, can you hear me? Do you believe
it's me? No, it's Tucker. See my number. I called you. Yeah, man. This doesn't
sound like you. I mean, what you're saying doesn't sound like you. Well, you
know, I want to coast a show with you and have basically have sex with you. But
this is a Tucker. This is AI. Somebody's doing this.
That's what this is. That's the danger of this. And the real danger of AI is us
accepting it and us using it against fellow humans. We got to hold the line. The
AI wars are here. I'm not saying that Alex makes a compelling argument that I'm
necessarily buying, but it is folded into a lot of the conspiracies that he's
gone on for, for a long time. If you're somebody who lives in the United States,
this is evidence of the things that Alex has said are coming. They're coming.
Yep. Also, there's insinuations that he is working with somebody or some
agency. It only strengthens the idea that Alex and Tucker are under attack.
Yep. It essentially exists within the Info Wars world very comfortably. Oh,
and it can't, it can't be, it can't be, it can't be, it can't be, it can't be
understated that any private communications released from any of these figures
at this point can credibly be called deep faked AIs. By Alex. Yeah. By Alex
and his ilk. For sure. There's no way that you can, in, in the world that they
exist in. Oh, sure. Here's audio of Tucker saying X, Y, or Z. Ah, that was AI.
And it's credible. You should have heard how good the phone call that called me
was. Exactly. Totally. Totally. Absolutely. There is, there is no way to
break that artificial bubble or there's no way to break the conservative bubble
once this line is crossed. It's, it's tough. It's, it's, um, one of the things
that was, uh, and is, I mean, you've even touched on this a little bit already,
is really disorienting and jarring about the nature of this world of propaganda
and misinformation is the trying to make reality all fucked up. You know,
like trying what's real, what's not fake news, all this stuff. And I think,
um, escalating that and, and, and, and helping that can be, I mean, and some,
in some respect, Alex would go that way anyway. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Of course.
Of course. But this is very convenient. It does. It is like, you know,
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, but this is very convenient. It does. It is like,
I mean, for a guy who has really had a shit time to have this fall in his lap
must have been the best day. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's been a long time
since I've heard him be like, Hey, I want you to come on the show.
And then we'll, you know, like kind of chipper voice. And what's interesting
to like, let's imagine a scenario where prank Stallone calls him. Yeah.
And as being Tucker and Alex commit, like it confesses to a crime or something
like that, then what? That's ill gotten evidence. That's, that's
inadmissible in court now. Yeah. What are you going to do with that?
I mean, you got to report it, but they can't use that. Is it? No. Nope.
I mean, I, the only hope that you can really gain out of it is
something embarrassing. Right. I mean, like, that's the best case scenario
going into this prank call. It says something embarrassing. That's why
you went straight for fucking. Right. But that is too obvious.
Like not Tucker. Sure. Sure. So then what? What's the goal?
If that's even how the phone call went. I mean, we have no idea.
That's just Alex is telling of it. The goal is, the goal is for the
attention. Right. It is. It is. And it is. But also Alex has been
through a lot of this stuff in the past because his career spans over
this 20 something years. And there was a time when people would call
with like sound boards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like,
there was a time when people would call with like sound boards. Yeah.
And stuff. And so he talks about his experience with that a little bit.
I dealt with this 15, 16 years ago. There were a lot of popular
sound boards online where it's a console online that has hundreds
of Alex Jones clubs that be saying different things. They did to a
lot of other folks. There's the headline, the intercept, US Special Forces
on these deep fakes for silos. Those other articles along those lines.
And they would call businesses in random groups and play Alex Jones
clips out of yelling at them, auto parts stores, churches, police
stations, you name it. Sometimes police departments would call me and say,
is this you doing this? And even before that 25 years ago, people
would program fax machines and send the awesome police department
messages. I'm coming down there to kill everybody at tomorrow
noon. And my home phone will start ringing or my cell phone. Hey,
this is detective blah, blah. We love to check the blog. Did you send us
a fax saying you're going to kill everybody tomorrow? I'm like, no.
Yeah, we thought that somebody spoofing your phone number.
Let's see your fax machine. But whoever did that, it was just funny.
It was just cute. It was really nice to do that.
This individual Frank Stallone at the CJS, he thinks it's funny to copy
Tucker Carlson's voice and call up after Carlson say he wants to have sex with me.
Okay, well, when you put it like that, suck them titties.
That's what he said. He thinks it's funny. And like, why are you upset?
Why is Tucker upset? Well, I got your phone number. I'm spoofing it.
I'm misrepresenting who you are. What's your problem?
Well, I noticed he's going offline now. He's not too happy. Oh, wow.
It's not too good to be on a two way street, son.
It's not nice to have somebody stay what you're doing to him.
I'm just sitting here. I'm supposed to sit here like I don't exist.
Like I'm not a real person. So at this point, Frank Stallone had tweeted
something about going offline. Yeah. And Alex took that seriously.
Yeah, he's going offline. That's what he's responding to.
Well, you mess with my life while you screw with me.
I'm supposed to sit here and just roll over because it's all part of your fun.
He stole Tucker Carlson's identity.
He faked his number. He faked his voice. He called me and made sexual threats.
And he just thinks that's funny because in his sociopathic world, I don't exist.
Alex Jones is fair game for any attack. So is Tucker Carlson.
We're going to find out who you're working with, buddy.
I'm sure he'll respond by spamming our numbers out more.
I already got plans for that.
But at the end of the day, you'll always be a sack of garbage.
Well, we keep fighting.
The cycle continues.
A never ending wheel of violence.
I mean, look, at the beginning of this show, when we were doing this show
and we had, you know, some audience, I had a position and a feeling
that I would like to encourage the audience not to call into Alex's show
and fuck with him. And the reason for that was two fold.
One, I thought it was unhealthy.
And two, I didn't want to mess with the thing that we were trying
to gain a better understanding of.
By injecting our own influence onto the thing, we kind of distort
the thing that we're studying.
It becomes just over and over.
So I had that position and I had that feeling since being involved
in the lawsuit and such.
And since, you know, knowing that they got a corporate representative
because no one in the company wanted us to make fun of them.
Knowing those kinds of things.
I kind of have to make peace with the fact that some people may call
into his show.
And if that's the case, someone prank calls him on his show.
Whatever, you know, generally you can tell when something's a prank
call and, you know, I can cover it or not, you know, whatever.
I still don't think that I would want people to do it because I
don't want Alex to be able to write us off as some people who
are harassing him or whatever.
Because I do think that that would delegitimize a lot of the
criticisms that we have of him.
But, you know, if people are going to call his show, that's just
kind of part of doing radio.
You expect that some people are going to be fucking with you or
whatever.
I don't think that calling someone's phone number at home is
necessarily great.
I mean, I've had Alex's phone number for a long time.
Yeah.
I've had his home address.
I know these things and I don't know.
I guess it may come down to a difference of opinion.
I mean, I think whether or not privacy is respectable.
Like, we could do this shit.
Like, that's one of the things that I feel like sometimes goes
by the wayside.
We could do this shit, you know, like if we wanted to be pieces
of fucking shit, we could go hard.
Also, I was thinking about the closest that we've come.
And I mean, we called Larry Nichols back in the day.
Sure.
And that is even something I'm a little bit conflicted about
historically.
Well, he put his number on there.
He did.
And we were up front.
And he invited people to call him.
And we were up front about who we were.
We were doing a show.
Totally.
This is about a show about Alex Jones.
And he agreed to talk with us.
So, but it's still, you know, there's still a feeling of,
of that being almost prank callie.
But it wasn't the first time.
The only reason it even like jumps to me is because it is
his home phone.
Yeah.
Well, I think we only knew it because he said it on there.
I think the, and again, we didn't spoof Alex's number when
we called him to pretend that we're, but I think again,
at the first time we called him, it was a bit of a prank call,
but more just like a, there's no way he still has this number.
Right.
What an idiot would do that.
And then it was his number.
Yeah.
And then we did it.
We also cut it.
We also cut that out of the episode.
We cut that out of the episode.
Then we texted him.
We set up a time.
Yeah.
We did the whole thing.
Yeah.
Like professionals.
Even though we were not.
I guess maybe I don't know what the point of this is.
I mean, outside of the point of, you know,
getting attention that works both ways before Alex and for
prank.
Yep.
But I don't know what greater thing we get than possibly
laughing at Alex for talking to an AI voice.
This is only harmful in the long term and short term.
It's harmful.
Everybody gets a nice, nice little dopamine boost of look at
this idiot.
Look at this idiot in the town square.
We put him in the stocks for a while.
Right.
We throw our tomatoes and then we just leave.
Right.
And it is a perfect opportunity for an Alex Jones's right kind
of campaign of, you know, Alex said that they're going to use
AI to steal people's identities.
Yeah.
You know, like even, I mean, he has, he has a lot more
elaborate theories about it, about how like you'll download
your voice print and people will be able to.
Sure.
You know, pretend that you live in a computer after you've
died and, you know, there's, there's some other stuff that
goes along with some of Alex's theories.
But this certainly does touch on some Alex Jones's right
territory.
I mean, I just, I am so fucking tired of fake shit.
I'm tired of fake shit.
I would like to fight someone in the real fucking world.
I'm tired of all these goddamn attention grabbing bullshit
things.
And, and, and Erica Lafferty doesn't get a fucking article
about how she has to have a go fund me for her fucking shit.
She doesn't get a shit ton of attention.
No, something valuable, something good, something real,
something that can damage Alex.
Fuck off.
No, no, no, no.
We're doing some fucking fake voice shit.
And now again, I don't know what's real.
Yeah.
So Alex talks about another use of this technology.
And I mean, I think there are some differences, but there
are some similarities too.
And if you think this is bad, this is nothing compared to
what we do.
Infowars.com article from April 11th last month.
I've got your daughter, mom tricked by AI virtual kidnapping
phone scam that cloned daughter's voice.
Oh, it's just a joke to call a mom and say their daughter's
kidnapped.
Probably took 10 years off her life, but it's funny for you.
It's cute to terrorize somebody.
It's all a joke.
Come on, grow up.
Have a laugh with us when you call a mother and say,
we kidnapped your daughter.
We're going to kill her.
Come on, lady.
Don't you have a sense of humor?
It's a little self-serving of Alex using that as an example.
But on a sort of basic level, it is a more certainly extreme
and maybe grotesque use of this technology.
But what it is, is people spoofing voices using AI in order
to get something out of somebody on the other end.
On a basic level, there is a similarity between a kidnapping
fake call scam and somebody who's trying to get a real great
piece of content out of Alex.
Yeah, it's not one to one.
And it's wrong for him to make that comparison.
And self-serving.
But not wrong enough.
Not far off enough.
Not far off enough, you know?
And I hate these kinds of situations, too,
because it really does end up feeling like I'm somehow
defensive of Alex or something.
Sure, sure, sure.
I'm sure people could take away from something that,
any number of conversations that we've had over the years of,
like, oh, they just want to own this space.
And it's like, I mean, in a sense,
I do want to own this space because he shouldn't be out there.
Well, I wish.
This space should be quiet and calm and enclosed.
Yeah, well, I don't want to own the space, as it were.
But I do think that there are a number of things
that people either negligently or because they don't really care
do that end up playing into Alex's benefit.
Maybe if there were less of that, things would go better.
And hey, maybe I'm wrong.
And if that's the case, then fuck me.
But I think I've done a bit of work on this subject.
I would say this.
I think we're in a place in a time period
where we need to start thinking of things as evident
based upon the number of years that they have been
going on in exactly the same way.
So if we have been treating Alex in exactly the same way
for 20 years, perhaps maybe we should look at ourselves
and say, perhaps, perhaps we are involved
in why he's got a 20 year long fucking career.
Well, I think that there is a complicitness
of sensationalism.
There is a benefit that Alex derives out of things like this,
things like the Boney Vare song.
Sure.
Those are things that are perfect for him.
They're not real.
True.
They're communicating with Alex on his ground,
which is complete and utter bullshit.
Yeah.
And whether you choose to engage directly with him
after the fact, you're going to get used.
And it's going to work to Alex's benefit.
Yeah.
He knows what he's doing.
Yeah.
He's good at this.
If we've been doing the same thing for 20 years,
and this is where we are, then maybe we have to do
something different, regardless of whatever your argument may be.
You may have a very cogent argument that I can't communicate
enough evidence with you to talk about,
but I can tell you that we've been doing the same thing
for 20 years and he got extremely, absurdly popular
and only continues to fucking make money off of this horrible
shit.
Maybe we have to do something different
if we want that to end.
Yeah.
And, you know, I think there's an argument to be made
that our show isn't necessarily the end all be all of that.
No, of course not.
Yeah.
Society needs to respond to stuff like this differently.
Yeah.
And they need to look at Alex not as content fodder.
He views himself as the meme machine,
this guy that is perfect for content.
Yeah.
You're making him a meme.
And everybody else who engages with him like that
is playing in to a lot of the thing that he needs
to have oxygen.
Yeah. I mean, just think about this.
Did you make Alex Jones happy?
If you made Alex Jones happy, maybe you shouldn't have.
Is Alex Jones plugging you multiple times on his show?
Maybe you're not good.
Yeah.
Maybe you're not on the side of good.
Maybe Alex is super into what you're doing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe it's kind of a symbiotic relationship that can only
benefit him.
Maybe you're involved in kayfabe that you do not.
Maybe you don't even realize.
Yeah.
So anyway, we have one last clip here.
And actually this is, I mean, all things being equal,
I definitely don't agree with Alex.
Okay.
The gloves are off, guys.
In fact, I'm going to follow criminal complaint
because what you did to me is nothing compared to these
women with their daughters and sons.
All right.
But it's the same crap.
You don't get to steal our phone numbers and poses us.
And then in our voices, say things we never said.
We need to punish these people.
They need to be dealt with.
I call for him to be arrested now.
How would the police like if I copied your voice from a press
conference and then started calling up prominent people with
the police chief saying he wants to commit crimes?
That's a crime.
That's not defamation, ladies and gentlemen.
That's identity theft.
And I called that piece of garbage today.
He didn't call me back, but he called my producer back.
I gave her the number and she came in here during a break and
he laughed at me and thought it was funny.
We'll see how funny you think it is now because I'm going to
push to get your ass put in jail.
So keep laughing.
You sociopath.
Alex isn't going to do that, but I think the,
you should be in jail is a little much.
It's a little much.
Yeah.
But yeah, you know, well, what if you'd done that to anybody,
but Alex called and made sexual overtures in Tucker's voice?
That's far more problematic, right?
Yep.
But it's the same action.
Sure.
I mean, you know, contextually there is a difference.
Yeah.
But again, maybe not enough, maybe not enough of a difference.
Yeah.
Maybe that's more of the problem is yeah, there is a difference.
And I won't say like, Oh, you have to be, it's, it's all this
or all that, you know, like in those lines, there is a
contextual difference, but boy, I don't think it's good for,
I don't think it's good for us.
I don't think it's good for the people engaging in this behavior.
Maybe it's not, maybe it's not morally wrong.
Maybe it's not any of those things.
I don't know if it is.
Yeah, but I don't think it is going to benefit you or us or
the world or anybody, but the attention seekers and Alex.
Yeah.
So I mean,
I mean, that's, that's largely my point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and you know, like I said, if you enjoy it for laughs,
by all means, I don't think you, I don't think you suck.
I don't know.
And I don't think that this guy sucks.
I think that a lot of the prank call stuff, especially to shows
can be a lot of fun.
Sure.
I think that this is miscalculated and I think it's probably
a bad thing to do.
It's a, it's spoofing people's numbers and voices is a rough
precedent and calling people on their private phones using
those things.
I think is inappropriate and problematic in a lot of ways.
Yeah.
But you know, larger picture, I have the exact same issue that
with this that I have with the, the song, the bony bear song.
Yeah.
It's just,
it's not going to get the end result that maybe you want.
And it actually is going to work against the purposes of working
against the actual rhetoric that Alex puts into the world.
Yep.
Because if we look at this show, Alex, an ex employee and a
frequent guest of his got arrested and charged and found
guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Yeah.
He's using the same racist narratives that inspired Dillon
Roof to discuss the man who was choked to death on the subway
real shit.
These are things that are important.
That's not going to be in any way dealt with or even touched on
fake shit with prank calling him.
Yeah.
People who like Alex will be see vindication in it and see it
as a further piece of proof that he's under attack.
Maybe some people who are on the fence will be convinced by the
hashtag Alex Jones of it all.
Yeah.
No.
Alex Jones was right.
But that's, that's the thing.
Like the fight is what makes the, these people stronger.
There's no win or lose.
It's just the constant fight.
I want him to go away.
Don't call him.
Don't text him.
Don't speak to him.
Pretend he doesn't exist.
Every time it's like that black mirror episode.
Every time he goes outside, you should see a blank screen.
No Alex Jones.
Nothing.
Pretend he's not real.
I want to end the fight.
Except as a academic weird curiosity.
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
Well, I mean, we basically study him like a weird lizard.
Yeah.
It's kind of what he is.
It's kind of what he is.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know how to end this.
Well, it's going to end with us admitting that we're a little
bit, maybe a monkish, maybe a little ascetic.
Yeah, maybe.
And we're not, and there's no like moral judgment.
There's no like looking down or anything.
It's like, it's about solving shit.
It's about solving shit.
I don't want to, I don't want to keep the fucking cycle going.
Man.
Yeah.
Ideally, um, ideally you hope, like I said, I hope to gain
more understanding.
You have a goal of hoping to solve things.
Um, none of that is necessarily served by any of this.
Yeah.
And all it does is create a giant ball of attention that Alex
is incredibly adept at exploiting and using for his purposes.
I got all that attention.
Right.
Yeah.
I think, I think that anybody who believes that, uh, they're
going to enter the, uh, attention battle with Alex and come out
ahead is, is probably, uh, they might feel like they want.
Yeah.
Well, but that's, but that's the thing is that because we live
in two different realities, they both win.
They both get to walk away with the wind.
Yep.
The only people who don't are the people watching the two
of them do their shit.
And then Alex continues.
Yep.
Anyway, we'll be back.
Indeed we will.
Uh, maybe we'll, uh, find out what happened with that call.
Oh no, we won't because we're going to record on Sunday.
So it will still not be out.
Oh boy.
What are you going to do?
Oh well.
Get ready for a past episode, assholes.
Yeah.
For sure.
For sure.
For sure.
Yeah.
I had to listen to Steven Crowder.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We're going to go into the past.
Yeah.
But until then, uh, we have a website.
Indeed we do.
It's knowledge fight.com.
Uh, we're also on Twitter.
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledge underscore fight.
Yep.
We'll be back.
But until then I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
And now here comes the sex robots.
Andy and Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
I love you.