WEBVTT - Part Three: The Fall of Alex Jones 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:09.479 M hey, everybody, welcome to Behind the Bastards. I'm Robert Evans, 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.240 and this is the show where we tell you everything 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.440 you don't know about the very worst people in all 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.520 of history. I'm gonna take a quick bite from a 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.040 delightful derrito, and I'm going to introduce our guests for 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.079 the day. M hmm. Do you hear the sound of 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.840 it biting back? It feels so good to hear that. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:29.560 Oh my god, Benjamin No co hosts of ridiculous history 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.120 and stuff they don't want you to know. Also a 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.400 little punchy right now because here we're on the East 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.440 coast and so it's eight o'clock right now, and we've 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.319 been here since about eight am, and uh so if 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.280 but it's fine, I just I'm like writing it out. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.159 I'm having a great time. Also, we can see each 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:48.559 other on video, so every time that Robert eats a derrito, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.960 we we noticed the pause, we get the whole gravitas 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.880 of the performance, you know, and take a shot of whiskey. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.240 And I'm personally very excited that we, you know, want 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.680 to welcome all the listeners, uh to this episode that 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.080 that we've teased for a little bit, because that last 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:10.160 episode had some really heavy, emotionally powerful and uh, despair 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.880 worthy stuff, and I think we're finally setting ourselves up 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.200 for some catharsis right, Robert, Yes, we are so. Just 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.480 in case you're tuning in for the part three for 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.360 some reason and haven't watched the first two, we're talking 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.959 about Alex Jones. In part one, we talked about his 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.200 rise and how he's sort of invented a lot of 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.000 the field that we're all currently employed in and figured 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.400 out how to market stuff using the Internet and podcasts 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.560 in the radio and really revolutionary ways. In part two, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.440 we talked about how he built an empire selling supplements, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.400 some of which contained six times the recommended daily dose 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.039 of lead, and how his empire was heavily dependent on 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.840 convincing people that the government was attacking them and that 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.480 they were under threatened about to be destroyed, and that 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.080 this sparked a number of mass shootings, or at least 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.840 was a factor potentially in a number of mass shootings, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.520 because a whole lot of his fans have committed mass shootings. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.840 We ended by talking about the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.240 which Alex Jones was one of the origin points for, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.440 and which resulted in a massive lawsuit that is still ongoing. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.560 So as as you talked about today, is the schadenfreude 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.400 episode of of Alex Jones, the Fall of the House 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.720 of Jones, where we talk about sort of the collapse 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.160 or what appears to be the collapse of this empire 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.600 that he has built. But before we get into all 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.680 of the lawsuits, I'm going to go back in time 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.480 a little bit to the election. It is possible that 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.280 Alex Jones did not want Donald Trump to win the 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.560 two thousand and sixteen election. Uh you will remember back 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.840 in two thousand and twelve, there was some suspicion by 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.040 people close to Alex that he actually voted for Barack 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.560 Obama because he was afraid that he would make less 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.519 money with a Republican in the White House. And when 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.480 on election night it started to look like Trump was 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.280 going to win, one staffer who was with Jones on 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.880 that night reported later, quote, he looked depressed. You could 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.119 tell when he found out that Trump was going to win. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.239 You could see his mood change. This employee noted that quote, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.560 his business is based on a fear of the left 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.360 taking over a conservative way of life. He has to 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.240 have that power of fear, that idea that they're going 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.160 to take your guns. Trump winning put it all in jeopardy. Now, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.560 I don't know how true that is. I suspect the 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.120 employee who said that may have been Ashley Lynn Beckford, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.080 who filed an e O C claim against Alex this 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.919 year that we'll be talking about in a little bit, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.440 but maybe not. We don't know if that quote is true. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.639 We do know that, on paper, at least late two 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.200 thousand sixteen was the apex of Alex Jones's influence. He 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.520 claims to have had eighteen million viewers watching the returns 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.760 come in live on election Night. Now. A few weeks later, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.840 in mid December, Alex filmed one of the most incredible 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.560 videos I've ever seen in my entire life. I thoroughly 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.120 suggest you listeners find this video on our website because 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.720 it shows Alex Jones looking like an unhinged, goddamn maniac, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.680 and more so than he has ever looked before. In 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.160 this video that we're about to play the audio from, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.160 he is shirtless wandering our round the woods near his 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.000 studio in the dead of winter. One of his cameraman says, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.720 it's twenty five degrees outside Jones is an asset or something. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.280 He looks like it. Man, I think he looks like 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:17.920 he's about to change into a wolf. He's like mid metamorphoustamorphouses. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.960 Imagine Alex Jones about to burst into werewolf dum and 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.240 you'll have a good idea of how he looks in this. Now. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.360 In the part of the video right before I play this, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.640 Jones claims that the media would freak out if they 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.000 knew how connected he was to the New Halls of 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.520 Power and the President Trump. And now we're gonna play 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.000 a good chunk of this video for y'all the experience. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.360 This feels fantastic. This is what it is to be alive. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.880 Her answers, run, run. It's a lot of colder than this, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:47.640 taking animals hall on them back to the y. That's 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.239 what it's. I'm not here bathing in the night forest, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.520 bathing as it's all about. I don't need. He's on 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.239 heavy drugs. He did a couple times in high school. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.480 I'm like, this is harding an anxiety attack. He might 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.720 be on that. This this is what it is to 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.560 take on the global It's to have Hillary attack you 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.120 and attack you when the communist Chinese attack you and 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.720 call for your censorship. Dart the dark heart right there, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.560 It is right there. I do have greight hair, only 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.960 my heart. But the point is is that this is 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.720 what it's all about. This is what it's like when 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.200 you don't sit in front of video games all day 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.880 and act like you're intellectual and act like you're tough. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.720 And I'm not criticizing you you playing video games. The 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.360 point is it's designed and it's to humanize you in 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.640 every single way. And it feels so good to break 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.680 free from the matrix. It feels so good to be alive. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.000 It feels so good to be involved, and it feels 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.280 so good to just feel my humanity rising as we 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.480 resist the globlest Him is the spirit of humanity re 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.840 enters the earth and the enemy. Just the looks on 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.720 both of your faces right now are priceless. I wish 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.160 I wish this was a video podcast or whatever. Oh 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.120 my god, he keeps it is just that is the 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.560 most bonkers thing I've ever seen in my life. No, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.240 there's no doubt he He's like on Hiawaska or some ship. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.880 I mean like that. I don't know what is going 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:06.000 on with him. Forest bathing forest bathing, Yes, he continues. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.840 The video goes on for quite a while and he 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.680 continues to wander around in the woods, followed by a 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:15.040 giggling camera crew. H Jones suggests staying outside for hours. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.640 He repeatedly says how good he feels in the cold. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.360 He says at one point, quote people jump into buckets 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.760 of ice. That's what's cold, which is not an untrue statement. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.800 That is cold. Uh. He tells an elaborate story about 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.320 going hunting with his dad, all in the same manic tone. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.440 He suggests marching down to Barton Creek and then he says, 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.400 it's weird your body doesn't get cold if you wear gloves. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.320 What he's wearing gloves and nothing else on his chest 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.760 in that video. And apparently we have a lot Atlanta 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.240 where our podcasts are based, beautiful city. Um, we have 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.880 a lot of very interesting people struggling with drug addiction. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.800 And that's totally sounds like crackhead logic, Like I could 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.279 see somebody assuring us that it's okay, they're not cold, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.880 or they can't get wet or something because they have gloves. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.240 You know that. He does definitely seem like he could 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.000 be on crack. If you were to tell me this 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.160 is a video of Alex Jones having just smoked a 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.960 big rock of crack, I would say, yeah, that's maybe 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.920 We're gonna play one more clip from that video. So 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.760 right before this next clip, he starts talking about, you know, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.800 going bald, and then he throws in an ad offering 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.920 off of coloeal silver. Because even wandering around on drugs, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.960 shirtless in the woods, Alex Jones knows how to plug 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.920 his fucking products. All Right, calm, these are really badass stuff, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.760 people asked. I mean, I turned into a blob. I'm 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.360 not in great shape now, but I lost it almost 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.520 seventy pounds sixty a lot of muscle. Uh. And it is. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.720 I haven't taken any brain forces. I just didn't need it. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.280 Had had coffee uh today, and I'm just hired to 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.760 cock with what's happened in the world. I mean, we're 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.520 battling the globless, we're affecting world change. As a man, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.080 my body just goes, this is great, here's more energy. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:01.800 Great job. I almost want to play the whole video, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.800 but that would be too much for the people listening. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.760 But it's a remarkable thing. You should watch this video 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.760 of Alex Jones, shirtless, wandering in the woods and screaming, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.920 going like the gamnet of human emotions here. He deserves 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.840 an Emmy for that video. I don't know what emmy, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.880 but just someone should give him one. This is right 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.480 after the election. He certainly doesn't seem bummed about Trump 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.040 winning in this video, so who knows what his actual 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.000 feelings were. There's obviously been a lot of debate recently 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.720 and over the last couple of years about how much 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.840 influence Alex Jones now has in the White House. UH 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.480 In two thousands seventeen, BuzzFeed made a good case for 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.679 how his ideas at least regularly spread to the president. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.120 Quote in early March, in response to claims that the 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.240 Trump administration was potentially colluding with Russia, and info Wars 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.040 editor tweeted an old photo of New York Senator Chuck 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.160 Schumer looking chummy with Vladimir Putin. Twelve hours later, the 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.400 image was splashed atop the Drudge Report, and less than 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.199 twelve hours after that, Trump's presidential account had tweeted it. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.480 It wasn't the first time something like this had happened. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.720 In November two sixteen, info Wars published a story citing 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.520 an unverified claim from a former Texas Health and Human 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.480 Services Commission deputy commissioner that three million non citizens had 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 voted illegally. The info war story was leaked by the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.840 Drudge Report, and thirteen days later wound up the subject 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.439 of a tweet from Trump's account. As Jones put it 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.319 last summer to the journalist John Ronson, quote, I put 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.480 out a video a message to Trump, and then two 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.839 days later he lays out the case. It's like sending 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.000 up the bat signal. So Alex Jones is able to 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.840 get information to Donald Trump, but it's possible and very 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.240 likely in fact, that the two have not had communicated 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.720 directly since that time Trump called him right after the election. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.439 In fact, it doesn't look like the direct line to 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.280 President Trump that Alex was hoping for in that shirtless 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.760 video ever, came to pass. In March of two seventeen, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.760 in an interview on the Travis County Courthouse steps, Alex 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.679 Jones total reporter quote, we don't speak much since he 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.880 became president. It's unclear if Jones is happy with the 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.280 influence he has or angry because he doesn't get to 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.240 communicate directly and formally to the President. I really don't know. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.600 In any case, the first hundred days of the Trump 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.679 administration were actually not a good time for Alex Jones. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.160 For one thing, that dude held up the Comet Ping 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.920 Pong pizzeria with an a R fifteen, believing child sex 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.040 slaves were hidden in its basement. Jones wound up having 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.199 to apologize for helping to spread the theory in order 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.280 to avoid liability for his actions. Then he still wound 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.640 up in a court fighting a vicious custody battle. Two 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.280 thousand seventeen was the spark for a so far endless 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.840 series of lawsuits from Mr Jones. Now during these episodes, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.760 I've repeatedly referenced to two thousand eleven Rolling Stone article 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.840 Meet Alex Jones. I told you that while it definitely 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.160 took the stance that Jones was a crank, it presented 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.040 a pretty fond picture of the guy quotes like this. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.360 People think I'm depressive and angry, but it's the opposite, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.800 Jones tells me over Margarita's at his favorite Mexican joint. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.240 My life is a love letter to humanity, with the 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.679 globalist do as a hate letter a curse. The article 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.760 describes Jones as a doting father, a devoted husband, and 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.599 definitely not a racist. Quote. Unlike many of his conspiracy 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.040 minded predecessors, Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, the Militia movement, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.400 Jones has no tolerance for racism or anti Semitism. There's 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.720 no globalist command center, and I never make it about 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.760 certain groups, says Jones, whose wife is of Jewish descent 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.120 and whose adopted sister, Marley is Asian American. So Jones 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.640 denies being racist. Uh, and Rolling Stone was willing to 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.079 give him credit on that in two thousand eleven. Um, 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.400 now in two thousand eighteen, we have some evidence that 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.880 he may in fact be a little bit racist. And 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.880 that's what we're going to get into right now. Um, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.199 We're about to read some excerpts from a complaint made 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.840 by Ashley Lynn Beckford, a black former employee of Alex 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.520 Jones and Info Wars. She made this complaint to the 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.800 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in two thousand eighteen. The complaint 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.720 does not portray a man with no tolerance for racism. Ashley, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.640 who I believe was the third ever black employee at 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.719 Info Wars, filed this in February of two eighteen. You 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.400 can find a link to the whole report on our site, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.880 but I'm gonna read some quotes to it from it. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.240 To my knowledge, I was the only African amer Arcan 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.839 woman ever to work at Free Speech Systems LLC. I 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.120 was at the forefront of info wars news reports as 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.760 a broadcast news analyst during the Trump election season and 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.679 transition period. Both African American men ever to work for 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.160 the production team were fired within the same month July 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.240 two thousand seventeen. I believe that certain actions, such as 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.280 underpaying me, were taken against me because I am a 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.480 black individual. I was repeatedly mocked for my skin tone, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.559 and I was denied promotions to match the salary of 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.920 other coworkers who did less work in a similar job. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.960 I have no trouble believing this story, although I am 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.880 certain that Alex Jones and Info Wars deny it. So again, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.959 this is the report of an employee with the grievance. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.360 She's not an objective reporter, but she paints a fascinating 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.760 picture of working at info Wars. Here's how she describes 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.760 the hostile work environment. I was intimidated by the constant 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.360 open carry and display of guns by co workers in 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.960 the workplace. My supervisors and pure colleagues often brandished guns 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.239 to scare away crazed fans, which made me feel uncomfortable 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.439 and unsafe at work every day. So apparently people regularly 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.080 show up to info Wars and have to be waved 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:07.880 off by gun wielding Info Wars employees. That's insane. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.560 it really paints a vivid picture of the working environment there. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.599 She claims that she and other employees were ordered to 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.839 work longer weekday and weekend hours without pay. She claims 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.480 they were repeatedly called motherfucker's by Alex's cousin Buckley Hammond. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.319 She says that she was once called a coon. She 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.400 recalls having to stop a colleague from calling black people 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.560 colored on the air, and she recalls a colleague showing 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.240 her a pair of swastika covered shoes that he received 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.480 as a gift from a fan. So it certainly seems 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.680 like a lot of racism going on in the Info 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.880 Wars office. Jesus Christ, and I guess the m O then, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.320 would at that point be for Alex Jones to say, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:49.080 I don't tolerate that, and I'm not aware of it, right, Yeah, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.760 he would deny any sort of awareness of of anything 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.440 like that. And he does deny any sort of awareness 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.360 of that, but the complaint is still there. So Ashley 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.800 tells the story of an ugly interaction she had when 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.800 she was ordered to question people outside of a pro 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:06.199 Hillary rally in two thousand sixteen. My cameraman, Josh Owens, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.079 who had worked in full Wars for years compared to 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.559 my less than three month tenure, consistently pressured me to 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.600 engage with the Hillary Clinton supporters as a black Trump promoter. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.000 I was subsequently subject to multiple people hurling insults and 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.880 racial slurs at me, including Uncle Tom by one of 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.760 the gay, white male attendees. Another Clinton supporter, a white 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.000 lesbian woman, told me that she knew more about black 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.280 issues than I did because she is married to a 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.760 black woman who was also present. I went back to 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.320 the Info Wars office in tears, incredulous at how I 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.360 was being racially attacked because of my support for a 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.000 political candidate, and Alex Jones, taking advantage of my fragility 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.040 in that moment, forced me to share what had happened 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.040 to me on the air for YouTube and other social 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.800 media That same night feigning his own tears of empathy. So, wow, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.600 that's pretty gross. I will say there's some reasons to 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.640 be a little bit suspicious of this lady, Like she 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.080 claims that this video she feels like damaged her ability 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.880 to be hired as a journalist in the future. And 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.720 I gotta say, lady, working for info worce damaged your 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.360 ability to be hired as a journalist in the future. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.680 That is not the thing you want on your resume 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.080 if you're shooting for a job with The New York Times. Um. Yeah, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.040 but I don't have any trouble believing that it's a 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.800 hostile work environment. Ashley goes on to claim that during 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.240 this obviously traumatic and pretty fucked up time, Alex Jones 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.480 copped to feel quote after the broadcast, I was with 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.920 Alex Jones, Rob do and several other members in Rob 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.880 Dow's office. I was talking about how I didn't agree 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.360 with the white woman who had said that she knows 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.480 about the black community better than I do because she 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.840 has a black wife. Alex Jones was still pretending to 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.720 feel sympathy for my plight as a black female Trump supporter, 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.440 and he put his arm around my shoulder to initiate 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.000 a side hug after he pulled me to his side, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.400 Instead of removing his arm from my shoulder, he allowed 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.800 his arm to slide down my back and he grabbed 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.240 my butt with his right hand. Simultaneously, he was commenting 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.200 to those in the room who wouldn't want to have 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.600 a black wife to response to my comment. I felt 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.840 embarrassed and nervous, but I knew that he had specific 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.120 He touched my behind at that moment as a sly 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.800 come on that other people may not notice. It was 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.520 extremely ironic because it was the lesbian, white woman with 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.800 the black wife who had mentioned earlier that night on 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.320 camera how Alex Jones is a womanizer who loves gray goose. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.080 I didn't know then that later on that same night, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.760 he would be drunk enough to feel confident about fondling 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.520 his female staffers parentheses. Most of the staff was drinking 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.720 alcohol that night in the office, as was the usual 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.280 on late nights. Alex Jones was in possession of his 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 trademark mugs and paper cups, which the staffer is often 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:35.880 alleged contained alcohol infused beverages. So Alex Jones, well, what Fuckory, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:42.280 that's crazy? Yeah, well so So the the idea then, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:47.120 is that the guys I guess, trying to act as 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.480 though he is a champion, and maybe it sounds like 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.760 he's trying to diffuse the situation with the wife joke. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:17:00.960 But surely there's some kind of HR thing there or No. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.960 I have a lot of trouble believing that info Wars 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.880 has a particularly dedicated HR team. Um, I'm just gonna 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.320 guess that's not one of the things they do really well. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.320 My read on that is that he was sort of 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.280 making that joke while he was groping her, almost as 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.680 like a distraction. But I don't I don't know. I 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.480 wasn't there. That seems to be what she's saying. Yeah, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.399 I'm fascinated by the picture. This also paints at the 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.879 office because now we know everyone is always armed at 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.359 info Wars. People regularly wave guns around and whenever they 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.320 work late nights, which is often, they're drunk. So it's 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.600 a compound near the woods in Austin filled with drunken, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.480 armed people ranting about conspiracies and I can't believe I 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.080 hate them, And it sounds like a terrible place because drunken, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.160 heavily armed commune in the Woods. Sounds like it could 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.040 be a lot of fun if it wasn't Alex Chimes. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.840 It sounds like there's also some potential for these people 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.240 waving their dicks around, so, oh my god, that has 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.159 to be right. Yeah, yeah, oh no, it seems like 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.800 rife for misogyny and and ask grabbery, even just waving 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.240 their dicks around at each other literally just for fun. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.480 I do have trouble imagining someone working for Alex for 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.199 a long time and not seeing his dick like I mean, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.600 first of all, we don't see below the belt for 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.680 most of these shirtless VIDs. I conjecture that it's possible 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.040 that he's full nude, especially in that Woods video. I mean, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.199 it's anything in that Woods video. That guy hates clothes, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.520 just unless they're gloves. Wandering around naked except for a 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:39.520 pair of gloves in the winter. Ah. That does a 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.440 nice job of scrubbing the sexual harassment complaint out of 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.600 my memory. Yeah, so what happens to her, Well, we'll 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.800 get into that right now. It seems to be an 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.840 appropriate time to sell some products and services, So I 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.159 got to move that product. Gotta move the products and 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.400 those services, So we will talk more about Ashley's complaint 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.320 and then the litany of other lawsuits that Alex is 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:16.440 dealing with right now. But first consumerism. We are back. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.879 We were just talking about some potential names for Alex 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.560 Jones products that we we think might might sell really well. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:28.640 Like we know he does DNA force and iodine shield. Um, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:35.639 I don't know, Vitamin B twelve assault and battery that's nice. 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:43.160 And trespass yeah, yeah, potassium genocide that's the mic drop. Yeah, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.800 I think we just discovered my new favorite improv game 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.440 as like a warm up. So we were just talking 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:54.200 about Ashley Lynn Beckford's pretty detailed complaint about sexual harassment 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.800 and rampant racism at the infoler's office. She also alleges 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.120 that the term quote black bitch was repeatedly used both 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.199 by info Wars writers and articles, and if you google 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.600 info Wars and those words, you will find a number 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.000 of articles where that term comes up, usually referring to 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.960 Black Lives Matter activists, but she says that it was 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.040 also used repeatedly in the office and used around her, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.840 specifically people trying to get a rise out of her 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.639 and whatnot. Just to clarify, I'm sorry to interrupt so 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:30.000 this term was used by actual paid writers and staff, 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.680 not by just people dropping not on the forum. Yeah, 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.560 a number of paid writers and staff. There are a 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.680 number of articles. She lists them in the complaint where 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.679 the term fat black bitch was used in info Wars articles. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.600 Holy smokes. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty bad. She reported her 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.280 coworkers for using this term in the office, but nothing 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.639 was done. She says that guns were brandished on a 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.639 daily basis. When she complained, her supervisor told her it 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.040