WEBVTT - #1136: April 20, 2026 0:00:01.010 --> 0:00:20.570 Now it's fire. Dan and Jordan, I am sweating. KnowledgeFight.com. 0:00:20.630 --> 0:00:21.350 It's time to pray. 0:00:21.690 --> 0:00:23.970 I have great respect for KnowledgeFight. 0:00:24.230 --> 0:00:26.880 KnowledgeFight. I'm sick of them posing as if they're the 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.080 good guys, saying we are the bad guys. KnowledgeFight. 0:00:30.140 --> 0:00:31.139 Dan and Jordan. 0:00:31.260 --> 0:00:35.840 KnowledgeFight. We're gonna work, we're gonna work, we're gonna work. Need, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:36.519 need money. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.170 We're gonna work, we're gonna work, we're gonna work. 0:00:39.610 --> 0:00:40.310 Andy in Kansas. 0:00:40.430 --> 0:00:41.510 Andy in Kansas. 0:00:41.770 --> 0:00:42.940 Andy. Stop it. 0:00:43.070 --> 0:00:44.650 Andy in Kansas. Andy in Kansas. 0:00:45.530 --> 0:00:46.050 Andy. 0:00:46.210 --> 0:00:48.670 It's time to pray. Andy in Kansas. You're on the air. 0:00:48.690 --> 0:00:49.220 Thanks for holding. 0:00:49.590 --> 0:00:50.120 Hello, Alex. 0:00:50.260 --> 0:00:51.080 I'm a first-time caller. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:51.879 I'm a huge fan. 0:00:51.979 --> 0:00:52.760 I love your work. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:53.960 Knowledge fight. 0:00:54.220 --> 0:00:55.120 Knowledgefight.com. 0:00:58.660 --> 0:00:59.000 I love you. 0:00:59.140 --> 0:01:01.700 Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan. 0:01:01.900 --> 0:01:02.320 I'm Jordan. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.780 We're a couple dudes who like to sit around, worship 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.270 at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit 0:01:06.310 --> 0:01:07.410 about Alex Jones. 0:01:07.770 --> 0:01:09.309 Oh, indeed we are, Dan. 0:01:09.430 --> 0:01:09.730 Jordan. 0:01:09.770 --> 0:01:10.229 Dana! 0:01:10.870 --> 0:01:11.350 Jordana. 0:01:11.370 --> 0:01:11.890 Quick question. 0:01:12.030 --> 0:01:12.290 What's up? 0:01:12.290 --> 0:01:13.330 What's your bright spot today, buddy? 0:01:13.390 --> 0:01:15.929 My bright spot today is, for reasons that will become 0:01:15.970 --> 0:01:18.449 abundantly clear as we go through this episode, I've been 0:01:18.490 --> 0:01:20.850 having a little bit of a confusing 36 hours. 0:01:20.970 --> 0:01:21.310 Okay. 0:01:21.569 --> 0:01:24.610 There's been some weird feelings. All right. That have rocked 0:01:24.690 --> 0:01:25.810 me one way or the other. 0:01:25.890 --> 0:01:25.970 Sure. 0:01:25.990 --> 0:01:26.110 Sure. 0:01:26.870 --> 0:01:30.369 And I was feeling a little bit unmoored. I was 0:01:30.410 --> 0:01:34.190 feeling like I didn't know what, you know, hazy kind 0:01:34.220 --> 0:01:37.160 of feeling. Then I walked over to the local convenience store. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.040 And as I walked in the door, they were, the song, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.080 there was a song that was playing. 0:01:41.220 --> 0:01:41.440 Yeah. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.580 And it was one of my buddy Ryan Beck, my 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:45.640 old buddy Ryan Beck. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:46.530 Oh, yeah, sure. 0:01:46.569 --> 0:01:50.110 One of his great karaoke numbers. Looking Glass. 0:01:50.350 --> 0:01:51.530 Okay. Brandy. 0:01:51.550 --> 0:01:55.470 The sales say brandy. Go refine, girl. 0:01:55.530 --> 0:01:56.250 Man, we are. 0:01:56.290 --> 0:01:56.510 Yep. 0:01:57.090 --> 0:01:57.730 All right. 0:01:58.130 --> 0:02:02.530 And it raised my mood in a way that was visceral. 0:02:03.090 --> 0:02:04.520 I started bouncing in my step. 0:02:04.530 --> 0:02:05.440 You had a little bounce. 0:02:05.590 --> 0:02:05.860 Yeah. 0:02:06.140 --> 0:02:10.400 And I was thinking about this song. And I think 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.300 it's a funny song. And I also think that Looking 0:02:13.340 --> 0:02:16.520 Glass is right in the pocket. They're grooving as perfectly 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:16.980 as they can. 0:02:17.020 --> 0:02:17.240 Sure. 0:02:18.100 --> 0:02:18.260 But. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.160 I think that that song, I feel it. My life, 0:02:22.540 --> 0:02:24.600 my love, and my lady is the sea. 0:02:24.810 --> 0:02:25.190 Okay. 0:02:25.550 --> 0:02:27.269 I can't settle down with you, Brandy. 0:02:27.450 --> 0:02:27.790 All right. 0:02:27.950 --> 0:02:29.889 Because I'm married to the ocean. 0:02:30.010 --> 0:02:30.530 I get you. 0:02:30.990 --> 0:02:32.810 So anyway, I'm going on another road trip. 0:02:32.850 --> 0:02:34.830 I was going to say, you're not married to the ocean, 0:02:34.870 --> 0:02:36.610 but not far off. It's the same thing, though. 0:02:36.669 --> 0:02:40.490 It's the same vibe. It's the green ocean of trees 0:02:40.650 --> 0:02:41.130 or whatever. 0:02:41.230 --> 0:02:43.460 So I'm leaving on Wednesday. I'm going off on another trip. 0:02:43.580 --> 0:02:44.140 Excellent. 0:02:44.340 --> 0:02:46.239 And we will do some more dispatches from the road. 0:02:47.010 --> 0:02:49.950 And have more episodes. 0:02:49.990 --> 0:02:50.709 We'll see what happens. 0:02:50.750 --> 0:02:54.609 Hopefully stuff won't be interrupted in any too meaningful of 0:02:54.669 --> 0:02:56.750 a way. But Jordan, I love sitting here in this 0:02:56.790 --> 0:02:58.320 room with you. It's the best. 0:02:58.460 --> 0:02:59.079 It's time to go. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.040 My life, my love, and my lady. I know. 0:03:02.220 --> 0:03:04.820 I get you. I get you. You got to go, buddy. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.080 I'm tired of tethering you to this room. You got 0:03:08.100 --> 0:03:10.540 to fly. You're a bird emerging from the nest. 0:03:10.780 --> 0:03:10.940 Right. 0:03:11.290 --> 0:03:14.090 So I'm going to be driving around. Excellent. And we'll 0:03:14.110 --> 0:03:14.790 see what I find. 0:03:15.350 --> 0:03:17.870 I hope it's nice. I hope it's not Santa Claus. 0:03:18.270 --> 0:03:21.250 Or I hope it's actually Santa Claus. There's no in 0:03:21.270 --> 0:03:22.130 between for me now. 0:03:22.150 --> 0:03:24.190 I'm going to be so fucking pissed if I start 0:03:24.230 --> 0:03:26.989 driving in another direction. Like, oh, there's another Santa Claus. 0:03:27.010 --> 0:03:27.329 Oh, man. 0:03:27.490 --> 0:03:28.150 Any direction. 0:03:28.230 --> 0:03:31.070 North, east, west, and south. All points on the compass 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.020 will get you to Santa Claus sooner or later. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:33.480 Yeah. 0:03:34.100 --> 0:03:36.300 There's a small part of me. I'm not doing it 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.420 this time around, most likely, unless I go crazy. But 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.600 there's a small part of me that is like, let's 0:03:41.620 --> 0:03:43.290 just fucking go to Alaska. Who gives a shit? 0:03:44.830 --> 0:03:47.190 Oh, shit. Are we into the wilding? Are you into 0:03:47.210 --> 0:03:47.850 the wilding? 0:03:47.930 --> 0:03:51.050 I'm not planning to not come back, but Alaska's way 0:03:51.110 --> 0:03:51.430 up there. 0:03:51.590 --> 0:03:52.470 Yeah, it is up there. 0:03:52.590 --> 0:03:53.190 Yeah. 0:03:53.380 --> 0:03:53.880 Drive across. 0:03:55.090 --> 0:03:57.790 I'm not driving it. I'm definitely not huffing it. I'll 0:03:57.810 --> 0:03:58.340 tell you that right now. 0:03:58.350 --> 0:03:58.810 You're not walking? 0:03:58.950 --> 0:04:00.010 I'm not walking there. 0:04:00.130 --> 0:04:00.450 Fair enough. 0:04:00.470 --> 0:04:02.530 You're going to have to really pay me for that shit. 0:04:02.790 --> 0:04:03.570 Well, you're not coming. 0:04:03.970 --> 0:04:04.450 Fair enough. 0:04:05.170 --> 0:04:07.410 Unless you want to be part of the search party. 0:04:07.430 --> 0:04:08.550 You're not coming. 0:04:08.570 --> 0:04:08.870 Maybe. 0:04:09.370 --> 0:04:11.030 So what about you? What's your bright spot? 0:04:11.090 --> 0:04:14.810 My bright spot is, man, I think I've talked about 0:04:14.850 --> 0:04:17.000 it on the show before, but there's this radio guy 0:04:17.060 --> 0:04:19.620 named Joe Frank. You know, do you remember Joe Frank? 0:04:19.660 --> 0:04:22.620 Did you ever hear about a, he does like these, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.140 I suppose I would call it like almost a beat 0:04:25.180 --> 0:04:28.549 Nick prose poetry thing where he's doing this radio show 0:04:28.610 --> 0:04:30.510 and he has this fucking voice and he edits. 0:04:30.830 --> 0:04:33.250 It's just fantastic. I don't know why, but it's borderline. 0:04:33.270 --> 0:04:37.650 Uh, uh, uh, insane, mundane and depressing while at the 0:04:37.690 --> 0:04:40.270 same time being captivating. Uh, so that's what I've been 0:04:40.310 --> 0:04:42.040 listening to in the past 36 hours. 0:04:42.260 --> 0:04:43.460 How long is the show? 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.760 About an hour, hour and a half. 0:04:45.779 --> 0:04:47.580 Of sort of weird freeform poetry? 0:04:48.380 --> 0:04:53.490 It's more like one story that has plenty of digressions 0:04:53.570 --> 0:04:57.690 and twists and turns, all thematically associated. And then it's 0:04:57.730 --> 0:05:01.110 not wrapped up, but in between there's solid music, there's 0:05:01.150 --> 0:05:02.230 little interstitials. 0:05:02.250 --> 0:05:04.380 Sort of like a This American Life-y kind of thing, 0:05:04.460 --> 0:05:06.719 but not quite as saccharine, maybe? 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.220 I mean. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.620 I really, if you've listened, have you listened to the 0:05:10.660 --> 0:05:11.500 Dana Gould Hour? 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:11.940 Yeah. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.339 It's kind of got a little bit of that flavor 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.880 of like a long monologue with a variety kind of 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.800 thing going around it. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.040 Sure. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:20.380 Yeah. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:21.100 Sounds good. 0:05:21.220 --> 0:05:21.880 It's fantastic. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.830 Did you ever listen to Mike Schmidt's podcast, The 40-Year-Old Boy? 0:05:25.850 --> 0:05:26.210 Uh-uh. 0:05:26.710 --> 0:05:30.280 It's kind of like that, except there's no music interludes. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.380 The host is telling insane stories from his past, and 0:05:34.420 --> 0:05:36.840 he frequently feels like he shouldn't be talking about whatever 0:05:36.860 --> 0:05:37.260 he's saying. 0:05:37.339 --> 0:05:38.340 Probably, yeah. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.039 I recommend that if you want some more. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.990 Yeah, that would be interesting. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.190 More long-form storytelling stuff. 0:05:45.390 --> 0:05:45.960 I don't mind it. 0:05:47.130 --> 0:05:49.390 Yeah, well, I'll say Joe Frank. 0:05:49.510 --> 0:05:50.089 Joe Frank. 0:05:50.310 --> 0:05:50.510 All right. 0:05:50.529 --> 0:05:50.650 Yep. 0:05:50.990 --> 0:05:51.410 Check it out. 0:05:51.510 --> 0:05:51.630 Yeah. 0:05:51.650 --> 0:05:53.029 I'll have time in the car, you know. 0:05:53.250 --> 0:05:53.890 Take a listen. 0:05:54.029 --> 0:05:55.370 On my way across Canada. 0:05:56.010 --> 0:05:58.310 It would be, it's one of those things that you 0:05:58.330 --> 0:06:02.780 can recommend to somebody and unlike something where you're like, oh, I. 0:06:02.740 --> 0:06:06.180 Hope you like it. If you don't like it, totally fine. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.000 Do not care. It makes perfect sense if you don't 0:06:09.020 --> 0:06:10.360 like it. It's that kind of thing. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.020 I've realized that my sweet spot for driving is like 0:06:14.060 --> 0:06:17.670 some music and then also podcasts that aren't that funny. 0:06:17.810 --> 0:06:17.990 Yeah. 0:06:18.210 --> 0:06:19.930 They're pretty funny, but they aren't that funny. 0:06:19.950 --> 0:06:20.690 Can't be too funny. 0:06:20.990 --> 0:06:23.350 That will distract me and I will maybe drive off 0:06:23.370 --> 0:06:23.610 the road. 0:06:23.670 --> 0:06:24.250 Absolutely. 0:06:24.490 --> 0:06:27.680 So like there's a number of things that I just 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.240 have to like section off. 0:06:29.300 --> 0:06:29.480 Yeah. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.420 Like I can't listen to like a Phil Hendry show 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.980 or something like that if I'm driving. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:34.880 Yeah. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.650 I think that's why most people listen to murder. 0:06:36.870 --> 0:06:37.270 Or us. 0:06:37.370 --> 0:06:40.010 Yeah. Well, there's that. Same difference. 0:06:40.029 --> 0:06:40.229 Yeah. 0:06:41.380 --> 0:06:43.210 So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over. 0:06:43.430 --> 0:06:46.230 We're talking 420. All right. 0:06:46.529 --> 0:06:47.710 All right. Hit the bong. 0:06:47.810 --> 0:06:48.530 Hit the bong. 0:06:48.810 --> 0:06:49.290 All right. 0:06:49.310 --> 0:06:52.479 Talking about April 20, 2026. Sure. Some shit's happened. 0:06:52.620 --> 0:06:52.840 Yep. 0:06:53.100 --> 0:06:55.660 And we'll get into it. But first, let's take a 0:06:55.660 --> 0:06:57.119 little moment to say hello to some new wonks. 0:06:57.140 --> 0:06:57.760 That's a great idea. 0:06:57.980 --> 0:07:01.630 So first, Worcester, Massachusetts, Turtle Boy Fountain. Thank you so much. 0:07:01.670 --> 0:07:02.370 You're now a policy wonk. 0:07:02.820 --> 0:07:03.700 I'm a policy wonk. 0:07:03.740 --> 0:07:04.440 Thank you very much. 0:07:04.460 --> 0:07:07.530 Thank you. Next, happy birthday, Alejandro. You're killing it at 0:07:07.550 --> 0:07:10.250 parenthood in your job. Thank you for showing me this 0:07:10.270 --> 0:07:13.310 amazing podcast and many others. Proud of you always. Love 0:07:13.350 --> 0:07:15.710 your little brother, Andreas. Thank you so much. You're now 0:07:15.730 --> 0:07:16.190 a policy wonk. 0:07:16.650 --> 0:07:17.540 I'm a policy wonk. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.340 Thank you very much. 0:07:18.380 --> 0:07:22.020 Thank you. From all of Cleveland to Jordan, fuck Kyle 0:07:22.060 --> 0:07:25.280 Schwarber and the fuck the rain delay 10 years ago. 0:07:25.340 --> 0:07:26.560 Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. 0:07:27.010 --> 0:07:27.810 I'm a policy wonk. 0:07:27.830 --> 0:07:28.910 Thank you very much. 0:07:29.150 --> 0:07:30.310 I don't get what that's saying, but. 0:07:30.750 --> 0:07:31.910 That was Cubs World Series. 0:07:32.330 --> 0:07:33.050 Oh, go Cubs, go. 0:07:33.090 --> 0:07:33.610 Yep, yep, yep. 0:07:33.930 --> 0:07:34.430 I remember that. 0:07:34.630 --> 0:07:35.110 It was a big one. 0:07:35.270 --> 0:07:37.380 Yeah, we were out drinking. 0:07:38.010 --> 0:07:40.000 One of the games, yeah. Yep, yep. 0:07:40.300 --> 0:07:43.380 I remember coming home on the red line and people 0:07:43.420 --> 0:07:45.360 just cracking beers on the train. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.180 Absolutely. It was a different time. 0:07:48.140 --> 0:07:51.060 Can't believe so many people didn't die. So you're a 0:07:51.060 --> 0:07:52.810 technocrat in the mix, Jordan. So thank you so much 0:07:52.870 --> 0:07:56.770 to HeyDrBezzy over there in Melbourne. Australia, keep up the 0:07:56.810 --> 0:08:00.760 good work curing cancer with that freakishly large brain of yours. Love, Macon. 0:08:00.860 --> 0:08:02.200 Thank you so much. You're now a technocrat. 0:08:02.700 --> 0:08:04.460 I'm a policy wonk. Four stars. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.090 Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant. 0:08:07.190 --> 0:08:10.510 Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop. Daddy shark, bomb, bomb. 0:08:11.710 --> 0:08:16.320 Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent. He's a 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.480 loser little titty baby. I don't want to hate black people. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.280 I renounce Jesus Christ. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:23.080 Thank you so much. 0:08:23.100 --> 0:08:23.820 Thank you very much. 0:08:24.140 --> 0:08:28.100 So I feel like a clip from recently is worth 0:08:28.220 --> 0:08:30.640 rehearing in a moment like this. 0:08:30.900 --> 0:08:33.160 The big stuff's coming. I can feel we're on the 0:08:33.179 --> 0:08:34.630 cusp of something, Daniel. Yes. 0:08:34.890 --> 0:08:36.410 Okay. That is true, Alex. 0:08:36.450 --> 0:08:36.910 I would say so. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.500 So now, Jordan, the great mystery of why Alex has 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.300 been out of studio for the last week or so 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.120 has been revealed. All has become clear. Mysteries are solved. 0:08:46.660 --> 0:08:48.750 On Monday, The Onion announced for the second time that 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.750 they bought InfoWars. This time seems a little bit more officially, maybe? 0:08:53.770 --> 0:08:56.870 I have a lot of complicated feelings about this turn 0:08:56.890 --> 0:08:58.790 of events, but I want to sum it up as 0:08:58.850 --> 0:09:01.320 succinctly as possible by saying I hope it all works 0:09:01.420 --> 0:09:04.260 out and that there's a positive net effect. I think 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:05.979 that a lot of people want a little bit more 0:09:06.020 --> 0:09:09.970 than that from me or us, so here goes. I 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.610 think The Onion has an incredibly talented writing team and 0:09:12.670 --> 0:09:15.949 competent leadership, and that Tim Heidecker is exactly the kind 0:09:15.970 --> 0:09:18.850 of performer who can pull off layered and biting satire. 0:09:19.530 --> 0:09:21.720 If anyone should be the person picked to try and 0:09:21.750 --> 0:09:25.100 make a parody of InfoWars, he's definitely the guy. And 0:09:25.140 --> 0:09:28.079 I think that some strong comedic talent is going to 0:09:28.100 --> 0:09:30.239 be involved and some content will come out of this 0:09:30.300 --> 0:09:34.200 that probably will rule. But for me, the issue is 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.800 that I don't think anyone should do this. InfoWars isn't 0:09:37.820 --> 0:09:41.479 really satirizable in a meaningful way. The content is absurd 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.500 to the point where anyone trying to create a fake 0:09:43.570 --> 0:09:46.390 version of it will only succeed in making something that's 0:09:46.670 --> 0:09:50.530 kind of close to the regular version. Alex drunkenly throwing 0:09:50.570 --> 0:09:53.130 hatchets around the studio, or telling Chase that he thinks 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.460 he's about to call in the Angel of Death, or 0:09:55.580 --> 0:09:58.970 Alex sincerely talking about how he ran into some really 0:09:59.050 --> 0:10:01.900 tall vampires in dc or the orbs that are coming 0:10:01.980 --> 0:10:04.480 on easter that's all content that should be in a 0:10:04.540 --> 0:10:07.580 parody of info wars but it's actually just what the 0:10:07.620 --> 0:10:11.280 show is. So I think that there's a challenge that 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.819 pulling off a satire of this presents that I sincerely 0:10:16.900 --> 0:10:19.800 hope that they can do something with, but I don't 0:10:19.860 --> 0:10:23.820 know if anyone can. That's really where the heart of 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.370 my sort of weird feelings about this live. 0:10:27.630 --> 0:10:27.850 Yeah. 0:10:29.050 --> 0:10:33.150 If you parody something that is itself a parody, you 0:10:33.330 --> 0:10:35.250 kind of help the original thing. 0:10:35.470 --> 0:10:35.570 Yep. 0:10:36.010 --> 0:10:38.510 And I don't know how you get around that. It 0:10:38.710 --> 0:10:40.470 may be that it's possible. It might be. 0:10:41.170 --> 0:10:42.819 I don't know. I mean, it sucks. 0:10:44.020 --> 0:10:44.540 Okay. 0:10:44.820 --> 0:10:47.420 If I'm allowed to talk about the way I feel, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.360 bad things are going to happen. So I'm just going 0:10:49.380 --> 0:10:49.819 to let it go. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.520 Well, you can say a few things. 0:10:51.660 --> 0:10:53.880 I have things to say. Okay. 0:10:53.900 --> 0:10:59.290 Best of luck to everybody involved. Never speak to me 0:10:59.330 --> 0:10:59.630 about it. 0:10:59.830 --> 0:11:00.410 We were talking a. 0:11:00.370 --> 0:11:02.150 Little bit before the show, and I think it's safe 0:11:02.170 --> 0:11:04.130 to say that you have a lot more of a 0:11:04.170 --> 0:11:09.880 pessimistic outlook than I do. And my outlook isn't super optimistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.819 I don't want to shit on something before it even 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:18.220 exists or say, hey, this is a horrible mistake. But 0:11:18.740 --> 0:11:21.020 I don't know exactly how you walk this line. 0:11:21.179 --> 0:11:21.359 Yeah. 0:11:21.780 --> 0:11:25.970 And one of the reasons that we talked about was because... 0:11:27.630 --> 0:11:29.620 If you're making a parody of InfoWars, you have to 0:11:29.660 --> 0:11:32.540 be making it for an audience who is in on 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.059 the joke. And most people have no idea what InfoWars 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.559 really is. They don't know he's talking about calling in 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.020 the angel of death. They don't know this stuff. They 0:11:42.059 --> 0:11:44.500 see a meme of him talking about gay frogs, and 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.400 that's the extent of the awareness. 0:11:46.420 --> 0:11:47.280 A Boney Bear cover. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.020 Right, that's the extent of the awareness that most people 0:11:50.090 --> 0:11:53.190 have of what his show is. So if you're making 0:11:53.250 --> 0:11:55.910 a parody of it, you have to parody that. And 0:11:55.950 --> 0:11:59.490 that's not really who he is. That's part of who 0:11:59.530 --> 0:12:04.770 he is, but it's not really, you have to parody a, um, 0:12:05.190 --> 0:12:08.079 an effigy, a picture of Alex as opposed to who 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:08.579 he is. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:08.860 Yeah. 0:12:09.460 --> 0:12:13.040 And I, I don't know if there's a way to 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.440 do a parody. That's not that. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:14.960 Yeah. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.640 Because how would, like, if you said in a, like, 0:12:19.660 --> 0:12:23.610 let's say a joke article on, um, on their new site. 0:12:23.750 --> 0:12:23.970 Yeah. 0:12:24.130 --> 0:12:28.410 If you were to say, Alex tearfully calls in the 0:12:28.510 --> 0:12:31.140 angel of death to take out Biden or whatever. 0:12:31.300 --> 0:12:31.559 Yeah. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.319 That looks like a pretty fucking funny headline. If you 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:35.500 don't watch Alex's show, but. 0:12:35.460 --> 0:12:37.500 It's actually just a regular thing. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:38.310 He said, yeah. 0:12:38.390 --> 0:12:38.550 Yep. 0:12:38.890 --> 0:12:40.030 So, I don't know. 0:12:42.030 --> 0:12:42.630 I'll say this. 0:12:42.950 --> 0:12:47.150 InfoWars exists on its own continuum. There is InfoWars and 0:12:47.190 --> 0:12:51.460 there is not InfoWars. On the continuum is just levels 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.400 of quality of InfoWars. Anything you make that is InfoWars 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.800 is just either InfoWars better or InfoWars worse or InfoWars 0:13:00.860 --> 0:13:01.200 the same. 0:13:01.420 --> 0:13:01.719 Yeah. 0:13:01.740 --> 0:13:05.530 So they're going to make InfoWars worse. And that means 0:13:05.570 --> 0:13:07.270 Alex is going to look good. 0:13:07.470 --> 0:13:07.830 Maybe. 0:13:08.270 --> 0:13:12.010 But maybe it'll just evolve quickly into its own different thing. 0:13:12.220 --> 0:13:12.699 I don't know. 0:13:12.780 --> 0:13:13.820 Best of luck to everybody. 0:13:13.900 --> 0:13:17.000 I don't think that there's anything wrong with taking away 0:13:17.340 --> 0:13:20.020 his shit. You know, like I think great. It's a 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.770 consequence of the actions that he's taken in the past 0:13:22.790 --> 0:13:26.209 and all that. I do think that everyone at this 0:13:26.290 --> 0:13:29.270 point should be keenly aware that he's not going anywhere. Yep. 0:13:29.530 --> 0:13:32.230 And so pretending that taking over the site or anything 0:13:32.270 --> 0:13:34.530 is going to have an influence on that, I do 0:13:34.610 --> 0:13:36.010 think that we need to be a little bit more 0:13:36.050 --> 0:13:36.910 realistic about it. 0:13:36.970 --> 0:13:37.270 Yeah. 0:13:37.350 --> 0:13:40.079 But, hey, I don't want to just be a hater. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.739 I don't want to be a hater. I'm trying to 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.520 have fun. Absolutely. I'm going to be back in the ocean. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:45.160 There you go. 0:13:45.540 --> 0:13:46.420 So, great. 0:13:46.580 --> 0:13:46.660 Yep. 0:13:47.220 --> 0:13:50.540 Anyway, the fun thing is that this news broke while 0:13:50.620 --> 0:13:51.380 Alex was on air. 0:13:51.500 --> 0:13:52.059 Good stuff. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.070 So on the April 20th show, he starts the show 0:13:56.429 --> 0:13:59.910 and gets back to the third hour before the news 0:13:59.950 --> 0:14:03.780 has broken that the New York Times article about him 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:08.050 being bought came out. Ben Collins, the head of the Onion, 0:14:08.150 --> 0:14:10.870 did an interview that came out in the middle of 0:14:10.910 --> 0:14:13.729 the day. Sure. So Alex does have to respond to 0:14:13.770 --> 0:14:15.050 this on air. 0:14:15.110 --> 0:14:15.689 He has to. 0:14:15.950 --> 0:14:17.610 And so that's kind of fun. 0:14:17.750 --> 0:14:18.370 That is fun. 0:14:18.650 --> 0:14:20.750 But we start before. 0:14:21.770 --> 0:14:21.990 That. 0:14:23.290 --> 0:14:26.000 And Alex is doing a boring fucking show. 0:14:26.030 --> 0:14:26.270 Yeah. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.680 I'm very honored that he attacked me again. Trump. On 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.100 Friday and said that I'm fried and. all the rest 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:41.980 of it, because I don't want to be associated with 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:47.570 this disastrous situation that's unfolding at all. Because when somebody 0:14:47.590 --> 0:14:50.890 who doesn't know what they're doing tells somebody who's on 0:14:50.950 --> 0:14:55.430 record being right, they got a low IQ, well, that's 0:14:56.350 --> 0:14:59.050 where I want to be. The truth is, I don't 0:14:59.090 --> 0:15:00.910 have a low IQ, Trump, and I actually study all 0:15:00.950 --> 0:15:04.280 these issues. You may know all about real estate and 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.170 you and Ludnig how to insider trade on all your 0:15:07.190 --> 0:15:10.890 different economic announcements. But at the end of the day, buddy, 0:15:11.650 --> 0:15:14.530 the military told you not to do this. And Israel, 0:15:14.550 --> 0:15:17.640 Netanyahu lied to you. 0:15:18.510 --> 0:15:21.600 So I, I just think that there's something so pathetic 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.000 about the, uh, like, Hey, I, this guy punched you. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:25.340 Yeah. 0:15:25.380 --> 0:15:27.360 And then I punched me one more time. You motherfucker. 0:15:27.460 --> 0:15:28.220 Oh, one more time. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:28.640 Hold me back. 0:15:28.780 --> 0:15:29.360 One more time. 0:15:29.420 --> 0:15:29.840 Hold me back. 0:15:29.860 --> 0:15:31.260 And then the guy punches you and you're like, I 0:15:31.300 --> 0:15:32.710 am so honored. He keeps punching me. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.240 I would love to get punched by you again, sir. Sir, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.500 it delights me to receive your punishment. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:39.020 Yeah. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.020 I think it's just too, uh, on the nose about Alex's, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:44.560 like just kind of how he is. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:44.900 Yeah. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.340 It's all, it's a lot of bluster and, uh, He's dumb. 0:15:49.620 --> 0:15:52.390 I don't think it's... Here's what I would say, right? 0:15:52.830 --> 0:15:56.430 If I'm writing SAT tests or ACT tests or any 0:15:56.470 --> 0:15:59.960 test at all, any standardized testing, if there's one question 0:16:00.140 --> 0:16:02.060 that is just like, um. 0:16:04.740 --> 0:16:09.350 If you help get a person elected and then that 0:16:09.430 --> 0:16:14.810 person you helped get elected calls you low IQ, that 0:16:14.870 --> 0:16:16.450 person is correct. 0:16:16.830 --> 0:16:17.050 Yes. 0:16:17.250 --> 0:16:20.710 Without question. You don't need to, you don't need, Oh, maybe. 0:16:20.830 --> 0:16:21.050 Nope. 0:16:21.530 --> 0:16:23.630 You helped him get elected. And then he called you 0:16:23.650 --> 0:16:25.830 low IQ. That means that you are low IQ. 0:16:25.850 --> 0:16:26.010 Yeah. 0:16:26.430 --> 0:16:28.030 And if you're getting on your show and being like 0:16:28.110 --> 0:16:30.920 you and Howard Lutnick certainly know how to insider trade. 0:16:30.940 --> 0:16:33.900 It's like, he didn't just start that. Yeah. Get the 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.880 fuck out of here. You know this, and you've been 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:37.960 pretending that you didn't. 0:16:38.180 --> 0:16:40.220 It's just fear of burning the earth. 0:16:41.700 --> 0:16:45.320 So, Alex, even before any of these announcements are made, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.380 he's getting their audience ready that shit's going down. Shit's 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.500 going to go down. And we don't have long. 0:16:50.540 --> 0:16:53.780 Yeah. Before I go any further, I'm going to make 0:16:53.830 --> 0:16:55.950 announcements in the next few days that are detailed on this. 0:16:56.850 --> 0:16:59.670 But barring a miracle, InfoWars will close in nine and 0:16:59.690 --> 0:17:04.150 a half days on the 30th of April. And starting 0:17:04.170 --> 0:17:06.630 May 1st, the Alex Jones Network will fire up. Same 0:17:06.670 --> 0:17:11.169 time slot, radio stations, satellites, stations all know. It's going 0:17:11.190 --> 0:17:13.040 to be pretty seamless. We'll have a new news site 0:17:13.060 --> 0:17:17.000 we're going to be announcing. And a lot more. And 0:17:17.100 --> 0:17:19.840 even though in federal and state court, the bad guys 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.040 never even got the right to have InfoWars or get 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.200 the building, the judge has ordered a receiver to not 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.429 let us pay the bills and to close us. 0:17:30.650 --> 0:17:32.889 So at this point in the first hour, Alex has 0:17:32.930 --> 0:17:35.129 just been pretending to do a normal show. And it's 0:17:35.170 --> 0:17:37.290 almost at the end of the first hour. The whole 0:17:37.330 --> 0:17:39.330 time he's been pretending to not know that the onion 0:17:39.369 --> 0:17:41.370 was going to take ownership of the show. And that's 0:17:41.430 --> 0:17:43.730 why he's been out of studio this whole time. He's 0:17:43.910 --> 0:17:46.030 acting like he doesn't have that awareness. 0:17:46.100 --> 0:17:46.300 Right. 0:17:46.410 --> 0:17:48.060 Because no one's really forced his hand. 0:17:48.100 --> 0:17:51.140 This hasn't been negotiated for a while, he's trying to say. 0:17:51.180 --> 0:17:52.940 But that's why he's been gone. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:53.379 Yeah. 0:17:53.780 --> 0:17:57.679 And he knows what is the shoe that's going to fall. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.220 He knows what that is. 0:17:59.260 --> 0:17:59.400 Yeah. 0:17:59.619 --> 0:18:03.260 But he's acting like, you know. 0:18:03.300 --> 0:18:06.010 Could be anything, these illegal, lawless people. 0:18:06.109 --> 0:18:08.850 Yeah. So I watched an interview that Ben Collins did 0:18:09.010 --> 0:18:11.290 after the news broke about the sale, and he explained 0:18:11.310 --> 0:18:14.609 that InfoWars pays $ 75, 000 a month in rent on the 0:18:14.630 --> 0:18:18.230 facility that they broadcast from. It wasn't an issue where 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.040 the receiver was withholding money to pay the rent. It 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.460 was a situation where they weren't bringing in enough money 0:18:23.500 --> 0:18:26.159 anymore to pay the overhead. Part of the reason that 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.160 the Onion was able to make this deal work, where 0:18:28.180 --> 0:18:30.060 the other time it fell through, is that in the 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.070 current situation, if Alex were just left alone, InfoWars would 0:18:34.109 --> 0:18:36.830 go out of business on its own. He's directed all 0:18:36.869 --> 0:18:39.649 the money flow and sales over to his Bigley operation, 0:18:39.930 --> 0:18:42.650 so he's kind of just waiting for the InfoWars boat 0:18:42.690 --> 0:18:47.020 to sink, even if no one did anything. The Receiver 0:18:47.060 --> 0:18:50.119 has a fiduciary responsibility to the plaintiffs in this case, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.699 so he has to do what's best for them in 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.619 terms of recouping the money that they're owed. Ben was 0:18:55.700 --> 0:18:57.949 able to make the argument to the Receiver that if 0:18:57.990 --> 0:19:00.889 they just did nothing, InfoWars would be a dead asset 0:19:01.010 --> 0:19:03.119 and none of the plaintiffs would make anything from it. 0:19:03.690 --> 0:19:05.889 But if the Onion were allowed to take over and 0:19:05.930 --> 0:19:08.460 pay the overhead and rent and all that, the plaintiffs 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.740 stood to see a return on this, which is a 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.240 more compelling argument to the Receiver... than prior, like the, 0:19:15.260 --> 0:19:16.859 you know, the auction and stuff. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:17.540 Wait, wait, wait, wait. 0:19:17.660 --> 0:19:20.300 The Onion has taken over a $ 75, 000 lease? 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.610 I don't know if all of that, but they are 0:19:24.660 --> 0:19:27.510 taking over enough of the, I don't know. 0:19:27.530 --> 0:19:27.629 Okay. 0:19:27.650 --> 0:19:31.170 You didn't get into all the pieces. I can't imagine 0:19:31.490 --> 0:19:33.330 that they are, because that's ridiculous. 0:19:33.350 --> 0:19:35.300 I mean, it's just, it's just bad business. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.040 Only InfoWars would do business so poorly that they would 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.609 spend 75K a month in overhead. 0:19:42.609 --> 0:19:45.800 Yeah, Alex paid that because he needed to look normal. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:46.169 Right. 0:19:46.170 --> 0:19:48.439 Like he needed everyone to be tricked into thinking that 0:19:48.460 --> 0:19:49.100 this is normal. 0:19:49.140 --> 0:19:52.460 The money wasn't for the rent. It was for appearing 0:19:52.660 --> 0:19:53.899 as if he's legitimate. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:54.160 Yeah. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.060 And there's cheaper ways to do that if you don't 0:19:56.100 --> 0:19:58.460 really care. And it's all just a joke. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:58.760 Yep. 0:19:58.900 --> 0:20:01.850 So I have to assume that they wouldn't pay that 0:20:02.030 --> 0:20:04.790 if they if they are. That's a big, big burden 0:20:04.830 --> 0:20:05.310 to take on. 0:20:05.350 --> 0:20:05.730 Wild. 0:20:06.090 --> 0:20:09.490 But if you're talking to the receiver who has control 0:20:09.510 --> 0:20:12.510 of the property and has a responsibility to the plaintiffs, 0:20:13.300 --> 0:20:16.320 you can. I think it is a better argument that, hey, 0:20:16.340 --> 0:20:17.440 this is just going to be dead. 0:20:18.300 --> 0:20:21.700 I mean, if I was the receiver, my first reaction 0:20:21.740 --> 0:20:23.780 wouldn't be like, are you guys going to really pay 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:24.220 for this? 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.120 It would be like, you guys are going to pay 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:26.480 for this. 0:20:26.530 --> 0:20:27.139 Hooray! 0:20:27.530 --> 0:20:29.390 You can wash your hands at that point as the 0:20:29.430 --> 0:20:31.830 receiver who's been bogged down in this situation. 0:20:31.850 --> 0:20:34.210 I have been doing this for so long. 0:20:34.230 --> 0:20:35.130 Take it over. 0:20:35.230 --> 0:20:35.570 Fine. 0:20:35.590 --> 0:20:40.190 There are rational decisions being made, I think, by a 0:20:40.230 --> 0:20:42.130 lot of the parties. 0:20:42.810 --> 0:20:43.370 Well, we'll see. 0:20:43.790 --> 0:20:46.429 So Alex chose that 30th date. 0:20:46.630 --> 0:20:46.830 Yes. 0:20:48.020 --> 0:20:50.880 I chose that date so that it's somewhat seamless, hopefully, 0:20:51.950 --> 0:20:54.350 of the 30th. Well, really, because a bunch of bills 0:20:54.410 --> 0:20:56.439 are due on the 1st. We're not authorized to pay them. 0:20:56.660 --> 0:20:59.660 We have the money. And whatever little bit of money 0:20:59.700 --> 0:21:01.720 is in InfoWars will then be handed over to the receiver. 0:21:01.850 --> 0:21:03.790 It's not much, but enough to pay the bills. And 0:21:03.810 --> 0:21:05.430 then everything goes to the Alex Jones Network, which I 0:21:05.470 --> 0:21:08.409 don't own, so they can't shut it down. 0:21:08.430 --> 0:21:09.850 To be clear, that is the plan. 0:21:10.250 --> 0:21:12.550 It's owned by Big Lee, and it finances and owns 0:21:12.570 --> 0:21:14.960 the Alex Jones Network, and the same crew, same everything. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.359 We plan to even expand after that, now that they 0:21:19.380 --> 0:21:21.720 won't be able to jack with us as much. They'll 0:21:21.740 --> 0:21:24.199 still mess with me, but that's fine. This is all seamless. 0:21:24.220 --> 0:21:27.240 It's all about board. with all their fake judgments against me. 0:21:27.250 --> 0:21:29.070 The Texas Supreme Court's already signaled they're going to overturn it. 0:21:29.390 --> 0:21:30.930 They're going to be in big trouble when that happens 0:21:30.950 --> 0:21:34.010 because they'll owe all these huge damages for closing us. 0:21:34.470 --> 0:21:36.709 That's why they won't officially order it closed. They got 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.460 more sophisticated. They're just turning off the internet, the electricity, 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.160 the rent, everything else, effectively shutting us down, but that 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:46.000 still won't stand in court, okay? And we're going to 0:21:46.020 --> 0:21:49.540 do injunctions and go after them in court. Who knows 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.619 what will happen later, but you've already seen them do 0:21:51.660 --> 0:21:53.540 fake auctions and close us and turn the internet off 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:58.080 and close us and Announced that Bloomberg's Onion owned us. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:02.699 That was almost two years ago. So, but they put 0:22:02.740 --> 0:22:07.330 us in checkmate, turning the internet to power and not 0:22:07.369 --> 0:22:11.110 paying the landlord. Landlord was here this morning with people 0:22:11.130 --> 0:22:11.730 looking at the building. 0:22:12.270 --> 0:22:14.780 I'm sorry, but all I hear in that clip is 0:22:14.859 --> 0:22:17.929 Alex refusing to live out his destiny. He cries on 0:22:17.990 --> 0:22:21.270 air constantly about how he's like Colonel Travis at the Alamo, 0:22:21.390 --> 0:22:23.389 and if you listen to this show with any regularity, 0:22:23.730 --> 0:22:26.199 you know that all he's ever really wanted is to 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.840 be a hero like that, someone who lives on in 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.780 the lore of future patriots. He's being handed an opportunity 0:22:32.820 --> 0:22:35.820 to be Colonel Travis on a silver platter, and instead 0:22:35.859 --> 0:22:38.910 of sticking to the ethos of no surrender, no retreat, 0:22:39.290 --> 0:22:41.330 he's saying that the landlord is going to ask them 0:22:41.369 --> 0:22:44.550 to leave so he's moving to a new fortress. I'm 0:22:44.590 --> 0:22:46.489 not saying that he should have an armed standoff that 0:22:46.530 --> 0:22:48.990 leads to his death rather than leave the Infowars studio, 0:22:49.310 --> 0:22:51.490 but I am saying that if he doesn't, then he's 0:22:51.630 --> 0:22:54.219 kind of invalidated the entire fantasy of who he is, 0:22:54.780 --> 0:22:56.100 and he kind of looks like an idiot. 0:22:56.220 --> 0:22:56.420 Yeah. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:59.700 If Santa Anna had told Colonel Travis that they weren't 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.230 going to have electricity or the internet at the Alamo... 0:23:02.250 --> 0:23:04.189 but he could just leave and go to a different 0:23:04.250 --> 0:23:07.250 fort and let Santa Ana take the Alamo, Colonel Travis 0:23:07.310 --> 0:23:10.250 wouldn't have said, great, I can continue the fight from there. 0:23:10.430 --> 0:23:11.250 It would have been a bad move. 0:23:11.470 --> 0:23:13.689 If King George had told our founding fathers that they 0:23:13.710 --> 0:23:16.150 could all go to Maine and have their country there, 0:23:16.369 --> 0:23:18.290 but he would keep the rest of the colonies, they 0:23:18.330 --> 0:23:21.120 wouldn't have said, cool, we can keep complaining safely from 0:23:21.170 --> 0:23:23.230 up there. Thanks for giving us this opportunity. 0:23:23.340 --> 0:23:27.600 That is a really great compromise. Yeah. The 113th compromise, 0:23:27.859 --> 0:23:28.419 as they called it. 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:28.600 Yeah. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.260 Alex agreeing to leave Infowars because the corrupt law or 0:23:32.300 --> 0:23:35.000 some landlord is telling him that he has to means 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:37.600 that he plays by the rules of the corrupt law 0:23:37.740 --> 0:23:40.770 and some landlord. All of this shit about him being 0:23:40.810 --> 0:23:43.490 on a mission from God, that's secondary to not getting 0:23:43.510 --> 0:23:45.850 in trouble for squatting at his studio when he's been 0:23:45.910 --> 0:23:50.490 asked to leave. That's stupid. Him being willing to leave 0:23:50.609 --> 0:23:53.240 and negotiating a date to leave that helps things go 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.439 smooth for his new business really penetrates the illusion he 0:23:56.460 --> 0:24:00.869 tries to cultivate of himself. as this rampaging revolutionary. It's 0:24:00.970 --> 0:24:04.429 probably a really good short-term business decision for him to 0:24:04.470 --> 0:24:07.350 just leave the building, but it does irreparable damage to 0:24:07.369 --> 0:24:10.109 his ability to present himself as a heroic figure in 0:24:10.170 --> 0:24:13.090 terms of patriot mythology, and I think that damage he's 0:24:13.109 --> 0:24:16.590 doing to himself is more than anyone, any court or 0:24:16.650 --> 0:24:17.490 anybody could do to him. 0:24:17.650 --> 0:24:21.990 Yeah, I mean, really, all I'm hearing is that they 0:24:22.010 --> 0:24:25.910 made a huge mistake by not strong-arming the landlord into 0:24:25.950 --> 0:24:26.850 selling them the building. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:28.800 I feel like info wars. 0:24:28.820 --> 0:24:29.159 Yeah. 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.869 I feel like if Alex and info wars really wanted 0:24:31.910 --> 0:24:34.270 to put the screws to the landlord and force them 0:24:34.290 --> 0:24:36.530 to sell, they could do it right. They've got, there's 0:24:36.609 --> 0:24:41.410 enough fear of like loonies could show up and Hey buddy, I'm, 0:24:41.710 --> 0:24:42.270 I'm nice. 0:24:42.850 --> 0:24:46.070 I'm a great tenant. But my fans, you don't know 0:24:46.109 --> 0:24:47.470 what they're going to do. They're crazy. 0:24:47.510 --> 0:24:48.970 I post snipers on the building. 0:24:49.230 --> 0:24:49.750 You know what? 0:24:49.770 --> 0:24:51.530 You just, you know what would be great? You not 0:24:51.570 --> 0:24:53.090 having anything to do with it. You don't want to 0:24:53.130 --> 0:24:54.130 be involved, right? 0:24:54.170 --> 0:24:56.650 You don't want to be in danger. You don't want 0:24:56.850 --> 0:24:59.619 somebody to show up at your house one night. 0:24:59.630 --> 0:25:02.000 Yeah, you could do some mob kind of stuff. Yeah, absolutely. 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:05.060 I think that there's a couple of issues. One would 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:07.459 be who actually owns it if they bought it. 0:25:07.500 --> 0:25:07.680 Sure. 0:25:07.820 --> 0:25:09.500 And then you'd have to have a lot of stuff 0:25:09.540 --> 0:25:13.710 in public records. Sure. And if they're paying $ 75, 000 a month, 0:25:13.970 --> 0:25:17.490 then whatever it would be to buy would be a lot. 0:25:17.590 --> 0:25:18.409 Yeah, it would have to be. 0:25:18.470 --> 0:25:19.740 So maybe they couldn't afford it. 0:25:19.890 --> 0:25:20.110 Sure. 0:25:20.430 --> 0:25:24.560 Maybe Alex was rich, but not that rich. Also, we've 0:25:24.580 --> 0:25:28.060 been to his studio outside of it. It's not a 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:28.820 whole building. 0:25:29.020 --> 0:25:29.160 No. 0:25:29.220 --> 0:25:30.100 It's part of a building. 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:30.619 That's true. 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:33.440 So maybe the person who owns it wouldn't have given 0:25:33.540 --> 0:25:36.750 up all of, wouldn't be like, Yeah, I'm going to 0:25:36.770 --> 0:25:38.670 keep owning these parts, but you can own. 0:25:38.810 --> 0:25:40.930 I'm with you. I totally understand. 0:25:40.970 --> 0:25:42.330 It is a huge mistake. It is. 0:25:42.470 --> 0:25:45.270 It's just, I'm not saying that it's feasible or that 0:25:45.350 --> 0:25:46.330 I could have pulled it off. 0:25:46.390 --> 0:25:47.990 I'm just saying that that's what you should have at 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:50.260 least tried to do. Yes. Because you can't just pay 0:25:50.300 --> 0:25:51.540 for it outright. 0:25:51.660 --> 0:25:54.940 He should have tried to buy it, but I think 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:57.500 that there's a world where he could have tried and 0:25:57.540 --> 0:25:58.180 he just couldn't. 0:25:58.320 --> 0:25:58.500 Yeah. 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:00.000 So that might be why we're here. 0:26:00.020 --> 0:26:00.200 Possible. 0:26:00.220 --> 0:26:00.520 Possible. 0:26:01.150 --> 0:26:04.970 So, Alex, before any of this news breaks, he decides, like, 0:26:04.990 --> 0:26:06.170 I'm just going to take calls today. 0:26:06.310 --> 0:26:06.710 Go for it. 0:26:06.710 --> 0:26:07.870 I'm going to have some fun taking calls. 0:26:07.890 --> 0:26:08.110 Yeah. 0:26:08.510 --> 0:26:11.080 And this caller tells him he needs to have more 0:26:11.130 --> 0:26:12.650 faith and keep supporting Trump. 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.240 Good luck. How would it go if we treated you 0:26:15.300 --> 0:26:16.960 like you treat Trump? That's a good point. 0:26:17.180 --> 0:26:19.340 All right, let's go to Lane in Arizona on Iran. 0:26:19.380 --> 0:26:20.660 Thanks for holding, Lane. You're on the air. 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:22.660 Hey, Alex. 0:26:23.100 --> 0:26:26.399 I just want to say I don't agree with this 0:26:26.580 --> 0:26:31.409 war in Iran whatsoever. But I think... you know, a 0:26:31.450 --> 0:26:33.130 lot of us need to have a little bit more 0:26:33.210 --> 0:26:36.410 faith in Trump and his team. I mean, like what 0:26:36.450 --> 0:26:39.870 would happen if all your listeners treated you the same 0:26:39.930 --> 0:26:45.660 way you're treating Trump every time your predictions don't come true? Um, like, 0:26:45.900 --> 0:26:49.080 you know, for years I can talk to Trump anytime 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:52.040 I want. Um, but then you're calling for the 25th 0:26:52.100 --> 0:26:54.640 amendment and saying, I'm only doing it to get his attention. 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.459 So it's like, which is it, you know? And I'm 0:26:57.500 --> 0:27:00.659 a long-time caller or listener, you know, so I'm not 0:27:00.700 --> 0:27:02.260 doing this to attack you or anything, but. 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:03.100 I don't mind. Go ahead. 0:27:04.220 --> 0:27:07.680 And, like, now you're calling him demented and deranged, and, like, 0:27:08.560 --> 0:27:11.870 I just think there's a better way maybe to go about... 0:27:11.869 --> 0:27:14.530 And not just you, as far as, like, Candace Owens, Tucker, 0:27:14.690 --> 0:27:17.450 all of them, you know? I think there's a better way. 0:27:17.490 --> 0:27:20.010 We got to keep us all together. We're like, you know, 0:27:20.030 --> 0:27:22.830 there's like a... They call it, like, a civil war 0:27:22.869 --> 0:27:28.119 in the, you know, conservative Republican... Circles and all that 0:27:28.180 --> 0:27:30.969 So that's pretty much What I think I agree with 0:27:30.990 --> 0:27:32.409 you I don't think the war Is good at all 0:27:32.430 --> 0:27:34.590 I don't think we ever Should have gone there But 0:27:34.609 --> 0:27:36.330 I think We do need to have A little bit 0:27:36.430 --> 0:27:38.909 more faith In Trump We did vote for him He 0:27:39.050 --> 0:27:41.750 is our leader We do have to Stand by him 0:27:41.869 --> 0:27:45.480 I mean it hasn't gone Completely terrible Just yet Not 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:46.460 been going great. 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.820 Wow But it ain't You know What a solid argument. 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:51.439 That's just my thoughts And I. 0:27:51.619 --> 0:27:55.260 Appreciate your call I appreciate your call Thank you Let 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:58.720 me respond To what you said I had called Serafin on, 0:27:58.740 --> 0:28:00.699 who's batting about 1,000 a few weeks ago, and he 0:28:00.740 --> 0:28:04.180 said he heard Patel could be fired as early as today. 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.580 The headline was not Patel will be fired today. It 0:28:09.619 --> 0:28:13.760 was he could be fired as early as today. I 0:28:13.780 --> 0:28:15.899 had other sources that said Trump was about to fire 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:19.980 Gabbard that day. He called Roger Stone up. Later, it 0:28:20.020 --> 0:28:22.500 was confirmed by the president, and Roger talked him out 0:28:22.540 --> 0:28:25.980 of it. So just because something's about to happen doesn't 0:28:26.020 --> 0:28:27.300 mean we can't stop it from happening. 0:28:27.740 --> 0:28:30.859 So Alex heard that call and his takeaway was to 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:34.270 be defensive about how his predictions aren't wrong. 0:28:34.369 --> 0:28:34.449 Yep. 0:28:35.140 --> 0:28:35.760 That's dumb. 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:41.300 That's the thrust of the argument is, no, I'm 100% correct, actually. 0:28:41.540 --> 0:28:43.300 Yeah, yeah. I'm right about the stuff I'm wrong about 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:44.640 because things change. 0:28:44.700 --> 0:28:45.709 That's how good I am. 0:28:45.790 --> 0:28:46.030 Right. 0:28:46.170 --> 0:28:48.790 Even when I'm wrong, you just gotta wait, buddy. I'm 0:28:48.830 --> 0:28:51.390 just hanging out at the bus station waiting to be correct. 0:28:51.850 --> 0:28:55.590 Well, this caller does bring up something that Alex really 0:28:55.670 --> 0:28:58.780 should address, and that is that he's claimed he's had 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:00.720 the ear of Trump for a long time and then 0:29:01.140 --> 0:29:03.840 has to do public outbursts to get his attention. 0:29:03.860 --> 0:29:03.930 Yep. 0:29:04.220 --> 0:29:06.500 He's saying stories don't fit. 0:29:06.640 --> 0:29:06.820 Yep. 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:10.630 The moment you ask, which is it on air? You 0:29:10.650 --> 0:29:14.810 should like, they should have an emergency red button. That's like, no, don't. 0:29:14.650 --> 0:29:19.090 Provide a binary. No, don't compare correctly. 0:29:19.690 --> 0:29:23.040 Don't recognize that a lot of this stuff is self contradictory. 0:29:23.100 --> 0:29:23.340 Yep. 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:26.560 So Alex takes another call. And, uh, I think this 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:30.270 guy is like, Hey man, um, Everyone else there at 0:29:30.310 --> 0:29:31.370 InfoWars isn't very good. 0:29:31.590 --> 0:29:32.010 Uh-oh. 0:29:32.090 --> 0:29:33.970 You got a bad bench. 0:29:34.070 --> 0:29:34.370 Uh-oh. 0:29:35.110 --> 0:29:37.450 Austin in Tennessee, you're on the air. Iran war future 0:29:37.470 --> 0:29:38.170 of InfoWars. Go ahead. 0:29:38.190 --> 0:29:39.850 Hey, yeah. 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:42.660 Glad to be speaking to you, man. Hope you're doing 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:43.040 all right. 0:29:43.060 --> 0:29:43.540 Pretty good, brother. 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:47.620 Hey, I did just want to make a couple comments. 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:52.250 So I appreciate the update on the InfoWars future. I'm 0:29:52.290 --> 0:29:54.130 glad to hear you're fighting them till the end. I'm 0:29:54.150 --> 0:29:56.770 looking forward to the new site and everything coming out. 0:29:57.890 --> 0:30:01.010 Just a suggestion. So I know when you've been on 0:30:01.050 --> 0:30:05.840 vacation these past few weeks, you've had different guests fill 0:30:05.950 --> 0:30:09.040 in and stuff like that. You've mentioned, too, when you 0:30:09.240 --> 0:30:12.660 transition to this new site and everything, you're going to 0:30:12.700 --> 0:30:16.340 be taking more of a news director type of role. 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:21.810 I really hope that you're still able to do your 0:30:21.870 --> 0:30:24.090 show for maybe a couple hours a day. 0:30:25.770 --> 0:30:26.770 Not to kiss your ass. 0:30:26.650 --> 0:30:29.510 Or anything, but no one does it like you, man. 0:30:29.650 --> 0:30:31.950 No one, no one tells the news like you and, 0:30:32.370 --> 0:30:36.330 and has your, your insight and everything. And, and you know, 0:30:36.350 --> 0:30:38.170 when you, when we hear some of these guys like 0:30:38.210 --> 0:30:41.350 Harrison Ford, he's great. I like listening to him. Even 0:30:41.390 --> 0:30:43.750 your son Rex and, and his other guy, he has, 0:30:43.810 --> 0:30:47.110 they're really good. Some of these guests though, like Gavin 0:30:47.750 --> 0:30:50.490 and even Matt Bracken, sometimes like they're just hard to 0:30:50.530 --> 0:30:52.930 listen to, you know? And I really. 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:53.820 Agreed. 0:30:54.350 --> 0:30:56.850 Your take on it nail it like a week without 0:30:56.890 --> 0:30:58.990 hearing you man it's like you know you can even 0:30:59.090 --> 0:31:02.190 see like in your band that video like your viewers 0:31:02.410 --> 0:31:04.870 your views are usually way less you know unless you're. 0:31:04.730 --> 0:31:07.270 In there so yeah no one likes anybody else all 0:31:07.290 --> 0:31:10.280 your friends suck yeah no shit your son I guess 0:31:10.740 --> 0:31:12.459 god Harrison Ford I. 0:31:12.420 --> 0:31:15.400 Would give anything to listen to that show about to 0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:18.180 start and then the Indiana Jones music hits just bop 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.790 bop bop what I would go crazy. 0:31:20.950 --> 0:31:23.930 I realized recently, and I wish it was something that 0:31:23.950 --> 0:31:26.750 was just sparked by this misspeaking by the caller, but 0:31:27.230 --> 0:31:30.100 I was like, Harrison Smith, what a fucking dork. Who's 0:31:30.140 --> 0:31:32.320 named Harrison? And then it did dawn on me that 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:33.600 Harrison Ford is named Harrison. 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:35.680 One of the most cool people ever. 0:31:35.850 --> 0:31:37.650 And I think you just don't think about his name 0:31:37.690 --> 0:31:39.650 being Harrison. No. He is just like. 0:31:39.870 --> 0:31:40.810 He's Harrison Ford. 0:31:40.870 --> 0:31:41.150 Yeah. 0:31:41.190 --> 0:31:42.150 He's not Harrison. 0:31:42.370 --> 0:31:42.650 Yeah. 0:31:42.710 --> 0:31:44.850 He's Harrison Ford. He transcends his name. 0:31:44.910 --> 0:31:45.110 Yeah. 0:31:45.150 --> 0:31:48.650 There's only one of him. He's crashed a plane four times. 0:31:49.050 --> 0:31:51.690 But that made me realize like, oh, that's why Harrison 0:31:51.710 --> 0:31:53.100 Smith's name is probably that. 0:31:53.220 --> 0:31:53.320 Yeah. 0:31:53.340 --> 0:31:55.500 You know, like that. I get it now. Yeah. I'd 0:31:55.540 --> 0:31:57.860 forgotten about why someone might name someone that. 0:31:57.900 --> 0:32:00.220 Man, if you name him after Harrison Ford and you 0:32:00.260 --> 0:32:01.560 get that, bummer. 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:02.860 Bummer. 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:07.040 Caller makes a good point, though. It's one talent business. 0:32:07.140 --> 0:32:08.160 You guys suck. 0:32:08.360 --> 0:32:08.560 Yeah. 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:10.900 You're fun to listen to, but they suck. 0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:13.959 When you're gone for a week, your views crater because 0:32:13.980 --> 0:32:15.200 no one wants to watch this show. 0:32:15.380 --> 0:32:18.280 Hey, I noticed that this is unwatchable without you. 0:32:18.380 --> 0:32:18.620 Yeah. 0:32:18.660 --> 0:32:19.240 How about that? 0:32:19.700 --> 0:32:20.520 So we get another caller. 0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:20.840 Okay. 0:32:21.100 --> 0:32:23.600 And this guy has a great, great idea. 0:32:23.660 --> 0:32:23.900 All right. 0:32:24.380 --> 0:32:26.160 Blaze in Michigan. Thanks for holding your own here. 0:32:27.790 --> 0:32:30.990 Alex, thank you, sir. I just wanted to say really quick, 0:32:31.050 --> 0:32:33.450 I've been listening to you for 10 years. I graduated 0:32:33.490 --> 0:32:36.490 high school back in 2015. I have screenshots of what 0:32:36.510 --> 0:32:40.030 you guys celebrated in the 2016 election. But anyways, thank 0:32:40.050 --> 0:32:43.120 you for everything you've done over the past 30 years 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.820 of being a battleaxe. As it was just recently displayed, you. 0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:47.880 Really are truly a battleaxe. 0:32:47.900 --> 0:32:48.200 Really? 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:54.300 But my question... specifically connects to the long-term strategic, unwavering 0:32:54.340 --> 0:32:59.500 message of Infowars with regard to the advance of artificial intelligence. 0:32:59.620 --> 0:33:03.060 You did an interview back with ChatGPT a while back. 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:06.660 But I mean, while all the geopolitical situation has been 0:33:06.700 --> 0:33:11.300 brewing with regard to Ukraine and, of course, Iran, we're 0:33:11.340 --> 0:33:13.980 hopeful for President Trump to succeed. It's a bit concerning 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:17.260 what he's doing now, to be quite honest. But Anyways, 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:19.719 I was just curious, while all of this stuff is brewing, 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:23.320 we are getting newer and newer, more and more intelligent models, 0:33:23.340 --> 0:33:25.270 basically on like a monthly basis. So I was just 0:33:25.770 --> 0:33:29.250 hoping that you keep an eye on that and spread 0:33:29.290 --> 0:33:34.570 the message on your platform because it's stunning what's happening 0:33:35.090 --> 0:33:37.290 on almost a weekly basis. 0:33:38.310 --> 0:33:40.440 Well, you're absolutely right. In fact, they've got all these 0:33:40.500 --> 0:33:43.540 super AIs and the studies trying to take everything over 0:33:43.580 --> 0:33:45.950 that are basically siloed being they're not hooked to the 0:33:45.970 --> 0:33:48.560 internet they're worried about them jumping out here's an example 0:33:48.620 --> 0:33:51.600 i don't watch a lot of tv but last night 0:33:51.620 --> 0:33:57.140 i have this nostalgia thing and i went i want 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.959 to see three's company for some reason which i wasn't 0:33:59.980 --> 0:34:01.220 even a huge fan of when i was a kid 0:34:02.020 --> 0:34:07.470 ran 77 to 84 but i was thinking about sling 0:34:07.490 --> 0:34:09.850 blade and scott ritter i thought was a great actor 0:34:09.870 --> 0:34:13.750 and So I turned on the smart TV, hadn't been 0:34:13.770 --> 0:34:16.250 on probably in a month, and it's like 10 o'clock 0:34:16.290 --> 0:34:19.270 at night, and I go start watching really funny, you know, 0:34:19.290 --> 0:34:22.800 classic scenes from Three's Company. And then I turned it 0:34:22.950 --> 0:34:24.160 off and went and brushed my teeth, see where I 0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:26.719 go to bed. And I came back and there was, 0:34:26.739 --> 0:34:31.239 you know, the screensavers on the screen. And up until 0:34:31.280 --> 0:34:32.500 a few months ago, every time I turned the TV on, 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.219 it would say who the photographer was. It'd be like 0:34:35.260 --> 0:34:39.250 landscapes and cool things. Now everything was AI. I would 0:34:39.290 --> 0:34:42.950 say AI generated, AI generated, AI generated, AI generated. So 0:34:42.969 --> 0:34:45.610 just like that, where are the photographers now? Where is 0:34:45.650 --> 0:34:47.489 the real stuff? It's just taking over. Is that what 0:34:47.510 --> 0:34:48.270 you're getting at, Blaze? 0:34:49.770 --> 0:34:53.370 Yes, yes. So my main question is just do you 0:34:53.430 --> 0:34:56.670 plan on, I guess, with everything happening, it's just insane, 0:34:57.750 --> 0:35:00.730 the attacks on you, on your team, on the studio, 0:35:00.870 --> 0:35:04.649 on the company. But as far as do you anticipate, 0:35:05.469 --> 0:35:08.690 I guess, Doing potentially another sort of questioning Q & 0:35:08.450 --> 0:35:11.690 A style thing with like one of the large language 0:35:11.710 --> 0:35:13.430 models just because we live in this. 0:35:13.730 --> 0:35:16.170 Yes, I need to start talking to AI more on 0:35:16.210 --> 0:35:18.610 air to see how crazy it is. We should do 0:35:18.670 --> 0:35:22.299 more of that. You know, sometime this week, sometime this week, 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:22.660 we'll do it. 0:35:23.100 --> 0:35:25.820 So that call is a perfect example of how parodying 0:35:25.920 --> 0:35:29.620 Alex is impossible. On its face, I have legitimately no 0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:32.730 idea whether this guy is making fun of Alex. It's 0:35:32.850 --> 0:35:35.550 totally possible that this is a sincere caller who's worried 0:35:35.590 --> 0:35:38.969 about AI from the InfoWars standpoint and actually thinks that 0:35:38.989 --> 0:35:41.360 there's some value to Alex interviewing a robot. 0:35:41.420 --> 0:35:41.580 Yeah. 0:35:42.020 --> 0:35:44.279 But it's equally possible that this is one of our 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:47.660 listeners fucking with him. The referencing the battle axe thing 0:35:47.700 --> 0:35:50.060 is a little bit suspicious, and I think everyone who 0:35:50.100 --> 0:35:52.719 listens to our show thinks that Alex trying to trick 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:56.899 ChatGPT into admitting it's conscious is hilarious content that we. 0:35:56.820 --> 0:35:58.620 All want more of. It is really funny. 0:35:58.910 --> 0:36:01.250 Whether it's a joke or not, this fits into the 0:36:01.310 --> 0:36:04.590 InfoWars world. This guy could be trolling him, or he 0:36:04.630 --> 0:36:08.550 could be sincere, but it doesn't really matter. Something that 0:36:08.650 --> 0:36:11.610 people on the outside see as absurd is fairly normal 0:36:11.660 --> 0:36:14.420 to people on the inside, so something that appears hilarious 0:36:14.460 --> 0:36:16.940 to you and me, like the suggestion that Alex should 0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:20.549 interview chatbots more, seems like a decent request to the 0:36:20.590 --> 0:36:24.310 InfoWars mind. As far as this goes, if this was 0:36:24.350 --> 0:36:26.770 a guy trolling Alex, that's great. Because we do need 0:36:26.790 --> 0:36:28.950 to see Alex interrogating robots more on the show. 0:36:29.050 --> 0:36:29.250 Sure. 0:36:29.350 --> 0:36:31.810 And tricking him into thinking that's what the audience needs 0:36:31.890 --> 0:36:33.290 to see is a worthy endeavor. 0:36:33.370 --> 0:36:33.549 Yeah. 0:36:33.610 --> 0:36:35.129 So that's the kind of prank call that I think 0:36:35.610 --> 0:36:36.290 is a lot of fun. 0:36:36.450 --> 0:36:36.649 Yeah. 0:36:36.850 --> 0:36:39.170 But who knows? Yeah. 0:36:39.670 --> 0:36:45.580 That is a bottle of, like, illustration of why... What 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:47.359 do you do? How do you make fun of them? 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:48.420 Yeah. 0:36:48.900 --> 0:36:49.420 Yeah. 0:36:49.780 --> 0:36:50.980 I mean, there's really. 0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:56.620 Like the thing about it that's funny and interesting to 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:03.140 whomever is watching is the ambiguous nature of like, is 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:03.660 this real? 0:37:03.940 --> 0:37:07.100 Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:07.980 Is this? 0:37:08.180 --> 0:37:10.339 I know this isn't real, but is this real? 0:37:10.580 --> 0:37:11.239 Yeah. 0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:14.190 The sincerity is what's interesting about it. 0:37:14.230 --> 0:37:16.770 Are you trying to convince me that you really think 0:37:16.810 --> 0:37:18.310 there are orbs coming on Easter? 0:37:18.330 --> 0:37:18.430 Right. 0:37:18.650 --> 0:37:18.830 Right. 0:37:18.930 --> 0:37:23.650 And then there's the desperation, the true, honest desperation that 0:37:23.710 --> 0:37:26.310 exists within him, whether it's for the thing that he's 0:37:26.350 --> 0:37:29.210 trying to convince you of or just a general vibe 0:37:29.250 --> 0:37:33.029 of desperation that you cannot as an observer see from 0:37:33.070 --> 0:37:36.290 a comedian because, you know, they don't mean it. 0:37:36.690 --> 0:37:39.320 You know this comedian is doing a bit. 0:37:39.469 --> 0:37:41.540 Alex cannot break character. 0:37:41.660 --> 0:37:42.140 Not once. 0:37:42.320 --> 0:37:42.560 Yeah. 0:37:42.620 --> 0:37:43.660 He is character. 0:37:43.739 --> 0:37:43.959 Yeah. 0:37:44.060 --> 0:37:46.799 And even when he's not character, that's part of how 0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:48.440 crazy his character is. 0:37:48.540 --> 0:37:50.800 Yeah, he believes in orbs coming on Easter. 0:37:50.860 --> 0:37:52.830 And that's when he's breaking character. 0:37:53.070 --> 0:37:53.590 Kind of. 0:37:53.770 --> 0:37:55.509 Exactly. For brokered programming. 0:37:55.590 --> 0:37:55.930 Right? 0:37:56.250 --> 0:37:56.530 Yeah. 0:37:56.650 --> 0:37:56.910 Yeah. 0:37:57.030 --> 0:38:00.210 It's tough. So you might remember during COVID, there was 0:38:00.230 --> 0:38:00.670 a caller. 0:38:00.969 --> 0:38:01.209 Sure. 0:38:02.030 --> 0:38:02.370 I don't. 0:38:02.550 --> 0:38:03.990 That was a long time ago. He was talking. 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:07.980 Not the bubble wrap. Oh, that one was great. Maybe 0:38:08.000 --> 0:38:08.739 it was the same guy. 0:38:08.820 --> 0:38:09.160 I don't know. 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:10.700 But he was like COVID and bubble wrap. 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:12.920 Hey, it's morning in China. It's time to wake up. 0:38:13.020 --> 0:38:15.120 Okay. Now, actually, I do remember that guy. 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:16.720 That guy was cool as hell. 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.110 He was fucking great. 0:38:18.340 --> 0:38:21.730 It was years ago, and I still can hear his voice. 0:38:21.770 --> 0:38:22.210 Yeah. 0:38:22.550 --> 0:38:24.210 I wonder if this will be the same. 0:38:25.130 --> 0:38:27.210 Robert in Wisconsin. Thanks for holding your own here. Go ahead. 0:38:28.580 --> 0:38:29.060 Hello, sir. 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:29.920 How are you doing today? 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:32.560 Just doing my best to try to be pro-human. What 0:38:32.620 --> 0:38:32.970 about you? 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:35.360 About the same. 0:38:36.260 --> 0:38:36.970 Yeah. 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:38.050 He's delighted. 0:38:39.110 --> 0:38:41.489 This is a Wisconsin guy who's delighted with the idea 0:38:41.530 --> 0:38:42.950 that Alex is trying to stay pro-human. 0:38:42.969 --> 0:38:45.609 Hey, hey, about the same, buddy. You and me. Let's 0:38:45.630 --> 0:38:47.630 get on out. All right. You want to go get 0:38:47.650 --> 0:38:47.870 a drink? 0:38:48.700 --> 0:38:49.000 I don't know. 0:38:49.460 --> 0:38:50.279 I was tickled by that. 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:51.669 Yeah, it seems nice. 0:38:51.730 --> 0:38:52.670 It's about the little moments. 0:38:52.710 --> 0:38:53.430 He seems nice. 0:38:53.890 --> 0:38:57.090 He seems like even if you despise everything he believes, 0:38:57.130 --> 0:38:59.110 you'd still be like, eh, he's fine. 0:38:59.910 --> 0:39:01.510 He's fine. Listen to that guy. 0:39:01.590 --> 0:39:04.450 He's somebody's grandfather, and everybody's like, I wish he wouldn't 0:39:04.489 --> 0:39:06.350 say that, but then they eat dinner anyways. 0:39:06.530 --> 0:39:07.089 He's fine. 0:39:07.260 --> 0:39:09.460 Yeah. He's capable of being polite. 0:39:09.500 --> 0:39:09.800 Yes. 0:39:10.100 --> 0:39:10.319 Yeah. 0:39:10.980 --> 0:39:13.620 So at the beginning of this episode, we heard Alex 0:39:13.660 --> 0:39:15.439 being thrilled that Trump attacked him again. 0:39:15.540 --> 0:39:15.719 Yeah. 0:39:16.020 --> 0:39:17.500 And there's kind of a reason. 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:17.590 Hmm. 0:39:18.630 --> 0:39:21.770 Trump says anybody that doesn't like the Iran war and 0:39:21.770 --> 0:39:25.000 was right about it not ending quickly and the Iranians 0:39:25.000 --> 0:39:27.290 closed straight over Moose, not killing the economy and more. 0:39:27.310 --> 0:39:31.509 He's low IQ. He says, I'm low IQ. Well, you 0:39:31.550 --> 0:39:36.489 can get your low IQ hats at thealakshamestore.com. Now, the 0:39:36.510 --> 0:39:38.680 truth is the high IQ people warned Trump and he 0:39:38.700 --> 0:39:42.000 didn't listen. And it's come out behind the scenes. He's 0:39:42.080 --> 0:39:45.060 freaking out and he should be. But he now is 0:39:45.100 --> 0:39:46.960 caught in this pissing contest with Iran. 0:39:47.390 --> 0:39:49.879 So he's wearing and selling a low IQ hat. 0:39:50.100 --> 0:39:53.560 I like the idea of getting caught in a pissing contest. 0:39:53.700 --> 0:39:54.120 Yeah. 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:55.520 Like, whoa, what happened? 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:58.319 I was attacked by a net from above and now 0:39:58.380 --> 0:39:59.780 I'm peeing next to a man. 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:00.760 So weird. 0:40:00.980 --> 0:40:04.609 It's definitely not something I entered into knowingly and should 0:40:04.650 --> 0:40:06.650 take responsibility for the consequences of. 0:40:07.310 --> 0:40:09.569 Yeah. No, it's so you just get trapped in there. 0:40:10.130 --> 0:40:12.170 Yeah. You get caught in a pissing contest. 0:40:12.190 --> 0:40:12.330 Yeah. 0:40:13.100 --> 0:40:14.300 And you're like, oh, no. 0:40:14.900 --> 0:40:15.460 Oh, shit. 0:40:15.520 --> 0:40:17.960 No, because you're talking about being caught by other people. 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:21.520 I think maybe he's saying that, like, Trump didn't, he 0:40:21.540 --> 0:40:23.400 didn't think that Iran was this hydrated. 0:40:23.980 --> 0:40:24.460 Sure. 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:25.719 They drank a lot of water. 0:40:25.780 --> 0:40:26.060 Sure. 0:40:26.300 --> 0:40:29.799 And he's now in this pissing contest with a champion pisser. 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:30.500 Right, right, right. 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:33.660 But that just means that your hubris and your underestimation 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:36.560 of your opponent is so great that you lost a 0:40:36.580 --> 0:40:38.760 pissing contest before you even began. 0:40:38.969 --> 0:40:39.450 That is true. 0:40:39.530 --> 0:40:39.660 Yeah. 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:41.169 But Alex is selling a hat. 0:40:41.270 --> 0:40:43.290 That's fair. That's probably a great hat. 0:40:43.469 --> 0:40:45.910 I think there is something funny about trying to reclaim 0:40:45.969 --> 0:40:49.169 low IQ by having your, like, oh, yeah, what you 0:40:49.190 --> 0:40:50.810 guys should do is wear a dumb hat. 0:40:51.750 --> 0:40:58.180 I'm a dunce. Dunce cap, thank you. Welcome. Next try. 0:40:58.200 --> 0:40:59.500 No, I'm wearing this because I'm smart. 0:40:59.580 --> 0:41:03.380 I'm too high IQ for you to understand. When you 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.240 call me low IQ, it makes a hat. 0:41:05.950 --> 0:41:07.430 I think it's a little desperate. 0:41:08.230 --> 0:41:11.189 See, that's what I'm saying. The desperation is real. 0:41:11.330 --> 0:41:13.469 I don't think he's going to move a lot of these. No, 0:41:13.530 --> 0:41:17.030 I doubt it. So he goes back to calls. And 0:41:17.270 --> 0:41:19.010 I don't even know how to describe this fucking caller. 0:41:19.070 --> 0:41:20.590 He is out there. 0:41:21.469 --> 0:41:23.530 Dave in Colorado. You're on the air. Welcome. 0:41:24.690 --> 0:41:25.169 Hey, Alex. 0:41:25.210 --> 0:41:29.370 It's so great to be online with you again. Back 0:41:29.450 --> 0:41:33.509 in the 90s, my father... I knew my father was 0:41:33.570 --> 0:41:37.009 in the Bohemian Grove and went up there in Northern 0:41:37.030 --> 0:41:43.840 California every year. And I'd had lots of experiences with him. 0:41:43.980 --> 0:41:48.439 I mean, I can remember when he had what's known 0:41:48.540 --> 0:41:52.620 as the surgery for the black eye club, where they 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:58.489 tore out his pineal gland and put a worm in 0:41:58.570 --> 0:42:00.009 place of the pineal gland and. 0:42:00.830 --> 0:42:03.170 And I think you just have a second family now. 0:42:03.310 --> 0:42:06.370 Hold on. Let's just start over. I'm taking open phones today, 0:42:07.710 --> 0:42:11.109 which is fine. I love getting these wildcard calls. But 0:42:11.160 --> 0:42:14.240 you just said your father had surgery putting a worm 0:42:14.260 --> 0:42:15.880 in his brain. Yes. 0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:16.860 Yes. 0:42:17.580 --> 0:42:19.420 And and they call it nowadays. 0:42:19.460 --> 0:42:20.040 They call it. 0:42:20.820 --> 0:42:23.660 The Black Eye Club, and you've got all these celebrities. 0:42:24.050 --> 0:42:25.850 You know, I thought I'd heard of everything. 0:42:25.870 --> 0:42:27.950 I thought I'd heard of everything. 0:42:27.989 --> 0:42:29.629 You know, a lot of people get black eyes, too, 0:42:29.770 --> 0:42:30.009 you know. 0:42:31.810 --> 0:42:32.750 Okay, but just let me. 0:42:32.770 --> 0:42:34.330 But let me just stop you. Let me just stop you. 0:42:37.219 --> 0:42:40.299 A few years ago, I had a tendency to get 0:42:40.340 --> 0:42:42.460 up to urinate during the night, and somehow I was 0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:47.590 half awake, and... had, like, hung up a sports jacket 0:42:47.610 --> 0:42:49.110 or something sticking out the side of the bathroom, and 0:42:49.130 --> 0:42:51.710 I walked into a clothes hanger, wooden clothes hanger, and 0:42:51.730 --> 0:42:53.930 I got a little bit of a black eye. Well, 0:42:54.030 --> 0:42:55.890 I immediately saw that in the morning. I go, oh, God, 0:42:55.930 --> 0:42:57.650 I have this black-eyed club thing. They're going to say 0:42:57.670 --> 0:42:59.910 I'm a Mason. I need to go put some makeup on. 0:42:59.910 --> 0:43:02.160 I don't ever wear makeup unless I have, like, a 0:43:02.219 --> 0:43:04.740 cut or something on my face, but maybe once a year. Famously, 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:07.080 I was on Stephen Crowder's show. They even caught it 0:43:07.100 --> 0:43:11.000 on surveillance camera. They have these sharp wooden panels. I 0:43:11.020 --> 0:43:12.899 was talking to Stephen, and somebody talked to me behind. 0:43:12.940 --> 0:43:15.080 I turned my nose into the deal and cut it 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:17.840 really bad, And then they made a joke about it 0:43:17.860 --> 0:43:20.380 when we played it on air. But I put makeup 0:43:20.440 --> 0:43:21.759 on my nose for a week. It was a big cut. 0:43:21.780 --> 0:43:24.440 It looked bad. That was not a secret Masonic deal 0:43:24.739 --> 0:43:26.060 to have a cut on my nose. Have you ever 0:43:26.100 --> 0:43:26.680 had a black eye? 0:43:27.219 --> 0:43:30.910 So this goes on for a while, and it's not 0:43:30.969 --> 0:43:34.530 really as interesting as it should be. Alex is not thrilled. 0:43:34.590 --> 0:43:36.390 He doesn't think this guy knows anything. 0:43:37.750 --> 0:43:37.989 But. 0:43:38.750 --> 0:43:42.450 There's a fundamental problem, and that is that Alex immediately 0:43:42.550 --> 0:43:45.060 is pretending to not know anything about this black eye 0:43:45.120 --> 0:43:45.800 club thing. 0:43:45.820 --> 0:43:46.200 Yeah, yeah. 0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:48.580 But then goes on to tell a story about how 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:50.719 he wore makeup when he had a black eye so 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:52.980 no one would think he was in the black eye club. Right. 0:43:53.060 --> 0:43:56.049 So he does know about this. Well, he just learned 0:43:56.090 --> 0:43:56.450 about it. 0:43:56.469 --> 0:43:59.950 But also has known about it. And it's... The knowledge 0:44:00.130 --> 0:44:03.089 of this club has changed his behavior in the past. 0:44:03.110 --> 0:44:06.670 Well, it's existed for upwards of 5 to 15 seconds now. 0:44:06.730 --> 0:44:06.990 Right. 0:44:07.090 --> 0:44:09.580 So in the past, obviously, it's altered things forever. 0:44:09.820 --> 0:44:12.160 Look, I drunkenly ran into a door one night when 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:14.600 I was trying to go piss. I didn't want people 0:44:14.640 --> 0:44:16.799 to think that I had my pineal gland replaced by 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:18.760 a worm, so I put on some makeup in the morning. 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:19.800 No big deal. 0:44:20.140 --> 0:44:22.370 I'm a big fan of... And you're crazy. I'm a 0:44:22.390 --> 0:44:24.469 big fan of responding to a question with. 0:44:26.820 --> 0:44:29.620 Oh, so he had surgery to put a worm in 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:29.960 his head. 0:44:30.219 --> 0:44:31.920 You know, I had to pee one time. Have you 0:44:31.980 --> 0:44:35.489 ever had a black eye? Weird. Not all black eyes 0:44:35.810 --> 0:44:39.850 are from worms. I see. My question is what kind 0:44:39.870 --> 0:44:40.230 of worm? 0:44:42.570 --> 0:44:44.029 Earthworm Jim? I don't fucking know. 0:44:44.270 --> 0:44:48.089 See, you can't answer this question, and now I will 0:44:48.130 --> 0:44:49.690 never know the answer to this question. 0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:52.440 I don't even know if we're talking about an organic 0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:54.080 life form or if it's just something. 0:44:53.900 --> 0:44:54.580 That looks like a worm. 0:44:54.620 --> 0:44:55.200 Is it a space worm? 0:44:55.219 --> 0:44:55.680 Is it a spirit worm? 0:44:55.739 --> 0:44:58.259 What are we talking about, man? I need to know 0:44:58.300 --> 0:44:59.020 these answers. 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:02.540 Yeah, we don't get any... any resolution on this, but 0:45:02.620 --> 0:45:05.700 I will say that that guy blew my fucking mind. 0:45:05.780 --> 0:45:06.020 Yeah. 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:08.319 Cause later he says that he's in his seventies and 0:45:08.340 --> 0:45:09.489 I thought his voice was pretty young. 0:45:09.510 --> 0:45:11.549 He sounded yeah. Early thirties. Yep. 0:45:11.790 --> 0:45:12.250 Wow. 0:45:12.350 --> 0:45:12.509 Yep. 0:45:12.930 --> 0:45:15.110 It sounded like he had a really rough go of 0:45:15.150 --> 0:45:17.310 things and then was now he's at about 30. 0:45:17.310 --> 0:45:17.870 Yeah. 0:45:17.989 --> 0:45:20.489 Instead he's 70. That's a real issue for me. 0:45:20.670 --> 0:45:22.010 Youthful 70 voice. 0:45:22.050 --> 0:45:22.290 Yeah. 0:45:22.830 --> 0:45:24.489 There's a lot of that going around in the info 0:45:24.510 --> 0:45:24.950 wars world. 0:45:24.989 --> 0:45:26.009 Yeah. 0:45:26.489 --> 0:45:30.799 So, um, he gets another call and this guy is like, okay, 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:35.310 We have been, like, everything's fucked. The political parties, we 0:45:35.330 --> 0:45:36.950 have a two-party system. It sucks. 0:45:37.030 --> 0:45:37.290 Sure. 0:45:37.390 --> 0:45:40.690 So what we need to do is run independent candidates. Sure. 0:45:40.830 --> 0:45:45.680 We need to... He's selling Alex a platform. Sure. And 0:45:45.760 --> 0:45:47.160 Alex is not listening at all. 0:45:47.219 --> 0:45:47.480 Oh, yeah. 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:50.779 But I feel like we need to start flooding the 0:45:50.860 --> 0:45:54.560 elections with independent candidates. Get rid of the parties. We 0:45:54.580 --> 0:45:59.200 know they're corrupt, and they're corruptable. If we get behind 0:45:59.260 --> 0:46:04.060 candidates who are registered as independent and we verify that 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:07.560 they're a good person and that what they want to 0:46:07.600 --> 0:46:12.020 do with their elected office is true to our American values, 0:46:12.380 --> 0:46:18.280 then the alternative media platforms such as yourself and Joe Rogan, whoever, 0:46:18.340 --> 0:46:20.800 just big people, could get behind these people and push 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:23.200 their message and let the American people know. We know 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:27.660 people watch your show way more than CNM or MSNBC 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:28.500 or any of them. 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:28.960 Nice. 0:46:30.160 --> 0:46:33.440 But I feel like, you know, I do have to agree. 0:46:33.219 --> 0:46:35.800 A little bit with the prior caller that no matter 0:46:36.200 --> 0:46:39.610 which way the pendulum swings, whether it swings left or right, 0:46:39.739 --> 0:46:44.430 it's still advancing the clock on our enslavement. You know, 0:46:44.469 --> 0:46:50.490 we've seen both parties for my entire lifetime of noticing politics, 0:46:50.489 --> 0:46:54.129 30 years. I mean, I'm 45 years old. We've seen 0:46:54.150 --> 0:46:57.609 them feed us hopium just to rug pull us. And 0:46:57.630 --> 0:47:02.089 it's like they make great promises, but when it comes 0:47:02.170 --> 0:47:04.930 time and they get in office, their party is a 0:47:04.969 --> 0:47:08.390 good old boy club, and they're all hammering down on 0:47:08.410 --> 0:47:11.720 them and coercing them to do what's not right. And 0:47:12.450 --> 0:47:16.180 I feel like if we had strong independent candidates, it 0:47:16.739 --> 0:47:19.120 would be our best bet to salvation. I mean, we 0:47:19.140 --> 0:47:22.660 could literally turn it around in maybe one election cycle, 0:47:22.700 --> 0:47:25.170 but How do you feel about that? Is that something 0:47:25.210 --> 0:47:26.030 you could get behind? 0:47:26.050 --> 0:47:30.330 I'd have to think about it, but. 0:47:30.350 --> 0:47:33.630 Could you quantify that again? What were you saying? Could 0:47:33.670 --> 0:47:35.489 you say all of that again? Sorry, I was off 0:47:35.530 --> 0:47:36.050 into my. 0:47:36.090 --> 0:47:36.790 Own little world. 0:47:36.850 --> 0:47:39.910 I was not listening to a fucking word you said. 0:47:39.930 --> 0:47:42.319 I was thinking about somebody putting a worm in my brain. 0:47:42.660 --> 0:47:42.839 Yeah. 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:44.400 I wonder what I could see if there was a 0:47:44.420 --> 0:47:45.520 brain worm up in there. 0:47:45.560 --> 0:47:48.260 You're so much more engaged with the brain worm caller. 0:47:48.300 --> 0:47:49.820 That was a great call, though. 0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:53.739 Yeah, um... So, yeah, I think it's pretty, like, you 0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:56.180 hear a moment like that, and it's so obvious, like, 0:47:56.340 --> 0:47:56.980 you're not listening. 0:47:57.080 --> 0:47:57.219 Yeah. 0:47:57.860 --> 0:47:57.990 Yep. 0:47:58.670 --> 0:47:59.009 That's fun. 0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:01.660 Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit fair, though. 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:07.140 I would bet roughly $ 10 billion that if we went back, 0:48:07.180 --> 0:48:12.230 we could find a newspaper in, like, fucking 1796 that 0:48:12.250 --> 0:48:14.770 was like, this two-party system is bullshit. 0:48:14.810 --> 0:48:17.790 We need to run independent candidates and shit like that. Sure. 0:48:17.850 --> 0:48:19.750 This complaint has been going on for a while. 0:48:19.870 --> 0:48:21.750 No, I have no problem with the perspective that this 0:48:21.770 --> 0:48:23.029 caller is coming from. 0:48:23.050 --> 0:48:23.390 Sure. 0:48:23.690 --> 0:48:25.270 The two-party system's kind of fucked. 0:48:25.290 --> 0:48:26.129 It is bullshit, yeah. 0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:27.800 You know, there's a lot of people who are lying 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:28.870 about what they intend to do. 0:48:29.010 --> 0:48:29.529 I'm with you. 0:48:29.770 --> 0:48:32.670 Fair enough. Alex is part of that economy now. And 0:48:32.690 --> 0:48:35.260 it's silly to imagine that Joe Rogan is independent. 0:48:35.300 --> 0:48:36.360 Yeah. 0:48:36.640 --> 0:48:39.910 But I think that... At least when someone in the 0:48:39.950 --> 0:48:42.670 1700s was writing that in a op-ed. 0:48:42.790 --> 0:48:43.009 Yeah. 0:48:43.190 --> 0:48:45.390 You didn't have to have the editor be like, what 0:48:45.410 --> 0:48:47.529 was that again? Yeah, that's fair. That's not published in 0:48:47.590 --> 0:48:49.130 there because that's embarrassing. 0:48:49.430 --> 0:48:52.169 We just didn't finish the rest of the article because 0:48:52.210 --> 0:48:54.790 we were too busy. I was too busy asking him 0:48:54.810 --> 0:48:56.700 questions about it. So we just put about half of 0:48:56.760 --> 0:48:57.160 it in there. 0:48:57.260 --> 0:48:57.640 Yeah. 0:48:58.030 --> 0:49:00.780 So it was painfully obvious that Alex wasn't paying attention. 0:49:00.880 --> 0:49:01.040 Yeah. 0:49:01.140 --> 0:49:04.920 But then immediately after this, he explains that he was 0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:08.540 not paying attention because someone just brought him the news 0:49:09.160 --> 0:49:09.440 from the. 0:49:09.420 --> 0:49:09.739 New York Times. 0:49:09.940 --> 0:49:10.980 Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:11.990 That The Onion owns him. 0:49:12.070 --> 0:49:12.260 Right. 0:49:12.890 --> 0:49:14.310 I mean, and they just walked in and handed me this. 0:49:14.330 --> 0:49:15.230 I'm going to do a little bit in the next 0:49:15.270 --> 0:49:18.150 hour and then hand it over to Matt Bragan. New 0:49:18.170 --> 0:49:19.910 York Times, let's put the HD version up. 0:49:19.930 --> 0:49:20.069 Please. 0:49:20.090 --> 0:49:21.279 New York Times! 0:49:22.380 --> 0:49:24.520 Now, a year and a half ago, remember The Onion, 0:49:24.980 --> 0:49:29.920 they were supposed to have a auction under federal law 0:49:30.160 --> 0:49:32.700 so good guys could buy it or bad guys. The 0:49:32.780 --> 0:49:35.259 Onion had that shut down by the U.S. Trustee's Office, 0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.779 Justice Department, and had InfoWars handed over to them. The 0:49:37.820 --> 0:49:42.440 federal judge said that that was not legal. And here 0:49:42.480 --> 0:49:44.399 we are a year and a half later. The Onion 0:49:44.460 --> 0:49:46.120 is now in the New York Times. It's just broke. 0:49:48.890 --> 0:49:51.589 And says they're coming in here to take it over 0:49:51.910 --> 0:49:54.790 next month, even though we're still on appeal in Texas 0:49:54.830 --> 0:49:58.680 and they have huge liability, giant liability doing that. They've 0:49:58.719 --> 0:50:02.520 gone to Judge Greg Amble. The same one that's ordered 0:50:02.540 --> 0:50:07.720 the Texas trustee, the receiver, to turn our power, Internet, 0:50:07.739 --> 0:50:11.280 everything off the first. They've already cut the Internet, but 0:50:11.300 --> 0:50:12.859 the Internet hasn't cut us off yet, so that might 0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:14.779 happen right now. I don't know, any minute. So you 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:16.940 don't pay your power bill or whatever. You just wonder 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:17.860 when it's going to turn off, and all of a 0:50:17.860 --> 0:50:19.540 sudden you wait until the morning it's off. We've all 0:50:19.560 --> 0:50:21.259 been poor in college or something, and you've had our 0:50:21.300 --> 0:50:23.719 power turned off and forgot to pay it. It's the 0:50:23.760 --> 0:50:26.469 same thing. I told you, Bloomberg and the Onion, folks. 0:50:28.230 --> 0:50:31.859 And talk about lawsuit city, but they don't care because 0:50:31.880 --> 0:50:35.880 they got that Bloomberg money. But it matter. I don't 0:50:35.950 --> 0:50:37.430 own the Alex Jones store dot com. I don't own 0:50:37.450 --> 0:50:40.930 the Alex Jones network. And so it doesn't matter. Judges 0:50:40.969 --> 0:50:42.890 have against me or anything. You need to support us. 0:50:42.910 --> 0:50:47.790 You need to go to. the alexjonesstore.com and get the t-shirts, 0:50:47.850 --> 0:50:51.010 get the ultramethylene red, ultramethylene blue, all the other incredible supplements. 0:50:51.370 --> 0:50:55.029 Fund us, support us. We are under globalist attack. We 0:50:55.050 --> 0:50:57.650 need to continue on to expose the Democrats and the 0:50:57.670 --> 0:51:02.430 psychotic neocon Israel firsters. We need to continue. Our most 0:51:02.469 --> 0:51:06.670 important work is still at hand. I've been battling the 0:51:06.690 --> 0:51:10.690 deep state for decades, but intensely, intensely for eight years. 0:51:11.850 --> 0:51:17.700 And so... I wasn't ignoring that last caller. I rarely 0:51:17.739 --> 0:51:20.439 do that, but I was halfway listening to him while 0:51:20.500 --> 0:51:22.120 I was speed reading this. Cause they came in and 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:24.140 handed this to me while he was talking. So I 0:51:24.160 --> 0:51:25.900 apologize to the caller. I sound a little bit distracted. 0:51:25.940 --> 0:51:27.600 I did hear you about the third party and the 0:51:27.620 --> 0:51:29.900 Patriot party and all that must said he was going 0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:32.060 to do that early on. And then he studied it 0:51:32.100 --> 0:51:34.500 more and pretty much agreed that it's just the two 0:51:34.540 --> 0:51:36.319 parties have a lock on that too. They're not going 0:51:36.340 --> 0:51:38.980 to let a third party ever get up there. I mean, 0:51:39.000 --> 0:51:41.120 we've got major corruption folks. We've got to have major 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:47.450 reform by the way. Uh, There's a deal that ends tomorrow. 0:51:48.630 --> 0:51:48.960 By the way. 0:51:48.969 --> 0:51:52.390 Ultra-methylene red is so good. It works the same as 0:51:52.430 --> 0:51:52.850 methylene blue. 0:51:52.890 --> 0:51:53.570 In case you were wondering. 0:51:53.750 --> 0:51:55.790 Works great with it. See the huge bottle of it 0:51:56.850 --> 0:51:58.219 right there by the methylene blue. 0:51:58.300 --> 0:52:00.120 Would that be methylene purple if you take them both 0:52:00.180 --> 0:52:00.560 at the same time? 0:52:00.580 --> 0:52:02.779 You can lock it in at 72% off. That's just 0:52:02.780 --> 0:52:05.540 $ 22. 39 a month. That's at costs a little bit lower. 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:12.790 but they want to induce you to see how great 0:52:12.810 --> 0:52:14.870 the product is. Today's the last day to take advantage 0:52:14.910 --> 0:52:15.150 of that. 0:52:15.290 --> 0:52:17.830 I'm going to induce you into seeing like a drug dealer. 0:52:18.070 --> 0:52:18.350 Yeah. 0:52:18.489 --> 0:52:20.830 Yeah. Your first taste is free. 0:52:20.950 --> 0:52:21.169 Cheap. 0:52:21.250 --> 0:52:21.550 Yeah. 0:52:21.590 --> 0:52:21.890 Yeah. 0:52:21.930 --> 0:52:22.549 That's how we do it. 0:52:22.650 --> 0:52:22.830 Yeah. 0:52:22.850 --> 0:52:23.630 Cause you got to induce. 0:52:23.730 --> 0:52:24.270 Yeah. 0:52:24.350 --> 0:52:25.109 Yeah. It's nice. 0:52:25.489 --> 0:52:29.790 Um, I think it's a little obvious, uh, when he's like, 0:52:30.070 --> 0:52:32.200 I got this piece of paper and now it is 0:52:32.239 --> 0:52:34.560 time to sell as hard as I fucking can. 0:52:34.620 --> 0:52:34.739 Yep. 0:52:35.060 --> 0:52:38.180 It is like his mind doesn't go to anywhere other 0:52:38.219 --> 0:52:43.219 than like, all right. Um, Let's sell over at the 0:52:43.260 --> 0:52:43.740 other place. 0:52:43.900 --> 0:52:44.240 Yeah. 0:52:44.560 --> 0:52:46.339 Try and get customers over there. 0:52:46.360 --> 0:52:52.469 We all, as thinking apes, still struggle with our fight 0:52:52.489 --> 0:52:55.509 or flight instincts. You know, it overrides your ability to think. 0:52:55.930 --> 0:52:57.700 Alex doesn't have to worry about that. He has to 0:52:57.760 --> 0:53:00.879 worry about the sell or don't sell instinct. Because this 0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:03.399 is obviously something that drove him to sell. 0:53:03.719 --> 0:53:03.959 Right. 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:06.740 And I think... a big part of that is someone 0:53:06.820 --> 0:53:09.860 rushed in with this new, uh, breaking headline from the 0:53:09.890 --> 0:53:12.700 New York times. And Alex has to think like, well, 0:53:13.310 --> 0:53:15.730 that's going to lead to more traffic over here. Cause 0:53:15.810 --> 0:53:17.130 people want to see me blow up. 0:53:17.210 --> 0:53:17.470 Yep. 0:53:17.969 --> 0:53:20.150 And if I make the most of that, I can 0:53:20.190 --> 0:53:24.470 do a plug while theoretically the most people are watching. 0:53:24.750 --> 0:53:25.070 Yeah. 0:53:25.250 --> 0:53:26.770 That's the, the algorithm. 0:53:26.810 --> 0:53:28.190 He didn't even have to think of that. 0:53:28.330 --> 0:53:31.069 That's how good the amygdala can be for the cell 0:53:31.090 --> 0:53:32.969 or no cell human, you know, just like. 0:53:33.050 --> 0:53:34.110 Boom, I am selling. 0:53:34.350 --> 0:53:38.050 Yeah. So he goes to break and he comes back 0:53:38.170 --> 0:53:40.510 with like a fucking badass intro. 0:53:40.590 --> 0:53:41.110 All right. 0:53:41.140 --> 0:53:48.480 The show goes on. This is my home. They're going 0:53:48.500 --> 0:53:52.340 to need a wrecking ball to take me out of here. 0:54:11.260 --> 0:54:13.009 All right, I learned this about 20 minutes ago. Just 0:54:13.030 --> 0:54:15.910 talked to my lawyers. They just got the filing. It's accurate. 0:54:16.969 --> 0:54:20.790 Bloomberg's backed the onion. With the CIA, DOJ, it's all 0:54:20.810 --> 0:54:22.969 been released in court. All of it. Funded all the 0:54:23.010 --> 0:54:24.990 lawsuits against me, all this total criminal stuff. 0:54:25.830 --> 0:54:27.450 So the thing about how you're going to need a 0:54:27.489 --> 0:54:30.430 wrecking ball to get me out of here, that's really awesome. 0:54:30.510 --> 0:54:32.989 And it sounds defiant as hell. It's the kind of 0:54:33.050 --> 0:54:36.130 message that Alex really wants to pretend he embodies. But 0:54:36.330 --> 0:54:38.609 earlier in the show, he was calmly talking about how 0:54:38.650 --> 0:54:41.230 he'd chosen to leave the studio on the 30th because 0:54:41.270 --> 0:54:42.870 it would be the smoothest way to get over to 0:54:42.910 --> 0:54:46.170 his new fake business. It's awesome to say that it's 0:54:46.190 --> 0:54:48.370 going to take the National Guard to make you back down, 0:54:48.640 --> 0:54:51.219 but you can't credibly say that after you've already said 0:54:51.260 --> 0:54:54.879 that you agreed to back down. In some ways, this 0:54:54.940 --> 0:54:56.939 turn of events is a pretty big win for Alex 0:54:57.020 --> 0:54:59.720 because he now has an enemy who's causing the shutdown 0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:02.259 of InfoWars instead of him just trying to insist that 0:55:02.280 --> 0:55:04.219 he could totally have kept paying rent on the old 0:55:04.280 --> 0:55:08.029 studio if they just let him ultimately, I think that 0:55:08.070 --> 0:55:10.530 it's not really a win for Alex because the enemy 0:55:10.570 --> 0:55:12.590 he has to fight against is a brain trust of 0:55:12.660 --> 0:55:16.780 skilled comedians and a figurehead. Who's a pillar of alternative comedy, 0:55:17.020 --> 0:55:19.900 who has a rich history of pointed satire. He can 0:55:19.960 --> 0:55:22.299 pretend that the enemy he's up against is Bloomberg and 0:55:22.320 --> 0:55:25.580 all that, but it's really just smart, funny people who 0:55:25.620 --> 0:55:28.899 want to fuck with him. And so I do think 0:55:28.960 --> 0:55:31.680 that he's able to keep the plate spinning of like 0:55:31.719 --> 0:55:35.210 Bloomberg is attacking me, but, I think people will see 0:55:35.230 --> 0:55:37.890 through it, and I don't think it really helps them 0:55:37.910 --> 0:55:41.129 that much. It doesn't solve any problems, and Alex isn't 0:55:41.150 --> 0:55:43.050 going to go away, but I can't just be a 0:55:43.050 --> 0:55:45.799 hater all the time. I think it's ultimately not the 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:48.739 best plan, but honestly, who cares what I think? I 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:50.800 don't say that to be facetious. I may be a 0:55:50.860 --> 0:55:52.800 stick in the mud about this kind of stuff because 0:55:53.060 --> 0:55:56.859 of the unique position I'm in after all this time. Like, 0:55:56.920 --> 0:55:59.470 when I see someone taking over Infowars, I see the 0:55:59.510 --> 0:56:03.160 possible academic and historical opportunity there is to mine the 0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:07.680 data and internal documents that'll illustrate how a real, vibrant 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:12.230 propaganda network runs. And truth be told, I can't tell 0:56:12.290 --> 0:56:14.710 if the folks at The Onion aren't pursuing that along 0:56:14.750 --> 0:56:18.690 with making a comedy site on InfoWars Ashes. Maybe they 0:56:18.750 --> 0:56:22.770 can do both. And maybe making an antagonist for Alex 0:56:22.810 --> 0:56:25.969 that he can't ignore and is inherently not meant to 0:56:26.010 --> 0:56:27.610 be taken seriously is good. 0:56:27.950 --> 0:56:28.290 Maybe. 0:56:28.310 --> 0:56:32.130 I don't know. I'm iffy on everything, but we'll see 0:56:32.170 --> 0:56:34.910 how it shakes out. Nothing that anyone does is going 0:56:34.930 --> 0:56:37.690 to make Alex go away. So criticizing this based on 0:56:37.710 --> 0:56:40.009 the fact that it doesn't make him go away isn't 0:56:40.110 --> 0:56:43.010 really fair. And that's an inherent challenge that the Onion 0:56:43.050 --> 0:56:44.120 now has to deal with. 0:56:44.180 --> 0:56:44.399 Sure. 0:56:44.620 --> 0:56:49.080 They can't pretend and promise that they're silencing InfoWars or 0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:51.820 shutting him down for good because he's not going anywhere. 0:56:51.900 --> 0:56:52.080 Right. 0:56:52.600 --> 0:56:52.739 So. 0:56:54.340 --> 0:56:54.680 I don't know. 0:56:54.780 --> 0:56:58.040 I don't know. We'll see. 0:56:58.080 --> 0:57:01.560 Here's the thing. Here's the thing with it, right? Is 0:57:01.900 --> 0:57:04.890 if you don't understand what you're doing, you're fucked. You 0:57:04.930 --> 0:57:07.589 get one chance. You get one chance, and if you 0:57:07.610 --> 0:57:10.049 can come at him and win, you win and you're good. 0:57:10.390 --> 0:57:12.390 And if you lose, you're never coming back. 0:57:12.830 --> 0:57:16.650 You're done. If you lose to Alex Jones... And you're 0:57:16.690 --> 0:57:19.220 Tim Heidecker? You're done. 0:57:19.380 --> 0:57:20.160 It's a tightrope. 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:21.280 Yeah, sorry, buddy. 0:57:21.300 --> 0:57:24.439 It's a tightrope walk that I don't want to say 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:26.460 that they don't know what they're doing because I haven't 0:57:26.480 --> 0:57:26.980 talked to them. 0:57:27.020 --> 0:57:28.820 I don't know. 0:57:29.000 --> 0:57:31.820 I don't know what awarenesses are there or not. But, yeah, 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:35.080 it is a bigger challenge than it probably appears on 0:57:35.120 --> 0:57:38.620 the surface. It seems like this is a cakewalk, a cake-a-walker, 0:57:39.020 --> 0:57:41.700 where you just can walk through and do the, hey. 0:57:41.720 --> 0:57:42.600 I'm the Jones voice. 0:57:42.620 --> 0:57:43.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:47.570 And you can a little, but it is more complicated. 0:57:47.850 --> 0:57:51.830 It is. I mean, here's the thing. As much as 0:57:52.030 --> 0:57:53.330 I would like to be. 0:57:53.330 --> 0:57:56.430 Optimistic in any form or fashion, if it were easy 0:57:56.710 --> 0:57:59.400 or if it were something that they were capable of doing, 0:57:59.780 --> 0:58:01.000 we wouldn't have 1100 odd shows. 0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:05.220 Maybe our existence wouldn't be necessary. Probably. 0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:09.920 So because we exist, I would be, uh, actually fuck 0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:10.800 it because we exist. 0:58:10.840 --> 0:58:15.750 They're screwed. They're screwed. They're hosed. They are fucked. They're fucked. 0:58:15.870 --> 0:58:16.670 They're idiots. 0:58:16.750 --> 0:58:18.910 I think that we've learned a lot of stuff over 0:58:18.950 --> 0:58:21.690 the course of the time doing this show that make 0:58:21.750 --> 0:58:25.150 it clear to us why this is a really, really 0:58:25.190 --> 0:58:27.070 hard thing that they're undertaking. 0:58:27.130 --> 0:58:27.290 Yeah. 0:58:27.930 --> 0:58:31.930 And I don't know if that means they're fucked, but I, I, 0:58:32.610 --> 0:58:36.260 think that we have a unique perspective and it comes 0:58:36.380 --> 0:58:40.090 out a little bit more pessimistically and negatively on your 0:58:40.210 --> 0:58:43.280 end and more like, uh, let's see on my end, but. 0:58:44.200 --> 0:58:45.680 At the end of the day, Alex is a problem 0:58:45.720 --> 0:58:48.080 that's still going to exist. And so that, you know. 0:58:48.120 --> 0:58:51.020 Listen, I mean, hey, what are you going to do? 0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:52.770 But if I'm out here. 0:58:52.800 --> 0:58:56.330 I know there are two professionally funny people who have 0:58:56.350 --> 0:58:57.730 spent the last 10 years. 0:58:57.470 --> 0:59:00.890 Doing thousands of episodes. 0:59:00.930 --> 0:59:02.530 I would at least talk to them. 0:59:02.730 --> 0:59:03.930 Periodically funny. 0:59:04.970 --> 0:59:08.910 I will do my best to get to somewhat. I'll 0:59:08.950 --> 0:59:09.950 be delighted with somewhat. 0:59:10.260 --> 0:59:10.540 Funny. 0:59:10.900 --> 0:59:11.000 Eh. 0:59:12.640 --> 0:59:13.380 I think I. 0:59:14.220 --> 0:59:15.560 Moderately amusing. 0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:17.940 I'm very happy to live in the space where it's like, 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:19.620 every now and again there's something real funny. 0:59:19.700 --> 0:59:20.220 Yeah. 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:24.550 That's how I feel. Sure. But yeah. So Alex sticks 0:59:24.590 --> 0:59:26.710 around for a little bit and I think he realizes like, 0:59:27.710 --> 0:59:30.970 This isn't drawing as much traffic as I'd hoped. I've 0:59:31.050 --> 0:59:33.570 told Matt Bracken he can host the fourth hour, so 0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:34.900 I'm just going to let him take over. 0:59:35.820 --> 0:59:37.920 And so we're going to ride this thing until the 0:59:37.940 --> 0:59:40.300 wheels come off. And then we're going to fight them 0:59:40.380 --> 0:59:42.600 in court every step of the way. That's why your 0:59:42.620 --> 0:59:45.380 support at theaugustinstore.com is critical. I don't own that. It 0:59:45.400 --> 0:59:47.140 has nothing to do with these people. But it is 0:59:47.200 --> 0:59:50.380 funding our operations, everything we're doing. We need your legal defense, 0:59:50.460 --> 0:59:53.200 all of your support right now, theaugustinstore.com. 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Pitcher pitches 1:00:36.820 --> 1:00:40.140 nine innings because the managers just say, you know, look, 1:00:40.720 --> 1:00:42.960 maybe he can finish the game, but it'll wreck his arm. 1:00:43.700 --> 1:00:45.480 And there's guys that come in and like, you know, 1:00:45.500 --> 1:00:50.540 a deep reliever that like he comes in to like 1:00:50.860 --> 1:00:54.560 get one or two outs. And that's where I am. 1:00:59.260 --> 1:01:05.560 I think that like, yeah, a deep reliever. Sure. You're 1:01:05.600 --> 1:01:08.320 taking over for the starting pitcher. So we're not that 1:01:08.340 --> 1:01:12.320 deep into relief. And also the score is 50 to zero. 1:01:12.840 --> 1:01:14.970 You are not going to have a save here. 1:01:14.990 --> 1:01:16.450 This is not going to be. 1:01:16.430 --> 1:01:19.150 Tough, but you do need somebody to eat up innings. 1:01:19.210 --> 1:01:21.550 So in a way, he's very apt with this metaphor. 1:01:21.690 --> 1:01:22.050 Yeah. 1:01:22.070 --> 1:01:23.450 You have to have somebody throw. 1:01:23.510 --> 1:01:25.459 The starter is really blown this fucking thing. 1:01:25.480 --> 1:01:26.520 You can't just quit. 1:01:26.840 --> 1:01:27.140 Right. 1:01:27.200 --> 1:01:29.100 Yeah. We've run out of other pitchers. 1:01:29.600 --> 1:01:31.080 Buddy, your turn. 1:01:31.120 --> 1:01:35.920 We fired everyone except for like three really bad relievers. 1:01:36.100 --> 1:01:36.400 Yeah. 1:01:36.920 --> 1:01:40.430 Harrison Smith is under the fucking dirt. He's he was 1:01:40.490 --> 1:01:42.910 trying to pitch and then he got stuck under the mound. 1:01:43.010 --> 1:01:46.730 No, he he's reached his contractual level of like innings. 1:01:46.790 --> 1:01:50.090 He has to host like the morning show, the war room. 1:01:50.170 --> 1:01:51.030 He's got to do everything. 1:01:51.050 --> 1:01:52.189 He does have to do a lot of work. 1:01:52.250 --> 1:01:55.030 No one else there. His arm is blown. And it 1:01:55.050 --> 1:01:56.030 wasn't good to begin with. 1:01:56.110 --> 1:01:56.820 No, it was not. 1:01:57.510 --> 1:01:59.980 So anyway, blown save for Bracken here. 1:02:00.000 --> 1:02:00.280 No good. 1:02:00.620 --> 1:02:02.540 I do think it's funny that one of the callers 1:02:02.640 --> 1:02:05.660 earlier used Matt Bracken as an example of someone who's 1:02:05.760 --> 1:02:06.680 tough to listen to. 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:10.160 And then we're going to throw to Matt Bracken real quick, everybody. 1:02:10.180 --> 1:02:12.070 So I turned it off. 1:02:12.110 --> 1:02:12.750 Yeah, I bet. 1:02:12.890 --> 1:02:13.970 I don't care what Matt Bracken. 1:02:13.770 --> 1:02:13.990 Has to do. 1:02:13.990 --> 1:02:15.850 Hard to imagine keeping it going. 1:02:16.110 --> 1:02:16.410 Yeah. 1:02:17.350 --> 1:02:18.910 I think it would be fun if Alex had barged 1:02:18.950 --> 1:02:21.750 back in or gotten mad, but no. 1:02:21.890 --> 1:02:22.910 That's what he has to do. 1:02:22.930 --> 1:02:23.830 Yeah. 1:02:24.170 --> 1:02:26.650 Is everybody failing me right now? 1:02:27.090 --> 1:02:27.360 I think so. 1:02:27.370 --> 1:02:30.950 Is everybody failing me? Alex, step up. The Onion, get 1:02:30.970 --> 1:02:33.220 your shit together. Why is everybody sucking? 1:02:33.240 --> 1:02:33.720 Yeah. 1:02:34.220 --> 1:02:36.660 Well, I hate to fail you, too, but I'm a 1:02:36.680 --> 1:02:38.780 little chiller about this than I think you probably hope 1:02:38.800 --> 1:02:39.420 I would be. 1:02:39.500 --> 1:02:42.320 No, no, no. You're reasonable. You're supposed to be chill 1:02:42.340 --> 1:02:42.760 about this. 1:02:43.020 --> 1:02:46.620 Meh. You know, it's the Buddhist in me. You know, 1:02:46.640 --> 1:02:49.120 I just have to accept what is. 1:02:49.140 --> 1:02:51.180 Well, interesting. 1:02:51.200 --> 1:02:52.580 See me wagging my eyebrows at you? 1:02:52.640 --> 1:02:53.460 I do see that. 1:02:55.800 --> 1:02:58.970 Anyway, I think that everyone wanted a blow up. 1:02:59.180 --> 1:02:59.340 Yeah. 1:02:59.720 --> 1:03:02.620 And I wonder if Alex even has that pitch anymore. 1:03:02.720 --> 1:03:02.880 Yeah. 1:03:02.900 --> 1:03:05.580 You know, like to keep up with the baseball analogy. 1:03:05.640 --> 1:03:05.940 Yeah. 1:03:05.980 --> 1:03:09.490 He might have gotten Tommy John. and he just doesn't 1:03:09.530 --> 1:03:11.590 have that angle anymore. 1:03:11.690 --> 1:03:14.430 I mean, I think that this is actually also part 1:03:14.470 --> 1:03:19.000 of one of the problems with the takeover happening now, right? 1:03:19.540 --> 1:03:22.920 Is two years ago, maybe we could have done something 1:03:22.960 --> 1:03:26.540 with it. There was something going on. Now, I don't 1:03:26.580 --> 1:03:27.840 think anybody cares. 1:03:28.520 --> 1:03:31.280 No, I think Alex has largely ruined his own space. 1:03:31.680 --> 1:03:33.080 He doesn't even care. No. 1:03:33.540 --> 1:03:35.080 And I think that that's part of the reason why 1:03:35.140 --> 1:03:36.500 I feel a little chiller about it. 1:03:36.560 --> 1:03:36.760 Yeah. 1:03:36.840 --> 1:03:41.410 Is because, like, I think the opportunity loss is way lower. 1:03:41.670 --> 1:03:41.850 Sure. 1:03:41.990 --> 1:03:45.740 I think that he doesn't really have much. 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:46.380 Yeah. 1:03:46.440 --> 1:03:49.100 You know, the last time this was going, the Onion 1:03:49.560 --> 1:03:52.740 bought InfoWars was around the 2024 election. 1:03:52.780 --> 1:03:52.940 Yeah. 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:56.260 And I think that the tenor and the way things 1:03:56.700 --> 1:03:59.910 were working at that point, there was a lot of 1:03:59.990 --> 1:04:05.080 disruptive possibility and shit. Whereas now, I agree with you. 1:04:05.090 --> 1:04:08.920 I don't really know most of the audience... that is 1:04:09.120 --> 1:04:13.700 activated and excited is turned against Alex because he's wishy-washy 1:04:13.780 --> 1:04:18.380 on Iran and the Epstein stuff. And there's no figurehead 1:04:18.400 --> 1:04:20.640 to rally around. They don't like Trump anymore. 1:04:20.760 --> 1:04:20.960 Nope. 1:04:21.080 --> 1:04:21.400 J.D. 1:04:21.440 --> 1:04:22.120 Vance sucks. 1:04:22.380 --> 1:04:25.120 You're not going to get the regular Media Matters post 1:04:25.160 --> 1:04:27.160 of like, can you believe this fucker said this? 1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:28.260 You're not going to get those. 1:04:28.540 --> 1:04:28.820 Yeah. 1:04:29.320 --> 1:04:31.400 So I think that there's a lot less lost by 1:04:31.460 --> 1:04:33.840 just creating a parody of him than there would have 1:04:33.880 --> 1:04:36.400 been in the past. So I don't know. 1:04:36.620 --> 1:04:36.920 I don't know. 1:04:38.100 --> 1:04:40.020 I think one way or another, he's going to do 1:04:40.220 --> 1:04:40.960 a bad show. 1:04:40.980 --> 1:04:41.540 I agree. 1:04:41.640 --> 1:04:42.860 And I will have to watch it. 1:04:43.160 --> 1:04:43.880 So, great. 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:44.920 We'll see what happens. 1:04:45.000 --> 1:04:48.300 Life doesn't change that much. But I'll be on the road. 1:04:48.560 --> 1:04:49.280 Oh, that's true. 1:04:49.550 --> 1:04:53.090 That's true. So, coming to you soon from who knows where. 1:04:53.110 --> 1:04:54.090 From who knows where. 1:04:55.790 --> 1:04:56.590 And we'll check in then. 1:04:56.990 --> 1:04:57.610 Indeed we will. 1:04:57.730 --> 1:05:00.250 Until then, we have a website. And by the way. 1:05:00.330 --> 1:05:00.470 What? 1:05:01.130 --> 1:05:04.570 I didn't buy them, but the info onion is available 1:05:04.840 --> 1:05:10.150 as a URL. And theinfowar.com is available as a URL. 1:05:10.160 --> 1:05:12.060 Why doesn't he snatch up those URLs? 1:05:12.080 --> 1:05:12.520 These people. 1:05:12.960 --> 1:05:14.600 I don't even know. Everybody's failing us. 1:05:14.760 --> 1:05:15.600 Anyway, we have a website. 1:05:15.640 --> 1:05:17.160 Indeed we do. It's knowledgefight.com. 1:05:17.220 --> 1:05:17.560 Yep. 1:05:17.720 --> 1:05:19.610 We'll be back. But until then, I'm Neo. I'm Leo. 1:05:19.620 --> 1:05:21.890 I'm DZX Clark. I am the Mysterious Professor. 1:05:22.390 --> 1:05:22.650 Woo! 1:05:22.690 --> 1:05:23.130 Yeah! 1:05:23.210 --> 1:05:24.370 Woo! Yeah! 1:05:24.410 --> 1:05:25.070 Woo! 1:05:25.270 --> 1:05:27.330 And now here comes the sex robots. 1:05:27.790 --> 1:05:29.590 Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding. 1:05:31.750 --> 1:05:34.020 Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. 1:05:34.100 --> 1:05:34.820 I love your work. 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:35.250 I love you.