Knowledge Fight - #645: November 4, 2014

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

Today, Dan and Jordan put present-day Alex in timeout, as they dip into the past to see how Alex was engaging with the 2014 midterm elections.  It turns out, he gets super racist and interviews someo...ne who would go on to become the Most Important Person In The World.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys knowledge fight. Dan and George, knowledge fight. I need money. Andy and Kansas. Andy and Kansas. Andy and Kansas. It's time to pray. Andy and Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding us. Hello, Alex. I'm Mr. Tim Cullen. I'm a huge fan. I love your work. Knowledge fight. I love you. Hey, everybody. Welcome back knowledge. I'm Dan. I'm Jordan. We're gonna do it's like sit around worship at the altar of Selene and talk a little bit about the past, present and future of Alex. I like it like a Christmas Carol, but for Alex Jones. Yeah. Yeah. Rangle chains. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, totally. Warnings from ghosts. Indeed. That is what we do. Yeah. We're
Starting point is 00:01:20 like ghosts. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I guess. Hi, Dan. I have very little proof that I'm alive. Yeah, I can't prove it as with ghosts. Right. Hey, Jordan, how will let me ask you a question. What's your bright spot today? My bright spot today. I told you about this before the show, but it's Dynasty Warriors. I had no idea that they were Dynasty Warriors games available for the switch. Yeah. But I found one accidentally. I've not played a Dynasty Warriors game since I am since the PS2 era, I believe it's been quite a while. That's good times. Maybe a maybe a decade or so. Is that other than as you brought up High Rule Warriors. Yeah. Yeah. Quite the same. It's not the same. And so I started playing a little bit of Dynasty Warriors eight. And it's fun. It's
Starting point is 00:02:11 fun. Good stuff. Yeah. So that's a bright spot. Yeah. That's wonderful. Yep. My bright spot is so about 30 years ago. Oh boy. Godspeed you black emperor recorded a demo tape of which 33 copies were made. Oh boy. I believe this is an Illuminati thing. I believe is the number. Right. A couple of days ago, the first time it was put onto YouTube. First time in 30 years. Nobody even thought this thing even existed anymore. And we have a full hour of Godspeed you black emperor that was only put on 33 cassette tape stand. That's pretty wild. That's wild. Yeah. It's crazy. Do they want it to be out. It's not their business. It is though. I think it's a very interesting thing is like a document of the demo tape that they put out. But I don't know. Maybe
Starting point is 00:03:11 they would want people not to hear it. Yeah. It's not necessarily meant for public consumption. Well, yeah, it was. It was released as a demo on 33 copies of it. It was for the execs to get a record deal. What do you think they would do like not put it out. I don't know. Yeah. Well, I'm Anyway, it's super cool. It's really good and especially because it's a 1990 fucking four or whatever. And you listen to it now and they are they're not fully formed as Godspeed yet, but you're it's just blowing you away. Just like what this is 94 still as relevant today as it was that is it. I don't know. I haven't heard it. You tell me. Well, that's great. I'm glad you can have that to enjoy. It's really cool. So Jordan, today we're going to put Alex in time out for the last
Starting point is 00:04:00 episode. Good. That was that was enough gross for a while. Disgusting monster. And so I decided what might be relevant to do is we got the midterms coming up. That's true. And so I thought maybe we should take a look at something from the midterms in 2014. See where Alex's head was at during that period of time pre Trump. Right. And it just so happens that it's a pre Trump rapture, if you will. Yes. It just so happens that the day of the election, the midterm election, November 4th, 2014. Alex's guest is the most important person in the world. Tucker Carlson. Really? Yeah. God damn. So I thought it would be interesting to look at the dynamics of the midterm election in 2014 and also see how Alex related to the most important person in the world before he
Starting point is 00:04:53 was the most important person in the world. This is like a 33 year old God speed you black emperor tape is what we're listening to. This is a demo. Yeah, this is a demo for the modern racist fascism. Right. They're disseminated. And so we'll get into that. But first, Jordan, let's say hello to some new wonks. That's a great idea. So first, Tony from Akron is a damn cryptid shaman. Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. Thank you. Thank you. Next, Colin Castles in space. Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. Thank you. Next. I hope my neighbors enjoy hearing Jordan's laugh as much as I do because I play this podcast on my Bluetooth sound bar. Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Thank you very much. But also this podcast should be something you listen to in private. It's headphones. Noise canceling. No proof. Next, Tim at Mount Weird who prepped more for that deposition than Daria. Thank you so much. You are now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next. I haven't physically murdered or stomped out guts either. Thank you so much. You are now a policy wonk. I'm a policy wonk. Thank you very much. And finally, we got a technocrat in the mix. So thank you. And hello, Delaware Aaron. Thank you so much. You are now a technocrat. I'm a policy wonk. I have risen above my enemies. I might quit tomorrow, actually. I'm just going to take a little break now. A little break for me. And then we're going
Starting point is 00:06:18 to come back and I'm going to start the show over. But I'm the devil. I got to be taken out of here. Fuck you. Fuck you. I got plenty of words for you. But at the end of the day, fuck you in your new world order and fuck the horse you rode in on and all your shit. Maybe today should be my last broadcast. I mean, maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years. Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow and you never see me again. That's really what I want to do. I never want to come back here again. I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air. I'll be better tomorrow. Who knows about tomorrow, but let's see if Alex was better in the past. Let's find out in 2014.
Starting point is 00:07:04 I like it. He wasn't. But here is an out of context drop from today's show. And have you ever had your dinner show and I've had mine just a little bit. Just a little bit. What? Just a little bit. Just a tiny bit of identity theft, man. Just a touch. Did you know that a lot of people call themselves Alex? That's a tiny bit of identity theft. Yeah. I never really thought about identity theft as like a thing of an amount. Yeah. I was just kind of thought like, wow, the people have got your private information. They've got six of my social security numbers. I'm really playing with thin ice now. I feel like it's less of like a little bit of identity theft. And they did a little bit with it. Right. Right. Maybe. Yeah. They bought gas one time.
Starting point is 00:07:46 So we start here on the fourth and, you know, you can see a little bit of the same sort of conversation that Alex has around a lot of elections here. Coming up today and election coverage. This is the big day. The midterms 2014. What drugs tweeted three years ago, 2014 is everything. And I absolutely agree with him. And now we're seeing how important it is as a major political realignment. It's always the most important thing. And it's a political realignment. Every single time there's political realignment happening. And I think that on like a sort of who gives a shit level. Yeah. That's accurate. Yeah. But he's trying to over grandiose things a little bit. Right. And I think that this actually probably is something that, you know,
Starting point is 00:08:32 both parties are a little bit guilty of. Yeah. You hear, you hear, you know, some conversation. But again, I think I've brought this up before. It's, it's sensible to say that every election is the most important one. Right. Because it's the one you can impact. Right. Past elections, there might have been more important, like things on the, on the electoral, electoral slate. Sure. Sure. But you can't do anything about it now. No, no. You can in the present one. I mean, it's like, what's the point of me being, hey, Dan, look, this isn't the most important election. The most important election was 1860. That helps you, right? Put things in perspective. It disempowers you a little bit. Yes, it does. Because yeah, the most important
Starting point is 00:09:15 election should be the one which you have an ability to impact. Right. So I mean, it's just kind of trite, but it's, you know, Alex is there to, I have yet to live through an election where both parties have been like, man, I'm going to be honest with you, not much going on this year. This one's a seed. It's one's, it's really, we're staying the course. Yeah. So Alex has destroyed Obama. Already? Okay. Him and his buddies have taken him down as a political God after two presidential elections. But look, there's still some things that you got to be worried about. We have effectively shot down the political God they were trying to create in Morocco, Obama, but they will simply give us new gods for old. That's why it's important to hold the
Starting point is 00:09:58 Republicans feet to the fire coming out of this election because they probably will get the Senate Washington Post is saying 90% chance that's what most of their analysts are saying right now. But don't forget the secret weapon. That's the illegal alien voters. Ah, yes. Constantly. The secret weapon. Yep. This apparently is something you contract to every election. Right. Alex throws this out there. So yeah. We're, I mean, you know, that's actually something that's almost been kind of nice about the 2020 rewriting narrative. It hasn't been illegal immigrants who have the right, the right's boogeyman this time. Some of it is all of us. Well, it is all of us, but that is also the, the quote unquote immigrant voting illegally thing
Starting point is 00:10:46 is still part of the storyline. Totally. That's true that you get from Alex. Right. His ilk. I mean, it especially was before the sort of narrative solidified a little bit more right in the post election. That's true. But yeah, you can see there's like all this is fairly boilerplate, a bit standard. Yeah. Now this episode gets racist really fast. How quick? You might have smelled a little bit of it coming in with the illegal. No, what? But man, I was not ready. I came into this just looking for election coverage and Tucker Carlson. I did not expect for Alex to go so hard so fast. Oh, is he going to play that clip of Joe Rogan saying the N word a bunch? He's not. He's not. He's going to do his own little version.
Starting point is 00:11:30 And I got to tell you, I go around Austin, other areas of Texas. I actually don't mind seeing diverse crowds of people. I think it's interesting, except it's so overwhelming. And it's so much faster than it was before. And it's clearly organized and illegal. I walked into a Walgreens at about eight o'clock last night. And it was like something out of an international airport in Bangladesh. There were people in Arab dress, Indian dress. There were folks obviously from Africa, not speaking English. And the people at the front counter barely spoke English. And there were people clearly from Mexico in there. And it just a total by design flooding of the country with
Starting point is 00:12:27 illegals. I feel like that's a really good encapsulation of Alex's delusional position about integration. He pretends that he has no problem with non white people existing in the spaces around him. But at the same time, if he sees a few minorities in a store, he decides without any proof that they're all here illegally. And it's part of an effort to flood the country. I mean, it's overwhelming to see more than one non white person anywhere. Right. It's crazy. This feature of Alex's racism operates very similarly to his story about getting terrified about seeing a couple of Muslim women in a pool supply shop. Alex sees non white people or people of other cultures that he's hostile to living in spaces that he's decided are for white people.
Starting point is 00:13:07 And it bothers him. You can hear this being expressed in the way he's saying that there were just too many minorities at this Walgreens that he went to, as if to imply that he's a good tolerant white person who will put up with one non white person being at the pharmacy. But there's a line. If there are three non white people there at the same time, that's evidence of a fucking invasion. Obviously, Alex has literally zero information about these people that he sees at Walgreens, other than that he can tell that they're not white. And maybe he can hear them speaking in languages other than English. From that, he determines that they're not supposed to be in the country, and that their presence is part of a conspiracy against white people in America.
Starting point is 00:13:45 That's sick shit. And it's something that Alex is perfectly comfortable expressing, as if he's making a legitimate point about some political position that he has that's sincere. He has no information about the citizenship status of any of these people. He has no information about whether or not they're immigrants. He has no information about whether or not they even can or want to vote. The only information he's operating on is that they're not white and being around multiple non white people makes Alex's white identity and the power that he feels entitled to because of that identity feel threatened. Honestly, Alex is a way worse person now than he seemed to be in 2014. But this articulation of this deeply
Starting point is 00:14:23 entrenched racism is something that it's probably more explicit than he gets into today. Yeah, you know, it is nice that the one single ideal of America that is unimpeachably great, the idea that anyone can come here and make themselves a life is the thing that they hate more than anything else. Well, the bit it's so bizarre the way that they'll hold on to the image of totally that it's a free country priority. Yeah. And it's like, isn't that what makes us so great? But also if there are a bunch of minorities around non white people, then I think there's something up. I think it's a conspiracy. Okay, here's fine. Fine. Here's my new rule. No Walgreens can have anything less than an exactly demographic representation of America.
Starting point is 00:15:14 If there are more than 60% white people, the Walgreens closes down. What about CVS? That's fine. They're racist. Who cares? I feel like implementing of your system would be incredibly challenging. It would be difficult. I imagine you'd get some pushback from Alex on that too. Maybe. There would be a lot more non white people in his Walgreens. That's for sure. This guy sucks. This was weird to hear so fast. Why? What? And the story is so trite. It means nothing. His experience is just that there was no fight. There was no conflict or anything. It was just his experiencing of what he determined to be too many non white people existing in a space that he thought there should be more white people in. That's all that happened.
Starting point is 00:16:02 I can't believe that because if you just go there and you see that, that's what I would, that's what would blow my mind is like seeing that all of those people from everywhere in the fucking world in the same place, knowing that if I flew anywhere, if I flew to any country in the world, I would see an infinitely more homogenous place in that Walgreens than I would hear. That's the amazing thing. Not anywhere, obviously. The great melting pot that is Walgreens. That's what I'm saying. Like that's the coolest shit. Sure. Not to Alex. No, absolutely. It's awful. Yeah. Anyway, Alex weaves from this into maybe white supremacist talking points. Yeah, well, and the headline today is law enforcement defines elections as referendum says Obama's amnesty means title wave of illegal
Starting point is 00:16:50 immigration. Listen, here's the deal. The Democrats are talking about a revolution. The Democrats are talking about tearing the country apart. If they're not given total amnesty, and Illinois is trying to pass a law that's unanimously passed out of the Senate and passed out of the House to let foreigners vote, if you can get here, you just can vote. Do you understand that they can bring an unlimited group and then have them vote as political clients for tax money they're given to do whatever the Democrats want and the Republicans are bought and paid for by the same globalist interest and they're going along with all this. This is premeditated. If India had the equivalent of hundreds of millions of people being brought in,
Starting point is 00:17:33 because they're more populist, it would be the similar equation. They bring in 40, 50 million, or 300 million. Well, India's a billion, so you're bringing a couple hundred million. Imagine bringing a couple hundred million people, say from China, and then just saying you can vote in Indian elections. Indians would burn their cities to the ground. And quite frankly, that's a normal instinct, because you're being usurped, you're being conquered, you're being taken over. No one would put up with stuff like this. I'm not speaking hyperbolically when I say that this is some storm-fraud shit. Yeah. These talking points are the stuff of white supremacist message boards, and it relies on the same underpinnings as the great replacement conspiracy theories that have
Starting point is 00:18:11 inspired mass murders like Brendan Tarrant and Patrick Kruse, who are the leaders of the White Bank, Brendan Tarrant and Patrick Kruseus. This is 2014, Alex, long before he had any connection to the Trump community, and back when he was trying to pretend that he was above the left-right paradigm. The game was always to present yourself as being against both parties, to trick people into thinking that you're in the middle, while in reality, you're just trying to lure unsuspecting politically disillusioned people towards the extreme right and opinions like this. This is the game. You know, maybe we've gotten it wrong. Maybe he has always been above the left-right paradigm. Interesting slip of the tongue there. But he's been below the white, non-white paradigm
Starting point is 00:18:52 for too long. Yeah. I mean, I guess you could say that he is above the left-right paradigm in as much as he exists nowhere near it. What's the point of politics, whenever all I really want to deal with is how racist I am? Yeah. And I still want to give that racism the thin veneer of politics. Well, it needs to have the power of the state to really have a lot of power behind it. But also, I should say that I'm really against the state. I'm against the state. I'm way off of it. I would like to use its power to inflict harm. Small government until it can be used to enforce my white nationalist ideologies. Yeah. I want small boots until I'm wearing them and then I want big boots on your throat. Exactly. So I was listening to this
Starting point is 00:19:37 November 4th episode and I got really, really curious around this point because Alex isn't insisting that the media has done him dirty. Right? There's a story and a raw story. There's an article there that Alex takes issue with the headline and this really got my ears up. Okay. Yes. If you tune in for the first time and this show sounds crazy, we're not crazy. Reality is crazy. Before I get into election news, look at this raw story. Basically, White House connected, you know, just info platform. Alex Jones, Obama put out a green light close quote for close quote groups of black youths close quote to kidnap white women. Wait, what? That is not what I said. See, when you read something like that with quotes after each word,
Starting point is 00:20:26 that's a straw man. That's not what I said. I said Obama and NSNBC created a racial climate where there's a green light to go out and attack white people just like there was a green light before it was decried and prosecuted for whites to go out groups of gangs and attack black people. And I said black gangs all over the US attacking white people. It's a well known phenomenon all over local news around the country is the equivalent of people that well, I'm not a criminal, but I do go roll, you know, gays that use another word. And then because you don't like someone, you go and two black guys, two white guys, whatever the case is, it's done in all cultures, go beat up some guys coming out of a gay bar that look like they're physically weak.
Starting point is 00:21:16 That's predator activity. But it's okay because they're gay, so you're allowed to physically attack them. No, you're not. So it's wrong when the Klan does it. It's wrong when people go out and roll queers is what it's called. What? And it's wrong when blacks go out and attack whites. And here's the deal. There is a green light, and no one dare politically correct, talk about it nationally, but everybody knows. Okay, okay. So I'm confused. I'm, I'm wildly confused. I think that I just have to leave a bit of that rambling to the side because I don't think we're going to be able to parse it out. I think he's just saying that there are people in all groups who like to beat up people in other groups. I guess predator ass babies. Sure. Sure. Whatever. I am more interested
Starting point is 00:22:01 in this raw story headline and seeing just how accurate or inaccurate it is because I am always curious about like Alex being misinterpreted or people covering him in the wrong way. Yeah. So Alex is mad about this article in raw story, which allows me to figure out what episode the actual comments that they're covering were made in. And so I can go back and I can figure out and see if Alex is right or if raw story is right. Yeah. Did this headline actually mischaracterize Alex's words? Or is he just engaging in a stupid racist backpedaling spin designed to justify his bigotry and malign anybody who would seek to call it out? This has to do with stuff that Alex said apparently according to raw story on the previous day's episode. And here's what we will need to
Starting point is 00:22:45 assess specifically. Alex has taken issue with the raw story headline quote, Alex Jones, Obama put out a green light for groups of black youths to kidnap white women in the ad line to put out put out a green light and groups of black youths are the things that are in quotation marks. So it's Alex's contention that this headline is somehow Frankenstein to mishmash of his words being used to mischaracterize what he said. So this is saying that it was on Monday's episode because this episode is on Tuesday. Yeah. So according to raw story, we go back to Monday. Sure. And we check it out. We can find out. What did he say? Yeah, let's see him. So Alex doesn't get into this sort of commentary immediately. So I was like, well, might as well pull some
Starting point is 00:23:27 clips of things that are interesting along the way. Why not? Where's ear? Here's one that's really stupid. I have a policy of truth to rip off the name of popular Depeche Mode song. I really try to tell the truth. And if I don't want to hurt somebody's feelings, I just try to shut up. Really? I want to be truthful to myself. I don't want to be delusional. One thing I've noticed is that most losers that I've known in my life fantasize about how they're successful and fantasize about how their competition is failing and will make things up. They will sit right there to your face, do something and then deny they did it instead of just owning up to it. And when you lie like that, it doesn't just infect
Starting point is 00:24:17 the general culture. It infects your brain. You start believing your own bull. Man, I don't even have to roast Alex. I can just sit back and let his past self do it. No, I'm going to light myself on fire. I can't listen to him say that. I can't do it. It hurts me physically to hear him say the things that I would very casually say to his face. Yeah, it's like, it's like, I look, Alex, I would love to dunk on you, but I have brought your past self to do it for you. Absolutely. Good God. I can't count the number of times he's yelled about how like the world leaders listen to him every week because it's the most important analysis
Starting point is 00:24:56 of world issues and Brian Stelter has no viewers and CNN is failing. So there's one hallmark of being a loser. There you go. And then I mean, the other big hallmark of a loser is like, you know, you do something and then you lie directly to people's faces that you didn't do that thing and you refuse to take responsibility. And like, let's just think about how he engaged with Rogan. What are you telling me that this clip is of him saying that people lie rather than engage with the thing that they did. Right. Okay. And then on tomorrow's episode, he's going to engage with the story about a thing that he did. Maybe we don't know. We don't know yet. I'm telling you that I'm going through this to assess whether or not the raw
Starting point is 00:25:43 story headline is accurate. But even taking that aside, like the way he lied to Rogan's face about what he said about Sandy Hook is a classic hallmark of a loser according to Alex. Do you want to stay in the Sandy Hook department? Those deposition shirts weren't him being truthful and taking responsibilities. Didn't go well. It's remarkable to hear things that I think are actually fairly accurate. I think it is loser-ish behavior to self-aggrandize and minimize your enemies in sort of fantasy world behaviors. And I do think it's also kind of loser-ish to not own up to past mistakes and deal with yourself realistically. Coherently put as well. Totally. It's just that Alex, he indicts himself. It could not be more an indictment of yourself
Starting point is 00:26:35 than to coherently put forth an argument that you are a loser. So Alex takes some calls on this November 3rd show. This guy had a really interesting idea. And if you listen to this, you can tell that Alex loves and respects the institution of voting. Yes. Like he thinks that this is a sacred act. It's the most important part of democracy. Totally. Participation. Alex, I want to suggest a writing campaign. You know, any race where somebody runs unopposed or a race where by the latest pull, it's like over 3% one person over another. How about people writing something that's, you know, like a kind of middle finger to the system kind of thing? Yeah, write in info wars and then that will show up on the news feeds. People say, what's that?
Starting point is 00:27:25 Alex wants to use voting as a publicity stunt. Oh, God, God damn. Yep. That's, that's just, that's advertising you just can't buy. No, you can't buy that. You can't. You can destroy a country with it. And if you did try to buy it, it would be a photo fraud. It would be illegal. Yeah. God, so ridiculous. So he takes another call from a guy. This actually was horrifying. So this caller is discussing how he works at an apartment complex in Arizona and they apparently have somehow somehow are part of an intentional plot to bring in refugees and immigrants from like Liberia because they want to spread Ebola. His specific complex in Arizona and the complex, the wider ownership. Okay. It's like an ownership group. Right.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Trying to bring in nefariously bring in people from Liberia and other countries in Africa. Right. And boy, this is bad. Let's hear it. Tell us specifically what's going on with the apartment complex. They've brought in people from Liberia. They have like a specific classroom here in the office where they bring them in. They kind of go over what to say, what kind of paperwork to fill out Liberia, Africa, all these different places where they come in and they literally they're teaching them what to say, what to write. Like half these people don't even know how to write their own name on their own. Perfect voters. And so who's doing this? The Feds? The CDC? Who's doing this? They have to be because every single apartment complex managed by this company literally
Starting point is 00:29:00 lets nothing but refugees in. I hear you said the name of the company. It's called Build More Properties. Give us the name of the apartment complex and we'll send people out there. Chandler Village Apartments. Well, thank you so much. God bless you all, sir. We're gonna put you on hold, get your info. I mean, this seems like a lawsuit. That that seems like something. I mean, the kind of behaviors that Alex is in trouble with because of Sandy Hook. Yeah, this is the same behavior. It applies. I mean, definitely not the exact same thing in terms of like, you know, saying that people were actors and the kids didn't die. But the behavior of acting in such a way that would lead to targeted harassment of people, whether it's the people who live in these apartment complexes,
Starting point is 00:29:46 refugee or otherwise, or the people who run these apartment complexes, you're putting people at a risk. Yeah. And the the ethical implications of having this guy save the name of the apartment complex. I mean, on his on the air is is staggering. It's so immoral. You've said that on this show that all of these people are immigrants. You've said that the owners of your apartment complex are assisting them to do nefarious things, whether it's to stealthily bring Ebola to America or to interfere with elections. Totally. And then you gave the address. Yes. And Alex is saying we're going to send some people out there. Yeah. So I fucked up. I don't know if I've ever seen Alex do this kind of thing before or always. Yeah, that was the one I was thinking. I think it's it's
Starting point is 00:30:37 relevant and worthwhile to point out something like this, because it really is a pattern of behavior, whether whether it's intentionally done to cause intimidation or harassment towards these people who he feels are acting in ways that he disagrees with, right? Or if it's just a lack of concern for the well being of people who will be targeted and harassed by by his broadcast, either way, it's the results are awful. Yeah. And creating it as a pattern also makes it a feedback loop where the more you tell people to go send, we're going to send people out there. The more people are going to call in and say, I'm at blah, blah, blah, send people out here. Got a hot tip. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. This guy didn't of his own accord, say the name of the place. No, specifically
Starting point is 00:31:23 asked him. Yep. Yep. He could have done that off air. If he really was interested in a scoop or wanted to investigate this further, he would have kept that off air. That is the possibility of something happening from that is is something that most journalistic outlets wouldn't risk. No. And I mean, just fuck me. The idea of me living in an apartment complex happily just fine and not having any idea that somebody fucking three or four hallways down the way is calling Alex Jones to give them my address to put a bounty. Yeah, that's no good. That makes me feel very uncomfortable. Yeah. It's not best practices. No, that's not good. So the comments that Alex made about the black folks getting a green light to attack white people
Starting point is 00:32:18 that are alleged in this raw story article, they are in response to Ben Stein. He went on Fox News and said that Obama was the most racist president in history. Yeah, that was an interesting question on when Ben Stein's money to who's the most racist president in history. And then yeah, Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel was laughing. Like Sarah Silverman took over. Oh, I don't remember that era. She was she took over for Jimmy Kimmel after a number of seasons. Yeah, so funny. I think Cousin Sal might have filled in a couple times. Sure. Why not? I was just thinking about this. I saw that clip of Adam Corolla on Sean Hannity. Yeah. So staggering the different directions that Kimmel and Corolla took. I mean, it could not be more like the dichotomy of our future. Like when I was
Starting point is 00:33:07 growing up, the idea that if somebody just sat me down while I was watching the man show and been like, one of these will be good for you and one will be poisoned. You know, like one of these guys will host a late night show and have some socially responsible positions that he puts out and isn't a dick. Right. The other one will be an annoying monster. Just a just a real tragedy of a void where humanity once was through. I would have thought they both would have gone that route. You know, right? You're on the man show. Yeah. I mean, that's that's the but that's what I'm saying. That's the end took over the man show. Rogan. We're all fucked. Yeah. Men shouldn't be allowed anywhere near. Rogan and Doug Stanhope took it over. I know Stanhope was. Yeah. Yeah. No
Starting point is 00:33:57 shit. Yeah. Fun. Everything comes full circle, baby. Everybody who works in TV is wrong and should be fired. So anyway, Ben Stein made these comments and that's what precipitated Alex's alleged commentary. Yes. And so on this this episode from the third, Alex brings up Ben Stein, but he doesn't say the things that raw story was saying. There was a quote on Fox News over the weekend about, you know, Obama being the most racist president in history. I don't know if I totally agree with that statement. He's been the biggest. It was Ben Stein that said it. He's been one of the biggest race bait pushers ever. So I listened to this whole episode. And after I got all the way through, I realized that raw story had done me dirty. Oh, no, it wasn't the right episode. But
Starting point is 00:34:47 I also had like listened to like patches of it twice because I was like, did I fucking miss something? Yeah. Yeah. What happened is on the website in this raw story article, they explicitly say that Alex came out and said these things on Monday. So I found the show from Monday and I went and I listened to it. What they actually meant is that Alex posted this video on YouTube on Monday, but it was from his Sunday show. God damn it. So now we got to start over. We got to play this again from the top because now I feel like I'm deeply committed to figuring out whether or not raw story is taking about a context. And so now I went and I listened to the Sunday show. This is the problem with doing episodes in the past is you can't even like email somebody to
Starting point is 00:35:27 complain about it anymore. Yeah. I don't need to issue a correction for raw story. I want it. I want one. So now we go to the Sunday episode and I think that we're like, we're a little bit more in the ballpark. Okay. Okay. Ben Stein has come out on Fox News and called Obama the most racist president in history. And I tend to agree with that because all the bad things that are founding fathers the day before is done in their time when in Africa and in Asia and in the Middle East, no one was saying slavery was wrong. Everybody wants. So now we have Alex agreeing with Ben Stein instead of saying like, I don't know if I agree with him, but whatever. I think his argument here is really dumb. Oh yeah. You can just leave that aside though. Like yeah,
Starting point is 00:36:11 even if slavery was fine in the United States because everyone else was doing it, we still should talk about it and try and undo the societal impact that it had on black people in America. The issue of blame is irrelevant and it's a distraction at this point. It's really a matter of recognizing the generations of stolen wealth, the generations of denied access to many parts of the market and the economy and how these things have affected communities to this day and what we can do to address these problems moving forward to make a more equitable society. Alex keeps the conversation on the level of slavery wasn't that bad if you look at the world at the time because it keeps people distracted from the real reason that many of these conversations
Starting point is 00:36:47 linger into the present and that is these generational deprivations. Sure. But I mean, that fucking fuck you. Fuck you. Not you. Not you specifically. Just because I got the episode wrong? Yes. And also fuck raw story. They're getting it both ways. Sure. No. Yes. People were saying slavery was bad back then. People have been saying slavery is bad since we had slavery. Sure. That we are that we are living in a world where it's fine for Alex to just put that out there and then for us to just be like, well, it was socially accepted at the time as opposed to rewriting our entire understanding of history to be like, this motherfucker said it was bad in 1700s. Why haven't we focused on him? I think I think you make a good point and I'm glad
Starting point is 00:37:36 you brought that up because I think that is definitely true. But I even think that if you leave it aside, no, no, his argument still is. Oh, it's incredibly stupid. But yeah, yeah, definitely. There's a reason he makes this kind of an argument. Yeah, absolutely. And there's a reason that we still have a something to do with the fact that he's really scared of seeing multiple minorities in a store. And that's part of why our history is built around the idea that it was fine at the time, you know, like everybody agreed it was fine at the time. So we don't need to focus on the people who said it wasn't. You could say maybe putting this more accurately, there wasn't the societal capital or the political will to do something about how wrong it was.
Starting point is 00:38:20 About how it was horrifically evil, even then. Yeah, if if people and and this is the simplest way to do it, if people took pages out of their Bible to give to slaves so the slaves didn't understand that the Bible said it was cool to kill your slave masters, then you knew it was wrong. There's it implies intent. Yeah. Yeah. Men's Rea is there. Yeah. So Alex doesn't just talk race nonsense on this episode. He also gets into one of his favorite sources of stuff. I just kept this clip in because I thought it was just dumb. It's so hardcore, ladies and gentlemen. What's going on? It's so horrible. But if we would just wake up to it, we could turn it around so quickly. I don't get up here and say these wild things to be sensational. I say them because it's true.
Starting point is 00:39:14 They're building a world where we're not part of it. They're phasing humans out. It was announced in 1999 in the April issue of Wired Magazine by Bill Joy, a billionaire who went to a private globalist conference of 200 top tech owners, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and they had a meeting and decided after two days that the plan was to bring in the world government and reduce population down to almost zero. They said, do we just let people play games all day? You know, fantasy games, World of Warcraft and Second Life and Hurt the Earth. People don't matter. Do we basically phase them out? And the consensus was, phase you out and Bill Joy wrote a cover story warning you. The decision had been made. This is just really
Starting point is 00:40:06 fascinating to me because it's the way Alex is trying to rationalize that like, I don't come up here and say crazy stuff. It's been announced. Yeah. Like you can't, that Bill Joy Wired article is available online. You can find it. It doesn't say any of this stuff. We talked about it many times. Many, many times. In case there are new listeners, just the brief version of this is that there is a passage in that article where Bill Joy is quoting the Unabomber. This is the stuff that Alex has taken to be the consensus of all of these billionaires. Everybody's like, oh, the Unabomber, he nailed it. And even that passage from the Unabomber isn't accurate to what Alex is saying. That's the announcement that the global elites have decided they're
Starting point is 00:40:47 going to kill everybody off. No, they warned you. So stupid. Yeah. So now we get back to overt racism and who bully. Alex has really bent out of shape about downtown Austin, apparently. Wow. There's more than one non-white person there. I have been to Austin a number of times. Like I've mentioned, my parents live there. Yeah. And I've been downtown, sixth street. Yeah. I think maybe it's more annoying than anything else. Like, you know, it's pretty loud. There's a lot of people partying on weekends in particular. Do you mean there aren't a bunch of themed gangs of different races attacking white people like the Warriors? There is a bunch of people dressed up in like baseball uniforms. Right, naturally. That was scary as hell. That's not cool. All I wanted was a
Starting point is 00:41:33 voodoo donut and this guy in a catcher's mitt. There were so many goddamn roller skaters attacking me. There was a weird guy with bottles on his fingers. Alex, come out to play. It's more in the case of this episode, it's Anthony Gucci. Anyway, we'll get to it. All right. And all the big banks openly lobby to take our guns and bring in this tyranny. They want us fighting with each other over what color we are. I went and ate at a nice restaurant Wednesday night on East 6th Street, a gentrified area and had somebody try to mug us. Basically said, give me money. I'm real mad and bowed up. And I just said, listen, we're not going to give you money. And it was a black guy doing it to us. And then one of my crew members went out. So Saturday almost got mugged downtown
Starting point is 00:42:22 about people pulled out knives that were going to kill you whitey. I don't hate black people because there's a bunch of racist black people out attacking whites. Let's see, the media won't cover it because it's political correctness. What? And they show energized some black folks with hatred. They believe it's okay to go out and attack whites. You can't even go into downtown Austin basically anywhere. I want to warn everybody. You just go out. You will deal with black cook-lush clan people. Basically, anal parasites termed viruses infect the iron poison population. Okay, that's that. We just heard a lot of anal parasite talking. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, downtown's not safe for whites. You know, it's always fun whenever Alex tries to like insist
Starting point is 00:43:01 that he's not being racist in the middle of committing a rhetorical hate crime. Yeah. I mean, the thing that the situations that he's describing are not necessarily things that I would describe as hate crimes per se. No, you know, the some guy asking him for money. I think that the real issue is that Alex just is he shouldn't live in a city. Yeah. Like, I don't think he's able to engage with and navigate the things that come with living in a city, which is, you know, unfortunately, there is some structural shortcomings. Sure. People are, you know, panhandling. Right. That happens. Yeah. And if you take any time someone comes up and asks for money, right, is like an attempt to mug you. Right. I think that you're going to,
Starting point is 00:43:48 you should just live on a farm. Yeah. Or, or you could go hog wild and really get a lot of grounds well behind the idea of taking money away from the cops and giving it to the people who are panhandling, you know, giving it to people who need social safety, that's housing, do that whole thing. If you don't want people on the streets, man, there are two ways to solve it. Kill everyone or help people or go live in the country. Yeah. Stop living in Austin. Stop living in a city. If you can't deal with the dynamics and things that happen when you live in a city, one out of every four people he sees is a race baiting globalist supervillain. So yeah, you can't live in a city. And these other stories are a little bit vague for me to really operate on. So we go
Starting point is 00:44:31 on and apparently, man, there's just, there's a rash of gangs going around downtown. I told some friends, I said, listen, so many people are getting mugged. I said, somebody better be packing heat if we go eat anywhere downtown, even in supposedly nice areas. And the friends I went out with Wednesday night laughed at me. And I said, listen, I'm a news hound, I cover the news. Not once, but twice we were approached by black males. Once the person got a little bit aggressive, the second time extremely aggressive, bowed up and said, basically, you better give me money. And one of the women began yelling at him show he and then I said some choice words friendly way. I just said, listen, you better move on. What? And it was a big part of big guy. Okay. Now this is happening
Starting point is 00:45:20 all over the country. You hear about the knockout game. So I guess I'm glad that Alex didn't pack heat might have committed a murder. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't hear about the knockout game again. Oh, yeah, it's always fun. Whatever you feel like that has certainly dropped in terms of the priorities for right wing commentators in 2022. It seems like it's almost like they just make these things up when they're bored. Yep. And panics catch on. Yeah, why not? Just call them, call them witches. Fuck it. So Alex had this experience that I think he's overdramatizing just a little bit. Oh, but then Anthony Gucci Artie, one of his employees, the Gooch, the Gooch, who he's one of these guys who exists in this space of like helping Dr. Group sell his supplements and stuff. Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 00:46:12 He has like this sort of health vibe in the Info Wars space. He'd only shown up fairly recently in 2014 and his tenure was not very long. He's not around the Info Wars parts anymore. But apparently he ran into some folks downtown and they tried to kidnap his girlfriend. Oh, then Anthony Gucci Artie was out. He told me about it Saturday. He was actually out Friday night. He went to a restaurant. He comes out. He's walking to where his car is parked and six black males come over to him, pull a knife out and say, give us your woman. She is an attractive lady, his girlfriend, or we're going to stab you. And they kept just menacing him and they'd say, you're not going to do anything. And there were police about 100
Starting point is 00:46:58 yards away, but they didn't see it and began punching him. And he has bruises on him. And then he just said, yes, you're right. You win. You're wonderful. And then they didn't stab him to death. So I just have to give an advice to everyone listening in Austin, Texas. You cannot go anywhere downtown except with the police patrol heavily around the W and other areas. Anywhere on 2nd Street down 6th Street, I 35 anywhere into East Austin where they gentrified it. It is a war zone of mugging and robbery. That is outrageous. So we still don't know where Gucci Artie's girlfriend is in this story. Well, see, but that's the thing. Like I, I don't really believe this story necessarily
Starting point is 00:47:38 not Gucci Artie. No, I don't know if Gucci Artie's lying to Alex or if Alex is lying about it. I don't know, but it does raise some questions and that is that his girlfriend should have been kidnapped then, right? Yeah. I think she's, I think she's still gone. The, the choice was give us your girlfriend or we will stab you and he didn't get stabbed and he said, okay, you all are right. Yes. So that seems to imply that they took his girlfriend, but that seems like a story that Alex would lead with. I mean, that's probably the biggest story that I could think of for, for his purposes. Six dudes stole my employee's girlfriend. It seems to me that this story is nonsense because of the non-kidnapping and non-stabbing. I don't know, maybe Anthony
Starting point is 00:48:26 Gucci Artie got into a fight. Also, that's the type of shit that happens in movies. What, what, what are you talking about? What, what, what are you talking about? Six men come up to you with one knife, right? Again, they don't need the knife. There's six of them. They can beat you to death in a heartbeat. True. If that's what they want to do, you don't need a knife to add. Well, it's interesting that you say that there's six. Yeah. Because that number might be a little bit fluid. See, that's kind of what I was thinking. He was saying six every time it's six. Yeah. You wouldn't catch me dead downtown after 10. It's so dangerous. That's when most of the muggings and racial attacks happen. And it's racial. It's racial. You're not going to hear Jesse Jackson
Starting point is 00:49:05 or any of the white liberals talk about it. Let's play this Ben Stein clip from Fox News, where he says Obama's the most racist president's ever been. Hey, I know this, he sure promotes it, and there's sure been this green light. Pull it out that being white is inherently evil or even Hispanic. Yeah, I noticed it's not rednecks getting attacked. Those everybody knows they're packing heat. And this is becoming a real problem, folks. Let's go to the clip. All right. I'm satisfied my curiosity. I mean, the red, the raw story. Did he get attacked? So rednecks? Yeah, never mind. Oh, he's noted. Yeah, exactly. So I think the raw story headline is absolutely accurate. Alex spent about 20 minutes rambling about how a bunch of imagined racial attacks he and his
Starting point is 00:49:46 friends had suffered in downtown Austin happened. And then in introducing this Ben Stein clip, he says that Obama greenlit and encourage this kind of shit. The headline itself has to do with a kidnapping. And the story about Anthony Gucci, already his girlfriend was 100% an attempted kidnapping based on the way that Alex tells the story. Yes, but I'll say that there's one thing that they have to put out a total fairness to Alex. It's super, super clear that Alex is trying to drum up feelings of fear about black men in his overwhelmingly white audience. But if you go like super strictly on details, there's one way he can still make a point against the raw story article. Okay, their headline is quote, Alex Jones, Obama put out a green light for groups of
Starting point is 00:50:25 black youths to kidnap white women. And if you listen to his telling of the situation with Gucci already, there isn't any reason to conclude that his girlfriend is white. A better headline would have encapsulated Alex's very overt racism, but not specified the unspecified race of Gucci already's girlfriend. From Alex's story, all we know is that she's very attractive, but we don't know that she's white. Haven't gone through all this. I'm going to say that the raw story headline is actually overly fair to Alex. This comments are racist as hell. And the placement of quotation marks don't really have anything to do with anything. No, no, but I'm satisfied now. So let's go back to November 4th, an election day. And when I said the number of people in this
Starting point is 00:51:04 Gucci already story was a little bit fluid. Here's what I mean. Okay, this is from November 4th now. Okay. Yes, it's true that Anthony Gucci already had eight black guys pull a knife on him and start grabbing his girl and calling him racial names eight men one night in downtown Austin. And it happened to me last Wednesday night on East six going to eat dinner. They got some great restaurants over there and a big black guy comes up to me and goes, I need money right now. Give it to me. And I was like, whoa. And then we just stood there and he just stomped off. What's going on? Just like in places like Vidar, Texas, or the black person goes to the town,
Starting point is 00:51:50 they get drugged behind a car. It's wrong. It's wrong. But what it is is it's criminals who are rationalizing doing what they're doing because you're black, you're white, you're gay. And that's what I said in my speech, not what you twisted and put in this article. And that's why you people don't have any credibility. It's why folks don't listen to you. It's why the so-called left is falling apart because you're not the left. Okay. You're a bunch of racial dividers. Okay. So this is absurd. And it's not meant to make sense. Alex has weirdly added two more black guys to the story about Anthony Gucci already, but also pay really close attention to the comparison he's making about racial issues.
Starting point is 00:52:33 On the one hand, he has some guy coming up to him and maybe aggressively asking for money and then walking off with no real need for aggression or violence. Right. Alex just didn't respond and he says the guy stomped off. Alex has imagined that this was done because the guy was black and Alex was white. But there's no proof of this outside of Alex's imagination. It's very possible and perhaps even likely that this guy aggressively asked a black person for money that same night. There's nothing except for Alex's imagination that makes this a racially motivated thing. And I'm not entirely sure what the reality with the Gucci already story is because it's second hand and the details keep on changing. Yeah, it does seem like he has now been attacked
Starting point is 00:53:11 by the fucking fellowship of the ring. So this is being compared to racists dragging a black man to death behind their truck. Alex is referring to the 1998 murder or you could call it even a lynching by truck of James Bird Jr. The three men who carried out that act, John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer and Sean Allen Barry picked up Bird when he was hitchhiking and then mercilessly beat him and dragged him for over three miles behind their truck. Before the killing, they defecated and urinated on him. After killing this man in one of the most disgusting and horrific ways possible, they left his body in front of the cemetery of a black church and then went to a cookout. The killers were members and associates of white supremacist groups and
Starting point is 00:53:53 their motives were abundantly clear. They had like Nazi tattoos and shit. Sure. Two of them got the death penalty and have been executed. The third got life in prison for cooperating with the investigation. In 2011, when one of them was on the eve of his execution, he told the news, quote, as far as any regrets, no, I have no regrets. No, I do it all over again to tell you the truth. Even through all that, the victims family tried to spare him the death penalty. Of course. This is what Alex is comparing his experience to. Some guy yelled at Alex that he wanted money and then Alex stood there and the guy left. That's as much of a violation to Alex as what happened to James Bird Jr. I guess Gucci already stories more severe with the threats about kidnapping,
Starting point is 00:54:33 but you'll notice that even though Gucci already was super outnumbered, he didn't get stabbed and his girlfriend wasn't kidnapped. If that story happened at all, yeah, there's absolutely no doubt that birds murder was racially motivated. That was an act that is very clear. The stories Alex is telling may be real if I'm being generous, but there's no indication that they were racially motivated crimes. If a black person mugs a white person, that wasn't necessarily done because of racial animus, but when three white supremacists drag a black man to death because he's black, and then they say that's why they did it, it's a racially motivated crime. The blurring of this line is an important part of Alex's political project, which is rooted in white identity.
Starting point is 00:55:12 He's a flagrant racist and deserves, if anything, far more shit than he gets on that front. There is something very specifically intentional about this trying to compare horrific, very clearly racially motivated crimes against black people to something like what Alex experienced. Yeah, absolutely. That is not necessarily racially motivated because the equivocation is patently offensive. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And getting the audience to equate the two is an embedding of racism in their minds. I mean, it serves the dual purpose of inflating his victim status and deflating the victim status of, I mean, the victims of his ilk. Yeah, it just happens so flippantly. That comparison is something that's just something,
Starting point is 00:56:06 how he understands these dynamics, and it's terrifying. Absolutely. No wrestling with the reality of being dragged behind a car or why or who or yeah. Well, congratulations, Alex. I think if anything, the raw story folks took you out of context in the opposite direction that you're claiming. It's absurd to me how often he seems to be fucking handled with kid gloves by publications that should fucking both barrels. I think I think a large part of that is it's really unpleasant to listen to his show and I think that most people would rather not do it. You know, I think another part of it, I was just thinking about this recently, I think another part of it is when I was thinking about describing like, oh, this is what Alex said
Starting point is 00:56:53 on his show. If I really put that into like a headline of something that we talk about on a daily basis that's totally normal to us, it would sound fake as shit. It would sound like I was making it up. And I think that's part of the like, I don't know if it was fully intentional, but that's part of the reason that like our episodes are just a date. Yeah, as the title and the description of the episode is never really all that no, like laid out all the details of stuff. Yeah, you know, I don't even want to, I don't even want to engage with that, that, that possibility. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, what are you going to Alex famous Christian zealot says that we are energy beings vibrating between multiple dimensions. And that is how we'll
Starting point is 00:57:38 accelerate our growth to the next plane. What do you what? Who's going to write that? I don't know if anyone should exactly. So yeah, Alex is a disgusting racist. And we remember, because I accidentally listened to Monday's episode. Yeah, we remember that Alex was doing that coverage of the apartment complex. Yeah. Now listen to a report he has on Tuesday. Oh boy, Obama's amnesty means title wave of illegal immigration. They've printed 60 million green cards for after the election. They've already opened the borders. They're just going to certify it all. The government's got the organization facilities at thousands of apartment complexes, organizing it preparing from all over the world. So yeah, he doesn't have anything to back that
Starting point is 00:58:27 up on. It's just clearly a reference to the call that he got from the day before that he's integrated now into his factual based reporting. I mean, I would be I would bet I would bet pretty confidently that the United States hasn't printed 60 million green cards in its existence. That's an interesting question. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But I'm ready to go for after the election after the election. Yeah, man, it was crazy how that worked out to Yeah. So Alex has this sort of racist idea about, you know, you bring in all these these immigrants and then they will all vote for Democrat stuff, which is an assumption that's faulty on its face even like it's a dumb, dumb way to engage with the voting dynamics. Right.
Starting point is 00:59:11 There's no reason to assume that immigrants who come in will automatically vote for Democrat other than if you're assuming that your own party would never help them. True. The real assumption there is we're never going to do anything for immigrants. I think that there's a projection of that, right, perhaps. But, you know, he believes that you're going to end up in a situation where there's actually just strict democracy. And when you have democracy, 51 people voting to murder 49 majority. Yeah. And in in sort of defending his racist ideas about what'll happen to our voting, he ends up talking about Greek democracy. Unfortunately ends up working my side of the street. Oh, no, get up. No, Alex, run.
Starting point is 00:59:53 You're always on my Latin America, because that's the majority. Oh, no, Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, it just, it's just a flood, an absolute flood and then huge government trough, or mammaries, milkies, with taxpayer money. What? Milkies. Milkies? Don't say that. Mama, milkies. The problem with pure democracy is in Greece, they had pure democracy in some of the city states and they would have one bucket of black rocks and one bucket of white rocks. And then the establishment higher class order was allowed to vote. You'd be voted into their club. That was the first democracy. It's more like an oligarchy. And they would call them up and they would say,
Starting point is 01:00:47 yeah, we think this philosopher has called them up to us. We're going to have a vote on throwing him off the cliff. Or sometimes we're going to make him drink hemlock. These are real cases. And then they would vote. They'd say, yep, there are 10 more black rocks. Then there are white rocks. So we do not vote to kill you. Oh, there are seven more white rocks than our black rocks. Those are a yes vote. We're going to throw you off the cliff guards, marching up to that thousand foot parapet and throw him off. Alex doesn't really have a good grasp on what Greek democracy looked like in the era he's talking about. Just to give a preemptive caveat, Greece at the time was a bunch of different city states
Starting point is 01:01:28 and many of them operated quite differently. So what I'm going to get into isn't a representation of the picture of actual pan Hellenic politics. Also, just to leave aside this thing, spoiler alert, he's just talking about Athens. But also, there's also an important fact that women and enslaved persons couldn't vote. And sometimes this inability to vote would be passed on generationally. And sometimes inability to vote had to do with debt that you had. Good stuff. So tyranny of the majority. Take this with a grain of salt. Wait, I would almost argue it's a tyranny of the minority. So Alex is just talking about Athenian issues here. He doesn't have any idea about anything
Starting point is 01:02:06 else that was going on in any other city state. You can tell this because of the use of some specific words that he's using that are very clear indicators of where the ideas are coming from. The sense of being thrown off a cliff or drinking poison were means of capital punishment. But because Alex uses the term hemlock, you can kind of get the picture. That's where the knowledge begins and ends. Athenian democracy was rooted in a system of largely independent entities. There was the Boulet, which was a kind of it was a body that included representatives from all the tribes in Athens. Then there was the Ecclesia, which was kind of like our Senate. In fact, they argue laws. Right. So the Boulet is the globalists. Maybe the House of Representatives.
Starting point is 01:02:45 I mean, that's that's a bad analogy. But you know, I got you. So they had the Ecclesia, which is sort of like a legal arguing body. And then there was the Dicasteria, which was the judiciary, more or less. In addition to this, Athens had a tripartite executive branch with three Archons forming a council that presided over the city state. There was the Polymarcos, who was in charge of the military issues of the state. The eponymous Archon, who was the chief legal figure in the Basileos, who did a bit of the religious pomp in that sort of world. Yeah, these positions were not democratically elected as we understand them, as they were always members of the aristocracy. And there was there wasn't
Starting point is 01:03:23 like a legitimate vote to put anyone into the position of being Archon. If Alex were talking about elections of Archons as being something that was really just a function of the in crowd and the oligarchy, that would be fair. But that's not really true of the broader popular votes that would take place within Athenian democracy. There were many things that all male non slave, non indebted Athenians could vote on in just the way that Alex is describing with colored rocks, or often broken pieces of pottery called Ostraca. It is true that there are a lot of things like proposed laws that Athenians were allowed to vote on. But the specific stuff that Alex is talking about, those weren't public votes. Like he's very clearly talking about Socrates and his trial was carried
Starting point is 01:04:04 out by the decasteria. Like Socrates stood accused of crimes against the state. So his trial was a little bit more serious. But there were often votes related to ostracism, like where someone could end up getting banished from the city state by a vote. The term ostracism comes from the Ostraca, the broken pieces of pottery. This was a process though that was initiated by the Ecclesia and then voted on by all voting eligible public. So that might be what Alex is conflating. The ability to ostracize someone from the city state is being conflated with Socrates' trial, where he was sentenced to death. I'm being a little bit pedantic, but the point is that Alex is using this very flawed understanding of Athenian democracy to uphold his stupid and racist
Starting point is 01:04:46 ideas about modern voting and immigration, which I think it makes it important to talk about a little bit. If there's someone with an actual background in something from history that implicates current day issues, it's usually a good idea to consider what they're saying. And that's the very thing that Alex is trying to hijack here. He's trying to pretend that he knows things about history that give him a better understanding of things happening in the present. But everything he's talking about is really surface level at best and wrong at worst. Yeah, it seems like he's learned literally everything from a movie. Yeah, or just maybe someone telling him a story about Socrates. Yeah. It's basically like, you know, somebody told him a story about Socrates and like,
Starting point is 01:05:21 I did read the Republic, didn't I? Yeah, or the apology would be the one about the trial. Right, right. But like the, yeah, it's kind of like the level of knowledge that you get from the Rogan. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I got high. I was talking. And then I decided to remember that for the rest of my life as being true. Yeah. Yeah. So I think I think that there's just a just a bad grasp of history that Alex is using to apply to his own racialized fears. And then he just gets even like more messy in terms of history, marching up to that thousand foot parapet and throw him off for corrupting the youth, criticizing the government. Most of the philosophers that got killed, the large percentage of them did get killed.
Starting point is 01:06:11 The thinkers was a large percentage. And they either have you drink him lock or throw you off of a cliff. And they would vote on that. And that's pure democracy. That's why it's the howl of democracy. This absolutely isn't true. Most philosophers and ancient Greece or Athens, because that's what Alex is talking about, weren't killed. Alex is just talking about Socrates and pretending that he has a larger understanding of Greek social politics. In college, Ancient Greek was one of my minors and one semester was just translating Plato. I read the apology in English before, like in high school, and I understood the broad strokes of it, but translating the original text was pretty eye opening as an experience. For one thing, in many English translations,
Starting point is 01:06:52 it doesn't come across fully how much of a how much Socrates was absolutely begging them to kill him. Not in the sense that he was suicidal, but just that he was such a cocky asshole, that he was showing as much respect for that process as Alex does to the depositions we've heard him at. Yeah, literally, most of it, if I recall correctly, was them being like, please just go away or shut up. And he's like, you'll have to kill me. And they're like, no, we don't want to. I mean, the notably one of the suggestions that he has for a punishment is like, you guys feed me for the rest of my life. Exactly. Yeah. Well, we're going to kill you. All right, you're a dick. One of the other things that really stood out was exactly what
Starting point is 01:07:27 dynamics existed that were leading to his trial in the first place. One of them was obviously the charge of corrupting the minds of the youth by way of questioning the official religious views of the state. However, there were other issues. For instance, Socrates was super opposed to democracy, feeling instead that the ones who knew best deserve to rule. That theme is carried out in his pupil Plato's text for public. So in terms of what Alex is talking about, like the opposition to the state, it's it's opposition to the things that Alex is pretending he's in favor. Yeah, I was going to say Socrates was more like the philosopher king style, appreciate certainly through the the pan of Plato. Yeah, we get that. So there's also a political aspect to the trial as Socrates
Starting point is 01:08:09 was an associate of a group of oligarchs called the 30 tyrants. These dudes were pieces of shit, and they presided over the killing of between five to 10% of the Athenian population in a very short rule that they had that was less than a year. Jesus, there was an uprising that took them out of power in 403 BC and four years later is when Socrates was tried and sentenced to drink hemlock. One of the 30 tyrants was Critias, an associate of Socrates, who is such a such a friend of his that there's one of one of Socrates dialogues is named after him, and he appears in at least two others. Whether deserved or not, the public was not hot on people who were friends with the 30 after their ouster, and that may have played some part in the targeting of Socrates for trial.
Starting point is 01:08:50 Even so, according to the apology and the later dialogue credo, Socrates could totally have not been a dick at trial and been given a lighter sentence, or he could have escaped to exile. People are very willing to not just go away. Just go away. Most Greek philosophers weren't killed by the state. For instance, Plato and Aristotle both died of natural causes. Epicurus died of a urinary stone and Heraclitus died from dropsy. This is an example of Alex's one of his favorite tricks, and that's that he takes a little piece of trivia that he knows about one thing, and then he pretends it applies to a broader context, and then he presents that as truth to his audience. I'm sure it's fun for him, and it kind of probably feels like improv, but it's just lying.
Starting point is 01:09:31 The notion that people who were philosophies who were thinkers who questioned the state were put to death in Athens is not really held up by some of the more notable and larger philosophers of the time. I was surprised to read that they shot Epictetus out of a trebuchet into the sun. That was a surprise to me, because he was pretty cool. He was just a stoic dude. He consented to that. It was a scientific experience to see if it could be done. Now, that's not to say that throughout history, there haven't been people who were like revolutionary thinkers that were maligned for their revolutionary thought, but the way that Alex is trying to present this as it relates to philosophers in the city-state of Athens is not fair. He's just
Starting point is 01:10:17 making shit up because he knows a little bit about Socrates, which I think is fun. Anyway, let's get back to Alex being racist. It's also about a divide and conquer, the old Tower of Babel story, where there were so many nationalities from so many countries that moved there, none of them could communicate anymore, and basically things fell apart. It's one thing if you're in India, and it's 95% Indians, it's a culture, you can adopt it, you know what it is. You're in China, 97% are Chinese, you can adopt it, you can learn to navigate it, or Mexico, you get on there, 97% are Mexican, you can get it, get into it. I mean, I like other cultures, but when it becomes a Star Wars space bar, like Walgreens was last night,
Starting point is 01:11:03 I mean, I walked in this Walgreens, it was like dee dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee, I mean, it was like a gallery of every country in the world and I rounded the corner, you know, looking for children's Tylenol, and getting some bottled water, some Chapstick. Wow. So when there's minorities around, it's like the most Isley Cantina. I mean, first off, that was a, that was a bar. It was great. It was a great bar. It was also the most wretched den of scum and villainy. Well, yeah, but it's chill. Sure, somebody lost an arm, but that's fine. That's a, that's just a good bar. The characterization of it is, it's awful. It's, it's, yeah, but that's from, that's from Obi-Wan's
Starting point is 01:11:51 point of view. He was a real stick in the mud. Fair enough. I like that Alex went for the second stanza of a figure in dance. He didn't stop there. Nope. Nope. Wow. We're gonna have to go for that swinging jizz music. Damn. Pretty fucked up. Pretty fucked up. How is, you know, it's what kind of insane person is like this? Walgreens reminds me of the most Isley Cantina because of how many non whites are here. Exactly. Yes. Yes. That's an insane person. Well, I mean, think about it. It's so similar to Joe Rogan's comments that have come back up again. Sure. Talking about going to see planet of the apes in a non white neighborhood. Also, we just talked about the tower of Babel. Dan, you're a witch. Am I? Yeah,
Starting point is 01:12:31 we just talked about the tower of Babel. No, not on this episode on our previous episode. Remember how you get into space? Oh yeah. Yeah. Breaking into space. I should talk about that. That's how stupid a world we live in. Yeah. Breaking into space wasn't even a headline. No, no, no, no. Break my glass ceiling. That's what it was. Yeah. So this is, this is fucked. That's insane. Yeah. That's just insane, especially because again, I have never associated most Isley with any kind of racial component. I was just like, oh, it's what is it? And also, that's the cool part of space. There's everywhere. Everybody's from aliens everywhere. That's cool. That's what I got excited about when I was a kid. I grew up thinking about how cool it
Starting point is 01:13:11 was to meet all these aliens. It seems also like leaving that aside. I don't disagree with you, but even that aside, I also think that Alex is largely expressing support for ethno states. Yes, absolutely. He's strictly a, I'm not a white supremacist. I'm a white nationalist and a black nationalist and because race is not a construct. Every group, every race should have their own state and that because if you have two, God, just damn it. I don't understand how he can defend himself against sort of these accusations of like you are a white. Totally. You want a white nation. You got scared because there were too many non-white people. And what I find really interesting too is the distinction between this, like when he was talking about the Muslims in
Starting point is 01:13:56 the pool supply shop, that was just sort of like, he doesn't like to see indications that Muslim people can actually engage in culture normally, just like everybody else. That was threatening to him in terms of that, the function of integration. Wait, integration is possible? No. That's threatening. Yeah. This is a little different even in as much as it's like, it's not about seeing a lot of one group. It's about seeing a lot of different groups. Yeah. Individuals of different groups congregating together. That's, that's wrong. That's what's really weird about it is he, it's the, the number of different groups is something that in and of itself is weird and threatening. Yeah. No, this would be like bizarre. This would be
Starting point is 01:14:44 legitimately if like in Star Wars, Luke walks into the most nicely canteen and he's like, segregation now segregation forever. Like, what are you doing? That's very weird. Insane. So this, Alex gets a call about voter ID laws. Sure. And this is, this is fairly interesting. I should say that a large portion of this show that I just haven't even cut clips of because it's kind of, it almost bores me as a position that Alex has, but it's very much in support of voter ID laws. Sure. Very much like, this is how we're going to get rid of voter fraud. Voter fraud. Yeah. And so this, this call struck me as bizarre. I went in and voted today for, for what good it's worth. And I live in a little town called Fort St. Lucie, Florida, just on the East Coast,
Starting point is 01:15:31 north of West Palm. And when I went in there, just out of curiosity, and I don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with, with the ID thing. And I even had my ID up. But when I went in there, I asked them, I said, they said, okay, we need to see your driver's license. That's okay. Can you show me the Florida law that says, you know, you have to have it. And he says, well, I don't know the law, but, but the law is, you know, you can't vote here unless you have a photo form of ID. My guidelines are, and I interrupted him. I said, well, your guidelines do not supersede our law. It's important to train everybody that you're going to show me the law and you're going to be specific about it so that these people start learning to actually look at
Starting point is 01:16:11 the law. You're right. So, so now it's defiance against voter ID laws is being encouraged. Yeah. This is weird. Well, I mean, think about it. This really the Walgreens example is so, so fucking telling, right? Because here's another thing that you could have in the Walgreens, right? All white people. Okay, it's all white people in the Walgreens. But there's one person from Ireland who doesn't speak English. He only speaks Gaelic. There's one person from Sweden who doesn't speak English, but because they all look white and if they're not talking, Alex will go in there and be like, this is not multicultural at all. Right. And in the same way, the voter ID law is, no, no, no, you just look at his face. He's white. You don't need a, you don't need an ID. Right. He's white.
Starting point is 01:16:54 So he's an American. I think the assumption is that Alex believes himself to be talking to a white caller. Yeah. And so it's not such a big deal that this person needs to be subject to voter ID. Absolutely. It's weird. 100% the case. But it's so glaring that most of the show has been so in support of voter ID laws. And then this, where this guy is saying like, you have to show me the law where it says I have to show my ID or whatever. It's, it's, it's, it's just absurd. Yeah. It's disorienting. You're just an absurd person. But unsurprisingly, immediately after this exchange with this caller, the caller gets deeply racist. Okay. Well, your guidelines do not supersede our law. It's important to train everybody that you're
Starting point is 01:17:39 going to show me the law and you're going to be specific about it so that these people start learning to actually look at the law. You're right. Right. And when I, and then I said, well, if I was a piece of Spanish, you legal scum that come over here. I'm sorry, what? Show you ID or anything. And his jaw kind of dropped. Yeah, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. That's a jaw droppingly racist thing to yell. That is, that is like, ooh, here you go. I'm going to have you vote on this ballot. It's an empty page. It's full 16 lines notebook. It's going to be great. You get a special ballot. You get a real special ballot and you just have to go to the center of the ocean to catch it. Oh my God. Wow. That is nuts.
Starting point is 01:18:23 Saying that out loud. Twice. Twice. It's totally normal on Alex's show. Yeah. It's not something that causes him to be like, look, I gotta fuck you. Did he say something? Did he say, how dare you? No, certainly, certainly didn't condemn. No. Um, so, uh, mail in voting comes up, which we know that Alex believes is the scourge of our electoral system and seemed to have too much of a problem with it in 2014. Odd. I was talking about the, you know, the, the voting thing, you know, and up here in Oregon, they just send us the ballots in the mail. So we don't, there is no polling stations or any of that kind of stuff. You know, I mean, I don't know why they don't do that everywhere. Well, if the organs already won't, you know, kind of take them over with the socialist game,
Starting point is 01:19:07 but what's funny is that then they do some good things. There's some sensible things that liberals do like GMO labeling and, uh, you know, animal welfare, common sense stuff. So they get all the compassionate, well-meaning people working for their team, not knowing they're helping bring down the drawbridge. Good to hear from you, Jim. It seems very weird. I don't know if he is, uh, disputing what this guy is saying about mail in voting, but he definitely doesn't have the same sort of passion behind it. No, no. I think that's a function of the, it's not a huge talking point in 2014. It's not the right wings. Last salvo to prove that the election was stolen. It's so funny to me how often he's
Starting point is 01:19:50 telling on himself and the GMP with just that, like, well, see, they get all the compassionate and helpful people and you're like, you realize what you just said, right? The inverse of that is you. Yes. Do you realize that you said they get all the compassionate and helpful people? And then you, on the GOP, you attract the, uh, maligning and evil and, uh, misanthropic. So Alex gets another call and it's a guy who sells iodine, just like Alex. And I thought this was a really boring call until it picks up really, really fast. Will in Virginia, what's your take on election 2014? A major realignment or just more business as usual? And what do you expect? The Lord and Savior, Obama, Lord Obama, Lord Ebola,
Starting point is 01:20:37 what do you expect him to do after he's a lame duck and he's got that pardon power? Well, I have two points of a good, Alex, but I'm a naturopathic doctor in Virginia. And, uh, I don't know. Also, not a doctor companies, a letter. We make mandatory over based products. But basically, I want to say that your ex to, um, in your DNA force, we've been having amazing results with those, uh, the, uh, DNA force helping with epilepsy patients. Um, a couple of them are changing diet and detoxing the body, but also, uh, there's two, um, just, just amazing. What it's able to do to actually repair the thyroid and not only protect it, we're seeing, uh, young, young kids to reverse the homosexuality over a course of six
Starting point is 01:21:20 to nine months, uh, taking higher doses than you guys recommend. So it's great stuff. Whoa. Whoa. So apparently this, uh, naturopathic doctor is, um, uh, calling into Alex's show to say that mega dosing on X two, um, has reversed homosexuality. Uh, hey, doctor, I'm having, I'm having some problems. Can you prescribe me something? Uh, well, Alex Jones recommends this. It's not a prescription. Great. Great. Great. Great. Uh, great. This is, this is, this is shit. Alex's supplements can reverse homosexuality. Now here's my question. Why does it take six to nine months, Dan? I don't know. What in the chemical needs to take that requires six to nine months? What, what part of the iodine or the zinc requires six to nine months to activate?
Starting point is 01:22:18 I feel like I was just playing this clip, uh, and I don't think it needs to be discussed or picked apart. I think it speaks for itself quite frankly. This is real, real shit. Yeah. That's real fucking shit. So, uh, here's another clip, uh, where Alex is, uh, sort of again, uh, condemning his future self. Uh, this, it has to do with the headline that he has kept reading over the course of the show. And that is a comment from an ex Nixon aide who, uh, thinks that the, the GOP would be unwise to deal with the tea party. Now it's not Roger. God damn it. It's John Huntsman. Yeah. But Alex does end up saying something about the people who worked with Nixon. Oh yeah. But, uh, kind of funny. If the polls hold 2014 should be a banner year for
Starting point is 01:23:06 Republicans, but John Huntsman senior, a self-described lifelong Republican and former special assistant to President Richard Nixon is looking ahead with concern about the grand old party's 2016 prospects. The tea party has completely captivated and ruined the Republican party. Oh, you're scared, aren't you? Today, and they'll show this in 2016, says Huntsman, author of Barefoot to Billionaire. Unless a Jeff Bush comes in or a John Huntsman, junior, the Republicans don't have a grip. Unless your son saves us. How disgusting to have one of these Nixonian slime balls, one of these country club Republicans. I mean, boy was Richard Nixon a racist too. This whole crowd. That's when you got horrible Communist Socialist Democrats that are racist. And you got
Starting point is 01:23:56 all these old racist white people that are helping destroy the country. I mean, it's just a bunch of scum. Yeah. Fuck all these people who worked with Nixon. Oh my God. Now, in a couple years, my best friend who will lead my show down a bizarre direction is a Nixon guy. Who will also turn into an indictment of you bitching about what's Obama going to do with his pardon power? Oh, true. True. That guy has Nixon tattooed on his back. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're looking at his past episodes just makes everything that's happened so stupid. So stupid. So dumb. Makes the whole world really stupid. Yeah. Yeah. So now we get to the third hour and that means the most important man in the world is about to show up. I can't believe I've forgotten that he was
Starting point is 01:24:42 going to be on the show. We didn't get sidetracked a bit by that Raw Story article. Tucker Carlson's coming up with a daily caller. Say what you want about Tucker Carlson. But, uh, I've said good things and bad things over the years. He's an interesting guy. He's got a great website. A lot of good libertarian American ideas. A lot of breaking news. Drudge loves it. Obviously, it's on there every day. Oh, this is before Drudge was a bad guy, apparently, or maybe he's a good guy again. I'm not sure. He hadn't been transformed into the traitorous traitor that he is now. Yeah. By Hillary. Yeah. Oh, Hillary. So one of the things that I find really fascinating about this interview between
Starting point is 01:25:24 Alex and Tucker is that I think Tucker says some fairly prescient shit, but in the wrong way. Of course. This first clip is, I think, looking back. Can't really argue with it. Well, first hey Alex, thanks for having me. Second, I think the story over the next two years is going to be chaos. There's some, there is a lot of movement just beneath the surface that American politics, I think in American society, I think globally actually. Um, and that's evidence that things are realigning and we're right in the middle of it. So it's hard to see it. It's hard to step back and get perspective on what's happening, but the world is going to look a lot different in two years. Our assumptions now, you know, the Hillary Clinton is going to run against Jeb Bush. I think
Starting point is 01:26:11 all of them will be proven wrong in the end as people start to move to places politically they never thought they would be. Really hard to argue with that. God damn it. Yeah. The next two years are going to be chaos. People are going to politically move to places that they never imagined they would be. Yeah. Uh, yeah. That's a, that's a, that's a very correct assessment of what happened with Alex for sure. That's also one of my big problems with Tucker Carlson is he could not be more aware of how evil he is. Sure. You know, like with Alex, we can always walk that stupid be evil continuum and Tucker is clearly a brilliant psychopath. Well, there's that, there's that. I think it was an interview he did with Dave Rubin where he was talking about how
Starting point is 01:26:55 he lies. Yeah. Yeah. He's aware of this. He knows what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. And to your point, I think this next clip that I actually think is really prescient to is another indication of his awareness of what he's doing in the present. We saw what Ben Stein on Fox News saying he's the most racist president ever. I don't know if I agree with that, but he certainly has race baited and used race more than any president in recent history. Exactly. What do you think about that? I have no idea what's in his heart. I have no idea what his two beliefs are, but it's very clear. They've made it as clear as it's ever been in the last two weeks that they're willing to use race to divide the country and get out the boat
Starting point is 01:27:37 and use racial fears to get their base, you know, out to the polls. And I think it's effective. It works. Fear works. It works for me, by the way. I'm motivated. Well, I'm afraid it motivates me. I think human beings are all that way. But in the case of racial division, there's a consequence that lasts far beyond election day. If you stoke people up along racial lines, you get ethnic politics and look around the world, you travel. Oh, really, Tucker? I mean, that's his business model. Yeah. But the recognition of being aware of the consequences of engaging that way is pretty damning. And then also recognizing that he knows this is an effective way to do shit. I mean, just that. Listen, racial politics, that's going to be thing cut to. Now I'm going to do a
Starting point is 01:28:27 three part series on George Soros that will not be anti-Semitic at all. Certainly not. Nope. Yeah. I'm going to use a video that's selectively edited shot by Harrison Smith to argue that white people can't get monoclonal antibodies. I mean, just so fucking. Yeah. It really is amazing when you stop and do it like Tucker Carlson, step back. And you think, I am shocked that human beings behave like this. It's almost like, what? Why? What are we doing? What are we doing that you can be aware that you're destroying the world? Were there not like real consequences to people's lives? I think it would be academically incredibly interesting to see what. Why do you do this? Yeah. Why? What is it? It can't be money. It can't just be money. You're killing everyone.
Starting point is 01:29:26 You're murdering millions of people. It can't just be money. I mean, he could have quit at any point and been set for the rest of his life. Forever. He didn't need any of this and he could have been set for the rest of his life. It seems really bizarre to imagine that the primary motivation would be money. Yeah. I believe through the course of this and through just awareness of other things that Tucker said in other interviews that he's done in the past. I think it's he's a piece of shit. I think he's actually a really bad person and a lot of the politics that he's expressing now are actually things that he believes. Yeah. This white nationalist nonsense that he does on his show. I do believe that there's an opportunistic aspect of it that is like, hey, it's now okay
Starting point is 01:30:11 to do this show. For sure. For sure. I think that there is that and that if the tide ever became such that it wasn't appropriate, he would change to something else. Like he would go like how he was a neocon supporting the Iraq war when these kinds of conversations absolutely were not socially acceptable. Oh, good God. No. And I think you would do that. But at the same time, I think deep down, he's a he's a real racist asshole. Yeah, man. That's another thing. Why is shit the fucking same? Like John Stuart just came out and he's like, you need to engage with people. And the first thought I have is, oh, like you famously engaged with Tucker Carlson and everybody was like, oh, you destroyed him. You kicked his ass. You're gonna you he'll never
Starting point is 01:30:54 show got canceled. Yeah, he'll never work again. And how did that work out? Well, I think that there's even other worse examples of yeah, there's a shit ton for John Stuart. But I think that at its core, I think that his advice about that or his comments about that about Rogan aren't necessarily like the dumbest thing. I just think I just think it's a little bit like they're far dumber. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe like, yeah, that's not really help. Yeah. Yeah. So hey, you remember on the third November 3rd, we heard a description of what losers do. Yes, I do remember that. See if you think this sounds like a loser. Let's hear it. We're seeing kind of libertarian, patriot type, paleo conservative sites like drudgerport.com, dailycaller.com,
Starting point is 01:31:41 and others rising in a climate of where pretty much all the Democratic Party type sites, we see precipitous drops to the point they've now rigged Alexa to show our ratings dropping while our internal rating show or skyrocketing. It's almost like one of the hallmarks of being a loser is saying that pretending that all your shit's going sky high. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody else is falling apart. It seems a lot like a loser would say that. Yeah. According to Alex, at least. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I noticed something and it's really boring. That is that most of this interview seems to be shitting on the media. That's about it. That's fair. That's a very large piece of it. 15 years ago, NBC News was a big deal. It was respected. People expected that they would
Starting point is 01:32:25 do diligence when they said things. Now it's like, yeah, whatever. It's MSNBC. They're crazy. It's the Leon Trotsky channel. Nobody cares. You know what I mean? Like there really isn't an expectation that they're accurate in the first place. So it's not as big a deal. But then dailycaller can have millions of visitors every day. infowars.com can have that. This talk radio show has conservatively, it's a small show compared to a lot of them. 3 million people a day. You count, you know, YouTube instead of every week, it's like 15 to 18 million people tune in or watch. And then you look at CNN and others. And then they're just still, you've been inside there so much. Are they really arrogant or is it a front, Tucker? Oh, no. Oh, the arrogance is bone deep. So it really feels
Starting point is 01:33:08 weird to listen to this interview where these dudes are just talking about how awful the mainstream media is. Well, they pretend that they don't both have almost comically large conflicts of interest on the subject. Yeah, Alex is someone who will never be invited back on any show because he can't control himself and start screaming at people whenever he's allowed on any TV show. He's a hostile, abusive asshole who ramps up his intensity in order to turn an interview into a publicity stunt every time. It's a tacky and desperate strategy and folks other than Rogan have caught onto that dynamic. So Alex has a real chip on his shoulder about the media and how no one wants him around. On the other side, Tucker seems to be pretending that he wasn't
Starting point is 01:33:43 let go by both CNN and MSNBC prior to his time at Fox. At CNN, like you brought up, this disastrous crossfire interview with Jon Stewart led to the show being canceled, Tucker being publicly humiliated, and then CNN deciding not to renew his contract. His MSNBC show got canceled for having low ratings and got replaced by Rachel Maddow. And look, Tucker is a fucking thirsty asshole in terms of public approval and attention. After MSNBC, but before Fox, he went on Dancing with the Stars, which isn't something that a person who has a legitimate beef and concern and disdain for the big media companies. That's how what they would do. You wouldn't go on Dancing with the Stars. No, they'd go on the mask
Starting point is 01:34:21 singer. We all know this. Also, he was the first celebrity kicked off that season. There's an unspoken reason that these two guys shouldn't necessarily be considered the most unbiased sources on the media. And that's not even considering that they're both people who have a deep financial incentive to demonize the media. Alex's show only really has a reason to exist if the media sucks. And Tucker's daily caller also benefits from people becoming disillusioned with actual journalism. Overall, though, I was pretty surprised to find this interview was so much about just bashing the media. Like it's supposed to be election day coverage, but instead of a lot of hypothetical coverage about how the media is going to cover
Starting point is 01:34:56 things. Yeah. Yeah. I bet they're going to say this. It's really stupid. That's great. No, that's compelling radio. I find it to be a dud. I bet this is how the Democrats are going to lie. A made up thing that I said, and you know what? Tomorrow I'm going to say they did. So here we get a little bit of election talk. Okay. But it also is a little bit racist. I think we become political animals like I did 20 years ago, like you did 30 years ago for basic survival. You either get involved or we will basically go into a pure democracy where hordes of illegals will vote away our freedoms. Well, that appears to be, I mean, there's no, I mean, as someone who grew up in California and looks back at that state when I
Starting point is 01:35:39 grew up in and again, not that old, that state was the richest out of 50 and the nicest had great schools, excellent infrastructure and was pretty reasonable, you know, politically. Now it's a one party state that's literally crumbling and has more property than any other state. Why is that? Well, there's only one thing that's changed. And that's the composition of the population in California because of immigration. Holy shit. So here we see even more proto-great replacement conspiracy talking points just casually thrown out by Alex and Tucker. As much as it's important to recognize how much of a piece of shit Alex is, and that's the theme of our show more or less, Tucker is more than on board with this whole thing. But immigrants
Starting point is 01:36:15 voting away is precious white freedoms. As for California being a one party state, it's fair to say that the state generally swings to the left. But just a few years prior to this, the governor of the state was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's a Republican. The state is considered a safe bet for Democrats in the general presidential election, but that wasn't the case in fairly recent history. Republicans carried the state in every election from 1968 to 1990. Elected representatives are mostly Democrats, but there's still plenty of Republicans in the state assembly as well as the state Senate. There are even 10 members of the House of Representatives from California who are Republican, including the minority leader, Kevin McCarthy. The logic just doesn't work to make
Starting point is 01:36:55 this about immigration either, because the exact dynamic you see in California where most officials are Democrats, but there are a number of Republicans in there too, that exists in the reverse in Texas. Most elected officials are Republican, but there are some Democrats just like California, and it borders Mexico just like California with a bunch of immigrants. This legitimately is just white grievance obsession being treated as if it's actual politics. And it's something that Tucker's been on board with in arguing in favor of since before Trump was around and before he even got a show on Fox. I still think Tucker's a fraud, but like I was saying, I think he means a lot of this racist shit. I do think that it became unacceptable to do his white power hour
Starting point is 01:37:41 show that he does now. He would go away for a little while and he'd repackage like a wrestler who's gimmick just decided, I mean, this isn't going to work anymore. Let's try a new character for you. But underneath, I do think that a racist shoe would still exist. Right. I mean, it would be even more prescient and nice for both Alex and Tucker to have just been like, and hey, listen, what I believe doesn't matter. I'll say whatever. And how crazy is the media? They're just going to keep hiring me. I'm just a name that they're going to hire for no reason. I am not that talented. I don't have any ability and I'm a terrifying psychopath. And Intel fairly recently, Tucker Carlson was most known as a punchline who wore a bow tie and
Starting point is 01:38:28 got humiliated by John Stewart. Yep. I don't understand why he has purchase in any kind of job market. Well, I mean, traditionally white aristocrats land pretty well. Yeah, I guess so. So Alex plays a clip of Obama being actually, I think pretty witty. And Alex believes that this is Obama telling people, Hey, you got to get out there and vote multiple times. You got to get out there. Just keep voting, vote, vote all the time. You gotta, I want to play this clip of Obama last week where I think he's chanting for people to vote repeatedly. But regardless of that's what he's doing. That's what's going on. Let's play the clip. And because only voting runs through this Friday, you don't have to wait till the election day. You can vote all week.
Starting point is 01:39:16 I mean, you can only vote once. It's in Chicago now. You gotta, I'm teasing Chicago. I'm messing with you. Yeah, he's messing with us. What do you make of that statement? And then what do you make of the real world evidence of fraud coming up? Well, there's, there's an awful lot of fraud. And a lot of it, amazingly, nobody seems to care about it. I mean, let me just make the obvious point that there is no justification for opposing voter ID laws except to a bet voter fraud. Sorry. So Tucker isn't that stupid as to think that the only reason you could oppose voter ID laws is that you want to allow voter fraud to take place.
Starting point is 01:39:57 He's not that dumb. No, that's just cover for his actual position, which is that he wants to disenfranchise non-white people from their right to vote. There have been many studies about how discrimination is baked into many of the various voter ID requirements that states have implemented. One of the main ways this was achieved was by making seemingly arbitrary decisions about what forms of ID would be considered valid for voting with states like North Carolina allowing various types of ID that were disproportionately held by white voters and not allowing ones that were disproportionately held by non-white voters. Studies have been done that also have shown that voter ID laws are not applied universally and have a discriminatory bias in how they're enforced.
Starting point is 01:40:36 There was a Caltech MIT study done about the application of voting laws in New Mexico, and they found that Hispanic voters were asked for ID more frequently than white voters. What? Right. Tucker understands all this shit, but in order to make his position socially acceptable to hold, he has to pretend that he doesn't understand any of this and that voter ID requirements are perfectly fair, perfectly effective as a means of stopping in-person voter fraud, and also, which also basically doesn't ever happen in the real world. No, no, no. According to the ACLU, between 2000 and 2017, quote, there were only 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation, the only type of fraud that photo
Starting point is 01:41:13 IDs could prevent during a period of time in which over one billion ballots were cast. Right. And even these credible allegations are often just honest mistakes people made as opposed to attempts to actually illegally vote. Yeah. This is a non-existent problem that Tucker and Alex are trying to solve because the solution they're advocating actually serves their real agenda, which is disenfranchising the voting rights of non-white Americans. Yeah. That's basically the whole song and dance. And you can, like, if someone were truly dumb or uninformed on issues, then I might believe that they've heard somebody say Right, right. That there's no reason to oppose voter ID laws except for if you want to abet voter fraud.
Starting point is 01:41:55 So let me explain that to you and we can have a conversation. But Tucker is not that person. Nope. Nope. I know exactly why people would disagree with voter ID laws. And what they don't know is that I'm actually just a racist. Yeah. They have no idea that what I'm saying isn't true and I don't believe it. My actor secret. Aha. You see, I am a racist. Yeah. It's it's a little bit transparent. Yeah. So they make a big mistake and they go to calls Alex and Tucker and the first call that they get, I think, is a really interesting perspective that gets brought up and Alex is not happy about it.
Starting point is 01:42:38 Mary in Pennsylvania, you're on the air with Tucker Carlson. Go ahead. Hey, Alex, I have to apologize because I wanted to depart from the topic of the election for a moment because there's something that I've always wanted to ask of Tucker Carlson. And I just wanted to say that the daily call website is really an aberration and conservative media in terms of the disrespect towards women that it has on its website. It's essentially an erase to the bottom with the left with its policy of contributing to over sexualized atmosphere that we have in. Hold on a minute. I mean, are you one of these people that thinks they should ban the statue of the sailor on the victory over Japan? Kiss him a woman because they're banning
Starting point is 01:43:19 that everywhere. I mean, I mean, are you joking? I don't think anybody accuses a daily caller. I think I think Tucker gets accused of being almost too liberal sometimes. Now you're saying he's attacking women. He is being a man period attacking women. Wow. Alex was really fast and aggressive trying to run cover for Tucker, create a bunch of straw men to protect him from this caller's criticism. Yeah, I heard like four. Yeah, it's really fascinating as a thing to see like how defensive Alex Scott and how quickly it went down. This caller has a question about the sexism with the daily caller in order to protect Tucker's feelings and to make sure the audience doesn't take this caller's point seriously. Alex tries to immediately find a way to distort her
Starting point is 01:43:57 point into being somehow about how just the existence of men is sexist. This obviously isn't what she's saying, but the goal Alex is shooting for is for her to take the bait and respond to this dummy argument instead of sticking to her initial point, which is threatening to Alex and Tucker's self image. Right. You see this kind of thing with Alex all the time, because his actual positions are mostly indefensible. That's why if you wanted to argue about like refugee or immigration issues with him, he just yelled back at you something like, so you support illegal immigrants coming here and killing US citizens. It's an attempt to hijack a conversation and drive it into territory where he feels more secure and where there's no real chance of anything
Starting point is 01:44:33 productive being discussed. The reality is that the daily caller is a long and pretty noted sexism problem. One example of this was in 2013 prior to this episode when Ashley Judd was considering running for the Senate and they published an article with the headline quote, Ashley Judd, potential US Senate candidate, sure has done a lot of onscreen nudity. In an attempt to preemptively delegitimize her as as a potential candidate, they used Mr. Skin as a resource to document the times that she's been nude in movies, which is a pretty shitty way for someone to act when they're pretending to be a news site. No, I mean, there's nothing misogynist about that. I'm sure they do it for all the male actors who've tried to how many times has Arnold Schwarzenegger been shirtless in a movie?
Starting point is 01:45:15 He wants to be governor. Yeah, absolutely. Whatever. How many times has there been a comedy central roast of a presidential candidate? So there are plenty more examples of this in the daily caller, but I think the actual larger problem I would have is Blake Neff, the lead writer for Tucker's Fox show who had to resign after he came out that even posting vile racist and sexist shit online for years was also a prolific writer at the daily caller, having almost 2000 articles on the site with his byline. One of them that was particularly shitty was from October 2016. And it's described in a media matters article like this, quote, Neff described a driver running over a group of Native Americans protesting Columbus Day as a reenactment of the conquest of
Starting point is 01:45:55 America. The article ran with a sub headline that read quote, white man overruns indigenous peoples with superior technology. The daily caller is a pile of shit publication that produces the exact kind of racist and sexist content that Alex wants to see in the world and also has the veneer of like, Hey, we're kind of joking. And so if this caller G rightly brings some of this stuff up, then it's Alex's job to run interference and create straw man arguments to try to get this caller off balance. You'll notice that Tucker didn't say anything. That was all just Alex feeling the need to defend Tucker, lest they both end up looking bad. Yeah. Yeah. Really, just don't go to calls. You know how you know how in in like in trials and shit, whenever it turns
Starting point is 01:46:36 out like 10 years later that the cop who was the witness at your trial was a fucking coke dealing corrupt piece of shit. You know, and then everybody who was involved with that cop has a chance to like re litigate their trial. Everything gets reopened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like that should happen for if your writer turns out to be a massive racist, like you have to go back through every article he's ever written, put a new headline up there that says massive racist wrote this, like it has to be like retroactive, like the whole system. You know, I think you do have to do some pretty hard soul searching if you have somebody who's a flagrant racist posting horrible shit online consistently. And it turns out he's been writing for you for years. He's your lead
Starting point is 01:47:21 writer on your TV show. And he has over 2000 articles on your website. You really should open the box up and see how how how much that impacted his coverage, how much it impacted your show that he was the lead writer for. But you don't do that because that was part of why he worked there. Yeah. No, no, I mean, kind of telling on themselves again. It's awful that we had to let him go because we agree with everything that he's written. Yeah. Yeah. But these meddling libs write an article about it. Good news is we have no reason to believe that Tucker Carlson has agreed with any of his thoughts. Except for a lot of things. So unfortunately, I have bad news and that is that this caller actually has a different point than the real
Starting point is 01:48:04 argument about sexism. I was going to say there's no way that we're there's no way that we're doing this well. No, it's unfortunate because I think that actually she has more of a puritanical standpoint that he's coming at this with attacking women lead article and a slideshow of sexy girls and whatever. Well, what's wrong with that? Well, let me just say that I as that as a management married 23 years and has three daughters, I like women better than men. I can say with total sincerity. I also believe that beauty is important and we're not embarrassed to put things that are beautiful, not necessarily sexual or based. But there's nothing wrong with a woman in a swimsuit. And look, that's what advertisers have in their ads. Ma'am, are you upset when you see a woman in
Starting point is 01:48:51 a bathing suit on CNN? When they're trying to sell products and prostituting women out in that way, of course. So I can't quite tell if this was her point going off track because of Alex's her point to begin with. Yeah, but either way, I don't think this is a really good way for the point to be made about daily collar sexism, which is unfortunate because it is a legitimate point that could could be brought up and is at least sort of raised by this collar that just goes off track. And then Alex and Tucker are, you know, they're shown to be innocent. Yeah, I do think this was her original point. Because before she was cut off, she started talking about how that this contributes as much as the left does to the bottom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:49:40 So I think I think she is trying to say that I'm tired of both the right and the left accepting that Wibbit of I mean, I don't know, I guess. So Alex has decided that because this collar was critical, probably was a false flag. I appreciate your call. But I'm gonna be honest. I think that was a seminar caller. And I never say that. But I really do think that was just a cheap shot by some writer. It was pretty funny. Well, but I mean, give me a break. Do you guys have occasional slides on the sides of like, you know, a woman on a surfboard or something? I mean, I'm just you notice how the left is like a cult, though, like we're in some some some weird cult. We're about to be burned at the stake because you have Marilyn Monroe on your website. Well,
Starting point is 01:50:25 they're all very uptight. I mean, for instance, I mean, you know, we're happy to do a slideshow on the women of the IDF, for example, because it's hilarious and it is hilarious thing and whatever. And we mean it in a very lighthearted way. There's nothing serious or creepy about it at all. What is this like maximum? I mean, I don't know. Look, look at these sexy apartheid enforcers. It's very weird. Whoa. So Tucker has a guy in the Senate that he's a fan of. Uh, it's not surprising. Oh, it's not surprising that Tucker loves Jeff Sessions considering he's a huge racist and has a record of consistently opposing the Voting Rights Act and has open hostility
Starting point is 01:51:26 towards nonwhite voting rights. Yeah, he's such an anti voting rights asshole that when he was nominated for a federal judgeship by Reagan in 1986, he was rejected due to concerns about his comments on race. Yeah. For instance, he said that quote, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Operation Push and the National Council of Churches were all un-American organizations teaching anti-American values. He also said that organizations like the NAACP quote, force civil rights down the throats of people, or of course is a big zinger as a quote, I thought those guys in reference to the Klan were okay until I learned they smoked pot. Sure, Jeff Sessions is an honest and principled man, a man who's very honest and principled about
Starting point is 01:52:09 his racism and opposition to voting rights for nonwhite people. It tracks that Tucker would like to see him as the most popular member of Congress. Oh boy, fun. There's going to be an uphill battle for that one. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, so this interview was bizarre because there isn't like a ton of obsequiousness on Alex's part. There's no indication that this person could possibly be the most important person in the world someday. It's really just shitting on the media. Yeah, it does seem to be that they're on relatively equal power footings at this point in time. Or even Alex probably conceivably sees himself a little above. Yeah, all he's got is a website, right? Yeah, he's a contributor on Fox, but he doesn't have his
Starting point is 01:52:49 he doesn't have his prime fucking show on. Yeah, I think that that's an interesting dynamic. And then just the outrageous amount of racism that was flying around prior to Tucker coming on. And then even while he's there, he's engaging with it. He's getting in the mud with Alex. I don't know. I found this to be a little bit of an underwhelming episode from the standpoint of learning about the midterms. And seeing some kind of a good dynamic between him and Tucker that might tell us something about the future. I think the only thing that you could take away from this as it relates to what you would expect to see in the future is that these guys do have a bit of philosophical alignment vis-à-vis non-white people shouldn't be voting. Shouldn't
Starting point is 01:53:35 be voting. Right. So I guess that is the bedrock of their relationship. You can kind of see it that way. But we have we have one last clip here. And Alex has another conspiracy theory about that caller, who is critical of the daily caller. And I think that woman earlier is mad that two men, you and your former college roommate, own it. I think that's why they're mad, because all the feminist groups don't get mad when they have women in bikinis, as if a man owns something and has a woman on a bikini. Tucker Carlson, dailycaller.com. Thank you so much for the time. Thanks, Alex. That was great. Thank you. Good times. So yeah. Great. Great stuff. Sure. You know, it sucks. It sucks really hard because it is like, God damn it, if people were
Starting point is 01:54:18 taking this as seriously as it fucking was, because this isn't this wasn't new in 2014. No, it wasn't new in 2008. It wasn't new. It wasn't new when Reagan did it. Like, this is shit that should have been stamped out. And instead, every fucking 10 years, we just go, well, they haven't killed anybody for a while. So let's just let it ride. Yeah. I mean, when you say stamp it out, you're obviously not talking about the people. I'm not talking about eradicating people, you know. Right. Right. But the ideological patience that people seem to have with a lot of these incredibly intolerant ideas that necessarily lead to the things that we see happening. I mean, it's absurd. It's absurd. It is. It is strange that that patience exists.
Starting point is 01:55:07 Yeah. Yep. It's crazy. And I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't know why that exists in a larger sense. I think with Alex, what I said earlier, kind of is relevant. And that is that most people who aren't like me necessarily don't want to listen to a whole episode of this show. Right. Well, that's yeah. I mean, there is and I recognize that that's something that speaks to something wrong with me. I get that most people want to live their lives and just have a normal existence. Sure. Whereas I want to play Dynasty Warriors and listen to Alex and learn about Alex's past. So I get it. Yeah. And I think, I think that recognizing exactly what is being conversed about behind the flimsy arguments about like, well, we really should have voter ID because it'll make things more secure,
Starting point is 01:55:52 blah, blah, blah. Like that is like, you know, behind that is a guy who's saying that too many minorities at Walgreens is mostly Cantina, right? And that Anthony Gucci, already his girlfriend was almost kidnapped because Austin downtown is a war zone of roaming black gangs. Right. Yeah. I mean, maybe the simplest, the simplest explanation for why we're so tolerant is because I everybody treats the right wing as though that they're speaking honestly. I mean, you can't really go back and look at like a presidential debate without being like, oh, you, you, you just lied and nobody said you're a fucking liar. You're a liar who's lying right now. You can't say that. So take it back. Stop lying because then they'll be like, I'm not lying,
Starting point is 01:56:45 prove I'm lying. And then it turns into a mess. Yeah. I think there's a chance that public trust is eroded so much that there's not even the expectation that there's sort of an unspoken expectation. You can lie as long as you lie the right way. Politicians all lie. It's just sort of a standard understanding. Oh, brutal. Yeah. I don't know. I think it sucks. But anyway, that's that's what we learn when we put Alex on time out. Yep. We learn learn that he's a giant racist. We reaffirm that this shit runs deep. Well, we got to put Alex on a time out. He's a monster in a certain way. Let's go see him be a monster in a different way. That's like, I got to put Alex in the past on time out. I don't know what we're going to do. This is we
Starting point is 01:57:25 got to go to the future. Oh, that's the shit. Well, maybe, maybe reset wars. We're going to do a reset war time. Maybe that'll be coming up. Anyway, we'll be back. But until then, Jordan, we have a website. We do have a website. It's knowledge fight.com. We're also on Twitter. We are on Twitter is that knowledge underscore fight and I go to bed, Jordan. Yep, we'll be back. But until then, I'm Neo and Leo and BZX Clark up there. Oh, run this. And now here comes the sex robot, Andy and Kansas. You're on the air. Thanks for holding. Hello, Alex. I'm a first time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work. I love you.

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