414: Bill Cooper's Ambitiously Bad Idea
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Today, Dan and Jordan take a break from Alex Jones to take a look at a fun little stretch from the career of Alex's predecessor, Bill Cooper. In this installment, the gents discuss the time that Bill decided that he and his listeners were going to buy a giant media conglomerate and thereby save America.
Tidbits
- Bill knows he can't get bigger, comes up with a plan: buy the media
- Should we buy Paramount?
- Control 10%, control the company
- Viacomm is not an option
- GE is out of reach
- The establishment will block us
- CBS is grabbable
- Turner Broadcasting is very doable
- Let's get Gannett!
- Time Warner is even better
- Good plan, poor execution
- Buy Time Warner, get Turner
- Sign the proxy vote over to me, you idiots
- Bill has only one phone line
- Caller: don't get your hopes up
- Next day: time to buy Gannett!
- Caller: I bought shares!
- Bill's business plan
- We have less than a year to buy the media before Bill Clinton destroys the country
- Caller: Jews control the media
- Jews control the media because you let them
- Caller: even if we don't take over, we'll make money
- By 1994: the plan is not going well
- Cohost: Carolyn Nelson
- Bill is angry at a newspaper
- Gun crime is hegelian dialectic
- This is your fault, listener
- Now we need 15%
- Once more with feeling
- Bill sounds like Alex
- Put up or shut up
