The Halloween Story

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Today, Dan tells Jordan all about a Halloween party that Alex Jones attended back in 2015. Over the course of 11 days on his show, Alex tells 4 slightly different versions of what happened that night and what was going on with his hat. Dan and Jordan try to track the details and figure out what's real and what is Alex's paranoid delusions.

Tidbits

• Covering Alex's Halloween 2015 story
• Facts:
  • Alex went to Buckley's birthday party around Halloween
  • The party was a "fancy dress ball"
• Version #1 (11-2)
  • It's a costume party the day before Halloween
  • Buckley rented a boat on Lake Austin
  • Alex was wearing a captain's hat
  • Buckley also rented a big condo downtown
  • Three people are involved in Alex's story
    • White guy
    • White college girl
    • "Arab-looking" guy
  • A guy asks Alex if he's dressed as a Nazi and says he is offended by Nazis
    • Alex says he is dressed as a Nazi
    • Alex thinks the guy is cucking him out because there are women around
    • The guy agrees with Alex and the situation is resolved
  • The white, blonde college girl says she doesn't want to wear a costume because of white guilt
  • The white guy and the "Arab-looking" guy separately approach Alex about his hat at a restaurant
    • Alex says it's a classic police-style hat from the 20s or 30s
• Version #2 (11-9)
  • 2 people asked Alex if he was a Nazi
    • Down from 3
    • "Are you a Nazi?" replaces "Is that a Nazi hat?"
  • "Arab-looking" guy says he's offended because he's Jewish
  • Other people tell Alex that this sort of confrontation was happening all night
    • People were bugging partygoers about white guilt
      • Alex perceives this as aggression
    • The one white, blonde college girl is now an active group of people
  • 4th location is introduced: Club
    • The boat is gone now
    • Pat Reilly the personal trainer was at the party
    • Buckley is doing a DJ set
• Version #3 (11-11)
  • Details keep changing
  • 2 times at a restaurant, in public, Alex was approached about his costume
  • Gone are references of a private event or of Buckley's rentals
  • The guy gets in Alex's face and aggressively asks "Are you a Nazi?"
  • Alex responds that he should "get out of my face!"
    • If you're macho, liberals cower
    • Without a gang of 15 people, liberals are weak
    • Alex could still beat up 15 people, he's not bragging though
• Version #4 (11-12)
  • Alex doesn't celebrate Halloween (it's occultic), it was only Buckley's birthday
  • Alex was approached by a white and an Arab person aggressively
    • Alex was nice at first but then...he turned to them, and firmly said "Watch it, man! Don't push totalitarianism on me!"
    • Alex asked them "So what if I'm a Nazi?"
    • Alex said to them "You know I'm not a Nazi!.... You just wanna have me kiss your butt...How dare you imply I'm a Nazi...I suggest you walk away fast!"
• Modern day clip: Hillary is fund raising... ad pivot
• Accidental white supremacy

Notable Bits

• Alex's True Story