Transcript/1137: April 20, 2026 (The War Room)
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Dan and Jorg, Knowledge Fight.
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It's time to pray.
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Andy and Chansa, you're on the air, thanks for holding.
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Hello Alex, I'm a first-time caller, I'm a huge fan, I love your world.
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Knowledge Fight.
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knowledgefight.com.
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I love you.
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Hey everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan.
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I'm Jordan.
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We're a couple dudes. I like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
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Oh indeed we are Dan.
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Jordan.
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Dan.
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Jordan.
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Quick question for you.
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What's up?
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What's your bright spot today buddy?
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My bright spot today Jordan is that I am off on the road.
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Yay!
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I am calling you right now and we're having this talk. You don't know where I am.
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No I don't.
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And you know what? You want to know something fun? I don't know where I am.
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That's good news.
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I have basically no idea where I am. I was like where? I can tell you that I'm in Iowa. I know that.
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Are you on the way to somewhere else and you felt like you had to stop?
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Um, kind of. 50-50. I didn't have to stop.
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That is a weird thing to do. Okay 50-50. Alright.
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I could have driven further probably but I was getting a little bit sore and I wanted to settle in, get a little bit of work done.
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It was the time to stop. But I have no idea. I'm somewhere in Iowa.
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But I had quite a day yesterday of a launch. I took off from Chicago and I had planned to go to somewhere in Iowa.
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Like messing around. It seems like a fun state. What's going on in there?
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I realize that a lot of the ambition for my trip is figuring out what's going on places.
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Why do I need to know what's going on places? Anyway, Iowa, I'm looking into you.
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Okay.
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It's not quite that they're on notice. It's that I'm poking around.
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Okay, I gotcha. This is not a general state of the country Vietnam War kind of what's going on.
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Just a regular what's going on. Well maybe it is.
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Because it's the 250th anniversary of America. Maybe it is poking around.
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Really? Oh shit, you're right.
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So maybe it is trying to figure out what's going on.
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I don't think people need to figure it out. I think what's going on is very clear in their faces these days.
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I'm getting a vibe. I'm getting a strong sense.
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So I was going to go, and I still am, I'm still going to spend some time here in Iowa.
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Sure. Wherever the hell I am in Iowa right now.
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But I'm driving. I'm driving. Jordan? You're driving?
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Turns out there's a city called Grand Detour in Illinois.
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Right. And I think wouldn't it be funny if I took a Grand Detour to Grand Detour?
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I mean you went to Aroma Park so you're doomed to punning now.
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Punning is how you go through life. Yes.
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So I went to Grand Detour. I took that detour. Apparently John Deere Tractors started there. I had no idea.
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It's a real out of the way kind of place.
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Quite. Yeah. Not much going on. I got to stare at a river for a while. Rock River.
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It was gorgeous and I liked watching the flow of the river. But there wasn't a whole lot to do there.
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So I'm in that area. So it's kind of a sign to go in a different direction.
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Or just move on. Just go. So I'm continuing my travels.
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What do I stumble across but a town called Lost Nation, Illinois?
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I found them.
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You should receive no reward for that. I demand no reward for that.
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I was there. I saw it. Check it off the list.
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And you know what I found? Nothing.
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What if it's a double bluff and that's where Atlanteans are living these days?
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Right? There's no way you'd be like, nah, there's no way that it's them.
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But that's what they want you to think by making it obvious. You know what I'm saying?
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There was Lost Lake there and I tried to go mess around with the lake a little bit.
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But it seemed like all the roads, everything that was close to the lake, ended up being on someone else's property.
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So I would have to have crossed people's yards and stuff to get to the lake.
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And I didn't want to do that. So I just kind of left Lost Nation alone.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, presumably if you ventured too far in there, you would never be able to return.
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It's a risk I'm willing to take. I mean, if I find the Atlanteans, then it's all worth it.
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It's probably a better life. That's why they're still hanging around, right?
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Yeah. So I get back in the car. I'm poking around on my GPS.
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And wouldn't you fucking know it, there's a Lost Nation in Iowa.
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There's another city called Lost Nation.
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It's a little bit too far, but I decide, fuck it, I'm going to go see both Lost Nations in a day.
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I would bet you see more than one.
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So I went to Lost Nation, Iowa also. That was my continuation of that little jaunt.
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And there's a little more to see in Lost Nation, Iowa, I will say.
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But not a whole lot. Kind of a sleepy town. There was a pub there and a main drag, just one street.
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This is not indicative of the town itself, but I only saw women there. Only women on the street.
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I think that it might be the Lost City of Amazons. Maybe. Maybe the Lost Nation of wherever fucking Wonder Woman came from.
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Could be. There are no dudes anywhere. It was boring.
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Anyway, the point is that I, day one of this trip, have found two Lost Nations.
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Indiana Jones couldn't do this shit. I'm crushing it.
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Actually he could. That's one of the things that he really does. He's done it a few times, even in the movies.
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Right, a few times.
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He found aliens.
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Yeah, give me time.
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I'm giving you time. You better get out there.
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Two Lost Nations in a day.
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You gotta find the skull of an alien to get it going.
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This is like Kanye's making eight beats a day for a summer. Two Lost Nations in a day.
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You try.
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I mean, it's there. There's a rope.
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I'm the world's greatest archaeologist and anthropologist and I'm excited to see what else I can find on this dumb trip.
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He wasn't a very good professor and I think you'd be better than Indy at that.
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No, probably not. Maybe. Who knows?
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Look, the other thing was that I was gonna camp and I'd meant to do that but I wanted to get in a shower this evening.
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I felt, yesterday, I felt a little bit, blah.
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So I chose a shitty hotel somewhere in Iowa and I swear to you, I can't figure out how to turn on the shower.
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There is no knob. There is no nothing. I could turn on the water just fine.
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But switching it from faucet to shower head, I can't figure it out. I'm too embarrassed to go ask.
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And to make matters worse, I also, as I was having the water heat up before I would have put it to the shower head,
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I noticed it wasn't draining and so now there's standing water in the tub but I can't get it to drain.
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Oh boy. Oh boy.
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So I would have been better off at a campsite.
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And the clock is ten minutes behind. I think they're fucking with you. I think they're fucking with you.
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Or the person who was in that room before you was like, you have no idea how funny this is going to be to nobody later on in life.
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It stinks of sabotage.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, I'm having a good time but what's your bright spot?
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My bright spot is yesterday we did the outline for my next tattoo.
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It's on the side, a little bit on the armpit and I'll tell you something right there.
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A little sensitive. A little bit of a...
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Tender?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little spot but overall it's really not that bad.
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And the tattoo itself is going to be gorgeous. It's amazing.
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Once again, it's Kaitlyn Drake McKay, my artist.
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And you were saying that you were going in without really knowing what she had designed, right?
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I send her some inspiration or something along those lines and she's so good.
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On this last one I sent her a specific galaxy and she wound up going down a little rabbit hole of learning all about it and all that stuff.
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And then she makes some art based on that and she's so good and so talented that why would I want it anywhere else?
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Somebody else might have it and then it's gone from me for good. So it's perfect.
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True. All unique.
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And then she said, and this is what's important to me, this is my main bright spot.
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Because this is something about myself that I've realized over the years.
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With bartenders, when I was alone there were bartenders. I would go to those bars regularly and eventually the bartenders would be like, man, you're a good dude.
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I like having you in this bar. Fuck yeah. That to me is like I won. I beat you. It's that kind of thing.
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And she said, I really enjoy tattooing you. And I was like, boom! Done!
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That makes me feel so good. Because other people are assholes to everybody.
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Yeah, you know what, I feel like I want to celebrate this in terms of the tattooist and you.
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But I think most of my memories of the bartender version of exactly what you're talking about were not sincere.
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I think they were fucking with me because I tipped well.
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Listen, there was one specific bar that was across the street from my apartment that had roughly one person work there and one person go there.
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And both of those were me and the bartender. So it was alright.
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He was your by default favorite customer.
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Yep, exactly. That's the win.
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Awesome. I'm excited to see the new piece. I think it's always, always exciting.
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So Jordan, today we have an episode to do while I'm out here in the middle of Iowa.
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And that is we need to check back in on 420. Hit the bong. Hit the bong. Hit the bong.
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Alright. Alright.
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Because the war room happened after Alex went off air.
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Harrison Smith in the war room.
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Harrison Smith hosting the war room.
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Okay.
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This is of course the day that the news broke that the Onion had taken the reigns over at Info Wars.
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So I thought, you know, we got Alex's response. Let's take a little time to see what the dweebs out there think.
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So we'll do that.
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Okay.
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And I will guarantee you a guest appearance from Alex.
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Okay.
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He will show up. It is not just gonna be Harrison.
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It's gonna be too much Harrison because any is too much.
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But we'll deal with it.
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So we start off and he's talking about how it's 420 baby.
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the war room. I'm your host Harrison Smith.
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Coming to you live on this 20th of April. It's 420 y'all.
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The crew is cheering. I don't know if you can hear that. The crew is literally cheering.
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They love Hitler, I guess. I don't know. It's kind of weird, but alright, whatever. You're into it.
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Look, I get that everyone knows that 420 is Hitler's birthday. I understand that.
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But if it's your first go-to as opposed to hit the bong, we'd... Dad, you have a problem.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of holding around some sort of device that I can press that would make a big BOOO sound.
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And I would boo both of those. I would boo the 420 one. Frankly, weed is medicine. You can't have fun now.
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It can't be fun anymore. It used to be fun when you had to go find a guy who had dirt weed who would then want to hang out with you afterwards.
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But to me, 420 is still a celebration of that. To me, it's still a celebration of beanbag chairs, weird lighting, and lava lamps.
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Sure, sure, but we're old!
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Fine! It's still my culture.
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Fair enough, fair enough. Old culture! Fair enough. Fair enough! Who am I? Who am I?
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I come from a culture where 420 is funny, and it has to do with all those trappings of, I'm gonna get high, I'm gonna watch How High, or Half Baked, or Bong Water, and then I'm gonna eat a bunch of shit. It's gonna be great.
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Man, Harlan Williams! Harlan Williams and Half Baked. That's the only star I can think of.
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The correct way to look at this is, 420 is about weed. Oh, did you know that it's also Hitler's birthday?
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Right.
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If you say 420 is Hitler's birthday, oh, did you also know that people like it for weed?
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Right.
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You're a mess.
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That is a problem. That is a problem. I would still boo it, though. It's still a boo, because I think it's one of those, now, like, trivia facts that has gone from the realm of being interesting to tell somebody, to like, yeah, we all fucking know that. That's one of those trivia facts now.
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Like, the Statue of Liberty is from France. Everybody kind of gets that now, as opposed to it being a fun fact.
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Yeah, fair enough. I mean, like, I respect and admire your right to boo anything. Just boo. Boo away.
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I'm a boo-er. I'm a hater.
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So, we have another clip of Harrison here. No boo?
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Well done. Well done.
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So, Harrison had, like, a whole show planned. I swear to God, it was gonna be so good, but then The Onion bought them.
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I had a whole show planned out, and then about five minutes ago, it was announced that The Onion is buying InfoWars. Maybe. Potentially. They might, in the future, buy InfoWars.
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This, of course, is the second time that The Onion has done the media rounds, claiming that they own InfoWars, which means that they've legitimately published more fake news than we have at this point.
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Because it's just, that's not true. That's not true. Maybe it's eventually true. We'll get into it. I'm gonna spend a lot of time on that. We'll be joined by Rex Jones in the third hour. We'll certainly talk about it. We'll get into it.
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And we'll also, in general, and just by virtue of the modern cultural landscape, we will be funnier than The Onion ever is these days. It's kind of sad, but that's the case. We'll get into it. We'll get into it.
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We're gonna be hilarious, and for professional insight, we're gonna be bringing in Alex's son.
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I realized something. We've always considered him to be somebody who wants to go out with that Colonel Travis kind of way. Maybe he wants to go out a there will be blood way. He screams, I've abandoned my boy, and then he beats Harrison Smith to death. And then he says, it's finished. Maybe that's the way to go.
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You know, hey, maybe. Oh, here's a possibility. He wants his son to be Colonel Travis. He wants his son to die.
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Hey, buddy, you get out there. You're gonna have a great time.
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Yeah, go down with the ship, kid.
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You're the captain now, dog.
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So I think also that they have now officially published more fake news than us. That means that when they had just lied about buying it once, they both had been equal. Both equal in terms of fake news.
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Right, right, right.
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So this is Harrison admitting that Infowars has published some fake news.
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Sure, sure, but only by a plus one.
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It's still, he's not supposed to believe that.
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No, it's an algebra problem, you know. It's X plus one is the amount of fake news that The Onion produces as compared to Infowars.
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So even if X is zero, X plus one still means that they're the victor in terms of, well, or whatever it is you like.
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But X can't be zero because the last time they did this, it was fake news.
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Oh, that's a good point. So at the very least, Harrison Smith is admitting to lying about one thing.
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Yeah, yeah. And now they've officially, The Onion has officially taken the lead. This is a cell phone here, man. Come on.
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I like this kind of Mario Kart style of lies. You guys gotta shoot the blue shell at The Onion. And maybe you'll get to keep Infowars.
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You dumbass shot a blue shell at yourself.
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So Harrison isn't only going to talk about The Onion, but it is going to be a lot about The Onion.
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Sure.
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So he has some other world news that I think is relevant to talk on.
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Finally, disturbing image shows IDF soldier smashing Jesus statue with axe in Lebanon, or as I like to call it, displaying Judeo-Christian values, folks.
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Here's the Christian part of that. Here's the Judeo part right there. Isn't that interesting?
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Whoa. So I often say that I don't think there's anything wrong with criticizing Israel, and I should actually probably be more direct than that.
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I think there's something necessary about criticizing Israel. I don't say that the criticism of Israel is okay as an attempt to both sides of the issue.
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The only thing I'm trying to bring attention to is that these people, like Tucker and Harrison, do not care about the same things that a sincere critic of Israel or Zionism cares about.
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They're trying to hijack other people's sincere outrage about a genocide and use that to demonize all Jews.
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And I think that this clip is a helpful illustration of that distinction that I'm trying to get at.
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Harrison is saying that the image of an IDF soldier smashing a statue of Jesus illustrates the Judeo and Christian parts of Judeo-Christian values.
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He's saying that Jews are hell-bent on destroying Christianity, and you'd kind of have to be an idiot to not understand exactly what he's saying.
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What Harrison and folks like him try to do is take the very real criticisms of Israel and throw bigotry into them, like fold it into the mix,
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while pretending that what they're doing and the version of criticism that they're engaging in is based in righteousness.
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And they are heroes standing up to a bully or whatever, but they're really more motivated in trojan-horsing this bigotry into it.
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Yeah, I mean, that's the strategy that's worked for them for the past 40 years or whatever, you know, like whenever they first got onto the internet.
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Very useful and necessary criticisms of the United States were ready and available, and they tricked people into taking those and turning them into, shouldn't we be Nazis?
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Mm-hmm.
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You know, that's their strategy.
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Yeah, it is largely what's done. Like when the bailouts in 2009 and shit were going on, there's serious, serious necessary criticisms of capitalism, and the situation that we had all gotten ourselves into.
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And they pretended to care about that while yelling about Rothschild bankers and, you know, that kind of shit. It's what they do.
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They fold these dumb shit things into things that other people might care about if they take it seriously.
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Yep.
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You know, my interest is a lot in that distinction, because I think that it's very easy to think that someone is on your side or cares when they do not.
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Yeah.
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And that, people need to play a little defense, I think. You know, it's not about purity testing or anything, but there is a level of defense that's required in the information war.
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Sure. Well, I mean, I think it's easy to kind of turn it into a malicious thing or a kind of intelligent thing by calling it kind of a controlled opposition, because the opposition itself reinforces the dominant status quo, but it's more like a manipulated opposition.
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These people think, some of them, or enough of them think they are fighting what you think you're fighting, only they're Nazis, you know? They're tricked.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:02.220)
And they think that they're doing it better and more righteously and the only correct way to do it, but their only correct way to do it involves, you know, taking an image of an IDF soldier and being like, this is Jewish.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:19.220)
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:20.220)
This is what Jewish people are. This is Judeo. You know, like, and it's like, that's, come on, man.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:27.220)
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:28.220)
So The Onion does not own Info Wars.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:33.220)
Right.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:34.220)
Like, go over it. Just, Onion doesn't own us, but like, this is what I mean.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:40.220)
We could not, not that we would anyway, but we could not start publishing things saying, we're in, we're NBC. This is NBC saying that, you know, whatever, and just like saying stuff like, we just couldn't do that.
Unknown Speaker (00:23:55.220)
They'd get sued. It wouldn't be allowed. They're just doing it. This is the second time they've done it. Gone on TV and told people we own Info Wars.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:02.220)
What do you think that's going to do? Obviously, people are going to believe it because it's on the news, because they actually are the liars. They actually are the fakers.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:09.220)
They actually do just straight up lie to your face about things with the intention of destroying Info Wars, of convincing people, oh, I better not support Info Wars because they've been sold and I don't want to support The Onion.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:20.220)
That argument does not hold up, because The Onion can't demoralize the Info Wars audience any more at this point.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:27.220)
Harrison's trying to pretend that The Onion is pretending to own Info Wars so people stop buying Alex's supplements from Info Wars, but Alex has already directed them to do that.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:37.220)
Any true Info Wars fans are already only buying from Bigly, so there isn't an audience that's being persuaded to stop buying shit because they don't want their money to go to The Onion.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:47.220)
No one's buying shit from Info Wars anymore, which is why they can't pay their rent, which is why The Onion was able to make this deal.
Unknown Speaker (00:24:54.220)
If The Onion controlling Info Wars somehow impacted the Alex Jones store or Bigly, then this would be a different situation.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:01.220)
But as it is, Alex has already self-inflicted all of the damage that Harrison is pretending The Onion is trying to do here. It's just a conspiracy with no point.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:11.220)
Yeah, wouldn't you be like, yeah, do it guys! Anybody who is still struggling with moving from one platform to the other, you guys have helped us get rid of them.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:23.220)
Now they have to move to Bigly, otherwise they're going to support The Onion.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:27.220)
Yeah, yeah, you have given us a high profile putting us out of our misery.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:33.220)
Yeah, I would be stoked!
Unknown Speaker (00:25:36.220)
And I think on some level they are, but I also, it's a mixed bag. It's a mixed bag, I think, probably. There's a lot of pros to it, but then there's a lot of cons.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:49.220)
You have a lot of people making fun of you. And that's never fun. It kind of hurts.
Unknown Speaker (00:25:55.220)
We've definitely proven that making fun of people can cost them money if you do it well enough.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:02.220)
And it hurts your feelings. It hurts feelings.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:04.220)
Sure, sure. I mean, the move is to lie and be real mad about it. And then secretly be like, eee, giddy about how they're giving you more money.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:14.220)
So Harrison complains a bit more about The Onion. And it's, I mean, he is dull.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:23.220)
This is the article from The Onion, at long last Infowars is ours. No, it's not though. Like, what are you talking about?
Unknown Speaker (00:26:31.220)
Yeah, this is the thing. It just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because you understand they're the establishment.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:36.220)
You understand The Onion is the establishment. The Onion is the bad guys.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:41.220)
We don't take ourselves too seriously. We sell low IQ hats because we mock the whole idea of the establishment dictating to us what we can and can't say, can and can't believe.
Unknown Speaker (00:26:54.220)
So to be clear, they sell low IQ hats because Alex is a bottom feeder who survives by monetizing any attention that comes his way.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:01.220)
And he thought that getting insulted by the president was a pretty good opportunity.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:05.220)
Yeah, great opportunity.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:06.220)
The guy he spent a decade saying was brought to power by God called him an idiot. So he made a hat that you can wear that says idiot because you're a free thinker.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:16.220)
And in fairness, Harrison is kind of right that The Onion is the establishment, but that term really doesn't mean anything anymore.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:23.220)
Trump is the establishment. CNN is the establishment. Elon Musk's the establishment. The Daily Show is the establishment.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:31.220)
The establishment doesn't carry any kind of consistent position anymore. It's all just, it kind of just means well funded or not so desperate for money that you would sell a low IQ hat.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:44.220)
Like it doesn't mean anything like it felt like it used to. Like the man doesn't, everyone's selling out. Everyone, like there's no shame in selling out anymore. It's not the world that we grew up in.
Unknown Speaker (00:27:56.220)
Who's owned by the right billionaire? Like there's probably a billionaire that doesn't a billionaire own The Onion and a billionaire owns CNN and a billionaire owns all that stuff. That's the establishment.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:06.220)
If not owns, you know, has financial ties to, you know, or whatever.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:12.220)
The thing about it, right, is if you can call somebody to change their bullshit, then those people already operate under the idea that pleasing you involves changing their bullshit.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:26.220)
So before you have to call and say anything, you have changed your bullshit. That's the way that that kind of functions.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:33.220)
Yeah, there's a prior constraint that comes along with, or at least the image of that, the feel of that. And that's not to say that The Onion isn't independent. I have no reason to believe that they don't have as much independence as you can have.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:48.220)
But they, you know, it would be silly to imagine that they're not like connected to very rich people with strong interests in things too.
Unknown Speaker (00:28:58.220)
So I don't know, but like so's Info Wars. So like, are they the establishment too?
Unknown Speaker (00:29:04.220)
Yeah, basically. I think we're the only people who are not the establishment.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:10.220)
I think that they're not, but only because they're such dorks. Like, I think because they do things like sell low IQ hats, the establishment doesn't want them.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:23.220)
But Alex could still probably call some rich people. They just wouldn't give him money. They'd answer, but they wouldn't give him money.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:30.220)
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, the reason that selling out has to happen now is because it feels like the only way to get an established audience is by joining the establishment. Otherwise you'll be like us and you'll kind of be really cool, but on the edge, on the outside.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:47.220)
I don't know if I'm that cool, but I did find two lost nations in a day, which has to be a record. I found them.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:54.220)
The Onion didn't find shit.
Unknown Speaker (00:29:56.220)
Nope. So in this next clip, Harrison, I would say, accuses Ben Collins, the CEO of The Onion of a crime that could almost certainly sue Harrison.
Unknown Speaker (00:30:08.220)
Cool. He's like Ben Collins, who's the CEO of The Onion is the one telling everybody that he purchased us. But again, it just, they can lie. They can misrepresent us. They can say that they're us. They can claim that they own us. Nothing happens to them.
Unknown Speaker (00:30:23.220)
They can rig a federal bankruptcy proceeding and just nothing happens to them. They just get away with it. It really is crazy. And like that to me is the only like disheartening thing about this.
Unknown Speaker (00:30:37.220)
I don't really care about The Onion. I mean, for the record, I went ahead and asked Garak today, Infowars has two times the traffic of The Onion. At least, like on a monthly basis.
Unknown Speaker (00:30:50.220)
And this is with The Onion having poured millions and millions of dollars trying desperately to regain the cultural cachet that they have lost over the last several decades.
Unknown Speaker (00:31:00.220)
I think Ben could sue Harrison for that. Like Ben's almost certainly a public figure. So the defamation threshold is high, but Harrison's accusing him of a crime. And he absolutely knows that accusation is false as he's saying it. There's no way that this isn't defamatory.
Unknown Speaker (00:31:18.220)
But more importantly, I'm glad that Harrison's robot friend reassured him that he was more popular than The Onion.
Unknown Speaker (00:31:25.220)
It's interesting that he uses the metric of internet traffic because the whole push of The New Onion has been to bring back the print version of the paper. It's not like they've abandoned the internet or stopped trying to get traffic, but their focus has been on the paper.
Unknown Speaker (00:31:39.220)
And by anyone's count, that's been quite a big success. That they've done a good job of bringing back the physical copy of the paper.
Unknown Speaker (00:31:49.220)
Which makes me want to ask Harrison if he wants to go back to Grok and ask how the circulation of Info Wars magazine is going, or if that hasn't existed in like 12 years because no one wanted it. But I have it. I got copies.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:03.220)
Yes you do. No doubt.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:05.220)
Antiques. No, not quite. 12 years as an antique, but we're getting there.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:11.220)
Yeah, I mean, I hate to say this, but as far as advertisements for not suing for defamation goes, I think where we are is about as good as it gets.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:24.220)
Right. Well, I agree, and I think that it wouldn't be worth his time to sue. I only bring it up as like, you know, part and parcel of what Harrison is doing is like, they get away with so much and we can't get away with anything.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:39.220)
And just to highlight, like, no, you engage in casual defamation that no one even cares about because they know it would be too much trouble to deal with your dumbasses who don't cooperate in courts. So like, you get away with everything.
Unknown Speaker (00:32:54.220)
Yeah. I mean, it must be said that that strategy is absolutely correct. And that the legal system is fucked.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:05.220)
I only want to change the word correct to useful.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:10.220)
There we go. Much better.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:12.220)
Correct implies it's what you should do. Not that it's just that it's effective.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:17.220)
I mean, if you're against the law.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:20.220)
So Harrison reflects here a little bit about other times people have tried to parody Info Wars.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:27.220)
There was an attempt to do this. There was an attempt to do this on Comedy Central with a show. I can't remember what it's called now, but they tried to do because Colbert was good at this.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:37.220)
Stephen Colbert could mock the right wing and it would be insightful and hilarious and funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:45.220)
Well, and at the time he was mocking neocons. So it was easy.
Unknown Speaker (00:33:49.220)
You know, it wasn't the populist right that it is now. And they thought they could do that again. They thought, like, well, we struck gold with Colbert and the Colbert Report where he was playing basically, you know, Fox News anchor.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:00.220)
And they thought, we'll do it again. You know, the landscape has changed. Fox News is a big threat. Info Wars is now.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:06.220)
So they had some show.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:08.219)
I literally cannot remember the name of guys. You all know the.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:12.219)
A dispatch or something, I can't remember what it was, but it was on for like a season or two, and they had all the papers and they had the microphone.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:20.219)
I mean, they made it look like Info Wars and it was a big Info Wars parody and it just nobody watched it. Nobody cared about it. It failed.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:27.219)
So that show was called The Opposition with Jordan Klepper.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:31.219)
And I'm glad that Harrison reminded me of it so I could go revisit some of the old segments that Tim Balz did as a citizen journalist.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:39.219)
Oh, that's fun.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:40.219)
I want Balz to have all the possible work in the world. He's the best. But if The Opposition hadn't gotten canceled, I might not have gotten Hey Randy.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:49.219)
So I'm a little conflicted and maybe I'm glad it went away because Hey Randy is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
Unknown Speaker (00:34:56.219)
It's fun for Harrison to say that the reason that satire of the current right wing doesn't work is because they're too right about everything.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:04.219)
But the reality is that their content is just too stupid to parody.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:08.219)
His boss thinks God tells him what time it is in the middle of the night so he'll know it's really God who's sending him on missions.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:15.219)
That's the reality of Harrison's life and work situation, and there's no joke funnier than him pretending that he deserves to be taken seriously.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:24.219)
Like, the existence of it is a great joke.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:28.219)
Also, The Opposition may have been canceled after one season, but there's definitely one pretty successful, widely listened to, generally fairly funny show
Unknown Speaker (00:35:36.219)
that criticizes Infowars that's been going for about nine years now.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:40.219)
So I think it would be wise for Harrison to understand that where his views and world may be so dumb that traditional satire has a hard time mocking it, we don't.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:50.219)
We are fine. We got this.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:52.219)
We're darn good at it.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:54.219)
We have some practice.
Unknown Speaker (00:35:56.219)
But yeah, maybe it doesn't work on...
Unknown Speaker (00:36:01.219)
You know what? Here's the thing.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:03.219)
The opposition on Comedy Central would absolutely work if they started a supplement company.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:11.219)
If they found that kind of funding, doing it as an actual TV show is going to fail.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:20.219)
But so would Infowars. Infowars wouldn't succeed as a TV show either.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:24.219)
The sponsors would get pulled constantly. It would never fly on network television.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:29.219)
I mean, I think what we need to do here is just disambiguate work.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:35.219)
Because I think a lot of people have a different definition while we're saying different things about the same word.
Unknown Speaker (00:36:41.219)
Like, what does work mean? Does it mean long-running show? Does it mean three seasons is working?
Unknown Speaker (00:36:48.219)
That it was produced at all. Does that mean it works?
Unknown Speaker (00:36:51.219)
Is it successful at accomplishing its goal, but not popularly?
Unknown Speaker (00:36:56.219)
You know, like any number of these definitions of work could be applied.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:01.219)
I'm not sure what these people or what any of us really think would be working.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:06.219)
Is it really like the destruction of Infowars is the only reasonable definition of work that we're all kind of operating by?
Unknown Speaker (00:37:18.219)
I don't know. I think probably getting some blows in.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:22.219)
That seems to me like what I think that Harrison feels unscathed by the opposition.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:31.219)
Sure. If we're scoring the boxing match, we've got a lot of jabs, but we don't have any real hits.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:37.219)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or seems slightly threatening to.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:44.219)
I think that the people who were doing that show, their definition of work would have been,
Unknown Speaker (00:37:50.219)
can we make a good television program out of this?
Unknown Speaker (00:37:54.219)
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:55.219)
And I think on some nights they did, and on some nights it wasn't as good.
Unknown Speaker (00:37:59.219)
I didn't watch it regularly, but like I said, Tim Baltz is fucking great.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:05.219)
Any show with him on it is not that bad.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:09.219)
You know what just occurred to me? It just occurred to me that all of their dumb language,
Unknown Speaker (00:38:14.219)
you know that dumb thing where they're like,
Unknown Speaker (00:38:17.219)
watch who you can't criticize if you're worried about who's oppressing you or anything like that?
Unknown Speaker (00:38:22.219)
We're the only people that nobody speaks the name of.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:26.219)
It does kind of make you think that we are running Infowars.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:31.219)
No one is speaking our name. Nobody will say our name.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:35.219)
If the people you can't criticize are the people who really rule over you,
Unknown Speaker (00:38:40.219)
then we must be the shadow puppeteers of Infowars.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:45.219)
Right?
Unknown Speaker (00:38:46.219)
That's a good point.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:47.219)
If you're commanded not to speak about us, it's hard not to say.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:51.219)
So this next clip I think is just shocking and really, really gross.
Unknown Speaker (00:38:58.219)
Oh yeah. So Ben Collins is, I don't know who this guy is,
Unknown Speaker (00:39:02.219)
I'm looking him up and he's like, he was the censor at NBC.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:06.219)
He'd basically go on and cry that people are allowed to say things that he disagreed with.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:10.219)
And it's actually kind of funny because he would go on NBC and talk about COVID-19 or the vaccine or whatever else.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:15.219)
And now you can go back and look and be like, oh yeah, he was wrong about all of that stuff.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:19.219)
Because that's what his job was. His job was to go up and silence people telling the truth.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:24.219)
That's 100% actually what he did.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:27.219)
The whole Israel war thing has kind of thrown all of the old alliances and dividing lines into flux.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:36.219)
And so I'm looking and Ben Collins apparently got a lot of heat for reporting on the, I think it was the Al-Shira.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:45.219)
I might be getting that wrong.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:46.219)
But it was that first hospital that was bombed by Israel in Gaza.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:50.219)
And it was ridiculous because they'd just been carpet bombing everything, taking credit for it.
Unknown Speaker (00:39:59.219)
And then they hit a hospital and they're like, what us? No way. Absolutely not.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:03.219)
And so I give Ben Collins credit for the fact that he reported the story in the first place, but he didn't claim it was Israel that did it.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:12.219)
And then when people pushed back on him, he's like, oh, I never said, I never said that it was Israel that did it.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:17.219)
I just think people need to know that people died.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:20.219)
And I'm just, so it's like, we actually do what you do, but better and more courageously.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:26.219)
You little rat, you little coward, you little scumbag bootlicking queer.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:34.219)
Trying to be nice. I'm trying to use nice words.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:37.219)
Twink? I'm sorry. Twink is the right word. Thank you, crew.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:42.219)
Apparently, he's married to that cat Abigail Godzilla woman or whatever who had that just utterly embarrassing congressional campaign where she would like sleep through appearances she was supposed to have and be like, I have narcolepsy.
Unknown Speaker (00:40:55.219)
Stop. Stop mocking me. Yeah, we're going to see another set on you. We're going to see another set on you in here pretty soon.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:01.219)
I have the feeling so. But like, this is weird.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:04.219)
So I wonder if Ben Collins, who very like in a cowardly and tepid, just faggoty sort of way, refused to actually report what he believed because he was scared of the backlash.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:19.219)
See, I actually reported the obvious fact that Israel bombed a hospital because I'm not a coward.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:24.219)
All right. So they claim to believe things.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:27.219)
They claim to be on the side of the underdog.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:29.219)
They claim to be fighters for truth. They claim to be engaged in an information war.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:34.219)
But they're liars. They're cowards. And when they lose the information war, they wage a financial lawfare, the series of attacks against us and then lie about their success because they're everything that they say we are.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:47.219)
It's pure projection across the board.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:49.219)
This is wild stuff.
Unknown Speaker (00:41:52.219)
For one thing, Kat does have narcolepsy. And the campaign that Harrison is calling pathetic was probably one of the most anti-Israel government campaigns that a non-Nazi has run for public office in my lifetime.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:05.219)
I don't know why he would want to if he was a sincere critic of Israel and APEC donating to candidates.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:14.219)
I don't know why he wouldn't be on board with what Kat did.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:18.219)
Obviously, a lot of this is just personal attacks and Harrison is super angry, but I think this also enters into territory that isn't fair.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:26.219)
Kat has been one of the larger public in the media voices who's been very clear about Gaza from the beginning and ran a campaign for Congress that pulled no punches on it.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:35.219)
And Ben was with her and publicly supported her the whole way.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:39.219)
To pretend that he's in some way afraid to criticize Israel is nonsense and this is Harrison being out of his lane.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:47.219)
I'm not going to defend every story that Ben ever reported in his career, but in this case, Harrison is not being fair.
Unknown Speaker (00:42:54.219)
After the explosion at this hospital in Gaza, the New York Times published a headline saying, quote, Israeli strikes kill hundreds in hospital, Palestinians say.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:03.219)
Ben went on the news and reported on this story and later that headline from the Times was changed to, quote, hundreds dead in blast at Gaza hospital, Palestinians say.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:14.219)
Taking away the Israeli strike part of it, which wasn't even something the headline was reporting.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:20.219)
It was still part of what the Palestinians said, but even so, the Times still walked it back.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:27.219)
So Ben got attacked a ton for not correcting himself after the headline was changed because they thought the critics and people who were coming down on him were saying that he was being too critical of Israel.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:38.219)
This is the beef that he had then that Harrison is misrepresenting.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:44.219)
Harrison may be able to say that he himself has always said that Israel bombed that hospital, but I know that Alex didn't.
Unknown Speaker (00:43:51.219)
If he's so mad about what Ben Collins did, how can Harrison possibly work for a guy who said this?
Unknown Speaker (00:43:59.219)
After all the drama yesterday, it turns out the Gaza hospital wasn't bombed, the parking lot was, and 500 people didn't die.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:07.219)
Oh, and the rocket wasn't from Israel, it was from a failed rocket.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:10.219)
The Palestinian terrorists shot at Israel.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:12.219)
Absolutely insane, says Robbie Starbuck on Twitter.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:16.219)
Yeah, that's a true statement.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:17.219)
And here's a radar track.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:22.219)
And then, by the way, the Palestinians don't deny this.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:24.219)
They've had over 400 rockets fall and explode that they launched on their own territory in just the last year.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:34.219)
And so that's what they're doing.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:37.219)
When you're firing hundreds of rockets over a hospital and one of them doesn't work right, well, you know, what do you do?
Unknown Speaker (00:44:43.219)
Well, you just go to CNN and tell them Israel did it.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:48.219)
So what about that, Harrison? How do you deal with that?
Unknown Speaker (00:44:52.219)
Like, you've worked for that guy for three years after that point.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:55.219)
Your identity is based on pretending he's the tip of a spear.
Unknown Speaker (00:44:59.219)
What's your criticism of that if you're so mad that you've got to resort to gay-bashing slurs to try to attack Ben?
Unknown Speaker (00:45:08.219)
Like, it's nonsense.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:10.219)
We can have a difference of opinion. That's no problem.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:14.219)
But the problem is that it's a woman.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:16.219)
A woman can't have a difference of opinion. Frankly, a woman having an opinion at all.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:20.219)
Very threatening.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:22.219)
A woman or a man that has been deemed effeminate in a way that Harrison wants to depict as gay.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:32.219)
It is really good of that to help us, though, understand the way they view gender.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:37.219)
You have this concept of the lies that they've told you, but it's them and anybody who is slightly less physically oppressive than them are men.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:47.219)
And then everybody who can be hit is a woman.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:52.219)
Everybody who can be hit is a woman.
Unknown Speaker (00:45:56.219)
Alex, if you yelled at him about saying that this Palestinian hospital was not attacked by Israel, if you complained about his coverage, he might hit you or scream at you.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:09.219)
Whereas Ben Collins would politely disagree with you and maybe argue.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:13.219)
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's basically it.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:17.219)
Awesome. Life's good.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:21.219)
So I think that Harrison really needs to reflect on that.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:24.219)
All of his criticisms, were they valid, would have led him to quit his job by now.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:31.219)
And the fact that he hasn't kind of invalidates the idea that he cares.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:36.219)
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:37.219)
So I think that one of Harrison's big problems is that the onion isn't funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:43.219)
And obviously it's a matter of taste.
Unknown Speaker (00:46:47.219)
Is that a big problem for him in his personal life or is it a big problem because he's angry about how they're not funny?
Unknown Speaker (00:46:54.219)
Or is it something that he's grateful they're not funny for, giving him the opportunity to mock them?
Unknown Speaker (00:47:00.219)
I think the middle one and I think he thinks the last one.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:04.219)
Gotcha.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:05.219)
He's wrong, as we find when he decides to start reading onion headlines to prove they're not funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:14.219)
Pentagon develops tactical zoot suit.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:17.219)
Very timely. Very, very clever.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:20.219)
OK.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:21.219)
U.S. fertility rate clummets to pre-Nick Cannon levels.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:26.219)
Hilarious. It's absolutely hilarious.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:29.219)
This is where they take an actual serious issue and then I was going to say make a joke out of it, but jokes are supposed to be funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:39.219)
Man who threw Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home claims he was following Jet Chat GBT recipe for a risotto.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:47.219)
Hilarious.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:49.219)
I can't stop laughing.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:51.219)
That's so funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:55.219)
I'm silently laughing right now.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:57.219)
That's what you're hearing.
Unknown Speaker (00:47:59.219)
OK, so I like what even is this?
Unknown Speaker (00:48:03.219)
I don't know, man.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:05.219)
So I think that I regret to inform you that it is Jafar, that click hole article.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:13.219)
Do you know that one?
Unknown Speaker (00:48:15.219)
It's one of the best internet things that has ever existed.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:20.219)
It is just a slew of we regret to inform you, we take no pleasure in this, it's Jafar.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:28.219)
And then there's a picture of Jafar.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:30.219)
And then there's another sort of like we tried to avoid this, but circumstances out of our control have led to it being Jafar.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:39.219)
And it just goes on. It's great. It's one of the funniest fucking things ever.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:42.219)
But I could deliver it dryly and act confused about it and then it wouldn't be funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:49.219)
Sure.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:50.219)
So some of these headlines, maybe they're not The Onion's best work, but if you're going to read it like that, of course they're not going to be funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:48:57.219)
Well, what I like best about it is that even if you don't think they are funny or the lines themselves are not delivered with the kind of style they need to be,
Unknown Speaker (00:49:07.219)
him reacting to them is fucking hilarious.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:11.219)
Trying so hard to not enjoy something is funny on its own face.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:16.219)
Like there were a couple of times where it's like, he knows that he was even delivering it with the end little punchline being, ah shit, that's pretty good.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:25.219)
And then he has to pretend that he hates it.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:27.219)
And I think that there's an inherent problem too, which is that they're supposed to believe that The Onion is like this woke-skulled kind of like everything is super PC thing.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:38.219)
And then they're making a joke about Nick Cannon having a lot of kids.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:41.219)
Like you would think that that wouldn't be within the realm of what those censorious people would allow.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:49.219)
You know, like this is, nah, I don't know about this.
Unknown Speaker (00:49:52.219)
When he said after it, and this is one where they take some serious issue and kind of try and make a joke out of it,
Unknown Speaker (00:50:00.219)
I was like, is Nick Cannon having too many kids a serious issue now? Have we reached that point?
Unknown Speaker (00:50:06.219)
No, he's talking about white children.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:08.219)
Have the seventies kind of come back and been like, dude, Nick Cannon is causing the overpopulation crisis. Let's face it.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:15.219)
The population bomb.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:18.219)
So I think that Harrison is maybe talking too much about this. That his problem is that they're not funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:26.219)
If only they were funny, Jordan, then everything would be all right.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:30.219)
This is the most offensive part. If they were funny, I wouldn't have an issue with it.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:34.219)
If they're actually capable of taking what we believe and making fun of it and making it funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:42.219)
Funny. I'm sitting next to a low IQ hat. You think we take ourselves all that seriously?
Unknown Speaker (00:50:47.219)
Now the things we talk about are serious. And we believe that just like people from The Onion believe that.
Unknown Speaker (00:50:51.219)
Of course, the way they approach it is a fabricated, faux assumed countenance of being above it all and just mocking people who care about anything.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:02.219)
But like say the n-word to them. See what they care about. See if they care.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:06.219)
See how mad they get when you violate one of their precious cultural norms.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:10.219)
These people are not free thinkers. They are not even funny. But they're certainly not like saying anything profound or providing insight into anything going on in the world.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:24.219)
But they would be if they used slurs. Like I don't know, man. This is stupid.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:31.219)
Does that mean that they have to think we're funny? Because the way they responded to it is due to the fact that we were funny, right? They have to believe that.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:43.219)
What? Say more what you mean there? I'm sorry.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:46.219)
I mean with formulaic objections. Based on his own logic, they have to believe we are funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:52.219)
At least someone does.
Unknown Speaker (00:51:55.219)
Right?
Unknown Speaker (00:51:56.219)
I don't know, Rob. Rob Doo probably didn't enjoy his time in the sun. But like, someone had to recognize that this is that was like pointed in a way that that like caused damage to them through humor.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:11.219)
So whether or not they thought it was ha ha funny, they thought it was funny in a way that meant something.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:17.219)
That's what I'm saying.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:18.219)
Because it changed behavior.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:19.219)
They should have been OK with it. That's my point here is if it would have been OK, if the onion being would have been OK with their bullshit, if they were actually funny, then by admitting that we are actually funny by changing their behavior, they actually shouldn't have changed their behavior because they're OK with it because we're actually funny.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:39.219)
Maybe being OK with it is actually what it means is a begrudging kind of like all right.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:46.219)
OK. All right.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:48.219)
Maybe not. Maybe it's not actually being OK with it. And like maybe maybe actually what he's trying to express is I'm really desperate to find ways to complain about this that don't make me look like a loser.
Unknown Speaker (00:52:59.219)
And that's kind of you know, they're not even funny is a good way to pretend that like not only am I not mad, I'm so not mad that I'm cool and I wish they were funnier.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:11.219)
Yeah. Yeah. I have to I have to say that I am. I mean, it can't be said any other way. I regret I regret to let you know that it is Jafar.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:20.219)
I wish, you know, Louis C.K. was taken over. He says words, you know, Michael Richards was taken over. He says words.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:28.219)
I wonder if I wonder if we're there yet. I wonder if we're at the point where you can buy a comedian to say the words that you want.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:36.219)
Right.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:38.219)
I don't know if we were not ever there.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:40.219)
Well, OK, that's that's a fair point. That's a fair point.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:43.219)
That's a fair point. I meant there was a lot of like really famous people who were on cameo because some comedians don't make nearly as much as you imagine they do.
Unknown Speaker (00:53:51.219)
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I was I'm just more thinking, are we at the place where you're on stage wearing like a F1 badge of advertising kind of thing?
Unknown Speaker (00:54:01.219)
Like, you know, oh, by the way, this set is brought to you by Petronas or whatever it is.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:07.219)
There may be subtle ways that that is already happening. I mean, everyone's podcast has sponsors.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:14.219)
Yeah, that's true. So many comics have podcasts. I got a new five minute orange juice bit that really just makes you want to buy orange juice brought to you by Tropicana.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:25.219)
So the moment I got to be honest, this show sucks.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:29.219)
Harrison is a whiny little punk and I don't care about him at all. He's illustrating why no one would care if this went away.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:39.219)
And of course, the tension is where's Alex? Is Alex going to show up? Everyone wants Alex to show up.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:46.219)
And so finally, about an hour and a half into the show, Alex shows up and all that we ask is that you go to the Alex Jones.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:53.219)
That's it. That's the way that we get funding. That's the way that we stay on air.
Unknown Speaker (00:54:58.219)
Unlike the Onion, who's got all these all this backing and all this crap. Oh, the Onion has stolen the shirt off of Alex Jones's back.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:08.219)
That's a sad thing to say. It is. Are you an employee of the Onion now, Alex?
Unknown Speaker (00:55:13.219)
No, we laugh about this. But a year and a half ago, they announced that they now owned us.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:19.219)
And it was all a fraud. This time they've had a court hearing and they're announcing they own us.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:24.219)
To paint you a picture, Alex has slowly lumbered onto the set wearing no shirt, standing behind the desk while Harrison looks on and tries to maintain his self respect.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:34.219)
Alex isn't sitting at the desk, so his face isn't well lit. And he's just a topless man complaining in the shadows.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:42.219)
What is clearly visible on the desk, however, is a hat that says Low IQ.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:47.219)
The feeling you get here is that Alex knew that everyone wanted a blow up and he just can't muster the energy to do it.
Unknown Speaker (00:55:54.219)
There's no point anymore. Like all the customers who are going to migrate to the new store are already doing it.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:00.219)
So if he blows up or not, the bottom line is the same. Sleepy Alex staggering in without a shirt feels like low effort, low commitment info wars.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:09.219)
It's checked out. And if anything, it gives the vibe of a drunk stepdad walking in from a midday nap to complain about something and bother you.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:19.219)
That's really what it feels like. I think I think six years ago, five years ago, Alex walking in on the show topless.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:31.219)
Awesome. We are cooking with gas. Something's going to happen here. The elements are here for chaos.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:40.219)
Yeah. Now I see him stumble out of the control room into the studio and I'm like, oh, man.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:48.219)
A shaved sasquatch. Somebody shaved a sasquatch.
Unknown Speaker (00:56:55.219)
It's ambling behind the camera. A little bit blurry. So we can't even see if it's actually sasquatch. Oh, God.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:03.219)
It reminds me of like a June Diane Rayfield from How Did This Get Made?
Unknown Speaker (00:57:09.219)
Sure. They were covering the James Bond movie View to a Kill. And, you know, Bond is the guy who plays him pretty old in that movie.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:17.219)
And she was talking about how he's doing these adventures and like bedding these women and like getting in a hot tub.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:27.219)
But her feeling while watching it was like, oh, no, you're old. You can't do this. You're going to get heartburn.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:34.219)
No, no, no. You got to be more careful. And that's kind of how I feel about Alex coming out without a shirt in twenty twenty six.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:42.219)
It's kind of like old James Bond. It's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't fun and sexy and dangerous anymore.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:51.219)
It's just kind of like, oh, I think it would be better if we weren't aging.
Unknown Speaker (00:57:59.219)
If we weren't also aging, it wouldn't be a reminder of the possibilities that life will fucking bear upon you over time.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:08.219)
But, you know, he doesn't use lotion. And I feel like that's a big issue.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:12.219)
I think he probably does use lotion and it's made from krill.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:18.219)
It's made from chaga mushrooms and the greatest methylene yellow.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:25.219)
He's he's missing it. I got a like 15 minute Jurgens bit that it really get to him.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:31.219)
Brought to you by Nivea.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:34.219)
I run Jurgen sucks. Nivea rules.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:39.219)
So Alex tries to do a little bit of a riff about his shirt. They took his shirt.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:44.219)
And that. Oh, yeah, I get you. Yeah. I would say that this bit is dead on arrival.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:51.219)
Look, just because you're wearing my shirt. Don't mean you're me.
Unknown Speaker (00:58:56.219)
So let's be 100 percent clear about that. And so you guys just keep laughing.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:00.219)
It's like you did a year and a half ago or was November twenty twenty four.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:03.219)
Mm hmm. Is that about a year and a half? Yeah. This is a story from December 10th.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:07.219)
Sale of Alex Jones, Infowars to the Onion rejected. And I'll get into this.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:10.219)
And yeah. Yeah. So just just just. But yeah, they need to be us to confuse people.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:15.219)
By the way, it's a total failure. It's over the fifth biggest newspapers.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:18.219)
It's a lie. Newspapers are all dead. I looked it up.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:23.219)
The Onion gets less than half of the traffic that enforce gets.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:26.219)
Grock told me I talked to my robot friend. He told me I talked to robots.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:31.219)
They said I was cooler. Why would why would a grock tell you the truth?
Unknown Speaker (00:59:37.219)
Why would a grock tell you? That's a good that's a good.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:41.219)
There you go. That's your. I would have Grock tell you that.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:45.219)
Of course, the grock would tell you that you're doing well. It's a grock.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:49.219)
If you say it for us is getting a lot of traffic. You might be a grock.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:54.219)
Here's here's another you know, a grock will tell you this.
Unknown Speaker (00:59:58.219)
Jet GBT will be all like this. Oh, oh, man, we're doing real shit now.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:06.219)
Jet GBT is be shot. I think there's some something there.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:15.219)
Yeah, I mean, I'll go find a comedy club here in Iowa and test this out.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:20.219)
I think it'll be I think it'll be a lot less aggressively race basing than the old Def Jams.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:28.219)
But those were delightful. It'll be biased along AI lines.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:35.219)
So, Alex, he's he's talking about the onion and how like they're working with the people who are working with Trump now.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:45.219)
And he sort of just wanders off plugging.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:49.219)
Now it's ridiculous. And again, yeah, they just they just do it. They get away with it.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:53.219)
The Paul Weis law firm ran all this. Trump settled with them. They sell and announce Trump's on their side.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:58.219)
Yep. So, hey, feel good, guys. You're on Trump's side. You said was so bad. Exactly.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:03.219)
No, that's exactly it. They are literally on the bad guy side. So, yeah, it's going to fail.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:08.219)
We don't own the only source for our com. That's how they back us. That's how they keep us on air.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:13.219)
He's yelling from across the room. Hey, we don't know that one.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:18.219)
That's the people to go buy from a place where I can get the money.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:22.219)
It's it's a mess. That is bad look.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:26.219)
That's a lot like when you you ask the hey, buddy, how about you go watch football?
Unknown Speaker (01:01:32.219)
You ask your uncle one Thanksgiving Day and then he hears your conversation from across the room and still starts shouting bullshit at you.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:40.219)
And you're like, we tried to get rid of you. Leave us alone.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:45.219)
I thought you were napping. I thought you were day drunk and you passed out. What the fuck?
Unknown Speaker (01:01:49.219)
Please get more day drunk. I think that there's something interesting, too, about like 10 years into this phase of Infowars and being like, congratulations, onion.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:00.219)
Now you're on the side of the guy that I cried about and said God sent me on missions for.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:06.219)
I'm very confused. I'm not sure where I stand anymore.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:11.219)
I've done a lot of things that betray any principles I wants to have. And that means you're stupid.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:17.219)
You like the guy who I gave up everything for. And that means you're dumb.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:22.219)
I literally gave him the shirt off my back rendering this bit ironically poignant.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:29.219)
Mm hmm. There is just something so beautifully, Alex, about yelling a plug as you stagger away from the desk, though.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:38.219)
That feels like if we ever. A last shot of Alex that could ever exist.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:44.219)
It would be good if it's that. That seems like his he could disappear into the woods and no one has heard of him since he plugged.
Unknown Speaker (01:02:53.219)
Right. Because he he he stopped shaving and then he's just a regular Sasquatch. He returns to his people once he came.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:01.219)
Yeah. Well, I mean, we've gotten now to a point where he has no heroes. That's true.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:07.219)
Yeah. So Harrison gets back to work and then about 10 minutes later, Alex shows back up with the shirt and is boring as hell.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:17.219)
And I'm not going to play any of it. But there there's like he's talking about how he doesn't like wealth.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:22.219)
And it's like we have your watches, man. We know the we know what kind of lifestyle you're living.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:29.219)
There's there is no way to not say that you are into wealth with an expensive watch like that.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:36.219)
The watch itself is an expression of how you want people to view you as wealthy.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:42.219)
Yeah. We each have one of his watches and I have texts that he sent about luxury items that he, you know, he buys and so come on.
Unknown Speaker (01:03:52.219)
Fuck all this nonsense. Oh, no. If I ever put a watch on that, that was I don't even I don't even particularly have any interest in wearing one of those smart watches.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:01.219)
They're too too much for me. I don't like it. I don't like it. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:06.219)
I like a Fitbit, but that's just because I like to see a fit is for people.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:11.219)
Yeah. Fitbit is a broke person thing. That's cool. I'm cool with the Fitbit.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:16.219)
Hell yeah, I'm still cool. So this is where we're going to end our little jaunt with Harrison.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:23.219)
But I think you need to, you know, in the interest of completeness for the day and what happened, you definitely need the Alex with his shirt off coming back.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:32.219)
We need that to be part of the canon, but it's diminishing returns. It's a little it's underwhelming a bit.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:40.219)
It's deflationary. I mean, it's almost it's almost like he's devaluing the like Bert Kreischer.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:47.219)
He has to have his shirt off. It's meaningless. If he wears a shirt, it's it's meaningless.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:51.219)
But Bert Kreischer has has deflated his currency of shirtlessness so much.
Unknown Speaker (01:04:57.219)
It's a trillion dollars just to buy a laugh with a shirtless man. Can I actually.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:03.219)
Well, you know, you phrase that in such an interesting way. I think that Bert Kreischer has made shirtlessness incredibly valuable, but only for him.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:13.219)
It's devalued it for other people. Sure. essential to his act. That's that's fair.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:18.219)
That is fair. I'm you're you're right. That's more close to what I was trying to express.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:23.219)
Yeah. Yeah. It's a weird it's a weird money that only works for him. Yes. Yes. There we go.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:29.219)
Now it makes sense. And I don't know. Like, I think that if Alex was way more out of shape, it'd be good.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:35.219)
Or if he was at his point when he was the most shredded, it would be good. But he's kind of in between now, too.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:40.219)
So it's like no one's blown away by looking at him without a shirt. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:45.219)
So like, it's not even shocking. I don't know. Anybody care? No. No.
Unknown Speaker (01:05:51.219)
It's hard to think that far in advance, though. You know, like if you think you should be shredded for an appearance like this, you got to be working for a few years previously.
Unknown Speaker (01:06:01.219)
You know, that's that kind of reduction in weight and increase in steroids.
Unknown Speaker (01:06:08.219)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, fair enough. Man, I don't know how the drugs work anymore. I'm too old.
Unknown Speaker (01:06:14.219)
I don't know if those are ones you ever knew about. Yeah. So we'll check in. We'll see. We'll see.
Unknown Speaker (01:06:22.219)
First of all, if I find any more lost nations. And then if you know how things go as this deteriorates over it in four wars, we get closer to the 30th, which appears to be when things are going to the lights are going to turn off and and such.
Unknown Speaker (01:06:39.219)
Let me ask you a question. If you stop by if you stop in a city named Persia, is that equivalent to a city named Lost Nation?
Unknown Speaker (01:06:49.219)
Probably be similar. I might have driven through a Persia. I know I drove I drove through at least a couple of cities that had names that were like Midas or, you know, things that were like, oh, this is the ancient world.
Unknown Speaker (01:07:03.219)
Right. So it's the lost region. I think Iowa. Yes. Yes. Iowa is the last state.
Unknown Speaker (01:07:13.219)
But I'm going to continue to have some fun. Fuck around. Find some stuff. And, you know, I'll check back in on my findings. But until then, we have a website.
Unknown Speaker (01:07:25.219)
And did we do it's knowledge, right? Dotcom. Yep. We'll be back. But until then, I'm the only D.C. Clark. I am a mysterious professor.
