Episode 424: April 21-22, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes of The Alex Jones Show, and witness a man exhibiting wildly fluctuating emotions, from lashing out about how much he hates his own show and the world needed to burn on Tuesday to business-as-usual on Wednesday.

Topics covered on this episode include:

• Alex claims that “When government fears it’s people, there’s peace; when people fear their government, there’s tyranny” is a Thomas Jefferson quote. It is not. The quote actually comes from a 1914 debate against socialism (pg. 36), and wasn’t attributed to Jefferson until 1994, in a book written by a guy who thinks he’s a part of the intergalactic council.

• Alex misrepresents comments made by Anthony Fauci, to try to pretend that he had admitted back in 2017 that there was a plan to hit Trump with a pandemic. The full context of his comments reveal that Fauci was discussing how every president faces emerging diseases and public health events, and Trump’s time in office would be no different.

• Alex pretends that the UN warning that 30 million people around the world could be at risk of starvation is directly connected to whether or not the US economy is reopened. It is actually a far more complicated picture that involves the coronavirus, but also completely unrelated issues around the world, like war and locusts. Alex tries to use a Globe and Mail article to defend his arguments, but it isn’t helpful.

• Alex misses the point of the recent negative oil prices. Articles in the WE Forum and FT do a good job of exploring the relevant points.

• Conversation about doctors rationing care was rooted in the experiences that doctors were living through in Italy, and in Spain.

• FactCheck explains the reality behind the issue of hospitals and Covid-19 payments

• There is one NY Post article about the NY DNR order, and another about that same order being scrapped.

• Alex should not support William Barr, under any circumstances. He has blocked 9/11 victims’ families from accessing information they’d been promised, and he was George HW Bush’s Attorney General during the Ruby Ridge stand-off.

Episode 423: April 20, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss Alex’s very not-chill 420 episode.

Topics covered include:

• Alex believes that the Mark of the Beast has been announced in the part of a patent that he thinks is number 060606. The actual patent number is 0097951, the 060606 number is the publication number from the patent being filed with the World Intellectual Property Office.

• Alex continues his outrageously depressing on-air behavior, all but declaring that his enemies cannot be defeated, and that he will soon be gone.

• Alex barges off air after discussing a failed attempt at creating a social media website.

• Alex tells a story of yelling at people at a grocery store because they judged him for not wearing a mask. Meanwhile, Alex is selling Infowars branded masks.

• David Icke stops by to tell Alex about how Covid-19 doesn’t exist, and the pandemic is actually based on a fake, non-existent virus. Alex is pretty convinced by this argument, despite the fact that it completely invalidates pretty much everything else he’s pretended he’s proven about the virus so far.

Episode 422: April 17, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss an episode of the Alex Jones Show that is mostly about Alex trying to make a target of a med school professor in Singapore, and rattling the sabers of war toward China.

Topics covered include:

• Owen Shroyer’s recent suspension from Twitter for promoting a rally against social distancing

• Alex’s new theory that Facebook’s science fact-checking is being run by one of the top scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is based on a misrepresentation about Dr. Danielle Anderson, who contributes to an entity called Health Feedback, which is a part of Science Feedback, a group that is subcontracted by Facebook to assist with fact-checking. She teaches at Duke-NUS in Singapore, and has worked occasionally with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the past

• Alex claims that Hillary Clinton views 1984 as a how-to-manual. This is based on a blog post about an excerpt from her 2017 book, and he’s just quoting the headline of that blog

• The co-discoverer of HIV has made comments that Alex is citing as support for his positions. A lot of this is based on the retracted Indian paper about Covid-19, which has been discredited, particularly by a Feb. 2020 article in Emerging Microbes and Infections

• Alex’s belief that Facebook is run by 10,000 Stasi members is based on a misrepresentation of a German task force on online hate speech, which included an NGO headed by Anette Kahane, who was an unofficial informant for the Stasi for a few years when in college

• The CDC is not covering up the flu season, they’ve just ended updating their burden estimates for the season.

• Alex is being sued by his ex-wife for a lot of money, in a case that is set for trial on April 23

• Alex’s water filters are shipped by My Patriot Supply

• Johns Hopkins keeps a list of all the Covid-19 tests, one of which was developed at Duke-NUS, and Dr. Anderson did assist with it. This test they created was designed to detect very specific antibodies, because they were developing it in a country that had been hit hard by SARS.

Also, Alex and Owen Shroyer engage in some wacky comedy bits, including Owen wearing a baby mask and pretending to kill Alex.

Episode 421: April 16, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss Alex Jones’ return to the studio after a couple days’ absence.

This episode covers:

• Alex conflates an AP report with a story from Fox News to claim that the AP was reporting that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab.

• Alex attempts to minimize the coronavirus by comparing it to various plagues of the long-distant past.

• Alex lashes out at vaccines by misrepresenting an interview that Bill Gates recently did with CNBC.

• Alex discusses his plan to flee Austin to an armored redoubt, which may or may not have something to do with a warning letter he recently received from the FDA.

• David Knight falsely claims that Harvard professor Charles Lieber was charged with espionage. The DOJ charged him with making false statements.

• Isaac Ben-Israel’s claims about viruses just lasting 40 days is not a consensus opinion.