Episode 470: Shadow Gate

Dan and Jordan discuss Millie Weaver’s new documentary, which some people are pretending are involved in her recent arrest.

Topics covered include:

• Millie Weaver and her husband Gavin Wince were arrested on August 14, on felony charges of burglary, tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, and domestic violence.

• Millie claims that government contractors are not subject to FOIA requests. This is not true. You can find all sorts of information about government contractors on the FOIA portal.

• One of Millie’s experts, Patrick Bergy alleges to be the first 40 year old private in the US military. He also ran for Pasco County Election Supervisor, which did not result in a victory. After the campaign, Bergy didn’t pay a fine when told to by the commission, and eventually negotiated a settlement.

• Patrick Bergy’s story largely relies on appeals to stories about IIA, or Interactive Internet Activity. The primary source about this is a 2007 memo which discusses public relations guidelines for interactive internet engagement of DoD personnel in certain foreign countries. It does not appear to be anything close to what they claim.

• Patrick Bergy wrote a book called Victim Of The Swamp.

• Millie says that upstream collection of data is a large part of what the NSA does, but this is not accurate. A 2011 report found that 9% of internet data collected was upstream collection, as opposed to stuff acquired directly from ISPs. Also, the NSA reported that they amended their upstream collection practices in April 2017.

• The 2008 passport data breach involved contractors from Stanley Inc and The Analysis Group. It did not involve CGI, although CGI did acquire Stanley in 2010, two years later.

• The Analysis Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Strategies Group.

• Millie thinks that CGI stands for Canadian Global Information, because those words are in the first line of their Wikipedia page. The name actually stands for Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique.

• The John Brennan quid-pro-quo theory does not make sense, given that he was a high level Obama advisor prior to the passport breach, and was clearly on a short-list to be in the administration.

• The PRISM program did not involve upstream collections of data.

• Dynology has received many government contracts over the years. One of these contracts involves work that was performed in Germany, which Millie is claiming involves the Congressional Knowledge Management Service. This is based on her seeing the acronym “CMKS” on the contract, which she took to mean Congressional Knowledge Management Service, although the acronym for that should be CKMS. In cloud computing, CMKS is an abbreviation for Customer Master Keys, so it is entirely possible that this is what this contract was for, and there’s no evidence provided that it has anything to do with the Congressional Knowledge Management Service.

• Patrick Bergy asserts that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 made it legal for the US government to propagandize the US population. This is a misunderstanding that apparently began with a sloppy column in Buzzfeed, which took on a life of its own. The Smith-Mundt Act of 2012 only made it so programs created by the Broadcasting Board of Governors could be accessible in the US, primarily because with the internet as it is, there’s basically no way to stop it, and because these programs may be the preferred news sources of diaspora communities in the US. The Act itself explicitly lays out that money allocated to these organizations cannot be used to sway public opinion in the US.

• Patrick Bergy seems to think that every recent instance of non-white communities expressing dissatisfaction with things like police violence are examples of people being swayed by Department of Defense IIA operations. The documentary doesn’t include instances of white identity protests being accused of being IIA, which is weird.

• Patrick Bergy’s story seems to include a whole lot of instances of him being rebuffed by prominent people, like Matt Gaetz and Dan Bongino, after he approaches them about ShadowNet. The fact that they won’t sign onto his conspiracy theory seems to consistently be taken as evidence that they themselves are involved in the ShadowNet conspiracy.

• Millie’s other expert, Tore, was also Millie’s primary source for her “reporting” about questions surrounding the 2019 election in Kentucky.

• Tore’s full name is Terpsichore Lindeman, and her claims about voter roll discrepancy were debunked by ProPublica.

• Tore was investigated by the North Dakota attorney general for inappropriately soliciting charitable donations in 2018. She also decided to run for mayor of Minot, North Dakota on a platform of Make Minot Great Again. She did not make it to the ballot. Fellow citizens started a Change.org petition to stop her from running for mayor.

• In 2011, Tore is listed as an undergraduate student in biology at the University of Kentucky, in the program for their Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars.

• However, according to her own Medium page, she claims that she was in medical school in 2008. In Millie’s documentary, she also claims that she was working on secret projects for John Brennan in 2008, which seems like a problem. Her page on TogetherWeServed also claims to have been attending the University of Kentucky in 2008.

• Tore’s Medium page was largely about issues related to foreign language interpreting and serving immigrant communities, until August 2016, when the tone completely changed and it became a very intense conspiracy, pro-Trump blog. Even as her writing shifted into being about the evil forces conspiring about Trump, she did not claim to have first-hand knowledge of these evil forces, which she does claim now, which seems weird.

• Robert Storch was re-nominated by Trump in June 2017. In December, he was confirmed by the Senate as the Inspector General of the NSA. Millie says that it “appears he was never actually confirmed,” which makes no sense.

• Paul Manafort was not the only Trump campaign connection to Psy-Group.

• Shawn Lucas was in a video serving papers to the DNC, but he was just employed as a process server. It was not his lawsuit. Though tragic, the claim that his death was suspicious or a murder has not been substantiated at all.

• Trump did not make it so people lose their security clearances when they leave their jobs. Because of how clearances work, this would be a logistical and administrative nightmare and create so much more bureaucracy.

• Millie read the first paragraph of an Interpol report about robotics and law enforcement and reported on it. She neglects to mention any of the relevant content of the report.

• Millie found a 2017 patent for employee surveillance technology owned by Dynology. She presents this outside of the workplace context, and misrepresents the patent. She also fails to point out this is just an updating of an existing 2015 patent.

Episode 458: July 14, 2020

Dan and Jordan finally get to hear Roger Stone appear on The Alex Jones Show.

Topics covered include:

• Roger shows up and tries to make Alex feel special by signing his alleged commutation papers on air. It’s a sad display that impresses no one. Alex is eating lunch through most of his interview with Roger.

• Alex doesn’t know the difference between “rite” and “right.”

• Alex lies about David Rockefeller’s 1973 New York Times op-ed. It doesn’t say any of the things Alex claims.

• Alex claims that flu deaths going down is a conspiracy, and not just the result of the fact that it’s July. Flu season ends generally in May.

• Alex clearly has no idea who Haile Salassie is, which is embarrassing.

• Alex has a “Christmas In July” sale going, which seems sacrilegious for someone like him to do. There really should only be one Christmas, since it’s Jesus’s birthday and all.

• Alex lies about a data entry issue with Florida labs to pretend that all Covid-19 data is fraudulent. The labs in question did not realize that in a pandemic they are also expected to report negative test results, so some small privately owned labs were only reporting positive results. This led to some labs having a positive rate of 100%, but data analysis has shown that there’s no way that this had any impact on the state’s positive test rate. Alex makes up numbers about this story that in no way match the actual data you can find easily if you look.

• Alex interviews Jim Hoft’s brother, who he keeps calling “Jim Hoft’s brother,” which is honestly sad for both of them.

• Alex and Jim Hoft’s brother deny that there are tens of thousands of excess deaths being reported in the US this year.

Episode 457: July 12-13, 2020

Dan and Jordan track the stories happening on the Alex Jones Show.

Topics covered include:

• Roger Stone continues to not appear on Infowars, most likely because he got a nice check to give Sean Hannity the exclusive first interview, and Alex is an afterthought to him.

• After initially declaring the Wayfair conspiracy a Globalist honey-trap, Alex has decided that there’s more to this story, and Wayfair is most likely actually selling humans. It’s very sad.

• Alex reports a false, and racist, version of a story of a woman who was killed in Indianapolis. The story is very sad, but Alex has created aspects of the story, and ignored others, to make it seem like the victim was killed because she was white. The way he reports on this story is a fingerprint of his racism.

• Alex reports on another story in a racist fashion. A man stabbed two elderly men on a train in New York. In Alex’s reporting, the man stabbed the victims because they were white. This is not clear from any reporting on the story, and appears to be his own creation which he does not prove at all.

• Alex is upset that the couple in St. Louis had their home searched. There’s an open question about whether or not Patricia McCloskey pointing a gun at protesters constituted illegal brandishing of a gun.

• Alex claims that antifa protested an anti-pedophilia rally in Ireland. In reality, the rally was being run by Justin Barrett, who is a pretty well known fascist, who believes that Ireland should be a Catholic dictatorship. Barrett has spoken multiple times at events held by the German Neo-Nazi party NDP, once even sharing the bill with William Luther Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries. His rally was not an anti-pedophilia rally, and protesting him is not supporting pedophilia.

• Alex thinks everyone is trying to “cancel” Tucker Carlson, because it got revealed that his top writer, Blake Neff, had been posting racist shit online under an alias. Tucker went on an allegedly planned vacation, which is weirdly exactly what he did the last time he was in hot water and was losing advertisers.

• Alex pretends that cats are getting mail-in ballots.

• Alex makes excuses for why Roger hasn’t shown up, even though he totally should have, given how tight he and Alex are supposed to be. It’s very sad.

Episode 456: July 9-11, 2020

Dan and Jordan check in on Alex’s show to see how he handles the news of Roger Stone receiving clemency.

Topics covered include:

• Alex lies about Stanford ordering beating baby hearts.

• Alex misleadingly discusses the FDA having contracts for stem cell research.

• Alex lies about Roger Stone getting booted from social media. According to Facebook, he was operating over 50 pages in coordination, which is against terms of service.

• Alex lies about an article in Foreign Affairs titled America’s Democratic Unraveling. Alex says this article is about signaling a military coup against Trump, but he’s just making that up.

• Alex lies about an article which was discussing the possibility of Trump not leaving office after losing the 2020 election. The article is just about how if executive branch employees aided Trump in not leaving office, they would be open to criminal prosecution. Alex claims that this is about threatening anyone who supports Trump.

• Alex claims that the CDC has admitted Covid-19 is not an epidemic. This is just cherry-picking and playing games with information actually on the CDC’s website.

• Alex lies about the lawsuit involving the Supreme Court ruling that about half of Oklahoma is technically Creek land.

• Alex got tricked by an old viral video of a monkey wearing a scarf on its head, which he claims is the result of monkeys seeing us wearing masks. The video predates Covid, and Alex is very dumb.

• Alex lies about a Texas official suggesting that people should wear masks at home. The official, Nim Kidd, suggested this could be a good idea if you’re in a multi-generational home and are not able to distance/protect yourself when you’re in public, but Alex pretends that he’s saying everyone should always wear a mask at home, which is a lie.

• Alex makes up that the Texas Division of Emergency Management takes orders from the WHO Health Emergencies Program. This is not true, they are under the governor of Texas.

• Alex misrepresents comments made by Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, back in March. In proper context, Ryan’s comments in no way apply to the current situation in the US. He was talking about late-stage monitoring of cases once an outbreak has been gotten under control.

• Alex claims that Goldman Sachs is getting ready for a coup against Trump. The reality is that they’re just advising their customers that they should hedge their investments until the end of the year, largely because of uncertainty around the election. Factors like mail-in voting and the virus make it so it is very likely that results will be delayed, which caused market volatility in 2000.

• Savannah Hernandez claims that Hillary Clinton planted the seed that Trump wouldn’t leave office. In reality, Trump has joked constantly about not leaving office. It’s one of his favorite jokes.

• Owen Shroyer calls left-wing protesters “obstacles to freedom.” He expresses support for running people over, which is something that has happened at least 66 times since May 27.

• Alex lies about the CIA running the newsletter On Target. That was actually written by The Minutemen, the violent right-wing anti-communist militia ran by Robert DePugh. An issue of On Target appears in the CIA’s online reading room because it was part of their observation of DePugh, not because they wrote it. The fact that Alex is reporting that is very troubling.

• Alex reveals that he thinks all news stories he reads are Globalist psych warfare, and thus, when he reads a story he knows that it’s a white-wash, so he’s free to make up his own exaggerated version of the story, which must be reality. This is incredibly troubling to hear, because it’s basically Alex saying “I have created a rationalization for why it’s cool for me to lie about everything.”

Episode 455: July 7-8, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss some episodes of The Alex Jones Show where Alex discusses his Fourth of July experiences.

Topics covered include:

• Alex lies about CNN not covering the stories about the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghur people. If you take any time at all to look into it, you’ll find a lot of reporting on CNN about the story, like this, this, this or this.

• Alex claims his friend Steve Mason warned him about antifa 20 years ago. This is almost certainly bullshit.

• Roger Stone appears to beg for a pardon, and claims that Bill Clinton was having an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose name he also does not know how to pronounce.

• Alex claims that on July 4, the planets aligned, which won’t happen again until 2161. It is actually impossible for the planets to physically align, that’s just an expression that is used to describe a situation when planets appear in the same area in the sky. Alex just got this 2161 nonsense from a Facebook meme.

• Alex claims that crime goes up during full moons. A study from 1984 did find a correlation between crime and the full moon, but subsequent studies have been very mixed in their findings.

• Alex claims that he inspired the Foo Fighter’s song The Pretender. This seems very unlikely.

• A caller asks Alex to name the members of the “council of 12” that he’s said run the world. Alex cannot come up with anything better than “there are two Rothschilds' on there.” It’s pathetic.

Episode 454: December 17, 2013

Dan and Jordan go back to 2013 to create a time capsule for a listener.

Topics covered include:

• Alex lies about a headline regarding the repayment of money GM got in the bailout. The confusion is about the head of GM saying that the company will not pay back all $10 billion that was part of the package. This is because not all of that money was a loan, and there was no obligation for them to repay money that wasn’t a loan. A lot of the money that was used to bail out GM was in the form of government buying stock, and GM is not required to repay that. Ultimately, GM did pay back everything they owed. If you want to argue that they should have paid back more, that’s an okay position to have, but it’s a different point than Alex was trying to make.

• Alex lies about GM plants in China creating cars for the US market. There are factories in China because there is a giant car market in China. Approximately 1% of US GM sales are cars from China.

• Alex tries to scare his audience about Google buying robotics companies, saying they’re trying to create a robot army. Google had recently bought some robotics companies, but they’ve since sold them. They were investments and part of their developmental wing.

• Alex exaggerates the level of scurvy that people in the US experience in the present day. There are some people who will get scurvy, but most people who are at risk are people who have other related factors in their lives, like alcoholism or drug abuse, which affect their body’s absorption of vitamin C.

• Alex lies about salt not having iodine in it. He specifically uses a sea salt to make his point, but fails to clarify that it’s a commonly-known fact that sea salt doesn’t contain iodine. Table salt still does, and almost everyone in the US gets plenty of iodine that way.

• Alex lies about an article in Scientific American about soil depletion. The short version of this is that scientists have studied soil depletion, and they initially believed that it was likely the result of non-organic agricultural practices. Subsequent research has shown that it is more likely that the phenomenon is related to climate change, and that vitamin/mineral depletion is connected to increased levels of CO2.

• Alex insults Caitlin Upton, the woman who competed at the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant and had a bad answer about education. Two people who Alex loves in 2020 were big fans of Ms. Upton. Trump signed her to a lucrative modeling contract (and owned the pageant at the time), and Tucker Carlson went on a radio show and said that Upton would make a good wife because she was so dumb.

• Alex talks to Anthony Guciardi, who is basically just there to do an infomercial for Alex’s supplement line.

• Alex interviews the guy who owns the radio station that airs his show in the Chicago area.

• Alex interviews Larry Klayman, who would go on to sue Alex in 2019.

Episode 453: July 2, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss two shows that Alex Jones recorded on July 2, one in the daytime, and one in the depressing nighttime hours.

Topics covered include:

• Alex claims that he’s been covering Jefferey Epstein for 15 years. There is no evidence of that on Infowars’ website, nor on his mirror site, Prison Planet.

• Alex has absolutely no idea how to pronounce Ghislaine Maxwell’s name.

• Alex pretends that the removal of Geoffrey Berman, attorney at the Southern District of NY, was due to Berman not allowing the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell to happen. No evidence for this is provided, and it seems more likely that he was removed because he was investigating Trump’s associates.

• Alex interviews a guy named Larry Gaiters, who claims that various words have completely made up roots. He says that “negro” comes from the Greek word “necro” (it does not) and that the word media comes from the Hebrew word for witches.

• Alex misrepresents an Atlantic article from May about Covid test reporting inconsistencies. He claims that numbers are all just being made up, but this article is about how there were some states that were reporting negative results to viral and antibody tests as a single figure, which makes the data difficult to interpret. This was brought up, and corrected.

• Alex lies about a study about how cities that had Black Lives Matter protests in them actually saw increased social distancing behavior, and it may have helped decrease transmission. Alex hasn’t read the study, and is just making up what it says.

• Alex realized that he did a bad job on his regular show, so he returns in the evening to do a 2 hour special emergency report about Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest. He seems very drunk, says nothing meaningful, rants about his ex-wife, almost starts crying a few times, and bails with half an hour left in the planned show. It was an absolutely embarrassing and childish display, but far from the worst Alex has been on air.

Episode 452: Jordan Takes The Wheel 4

Jordan tells Dan about an episode of OANN that he listened to.

Episode 451: June 29-30, 2020

Notes coming soon

Episode 450: June 25-26, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a couple days on The Alex Jones Show where Alex is trying very hard to demonize the idea of wearing masks to limit the spread of Covid-19.

Topics covered include:

• Alex has seen some viral videos purporting to show that wearing masks raises CO2 levels you’re breathing to dangerous levels. This has been debunked, and is kind of silly even just at face value. If wearing a mask for a short period of time had any legitimate health risks, there would be many activities that would be nearly impossible, like motorcycle trips or skiing.

• Alex rewrites the story of the noose that was found at Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR garage in order to turn it into a story of a racism-hoax. His details of the story are inaccurate.

• Alex hand-waives the rising cases of Covid-19 in the US because there are not also sharply increasing death numbers. This does not take into account that deaths are a lagging indicator when it comes to health emergencies. Typically death numbers do not rise immediately, it takes a while after case numbers rise.

• Alex says that his enemies need to “go on helicopter rides,” which is a reference to the way Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would kill his political rivals. Pinochet has become a bit of a hero of the current fascist right-wing, mostly because they know they can’t get away with wearing shirts that say “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.”

• Alex thinks that Hillary Clinton and Obama are going to run for president and vice president in the 2020 election. It is too late for them to run within the Democratic party, and it seems entirely unbelievable to think they’d run third party. Alex is kind of just making stuff up.

• Alex claims that Black Lives Matter wants to destroy the nuclear family. This is just an intentional misrepresentation of their actual position. If you read their statement of beliefs, it’s clear that it’s about viewing each other as family, regardless of blood relation, not about destroying any family structure. They’re also very explicit about respecting parental relations, which upholds familial structures.

• Alex and his guest, Rev. Childress, discuss how Martin Luther King Jr. was against riots. This is in opposition to one of his most famous quotes, and the later positions he was coming to before his assassination. It’s a longstanding tradition to shame protesters for not being saintly enough to have their concerns heard, and this is just Alex’s racist version of it.

• Alex and Childress lie about the relationship between Hitler and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Sanger was explicitly anti-Nazi, and Hitler hated Sanger because she worked to increase access to birth control. If all the Aryan women were able to make their own decisions about reproduction, it would hurt the growth of the Third Reich, which was a big concern of his. Sanger and Hitler were not on the same page, regardless of what anti-abortion liars say over and over.

• Alex pretends that Joe Biden actually said that 120 million people in the US have died from Covid-19, when in reality he had just misspoke. Alex forgot to cut off the part of the clip where Biden begins to correct himself, because he’s terrible at his job.

• Alex incorrectly reports that the CDC says that masks don’t work at all. He claims that they admit that you wearing a mask will not stop you from spreading the virus, if you’re sick. In reality, the page he’s found on the CDC website is about masks with valves, which most everyday masks do not have. This story is a dud. You can find tons of stories from back in April and May about how masks with valves are not effective at stopping viral transmission.

• Alex has started a website called We Can’t Breathe, attempting to hijack the police brutality movement and use it against masks. It’s pathetic, racist, and also doesn’t seem to be working. Anyway, cases of Covid-19 in Austin are exploding, so this is a really bad idea.

• Alex tries to interview his anti-communist hero G. Edward Griffin, but unfortunately Griffin is not really all that into Trump. Because Alex is a coward and can’t argue with someone with as high of stature as Griffin, and because Griffin doesn’t give a shit about Alex’s scam, this leads to Alex suggesting that the Globalists actually wanted Trump to get elected to negotiate a better position with China. He will absolutely forget about this and never bring it up again.

Episode 449: June 23-24, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a couple episodes of the Alex Jones Show, where Alex spends most of his time trying to console his friends who’ve been kicked off social media.

Topics covered include:

• Alex is trying to start a new national movement against mask-wearing called We Can’t Breathe. It’s a disgraceful and racist idea, and is almost certainly going to be a giant failure. We Can’t Breathe is already the name of a community organization.

• Alex’s movement seems to mostly about a march in Austin against mask-wearing. Covid-19 cases are currently exploding in Texas, so this is probably going to end poorly.

• Alex implies that the recent death by suicide of producer Steve Bing was somehow related to pedophilia. There is no evidence to support this claim.

• Alex interviews Gavin McInnes about how he got kicked off YouTube. It’s very sad, and is mostly a plug for Gavin’s depressing subscription site Censored Dot Tv.

• Gavin McInnes has done blackface. Also, he’s written op-eds defending blackface.

• Alex interviews James O’Keefe and his new “Facebook whistleblower” Zach McElroy. Zach actually worked for Cognizant, which is a different company, which Facebook contracted to do moderation work. All of the information Zach has revealed is inconclusive, and at worst implicates Cognizant, not necessarily Facebook.

• It was widely reported in late 2019 that Cognizant was stepping away from content moderation on social media. They laid off 6,000 employees, and much of the work is now done by the many other companies who Facebook contracts, where Zach did not work.

• California does have a number of exemptions for certain people who are not required to wear masks.

• California was not the state that set a precedence about making rules for mask-wearing. The first state was New Jersey, back on April 8.

• Lincoln County in Oregon had an exemption for people of color not having to wear masks. They were bombarded with complaints, and retracted that exemption.

• Arthur Koestler’s book The Ghost In The Machine does not argue in favor of cannibalism and human sacrifice.

• Bubba Wallace did not report the noose that was found in his garage. He only became aware of it after NASCAR officials were alerted to it.

• Alex got tricked by the fake Mask Exemption Cards that people were posting on social media. This was a fraud carried out by a group called the Freedom To Breathe Agency, which isn’t a real agency.

• Carpe Donktum is probably getting sued by the parents of children that he used in a recently popular race-baiting meme that Trump retweeted.

Episode 448: June 21-22, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss Alex’s return to the studio after a week off, which was apparently spent on vacation at the Gulf of Mexico.

Topics covered include:

• In an attempt to sound not racist, Alex says there are no races of humans, but there are breeds. This is way more racist, and scientifically makes no sense.

• Alex claims he had advance knowledge of Trump’s plan to fire SDNY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman. If he’s not lying, he may end up having to testify about that.

• Alex discusses the story about homeless German children being given to pedophile foster parents. This is a real story, and a serious matter, but Alex’s version of it does not match any available information.

• This story has been reported as far back as 2016, but there is new information available now, after the release of a report by the University of Hildesheim (German/English)

• Alex claims the children affected were taken from their mostly Christian parents, but none of the available information supports that, and he has not demonstrated it at all.

• Alex claims that this was happening all around Western Germany, but in reality, the reports available are all about West Berlin. Berlin is in the East of Germany.

• Alex desperately tries to pretend that Trump’s rally was a huge victory and the turn-out would have been great if not for the sabotage of the internet teens, who were working for the Democrats.

• Two Trump staffers who were at his Tulsa rally have tested positive for the coronavirus since the rally. This brings the total of confirmed cases just in Trump’s staff for the Tulsa rally to 8.

• Alex claims that Dr. Fauci released HIV. The first human case traces back to 1959, when Fauci was 19.

• Trump said at his rally that he asked his administration to slow down Covid-19 testing. His spokesperson then said he said that in jest. Then Trump said he wasn’t joking. Trump has a deep history of being opposed to testing, reportedly because he doesn’t like how high numbers make him look bad.

• Alex constantly prays for God’s vengeance to be enacted on his enemies. Alex often talks about how his listeners can be instruments of God’s vengeance, so it’s pretty easy to see this as him begging his audience to kill his enemies.

• Alex lies about a story involving 150 cannery workers who were held at an LA hotel without pay due to coronavirus quarantine. The story is about a company mistreating migrant labor, but Alex reports it as a story about California Gov. Newsom being evil.

• Alex reports on a troll Facebook page called Disciples of Lucifer, who had made a bunch of events for fake marches to create a One World Government in various cities. They did this back in Feb. 2019, and no marches ever seem to have materialized. In 2019, folks showed up in Texarkana to counter-protest the non-existent march, and people in Salem did the same thing this year.

• Trump claimed that Biden apologized to him for saying that the travel ban from China was xenophobic. This apology never happened, and neither did Biden calling the ban that.

• Alex gets freaked out by a Wall Street Journal article about transhumanism that he didn’t read. He just spends his time on air making up stuff about the article.

Episode 447: Bill Cooper Covers OKC Part 2

Dan and Jordan get back to exploring Bill Cooper’s coverage in the days after the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Much of the information discussed in this episode comes from the excellent book by Mark Jacobson called Pale Horse Rider.

Topics covered include:

• Bill recognizes that his audience is growing since the bombing, which is a common phenomenon among conspiracy broadcasters.

• Bill is convinced that the bomb had to have destroyed the axle that investigators found. Early on in the morning, a firefighter noticed the axle, which wasn’t considered important until later.

• Bill believes that Clinton folks did the OKC bombing to take control of Congress. The GOP retained control of both the House and Senate in the 1996 election.

• Bill continues to make the “multiple sound waves” evidence the central piece of his conspiracy theory. The source of his information seemed to refute Bill’s interpretation when contacted by The Oklahoman.

• Bill probably met Timothy McVeigh prior to the bombing.

• Bill mentions Larry Nichols.

• Bill’s theory about Hillary being indicted is gaining a new life in 2020. Time is a flat circle.

• Almost all of Bill’s information is coming from Michelle Moore, a ballet teacher from Oklahoma, who he’s decided to call his “station chief.” Her messages are often overly-familiar in their tone, as in this episode where she complains that her dad doesn’t like militias, and is therefore the enemy.

• Bill is into the Constitution Party, which is a real weak party.

Episode 446: The Super Alpha Male Championship

Dan and Jordan discuss Owen Shroyer’s attempt at a fun WWE-style push up contest.

Topics covered include:

• Owen doesn’t realize that he’s using a tag team belt for an individual competition, which makes no sense. The current holders of that belt are The New Day, who are one of the most important black groups in WWE history.

• Dan discusses how Owen’s attempt at cutting a wrestling promo about the contest is a failure, by juxtaposing it with two classic promos.

• Alex bum-rushes Owen’s show to try to steal the belt, which leads to a fake fight, and ultimately Owen pretending to murder Alex by strangulation. Alex is clearly very impaired, and it’s embarrassing all around.

Episode 445: June 12, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss the day after Alex Jones was obsessed about a video a nurse put out claiming doctors were killing Covid-19 patients. He seems to have completely forgotten about it already.

Topics covered include:

• Alex believes that Joe Biden has announced a coup against Trump while being a guest on the Daily Show.

• Dan unveils a sketch he wrote about Alex’s interview with the Secret Service.

• Dan and Jordan argue about whether “turd blossom” is a compliment or insult.

• Alex thinks that Samuel Mudd was the only person other than John Wilkes Booth to be convicted in the assassination of Lincoln. This is very not true.

• Alex talks a lot about how great Robert E Lee was. He was not great, he was a piece of shit.

Episode 444: June 11, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a troubling day on the Alex Jones Show where Alex is obsessed with a new video a nurse released about how Covid-19 is not real.

• The nurse who made the video in question, Marie Olszewski, has founded multiple anti-vax organizations and made regular media appearances about the evils of vaccines in the past.

• Olszewski also has a tell-all book that is currently in pre-sales.

• There are many instances of attempted attacks or threats against hospitals recently. There was a bomb plot in Missouri that was foiled, the New York man who showed up at Stony Book hospital with weapons and homemade bombs, and hospitals in Chicago and Napa Valley that had to be evacuated after threats.

• The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network is back up and running, despite Alex’s claims that they were shut down for fraud, which they were not.

• There are many accounts of medical professionals at the same hospital where Erin Olszewski worked, Elmhurst Hospital, who do not have nice things to say about her.

• Prematurely born babies are at a greater need for vaccines, and research has not shown most vaccines to be any increased danger for non-full term births.

• Alex accuses Seattle rapper Raz Simone of being an “African warlord” in the Seattle Autonomous Zone. This is just an expression of Alex’s racism.

• Alex thinks a second wave of the coronavirus is coming, when in reality, most experts don’t think we’ve even actually made it through the first wave. There are many states where cases are spiking.

• Alex discusses a man who was hit by a statue at a Portsmouth, VA protest. He misses a lot of the details though.

Episode 443: June 9, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss Alex’s half-shift at the job.

Topics covered include:

• Alex believes that protesters are throwing themselves on cars in an attempt to recreate the events of the Unite the Right rally. This is nonsense, and over the weekend, a man in Seattle drove into a crowd of protesters, and then shot at them. Alex is trying to provide cover for people attempting to hurt and kill protesters.

• Alex speculates that JFK was killed possibly because he supported disarming the American people. This is absurd. Alex discusses a CIA page referencing Memorandum 7277, which is just a reading room entry that includes a newsletter from the Minutemen about the memo. It means nothing.

• Alex discusses the case of James Marshall. You can find the video of him apparently shooting a man in a car here.

• Alex tries to take calls from “former leftists” or “former antifa members” who have woken up. This doesn’t really work out.

• Alex complains that GoFundMe pages for David Dorn aren’t making enough money, but as the St. Louis police and St. Louis media have reported, these are unauthorized fundraisers that they family is not involved in. They are scams, but Alex has no idea what he’s talking about. Also, the Dorn family received $50,000 from BackStoppers.

• Steve Pieczenik thinks that Al Sharpton’s name is Alan. It is not. It’s Alfred.

• Steve Pieczenik thinks that there have been no US rocket launches in the US in the last 40 years. This is absolutely not true.

Episode 442: June 5, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a very word-heavy episode of The Alex Jones Show.

Topics covered include:

• A study about hydroxychloroquine has been retracted by Lancet. Alex misrepresents this retraction, and seems to be arguing that the original study was an attack on Trump. The reality is that multiple studies have come out recently that indicate that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for Covid-19.

• There was another study retracted by the New England Journal of Medicine, which Alex thinks was also about hydroxychloroquine, but it was actually about blood pressure medications. Alex does not understand how these retractions came to happen, and how it all traces back to a company called Surgisphere, whose owner may or may not be shady.

• New York Post story about Ian Haydon, who retweeted a Moderna press release about the Covid-19 vaccine entering phase 2.

• Alex talks about the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset idea. This is an op-ed on their website as well as a gigantic information visualization. Alex is making up stuff about both.

• Alex pretends that the current protesters want to kill cops, when in reality they are mostly arguing in favor of defunding and disbanding police departments. Conversely, Alex himself has frequently threatened the lives of literally all police in the country if they enforce hypothetical future gun regulations.

• Alex tries to explain why he has a chess board, a skull, and a rose on his desk. He is unsuccessful.

• Alex arbitrarily decides to announce that Bill Gates was running Epstein’s entire operation, and thus accuses him, with no evidence, of engaging in rampant child abuse and making snuff films. He’s lucky his targets are too busy to sue him.

• Alex plays Project Veritas’s new video which pretends to expose antifa. This video is a complete load of shit, and most likely is a total fraud.

• Without evidence, Alex reports that George Floyd’s death is being listed as a Covid-19 death. It is true that Floyd did test positive for Covid-19, but if you review the guidelines that the state of Minnesota released in April about how to fill out death certificates, it seems incredibly unlikely that he would be listed as a Covid-19 death.

• Alex claims that the police in Melbourne are mostly minorities, but that does not appear to be true. Melbourne is a part of Victoria, and analyses from 1979 and 2008 both show police departments that are definitely not mostly minorities. Beyond that, there is not compelling evidence that police officers of color are less likely to police in racially biased ways.

• Alex has no idea what happened regarding National Guard troops in Washington DC. The mayor did not evict troops, just refused to pay for their lodging.

• Alex claims that Lego has pulled sets including cops from the shelves. This is not true, and is just a dumb propaganda narrative that was pushed by Trump’s campaign staff, and failed congressional candidate Deanna Lorraine.

• Alex has learned how to pronounce the name Bolsonaro.

• Alex wants to outlaw “liberalism,” which he seems to think means democrats, which it does not.

• Alex reads the Wikipedia page for Ochlocracy, thinking he’s reading the definition of Oligarchy. He doesn’t know what any of these words mean, and is just pulling things out of his ass.

• A caller from Northern Ireland thinks that Trump’s election was prophesied by the Illuminati Card Game. This is very silly.

• A caller explains to Alex that his skull, chess board and rose could be easily interpreted as an occult altar, based on her experience as a former occult follower. Alex explains he was just trying to get attention.

Episode 441: June 3-4, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a couple of days in the middle of a very eventful week, and see how Alex Jones tries to deal with things.

Topics covered include:

• Alex interviews Tom Speciale and Laura Loomer, who are both fringe candidates who are most likely destined to lose their Republican primaries. Going on Infowars isn’t going to help their campaigns.

• Alex claims there are no right-wingers who are trying to infiltrate or impersonate antifa in order to make people scared of left-wing protesters. This is incorrect, since there is at least one concrete example of the American Identity Movement making a fake antifa Twitter account to scare people and demonize protesters.

• Alex plays a clip of Ted Cruz yelling at Rod Rosenstein, but cuts the clip off before Rosenstein has a chance to respond. You can find the transcript here.

• Alex and Laura Loomer pretend that people were offended that Trump held a Bible. In reality, people, including Episcopal ministers and bishops, were offended that Trump tear-gassed protesters to clear out the front of a church for a photo-op.

• Alex embellishes the story of Ian Haydon, the Covid-19 vaccine volunteer who had an adverse reaction to the vaccine.

• Alex pretends that the stand-off at Tienanmen Square just happened, as opposed to it being the culmination of a student movement that he would almost certainly have been against if he was around back then.

• Alex interviews Hotep Jesus, who seems to have some problems with Jews and may be a bit of a Holocaust denier.

• Chris Redd has set up a GoFundMe to help support any protesters who may contract Covid-19 at the protests. Feel free to chip in.

Episode 440: June 1-2, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss Alex Jones’ descent into acceptance of military police arresting protesters for being out past curfew, which seems counter to any number of films called “Police State” that he sold earlier in his career.

Topics covered include:

• Alex and Infowars have been accused of setting fire to a mattress owned by a man experiencing homelessness. There doesn’t appear to be any proof that Alex or anyone from Infowars did this, and Dan discusses how making this accusation without proof is a detrimental strategy.

• Alex reports on a video he claims shows George Floyd dropping a bag of white powder while in police custody. The video is inconclusive, and Alex cannot prove that this is a bag of white powder, or even that Floyd dropped anything. (Not going to link to Alex’s site, but you can find the video on his sites)

• Alex claims to have researched Floyd, but seems to have missed the part about his involvement in ministry.

• Alex’s employee Savannah Hernandez expresses a position that if you don’t resist arrest, police won’t kill you. This is particularly dumb, considering the case of Breonna Taylor, and this kind of position is absolutely counter to everything Infowars supposedly stands for.

• Alex claims that Acme Brick is setting up pallets of bricks for protesters to use around the country. He claims that Acme is owned by Bill Gates. The history of the ownership of the company is complicated, but ultimately it has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2000.

• Alex found the narrative about Acme Brick from a random QAnon twitter account named Elyse Cane. Elyse in no way proves that Acme Brick is dropping off bricks, and Alex can in no way demonstrate this claim.

• A new release from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner has claimed that George Floyd had fentanyl in his system. Alex exaggerates this. There is uncertainty surrounding the various autopsies, but they all say it was murder.

• 4 cops were shot in St. Louis, and one in Las Vegas. Alex covers these stories, but refuses to acknowledge that a restaurateur was killed by cops in Louisville, and countless instances of police brutality were experienced by protesters around the country.

• Millie Weaver breaks a new scoop about having a mole inside the Sunrise Movement, but doesn’t reveal anything interesting. Apparently, that is coming eventually.

• Millie also thinks that protesters become terrorists just by staying out past curfew. Something tells me she would not be a big fan of various instances of nonviolent resistance over history.

• Alex has his son on the show to discuss how he beat up someone at a convenience store.

• Alan Keys drops by to advocate for Trump calling up citizens to form militias. He also thinks Trump should deputize people.