Episode #624: November 30, 2021

Topics covered:

• US deaths from Covid-19 are up in 2021 compared to 2020, but it’s not for the reasons Alex thinks. The deaths that are happening are predominantly among the unvaccinated

• The latest life expectancy numbers are from 2020, and they do reflect a drop that was largely affected by Covid-19

• There is a history of cardiac problems among soccer players that predates Covid-19. See here, here, and here for examples

• Alex interviews Australian MP George Christensen, who seems to be developing a bit of a right-wing media grift, including a heavily promoted SubStack and trying to make money through the Amazon affiliate program using his SubStack

• Christensen has been called the “Member from Manila” due to his very frequent travel to the Philippines

• Christensen laments how there aren’t enough people in the government standing up for true freedom, but is also retiring from government next year, leaving the government with one less advocate for “true freedom”

• The claim that you can’t get a “decent job” in Victoria unless you’re vaccinated doesn’t seem true

• The vaccine mandate in Queensland has a lot of exemptions

• If there’s a “vaccine apartheid” going on, it has to do with lower-income countries not having access to vaccines, not George’s grievances

• NYT article about the issues related to Covid-19 and the indigenous community

• The government in the Northern Territory and the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of Northern Territory have said that the stories about people being taken to quarantine camps are not true

• There are quarantine facilities in Australia, but they don’t sound at all like how George describes them

• Alex misrepresents a story about a Forbes headline

• Alex misrepresents one study about Covid vaccines

• Alex misrepresents a second study that isn’t even about Covid vaccines, but he seems to be claiming it is, even though it was from August 2017

• Alex misrepresents an article titled The Tangled History of mRNA Vaccines

• Alex pretends that fear-mongering about “cultural Marxism” isn’t explicitly anti-Semitic

• Alex pretends he’s not doing an infomercial for his satellite phone sponsor while doing an infomercial for his satellite phone sponsor

Episode #623: July 2-3, 2003

Topics covered:

• The Swiss population is more accepting of euthanasia

• Alex reports that half of the deaths in Switzerland are due to suicide. This is definitely not true

• A caller is mad about Walmart adding sexual orientation to its list of classes that are protected by discrimination rules

• A new survey says that women are becoming more anti-abortion access. This does not seem to be in line with some of the broader opinion polling on the subject

• Dr. Kevorkian did lose his license in Michigan and California, but I can find no evidence it was because he was inappropriate with corpses

• Alex seems to think that Ahmad Chalabi and Hamid Karzai are the same person, just different pronunciations of one name

• Churches could act exactly how Red Beckman wants them to, it just would violate their tax-exempt status

• Alex is trying to lure his audience into buying silver from Midas Resources by offering them access to a secret DARPA document

• This DARPA document is just a posting that was made to recruit research entities to bid for a contract for a program called Combat Zones That See. This is not a declassified document, and if this is a super secret thing, it’s strange that the project lead has it on his resume

• Alex confuses the PNAC document with The Grand Chessboard

Episode #622: June 30-July 1, 2003

Topics covered:

• In homage to the shields of the Spartans, the letter lambda has become strongly associated with the military, including being present in many military fraternities and sorority names

• The Sacred Band of Thebes

• Alex’s friend Mike Hansen is running for constable and funding the run by operating a firework stand

• Alex does not understand the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

• Stuart Gerstacker’s is not a story of the CPS stealing children, it was an ugly divorce, and he was clearly an unwell person, as evidenced by this Commissioners Court transcript

• The bill that would have made the Secretary of Homeland Security eighth in the line of succession passed the Senate but did not pass in the House

• Secretary of Homeland Security was made #18 in the line of succession in 2006

• Alex misrepresents John Ashcroft’s comments before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

• This Thomas Paine quote is from a text called Thoughts on Defensive War, and scholars are not in agreement that it was actually Paine who wrote it

• An example of the conspiracy theorist usage of Catherine Bertini’s words about using food as leverage

• Text of the report from the 1995 World Conference on Women

• Full context of Bertini’s comments

Episode #621: Reset Wars: Episode 1

Topics covered:

• Alex is apparently working with a hypnotist on his new project, Reset Wars

• Jake has a podcast and YouTube channel that are mostly about how you can make tons of money easily. He also sells a program that claims to be able to “rewire your brain”

• Jake’s use of a newer translation of Romans, one of very few that includes the word “pattern.” It doesn’t appear in the Greek, and it’s in no translations published before 1976

• Jake is very big on encouraging people to believe that their physical bodies are just “rental cars,” and that you can’t actually die

• The MK Ultra experiments were done because of fear that the Soviet Union had already mastered mind control techniques. This is reflected in Congressional hearings about the program, and even some of the earliest documents from the program

• All of Jake’s information about Dr. Ewen Cameron comes from a CBC article about a podcast about MK Ultra

• Jolyon West killed an elephant with LSD

• Ewen Cameron didn’t run MK Ultra, that was Sidney Gottlieb

• The Mind Has No Firewall article from the US Army War College Quarterly issue from 1998

• Robert Spalding left the National Security Council because he wrote a memo about wanting to nationalize 5G networks

• 1997 article from US News and World Report titled Wonder Weapons

• Alex doesn’t seem to realize that more documents had been declassified since 1977

• 1988 Asbury Park Press article that quotes Richard Cesaro, though the original interview was from two years prior

• Activist Post reading list

• Documents describing the narrative study from Arizona State University

• Project lead Steven Corman’s resume

• FOIA requests only reflect progress reports for phase 1 of this study. There does not appear to be evidence that the later phase involving Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation was ever even done

• The GI Joe PSAs were pretty fun

• Infowars, Banned Dot Video, and News Wars all are hosted by Epik. Strangely, this new website Reset Wars is hosted by GoDaddy, which is far less secure and more susceptible to being taken offline

• Documents Alex and Jake didn’t talk about at all that covered CIA experiments to remote control a dog

• 1982 Air Force study that Jake is misrepresenting

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has an awesome archive of tables of contents

• The quote that is claimed to be from Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenburg’s 1994 article does not appear in the text of her article

Episode #620: November 23, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex got a subpoena to appear to answer questions before the House committee that is investigating January 6

• A whole lot of folks who are really sketchy have also gotten subpoenaed

• Alex has started a new website called Reset Wars, which is just an email address collection form at this point

• The terms of service page for Reset Wars says that it is presented by a company called Restore America Marketing Company, LLC, which was formed and incorporated on November 16, one day after Alex lost the CT Sandy Hook case in a default judgement

• This new company is incorporated in Delaware, unlike every other company Alex runs. People often incorporate in Delaware to protect their assets from the consequences of sketchy behavior

• Alex recorded a video of himself in a creek to promote Reset Wars, which may be a six-hour course on how to defeat the Globalists, or may be a very transparent corporate reorganization and rebrand

• Alex claims the entire EU is rolling out forced vaccinations, but it seems like he’s actually just talking about Austria

• Alex claims the German government is threatening forced vaccinations, but they actually are saying the opposite

• Alex reports on a Breitbart headline that is actually just a misrepresentation of an article in The Global Times

• Roger Stone tries to create a strawman version of his own subpoena

Episode #619: November 16, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex is trying to raise $2 million from his audience for his court fees

• Alex airs a dumb interview with Michael Flynn

• Alex and Flynn are mad about school board members, something they know nothing about

• Alex believes that women are genetically less able to stand up and fight

• Alex lashes out in a pretty homophobic way about Mayor Pete having a child

• Steve Kirsch still insists that Gavin Newsom got GBS from the vaccine. A doctored video went around purporting to prove this, and Steve’s blog includes a bunch of unconvincing arguments

Episode #618: November 15, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex has lost the Connecticut Sandy Hook case by a default judgement

• Alex survived a time when a tornado picked up the car he was in

• Alex believes that Pfizer is adding a “heart attack drug” to their Covid-19 vaccine, which doesn’t make sense considering his conspiracy is that the Globalists were trying to kill everyone off with the vaccines

• The drug, tromethamine, has been in the Moderna vaccine all along

• Tromethamine is a very effective preservative, used in a wide variety of applications

• Tromethamine is not a heart attack drug, but treats Metabolic Acidosis, which is thought to possibly contribute to some heart attacks, but usually in folks who have late-stage kidney failure

• Alex thinks Stephanie Ruhle makes millions of dollars a year, based on what he pulled up on a random celebrity information page. Other random celebrity information pages have her salary as much lower, and PayScale’s information on NBC/MSNBC anchor’s salaries reflects much lower incomes. Alex may be conflating salary with net worth

• Alex was conspicuous in his absence on the flier for the San Antonio stop of the Reawaken America Tour

• The event was seen as dicey, even by Christian outlets, and also Mike Flynn suggested we needed to violate the first amendment and have one religion for the US

• Alex thinks a second grader got a school mask mandate overturned, but they did not

• Food-grade hydrogen peroxide is not food

• Inhaling hydrogen peroxide has not been shown to treat or prevent Covid-19

• You should not put hydrogen peroxide in your inhaler

• There is a new Covid variant being investigated in France, but the way Alex is talking about changes to the spike protein are misleading

• Alex gets the story about children in VA getting the wrong dose of the vaccine entirely wrong. He reported that they got too big a dose, but that is not true

• Alex’s ideas about public opinion during The Blitz don’t seem to be very accurate

• Klaus Schwab gave a speech at the recent summit of the World Economic Forum

Episode #617: June 27, 2003

Topics covered:

• Strom Thurmond was very racist

• The Southern Manifesto

• Strom Thurmond’s party switch, and the larger party swap

• Alex and John Andrews are mad about Mexican matricula cards, which are IDs issued by the Mexican consulate

• John Andrews passed legislation in Colorado to limit the forms of ID which public entities could accept as proof of identity. This was supposedly about stopping undocumented immigrants from flouting the law, but it also really hurts citizens, particularly those living in poverty

• In 2019, John Andrews gave a speech about how the freedom of religion doesn’t apply to Islam

• The trend of restricting what forms of ID could be accepted by public entities continued and resulted in the Real ID Act

• Glenn Spencer was an old school self-appointed border guard, and doubtless the inspiration for the people doing it these days, including these two criminals

• Glenn Spencer is also an antisemite, who cites Kevin MacDonald in his writing

• The story about gold bars being found in Iraq ended up just being bars of mostly copper from melted down shell casings

• Alex doesn’t know the difference between JFK’s 1963 commencement speech at American University and his 1961 speech where he used the words “secret societies”

• JFK’s speech in the UN General Assembly from September 1963

• The quote where JFK said he was going to destroy the CIA is definitely not solidly sourced and probably isn’t real

Episode #616: November 9, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex reports on a CNN headline without even touching the content of the article, because it actually doesn’t support his point

• Alex thinks the Pfizer pill is just ivermectin repackaged. It is not

• Alex thinks that Gavin Newsom was paralyzed by a Covid shot. He was not

• Alex thinks that Bell’s Palsy and Guillain-Barré are the same thing. They are not

• Steve Kirsch seems to have lost his mind over the course of the pandemic

• Alex lies about a doctor claiming that he proved the vaccine gives people blood clots with a D-Dimer test

• Dr. Stella Immanuel has an affiliate marketing code for Alex’s listeners to get a discount if they go to her to buy ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. This may be illegal

Episode #614: The Purge Of Gates

Topics covered:

• Fox Nation is the sort of streaming platform that employs Mark Fuhrman, who has said a bunch of racist shit in the past, and bragged about torturing people

• Fox Nation announced new exclusive content from Tucker Carlson in February, and saw a considerable spike in subscriber counts

• The co-writer of this documentary’s previous work includes directing multiple right-wing propaganda films

• Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of domestic terrorism events

• Darren Beattie left the Trump administration after it was revealed that he was associated with the HL Mencken Club, a supposedly intellectual group of white nationalists

• Early inaccurate reporting about the death of Officer Sicknick was not made up out of thin air, it was based on a press release from the Capital Police Department and two anonymous sources within law enforcement

• Sicknick’s brother has confirmed that he was pepper-sprayed multiple times on January 6 and passed out requiring CPR

• A little historical background on Ali Alexander

• Tucker Carlson said all sorts of horrific shit in radio appearances between 2006-2009

• 4 people were stabbed and 33 were arrested at a Washington Stop the Steal rally

• 1 person was arrested for assault at an Idaho Stop the Steal rally

• A man was arrested for tearing a woman’s mask off at a Pensacola Stop the Steal rally

• 4 people were arrested at a Salem Stop the Steal rally

• Stop the Steal did not have a permit to have an event on January 6. Ali and associates had managed to get a permit for a stealth event called One Nation Under God, which was for a small area on the capital grounds, specifically for 50 attendees or less

• The Multanomah DA’s office maintains a dashboard of protest related arrests

• There are plenty of examples of left-wing protesters who got arrested and charged with crimes. They didn’t all get away with everything, as folks in the right-wing media pretend

• Analysis of the actual cases finds that there is not a trend of left-wing protesters getting away with protest related crime

• Elijah Schaffer was inside the capitol on Jan. 6 and referred to the rioters as “revolutionaries” that day. Much like everyone else in the right-wing media sphere, his tone has changed since then and now it was a false flag pulled off with agent provocateurs

• The Center for Security Policy is considered an extremist group by the SPLC

• CSP founder Frank Gaffney Jr was a very hawkish voice regarding the Iraq war, and has written articles supporting the Patriot Act on many occasions

• The CSP is an intensely Islamophobic organization, and have promoted the idea of Civilization Jihad, which argues that Muslim immigration to the US is a stealth aspect of attempting to take over the country. This is just outright bigotry

• J. Michael Waller claimed that he saw people that he felt were provocateurs on January 6, but there is no evidence to back up his impressions, and the case he makes is not very compelling. It’s entirely possible that he saw people acting like they were in the military because 1 out 5 people arrested on Jan. 6 had served in the military

• J Michael Waller participated as a talking head in Lauren Southern’s film Crossfire, arguing that Anifa events are orchestrated by agent provocateurs, which indicates that he had come to this conclusion prior to the events of January 6, and as such, his impartiality about his experience is an open question

• Taylor Hansen is not a journalist, he’s an anti-abortion activist who recorded himself burning a Black Lives Matter flag on the evening of January 5

Image of Taylor used in Tucker’s documentary to illustrate his assault in Utah

Image of Taylor from a Sept. 2020 article on Christian Post about an assault that happened in Portland

• Details of the investigation into the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot do not support the argument that it was a plot manufactured by informants

• Tucker has the number of people arrested in relation to the kidnapping plot wrong, because his reporting is just based on a misunderstanding of a misleading headline from the Gateway Pundit

• The FBI didn’t “quietly” or “suspiciously” transfer Steven D’Antuono from the Detroit field office to the DC field office. They put out a press release about it

Episode #613: June 24-25, 2003

Topics covered:

• Alex believes that the fact that members of the Bush administration were on Cipro prior to the anthrax letters showing up proves that they had advance knowledge that the letters were coming, and thus a false flag is proven. This is very dumb. There is a vaccine for anthrax, and the reason that the Bush team members were on Cipro was because of fears surrounding the immediate aftermath of 9/11

• Alex has taken all of his details about the Cipro situation from unfounded allegations from Larry Klayman’s lawsuit alleging advance knowledge on the part of the Bush administration. It’s all baseless and also not true

• The Houston police department DNA lab was a mess in late 2002. You can find the report of the audit here

• Alex knows literally nothing about Leo Strauss, even though he is the basis of most of Alex’s conspiracies about neoconservatives being secretly liberals

• A year old article in the BBC has Alex afraid that the ADL is trying to outlaw the Bible

Episode #612: October 31, 2021

Topics covered:

• The Lincoln Project did a dumb PR stunt at a VA gubernatorial election press event

• The Lincoln Project’s financial dynamics examined by Open Secrets, and later Huffington Post

• One of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project was accused by many of harassment

• Christopher Rufo has a new corporate seminar to be mad about, this time from AT&T

• Most of the fake outrage directed at the AT&T seminar is actually just about an op-ed from the Chicago Tribune, which the seminar included a link to

• Christopher Rufo has been very clear in the past that his pushing of fears about Critical Race Theory is a cynical attempt to rebrand racism as legitimate politics, following in the tradition of the John Birch Society and noted racist friend of Roger Stone, Lee Atwater

• Candidates endorsed by Trump actually do have a pretty good record in GOP primaries

• There was a pipe that burst at the State Farm Arena, but it had nothing to do with the video that people like Alex pretended captured vote counters cheating

• Bill Clinton’s approval ratings in Gallup do not reflect a large spike after the Oklahoma City bombing

• Alex and Tucker like to argue that January 6th was basically just tourists, but also like to forget that the FBI has released surveillance video of the suspect who planted bombs the night before

• The National Guard was not allowed to operate on federal property, which is why they were able to respond to Mayor Bowser’s request and come to DC, but not to the capitol itself, without federal approval

• It doesn’t seem like anyone actually shit on Nancy Pelosi’s desk on January 6. Someone shit on her driveway in September 2020, and rioters were alleged to have been shouting for someone to shit on her desk

• Alex is mad at Jim Acosta

• Neither Jim Acosta nor CNN were responsible for the allegations that Trump removed the bust of MLK Jr. That was a reporter with Time Magazine who made that mistake

Episode #611: Oct 29, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex misrepresents a Times of India headline about rates of heart attack among young people

• Cleveland Clinic article about rising rates of youth heart attacks from 2019, prior to Covid and Covid vaccines

• Alex reports on a meme about an ad on the side of a bus

• The ad was paid for by an advocacy group called Achieving Beyond Brain Injury

• Vascular Health and Risk Management article citing young people as representing 10-15% of stroke patients

• Alex makes up details about Indian actor Puneeth Rajkumar’s death to try to make it about Covid vaccines

• Rajkumar’s father, another famous actor, died of a heart attack

• Alex makes up details about the death of Australian broadcaster Russell Woolf to try to make it about Covid vaccines

Episode #609: October 20, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex is in a very, very weird mood and seems to be lashing out the entire episode

• Alex claims that 132 countries had signed on to a global income tax, which is not true. This was a misreporting of news about countries and the OECD negotiating a universal minimum corporate tax rate, which is aimed at fighting tax havens

• One of the main studies that folks like Alex cite to claim connection between the Covid vaccines and myocarditis was retracted

• The Biden administration is not planning to inject everyone on Halloween. They are preparing for the possibility that in early November, the Pfizer vaccine will be approved for everyone over the age of 5

• Alex’s headline about students in the UK being forced to be vaccinated actually explicitly discusses how the students are not forced

• Financial Times lockdown tracker

• Paper explaining the variables measured for the tracker

• Current lockdown measures in Namibia

• Venezuela’s 7x7 plan which has been announced to be over

• Alex builds a gigantic conspiracy about a few random dates he found in a letter from the FDA to BioNTech/Pfizer. The letter is an approval of their Biologics License Application, and does not prove any of the claims Alex makes

• Pfizer had a press release in September, announcing the results of the studies that Alex claims won’t be available until 2024

• In October, Pfizer released a longer-form version of their data

• The FDA has given an initial positive reaction to the data provided by Pfizer

• The FDA has a lot of opinions on milk, as well as about oranges and orange products

• The story that Alex is reporting about a trans woman prisoner at a California prison impregnating her cellmate is not a real story. It was based on a lie spread by Steven Crowder, which he got from a notorious TERF advocacy group

• The Idaho doctor referenced in Greg Reece’s video is not a good source

• Greg Reece’s video is based on a blog post on The Expose, which misrepresents some data from UK Health Security Agency

Spreadsheet, as it appears in the report from the Health Security Agency

Spreadsheet, as it appears in the Expose blog post

• Alex believes that the FDA did not really approve the Pfizer vaccine. They did

• The CDC’s nefarious advice about how to run a vaccination day at a school

Episode #606: June 18-19, 2003

Topics covered:

• Alex hates cops and is ACAB

• Alex misrepresents the Supreme Court decision regarding the involuntary medicating of Dr. Charles Sell

• Alex discusses Jane Roe, who has come out against abortion, but would later say she just did that because anti-abortion groups paid her to

• Alex misrepresents a Supreme Court decision in the case of Chavez v. Martinez

• Alex thinks that there were no passengers on the planes on 9/11

• Alex lies about the number of passengers on the planes on 9/11

• Alex reports on a UNESCO report from 1949 by reading an op-ed in Newsmax

• The outrage about this UNESCO report traces back to an old time anti-Semite named W. Henry McFarland

• W. Henry McFarland published many very troubling newsletters

• Congressman John Wood from Idaho (not Ohio, Dan misspoke) introduced the article that McFarland published in his newsletter for the American Flag Committee into the Congressional Record in 1951

• Alex interviews Jane Roe’s lawyer, and the conversation is intensely gross

Episode #605: June 17, 2003

Topics covered:

• Alex makes up a bunch of nonsense about Porton Down releasing foot-and-mouth

• 2007 UK government report on the foot-and-mouth outbreak

• Not sure if Janes covered race-specific bioweapons, but American Free Press did

• Alex thinks that a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group purchased Porton Down, which is not true. Porton Down is actually a large science park, the lab Alex is thinking of is called the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory

• Alex covers stories of cannibalism in North Korea

• Alex mixes up the story of Kim Jong Il kidnapping two South Korean movie-makers, and a story about Kim Jong Il apologizing for special forces agents kidnapping Japanese nationals in the 1970’s and 80’s

• Alex thinks that North Korea is a major exporter of opium. It is not. Afghanistan (and Myanmar back in 2003) were by far the world leaders on that front

• Alex is wrong about why some people have two different colored eyes

• Alex is wrong about John Dewey creating the Dewey Decimal System. That was Melvil Dewey, and he really sucks

• Coalition forces needed to print dinars with Saddam’s face on them because the people in Iraq had lost confidence in the only other currency

Episode #604: October 5, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex has found “the smoking gun of smoking guns of smoking guns,” which turns out to be a 2019 C-SPAN video that he makes up a bunch of stuff about

• Alex thinks that anti-Semitic smears against Nathan Rothschild are real history

• Instead of really focusing on the smoking gun C-SPAN video, Alex interviews Ted Nugent, Dr. Bartlett, and a random comedian who got kicked off a tour for bad tweets

• Alex cites an old statistic about ventilators, which is devoid of context

• The NIH’s Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines

Episode #603: October 3-4, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex and Mike Adams complain about and misrepresent a power-point presentation about the possibility of waning vaccine efficacy

• Alex needs money

• Alex doesn’t understand the 7th amendment

• Alex doesn’t understand the 6th amendment

• Alex claims that he was smeared by the AP, when in fact the headline he’s offended by was in Marketwatch

• Thomas Renz was a lawyer for America’s Frontline Doctors, and sued the DHHS on their behalf

• Alex and Thomas mislead about an out of context paragraph in the breakdown from the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting on Sept. 17

Episode #601: June 16, 2003

Topics covered:

• The case of Dr. Charles Sell and whether or not the state can forcibly medicate someone so they can be competent to participate in a trial

• The ACLU petitioned the court on behalf of Dr. Sell

• Sell v. United States, Supreme Court decision

• The CCC are a bunch of white nationalists

• Jeff Sharlet’s 2003 article in Harper’s about The Family

• Archived page of Alex’s Virgin, Utah website

• Kennesaw’s government website discusses their population increase

• Kennesaw’s gun ordinance is unenforceable

• The coverage of the Georgia Republic Militia bomb story is missing some details

• Salon article about how Mike Lindell found God and right-wing politics at the National Prayer Breakfast, run by The Family

Episode #600: September 22, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex over-reports on a rejected grant proposal that was released recently

• Alex gets mad at The Majority Report and Sam Harris

• James Bond is real

• Alex seems to be somewhat in support of China arresting homosexuals

• Alex seems to be dancing ever closer to encouraging suicide bombing

• Alex doesn’t realize that the “Fountain of Youth” in Florida is just a tourist trap