Monday, 25 July 2022

MUST WATCH FULL SHOW! STEVE BANNON AND GLENN INTERVIEW ALEX JONES FULL SHOW 7-24-22

A defiant alliance of populist figures gathers to confront the World Economic Forum’s technocratic agenda and the escalating legal efforts to silence independent media outlets.

By The Alex Jones Show | 1h 35m listen | 23 chapters
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About this episode

Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and Glenn Greenwald convene for a high-stakes broadcast as legal proceedings regarding the Sandy Hook shooting begin in Austin, Texas. Jones characterizes the upcoming trial as a state-sanctioned effort to bankrupt InfoWars through a default judgment that prohibits any mention of the First Amendment or claims of innocence. Bannon, recently convicted for defying a Congressional subpoena, joins the program to frame these legal battles as a coordinated attempt by the establishment to dismantle the populist movement during a critical historical turning point.

The discussion details the release of the documentary Alex's War and the new book The Great Reset and the War for the World, which deconstructs the agendas of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. Bannon and editor Joe Allen credit Jones with being a pioneer in identifying the technocratic push for transhumanism and the integration of artificial intelligence into human biology. The narrative traces the origins of the modern globalist system from Henry Kissinger and the 1954 Bilderberg Group to Zbigniew Brzezinski’s blueprint for a technotronic era of total social control through carbon taxes and social credit scores.

Glenn Greenwald provides a unique perspective on the premiere of the Alex Moyer film, defending the necessity of independent journalism in an era of Big Tech deplatforming. Jones reflects on his early public access days in Austin and a surprising past encounter at Martin Sheen’s Malibu home, noting how his skepticism of authority was shaped by family members involved in Vietnam-era black ops. The segment captures the raw tension of a movement facing total institutional exclusion while attempting to build a parallel economy for dissident media.


CHAPTER 01 / 23 Discussion

Alex Jones Sunday Broadcast Introduction and Special Guests

Alex Jones introduces a special Sunday evening broadcast featuring upcoming in-studio guests Ali Alexander, Eddie Bravo, and Harrison Smith. Jones recaps his recent interviews with Steve Bannon and Glenn Greenwald, noting that Bannon provided a full endorsement of InfoWars. The broadcast serves as a lead-in to coverage of the Alex's War film premiere and the start of legal proceedings in Austin.

alex jones· ali alexander· eddie bravo· harrison smith· steve bannon· glenn greenwald· infowars

00:02 Big Brother, mainstream media, government cover-ups. You want to stop tyranny? Well, so does he. Live from the InfoWars.com studios, it's Alex Jones. All right, we've got a very special Sunday evening version or type of broadcast. They're always informative, they're always important. But tonight, we're gonna have several special guests in studio in the third and fourth hour. Ali Alexander, Eddie Bravo, Harrison Smith will also be co-hosting. That is coming up tonight. But the planets really aligned with political crossover in the populist free speech sphere.

00:57 On Saturday, I was interviewed by Steve Bannon, who was very, very gracious and I think did a great job, brought up a lot of really important points. Basically a full endorsement of InfoWars and some pretty amazing statements. We're going to be airing a large part of that hour-long interview in this hour. And then in the second hour, it was on Rockfin at the Alex's War premiere with Glenn Greenwald, Alex Moyer, and myself. That's a streaming service. We're going to play about half the interview. You'll find the rest at Rockfin. Coming up in the second hour today, and that's Glenn Greenwald interviewing me. And it was pretty powerful. And we're also on the eve of this kangaroo court trial, one of three that starts in Austin tomorrow. The Democratic Party and their anti-gun movement using the Sandy Hook folks as they're foiled

CHAPTER 03 / 23 Discussion

Transhumanism, AI, and the Technocratic Globalist Agenda

A discussion of the technocratic elite's plan to merge human consciousness with machines and silicon-based artificial intelligence. References are made to Ray Kurzweil's predictions regarding supercomputers and the eventual end of individual free will in favor of a hive mind. This movement is described as a globalist eugenics project aimed at exterminating the majority of humanity while the elite transition into a post-human state.

transhumanism· artificial intelligence· ray kurzweil· google· great reset· eugenics

04:28 the best seller. But also very good for your immune system. It's 40% off info war store dot com bodies ultimate tumor formula. It's back in stock 25% off. We have the toothpaste trifecta for 50% off and tomorrow. Vitamin mineral fusion will be back in the store. It's already at the warehouse. It came in Friday, but it goes on sale tomorrow. Discounted the all time bestseller vitamin mineral fusions back and it couldn't have come in at a better time. We need the money right now. A decade ago folks laughed self-driving robot cars about to hit Nevada highways. They passed a law. Soon there won't be any truck drivers anymore. There won't be any checkout lanes anymore. Why the future doesn't need us? And then the technocrats

05:13 They're designing the infrastructure. They're designing the system. They're designing all of it not to empower humanity and build up humanity. The vaccines, the GMO, reduce fertility, dumb you down. They frame the whole thing. That is a foregone conclusion that your brain will be transplanted in a machine and copies of it will be distributed out and death will be conquered. They want a transhumanist new dark age for the rest of us turning off our resources in a post-industrial world while in high-tech reservations, the new class system, they have the advanced tech which people beg for like a slave-mad iPad, like a slave-created iPad.

05:52 Made it slave factories with suicide nets then they give it to the so-called upper class and Google believes that the first artificial intelligence will be a supercomputer based on the neuron activities of the hive mind of humanity and so then it's the end of consciousness and free will for Individuals as we know and a true 2.0 in a very bad way hive mind consciousness with an AI jacked into everyone knowing our hopes and dreams because we were already wired in and absorbed before we knew it by giving over our consciousness to this system by our daily decisions that it was able to manipulate and control into a larger system. The ultimate racism, the ultimate anti-human globalist eugenics movement that says humanity's failed and over and that machines are going to override us and the elite are going to merge with silicon and that to do that they must first shed themselves of us the cancer, the priest at Google.

06:46 The priest at Apple, the priest at IBM, the priest at Microsoft. That is their religion. I declare this July 4th, 2022 to be a declaration of independence against the alien force on this planet today waging war against humans and our biology and our very future that is attempting to exterminate the majority of us and force the minority that's left to merge with AI computers and become cyborg slaves of Satan. Okay, we're gonna have the great Alex Jones on here momentarily, but we want to take a little different

CHAPTER 04 / 23 Discussion

Steve Bannon and Joe Allen on Alex Jones as a Prophet

Steve Bannon and editor Joe Allen discuss the upcoming book "The Great Reset and the War for the World" and the documentary "Alex's War." Allen argues that Jones was a pioneer in raising alarms about transhumanism and genetic engineering long before mainstream media outlets like NPR or the BBC. Bannon praises Jones for providing "signal" rather than "noise" regarding the intentions of the global technocratic elite.

steve bannon· joe allen· skyhorse publishing· the great reset· transhumanism· signal not noise

07:26 cut on this. There's a huge film coming out. It's going to premiere tonight in Austin, Texas. We actually have part of the team down there to be at the premiere. And then this film is going to be, I think, available on the 29th to watch. It's called Alex's War. But there's also, as importantly, I actually think, I think for many reasons, maybe even more importantly, there's a major new book coming out By the guys over sky horse Tony Lyons and team by Alex Jones called the great reset in the war for the world which is a incredible Document the reason I want to start want to bring in Joe. I'm gonna be doing a short tribute to Alex Jones because here's thing people say Alex Jones crazy. He's a conspiracy theory guys a nutcase. You got these rants and all that What they miss?

08:17 is that this guy's ahead of the curve on so many different topics of signal, not noise. He's one of the, really, the leaders in describing what transhumanism is, it's dangerous, and what's happening on this. And we just did a short mashup. We could have done a whole hour of things. Joe Allen, you're our editor in charge of this. I know you're now working on a couple of projects for us. That's why you're not on the show as frequently as you're not, your daily hits anymore. We're going to get you back more ingrained and we understand you've got a huge project you're working on for us. Tell me about Alex Jones in transhumanism and how he was a prophet about this, sir. Well, yes, Steve. You know, as we've discussed before, Alex Jones was raising the alarm on transhumanism long before anybody was paying attention or would touch it.

09:06 I mean, yeah, he has a reputation for throwing wild haymakers, but when those haymakers connect, they definitely crack skulls. And I think that people like him, whose antennas are out, who are very sensitive to danger, when he starts screaming about something, I think you should really stop and pay attention. There really aren't many topics more terrifying than transhumanism. Most people try to ignore it mainly because of its utter horror. You're talking about merging human beings with machines. You're talking about genetic engineering and human monkey chimeras.

09:42 brain enhancement chemicals and robots and brain implants and superhuman artificial intelligence. And I would say that Alex Jones, especially in regard to Ray Kurzweil, has been pointing out all of those things as they develop. So we may differ on the theory of the case. but he has presented tons of valid evidence and facts that I think have been really, really important to raising consciousness to what this sort of technocratic global elite really want to do. Again, it doesn't matter if you go back and look at the Signal show and not the North. If you look at the Signal and you compare that to PBS and NPR and BBC, let's go to the super high elite.

10:29 of reporting. And you compare what they've put out over the last decade or so about this topic, which I keep saying, and the reason we got Joe Allen on here full time, is probably at the end of the day, the most important part. And this is what the brilliance of his new book, The Great Reset, Alex Jones cuts to the heart of the matter. If you compare the finest, and I'm telling you, you take MIT Technology Review, you take science, take all these magazines and journals, add the electronic part of it, and NPR, PBS, all of it. I'll match up and we'll go through and we'll do what Alex Jones put out there versus what your collective body has put out there. And if you're a sentient human being and just watching it, you say, well, God, Alex Jones was ahead of this. Not only that, he kind of explained it.

11:16 Maybe all the pieces didn't fit together. The other stuff is just standard stock and leaves you with nothing. This is the importance. This is true signal, not noise. Yep. Go ahead, Jay. Last year we called NPR the whores of the techno apocalypse. And I think that still stands. And it definitely stands for the Guardian, who are basically promoting it and kind of soft pedaling the implications of it. CNN, anytime they touch anything like this, they just make it sound like cool new technology that you should look forward to. Yeah, Alex Jones is saying pay attention and be afraid. And I think that he's done a tremendous service in that regard.

CHAPTER 05 / 23 Discussion

Alex's War Documentary Trailer and Career Retrospective

A trailer for the documentary "Alex's War" features a montage of career highlights and controversies, including claims about 9-11 and the Sandy Hook shooting. The film, directed by Alex Moyer, depicts the subject as the "most banned man in the world" while exploring his influence on the populist movement. The footage includes interactions with Donald Trump and various media confrontations over three decades.

alex's war· alex moyer· info wars· 9-11· sandy hook· donald trump

11:52 I want you to hang on. Let me play the cold open now. I want to play the trailer for this film. It's insane. Insanely good. Let's play the cold and then we'll bring in Alex. I'm Alex Jones. The story you're about to see is truth. This is reality. Truth is stranger than fiction. I'm the most banned, most demonized media person in the world. Alex Jones is a fake. He's a performance artist. I'm perceived as a clown, a nut, a maniac. On his website, InfoWars, he touted paranoia porn, the sickest, most offensive theory. Alex Jones claims that 9-11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. Don't you stand for America, sir? He said me and Hillary are demons. Hate that son of a... You'll burn in hell!

12:43 I met him back in 1990s. I knew right away he was gonna be a star. How's my hair look? I saw all these conspiracy terrorists that were talking about the New World Order. And I thought, that's what I'll do. Get it, Alex. Get it! The New World Order! It was that attack on humanity that I saw early on that I really wanted to wage war on. You're lying to the public. It's disgusting. When she tastes that, there's no going back. Everything's a war. That's the way the universe works. And everything is propaganda. I don't trust Donald Trump, but I agree with probably 95% of what Donald Trump says. Your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down. That's when the media takes the gloves off.

13:23 Alex Jones said the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 children, was fake. I try to tell the truth and sometimes I'm wrong. Did the New York Times get in trouble for consciously lying about WMDs that then led to a war that killed tens of thousands in conflict? No. The attempts to platform us have failed. They have the CIA, the FBI following me around. Now we got to destroy Alex Jones. We're not playing games here. This is such a historic moment together. USA! USA! It's all just insane. Okay, let's put me in prison for questioning, okay? Even though that's my right. In fact, let's execute Alex Jones. Let's put me in front of a firing squad, pull the trigger. I have a sick feeling, actually. Because I know what comes next.

CHAPTER 06 / 23 Discussion

Steve Bannon Interview on Political Persecution and Resistance

Steve Bannon and Alex Jones discuss their shared status as targets of the establishment, with Bannon recently convicted for defying a Congressional subpoena. They frame their legal struggles as a battle for the survival of the American Republic during a "fourth turning" historical period. Both men vow not to back down, characterizing their resistance as essential to preventing the total destruction of national sovereignty.

steve bannon· january 6th· trump· fourth turning· political prisoner· republic

14:10 All right, folks. So we're going to go to break and then we're going to come back with the rest of this great interview with Steve Bannon. I really appreciate him having me on. He says he'll come on my show soon. He was, of course, just recently falsely convicted of not testifying to Congress because he had the presidential discretion not to do that. It was a separation of powers. So that is all coming up, ladies and gentlemen. On the other side, stay with us. Crashing through the lies and disinformation, it's Alex Jones coming to you live from the front lines of the InfoWar.

15:16 other documentary offers because it's the establishment, they always lie. But I'd seen some of her films and knew that it was independent. And it shows me in a bad light and a good light, because I mean, I'm a real person just like you. But it's hard to come on here, Steve, because I've admired you. I know you were the brain behind a lot of what Trump was able to do. And you've had the most courage of anybody out there standing up to this January 6th fraud and really bringing America back. So it's hard to come on your show And then talk about myself here, it's surreal with what you did not backing down to the committee and their kangaroo court and how they wouldn't let you cross-examine people. I'm facing three rigged lawsuits run by Democrats, same ones in Travis County that indicted Rick Perry and Tom DeLay. I'm not allowed to say I'm innocent at my trial next week that starts.

16:07 they put an order out. You cannot say you're innocent, you cannot say it's rigged, and you can, I mean, it's insane. If I'm supposed to sit there and not talk and not say I'm innocent, this is the end of America. So if they can destroy Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, they can destroy you. So I'm just honored, and I'm not gushing here just to gush. I mean, I don't gush, I'm gushing because Literally, we are in the arena and you and I, and you at a greater level, I gotta say, they are so scared of you. And so I admire your work and I have really, really pushed people that have attacked you and stuff to not because they're wrong. And when they do, they're buying into the globalist propaganda. So I am really, this is a big bucket list being on your show. And I'm so proud of the fact that it's exploded. Everybody talks about it. I'm at the grocery store, I'm at church.

16:54 Everywhere, almost every day, people go, man, I really love your show and I love Steve Bannon. Did you see this? Did you see that? And I don't get like envious. I feel good when I go to sleep at night. Like if they put me in prison or kill me next week, at least Steve Bannon's out there. And this team you've put together. But the reason I want to have you on is the film. Look, the film's a powerhouse film. And I don't think, you're a unique company. But let's talk about Steve Bannon. Okay, okay, we'll talk about me. No, no, no, no, no, no. I've never gotten to talk to you. Yeah, but listen, here's why I think it's so important, because your trial's coming up. And look, you're a fighter and they're obviously trying to take you down. The point I don't think people get about you, we do at the War Room and I personally do because I followed you for years, is that you're not just a man of action. The guy that they see on that show every night, the guy they see out at the Bullhorn, the guy that's taking leadership and saying, hey, I'm in the first tank and we'll drive this. As much and as important as that leadership is,

17:53 The true thing that you've done, which is stunning, if you look at the evidence of that and the facts, you are one of the great thinkers of this. That is very rare. You've got to go back almost to the revolutionary generation. and see that. In this new book, I gotta tell you, when Tony Lyons first approached me, I read this thing, I go, this is it. This guy has summarized, he's pulled together. And this new, the film is powerful, but the film is gonna show Alex Jones in all his glory, the good and the bad, and you make your decision. But you see Alex Jones, the brawler. Alex Jones, the intellectual brawler. But this book, The Great Reset and the War for the World, I'm telling you, everybody in America, the people that hate Alex Jones the most have to read this book.

18:35 This is no beach read. You're not going to be flipping pages here. You're going to be having a pen out and you're going to be underlying stuff. It's amazing. So look, I appreciate the kind words. And look, you know, we're both in this and there's no back down. You know, Tucker, I was on Tucker last night, Trump, you, me, others. We're not going to back down an inch. We can't. The Republic this is a fourth turning the Republic is in play right now. We're either gonna win or we're gonna lose It's very simple right and because Steve let's explain this to viewers if we back down. It's like dying It's like committing suicide to back down We're not looking for trouble, but we just can't back down We need America to understand that you'd be with us together exactly we just we're not backing down. We can't do it. I

CHAPTER 07 / 23 Discussion

The Great Reset and the War for the World Book Preview

The discussion focuses on the contents of the new book "The Great Reset and the War for the World," which deconstructs the writings of Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari. The book argues that the World Economic Forum is using the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" to implement a worldwide authoritarian system. It specifically examines the transition from traditional capitalism to a form of state-managed technocracy.

klaus schwab· yuval noah harari· satya nadella· skyhorse publishing· world economic forum· fourth industrial revolution

19:15 No, absolutely. I'll tell you what, I'm going to take a short break here. I'm going to get Alex, I want to talk about this book if we can get it up. Alex, what is the, can we get the cover of the book up real quickly? When does this book, I know people can order it now, when does the book actually come out? Because this is something that people need to read immediately and we need to break it down, et cetera. So when can people get this book, The Great Reset in the War for the World? I was making changes to it up to a month ago. The book is done. Today I am writing, because I'm two weeks behind, they're going to print it next week, the acknowledgment. It's kind of hard to write the acknowledgment because I want to thank so many people. So after this show, I'm going to write the acknowledgment. It's going to go to print Monday, and it's going to be out in the middle of August. So it's going to print next week. So people can start

20:04 Let's take a short commercial break. We're gonna get the way everybody orders it. Alex Jones, there's a massive film premiering tonight in Austin, Texas, Alex's War. You're not gonna want to miss that. Then he's got a major new book coming out in mid-August. You can start to preorder. The great reset in the war for the world. And this is as heavy as it gets. Alex Jones is our guest. You're in the war room. Take a short commercial break. We'll be back in a moment. ♪ We're taking down the CCP ♪ Spread the word all through Horton The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide.

20:57 You know, people that have watched this show know me over the years. You know, the Financial Times, The Economist, we go through, that's what we play every day. We start with MSNBC and CNN clips. We're not playing conservative right-wing news. So I'm a huge believer in information and in collecting information. And I go to, I watch the Infowars every day and follow Alex Jones closely. You know why? He can put you ahead of the curve. And he's been demonized as a conspiracy theorist, right? I gotta tell you, this book, The Great Reset and The War for the World, is the left and the mainstream media are going to have to sit there and we've got to force them to respond to this book. This book is that important.

21:41 And Alex, I appreciate it. I don't understand. As busy as you are doing as many hours a day and all the other things you do are getting out there and leading from the front tank and going to rallies and doing all that. I don't honestly understand humanly how you pulled this together. I want you to make the case that you make in this book. The great reset because you take three authors Essentially and you tie together these three books to make the case of showing data and evidence through their words You take Klaus Schwab in the fourth industrial revolution you take the the CEO of Nadella the CEO that followed gates and those guys at and gates is a guy has CEO and Microsoft hit reset and

22:22 And then you take Yuval Noah Harara, Homo Deus and his other books, and you make the case of what the not just the New World Order is, but using this Great Reset to really take up this whole idea of control and authoritarianism and combine it really with state capitalism. So I want you to make the case here in the Great Reset. What is this Great Reset and why are we at a war for the world right now, sir? The establishment is A lot of different power groups as you know, but science is always the cutting edge and they know there's a revolution of science. And so they want to control that science and want to be the people that direct that science. And if they don't bring in a worldwide authoritarian system,

CHAPTER 08 / 23 Discussion

Distribution Strategy for The Great Reset Book

Instructions are provided for listeners to purchase "The Great Reset" through Amazon to drive the book to the number one spot on political bestseller lists. While signed copies will eventually be available at the InfoWars Store, the immediate goal is to create a "political firestorm" by dominating mainstream retail charts. The book is scheduled to begin shipping on August 15th.

amazon· barnes & noble· infowars store· best seller· book launch

23:06 They know there'll be competition to them and they're basically afraid. All right, folks, this is the good part of the interview right now. Amazing to be on with Steve Bannon. He has a giant show and a lot of courage and is now about to be a political prisoner like so many of us as we go into this dark night of tyranny. But the enemy is flashing out because they know humanity is waking up. It's the Great Awakening versus the Great Reset. Stay with us. Greenwald coming up as well. Welcome back to this live Sunday, July 24th worldwide broadcast. I'm your host Alex Jones a special four-hour live transmission tonight. Glenn Greenwald interviewed me at length.

24:09 yesterday at the film premiere for the documentary Alex's War. It's a very fair film, it's a critical film, it's I would say a very accurate snapshot representation of what we do and what we stand for. I'm gonna be proud of my work in many areas and not so proud in other areas and I, you know, talked about that because life is a work in progress with Glenn and so we're gonna be airing large excerpts of that interview in the second hour. Then Eddie Bravo taped with us yesterday the season. In studio before the premiere. We're going to be airing that coming up and also Harrison Smith and so much more. The full Steve Bannon interview that we won't have time to hear all of where about 60% of it is obviously on his site on rumble, and we posted it to info wars .com if you like to go watch it without the interruptions and things, but let me just throw this out there real quick. Because you know, Steve's

25:08 This really is an important book and if you think the video clips on the show and the documents are powerful, this is a thick book but a fast read but also a deep read because it's got all the proof of the nightmare world government, dehumanization, transhumanist plan, depopulation plan and it's all in one book. There's a lot of great reset books out there that are excellent, including those written by the globalists themselves. They're evil but they're excellent at telling you what they're gonna do to you. This book now available at Amazon.com is the best overall work out there today. I'm sure stuff will come out that's even more important in the future because people have more information, but this is really a total conviction of these criminals. It's not for sale yet on InfoWarsTore.com because

25:57 We were greenlit to sell it last week and we just never put it up for sale. That's how we roll. Not mad at anybody. It's just how ragtag we are and you know what's going on around here. But by tomorrow it will be up for pre-sale and it starts shipping on August 15th at infowarestore.com or or 888-253-3139. But right now it is available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon and places like that. And it's important to get it from Amazon because if it pushes up to the number one political book or even number one book period, that makes everybody else start buying it, causes a big political firestorm, and then the message really gets out there. So I don't normally say go to Amazon to get stuff, but in the case of The Great Reset, you get a really good deal on it and we want to send it to number one. So go to amazon.com, get The Great Reset,

CHAPTER 09 / 23 Discussion

Controlled Collapse and the New Priest Class

The global elite are accused of triggering a "controlled collapse" of society to prevent technological developments from empowering the general public. Figures like Ray Kurzweil are described as "self-appointed high priests" who seek to replace traditional religion with a machine-based divinity. This era is compared to the struggle for control following the invention of the Gutenberg press 550 years ago.

elysium· ray kurzweil· wall street journal· high priests· controlled collapse· renaissance

26:43 the great reset and the war for the world by yours truly Alex Jones there. If you want to support us, you can start buying some copies on Monday. Hopefully it will be up. At info or store dot com and you can also get signed copies there as well. So again, the great reset in the war for the world. We're going to go out to break in seven minutes with more of the band and clip and we're going to come back without my introduction in the last segment of this on stage interview last night that was really powerful. Folks are saying that they thought it was very informative. That is coming up in the second hour tonight. So here is more of the Steve Bannon War Room, Alex Jones interview. The establishment is a lot of different power groups as you know, but science is always the cutting edge and they know there's a revolution of science. And so they want to control that science and want to be the people that direct that science. And if they don't bring in a worldwide authoritarian system,

27:42 They know there'll be competition to them and they're basically afraid of these massive technological developments that are about to happen. Contrary to limits to growth and things that MIT put out in the 60s claiming society would collapse, it will actually expand infinitely with our technology if we have a culture, if we're moral, and that we don't destroy each other. And so they have decided to trigger a controlled collapse and then bring in a new dark age to control the general public where they will be in their Elysium fields, you know, to use the Greek analogy, where they're these demigods. And then if they even keep us around, it's like you let some ants live in your backyard, you have a potted plant, as Ray Kurzweil has said. And so really, it was easy to write this book.

28:32 The problem was condensing it down because they tell us what they're doing. We're gonna be gods. Ray Kurzweil says, I don't believe in God yet. I'm gonna become a god. He's gonna resurrect his father. But he needs all of us to get in line behind his AI so he can be God over us. And so it's basically a destruction of free will. And so you look at Harari and you look at all these people that are in the book. They say we're gonna be gods, we're about to be gods, but we've got to get everybody in line to do what we say before we can become those gods. And it's just quote after quote after quote of just the most insane stuff that if your neighbor said it, you'd lock your door and be scared of them. But they're up there at the Deimos group and they're writing books and they're making these statements saying, resistance is futile, we're gonna take your body over.

29:20 the future is not human, looking forward to the end of humanity. These are Wall Street Journal headlines. These are New York Times headlines. And it's these people, these self-appointed high priests that are just saying, we are in control of your destiny. Oh, but it's going to be wonderful and you're going to be empowered, but we're going to control everything you do. So it's an authoritarian a delusion of grandeur, but because humans are so amazing and we are made by God, we've created such great technology, they're just declaring themselves the aficionados of humans and that they're in charge of our development and where we're going. And so it's literally a hijacking

30:00 The old global elites couldn't beat the renaissance and innovation 550 years ago, the Gutenberg press. And so it's been them trying to maintain and control technology because it threatens them. And so now they're gonna try to use technology to superimpose their will over us. But just like the internet backfired on them, it's gonna backfire on them again. So again, it's a bunch of mad scientists, self-appointed control freaks, who have set themselves up as the new priest class, who are self-anointed and are telling us that we have to get in line with the utopia they're building. But when we see the great reset and the cutting off of energy and the so-called great transition we're in, there is no new technology coming in. They're blocking that. And so really they're just imploding things under the cloud and pivot model, show that they can get that control over us.

CHAPTER 10 / 23 Discussion

History of the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab

The origins of the World Economic Forum are traced back to Klaus Schwab’s mentorship under Henry Kissinger and the formation of the Bilderberg Group in 1954. The narrative describes how the elite "penetrate the cabinets" of various governments to implement a unified global agenda. This system is characterized as "Feudalism 2.0," utilizing carbon taxes and social credit scores to monitor and control the population.

klaus schwab· bilderberg group· trilateral commission· henry kissinger· david rockefeller· davos

30:49 Walk me through Klaus Schwab. You've been at this now for 20 or 30 years. You've been focused on this, what you call the New World Order. Tell us about how does a guy like Klaus Schwab come up and take this conference started in Davos and let this be kind of the governor mechanism of all this? How did he pull this off? Because you start off by his fourth industrial revolution. Tell us about Schwab, how did he pull it off in Davos and what's important about his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution? Wow, that's huge. Klaus Schwab and his family go back being technocrats going back into World War II on the bad guy side. And he was a protege of Henry Kissinger and that whole OSS-CIA Atlantic Alliance. And so the Bilderberg Group set up in Oosterbeek, Holland in 1954 was an alliance of the old European elite and the Anglo-American establishment, the British Empire and the US, and was a consortium meeting

31:51 on time to create consensus within the elites. And then once they had that by the 70s, and the Trilateral Commission was set up by David Rockefeller and Jimmy Carter, once they kind of had that order set up, then they said, okay, we've got to take this Royal Roundtable International Organization, Royal Institute of International Affairs, the British model of it, CFR is the US model. We've got to now take that to the state and to the county and to the city and to the ecumenical and the educational systems and really put that program in. And as Klaus Schwab says, we penetrate the cabinets, we control half the governments, you will eat the bugs. And so he is really the press secretary of this. And they then used the quote, world economic forum with massive money and private jets and all the things that come with that, the big dinners and the other things that you get when you go, the sex operatives, all of it.

32:50 and they just roped in all the best talent and all the best people from every level, media, academia, business, government, and just brought them all in since the 80s, really, at a fast pace, until they have their mafia or their cult of corporate power, really fascism, the merger of government and corporations over the public. Infowars, tomorrow's news today. Socialism is the operating system for the general masses just like China is communist but it's really rich oligarchs and you know Obama before he left office gave speeches in South America saying listen we need to mix the communism and capitalism like one country's communist the other is capitalist but those are the feudal slaves under communism and then you have the quote capitalist system extracting it but it's not really capitalist it's a

34:13 fascist crony capitalist authoritarian system over and so Klaus Schwab is the mouthpiece of these organizations and groups, and they create the press releases, the operational memorandums that then get sent out to Australia, New Zealand, and Germany, and France, and the US, and Canada, and over 100 countries who all now, the politicians speak in one unified voice. Why we've seen those composite videos where one person says, build back better, great reset, transition, and then it's another one, another one, and all of a sudden, there's 100 screens in 100 languages all saying, We're doing this and then we go, hey, we don't want our energy cut off. You don't even have a replacement. They go, oh no.

34:56 That's a conspiracy theory or, or, oh, Putin did that. That's why your gas prices are up for the local gas station. But then on the other side of their mouth, they say, no, no, this is good. You need pain, Booty Judge has said, and, and, and Granholm and all of them. We're doing this in a transition, but it's not a transition into a better Star Trek civilization. It's a transition into a new feudal estate, literally cutting off the energy to make everybody poor and dumbed down. Feudalism 2.0. And so that's what the Great Reset is, that's what Klaus Schwab is, that's what this professor of medieval studies, Harari, none of those are his ideas. That's all been said by the Club of Rome, it's all been said by the Bilderberg Group, it's all been said by Limits to Growth, it's all been said by the Population Bomb, it's all been said in eco-science, written in the 70s.

35:48 by the man that later became Obama's science czar. And when you read this stuff, if you just sit back and look at it, you go, this is the closest thing to Hitler I've ever seen. This is like Hitler 5.0, this is like Hitler-Buck Rogers level with what they're saying. And they're just in this huge revolution against choice and free will and normal technological development and adoption of technology that empowers humanity. Instead, they want adoption of technology, forced adoption, world IDs, global social credit scores, carbon taxes that dominate and monitor every facet of our lives.

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Media Matters and the Alex's War Film Premiere

Anticipation builds for the premiere of "Alex's War" in Austin, Texas, with a mention of potential negative reactions from organizations like Media Matters. The film is described as a "tough" and independent look at the subject's life rather than a hagiography. The segment reiterates the film's release date of July 29th and its availability for pre-order.

media matters· madeline peltz· alex's war· austin· independent film

36:30 I tell you what, can you hang on? We'd love to keep you for one more segment if we could do that. As long as you want, Steve. This is awesome. Okay, we got Alex Jones, the book is The Great Reset and The War for the World. This is a seminal work. Yes, I know Madeline Peltz and our marketing director over at Media Matters is gonna melt down. I dare anybody to go through this book and read it and see the references that are cited and the deconstruction he does of some of these major works by major, this is not intellectual slumming. This is a heavy book and he takes apart and repurposes in there works of some of the top thinkers in the world today. Alex Jones is our guest here in the War Room. We're going to take a short commercial break. We'll be back in Austin, Texas. A huge premiere tonight. Part of our team's down there. Alex's war premieres tonight. This major documentary, first one I think Alex has ever participated in as an interview, is made by an independent filmmaker. Quite frankly, a stunning filmmaker. It's out on the 29th of July.

37:31 Alex is finishing up this book, but he can pre-order it. One of the Tony Lyons of the Skyhorse Press guys done another amazing job. Short commercial break. We'll be back with Alex Jones in just a moment. The story you're about to see is truth. This is reality. Truth is stranger than fiction. I'm the most banned, most demonized media person in the world. Alex Jones is a fake. He's a performance artist. I'm perceived as a clown, a nut, a maniac. On his website, InfoWars, he touts paranoia porn. The sickest, most offensive theories. Alex Jones claims that 9-11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. Don't you stand for America, sir? He said me and Hillary are demons.

38:24 I met him back in 1990. I knew right away. He was gonna be a star. How's my hair look? I saw all these conspiracy terrorists that were talking about the New World Order. I thought, that's what I'll do. Was that attack on humanity I saw early on that I really wanted to wage war on. You're lying to the public. It's disgusting. When she tastes that, there's no going back. Everything's a war. That's the way the universe works. And everything is propagated. I don't trust Donald Trump, but I agree with probably 95% of what Donald Trump says. Your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down. That's what the media loves on.

39:08 Alex Jones said the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 children, was fake. I try to tell the truth and sometimes I'm wrong. Did the New York Times get in trouble for consciously lying about WMDs that then led to a war that killed tens of thousands in conflict? No. The attempts to platform us have failed. They'd have the CIA, the FBI following me around. Now we've got to destroy Alex Jones. We're not playing games here. This is such a historic moment together. USA! USA! It's all just insane. OK, let's put me in prison for questioning, OK? Even though that's my right. In fact, let's execute Alex Jones. Let's put him in front of a firing squad, pull the trigger. I have a sick feeling, actually, because I know what comes next.

CHAPTER 12 / 23 Discussion

Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Technotronic Era

A comparison is drawn between Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, with the latter identified as the primary intellectual architect of the modern technocracy. Brzezinski's 1970s work, "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technotronic Era," is cited as a blueprint for using computers and microchips to control society. The discussion also touches on Brzezinski's influence on global conflicts and his daughter Mika's media career.

zbigniew brzezinski· mika brzezinski· the grand chessboard· technotronic era· propaganda· iran-contra

39:55 Okay, a blockbuster film premieres tonight in Austin, Texas, Alex's War. Alex Jones is interviewed by it, but it's not by him, it's by a fantastic filmmaker. And it's not a, you know, it's not a hierography. It's a tough film, but I gotta tell you, I think you will You watch it, you come away with an appreciation that is, I think a lot of people are going to be blown away by this. Also a major new book comes out basically in mid-August, being finished up by now, now by Alex, The Great Reset and The War for the World. It's incredible. It's one of the things we're breaking down with Alex. Alex! One of the things I loved about the book is that, because I said, I said, I think he's the first guy besides me that thinks, hey, you've had Kissinger, but then he got Mika Brzezinski's dad, Dr. Brzezinski, who was national security advisor after Kissinger, when the Ford administration was defeated by Carter, he came in. But I've said for years, he's actually 10X the intellectual thinker geopolitically. And what, and if he had this book, which you cite,

40:57 that if you read it, it really was the railhead of everything that's kind of happened. Tell us about Dr. Brzezinski versus Dr. Henry Kissinger, sir. Well, you're absolutely right. I mentioned Kissinger because Paul Schwab directly worked under him, but the real intellectual that got his ideas adopted was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who of course helped start the Afghan war and lured the Soviets in. He was quite the mastermind. He wrote the Grand Chess Board, you know, a decade or so ago, admitting his world government plans. But I read when I was a teenager, because my dad was really into it, when I was a little kid, he said, you ought to read these books when you get old enough. So I read the Technotronic Era and several others. And he was talking about microchips to buy and sell into your skin. He was talking about a technocracy with computers controlling everything you did.

41:46 He was explaining how governments actually control organized crime. But Alex, I just want to make sure people understand, that book came out basically in the 70s, correct? Yes, sir. 1970s. He was laying out exactly where this was headed, correct? Absolutely. And he is the main thinker. And he gave a speech at the Canadian CFR again about a decade ago where he said, that people can pull the quote up, he said, before we could use propaganda to control people, it was infinitely easier to control a million people with propaganda. Now it's infinitely easier to kill them, and we may just have to get rid of everybody. So Brzezinski

42:26 And some of his books brag, well, I didn't kill the Cambodians, but I put Pol Pot in to do it. So it's just when you're reading what a real psychopath is saying here. So I guess that's why Mika is so attracted to Scarborough, psycho jokes. I guess he's like daddy, but she's looking for daddy again there. I've leaned that all over. Okay, I want to pivot. I want to get into more. We're going to have Alex back to go through this because the book is the great reason. Here's the thing. This is not a beach book. I want you to take it to the beach, but this is not like some spy novel you buy in the airport. This is a serious book, and it's got to be treated seriously. I think actually Tony and the guys ought to put a study guide out with it because it's that important. Alex, tell us about your upcoming travails. They're clearly not, it's beyond trying to shut you up. They can't do that. They've tried that every different way. They're trying to expunge you in any way possible. Walk us through what's happening.

CHAPTER 14 / 23 Discussion

Glenn Greenwald Interview at the Alex's War Premiere

Glenn Greenwald interviews the subject on stage in Austin, defending the journalistic necessity of speaking with controversial figures. Greenwald criticizes the repressive nature of modern society where filmmakers and journalists are pressured to provide a moralizing perspective rather than letting the audience decide. The subject admits to making mistakes in the past but maintains that he never lied with malice or on purpose.

glenn greenwald· journalism· free speech· rockfin· alex's war· censorship

48:56 Here we are, hour number two on this live Sunday, July 24th broadcast. I'm your embattled host, Alex Jones. Thanks for keeping us in the fight for myself, the crew and the whole InfoWorks family. We salute you all. All right for the balance of the hour. We're going to air large excerpts of the multi hour event that happened Saturday evening last night in Austin at a great theater. And when Greenwald got really demonized for coming to interview me, the left said, Hey,

49:37 You can interview Charlie Manson, you can interview Saddam Hussein, but you can't interview Alex Jones because then they can't misrepresent what I've actually said and done. We talk about free speech, the attack on liberty, the death of the corporate media, and so much more. And then after that, Eddie Bravo in studio, Harrison Smith, and so much more. For the balance of the hour, ladies and gentlemen, here is large sections of the event streamed by Rockfin. Find the whole interview there. We'll also be linking to it at m4wars.com. But here it is. Yeah, you know I just say I this week I had to spend time explaining what I thought was never necessary to explain Which is you can if you're a journalist for example go and speak to someone Without making clear whether you love that person or hate that person, but simply to try and understand them It's kind of fundamental to what? Journalists are supposed to do and I think that's the same for filmmakers and artists and documentarians And the fact that you even have to explain yourself the fact that it's untrue

50:32 It's unusual to watch a film without constantly being bombarded with the filmmaker's moral perspective. I think it's a testament to just how repressive the society has become, and I really want to congratulate you for resisting that and for kind of restoring what I think is the purpose of art and journalism Film and documentary and and and documentaries which is to show the public Information that they ought to have and let them decide what they think about it as opposed to shoving that conclusion down their face and life is a lot easier for you as I said if you had Chosen a different route, but I think it takes a lot of courage for you to do that And I think it's important so I want to congratulate you for that Thanks

51:16 All right, so do you want to end the weirdness of talking about Alex Jones right in front of him if he's not here and bring him up on stage? Hey, get up here, AJ. Come on, Alex. Does he have a mic? Yeah, he should have a mic. We can share. We can share. No, I mean... I haven't asked anything, Alex. Do you want to talk? Shylock Raiders attack. No, no, no. No, I mean, listen, I got into this on AXS TV when I was 21 years old.

51:52 And I, but I meant everything purity. I made a lot of mistakes. I've done a lot of bad stuff, but it wasn't on purpose. So it's great to be here with Glenn Greenwald. It's great to be here with Alex Moyer. And the thing is, I didn't lie on purpose. I made a lot of mistakes, but I'm not some person getting orders and lying to people. And we're probably like 90% accurate, 10% wrong. And I want to get better. Uh, and so that's just where I'm at. And it's great to be here. And I'm glad you made a film That just kind of shows what we've done because I look at it's kind of horrifying obnoxious I am and then parts of it are good But I mean I did this from a pure place and that's at the end of the day like I did not lie to people on purpose I didn't make mistakes on purpose, and I'm just glad you guys made this film so Alex let me actually begin by asking you a little bit about that in terms of your intentions and and the like because I

CHAPTER 15 / 23 Discussion

Career Origins and Hollywood Interactions

The subject reflects on his early career in Austin public access television and his lack of formal training or a "mastermind" plan. An anecdote is shared about visiting Martin Sheen's home in Malibu 18 years ago and having dinner with Anthony Hopkins. During that era, he was briefly embraced by some in Hollywood for his opposition to the Iraq War and George W. Bush, before being cast out when he continued his critiques during the Obama administration.

access tv· austin· martin sheen· anthony hopkins· george w. bush· barack obama

52:45 When I remember when I watched the film it was just so striking this early footage of you And I remember when the internet first discovered some of the early pictures of you from your public access days in Austin I remember liberals being almost horrified like with this cognitive dissonance like we're supposed to look at him as a screaming spitting monster and yet these these pictures are disturbingly handsome in this like very mainstream normal way You obviously from the beginning had a kind of charisma a natural charisma in front of the camera That's what people even said from the first time they saw you and so when you combine these Attributes that you had when you were young I think you clearly had you been somebody who was willing to affirm rather than question establishment pieties could have ended up as like a meteorologist on like Good Morning America or like some Anderson Cooper type and

53:31 And I'm wondering if you were aware of that potential and purposely chose to reject it for a different path, this kind of path of misfits and outcasts that we're surrounded by delightfully, or whether it was just so natural to your personality that you never even considered trying to pursue that kind of mainstream acceptability. Glenn, I was thinking about driving her today. what I wanted to say and I forgot it. Thank God you brought that up. No, no, no, seriously. No, it's really intuitive. My enemies say I'm this Lex Luthor mastermind and I would love to say that it's none of that. I had no, I could study the news and politics and read like books by Zbigniew Brzezinski and like these were scary things. I had no training, no idea, no plan. And this idea that like I'm this mastermind

54:25 It's opposite. I mean, I can't balance my checkbook, you know, and and so and I'm not trying to put myself down It's just like they literally think I'm like this evil mastermind and I literally can't balance my checkbook And they're just like attacking me constantly like where's the secret? Where's the Russians? Where's the who's giving the Mercer's who's giving the orders? I'm like, I'm just covering the news I would just get my opinion on something and so no I had no idea what I was doing and I just was pro-America and like kind of a libertarian and like didn't like Republicans, didn't like Democrats. And I was just watching all this happen. I said, God, I get on Access TV. So I tried to go to college and try to get an RTF job. And they're like, I'll take you five years even be able to do anything in radio. So I was like, well, I'll do Access TV. So that was, it was basically, I had my own political beliefs that were just pro-freedom. And then I got involved and it was immediately successful. And then I was like,

55:19 Trying to like figure out as I went I'm trying to be truthful made a lot of mistakes along the way But none of it was with malice. None of it was meant to hurt anybody Yeah, we're gonna talk about the mistakes for sure in a few minutes because it wouldn't be a complete discussion Without that before we get to that. I just I you know the question of your politics I think is so interesting and this is what was striking me watching on The film is, there's this idea, you know, if you ask somebody with what political faction or ideology is Alex Jones associated, they would instantly say, oh, the far right. And I'm watching you well before most people thought about doing it.

55:54 Spreading huge amounts of skepticism and doubt about the CIA the US security state you're confronting the FBI well before Trump began spreading that kind of skepticism and Republican circles you even are talking about the NSA before 9-11 you're warning about the dangers of exaggerating the threats have been Laden and al-qaeda in order to kind of bring it into a sort of authority authoritarian imbalance Lots of things that people very associated with the left have been saying for a long time kind of opposing these institutions of Authoritarianism warning about how they exploit people's Perceptions to put the poppy population in fear. How have you seen yourself ideologically and politically on the years?

56:39 Exactly, exactly. Starting out like 95, 96, first articles were like, communist Alex Jones is anti-American. Because I was against wars and surveillance. Because that just seemed like, well Bill of Rights says you don't do this, so this is bad. And I was just following the Constitution really ham-fistedly. And I was like, well I see all this news about this. And so I wasn't even being right wing or left wing. I was simply thinking, I want to promote freedom. That's a fun thing to do. And so that's really where it came from. And then that's why Martin Sheen 18 years ago or so said I want to fly you out here to California and we want you to you know Milo Estevez's son We really love what you're doing. So I get their house and it's like I'm sitting there and they're putting movies on like so you're really a good liberal, right? You're against these wars and you're gonna storage books. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna storage bush

57:31 And they didn't care that I was pro-gun or any of this stuff. It was like, I'm sitting there like, oh, Anthony Hopkins is going for dinner. Let's have dinner right now. So we're talking like 18 years ago. I'm sitting with Anthony Hopkins eating roast beef at like Martin Sheen's house in Malibu. And I'm like, what's this place? Because I had no idea. Like a private jet lands, flies back to California. They're like, you're a very important young filmmaker. You're exposing the evil right wingers. I'm like, I just don't want to have a war. I don't want to support what these people are doing. And so there was that. And then as soon as Obama got in, they're like, well, wait a minute, this is Obama. And I'm like, well, I mean, I don't like what Obama's continuing the same stuff. So to me, I literally just went on access TV at like 21 years old, got a local radio show at 22, got syndicated at 23, totally self-taught, made a ton of mistakes, but I did it for a place of truth. And then I experienced like Hollywood and what it does and the right wing. And then just,

CHAPTER 16 / 23 Discussion

Establishment Hatred of Organic Grassroots Movements

Glenn Greenwald and the subject discuss why the establishment views him as a unique threat compared to figures with "blood on their hands" from the Iraq War. They conclude that the fear stems from his ability to build a massive audience outside of traditional power structures. The subject acknowledges his own "preacher" style of showmanship and how he organically became a symbol of the public's distrust in institutions.

establishment media· wmds· populist movements· showmanship· preacher· charisma

58:29 I've had this great experience over 28 years on air of like seeing all the weird underbellies of all this stuff because I didn't come into it from the establishment. I literally came out of Access TV in Austin, Texas. And so because I wasn't part of any of the power structures, I got to see stuff nobody else has seen. So let me ask you a similar question to the one I asked Alex, which is, it is so striking when I began writing about politics in 2005, liberals hated more than anybody George Bush, the architects of the Iraq War. I began writing in opposition to rendition and the torture regime and Guantanamo and due process free imprisonment. And it's just so striking that all the people back then who were implementing it, were advocating it, are completely acceptable, in fact, beloved.

59:17 mainstream liberal circles liberals watch media outlets and consume media outlets that employ those people as I was saying I could interview all of them and I would be applauded by liberals and yet you who back in 2004 were saying don't trust George W Bush his father was the CIA director the the Iraq War is based on lies all things that auto appeal to that sensibility of liberals you are uniquely castigated and kind of cast out of good company to the point where you're one of the very few people that even journalists are told they can't speak to. Why is that? Why have you been identified as such a threat in a way that other people who actually have blood on their hands and wars on their legacy aren't even remotely cast as? Well, I mean, that's a great question. And I've again only learned this, Glenn, through organic experience of it.

1:00:07 If I lied about WMDs, if I killed millions of people, I'm part of the establishment. But they're not scared of Alex Jones. They're scared of populist movements. And the fact that I wasn't left-wing or right-wing, the fact that I was just pro-America and pro-freedom, it really wasn't me. They just saw me as like the American people. And like, OK, this is what the American people produced. This is organic because they went and checked out who I was and who I wasn't controlled. They're like, well, this guy just came out of the dirt. And so this is, this is the enemy. And so it's their hatred of the general public, their hatred of the organic grassroots. It's not me. It's their hatred of, of, of just good, decent, classical liberal Americans that want peace and want justice and want unity and want justice and want everybody to live in peace. We don't want to hurt anybody. We're not judging anybody. We just want to, we want our freedom. And so

1:01:02 That's what freaked them out like, well, this guy could get this popular and he's just some idiot on access TV. What are we going to do? So I'm a symbol of their insecurity. I'm not that strong. They're weak. And that's what they're scared of. So, you know it is it is interesting that the thing they hate most are people who develop influence and a significant audience without being captive to their structures and their influence and that is something that defines what you've done I think more than anything you came out of public access TV which was tolerated because it's supposed to be a joke that no one watches and yet you develop this gigantic audience and clearly part of why is because you have a kind of a

1:01:43 showman charisma kind of you know entertainment component to you that made people want to watch and One of the things that struck me was you know you were talking early on in this funny Episode about how when you were 12 you would see these preachers with Rolls Royces and gigantic houses doing coke off hookers breasts and whatever And they developed an audience because they had this similar kind of showmanship. They were able to get people to watch. And by the end of the film, we're watching you talking about praying for President Bush and satanic influences in a way that seems... I'm just wondering... No, let's be honest. I became the abyss. Okay, but was there a... Do you notice that kind of similarity? No, Glenn Newnald did. I became what I saw, but for a good cause, but it wasn't on purpose.

1:02:27 Only at 48 can I now see it. No, I was like, damn, that's a hot slut that preacher's banging on his back porch. That Rolls Royce looks pretty damn nice. No, I mean, I wasn't doing that consciously, but yeah, there's definitely... I'm not going to lie. Yeah, it's true. I'm a preacher. And so only now at like 48, last year, I'm like, whoa, what have I been doing? I've kind of like... The things you get old, you go, damn, what did I just do? You're like, damn, I did all that? Like, God, I'm a freaking horrible person. But this But then I didn't do it consciously. The establishment is lying according to formulas. I didn't ever do stuff on purpose. But I want to absolve myself. I haven't done that much bad, but you know, I've been, I've done some bad. So that's very intuitive, very, that's what you said is true. I have a, I'm like, it's just true. I am the crazy preacher. Well, that's, that's why I put it in the movie, Alex. No, I got the movie. I was horrified. I had to walk out five times. You think I was sitting there like, this is really great.

CHAPTER 17 / 23 Discussion

January 6th Reflections and Federal Provocateurs

The discussion turns to the events of January 6th, with the subject expressing regret for "walking into a trap" set by federal provocateurs. He claims to have urged non-violence and believes the event was manipulated to justify a crackdown on the Trump movement. He alleges that over 1,000 plainclothes federal agents were present and that the media has exaggerated the event's severity by comparing it to Pearl Harbor.

january 6th· capitol· nancy pelosi· fbi· provocateurs· mike pence

1:03:28 I look like Jabba the Hutt up there like on PCP or something, but the difference is I didn't do it on purpose. Like, you know, imagine the people that know this stuff and they go, I like this. Yeah. Let me talk about January 6th. It's obviously a prominent part of the film and I think one of the things people probably don't know, I didn't know this until I saw the film, was what a vocal effort you made to urge the public to be nonviolent, at least because you knew if they weren't it would strategically backfire. Looking back on what happened with January 6th and the fact that most people there did heed those warnings to be nonviolent, but a few people didn't.

1:04:10 And they were able to take that and kind of spin this insurrection narrative out of it that to this very day is the thing they're trying to have shape the legacy of the Trump movement and Donald Trump itself. Do you look back on January 6th as something that was a huge strategic error with regret or do you think that it's basically been a media distortion that has taken what was otherwise a good event and turned it into something darker? You know, it's a paradox. The cool Republican thing is to say, we did a great job. Screw you, Democrats. I had we had so many other events around the country and DC with like half a million people that I didn't expect it would go haywire. I thought the police would be there and it would be controlled, but it was a disaster. And and then I get subpoenaed. I spent a half million dollars lawyers in the last year and a half, like the federal government's FBI subpoenas is crawling all over us. And they just keep asking,

1:05:07 We want the Trump meeting where he gave me the orders. I haven't talked to Trump like a year before January 6th. I'm gonna say it's the truth. They have all my phone records. And so, so, so I'm, I mean, I'm mad that we got lured into that trap. But at the same time, I'm more mad about how they said it was bigger than Pearl Harbor and big as 9-11. Chuck Schumer's like, this was as big as Pearl Harbor and 9-11. No, dude, 3,000 people died at each event. This is not as bad as Pearl Harbor. It was terrible. And we just walked like idiots into it. Because you're in DC, it's so massive. And you're like, well, I expect the authorities are in command here. We got a million people there. And I just expected that the system would be in place, and it wasn't.

1:05:50 And I'm mad at Pelosi trying to block Trump with his 10,000 troops. I'm upset with Trump waiting over an hour and a half while all this was going on. I mean, I'm out there trying to stop what's happening. And I'm also mad we learned it was like 1,000 feds and military were in plain clothes. So I'm like, don't go in the building, don't go in the building. If they just stood up, it wouldn't have happened. So it's a very complex situation. But you've had it all over to do. It shows like we tried to launch a peaceful demonstration of our numbers to show we didn't buy the election, which obviously look at Biden. I mean, the guy can't tie his shoelaces. He didn't win the election. We were trying to show, hey, he can't get 10 people. Remember he'd have like campaign events at like a Chevy dealership, like cars. Oh, there's a Jeep right there. And there's a, there's a something over there. And so we wanted a big number. That's what Trump wanted.

1:06:42 And I just feel like a fool walking into that trap. So Glenn, it's a complex issue. But if I had it all to do again, I would have just stepped back and said, Biden, just sink the ship and see what happens. Because, man, I'm not a revolutionary leader in war. I'm not trying to lead troops. I don't have some weird thing in my head like I need to be a military GI Joe guy. But when you get a million people in DC, it doesn't matter. Even if they're being manipulated, you still your responsibility. So I have a lot of guilt over January 6, because it could have gone really bad if the federal provocateurs had their way, they would have the Q people would have actually kidnapped Mike Pence and Pelosi and put them in handcuffs. Well, we'd be in martial law right now, because that would have been us capturing the Capitol. That would have been the country going down the tube. So we came in January 6 and close. It was a dud.

CHAPTER 18 / 23 Discussion

2020 Election Fraud Claims and 2000 Mules

The subject addresses his claims regarding widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, citing the documentary "2000 Mules" as evidence. He admits that his perspective may have been "distorted" by his anti-establishment bias but maintains that Joe Biden did not legitimately receive more votes than Donald Trump. He suggests that Biden's presidency has inadvertently served to expose the establishment's true nature to the public.

2020 election· 2000 mules· dinesh d'souza· joe biden· voting fraud

1:07:37 It was meant to provocateur us into a violent event that was meant to get out of control. Thank God it failed. And so I feel like I've been brought to the edge of death. And so January 6th to me is very serious. Let me ask you about the underlying cause of January 6th, which nominally at least was the idea that there had been Widespread fraud in the 2020 election that Donald Trump actually won these states like Arizona, Pennsylvania Georgia and others and that because of fraud they had swung the rightful victor which is Donald Trump to Joe Biden there is a point in the film where you were talking about Sandy hook and I thought something he said was very poignant which is

1:08:15 Anyone can kind of get carried away in their ideology where you start almost becoming so anti-establishment I definitely feel this myself sometimes that you kind of want to cast out on the what the establishment is saying simply because they lie so often that you want to kind of make the point that these are untrustworthy institutions independent of the argument you're making In this case, where you were saying there was widespread fraud, did you actually conduct what you feel like is kind of a meticulous, a forensic analysis of the voting patterns and conclude that there was fraud in these states sufficient to have swung the election? Or was this kind of an ethos, like a way of saying, that the establishment was so against Trump from the beginning in illegitimate ways that I'm going to kind of endorse this cause not because it's necessarily true in its particulars but more as kind of a thematic way of protesting. No, I mean I'll be honest which is which the establishment doesn't do I'll be honest. It was a yeah no it was a pre-banked deal that obviously Biden's not going to get more votes than Trump and we saw all the weird

1:09:16 you know, anomalies and like Democrats blocking the windows and people like feeding machines full of things. And so we saw some evidence, but we were expecting it. And so you can say it's kind of a foregone conclusion and we all look to Rose colored dark leaves, but I think it's kind of 50 50. And then now in hindsight with 2000 mules, all those numbers come out. I mean, I think that obviously I don't think Biden got more votes than Trump, but in a sick way, it's better that Biden's in. So we now get to see what the establishment is really about. But, but yeah, I, uh, I mean, we expected election fraud right away. And so kind of when you're a hammer, everything's a nail. I mean, I think we distorted our views, obviously. And they'll say, Jones admits he distorted views. Now, there was evidence of the fraud and it got covered up and it got suppressed, but I'm not going to lie and say I didn't distort my views in hindsight to what was happening. Yeah. I think one of the things I think about a lot is

CHAPTER 19 / 23 Discussion

Media Disinformation and Admitting Mistakes

A critique of mainstream media "disinformation" such as Russiagate is contrasted with the subject's willingness to admit personal errors. He explains that being on air for several hours a day without a "journalistic filter" led to cavalier statements that were later used against him. He asserts that while he has made mistakes, he is not a "liar on purpose" like the corporate media outlets he opposes.

russiagate· new york times· cnn· msnbc· journalistic filter· accountability

1:10:10 the establishment media, its function is to spread disinformation. They lie constantly in ways far worse than what you just kind of— Exactly. I admit I'm wrong because I don't want to be a liar like them on purpose. Let's reshigate. Reshigate being the—I mean, calling you a conspiracy theorist is so hilarious given that for four years the leading institutions of our country were insisting that the Kremlin had seized the levers of power in the United States by virtue of sexual blackmail over Donald Trump the sort of you know kind of like Robert Ludlow novel from the Cold War that would get rejected for being too stupid and banal that was like the leading narrative of our discourse for so long however When you are somebody who's standing against kind of establishment authority and establishment institutions You know that one of the things they're gonna do is seize on any mistake that you make and

1:11:00 So is is and this is what I kind of try and counsel people all the time who are trying to be dissidents Which is you need to be a thousand times more careful Because they can lie all the time and no one's gonna call them out on it because they're on the side of the people with the more powerful megaphones Do you feel like you, on some occasions, have paid insufficient attention to the need not to hand your enemies really easy and cheap weapons for them to take and bash you over the head with? 100%, Glenn. Because I'm a 48 now and the last year has been a learning process, but I never realized how big the show was It's been big for 20 years really big for 10 And so I would just kind of like I would say devil's advocate this that I'd say this is just a debate They will take out of context. And so when you've got that big a megaphone

1:11:49 Just because they're the ones editing it doesn't mean you still have a responsibility to not do that So I try to be a lot more careful now about things and my audience actually likes that I was just untrained and didn't know what I was doing So most of what I said was accurate and resonated with the grassroots But some of it was absolutely not right and it was said with so much confidence because I wasn't lying. I Like when you're not you're not lying on purpose, but you're saying it you believe it people believe it because you're being genuine That's even more dangerous and and I think that's what it is And so unlike CNN or MSNBC or ABC or the New York Times? I want to admit in front of the world that I'm not perfect I've made a lot of mistakes and I'm trying to figure this out because

1:12:31 As you get more power, you realize, wow, I'm really having an effect here and this affects people. I need to really watch what I'm saying. But then you see the very people lying on purpose, point their finger at you and say, you're a liar. You're putting out this hyphen. I'm like, dude, I didn't watch all these wars. I'm not lying on purpose. I made mistakes. And that's really what frustrates me is they still kind of moralize like they're this high authority and they have all this stuff. And like, I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm and I get things wrong. They are lying as you said on purpose and they think it's funny And so they're not my judge God's my judge my viewers are my judge And so yes, I will admit in front of my viewers that I've been wrong I've made a lot of mistakes and I apologize for them But I did it from a place of truth, but I will not be judged by the New York Times I will not be judged by these people

CHAPTER 20 / 23 Discussion

Sandy Hook Errors and the Psychology of Outsiders

The subject discusses the psychological factors that led to his controversial statements about the Sandy Hook shooting, comparing his skepticism to his early dismissal of the Jussie Smollett hoax. He describes the upcoming trials as "show trials" where he is legally barred from mentioning the First Amendment. He reflects on the difficulty of transitioning from a small public access host to one of the most scrutinized figures in the country.

sandy hook· jussie smollett· uvalde· first amendment· show trial· court order

1:13:22 So, you know I mentioned before I want to ask you a little bit about Sandy Hook I know the expectation is I'm supposed to come here and bash you over the head about go ahead I deserve no I have no interest in doing that I don't give a shit what the expectations are It would bore me if I tried you've talked about it extensively for people who are interested in it You've been deposed about it You've talked for hours about it people interested in the particulars can go watch that if they want I'm not gonna jump through hoops in order like appease people anger that I'm here I do don't want to ask you about a question that I'm actually interested in myself, which is I You know, you have just said that you have made mistakes. Obviously one of those is the stuff you said about Sandy Hook. We watched you in the film come very clean about the fact that you made statements that turned out to be untrue. You've obviously spent a lot of kind of reflective time. It's like the soulful Alex Jones we got to see in the last part of the film. What is it that you think

1:14:13 Caused you to do that. I mean you you reference some things I you know, and I just I identify with it myself that when you know people who lie for a living are telling you that you're a liar, when people whose job it is to spread disinformation are accusing you of doing that, you kind of want to dig in a little bit and not give an inch to people who you know aren't criticizing you in good faith. But what is it about how social media works, about how groups function? Have you thought about some of the psychological and cultural dynamics that led you to make some of those mistakes in Sandy Hook? Well, sure. Think of this like a thousand page book and Sandy Hook in my life is like a quarter page and not putting down the kids that died or any of that stuff. It's just like the I used to on the air go with, I would take calls. It used to be a call different show. It still is. But like 10 years ago, it was like almost all calls for like four hours a day. So the callers all calling and say, we don't believe this. Look at this. It's like, well, let's look at this. Let's look at that. They kind of take pieces of that out of context.

1:15:16 So here's a way to describe it fast forward to Jesse Smollett I do a Sunday show and I guess was a Saturday night or wherever it was maybe was a Monday show I forget but they say he's at 2 30 in the morning and guys don't bleach on him and put a noose over his head and say it's a Magga country and I already been sued for Sandy Hook and I said I don't care if I get sued this doesn't sound real and of course it wasn't real or or or or That NASCAR driver Bubba whatever Bubba Wallace they had deuces hanging in my thing It's like like you just know that's BS. So a lot of us just I'm a talk show host So I don't go I'm journalistic and I have the witnesses and I have the proof and you know Jesse Smollett's full of crap, but I still went on air and

1:15:59 And I said the day after that, but I said, Jesse Smollett's full of crap. There's not dudes at 23 below zero running around at two 30 in the morning, dumping bleach on black people. Get your ass kicked. I mean, like you go attack black people, build a nice Chicago. You're going to die. I mean, like run around two 30 in the morning that ain't going on. So, so to me it's kind of like, The internet doesn't buy anything that's told anymore because they've been lied to so much. I mean, take Evaldi. I didn't say anything about Evaldi. The head of state police said everything we've been told to lie, we don't know what happened. I mean, project what you want on lies and incompetence and a 77-minute stand down. The police are putting hand sanitizers. Glenn, I'm sorry it's a long answer. What was the question?

1:16:45 What do you think led you into these kind of errors that you've been describing? Great question. It was just being on air four or five hours a day. You're very cavalier. And so you're not putting a journalistic filter on things. When I write an article, I would do that. Or I make a film, I was like getting every piece together. Those were pretty good films. Watched my films for 20 years ago. They're pretty accurate. You're on air cavalier and you're like drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes and like, you know, doing whatever. And you're like, you're like, yeah, I hear it's a bunch of fake BS, man. And like you're sued for it. Oh, God. So so and then once I got into that process, you know, once they came after me for it, once Hillary made a big issue out of it, it was a totally different ballgame. And then what makes me mad is they misrepresented what I said and what I did.

1:17:36 And then in the trials they have coming up starting next week, they defaulted me and the judge in Texas issued orders. Forget Alex Jones. Let's say I'm Hitler. The order says, cannot mention first amendment. It's in the order. Cannot say you're innocent. It cannot say it's a show trial. It's in an order. So I'm probably going to probably boycott the trial or something because that's not a trial where if I was a guy caught again, with 20 dead bodies in my basement, I could get up. They're like, Mr. Jones, we have the dead bodies and we have them in your basement. I'm still innocent, your honor. A judge has never said you can't say you're innocent. That is in a court order starting next Wednesday that I cannot say I'm innocent. So I'm not even feeling sorry for myself. I'm like, whoa, this is the end of the country. And so whatever things I did weren't on purpose and

1:18:34 I had ten points to make on your question. It was a really big question. No, I mean, I think it's interesting and I've identified this with myself, is I think if you start off as kind of this outsider, you start off as like on Access TV, you start growing a little bit in influence, growing a little bit in influence, and suddenly you, become, I think, one of the most influential people in the country with one of the largest audiences. It's hard, I think, sometimes to remind yourself I'm not that guy on AXS TV in Austin anymore because it wasn't all that long ago when you weren't getting so much scrutiny. And then suddenly you're subjected to more scrutiny than anybody. And I think it's hard to try and kind of adapt with that because it's kind of a slow and incremental process. That's why you're a great writer, great journalist. That's exactly what I meant to say.

CHAPTER 21 / 23 Discussion

Big Tech Censorship and the Julian Assange Precedent

The history of coordinated deplatforming is examined, with the subject noting he was a "test case" for Big Tech's ability to erase individuals from the internet. He references a Wall Street Journal article suggesting that the targeting of Julian Assange was a prerequisite for banning other dissidents. He argues that his removal was intended to serve as a domino effect to justify broader censorship across the political spectrum.

big tech· censorship· youtube· julian assange· wikileaks· wall street journal

1:19:16 No, no, because they go back. They go back and they go back 10 years, five years. You're like, I'd like a bottle of vodka that day. Jesus, I said that. I'm going to be honest about it. I'm not going to lie to people. Yeah, exactly. Let me ask you this because I obviously do a lot of work on internet censorship. I've done a lot of work on free speech for decades. People forget that in a lot of ways you were the first house case for whether big tech could just depersonalize somebody from the internet by uniting all at once and just banning you from speaking. And it's so striking because the reason you know you were able to develop an audience is even in the 90s when you're talking about the United States being repressive you still had the freedom you weren't gonna get a job at the New York Times and as a columnist saying that stuff but you were able to go on access TV and and build an audience and go on radio and now we're at the point where You can't be heard on the internet. You're not allowed to use any of the major

1:20:15 Venues of communication that we all use to disseminate information you can't hear from Alex Jones unless you go purposely looking for you And it's hard to find what has that been like what do you what do you kind of see as somebody's been at the center of it? What the pattern has been in terms of censorship and free speech over the last couple decades? I Well, I don't say this to sound like I care about everybody, which I do care about everybody. We're all connected, but it's not like some thing I just throw out there. I really figured out early on when they were writing about it. They had a Wall Street Journal article six years ago, five and a half years ago that said, I forget the exact headline, but they had a Gizmodo article about it that linked to it. It was like a subscription article. It was like a 15-page article, but the article was, hold on to your 10-fold hat, Alex Jones. YouTube is about to ban you. So my crew members go, you need to read this. So they printed it off, and I went and read the Wall Street Journal article. I forget the exact headline. I was like, we're going to ban Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Alex Jones. And once we ban Julian Assange and the left puts up with it, then we'll be able to ban Alex Jones. The right-wing puts up with it. We'll be able to ban everything.

1:21:18 And so I really understood that this wasn't me. When there was like no exaggeration, sometimes 500 articles a day, every TV station, Jones is a actor. He's a fake, he's a fraud. And I was able to handle it because I was realizing this isn't me. I've acted like a jackass out of context. I've done some bad things. So I am seen as the work covered example the exhibit that they're going to use. And I wasn't that work covered creature, but if you looked at the huge amount of stuff I did, you could really piece together like that's a horrible person.

1:21:58 So they built me up as this big monster to then get everybody to go. Yeah, screw that guy He doesn't deserve free speech and then once I fell Everybody else felt like dominoes so that kind of gave me solace but also upset me that they were torching American freedom Using me as the first domino and so I kind of transcended who I was and realized that only because the Wall Street Journal Was it like a NATO meeting? I forget the exact article. It was like the NATO intelligence head was saying this, like, we'll get Assange and then once they, she's from the State Department, she heard about this, she was there. Once we get Assange, then we'll get Jones. I'm like reading this going, what the, I was seen as an example that they were gonna get. And then, so like, once they get Assange,

1:22:46 Once you're hit with something that big, it's like you're in Star Wars and 20 Star Destroyers show up to blow you up. It's like you're not even intimidated anymore. You're like, what the hell is this? I don't know how to describe it, Glenn. No, no. I remember back then, I was trying to get the left and other people who used to pretend to believe in free speech to actually care and be concerned about your banning. Saying do you actually think they're gonna stop with Alex Jones, and I think shortly thereafter They did the same thing to Milo Yiannopoulos I said they're purposely picking the people they know are highly unpopular in establishment circles so that they can Have you cheer the president which will they will then use not just against others, but against your own allies They pick flamboyant clowns Exactly and I'll admit that that's what they did

CHAPTER 22 / 23 Discussion

Alternative Economies and the Backlash Against Tyranny

The discussion highlights the difficulty in finding venues for the film premiere as a sign of growing domestic repression. However, the success of "Alex's War" on digital charts is cited as evidence of an emerging "alternative economy" for authentic content. Glenn Greenwald notes that the massive loss of trust in corporate media (80-85% of the public) creates a significant opportunity for independent voices to thrive.

alternative economy· top gun· corporate media· distrust· backlash

1:23:28 Then that's what makes it sick is I'm being used as the instrument to take everybody else's freedom. That's my only guilt Yeah, you know I was when I got picked up at the airport I was told that there was some difficulty for a while getting venue here in Austin for to do this event that when they found out That you were involved They said you know what on second thought we're not really interested in in your money And I I thought about it for a minute and at first I said okay. Yeah, that's of course That's the case and then I realized That shouldn't be so comforting like normal to hear that should be chilling and alarming I should be what do you mean we're in the United States? Why is it difficult to get a venue to show a film about somebody who has a lot and we've been so conditioned? We're getting too comfortable

1:24:13 Yeah, I mean I think there's a kind of repression that has emerged that we've been trained for so long to think takes place in other places that we have a very hard time recognizing that we're actually subject to that level of repression here. Have you had problems with the film, like this film, getting distribution and other kind of publicity for it that you didn't have with the first film? Have you noticed greater difficulty? There's a bear shit in the woods? Well, sort of, but also we read the tea leaves after what happened with our last film and we took matters into our own hands and things to play nice. Hi! We, you know, we started basically talking to people outside of Hollywood and

1:25:02 I'm not, I mean I don't, I'm a free agent. I'm not playing nice. But we're a team on this movie for sure and there are people that are interested in seeing authentic content. you know and 1 a.m. DC and Amanda Milius can vouch for that too but you know we're building in a you know an alternative sort of economy and an alternative show business actually for this kind of thing but um yeah no it was it's challenging but I just expect that so but we're also number two after Top Gun so yeah

1:25:39 Let me ask Alex and Glenn this very nice question. How do you see this backfiring? Because I've studied history in hindsight and tyranny, especially in the West, always gets responded to in a big way like Hitler, the communists, you know, all of it. I don't, I think the backlash of this is going to be massive. I mean, what are you seeing, Glenn? Yeah, no, it's funny, Alex, because you, that was the question, the last question I was going to ask you was exactly that one, because there were times in the film when you were saying, you know, you were seeming a little nihilistic, like things are really grim. But obviously you see some hope, if you didn't you wouldn't be doing this. There's a lot of other things you can be doing. I think it's exactly right to think when I look at this polling data that shows that 80 or 85% of the public now despises corporate media outlets to the same extent that I do. Feels the same nausea and indignation when thinking about them. Of course there's part of me that thinks, wow, that's kind of dangerous for the society to lose complete faith in all institutions of

1:26:37 of authority, but they did it. But yeah, they deserve it. That's a valid loss of trust. It's a valid distrust that they have. But in that I see so much opportunity because there that is what has driven your ability and my ability and other people's ability to develop an audience. If they had a stranglehold on the thought process of the public, no one would be willing to listen to us question what they're saying. And that's why I want to admit I've been wrong, but not on purpose. I don't want to be with them. So I have been bad. I've made mistakes and I'm sorry it wasn't on purpose and I apologize but I am not them on purpose lying because they are going down. I am not with them. So as the last question

CHAPTER 23 / 23 Discussion

Family Background and Skepticism of Authority

The subject attributes his lifelong skepticism of government to stories heard from family members involved in high-level military and intelligence operations. He mentions an uncle who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and worked during Iran-Contra, who exposed him to the reality of narcotics trafficking and "black ops." These dinner-table conversations provided a "leg up" in understanding geopolitical realities that were hidden from the general public.

vietnam· iran-contra· black operations· rush limbaugh· human intelligence· san antonio

1:27:18 Let me ask you, we are raised in a country where we're indoctrinated from the beginning to think of our country as this kind of bastion of freedom and liberty and repression and tyranny are words that apply only to other countries, the ones we're told to hate. And when you're indoctrinated with those kinds of ideas from the beginning, in all different directions, it's very hard to free yourself from them, even if you start rationally realizing that you should. It's kind of just ingrained in us viscerally. You seem to be somebody who from the very beginning, you know were saying things that in your community and in in your politics and and in the media were things that were gonna cause you to be cast aside as a crazy person or as a conspiracy theorist going back to the 90s with Waco and and And and the FBI and those sorts of things. Why did that happen? Why why did you end up on this path that? Caused you to just constantly be so skeptical of what you're told by authority. I

1:28:17 You know, my uncle William Forrest Hammond was a heroic helicopter pilot in Vietnam and then he worked at Iran-Contra. And he wouldn't tell me all the secret stuff, but he said when I was like a teenager, I was like, I like Rush Limbaugh. And he goes, the Republicans are controlled, the Democrats are controlled. And it's all, I was down there visiting for like two weeks in San Antonio. He just, he said, let me just take you back on the back porch and let's sit down and eat a sandwich, talk about this. And he told me about a lot of the stuff he saw in Vietnam and how he did these things he was told to do. And then it got worse and worse and worse to the moment he said no. and it was narcotics trafficking in Vietnam, and then it was everything, you know, with the Iran-Contra. It met a point where...

1:29:00 They were smuggling kids out of orphanages, you know where they were going. And he said at that point he was done. And so he told me about all that. And then I had other family, you know, that were involved in black operations back when it was all human intelligence and like the Russians were actually here and they were actually in wars. So my dad's cousin was involved in a bunch of stuff. And so I grew up kind of like sitting around the dinner table, like hearing these people talk about this stuff. And so I kind of knew what was going on when other people didn't. I was just growing up around that. And so I kind of heard that. And then my dad was heavily involved in geopolitics and research and all these books around the house. And so I kind of grew up around that. And these were like pro-American people, but they were saying the government's bad. Government did a lot of bad stuff. It was a bad group taking over. But they weren't telling me this. You know, there's a bumper sticker. If you want your children to listen, whisper. They weren't telling me this stuff.

1:29:53 This was me hiding around the corner like listen what they were talking about And so that that's why I had a leg up on it all was because of a bunch of family stuff So I was uh before I came here was thinking about where I would be instead of here if I had made different choices To pursue the kind of mainstream accountability Acceptability that I was interested in in wondering why you had rejected and I was thinking I'd probably be in like a the CNN building with Wolf Blitzer and Chris Hayes and like Amy Klobuchar and Nancy Pelosi wanting to kill myself out of boredom and disgust. And you know, I refer to this crowd as like a kind of crowd of misfits and outcasts and it is and I'm so happy.

1:30:33 So much happier to be around people like this who? Place themselves on the outside and and decide that they're not going to pay that price of kind of you know of embracing things They don't believe for whatever rewards they offer and you've been doing this for decades and taking all kinds of slings and arrows And you yourself recognize you made a lot of mistakes But I'm really glad you've been doing what you're doing well, then I appreciate you coming. I appreciate Alex whole thing and I Absolutely just to close on that Thanks Alex. Go ahead. You're saying something I was just thanking you no, no, but thank you being in the movie and you know I never really thank you for you guys are being too nice But but the difference is I didn't make mistakes on purpose We all get better we all fix them and but but the larger issue is we have a lot of good I was gonna ask you did you make mistakes on purpose or did you do them intentionally? Do I what I said a five times? Yeah, you're right. I