Part One: Alex Jones: The Godfather of Fake News | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

isn't Balls to the Wall by Accept, not AC/DC?

Communism was just a Red Herring.

Less than 3 minutes and the seething hatred is already palpable

Not a fan of putting Jobs in the same sentence as Jones, but overall...

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"Raised non politically" at this point means "I was white and my parents were cool with the status quo"

I need to get a new military-type killing knife… I mean I got a good military-type wounding knife, and a street-type killing knife, but it’s such a pain to carry both, ya know?

I can't be the first to mention this, but "Balls To The Wall" is by the German band Accept, not AC/DC.

Alex probably retconned himself into a true story he heard later on.

Listening to Alex explain 16 year old Alex is fucking INSANE.
Wouldn’t you think he’d make up a believable lie like 10 or 20? Because a huge lie like that makes his other lies seem even less plausible!

It always drives me insane when people suggest a bomb was what actually brought the towers down. If the government was behind a terror attack, why would they need to make up or add in planes for it to work? Couldn't they just blow up the towers and say the Taliban did it? Why does there have to be an additional facet to the conspiracy that adds hundreds of people and makes it much more complicated? Why do conspiracies always need to be so stupid? Is it part of selecting for stupid people who will believe it, because anyone with an ounce of grey matter between their ears is going to ask that?

Is your Cyanide paired with Potassium or Sodium?

I'm watching my sodium intake.

Balls to the Wall was Accept, not AC/DC. It's an easy mistake to make.

"I HAVE A DOZEN DOCUMENTS CONFIRMING THIS!" sounds of paper being shaken vigorously
"May I see them?"
".............. no."

Mate California and Oregon guys are just doing so great it’s amazing in your cities in your in your state 🤮 Your real leaders are an example of what not to do to a population

A surprising amount of support I have encountered in real life multiple times for Jones actually comes from a lot of the more extreme Left and this is really something that I think content creators like Robert sometimes get into but then kinda whiff on. And I understand why somewhat. On a practical level when the Jones or Jimmy Dore tupes had any kind of legitimate support or interest from any considerable number of Lefties was a long time ago now. I mean, A SCANNER DARKLY was 2006 people.

Still I think a dive into how the Tim Poole and Alex Jones of the world went SO off the rails after getting a lot of their early juice from disaffected Lefties needs some serious rather than fascile analysis.

"What's your claim to fame?"

"I got punched by Space Hitler."

😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dead

sophie from mars said a thing about jone which was like "every single thing he says is a filter of how willing you are to listen to his bullshit" and every clip of him I hear just confirms that

My conspiracy theory is that Alex Jones is on the Soros take 🧐

I remember him talking about this, he usually put it like "we doing a {google,twitter} bomb" and it was to get stories trending to get them in front of more eyes.

oh with the Obama hate... I distinctly remember seeing conservative people hating on Obama before he even took office. He had that "D" by his name so all the Republicans immediately hated him. I distinctly remember someone I served with in the military posting a long rant about how Obama had made all these promises and why wasn't he carrying them out... and it was in Dec 2008, a month before Obama was inaugurated. It didn't matter that he wasn't actually president yet and couldn't actually do anything... they just. fucking. hated him. Oh and it wasn't really a race thing because the person who posted the thing I just mentioned is a black woman.

The same thing happened with Biden. They hated him the instant he won the election. And that hatred has only grown since then, despite that he hasn't really done much, and has largely stuck with Trump's policies, with a few exceptions (the one that comes to mind being the student loan forgiveness stuff, which to be fair is pretty big).

One of the funniest things about Alex Jones is how he keeps saying "we don't have time to get into it" about everything before launching into a "rant" which is mostly just him screaming "they're going to kill us2 or "they are eating children" for like 15 minutes.

It's called a sword, not a "military type killing knife" :D

On Austin public access back then there were several groups of older guys who he followed doing the conspiracy stuff. oh this reminds me off the guy who wore mirror sun glasses and would talk about all that stuff. I love saying ......his daddy was a dentist ........ spoiled white kid here in northwest Austin.

The SOB stole his shtick from The Church of the Sub genius Hour of Slack, which aired on community radio in Dallas in the 1980-1990s and was syndicated on various college radio stations throughout the country (and still is). Except it was an improv comedy parody of crackpot religion.

Young Alex Jones used to ride around town on his giant blue ox kicking asses and taking phone numbers. I heard he wrastled a full grown grizzly bear when he was only three.

Idk what kinda shit Jones is smoking but in my experience weed INCREASES horny tendencies.

Alex Jones is Dale Gribble come to life.

Only Alex Jones would have an archenemisis names Space Hitler.

Texas in the 80s and 90s was....interesting. I grew up in the Panhandle. One town had the highest per capita rate of teen pregnancies in the state, the other had the highest for teen alcoholism.

And yeah, I tell people to just imagine that I grew up in Arlen, and it'll be pretty accurate.

10-20 girls by 16 would be a big lie his number is just off the charts

No for 50 bucks you can behind the bastards ed pills.

Goat eyes sounds like something a racist could've said, iirc I've heard about that as a hatespeech towards some minorities in 19-20 century. I'm somehow sure it's not intentional here, but one can imagine that as a primal level of insecurity leaking directly from Alex's subconscious. One doesn't randomly drop animalistic characteristics about someone of his own, but about something alien or\and unpredictable or\and dangerous.

What's missing, my intros!?

Man, I love this show and I'm so happy to be listening to it again.

"Balls to the wall" is by Accept, not AC/DC ;)

Machete is pretty popular