Part One: Alex Jones: The Godfather of Fake News | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
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Part One: Alex Jones: The Godfather of Fake News | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Alex Jones has been banned from Facebook, Twitter, the App Store and pretty much every other mainstream app that is capable of somehow spreading information. In Episode 22, Robert is joined by Noel Brown and Benjamin Bowlin (Ridiculous History and Stuff They Don't Want You To Know) and they discuss how Alex Jones became an architect of modern conservative media.
Original Air Date: September 18, 2018
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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"What's your claim to fame?" "I got punched by Space Hitler." 😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dead
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.
Which conveniently uses up all the time before the next ad break, so there's never time to discuss any of the 'proof'.
Also it's funny how often Alex is 👍 right. 😂
@@robbiesharp311 It is funny since the frequency he is actually right is less than 0.1%
@@press_x_tojason even a broken clock is right twice a day. Alex jones cant even manage that
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.
He killed Pablo Escobar!
He once ate the Bible while waterskiing!
Uhm, actually that was David Crocket what killed him that bear when he was only three.
Alex Jones predicted 911... so there's that.
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
I heard she used to lie about Xanderhal. Lying is not cool. She may not be as bad as Alex, but she sure ain't no saint if it's true she spreads malicious lies about others.
@@NotoriousLightning I think it's very normal of you to see a trans woman mentioned and immediately try spreading drama rumours about her. If you want to talk shit at least have the decency to do enough research to remove the "I heard" and "if it's true".
Whats a Zanderhaul? @@NotoriousLightning
"I HAVE A DOZEN DOCUMENTS CONFIRMING THIS!" *sounds of paper being shaken vigorously* "May I see them?" ".............. no."
they are blank or they are his divorce paperwork and nothing else.
59:40 ah, the naive days when we thought the Muller Report would actually _do_ something.
I wouldn't write it off so dismissively... A lot could still happen in regards to that report!
"Raised non politically" at this point means "I was white and my parents were cool with the status quo"
And given he was born in the South in the early 1970s, the status quo was...
"The socks stay on!"
What's missing, my intros!? Man, I love this show and I'm so happy to be listening to it again.
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.
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?
18:34 _"I'm sick of them putting Rings Of Power in the shire that turn the frickin' Hobbits gay!"_
Calling bullshit that Robert hadn't seen a movie literally *called* machete
I can't be the first to mention this, but "Balls To The Wall" is by the German band Accept, not AC/DC.
Balls to the Wall was Accept, not AC/DC. It's an easy mistake to make.
48:20 - 'Balls to the wall' is not an AC/DC song, it's an Accept song. Perhaps you were thinking of 'Big balls'
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).
Only Alex Jones would have an archenemisis names Space Hitler.
I never imagined I'd be rooting for anyone named "Space Hitler"
Is your Cyanide paired with Potassium or Sodium? I'm watching my sodium intake.
"Balls to the wall" is by Accept, not AC/DC ;)
i think they where thinking of Big Balls
isn't Balls to the Wall by Accept, not AC/DC?
Alex probably retconned himself into a true story he heard later on.
14:21 he believed if he repeatedly “resisted temptation” by sleeping near all of them naked he would essentially gain incredibly powerful energy that he could then use it to convince the British that specifically the Indian people were of equal hierarchical footing
given what british boarding school is like, that is an argument that would probably work
Damn, Gandhi was a NoFap redditor? Crazy shit
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.
I once decided, while writing a story with a character who's a conspiracy theorist, that I would watch a bit of an Alex Jones video. I figured it would be good research. Now, he claims to do 'news' and while I didn't necessarily go into it looking to see what he had to say, I go into anything with an assumption that someone might bring something of value. If I didn't, I wouldn't have started to see how all these kooky leftists have a point about things, and would still be a #Edgy Libertarian/Tech-Bro acolyte type. It just so happened that the video was talking about a recent Superbowl, in which (he claimed) the New England Patriots cheated. Now, I don't know if they did. I do know they have been accused, somewhat credibly, of less-than-savory tactics, so maybe they did. And maybe Mr. Jones, being a man who is always on the lookout for hidden things, might have seen something that I didn't. I watched maybe two or three minutes, in which he accused them of cheating by... Timing out the snap count. Now, that is not reading signals. He did not even CLAIM they read signals. Or anything of the sort. What he accused them of doing was just... Figuring out how long the other team's quarterback usually takes to hike the ball. Something that not only is not against the rules, and is encouraged, would require some sort of Harrison Bergeron technology to prevent. He accused a team of cheating for having basic observational skills. Despite what he thinks, it is not illegal for football players to watch football, particularly if the football they are watching is a game they are in. Within a few minutes, I was fully inoculated against anything else this man had to say. Which may have helped me avoid falling into any conspiracy theories, which is good, because I tend to have a mind so open that you never know what might fall in. However, I did need to find a new person to base my character on...
45:15 - 45:31 It's like the if the Internet were a physical place you could go to. Someone has to find and upload this clip!
Machete is pretty popular
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.
Praise Dobbs!
@@williamchamberlain2263 Give me slack or give me death!
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.
Alex Jones is Dale Gribble come to life.
Instead of pocket sand, pockets full of poorly regulated "dietary supplements."
10-20 girls by 16 would be a big lie his number is just off the charts
Don't forget that Alex Jones was the first human to discover sex. The deep state has tried to cover this up, but it was a pretty big deal when it happened.
I feel warmer psychologically knowing you love about 40% of me.
Okay as someone from Houston, what is a Houston accent?
All I know about Houston, beyond that it is the baseball cheating capital, is that, like 20 years ago, it was the world's biggest consumer of chicken per capita, so I assume it's the traditional Texan accent filtered through a tangible layer of neck and facial fat.
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's called a sword, not a "military type killing knife" :D
Sounds more like a bayonet.
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself might mean something like the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, or probably the Nahkampfmesser
Less than 3 minutes and the seething hatred is already palpable
You’d feel the same way if someone robbed your grandparents of their sanity
My conspiracy theory is that Alex Jones is on the Soros take 🧐
"The AC/DC song Balls to the Wall" I can't tell if you meant Balls to the Wall by Accept or Big Balls by AC/DC. Either way, you fucked up.
17:30 I want what these guys are smoking, because honestly, this Jones sounds even worse than the current one. Yea, sure, current Jones is technically worse in that his "polished" presentation better obfuscated his political conspiracies, but the thing these three guys are glazing Jones over here is... him going on an incel rant about being trolled by a crank phone caller in the 90s? "He doesn't sound like he's bought into his own Kool-Aid yet" he's screaming at a random caller, saying he loves Bill Clinton and the NWO because he's laughing. That sounds way more like buying into his own hype than the Alex Jones using a funny goblin metaphor to defend Trump on his pretend anti-authority show.
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.
See I keep hearing of how "extreme left" is always so bad but when we look at stuff like Alex Jones consistently demonizing the parents of children who were murdered I can't help but wonder what leftists could do to ever match that
In the 00s, Congress was united on an obviously ruinous and pointless War on Terror. Critical members of society could easily point to the consensus that existed on both sides. Wacko conservative pols like Santorum were considered kooks. But the Left was interested in using that criticism to push for reform, and the Right was using that as criticism to find “enemies” to distract from worsening conditions. By 2016, politics had shifted to a domestic focus. The right had listened to the fringes and dumped their legacy pols for tea partiers, and could no longer point to external enemies. Since the point is distracting voters by blaming culprits - not actually fixing things - they needed to start looking for scapegoats inside the country. That looks like the nutso witch hunts we see today.
Not a fan of putting Jobs in the same sentence as Jones, but overall... 👍
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
Texas is the only Republican state that's not living off federal funding handouts - all the rest take more from the US treasury than they contribute, and even Texas doesn't contribute that much.
I wonder if you know anything about the leadership in OR and why it's faced trouble. Might be the OR GOP that's retained an outsized share of power for a very long time.