Episode 21: "Alex's War"

"Who is Alex Jones? Looking past caricature to a human character study, Alex's War uses unprecedented access to examine the rollercoaster career of America's most infamous, charismatic and divisive public figure." -IMDb

I watched the documentary Alex's War, which shows AJ in his own words and is set amidst the backdrop of 1-6.

Links:

https://tubitv.com/movies/100011672/alex-s-war

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Welcome to con-sara-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know? Well, you're in the right place. Here is your host, Sara Causey.

 Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about the documentary film Alex's war. As of this recording is available to watch free of charge on Tubi, which is where I found it. Alex Jones is a divisive subject. Some people absolutely love him, and they tune into his broadcast every day religiously. Some people hate his guts and they think that he's the worst person ever. He's just not the kind of figure that inspires a lot of middle of the road bland. Could take him or leave him if you have not watched the film, but you want to, I would encourage you to do that. Spoilers lie ahead. Not that there's any plot to spoil on this thing, but if you want to see it first, which I always encourage you to do, read the book, watch the documentary, watch the movie, do these things First, calculate your own opinion, and then come back to this. Download it and come back to it if you haven't seen it, and you want to, in the meantime, pour yourself a frosty beverage of choice, and we will saddle up and take this ride. One obvious criticism from people who dislike this documentary is they feel like Alex is terrible. He's a hate monger. Nobody should even make a documentary like this anyway, because it just could end up inadvertently promoting him and promoting his show. Other people denounce it because they feel like there should have been critics in the documentary, like in order for it to have been fair and balanced, it should have included people that dislike Alex. They hate his message, etc. I myself am not put off by the structure of the documentary, because it's clips from Infowars, along with some behind the scenes footage, people who know Alex, people who have worked with Alex, and then interviews with Alex himself. So to me, I'm not put off by the format of it, because there's a right to free speech if somebody wants to make a documentary film and say, I just want to interview Alex and his people get their side of the story. I'm not put off by that. I think people who feel like we have to fold in the critics as well. To me, that's a bit thin in this topic, because you can find critics of Alex Jones everywhere. You don't have to dig for that information. It's not hard to find the guy has a right to make a documentary. I mean, if he wants to star in a documentary, or make a documentary about his own life, about the info war, whatever, he has a right to do that. And people have a right to their opinion, whether it was great or it was terrible. I did not realize, I guess how long Alex Jones has been doing what he does, because they go back to the beginning. It set against the backdrop of the thing that happened in the month between December and February, on the number between five and seven. Because people have said that was like Pearl Harbor. It was like 911, it was the worst thing that ever happened. I'm not even going to name the event. We all know what I'm talking about. I'll just speak in code here and call it Janet six. It's set against the backdrop of Janet six, before and then during and what Alex was doing at the time, but they go all the way back to his child enemy. He's talking about when he was a kid and he was a voracious reader, and when he got into school, he would get into fights and kind of a scrapper, and then he was lifting weights. But when he got out of school, he had an interest in media work, and that was something that I didn't know, that he had actually started out like on public access television back in the day, and then he, at some point, had a radio show, and when they showed the early footage of him, it's weird to see him young, because I think for those of US that are only sort of aware of Alex Jones being in his 40s. It is weird to see him as like this fresh faced kid who sounds almost the same. His voice is not quite as gritty and gravelly as it is now, but it's like, yep, that's Alex Jones. So he gets on the airwaves, and they interviewed this guy who was his first cameraman, and they get into this story that is, it's it's entertaining, it's funny, it's crazy about the day that they snuck into Bohemian Grove. Because this is another topic where even people who are not like. Loyal Info Wars listeners, it's not something that's of interest to them. There's at least a vague awareness that Alex Jones is that guy who broke into Bohemian Grove. So all the way back to the year 2000 remember those coded over in the year 2000 so going all the way back to the year 2000 Alex and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, are able to gain entry into Bohemian Grove, and they have this hidden camera footage of the cremation of care ceremony, and that's a whole nother topic. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of Bohemian Grove. And then what they saw there, what their documentary film involves. But in this documentary, Alex's war, that cameraman is like, I was pretty sure we were gonna get killed. Alex had this hidden camera, but he was waving it around, like doing a pan and scan, and I'm elbowing him, going, Dude, you're being too obvious. And he's like, nobody cared. We had this secret camera, and we were just not not being quite as covert and still, as we probably should have been, but yet nobody cared. They were all focused on this cremation of care ceremony, and nobody was really looking at us. It was also funny, because they they were dressing preppy and like in khaki pants and nondescript shirts like any sort of yuppie would have been wearing at the time, and they're doing this dress rehearsal. I will admit to you in the documentary, when I was watching this, I laughed out loud, because Alex is like, All right, we have to look the part. We have to sound the part. You know, Mike. The microprocessors that I am seeing this technology is really taking off. I really think it's the wave of the future. So they're trying to look and sound like white yuppies, that would be going, I have to say, I did think that that was funny. They also show a video of him from years ago, when W was in office, and he's hanging out with Joe Rogan and they're smoking and they're making fun of poppy and of W. That was also funny. I That's something else, I guess I didn't realize is that he and Joe Rogan have been friends for that length of time. I I knew that they knew each other now, but I didn't realize that they went back that far. So Alex talks about how when he was making fun of Bush, all these Austin liberals loved him and thought that it was funny. But then when Obama gets elected and he starts making fun of Obama, they all turn on him, like, what was fine when you were criticizing Bush, but now that you're criticizing Obama, we don't like you and we don't appreciate what you're doing for me. And this is just my opinion, and it could be wrong. I want to really, really emphasize that point. It's just my opinion, and it could be wrong, not telling you this is a statement of fact or it's gospel truth. I'm just speculating here. My my trigger for controlled oppo, it's tripped whenever I feel like people are giving hopium. They're telling the truth, but their prescription of how to deal with it is bogus. They're leading people in the wrong direction. I mean, it's obvious when somebody makes predictions and then their predictions don't come true. You know? It's like psychics that get in those big auditoriums and they're like, I'm being pulled in this direction. Did someone have a relative who died with a first name that started with S? I mean, you know that somebody's going to raise their hand. It's obvious when, when that is going on, that it's foolishness. But I think it can be more difficult for people to suss things out if they're being told generally accurate information, but then they're given a quote, unquote solution that doesn't make any sense or that's going to lead them into harm. There was the big kerfuffle that happened between Alex Jones and David Knight, because David Knight used to be on Infowars, and then all of a sudden, David Knight was gone. Now both of those people have their own side of the story, and I'm not going to get into it here, because I'm not a fan. So it doesn't really matter to me. It's six and one half a dozen in the other I don't I don't feel like that's a good expenditure of my time. One thing that I will say for David Knight is that he has been clear in saying that he felt like the whole Janet six thing was going to turn into a big mess, and he did not want to encourage people in his listening audience to go to it, because he was afraid that the type of thing that happened was going to happen. And again, this is just my opinion, and it could be wrong. I feel like my sensor for controlled oppo gets triggered when I hear people, whether it's you. Uh hopium, in the form of RTO, is dying off, and all of these CEOs, they're going to listen to the common man, the employee is going to win over the employer, or whether it's somebody saying the globalists are really shaking in their boots. They're scared of John and Jane. Q Public, we've really gone a shot in this. We can really overcome,

can we though, what changes? What changes this for me is one of my areas of fascination with the Kennedy Pop Pop is it's like when you start to look at the same crap different day that we've had Warhawks and just the size and scope of the government getting bigger and bigger, and the size and scope of the domestic spying apparatus getting bigger and bigger, it's like, what the hell difference does it make? Remember the people that got all geeked up for Obama, and they really thought that he represented hope and change after the nightmare of Bush Cheney. He was going to turn it around and things were going to be different. Wrong answer. Wrong answer. He war hawked right along, and he kept the domestic spying apparatus going. We may as well have had just a continuation of Bush Cheney, except with a different set of faces. So you'll have to pardon me if I'm skeptical, when people say, Well, if you just vote harder, if we just pick somebody different, if we just get somebody else who will really drain the swamp, they're going to fix the problem. Oh, yeah, of course they will look at the Orange Man. He said that he was going to drain the swamp, get rid of all these swamp rats and swamp creatures that had been in there making life hell for everybody. He was gonna turn it around. Did he remember operation warp speed, the stabbies and that whole nightmare? God bless I don't want to go through some like that again. No, God no. But people would make excuses. Well, he's not a politician. He's still trying to figure out who's loyal and who isn't. He's still trying to figure out who's Deep State and who isn't. I mean, his followers would twist themselves into pretzels trying to figure out, well, is he just a Is he hiring people that are morons? Is he the moron, or is he maybe a wolf in sheep's clothing? You know, something to think about there. And for me, I just have a difficult time being able to trust any platform that repetitively tells people, here's all the bad news. But don't worry, because the globalists are scared of John and Jane Q Public, everything's going to ultimately be all right. God is going to win. We're going to be fine. I mean, what? What is really changing because of that? It's not much different than the social justice warriors that want to put a certain icon or an emoji or a flag on social media and act like they've really done something, and it's like, how are you actually helping anybody in the theater of war or in an impoverished nation by putting a freaking emoji on social media? It makes no sense, but it gives people the illusion that they've done something, and that's my personal opinion about platforms like Alex's, people sit and they listen, and they hear all this bad news, and some of it's accurate bad news, by the way, they listen to the bad news. But then he's, he's like an evangelist, in a way, in my opinion, he gets, he gets people hyped up, and don't worry, the globalists are shaking in their boots. God is going to win. We know that the right is on our side, and people can leave feeling like, well, all right, we've got all of this that's going on, but it'll be okay. It'll ultimately be okay. The globalists are shaking in their boots. They're scared of us, okay, if you say so. Now, as I told you, that's just my opinion, and it could be wrong. I feel like, in watching this film, it it further shows that, you know, Alex is, he's passionate, and then you could tell that from the beginning. I mean, he puts on a good show. Sometimes he puts on voices. He's willing to put on masks or impersonate people. Sometimes he'll wear makeup and act crazy. I mean, he is putting on an entertaining show. And sometimes the stuff that he says is laugh out loud funny, like the dress rehearsal. Oh, I think that microchips are really the way of the future, and microprocessors, it's funny. Some of the stuff that he does and says is funny. And I suspect that's one of the things that is off putting to the critics of this film, is that they get angry that there. Times that Alex is funny. There's times when Alex is entertaining. Well, he's politically incorrect. He says things that people consider to be hate speech. We shouldn't be laughing at him. We should just shun him. Hey, look, let him have the opportunity to be in this documentary. Say what he wants to say, and then let the public make up their mind. Let people make up their own minds. One interesting assertion that's made speaking of the orange man in this documentary by one of the participants is that it was really Alex that helped get the orange man elected. It wasn't that the Orange Man was doing Alex any favors by speaking with him. It was that Alex was really the one because of the size of his audience and the influence that he has over people. It was really Alex that helped to get the orange man elected in the first place. To me, when we start talking about individuals, commentators, content creators, whatever label you want to use, when somebody gets an audience of a million or more, they start to get into the multi millions, the 10s of millions. I don't consider that to be fringe anymore. I don't there's too many people listening to it for it to be considered fringe. You could call it alternative media. You call it alternative viewpoints, but it's not fringe anymore. If you've got a million plus people listening to it. I think it was somewhere around the election that Alex claimed there were 86 million unique IP addresses tuning into the Infowars website. That's humongous. That is not a teeny, tiny fringe audience anymore. So we get to Janet six and the footage that they show of what happened there, it doesn't lend itself for someone to think that Alex was fomenting any conflict. I mean, he repeatedly, through the bullhorn, tells people, don't go where you're not supposed to change directions. Be peaceful. Don't loot, don't riot, don't show out. Let's stay calm. The Orange Man is not going to come and speak and participate in this. If we all get rowdy like we need to calm down. I mean, I didn't see him doing anything in this documentary, in the footage that's provided in this documentary, that made me think that he was actively trying to foment trouble. There are various theories about who was involved that day. And I have said on the air before, even on my daytime broadcast, there's no way in hell that I would go to something like that. Now that's just me personally. You can boo hiss. You can throw rotten tomatoes at me. That's fine. No way in hell I would go for anybody, okay, I have the strong interest in the JFK, pop, pop. If somebody called me up on the phone and said, Hey, we're going to get together a peaceful protest, we're going to go wherever, it wouldn't matter where it was, the Capitol, the White House, the National Archives Building, we're going to march around Congress, whatever. It's going to be totally peaceful. We're just going to have like, sandwich boards and a bullhorn and say, We want all of the documents declassified and released. We're tired of things being hidden in the shadows after all these years. Are you in nope, hell freaking No, I'm not. No no. First of all, who's We? We? Who is organizing this that's that's a, an incredibly crucial point to ponder on these things, who's organizing it, and then when you have a group where anybody can show up, you don't really know who else you're going to be dealing with. See, this is a point to David Knight's credit that I've heard him make before about the things that happened with Janet six there very well could have been, you don't have to, we have to couch our language sometimes, but there very well could have been provocateurs there. There could have been people who were there on purpose, regardless of who they were, all right, regardless of what entities they may or may not have been representing. If you catch my drift, there were easily people who could have been there doing things on purpose, to get rowdy, to cause trouble, to make the whole thing snowball into an avalanche from hell. So there's no way somebody said, Hey, do you want to come to this peaceful gathering and demand that the records be released? Finally, nope, sure. Don't know. Y'all have fun with that, and then when you're all calling for bail money, you need not, because you shouldn't have gone down there and done that. But we have a right to free assembly. We have a right to free speech. We have a right to protest peacefully. Yeah, you sure do you do. And unfortunately, the time in which you live, provocateurs know that, and they will go and do whatever is necessary to, first of all, to discredit all of you, make all of you look like complete loons, and then, second of all, start off something violent and get everybody locked up. So you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna keep my at the house. Okay? Do. Yeah, so you don't see in this documentary Alex saying anything that would lend itself to, oh, he fomented violence. No. I mean, I saw no evidence of that in this documentary.

We just don't know the extent of who else was there, what their motives were, who they could have been working for. We don't know. We don't know, but this documentary is put against that backdrop. Sort of opens up the prelude to Janet six talks about Alex's story, how he got started on the air, how he snuck in at Bohemian Grove, what's going on with his platform now. They also talk about the lawsuit, which I'm not going to talk about here on the air. I mean, it's, it's at least heavily implied in the documentary that, because of his popularity, because of the size of his audience, his detractors wanted to find someplace where he had really screwed up and they could stick it to him. And so that's what happened, according to the documentary, according to him, this is another area where I'm just like because, see, we hear this from the Orange Man, they're persecuting me. They would really like to persecute all of you, all of you that are considered to be the deplorables. They would really like to persecute all of you. But I'm I'm standing in the way. I'm the Messiah figure. Once they get rid of me, there's nothing holding them back. So they're going to persecute me instead of persecuting you. But if I go away, if they do away with me, then you're not going to have a Savior that's taking your place. Language like that, I find really bothersome. It turns me off, and I think it's weird when somebody is using language like they're trying to martyr themselves, or they're at least vaguely comparing themselves to Jesus Christ. It just, I find that weird. I find it over the top and hyperbolic and weird. Again, just my opinion, and it could be wrong. One of the ironies that they call out, well, I say irony with a wink, an irony wink that they call out in the documentary is the more that people try to de platform Alex, the more that people say terrible things about him and drag his name through the mud and the media the more popular that he gets. So I want you to just stop and think about that. The more that somebody is dragged through the mud, the more popular that person becomes. Hmm? Is that a coincidence? Hmm? Or, you know, stay with me here. Could it potentially be orchestrated theater for the public? I mean, I sort of feel like if somebody were controlled oppo, that would be a great way to keep up the facade, to keep up the ruse. Every so often this person gets dragged through the court system, every so often this person is the subject of a really terrible media hit piece that makes them sound terrible, and their followers rally around them, and then they get even more followers, and so they just continually get bigger and bigger. I'm not saying that's the case here, to be clear, just giving you some theories and opinions and they could all be wrong. Maybe I'm just full of bunk. I would say, watch the documentary for yourself. Take a look at what jumps out to you. What conclusions do you draw from it? Because your conclusions may be totally different. I just think there's some interesting food for thought there. Stay a little bit crazy, and I will see you in the next episode.

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