0:00 thank you [Music] before we get to the news article what's everybody's favorite snack in this room go the pink Quest chips you know I like the Fritos I like the fruit the cheese Flaming Hot Fritos man yeah those are good well we're all out of it we've eaten all of them we've left all the Cheetos well yours what's your favorite style cheese is nice what Welches Welch's fruit snacks okay that's always a HomeTown favorite Colleen for snacks or beef jerky what do you guys think Joe's favorite is what about Steve's just the alcohol none of it dude yeah I don't think you eat snacks wow he looks at it with disgusting what is the number one snack for all the guests who stopped by mochi balls probably they're the most unique I think these are pretty good too the crunchyroller things yeah
0:51 what do you got these Costco I don't know but they're good though but everybody who doesn't know these are the favorite snacks [Laughter] hey give me one too then oh yeah yeah I'll take one I'll take one oh yeah I just want to be a part you know they say put this in the freezer really because they put in the freezer it says it on there actually let me put let me put two in the fridge right now put a couple in there hey you don't want one Colleen um [Laughter] we'll just throw something else all right that's good the composition go get those snacks if you want to get down all right we've talked about this guy before Alex Jones Big Ben are you tell everybody can
1:42 you just show the class who is Alex Jones to catch people up well you know I never really watch a show in Fort Worth which is what he's known for but he's just like a guy who has a very extreme some might say um what's What's the phrase conspiracy conspiracy theories and that's all he says most recent most topical one that he has been in the news for recently he got sued I believe right by a bunch of parents of Sandy Hook right for for saying that Sandy Hook was a hoax and why would they sue him because that's not true wow you're speaking like a lawyer you know um some might say he's profited from his coverage of the Sandy Hook stuff how how would he profit through
2:33 his show through like ad revenue and all that stuff right which would justify why the court has ordered him now off of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre uh lawsuit yes you're right that he claimed was a hoax has caused our irrefutable damage to the parents and the families and everybody who's been trying to obviously you know just ████ get past it the fact their child was murdered so now he has a Connecticut Jury has handed down the verdict last week ruling that the Infowars host must pay 965 million dollars that's like pretty much a billion dollars just round up how the ████ is he gonna pay a billion dollars exactly in Damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting each plaintiff received millions of dollars with one
3:24 family member receiving more than 80 million dollars wow wait you could say stuff that is not true and then they could sue you for a lot of money for it defamation but it is hard to get defamation in the court to unless unless like he said they they showed an ability for him to fully ████ profit off of this as well he did because he's got like things like inforce or his platform or his show and again this is you know us being the ████ peon non-lawyer people that are just watching from the outside I mean news anchors that we are um but yeah right like this guy's entire ████ career over the last few years and the way that he is able to go viral in today's age and the the amount of influence he has the amount of people right and then imagine all the people that believe everything it's so crazy
4:14 though that people believe that it's like it's here yeah he has a huge following that huge point he said with him like he's he says crazy ████ yeah um but his track record I don't know if it's like 50 50. it's like it's like really crazy but the stuff that he has nailed is just as crazy so I think that's why people continue to believe it because he will nail some things that are really crazy but it's not like he's like 80 accurate it's like maybe 50 or 40. he's just like 84 will be so crazy but but how do you feel about like freedom of speech and also that you profit but it's like argument right oh I think it's a lot of them were a lot of people about this are very uh up in arms because sometimes like I've seen them on different contexts right where he's like there's a
5:05 very popular podcast called flagrant too and with Andrew Schultz and those guys and he goes on there and he's just like a silly goose he's just ████ around the whole time just like playing into the character of Alex Jones but like being very satire of himself in a lot of ways so that's my only rule like exposure to him I've never really seen him on a show unfortunately but I'm sure on a show he's presenting a very like news-like Persona and I think that's probably where they have most of the damage on him is him talking about these really crazy theories of Sandy Hook and him having that context of I'm reporting the news you know so it's like I think you could play different hats and sometimes he might be just like sometimes when we're talking about this stuff sometimes we want to ████ around sometimes we don't sometimes we want to
5:56 be serious sometimes we don't and I think that's where he got caught up in but so the Court ruled in the favor of the families what would how do you guys all feel about the well well let me let me let me put it from this perspective for example um as a result of Alex Jones claims families of those killed in the horrific School accident uh or attack shocked the world and uh have been the the people the family have been harassed by fellow conspiracy theorists for nearly 10 years now oh my God right holy ████ that's how long he's been talking about this for yeah and during during last week's closing statements in court lawyers acting on behalf of the families of the Sandy Hook victim said Jones and his company Free Speech Systems LLC have cashed in on his conspiracy theories for years lawyers said Jones lies about the shooting boosted traffic to his website and made him millions of dollars in Revenue as the victim's family suffered
6:47 a decade-long campaign of harassment and death threats by Jones followers so like imagine like people hella believe this guy yeah super influencer so the now families are getting like called out they're getting death threats for like a decade that's really hard to heal yeah so that means that he made so much ████ money from your show but it's the that's what the main argument is it's it's not that he was saying something it's that what he said activated real world consequences where people went to addresses that he mentioned they went to and did things he was mentioning people's address no I mean like that pizzagate ████ oh yeah that's like people really went to the real pizza place trying to expose some kind of like pedophile ring that didn't exist but where do you draw the line of like okay saying this is okay but he
7:39 didn't know that people was gonna go but maybe the people who were harassed they should be punished for sure because it's like you can't do that but that that that's like uh maybe uh think about like when Trump was inciting people to go to the the you know what I'm saying so it's like who people were obviously getting mad at Trump too for like you know getting people riled up right no I'm just saying that he didn't did you go dude you just didn't make the trip but like if it wasn't for his influence right like those people who ended up that did go that got in trouble it's kind of like they went because they were influenced by him right yeah so it's kind of like a similar thing like the people that are doing the harassing yeah they only are doing that because they believe in what Alex is talking about the line of freedom of speech that I don't know then is the thing well think about this as
8:29 well during the court case Jones admitted that his claims about Sandy Hook shooting had been false but refused to apologize to the families okay a representative for Jones company testified that they had made at least 100 million dollars in the past decade so somebody from his ████ like you know entire ecosystem testified and said that so that figure aided the jury in coming up with a damage structure for their final decision uh and the third trial in Texas involving the parents of another the child Selena Sandy Hook is set to begin near the end of this year wow but like I do I do Wonder like if somebody testifies and says in the last decade we've made 100 million dollars how does the jury go all right then you got to pay 965 million dollars yeah what what happens if he just doesn't have it yeah right or that's also like the nine lifetimes thing right oh right like when
9:19 someone's like wait what do you mean like so he's gonna be in jail for 900 years like in the case there's a random case someone does live that long or you know you feel like there should be a cap so if you made 100 million maybe just call it well then 100 million or how much do you have in your bank account versus just timesing another one another you just have to pay forever dude yeah it just means he's always paying a portion of his earnings forever yeah which is pretty crazy but yeah it makes sense that like I think especially with uh any ruling especially if this if like higher courts are deciding verdicts they're gonna go with whatever societally beneficial and it seems like if they allowed that to slide the things that could give birth to in terms of CopyCat creators like that would just be completely batshit yeah especially with a Stranglehold of people with like media these days too right like anybody can build audience anywhere depending on you
10:10 know the right like tactics of the use so for someone like like I think like my parents if they knew there was a guy like Alex Jones making content like five years ten years ago they'd be like there's no way this guy's gonna be ████ big you know but now he has a platform of like millions of people that are actively inciting his theories you know so but that's what I'm saying like so where can you say like okay you can't put this content out but this is okay well I think when you're saying like his his case is very extreme because yeah there's very there's like cold hard evidence that this probably wasn't a ████ uh or maybe when you started when I say probably or maybe when you start dropping addresses that's pretty crazy or also you're talking about like Free Speech but like
11:01 uh in essence the argument is this guy's free speeches like anybody can say anything right but if you say stuff and then it's like causing me harm yeah like if I'm the families right if I'm the parents you're saying free things and now it's like causing my life yeah okay yeah so it's like is that free speech yeah I mean like that I think that's when the lines crossed you can say whatever you want but where's the line like what words you put together and I also think what he's saying too is like let's say I go hey Nick and I think you ████ broke my heart dude I'm like yeah ████ that guy can I leave Nick beats your ass is it because my influence on him because of my platform or does he have any responsibility for going to to like uh harass the Sandy Hook parents you know I see what you're saying but break my heart is so subjective and personal let's say um let's say it's like uh you said hey uh
11:51 Anthony ████ slapped that kid over there so Nick's like ████ this one comes over and whoops my ass and then later on the kids like no he didn't because there's like a There's an actual truth there's the fact person that's like wait a minute no there's actual fact here people should be responsible for their actions regardless of where it's stemmed from yeah and also people should fact check more you know you know if you're listening to Alex Jones he already has he already has like a cloud of like you can't trust ████ anything yeah I ████ trust anybody undertones of his home yeah so it's like it's already in a false pretense of like you know any anything the regular media is portraying is false so I don't know I think it's a slippery slope that's I
12:41 think the difference to me is that um like there's people that have maintained till this day that the Jewish Holocaust wasn't real they're saying that that was a hoax people are saying 911 was an entire job but they're not actively campaigning against mobilizing against the survivors of these things they're not like creating some kind of like Army of followers yeah that's what we'll do you're bidding that you're not actively doing but you're just telling people to be enraged about it nobody's going over to you know no one's doing anything really but then in this case because it had real world consequences I think that's the line just like on Twitch if you talk ████ about another Creator and your following goes over there and harasses their chat you are banned from twitch it doesn't matter how big of a Creator you are you do that ████ that's it but what if you're right at the time but I'm saying like what if there's a
13:31 case where somebody was right and then they mobilize a bunch of people and I think you're okay that's crazy if he was right I think you're okay but like I think they would just exonerate him and they would have the biggest ████ key to the city dude imagine you're listening to Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan's talking about like yo Sandy Hook is ████ sketch balls but then okay that's one level right and then you believe from now on like all you do is Sandy Hook wasn't real bro like you that's you but then to the another level of like we gotta go invest that's crazy that's the difference the difference is is what will happen from you saying it versus you just saying it yeah you know what I mean because you could say like loose change documentary that totally put 911 into question was into question it wasn't into action you watched it and the way they phrased everything was we would like to ask
14:21 these questions about why it looked like a controlled ex like demolition blah blah like here's all these professionals that also think the same what do you think it's the same way it's the same way reporters have to say allegedly when there's video clearly of the guy stabbing something so all we have to say so all we have to say is a legend it's legal language it's like you have to be careful with legal language because if someone can put them right now but it's just that simple if you don't say it then the news station gets sued for what allegedly he may have died if we want to say some wild ████ all we have to say is honestly let's go honestly how come people don't do that more they just forget you hey Nick allegedly you're a ████ thanks man I appreciate that
15:12 laughs thank you
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