Thank you for that introduction.
My fellow Toast Masters, today I'm here to talk to
you about someone or someone who has given some positive
influence on my life.
But before I go into that, I need to go
into the opposite.
I need to talk about the biggest bully I know,
both to myself and my home community in Connecticut.
A long time ago, I wasn't there, I was in
college at the time, but in my home state, we
had a terrible massacre, something we called the Sandy Hook
Massacre, where children were not only shot dead, but they
were so mutilated that pieces of faces were on the
ground.
As our community mourned, a guy by the name of
Wolfgang Halbig was a reporter who was coming around and
asking questions, but not just asking questions pointedly, making accusations
while seemingly to ask questions for some media network we
never heard of, something called InfoWars from some far away
place called Texas.
To us in Connecticut, Texas is a very, very far
away place.
Through time, I eventually began to understand who Alex Jones
in InfoWars was.
And I tell you, Alex is a monster.
Alex is the type of guy who will show up
at people's houses with a bullhorn.
His staff will show up to your houses.
There's multiple videos of them doing this.
He showed up to the January 6th Capitol on J6,
and on the first No King's Day, Vance Luther Bolter
killed Minnesota former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and
her husband Mark Hortman in their home in Brooklyn, Minnesota.
And his neighbor did confirm that this was this guy,
this assassin did listen to InfoWars.
And the day before this, Alex Jones was going off
in a whole tirade about how we're in an active
civil war right now, to a point where if you
were listened to it and you actually believed in Alex,
then the only option you don't think it would have
left is to start shooting.
Alex is a monster, and for a long time I
feared this man.
But there is an unlikely entity which actually changed
the way that I look at Alex.
Rather than something to be feared or angered, rather to
just to look at with pity and just something as
if he's not really something to be taken seriously.
Of all things, it's actually a podcast.
It's a podcast called Knowledge Fight.
And here's the way it works it's two guys.
One guy who does a deep dive in fact checking,
and another guy who's a comedian.
So what they do, their formula, is to bring up
clips of Alex.
Alex will typically what he'll do is he'll skim over
headlines.
He'll have stacks of papers on his desk.
He'll go through headlines and things like that one at
a time real fast.
And then the podcast will pause and say, hey, let's
pull up this article and actually read through and just
see just how wrong Alex got this article.
And he as he does this, the comedian will jump
in and it will add like a light flavor to
it.
It's the type of thing where when you see something
so disgusting that comes from Alex Jones, something that's so
disgusting is the outrageous accusations that Infowars makes, the podcast
pauses it, fact checks it, and then the comedian jumps
in and it turns it into a funny type of
thing.
It's as if sometimes you notice how the Daily Show
or some of these late-night comedy individuals, they'll cover not
deep dark stuff like Alex Jones, but they'll cover general
news stuff and they'll turn it into a little bit
of comedy.
These guys are able to do that, but to the
extent of Alex Jones at Infowars.
It was something that, for one, took a massive monster
that myself and a lot of my homestead community never
saw, and turns this into a thing where we just
find Alex to be downright pathetic.
Because we actually keep track of just how wrong Alex
Jones is.
We actually keep tallies on that.
They make fun of Alex by showing us how many
times he believes that nuclear war is going to happen
the very next week.
They show how many times he reuses ridiculous claims such
as race specific bio weapons.
And he also goes into the formula on how Alex
Jones works
Alex Jones claims that he's the tip of the spear,
one who's about to figure out what the globalists are
about to do next.
And so therefore, if he makes a prediction about something
that globalists are going to do next, if said prediction
does not come true, he puts himself in a situation
and can say, hey, the reason that didn't happen is
because I called the globalists out.
So he can make predictions, and even if they don't
come true, he's put himself in a position where he's
always right.
And he uses his hashtag Alex is always right all
the time because of the way he formulates things.
It's been a really interesting thing too, because I've learned
a lot about Texas history, things I never would have
known, such as the John Birch Society.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with that, but essentially
a long time ago, there were these people who coined
the term globalist, and they would use this to fling
it at anyone who they believed political opposition to be,
but mainly to be unions and things like that.
It was interesting to see how the father of the
Koch brothers was in the so-called John Burch society and
things like that.
And apparently so was Alex's father.
I also learned a lot about how the right uses
language.
Because Alex Jones invites Nick Fuentes on his show a
lot.
And this is something that we see.
We realize that the word globalist or new world order
can mean different things to different people.
To people like Alex, it means the John Burch Society.
To people like Nick Fluentes, it means the Jews.
But when Nick Fluentes first came on to Alex Jones'
show, Alex would get very nervous because Nick Fluentes would
freely use the word Jew all the time until he
finally started using the buzzwords.
became uh they They became uh more collaborative together.
It's really interesting to learn all these things, but most
importantly, the way that these podcasters of all people, this
unlikely podcast, became an influence on a positive influence on
my life is because they took someone who I hated
the most, someone who just would make me grind my
teeth, and make me see just see how truly pathetic
he is as a man rather than a monster.
It is impressive to see how just ad hoc Alex
can be with his lies, but it's even more impressive
to see the lies get called out, and also the
way to turn it into comedy and to make it
fun and knowledge flight is a podcast that I look
forward to every episode of.
So, with that said, I thank those two Chicago boys
for uh stepping up and going against one of the
largest uh con artists that we have in our country.
Thank you for your time.