Decoding the Gurus

Interview with Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight on Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook Trial, and conspiracy ecosystems

Aug 27, 2022

02:14:51

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What's He Really Talking About?

01:37

What the Hell?

01:01

Sam Harris Interview

00:41

It's Not the Same

00:53

Introduction

2min

The Double Standard in Politics and Politics

2min

I Respect His Willingness and Ability to Routinely Piss People Off Across the Spectrum

2min

Sam Harriss - Is He a Pure Beim?

5min

The Oll Meat Diet Is Sut Such a Miracle Cure

2min

I Don't Ow It, and I Told It, Yet You Hate It

2min

The Hetrodox Twitterady Interview With Dan Afront

3min

I'm Glad That You're Getting Milage

4min

Is There a Certain Level of Responsibilities That a Creator Has?

4min

10.

Ike, Yeah, He Was Right About a Bunch of Stuff, but It's an Illusion

4min

11.

Is He Talking About Epstein by Name?

3min

12.

Are the Characters Like, Are They Bad or Are They Absolute Crazy?

5min

13.

I Think That Alexods Knows That, and I Think That He Was Tweeding at Them a Little Too Much.

2min

14.

Is There an Explanation for a Deposition?

4min

15.

I Think the Breaking Point Is the Court Case

3min

16.

I'm Onb Nobody's Ass From My Expect Not Yet, Christ, Not Yet

3min

17.

Is It a Nee Jerk Kind of Defensiveness?

5min

18.

What's Your Personality Diagnisis of Alex Jones?

2min

19.

How Does Alex Jones Qualify for What You Think of as a Gooroo?

5min

20.

The Parallel Evolution of the Sm Rhetoric Techniques

5min

21.

How Do We Perceive Alex as a Goroo?

3min

22.

The Gishgalop of One Point After the Other, a Elusive Sense

6min

23.

Is There an Erosion of Standards?

6min

24.

Do You Have Any Advice About What Not to Do With Alex?

4min

25.

The Media Lies About Us

2min

26.

I'm Seeing Residences of That With Our Other Curers, Right?

3min

27.

Are You Planning to Continue to Cover Alex Jones Indefinitely?

5min

28.

You Know, I'm a Bit of a Conspiracy Fanatic, but I'm Not Sure if It's a Good Idea.

5min

29.

I've Always Loved Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantastical Stuff

2min

30.

The Sense Maker Sphere, Umjon Peterson

3min

31.

The Surface Isn't Existing

4min

32.

Ye Ye, Like Similar Kinds of Things.

3min

33.

Alex Lik, You Can Make Up Stories That Justify a Lot of Behaviors

2min

34.

Paul Joseph Watson, a Second in Command Figure, in Impovors Whose No, Receded Into the Background a Bet on His Own Am.

2min

35.

I'm Not Sure if It's Real or Not, but It Could Be Real, and I Don't Know if It Is True or Not.

5min

36.

The Knowledge Fight

2min

37.

The Intanet Review - A Few Short Reviews

2min

38.

We're All About Criticising Style

3min

39.

We're Only Activists if Your World Is Partisan

2min

40.

We're Not Going to Advance Concoction Theories. We Will Advance Conspiracy Hypotheses

2min

41.

The Sense Making Extravaganze

2min

A special crossover episode (long anticipated- at least by us) with one-half of the Knowledge Fight podcast. Specifically, we have Dan Friesen on to enlighten us about all things Alex Jones, the recent trial with the Sandy Hook parents, and to compare notes regarding gurus and conspiracy theorists. Not to mention to give Chris the chance to demonstrate his inner fanboy!

Dan is a guy with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Alex Jones and some very astute insights into conspiracy psychology. In fact, Matt and Chris think he might be most accurately considered as something of a rogue anthropologist doing deep ethnographic observation of the InfoWars ecosystem. Dan, meanwhile, maintains he's just a guy! Either way, Dan and the Knowledge Fight podcast are definitely our kind of bag. We hope you too enjoy the conversation and there is plenty of Knowledge Fight episodes (700+) if this leaves you wanting more.

Also, in this episode, we discuss Sam Harris' recent online travails, Jordan Peterson's appearance on Lex, and at the end of the episode, Matt finally learns what the podcast is really about!

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