Decoding the Gurus Interview with Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight on Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook Trial, and conspiracy ecosystems
02:14:51
Policy Wonk Origins
- Dan Friesen's "policy wonk" segment arose from Alex Jones' misuse of the term.
- This and other unplanned segments became popular with listeners, like a teacher using "bright spots" with her class.
Balancing Negativity
- Knowledge Fight uses positive segments like "bright spots" to counter the negativity of Alex Jones' content.
- They aim to avoid fostering a community solely focused on hating Jones.
Epstein's Prescience?
- Dan Friesen challenges the idea of Alex Jones' prescience regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
- Friesen suggests Jones retroactively applied the Epstein label to earlier Satanic Panic coverage.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Double Standard in Politics and Politics
02:05 • 2min
I Respect His Willingness and Ability to Routinely Piss People Off Across the Spectrum
04:14 • 2min
Sam Harriss - Is He a Pure Beim?
05:47 • 5min
The Oll Meat Diet Is Sut Such a Miracle Cure
10:19 • 2min
I Don't Ow It, and I Told It, Yet You Hate It
12:01 • 2min
The Hetrodox Twitterady Interview With Dan Afront
13:47 • 3min
I'm Glad That You're Getting Milage
16:35 • 4min
Is There a Certain Level of Responsibilities That a Creator Has?
20:56 • 4min
Ike, Yeah, He Was Right About a Bunch of Stuff, but It's an Illusion
24:51 • 4min
Is He Talking About Epstein by Name?
28:38 • 3min
Are the Characters Like, Are They Bad or Are They Absolute Crazy?
31:27 • 5min
I Think That Alexods Knows That, and I Think That He Was Tweeding at Them a Little Too Much.
36:56 • 2min
Is There an Explanation for a Deposition?
38:49 • 4min
I Think the Breaking Point Is the Court Case
43:12 • 3min
I'm Onb Nobody's Ass From My Expect Not Yet, Christ, Not Yet
45:56 • 3min
Is It a Nee Jerk Kind of Defensiveness?
49:11 • 5min
What's Your Personality Diagnisis of Alex Jones?
54:35 • 2min
How Does Alex Jones Qualify for What You Think of as a Gooroo?
57:04 • 5min
The Parallel Evolution of the Sm Rhetoric Techniques
01:02:26 • 5min
How Do We Perceive Alex as a Goroo?
01:07:03 • 3min
The Gishgalop of One Point After the Other, a Elusive Sense
01:10:10 • 6min
Is There an Erosion of Standards?
01:15:56 • 6min
Do You Have Any Advice About What Not to Do With Alex?
01:21:38 • 4min
The Media Lies About Us
01:25:31 • 2min
I'm Seeing Residences of That With Our Other Curers, Right?
01:27:02 • 3min
Are You Planning to Continue to Cover Alex Jones Indefinitely?
01:30:14 • 5min
You Know, I'm a Bit of a Conspiracy Fanatic, but I'm Not Sure if It's a Good Idea.
01:34:48 • 5min
I've Always Loved Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantastical Stuff
01:39:42 • 2min
The Sense Maker Sphere, Umjon Peterson
01:41:13 • 3min
The Surface Isn't Existing
01:44:38 • 4min
Ye Ye, Like Similar Kinds of Things.
01:48:11 • 3min
Alex Lik, You Can Make Up Stories That Justify a Lot of Behaviors
01:51:30 • 2min
Paul Joseph Watson, a Second in Command Figure, in Impovors Whose No, Receded Into the Background a Bet on His Own Am.
01:53:30 • 2min
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.
01:55:52 • 5min
The Knowledge Fight
02:00:45 • 2min
The Intanet Review - A Few Short Reviews
02:02:36 • 2min
We're All About Criticising Style
02:04:53 • 3min
We're Only Activists if Your World Is Partisan
02:08:12 • 2min
We're Not Going to Advance Concoction Theories. We Will Advance Conspiracy Hypotheses
02:10:08 • 2min
The Sense Making Extravaganze
02:12:13 • 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!
Links
- Knowledge Fight podcast
- Jordan's live-tweeting of the trial
- Alex Jone's trial highlight
- Knowledge Fight's post-trial review episode (712) with the Sandy Hook parents' trial lawyers
- Article on Knowledge Fight in the New York Times
- Dan & Jordan on CNN
- Article on that Paul Joseph Watson audio recording
- Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #313
- Sam Harris' appearance on Triggernometry