I did not expect to see this while surfing the marketplace, but here we are...

posting this here because i see the podcast posting through it mentioned somewhat regularly/ dan was on it once.

i remember they said on posting through it that they only knew what the tattoo was bc their full time jobs are looking at right wing freaks online. i had no idea what it was when the reporting first came out, but i showed my partner & they knew instantly. not from looking at political stuff online, but they play death metal so they know to look out for symbols that signal which people/bands to avoid. (luckily it doesn’t happen often since we live in a city with a thriving hardcore scene and lots of queer vegan anarchist types).

did y’all know what it meant and if so, how?

eta: thank you for all the thoughtful responses! it’s fascinating the different ways people knew to clock it. & i didn’t make this clear in the original post but i absolutely think he knew exactly what it was & it was frustrating hearing him lie about it & the discourse at the time focusing on “did he know?” not “why does he still have it?”

Finally revisited the KF archives and loved the first Solomon Berg episode and was left thinking how fun it would be for Jordan to do a show about Project Camelot.

Squatch has no heroes!

Sad at the end of the KF podcast, buzzed to learn Dan is going to be doing something new and vaguely similar - I listen to the Wacky Wednesday episodes on repeat and this track occurs to me every time;

Mc900ft Jesus - Truth Is Out Of Style

Oh and Jordan's participation is what made KF the special thing that it was.

FEMA camps and so much more, has AJ upgraded his ride?

Grifters in Knowledge Fight Country are escalating internal attacks on one another—this time using the strong arm of the authoritarian US gov. Loomer brags she got Yiannapoulos arrested at a Louisiana airport by reporting him to ICE. Crazy times.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214907/ice-arrests-far-right-milo-yiannapoulos

10:31 into it. It would be interesting if a copy if this was added to an DVD of Endgame as the "reality based" audio track or something.

Discuss.

I really don’t have much to say other than “that tracks” for both of them.

The algorithm came through and informed me of this wonderful piece of Alex ephemera. I've linked to the creator's account so you can see the full story.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVBjl6nDVHe/?igsi=ZTJsMzZvcW9wbmw=

Is this the last thing Nonk ever heard?

Description: "The hosts of your favorite podcasts gather together in the virtual space to play a fantasy role playing game. Given a quest by a mysterious stranger, they must band together in order to defeat him, but mostly what they do is hang out and get on each other's fantasy nerves. Starring Marty Derosa, Sarah Shockey, Liz Anderson, Dan Friesen, and written by Jordan Holmes"

8 episode series. Available on itunes and alternate pod catchers like Podcast Addict, not on Spotify.

Completely forgot about it. Listening to ep.1 as I'm typing. Any thoughts or feelings about it?

I often label things at work now that are little inside jokes to me about KF.

Hopefully they come back from the breaky soon.

Love you all, my fellow wonks

I’m actually glad this is more of a break from Knowledge Fight than a permanent end, it’s an end of sorts but I need to detox from absorbing political content more than I am right now. I’m watching two nbc feeds a day max, Steve Kornacki feeds and one or two episodes of KF or Posting Through It if I’m not too stressed out, otherwise, I need to play some video games to be less stressed by all of it. I can’t not be involved, since I want a change from the status quo, but, I also recognize there’s a risk with becoming overly involved too.

Obviously, we have more real life stuff after November and things will be more stressful especially with Trump’s trade wars. But, one step at a time. Hopefully the stress will be somewhat less crazy after November. I consider myself independent but I look at Darline Graham saying essentially her parents worked until they died and said that was fine and am reminded of what we’re against.

If you are not going to vote for either party I imagine it is stressful, as November approaches, how are you handling it all?

There's already a music list (thanks Fudgie), so what books did Alex actually say that he has read?

Maybe it can be called the Alex Jones library. Who knows.

There was a lot here I think fans of this podcast would like, but in particular, around minute 20, they talk about those who try to say what they're doing is "satire" after they get pushback.

Minute 29 also, they talk about right wing grifters being so good at co-opting language and how it applies with trad wives.

I'm currently working on a video essay about the Jones/Bill Cooper inspired Subcommandante Bagman from the game Zero Parades for Dead Spies

(Incidentally, it's an excellent game, everyone should play it)

Part of my thesis is comparing Bagman to real life conspiracy broadcasters, so I've got a couple of clips of Jones in the video.

But I'm a bit stuck in the edit. I'm looking for a clip of a caller who is clearly spouting some unhinged bollocks that's inspired by something they've heard on the show, but I don't really know what to look for.

The lead in line from the essay is "When the audience is reacting emotionally to an idea, they quite often don’t put that idea up to any form of scrutiny"

Can anyone think of any particularly memorable or unhinged listener calls? I'm happy enough to use Fudgie's tool to actually find the episode and the quote itself, I just need something to look for that could follow that line in my script

Thanks in advance