Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country

Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show will provide a humorous and fun layer on top of discussing the context on why liars lie and how they do it. Listen here https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-knowledge-fight-country-30942955 and subscribe to Knowledge Fight Country on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

• 0:03Speaker 00

  My name is Dan Friesen, and for the last 10 years, I've hosted a podcast about Alex Jones and Infowars called Knowledge Fight. The show started as an exercise of sincere curiosity, where I wanted to know what Alex Jones was talking about and give his ideas a fair shake, but over time, that became difficult.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  I'm gonna talk to Pastor Brown and two other pastors I trust about this first. Before I do it, Catholics can pray the rosary and things like that, that's good, you know, focus on God, but I personally am strongly considering praying for the angel of death. So, that's where we're at, alright?

• 0:42Speaker 00

  When I watched thousands of hours of Alex's show, what I saw was a raving lunatic who had basically zero meaningful political positions, and people were mistakenly categorizing in that field. Over my time doing that show, I discovered that one of the most powerful tricks that con men have at their disposal is playing games with context. If you do a three-hour show and say something horribly inflammatory an hour into it, you get to dodge any questions about the horrible things you said, as Alex Jones did repeatedly under oath.

• 1:14Speaker 01

  Uh, yeah, so Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids, and it just shows how bold they are.

• 1:32Speaker 02

  You're not questioning anything here, you're saying they clearly used actors, right?

• 1:36Speaker 01

  I had to see the full context of that video, I tried to find the full context, baby, you have it. You have the full context of that video?

• 1:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, you gave it to me.

• 1:45Speaker 01

  I can't answer this, it's not in context. I don't know what you're showing me. It's not an edited tape, I don't know the context. Sure. Not that that is an out-of-context clip, I can't even respond to something like that.

• 1:56Speaker 02

  Let me get this straight, these videos we just watched today, you're proud of those videos?

• 2:01Speaker 01

  I'm proud of the compendium of my work, not small clips taken out of context, and I'm a good person.

• 2:08Speaker 00

  The very dumb premise of this podcast is built on pretending that Alex is being serious, that you really do need to see his whole show to get the context for the horrible things he said. Is that context exonerating, or does it make things even worse? Knowledge Fight was an exercise of jumping over barrels, making our way up a single scaffolding where Alex Jones sat at the top as a big angry ape. He'd kidnapped context and was holding her hostage, and hammers were somehow involved. Knowledge Fight Country now opens up to the larger world. There are new biomes and challenges to take on, and so many different mini-bosses, like Necky. You remember Necky? That big weird vulture?

• 2:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, he'll be in here somewhere. Join me and a rotating crew of guests as we venture out to seek to find all the bananas, which in this case are context. Look, I admit this metaphor is a little bit strained, but it's hard to fit the context into a short trailer. I guess you'll just have to listen to the whole thing. Listen to Knowledge Fight Country on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.