Alex Jones’ INFOWARS To Be Sold, Auctioned Off

Alex Jones:

…but I never, like the corporate dinosaur media, tried to deceive people. In fact, it was the opposite. There wasn’t like some big formula to it. And when I got sued by the lawfare deep state— which they know it’s the Democratic party and the FBI, Justice Department—doesn’t even come out in court and in undercover videos, uh, they kept saying, “Who’s your boss? Who’s telling you to say this? Who’s doing it?” And it was—it was all me.

Glenn Beck:

So you are on this recent, uh, I mean, you were completely pushed out of the media, um, and it was the kiss of death to even say your name. Um, and now you’re kind of having this resurgence. What is the difference between you then and you now?

Alex Jones:

That’s a big question. Uh, short answer, long, medium answer?

Glenn Beck:

No, whatever—we have all the time in the world.

Alex Jones:

I’ve only started to do kind of introspective things on myself in the last five years or so. And I didn’t realize how big my show was even 25 years ago or 20 years ago or 15 years ago. And I—I would also, you know, joke around and be sarcastic and have a lot of satire. And then they would mix that in with something I said an hour later, very serious. And I—I guess attacks, in a way, made me bigger, a lot bigger, but I really wasn’t even thinking about that. So it was kind of seat of my pants. And then now being 50 and having a 21-year-old son, 20-year-old daughter, 16-year-old daughter, 7-year-old daughter, and just, you know, having a divorce and going through all that, and just experiencing death and getting older and, you know, having a lot of your friends and family die. Uh, it’s just—it’s just I’ve become more retrospective, and more, you know—I’m not going to say nostalgic—the world’s gotten a lot darker.

So much of what I said was going to happen, because it was in the actual globalist white papers and crystal ball, came true. And so people started taking what I was saying a lot more seriously, and then kind of cherry-picking the mistakes or things out of context. So I realized I have a much larger responsibility. It’s cheesy, but it’s true— with great power comes great responsibility, like Spider-Man. And I’ll be honest about it, because I—I want to be a good example for people.

I was not a big drinker in high school or college. I’d go to a party, drink a few beers while my buddies were throwing up, you know, and things like that. But getting into talk radio 29 years ago and then being around the sales guys, the older guys—still that old radio generation was there, which was a bad—I was in that generation. That was a bad generation.

Glenn Beck:

Bad generation?

Alex Jones:

Bad generation. And so I was going out with the bosses, and they were drinking scotch and smoking cigars, and I liked them—that’s what you did. And I was making more money as a salesman than even my first radio job, and I ended up being like one of the top salesmen there at that station—or the top salesman at one point. And I just slowly got into alcohol. And then it got to where, you know, I drank at night, and then it got to where I started, you know, maybe by the end of the show drinking some, and then, oh, kind of the middle of the show. And then I’d say right when Trump started running is when I would say I became an alcoholic. I mean, I really fell into it, to where I needed it to—to have energy.

So I was drinking when I got into the office. Right when I went on air, I’d have the first drink of, like, vodka soda most days, you know. And—and, uh, it—it never got to, you know, morning drinking or anything, but—but—

Glenn Beck:

So were you buzzed, or were you drunk while you were on the air?

Alex Jones:

Well, we were talking before we went on air here—taped to air—that, uh, that you were saying, yeah, you know, in your days, you told the crew, “We’d have a lot better show if I was drunk.” I mean, I think that’s true some of the time, because it’s vino veritas—it relaxes you. And I’ve known a lot of musicians and people that don’t drink in their regular life, but when they go out on stage, they drink a half bottle of wine. Maybe in a break, they drink another, and then come back out and play five more songs. I mean, there is something to it. It’s—it’s a poison, but it—it was a poison where, starting about nine years ago, is when I really started drinking a lot more. And then by the time Trump got elected, um, I went from being buzzed on air to at least one day a week being drunk.

And I can trace back any problems or issues I’ve had to when I was being honest with the listeners. And so it was the opposite of some big corporate planned-out thing. It was, uh, doing a bunch of research, constantly in the news, really caring. Uh, but then, especially the nighttime shows, you know, sometimes I would go on there with like a live podcast format, and, you know, “I’m going to go ahead and go live at 9:00 PM.” I’d be on there at 2:00 in the morning, and we’d have millions and millions and millions of listeners, you know, tuning in right then. And they were drinking too, probably. And it was—it was crazy.

And then about, I guess, five, six years ago, I started slowly cutting down, and then I just completely quit drinking. And, uh, so it feels great. And the demon’s gone. I have absolutely no desire. I can go out, people are drinking, I can go to a party, I can go to events, and I just want zero. And then I found more discipline. I’m not in great shape because I kind of, you know, almost wrecked my health doing it. Yeah. But, uh, I’ve—I’ve, you know, gotten where I’m starting to do intermittent fasting—it’s really good—and I’ve been exercising more.

Glenn Beck:

So are you—did you go to AA? Do you—do you say you were an alcoholic, and you’re now an alcoholic in recovery?

Alex Jones:

I have gone to AA meetings, but I mean—

Glenn Beck:

I’m trying to label—I’m trying to see how you label this. You had a problem with drinking, and now you choose not to drink? Or you’re an alcoholic, so you’ve sworn it off?

Alex Jones:

You know, I mean, I think AA is really helpful and does a great job. I wouldn’t say I’m like an AA guy, you know, the system that says, “I’m an alcoholic,” in the meetings. I’ve never done that, but I’ve been to them. I’ve gone with some family; I’ve taken friends to it. I’ve probably been, probably 50 times. But, you know, to me, the other times, like pulling away from the last five, six years, and then—and then—and then that’s really the big change. And then down to not very much and then none, uh, for quite a while. I—I mean, I guess the people in AA say they’re always wanting it—it’s always an issue.

To me, I mean, I think it was alcoholic-level stuff. These are all terms, so to me, it’s like being demon-possessed—it’s no longer there. And then you look back on it, and you go, how the hell was I doing that? So I think that’s really what it is.

When I was younger, I didn’t get into road rage and stuff, but if somebody cut me off or yelled at me, I’d flip them off back. I mean, for 25 years or so, I haven’t flipped somebody off. I actually feel sorry for them and wave at them. And even if I’m not in the wrong, I say, “I’m sorry.” That was another thing, where I’d get mad in traffic, and then one day, it just went away.

And—and so, um—but T-bones and, uh, ribeyes and cheesy potatoes, that still got me. But, yeah, Texas is a hard place to live in if you care about your health, ’cause the food is unbelievable, there’s lots of it, and most of it’s fried.

Glenn Beck:

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, chicken-fried steaks—you’re getting that.

Alex Jones:

Yeah, it’s like Merman Roner prime chicken-fried steak. I might go chicken-fried steak.

Glenn Beck:

So who were you as a kid? You said earlier that you had always read about conspiracy stuff. Who were you as a kid? What were your interests as a kid?

Alex Jones:

I didn’t realize growing up here in Texas and both sides of my family founding Texas families—I mean, like really, in the whole thing, creating it—Washington on the Brazos, my ancestors then raised Colonel Travis’ son on my mom’s side, a bunch of other stuff. And then my dad’s side, we still have land here. They got Mexican land grants—still have copies of it laminated from the Mexican government, like 12 or 13 cents an acre. We still have some of that land in East Texas.

So I didn’t realize that I got the Americana upbringing. You know, teaching me about guns at 4, putting Folgers cans out there and shooting them with a .410 shotgun, teaching the power. And then by the time I was six, I was a good shot with a .22. And, uh, a lot of my family—and I didn’t realize it was interesting—were in clandestine stuff and army special operations and things like that.

So growing up on both sides of the family, like my mom’s brother was big in Iran-Contra and all that kind of stuff. So I grew up—

Glenn Beck:

How do you mean “big into it”? Big in exposing it?

Alex Jones:

No, no. In it. Doing it. You know, yeah.

Glenn Beck:

Wow.

Alex Jones:

With army special operations, the CIA, and stuff. I mean, he was a boss. He was building airfields, communication systems down there. But—and he did a bunch—he was a big hero in Vietnam and stuff like that, a helicopter pilot.

But he told me before he died, he did a lot of stuff he was told to do in Vietnam, and that’s why he was promoted to those places. But he said it got to a point that he couldn’t do it anymore. He told me when he died 11 years ago, right when he was dying, he said, “All this stuff you’re covering is real.” He goes, “You know, I got out of this in the late ‘80s when we found out they were using the airfields to fly kids out of Guatemala orphanages. We don’t know where.”

And he—and a bunch of guys—got out of there. And he said, “Reagan didn’t know, but it was Herbert Walker above him.” And, uh, now you hear all about Guatemala and trafficking. This is a lot bigger now. I mean, exponentially, but it’s been going on a while.

And so that—my mom’s dad, uh, was involved, uh, in a lot of U.S. inventions and things behind the scenes, more in the DARPA, ARPA type stuff. And we never learned what that was. So I grew up around hearing him talk about just politics in general. And my dad was really informed, really involved in all sorts of interesting science things.

And then a lot of his family, uh, were involved in the clandestine stuff. And I in the muscle end of it, too. So I just grew up—

Glenn Beck:

What does that mean? Wet work?

Alex Jones:

Yeah. Yeah. Stuff like that.

Glenn Beck:

Wow.

Alex Jones:

Yeah. So, I—I mean, I grew up around that, and I didn’t realize that I was, like, growing up around this. But they were all anti-globalists, anti-new world order, knew all about it. And they were saying, “The government’s being taken over, and it’s bad.” And I’d be like 15, and Limbaugh was just coming on really hot then, syndicated. And I’m like, “Limbaugh’s great!” And they’re like, “That’s bull. The Republicans are controlled too. CFR, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” You know, “That’s all a controlled paradigm now.” It’s not—and I don’t think Limbaugh was controlled. The point was, he wasn’t to the level of their knowledge and saying all that. So they were just like, “Hey, kid, that’s not what’s going on.” Right? “Read this book.”

And so, if you want to—I mean, my mother has got, you know, a degree in history. And so the house was full of history books. And I liked—I loved comic books. I loved, uh, you know, the pulp fiction written here in Texas, uh, “Conan the Barbarian.” I was reading—I was a really good reader. So I was, you know, reading teenage stuff when I was like 8, 9, 10. And then college stuff by the time I was a teenager. And so I was reading just as much as I could read of that.

And then about eight or nine, I started wanting to read the history books around. And my parents wouldn’t buy me a—a lot of junk. I had to, you know, get a job for a bicycle. It wasn’t that they were hard-working, but if I wanted encyclopedias off TV—and back then there were, you know, TV ads constantly—so they got me the, uh, the Wild West encyclopedia set and World War I encyclopedia set and World War II encyclopedia set. And if I just saw the ads and wanted it, my dad had a lot—he loved encyclopedias. The house was just full of books, and so was his office, everywhere else. And then they would say, “Fine.” I’d write the number down, my mom or dad would call, and then—and so, like, usually once a month, you’d get a new encyclopedia. We had encyclopedias every few days, different types coming. And they were picture encyclopedias, quote, for adults and kids, but they were tailored to everybody.

But I would read all those encyclopedias by the time I was 10 or 11. And then I started reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer, The Death’s Head by Hohne. I thought that was really fascinating. Then I wanted to know about Russian history. And then I—I read Julius Caesar’s The Battle for Gaul. I read, uh, some of the other, uh, you know, compilations of things they’d written in books—Marcus Aurelius, things like that. I started reading Socrates, Plato, all that stuff.

And then I hit puberty, uh, and I played sports and stuff too. I wasn’t a bookworm. I was swimming and, you know, soccer and football. And then I just went crazy and started, you know…