Josh Owens
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's a scene where Sterling Hayden starts talking about, he goes on this manic tirade about water fluoridation.
My friend paused the movie and he asked me if I'd ever heard of Alex Jones.
I'd never heard that name.
So he ran to the bathroom, grabbed a tube of toothpaste, and he showed me the warning label where it said, if you swallow more than a pea-sized amount, call poison control.
And he asked me, he said, you know, if you swallow a pea-sized amount and you have to call poison control, how is it that they put it in our water supply and we don't know how much we're drinking?
Well, I didn't even know what he was talking about, so I didn't have an answer.
But according to him, this guy Alex Jones did.
So that night I looked up Jones' InfoWars, and initially I found a documentary that he had released called Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove, where he and journalist John Ronson had snuck into the Bohemian Club, which was this group of β
It was an all-male meeting of these powerful men in the California redwoods.
And it was just horrifying.
It was like a mix between the Blair Witch Project and Eyes Wide Shut.
So I was just sort of hooked from there.
Right, yeah.
So Jones put onβhe was looking to grow his operation and hire more reporters.
And I saw the opportunity, and I thought, you know, why not?
Why not give it a shot?
So I went to the Jekyll Island Club, which was supposedly the birthplace of the concept of the Federal Reserve.
I shot a report.
I submitted the report.
And what Infowars said wereβ