Josh Owens

It was almost immediate.

He was badgering reporters.

They needed to start talking about supplements in their reports.

They needed to cut to ads regularly.

When I first was trained on how to edit videos, I say trained.

I mean I was told not to include certain –

Websites that was pretty much the training it was basically just do what Jones wants in the moment a lot of times he would stand over your shoulder and tell you what he wanted and

But ads were not put at the end of every video that was uploaded, and that quickly changed.

Jones wanted ads on every video.

If people were on the radio, they had to – if people were filling in hosting the show, they had to near constantly talk about the products that he was selling.

Jones had this idea that he wanted to grow his operation into this full-fledged media outlet, and his narrative was the only way he could do that is if he was bringing in so much money that he had the resources to do it.

Yeah.

Jones's lifestyle changed pretty drastically.

For some of the employees, he paid them incredibly well.

I wouldn't say that applied to everyone there, but for a select few that were willing to do what Jones wanted, he rewarded people with money.

He wasn't a stingy guy in that sense.

I'm not really a gun guy.

Despite growing up in the South, I wasn't really ever around that sort of stuff.

But Jones liked to go out to this private ranch and shoot these videos where he would blow stuff up.

And they got a lot of views.