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#183 - Tim Does The Tonight Show | The Tim Dillon Show

Hi, I'm Timmy the Trash Can, and I love trash.
Popcorn boxes, cups, and candy wrappers, mmm, they all taste so good.
Instead of throwing your trash on the floor, won't you please give it to me?
Thank you for considering your fellow patrons.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Tim Dillon Show live from Austin, Texas.
You are, it is not live. We are in Austin, Texas.
There is no video for this episode. Why?
We are in Austin, Texas. We have a studio being built.
It is in the, is it being built fast enough? Who knows?
That's Ben's job.
So if you are upset about no video, Ben Avery is good.
On Twitter and Instagram, DM him.
Tell him what you think of how long it has been taking him to get the studio
together.
But we do have a studio, it's in the process of being built, okay?
We're in Austin, I'm doing Cap City.
We just left the Mecca.
I still feel, it's surreal.
It still feels like an episode of Black Mirror.
We just walked out of Info Wars.
We did an hour with Alex Jones.
This is something Ben's wanted to do since he was a young child.
I mean, this is his Disney world.
Watching Ben walk around Info Wars.
I was so happy.
Yeah, and listen to every, there's TVs everywhere and all the shows they have
are just blaring.
And as Ben just walked around Info Wars looking for their coffee and listening
to their fish oil,
you know, the pills, listening to the pitch for their fish oil pills.
He was just like a kid walking around the Magic Kingdom for the first time.
It came up, it came, I spoke to Rogan and I'm like, I'm going to be down in
Austin.
Let's fucking do it.
Rogan set it up.
Alex, you know, we got along famously as we would have imagined.
But it was, it was a fucking wild thing because we've watched the same thing
with Joe.
We started out watching these shows and now we're on these shows, you know.
There's something crazy about watching a computer.
Like what?
Like, you sound like a boomer.
Do you watch a computer and then you get the chance to deny Sandy Hook?
We started out denying shootings in our living room and then we got the chance
to go deny them.
No, but it is fucking wild when you're watching a MacBook and you're watching
Info Wars
and then you climb through it and you end up on the other side of the screen.
It's got to be nuts for you, Ben.
It was, I feel like Alex loved us, first of all, which was great.
I was, I was not like, it was a surreal experience, but when he walked into the
room and we were
sitting behind the desk and we didn't know what we were going to talk about, I
was like
ready for it.
Cause I've seen his face so many times.
I wasn't even phased.
Were you phased at all when he walked in?
Here's what phases me about the whole thing, right?
I, I think about like God willing, whatever I'm around in, I don't know, 10
years, 20 years,
whatever the span of time is where people are going to look back on this time,
you know?
Like how we look back on the financial crisis of 2009.
Like people, we, everything right now, we feel like we're, we're in it and, and,
and we can't
look back on it.
Like, and it doesn't even, and when you go through any time, you don't, you can't
imagine yourself
looking back on it.
But I try to think about like years later, somebody's going to be like, what
the fuck
was going on?
Donald Trump was the president.
There was this guy in Austin, Texas who created his own news network and he
fucking got
deplatformed off everything.
And then this other guy had a podcast in California and it was like the biggest
fucking thing.
And it's wild that we have been able to see the inside of a lot of those
fucking things
other than obviously the white house and Trump.
Right.
But you know, it's, it's pretty well.
So to me, it was just like interesting to see that operation too.
I started listening to Alex Jones.
I think when he was at GCN, which was a, I may be a Christian network.
I'm talking about the late nineties.
I would listen to him like I'm talking about, you know, pre nine 11 listening
to him when
I think he was railing against NAFTA and things like that.
Like he was always a populist and I think he was, he was definitely on a
network called GCN
when I saw him today.
Yeah.
It was the Genesis communications network.
Right.
And that was a long time ago.
And I imagine that's a Christian network, right?
Yeah.
I think so.
Yeah.
Ben's like, my parents love it.
It's on every day at our house, but that's when I started with Alex.
And then like anything else, you know, you come and go, you wax and wane.
I went years without listening to him.
And then, then, you know, he'd pop up and I listened to him again.
He'd come out with a documentary and I'd watch it.
I remember the Bohemian Grove documentary came out.
And I was like, let's fucking check that out.
That's very interesting.
When did you first get into Alex?
Because when I met you, you were kind of, and, and part of, you know, we all,
here's
a reality.
And I said this to him today.
I will not back off from this.
He is the most entertaining person on the planet.
You know, he really is like whether you like him or not, or whether you, you
think he's
the devil or not, he, the guy is fucking transfixing to just watch.
I've broadcasted for years.
I've done standup for years.
I've been an actor when I was a little kid and I've been on stage since I'm six.
Being in a room with the guy, he is a fucking performer.
And he is just, when he is at his best, and today we probably got just a small
percentage
of him because we've all seen him when he's firing on all cylinders.
I mean, that second Rogan was wild.
Yeah.
When did you first get into, I, I, I can tell you when I got really deep in
Alex, it's
when he was getting banned.
That's when I got really, really deep.
So when did you first come across him?
I think when, I think when I was living in Texas, for sure, I knew of him, but
I didn't
even think of him as like a, like a, a guy who was super, I don't know how, how
did people
perceive Alex in like 2010?
I can't even really remember now because.
I think when I remember him and I remember is when he was promoting Loose
Change, he was
promoting that documentary and he was showing up to 9-11 events with the bullhorn
and talking
about, you know, George Bush and the Carlyle group and 9-11 and trying to get,
you know,
information out there.
And I remember that Alex Jones, who was loathed by conservatives, they hated
Alex Jones, like
hated him.
Like he was a, you know, it's a mate.
And again, we're talking 10 years ago and, and everything is flipped because
conservatives,
even Democrats, liberals did not like him.
He was liked by a very small group of people.
And now I've seen questioning 9-11 kind of go mainstream.
I wouldn't say mainstream, but it's a lot more acceptable now, especially in
light of Epstein
and all these things.
He'd be like, yeah, we don't fuck.
I have a joke in my act now where I go, nothing will shock you anymore after Epstein.
Like if, if you find out tomorrow, if they're like 9-11 never happened, the
twin towers are
still there.
You'd be online somewhere and you'd be like, ah, fucking media, you know, like
you wouldn't
even be shocked.
It's like joke in my act where I'm like, yeah, fucking media.
Come on.
Hey buddy, the twin towers are still fucking there in New York.
Can you believe that?
God, it, there's not, I mean, there's nothing that'll move you off the, you
know, you'll still
stand in line.
You won't get out of line.
You will not get out of line wherever you are.
Whataburger, whatever.
You're not getting out of that line for 9-11 never happened.
If they go, by the way, our bad, our mistake, we didn't really mean to, we didn't
mean two
buildings fell down.
We, we were, but I remember that Alex Jones.
And then, then I, you know, when Obama gets elected, he becomes more of a right
wing populist
by the very nature of he's an anti-establishment guy.
And he's always talking about who's at the top.
So it was Bush, then it was Obama.
What is fascinating is when he became a fan of Trump, you saw the whole dynamic
of Alex
Jones change because instead of being a guy that was outside of the
establishment, no matter
who was in it, right or left, he became a guy that, you know, openly supported
Trump and
also, because I never remember him being political.
When I was growing up listening to him, I would tune in and it was like, we're
all, we're all
being lied to.
We're all being manipulated.
He talked about FEMA.
He talked about mass graves.
And then he, he got on the Trump train because he hated, he loathed Hillary
Clinton.
And, and, and Trump was this, you know, populist or fake populist, whatever you
think.
And, and then Alex, you know, had him on the show.
He had Trump on the show famously.
And then that's when I think he, people started to see him differently because
they're like,
oh, here's this guy who was just this anti-establishment guy who's now picked a
side.
Now he's a cheerleader for Donald Trump.
If you remember the Bushes, the Clintons, all of Hollywood, all of the media,
pretty much.
Now the media helped build Trump's candidacy by just the spectacle of it, of
course, but
most people in the media didn't want him to win.
I think Rupert Murdoch didn't even want him to win.
I think that the majority of CEOs in the country, not all of them, but a lot of
them did not
want Trump to win.
And they had valid reasons for that.
Like this, he was a wrecking ball and, and Alex got behind him and had him on
the show.
And that's when I think it was very interesting to see how Alex became a
different kind of
figure to many people.
And then of course, the Sandy Hook stuff, which I only,
started knowing about when it was, when it was, cause I didn't watch him.
Then I wasn't watching him when that was happening.
Right.
So I, we, I only got the fallout from it.
So I don't know what he did.
I know he said some things he regretted.
And then people did horrible things to the families of the Sandy Hook kids that
died.
Unforgivable things, criminal things, things I will not justify, things I don't
think Alex
would ever justify.
And me being on that network doesn't condone that, doesn't excuse that in any
way.
But what I think happened at that point was that you saw big tech just like, I
think the
term is like, it's more than even de-platform, like un-person him.
Like they took away every opportunity he had to broadcast, to put himself out
there.
They took away all his social media.
I think even his bank accounts were getting canceled.
I mean, it was pretty wild to watch.
And again, not excusing anything that, that he said or that, but again, what he
actually
said and then what's been put out there that he said might be different.
I think he did say irresponsible things, things he should not have said, but
just the idea
of, you know, this swift and complete, complete de-platforming of this guy off
every single
social media platform and also restricting his money to earn and restricting
his ability
to earn an income from any of the places where he was previously earning an
income happened
overnight pretty immediately.
And I don't think there was really a warning for it.
It just, it was just like the, the, the gods of big tech came down and said,
this is over.
And, and then you started looking into him and that's when you got into him.
And then what, what?
But now that I think about it, this is really funny.
The, when I first got into Alex was when I first got into comedy.
And when I first got into comedy, I got into Patrice and Hicks and Stanhope.
And I found that clip of Stanhope bringing Patrice on stage at Cap City.
Because you're bringing Alex on stage.
You come from a really Christian family.
So when you, when you, you, so you get into the guys who are like questioning
all of,
everything.
Right, exactly.
And so I found that Patrice O'Neill interview on Alex Jones back in like, oh,
five or whatever.
I'm like, this is really interesting.
And I was like, what's the Bilderbergs?
What are, what's the Bohemian Grove?