Interview · moment 2 of 15
How Ben and Alex Jones Got Along, and the Meaning of the Moment
from #183 - Tim Does The Tonight Show | The Tim Dillon Show · #183
5 min
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Ben and Tim reflect on how surreal it was to go from watching Infowars on a laptop to being interviewed by Alex Jones himself, comparing it to watching Rogan's rise, and discussing how future generations will look back on this media era.
- Tim and Alex Jones got along famously when they met in Austin through Joe Rogan.
- Meeting Alex Jones in person after watching him for years felt surreal but not shocking—Tim had seen his face so many times.
- Tim reflects on how future generations will look back on this era the way we look back on 2009, trying to understand what was actually happening with Trump, Alex Jones's banned news network, and Joe Rogan's podcast.
- Tim started listening to Alex Jones in the late 1990s on Genesis Communications Network, back when he was railing against NAFTA as a populist.
- Tim remembers watching Alex Jones's Bohemian Grove documentary and coming back to him periodically over the years.
- Tim calls Alex Jones the most entertaining person on the planet and refuses to back off from that, describing him as transfixing to watch.
- As a performer with decades of experience—since age six—Tim identifies Alex Jones as a master performer when he's at his best.
- Tim got really deep into Alex Jones when he was getting banned from platforms.