On this episode of Conspiracy Theories, host Alex Blumberg is joined by journalist James O'Keefe to discuss a conspiracy theory about the Ukraine crisis and the media s role in it. Also, the 10th anniversary of the death of conservative icon Andrew Breitbart.
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00:01:08.000These were the guys that started the big fight at SNL when they, John Belushi invited all the LES punks, the Little Eastside punk rockers, to come up to the city and start a big fight.
00:02:37.000Well, spoiler alert, the president of Ukraine, President of Putin, President of Putin, President of Russia, our American president are all in cahoots.
00:03:20.000Okay, well, just you like say sanctions and you get all mad and then we'll send you propaganda and you publish it and then you can raise oil prices and you'll make money off this whole thing.
00:03:31.000And you're already in bed with Ukraine.
00:03:33.000So that we'll continue all that and I won't investigate.
00:03:36.000Nothing will come up of that and everything will be smooth.
00:03:51.000But before we do, I just spoke to James O'Keefe.
00:03:56.000I didn't realize that today is the 10-year anniversary of Andrew Breitbart's death.
00:04:01.000And I was watching a video he put together about it.
00:04:04.000And I was remembering when you were in Andrew Breitbart's presence, you just sensed, I don't want to use the term Jesus figure, that feels blasphemous, but you just sense you're with someone special.
00:04:29.000You're just around these guys and you're like, you're going places, I can tell.
00:04:34.000Like with someone like Gavin Wax, I feel like I could just push him out of a plane over the Bermuda Triangle and I would come back a couple months later and he'd have a coconut stand and he'd be selling fucking grass skirts and within a few years he'd own the biggest hotel on that shithole island.
00:04:52.000And more so with Breitbart, you didn't, you obviously felt like he's a survivor that could survive anywhere in the world and he would have thrived.
00:06:41.000Anyway, I think it was a little soon for Obama.
00:06:46.000Anyway, whoever it was, Trump wanted to hold the debates in Mar-a-Lago.
00:06:52.000And so what you say is he's just showing off.
00:06:54.000He's this billionaire asshole, and he wants to brag and make it all about him.
00:07:01.000And I was ready to spout, I have to concede I was ready to spout that derivative answer, maybe try to add a humorous tinge to it, but I knew my role here at the news karaoke machine.
00:07:22.000I'd rather we have an entrepreneur showing off and showing young people and Americans in general that this is our hero, someone who made tons of money and kicks ass and runs businesses, and not some fucking giant corporate network.
00:07:37.000Would you rather it was on ABC or CBS?
00:08:50.000But yeah, a lot of people wonder why he died.
00:08:55.000There's all these crazy theories that he got shot with an ice bullet that disintegrates so you can't see it, and the CIA, the FBI, were out to kill him, and they did it in an untraceable way.
00:10:30.000Andrew and I were very different people in many respects, but similar in that we had this fire inside of ourselves to be the so-called tip of the spear.
00:10:45.000It's another way of sort of tackling, taking on power.
00:10:49.000Just for a second here, you can see that Breitbart knew that James was going to be somebody, just like I said, that genius spots genius and leaders spot leaders.
00:15:16.000Look, can we, I want you to say, so what you're supposed to do here is laugh and roll your eyes at James O'Keefe because he looks so stupid in the video.
00:17:24.000I thought this was a profound tweet where this woman basically, it actually had occurred to me before I saw this.
00:17:32.000I can't remember if I said this to you or not, but someone was talking to Anthony Kumia and they said, you should tell apartment boss that.
00:17:43.000Now, apartment boss may or may not be an alias he uses on Twitter.
00:17:49.000And he says, yeah, I will tell apartment boss that.
00:18:44.000At this moment, in my own country, in America, I'm not free to express my opinions in public, put certain politician signs on my lawn, bumper stickers on my car, or otherwise break from regime consensus without suffering physical or economic consequences.
00:19:00.000Like I was at the car wash with this woman the other day.
00:19:03.000I knew her husband, and she had pro-cop bumper stickers and little flags, little flags that were sticking out like by her license plate, which got pretty beaten up in the car wash.
00:19:39.000But I should drop everything, risk nuclear annihilation to cry for a far-off place I will never see or visit, a place that my ancestors came from, but who cares?
00:19:51.000These people over there deserve to be free and independent and enjoy fair elections, but I don't.
00:21:14.000We've got to get it back on the forefront of our minds.
00:21:16.000Here he is bragging about how, and this is quid pro quo, which is what Trump was almost impeached for.
00:21:24.000Here is bragging that I am not going to let the American government give any kind of funding to Ukraine unless they drop this investigation.
00:21:35.000Now, keep in mind, by the way, the president of Ukraine is no hero.
00:21:39.000He is a despot who has quelled democratic protests.
00:22:15.000I remember going over, convincing our team, our brothers, to convincing us that we should be providing for loan guarantees.
00:22:23.000And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kyiv, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.
00:22:33.000And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
00:22:42.000So they said they were walking out to the press company.
00:22:45.000I said, no, I said, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
00:24:12.000Hunter Biden, your son, was getting paid a lot of money to serve on the board of a Ukrainian energy company facing serious corruption charges.
00:24:20.000You were the vice president running point on Ukraine.
00:24:23.000The average Joe hears that and says, that sounds ficy.
00:24:27.000What's your understanding of what your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money?
00:26:45.000It seems like to be working in his favor, though.
00:26:47.000Like, if you're not entrapping yourself and incriminating yourself left and right by maybe they accelerated it because they noticed it's better to be embarrassed by how stupid you are than watch you hand everyone all of this evidence you know these vitamin b shots are making me feel a little weird man what guardrails would you have to be sure that your son your brother doesn't uh do anything to trade on the family name they will not be engaged in any foreign business because of what's happened in this administration
00:32:23.000fake viral footage but what's the the caption below that tick tock old footage rebadged on tick tock as the latest from ukraine yeah so this is just russians flying around um a long time ago here we have a uh a tractor destroying a home,
00:32:41.000but it's actually been photoshopped into the picture.
00:32:44.000People are reverse Google image searching everything they get and realizing it's all horseshit.
00:32:50.000So it's strange seeing the left try to...
00:32:53.000So this is the left saying, try to maybe try to figure out what's real and what's not.
00:32:58.000And here's what a reverse image search is.
00:33:00.000And there's a lot of stuff going on, but it's not really a big deal.
00:36:35.000So I say that this propaganda is run by retards, but the media, the modern media, are so weak and limp-wristed that they get handed garbage propaganda like fucking Sam Hyde and they go, he owned them.
00:38:28.000Did I send it to you in a separate email?
00:38:30.000There's this doozy of a report that sort of sums up everything I'm saying and does a better job in five minutes than I've done this entire show.
00:38:51.000So this area is the Donbar region that I've been talking about all show.
00:38:56.000This is what Putin, Biden, and what's-is-knots Have agreed to just give up after a funny little theater.
00:39:03.000These are the two big cities in the Donbar region.
00:39:07.000So the Keith Olberman was jumping down Jon Stewart's throat because Jon Stewart said it's like if this comedian, I forgot, like Greenlee McEvey or something, it sounds like a silly name, but became Winston Churchill.
00:39:24.000And Olberman thought that was a slight on Zelensky.
00:39:28.000So he was like, you know, fucking Jon Stewart sucks, and I can't believe he's making fun of Zelensky.
00:41:24.000I don't, like, I've seen a lot of this with Israel.
00:41:27.000They call it Pollywood, P-A-L-L-Y, when the Palestinians take some picture and they stage it and they lie in the road.
00:41:36.000But here we have, this is ironic that I use that as an example, because here we have an old footage of a Palestinian activist widely shared as some brassy broad standing up to a Russian soldier.
00:41:47.000And by the way, you know that famous clip where they're on the island and they go, we're giving you a chance to surrender.
00:45:13.000Does this video show an aerial attack in Ukraine?
00:45:16.000Our sources are videos posted to YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and Flight Global's annual Air Force inventory.
00:45:23.000Verify found the same video was posted in October 2021 on TikTok with the caption, you are going to die In Spanish.
00:45:31.000Two days later, it was also posted on YouTube and it was shared on Instagram.
00:45:35.000The person who originally posted the video tagged it with CGI, suggesting the video was computer generated.
00:45:41.000Both videos use the hashtag World War II and the TikTok uses the hashtag 1940s, which is a not the 1940s era propeller planes in the video.
00:45:51.000Flight Global does not list the Russian military as having any propeller combat aircraft.
00:48:29.000And I think my theory that this is just the elites playing a silly game, treating us as puppets in the grand theater of the global stage is a pretty good theory.
00:48:40.000But Rolling Stone says, of course, that's exactly what it...
00:48:43.000So to Westerners saying that these videos are spreading awareness, awareness should not come at the cost of spreading misinformation.
00:50:33.000But he couldn't, we were like 10, and I was walking by the library where the French immersion kids were, and I heard him say, where's my pen?
00:50:42.000Guys, guys, I don't know how to break this to you.
00:57:29.000Well, let's zip through the globalists then.
00:57:32.000So we're at the behest of the elites, clearly.
00:57:35.000And our journalists, the media, are so incompetent that they are easy prey.
00:57:39.000They're just publicists for whatever whims the elites come up with, like this fake war in Ukraine.
00:57:45.000So let's go to the top of the elites and check in with Klaus Schwab, the overeducated engineer from Germany, who says this is only the beginning.
00:57:55.000He'd like to pursue some scary prophecies from the Bible and implant us with the mark of the beast.
00:58:04.000Now, I'm going to read these notes in case someone's just listening to the audio here at work.
00:58:09.000Klaus Schwab wants the population chipped by 2026.
00:58:14.000Today, at the end of this, can you make it huge and me small?
00:58:19.000Hoping I don't cover the closed captions.
00:58:26.000Today, at the end of this, we are talking about chips that can be implanted.
00:58:31.000By the way, they do this, and I think it's Sweden, for your Metro card.
00:58:35.000You have a little chip in your hand, you just beep, beep, you swipe your hand to pay your, and of course, the state knows exactly where you are.
00:59:53.000The Swedish company has come up with a microchip that can be inserted onto the skin so that users can carry their covert pass portrait into their arms.
01:00:37.000And ever since that day, I thought, I should cut, well, I'm too old now, but I should cut a thing in my skin and put like a Coke bag that couldn't possibly leak under my skin.
01:00:50.000So if I'm ever in a situation like that again, I could just take a knife and open the hole and remove the very thick plastic bag.
01:03:35.000Not that that makes them Nazis, but people drunk with power, they don't sleep a lot, and they do a lot of amphetamines, and they end up with sort of a speed freak psychosis.
01:03:48.000And if you look at this chick in the bottom left here, that's his right-hand man.
01:04:04.000And tell me that this globalist cunt isn't high on Adderall.
01:04:11.000Canada and our allies will defend democracy.
01:04:16.000We are taking these actions today to stand against authoritarianism.
01:04:21.000The people of Ukraine, like all people, must be free to determine their own future.
01:04:28.000We will continue working with our international partners to safeguard Ukraine's territorial integrity and prevent further Russian aggression.
01:06:42.000I don't know how I'm going to move past this.
01:06:44.00090 Day Fiancé star Jeffrey Patchel sentenced to 18 years in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of kidnapping and assaulting his ex-fiancé.
01:06:55.000The next thing I remember, he was beating me.
01:06:58.000The sentencing comes after a jury found the 44-year-old guilty of aggravated kidnapping, domestic assault, and interference with emergency calls in October.
01:07:09.000According to the Knox County, Tennessee District Attorney's Office, Jeffrey physically assaulted his then-fiancé in June of 2019.
01:07:17.000The DA says Jeffrey, quote, grabbed the victim by the neck and slammed her head against the wall several times.
01:07:24.000She was also thrown to the ground and dragged.
01:07:27.000At the time, the DA also reported that Jeffrey, quote, took the victim's cell phone and did not allow her to leave the residence.
01:07:34.000Okay, that's pretty bad banging someone's head against the wall.
01:07:37.000Although, it's happened to me many times.
01:07:39.000And I hate to be really inappropriate with the devil's advocate thing, but doesn't 18 years sound a little rich?
01:08:26.000For all you newcomers, the Sprinkles is, there's plenty of funny people, but just like I was saying at the beginning of the show, there's certain people where you just felt this Jesus energy about them.
01:08:36.000There's certain comedians, very, very few, that have the magic sprinkles of true funniness on them.
01:08:44.000So this guy, the subject for this one was Sprinkles.
01:12:51.000When you fly on a plane and coach, you're like, oh, God, I wish this was a big open area and I had like peanuts and M ⁇ Ms and I could move around more.
01:13:01.000Is that really like a big thing for you?
01:13:03.000Are you in your car going, ah, I wish this was a Maserati go from zero to 60 in eight seconds?
01:13:09.000This takes forever to go to zero to 60.
01:13:12.000You know, once you start making a decent amount of money, it's all the same.
01:15:53.000I got a free ride and I said, go fuck yourself after working, after putting up a few Instagram posts.
01:16:00.000And now I'm back to sitting on my fat ass.
01:16:04.000This is your reminder that if you are black, you either are somebody who has a disability or you know somebody in your family or related to somebody with a disability.
01:16:15.00025% of black people in the United States have a disability.