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#126 Alex Jones Dramageddon

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.729.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We're back this week with a Yes Yes No. Alex takes PJ and Alex Blumberg through Alex Jones's visit to the Senate. And producer Anna Foley helps us unpack the scandal that's engulfed Beauty YouTube. Alex Jones tweet Beautube tweet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Gimlet, this is RepiAll, I'm PJ Vote, and I'm Alex Koolman.

0:13.7

Welcome once again to Yes, Yes, No, the segment on the show where our boss Alex Bloomberg

0:17.4

comes to us with things that he does not comprehend on the internet and we try to explain

0:22.6

them to him.

0:23.6

Here again, Alex, what do you have for us this week?

0:25.8

So are you ready?

0:27.6

Yes.

0:28.6

All right.

0:33.1

Here is a tweet.

0:37.3

It's a tweet from a person named Charlie Sykes who has a blue check next to his name.

0:42.8

The caption is, kind of amazed this PR campaign wasn't enough to save Alex Jones on Twitter.

0:49.6

And then there's a black and white portrait looking fancy photograph shot of, I guess,

0:55.8

I believe this is, I think this is Alex Jones.

0:58.1

I wouldn't have known that if Alex Jones wasn't in the caption, but I think it's Alex Jones.

1:02.2

And it looks like sort of like a Nike promotional poster and it says, believe in everything, even

1:08.5

if it means the frogs are gay.

1:10.7

And then there's the Nike swoosh.

1:12.7

And then it just says, just do it.

1:16.1

And that that tweet has 127 retweets and 604 likes.

1:22.2

You really didn't know that was Alex Jones?

1:24.2

I think I would have at this point, like I think Alex Jones has like crested into the

1:30.3

popular mainstream enough so that, no, I think I recognize him.

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