An Infowars insider on the warped world of Alex Jones
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, an InfoWars insider on the Warped Universe of Alex Jones. |
| 0:18.0 | When I first started working there, I would say I was a believer. |
| 0:23.1 | It's why I took the job. |
| 0:25.2 | I was a well-meaning young guy who thought that going to work there was going to make a difference. |
| 0:32.1 | I mean, that is genuinely what I felt. |
| 0:35.3 | Josh Owens was a film school dropout when he was offered a job on Info Wars, the online platform |
| 0:40.1 | run by the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. |
| 0:43.4 | What's dangerous is the pharmaceuticals. |
| 0:45.8 | What's dangerous is the vaccines. |
| 0:47.5 | What's dangerous is the high fructose corn syrup. |
| 0:50.1 | What's dangerous is a fluoride. |
| 0:51.6 | That's killing millions of people a year. |
| 1:11.6 | It's worse than tobacco. Josh was a fan. He thought Alex Jones was spreading not conspiracies, but truths. Trude, the establishment, wanted to keep secret. And he seemed to have fun while he was doing it. I want this covered tomorrow night. I want GMOs covered. I want what's going on covered. I want to fight these son of a bitches. |
| 1:31.4 | Jones made the world seem exciting. Jones made the world seem cinematic, and it was an ideology initially. That did come. But initially, it was just that he made the world feel like a movie, and that's what hooked me. Josh joined Info Wars in 2013, a year after a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School |
| 1:37.2 | in Connecticut, killing 20 children and six adults. |
| 1:41.1 | Good John 911, what's the location of an emergency? |
| 1:43.5 | I think there's somebody who's shooting in here. |
| 1:47.0 | It was a horrific act which prompted probably the most serious conversation the U.S. |
| 1:53.0 | has ever had about gun control. |
| 1:55.0 | We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. |
| 1:59.0 | And each time I learned the news, I react not as a president, |
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