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Jones was not sitting there telling us to lie about things.

He was making us question our own minds.

After years in that environment, you stop even believing the fire alarms that are going off in your brain saying, like, this is insane, this is crazy, this is wrong.

And you think, maybe there's something

else that I'm not seeing. I'm Charlie Wurzel, and this is Galaxy Brain, a show where today

we're going to talk about the twisted world of Alex Jones. One day in the spring of 2017, outside of a courtroom in Austin, Texas,

I got a tip about a potential source. I was in Texas writing a profile of Alex Jones,

famous conspiracist and the founder of Info Wars. I spent the last few weeks running around Austin

where Jones has lived his entire career. He started on public access TV, and over time, he slowly worked his way into the national

headlines.

I'd met a number of former InfoWars employees, but I was looking for an insider who could

help me understand how Jones's media empire worked, how Jones had gone from a fringe figure,

ranting about 9-11 being an inside job, and a person

who most of society ignored or mocked, to something much closer to the mainstream of the right

wing. He'd been preaching his anti-establishment, paranoid worldview for eons, but his business

had evolved. He made a ton of money selling supplements with names like Super male vitality serum, brainforce plus, and caveman.

And Jones's profile really began to rise around the 2016 presidential election.

At that moment, Jones seemed like he was everywhere.

InfoWars' Hillary for Prison T-shirts were fixtures at Trump rallies.

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