Sup, you beautiful bastards! Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show for your daily dive into the news.

Buckle up and make sure you're subscribed to the channel because I'll be splitting $10,000 across 10 lucky beautiful bastards this month, and let's just jump into it.

You know, the first thing that we're going to talk about today, it's been a while since we talked about our calm and rational friend, Alex Jones. Ah, yeah! Yeah! Also, in case you are immune to sarcasm, he is not a friend of the show.

I think he is a dangerous, disgusting scumbag.

One who many just think is a harmless meme, right?

He's talking about chemicals making the frogs gay.

But also he's someone that does disgusting, dangerous things all the time.

And in fact, one of those things is why we're talking about him today. He's currently embroiled in the first of three defamation cases brought against him by multiple victims families.

And this is because Jones has been one of the loudest and ugliest proponents of conspiracies surrounding the Sandy Hook shooting.

Having said that it was staged with fake kids and parents played by actors, which, to be clear, is complete and total bat-shick-crazy bullshit.

Just in case that needs to be said. 20 children and six teachers died that day,

almost 10 years ago, and their families have been grieving ever since. And the whole thing has

arguably been so much worse, so much more difficult because of Jones's lies. As a psychotherapist

for one of the victim's families even testified on Monday, saying that their treatment was set

back by years and that the father, Neil Hesslin, he's had repeated nightmares about Jones and his followers, whom he claims send him death threats and harass him in public. And so the Hesslin and the mother,

Scarlett Lewis, parents of the deceased 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, are seeking $150 million

and damages from Jones and his company, with the trials that have to determine how much you'll have to pay.

Now, as far as the defense here, Jones' team has argued that he's since acknowledged that the shooting happened and already paid a price when he was deplatformed in 2018, losing millions of followers.

You also had free speech systems, the parent company for Jones's Infowars show filing for bankruptcy last week.

And that, coming after Infowars itself and two other affiliated business entities did the same last April delaying the defamation suits.

Though many don't think that he is actually bankrupt and there's this whole thing about him being gifted, millions in crypto.

It's a whole mess.

...