The Onion’s New Infowars
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
For two years, Alex Jones has been battling The Onion for control of Infowars. And, despite still being in a legal gray zone, it’s finally launched – with creative director, comedian, and chief Jones impersonator Tim Heidecker at the helm.
Guest: Tim Heidecker
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. A quick heads up before we get started, there is some swearing in today's |
| 0:07.0 | episode. You've been warned. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Tim Heideker. have officially taken over InfoWars now. |
| 0:23.0 | This is a new dawn. |
| 0:25.2 | You think that Alex Jones gorged himself on Waterburger? |
| 0:28.5 | You're saying five triple cheeseburgers and how many fry boxes? |
| 0:32.8 | If you watched the real Info Wars live stream over the last few days, this is what you got. |
| 0:39.4 | Not the actual Alex Jones, but this gloriously deranged parody from comedian Tim Heidecker. |
| 0:47.4 | They know more than you, and yet you don't provide any evidence. |
| 0:50.1 | I think you're the one that's full of shit. |
| 0:52.8 | Fake news sites, they're going to be running with this wild. |
| 0:55.0 | They're going to be running wild with this story. |
| 0:56.6 | We have leaked video now revealing that Alex Jones... |
| 1:00.6 | Alex Jones, in the parody universe, is dead, which we'll get to. |
| 1:06.4 | But what you need to know is that in real life, the satire news site The Onion, has been in a legal battle trying to take over Info Wars for two years. |
| 1:16.8 | Ever since Jones lost a landmark defamation case filed by the Sandy Hook families and declared bankruptcy. |
| 1:23.7 | The process is tied up in court, but Tim Heidecker and CEO Ben Collins launched their |
| 1:29.8 | live stream anyway. |
| 1:31.8 | When he's not doing an impression, Heidegger sounds a lot more low-key, which made me wonder |
| 1:37.5 | how he started doing a very good Alex Jones in the first place. |
| 1:42.7 | I think I, like in 2016 2016 he was very prominent on the on the internet and I went to the |
| 1:51.8 | Republican National Convention with my friend Vic Berger to like make a special about the |
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