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All right, guys, if you're like me, you heard of Info Wars when you were young.

It was always supposed to be this kind of thing that

your cranky uncle was listening to. But over time, as things got crazier and crazier,

it seemed like Alex Jones and the rest of his crew were making predictions that almost

seem prescient over and over again, the things that everything thought were outrageous,

actually ended up being true.

And slowly but surely, Infowars became one of the largest platforms on the right wing.

Now it's been shut down due to lawsuits, but is it really over? What's its legacy?

Joining me today to talk about InfoWars is a longtime host on the network.

Harrison Smith, thank you so much for coming on,

man. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Absolutely. So I guess let's start

at the beginning. Like I said, early on, a lot of people knew about Info Wars, but kind of in this,

you know, kind of abstract sense. It was like a coast to coast, you know,

is that that show that came on late at night. They talked about aliens or cattle mutilation or

something over there that they had heard stories about crazy rants or conspiracy theories.

But as the internet blossomed as we started to see the rise of kind of this democratization

of content.

Guys like Alex Jones broke through and you started to hear other voices from Info Wars

become more interesting, more mainstreamed often.

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