Knowledge Fight

Level four of Knowledge Fight Country brings Dan and Molly face-to-face with the long-teased and very weird pastor Joel Webbon. To get the best sense of him in his natural habitat, Dan decides to not cover one of his podcasts, but instead subjects Molly to an entire sermon Joel delivered about Pride.

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Dan and Molly proceed to level three of Knowledge Fight Country, where they encounter an unexpected team-up mini-boss: an interview between former rivals turned comrades Owen Shroyer and Ana Kasperian. How could two media figures with so little in common end up having so much in common?

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On level two of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and guest adventurer Molly Conger embark across the arid desert that is Harrison Smith's tepid (but very brave) discussion about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Translation of Protocols used by Harrison: https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/nilus_protocols.pdf
People can find copies of Behold A Pale Horse, Mien Kampf, and The Prince fairly easily.
John Foster Dulles advocated for lower German war reparations: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26403911?seq=5
Book that covers Allen Dulles's connection to Protocols: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/us-intelligence-and-the-nazis/oss-knowledge-of-the-holocaust/1DF5A55052706115E422799052C133F3
Forgeries reported in 1920: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
Interview with Steven Zipperstein, writer of Pogrom: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/04/separating-fact-myth-1903-anti-jewish-riot
Daniel Schulman Politico article about Boris Brasol: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/26/boris-brasol-protocols-of-zion-00128223
Rothschild Waterloo story is a hoax: https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/the-rothschild-libel-why-has-it-taken-200-years-for-an-antisemitic-slur-that-emerged-from-the-battle-of-waterloo-to-be-dismissed-10216101.html

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In the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra.

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2016 was a pivotal year for Dan Friesen. It's the year he became fascinated with Alex Jones, and began watching the election of Donald J. Trump through the lens of Jones' show Info Wars. This obsession led to ten years of podcasting and a thousand episodes trying to answer one question: was Alex Jones as awful a person as he appeared if you actually watched his entire show? The answer was yes. In fact, Jones was worse than even the mainstream media painted him out to be. Now, Dan is expanding this quest to other right-wing media pundits, diving deep into their shows and taking their words at face value in an attempt to put them in their proper context.

Welcome to Knowledge Fight Country.

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Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show will provide a humorous and fun layer on top of discussing the context on why liars lie and how they do it.

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Hello wonks. Dan here, swinging in to hijack the feed to drop the first episode of my new podcast Show Me State Of Mind. I'm posting the debut here, but to catch episodes in the future, you can find them at this link. I hope you enjoy the show!

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