Alex Jones, InfoWars, and the Pope vs. AI with Tim Heidecker

About this episode

Tim Heidecker joins to discuss the rise of disinformation and the fall of Alex Jones.

Comedian and creative director of The Onion, Tim Heidecker, joins to discuss the rise of disinformation and the fall of Alex Jones. In this episode: (2:59) Alex Jones, Sandy Hook, and The Onion (14:48) Developing the Alex Jones impression (17:27) Taking over InfoWars (25:02) Fear of conservative backlash? (29:46) The Doomscroll: Don Jr.’s wedding (32:25) The Fox News mask (35:05) Thomas Massie (38:02) AI vs. the Pope (42:02) Gaza flotilla (44:56) Mark Zuckerberg Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker Guest: Tim Heidecker Producers: Donnie Beacham, and Justin Sayles Art direction: David Shoemaker Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton Engineering: Sarah Reddy Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff Additional Support: Dae Shik Kim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason Concepcion, Tyler Parker

Guest: Tim Heidecker

Topics covered

• disinformation
• Alex Jones
• InfoWars
• AI
• conservative backlash
• media
• current events

Keywords

• disinformation
• Alex Jones
• InfoWars
• AI
• Pope
• Sandy Hook
• Fox News
• Gaza
• Mark Zuckerberg

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Onion, InfoWars, Fox News

Books & works: AI vs. the Pope

Places: Gaza

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