There are some controversy theories percolating in regard
to an upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th.
Far right wingers like Alex Jones, of course, are playing into it.
Now, for most of us, total solar eclipses are cool, rare,
but otherwise unremarkable.
But if you're Alex Jones, you believe that NASA is using the solar eclipse to
initiate a dark Egyptian religious ritual.
Because why not?
So here's a clip from a video that Jones posted on X with the caption
major events surrounding the eighth SOS for Lips Must Go rituals
plateau worldwide to usher no fear.
New World Order Watch.
NASA is notorious for performing Masonic rituals based on the Egyptian mystery
schools, Apollo being the same character as Horus, Sirius representing Isis
and Atlantis being the new Golden age they hope to restore.
And during the 80 on April 8th, NASA will fire its rockets 90ft
after Apep, the Egyptian Serpent Squad, whose goal is to devour the sun.
And when the sun rises after three of darkness, they will be likened to rebirth
of their new king of the Golden Age.
This the.
I gotta say, that was a persuasive video, and I totally buy it.
Yeah. Look, come on guys.
Really? Like, really.
So NASA is pro started.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Jake.
I'm sorry I have to interrupt you.
I have to, because the second I hadn't seen the video until right now,
the second the video started with an image of a lizard.
That's it. I was done, I was done, it's over.
Like I lost it. I'm dead.
I'm gone. Like, what is this?
And NASA, of course, is trying to bring back an ancient Egyptian snake deity.
How could anyone believe that?
How could. But people do, people do.
And they're like, oh, I knew it. The Egyptians are back.
But why? But why?
For what reason? Like what's why is this scheme happening?
- Yeah. - No. Exactly.
Anna. And then what do they.
So there's so many things I'm curious about
because for these conspiracy theorists, do they then think that Horus is going
to eat the sun or RA or whoever is, and then we should be concerned because.
But then wait, aren't you on NASA's side with like,
none of it makes any sense, right.
But the ostensible reason they gave and I paid attention was because they're
going to bring back the New World Order.
YV. The Egyptians set the last New world order.
I thought they were the old worship. Do you hear?
What do they do with the new world?
- And yes, and they. - Point.
- And has. - A really good point.
They live the old world order. Why are the Egyptian life begin?
Are we, bought the Egyptians into this? She moved.
They part of the conspiracy. No sense.
It's because I'm not.
Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, their minds, just jumbled.
So by any. They're not paying for it.
They don't.
The the theory doesn't have to be within our planets of desert logical or
reason to provide or true activity or nice and insane ride you like, you see.
And once you've crossed the Rubicon of insanity ferry,
the Egyptians are also wanting an Egyptian snake to eat the you lived to set
up the new ascended order makes perfect.
And he's right.
And this is the world we're dealing with. Yes.
There's more. There's more.
- So, Klaus. - Of course, let us be fair.
To Sir Jones, because he might have a point here, right?
Maybe.
Maybe there's a kernel of truth that we're missing.
So, as you can probably imagine, there is absolutely
a rational explanation for the rockets.
So project Apep, a project Apep,
it's shorthand for atmospheric perturbations around the eclipse path.
- Okay, wait to. - Put theories on what that word means.
But it's also a reference to the snake God of darkness, supposedly the nemesis
of the sun god RA. Ostensibly the title of the project, which is intended to measure
changes in electric and magnetic fields, is a clever, albeit nerdy, reference
to ancient Egyptian mythology.
I don't know what any of that meant.
That was the most confusing thing I've ever read in my life.
- But sure. - Yeah.
Here, I'll decipher it for you.
The nerds at NASA were like, oh, it'll be cool because it's a solar eclipse,
so it's covering up the sun.
So we'll make a reference to Egyptian mythology where the sun is attacked.
Get it right. And those poor guys, they're scientists.
They only deal in facts. They don't know that the Alex Jones loons
are going to take them and be like, What?
Right.
- So I man I can't help these guys okay. - But here's the thing.
Listen guys I read that and I didn't know what it meant either.
So it's okay to ask questions and try to figure out what it means.
But I feel like people like Alex Jones take confusing things, and then they
use it to their own weird conspiratorial advantage because people are confused.
I'm confused. What does that mean?
Right? That's when Alex Jones swoops in.
He's like, I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you what it is, okay?
It's the Egyptians, 100% world order lizard people like, But whatever.
I guess they are having fun.
It's just like, do you want to be scared all the time by, like, banal things?
Like, I just.
Yeah, I and but you know why he's doing it?
Because then at the end, he sells them like anti-snake pills.
Because. Not true.
Right.
Like that's kidding aside, he sells brain pills because he thinks his audience
is worried about their intelligence.
Oh, that's that's always the saddest thing in the world.
And I feel bad even saying that out loud. But I'm sorry, guys.
Why do you think he's selling brain pills then?
He sells penis pills. It's just terrible.
It's everything about it is so gross. Right.
But to be fair, you might need the penis pills after you've had
one too many perturbations.
Oh, did I did I say that correctly? I've never heard of perturbations before.
- I can't believe you sound fun. - Okay, look.
So, last two things here. Okay.
Number one, look on. Alex.
I know this is such a small thing.
This is like, the least, you know, crazy conspiracy theory he's ever had.
They're all over the top nuts, right? And this one is as well.
But it's not among the worst.
I just use it because it's so obvious and clear.
Right.
So he said that Obama was going to set up FEMA camps
and put all of the right wingers in the country into FEMA camps, and.
Then the Fyre Festival did it. He was totally wrong.
So that's my point.
When the FEMA camps never arrived and you don't currently live
in a FEMA camp and Obama didn't stay king of the world or whatever you thought
he was going to be, and the New World Order didn't get established.
And you don't live in a FEMA camp or in a Hobbit home.
That was a Ted Cruz conspiracy theory.
Did it not move you at all? Did it not make you wonder?
I wonder if Alex is telling me the truth here and here.
In this case, I think he talked about the New World order is next after
the snake God eats the sun or whatever.
So when the New World order doesn't come, then is that going to convince you?
No. You're just going to believe the next insane thing
and the next insane thing, and then wonder why we all think you're nuts, right?
All right. So yeah, yeah.
I. Can't help myself because there are other conspiracy theories.
Like to your point, he does just move on to the next conspiracy theory.
And there's so many.
Like last month, Alex Jones posted the following in response to a video
discussing how small counties in Texas and Oklahoma have declared a state of
emergency in the lead up to the eclipse.
Here's what he wrote.
The government is hyping the solar eclipse like it's the end of the world.
I think it's all BS. They have never done this before.
What do you think is going on?
But you don't really have to think very hard
to figure out what's actually going on.
So for instance, Travis County is located in Texas and
happens to fall on the path of totality.
So the path of totality, if you're unfamiliar with it, is the area in which
the moon completely blocks out the sun.
And according to Travis County, Travis County declaration of local disaster, the
county anticipates an influx of thousands of tourists to watch the eclipse, thereby
leading to extreme traffic congestion and potential telephone service disruptions.
Such conditions necessitate a declaration of a state of emergency to ensure critical
infrastructure protection and facilitating access to food, water and shelter
in case the roads become overwhelmed.
Per the language of the declaration. He could have just read the declaration.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good one. That's a good one.
He could have just read facts.
And how would he do his show? Okay.
But there's look, the conspiracy theorists always have the tiniest little kernel to,
you know, to get started on.
And so in this case, what was that? It's that people overhype eclipses.
Oh, no, I lost everyone who was on my side.
Okay. Including the NASA scientist.
It's true. I'm side.
I'm on your side.
I feel like every few months. Right?
Like every few months.
It's like every year or maybe every six months.
Oh my God, the rarest. This only happens once a century.
This eclipse is so rare.
It's like, didn't we have an eclipse yesterday?
- Like, what's so what's the big deal? - Totally.
And then they all, like, only pretend it's the moon that you amazing thing.
The world.
So I didn't pull a trump and go like, And look at the eclipse.
But you know, you put on the right glasses that they give you to look at it.
And I've never made it past eight seconds.
Like I look at it in the beginning it looks a little cool like.
And Vicki yeah, it's covering up the storm.
That's kind of cool, but I don't know what I'm on next.
Do I take off the gloves and do I keep looking at it?
- Both don't take. - It's the same talk with.
No, no I mean like take it off just a little like stop
looking at the and your house.
Right. So some.
So I usually like about that for about eight and then I take them off.
And now every friend I've ever seen. Not a right one but almost everyone.
Oh it's tentacle and yeah come around every six to install and every six months
and tells us it happens I installed years.
Please stop saying that years. And you know what.
And they're going to sound like Alex, your brother.
I know that I looked at one set to know months ago.
I'm.
I love Opal, okay, hold on, hold on, I start.
I don't want people to think that you're being a day serious.
Go a little serious, but not to get silly. There's different.
Don't eclipses.
Is that with that we're dummies and anymore realize it.
So, honestly, Annalee, like, it's just not my because expertise guys,
they're hard on me and it's, you know, not my area of is any either.
Watch them. Don't be hard on me.
And that I know people come to talk about like eclipses going to and like astronomy
and it's so amazing, but it's just not my thing.
Aren't you? Never been my thing.
So I just don't care enough to hard distinctions between the different pieces.
- Yeah of course, of course. - Like.
And that you. Oh this one's uncomfy.
Beigne. But this is the moon.
This sun. This is the were covering the sun.
I'm lying. I mean, that's not an eclipse.
That's just going. That's covering the sun.
Okay? Like in every kid in me, like, amazing.
They're like.
And then, well, this is the rod of Saturn covering the sun,
but they're so I love the rings of.
Like, we're the house people on the planet when it come.
- And we topic like so. - We're all but no, no, no.
Look I'm. Yeah.
And like Anna of course I'm I'm finish in cheek to a large at the custom
I get it and you guys are noticed and I love you a local having said that.
And stop over. Here's a big this one's slightly red.
This big slightly blue. This covers up Uranus does it.
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