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The John Birch Society

The John Birch Society

American right-wing to far-right advocacy groupwww.jbs.org

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Sep 16, 2026

Caleb CollierHOST
5:15
Uh, also been involved in politics for a long time.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:18
I worked for the John Birch Society, uh, TBUSA Faith, so I used to work for Charlie Kirk, and we're actually recording this on- on his anniversary, the- the death or the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:28
Um, but yeah, and then, you know, m- media is so much fun though, isn't it? I mean, as somebody that's been involved in politics, you've worked for different political arenas.
Jeff CrouereGUEST
5:37
Right.
ChrisHOST
12:19
They write to an anti-communist group to warn them the Illuminati has infiltrated rock music.
ChrisHOST
12:24
They write to the head of the John Birch Society, a right-wing political group, to inform them that one of their own guys is an Illuminati agent.
ChrisHOST
12:31
And this whole time, Wilson is publishing Illuminati letters from readers who don't actually exist in the letter section of Playboy.
ChrisHOST
12:37
And then he's also writing the responses to them himself, too.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:30
Uh, also been involved in politics for a long time.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:33
I worked for the John Birch Society, uh, TPUSA Faith, so I used to work for Charlie Kirk, and we're actually recording this on, on his anniversary, the, the death, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:43
Um, but yeah.
Caleb CollierHOST
5:44
And then, you know, m- media is so much fun, though, isn't it? I mean, as somebody that's been involved in politics, you've worked for different political orgs.
Thomas777GUEST
2:59
People didn't flippantly make these decisions.
Thomas777GUEST
3:01
And in the case of Grenada, the only way it can be understood is within the same kind of paradigm of escalation that had already been underway since detente ended and um America had taken a series of military losses I mean that's just America the entire Western alliance you know the United States NATO and allied States they can't be denied I make the point to people again and again that America was losing the Cold War in military terms when Reagan took the oath of office that that wasn't neoconish team B propaganda that wasn't just silly uh John Bircher type stuff I mean that was inarguable and it was an odd period of transition conceptually as regards how military matters were contemplated this is when the Revolution in military Affairs was underway like literally like the kind of the the the kind of discursive process and the kind of you know the the um the research that led to the technology that ultimately facilitated it and resolved some of these uncertainties was literally then underway but it wasn't yet clear you know what kind of the new force structure should be to combat warsaw pact You know, this was 1983 was exactly a decade after the draft had been abolished.
Thomas777GUEST
4:38
The military was still adjusting to that.
Thomas777GUEST
4:42
There was a fascinating paradigm underway by which strategic nuclear parity had been accomplished by the late 70s.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
74:34
There's also a book called The Death of James Forrestal, which came out, uh, in the early 2000s, which alleges that he was murdered.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
74:44
And there's an additional book that came out, um, it's called The Assassination of James Forrestal, and that one came out in the late 1950s, and it was put out by a publishing company called Western Isles, which was the publishing arm of the John Birch Society.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
75:01
So people had suspicions about the nature of his, uh, passing very early on, uh, shortly after his death.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
75:11
But I'm gonna start with his life.

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Philos MiscellanyGUEST
95:56
Um, the war wraps up.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
95:59
Truman is president.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
96:01
Um, this is where I'm gonna start to veer out of the diaries a little bit because the John Birch Society stuff about Forrestal and also other inquiries into his life begin to bring more attention to Forrestal's anti-communist activities.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
96:21
So, um, in December of 1946, uh, Senator Joseph McCarthy first came to Washington, and according to sources in his book McCarthyism: The Fight for America in 1952, uh, Navy Secretary Forrestal personally opened McCarthy's eyes to the mass infiltration of communists into our governent- government, but also named names.
Alex WagnerGUEST
43:00
Ed Meese, who would become Reagan's attorney general, who was a kind of law and order guy that worked with Reagan as he was governor in California.
Alex WagnerGUEST
43:08
Joe Coors, an unvarnished racist who thought zip codes were an insidious government plot, and would include literature from the John Birch Society in his Coors beer employees' paychecks every week, and had deep, deep pockets because Americans like beer.
Alex WagnerGUEST
43:25
Paul Weyrich, who is not a household name, but is, I think, one of the most in- influential minds of the late 20th century when it comes to the conservative agenda.
Alex WagnerGUEST
43:35
He would found the moral majority.
ThomasGUEST
4:11
That wasn't neoconish team B propaganda.
ThomasGUEST
4:14
That wasn't just silly John Bircher type stuff.
ThomasGUEST
4:17
I mean, that was inarguable.
ThomasGUEST
4:19
And it was an odd period of transition, conceptually, as regards to how military matters were contemplated.
Alex JonesHOST
0:42
I wasn't a UFO guy back then, but I thought he was a really smart and amazing broadcaster.
Alex JonesHOST
0:46
But it became this whole cottage industry that my show is based on William Cooper, when my show is based on my dad and my grandfather's involved with the John Birch Society, and everything that went back to, uh, you know, Senator Lindbergh opposing the private Federal Reserve and Woodrow Wilson and the New World Order in 1913, and Anthony Sutton, the head, uh, historian at the Senate in the Frank Church committee hearings in '75, '76, '77.
Alex JonesHOST
1:17
I mean, people knew about the New World Order.
Alex JonesHOST
1:20
And then there's th- I just thought I'd just point this out.
Margaret Grace MyersGUEST
70:10
Barry Goldwater loses his bid for presidency.
Margaret Grace MyersGUEST
70:12
The John Birch Society rises in popularity.
Margaret Grace MyersGUEST
70:15
Malcolm X is assassinated.
Margaret Grace MyersGUEST
70:17
Bloody Sunday takes place in Selma, Alabama.
Taylor JohnatakisHOST
46:04
They have been co-opted and used just like MAGA.
Taylor JohnatakisHOST
46:08
People who later became associated with MAGA, people who were associated with Tea Party, the people who were associated with the John Birch Society.
Taylor JohnatakisHOST
46:16
totally used by the globalist republicans as a voting base we'll throw you some meat we'll throw you a couple things we'll not spend as much money right throw some that's what's happened with the blue dog democrats for years now and all of a sudden they're going so my party wants girls to compete with my kids in sports my party wants to give illegal immigrants workers rights and that are not paying union dues like it doesn't square here's jen saki They're going to play the clip from John Fetterman or at least a portion of it, and they're analyzing it.
Taylor JohnatakisHOST
46:48
John Fetterman is going to represent if Trump and or his acolytes stay in power for the next eight to 12 years, there will still be a two party system because unfortunately, the way our our our governing system works, it's winner take all.

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