Dan (9:17)
And that's a job that no one needs anymore. And unfortunately for Owen, the audience that he's cultivated particularly despises news anchors. Yeah, anchors are exactly what their name implies. They anchor the show, they hold it in place and keep things where they need to be. They're boring, and their personality is not a relevant factor in whether or not they're doing a good job. And they don't exist in right wing media. Right wing media can only exist based on constant motion. I've made the metaphor of a Jesus lizard before, or Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff. As long as they keep moving, they don't fall. The second you acknowledge that the ground isn't solid, you're done. So you have to keep moving. Every headline you come across is actually about some other story. And it all connects. And if you just keep talking, people will forget what you were saying. And it doesn't matter that none of it makes sense. This media format is based on chaos and motion, whereas an anchor is the embodiment of stability and steadiness. Owen has always thought that he was being an anchor, but he doesn't realize that that's a vestigial position in the media field that he works in. On the one hand, what an anchor does hurts the process of Infowars style media. But on a more important level, the audience distrusts anchors and inherently feels like they're liars. Alex yells about how all the people in the news are teleprompter readers being fed globalist scripts, and a big part of that is just attacking them for being professional. They don't have emotional outbursts on air and rant about sci fi movies. They kind of remember because that's not their job. Their job is to deliver information in an understandable and concise manner. But that detachment from baser human impulses can look like deception to suspicious minds. And Alex preys on those suspicious minds. The entire ecosystem that Infowars represents is built in opposition to that. The dinosaur media, the msm. And their audience doesn't want dry news readers and anchors. They want personalities. They want drama. And Excitement. Alex didn't hire Owen because he did solid work at the sports station that he worked at before. He hired him because he posted videos where he made fun of leftists and tried to make them cry. But I don't think Owen has ever fully understood that, that that is why he got hired. And that not understanding is part of what makes him so painfully uninteresting as an Infowars host. Owen thinks he's a news anchor, and it's probably because he was a straight sports guy before he got hired at Infowars. But he gave up that whole thing, that whole thing is gone. To pursue the path that he decided to take instead of he bullied people and made fun of people at protests, and that opened the door to Infowars for him. And when he stepped through that door, there were no anchors, there are no straight up reporters. There are personalities and characters working to push the narrative and sell pills. So right now he's either completely fucked or he's perfectly situated to exploit the current situation in the world. Alex is blowing up his own ship and ruining whatever legacy he thought he might be able to hold onto. He's cheerleading Trump's clear police state actions and clearly signaling that Trump covering up the Epstein stuff isn't important enough for him to care about. But he's also about to lose his company. And with it, he's gonna lose the Infowars name and brand. Alex is weak because of the consequences. He's suffering, but also because he's making decisions that cut against the grain of the worldview he's sold. And he's also promoting Nazi shit. And that's where Owen's dilemma falls. As it stands, Alex can't appeal to the Nazi types in his audience by pretending to be one of them. That's a lost cause. He has too much baggage. He could never really convince them he's cool, but Owen could. Owen could market himself as the guy who left Infowars because Alex wasn't letting him speak freely. Alex wouldn't let him name names and call out the Jews. He could craft a new space for himself, but it would mean being a pretty open Nazi and completely burning Alex. On the flip side, he could notice Alex's clear drift towards anti Semitic shit and towards supporting the police state and everything Infowars is supposed to be against and brand himself as the real Infowars. Alex lost his way and got caught up chasing power, and Trump's cult of personality seduced him into forgetting his principles. But Owen remembers he tried to make it work on the inside. Until the point where Alex was clearly irredeemable and he just had to quit. Owen didn't leave the party. The party left him. He could do that. These are the two paths that could work for him, but ultimately, neither are really gonna get him that far. He sucks. And no one would have ever heard his name if he hadn't gotten hired at Infowars. So that level of talent is gonna even things out eventually. If he tries to become a Nazi guy, he's not gonna be the best Nazi guy in that immediate space. If he tries to be the real Infowars guy, he's not gonna be great at that either. He has a fairly short window where he's anything other than just another guy for a little while. He gets to be the guy who left Infowars, and if he capitalizes on that right, he might be able to buy a little bit of time, but it's not gonna last. He's an anchor in a media space that doesn't need anchors, and he's not good enough of an Alex impersonator to stand out on his own as a personality in this space. So I wish Owen the least safe of travels in his future endeavors. But the question why did he quit?
