Alex Jones got into a videotaped shouting match with some customers at Lucy's Fried Chicken on Saturday, a few of whom had set upon him verbally as he was grabbing some oysters and beer with his wife.

An employee with Lucy's told the American-Statesman that Jones, a regular customer, was in the inside seating area of the eatery off South Congress Avenue when some other customers approached his table with insults.

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When Jones subsequently sought to exit the restaurant through the outside seating area, a loud and prolonged exchange of words ensued, a scene that was captured on cell phone video by both Jones and one of the other customers. At one point it looked like the confrontation might escalate into violence, but it never did, and mostly featured an exchange of insults and some laughter from the clientele.

The video went viral after it was posted by EchoplexMedia.com, which subsequently posted a note saying that credit for the footage goes to Bailee Harbin, who the site said took the video.

Jones, who was seen filming the encounter on his phone as it was going on, went on InfoWars on Sunday to offer his side of the story. He said his video showed a more complete narrative of what happened and that he wasn't the instigator.

Addressing the incident on the air, Jones said he had dinner Saturday night at a local steakhouse with his wife and Joe Rogan, host of a popular podcast in which Jones has appeared over the years. After dinner, his wife, who hadn't really liked the offerings at the steakhouse, asked if they could stop by Lucy's, a favorite spot, on the way home to get some oysters.

Jones said he tried to beg off, telling his wife, "any time I go downtown or South Congress there are these leftists who want to start a fight with me at the table," and that he should call his security people to meet up with them if they were going to go to Lucy's, but his wife insisted they just get the oysters, have a beer and then go home.

"This is not about Alex Jones, it's about truth and it's about justice," Jones said.

In his video, patrons sitting on a couple of picnic tables are seen giving Jones the finger and chanting, "This is class war, eat the rich and feed the poor."

"Why don't you all move to Venezuela where nobody has any food," Jones said.

"Go back on your apology tour," said one patron.

"I've never been so successful," said Jones, whose shows were removed last summer from most major social media platforms.

"The good thing about you people is you don't have kids. You’ve all got an instinct not to breed,” shouted Jones. ”Your body rebels against you. None of you have kids.”

Jones, with his chest puffed out, seemed outraged, but not out of keeping with his usual on-air persona, and the rest of the restaurant seemed to be observing and contributing in a spirit of contempt and ridicule, but no great tension.

Jones described his vocal adversaries as "just a unified cult of liars and almost all of them are theater majors."

A story accompanying the video on InfoWars objected to the tone of a Reddit post about the incident "that makes out that Jones randomly started yelling at the group because he couldn't 'handle ridicule in public,' with no mention of the violent threats against Jones and his wife that preceded this encounter."

"The irony is that while the leftists claimed that it was Jones who couldn’t handle ridicule, they couldn’t even handle Jones’ presence in a restaurant without freaking out," the story by Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson read. "They also can’t handle the First Amendment and freedom of speech, given that their taunts included boasts about how Jones had been deplatformed by Big Tech. Jones told Infowars that he gets harassed in this manner four or five times a month but normally doesn’t react."

The InfoWars story quoted Jones as saying, “They baited me like a matador does with a bull and then when I open the door, they’re all waiting with their cameras going and then edited it deceptively because it didn’t look right because showing them chanting obscenities at me would have ruined their narrative."

The story said that, "The practice of harassing and abusing Trump supporters who are trying to enjoy private time with their families has become a leftist specialty."

Jones is being sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress in Austin and Connecticut by the parents of children murdered in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, which Jones repeatedly, though not always, said was a hoax.