Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - This Is Insanity
Aired: 2021-05-01
Duration: 59:25


=== Rolling Back The State (12:59) ===

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[00:00:31]  Here's your host, James Smith.
[00:00:36]  Hey, what's up, everybody?
[00:00:37]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:40]  Of course, I am Dave Smith, and he is the king of the cocks, Robbie the Fire, Bernstein.
[00:00:45]  What is up, my brother?
[00:00:47]  Nothing much.
[00:00:48]  I'm doing some comedy, though.
[00:00:50]  Harrington's booking over in Brooklyn, so he's been throwing me some guest, some hosting work.
[00:00:54]  So it's fun to actually do some stand-up.
[00:00:56]  Yeah, it's fucking great, isn't it?
[00:00:58]  Get back up there.
[00:01:00]  Get a little bit of that drug you've been missing out on for the for the last year so much.
[00:01:04]  I had a real fun time doing a stand-up the other night at the stand.
[00:01:10]  You guys did a Legion show, right?
[00:01:11]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:01:12]  We did a, I mean, you know, we just a stand-up show with me and Lewis.
[00:01:15]  Jay wasn't on it, but Soder came through and Aaron Berg came through and some Legion of Skanks favorites.
[00:01:22]  And yeah, it was just a lot of fun.
[00:01:24]  God damn, forget how much I love stand-up comedy.
[00:01:26]  But I'm going to get back into it big this year.
[00:01:29]  Me and Robbie, we'll be coming to a town near you sooner rather than later.
[00:01:34]  But yeah, God bless stand-up comedy.
[00:01:36]  Sure is a lot of fun to do.
[00:01:39]  All right.
[00:01:40]  So, Joe Biden gave a big speech, a big state of the union.
[00:01:47]  I guess it wasn't a state of the union, but it was a state of the union.
[00:01:51]  He addressed some members of Congress very spread out and masked up, even though they've all been vaccinated, because we're all supposed to pretend that that makes sense.
[00:02:06]  And had masked Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi behind him.
[00:02:15]  He's not wearing a mask because he's giving the speech, but they are wearing a mask, even though they've both been vaccinated because they're sitting behind him.
[00:02:24]  He keeps his mask for Zoom calls.
[00:02:26]  Yes, that's right.
[00:02:27]  He wears a mask on a Zoom call, but not while he's giving his speech.
[00:02:31]  People have to wear masks in the audience, even though they're socially distant and they've been vaccinated because those are the rules.
[00:02:42]  When speeches are over, you don't have to socially distance anymore.
[00:02:46]  Get as close as you need.
[00:02:47]  Only during speeches, yeah.
[00:02:49]  Yep.
[00:02:49]  Get right up to each other.
[00:02:51]  There really is something.
[00:02:53]  I think one of the most powerful things about the pandemic COVID regime and one of the most dangerous things is this effect of getting people to accept rules that they know are arbitrary and ridiculous, but just accept them anyway as norms.
[00:03:16]  Something very powerful about that.
[00:03:18]  You know, like getting people to comply with things that defy common sense.
[00:03:24]  And everybody, you know, over the last year, you've just seen this all around, like all around.
[00:03:30]  You know, whether it's like wearing a mask while you get walked to your table at a restaurant and then taking off the mask and sitting down and eating.
[00:03:38]  It's the world's lamest gang bandana.
[00:03:41]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:03:42]  It's really, but like all these things where like, you know, I think I talked about this on the show, but where it was the, not when I was just in Texas, but the time before that when I was in Texas, which really they still had restrictions and stuff that time was back in like November.
[00:03:57]  And I'm in my hotel lobby, and there's like a bar that you can go sit at at the bar with no mask.
[00:04:04]  And then there's like chairs and stuff out there, but you can't sit there with no mask.
[00:04:09]  You have to keep your mask on while you sit in this chair, but you don't have to keep your mask on while you sit in that chair, which was actually much closer to people than these chairs.
[00:04:18]  And it's just things like this constantly.
[00:04:20]  But it's really like, I think on some level, subconsciously, training people to be obedient to authority, even when the rules make absolutely no sense and are clear as day.
[00:04:34]  Anyone with a thinking brain, you know, like literally anyone with that fucking 70 IQ or above could look at this and be like, yeah, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:04:42]  None of this makes any sense.
[00:04:44]  I pledge allegiance to the lying propaganda state, the Fauci's bullshit and trying to make money for the pharmaceutical companies.
[00:04:51]  Right, right.
[00:04:52]  And of course, as we were saying in the last episode, you know, being even being the, you know, not the focus, but just having to have been present for this moment that became so viral and was trending for all this shit.
[00:05:05]  It's really interesting to see that.
[00:05:06]  It's like there really is this anger that people have when you even start to question or point out the absurdity of some of the talking points.
[00:05:16]  And then it's really angry if you actually start to recommend the opposite or if you just talk about the fact that like real people can be adversely affected by this stuff.
[00:05:29]  Anyway, you know, it's funny.
[00:05:31]  And let's get into Joe Biden's speech, but I thought I'd just mention because it's on topic.
[00:05:34]  You know, it's kind of funny, like, right?
[00:05:36]  You have the amount of press that Rogan got for that clip, which I happen to be in, was really staggering.
[00:05:50]  I mean, it's like more has come out since the last episode that I was the last episode that we recorded.
[00:05:56]  But I mean, I'm talking about like all throughout the media, tons of articles written, like all the kind of stupid left-wing publications, like, you know, the Vice and BuzzFeed and the Daily Beast and like all those things.
[00:06:16]  Then like major media publications wrote about it.
[00:06:19]  Fauci commented on it.
[00:06:21]  Like it made its way all the way up to the God Emperor, you know, doctor, Fauci.
[00:06:28]  And the Biden administration made a comment.
[00:06:30]  I think Biden himself might have said something about it.
[00:06:33]  It's like, it's really unbelievable.
[00:06:35]  In real time, like right after it happens, within the next few days, there's this mass outrage that Rogan dared to challenge the, you know, official narrative.
[00:06:47]  And the response was ridiculous.
[00:06:49]  You had multiple people getting on air and saying, well, Rogan's not a doctor, but then they didn't actually address what he had to say.
[00:06:55]  They just said, well, Rogan's not a doctor.
[00:06:56]  And then Fauci, he said, well, asymptomatic kids, if they don't have the vaccine, might spread the virus.
[00:07:05]  Now, there's two problems with that.
[00:07:07]  First is I don't know that that's accurate.
[00:07:08]  I mean, I'm not Fauci and I'm not the world's pandemic expert in creating propaganda for profit for the pharmaceutical companies.
[00:07:14]  I'm not that guy.
[00:07:16]  But I don't know that asymptomatic kids are spreading it.
[00:07:21]  And then also you haven't explained whether or not, like, if you're asymptomatic, but you've been vaccinated, if you aren't, so that's what keeps you from spreading it.
[00:07:29]  And then you also aren't addressing the fact of anybody who feels that this is risky to themselves can either stay home or can go get the vaccine.
[00:07:38]  So the responsibility is not on me to be responsible for your health.
[00:07:42]  You can do what you need to do for yourself.
[00:07:44]  I don't need to be responsible for you.
[00:07:46]  Yeah, look, I mean, the argument that he's not a doctor, so he can't talk about this.
[00:07:55]  It's such bullshit.
[00:07:56]  It's just such bullshit.
[00:07:57]  First off, the only way that that argument would have any validity to it at all is if Rogan was claiming to be a doctor or presenting like as if there could be any confusion that this was a doctor giving you medical advice.
[00:08:13]  And you're like, hey, this guy isn't actually a doctor.
[00:08:16]  You know, like he's putting himself out there like, yeah.
[00:08:18]  But obviously, nobody who there's not one single person in the millions of people who listen to Joe Rogan's podcast who got confused and thought he was a doctor.
[00:08:27]  He's a person who's allowed to speak his mind.
[00:08:30]  And the thing that's so disingenuous about this argument is like, if Rogan was out there saying, I think everyone should get the vaccine and I think there's nothing wrong with the vaccine and the vaccine is so great and you should still socially distance and you should still follow all the COVID rules and blah, blah, blah.
[00:08:47]  None of these people would be making this argument.
[00:08:49]  It's not that they care that he's not a doctor.
[00:08:52]  Their issue is that he's not agreeing with them, right?
[00:08:56]  No, nobody, if he were to take the Fauci position, nobody would say, oh, you're not a doctor.
[00:09:02]  So it's not a matter of being a doctor.
[00:09:04]  It's a matter of not having the right view.
[00:09:07]  Let's just be honest.
[00:09:08]  That's their problem.
[00:09:09]  And I can find you lots of doctors, lots of epidemiologists and virologists who would dispute the claim that asymptomatic children are spreading COVID.
[00:09:21]  There is no evidence to back up that claim.
[00:09:24]  So it's like, okay, so if you're allowed, which you obviously are, right?
[00:09:30]  No one's going to give you shit for agreeing with Fauci.
[00:09:33]  So if you're allowed to agree with what other doctors say, how come I can't agree with what these doctors say?
[00:09:40]  It's only the state approved doctors whose talking points can be spouted out.
[00:09:45]  Like that's, it's just the most bullshit argument ever.
[00:09:49]  So yeah, there's that.
[00:09:50]  And if you were to see a doctor and the doctor would give you a diagnosis and you asked a question and his response was, listen, I'm the doctor, you'd go see another doctor.
[00:09:59]  Yeah.
[00:09:59]  You'd go, well, I'm not understanding what you're telling me.
[00:10:02]  And if you refuse to just let me walk away here feeling confident in your diagnosis and I understand what happened here, I need to go see someone else.
[00:10:08]  So when someone like Fauci goes, I'm not addressing what he has to say.
[00:10:11]  I'm just saying, hey, I'm the doctor.
[00:10:12]  You got to listen to me.
[00:10:14]  That is instantly a red flag of I don't think that this person should be listened to.
[00:10:18]  Well, and the funny thing, and we made this point on the last episode, right?
[00:10:22]  Because it's impossible to talk about this without getting into this point.
[00:10:25]  But then like later that day, the big news story about Cuomo in the New York Times broke.
[00:10:32]  But, you know, it's like, I'm sorry, but it's also, you know, like just to add to your analogy, which is spot on, but if you went to your doctor and they had consistently misdiagnosed you at every single turn for the last year, and then they respond with this, you're not the doctor.
[00:10:52]  So I don't really think you should be asking questions here.
[00:10:54]  You'd be like, are you fucking insane?
[00:10:55]  I don't even, I think you're an insane person at this point.
[00:10:58]  Like, I think you're evil.
[00:10:59]  Are you kidding me?
[00:11:00]  You've gotten everything wrong over the last year and I'm not allowed to point out the absurdities in your latest prescription.
[00:11:07]  I'm sorry.
[00:11:08]  And like, no, these are, you know, I'm sorry, the established approved scientists and the media's darlings were locking people in their homes and destroying jobs and repealing the Bill of Rights for nothing that we now know was for absolutely nothing.
[00:11:26]  They were not allowing people to be tested at the beginning, then sending ones they could be tested, then sending COVID positive patients into nursing homes, then what seems to be criminally covering up the amount of deaths in nursing homes.
[00:11:42]  And, you know, the whole time they're pushing all this shit.
[00:11:47]  So now when they come out with their vaccine, you know, prescriptions, it's like, yeah, no, I'm sorry.
[00:11:54]  You've lost all credibility.
[00:11:56]  And now I'm listening to alternative voices and alternative, including alternative doctors and scientists.
[00:12:03]  And like, yeah, no, you don't have any more credibility to say, well, listen, just trust Fauci.
[00:12:11]  I'm sorry.
[00:12:12]  That ship has sailed.
[00:12:14]  But sadly, Rogan kind of walked it back a little bit.
[00:12:18]  I don't know if you saw that.
[00:12:19]  Yeah, I didn't think, I didn't think, you know, I saw, I feel like sometimes people are like unfair on both sides of these.
[00:12:24]  Like, of course, my Twitter's blowing up with people, oh, Rogan bended the knee and he caved and all this.
[00:12:30]  I listened to the thing he said.
[00:12:31]  I didn't really think he liked bending the knee or caves.
[00:12:34]  He was just kind of like, oh, okay.
[00:12:36]  If you're arguing it's to protect other people, then that's a whole different argument.
[00:12:39]  And he was like, look, I'm not a fucking doctor.
[00:12:42]  And everyone knows that who listens to me.
[00:12:43]  I had no problem with what he said.
[00:12:46]  Well, he backed off having the conversation by saying, I'm not a doctor.
[00:12:52]  And you're putting forward a different argument that it might create a problem for other people.
[00:12:56]  But then he didn't want to address why that doesn't make any sense.

=== Blue Blox Saves Your Eyes (03:12) ===

[00:13:00]  So you're right.
[00:13:01]  It's not like he said, hey, what I said was totally wrong.
[00:13:04]  He said the criticism of it is for another reason, but he didn't want to address that criticism.
[00:13:09]  I think it's better.
[00:13:10]  I think Rogan, you know, he handled it in his way.
[00:13:13]  And I'm not going to say there's anything wrong with it.
[00:13:15]  It's like he's got a fucking, you know, he's in a situation where he's getting heat from the fucking president and Fauci and all of these guys.
[00:13:24]  And I think he handled it in a way to kind of brush it aside.
[00:13:27]  It was enough to get the heat off of him.
[00:13:29]  He had the conversation.
[00:13:31]  He also just had another guy on his show who, I literally only saw a couple clips of it.
[00:13:36]  I haven't watched the whole thing.
[00:13:37]  He's been hard on Fauci.
[00:13:38]  That guy had some interesting things to say.
[00:13:39]  Yeah.
[00:13:40]  And was going hard on Fauci, really calling out Fauci's corruption and conflict of interests, bringing up the whole lab theory and saying that actually the circumstantial evidence for that is stronger than for pretty much any other theory.
[00:13:54]  So it's not like Rogan's like backing off of being willing to talk about these controversial ideas and challenge the bullshit of the cathedral and all that stuff.
[00:14:03]  So I, you know, I'm fine with that.
[00:14:05]  I didn't think it was like a fucking bend the knee moment to me.
[00:14:08]  I thought I thought it was completely reasonable.
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[00:16:11]  It is interesting to see, right?

=== Don't Call Me Crazy (15:32) ===

[00:16:13]  And don't get me wrong, now that the media has decided Cuomo is no longer, you know, he no longer needs to be protected, they are happy to throw him under the bus now.
[00:16:24]  But it's funny to see how quickly they come down on Rogan for saying what he said.
[00:16:29]  And the fact that while all of this stuff that they're reporting on now was happening, they were doing nothing but protecting Governor Cuomo.
[00:16:39]  Like that's, you know, they can report on all of this stuff now, but the truth is that all those people are already dead and you're not saving any of them.
[00:16:47]  And while this was happening, the entire corporate press was gushing over Cuomo.
[00:16:55]  Have you seen some of those like montage clips that they put up?
[00:16:58]  Have you seen those, Rob?
[00:17:00]  He got an Emmy.
[00:17:01]  Yeah, I mean, it's like you really can't overstate how much the coverage of Cuomo was just heaping praise on him.
[00:17:12]  From having a nightly segment with his brother on CNN, the MSNBC and CNN hosts are just talking about, it's not even like they're specifically praising what he did.
[00:17:25]  They're just talking about what a fantastic human being he is.
[00:17:29]  He's everything that Trump is and courageous and honest and noble.
[00:17:33]  And he really should run for president.
[00:17:35]  I mean, clearly he would be the best president this country's ever seen.
[00:17:38]  And what a great guy.
[00:17:39]  Like you said, giving him an Emmy.
[00:17:41]  All while he mismanaged this crisis at every single turn.
[00:17:47]  At every single turn.
[00:17:49]  Vast amounts of wasted resources.
[00:17:52]  Building makeshift hospitals that were never needed, demanding ventilators that ended up killing people.
[00:17:58]  Like even if in those instances, be as charitable to him as you can.
[00:18:06]  He just got it all wrong.
[00:18:08]  He thought we needed all those things and it was wrong.
[00:18:10]  It was just still, it was an incredible waste of resources and the ventilator push really ended up killing people.
[00:18:16]  But okay, mistakes were made, you know?
[00:18:20]  However, this nursing home thing is at this point clearly much, much worse than any of that.
[00:18:28]  And it was pretty obvious to a lot of us in real time that it was insane to insist that COVID-positive patients be admitted to nursing homes.
[00:18:38]  But regardless of that, even if you'll be charitable to him on that front, yeah, he thought this was the right thing to do for whatever reason.
[00:18:47]  It's fun to see, I mean, the news and recall is in action.
[00:18:51]  So it's fun to see some of the bad COVID governors potentially facing.
[00:18:55]  Well, at least getting some of it.
[00:18:57]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:18:57]  But the thing about Cuomo that's really devastating that's coming out that there's really no charitable explanation for is the intentional cover-up of the nursing home deaths.
[00:19:09]  And this is just, it's just too far beyond anything that you could reasonably say, well, maybe they did it because of this, or maybe he just got it wrong.
[00:19:18]  It's like, no, I'm sorry.
[00:19:20]  At the time when he was trying his best to play up how bad COVID is, he was playing down the numbers.
[00:19:31]  It's the only instance where any of these Democratic governors or most of the Republican governors for that matter too, were downplaying COVID, right?
[00:19:39]  The only time he's downplaying the numbers and trying to suppress the number of people dying from COVID is in the nursing homes where he forced them to take COVID positive patients.
[00:19:50]  So it's, I mean, it's just, there's just no excuse you can make for the guy.
[00:19:57]  But what's useful about it is to see like, yeah, oh, this is how the media treated these guys in real time.
[00:20:05]  And Vice and the Daily Beast and all these publications, they weren't quick to go after him.
[00:20:11]  You know, someone who actually has power, who's actually using that power to kill people.
[00:20:18]  That guy they're not going after.
[00:20:20]  But a comedian podcaster starts questioning some of the logic behind who should get the vaccine.
[00:20:28]  And that's, that's, I guess, a whole different thing.
[00:20:31]  Did you see this video?
[00:20:33]  Oh, I recently retweeted it.
[00:20:35]  Actually, Brian, could you pull that up?
[00:20:37]  And let's play this video.
[00:20:39]  If you go on my Twitter, I just recently retweeted it and I said something like, so I'm the crazy one or something like that.
[00:20:46]  But it's Savannah Gunthree and Dr. Fauci.
[00:20:50]  Let's pull that video up.
[00:20:51]  I didn't even think about doing this for the show, but this will be a fun one.
[00:20:54]  And then we'll talk about Joe Biden's speech in a little bit because truthfully, there's not even that much to say about Joe Biden's speech.
[00:21:01]  So Savannah Gunthrie, as you guys remember, she was the one who interviewed Trump when he had COVID, so they canceled the debate, but they could have him on stage for an interview.
[00:21:13]  And Joe Biden did a different interview that same night, so we just didn't have the debate that we easily could have had.
[00:21:18]  And she, I believe, oh no, you know what?
[00:21:20]  Am I confusing her with someone else?
[00:21:21]  Was it her who did that?
[00:21:23]  Maybe it wasn't her.
[00:21:25]  Was it?
[00:21:25]  I don't know.
[00:21:26]  Anyway, this is it.
[00:21:27]  I'm getting old.
[00:21:28]  I'm developing Joe Biden syndrome.
[00:21:30]  Okay, so here, this was an interesting little clip.
[00:21:33]  Here is Savannah Gunthrie talking with Dr. Fauci.
[00:21:38]  You know, it sets up a strange situation, especially when you start talking about kids.
[00:21:42]  I'll tell you a story.
[00:21:43]  I walked to pick up my little girl at the bus stop yesterday after the CDC recommendations came out.
[00:21:49]  I took off my mask.
[00:21:50]  I waited for her.
[00:21:51]  There was no one else around.
[00:21:53]  She got off the bus with her little mask on.
[00:21:56]  She had to wear her mask.
[00:21:57]  I didn't on the walk home.
[00:22:00]  When are kids going to be able to take off those masks and throw outside of the playground?
[00:22:04]  Pause this already right here.
[00:22:05]  Okay.
[00:22:06]  First off, the answer to your question is that you are a psychotic, crazy person.
[00:22:12]  You are absolutely out of your goddamn mind.
[00:22:15]  That like, this is what's so strange about it.
[00:22:18]  First off, my guess is that none of this happened and that she's just, this is how you have to present.
[00:22:24]  And even she has to present in a like, isn't this kind of weird?
[00:22:28]  I mean, hey, doctor, I'll listen to whatever you say, but like, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:22:33]  So that's going to be my guess that none of this happened.
[00:22:36]  And this is just the pure, this new fucking Orwellian thing where you have to pretend, everyone has to pretend that they live this way, even though no one lives this way.
[00:22:46]  Like no one except people who really are suffering from mental illness and really have developed paranoia.
[00:22:54]  And there are people like that, but the amount of people who have actually acted like last March for the entire year, for the entire 13 months now, you know what I mean?
[00:23:05]  Like people who have like, oh, I have never, I have not hugged a friend or a family member since, you know, February of 2020.
[00:23:14]  Who the hell is living like that?
[00:23:15]  I have not taken a mask off outside.
[00:23:18]  Even the politicians selling this bullshit, we all know by now, don't actually live that way.
[00:23:22]  So that's my guess, is that this is just what she's saying.
[00:23:25]  But if you actually got your little girl off the school bus and walked home, you unmasked and her masked, you are psychotic.
[00:23:38]  Like you are fucking psychotic on many different levels and borderline abusive to your child.
[00:23:43]  I mean like first of all, you clearly don't want to wear the mask.
[00:23:47]  Otherwise, you wouldn't take it off, right?
[00:23:50]  So you don't like wearing the mask.
[00:23:53]  Is that fair to deduce?
[00:23:54]  If you liked it, you would just leave the mask on.
[00:23:56]  So you're going to make your little girl do that, but you won't?
[00:24:01]  And I like, this literally, I got to say, as a father to a little girl, this just blows my mind.
[00:24:07]  That not, again, I don't believe she actually did this, but even the idea that you would pretend.
[00:24:11]  I mean, wouldn't you just out of solidarity then wear it with her?
[00:24:16]  You're just going to take your mask off, breathe in the nice air.
[00:24:19]  Oh, isn't this nice to not have to breathe in my own hot breath?
[00:24:22]  And yep, sorry, kid.
[00:24:24]  You got to keep it on around me.
[00:24:27]  Just us walking.
[00:24:30]  I mean, so first off, this is psychotic.
[00:24:33]  Second off, it's not psychotic because it didn't happen and she's just pretending.
[00:24:36]  Third, that's psychotic to just be pretending when this didn't happen.
[00:24:41]  And fourth, what's kind of interesting here is that even she presents this with a like, I mean, she doesn't say it, but she's like, doctor, this is, it creates a strange situation.
[00:24:52]  You know, she's like, doctor, so this thing happened and this is bullshit, right?
[00:24:58]  Don't, doesn't everyone know that this is bullshit?
[00:25:01]  Like, it's just so interesting the way she sets it up to him.
[00:25:05]  Here's Dr. Fauci's response.
[00:25:10]  You know, that's going to be the same thing that I mentioned a moment ago.
[00:25:13]  It's going to be a situation.
[00:25:14]  Well, first of all, kids will ultimately wind up getting vaccinated, but you want to have some activity in that direction before they do.
[00:25:22]  High school kids will likely get vaccinated as we get into the fall term.
[00:25:27]  And children of any age will likely be vaccinated by the time we get to the end of the year.
[00:25:31]  But let's not talk about the end of the year.
[00:25:33]  Let's talk about the immediate or intermediate.
[00:25:36]  Just pause for a second.
[00:25:39]  If kids needed the vaccine and we cared about kids, wouldn't we give it to them first?
[00:25:44]  I mean, if you genuinely think that this is a good idea, well, kids are the most important.
[00:25:49]  Why are we giving it to them last, in your opinion, Mr. Fauci?
[00:25:52]  Well, there's so the argument here will be that because they're the lowest, you know, they're the lowest rate.
[00:25:58]  It's either they need it, in which case they should be getting it first because they're the kids, or they don't need it and then don't give it to them.
[00:26:04]  Well, they start kind of getting in this thing where even with their own official talking points, they start hinting toward reality.
[00:26:12]  It's like, look, we all know the kids don't really need this.
[00:26:16]  But what I find the most troubling there is, and this is just so outrageous, in all of Dr. Fauci's interviews, he goes, look, all kids are going to get vaccinated.
[00:26:26]  But that's, you know, it'll probably be high schoolers and then younger kids, and then they'll all be vaccinated by the end of the year.
[00:26:31]  But let's focus on the immediate.
[00:26:33]  And you're like, dude, I am sorry.
[00:26:36]  This guy is on a fucking authoritarian power trip.
[00:26:41]  This is some fucking nerd who's never been famous in his life and has become one of the most famous human beings in the world.
[00:26:49]  And that is something that most people's egos can't handle.
[00:26:53]  But he just goes, oh, kids are going to be vaccinated.
[00:26:55]  Like, motherfucker, you're talking about my children and their medical decisions?
[00:27:01]  And you're just announcing what they will be?
[00:27:04]  Like, you have been elected to nothing.
[00:27:08]  You have no legitimate claim to power.
[00:27:11]  By the way, the people who have been elected don't have a legitimate claim to power.
[00:27:15]  I still, I don't give a fuck if someone who was democratically elected said, oh, this is what you're going to do with your kids.
[00:27:20]  No, motherfucker, you do not make decisions for my children.
[00:27:25]  But the idea that just some doctor is just going to say, oh, yep, that's it.
[00:27:30]  The kids will be vaccinated.
[00:27:32]  Like as if he's just making these decisions for other people, that parents don't have a say, that we're not free people who can make medical decisions for ourselves, for ourselves and our children.
[00:27:43]  Oh, dude, I just throwing it out there.
[00:27:45]  Yeah, they will be.
[00:27:46]  But anyway, let's focus on the immediate future.
[00:27:48]  Anyway, let's keep playing.
[00:27:51]  Out in the community, when you have 30, 40, 50,000 new infections per day, they are unvaccinated now because children can't get vaccinated now.
[00:28:02]  And for that reason, they are more at risk of getting infected because they are out in the community where there is a lot of infection.
[00:28:11]  When the community level starts to go way down, the risks to everybody, including the children, is going to be dramatically diminished.
[00:28:19]  But isn't it a weird situation because I'm not fully vaccinated yet?
[00:28:23]  I can take off my mask and walk home.
[00:28:26]  She can't.
[00:28:27]  Like, doesn't that just point up that the CDC guidelines have some kind of disconnect if that's the situation?
[00:28:33]  Well, yeah, what you're pointing out.
[00:28:36]  Yes, a disconnect.
[00:28:38]  That's an interesting way to describe what you're saying.
[00:28:41]  There seems to be some kind of disconnect.
[00:28:45]  AKA, these rules are fucking retarded.
[00:28:49]  That's what you're actually saying.
[00:28:52]  This makes absolutely no sense scientifically.
[00:28:55]  This makes no sense.
[00:28:56]  That she can take her mask off, but her kid can't.
[00:28:59]  Again, you're a crazy person if you actually do that.
[00:29:02]  But regardless of that, you know, one of the points that I think this is a decent time to repeat from our last show that I made that I really wish people would hear.
[00:29:14]  I had someone the other day, you know, tweeted this at me.
[00:29:17]  And I know that people like to think, they like to take very simple points of data and then make their argument and say, everybody's stupid who doesn't agree with me.
[00:29:30]  But sometimes these things are a little bit more complicated, right?
[00:29:33]  So just to be clear here, Dr. Fauci said that there's between 30 and 50,000 new infections out in America, right?
[00:29:45]  That's what he said.
[00:29:47]  Now, assuming he's right about that, who the hell knows?
[00:29:49]  Because he's wrong about so much.
[00:29:51]  But assuming he's right about that, someone tweeted at me the other day and they said, listen, Dave, it's as simple as this, okay?
[00:29:59]  What's more dangerous for your kid?
[00:30:02]  Getting COVID or getting the vaccine?
[00:30:05]  And Eddie goes, look, COVID's very unlikely to be dangerous for your kid, but the vaccine is less likely.
[00:30:13]  So vaccine better than COVID.
[00:30:15]  That's the end of the story.
[00:30:17]  And I responded back to him and I go, well, no, that's really not the whole story there, is it?
[00:30:22]  Right.
[00:30:22]  Because if you are saying that, it wouldn't be COVID versus the vaccine, right?
[00:30:29]  Because the choice is not, do I inject my child with the vaccine or do I inject my child with COVID, right?
[00:30:38]  It would be the vaccine versus the risks of COVID times the chance of getting COVID, right?
[00:30:47]  Which cuts it down quite a bit.
[00:30:49]  Now, if you're saying there's 50,000 new infections in a country of 320 million people, the chances of getting COVID are not that high.
[00:31:00]  So again, whatever the risks of COVID are, just for say, whatever the number is, the risks of COVID for a young child, which are very, very low.
[00:31:10]  It's not just that versus the vaccine.
[00:31:12]  It would be that time, like if there was a 10% chance of getting COVID, it would only be a tenth of that risk.
[00:31:19]  Or if there's a hundred, you know, one 100th chance, it would only be that much of that risk.
[00:31:23]  So you start to get to a point where actually you can make a very strong argument that the risks of the vaccine are worse than COVID.
[00:31:31]  It's hard to know for sure, but you can start to now throw in another curveball.
[00:31:37]  Kids who have already had the virus and beat it as 99.999% of them do, right?

=== Natural Immunity Explained (03:21) ===

[00:31:45]  So now they have some natural immunity.
[00:31:48]  So now what's the chance of them getting COVID and getting sick?
[00:31:51]  It goes down to basically zero.
[00:31:54]  I mean, like statistically, basically nothing.
[00:31:57]  So if there's any risk at all from the vaccine, it's going to be worse than the risk of this, right?
[00:32:03]  So, and just to be clear, because people also say, oh, Dave, you're just, you're, you know, talking about something that doesn't exist.
[00:32:10]  It's true that as of now, the vaccine hasn't been approved for children and young children.
[00:32:16]  But you just heard Dr. Fauci say that they all will get it.
[00:32:19]  So this is not pointless to be thinking about when the guy who has been anointed, the authority on the issue, is saying that.
[00:32:30]  Anyway, just wanted to add all of that in there.
[00:32:32]  Okay, let's keep playing.
[00:32:35]  Well, yeah, what you're pointing out, what you're referring to, Savannah, is the top two not fully vaccinated that people can go out without masks.
[00:32:46]  If you walk, run with members of your household, attend a small outdoor gathering, fully vaccinated with friends.
[00:32:54]  Then after that, everything has a mask on it, as you're showing correctly now on the screen.
[00:33:00]  So what you're asking, if you are on the left-hand part and you see unvaccinated people walk outdoors with members of your household, and you're asking now if your child is a member of your household, can you walk outdoors with your child without a mask?
[00:33:18]  According to that chart, the answer is yes.
[00:33:21]  But the child can't, not to beat it to death.
[00:33:24]  Yes, yes.
[00:33:25]  Okay, okay.
[00:33:29]  I mean, the whole thing is so bananas.
[00:33:32]  And the funny thing about all of this is that this is all like so much of this COVID debate, you'd think could theoretically happen if there were wasn't like if there wasn't Florida and Texas or Sweden or Japan or any of these places.
[00:33:51]  But like, no, or, or Dr. Fauci, that's a nice, that's a cool chart you got there.
[00:33:56]  Or here's the other option.
[00:33:58]  I can just not do any of it and not increase my chances of getting sick at all.
[00:34:05]  That's the other, that's the other option right there.
[00:34:08]  You could just be Florida and Texas and end all of these restrictions and have no worse rates of COVID than anywhere else and actually better than many places that are locked down.
[00:34:20]  You could just do that.
[00:34:22]  I think the truth is that there's just these little things that people kind of do that's in all of our minds now.
[00:34:30]  Like you tend to not be super close to someone and have a long conversation with them, you know, like facing face to face.
[00:34:40]  People just kind of have this in their mind now.
[00:34:42]  There's very little adjustments that you can make that probably cut down your chances of getting this shit drastically.
[00:34:50]  But the idea that you would even entertain the possibility that a young child outdoors should be wearing a mask is not, there is no science to back this up.
[00:35:02]  This is just really creepy, deranged shit.

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[00:35:07]  I don't know what else to say about it.
[00:35:10]  Train them young to obey the state.
[00:35:12]  Yeah.
[00:35:13]  Well, that's the creepiest part of all of it, is that you can actually get people to do this shit to their children just to follow the rules that are coming down from the top.
[00:35:26]  And the element of virtue signaling.
[00:35:28]  I mean, that's a big part of this that you can't, you know, you really can't extract.
[00:35:36]  You can't ignore.
[00:35:39]  A big part of this is to let everybody know that we really are, we're the good people.
[00:35:44]  We're following the rules and we're thinking about others and all this while not thinking about your own kid.
[00:35:50]  There's really something sick and perverse about all that.
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=== Estate Tax Traps (15:27) ===

[00:37:34]  Let's talk a little bit about Joe Biden and his kind of state of the union address.
[00:37:42]  All right, I'll start here.
[00:37:44]  Let me start with a compliment.
[00:37:47]  He, Joe Biden, gave a speech and he got through it.
[00:37:54]  There were words that were said.
[00:37:56]  They were strung together in sentences.
[00:37:59]  There were not too many flubs.
[00:38:01]  He had a few, you know, little Joe Biden moments.
[00:38:05]  But overall, in terms of a performance, it was about as good as Joe Biden is capable of doing.
[00:38:13]  So I will start with a compliment.
[00:38:15]  What did you think from what you saw of the speech?
[00:38:18]  I mean, watching him talk makes me as sleepy as he is.
[00:38:22]  And I made it through about 15 minutes.
[00:38:25]  I can sum this speech up as we are going to fix the soul of the nation by printing every possible dollar for every possible government activity that will further socialize our economy.
[00:38:39]  And so to sum up some of the wealth distribution, redistribution that's going on is major investments in green energy.
[00:38:47]  And the other one is really ramping up tax rates to pay for people's childcare.
[00:38:52]  Yep.
[00:38:54]  That's not too far off.
[00:38:56]  You know, I'd say the thing about Biden is like, so with Obama and with Trump, he was, they were both really loved by their base and really hated by the opposition, you know?
[00:39:16]  But their base could claim that they're the guy.
[00:39:22]  Like, they are their guy.
[00:39:24]  You know what I mean?
[00:39:25]  Like, with Obama, the Democrats who loved him could be like, look, this guy is brilliant.
[00:39:32]  He's a great orator.
[00:39:34]  He's the first black president.
[00:39:36]  He's whatever.
[00:39:36]  You know, he was their guy.
[00:39:39]  And the people who hate him, you know, there's a range of really justifiable reasons to hate him.
[00:39:46]  And some people hated him for really stupid reasons.
[00:39:49]  With Donald Trump, it was like the people who loved him could be like, look, this guy's an outsider.
[00:39:56]  He's wildly successful in all these different fields, whether it's business or, you know, real estate, wrote a book or number one TV show.
[00:40:05]  He came into politics and defeated the Bush and Clinton machine.
[00:40:09]  And he's here to drain the swamp and he's our guy.
[00:40:12]  And then for the people who hated him, much like Obama, it ranged from completely justifiable reasons to hate him to the really stupid stuff, right?
[00:40:22]  But both sides who loved them could have a, you know, this is why he's our guy.
[00:40:31]  With Joe Biden, even the Democrats who like him, you can't pretend he's really your guy.
[00:40:38]  He is your, you know, he's coming in off the bench.
[00:40:42]  He was Obama's number two.
[00:40:45]  No one with a straight face can actually tell you he's more your guy than Obama was your guy.
[00:40:51]  He's just, he's not Trump, and they really didn't like Trump.
[00:40:56]  And he represents some like return back to normal.
[00:41:00]  And every other Democrat was such a buffoon, this guy was the best option.
[00:41:04]  Yes, that's right.
[00:41:05]  He was the last man at the dance, the last guy still on his feet.
[00:41:10]  And it's funny because there's so many, it's so contradictory.
[00:41:15]  Like it's like, well, he represents a return to the status quo, which is a very decent man who is the soul of America.
[00:41:25]  Also, we think the status quo is white supremacy and, you know, like the most evil thing ever.
[00:41:31]  But somehow this guy who's one of the most influential senators over the last 40 years and is the architect of so many of the policies we live under today, he's not tainted by this white supremacy.
[00:41:44]  Even though he legitimately worked with segregationists and like all this shit, that doesn't quite, doesn't quite get to fuck with you, I guess, or take away from this narrative.
[00:41:57]  Joe Biden gave what was a very typical.
[00:42:03]  Jeez.
[00:42:04]  Give that a minute.
[00:42:06]  All right.
[00:42:07]  Go catch whoever you're going for.
[00:42:09]  So Joe Biden gave what was a very typical politician-y speech.
[00:42:15]  It was in the pre-Trump, pre-Obama years, something almost any Democrat or Republican could have said.
[00:42:22]  A lot of stuff about what the government's going to do, about how great it is that we gave all this money out to people.
[00:42:30]  It, you know, the part where he's bragging about cutting checks to everyone is just really, I mean, you know, if you know anything about economics at all, it's frustrating to listen to.
[00:42:44]  But it's just stupid, just really stupid.
[00:42:46]  And it's the type of stuff that can just be torn apart by these like reducto abbot adsardoms where you're just kind of like, okay, well, if you're so great for sending everyone $1,600, why not send them the $2,000?
[00:42:59]  Why not send them $3,000?
[00:43:01]  I mean, why not send everybody $10,000?
[00:43:04]  Wouldn't that really be so much greater than what you did?
[00:43:08]  You tell me when this starts to be a problem.
[00:43:12]  You know, just the bullshit of like Every proposal he has is always going to be deficit neutral.
[00:43:20]  You know, how long have we been hearing this for?
[00:43:23]  Their proposals are always deficit neutral.
[00:43:26]  Everyone's.
[00:43:26]  Obamacare was deficit neutral.
[00:43:29]  Every proposal they always tell you is going to be deficit neutral.
[00:43:32]  It's somehow these deficits keep skyrocketing.
[00:43:37]  I don't know how, because all the proposals are always deficit neutral, but somehow they're not so neutral when it actually comes to the, you know, enacting them.
[00:43:47]  He, he said, oh, let's see, what else was that?
[00:43:52]  Right.
[00:43:52]  Like you said, a whole bunch of stuff about green energy.
[00:43:55]  How this is going to be the future.
[00:43:57]  It's going to create all of these jobs, all of this stuff.
[00:44:01]  The part to me that really was just the most infuriating was all of the talk about taxing big corporations and taxing the rich, which he defines as people making 400K or more.
[00:44:18]  And he's throwing out these numbers about how, you know, 20 million people lost their job in the last year.
[00:44:26]  Meanwhile, the rich and well-connected are raking in record high profits.
[00:44:33]  And the answer to all of this, of course, this is how we get to deficit neutral, right?
[00:44:38]  In his proposal, which of course won't be, is, well, we're going to tax all those people.
[00:44:43]  We're going to get serious about taxing corporations and closing loopholes and making everyone pay their fair share, this dumb line that just will not go away.
[00:44:53]  And he actually says at one point that trickle-down economics do not work.
[00:44:58]  And that's why, you know, I guess we're just supposed to accept that the 20 million people losing their jobs and the rich people getting richer than ever.
[00:45:07]  This is because of trickle-down economics.
[00:45:11]  It's just so removed from the reality of what's happened over the last year.
[00:45:16]  I mean, for the federal government to even be talking about how, oh, we need to tax these big corporations.
[00:45:24]  I think about it in like logistics, logistically, what they're actually proposing is taking back some of the money that they just gave to these big corporations.
[00:45:37]  They've had a year of more corporate welfare than any year in the history of humanity.
[00:45:43]  Now they're going to start talking about taxing these corporations.
[00:45:47]  It's like unbelievable.
[00:45:49]  I think we also have to mention it's not just corporate welfare and having handed money to these businesses.
[00:45:54]  It's also Amazon's profits are up like three times.
[00:45:57]  Like they made this past year, what they usually do in three years, Google's through the roof.
[00:46:02]  And you know why?
[00:46:03]  Everyone was told that they have to stay in their homes.
[00:46:05]  You shut down the local businesses and you handed all that.
[00:46:08]  They're the only places to go where Google and Amazon.
[00:46:11]  And now you got big farmer profits up.
[00:46:13]  It's great how basically government policies have handed over all the wealth to the exact companies that the left tried to say.
[00:46:19]  Why are these because you're fucking shutting down every single mom and pop stores that there's no choice but to stay in your house and try and find stuff online because they're bored.
[00:46:28]  That is a government policy.
[00:46:29]  Oh, yeah.
[00:46:30]  No, they literally destroyed small and mid-sized businesses by executive fiat of these governors.
[00:46:36]  I mean, like, literally, we're like, you're closed.
[00:46:38]  You can't, you are deemed inessential.
[00:46:41]  I mean, like, if you think about like, you know, some little bookstore, like I know this little bookstore on the Upper West Side that closed.
[00:46:47]  I don't know how they made it all these years, but I think enough people were like, oh, we kind of like the idea of it not just being Barnes and Nobles.
[00:46:53]  And we want to, you know, if you, if you'd want to, if you want to get a book, you know, a lot of people would go there.
[00:47:00]  I went there a few times.
[00:47:02]  And they closed down because they were deemed non-essential.
[00:47:04]  They weren't allowed to open.
[00:47:06]  And so if you wanted to get a book, what were the options?
[00:47:09]  Well, you could order from Amazon or BarnesandNobles.com.
[00:47:12]  Those were your only options for months and months and months.
[00:47:16]  And so, of course, the store closed down.
[00:47:19]  And this happened all over the place, right?
[00:47:21]  That you closed down the small businesses.
[00:47:23]  You deemed them non-essential and so they couldn't operate.
[00:47:26]  And then all that was available were the giant corporations.
[00:47:29]  Then on top of that, they gave just buckets of cash to those giant corporations who were already profiting and many of them didn't need it.
[00:47:39]  So they gave, you know, they gave the huge amounts of corporate welfare, destroyed small businesses.
[00:47:44]  And then they're going to go, you know, this is a really unfair situation we have here where there's a, we got to, you know, it's like imagine like me just like, you know, you know, shutting, you and your neighbor are, you know, competing to make money.
[00:48:00]  I deem it illegal for your neighbor to make money anymore.
[00:48:03]  Then I give you $10,000.
[00:48:05]  And then I give a speech going, you know, this is really unfair that Rob's got $10,000 and his neighbor has nothing.
[00:48:11]  And I'm looking at trying to find a way to get some of that $10,000 back.
[00:48:15]  I mean, like, this is, it's just so outrageously dishonest.
[00:48:21]  And the idea that we're even having a conversation about the corporate income tax after this year of, you know, corporate welfare, unlike anything we've ever seen before.
[00:48:32]  And even before then, there was way too much of it.
[00:48:35]  But so that part was, you know, just infuriating.
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[00:49:50]  So the actual tax policies, your big corporations are pretty big and powerful.
[00:49:55]  They know how to move money around.
[00:49:56]  You're not going to win.
[00:49:56]  You're going to end up chasing more manufacturing or other activities just outside of the United States.
[00:50:02]  The people that you're really going to kill, and this is the same mom and pop thing, is if you change like the estate taxes where you got a family business and now you can't just hand it off to your kids without owing 50% of the business to taxes, that's what they really are doing is they're just functionally making everyone always more reliant on government.
[00:50:20]  You can't pass on generational wealth so that you can build up your own thing.
[00:50:25]  Or you can't like, in other words, they'll close down your business and then try and take some of the money back to Amazon to hand it to you.
[00:50:30]  But the important thing is that you're going through government for it.
[00:50:33]  That's where it becomes socialism.
[00:50:35]  It's like they're going to try and take care of you, but it's got to be through your reliance of them.
[00:50:40]  Yep, that's exactly right.
[00:50:41]  That's exactly right.
[00:50:43]  And of course, the problem, right, like you said, like the problem with all of these tax policies is that they always end up falling disproportionate on the middle and upper middle class.
[00:50:55]  That's now, don't get me wrong, I should say they hurt, they hurt working class and poor people as well.
[00:51:00]  But I'm just saying that when you have these policies that are going to say, okay, we're going to raise, you know, it goes everyone $400,000 and over is going to get their taxes raised.
[00:51:14]  It's like, okay, well, the super, super wealthy people, first off, don't even really make their money through income.
[00:51:20]  That's not like going to get to them.
[00:51:23]  They also have armies of tax lawyers and accountants who are going to find, you know, they're going to lobby loopholes in and then use the loopholes, whereas the guy making 400K a year won't, and he will end up getting banged out for this.
[00:51:36]  And they straight up have the leverage where, you know, they'll enact a tax policy.
[00:51:40]  Hey, you guys got to go check me on this one.
[00:51:42]  But it happens all the time where really big businesses will get tax incentives that nobody else does.
[00:51:47]  So if you look at it differently, it's because they've got the leverage where they can come to your town and provide a lot of jobs, but you're going to have to play ball for them.
[00:51:54]  But that makes it harder to compete with them.
[00:51:55]  That means every other business that you're creating general tax laws for that don't have the leverage of the large company are all being penalized because they're not as large as the large company.
[00:52:04]  Yeah.
[00:52:05]  Yeah.
[00:52:05]  No, that's absolutely right.
[00:52:07]  This happens all the time.
[00:52:09]  Anyway, okay.
[00:52:10]  So the other thing in the speech that was worth mentioning was his talk about war very briefly.
[00:52:18]  But he did talk about ending the war in Afghanistan and how it's time to end these forever wars and how the mission of Afghanistan never should have been nation building and that there are children in the same battle arenas that their fathers were in and how this is terrible.
[00:52:38]  Some of these people there weren't even born on 9-11.
[00:52:41]  However, at no point did he give a justification for pushing back the date to withdraw from Afghanistan.
[00:52:49]  And so he never exactly explained any or indicated anything of why we couldn't withdraw on the timeline and the agreement that was already made and why we have to push it back till September.

=== Justifying The War (04:11) ===

[00:53:01]  Now, we'll see if he's actually serious about pulling our troops out in September or not.
[00:53:07]  It's not about nation building.
[00:53:09]  It's that we've been there so long that they're actually mad enough that they're going to come invade us again.
[00:53:13]  And so now it's back to being a full risk.
[00:53:15]  Well, you know, there are, this is not without risk.
[00:53:20]  It's funny that people so, you know, people really have the mentality.
[00:53:25]  Even people who are more or less on the right side of the issue, like, yeah, yeah, we'd like to see us get out of Afghanistan.
[00:53:32]  But I'm not even talking about the politicians.
[00:53:34]  I mean, they clearly have this attitude, but just regular people have this attitude that it's like, well, we're just America.
[00:53:39]  We get to decide what happens and we can do whatever we want to.
[00:53:43]  So, okay, he's not withdrawing here.
[00:53:45]  He's withdrawing there.
[00:53:46]  But the truth is that we had an agreement with the Taliban that we're breaking.
[00:53:50]  Now, we don't know exactly what their response to this is going to be.
[00:53:55]  Just, oh, okay, you guys don't want to leave in May.
[00:53:57]  You want to leave in September.
[00:53:58]  Okay, cool.
[00:54:00]  I don't know.
[00:54:01]  We have no reason to know that.
[00:54:03]  And then what if we don't leave in September?
[00:54:05]  Then what's the response?
[00:54:06]  Perhaps their response is to go on the aggressive, you know, and actually start really fucking up the U.S. targets and really start turning on the people we've sided with over there, like our pet warlords.
[00:54:20]  Okay.
[00:54:20]  And then what do you do?
[00:54:21]  Then how do you pull out of the war after all of that?
[00:54:25]  So that's going to be very difficult if that does happen.
[00:54:29]  And there's a lot of different scenarios that could happen between now and September that doesn't allow us to pull out.
[00:54:34]  But the other thing Joe Biden said in there, which should not be overlooked, is that he also said he was like, well, listen, we've degraded al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
[00:54:44]  But, you know, there's still al-Qaeda in Yemen, in Syria, where else did he name?
[00:54:52]  I can't remember.
[00:54:53]  But he definitely said in Yemen and Syria, maybe in Libya too.
[00:54:57]  I'm not sure.
[00:54:58]  I can't remember the third country he named.
[00:55:00]  But so that was already his hint.
[00:55:03]  Oh, we have to pull out of Afghanistan so we can fight al-Qaeda in Yemen and Syria.
[00:55:09]  Never once mentioning that we sided with al-Qaeda in Yemen and Syria.
[00:55:14]  And that's a pretty big part of the reason why there still is Al-Qaeda there, because we've been acting as their air force and at times actually sending them weapons and money.
[00:55:24]  So that doesn't get mentioned, but it's now, of course, that will be used as the justification.
[00:55:29]  And this is something that Scott Horton's been concerned about for quite a while, that the more you kind of act as the air force for al-Qaeda, even when the justification for war ends, then you've got this brand new justification, right?
[00:55:44]  Well, look, there's al-Qaeda there.
[00:55:46]  Oh, no, there's all this al-Qaeda in Yemen.
[00:55:48]  How did they get so strong?
[00:55:50]  I mean, sure, they're at war with the Houthis, and we've been propping up the Saudis and refueling their jets to bomb the shit out of the Houthis for the last fucking five years.
[00:55:59]  But hey, I don't know.
[00:56:01]  We got all this al-Qaeda now, so we really got to do something about them.
[00:56:04]  So you can just see the justification, you know, already being built in, and he's already putting out justification to keep these other wars going.
[00:56:11]  So it's hard to be optimistic.
[00:56:14]  Speaking of optimistic, it was pretty funny.
[00:56:16]  I got to say, the line toward the end of the speech where he said, Joe Biden said, I've never been more optimistic about our country.
[00:56:25]  And it's just really funny to see the visual of this old man, this 90-year-old.
[00:56:31]  I mean, I know he's 80, but he's 90.
[00:56:34]  This 90-year-old man up there with his vice president and speaker of the house, who's also, you know, right around that age, masked up, talking to this crowd, this dispersed crowd, everyone distanced.
[00:56:48]  It's like something out of a dystopian movie.
[00:56:51]  And he goes, never been so optimistic.
[00:56:54]  It's just a funny visual.
[00:56:55]  Just be like, and as you guys can all see, things are going great.
[00:56:59]  I'm just fantastic.
[00:57:00]  What could be better than all of this, really?
[00:57:04]  I don't know.
[00:57:05]  It didn't strike me with, you know, such a note of optimism, but we'll see.

=== Handcuffed At A Bar (02:12) ===

[00:57:12]  All right.
[00:57:13]  Anything else?
[00:57:13]  Any other thoughts you have on the speech?
[00:57:15]  How far in did you actually make it?
[00:57:17]  You actually watched that whole thing?
[00:57:18]  I watched the whole thing.
[00:57:19]  Wow, good for you.
[00:57:20]  Well, I just, you know, I wanted to see if anything newsworthy came of it.
[00:57:24]  I watched it in installments, you know, like 10 minutes here.
[00:57:27]  You have to pay it down.
[00:57:28]  Let me go.
[00:57:28]  Yeah, all right.
[00:57:29]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:57:30]  I could fucking, you know, you end up paying more overall, but it doesn't hit you so hard at once.
[00:57:35]  All right.
[00:57:36]  Okay, that's our episode for today.
[00:57:37]  Thanks for listening, everybody.
[00:57:39]  We will be back on Monday.
[00:57:41]  Peace.
[00:57:42]  All right, guys, thanks for listening to the show.
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[00:58:24]  I had a great time hanging out with Jimmy Bauer once when I met him, and we got fucking handcuffed and sat on a curb outside of a bar together.
[00:58:32]  That was great.
[00:58:33]  Why?
[00:58:36]  He was like talking to some girl.
[00:58:39]  He cannot eat show.
[00:58:40]  I've never met him, by the way.
[00:58:42]  He's like in the back room, just like being Jimmy Bauer-ish.
[00:58:46]  He's like, let's go to a Barbini.
[00:58:47]  Let's go to bar.
[00:58:48]  I'm like, okay, I'm not going to miss the opportunity to go to bar Jim Bauer.
[00:58:50]  So we walk to his bar like near the venue.
[00:58:53]  He gets fucking hammered, starts hitting on a girl.
[00:58:55]  The girl's boyfriend like kind of steps in.
[00:58:57]  Jimmy Bauer says something to her like super offensive.
[00:59:01]  She slaps him, his fake teeth come out, and she fucking steps on him.
[00:59:07]  So he like goes fucking full, like raging mad, and starts just like pushing the boyfriend and like just screaming.
[00:59:15]  And so they called the cops and me and Jimmy Bauer got handcuffed and sat outside.
[00:59:18]  And then they just let us go.
[00:59:19]  But I never saw him again either.
[00:59:23]  That's incredible.