Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein dissect Joe Biden's alleged hypocrisy regarding the war on drugs, contrasting his 1980s alliance with Strom Thurmond against his defense of marijuana policies after an Olympian's disqualification. They critique vaccine mandates as a "biggest propaganda campaign in human history," noting that 50 million Trump voters and skeptical Black communities reject them due to mistrust and perceived election theft. The discussion further challenges Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson for retaining patents while the government suspended freedoms, arguing that prioritizing corporate intellectual property over individual rights exposes a fundamentally flawed system where emergency powers were delayed until after Donald Trump left office. [Automatically generated summary]
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We need to roll back the state.
We spy on all of our own citizens.
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Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
You're listening to part of the problem on the Gash Digital Network.
Here's your host, James Smith.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I'm Dave Smith.
He is the king of the caulks, Robbie the Fire, Bernstein.
What's happening, my brother?
Nothing much.
How are you, Mr. Smith?
Doing good, doing good.
Can't complain.
Happy to be spending some time with you and all the good people, all the good people listening out at home.
Yeah.
How's everything in studio land?
Oh, it's nice.
They got air conditioning here.
It doesn't smell like dead rats.
Everything you'd like of a studio.
Well, previously to this, you were recording out of your apartment, and now I have questions about that.
Do you not have air conditioning?
Does it smell like dead rats normally for you?
No, I live in a great location.
Women, hit me up.
It's beautiful.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I put up a fake poor background just for the show.
Yes, you live in a very nice place in a very nice town.
You got a nice apartment, but you do have a tree that sits atop your parking lot that drops, I don't know how to describe it, little balls of shit-smelling flowers.
Like, what are those things?
I don't know, but it's a lot.
It's not great.
It's just unbelievable.
You park there for literally, so when we did the gig in Connecticut and you picked me up in your car, and I'm like, Rob, what is your car covered in?
And you're like, Yeah, that's why it's my parking space is right underneath this tree.
And you didn't believe me.
You were like, nah, you got attacked by birds.
It was like, you thought it was like a Wizard of Oz situation.
They came after me, pooped all over the place.
I mean, I can't even explain to you.
It's covered everywhere.
And then when we went up to Porkfest, Tom drove me to Rob's place, and then we took your car up to New Hampshire.
And Tom parks there for two days.
And we came back to grab Tom's car, and it's covered.
Just destroyed.
So that's, you got a nice place.
You live in a nice town, but part of the deal is you have to look like your car just fought a homeless person for its that should knock off a couple hundred bucks on rent.
That's all I'm saying.
You would hope so.
I've also never had allergies, but whatever the fuck is falling on my car is uh or maybe it's just corona.
Who knows?
Could also be COVID.
That's the other uh option.
Delta variant.
Spooky.
We'll get into uh some of that stuff later.
So but uh first I did want to talk a little bit about on the show.
Wait, before you do that, talk about you.
You gotta, they can see you in purpose person up in Providence, Rhode Island.
Oh, that's right.
Yes, good call, Robbie.
Providence, Rhode Island.
There's still some tickets available.
Me and Luis J. Gomez co-headlining one night, one show only Friday, this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Comedy Connection in Providence, Rhode Island.
Come on out to that.
We just threw this show together last minute.
So there are still some tickets available.
Please, please come on out.
See us there.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
And then, of course, Freedom Fest, Summer Porch Tour.
Rob's going all around.
Boston, Nashville.
Hit me up.
I'll get you the ticket links.
There we go.
Summer Porch Tour is killing it.
This is the biggest year by far for this porch tour.
Yeah, it used to be single individuals and myself on their porches.
Now we got full audiences.
So this thing's up and running.
It's pretty crazy.
Robbie is building a fucking political comedy Woodstock piece by piece before it's...
That's what I'm trying to do.
People's homes, sleep in their houses, eat their food, do comedy from their front yard.
No one else is doing this.
It is true.
It actually, I will say, it's really cool what you're doing.
It's a very cool vibe.
It's unlike anything I've seen.
Okay, so I figured we'd talk a little bit about this on the show just because my Twitter has been blowing up since last night over my most recent appearance on Kennedy, where things got a little bit wild.
I was completely caught off guard by it.
I did not expect this to happen at all.
I've done Kennedy.
I mean, Kennedy was the first show that ever put me on television.
I will forever be grateful to her for that, on top of her just being, you know, heroic badass.
And I mean, I've done Kennedy since then.
I think it was in 2015, maybe, was the first time she put me on.
And since then, I've basically, I basically do it like every week, every other week.
So I've done Kennedy hundreds of times.
But with the exception of when I was under contract with CNN, they paid me enough money to make me exclusive over there.
So I just got to argue with the Warhawks.
So I've done the show so many times.
I've never gotten into an exchange quite like this one before.
And so people were going nuts on Twitter.
But I thought it would be, it was an interesting moment.
And there's a little bit that we could break down from it and kind of expand on and talk about how to deal with these situations and how to kind of expose some of these guys.
So it was a panel with myself, of course, Kennedy, the heroic Kennedy hosting the show.
And the panel was myself and Tim Carney, who I really like very much.
I think he's great.
Breaking Down The Kennedy Exchange00:07:42
And he's like a, I don't know exactly how you describe his politics.
He's certainly conservative leaning, but he's very smart, very thoughtful.
And always, I've done several panels with him and I've read his stuff and watched him for years.
And he's one of like the, I believe he writes for the Washington Examiner.
And he's like really one of the brightest, most thoughtful people in the corporate press world.
And then we also had this guy, Chris Han, Han, on the show, who I've done a few panels with before.
We've argued before, but never quite like this.
He was like, he's like a very standard neolib democratic establishment type.
He worked for Chuck Schumer's campaigns for a while.
And his brand is kind of that he gets into these arguments and screaming matches and stuff.
And he's his style with these things is like the worst of cable news, where they just scream over each other and stuff like that.
So that's kind of what he does.
But he's never really picked a fight with me like this.
Anyway, let's play the clip.
Show you guys what happened, and then we could break it down a little bit.
Oh, so the topic that we're asking about is that that lady who got booted out of the Olympics for testing positive for those dolls, the squeeze dolls, the angry, grumpy guys.
Yeah, right.
All right.
It's left her completely off the team.
So now she can't even compete in the 4x100, which is so lame, Dave Smith, because she probably would have been faster if she hadn't gotten higher.
Yeah, well, that's for sure.
And it's not just punishing her, right?
It's punishing all the women who are competing because now whoever wins kind of has like an asterisk next to their victory because she was really the favorite.
So it's punishing everybody and robbing them of their shot.
But the thing that's so infuriating about Joe Biden having the nerve to say the rules are the rules is that Joe Biden is the living archetype, the architect of the war on drugs, the most influential member that is still around today.
And I understand this isn't a law, but to act like these rules aren't influenced by the last 40 years of American federal legal policy on marijuana would be absurd.
Joe Biden in the 80s challenged Ronald Reagan from his right.
He partnered up with Strom Thurmond to challenge Ronald Reagan for being too soft on crime.
He was a Joe Biden if you could just pause it about throwing the book at every so my seems like a pretty reasonable response to me.
I was just making the point that for Joe Biden to come out and be like, well, she shouldn't have smoked pot.
Rules are the rules.
It's like, well, I understand black ladies.
That's very clear that Biden will not support black women athletes.
Well, look, I'm just saying, if you have a history of being the architect of the war on drugs and making the rules that locked people up for marijuana, I mean, there are still right now, there are thousands of people who are doing life in prison for marijuana charges and lots of people who have done jail time and are currently doing jail time.
I mean, you know, thousands and thousands of people's lives ruined, probably in the hundreds of thousands, just for pot.
And, you know, for you to come out and say the rules are the rules, it's like, well, look, you're the guy who wrote these rules or lobbied for them.
Lobby might not be the right term.
He was a senator the whole time, but really actively pressured everybody.
And so I was just giving a little bit of the history on this.
That Joe Biden actually was to Ronald Reagan's right in terms of being, you know, like advocating for the harshest of the war on drugs policy.
And this is just a fact.
This was Joe Biden all through the 80s and 90s.
So I was just making the point that, like, yeah, I mean, if we're going to talk about now how this woman's like, you know, like aspirations and Olympic dreams have been ruined over pot, which I think every person knows is ridiculous, then, you know, there's Joe Biden just saying, well, rules are the rules is pretty outrageous.
Now, I didn't think that would be anything that would particularly trigger a liberal Democrat.
Most of them in general seem to kind of agree with that.
But anyway, so I was not expecting what came next, but this was Mr. Hans' response.
Every minor drug offender throughout the 80s and the 90s.
Yeah, Joe Biden acts.
Joe Biden has evolved on this issue.
No, he hasn't involved on this issue.
Tell me, that's where Christy Noam is and other right-wing conservatives in this country.
Christy Noam is a woman too.
I'm not the right.
Joe Biden is in favor of legalized marijuana, as is the entire Democratic establishment.
No, he's not.
So let's be clear.
No, he's not.
We talked about decriminalizing.
He will not reschedule marijuana, and you know that.
Right.
By the way, Chris Sexing Act.
Chris, I'm not sure.
This is currently on it.
Right.
Chris, right, I can say this is his current position.
Want people to love you.
Please love me.
Let me hit Joe Biden.
Please love me.
Look, this woman should be allowed to race.
What are you saying?
She's not watching racism.
That means nothing.
You're literally saying I didn't claim that this was his current position.
I'm saying he is responsible for what he did in the past.
And what he did in the past is evil.
He enslaved millions of people.
That means something.
That may not mean anything to you, but it does mean something to me.
And I'm sorry if more people.
And Dave, Dave, I agree.
His position, I agree.
His position in the past was wrong.
He has evolved on that position.
He's now walking from being president.
He's not satisfactorily involved.
Absolutely not.
Are you out of your mind?
Dave Smith has some of the most consistent and authentic positions on freedom and liberty of anyone in media.
He does not have to come on this show or any other show and patter to anyone unlike you because you are peddling falsehoods right now about Joe Biden.
I would like to say that you're not going to be able to do that.
I've been doing his name.
You're not shaved.
Not once.
That is such a good thing.
Hold on, Kennedy.
Can I just for one second?
Kennedy, for one second.
Donald Trump should be in prison.
Let me just say this real quick.
Donald Trump should be in prison for war crimes for what he did to the people of Yemen.
How's that for taking on the right?
Don't you're just defending your Democratic president.
I actually stand on principle.
What do you stand against the Democrats on?
Call me out like that.
I'm sorry.
I stood against people calling out the Declaration of Independence in the first act of this show.
Oh, wow.
So I don't know what you're talking about.
I stand up.
We can leave it there.
So I haven't watched it back since it happened.
That was pretty.
I mean, look, dude, I understand.
Like, part of the thing is just that cable news is such a like ridiculous platform.
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Like, it's just, it's so silly, the whole thing.
And don't get me wrong, because Kennedy is so good.
Like, she is the, she does the best you can do with it.
I mean, if you listen to like her, her monologues and her like topical storm segment, like she's funny, she's informative, she's right about almost every single issue.
Um, but for any type of like back and forth like that, it's all just it's it's very strange when you exist in the world of podcasting and you'll just have for anything you're gonna do.
I mean, I've done a lot of debates and a lot of podcasts and a lot of these shows, and you'll, it'll be like, okay, we have like a couple hours to get to this subject.
You know, everyone's gonna be able to make their points, everyone's gonna have to hear the other person's points, grapple with them.
This just becomes like this shouting fest and free-for-all.
But I mean, it can be useful.
You can get big, you know, you can get important things out in a short amount of time.
And there's something about that that is valuable.
So I don't mean to dismiss it entirely.
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You know, if you only have two minutes to say something, it really forces you to trim the fat and say, you know, the most important thing and put it in the right way.
So there is some value there.
But this, I thought, was very strange and it was very revealing of, you know, to me, Chris here, it's almost like he's a throwback.
He's an old school kind of like, this is how you would argue in the 90s on cable news.
And because there was no other outlets or platforms and no, it that was just kind of accepted.
And you could always count on the fact that it would be a Democrat versus a Republican.
Exposing Shitty Political Parties00:13:33
So your instant defense for attacking a Democrat is like, well, here, let me pivot and attack this Republican, you know, and like, but today, I mean, people just watch these long-form shows.
They've seen like a whole different level of debates and positions laid out.
And so this stuff is just so easy to expose.
I have had this a lot in my time on cable news.
And this happens all the time.
Even on Kennedy's show, which is a libertarian show, almost always has a libertarian member of the panel.
In fact, I'm pretty sure she organizes almost every panel to be a Democrat, a Republican, and a libertarian on the panel.
But the first thing he responds to me on, even though he's conceding he agrees, he agrees that Joe Biden was terrible on drugs in the 80s and 90s, right?
But the first thing he responds to me is, well, look at the conservative Republicans and how bad they are.
And right away, it's like, yeah, okay, they're bad too.
Like, what?
I'm not one of them.
I don't like them.
Yes, they've been awful on the war on drugs also.
And I mean, the example he gave of this Christy Noam woman, I don't even know what her take on pot is, but I'll take his word for it.
I'm sure it's terrible.
Okay.
Like, what does this mean?
It's just, it's so funny that this is like their built-in defense mechanism: is that, okay, we'll have these two really shitty parties.
And then when you call out my shitty party, I get to go, well, your party's shitty too.
But when someone's not a member of either of these dumb parties, it's like, oh, okay.
Yeah, that doesn't work.
It doesn't justify anything.
So that right away was silly.
Then he, and I know there's a lot of us talking over each other, so maybe this wasn't clear, but like, then he said at one point that I just want people to like me, and that's why I'm trashing.
Huh?
Did a pretty good impression for you, Davey Smith.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
A lot of Dorothy energy.
A lot of what?
He almost did that was almost like out of the mask.
Remember that when he's trying to get the Oscar?
You really like After He Gets Shot?
Yeah.
Oh, yes, yes.
No, I do remember now.
The Mask.
I really liked that movie when I was a kid.
But yeah, he says, oh, you just want people to like you, and that's why you're picking on the Democrat or something.
I mean, it was a very, a very bizarre thing.
That's what I think set me off a little bit.
That was to me kind of like, well, now you're not just making an argument.
You're like speaking to my motives and how I'm like, I'm not being genuine or something like that.
Like, I just am saying this because I think it's appropriate to trash Joe Biden on a Fox News show.
But again, I just think he Chris just really didn't know what he was dealing with.
And he said, I've never heard you go after the Republicans, which is just like, I don't know.
You got the wrong guy, man.
Like, sorry.
And it was pretty funny when I turn around and I go, Donald Trump should be in prison for war crimes.
Like, oh, you never go after the Republicans.
I go, here's the biggest Republican hero in the country.
I think he should be rotting in a cage.
Is that good enough for you?
And then I asked him, I go, hey, you're the one who's just like a Democrat supporting your Democratic president, even when you know he's wrong.
What do you stand up to Democrats on?
And he goes, I said that the Declaration of Independence is okay.
Like, wow.
Oh, dude.
Really taking those bullets.
He'll stand up and say, I do not hate our country.
That's what I'll take on my party's establishment for, which is kind of revealing in a way.
Anyway, it went on like that for a while.
But I will say that number one, I appreciate Kennedy.
That was very nice of her to say those things about me.
And it's, I guess I appreciate Chris too, because the segment seems to have gotten a lot of people interested in it.
And I appreciate him exposing the level of thought that he brings in to these things.
You know, like people were saying online, they were like, oh, you should have him on and you guys should debate like on a podcast format.
And I'll tell you right now, like, he doesn't want to do that.
His whole style is made for this.
It's two minutes.
I'm going to talk over you as much as I can.
And then we get out of here.
I land a talking point or two.
He doesn't want to sit down and have an hour-long conversation.
It would be completely exposed.
If he wants to, I'm more than happy to do it.
But I'll tell you right now, he doesn't want to do that.
But, you know, but that's the level that you're kind of dealing with with a lot of these cable news pundits.
The people who go on these panels and just recite talking points.
When push comes to shove, they really have nothing.
They have nothing.
It's just hopefully they can label you as the opposition team, attach you to everything Republican that's bad, and then convince the people who already felt that way that their guy won.
But yeah, so, but the thing is, like, what's important to take away from it is that what you have to do when confronted with these guys is you just have to be like unrelenting and put them back on the defensive.
And you have to know what you're talking about.
You have to have enough, you know, like knowledge to know that you're right.
But the thing is that it's like, I think what we need from libertarians when they're on the media or on big platforms is just to be completely uncompromising.
Like, don't flinch about this stuff.
These guys use these tactics.
They're very easy to expose.
These are weak tactics.
Like, they haven't like, there's been no iron sharpening iron.
They're just completely dull blades.
And if you are in the world where you're sharp, it's easy to cut through this stuff.
Just be uncompromising.
I mean, if these like tyrannical, you know, neoliberals and neoconservatives can be so confident in their bullshit, why can't we be equally confident and unapologetic defending liberty?
Seems easy to me.
It's funny on the issue itself, right?
Is that there's no Chris, and I don't think any modern Democrat at all, I don't think any of them will actually try to give you a thoughtful defense of what Joe Biden did in the 80s and 90s.
I don't think any of them would go, yeah, we really should have staked out a position to the right of Ronald Reagan and insisted on decades-long sentences for nonviolent, victimless drug crimes.
I don't think any of them are going to tell you, yeah, Strom Thurman, the segregationist, was the guy to team up with to make sure that we'd have all of these laws that sent people away and broke up families and destroyed neighborhoods and all this stuff.
None of them.
So what is their initial go-to?
It's like, well, he's evolved.
He's evolved since then.
It's like, okay.
I raped last week.
I'm a new guy now.
Yeah, there you go.
I put me in jail for that rape last week.
I'm a new man.
I've been going to the monk place.
I've been meditating.
I'm a new guy.
So you're like, Robbie Bernstein, in the case of serial raping, 19 women, how do you plead?
You're like, I evolved.
I've evolved, Your Honor.
I'm going to use the old evolved defense.
We cool?
There you go.
Case dismissed.
He's evolved.
But look, I will say, like, I know a lot of people, and I myself have changed my mind on a lot of issues.
I'm not against anybody changing their mind.
But first of all, even if you had changed your mind, if you were the architect of policies that enslaved hundreds of thousands of people, I'm going to need you to not be in charge of policy anymore.
You know, you could change your mind on that.
I mean, probably in a just society, you should pay.
There should be some type of retribution.
But I'll just settle for go away and apologize for the rest of your life.
Try to do something.
Enjoy yourself.
Yeah, really.
Andrew Biden's an artist.
I mean, you guys are made.
That guy can sell his art for basically anything.
So what do you got to work for?
Yeah, that's right.
That Hunter book, his art, you guys should be taken care of.
You got that credit card cash coming in.
You're fine.
But yeah, like that's, I mean, that's just like an incredibly weak cop out to say, well, he evolved.
Well, he doesn't believe that anymore.
And of course, my point was not, even as I mentioned in the clip, my point wasn't that he hasn't evolved on the issue.
I mean, we can talk about this in a second.
I don't really think he has evolved that much.
But even if he had, that's not really the point that I'm making.
My point was that these archaic rules that even in the Olympics they might have about, you know, marijuana, testing positive for smoking pot is something that should get you kicked out of the Olympics.
It's like just, it's absurd, right?
Like the idea that running, I mean, you could make a stronger argument for like caffeine or sugar or something like that than you could for marijuana.
You look like she was having too much fun, dude.
I've never seen any other runners look that jolly.
She's enjoying herself too much.
Well, that I might give credit to the pot for.
The pot might have made her happier.
Oddly, I got to say, seemed bad for the sport because I remember seeing that clip online last week.
I was like, oh, this is a cool, like, I bet she's going to do well.
Like, it just, you know what I mean?
She looked like she had a strong personality.
You notice that if you follow the MMA, sometimes people come by with strong personalities.
You're like, oh, this is going to be good for the sport.
I was almost like, oh, this is going to be good for the Olympics.
This is cool.
You got an American being dominant seems like a lot of fun.
So it's kind of their loss.
I mean, yeah, I mean, it's all of their losses.
And she's also not just like someone there.
She's like the best.
She was the favorite to win gold.
And so like, as I said in the clip, I go, oh, yeah, you just, you ruined the event and you punished all of these women.
Like my guess would be that if you get to the level of competition of being in the Olympics, like these people have dedicated their entire lives for this competition.
I bet those other ladies, they want to take on the best.
They don't want her like out of there so that they win and then everyone goes, oh yeah, you won, but it's because this one who is favored, you know what I mean, got booted over pot.
So yeah, you robbed this girl of her dreams, robbed all the other ones competing against her of their shot at beating the best.
You know, it's awful and stupid and all of this.
But I was just making the point that it's like, look, you can't, the fact that people have this attitude toward pot can't really be completely removed from the last 40 years of federal policy about pot.
Like the fact that we've had it classified as a schedule one A1 drug for decades and the fact that we've been willing to give people life sentences for it and all of this stuff is a, you know, America, the federal government of America has a lot of influence over the rest of the world.
And that leads a lot of people to think of this as this really awful evil substance.
So whether he's evolved or not on the issue, I'm saying this is still his legacy.
And like, no, he has not come out and made it.
And on to the second point is that he hasn't really evolved that much on it.
Well, he's evolved to the point that he said some platitudes while running for president because that's what's popular now.
But he's moved to ban menthol cigarettes.
He's hasn't like done anything to like, he hasn't learned his prohibition lesson.
He's literally targeted a type of cigarettes that are predominantly used by black people and said, we want to make those illegal.
He's quite happy to repeat all of the war on drugs mistakes, but now with menthol cigarettes.
And like, no, he's made no real effort to reschedule marijuana or to move to decriminalize it on a federal level.
None of that.
So yeah, like not only is the he's evolved excuse bullshit, but he hasn't.
He hasn't even evolved, at least not enough.
So yeah, the whole point is rather stupid and kind of easy to just dismantle, but it made for some TV drama and people online seem to get a kick out of it.
So there's that.
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Guy's not representing the bald community well.
I'm going to have to give him a call.
Get the other balding elders together and let them know.
They're not sending their best, Rob.
You guys are not sending your best baldies to the Democratic establishment.
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The Bizarre Green Room Staging00:04:55
All right, let's get back into the show.
But anyway, it is interesting.
The other thing that I just must say that I found like pretty hilarious is if you just zoom out for a second and think about how ridiculous this whole like duopoly mindset is,
where they just criticize you for like, well, you're not willing to criticize Republicans, even though I, you know, I guarantee that I've made more substantive and stinging and damning criticisms of Republicans than Chris Hahn has, who just repeats the latest talking point and probably talks a whole lot about the insurrection or, you know, whatever.
QAnon just says all the dumb boring shit instead of what actually matters.
They have like a nice staging area in back, like you eat some coffee and donuts, you recharge your energy, then you hop on a mic, you scream for three minutes, you get off, like you chill out, have a cigarette, wait for your next spot.
Is it like television like that?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, it's real nice green room.
But we're not in it.
We all, you know, nowadays we're all doing it from the computer.
I was sitting right here.
But yeah, in general, Kennedy, real nice green room.
Yeah.
Kind of a fun gig because purely as an actor, you got like three lines and you just got to get onto different shows and yell those three points and you take a little break.
Yeah, no, it's not a bad gig.
I mean, you can literally, you can be completely unimpressive intellectually.
Just have to be good enough to kind of put the sentences together that you read in the talking points this morning and then just go out and deliver them.
How do people move from the substantive pods and cats to the cable news game, Dave?
It's not that easy, Rob.
I'll tell you.
If I knew, I would try to help you into it, but it's not that easy.
Yeah, but they got a nice little setup in the back.
Usually they have like a little craft kind of table setup.
Hey, just give me some donuts.
I'll play conservative or liberal.
Give me the three lines I'm supposed to go with for that show.
You know what they used to do in Kennedy's background in Kennedy's green room, which used to, I always thought was hilarious, is they put out a tray of like pastries and desserts and then a tray of veggies and they just put them right next to each other.
And it was almost like it was just kind of like, yeah, you're going to have to look yourself in the mirror and decide who you are as a pro.
What do you want?
You want this carrot or you want this brownie?
It's up to you, dude.
You go either way.
And it just really makes you feel like an asshole when you're for 15 minutes, you eat one pepper, eat two pepper, you keep telling people, hey, I'm trying to be healthy.
And then some guy takes the damage like, yes, we're doing it.
All right.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, no, but just so the only other point that I wanted to add to this, right?
But just imagine coming from this perspective where you're going to say, like, he is projecting onto me that I'm the partisan hack that he is, right?
So he thinks that I'm just attacking Joe Biden because he is a Democrat, Democrat, bad, Republican, good, right?
Like he's projecting this onto me.
But think about how much you have to fit this square peg into a round hole.
That my criticism of Joe Biden was explicitly that he attacked Ronald Reagan from the right.
That was my criticism.
There's nothing in there that you could say this is pandering to right-wingers.
So now, this is how deranged these like establishment Democrat types are.
That if I attack the war on drugs, they are now going to accuse me of pandering to Republicans.
Just think about how bizarre that is.
You know, I'm out here like, I think we should legalize all drugs.
And you're going, oh, man, you're such a right-wing conservative.
That's what they all say, right?
Strange times.
Strange times indeed.
Yeah.
So anyway, all right.
From that, let's transition to some more attacking Joe Biden.
Seems fun.
Seems accurate, you know?
Okay, so Joe Biden recently gave a speech in which he said this.
It raised some eyebrows, got some people a little concerned.
Let's hear from the senile man.
Hold on, just before you even play it, just look at this guy.
Look at him.
How is that our president?
Just look at what you already see right there.
Like, he just have you ever just seen even just a still image, the amount of weakness that Joe Biden conveys to you.
He's just, please, I don't know.
They keep making me come up here and give speeches.
Stop.
It's like he's looking at his grandkids, like, why'd you fall into the garden hose?
That's not funny.
Rejecting The Vaccination Propaganda00:11:50
I need that garden hose.
I use that for my gardening.
Oh, Timmy.
Oh, Hunter must have had you when he was on crack.
All right, let's play.
In today's briefing, we discussed how our administration is going to devote the remainder of the summer to a special focus on five ways to make gains in getting those of you who are unvaccinated vaccinated.
Because here's the deal: we are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring to rapidly vaccinate those eager to get their first shot and their second shot for that matter if they needed a second.
Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes door to door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.
Look, equity, equality, it remains at the heart of our responsibility of ensuring that communities that are the hardest hit by the virus have the information and the access to get vaccinated.
So as we shift from these centralized mass vaccination sites, we're doing thousands of people a day.
We're going to put even more emphasis on getting vaccinated in your community close to home, conveniently, and a location you're already familiar with.
First, first thing we're going to do, this includes 42,000 local pharmacies where folks with questions can talk to the pharmacists they know and already have done with dealt with.
These locations overwhelmingly allow you to walk in without an appointment, get the vaccination when you're picking up your prescription or just going in to get toothpaste or something else you need from a drugstore.
Second, my team is going to place renewed emphasis on getting the vaccines to more and more family doctors and healthcare providers so more Americans can get this shot at their doctor's office from the folks that they know and they trust the most.
Third thing we're going to do.
We're going to step up efforts to get vaccines to your family doctors and other doctors who serve younger people so that adolescents ages 12 to 18 can get vaccinated.
And as they go, just pause for a second.
There's one thing I just, that at the beginning he goes, hey, we're going to go to these communities underserved because we're going to try and help them or so that the young people can get vaccinated.
This is such a wonderful piece of propaganda.
Hey, we're just here to help you.
Remember how I said I wanted to heal the soul of the nation?
Well, it's about showing up to your home and giving you a vaccine to your kid out of help.
That's the creepy.
I mean, that's the creepiest part is this like, and then they throw in the socialist bullshit in there in the middle, like, because it's about the equality.
It's like, no, people in certain minority communities don't trust the government.
And they're actually smart enough to realize, yeah, go to a barbershop.
They're smart enough to just be like, fuck this and your dumb vaccine.
I'm not getting it.
I'm healthy.
I don't need it.
And now they're trying to figure out, well, it's not an availability issue.
It's that people are not sold on that this is a good idea.
And so now you're ramping up.
And, you know, by the way, part of why I think they're in panic mode is realizing the vaccines aren't as good for the Delta variants.
And so now, like, this is their last chance to try and sell this thing.
So, you know, before they all be all, before all the vaccines sour, they got to get in as many arms as possible.
Well, that's exactly right.
And what's going on here essentially is that we've hit a crossroads where at this point, pretty much everyone who wants the vaccine has gotten it.
And everybody else is comfortable with the risk, doesn't want it.
So now what do you do?
Now we're in a situation where they got all of these vaccines that are produced.
They have expiration dates on them and they did not hit nearly the numbers they wanted.
You know, Mike Cernovich had a tweet about this the other day that I thought he made a really good point where he was like, look, this is what happened, right?
These people, I'm kind of paraphrasing and adding some of my own words to it, but he was getting at this, that these guys coming off the biggest mass propaganda campaign in history did not get nearly the numbers they thought they would.
So they're saying that it's something like 50% of adults have been vaccinated.
But as Mike Cernovich pointed out, which I thought was a very good point, he goes, what percentage of those people were basically soft forced into doing it?
They mean jobs.
Yeah, I know.
Made them do it.
They couldn't.
Yeah.
Yes.
Schools.
You know, there's colleges all around.
I've heard from several people.
This is just anecdotal, but there's, I've heard from several different people who were like, my school made me do it.
And they were in situations where they were like, I had literally like, I have, you know, seven credits left till I graduate and I can't transfer and I can't do this.
So I just literally had no choice.
You know, it's like not forced, but soft forced into getting it, right?
Let's, as Cernovich said, let's just assume 10%, you know, as a number.
So it's really only like 40% who like enthusiastically got it.
So that's what the biggest propaganda campaign in history got you.
It convinced a minority of the population.
And that's just the adult population.
You know what I mean?
Let alone trying to get everybody's 12-year-old vaccinated.
So that's what they're looking at here.
They're dealing with that reality.
And this is the fork in the road, right?
Because the obvious, correct, just not even like, forget like even liberty or anything like that, but just like the sane response to that is like, yeah, all right.
We tried and the people who didn't get it are, they're comfortable taking the risks and now life goes on.
But the other fork is the scary one, where now they go, oh, okay, so this wasn't enough.
We got to step this up in some next level, whether that's vaccine passports or, you know, some other type of creepy thing.
And particularly the thing that really got a lot of people freaked out by this speech, understandably so, is when Joe Biden goes community by community, door by door, that we have to go door to door.
Now, he was incredibly vague with what that means.
Like, what is he saying exactly here?
But if he didn't want to get a bunch of people nervous about it, he'd probably have been wise to be clear about that.
So you can't really blame people for being like, well, what exactly do you mean?
Who's showing up to your door?
What are they at your door to do?
Also, whatever you want to do.
Whatever it says won't be true.
Like even if it's he's already saying, hey, these people are here to help you and they're showing up to your door to help you.
They're not here to help anybody.
You know, they're here for your agenda.
I didn't ask for your help.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm willing to put myself at risk.
Like, you're not helping me.
So once we're in this guy, like, you know, this my, hey, I'm here to help you.
Here's that Thomas Sowell had the line.
Was it Thomas Sowell?
Maybe Milton Friedman?
No, one of them had the line because the scariest phrase in the English dictionary is, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Right, right.
But the census people, they were in my building and it was funny because I was, you know, I guess I was being less forceful.
And then my neighbors were better at just slamming the doors in their face and yelling at them, which is great to see.
Because when I saw them do it, I was like, oh, shit, you could have just done that.
But they have, even the census people, they have that cop-like thing where they're asking you the questions.
You're like, yeah, I don't want to answer that.
But they'll be like, no, no, no, this part of your obligation.
Like, it's very unclear.
Like, wait, so I have an obligation to answer this.
Believe me, if they're coming to your house and asking you, have you been, well, I don't want to answer that.
Well, I'm here under the authority of this, blah, blah, blah.
And all of a sudden, what?
So they're documenting where I live and that I haven't been vaccinated.
Like, what exactly?
It's not going to be just a soft knock.
Like, hey, is anyone here not vaccinated that wants it?
I have, I have a thing here.
That's not what it's going to look like.
And they get training for how it's like cops when they pull you over and they get like the way they try and get you to incriminate yourself.
Hey, you can volunteer to take this roadside sobriety test, but it's volunteer.
It's voluntary.
Well, what are the consequences?
They won't tell you what the consequences are.
Right, right.
Believe me, this is this once if this is enacted, it will not be a soft touch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I agree with you on that.
And of course, the idea that it would be a soft touch is preposterous on its face.
I mean, the idea, look, it's just so clear.
Like what's happened here is that the people who haven't taken the vaccine don't want it.
The idea, what are you saying?
We're going to go around and educate people that there is a vaccine out there.
Oh, have you heard?
I'm sure most of you just haven't even caught this because it really hasn't been out there that much.
You know, there was this COVID thing.
I don't know if you noticed it shut down everything about your normal way of life.
Do you remember that vaguely?
Oh, yeah, we got these vaccines.
Everyone knows.
Everyone knows this.
I mean, I'm not saying Americans are the most informed group of people that have ever existed, but they fucking know that there's a vaccine out for this.
As the people who aren't getting it are the ones who just really didn't want it.
So this doesn't make sense on its face.
So it seems like, and this is the scary thing about it, is that it seems like they are unwilling to accept the reality staring them in the face, which is if you were a member of the ruling elite, this would be a concerning reality, right?
To understand that you've had this, you know, this is, it's not overstating the reality to say, the biggest propaganda campaign in human history.
And it didn't even get a majority on your side.
That's really troubling.
And you got to think, right?
Like there's all these different groups, like you were talking before about, you know, these like black communities and stuff like that.
Well, there is a large degree, even though they overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, there is a large degree of skepticism about the government in the black community.
Understandably, you know, probably any group of people, if it had been thrown at them, what's been thrown at African Americans over the last few hundred years, have a little bit of, you know, I don't know if they're always, you know, when they say they're going to do something for our own good, I'm not so sure it is.
But there's a lot and there's pockets of the black community where conspiracy theories are pretty rampant.
And not only the black community, but that is true.
And a lot of them are just like, nope, I don't trust that shit, not getting it.
Then you have, I don't know exactly what the number is, probably 50 million people who voted for Donald Trump who believe the election was stolen.
And now this new phony president in their perspective is doing all this stuff with the vaccine.
And they're kind of like, fuck no, I'm not getting it from you.
You know, you've got all these different pockets of communities in this country who straight up don't believe it.
And this is actually a really nice white pill.
This is a case for optimism that even after such a gigantic propaganda campaign, they could not convince the majority.
A majority of Americans look at this and go, nope, don't buy it.
That means they are straight up rejecting.
They do not trust the corporate press, the medical industrial complex, their political leaders, all of it.
They're like, nope, I think you're completely wrong.
Americans Reject Corporate Narratives00:14:19
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And I'm saying no.
I don't agree with you.
I don't think it is.
And that is, that is, if nothing else, pretty interesting.
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The push for kids is just flagrant.
They are not at risk.
Under 30-year-olds are not at risk.
You're literally putting them at risk for this heart inflammation thing while they're not at risk for the virus, at least as far as I understand it.
Well, I just look, even leaving aside the risks of the vaccine, because if I'm being completely honest, I have not really been sold on the risks of the vaccine.
I just haven't.
And I think that too many people, and we should all try to be better than this, of just being like identifying with a team and then going along with everything they say.
And so, what I've seen a lot, and I think some people who are broad, broadly speaking on my side, which of course is the correct side of this issue, on the side of liberty and hating the government.
But I see a lot of these people where, like, if you were to show them, you know, like they would be very good on if you were to say, well, here there's three cases where kids had serious complications from COVID.
And they'd go, whatever, dude, you're talking about out of millions of cases, like three people.
Basically, statistically, that is meaningless.
Like, their kids are safe from this, you know, in the same way that you could think of anything.
You know, kids have accidents walking down the stairs.
That doesn't mean walking down the stairs is dangerous for kids or whatever, you know.
But then if they flip over and see three incidents of this with the vaccine, it's like, ah, side effects to the vaccine.
So I'm just trying to be as fair about this as possible.
I haven't been convinced by the evidence that, like, oh my God, these vaccines are really dangerous.
I could be wrong about that.
I am no expert.
And if someone's got like solid evidence, I'm more than happy to take a look at it and admit that I'm wrong if I am.
But this might be a little bit conspiracy theory-minded, but I think the difference of the person looking at the evidence of deaths from corona being hyped up versus deaths from the vaccine, you know, and going, look, yeah, is that perhaps they're being downplayed.
And I think the bigger claim against the vaccine, where if you're having a conversation about risk, is, hey, this is a new thing.
Are there going to be health complications from it?
I don't know.
Right.
And so why would I take on that risk if, especially if I'm young and I'm not going to be at risk for the virus?
And then if you start looking at some of the, well, you got to realize they were, they were saying the heart inflammation thing did not exist for a while.
The first article that came out about it was Reuters.
Israel's the first country that had like the majority of, or not maybe, I think they're up to 60%, but they were the largest concentration of getting the vaccine, right?
Jews are privileged, so they got it early and quick.
And so they noticed it and immediately, you know, the health companies declined it.
Johnson Johnson, or maybe it was farm or whatever, said there's no evidence of it.
But now the wheels at least are in a turn where they got to put a warning on the thing.
You know what I mean?
So they were saying it didn't exist whatsoever in any capacity.
Now it's same thing happened with Princeton Johnson with the, which wasn't the heart inflammation.
It was the, what was it, the blood clots, right?
And they were saying absolutely zero evidence of it while people are collapsing.
Now, it might have been, you know, a freakishly small amount of people that were collapsing, but they still tried to say it's not happening whatsoever.
Yeah, no, that's true.
I'm just making the point that if you look at the numbers, at least what's being reported, they were extremely low.
Like, I forget the exact numbers, but it was like eight cases and six million doses or something like that.
So listen, I get your point, though.
I think you're absolutely correct that what I'm talking about people doing being just one-sided and kind of tribalistic and making waving away evidence that counters their narrative, the entire corporate press is completely guilty of that on the side of hyping up COVID and downplaying problems with the vaccine.
So I absolutely understand people resisting that and having the instinct to go in the other direction.
But aside from all of that, even if you're not concerned or if you're not particularly concerned about negative effects of the vaccine, look, I'm a father and I got a daughter, I got a son on the way.
I do not vaccinate my children for things that are not a threat to them.
Period.
That's it.
And there's nothing you're ever going to say to convince me to.
If they're at no risk from something, they are not going to get vaccinated for that thing.
That's the whole point of vaccinations.
And you give your children a vaccination is that you're vaccinating them from something that you're more concerned they get than you are concerned with giving them the vaccination.
But if there's no concern over them getting that, no, then I don't do that.
And I think a lot of parents have that attitude too.
I do not vaccinate my children for the health of others.
I just don't do that.
There's only one concern ever when it comes to any type of medical treatment for my children is them.
That's it.
That's to me, that's what being a responsible parent is all about.
So I don't, it almost beside the point to me.
But you know, one thing that's interesting, taking this from a completely different perspective, not the perspective that me and you have, but I'm not sure if I ever said this on the show.
Maybe I have mentioned this before, but doesn't it seem funny to you?
And like me and you have argued before on the show about like intellectual property.
And we've talked about this a few times.
And I'm a guy who does not believe in intellectual property.
Like I just don't, I don't believe it should be a, there should be laws protecting intellectual property.
I do think that there can, in many cases, be business arrangements that protect intellectual property, but that's a whole different discussion we could go into some other time.
But isn't it kind of revealing?
And I mean, I guess not so revealing because nobody even talks about this.
It just never even comes up as an option.
But isn't it like you have this last 18 months where essentially the government response, like again, removing yourself from our perspective, taking on the government's official stated perspective, right?
So you have this period for over a year where you're like, look, this is emergency time.
And emergency time means all types of laws, all types of protections, they're kind of out the window.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have this First Amendment that says people have a right to peacefully assemble and people have a right to practice their religion.
But you know what?
We're banning gatherings and we're banning and we're shutting down churches.
Sorry, I know we got this First Amendment, but this is just so far, this is so dangerous that we're just throwing the rule book out.
You lose your basic freedoms.
Oh, you just want to go and go to work or run your business.
Sorry, you've been deemed unessential.
You can't go to work.
Sorry.
Like, that's just that.
It's just, we're throwing the rules out because COVID is such a threat.
Now, this is the, right?
If you're listening to their justification, that is the entire thing.
COVID is such a threat that, yeah, we're doing all types of stuff.
We're overhauling every social norm, every protection in the Bill of Rights.
It's all gone because COVID is such a threat.
And also, we have these vaccines that can solve the problem.
All we need to do is get more people to take it.
Okay.
Now, if all of that is true and we were willing to suspend all of these other rules, why does Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson ⁇ Johnson get to maintain a legal patent on these drugs?
Why can't we suspend one more of these rules?
Oh, and the other thing is that, you know what I'm saying?
Like, well, since we asked every single American to give up all of their basic liberty, hey, big pharmaceutical companies, you know, we're going to cut you a check for, you know, $20 billion each.
You'll get all of your, you know, research and development plus a little profit, but you got to give out the formula.
You got to teach everybody how to make this.
We're shipping this thing to India.
We're going to, and not just like we're sending them doses, like we're going to teach their people how to make this and they can make it and give it away.
You don't get to own this intellectual property.
By the way, again, I'm removing myself from my perspective.
I'm not even arguing for that in this case, but I'm just saying, how does that never even come up?
I think it has.
Oh, really?
I haven't seen it.
I believe so.
I believe that there was a conversation or it's come up that government's talked about stripping the formula to give to, it hasn't happened.
So you're right that your argument stands that it is true that if you really believe that this was a worldwide and this was not for pharmaceutical profits, why wouldn't you step in and go, hey, we're suspending rights.
We got to save the universe.
We're taking this formula.
But I don't remember in what capacity, but I've definitely seen those headlines.
Oh, okay.
Fair enough.
I have not seen those headlines.
So I will cede that part of the argument to you and say that, okay, it has been out there.
But it's certainly not a major part of the national conversation.
And there's not like a major push for this to happen.
And it certainly is not happening.
You know, it's like that and you almost like, don't get me wrong.
I think that I think that government, particularly a government as large as the one that, you know, occupies the United States of America, is far too gigantic to be workable.
I don't, I'm not like arguing, oh, we could get really good people in there and maybe things would be a little bit better.
I don't believe that, you know, all of the incentives are wrong and power corrupts and that much power is going to corrupt and it's going to attract corrupt people and all of this.
But it's almost unbelievable that they don't even feel a need to pretend a little bit.
Like they don't even feel a need to go, well, listen, I mean, if we were willing to violate the rights of every single American over this thing, then okay, we can at least just like rip off a little bit of intellectual property from big pharma.
It's like, no, no, no, big pharma's legally protected rights to intellectual property, that will remain.
That's not going anywhere.
No, we'll have a conversation about maybe we'll buy them from Pfizer and ship them to some other part of the world.
Maybe that can happen.
But it is pretty, I think, revealing if you think about it this way, that there was that there was no, you know, that that is not happening.
That is not happening.
We can, it's not as if anyone was taking the position like, well, we can't violate laws or norms in the face of COVID.
Their position was we can violate every law and norm because of COVID.
And then the answer to COVID is this vaccine.
But the pharmaceutical companies got to collect their money on that.
Got to sell that.
Can't just allow people to make it.
Also, by the way, fair leveraging tool of saying, we'll give you the emergency authorization usage, which otherwise you wouldn't be able to sell it in this environment.
And here's what your profits will be.
But in exchange, you're giving up the patent.
And the insurance, you know, without even violating rights, the insurance companies, I mean, not the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies might have gone for that.
But it could be that the mRNA technology that they're working with, they're looking down the pipeline of other uses.
And so it's not like it's not that easy just to compensate them on just treating for this virus.
Right.
The claim of the pharmaceutical companies, which obviously was bullshit, is that no one else would be able to safely produce them.
And so they wouldn't actually be helping people by giving up the patents.
The Statist Emergency Use Argument00:03:44
Yeah, that's just complete bullshit.
But the other thing, right, if you're removing ourselves from our perspective, right?
And even if you were going to like, if you're coming from the perspective that like, the vaccines are the greatest thing ever and they solve what is the greatest problem ever, you know, which is not our perspective but if you were, then you would still have to look at the fact that like, they had these things ready incredibly early.
Like they had these things ready and then it took all this time for the FDA to find out.
That's what you mean.
It took the amount of time to get Trump out of office to go.
It wasn't.
Well, even if we don't go down that uh rabbit hole, which is a fair observation to make yes, that's when all of a sudden, the FDA goes for emergency use, like we don't have time to officially approve.
It was a little bit flagrant that Trump said we will be able to roll it out by this date and everyone was going, no knocking.
And then the second he was out.
They're like, yep, we're good to go.
Oh yeah no he, they people mocked him at the debates when he said we're only a few months away uh, from having these vaccines ready to go.
They all mocked him and then they went, yep, that's right.
And, and what's interesting about that is that you know, while everyone's mocking him at those debates, there's no way that there weren't like he was speaking on knowledge.
Clearly he wasn't just like pulling this out of his ass and this had to be known by a lot of very powerful people, and they all just mocked him and were like no, they couldn't let that be a talking point, that he actually had been involved in this thing.
And then you know they were developing them.
But but even short of that, if you say well, it's just a complete coincidence, which is a little tough to believe, but if you said it's just a complete coincidence that the FDA was ready to authorize these for emergency use only after Trump was out.
Just happened to be when they were able to do that.
It's like, okay, well, even in that scenario then, then the FDA prevented the distribution of these super effective vaccines and just allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to die.
That's the statist position, by the way.
Like the not good libertarian position, even if we accept all of their, you know, if we accept their narrative, then the fact is that a government agency sat back and let hundreds of thousands of Americans die because they hadn't decided yet that these vaccines that are so wonderful were really that wonderful.
Like there's no, there's no scenario here.
It's not like there was some test that, you know, came in with new results to, I guess, flip the FDA's opinion.
No, no, they're just taking their time.
They're just trying to figure it out.
So it's like no matter what narrative you look at here, whether you're looking at it through kind of our perspective, where you're like, okay, they really overhyped how dangerous COVID was.
It's, we really kind of know the groups of people who are at risk.
And all of these mitigation efforts did nothing to mitigate the virus and really just destroyed people's lives and really sacrificed so much of like children's well-being.
And the vaccines are really not necessary for lots of different groups of people who were never at risk from this virus, right?
Like there's that position, the correct one that we take.
But even if you don't take that position and you take the other position that everything that was done was justified and the vaccines are great, then the intellectual property thing is a real problem for you because it shows where the priorities lie.
We must protect the intellectual property rights of giant corporations, but we don't have to worry about protecting the rights of regular people at all.
Like that's some bullshit.
And then even on top of that, you got to admit that the FDA killed a few hundred thousand people.
Intellectual Property And Vaccine Priorities00:01:49
So either way, no matter how you view the last 18 months, the libertarian position is the only logical conclusion that you can come to.
All I'm going to say is if government agents come to my door, they better have two masks in their vaccination cards because I'm not opening up the door for someone who might be having that virus.
That's a great defense to go with that.
Are you vaccinated?
And they'll be like, yes, we're vaccinated.
Of course, you'd be like, you can still spread it.
So I'm not going to open the door.
Sorry.
And I'm vaccinated, but I just, you know, I can still get it.
So you can still spread it.
Double mask.
All right.
Just fucking play it.
Just read them back some bullshit that Fauci said.
All right.
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Dr. Truth Science Fauci.
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Friday night.
Comedy connection.
New Haven, right?
New Haven?
No.
Providence.
Providence, Rhode Island.
Jesus, I'm retarded.
Providence, Rhode Island, Friday night, 8 p.m. Meeting Gomez, headlining.
Rochester.
Rochester, what are the dates for Rochester?
Dude, I put it in the thing last time.
I think it's the 26th, and it's called the, dude, we got to start plugging this date.
I mean, it's a great club.
We have a full weekend there, Rob.
We need to sell some tickets.
Comedy at the Carlson.
That's the name of it.
It's in Rochester.
I believe it's the weekend of August 26th.
So go to their website, check it out.
Weekend, August 26th, August 27th, and August 28th.
Thank you, Brian.
There you go.
I was right.
At Comedy at the Carlson, it's a beautiful club up in Rochester, and it's going to be an absolute blast.
So if you're anywhere upstate, Canada, come travel.