Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - War Over There, Rollback Over Here
Aired: 2022-03-14
Duration: 56:42


=== Government Overreach and War (12:37) ===

[00:00:01]  Fill her up.
[00:00:02]  You are listening to the Gash Digital Network.
[00:00:09]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:11]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
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[00:00:22]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:00:27]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:31]  Here's your host, Dave Smith.
[00:00:34]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:35]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:38]  I'm Dave Smith.
[00:00:39]  He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein, the king of the caulks, COVID Jesus.
[00:00:43]  What's up, my brother?
[00:00:44]  How you feeling?
[00:00:46]  I'm doing good.
[00:00:46]  How are you, Davey?
[00:00:47]  I'm doing very good.
[00:00:49]  You look cold.
[00:00:50]  Did your heat get turned off?
[00:00:51]  Why are you wearing this?
[00:00:55]  Busted.
[00:00:56]  I'm cheap, man.
[00:00:57]  Fuck the heat.
[00:00:58]  You don't get it back.
[00:00:59]  I don't like spending money on it.
[00:01:00]  Well, listen, honestly, for my purposes, I really just care about your internet.
[00:01:05]  As long as your internet's going, you could not have heat.
[00:01:08]  I don't, that's okay with me.
[00:01:09]  As long as you can fucking record our goddamn show, that's all that I'm, that's all that matters to me.
[00:01:14]  But these energy bills, who's still, who's still running their heat?
[00:01:18]  You got heat money?
[00:01:21]  Oof.
[00:01:22]  Yeah, it is pretty, uh, pretty crazy.
[00:01:24]  I just want to be clear.
[00:01:25]  By the way, I can afford it.
[00:01:26]  I'm just that cheap.
[00:01:28]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:01:29]  There you go.
[00:01:30]  Okay.
[00:01:30]  I believe it.
[00:01:32]  You got more than enough to afford it.
[00:01:33]  You're just like, I don't care.
[00:01:35]  That's money I could be spending on fucking ammo or something.
[00:01:39]  Exactly.
[00:01:39]  Or spending on gas.
[00:01:42]  Yeah, dude.
[00:01:42]  So, okay, look, we got a bunch of stuff to talk about tonight.
[00:01:47]  I guess the two big issues in the world, at least to me, seem like the conflict in Ukraine and Russia and the COVID regime.
[00:01:58]  That's kind of been the theme for quite a while.
[00:02:00]  But I guess we can talk about both those things and what the latest is.
[00:02:04]  I was very concerned about the war in Ukraine.
[00:02:10]  And I think for somewhat reasonable, you know, I think for practical reasons, I was concerned about the war.
[00:02:19]  You know, you have tensions flaring up between the two biggest nuclear powers in the history of humanity with enough of a nuclear arsenal to destroy probably all life on earth.
[00:02:31]  Certainly at least enough of an arsenal to kill the vast majority of Americans and Russians should the war go hot.
[00:02:39]  You have the United States of America, where, you know, significant, significantly high-ranked leaders within the government and the corporate press have been accusing Russia of acts of war that turned out to be complete bullshit for the last five years, overthrowing an election, installing a president, targeting, you know, putting bounties on American soldiers' heads in Afghanistan, all this other stuff.
[00:03:05]  You know, a lot of war propaganda.
[00:03:08]  You have kind of things heating up, American weapons being sent into Ukraine, then Russia invading Ukraine, talks of, you know, Vladimir Putin drawing a red line, us stepping over the red line.
[00:03:20]  Is this going to lead to nuclear war?
[00:03:22]  A lot of reasons, I think, to be concerned, but I'm not concerned anymore.
[00:03:27]  I think everything's going to be okay because I don't know if you heard, Joe Biden pulled an ace out of the hole.
[00:03:36]  He is sending Kamala Harris to Europe to solve this problem.
[00:03:43]  Guys, we're screwed.
[00:03:46]  We are so screwed.
[00:03:49]  You're like, this is who you had.
[00:03:52]  Send Kamala over there to go cackle in their faces.
[00:03:56]  Anyway, now, Kamala Harris, of course, on her last trip over to Europe, which was quite recently, it was, I think, a week before the invasion started.
[00:04:07]  She went over there and encouraged Ukraine to continue their effort to get into NATO.
[00:04:13]  And then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
[00:04:16]  So send her back.
[00:04:18]  See what she says this time.
[00:04:20]  I saw someone on Twitter said, maybe to end the war, Kamala Harris will suck every dick in Ukraine and Russia.
[00:04:29]  And I said, that's not funny, is what I said.
[00:04:32]  That's my response, YouTube.
[00:04:34]  If you're listening, I said, that's not funny.
[00:04:36]  That's not appropriate.
[00:04:37]  That should be taken down.
[00:04:40]  But if that happened, I'd eat a big piece of humble pie.
[00:04:44]  And I'd acknowledge, okay, fine.
[00:04:46]  This chick is really committed to getting ahead in this world.
[00:04:49]  Anyway, yeah, that's really, that's where we're at right now.
[00:04:53]  Sending Kamala Harris.
[00:04:54]  We'll see how she does.
[00:04:55]  That'd be a lot of dicks.
[00:04:57]  Yeah, that's for sure.
[00:05:00]  You'd have to respect it, you know, on at least on some level.
[00:05:05]  Yeah.
[00:05:05]  So anyway, that's where we are with this.
[00:05:08]  So the Democrats, this is where they're at.
[00:05:11]  They're sending Kamala Harris at the problem.
[00:05:13]  They have Joe Biden, this kind of, you know, just ancient skeleton walking through this, saying the most ridiculous shit ever.
[00:05:25]  We talked about that a bunch on the last episode.
[00:05:28]  And, you know, that's, it wasn't good.
[00:05:31]  This is his, his big strategy is to, what, do one more thing that punishes the American working class, the American middle class, working class, regular Americans.
[00:05:43]  Because there hasn't been enough, Rob, over the last two years to fuck over the average American worker.
[00:05:48]  Not enough.
[00:05:50]  Sure, lockdowns were hard on them.
[00:05:53]  Sure, you know, corporate bailouts did nothing but put, you know, the little guy out of business.
[00:06:01]  Sure, you know, all of the mandates and restrictions and all of this hurt them.
[00:06:07]  But now they can afford to pay a few bucks more at the pump.
[00:06:11]  Now, will paying a few bucks more at the pump, will that end this war?
[00:06:16]  No, no one's even claiming that.
[00:06:18]  You know, will this achieve any noticeable goal?
[00:06:25]  Will this really hurt Vladimir Putin?
[00:06:27]  Certainly not.
[00:06:28]  Will it hurt the average Russian?
[00:06:30]  Possibly.
[00:06:32]  And they can feel good about themselves.
[00:06:34]  So it's worth doing it.
[00:06:36]  It's worth doing it.
[00:06:37]  You know, screw them.
[00:06:39]  They can suffer and get poorer so that we feel like we did something.
[00:06:44]  What that something is, not exactly clear.
[00:06:47]  But that's where the Democrats are.
[00:06:49]  But you know what, Rob?
[00:06:50]  Don't worry.
[00:06:51]  Because luckily in America, we don't live under a uniparty system.
[00:06:58]  We have two.
[00:07:00]  Count them.
[00:07:01]  Two parties.
[00:07:02]  Okay.
[00:07:02]  So the Democrats might be fucking up, but don't you worry, Rob.
[00:07:06]  We got the Republicans.
[00:07:08]  And the Republicans are led by Mitch mother fucking McConnell.
[00:07:13]  And that dude's going to handle business.
[00:07:15]  And we got a clip of him right now.
[00:07:17]  Let's throw it over to Mitch.
[00:07:19]  Let's see.
[00:07:19]  Here's what the opposition says.
[00:07:21]  No, Joe Biden, what you're doing is crazy.
[00:07:24]  Okay.
[00:07:25]  And we got another vision for this country.
[00:07:29]  What do you got, Mitch?
[00:07:32]  Well, let me start with.
[00:07:33]  If I were the majority leader, we'd be on the Ukraine supplemental right now.
[00:07:38]  It's been challenging to get our Democratic colleagues to do what I believe the Ukrainians need at this particular point.
[00:07:50]  But where we've ended up is at $14 billion.
[00:07:57]  In order to get to $14 billion, we actually had to prevent House Democrats from blocking loan guarantees to help Eastern NATO allies buy American aircraft.
[00:08:14]  Okay, pause it for a second because I am at risk, as all of you are, of falling asleep.
[00:08:20]  So this is not exactly what I was hoping for from the opposition party.
[00:08:27]  So Mitch McConnell now comes out and says, you know, what we're all thinking, right?
[00:08:32]  Screw these Democrats.
[00:08:34]  And you're like, well, why, Mitch?
[00:08:37]  Because they're risking us getting into a nuclear war over a war between Russia and Ukraine that we should be somehow like the entire world's population is worth putting in jeopardy over a country versus a country that was formerly a part of that country.
[00:09:01]  You know, however you feel about the war, most people would be like, well, what's the other side of this?
[00:09:06]  And the other side here is that he goes, we're pretty pissed at the Democrats because they're only letting us send $14 billion to Ukraine.
[00:09:21]  We had to work to get that.
[00:09:24]  So the Republicans come in and they go, you know, the problem is that we are not supporting Ukraine enough.
[00:09:33]  Whew.
[00:09:35]  Man, do the Republicans suck.
[00:09:38]  That's what you got.
[00:09:39]  That's your two-party system is one party goes, one party goes, you know, for whatever reason, with no clear like explanation as to why this is beneficial to the American people or why it is exactly that we care about supporting Ukraine.
[00:09:59]  And when I say we care from like a government policy point of view, not saying you shouldn't care at all what happens to people, but it's like, you know, you can care for them, but you can also care for like a lot of things around the world.
[00:10:10]  We ain't sending $14 billion to every place in the world where people are dying.
[00:10:15]  In fact, sometimes we're sending billions of dollars to the people doing the killing in the places where people are dying, like Saudi Arabia launching a war of genocide against the people of Yemen with full support from the American government.
[00:10:31]  So anyway, but in this case now, the Republicans' counteroffer is to say, we'll send 14 billion because that's all we could get.
[00:10:42]  Think about this, Rob.
[00:10:43]  The Republicans are calling out the Democrats for not being big spenders the way the Republicans would have them be.
[00:10:54]  Oh, don't you wish we just had a complete, I mean, I swear, like, this is why, you know, people give me shit sometimes for being in the Libertarian Party.
[00:11:02]  And they'll be like, Dave, I know, I get what you're saying.
[00:11:04]  And the Libertarians are right about all of this stuff.
[00:11:07]  But, you know, I mean, you guys are going to get the Democrats elected.
[00:11:11]  You got to just jump on board with the Republicans, you know, and then you see like what the Republicans are doing.
[00:11:16]  And it's like, well, I don't know.
[00:11:19]  So that, yeah.
[00:11:21]  So I got to jump on board with the Republicans because if we just had an all-Republican Congress and a Republican president, we could send way more than $14 billion to the Ukrainians.
[00:11:33]  Wouldn't that be great?
[00:11:35]  Well, Americans are at the most vulnerable place they've been in my lifetime.
[00:11:40]  Send $14 billion in, you know, money.
[00:11:44]  Is there an argument attached to this, Rob?
[00:11:46]  Like this will make the difference where they can win the war?
[00:11:50]  Or is there an argument that somehow this is in America's interest?
[00:11:54]  Or is there, or is it just like we want a bigger number to send to them?
[00:12:00]  That also, by the way, is crossing another one of Putin's red lines.
[00:12:05]  He kind of did say that if other countries start interfering in this conflict against Russia, that then he's willing to go nuclear.
[00:12:13]  So we're risking nuclear war for something with the benefit of question mark.
[00:12:22]  No one really needs to fill that in.
[00:12:23]  We'll fill that in later.
[00:12:25]  But let it be known that whatever the Democrats are willing to send, in this case, a measly $14 billion, Mitch McConnell was willing to send more.

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[00:12:38]  I hope everybody got that on record.
[00:12:41]  This is the party we're supposed to be persuaded to jump on board with.
[00:12:48]  I'm hesitant.
[00:12:50]  I think he needs to work on reducing his neck fat so he can actually open and close his jaw.
[00:12:55]  And maybe we can understand what the fuck he's talking about.
[00:12:59]  I'll support throwing a billion toward that.
[00:13:01]  Just a measly billion.
[00:13:03]  Is this not crazy, though, Rob?
[00:13:08]  It's like Bane.
[00:13:09]  I mean, it really is.
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=== Funding Ukraine vs Bloodshed (09:32) ===

[00:15:43]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:15:44]  But even look, even in like even within the, you know, the crazy devaluation of the dollar and the crazy high government spending, I mean, $14 billion isn't nothing.
[00:15:57]  That's a substantial amount of money.
[00:16:00]  And then if you think, just think about it in real world terms, like $14 billion is still $14 billion.
[00:16:08]  And you're sending that to Ukraine.
[00:16:11]  Like, wow.
[00:16:13]  Imagine, just imagine being somebody.
[00:16:15]  It's like these people, they still can't figure out why the American people hate their guts.
[00:16:18]  Imagine being someone who's been ruined over the last two years and then hearing about this.
[00:16:23]  Brian, while we're chatting, can you look up the total tax annual tax revenue from in Ukraine?
[00:16:29]  I wonder how much of their budget $15 billion to Ukraine would be and what potentially you could actually do for the people of Ukraine.
[00:16:37]  That's an interesting question.
[00:16:38]  Because McCall is not giving you a lot of information here of like, well, firstly, how much money would you have liked to have given them?
[00:16:46]  What is it that because we can't give them the number you want to give, are we losing out on?
[00:16:52]  And where is this money going to go?
[00:16:53]  And how is that going to be helpful?
[00:16:55]  It's like all like just the simple questions that you'd want the answers to.
[00:16:59]  They never give you that.
[00:17:00]  They never seem to come up.
[00:17:01]  Yeah.
[00:17:01]  Yeah.
[00:17:01]  No, that's.
[00:17:02]  It's all like 44.41.
[00:17:06]  It's about 42.
[00:17:07]  What's that round?
[00:17:08]  Or no, round down, $41 billion.
[00:17:11]  So we're at.
[00:17:12]  They're offering them another 14.
[00:17:14]  So it's like 40% of what their general tax revenue, annual tax.
[00:17:18]  Somewhere in that ballpark.
[00:17:19]  Yeah.
[00:17:21]  There you go.
[00:17:23]  40% of their of their general tax revenue.
[00:17:26]  And, but, you know, okay.
[00:17:28]  So that's going to make the big difference here.
[00:17:33]  You know, it's funny.
[00:17:34]  It's like, it'd be one thing if, you know, Joe Biden say like banning Russian oil exports, as was the big story we talked about in the last episode, or this $14 billion, sending it over to, if someone was going to make the argument to you, this will lead to Vladimir Putin withdrawing and ending this war, then maybe at least you could see the argument.
[00:18:04]  But the funny thing is that no one's even making that argument.
[00:18:07]  The tragic thing, no one's even making that argument.
[00:18:10]  Maybe even, even, go ahead.
[00:18:13]  I was going to say, maybe we got to step forward and saying symbolic gestures don't help.
[00:18:18]  Like wearing a mask in public, it didn't help.
[00:18:21]  You can do symbolic gestures all day.
[00:18:23]  There's no God above us that $15 billion going to Ukraine that's going to reward some symbolic state good deed.
[00:18:31]  It doesn't exist.
[00:18:32]  And of course, I'm sure that none of that money will get into the hands of like crony oligarchs or anything like that.
[00:18:39]  You know, it'll all just go toward the cause.
[00:18:42]  But right, exactly.
[00:18:43]  That's exactly right.
[00:18:44]  And you hit the nail on the head there.
[00:18:46]  It's like, so if you're saying like Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, who will just lie through his teeth, who will say things like, my policies have done nothing to diminish American energy production or whatever, you know, even something like that,
[00:19:00]  like he's not even saying this is going to lead to Vladimir Putin ending the war or this will lead to less bloodshed, which I would think if there's any sane person out there, that would be their goal.
[00:19:16]  What here will lead to, you know, the least amount of bloodshed?
[00:19:21]  That seems to be like a worthy goal.
[00:19:24]  I'm not saying I'd support whatever plan necessarily, but if at least if that's how you were selling it, you could see the merit of the argument.
[00:19:35]  But they're not even saying that.
[00:19:37]  Joe Biden said we're banning Russian exports, um, Russian energy exports, uh, to punish Russia and then acknowledge that it'll also punish America, but we got to punish them, you know.
[00:19:54]  And um, this is the same thing.
[00:19:57]  It's like, oh, well, we're doing this to what to say we support it, as you said, kind of this like um symbolic gesture to feel good.
[00:20:07]  What we're gonna uh rob the American people of 14 billion dollars and send it halfway around the world so we feel better about this.
[00:20:17]  Please, if you're gonna do that, at least present me with an argument of what it's gonna do.
[00:20:23]  They don't even bother, they don't even feel the need to.
[00:20:29]  It's really insane when you think about it.
[00:20:32]  And again, you know, I mentioned this a couple episodes ago, but I posted on Twitter recently when someone said, They go, Hey, you know, well, Dave, you're against war and you're also against sanctions.
[00:20:44]  So, what would you do?
[00:20:46]  What would you have America do right now?
[00:20:49]  And it's kind of funny in a way to, and by the way, again, as I mentioned, this person asked in good faith, I believe, because they said it kind of like they were like, Look, honest question.
[00:20:57]  I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, but like, you know, if you're not even for sanctions and you're obviously against war, what would you do?
[00:21:03]  And it's kind of funny to be like, you know, from my perspective, you're like, so you're not for killing people and you're also not for starving people.
[00:21:11]  So, then what else is there?
[00:21:13]  You know, I'm like, think about that, you know, just as a human being for a little.
[00:21:17]  There's other options anyway.
[00:21:19]  But I said, and I didn't want to say anything that sounded too lofty or like, you know, pie in the sky that can't practically happen.
[00:21:28]  So I was like, you know, I wasn't going to be like, well, abolish NATO, abolish all governments and everyone live harmoniously or something like that, even though that would be kind of ideal.
[00:21:37]  But I just said, I was like, well, how about this?
[00:21:40]  How about we offer Russia a treaty that says we promise to never incorporate Ukraine into NATO contingent on the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine?
[00:21:53]  And if you do that, we'll also end all sanctions.
[00:21:58]  I'm not saying I guarantee that would work.
[00:22:00]  Quite possibly it wouldn't, but I think there's a shot it would.
[00:22:05]  Why not take that shot?
[00:22:06]  Why not say, look, here's a situation where you're incentivized to immediately withdraw and there'll be benefit for you on that.
[00:22:17]  You can spin it to your people like I backed down the Americans and got what I wanted.
[00:22:22]  We can spin it to our people like we ended the bloodshed.
[00:22:25]  Everybody wins.
[00:22:27]  Everybody gets a little something at least.
[00:22:29]  And then maybe we can talk about getting back in the nuclear treaty deals and all that stuff and kind of like de-escalating tensions.
[00:22:36]  Then maybe we can negotiate more and more and more from there.
[00:22:39]  Now, the overwhelming response I got from detractors was like, sure, give Putin everything he wants.
[00:22:47]  Oh, yeah.
[00:22:48]  So you just wouldn't want to punish Putin at all for what he's done.
[00:22:51]  And this is the crazy thing about war fever is that I go, so even in my hypothetical, right?
[00:22:58]  It was contingent on him immediate, his immediate withdrawal.
[00:23:02]  So if he doesn't do it, he doesn't do it.
[00:23:04]  Okay, we tried and he won't do it.
[00:23:06]  And if anything, if he won't do it, then it strengthens the American case.
[00:23:10]  Well, look, we offered him this stuff and he still won't do it.
[00:23:14]  So whatever.
[00:23:15]  But the point is that you're like, so you are so angry.
[00:23:19]  You know, this is war fever.
[00:23:21]  So you're like, this is so fucked up that Vladimir Putin invaded because it's so wrong what he's doing to the people of Ukraine.
[00:23:27]  But if I offer you a path where he'd have to stop that right now in order for the deal to happen, and there'd have to be so much less bloodshed, you still won't take that because you have this desire for bloodshed, because you have this desire for vengeance against this guy.
[00:23:44]  Somehow that's more important than just reducing the amount of bloodshed.
[00:23:50]  Like it's more important to have this symbolic, no, fuck this guy.
[00:23:55]  We got to win and he's got to lose than to just, I don't know, take the threat of nuclear war off the table, to take the threat of even if you care, you know, because I know all of you guys care so much about the Ukrainian people, you know, just like you cared about the Kurds for two weeks and just like you care about, you know, like all the Yazetis when they were up in the mountains in Iraq or whatever, whenever, whenever we need a war, there's a, you know, yeah, Kony, that's a great example.
[00:24:20]  Yeah.
[00:24:21]  Just like you guys cared about Kony for six days in 2012 or whatever, whenever that was, you know, just like, yeah, you guys care about this so much for the moment.
[00:24:29]  Not so much about the people of Yemen.
[00:24:31]  We don't care about them so much, but you really, really, really care because you're such humanitarians about the people of Ukraine.
[00:24:37]  But even saving the people of Ukraine, that's not really what we care about.
[00:24:41]  What we really care about is winning and punishing and beating.
[00:24:48]  And we'll punish some old lady who happens to be a Russian, you know, in the name of we're punishing, you know, the Russians, because they're all guilty at this point.
[00:24:59]  The Russians are all guilty and they deserve to suffer.
[00:25:02]  The Americans, for, you know, the crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria and Yemen and Somalia.
[00:25:09]  No, we don't deserve to suffer for that, but the Russians deserve to suffer for this.

=== Omicron Reality Check (15:28) ===

[00:25:15]  It's fucking weird.
[00:25:17]  It's a weird goddamn world we live in, Rob Bernstein.
[00:25:22]  All right.
[00:25:24]  So the other thing that's going on that, as we alluded to on the last episode, but didn't really discuss that much, but it's kind of hard to ignore is that there's this other issue that we've been talking about for about, I think it's going on two years now.
[00:25:40]  Two years?
[00:25:41]  Almost officially two years.
[00:25:43]  There's this a respiratory virus.
[00:25:47]  I don't know if you've heard of it.
[00:25:49]  It's a coronavirus in the family of coronavirus viruses.
[00:25:53]  Yes.
[00:25:53]  And it is, I'd describe it as novel.
[00:25:58]  And it's upset a little bit of the world's state of normalcy.
[00:26:04]  It's COVID-19, if you want to just use a term that's been popularized.
[00:26:11]  And things do seem to be changing quite a bit.
[00:26:15]  It's going to be over.
[00:26:16]  It's over.
[00:26:16]  Things are so different now.
[00:26:17]  No one's concerned.
[00:26:19]  You don't have to wear masks.
[00:26:20]  Kids can get sick in school.
[00:26:22]  It seems like it's over, Dave.
[00:26:24]  Well, isn't it weird, though, Rob?
[00:26:25]  Like seeing just like how much the narrative has shifted just in the very, you know, like just in the last couple weeks, you know, I don't know.
[00:26:34]  It's all different since the Omicron.
[00:26:37]  All the research has changed.
[00:26:39]  It's a totally different virus.
[00:26:41]  Yeah.
[00:26:42]  I mean, I got to say, I think this is something that me and you were on that I think we it looks like we were right about that, you know, me and you were talking about this when the Omicron variant before it even came to America or before it was like officially, you know, determined that it came to America.
[00:27:04]  Me and you were both saying that on this show quite often that this really might be a turning point in this whole thing.
[00:27:13]  And I will say there are some people who I think are great people and people I love, really good libertarians and people who were really opposed to the whole COVID regime the whole time, who I thought were like way too pessimistic the whole time.
[00:27:28]  They were like, this is it.
[00:27:29]  We're done.
[00:27:30]  This is like, we're never going back.
[00:27:32]  There's no way to get out of this.
[00:27:33]  And I really didn't like that.
[00:27:34]  I was like, I don't want to live in this constant state of pessimism.
[00:27:38]  You know, I don't want to be blackpilled.
[00:27:39]  And I don't think there's any benefit in that.
[00:27:42]  Like, even if you're right, I'd still rather believe there's a chance and keep fighting for that chance.
[00:27:46]  And then, you know, if I'm wrong, okay, we're right back to where you were, but at least I didn't give up, you know?
[00:27:53]  But anyway, so I think there were some people who were too pessimistic about this.
[00:27:58]  But when I saw the Omicron numbers coming out, even just in South Africa, when it started, I saw a thing here where I was like, you know, this might actually break everything in a way that the best arguments you could think of wouldn't be able to.
[00:28:13]  It doesn't matter how compelling an Alex Berenson argument is or a Tom Woods, you know, demonstrating different charts and what all these policies that didn't work.
[00:28:24]  But Omicron, I go, because from right away, it seemed pretty clear what ended up being the case, which was that right away, the reports coming out of South Africa were that before it even was like rampant here in America, where that this was seemed to be more contagious.
[00:28:43]  It seemed to be less deadly, and it seemed to be substantially more mutated, meaning it almost certainly was going to be more resistant to the vaccine.
[00:28:53]  And I go, if you got a COVID that's more contagious and more resistant to the vaccine and less deadly, that's going to be very difficult to keep this whole narrative going.
[00:29:07]  If you just see everyone you know being, you know, getting infected and sick the same way, whether they're vaccinated or unvaccinated, and you also see all of them just kind of coming down with a cold and not really suffering anything that crazy, kind of like I had.
[00:29:26]  Not to say that's everyone, but that's the vast majority of people are either getting like what I had or they're getting a little bit worse than what I have.
[00:29:34]  It's like, I had a fever for like three, four days, you know, shit.
[00:29:37]  Like that's, that's what most people are getting.
[00:29:39]  And it seems to be very resistant to the vaccine.
[00:29:42]  I go, that's going to be very hard to keep this narrative going.
[00:29:45]  And I think that's a big part of what's been happening.
[00:29:49]  And I think that much like, and I want to be clear about this, I'm not trying to suggest that this was a concerted conspiracy in this sense.
[00:30:00]  I'm not suggesting it wasn't.
[00:30:02]  I'm just saying I'm not suggesting I have any reason to believe it was.
[00:30:06]  But in the same way that, like, if someone goes, hey, they shut down the economy and they lock down the economy in order to get Donald Trump out of office.
[00:30:19]  I go, I don't know if that's true.
[00:30:22]  But it does seem like once they did, like once this emerged, like, or someone will say, they planned this whole thing so that they could shut down the economy so that they could make sure Trump couldn't get reelected.
[00:30:34]  That seems far-fetched to me.
[00:30:37]  But if you say once the emergency happened, they realized they could also use this to hurt Donald Trump.
[00:30:45]  That is certainly true.
[00:30:46]  And I think that in this situation, once the situation in Ukraine kind of came, you know, to be, they realized, okay, you know what?
[00:30:58]  Everyone's looking over there.
[00:31:00]  Let's start quietly rolling things back over here.
[00:31:05]  That seems to me to be a reasonable, like Almost certainly, like it seems almost certainly true that that's what happens that that's what happened.
[00:31:14]  Because I mean, just look at what's been going on since this.
[00:31:17]  The whole thing's been going on.
[00:31:18]  It's pretty unbelievable to watch the way it's all being rolled back, you know.
[00:31:23]  Well, I also just, the research came in that they needed to pivot away from this, say, hey, this is our victory.
[00:31:32]  We've won it.
[00:31:33]  They, I mean, I'm making fun of what is this coronavirus fatigue?
[00:31:38]  What does that mean?
[00:31:39]  If you were saving lives, why would anyone be fatigued with what you were doing?
[00:31:43]  It's an admission that what you did didn't work.
[00:31:45]  Like, if I had a stockbroker and the guy made me money every single day, would I stop listening to him?
[00:31:51]  Would I become fatigued with this stock pitch?
[00:31:53]  No, it's like, it's like when they're admitting, yeah, yeah, it's like when they go, oh, you have war fatigue.
[00:31:58]  You know, it's like, no, it's just the wars have all been based on lies and bullshit and do nothing but like a catastrophe.
[00:32:06]  Like, I would never, it's not like if someone, if like there were like rows of people invading my house to kill my family and I was fighting all of them off, I wouldn't just like be like at a certain point and like, I just have defense fatigue.
[00:32:22]  You know, like, I'm just so sick of shooting these people who are coming in here to kill me and my family.
[00:32:27]  It'd be like, no, it's obvious that I have to keep doing this.
[00:32:30]  So when you say, oh, these people have war fatigue, it's like, no, you just mean you're, you're leading them into these wars of aggression that do nothing positive.
[00:32:38]  That they are eventually they're like, this is all bullshit.
[00:32:41]  Really, what they have is bullshit fatigue.
[00:32:43]  You know, like that's that's the issue.
[00:32:45]  And so the same way, it's like, no, if people were really like averting death, I don't think they would get tired of that.
[00:32:51]  I think what they're tired of is your bullshit.
[00:32:53]  People have bullshit fatigue.
[00:32:55]  We're tired of being lied to.
[00:32:57]  That's what's going on here.
[00:32:59]  And then the mandates got struck down.
[00:33:02]  So they couldn't force it on people.
[00:33:04]  The compliance for booster shots was falling.
[00:33:07]  More and more people weren't interested in getting their kids vaccinated.
[00:33:11]  I think they just kind of ran out of room of who else were they going to convince to get vaccinated.
[00:33:16]  And the story didn't make sense anymore.
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[00:34:06]  Well, and I do think also that, like what I was saying before, that I think Omicron made it very hard to keep the story propped up, to keep the narrative propped up.
[00:34:18]  The narrative specifically that the vaccines work that the like once you had Omicron come around and people can just watch, like, even though I know this is like, it's not as good scientific data to just use anecdotal evidence, but even though the scientific data backs this up too, in some ways, anecdotal evidence is more powerful when there's a real human story in people's faces.
[00:34:39]  And I just think people seeing their double vaxxed and boosted friend get it the same way they got it.
[00:34:48]  You know what I mean?
[00:34:48]  And just like seeing this all around, I think really made it very hard to keep this narrative going.
[00:34:54]  And not just getting it, but also the sick days from having gotten the vaccine.
[00:34:58]  So you had people that got sick when they got the vaccine and then still got sick when they got the virus.
[00:35:05]  The only thing I would add to what you're saying is that while the Omicron definitely changed the narrative, they also at first used Omicron as cover for the fact that so many vaccinated people were even getting sick from the Delta.
[00:35:17]  And it was also the fact that the boosters, their entire regimen makes no sense.
[00:35:23]  For one, they can't endlessly give you booster shots because they definitely had no studies about the long-term health effects, but they definitely didn't do any studies about boosting you three, four, five times.
[00:35:34]  And now they're finding out that when they give you these later boosters, they don't last for as long.
[00:35:39]  And whatever side effects exist are being ramped up.
[00:35:43]  So like even like their structure for it doesn't work.
[00:35:47]  They can't endlessly boost you.
[00:35:49]  And then even if they have the boosters, they don't work for whatever the next mutation is.
[00:35:52]  They just ran out of lies.
[00:35:54]  Like there was nothing left to do.
[00:35:55]  Well, I think I think I told you this that I think I mentioned this on the show before, but I have like a family friend and she is around my a couple of years older than me.
[00:36:06]  And she's very smart.
[00:36:08]  She's a college professor.
[00:36:10]  And she's, but she's very, she's just, you know, a liberal Democrat, like very, very, you know, like, yeah.
[00:36:18]  She's very smart.
[00:36:19]  So she's married to stupidity and she'll use her advanced brain to try and prove that stupidity.
[00:36:24]  Yes, exactly.
[00:36:24]  So very smart, but believes some very dumb things.
[00:36:28]  But, but she even said, and she was kind of, I mean, I actually don't think I, she was better than most, that she was at least skeptical of some of the COVID stuff, but she was more not where we are.
[00:36:41]  You know what I mean?
[00:36:42]  She was more or less going along with this.
[00:36:44]  And she was really pissed off because she got vaxed and boosted.
[00:36:49]  And then she got Omicron and she got sick.
[00:36:53]  And she was like, look, I got sick when I got vaccinated.
[00:36:58]  Then I got sick when I got boosted.
[00:37:00]  And she got boosted like a month, a little more than a month before she got Omicron.
[00:37:05]  And then she got Omicron and got really sick again.
[00:37:08]  And she's like, yeah.
[00:37:09]  And at least I give her credit for she didn't play this dumb, you know, unfalsifiable game game that they play where she goes, it would have been even worse if I hadn't been boosted, which some people would give it.
[00:37:20]  Like she was able to see through that.
[00:37:21]  She goes, oh, this is crazy.
[00:37:23]  Like, I know, you know, like she's a healthy person and she's not old.
[00:37:27]  And she's like, no, I wasn't, it wasn't going to be so much worse than this.
[00:37:30]  I know a lot of people who got Omicron who weren't boosted, who weren't vaxed.
[00:37:34]  And like, no, I still got just as sick.
[00:37:36]  This did nothing for me.
[00:37:37]  I just made myself sick for days for no reason.
[00:37:41]  And, you know, so I just think there's a lot of that.
[00:37:45]  There's a lot of that going around.
[00:37:47]  There's one thing that's bothering me, though, is with that they're pretending.
[00:37:50]  There was an article today in the New York Times where they were showing how it's true that basically the mass mandates and the six feet apart didn't work, but they try and claim it didn't work after Omicron because Omicron was so contagious that it changed the no, it didn't change the story.
[00:38:06]  These things never worked.
[00:38:07]  So the Omicron is like part of the card that they're playing to try and go, no, no, our strategy was working, but the situation has changed.
[00:38:16]  And that's why we're reversing policy.
[00:38:18]  But I, but I yes, I agree with you.
[00:38:20]  That is bullshit.
[00:38:21]  And like, if you were being honest, you would be like, oh, okay.
[00:38:24]  So what's your evidence that it worked before that?
[00:38:27]  Right.
[00:38:27]  As clear.
[00:38:28]  But even that, I think, supports the case that I'm making that even they have to admit that with the Omicron, it's so clear that this didn't work, right?
[00:38:36]  Okay.
[00:38:36]  So even they have to admit, ah, well, obviously it didn't work with this one, but they have to save face and go.
[00:38:41]  So I get your point, but you're, you're absolutely right.
[00:38:44]  But I also think it's not in conflict with, you know, the point I was making.
[00:38:48]  But yeah.
[00:38:50]  So, anyway, like you get to this point where the things, and I don't know quite where we're at, you know, I don't know where we're at with how much is okay to say now that they're rolling these things back and kind of at least admitting that with this latest variant, you know, it's not everything we said, you know, now everything we said before was wrong, but it's only wrong now.
[00:39:14]  It wasn't wrong back then, even though it was clearly wrong back then.
[00:39:18]  But look, and I know you, I will give you credit.
[00:39:22]  I think you've been a little bit more out front there than me on this issue.
[00:39:27]  But the fact of the matter is at this point is that the vaccines were just simply not at all what they were sold to the American people as and the people of the world.
[00:39:43]  They just weren't.
[00:39:45]  You know, I mean, there's really no way of arguing around this.
[00:39:48]  They were sold to the American people as this is the cure, essentially.
[00:39:52]  I mean, the sitting president of the United States of America said that if you get the vaccine, you don't have to worry about getting COVID or spreading COVID to other people.
[00:40:01]  This was Rachel Maddow said this.
[00:40:03]  A whole bunch of people in the corporate press.
[00:40:05]  This was repeated over and over and over again.
[00:40:08]  And this was complete bullshit.
[00:40:10]  And they can come up with whatever excuse they want to.
[00:40:13]  Well, you know, we never anticipated variants because no one could have seen that coming or whatever the fucking thing is.
[00:40:21]  But look, this is what just came out of these new figures in Britain right now have been really interesting to look at.
[00:40:32]  So in Britain, they've had their Omicron wave hasn't gone away quite as well as, say, like in New York City or places like that.

=== CDC Stats and Mask Mandates (14:42) ===

[00:40:44]  And they, you know, so I would just start by saying, remember when, Rob, we used to talk about this.
[00:40:52]  Remember when there were these numbers out there and they would push these numbers of, you know, 99% of the people in the hospital or dying are unvaccinated.
[00:41:04]  You remember when there were like numbers like that that they would push out there?
[00:41:07]  And then you, I think, were the first one who brought up on the show that like, yeah, but they're counting these numbers from January of 2021, which is before the vaccines were available to people.
[00:41:20]  So obviously at that point, 100% of people who were, you know, sick or dying were unvaccinated.
[00:41:28]  So they were actually counting from a time before the vaccine was available to say, well, what percentage of people at that point were vaccinated?
[00:41:36]  Zero, you know, it's like, and then like, so it was, they were completely manipulating these numbers.
[00:41:41]  Then they started backing off and backing off, but they would still, they would always maintain that the vast majority, you know, this was like where they retreated to after it became clear that you could still get it and you could still transmit it to other people.
[00:41:53]  They'd go, but look, you're not going to get very sick or die if you get the vaccine.
[00:41:58]  And I was going to say, and then it also turned out that the baseline was that you were considered not vaccinated unless they prove your vaccine, vaccine status to be vaccinated, which means that if you die in a hospital and let's say, for example, I don't know, you got vaccinated in another state.
[00:42:16]  What system existed for them to validate your vaccine status?
[00:42:20]  Well, let's say you came into my hospital very sick and it just never came up, you know, like, which is probably some people, I don't know.
[00:42:28]  I'm just saying, how, how hard were they like digging to validate your vaccination status?
[00:42:33]  Does that mean that every single death in a hospital that got labeled as non-vaccinated was actually vaccinated?
[00:42:40]  But there certainly was some percentage of deaths that were declared unvaccinated individuals that were vaccinated because they didn't just validate the status.
[00:42:49]  Right.
[00:42:50]  And I'm sure if they actually cared to do the research, they could tell you the percentage, figure that shit out.
[00:42:55]  They don't want to.
[00:42:55]  So that was a way of covering it up.
[00:42:58]  Right.
[00:42:58]  So not only has this thing backed off and backed off, and you don't hear numbers anymore, like 99% or something like that.
[00:43:06]  Once Fauci got up there and he said, oh, well, we have to differentiate between with COVID and hospitalized from COVID, which was conspiracy theory three months earlier.
[00:43:16]  Like, why is anyone listening?
[00:43:18]  And then the New York Times has to run an article about how the CDC is not giving us all the information.
[00:43:22]  Like, they can't report on stats anymore.
[00:43:24]  Who would listen?
[00:43:25]  Well, here are some stats that have come out.
[00:43:27]  So, in this is from Britain.
[00:43:31]  In the month of February, there's been roughly a thousand Britons who have died a week from COVID in the month of February.
[00:43:47]  So, last month.
[00:43:48]  And the death numbers have, you know, still been somewhat substantial, 1,000 a week.
[00:43:58]  And right now, they're saying 90% of those thousand people who have died were vaccinated.
[00:44:07]  Now, I suppose they can retreat now to an argument that's like, well, you know, the vaccine wore out or something like that.
[00:44:18]  However, just saying, no matter what argument you retreat to, it's pretty insane that now the numbers have gone all the way from 99% of people, you know, who are vaccinated are not getting sick or dying, all the way over here in this example, in a not, you know, unsubstantial sample size in Britain, you know,
[00:44:45]  that 90% of the people who have died have been vaccinated.
[00:44:49]  The idea that being vaccinated means you won't get very sick or die is just, it's just been completely disproven, completely disproven.
[00:45:00]  And this was true, as we mentioned with the Israeli numbers that came out, the numbers in Israel that came out.
[00:45:07]  I shouldn't say they're Israeli numbers.
[00:45:09]  I'm sorry.
[00:45:10]  I worded that in a weird way.
[00:45:11]  The Jew numbers came out, Rob.
[00:45:13]  You know, those, you know, our numbers.
[00:45:16]  But where, you know, it's, look, it's just clear at this point that that's just not true.
[00:45:21]  It's just not true the way it was sold.
[00:45:24]  It's just not true that if you get this vaccine, you can't get the virus or spread it.
[00:45:28]  It's just not true that if you get the vaccine, you can't get very sick.
[00:45:31]  You can't die.
[00:45:32]  None of that is true.
[00:45:33]  And this is being overwhelmingly demonstrated.
[00:45:36]  So something there.
[00:45:39]  Well, luckily, Fauci's had all the news reps from the last two years.
[00:45:43]  So this guy's really well practiced at selling a narrative.
[00:45:46]  So I'm sure he must be on the news on a daily basis and explaining this because, you know, it's still a health emergency.
[00:45:56]  Yeah, no, he was just on yesterday.
[00:45:58]  He was on yesterday.
[00:45:59]  Maybe the day before yesterday.
[00:46:01]  No, no, he wasn't on.
[00:46:02]  Hmm.
[00:46:03]  That's a good point, Rob.
[00:46:05]  I haven't seen Fauci in quite a while.
[00:46:07]  I don't know what to do.
[00:46:09]  Can I leave the house?
[00:46:10]  Am I supposed to be staying in?
[00:46:12]  Masks, no masks?
[00:46:13]  Do I got to get boosted?
[00:46:14]  Just be a normal person and not give a shit?
[00:46:18]  Maybe that's maybe that's a possibility.
[00:46:20]  It's interesting.
[00:46:21]  The other thing that's interesting is that while there's also other studies that are coming out that are demonstrating how much masks have really done nothing.
[00:46:32]  And I should say, I was talking With Brian before you jumped on here about this, our producer Brian does a great job and keeps this show going.
[00:46:43]  About how, you know, initially, and if you go back and listen to our podcasts in like, you know, 2020, I was not a person, like, I didn't believe that masks didn't work.
[00:46:59]  I was kind of agnostic on the issue.
[00:47:03]  And in fact, I think I, at a certain point, was like, oh, yeah, sure, okay, that kind of makes sense that they would work.
[00:47:08]  Now, I was still against all mandates and everything like that.
[00:47:11]  And I still believed because I'm a sane human being that, like, well, you have to have like a reasonable, you know, cost-benefit analysis.
[00:47:20]  And like, is it, is it really reasonable to keep everybody masked up, you know, like constantly?
[00:47:25]  I mean, like, I don't know, like, football would be a safer, you know, game if everyone just wore like two foot long foam pads around each other as they ran around.
[00:47:36]  But you're like, I don't know, that's just not as fun.
[00:47:38]  And we're not like, there's lots of things.
[00:47:40]  If the speed limit was five miles per hour, we'd have less car crashes.
[00:47:44]  It's just, okay, even if this works to some degree, you have to question whether this is actually a reasonable ask to have everyone constantly mask up.
[00:47:54]  And I was against that.
[00:47:55]  But I was like, yeah, maybe it works.
[00:47:56]  I don't know.
[00:47:57]  Even if like some of the particles get through, it seemed kind of reasonable to me that it would stop some of them.
[00:48:02]  But the overwhelming data at this point seems to be that they just don't work.
[00:48:07]  Certainly, that mask mandates just don't work.
[00:48:10]  That everywhere you look, the places that have mask mandates versus the places that don't have mask mandates, there seems to be almost no difference, no noticeable difference.
[00:48:22]  And there was another study that just came out recently with school children who had mask mandates versus the ones who didn't.
[00:48:28]  And there was like no discernible difference.
[00:48:31]  Seems to do absolutely nothing.
[00:48:33]  Now, maybe that's because they're not wearing the masks right or whatever, but still kind of just disproves the idea that we should have these mandates.
[00:48:42]  And of course, as we mentioned on the last episode, in New York City, they've now repealed the mask mandates for school children, except for five years and under, which just makes absolutely no sense, except for the group of people, except for our smallest, most precious human beings who are at the least risk, the least vulnerable from this virus.
[00:49:10]  Those are the ones who have to still wear the masks.
[00:49:13]  It's like sickening.
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[00:50:35]  Okay, so let's play this video and then we'll close on this.
[00:50:40]  We'll wrap up the show.
[00:50:42]  But this was on Jake Tapper's show and they were talking about the Florida, Florida's policy on COVID and masks and all this stuff.
[00:50:51]  So let's play this video.
[00:50:53]  Florida's Department of Health released new guidance Tuesday that said healthy children in Florida aged five to 17 do not need to get vaccinated.
[00:51:01]  That's obviously not what the CDC says.
[00:51:03]  What do you make of that?
[00:51:04]  Florida has a disgraceful Surgeon General.
[00:51:07]  I think what is incredibly abundantly clear is that children do get this virus.
[00:51:14]  Most children, thankfully, will do fine with it.
[00:51:17]  But CDC says we've lost about 1,400 kids to Brian.
[00:51:23]  Can you pause for a second?
[00:51:26]  I think it's just important to point out that I believe the most recent research from the CDC is that if you're a child, being vaccinated actually increases your risk of getting coronavirus.
[00:51:39]  Now, they're still claiming that it doesn't escalate, which I don't understand how if you have that group of people and they're already not like getting as severely sick, I don't understand how you can increase the infections without increasing whatever that hospitalization is.
[00:51:56]  But for this guy to be defending that, like, what did he just say?
[00:52:00]  Kids are certainly getting it.
[00:52:01]  And yes, they're actually getting it at a higher rate if they're vaccinated.
[00:52:05]  I might have that one wrong.
[00:52:06]  I'm fairly certain that came out like last week out of the CDC.
[00:52:09]  Maybe I have the age group wrong, but I'm sure.
[00:52:11]  I do remember what you're talking about.
[00:52:14]  We'll double check that just so we don't get in fucking trouble.
[00:52:17]  Okay, double check us on this one and we'll fucking post it.
[00:52:20]  Who would still be recommending that kids are vaccinated?
[00:52:22]  Are you crazy?
[00:52:23]  I mean, it's just, it's goddamn insane.
[00:52:26]  Insane.
[00:52:28]  All right, let's keep playing.
[00:52:29]  The coronavirus and thousands and thousands of children have been hospitalized.
[00:52:35]  That can almost entirely be prevented by vaccination.
[00:52:39]  And even though there is some data that suggests that children between 5 and 11 have had a bit less of a benefit in terms of preventing infection with this vaccine, the vaccine remains very, very effective at preventing those children from serious illness.
[00:52:57]  Every child in this country should be vaccinated for coronavirus.
[00:53:02]  The Surgeon General has been anti-Max.
[00:53:04]  He's been absolutely anti-Max.
[00:53:10]  He's been anti-vax.
[00:53:11]  He's been associated with the discredited Americans' frontline physicians.
[00:53:18]  It's an embarrassment.
[00:53:19]  All right, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, thank you so much.
[00:53:21]  Appreciate it.
[00:53:22]  Florida's Department of Health.
[00:53:23]  So there you go.
[00:53:24]  I got to ask, how can a government official be wrong on these things?
[00:53:30]  I mean, it's a government official.
[00:53:32]  How can this guy, I don't know who he is who's sitting there, but how can he criticize a government official in Florida?
[00:53:37]  Isn't government perfect on these issues?
[00:53:40]  Yeah, no, not when the government is arguing in the direction of more freedom, evidently.
[00:53:46]  And then they're anti-Max, as he said twice.
[00:53:52]  And yeah, just the idea that you go, every kid should be vaccinated.
[00:53:57]  Look, the idea that there's any scientific argument to draw the conclusion that it is a given that every kid should be vaccinated is just like, I'm sorry, that is just not reality.
[00:54:15]  It's just not.
[00:54:17]  And the idea that children who are at almost no risk to this virus.
[00:54:25]  And he can sit there and say, well, there were 1,400 and there's thousands and thousands hospitalized and all this.
[00:54:31]  And it's like, yeah, look, if we're talking about healthy kids, the numbers that have died from it are statistically nothing.
[00:54:44]  Nobody.
[00:54:45]  And if you're talking about the thousands of kids hospitalized from it, if you're talking about healthy kids, the numbers that were actually hospitalized because of COVID and not with COVID are very, very low.
[00:54:58]  And again, what the evidence that the vaccine would actually do anything to mitigate that is non-existent.
[00:55:07]  Those are just the facts.
[00:55:09]  And so now you're talking about, you know, still pushing.
[00:55:14]  Anyway, as we're backing off of all these mandates, it's like they really won't, they won't, they won't completely admit, you know, how full of shit they are.
[00:55:24]  But at least they're backing off a lot of the band-aids.

=== Weekend Wrap and Links (01:16) ===

[00:55:26]  We'll see what happens.
[00:55:28]  All right.
[00:55:29]  That's our episode for today.
[00:55:30]  We'll, we'll wrap up on that on a positive note of at least at least they are backing off on a lot of this shit.
[00:55:36]  And we'll be back very soon with a brand new one.
[00:55:38]  Go check out Rob Bernstein, run your mouth podcast.
[00:55:41]  Rob's putting out a ton of great content.
[00:55:43]  Go follow him on Twitter at Robbie the Fire.
[00:55:45]  That way you can follow all the stuff he's putting out.
[00:55:48]  Anything else you got going on, Rob?
[00:55:50]  Yeah, this weekend near Philly and then the following weekend in Steamboat.
[00:55:55]  And you also, you got Colorado this weekend.
[00:55:57]  Yes, I'll be in Colorado at the LP Colorado State Convention this weekend.
[00:56:03]  I got Minnesota coming up.
[00:56:05]  I got Texas coming up.
[00:56:07]  Yeah, a lot of fun stuff happening.
[00:56:09]  So go check us out there.
[00:56:10]  If you're in the area, please come out and join the Mises Caucus revolution, revolutionizing the Libertarian Party into actually being libertarian.
[00:56:22]  Go to lpmisescaucus.com and put in your info and fucking come join up, be a part of it.
[00:56:30]  Yeah.
[00:56:31]  Links in the episode description.
[00:56:33]  We'll get them to Brian.
[00:56:34]  So if you're interested in these events, you just go to the episode description.
[00:56:37]  You can click the links and that's all you got to do.
[00:56:40]  There you go.
[00:56:41]  All right.
[00:56:41]  Thanks for listening.
[00:56:42]  Peace.