Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Lies The Media Told Me Aired: 2022-06-30 Duration: 54:58 === Corporations Pay Workers in Restrictive States (15:14) === [00:00:00] Fill her up. [00:00:02] You're listening to the Gash Digital Network. [00:00:08] We need to roll back the state. [00:00:10] We spy on all of our own citizens. [00:00:12] Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders. [00:00:16] If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now. [00:00:22] Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big. [00:00:26] You're listening to part of the problem on the Gash Digital Network. [00:00:30] 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 Rob Bernstein, the fire, the king of the caulks. [00:00:42] What's up, my brother? [00:00:43] How you feeling? [00:00:44] I'm excited to be here. [00:00:46] Got all my abortions out before we had to do the episode, so I'm good and ready to go. [00:00:50] It's just good common sense anyway. [00:00:52] It was always something we told people. [00:00:54] Get your abortions out for the, you know, at least in the first half of the year, get all the abortions you need for the whole year. [00:01:00] And then you have the rest of the year to just chill and party. [00:01:03] You know? [00:01:04] Yeah, you don't want to find out that they're unavailable. [00:01:07] Like food. [00:01:09] Food being unavailable, though, Rob, is not big news. [00:01:12] Abortions being unavailable in three states, that is a game changer. [00:01:16] I think it's a cover-up for the deflation that's coming. [00:01:19] The same way you can't get a flight, they actually can't provide the abortions anymore. [00:01:22] So they got to pretend like something else happened. [00:01:25] I'll tell you, I think we'd be in better shape if deflation was coming, but I really, I don't think it is. [00:01:32] I think we're going to be in an inflationary recession, which is not fun. [00:01:38] Not fun. [00:01:38] I think the worst of both worlds. [00:01:40] Anyway, that's neither here nor there at the moment. [00:01:44] Few things before we start up. [00:01:46] I believe there are still some tickets available for Freedom Fest, where I will be at in just a couple of weeks now. [00:01:54] Freedom Fest, if you've never been, is like insane. [00:01:57] It's a great time. [00:01:59] It's a huge, huge event with tons of huge speakers. [00:02:02] Go check them out. [00:02:03] I'll be speaking there and I believe doing a panel and some other stuff. [00:02:07] So come on out. [00:02:08] Hope to see some of you guys out there. [00:02:10] And then also I'll be doing the Young Americans for Liberty Revolution 22 event down in Orlando. [00:02:19] That's in August. [00:02:20] I think the beginning of August. [00:02:22] So go check that out. [00:02:23] You can find all my dates now. [00:02:24] By the way, I got my website redone and finally and functioning. [00:02:30] Go to comicdave Smith.com. [00:02:33] I'll have all my gigs up there, all the stuff that I'm doing, all the stuff me and Rob are doing together. [00:02:38] That'll all be up on the website. [00:02:39] So now is a nice, easy place to go to go find all of it. [00:02:43] What do you got coming up, Rob? [00:02:44] Well, my website's still a mess, but there's a link in the episode description with all my tour dates. [00:02:49] Most recent coming up this weekend is Sandpoint, Idaho, Seattle, and then next weekend, Atlanta and Nashville. [00:02:59] And then following that, DC and Maryland. [00:03:01] Yeah, man. [00:03:02] Everyone, by the way, if you haven't already, you got to go see Rob Live. [00:03:05] I was very happy. [00:03:07] And of course, I know what Rob does because we fucking tour together all the time. [00:03:11] But everybody who I talked to who like went to Pork Fest was like, oh, Bummer, you couldn't be there. [00:03:17] But man, Rob killed it up there, blah, blah, blah. [00:03:19] So I was very happy to hear that. [00:03:20] So you guys, go check out Rob. [00:03:22] Absolutely. [00:03:23] Even if he's not with me, go check him out. [00:03:26] But really, when he's with me, that's when you really got to be there. [00:03:28] That's when it's mad. [00:03:29] I agree. [00:03:30] That's when it's game time. [00:03:31] I like the live part of the problems. [00:03:33] Yeah. [00:03:33] Oh, me too. [00:03:34] I love them. [00:03:34] Always have a great time doing the live part of the problems. [00:03:37] And of course, doing stand-up. [00:03:38] That's what we love to do. [00:03:39] Remember back when we were all just doing this stuff just to support our stand-up careers? [00:03:43] And then at some point, we were like, oh, I guess this is. [00:03:46] Yeah. [00:03:46] Yeah. [00:03:47] Everything. [00:03:48] And then at some point, I had kids. [00:03:49] It all changed. [00:03:50] All right. [00:03:51] So, what's still been dominating at, I think, everything is the fallout to Roe v. Wade being overturned. [00:04:02] Or, I guess, not technically. [00:04:03] I guess you don't technically overturn a decision, but a new Supreme Court decision. [00:04:07] What's it called? [00:04:07] I'm blanking on the name. [00:04:08] But anyway, everyone's still talking about abortion being sent down to the states. [00:04:14] The fallout from it has been pretty interesting in a lot of different ways. [00:04:19] Many people are going insane. [00:04:22] And it's just, that's always an interesting spectacle to watch. [00:04:28] One of the things that, you know, because we just talked about this on the last episode, and we talked a lot about the political ramifications, we also talked a lot about just the specifics of how people feel about abortion and what the arguments are and my pro-life position. [00:04:43] One of the things that we didn't mention that's really I've been reading a lot about in the last few days, which is really pretty amazing, is that giant corporations, many, many big companies are just openly saying that they will pay their workers if they're in one of these states that's restricting abortion to go to another state where abortion is legal, [00:05:12] that they'll pay your travel and expenses and give you the time off work to go kill your baby and that and then you can come right back and get back to work. [00:05:23] I thought this was, I don't exactly know how to describe it. [00:05:29] Just like, I mean, I guess, first of all, obviously I'm pro-life, and so I find it kind of sickening, but also incredibly revealing. [00:05:37] Like it almost seems like, oh, you guys really let the mask slip there. [00:05:41] And you're just letting them know, like, corporate America is very comfortable. [00:05:45] Like, it's not as if these giant corporations know the situation of the woman that, you know, like when pro-choice activists will be talking about getting an abortion, they'll often invoke situations of, well, what about like a 13-year-old who gets pregnant, she's completely helpless, she doesn't want to have a baby, her life's going to be ruined, you know, blah, blah, blah. [00:06:06] They just kind of create these situations that do legitimately like tug at your heartstrings of like, oh, you know, even if you're completely pro-life, you know, you can still look at that and go, yes, I do have empathy for the situation that this young girl is in, you know. [00:06:21] But none of that exists with these big corporations. [00:06:24] They don't know what situation they're in. [00:06:25] They're like, I don't care if you're fucking 25 and broke or you're 32 and married or like whatever. [00:06:31] It's just like, but if you'd like to kill your kid and just get right back to work, we're quite happy to pay for that. [00:06:38] So there's something very revealing about that. [00:06:41] And obviously, there's a pretty strong economic incentive for corporate America to prefer that a woman not go through nine months of pregnancy and then another, you know, five years of having a very little kid. [00:07:00] You know, I guess the first five years, you really have little kids. [00:07:04] After that, maybe you kind of just have a kid, but that's going to be a real, you know, competition of what the priority of your time is and your energy. [00:07:13] And so they are quite clearly sending a message that it is worth it to them financially for you to go and have an abortion. [00:07:21] Now, I'm not saying that the abort. [00:07:23] Go ahead. [00:07:24] Well, it depends on how many abortion vacations you're going to take. [00:07:27] You take five or six of these a year. [00:07:29] You might cost your company 30 grand a year. [00:07:31] And I can't imagine they got a cap on that. [00:07:33] You think HR is going to call you in and be like, hey, you can't kill any more babies this year? [00:07:37] You're at your baby killing quota. [00:07:39] Well, look, Rob, I mean, I think the truth is that even at that quota, compared to nine months of pregnancy, maternity leave, and then having work at a target. [00:07:49] It depends on where you work. [00:07:50] I suppose, yeah, I suppose, but I think a lot more of these are like, you know, it was a lot of like financial institutions. [00:07:57] You're talking about like middle management type people there, you know what I mean? [00:08:01] And yeah, I think that in general, I think, okay, a woman getting pregnant isn't have to pay for your fucking pregnancy, anyways. [00:08:13] It's crazy. [00:08:14] Well, I don't completely disagree. [00:08:16] Well, let me create, I agree with you. [00:08:19] I always thought the thing is kind of the idea of getting paid when you're not doing the work to me always kind of baffles me. [00:08:26] Like, what? [00:08:27] So now you're just asking for something. [00:08:29] You're just asking for charity from your company. [00:08:31] You can bankrupt a small company. [00:08:32] Like, if you're, if you're a lady and you know, you want to get pregnant next year and you take a job at like a four-man operation, like you can literally ruin that guy's operation. [00:08:41] Well, I think it's crazy to me. [00:08:43] It's, it's illegal currently to ask a woman if you're when you're interviewing her. [00:08:48] Like that's why you just shouldn't hire them. [00:08:49] Did you plan on getting pregnant? [00:08:50] Well, you know, that probably does happen quite a bit. [00:08:54] Honestly, that probably does happen. [00:08:55] Oh, no, from my perspective, it's completely reasonable for an employer to ask that. [00:09:00] You know, like if you're, if you're, like you said, you're, you're running some small little company, which the vast majority of companies are small companies, you know, by in terms of like the way people think of them, the vast majority of companies don't have more than 100 employees. [00:09:14] I forget the numbers, but if you look it up, it's like the overwhelming majority are less than that. [00:09:19] And if you're running a little operation, like you said, maybe five, six employees, and you're like talking to like a 25-year-old woman who you're looking to get a job, to have a job there. [00:09:31] And you're like, look, there's a real serious job. [00:09:34] We're going to pay you a really good salary. [00:09:35] We have really high expectations. [00:09:37] You're going to be an integral part of this operation. [00:09:40] If she's like, hey, I'm married and I plan on having four kids, that's kind of important information to know. [00:09:50] She's like, look, there's going to be basically three years that I'm not going to be like working at the same, you know what I mean? [00:09:57] At the same like rate that I normally am. [00:10:00] And then look, back to what I was saying before. [00:10:03] Anyway, so I think I agree with you. [00:10:04] I think that's completely reasonable. [00:10:05] Look, this is a voluntary exchange between two parties. [00:10:09] And I think it's reasonable to ask what you're getting in this exchange. [00:10:14] But aside from that, you can see where in, you know, corporate America, having, you know, regular corporate jobs. [00:10:26] And I'm not thinking about like so much like you're saying, the person like working at Target or something like that. [00:10:31] I'm thinking about the person who's got like a regular, you know, 70K plus benefits corporate job. [00:10:37] You could see where, first off, being pregnant for nine months, being probably off for at least a couple months after the baby's first born. [00:10:49] And then for five years having a little kid, that's if you only have one, you know, you could see where that's not exactly preferable as far as their incentives are concerned. [00:11:04] First off, your overall work output will almost certainly suffer during pregnancy. [00:11:12] As somebody who's like, you know, my wife's had two of my children living with somebody who's pregnant full-time. [00:11:21] Listen, being pregnant is a lot. [00:11:23] The expectation that you would be completely unaffected in anything you do while being pregnant, I think is like absurd and unfair to women to expect that. [00:11:34] And then after having kids, you know, your priorities might change a little bit. [00:11:39] Maybe, you know, as I think is the case with a lot of mothers of little children, maybe your priority isn't just making sure that you move up the corporate chain and making sure you one day achieve middle management. [00:11:52] Maybe your priority is more, you know, getting to put your kid to bed, making sure you're there for their soccer game, making sure, I mean, this is just like, this is the reality of what happens. [00:12:01] And in fact, personally, and I would imagine anyone who has kids would say that those family priorities are way more important than work priorities. [00:12:10] And also, look, the reality is for like 90 plus percent of people, work is just that. [00:12:18] It's work. [00:12:19] So your work isn't like some dream, like incredibly rewarding, unbelievably awesome thing. [00:12:26] I mean, that is true for a very small percentage of people who have like incredibly meaningful careers. [00:12:31] But for the vast majority of people, work's like work. [00:12:34] You clock in and clock out and in between, it's like you're done. [00:12:36] And that's true for the overwhelming majority of corporate jobs. [00:12:40] You know, I'm somebody who is fortunate enough and has worked hard enough and kind of, but there's a mix of luck and talent or whatever. [00:12:50] But I'm somebody I really love what I do. [00:12:52] I love what I do. [00:12:53] I only do things that I love. [00:12:54] I love doing these. [00:12:56] I love doing comedy podcasts. [00:12:57] I love doing political podcasts. [00:12:58] I love doing stand-up comedy. [00:13:00] I love giving talks. [00:13:01] I just love everything I do in my career. [00:13:03] And I still think it is completely meaningless compared to family stuff. [00:13:08] And this is even more true for moms, which is just the reality, which I think you're not maybe not allowed to say anymore or not supposed to say anymore, but it's just so obviously the case. [00:13:17] And everyone knows this. [00:13:19] But corporate America would prefer the other way. [00:13:21] They'd prefer you childless. [00:13:23] And they're showing that with their money. [00:13:26] And that in itself is an interesting kind of thing to recognize. [00:13:30] Now, I'm not saying all of the people at the top of these giant corporations are so evil that they'd have you kill your two-year-old or something like that. [00:13:38] Just your baby inside of you. [00:13:40] But there is something to almost like understanding that, like, yeah, they'd prefer you didn't have that two-year-old. [00:13:46] You know what I'm saying? [00:13:47] Like, they'd prefer that you didn't have this like work, family-life balance. [00:13:52] They'd prefer that you were childless. [00:13:54] And that might be better for some corporations, bottom line, but it is sure as shit not better for society. [00:14:00] And there's something that like there's something to recognize there. [00:14:03] Like if you look at the state of the culture of our society and you think to yourself, like, yeah, the fact that the family unit has been completely destroyed is not great. [00:14:13] That might be contributing to the decay of our culture, of our society. [00:14:17] It's worth noting that these corporations who essentially have our government owned, they prefer this. [00:14:25] They prefer childless women. [00:14:27] And I'll be damned if childless women are not what's ruining this world. [00:14:31] Just saying. [00:14:32] Any thoughts, Rob? [00:14:34] Yeah, I do think that you're right that it probably is in their financial best interest. [00:14:40] I would venture to guess, though, their decision here is a little bit more political and that they actually want to come out on the side of being woke. [00:14:50] We saw that with like Coca-Cola when whatever that abortion decision was. [00:14:54] You would think if you were a conservative company, like in you've got offices in Texas. [00:14:59] And so maybe people were like, you would just think you'd stay out of this shit, or you got customers in Texas. [00:15:03] You would just stay out of this. [00:15:05] I would think it's just in your financial interest. [00:15:07] Or if you were to make such a policy, you do it very quietly within your HR and you would just let it be known in a more quiet fashion. === Big Banks Choose Political Wokeness (06:21) === [00:15:15] To me, this is more of a, I think there's a lot of money in the Fed and there's a lot of money in kind of the socialist agenda. [00:15:23] And I think people are picking sides the same as like the tech companies did being aligned with the left. [00:15:29] And so that's more of what I see here. [00:15:31] Well, I see both. [00:15:33] So I completely agree with everything you're saying. [00:15:35] There's no question that we have that these big companies, giant corporations, are very happy to be like, look, all our chips are in with team woke. [00:15:44] There's no question about that. [00:15:45] We see evidence of it all the time. [00:15:48] And so, yeah, there's definitely something to that. [00:15:52] But I also think like when they're actually writing checks out like this, there is an economic incentive involved. [00:15:58] And there's that. [00:15:59] The other thing that's fascinating about this, which is true about the math. [00:16:02] So go ahead. [00:16:03] I'd be curious to see if the math even checks out on that because, like, if you were to look at, let's just say you had 100 women, an office of 1,000 people, and I don't know, 500 of them are women. [00:16:12] Let's just say. [00:16:13] And let's say you got a liberal demographic. [00:16:16] So without your company, like in a normal year, how many abortions do you think there are versus how many pregnancies? [00:16:23] What's the cost that you're now going to outline on those abortions? [00:16:26] It might actually not be a financial savings versus like if you only, if you've got, let's just say, 500 women between the age of 20 and 40, and it's a very liberal office. [00:16:37] I don't know how many abortions are taking place. [00:16:39] I don't know the math on that, but it could be that the men. [00:16:41] I think it depends on the area probably too. [00:16:44] Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, it might be the volume of abortions are higher than your volume of people that would go through with a pregnancy. [00:16:52] Well, I agree, but I think if abortions are illegal now, there, their calculation is that that might change. [00:16:58] There might be a lot of people have the babies. [00:17:02] So I think that's the calculation. [00:17:04] Regardless, one of the things that's really interesting about this dynamic, and it's very interesting about the dynamic in America, particularly in, I'd say, the last 10, 12 years, is that, [00:17:18] and I'm not saying that this speaks to the entirety of the left, because there are some good left-wingers who are exceptions to this, but it really is unbelievable how much the average left-wing boot on the ground. [00:17:35] When I say boot on the ground, I mean the activist, the protester, the rioter, the, you know what I mean? [00:17:41] Just like how much the average like effeminate man or pink-haired lady or, you know, Antifa member or whatever, you know what I mean? [00:17:51] Like that, whatever the left-wing boots on the grounds are, how much of them are in 100% alliance with corporate America? [00:18:00] It's really just amazing. [00:18:02] Like you would think they're supposed to be natural enemies. [00:18:05] You know what I mean? [00:18:06] But man, are those days over? [00:18:08] Are those days of there even being like a presentation of we're on the opposite side of corporate America? [00:18:15] I mean, yes, Elizabeth Warren will say some things about how the oil companies are too greedy or something like that to put the blame on them rather than the Biden administration or whatever. [00:18:26] But it really is amazing that these kids don't even see that it's like every like slogan that you're spouting is right on the same page with corporate America. [00:18:38] To me, this is one of the biggest and most interesting effects of the rise of wokeism. [00:18:43] You know, you see it where it's like, you know, at the example I always love to use, because there was a picture of this, I think it was last year, of the Bank of America float at the Gay Pride Parade. [00:18:53] You know, and it's like, does this completely go over leftists' heads that like you're now on the side of the big banks? [00:19:00] Or, you know, or you think like the big banks are now on the side of you, maybe, but really, I don't see it that way because talk of the big banks has really gone away and talk of all these other things. [00:19:10] There's something about the abortion issue. [00:19:13] And I'm not saying that it's not an important issue. [00:19:15] I think it's a very important issue, but there's something about it that is really, look, Roe v. Wade being overturned is absolutely no threat to the powerful people in America. [00:19:28] There's no problem with that. [00:19:29] They'll, first off, they're not really in these red states. [00:19:33] And even if they are, they'll find a way to travel out. [00:19:36] They'll get their side piece in abortion if they need to. [00:19:39] This is, it's no threat to them. [00:19:41] And yet this issue really pits Americans against each other. [00:19:45] And it's kind of interesting that there's just so much energy, especially at this moment right now, all being devoted toward that, an issue that doesn't threaten the powerful, that really pits Americans against each other. [00:19:57] Just saying, if you start to look for it, particularly over the last 10, 12 years, you'll just notice there's a lot of issues like that that sure do seem to get a ton of coverage. [00:20:09] Sure do seem to get pushed into the mainstream, if that even exists anymore, as much as possible. [00:20:17] Issues that do nothing to threaten the powerful, but really pit regular Americans against each other. [00:20:26] Once you start looking for that, it's very hard to unsee it. [00:20:30] Yeah, remember the days when the Democrats used to talk out against big pharma and big pharma profits? [00:20:36] Yeah. [00:20:36] Yeah, there were. [00:20:37] And not even just Democrats, but like regular people, like liberals, you know what I mean? [00:20:42] Like regular people would like talk out about it, not just the politicians. [00:20:45] And to be fair, there still are a few who are really, you know, in a way you respect them even more because they're like in an environment where a lot of their, you know, the people around them probably don't care to hear about that. [00:21:02] You know, so I give Bill Maher credit for that, that he was talking about kind of big pharma corruption throughout the last couple of years where it's like been very like, that's not really what his audience is looking for. [00:21:13] They're looking for like, yeah, you're an idiot. [00:21:15] You must be a Neanderthal if you don't take the vaccine or something like that. [00:21:20] And, you know, really, it's almost sometimes it's almost hard with all these moments to even remember how high the hysteria was. [00:21:29] I think me and you kind of live in this world, so we know a little bit more. [00:21:32] But even now, it's not quite the same. [00:21:34] Like you can kind of criticize the vaccine now. === BetterHelp Offers Secure Online Counseling (02:41) === [00:21:37] You know what I mean? [00:21:37] It's not quite as white hot as it was at one point. 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[00:24:32] And it's really, I don't know why anyone even wants to interview Hillary Clinton about anything anymore, but if you're going to, we are going to mock her. [00:24:41] So let's check in with old Hill Dog. [00:24:44] Justice Thomas has sort of floated that out there about contraceptive rights and contraception and about same-sex marriages. [00:24:51] But other justices have pushed back to say, no, he's really sort of on his own with that. [00:24:56] Well, he believes that. [00:24:57] Well, he may be on his own, but he's signaling as he often did. [00:25:01] You know, people, I went to law school with him. [00:25:04] He's been a person of grievance for as long as I've known him. [00:25:09] Resentment, grievance, anger. [00:25:12] And he has signaled in the past to lower courts, to state legislatures, to find cases, pass laws. [00:25:22] All right, let's pause it already for a second. [00:25:24] So here you have Hillary Clinton. [00:25:26] My apologies, it was on ABC. [00:25:28] So here you have Hillary Clinton, but she's calling Justice Clarence Thomas somebody who is possessed by resentment and anger. [00:25:40] Shouldn't he be? [00:25:41] I mean, he's a black man. [00:25:42] This has been a system that worked against him his whole life. [00:25:45] Shouldn't that? [00:25:47] It's just unbelievable how blatant they are with it. [00:25:51] Where if once you're not a progressive, you lose all of the protection that you're supposed to walk around with 24/7. [00:26:01] I mean, I remember them doing things on when people would comment on how Hillary Clinton looked or if she didn't smile or something. [00:26:09] And they'd be like, oh, this is so sexist that you would even say this. [00:26:13] But could you ever imagine, you know, like if one of them said, like, Barack Obama was a politician animated by resentment and anger? [00:26:22] Like, how much they'd be like, oh, dude, this is obviously a racist thing to say. [00:26:27] Also, like you said, I mean, Clarence Thomas isn't just a black dude. [00:26:31] He's an old black dude. [00:26:34] Like, he actually was, I believe he was born in the Jim Crow South. [00:26:39] Double check me on that. [00:26:40] But he's actually would sure, I mean, especially by the progressive narrative of the world, have a lot to be angry and resentful for. [00:26:49] But I personally have never even heard him bring that up. [00:26:52] He doesn't even really talk about that. [00:26:54] I mean, it's funny. [00:26:57] Anyway, it's pretty funny, like, you know, just hearing this. [00:27:02] The other thing about it is that, I mean, like the level of projection, I mean, Hillary Clinton is somebody, she literally wrote a book about losing the presidential election in 2016 and blamed Russia and racism and fake news and everything except herself. [00:27:21] And she's going to call someone else out for being bitter and resentful. [00:27:25] It's just like too, like, too hilarious. [00:27:29] Here's what I'm picking up on because you know, I try and listen to these liberals. [00:27:32] I try and be a better liberal. [00:27:33] I try and educate myself so I can fit in with society. [00:27:36] And so, what I'm here saying is that we can't trust black men to make decisions because if you're black, you're going to be angry and resentful because we have a racist structure. [00:27:46] And that's where the white privilege comes in because only white people can make sound decisions because we don't live with that anger and resentment. [00:27:53] So, I think she's advocating that we need to put white people back in charge and that we can't allow black people to make decisions. [00:28:00] I think that's what I'm hearing. [00:28:01] Maybe we even need two separate areas for those resentful and for those not so resentful. [00:28:09] You know, they could be separate but equal. [00:28:12] Um, and uh, just the resentful people go over there and our people go over here. [00:28:17] Unless maybe if you're black and you can prove that you're not resentful, because I mean, I guess the uh, I guess the assumption is based off the color of your skin that you would be resentful, so you'd have to do something to somehow prove that you overcame that. [00:28:30] I don't know how you would even do it. [00:28:31] I don't know. [00:28:32] Maybe Hillary will answer for us. [00:28:33] Let's uh let's keep playing. [00:28:35] Laws, get them up. [00:28:37] I may not win the first, the second, or the third time, but we're going to keep at it. [00:28:42] So, you're saying people pay attention to the people he is speaking to, which are the you know, right-wing, very conservative judges and justices and state legislatures. [00:28:53] And the thing that uh is well, there's so many things about it that are deeply distressing, but women are going to die, Gail. [00:29:01] Women will die. [00:29:04] Can we reach out to Justice Thomas for a bit? [00:29:06] All right, there you go. [00:29:08] All right, Rob, why are you laughing? [00:29:11] Women are going to die. [00:29:13] No, it's because the adamant, the urgency, women will die. [00:29:19] This is like the vaccine shit. [00:29:20] What women? [00:29:21] Where? [00:29:22] Why? [00:29:23] What is this going to be this pandemic of death? [00:29:26] Because of what are they saying? [00:29:28] Because if women, if more women choose to go through with their pregnancy, because they don't travel to other states where they can get an abortion, we're talking about an increase in, like, I mean, specifically, how many people do you think are dying because we've outlawed abortions? [00:29:43] Are they having these babies in the 1720s? [00:29:46] Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not saying no one dies in childbirth, but I mean, it's a very low, uh, a very low number. [00:29:57] Um, and it's Brian, we could actually do the math right now. [00:30:01] Brian, if you could look up how many childbirths there are a year, and then the debt, I think it's 20 per 100,000. [00:30:06] So, whatever the birth rate is, basically, uh, well, that's child deaths, you have to look up women. [00:30:13] No, no, no, no, that's women dying during women dying in childbirth. [00:30:16] Well, look, whatever the number is, I don't even know. [00:30:19] It's an incredibly low figure, but no, that's the way to do it. [00:30:22] Then you could deduct that by the amount of abortions. [00:30:24] No, I understand if you got rid of every abortion, how much would the increase in death in? [00:30:28] 150 is my guess. [00:30:30] 150 people. [00:30:31] The truth is that this is more evidence of what I was saying. [00:30:36] And it's almost, it becomes almost laughable at a point where people on the, but that's the number isn't even how many, whatever. [00:30:44] It doesn't matter. [00:30:44] We don't need it. [00:30:45] The number is going to be very small. [00:30:47] But the, because the number that of women who die in childbirth a year, that wouldn't be affected. [00:30:53] It's if the difference between that and the number of abortions a year. [00:30:58] So, add, what do we get? [00:30:59] Like 600,000 abortions a year at what percentage of that in sex? [00:31:03] It's going to be a tiny number, regardless. [00:31:07] What I was saying was laughable at this point is just that, as I've mentioned many times when you talk about this, it's as if they just refuse to engage with the argument that pro-lifers are making. [00:31:21] And if you're at least, if you're even being somewhat honest, if you're just pretending to be somewhat honest, you have to at least admit, even, and I've talked to a lot of pro-choice people who will admit this readily that, like, the pro-lifers have a point. [00:31:36] There's something to the argument of like, you know, is it killing a baby? [00:31:41] Well, it's in the ballpark of that. [00:31:44] You know, there's an argument there that like you shouldn't be able to kill the baby just because it's inside of you. [00:31:49] You know, once you at least acknowledge what their argument is, what our argument is, you realize how silly saying something like this is. [00:31:57] You go, if we ban abortions, people will die. [00:32:02] You're like, right. [00:32:03] But what would the rejoinder to that be from the pro-life position? [00:32:08] You go, every time you have an abortion, it's a guarantee that somebody dies. [00:32:14] Right? [00:32:15] So that's the response. [00:32:17] It's like, yeah, I don't know. [00:32:19] Like, okay, an incredibly tiny percentage of women who give birth die in childbirth. [00:32:28] But a baby dies every time you have an abortion. === Minority Voices Demand Round Applause (12:53) === [00:32:32] So there you go. [00:32:34] That's that's the counter to your argument. [00:32:36] But it's like you have to pretend that argument doesn't even exist. [00:32:38] It's just like women dying versus no issue. [00:32:42] If you had a forced organ harvesting center and you said, hey, we can't harvest these organs by force anymore. [00:32:50] And you're like, yeah, but all these people waiting for livers are going to die. [00:32:53] It's like, yeah, right. [00:32:54] But the argument is that, but you're killing a person every time you do this. [00:32:58] So all right. [00:32:58] That's, you know, that's the argument from the other side, whether you care to deal with it or not. [00:33:03] But you're probably never going to persuade anyone if you don't even pretend to deal with the argument. [00:33:08] So yeah. [00:33:10] Anyway, it's a, if once if you anyone who's actually willing to get into this argument, once you push them a little bit, will almost always have to acknowledge that at least at a point in the pregnancy, there's a real moral question involved here. [00:33:25] And so then you just kind of get into a, you know, whatever, like the stuff we were talking about last week. [00:33:30] Okay. [00:33:31] So one of the things, by the way, that is just so like maddening about Hillary Clinton's comments here and just the general kind of, you know, trend of all of this is that Roe v. Wade being overturned allows the most privileged amongst there with some of the most privileged human beings who have ever existed in the history of the world to all of a sudden declare themselves the victims of oppression. [00:33:59] You know what I mean? [00:34:00] It's like there's that, you have like, you know, whatever, 20-year-old women on college campuses in the United States of America in a first world country in the 21st century. [00:34:10] But they're like, the fact that, you know, if you just think, forget even about the forces of government, which we talk about all the time, but just the forces of nature, how oppressive human history was, you know what I mean? [00:34:23] Before a minute ago, like, I know to everyone, like, you know, 1895 or something like that feels like a very long time ago, but really in the grand history of humanity, it's not that long ago. [00:34:34] And that most people's lives were so brutally like difficult that we can't even comprehend it. [00:34:42] You know, we can't even comprehend the idea of like actually living on like a dollar a day adjusted for current value and whatever, actually like, you know, losing brothers and sisters at a very young age and doing the backbreaking work and even like work of just like what, you know, like even if you were just like a housewife or something like that, but you know, [00:35:08] you probably in those days probably had seven kids or something like that. [00:35:12] And you're talking about like taking care of a house when there's no refrigerator and no washing machine and no vacuum cleaner and no, you know what I mean? [00:35:23] And like, it's real, like real intense work and going into winters, like genuinely concerned of like who's going to fucking like come down with a bad cold and what that might mean. [00:35:35] You know what I mean? [00:35:36] Like really, like real oppressive forces just from the forces of nature before we kind of like liberated humanity with all of these technological advances. [00:35:46] And then you think about some 20-year-old, you know, girl today on the college campus who's like, I am oppressed because I can't just have random sex consequence free. [00:36:00] Let me tweet about that on my smartphone. [00:36:02] There's something about that that's just like so like, no matter where you fall down on the pro-choice, pro-life argument, there's something about that that's just so like, oh, like, God, it's about having no perspective and just feeling like a victim. [00:36:15] So that's been a big theme in general. [00:36:17] And that's one of the things I was thinking about as I saw our next guest here, who is a comedian, Wanda Sykes. [00:36:25] She was on one of the late shows. [00:36:27] They're all the same, but she was on one of the late shows last night. [00:36:29] So let's check in with her. [00:36:32] How are you doing? [00:36:32] How you doing? [00:36:33] I'm a black gay woman and I have a daughter. [00:36:35] So I'm not doing so well right now. [00:36:40] It's already let's pause it. [00:36:43] Of course, a comment like this gets a round of applause. [00:36:47] What does it mean? [00:36:50] I have no idea. [00:36:52] I mean, the daughter part, I suppose, I can understand what she's trying to say. [00:36:57] But what is being a black gay woman? [00:37:02] You're black. [00:37:03] What does that have to do with anything? [00:37:05] You're gay. [00:37:07] You don't really have to worry about getting pregnant. [00:37:10] You're a woman, but you're certainly out of the age range where you have to be concerned about this. [00:37:16] So it's just like progressive talking points. [00:37:19] And then the entire audience just gives you a round of applause. [00:37:22] It's so funny, like the progressive thing, which of course is a major theme of anyone who's not a progressive almost anytime people talk about this stuff. [00:37:30] But the idea is like you have to be like, well, I am, look, because of these immutable characteristics, I am up against it. [00:37:38] I am the oppressor. [00:37:40] And then you get a round of applause on a late night show for that, which almost disproves your entire point. [00:37:46] There, go ahead. [00:37:48] No, I think that's what she's getting a round of applause for because before she was down, you know, she was like on the totem pole of like, oh, we got to listen to this person, black, gay, lesbian. [00:37:57] But now it doesn't count for anything because people don't want to listen to Clarence. [00:38:00] So it's like they're upset. [00:38:02] So they're showing support for the fact that, you know, it's upsetting that she thought she was at the pinnacle of who needed to be listened to. [00:38:09] Yeah, right. [00:38:10] I really, maybe that's maybe that's it. [00:38:12] That's a way to make it. [00:38:14] Yeah, her listen to privilege is going away. [00:38:17] And they're very, very, very upset about this. [00:38:19] This is, this was very interesting, this interview. [00:38:23] So, so check this out if you haven't already, because she really talked about letting the mask slide. [00:38:28] She really, because she's like kind of in this energy of like, I'm not here to be funny. [00:38:33] I'm here to complain. [00:38:34] She really hit her daughter. [00:38:36] Well, she thinks everyone should be able to get rid of their kids. [00:38:39] Is that what she was saying about her daughter? [00:38:41] I'm not quite sure. [00:38:42] But here, let's play a little bit more and we'll see how Wanda Sykes views the world. [00:38:47] By the way, Hunter Biden might be the best argument for abortions. [00:38:50] Joe should be getting out there. [00:38:52] Let me tell you, you don't want. [00:38:54] Look, man, I could have saved myself so much humiliation. [00:38:58] I want to have all those kids. [00:39:00] Some of them are real bad. [00:39:05] I'm a little salty. [00:39:06] You're a little salty. [00:39:07] I'm a little salty right now. [00:39:09] Okay. [00:39:10] Yeah. [00:39:10] We'll sprinkle a little salt. [00:39:12] Yeah. [00:39:12] Let's put some flavor on it. [00:39:14] This sucks, man. [00:39:15] It really does. [00:39:16] I mean, you know, it's like the country, it's no longer a democracy, right? [00:39:21] I mean, we're, it's no longer majority rule. [00:39:24] No, certainly not the Senate. [00:39:26] Certainly not the representation on the same board. [00:39:28] It's no longer majority rule. [00:39:30] And I mean, it's like these judges that just basically lied when they were, you know, being during the confirmation hearings, right? [00:39:41] Especially Kavanaugh. [00:39:44] Yeah. [00:39:47] So how you, how can you be a Supreme Court justice and you just lying? [00:39:51] You know what? [00:39:51] They had fingers crossed or something. [00:39:54] Sure. [00:39:54] All right. [00:39:55] First is it's not really majority rule. [00:39:57] That was never the system. [00:39:58] I mean, it's supposed to be you got the electoral college, so you can have the majority and not win. [00:40:03] And it's not supposed to be just the electoral college. [00:40:05] It's supposed to be a president, Congress, and then this other branch all working together to check each other out. [00:40:10] So it's actually not majority rule. [00:40:12] And even the system that we have, even though you and I wouldn't be a fan of democracy, it's supposed to be kind of a democracy with a check and back. [00:40:19] Democratic Republic is the idea. [00:40:21] Yes. [00:40:21] Yeah. [00:40:22] So she's so she's wrong on that one. [00:40:24] And then, yeah, we all lie on not only do we all lie on job interviews, but like if you ever watch any of these justices or judges ever being interviewed, the entire game is, can you get them to state their opinion on something? [00:40:36] And then they go, no, I can't because I'm not supposed to be here. [00:40:39] So that's the entire game. [00:40:41] Which was always. [00:40:43] And you knew these people were pro-life. [00:40:45] There was never a question about that. [00:40:46] And they're not supposed to state their opinion on cases that have already been decided, but that changes if a case comes before them that would affect that previous. [00:40:57] We all know they're lying. [00:40:58] Oh, it's just funny to watch her start with this is supposed to be a democracy majority rule, in which case you should object to the Supreme Court existing at all. [00:41:08] And then, you know, like, oh, but they didn't say this in the confirmation. [00:41:11] Again, if all three of them had voted to uphold Roe v. Wade, would she have this problem? [00:41:18] No, she's upset that she lost. [00:41:20] She didn't get her way. [00:41:22] And this is her salty, like, she doesn't always talk this. [00:41:24] I'm salty. [00:41:26] But the funny thing about it, too, is that if the argument also really stinks, um, but it's just really stupid. [00:41:34] Because if you're going to say, oh, it should be majority rule, well, it's not as if a minority of Americans banned abortion in all 50 states. [00:41:45] It's now left up to the states where whoever pretty much all of the states that ban this are going to be in states where the majority supports them doing that. [00:41:53] So, in other words, the Supreme Court allowed it to be majority rule just divided by smaller territories. [00:41:59] Exactly. [00:42:00] More majority, more minorities could actually get their own way. [00:42:03] There's also something profoundly hilarious about starting off with, well, as a black lesbian woman, you know, blah, And then going, I wish we lived in a system of majority rule. [00:42:18] You know what I mean? [00:42:19] Like, it's just like, but isn't the whole thing you're talking about here that minorities are so up against it? [00:42:24] So are we supposed to live in a system where minorities are just absolutely dominated by the majority? [00:42:30] I don't know. [00:42:30] Doesn't seem to be anything inherently moral about that to me. [00:42:34] But again, right, to the point I'm making, this is just a system where, okay, just in different smaller units, the majority is still going to rule, but there's just less of the minorities being trampled on, which I don't know as a black lesbian woman, maybe you understand the idea there. [00:42:51] Anyway, let's keep lying. [00:42:53] I mean, it's just, it's just a bunch of horse. [00:42:58] It really is. [00:42:59] Well, last thing I'm going to please, ma'am. [00:43:09] No, well, to me, it's like the problem is that middle stuff. [00:43:13] It's those states in the middle, that red stuff. [00:43:17] Why do they get to tell us what to do when the majority of us live out, you know, New York? [00:43:24] Pause again. [00:43:25] Hold on, so just pause it. [00:43:26] Pause it right there because this is beautiful. [00:43:28] And just in case you heard what she said at the end, she said, So the problem is these middle states, you know, like that's the problem with the country. [00:43:36] And maybe the problem with the country is that people like you fucking hate like a huge portion of the country. [00:43:42] And then she goes, why do they get to tell us what to do when a majority of us live in New York and California? [00:43:50] Now, aside from just being factually incorrect, a majority of the country does not live in New York and California. [00:43:59] They're not telling you what to do. [00:44:02] They're deciding what they're going to do. [00:44:06] This is the beauty of the progressive mindset is that if you don't want to be imposed upon, progressives take that as you imposing yourself on them. [00:44:17] It's a brilliant little trick that they've figured out how to do where they'll go, oh, look, what you have here is these red states imposing their views on us. [00:44:26] But clearly, factually speaking, that's not what's happening at all. [00:44:30] Texas isn't saying we're going to change New York's abortion law. [00:44:34] Texas is saying we're changing our abortion law. [00:44:37] So the fact that you no longer get to impose yourself on them by the Supreme Court, this institution, which you don't seem to be a fan of, now this is, well, the problem here in this country is all these middle states. [00:44:50] This type of talk is what encourages people to support a national divorce. [00:44:58] This type of talk is what makes people go like, so then maybe people like you shouldn't be in the same nation with these people who you have such contempt for. [00:45:07] It'd be so great to sit there and go, wait, so you think that red states, they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for blue states? [00:45:13] And you think blue states shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for red states then? [00:45:17] So it sounds like you support this law that was just passed by the Supreme Court. [00:45:21] Yeah, or this decision, whatever. [00:45:24] It certainly feels like a law. === Quit Smoking Naturally With Fume Flavors (02:32) === [00:45:25] All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Fume. [00:45:30] Fume is the natural inhaler designed for a better, safer, and natural way to quit cigarettes. [00:45:36] It's a no-smoke, no vape, no-nicotine replacement for the hand-to-mouth habit of smoking. 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[00:48:12] Right, right. [00:48:13] But if we're sitting the bill, you know, and like California, if it were a country, be what the fifth largest, fourth, fifth, largest economy. [00:48:23] So if, you know, if I'm fitting the bill, know your position. [00:48:26] You know what I'm saying? [00:48:28] You know, for real. [00:48:29] Like, look, if I say, hey, let's go out to dinner, you don't get to pick the restaurant, just shut up and eat. [00:48:38] Okay, so let's pause it right there. [00:48:41] So, man, there's so much here. [00:48:45] Okay, not only is she like factually incorrect about who's footing the bill, okay? [00:48:52] Um, yeah, that's the end of the video there. [00:48:53] So, not only is she wrong about who's footing the bill, not only is she leaving out a whole lot. [00:48:58] Like, yes, California would be a pretty big nation if it was its own nation. [00:49:03] Um, they also, by the way, California has the most poverty in the nation. [00:49:08] There's more poor people in California than anywhere else. [00:49:11] Also, man, if they were their own nation and they could just vote in whatever progressive policies they wanted to, oof, really look at how much poor people there'd be there, a lot more than there are now. [00:49:22] Um, and then, so she's wrong factually, and then leaving out a bunch of stuff, but then the example she uses still makes her a piece of shit. [00:49:34] Like, she goes, Well, if I'm footing the bill, you have no say in whatever we're doing. [00:49:39] Like, it's like, if I'm if I'm taking you out to dinner, you don't get to pick the restaurant, shut up and eat. [00:49:46] Like, I just can't even imagine. [00:49:48] Like, I mean, I don't know. [00:49:49] I've picked up a lot of like checks in my day. [00:49:52] Like, if I was like, oh, Rob, let's uh let's go out to dinner tonight. [00:49:56] You know, it's on me. [00:49:57] I wouldn't be like, I think the next question out of my mouth would be like, What are you in the mood for? [00:50:03] Like, I don't think I would be like, Hey, Rob, you want to go out to dinner? [00:50:06] I got this one. [00:50:06] And then I was like, Oh, okay, we're going to go over to this burger spot. [00:50:09] And you go, I'm not really in the mood for a burger. [00:50:11] I go, Hey, I'm paying, motherfucker. [00:50:14] You don't get to have a say in this. [00:50:15] Shut up and eat. [00:50:16] You're like, even in your own example that you just chose. [00:50:20] You could have chose any example. [00:50:22] And you still chose one where you're the asshole. [00:50:25] Clearly, I don't know. [00:50:26] Just like, even if I'm picking up the check, we're still two human beings who are going out to dinner together. [00:50:33] Is this an insight into like how Wanda Sykes is with her friends or something? [00:50:37] You can't, you're not allowed to like go, I'm actually kind of in the mood, or like, but you can't suggest another place. [00:50:43] Oh, there's a seafood cheese. [00:50:45] You're going to eat that cheese. [00:50:47] I'm paying for it. [00:50:48] Yeah, really. [00:50:50] Now I have like a severe like dairy allergy. [00:50:53] He goes, Eat the cheese, Rob. [00:50:57] This is so bizarre. [00:50:58] Is California net positive? [00:51:00] Like if you were to remove California from the U.S., do they contribute more in taxes than the benefits they receive? [00:51:07] You know, I know. [00:51:08] I know people got a good deal. [00:51:10] I've heard that. [00:51:11] I don't know about. [00:51:13] Yeah. [00:51:13] No, I don't, I don't know exactly, but also with the Fed and all this shit, with the funny money, it gets very like difficult to like exactly understand like, well, who's really taking more from who? [00:51:24] I'll tell you that the whatever you want to say about net taxpayers versus not, the, the people in red states disproportionately fight and die in the wars that, you know, all these powerful people on the coast send these kids to go fight in. [00:51:41] They disproportionately die on job sites and do a lot of like the really grueling kind of like stuff for this country. [00:51:47] So, you know, again, though, maybe the bigger point here of what's so hilarious about like, like you, you just get now, I understand that this is not like Quanta Sykes is not somebody who's like knows what the fuck she's talking about. [00:52:03] I get that. [00:52:04] You know, there's not like she's so apparently make a career out of just not knowing anything. [00:52:09] Well, you got to be a progressive. [00:52:11] But the contradictory ideas that come out of this woman, like as I mentioned before, the, you know, the idea of like, well, I am this minority and I check these six minority boxes and I want to live in a system of majority rule is so wildly ridiculous. [00:52:29] But then also this, this idea at the end, isn't it funny when you really see progressives like kind of let the mask slip and tell you exactly how they view the world? [00:52:38] And this is that whoever's paying the bill ought to be the decision maker and everyone else can shut up and take what's given to you. [00:52:48] The rich and the powerful will make these decisions and you peasants, you shut up and take what we hand you. [00:52:56] Isn't that an interesting, you know, when it's bragging about the blue states and being pro-choice, then these idiot progressives all just cheer for it. [00:53:05] It sounds nice. [00:53:06] But what she's saying very clearly right here is that we'll let the people with money make the decisions and everybody else can shut up and take what we've handed to you. [00:53:15] It's it's really something to hear this come out of the mouth of a progressive. [00:53:20] You know, that's that. [00:53:21] Second, there should be two classes of citizens. [00:53:24] Those are wealthy that foot the bill and can make decisions. [00:53:27] And I think what you end up when you have with the two classes, the ones that can vote just rob the poorer ones even more. [00:53:33] But hey, progressives. [00:53:35] Yeah, I've learned a lot today. [00:53:36] It's really, it's getting confusing. [00:53:38] It's, it's, it is. [00:53:40] Well, if you listen to Hillary Clinton, then Wanda Sykes wouldn't be on TV sharing her opinions because she's coming from a place of anger and resentment. [00:53:47] So that is, that is true. [00:53:48] I mean, she does, by the way, seem a little bit angry and resentful. [00:53:51] Hillary Clinton Hill Dogs made a point. [00:53:53] She's not completely wrong. [00:53:55] It is, there's something that's, and this is true, I'm sure, for right-wingers as well, in some examples. [00:54:03] But there's something about when you kind of, I guess this is a human thing in general, but when you, when you get someone emotional and when someone gets like agitated, they reveal a lot about themselves. [00:54:18] When they lose their poise and they're just kind of emotional, that's when you kind of like see who someone is. [00:54:23] And so anyway, there's just been a lot of that over the last week. [00:54:26] It's interesting to see the reaction. [00:54:28] This is what I was talking about. [00:54:29] I kind of predicted this on Twitter. [00:54:30] I was like, oh, get ready for it because the left, they just lost in a big way and they don't like that. === Emotional Reactions Reveal True Character (00:21) === [00:54:37] They really, they're not used to losing a lot of cultural battles. [00:54:42] And this was the big one. [00:54:43] So get ready for the reaction. [00:54:45] All right. [00:54:46] We're going to wrap up there. [00:54:47] That's our episode for today. [00:54:49] Thank you guys for listening and we'll be back with a brand new episode in just as soon as soon as you need it. [00:54:55] We'll be there. [00:54:56] Whatever. [00:54:56] Day after tomorrow, we'll have a brand new episode.