Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Our Unimpressive Elites
Aired: 2022-10-25
Duration: 58:24


=== Unimpressive Elites and Government Overreach (02:10) ===

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[00:00:34]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:35]  What's up?
[00:00:35]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Heart of the Problem.
[00:00:38]  I'm Dave Smith.
[00:00:39]  He is Roberto Elfire Bernstano, King of the Caulks, COVID Jesus.
[00:00:47]  What's up, brother?
[00:00:48]  Welcome back.
[00:00:48]  How are you?
[00:00:49]  I'm ready to duke him out now.
[00:00:51]  Hell yeah.
[00:00:53]  What's new with you, man?
[00:00:54]  Uh, nothing much.
[00:00:55]  I had a good weekend, did some stand-up.
[00:00:56]  Feel like I'm getting sharp again.
[00:00:58]  So having fun.
[00:00:59]  Oh, yeah.
[00:01:00]  Sharp.
[00:01:01]  Like the, I don't know, back to the Mexican boxer thing.
[00:01:04]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:01:05]  Something.
[00:01:05]  There you go.
[00:01:06]  Here, well, listen.
[00:01:07]  I never said the opening banter of this show was the best, but I do.
[00:01:11]  We do what we can.
[00:01:12]  We stumble into it.
[00:01:13]  Yeah.
[00:01:14]  We don't want to jump right into politics.
[00:01:16]  Yeah.
[00:01:16]  Sometimes we're going to give you brilliant, amazing shit, and sometimes it's going to be what you just witnessed right there.
[00:01:22]  All right.
[00:01:23]  So we've got a theme for today's show that I was thinking about.
[00:01:28]  And this, this comes off of Rob's contributions, which is basically the, I'll let you guys behind the curtain here.
[00:01:36]  The prep for the show of for this podcast is a text thread between me, Rob, and our producer, Brian.
[00:01:45]  And we just go, hey, what do you want to talk about today?
[00:01:49]  And then sometimes we send some shit back and forth.
[00:01:51]  And then Rob just sent me like a few hilarious videos of some of our leaders, I suppose you could call them that.
[00:02:00]  And then I found one more hilarious video of them just being, I don't know, we'll get into it.
[00:02:07]  We'll play some of these videos for you guys and you can judge for yourself.

=== The Nature of Natural Elites (03:57) ===

[00:02:11]  But the theme that started to come together in my mind was something we've talked about before and many times, and I'm sure will in the future.
[00:02:21]  And the theme is our unimpressive elites.
[00:02:26]  Just how unimpressive our elites are.
[00:02:31]  And when you think about it, there is something about that, even those two words together, unimpressive elites, seem somewhat contradictory, right?
[00:02:49]  If elites are to be anything, you would imagine they would be impressive.
[00:02:57]  They are, after all, elites.
[00:03:00]  And yet that is not what we have in our society today.
[00:03:04]  We are riddled with outrageously unimpressive elites.
[00:03:11]  And I've been thinking about this a lot recently.
[00:03:15]  And I think that in a way, what we're selling as people who believe in freedom, who promote free markets and limited to incredibly limited government and, you know, obviously non-interventionism and sound money and all this stuff, which I guess is all just a different way of saying limited government.
[00:03:45]  That in a way, what we're selling is impressive elites, right?
[00:03:54]  Because there's no, there's never going to be a society without elites.
[00:04:00]  That's just not ever going to happen.
[00:04:04]  That's not the way human beings work.
[00:04:06]  There has never once been a society without elites.
[00:04:08]  There never will be a society without elites.
[00:04:11]  There's never been a field without elites.
[00:04:14]  There's never been one sector without elites, right?
[00:04:18]  I mean, there's never been a sport without elites.
[00:04:23]  That's just the way human beings are.
[00:04:25]  And anyone who's ever like promoting a society without elites, if they got every single wish that they could have and every single policy that they wanted implemented and created their society, you know what that society would have?
[00:04:43]  Elites.
[00:04:45]  No matter what it is.
[00:04:46]  No matter how communist or socialist or egalitarian their society is, there'll be elites in that society because that's the way human beings are.
[00:04:56]  We are not equal.
[00:04:58]  No matter what system you create, certain people will thrive within that system and rise to the top.
[00:05:07]  Excuse me.
[00:05:09]  So I suppose, in a way, the difference between what we are promoting versus, say, the status quo or many other systems is that what we would have in our system would be what Hans Hermann Hoppe and Jeff Deist very recently in that speech that I talked about in the last episode, what he referred to as natural elites.
[00:05:36]  And the idea of natural elites is that they are not elites that are imposed on you.
[00:05:42]  They're elites because they kind of rose up to that status by gaining, you know, this status through the market, through voluntary interactions and through people recognizing that they're just the best.
[00:05:58]  You know, there's examples.
[00:06:00]  There's many examples of this that we could think of in our lives.
[00:06:05]  There are natural elites all around us on different levels.

=== Market Recognition vs Imposed Status (03:01) ===

[00:06:08]  You know what I mean?
[00:06:09]  But me and Rob have both been doing stand-up comedy for quite a while now.
[00:06:14]  There are natural elites in stand-up comedy, people who we all just admire and look up to.
[00:06:24]  You know, David Tell is a natural elite at stand-up comedy.
[00:06:29]  Nobody is imposing that the rest of us all respect him so much.
[00:06:34]  We just do because he's so good at what he does.
[00:06:36]  That the natural response is for that to garner respect from you.
[00:06:41]  Did I tell you, Rob?
[00:06:42]  I had a nice awkward moment with a hot one.
[00:06:48]  Okay, fine.
[00:06:48]  A little bit of an aside, but it's on the topic of natural elites.
[00:06:52]  So at Skank Fest, you were there, me and you.
[00:06:54]  So Attel, at one point, I'm running around like a madman at Skank Fest, just doing shows left and right and trying to get through the whole crowd to get to my next show.
[00:07:02]  And I just literally had like a 15-minute break or something like that.
[00:07:06]  And I'm walking through the main room and I hear the MC go, ladies and gentlemen, David Tell.
[00:07:11]  And I was like, ah, shit.
[00:07:12]  All right, I'm going to pop in and watch it tell for a minute.
[00:07:14]  And then I walk in and you're there and Chris Feig is there.
[00:07:17]  And you're in the back of the room.
[00:07:19]  And I walk next to you guys.
[00:07:20]  And I was like, ah, shit.
[00:07:21]  I haven't watched it in a minute.
[00:07:22]  I was sitting and watching.
[00:07:24]  I'm just watching it.
[00:07:25]  It's just a fucking killer.
[00:07:26]  Just the funniest stand-up comic in the goddamn world.
[00:07:28]  It's so great.
[00:07:30]  Love watching David Tell.
[00:07:31]  It just makes me feel like I'm an 18-year-old fan of stand-up comedy again.
[00:07:36]  You know what I mean?
[00:07:37]  Which is very rare.
[00:07:38]  Once you get into a field for a long time, it's hard to just like be the same, you know, fan of it that you once were.
[00:07:48]  So anyway, I watch him.
[00:07:49]  Great set.
[00:07:50]  So, about an hour later, me and Attel run into each other in the green room and he comes over to me and, you know, in his Attel way, he's, I was like, Hey, dude, you know, you're having fun.
[00:08:00]  Like, it's so awesome that you're here.
[00:08:01]  And he goes, Oh, you know, what you guys have built here is incredible.
[00:08:05]  Like, I'm really proud of you guys.
[00:08:06]  This is incredible.
[00:08:07]  It's just taking off.
[00:08:08]  You guys have the best comedy audiences and blah, blah, blah.
[00:08:11]  And you guys are all doing great.
[00:08:12]  I'm really proud of all you guys.
[00:08:14]  And then he says that to me.
[00:08:15]  And then I'm like, all right, I'm going to say something back.
[00:08:20]  And I know this is going to go awkward because you can't compliment Ettel, but I'm not just going to sit here while he fucking compliments me.
[00:08:26]  And then I just went, all right, Dave, that means so much to me.
[00:08:30]  Thank you very much.
[00:08:31]  And just so you know, dude, I watched your set out there today.
[00:08:33]  It's just, there's no one I love watching more than you.
[00:08:36]  Like you just make me feel like a fucking fan of comedy again, which no one makes me a fan of comedy.
[00:08:41]  It's just fucking incredible.
[00:08:43]  Everything you're doing, you're just like the fucking best at it.
[00:08:45]  And he goes, huh?
[00:08:46]  I'm just throwing out dick jokes and walks away.
[00:08:51]  And I was like, well, that went pretty awkward.
[00:08:55]  Anyway, a natural elite, if ever there was one.
[00:09:01]  But the point is that in a market economy, you're going to have people who rise to the top.

=== Talent and the Sales Room Dynamic (05:59) ===

[00:09:10]  But how are they going to rise to the top?
[00:09:13]  They're going to rise to the top by being the best and by being the best at what?
[00:09:19]  What does that mean to be the best in a market economy?
[00:09:23]  It means to be incredibly successful at producing things that other people desire.
[00:09:31]  You know, people are going to get rich and be very successful.
[00:09:35]  But the only way to do that within a free market is to provide something that other people are willing to give you their money for.
[00:09:44]  If you can't rob people and force them to give you their money, then the only way to get it out of them is to persuade them to give it to you.
[00:09:53]  And there's lots of examples of this all over the place.
[00:09:58]  There's examples of this within the libertarian world.
[00:10:03]  There's examples, right?
[00:10:04]  Like everybody fucking respects, you know, I say everybody, the vast, vast, vast majority of people respect the shit out of Ron Paul and Tom Woods and Lou Rockwell and like all these guys, Jeff Dice, all these guys.
[00:10:16]  And we, we, because we are just compelled to voluntarily offer our kind of like support to them.
[00:10:25]  And we consider them to have a special status.
[00:10:31]  That's, that's what we are selling is genuine elites, impressive elites.
[00:10:38]  However, under the current paradigm, under a gigantic government in a democracy, what you have is what?
[00:10:49]  Who are the elites?
[00:10:50]  Well, the elites are people who can win popularity contests by catering to low information voters.
[00:10:58]  And then the businessmen who can what?
[00:11:05]  Gamify their rules.
[00:11:10]  Those are the elites that we live under today.
[00:11:14]  Oh, by the way, as we talked about the other day, even within the private sector, even within crony capitalism, there are still some impressive elites.
[00:11:24]  But goddamn, what the democratic process gives us is rough.
[00:11:31]  Rough.
[00:11:32]  Do you get what I'm saying with all of that, Rob?
[00:11:34]  Do you have any thoughts on that?
[00:11:36]  100%.
[00:11:36]  And it's been something that I've been thinking about quite a bit.
[00:11:40]  The example that kind of came up for me today is they're talking about they had this picture of Boris Johnson looking completely disheveled and that he might go back to being the prime minister.
[00:11:49]  And I look at that.
[00:11:50]  I see when Trump gives speeches, you see these Biden blunders.
[00:11:54]  And I wonder when do the masses start looking at this and going, do we really need leaders?
[00:11:58]  That's something that I was thinking about.
[00:12:00]  Who looks at these people and go, like, if we really thought that their job was important, if I feel like I could sit down with most people that support Biden, do you really feel good about this?
[00:12:10]  Like, if you know what I mean, if we were on a boat and that was actually the captain of the ship, do you feel good that that guy is making the most important decisions?
[00:12:18]  Is that something that you feel good about?
[00:12:19]  And when you look at all these people and you start thinking about that, like if you really, let's say the decision was just on you, there was no concept of voting, just you got to decide whether or not that guy is going to be in charge.
[00:12:29]  And these are the decisions that he's going to be making.
[00:12:31]  Do you feel good about that?
[00:12:33]  If you had a business, would you put Biden in charge of that business and go, we got the world's greatest CEO?
[00:12:38]  Yeah.
[00:12:39]  And isn't it true that just, look, I'm not saying, by the way, in all aspects of life, like whether you're talking about your high school varsity team or you're talking about a sales room or you're talking about just like your social group or something.
[00:13:00]  Whenever you think about the person who's at the top, who rises to the top of that, I'm not saying you have to love that person.
[00:13:12]  I'm not saying you agree with them on everything or you even like them or there aren't things about them that are like, oh, fuck, you know, you don't, you just hate it.
[00:13:21]  But don't you always kind of get why they're there?
[00:13:25]  Like they're there for a reason.
[00:13:27]  And you can see that.
[00:13:28]  There's a talent associated with it.
[00:13:31]  There's something like the guy who was the captain in your varsity team.
[00:13:35]  You're like, yeah, he was faster than the rest of us.
[00:13:38]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:39]  And the person who's like, I don't know, got all the girls in high school.
[00:13:43]  You're like, yeah, he does charm all of these girls.
[00:13:46]  And the person who's just like selling the most in your sales room, you're like, yeah, he is a wizard on the phone.
[00:13:53]  You know, like, I'm just saying that the natural tendency toward becoming elite in any little like micro, you know, sector is that there's something about that person.
[00:14:07]  There is some talent there that is almost undeniable.
[00:14:12]  And yet, when you look what democracy produces, it's just literally that.
[00:14:17]  It's like, I don't know, it's the person who was the most willing and able to play to the lowest common denominator, you know, like the person who had such little shame that they would say the bullshit talking point over and over and never break that was so corrupt that they would keep it like the whole facade going.
[00:14:41]  And this is what it produces.
[00:14:43]  Just some people who you go like, like, I'm sorry, but if you just took, take any good podcast, like that's, that's somewhat smart, you know, like, and we're idiots, but our podcast, your podcast, you know, a higher level than ours, say the Tom Woods show or Jimmy Doer's show or Rogan's show or like anyone like that.

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[00:15:09]  Take any guest that they have.
[00:15:13]  They're like a thousand times more impressive than the political elites that we have in our society today.
[00:15:19]  That's just a fact.
[00:15:21]  Like, and so I don't even know how anyone could fucking deny that.
[00:15:24]  This is, and this is a thing that I know so many people, like regular people say this all the time, not like people in our libertarian world.
[00:15:32]  I mean, just like regular people where they go, you know, if you see like Biden and Trump running in 2020, they go, this is the best we got.
[00:15:41]  This is it.
[00:15:42]  This is what it comes down to of who's the who's going to run this whole thing?
[00:15:47]  These two?
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=== CrowdHealth Crowdfunding Medical Bills (16:12) ===

[00:18:04]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:18:07]  So I guess with that, and we'll kind of come back to this theme throughout this, but it's you almost couldn't imagine this.
[00:18:18]  It's, and I know we talk about this all the time, and I know everyone listening has been living in this and thinking about this, but really just zoom out.
[00:18:25]  Imagine you weren't living in 2022, and this was just presented to you is what it would be.
[00:18:32]  Here is a here's a clip from Joe Biden.
[00:18:36]  I believe this was yesterday.
[00:18:39]  Here's Joe Biden in an interview with MSNBC.
[00:18:42]  I have not made that formal decision, but it's my intention, my intention to run again.
[00:18:48]  And we have time to make that decision.
[00:18:51]  Dr. Biden is for it.
[00:18:55]  Mr. President, Dr. Biden thinks that my My wife thinks that we're doing something very important.
[00:19:09]  I have not made that for.
[00:19:11]  Holy shit.
[00:19:15]  What the fuck happened there, Rob?
[00:19:18]  Well, he's an old man and he fell asleep and the interviewer had to do that thing like, hey, hey, like when someone faced, hey, hey, now, yeah, I got a bunch.
[00:19:28]  And the first one is.
[00:19:29]  the fact that everybody's covering for this guy.
[00:19:32]  I'm just saying if we end up with nuclear war or some other thing, every single person in the back office that has helped him pretend like he doesn't have dementia, the people that have put together the cards, anyone who's standing in a backstage situation with him and redirecting him or telling him, hey, here's your cue.
[00:19:49]  Just walk over there when you're done.
[00:19:51]  I'm saying everyone that tried to keep up this facade, like he's not an old man who should not be in charge, they are all responsible.
[00:19:58]  Like there is responsibility for every single individual that has tried to keep up the facade that this is a coherent individual.
[00:20:06]  Yeah, 100%, dude.
[00:20:08]  And look, I don't know what you're like, was it that, was it really that he fell asleep?
[00:20:14]  Did he just have like a brain, you know, like movement?
[00:20:17]  Well, it's a stumper.
[00:20:18]  They called her doctor.
[00:20:18]  And he's like, wait, doctor, who the fuck's it?
[00:20:20]  Wait, did they really just refer to him as a doctor?
[00:20:24]  It just doesn't matter.
[00:20:25]  Whatever it is, you're like, my God, dude.
[00:20:28]  And Jonathan K-Part, whatever the guy's name is, that NBC guy there.
[00:20:36]  His reaction really says everything.
[00:20:39]  And here, play that one more time.
[00:20:41]  Play the part just with his reaction to it.
[00:20:43]  Cause I think this is so interesting to pick apart.
[00:20:45]  And to make your point, Rob.
[00:20:52]  Mr. President.
[00:20:53]  Oh, Dr. Biden thinks that.
[00:20:55]  So just that right there.
[00:20:56]  My wife thinks it.
[00:20:58]  Just this moment of him going, Mr. President.
[00:21:00]  Oh.
[00:21:01]  And then it's like he doesn't know what to do.
[00:21:04]  But what, how does he feel about that behind the scenes?
[00:21:08]  That you literally were in a moment interviewing the president.
[00:21:12]  Imagine this.
[00:21:12]  You're this MSNBC hack who's been there for fucking years and you get to sit down with the president.
[00:21:17]  That's a big day for you.
[00:21:18]  You know, oh, I got an interview with the president of the United States of America.
[00:21:22]  And in the middle of it, you have to go, I can't believe they aired it.
[00:21:29]  I can't believe they aired that part of it.
[00:21:31]  That's probably the cleaned up version.
[00:21:33]  Yeah.
[00:21:34]  And to your point, so I remember, okay, a famous libertarian moment that I don't love to bring up, but I'm just bringing it up to make this point, but was the, what's known as the Aleppo moment with Gary Johnson.
[00:21:50]  And if you guys know, if you know that basically the history of it, what happened in that moment was that, so Gary Johnson was polling pretty well.
[00:22:02]  There were some polls where he was over 10%.
[00:22:06]  And he didn't end up getting 10%, but for a while, he was polling pretty high.
[00:22:11]  And the corporate press was promoting him quite a bit.
[00:22:16]  And the reason they were promoting him, this was 2016, was that they thought he might split the Trump vote.
[00:22:23]  So they were like, oh, yeah, we'll fucking promote this guy because the libertarian might take.
[00:22:27]  And the thought was that, oh, there's all these like Republicans who aren't, don't like Donald Trump.
[00:22:33]  Some of them will vote for Gary Johnson.
[00:22:35]  He'll split the Trump vote.
[00:22:36]  And they hated Trump's guts.
[00:22:38]  So they were like, okay, this is, we'll, we'll promote this guy.
[00:22:41]  And this might be the difference.
[00:22:42]  He might guarantee Hillary Clinton the presidency.
[00:22:45]  And then a bunch of polls came out that seemed that were suggesting that he was taking more voters from Hillary Clinton than he was from Donald Trump.
[00:22:58]  So, literally, it was a couple days after those polls came out.
[00:23:01]  He was back on MSNBC and Gary Johnson, not really getting it, was kind of just walked in there like, oh, these guys have been so nice to me for weeks.
[00:23:11]  This is awesome.
[00:23:12]  These are my friends, you know?
[00:23:14]  And they were like, No, no, no, now we're going to ruin you.
[00:23:16]  Because as soon as it was a close election, as soon as you're taking more from Hillary Clinton than Trump, they were like, We can't have this anymore.
[00:23:22]  This experiment isn't working.
[00:23:23]  We're taking it.
[00:23:24]  And so, Mike Barnacle, the CNN guy, if you ever pull up, actually, here, just go ahead.
[00:23:30]  Let me to make my point, Brian, can you just pull up Gary Johnson Aleppo moment?
[00:23:35]  And I want to demonstrate something about what happened in that moment.
[00:23:39]  Because it's very, it's to make your point, Rob, about the reporter almost covering for you that the reporter just goes, oh, and then goes right back into questioning and kind of carries it through that moment.
[00:23:52]  If you could find that Aleppo moment, I want to make the point about what one of these talking head, you know, propagandists can do the different ways that they can handle these things that I think a lot of people don't even notice if they watch this and they're not really like thinking about it.
[00:24:11]  Okay.
[00:24:12]  So here's the Gary Johnson Aleppo moment.
[00:24:14]  Watch Mike Barnacle and what he does to him.
[00:24:22]  And what is Aleppo?
[00:24:25]  You're kidding.
[00:24:26]  No.
[00:24:27]  Aleppo is in Syria.
[00:24:30]  It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
[00:24:35]  Okay, got it.
[00:24:35]  Got it.
[00:24:36]  Okay.
[00:24:36]  Okay.
[00:24:36]  So pause it right there.
[00:24:38]  So that was the whole moment.
[00:24:39]  Now, you know what?
[00:24:40]  It almost is more interesting if you pull it back even from before that point, but whatever.
[00:24:45]  It's not, they were talking about something completely off topic, something completely different.
[00:24:51]  I forget what it was, like, but it was as different as like if they were, they were talking about like tax policy.
[00:24:56]  And then Mike Barnacle goes, so what do you, what are your thoughts on Aleppo?
[00:25:00]  And Gary Johnson goes, what is Aleppo?
[00:25:02]  And he goes, are you kidding?
[00:25:05]  That's his result.
[00:25:06]  Are you kidding?
[00:25:07]  And he goes, it's the epicenter of the conflict in Syria.
[00:25:10]  And he goes, oh, got it.
[00:25:12]  Okay.
[00:25:13]  So it's, but that moment of when he went, are you kidding?
[00:25:19]  It made it this like, oh, you don't know what Aleppo is.
[00:25:24]  And, right?
[00:25:25]  And by the way, not crazy because Syria was a big topic at that time.
[00:25:29]  I read the newspaper every day.
[00:25:30]  He said Aleppo.
[00:25:31]  I don't know what the fuck, like, it's not really relevant for how should we be handling this situation in Syria.
[00:25:36]  He didn't scare away Aleppo, Syria.
[00:25:39]  Right.
[00:25:40]  You could at least give him the benefit of the doubt.
[00:25:42]  I mean, probably Gary Johnson should have known, but regardless of that, if he had just, if he had gone, and what is Aleppo?
[00:25:48]  And he went, Aleppo, Syria.
[00:25:49]  And he went, oh, well, here's my thoughts.
[00:25:51]  Then there's no moment there.
[00:25:53]  But he goes, Aleppo.
[00:25:54]  And he goes, Are you kidding me?
[00:25:56]  With this kind of like, like fake, shocked look on his face.
[00:26:00]  You know what I mean?
[00:26:01]  And that's what creates the moment.
[00:26:03]  It would be so easy for someone in that situation that Jonathan K. Part was in right there to just wreck Biden, right?
[00:26:13]  All you'd have to do was something and be like, Mr. President, are you okay?
[00:26:17]  Mr. President, are you focused on what I'm saying?
[00:26:19]  Sir, you seem to be drifting off.
[00:26:22]  Sir, did you fall asleep?
[00:26:24]  You know, like anything like this.
[00:26:26]  And this would be like a humongous thing.
[00:26:29]  But he doesn't.
[00:26:30]  He goes, yeah.
[00:26:33]  And then they go right back and then resets and goes right back to it.
[00:26:36]  So you just notice that, like, to your point, how much they're covering for him.
[00:26:40]  Whereas if it was someone who they wanted to like get how easy it is to just like make that a huge fucking, oh, this guy just fucked everything up.
[00:26:51]  And the part that they didn't show you, because, you know, it's a one-two shot.
[00:26:54]  So, when he went at, they were focused on Biden and he picked up a card that said, Dr. Jill is your wife.
[00:27:03]  Pointed to her.
[00:27:04]  Yeah, he was like, brought her over by the head.
[00:27:06]  Yeah, grabbed her by the ears.
[00:27:07]  He's like, oh, that lady, yeah, we're doing good stuff.
[00:27:12]  I think.
[00:27:12]  Yeah.
[00:27:13]  Well, I tell you, that's okay.
[00:27:16]  So that, by the way, and I'm just going to preface you with this.
[00:27:24]  I'm going to preface this by saying, I think this next video of Biden is actually worse.
[00:27:33]  Okay.
[00:27:34]  Buckle up.
[00:27:35]  Here's the next Joe Biden video from this same interview, a different part.
[00:27:41]  You know, they always do these things.
[00:27:42]  This was him and Jonathan Capart.
[00:27:44]  They were sitting and talking at one point.
[00:27:46]  And now they're going to do the walking and talking thing because why not put Biden through a stress test or whatever?
[00:27:52]  So here we go.
[00:27:53]  All right.
[00:27:53]  Let's play.
[00:27:54]  So let's say Trump doesn't run again.
[00:27:57]  Convince on Gloria that she should stick with you.
[00:28:00]  Well, I think Gloria should take a look.
[00:28:04]  I think it's a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone's age, including mine.
[00:28:09]  I think that's totally legitimate.
[00:28:11]  But I think the best way to make the judgment is to, you know, watch me.
[00:28:17]  You know, am I slowing up?
[00:28:18]  Am I don't have the same pace?
[00:28:21]  You know, and that old joke, you know, everybody talks about the, you know, the new 70s, 50s, and all that stuff.
[00:28:30]  You know, I, you know, it could be, I'm a great respecter of fate.
[00:28:35]  I could get a disease tomorrow.
[00:28:38]  I could, you know, drop dead tomorrow.
[00:28:40]  But I, you know, in terms of my energy level, in terms of how much I'm able to do, I think people should look and say, is he, does he still have the same passion for what he's doing?
[00:28:54]  And if they think I do and I can do it, then that's fine.
[00:28:57]  If they don't, then they should vote against me.
[00:28:58]  Not against me.
[00:28:59]  It should encourage me not to go.
[00:29:02]  But that's not how I feel.
[00:29:04]  I can't even say the age I'm going to be.
[00:29:07]  I can't even get it out of my mind.
[00:29:15]  I mean, dude, I'm like, I'm actually speechless about that.
[00:29:21]  Like, what this is a first.
[00:29:25]  This is a first and part of the problem history.
[00:29:28]  I have no words.
[00:29:31]  What the fuck was that?
[00:29:34]  It was so terrible through every inch of it.
[00:29:39]  He's like, well, if people have concern about my age, just watch me.
[00:29:42]  And you're like, yeah, that's the problem, dude, is that people are watching and they have a big concern.
[00:29:50]  They have a concern from watching you.
[00:29:52]  We just watched you not out in the middle of an interview.
[00:29:56]  Okay.
[00:29:57]  And then he goes, What's that old, that old joke?
[00:30:00]  70 is the new 50.
[00:30:03]  What?
[00:30:05]  He just is like stuttering through this whole thing.
[00:30:08]  And then he's, he's at a certain point, he just grabs Jonathan Capart to be like, he goes, listen, he said, no, first he goes, I could be deceased tomorrow.
[00:30:22]  What?
[00:30:23]  I mean, you know, like you can kind of see sometimes with Joe Biden, like the point you know he's trying to make.
[00:30:30]  Right.
[00:30:30]  Like, I think the point he was trying to make was like, anyone could get hit by a car tomorrow, right?
[00:30:36]  I think that was more or less where he was going with it.
[00:30:39]  But it came out as, I could die tomorrow.
[00:30:42]  You're like, what?
[00:30:44]  Yeah, that's the whole point, dude.
[00:30:45]  That's the whole point is you could die tomorrow.
[00:30:48]  And then he grabs him and he goes, I can't even say the age I'm going to be.
[00:30:53]  I'm not even capable of expressing.
[00:30:55]  I mean, holy shit.
[00:30:56]  That was, by the way, that segment was designed to infuse confidence in somebody who had concerns about his age.
[00:31:09]  That was his response to that.
[00:31:12]  That's what we're dealing with.
[00:31:13]  It looks like he was trying to win an incoherent dribble contest.
[00:31:17]  He's up there if that was it.
[00:31:20]  How could you do a worse job?
[00:31:22]  If I sat down and tried to script a more pathetic answer to, hey, you're getting a little bit old.
[00:31:26]  Do you think people should have confidence in you?
[00:31:28]  The, yeah, I just look at me.
[00:31:31]  I, I'm focused.
[00:31:32]  I'm, I'm up.
[00:31:35]  Do I not still have the passion?
[00:31:37]  Look at the energy that I have.
[00:31:40]  And what's the old saying about 70 is 50?
[00:31:44]  And I could drop dead tomorrow.
[00:31:47]  Like, what?
[00:31:48]  Oh, my God.
[00:31:50]  What is this?
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=== Hunter Biden Leaks and Inflation Costs (15:08) ===

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[00:34:33]  You know, okay, so I have a theory that I'm not sure.
[00:34:42]  I don't know.
[00:34:42]  Have I talked about this on the podcast at all?
[00:34:44]  I talked about it on Kennedy twice now.
[00:34:48]  But I don't know if you've seen, Rob, there's been these leaks from the FBI talking about the investigation into Hunter Biden.
[00:35:02]  And so here's my theory.
[00:35:04]  And this is all, I'm speculating.
[00:35:07]  I'll preface with that.
[00:35:09]  But I'm speculating, I think, on what is most likely going on here.
[00:35:15]  So there's been these leaks.
[00:35:17]  There's been a few different reports about leaks about Hunter Biden's investigation and how charges could be brought against Hunter Biden and how even Joe Biden's being looked at and things like this.
[00:35:30]  There's been a few major pieces that have been run about this in the last month.
[00:35:35]  And Kennedy asked me two different times I was on our show, and this was one of the topics that came up.
[00:35:40]  And so I just, I said this: that and at one point, I was on with another fella who was a lawyer.
[00:35:49]  And he basically said that what's going on here, he thinks, is that there's like some good men and women in the FBI who are like, you know, they're just really frustrated that the president's son is getting a pass.
[00:36:03]  And so they're leaking to be like, this is not right, that this is being held up.
[00:36:08]  So we're going to let the American people know that there actually is evidence against Hunter Biden and he might be charged with the crime.
[00:36:15]  And I was like, yeah, no, I don't think so.
[00:36:18]  I don't think that's actually what's going on.
[00:36:21]  I don't believe that that is how these leaks work from the Justice Department.
[00:36:26]  I don't think it's that there's just these noble men and women who, you know, if leaks like that happen, you know, when there's like real whistleblowers, they come out through like WikiLeaks or Glenn Greenwald reports them and then the person who did it like goes and seeks asylum in Ecuador or something like that.
[00:36:45]  You know what I mean?
[00:36:45]  It's it doesn't just appear in the Washington Post.
[00:36:48]  And then that's not, those aren't real.
[00:36:50]  And anyway, so the point I made was this.
[00:36:52]  And I said, so I go, so keep a couple things in mind, right?
[00:36:57]  I said, number one, it's been revealed now.
[00:37:02]  We know that the FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden since at least 2018.
[00:37:09]  And what's really interesting about that, we've made this point before on the show, right?
[00:37:13]  Is that in late 2019, early 2020, there was a huge scandal that kind of got memory hold by the year that was 2020.
[00:37:24]  But you know, something that happened in that time period was that, you know, for what, the third time in American history, the second time in American history, a president was impeached.
[00:37:38]  It's not like a pretty big story, but almost no one remembers it at all.
[00:37:43]  But Donald Trump was impeached over calling Ukrainian officials and demanding that they investigate Hunter and Joe Biden.
[00:37:56]  Also, really interesting that that doesn't come up more just given the current situation with Ukraine and the war over there.
[00:38:03]  But okay, regardless of that, it never leaked that the FBI was investigating Hunter Biden while that was going on.
[00:38:16]  Now, I understand that there's a difference between asking the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden and our own, you know, FBI investigating Hunter Biden.
[00:38:28]  But at the very least, in the court of public opinion, that would have been very valuable information for Donald Trump's defense to have, right?
[00:38:43]  And this is when supposed, as we always pointed out, was bullshit, but supposed, you know, Trump puppet Bob Barr was the head of the Justice Department.
[00:38:54]  He was the attorney general at the time, right?
[00:38:56]  And yet none of that leaked.
[00:38:59]  Isn't that pretty fascinating?
[00:39:01]  There wasn't one person in the Justice Department who is like, I'm going to speak, you know, under the cover of anonymity to the New York Times or the Washington Post and let them know that, oh, actually, it's not that crazy that you'd ask for Hunter Biden to be investigated.
[00:39:19]  Our own government is investigating his business dealings in Ukraine.
[00:39:24]  That's one of the main focuses of the investigation.
[00:39:29]  So that really would have changed at least everything in the court of public opinion and what is an impeachment proceeding other than the court of public opinion, right?
[00:39:39]  And that didn't come out.
[00:39:41]  Well, it went the other way.
[00:39:43]  Well, right.
[00:39:44]  And then in 2020, or excuse me, so this is late 2019, early 2020.
[00:39:51]  And then in late 2020 in October, when the Hunter Biden laptop story came out, not only was it once again not leaked at all, that our own government was investigating criminal activity into Hunter Biden, dealing with his Ukrainian and Chinese business ties, but the story got completely suppressed by corporate news, you know, NPR, public news, social media companies, all of this shit.
[00:40:21]  And also it doesn't leak at all.
[00:40:24]  It's just kind of interesting.
[00:40:25]  So interesting information there.
[00:40:27]  Oh, it turns out the Justice Department really can control these leaks when they want to.
[00:40:34]  And so when you see this story leaking now, I'm a little bit skeptical that it's just, oh, look, finally the system is working or something like that.
[00:40:45]  You know, good people are finally.
[00:40:47]  No, I don't think that's what this is at all.
[00:40:49]  So what I've speculated on Kennedy's show, and I got this out a lot quicker than I'm getting it out right now because you only have like two minutes when you're on Kennedy.
[00:40:57]  But I said that I think what this is, the most likely explanation is that there are very powerful people who do not want Joe Biden to run for reelection.
[00:41:07]  And this is them sending a message to him that it's like, look, we've been protecting your son and possibly you too for a very long time.
[00:41:19]  And we don't have to continue to do that.
[00:41:21]  Just so you know, we could lock your kid up, which they easily could.
[00:41:28]  I mean, they could prosecute him for, you know, falsifying a gun permit or something like that.
[00:41:34]  You know what I mean?
[00:41:35]  Like and fucking just lock him up.
[00:41:37]  Like if they really wanted to, if this was Trump's kid, what do you think would be happening to him right now?
[00:41:42]  He'd be in with the shaman.
[00:41:44]  Exactly.
[00:41:45]  So, right, exactly.
[00:41:47]  So that anyway, that's what I think that is.
[00:41:50]  But man, there's a lot of those powerful people behind the scenes who just have to be like fucking terrified that this is actually the, this is the president who's saying, no, no, no, I'm going to run again.
[00:42:00]  By the way, you probably missed it, but that was what he was saying in the last clip.
[00:42:04]  He was saying that he's going to run again.
[00:42:06]  When he kept going on about how 70 is the new 50 and he could die tomorrow, the point he was trying to make is that he's going to run for president again.
[00:42:13]  It's really something.
[00:42:14]  We should call it getting wheeled again.
[00:42:17]  Yeah.
[00:42:18]  Jesus.
[00:42:19]  Okay.
[00:42:20]  So on the topic of unimpressive elites, Joe Biden is not the only one at all.
[00:42:26]  Let's meet our other geriatric democratically elected elite.
[00:42:31]  Here's Nancy Pelosi.
[00:42:33]  Is that when I hear people talk about inflation, as I heard him there, we have to change that subject.
[00:42:39]  Inflation is a global phenomenon.
[00:42:42]  The EU, the European Union, the UK, the British have a higher inflation rate than we do here.
[00:42:48]  It's not, the fight is not about inflation.
[00:42:51]  It's about the cost of living.
[00:42:53]  And the fact is, is that when I hear.
[00:42:57]  Okay.
[00:42:58]  So I will grant you, much sharper than Joe Biden, still struggles to say the word phenomenon.
[00:43:05]  She looks like Michael J. Fox in trans.
[00:43:07]  Like, why is she so shaky?
[00:43:09]  Like, it really is something.
[00:43:11]  It's like, has she been threatened where it's like, you have to go sell this?
[00:43:15]  And she's like, I don't know how to.
[00:43:17]  And like, and then she's out there.
[00:43:18]  Like, why is she trembling?
[00:43:20]  Yeah.
[00:43:22]  So, I mean, that's, that's the argument that she's coming up with that we have to change the subject because, you know, inflation is a global phenomenon.
[00:43:34]  It's not anything where, oh, look, these other countries have worse inflation than us.
[00:43:38]  And it's not about inflation, Rob.
[00:43:40]  It's about the cost of living.
[00:43:43]  Aren't that the same thing?
[00:43:45]  I'm not sure I follow.
[00:43:46]  No, Rob.
[00:43:48]  No, no, no.
[00:43:49]  That's how silly you are.
[00:43:50]  It's not, it's not about, see, again, like we might argue that they are different things, right?
[00:43:57]  Like inflation really is an increase in the supply of money and credit.
[00:44:01]  And the cost of living rising is a consequence of inflation.
[00:44:06]  But they believe that inflation is rising prices.
[00:44:11]  So she's saying that inflation is rising prices, but that's not the issue.
[00:44:16]  The issue is the cost of living rising.
[00:44:21]  You get it?
[00:44:22]  So we just need the right price controls?
[00:44:24]  It's greedy companies.
[00:44:25]  That's what she's saying.
[00:44:26]  What she's saying makes no fucking sense, Rob.
[00:44:29]  No sense at all.
[00:44:31]  But she wants to change the conversation.
[00:44:32]  And then I love this cop-out, by the way, which is something.
[00:44:36]  It's almost like they have nothing else to even like.
[00:44:41]  No other even plausible argument.
[00:44:43]  So they go like, well, inflation can't be, you know, our fault because it's happening in other countries too.
[00:44:52]  So there's, isn't that more proof?
[00:44:54]  If I were to argue, hey, isn't it becoming apparent because every country is dealing with record inflation that government can't just endlessly spend money?
[00:45:03]  And then you said, well, every country has inflation, right?
[00:45:05]  So I guess that would be proof of the fact that endlessly spending money doesn't work.
[00:45:10]  In other words, there's more proof that it's not working.
[00:45:12]  Right.
[00:45:12]  It's like if you go, okay, so if you're just going to like lock down your economy and print insane amounts of money, then you're going to deal with price inflation.
[00:45:23]  And they go, really?
[00:45:25]  Well, what if I told you that every country that locked down their economy and printed insane amounts of money is dealing with price inflation.
[00:45:33]  Now, what do you say?
[00:45:35]  And you're like, ooh, yeah, that really does disprove my point, doesn't it?
[00:45:42]  Oh, yeah, it does.
[00:45:42]  Oh, yes, this has happened everywhere that we've done this.
[00:45:46]  Okay.
[00:45:48]  Yeah, that's kind of the point.
[00:45:54]  This is, it's not just, as you can see from these videos we've already played, it's not just that our elites are unimpressive.
[00:46:05]  Unimpressive is an understatement.
[00:46:10]  Our elites are like elites of our society, the elites in the United States of America are people you would be concerned if they were the head of like your neighborhood committee.
[00:46:28]  You know, you'd be like, wow, this guy is supposed to be making decisions about what day trash is taken out.
[00:46:35]  And he's like really not up to the job.
[00:46:37]  That's what we that's what we have running the most powerful country in the history of the world.
[00:46:43]  This is unsustainable.
[00:46:46]  This cannot continue like this.
[00:46:48]  Disaster is imminent.
[00:46:51]  You know, the way for her to handle this is to go, we had the worst incident that ever plagued humanity a year ago, and we had to spend to save lives.
[00:47:01]  And a system of inflation is a growing economy and high employment.
[00:47:06]  And our Fed is doing everything we can to combat the inflation.
[00:47:09]  So people just have to ride this growth wave that came on the back of an epidemic and know that we're here doing everything we can to make sure the country is growing.
[00:47:19]  That's your answer.
[00:47:20]  I'll write this shit for you, Nancy.
[00:47:22]  I mean, it's still so wrong.
[00:47:25]  Man, is it better?
[00:47:27]  Man, is it better than what she, I mean, goddamn it, the fact that Robbie Bernstein can freestyle a substantially a leagues better answer than the speaker of the house can give about the most important issue, the number one issue that Americans are concerned with.
[00:47:48]  Rob, just off the top of the fucking dome, gave you a way better talking point.
[00:47:53]  You go, look, that's it.
[00:47:55]  You go, look, we were stuck between bad decisions and no decision we made would have been good.
[00:48:03]  But the truth is to get us through the pandemic, to save lives, we had to have lockdowns.
[00:48:08]  And in order for people to not starve to death, we had to print a bunch of money.
[00:48:12]  And now the economy is white hot.
[00:48:14]  And what does that lead to?
[00:48:15]  It leads to an inflationary cycle, blah, And yes, it got a little bit out of control, but the Fed is reigning that back in now.
[00:48:23]  And we're going to find the perfect equilibrium and we're going to do the best, you know, like whatever.
[00:48:27]  You could have an answer.
[00:48:28]  Even if like as full of shit as all of that is, even though that's all complete bullshit, you could have something.
[00:48:35]  It's that's the point.
[00:48:37]  That's almost the essence.
[00:48:38]  What you just said is the essence of my point.
[00:48:40]  It's not just, obviously, we're all convinced, I think, listening to this, that they're wrong and evil and all of these policies are just awful.
[00:48:49]  It's the fact that they can't even figure that out.
[00:48:54]  They can't even just say it in the way you said it.
[00:48:57]  That is really alarming.
[00:48:59]  You know what it is?
[00:49:00]  It's like that argument of, well, that's a Republican talking point.
[00:49:03]  She's basically blatantly saying, hey, we're trying to win a midterm and inflation doesn't make us look good.
[00:49:08]  So we're trying not to talk about that one.
[00:49:10]  Let's just not.
[00:49:11]  Yeah, we're ignoring that.
[00:49:12]  Our new strategy, we're going to try and ignore that for a couple of months.
[00:49:14]  So if you could play along with us while we ignore it.
[00:49:17]  Yeah, Jesus.
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[00:50:51]  All right, well, look, before we uh wrap this one up, we do we should let you know that these are the old, this is the old guard, but we do have some new, uh, a younger generation of elites that are coming up.
[00:51:04]  And they were also they also became elites through the democratic process.
[00:51:09]  So, but you know, they've they've got something that these old guys don't have.
[00:51:14]  So, let's let's look to the future, and of course, the future is always AOC.
[00:51:34]  So, that's and by the way, this was AOC being protested at a recent little town hall thing that she gave.
[00:51:40]  That was part of it.
[00:51:41]  Here, let's let's play the the her response to the crowd in a few minutes.
[00:51:47]  All right, all right, listen, all right, listen, listen, okay, listen, well, I've uh what who is that person?
[00:52:00]  That's a Puerto Rican principal in the Bronx trying to get the lunchroom under control.
[00:52:04]  Oh man, it really is something listen.
[00:52:08]  Okay, I know I just we just played that video just to make fun of AOC and do something lighthearted at the end of the show, but I will tell you, you know, the fact that those people were protesting her is really interesting.
[00:52:20]  She's gotten protested at a few of these uh little fucking whatever town hall things.
[00:52:28]  I think she's bringing the wrong characters because she's like a pro wrestler where she's got like different characters that she plays, but it seems like she's just bringing the wrong ones to the wrong environments.
[00:52:37]  Yes, hey, come on now, Lisa.
[00:52:41]  Don't you want to hear about the Green New Deal?
[00:52:44]  But you know what?
[00:52:45]  She's uh, I do find this to be interesting is that she was getting like protested and heckled from a bunch of people who were who were very upset that she isn't standing up to the war party and on the uh the specifically with the lead up to the march toward nuclear war with Russia.
[00:53:05]  And so, that was something that I was like, oh, okay, yeah, at least maybe some of these like lefties could give some pressure to her of being like, Hey, what the fuck are you doing?
[00:53:15]  Like, what this isn't what we're supposed to be about, you know.
[00:53:18]  Yeah, hopefully, there's at least like a few of these like hardcore, like lefty progressive types who actually believe their own rhetoric or something like that.
[00:53:29]  And they go, like, you know, if you believe you really care about the environment, you're like, Hey, I don't think nuclear war would be that good for the environment.
[00:53:38]  I guess maybe we should consider that.
[00:53:41]  Maybe that would that would have some environmental externalities to it.
[00:53:47]  So, anyway, it's just look, I mean, we could play videos for 16 hours straight of this, but man, what a what a weird time to be live.
[00:54:00]  What a weird thing that democracy produces versus what um markets produce, where they just these elites in such a powerful country in such an advanced time are the dumb.
[00:54:14]  Like, I don't know about you, Rob.
[00:54:16]  I don't have a family member who's as stupid as any of these people are.
[00:54:23]  I got one who's committed to dumb liberal country, but she's very smart.
[00:54:27]  But so, that's my point.
[00:54:29]  Even she's probably more impressive than these people are.
[00:54:33]  It's unbelievable.
[00:54:34]  play Martin Luther King AOC because that's the other character she came out with this week.
[00:54:39]  Oh, do we have that video?
[00:54:40]  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:41]  She did.
[00:54:41]  Because that's it.
[00:54:42]  It's not just Keisha from the block who she can be.
[00:54:46]  She gives other, hey, listen, listen, listen, listen.
[00:54:48]  Yeah, there's, we could play that and then we'll end on that one.
[00:54:51]  She's got, she's got range.
[00:54:53]  She plays white girl on Capitol Hill.
[00:54:56]  She plays the one who's like offended by Alex Stein.
[00:55:01]  I was just harassed as I was walking up the Capitol Hill steps.
[00:55:05]  And then she's like, hey, listen, listen, listen.
[00:55:07]  But then she also has this other character.
[00:55:10]  Brian, do we have that one?
[00:55:16]  I'm proud to be a bartender.
[00:55:19]  Ain't nothing wrong with that.
[00:55:22]  There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.
[00:55:27]  There is nothing wrong.
[00:55:29]  Say it, girl.
[00:55:30]  The food that your neighbors will eat.
[00:55:33]  I mean, there is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work.
[00:55:38]  Oh, Leo!
[00:55:39]  You gotta scoop out the poop of the white man's toilet.
[00:55:44]  And there is everything dignified about it.
[00:55:48]  I'm mopping up the floors where the white man's shoes, his muddy shoes left his footprints.
[00:55:57]  Like, what?
[00:55:58]  I just go, who are you?
[00:56:00]  What is this?
[00:56:01]  Who is this fooling?
[00:56:06]  You think you'd be like, I'm going to do something for this room only.
[00:56:09]  So let's make sure no one's filming this audience.
[00:56:11]  Yeah, you'd think they, right?
[00:56:12]  They would at least be like, hey, no cameras.
[00:56:15]  Like, I'm workshopping a new character.
[00:56:20]  So I really don't want anyone in here.
[00:56:22]  This is very different from what I do in my normal routine.
[00:56:27]  This isn't really me.
[00:56:28]  All right.
[00:56:29]  So I'm going to go in there, but she's like, do me a favor, don't post this on our Instagram.
[00:56:33]  So I'm just going in there.
[00:56:35]  She go, there's no shame in threading a fawn mattress that somebody else is going to sleep on that bed.
[00:56:46]  Oh, Jesus Christ.
[00:56:48]  Yeah, this is it.
[00:56:49]  These are our elites.
[00:56:52]  That's what you're working with.
[00:56:53]  This is what democracy produces.
[00:56:56]  God damn.
[00:56:58]  Something to think about.
[00:56:59]  More and more.
[00:57:00]  This is like my last episode.
[00:57:02]  I said, what we're selling is beauty and civilization and impressive elites.
[00:57:10]  That's what we're selling.
[00:57:12]  Not this garbage.
[00:57:14]  All right.
[00:57:14]  That's our episode for today.
[00:57:15]  Robbie the Fire, Bernstein.
[00:57:17]  Where are you going to be?
[00:57:18]  Where can people come find you?
[00:57:19]  All right.
[00:57:20]  As always, check out the Run Your Mouth podcast and briefings a couple days a week.
[00:57:23]  It's pretty good rundown of everything going on in the news.
[00:57:26]  Texas weekend coming up soon, Arizona.
[00:57:29]  This upcoming weekend, upstate New York with Justin Silver, you and me and Poughkeepsie.
[00:57:33]  Go to the episode description.
[00:57:34]  All the dates and links are right there.
[00:57:36]  Fuck yeah.
[00:57:37]  And ticket links for me and you.
[00:57:39]  And BK Chris is going to be with us as well up in Poughkeepsie at Laugh It Up, comicdave Smith.com.
[00:57:46]  You go there and get all the ticket links for my upcoming shows.
[00:57:49]  Also, me and Louis J. Gomez will be co-headlining a show out at the comedy store, New Year's Eve, returning to the comedy store in Los Angeles for New Year's Eve.
[00:57:59]  Very excited for that.
[00:58:01]  Yeah, and a bunch of fun stuff coming up.
[00:58:03]  The future of part of the problem is bright.
[00:58:06]  We got, as I mentioned before, I'm building a new studio for the show.
[00:58:11]  That's going to be awesome.
[00:58:12]  A lot of big announcements about the future of the show coming up.
[00:58:16]  2023, we are taking this thing to the next level.
[00:58:20]  So look out for that.
[00:58:21]  Thank you guys.
[00:58:22]  Catch you next time.
[00:58:24]  Peace.