Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Live From Maryland
Aired: 2023-01-31
Duration: 01:26:23


=== Odd Couple Escalation (14:30) ===

[00:00:01]  Hey guys, the following episode was recorded yesterday live from Perryville, Maryland.
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[00:00:36]  Fill her up.
[00:00:38]  You're listening to the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:44]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:46]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:00:48]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
[00:00:52]  If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
[00:00:58]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:01:02]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:01:06]  Here's your host, James Smith.
[00:01:10]  All right, hold on.
[00:01:10]  Pretend like this was something really organic and cool.
[00:01:13]  What's up, motherfuckers?
[00:01:15]  How's everybody doing?
[00:01:18]  All right.
[00:01:20]  Perryville, Maryland.
[00:01:24]  No one's ever said that and made it sound cool ever.
[00:01:28]  What's up?
[00:01:29]  Perryville?
[00:01:32]  Who wants to do a live part of the problem?
[00:01:34]  Huh?
[00:01:34]  What do we say?
[00:01:37]  We've got this set up nice here, Rob.
[00:01:39]  Rob spent what I paid him for the last year on this projector.
[00:01:43]  Yeah, and hopefully we don't get electrocuted because this is a ridiculous amount of wires.
[00:01:48]  This does seem like almost any sensible code would tell you, don't do that, probably.
[00:01:56]  I feel like this could be the start of a Back to the Future movie.
[00:02:00]  If we just get this podcast going at 88 miles per hour, we can find Rob's parents and tell them to not fuck him up so bad.
[00:02:11]  Well, how is everybody?
[00:02:12]  Were you guys here for the last comedy show?
[00:02:15]  Did we enjoy it?
[00:02:17]  We had a fun time.
[00:02:19]  We had a fun time.
[00:02:20]  Rob, congratulations.
[00:02:22]  You still have your job.
[00:02:25]  Well, what do you want to do?
[00:02:26]  Some people are, I think, still going to be filing in.
[00:02:28]  Some people were getting drinks at the bar, but we got some, we got, this is what we always do with the podcast.
[00:02:33]  We talk about some stuff in the live podcast.
[00:02:35]  We talk about some stuff we want to talk about, and then we do like a question and answer segment.
[00:02:39]  So if anyone wants to ask a question, you'll get an opportunity to do that in a little bit.
[00:02:43]  But so, yeah, we had a fun comedy show down here in Maryland.
[00:02:46]  Me and Rob are traveling all over the country this year.
[00:02:50]  We've been having a good time.
[00:02:52]  We got some fun stuff today that we have not talked about yet on the podcast.
[00:02:56]  Let's jump right into it.
[00:02:58]  All right.
[00:02:59]  Paul Pelosi.
[00:03:07]  The body cam video was released, and I got to say, totally normal.
[00:03:13]  Seems like a totally normal situation that any of us could find ourselves caught in.
[00:03:19]  Hey, that's what my weekends look like.
[00:03:23]  I kind of do believe that that could happen at Rob's house.
[00:03:26]  Like the cops come and Rob's like, I got it.
[00:03:28]  I got it.
[00:03:28]  Everything's fine.
[00:03:29]  Let me just hold this guy's hammer and just come back later.
[00:03:33]  I am, I'll be honest, I'm thrown for a loop on this one.
[00:03:38]  I do not understand it.
[00:03:40]  So I had not, so I saw the body cam footage today.
[00:03:43]  You also sent me the 911 call, which I listened to, which that, did that also come out just today or was that out?
[00:03:50]  Yeah, the judge ruled that they had to release all this stuff, so they put it all out.
[00:03:55]  None of it makes any sense to me.
[00:03:57]  What do you do you want to play the video first and then we could break it down?
[00:04:00]  Or which one should we play first?
[00:04:03]  Let's start with the hammer video.
[00:04:05]  Okay, let's start with the hammer video.
[00:04:10]  I'll play the girl.
[00:04:12]  All right, let's try our best to break down what's happening here.
[00:04:18]  Yeah, definitely don't want all of here.
[00:04:21]  I definitely don't want all of you.
[00:04:23]  Hello.
[00:04:28]  This is the hooker response team.
[00:04:39]  Yeah.
[00:04:40]  Like I said, 2620, right?
[00:04:44]  No, 2640.
[00:04:46]  2640.
[00:04:46]  That's the code for Lou.
[00:04:47]  Bring Lou.
[00:04:50]  How you doing?
[00:04:52]  What's going on, man?
[00:04:57]  Drop the hammer.
[00:04:59]  Nope.
[00:04:59]  Hey, hey, hey, what is going on?
[00:05:02]  Hold on.
[00:05:03]  Oh, shit.
[00:05:07]  All right.
[00:05:08]  So let's try to examine this for a second.
[00:05:13]  Can I just start?
[00:05:15]  Well, I would just say there's so many things here that are just like, what in the world is going on?
[00:05:24]  Like, number one, the fact that they both almost acting as Siamese twins open the door together.
[00:05:32]  Like, they're like, they just open it.
[00:05:34]  Like, they both almost had the attitude of, like, yeah, what?
[00:05:37]  Like, what's even going to happen here?
[00:05:38]  And then it's cops.
[00:05:39]  And I. Like twins at a sleepover getting busted by the parents.
[00:05:43]  Yeah.
[00:05:43]  Like they were doing construction in the room and they just mosey over the door.
[00:05:46]  Nothing to see in here.
[00:05:49]  I like that they go.
[00:05:50]  The cops shine the light.
[00:05:52]  And they're like, even from the cops.
[00:05:53]  And if you guys know me, you know how rare it is that I sympathize with cops.
[00:05:58]  But in this case, I'm like, from the cop's perspective, he's just like, what the fuck did I just stumble into?
[00:06:04]  Like, what is this?
[00:06:05]  Even?
[00:06:06]  He shines the light like, you're in your boxers.
[00:06:08]  You have a drink.
[00:06:09]  You're holding hands.
[00:06:10]  And then he sees the hammer and he goes, whoa, dude, drop the hammer.
[00:06:13]  And there was something that I just really loved about the way the guy responded.
[00:06:20]  He went like, nope.
[00:06:21]  Like, it wasn't, like, it was just like a very, like, it went up at the end with an inflection.
[00:06:27]  Like, nope, we're not going to do that.
[00:06:30]  And then spazzes out and crushes some skull.
[00:06:34]  So what?
[00:06:36]  What in the world, Rob?
[00:06:37]  So I'd like to start with this: that I would think if you're as wealthy as Paul Pelosi with all these stock trades, the inside picks, wouldn't you get that?
[00:06:45]  He's gotten lucky.
[00:06:48]  Wouldn't you get yourself a hot hooker?
[00:06:51]  Why would you get this fat bozo?
[00:06:53]  Like, I feel like you could have any hooker in the world.
[00:06:56]  Rob, let me try to explain to you.
[00:06:58]  In the gay community, Tim Dylan is like a nine.
[00:07:04]  All right?
[00:07:04]  So you gotta like throw out your preconceptions of what is a hot hooker and what's not a hot hooker.
[00:07:13]  You know what I mean?
[00:07:14]  Like, this is what $200 million of government-aided insider trading gets you.
[00:07:22]  All right.
[00:07:22]  This is, so don't.
[00:07:24]  You're saying this is top of the line, Sam.
[00:07:25]  This is the best.
[00:07:26]  This is whatever you view.
[00:07:27]  Beady cheeks and a beard.
[00:07:29]  Yes.
[00:07:29]  The best of the best.
[00:07:30]  That's this.
[00:07:31]  Okay.
[00:07:32]  What is weird to me is like, why would they both...
[00:07:40]  Look, if the story is that this dude was like holding him hostage at hammer point.
[00:07:50]  Why do they look so cute together?
[00:07:54]  It's just so weird that they would open the door like this as a duo.
[00:07:58]  Like, I mean, I guess a hammer is the type of weapon where you got to keep the guy real close to you or it's not much of a threat anymore.
[00:08:06]  But he's got a drink of some sort in one hand.
[00:08:10]  He's in his boxers.
[00:08:12]  Now, there were a lot of reports that came out that turned out to be not correct.
[00:08:16]  Like they said, both of them were in their boxers.
[00:08:18]  One report, nah, bro.
[00:08:20]  Those weren't sheaths.
[00:08:21]  Don't you, first of all, I'm sorry.
[00:08:23]  I know you're just trying to be funny, but I will not let the good name of Sheath be Sully.
[00:08:28]  Those were loose, shitty, uncomfortable boxers.
[00:08:32]  I'm sure they were expensive because this guy's got money, but those were like those silk fucking boxers that are so like they just suck.
[00:08:38]  And they're not comfortable.
[00:08:40]  They ride up when you put them on.
[00:08:42]  Yeah, fuck that.
[00:08:43]  Get yourself a nice pair of sheaths.
[00:08:44]  I'm telling you, it's going to be much better.
[00:08:46]  No one, as far as I know, no one who wears sheath underwear has ever taken a hammer to the dome piece by a gay prostitute next to them.
[00:08:59]  Now, does sheath underwear protect you from hammers to the head from gay prostitutes?
[00:09:05]  I can't say that for sure.
[00:09:06]  I can just look at the empirical data, and there's not one reported case of a guy wearing sheath underwear getting domed with a hammer.
[00:09:15]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:09:16]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:09:18]  Yeah, that's all exactly.
[00:09:20]  I just want to follow the signs.
[00:09:22]  Okay, so what were you saying, Rob?
[00:09:24]  I'm sorry.
[00:09:26]  No, I was going to ask if you've ever slept in a Holocaust shirt.
[00:09:32]  Like, maybe that's comfy.
[00:09:33]  I don't know.
[00:09:34]  No, but I will say that does seem like, what is Nancy Pelosi and her husband?
[00:09:38]  They were like 80-something.
[00:09:39]  That seems about right.
[00:09:40]  So I'm not going to show that would be what you say.
[00:09:42]  But with the placentas they eat, it's more like 65.
[00:09:47]  Well, they're like 365.
[00:09:50]  They have to eat those placentas to like stay 80.
[00:09:53]  I think that's why he's so like calm because he's like, this mere mortal thinks he can affect me.
[00:09:59]  Like he needs to pretend like he's hurt when the hammer hit him.
[00:10:02]  They had to pretend to bring him to the hospital.
[00:10:04]  It's all a big goof to this guy.
[00:10:07]  I'll tell you, I don't, there's like a lot of conspiracies about this, honestly, what really happens here.
[00:10:12]  But I just don't, I'll be the first to say, I don't get it at all.
[00:10:16]  I don't get what the situation is.
[00:10:18]  I don't, if you're going to say he was a gay prostitute and they were like hooking up or something and it went bad, it was like a grinder date gone bad, maybe, but still, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:10:30]  What's happening?
[00:10:32]  If it is the situation that any of that, if he broke in and was holding him hostage, first off, SWAT team kicking indoors.
[00:10:44]  Well, who breaks in to Nancy Pelosi's house to wait for Nancy Pelosi, right?
[00:10:48]  That's the official story that she was going to hold him hostage and wait for Nancy Pelosi to come back.
[00:10:53]  And your plan was, I'm going to break in there armed with a hammer.
[00:10:58]  Like, that's how I'm going to handle this situation.
[00:11:00]  Just seems insane.
[00:11:02]  And then maybe it's like a vampire thing we don't know about, where that's the one thing that works on them.
[00:11:09]  She goes, why do you have a wooden cross and a bunch of garlic?
[00:11:13]  And you're like, that's all that will work on her.
[00:11:17]  But like that, okay.
[00:11:19]  But then just to like to open the door in the manner that they did.
[00:11:24]  Like, it's almost like he opened the door, like the attacker opened the door, like, whatever.
[00:11:29]  I'll go fucking talk to them.
[00:11:31]  I don't care.
[00:11:32]  And then when they were like, dropped a hammer, he was like, I didn't see that coming.
[00:11:37]  Nope.
[00:11:37]  You get your own hammer.
[00:11:38]  You can join the orgy, but you're going to have to bring your own equipment.
[00:11:41]  Yeah, off the street.
[00:11:42]  I already called Dibbs on the hammer.
[00:11:43]  Yeah.
[00:11:44]  Just so bizarre.
[00:11:46]  And then, of course, there was the 911 call, which made nothing clearer.
[00:11:53]  But let's take a look at that.
[00:11:54]  And just to add one more thing, well, we might as well watch it straight through.
[00:11:57]  Oh, yeah.
[00:11:58]  It is odd that there's more.
[00:12:00]  Okay, so it doesn't seem to me like they faked this because I would think that you'd at least put Paul in pants, right?
[00:12:07]  So the fact that he's not wearing pants doesn't make me think that they just filmed it after the fact.
[00:12:12]  However, the fact that we don't actually see the attack happen is a little bit fishy, that that ends up out of camera.
[00:12:18]  Well, go back, go back to what we see of the attack.
[00:12:22]  That's an interesting point that you mentioned, but let me say this.
[00:12:25]  All right, so here are the cops.
[00:12:26]  They're showing up casually.
[00:12:28]  They heard that Paul might be having another hooker over.
[00:12:31]  They're like, all right, we'll check.
[00:12:32]  We'll see what's up.
[00:12:34]  Yeah, they're literally sitting there.
[00:12:38]  Hi, how are you doing?
[00:12:40]  What's going on, man?
[00:12:41]  Everything's good.
[00:12:44]  All right.
[00:12:45]  Drop the hammer.
[00:12:47]  Nope.
[00:12:49]  What is going on?
[00:12:50]  I'm not getting an answer on problems.
[00:12:52]  Oh, shit.
[00:12:52]  Yeah, you know what I'm going to say?
[00:12:55]  He hit him with that hammer.
[00:12:57]  Like, I know you're saying, Rob, we don't actually see the impact, but I saw the pullback and the swing and the direction of it all.
[00:13:04]  Right.
[00:13:05]  That hammer cracked him in the skull.
[00:13:07]  So the other thing that helps the official story in this regard was when we heard about this, we're like, we don't understand how cops could have shown up and then have not just shot the guy immediately.
[00:13:17]  I understand watching this why they'd be so fucking confused and it did escalate on a dime.
[00:13:23]  It's like I get it.
[00:13:24]  Yeah.
[00:13:24]  No, I completely get that.
[00:13:25]  Because at first you go, you open the door and you see them there and you're like, oh, this is just two best friends.
[00:13:32]  You're like, oh, this is a completely normal situation.
[00:13:35]  It's kind of an odd couple thing they got going on.
[00:13:37]  They're just building furniture too in the morning.
[00:13:39]  They're like, the hammer dropped the hammer.
[00:13:40]  And he's so calm.
[00:13:41]  Like, if he had said, like, if they go drop the hammer and he goes, no, I'm not dropping this hammer.
[00:13:46]  You're more likely to like shoot him or like tase him or something.
[00:13:50]  But when he just goes, nope, you're like, wait, what?
[00:13:54]  And then he went right from nope to like, kapla.
[00:13:57]  So it was a weird, it was a weird energy shift.
[00:14:00]  Maybe this guy could like teach a class to hood kids on how to get arrested because they escalated very quickly.
[00:14:07]  We're like, I ain't listening to you or you can't.
[00:14:10]  But if they were more like, I don't want to go in.
[00:14:12]  Yeah, he goes, all right, guys, listen, if the cops tell you to drop your weapon, you can't be like, motherfucker, fuck it.
[00:14:20]  You got to be like, nope.
[00:14:22]  And then they're going to look at each other for a second.
[00:14:26]  You just bought yourself a couple more seconds while they look at each other.
[00:14:29]  And then you do what you got to do.

=== Hostage Call Theory (09:25) ===

[00:14:31]  Good point, Rob.
[00:14:32]  Rob, always know always thinking of how to monetize things.
[00:14:35]  All right.
[00:14:36]  So it's odd that the cops show up as casually as they do.
[00:14:40]  It's odd that Paul is hanging out as casually with this guy, just seemingly no underwear, drugged out, holding his glass.
[00:14:48]  But it does seem like there was an actual escalation and he was in fact attacked by, yeah, I think he got real messed up in that escalation.
[00:14:56]  But now let's go back to the 911 call, right?
[00:15:00]  And this here we go.
[00:15:04]  I don't know.
[00:15:05]  I guess I guess I told him that.
[00:15:09]  This is San Francisco police.
[00:15:10]  Do you need help?
[00:15:13]  Oh, well, there's a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back.
[00:15:18]  He has to call her seat.
[00:15:19]  223.
[00:15:21]  He's just waiting for her to come back because he's not going to be here for a day, so I guess we'll have to wait.
[00:15:29]  Okay, do you need, please fire a medical for anything?
[00:15:32]  Eight seconds.
[00:15:35]  I don't think so.
[00:15:36]  I don't think so.
[00:15:37]  Can we just pause?
[00:15:37]  Because he seems retarded.
[00:15:40]  He does.
[00:15:41]  By the way, this is also like a mat.
[00:15:45]  This is why we need the government so much is that like when your life is on the line or something, you're going to get someone on 911 who's going like, well, could the fire department help in any way?
[00:15:56]  And you're like, fire?
[00:15:56]  Why would he need fire?
[00:15:58]  Like, what about this?
[00:15:59]  But yeah, it is.
[00:16:01]  So, so it's already very weird.
[00:16:02]  Now, look, he gets hit in the head with a hammer later.
[00:16:06]  So, I'll say it's possible he's been hit in the head already.
[00:16:12]  Oh, I need to think of that.
[00:16:13]  He is pretty, I think it's pretty clear.
[00:16:16]  He's either been hit in the head or he is fucked up on something.
[00:16:22]  Because who speaks like if there's not clouds?
[00:16:28]  Something is going on.
[00:16:30]  Yeah, he's speaking like, I don't even know.
[00:16:32]  It's like, it's like several Xanax type of conversation that he's having.
[00:16:37]  So my wife's Nancy Pelosi and she's not going to be home for a few days.
[00:16:41]  I guess we'll wait.
[00:16:43]  What?
[00:16:44]  Now, okay.
[00:16:45]  So, but you kind of, what I started getting the impression of when I first heard this was, I go, look, maybe he's being held hostage and he's kind of trying to make like a secret 911 call.
[00:16:58]  Like he's calling someone, but he doesn't want the person there with him to know who he's talking to.
[00:17:03]  But let's keep listening because it gets that explanation doesn't add up either.
[00:17:10]  Zero two twenty three and eight seconds.
[00:17:14]  Yeah, there's the start from here.
[00:17:19]  Is the Capitol Police around?
[00:17:21]  No, this is San Francisco.
[00:17:24]  They're usually here at the house.
[00:17:26]  Protect my wife.
[00:17:27]  No, this is San Francisco police.
[00:17:30]  So pause it there.
[00:17:31]  So that explanation goes out the window because he's going to them.
[00:17:35]  Is the Capitol police around?
[00:17:37]  Because they're usually the ones here.
[00:17:39]  So it's as if this guy listening.
[00:17:41]  And the guy's listening.
[00:17:41]  The guy's right there.
[00:17:42]  Like he's talking to him and they're like going back.
[00:17:44]  So he's talking about, he's going, is the Capitol police there?
[00:17:47]  It almost seems like he's going, are the Capitol police around?
[00:17:50]  Because they'd know what's up.
[00:17:52]  Like they'd know.
[00:17:53]  They know how I get, you know, like this is going to be pretty weird for you guys, but if like the people who are normally here are here, they'll be like, there's crazy Paul always doing Xanax with gay hookers, you know.
[00:18:07]  1614, he needs lube and more meth.
[00:18:09]  On it.
[00:18:12]  1718, someone's dead.
[00:18:14]  On it.
[00:18:16]  19, 12, he needs another placenta.
[00:18:18]  On it.
[00:18:19]  Like, what?
[00:18:20]  All right, let's keep playing.
[00:18:24]  No, I understand.
[00:18:26]  2022.
[00:18:28]  Okay, well.
[00:18:29]  Zero, two, twenty-four, and what is that?
[00:18:32]  15 seconds.
[00:18:38]  Everything's good.
[00:18:39]  That's the other guy going, I think we're good.
[00:18:42]  I don't think the cops need to come.
[00:18:44]  And he's like, hey, the guy who's raping me says the cops don't have to show up.
[00:18:47]  But it's like, I don't know.
[00:18:49]  And I'm completely open-minded on this.
[00:18:52]  What the hell is the explanation for that?
[00:18:56]  He's not like there's like, okay, there's an intruder in your house and you're kind of trying to make, like, I would completely get it if the call was him being like, hey, yeah, I need two large pizzas.
[00:19:06]  And they were like, sir, do you need police to come there?
[00:19:08]  And they go, no, I got a guy who's clearly an order for kids.
[00:19:14]  You know, whatever, something like that.
[00:19:16]  But he's going.
[00:19:17]  He said police out loud already.
[00:19:19]  So whoever's there with him knows he's talking about getting police.
[00:19:23]  And then he's like, well, what do you think?
[00:19:25]  We need him or what?
[00:19:26]  We don't.
[00:19:27]  Like, what it seems like here is that this is, this is what I, my best guess of it all, is that this is some type of like gay hookup prostitute, something.
[00:19:42]  It went crazy off the drugged up like crazy.
[00:19:47]  The dude starts getting violent.
[00:19:49]  He calls the cops, but he's so messed up that he's kind of just like, doesn't even know what he's saying.
[00:19:56]  He's still kind of talking to the dude like he's reasonable.
[00:19:59]  And then by the time the cops come, I think they both forgot that the cops were even on their way.
[00:20:05]  And so they both went like, well, let's go answer the door.
[00:20:08]  Whatever.
[00:20:08]  Get out of here with your hammer, silly hammer.
[00:20:10]  You know, and like he's kind of holding his hand.
[00:20:13]  And then in that moment, that dude went nuts and cracked him over the head with it.
[00:20:17]  Is that the best explanation?
[00:20:18]  Like, what seems more reasonable than that?
[00:20:22]  So we're going to play.
[00:20:23]  You said, I'm sorry, say that again.
[00:20:24]  We're going to play that next.
[00:20:26]  Oh, there's video of him breaking in the back.
[00:20:28]  It's also odd because it was reported they had broken into the house.
[00:20:32]  And what was odd about the guy breaking his house, like, you're telling me Nancy Pelosi has worse security than my parents?
[00:20:37]  That you can just break into a window at the Pelosi home.
[00:20:40]  So why don't we finish playing this because there's some more interesting video.
[00:20:45]  So let's get that.
[00:20:48]  Zero.
[00:20:49]  Okay.
[00:20:50]  All of our activity drew my T. Eight, ten.
[00:20:52]  No, no, no.
[00:20:53]  This gentleman just came into the house and he wants to wait here for my wife to come home.
[00:20:58]  Zero, two, and so.
[00:21:03]  Do you know who the person is?
[00:21:05]  No, I don't know who he is.
[00:21:08]  He has this when he told me.
[00:21:12]  He told me not to do anything.
[00:21:14]  What is your address, sir?
[00:21:17]  26.
[00:21:19]  2, 2, 5, and 0.
[00:21:21]  What is your name?
[00:21:23]  My name is Paul Pelosi.
[00:21:28]  I just got to pause.
[00:21:29]  What is the other guy doing while all this is happening?
[00:21:31]  Jerking off.
[00:21:34]  What else?
[00:21:36]  I don't know, Rob.
[00:21:37]  Ask a question, get an answer.
[00:21:42]  So, all right.
[00:21:43]  So that is pretty weird.
[00:21:45]  Like, that he.
[00:21:47]  I just.
[00:21:48]  Why do you want to make the phone call?
[00:21:50]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:21:51]  So he breaks in, and his plan is to what?
[00:21:54]  Break in and wait for Nancy Pelosi.
[00:21:56]  Yet he sits there while he calls the police and gives them his address and tells him that he wants police over there.
[00:22:06]  Oh, this guy does gay hookers, so he knows the price on this.
[00:22:12]  He goes, dude, $2,500 for the hour.
[00:22:15]  And then they get there and they want more money.
[00:22:17]  Yeah, but that's Baltimore race.
[00:22:18]  They're more disposable here.
[00:22:21]  Wow.
[00:22:22]  Look at this.
[00:22:23]  Sorry, you want to go back to the video?
[00:22:27]  Sure.
[00:22:28]  Anyway, this gentleman says that he ought to be telling me to put the phone down.
[00:22:35]  And you see what he says.
[00:22:36]  18 seconds.
[00:22:38]  Okay.
[00:22:38]  Okay, what's the gentleman's name?
[00:22:41]  I don't know.
[00:22:41]  He's about to.
[00:22:43]  My name's David.
[00:22:44]  The guy says his name.
[00:22:48]  The guy's like, yo, let the cops know it's David.
[00:22:50]  They'll know what's up.
[00:22:52]  First off, let me just say, first of all, on behalf of people named David, let me tell you that you cannot judge the lot of us.
[00:23:02]  But yeah, like, right, so how does that make any sense?
[00:23:05]  He jumps on there, like, he was so clicked.
[00:23:07]  He was so quick to be like, oh, it's David.
[00:23:09]  Yeah, come on over.
[00:23:10]  I'll be the hammer guy.
[00:23:11]  You know, like, what?
[00:23:13]  What is going on?
[00:23:15]  This makes no sense whatsoever.
[00:23:17]  And we still have 40 more seconds of this tape.
[00:23:20]  The name is David.
[00:23:23]  Okay, who is David?
[00:23:25]  T5.
[00:23:26]  I don't know.
[00:23:27]  What's that?
[00:23:28]  I'm a friend of theirs.
[00:23:29]  Yeah, he says he's a friend.
[00:23:33]  But you don't know who he is.
[00:23:35]  T5.
[00:23:36]  No, it's no matter.
[00:23:37]  Eight seconds.
[00:23:40]  Okay.
[00:23:43]  By the way, just pause it there.
[00:23:44]  I'll tell you, pause it there.
[00:23:46]  I cannot tell you how much I feel the 911 responder on that one.
[00:23:52]  Like at that point, you just go, okay.
[00:23:55]  Like, what?

=== David's Friend Identity (02:51) ===

[00:23:57]  Okay.
[00:23:59]  She almost wants to just come out and be like, are one of you stuck inside of the other one right now?
[00:24:06]  Because if you are, I'll send an ambulance, but just let me know what's up here.
[00:24:10]  Because if that's the case, you're going to need fire.
[00:24:12]  That's the people.
[00:24:13]  The fire department are the ones who handle that.
[00:24:16]  He just goes, yeah, I'm a friend of theirs.
[00:24:18]  And she goes, is he a friend of yours?
[00:24:20]  And he goes, I don't know.
[00:24:22]  And she goes, okay?
[00:24:25]  Like, what?
[00:24:26]  It's like, what is happening?
[00:24:28]  How many kidnappings do you think continued?
[00:24:30]  Because someone actually got to a call, called 911, and said, help, it's an emergency.
[00:24:34]  I've been kidnapped.
[00:24:35]  And they go, well, are you okay?
[00:24:37]  Oh, the guy says I'm fine.
[00:24:40]  You can just cancel that call.
[00:24:42]  And then the 911 operator just goes, great.
[00:24:44]  Next?
[00:24:46]  Looks like that lady's all set.
[00:24:48]  She goes, for a second, I thought I was going to have to send cops over there, but the guy says it's fine.
[00:24:54]  All right.
[00:24:54]  We got the last 14 seconds.
[00:24:57]  25.
[00:24:59]  Okay.
[00:24:59]  You sure I can stay on the phone with you just to make sure everything's okay?
[00:25:03]  No, people get that all off the phone.
[00:25:06]  0, 2, 25.
[00:25:07]  Okay.
[00:25:08]  Okay.
[00:25:08]  And 0, 8.
[00:25:10]  Thank you.
[00:25:10]  Okay, bye.
[00:25:13]  Well, look, to her credit, she did send cops out to the house after that.
[00:25:17]  She probably thought about it for a minute, and then she was like, well, the guy says it's okay.
[00:25:22]  And then she was like, nah.
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=== Camping Gear Evidence (08:09) ===

[00:26:48]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:26:50]  All right, so now you want to watch the guy breaking into the house?
[00:26:53]  Yeah, I haven't seen this.
[00:26:55]  If you thought that all of this was weird.
[00:26:58]  Yeah.
[00:26:59]  All right, here we go.
[00:27:00]  What was really weird is he comes up and he looks at the house.
[00:27:04]  He goes back.
[00:27:05]  He brings up camping gear.
[00:27:07]  He lays down camping gear.
[00:27:09]  He takes his sweet time like scoping out the situation, pulls the hammer out from the camping gear.
[00:27:16]  You know, the magical hammer that Paul wants in his asshole.
[00:27:18]  He takes that out.
[00:27:20]  And then he breaks in, but it's a very casual endeavor.
[00:27:25]  And while he is breaking in, it also looks like he's brought camping gear like he's supposed to be there for a couple days.
[00:27:31]  It's very strange.
[00:27:33]  So you, all right, so is it possible then this dude.
[00:27:37]  It was a sleepover party?
[00:27:41]  So this guy actually broke in.
[00:27:45]  His plan was to wait for a few days for Nancy Pelosi.
[00:27:48]  I guess he was camping out.
[00:27:50]  He's like, I got the gear.
[00:27:52]  So I'll make it.
[00:27:53]  He came in with a hammer, and maybe he hit Paul Pelosi in the head once.
[00:27:59]  And that's why he sounds like such a dazed idiot on the phone call.
[00:28:03]  Maybe it's that and there's no conspiracy.
[00:28:08]  I don't know.
[00:28:09]  He's a fucking crazy person, clearly.
[00:28:12]  He thought he could take down the speaker of the house with a hammer.
[00:28:15]  Or he thought that that would get Nancy there sooner if she knew that Paul was in trouble.
[00:28:20]  Imagine if we thought that was the plan to like take down the government.
[00:28:23]  Like that was the big thing.
[00:28:25]  Everyone get a hammer and a backpack.
[00:28:27]  Instead of Project Decentralized Revolution, like the Mises Caucus plan was just like, does anyone have a hammer?
[00:28:34]  Does anyone?
[00:28:34]  We need camping.
[00:28:35]  Because we can probably do this whole thing.
[00:28:37]  We need fatter autists and we got the autists.
[00:28:40]  So we just need everyone to put on a little weight.
[00:28:41]  Oh, Rob.
[00:28:42]  We got the autists, if that's the issue.
[00:28:45]  We just need hammers and camping gear.
[00:28:47]  Oh, we got.
[00:28:49]  Jesus.
[00:28:50]  I don't know.
[00:28:51]  I'm at a loss, but what a crazy whole thing this is.
[00:28:55]  We have one more piece of evidence here.
[00:28:58]  There's more.
[00:28:59]  There's one more odd piece to review, and this I have not seen, but Brian found it on Twitter, and this is...
[00:29:07]  Sorry.
[00:29:08]  Let me just...
[00:29:09]  This is apparently the gay hooker calling into the news.
[00:29:14]  Okay, but I will say.
[00:29:15]  Yes.
[00:29:16]  Let's be fair.
[00:29:17]  Sweet headshot.
[00:29:21]  He looks like the teeth of a guy who would think this is a good idea.
[00:29:25]  Now, if he was, if Rob's next gig out here, he was like, I'm bringing this guy.
[00:29:30]  And you saw that headshot, you'd be like, I bet he's funny.
[00:29:32]  That guy looks like me if I just made a few worse decisions in life.
[00:29:37]  Like, if I still had hair but did crystal meth.
[00:29:42]  All right.
[00:29:47]  What was the line?
[00:29:47]  I missed it.
[00:29:48]  He said, is that Andy?
[00:29:50]  If you guys were here for the stand-up show, the host looks a little bit like this guy.
[00:29:54]  Thank you for calling me.
[00:29:55]  What did you want to tell me?
[00:29:58]  Now that you all have seen the body camp footage, I have an important message for everyone in America.
[00:30:05]  You're welcome.
[00:30:14]  Hold on.
[00:30:15]  Hold on.
[00:30:16]  Talk about it.
[00:30:17]  That's not real.
[00:30:20]  Well, Rob, is that real?
[00:30:22]  Brian sent it to me with other show materials.
[00:30:26]  That's not a good enough test if that's real.
[00:30:29]  We can't just put this out there and not have tested if this is real.
[00:30:32]  I do not trust Brian on this.
[00:30:34]  We'll have to verify it later, but in terms of my official briefing of show materials, Brian included this as a call from DeParis.
[00:30:42]  I'm telling you that this violent gay hooker just called into the news and made this excellent point.
[00:30:49]  That's what you're telling me.
[00:30:50]  That he just called in and totally vindicated himself.
[00:30:55]  Not to mention, he doesn't sound crazy.
[00:30:56]  He sounds like a well-spoken individual.
[00:31:00]  All right, let's watch the rest of it.
[00:31:01]  I don't know about this.
[00:31:02]  Guys.
[00:31:03]  It's being killed systematically and deliberately.
[00:31:07]  The people killing it have names and addresses.
[00:31:10]  So I got their names and addresses so I could pay them a little visit.
[00:31:13]  Have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.
[00:31:17]  All right, now it's sounding crazy.
[00:31:18]  Yeah, I don't.
[00:31:24]  Patriots willing to put their own lives on the line instead of opposition security.
[00:31:29]  I would also like to apologize.
[00:31:32]  I want to apologize to everyone.
[00:31:33]  I messed up.
[00:31:35]  What I did was really bad.
[00:31:36]  I'm so sorry.
[00:31:37]  Wow.
[00:31:38]  He just folded really quick.
[00:31:39]  No, no, he's setting up a classic misdirection here, Rob.
[00:31:43]  Oh, I paused too early.
[00:31:44]  My bad.
[00:31:46]  I didn't get more of them.
[00:31:47]  Oh.
[00:31:52]  Well, you know what?
[00:31:52]  Pause it for a second.
[00:31:54]  Let me tell you why you didn't get more of them, okay?
[00:31:56]  You attacked this job with a hammer.
[00:32:01]  Here's the thing about a hammer.
[00:32:03]  It's not really a weapon of mass destruction.
[00:32:06]  Like, you're probably not going to take out the whole government with a hammer.
[00:32:11]  Men with guns are going to come and you're going to be like, fuck.
[00:32:14]  This hammer is really only good for one noggin clobbering.
[00:32:18]  You know what I mean?
[00:32:20]  I have a tough time even believing this is real, Rob.
[00:32:23]  So just to recap, it's incredibly odd that someone could break into Nancy Pelosi's house this easily.
[00:32:30]  Yes.
[00:32:30]  And then it's odd that the cops wouldn't.
[00:32:32]  Well, I guess almost the cops were surprised that someone was able to break in.
[00:32:35]  So they show up pretty casually just to be like, what the hell is going on?
[00:32:39]  It's funny that the Pelosi's, for some reason, were trying to cover this up.
[00:32:42]  They didn't want this stuff getting out.
[00:32:44]  And so the internet was able to go, hey, that was clearly a gay hooker incident.
[00:32:48]  But now this comes out and you get evidence both ways where it just leaves you being like, I don't know what the fuck is going on.
[00:32:55]  It is.
[00:32:55]  And the point you made before, too, about your parents, like, if, okay, in my house, if you shattered any one of the glass windows, that will immediately trigger the glass break alarm system.
[00:33:11]  The alarm will go off.
[00:33:12]  All I have to do is not answer my phone, and there will be cops there within five minutes.
[00:33:18]  Like, that's just, you know, which is pretty standard.
[00:33:20]  Like, this isn't like I have this, like, amazing security thing.
[00:33:24]  It's like, yeah, this is what having an alarm system is.
[00:33:27]  And they'll be there, and I wouldn't have to then call them and have this weird conversation.
[00:33:33]  There's also, like, I don't know, guns.
[00:33:38]  I mean, I don't have any guns in my house.
[00:33:43]  But, like, you know what I mean?
[00:33:44]  Like, if you were to do that, it would be like just so quick.
[00:33:47]  So it seems almost like what maybe is possible to me is that Paul Pelosi was already really fucked up.
[00:33:58]  Like, he was just having a nutshell.
[00:34:00]  Just enjoying a night without Nancy.
[00:34:02]  Yeah, imagine you're married to Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi's out of town.
[00:34:09]  You're just having like a thank God.
[00:34:11]  Like, he's just in a bath of Xanax right now.
[00:34:15]  And just sitting there with a glass of red in the bathtub, like, oh, a night away from all of this.
[00:34:23]  He's fucked up out of his mind.
[00:34:25]  This maniac actually is able to get up and break into his house.
[00:34:29]  And then he has some weird standoff with him where he can't even like.
[00:34:32]  So maybe it wasn't like a gay date or anything like that.
[00:34:35]  Because he could have just been in that outfit.
[00:34:37]  You know what I mean?
[00:34:38]  Just chilling.
[00:34:39]  That seems like a reasonable 80-year-old.
[00:34:41]  It's bedtime.
[00:34:43]  Like, I don't know.
[00:34:45]  I don't know what to think about it.
[00:34:46]  It is bizarre that it would be that easy to get into Nancy Pelosi's house.
[00:34:52]  I am not advocating anyone try to get into Nancy Pelosi's house.
[00:34:56]  Let's be real clear.

=== HR Platform Bambi Ad (02:10) ===

[00:34:57]  But it is kind of bizarre that it would be that easy to get in.
[00:35:02]  Weird story.
[00:35:04]  We're going to have to wait for more to come out.
[00:35:06]  Yeah.
[00:35:07]  But it was all Trump's fault anyway.
[00:35:11]  Yeah.
[00:35:12]  No, probably.
[00:35:14]  He, wouldn't it have been great if the cop video came in and that Trump was just there in the background?
[00:35:20]  And he was like, what's up, dog?
[00:35:22]  We're having an orgy.
[00:35:23]  Okay, it's just a bunch of guys putting our wieners into each other's butts, okay?
[00:35:28]  I clearly have the biggest of all of ours, but we're just having a nice time here.
[00:35:33]  Let me tell you, if I was having a gay orgy, I'd have a much better gay orgy than this, all right?
[00:35:37]  They put out the worst snacks at their RGs.
[00:35:40]  Those Pelosi's, they invite you over.
[00:35:42]  They got nothing, okay?
[00:35:44]  You come tomorrow, Largo, the spread, okay?
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=== Racial Narrative Problem (15:44) ===

[00:37:07]  That's B-A-M-B-E-E dot com slash P-O-T-P.
[00:37:12]  Bambi.com/slash P-O-T-P.
[00:37:14]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:37:16]  All right, so we had one other horrible video if you wanted to get into that.
[00:37:20]  Well, okay, so let's from one uplifting story to another.
[00:37:27]  So this is a real interesting one, though.
[00:37:29]  There is the big story in the country right now that this Tyree Nichols, this guy was the latest guy to get murdered by cops.
[00:37:42]  And it's, I mean, it's pretty goddamn brutal.
[00:37:47]  There's just a lot to the story that I think is very interesting and obviously horrific, but there's a lot of just like things about this that kind of shine a light on what's going on with our politics today.
[00:38:01]  You said there's video of the attack.
[00:38:05]  I guess we could play a little bit of this.
[00:38:07]  Huh?
[00:38:08]  No?
[00:38:09]  Well, we're doing it, sir.
[00:38:10]  That's the wrong.
[00:38:11]  Hold on.
[00:38:13]  Sorry, that's Paul Pelosi again.
[00:38:15]  Sorry.
[00:38:16]  I'm sorry.
[00:38:17]  I was excited to show.
[00:38:18]  Oh, no, here it is.
[00:38:20]  Yeah.
[00:38:21]  So there's basically video that they got here from some street cam.
[00:38:25]  It's like they're taking turns fucking just like beating this dude as they continue to turn him around.
[00:38:31]  There are five, four or five of these cops there, and they're just instead of just taking them down and like subduing him as they clearly easily could do.
[00:38:43]  They're spinning him around, taking turns, rocking him in the head full force.
[00:38:48]  They end up, we can turn this off.
[00:38:49]  They end up beating this dude to death.
[00:38:53]  Evidently, he ran from them.
[00:38:58]  But wait, you got to add, before, from what I understand, before he ran from them, they had tased him.
[00:39:05]  Yes.
[00:39:05]  So what ends up happening, and this is a problem, is like sometimes they go away, hey, I'm just trying to get home.
[00:39:11]  And they're not resisting, but they're not making the cops' job easy.
[00:39:15]  Where they keep going, the I can't breathe.
[00:39:18]  They're squirming and pretending, hey, you're hurting me.
[00:39:20]  And they're not accepting the fact this is over.
[00:39:24]  Now, what gets bad then is that the cops go, hey, this guy's giving me a little bit of resistance, and they escalate.
[00:39:30]  And then if you're the person who thinks I should just be letting, let go right now, and then you get tased, or you have a cop punching that, or whatever it is that they do to escalate it, and then you take off.
[00:39:42]  The problem is people start thinking, oh, I'm about to get murdered by these cops.
[00:39:46]  And then that makes the situation worse because you can legitimately be in fear from your life from the city.
[00:39:51]  Look, if you get like getting tased or something like that, getting punched, even like any of these things, having men with guns come up and grab you can trigger like an animalistic response where you're like, I'm trying to get this.
[00:40:06]  So it should be on the cops to be like, we're trained because we engage in these protocols that we have to recognize the fact that people might foolishly.
[00:40:14]  And look, regardless of all of this stuff, I mean, look, I agree.
[00:40:18]  And this is essentially why you want there to be, you want the cops to have as few interactions as possible because these things can escalate.
[00:40:28]  However, all of that aside, the job, there's just no defense of cops in a situation like this because no matter what, even if they're resisting, even if they run, even if they're a violent criminal, listen, even if this guy just murdered someone and you saw that, the job is that once you catch the guy, you arrest him and then he goes to a trial and then lawyers and judges and a jury figure out what's going on.
[00:40:57]  You don't spin him around like it's, you know, skip to my loo and all take turns punching him in the head until you beat him to death.
[00:41:07]  That's just like, that's not an option.
[00:41:09]  So this is, it's horrific.
[00:41:11]  It's, I would say, it's up there.
[00:41:13]  And I've watched a lot because I, you know, I've, I follow like freethoughtproject.com.
[00:41:18]  And I used to in the day follow, what was it, cop block or whatever there are these sites.
[00:41:23]  Cop watch.
[00:41:24]  I'm sorry.
[00:41:25]  That was my own thought.
[00:41:28]  But I followed these sets.
[00:41:29]  I've seen a million videos.
[00:41:30]  I say this is up there with one of the more like horrific.
[00:41:34]  If Dylan Shaver is a 10, this was like a nine of like, you know, the worst videos of police abuse that I've seen.
[00:41:45]  Okay, so that's a while that in the pre-video days, we never would have known.
[00:41:50]  Yeah.
[00:41:50]  Like think about how much shit they for sure have gotten away with over the years.
[00:41:54]  Whoever filmed Rodney King had like a rotator cuff issue from holding the video camera on his shoulder that whole time.
[00:42:02]  Right.
[00:42:02]  It was the first video camera they had ever gotten.
[00:42:06]  Shit.
[00:42:07]  Oh man, there's a good thing.
[00:42:09]  I got 13 minutes of video left on this bitch.
[00:42:11]  He probably had a lot of practice with one of those old boom boxes and being on subways.
[00:42:16]  Well, Rodney King wasn't holding the video camera, you understand?
[00:42:21]  Okay, so that's hard.
[00:42:22]  But so there's a lot of interesting things here.
[00:42:25]  The response to it, of course, from like the corporate press, because they only have one angle, is that it's like, if the cops kill a black dude, well, what does that mean?
[00:42:36]  It means racism.
[00:42:38]  But what you may have noticed from this video, there's a little bit of a problem with that narrative.
[00:42:43]  Blackface cops.
[00:42:47]  Can you believe that?
[00:42:48]  Why do they swear blackface and killing black people?
[00:42:52]  As if murder wasn't enough.
[00:42:54]  They have to add insult to injury.
[00:42:57]  So everyone involved here is black.
[00:42:59]  The chief of police in Memphis, where this was, is black.
[00:43:03]  It's just there's no, there's no race issue to be seen here, which is true in a lot of these killings where they jump to kind of like the racial issue, even though there's really no, like, look, even with George Floyd, when he got killed, and if you watch that whole like police cam video, it's really disturbing.
[00:43:25]  And he's a du and he's like drugged out and he's having a like a panic attack and he's freaking out.
[00:43:32]  And the cops are just horrible.
[00:43:34]  They escalate the situation the whole time.
[00:43:36]  They make it much worse than it had to be.
[00:43:38]  No one attempts to even de-escalate it.
[00:43:40]  They get him out.
[00:43:41]  He's already cuffed and the guy has his knee on his neck forever.
[00:43:44]  And okay, the guy who has his knee on his neck is a white dude.
[00:43:47]  But there was also like a black dude and an Asian dude there.
[00:43:49]  It's not as if like at any point during that whole thing he like starts calling him an N-word or something like that.
[00:43:54]  There was never anything that was like, oh, he's doing this for racial reasons.
[00:43:58]  It was just like cops fucking up a person who they shouldn't be.
[00:44:02]  But that got made into a racial thing.
[00:44:04]  But this, there's like, it's all black dudes and he's the black dude.
[00:44:08]  And so the corporate press, it's like the only, you know, like the only thing in their toolkit that they have is racism.
[00:44:20]  So they're like, well, we're going to call it racism because that's all we got.
[00:44:24]  And so this has been interesting.
[00:44:25]  What is it?
[00:44:25]  Is there a problem going on, Rob, or something?
[00:44:28]  I'm sorry.
[00:44:29]  Oh.
[00:44:31]  That sounded nice.
[00:44:32]  All right.
[00:44:32]  So there's been some fun responses to this from the corporate press.
[00:44:38]  Let me see if I got a couple of the pictures here.
[00:44:41]  So Van Jones, you know, from CNN.
[00:44:48]  He, yeah, he's great.
[00:44:49]  I've met Van Jones before.
[00:44:52]  Yeah, I did.
[00:44:53]  Back when I was doing SE Cup show, I was on a panel with him.
[00:44:56]  And we talked for a while.
[00:44:57]  We actually ended up agreeing a bunch about how much we both hated Dick Cheney on the panel.
[00:45:04]  But he's, so he wrote this article today, and the title is, The Police Who Killed Tyree Nichols were black, but they might still have been driven by racism.
[00:45:17]  Their souls were white.
[00:45:21]  Jameel Hill, who is a contributor for The Atlantic, wrote, I need so many people to understand this regarding Tyree Nichols.
[00:45:32]  Several of the police officers who murdered Freddie Gray were black.
[00:45:37]  The entire system of policing is based on white supremacist violence.
[00:45:42]  We see people under the boot of oppression carryots water all the time.
[00:45:48]  So this is, look, I don't know.
[00:45:50]  This is, they'll actually sit here and say that those cops, those cops beating this man to death, they're actually under the boot of oppression, but they're just doing the bidding of white supremacy.
[00:46:05]  Because that's, it's always got to be the answer that like it's somehow, you know, and it's just, look, it's the thing about it that you notice, right, at least to me, this is how I look at it, is you go, why is it that even in an example like this, they're so desperate to make sure that the narrative is still somehow about racism.
[00:46:30]  And I think the obvious answer is that if you always make it about racism, then you're still pitting the population against each other.
[00:46:42]  You're still saying the real issue here is white people versus black people.
[00:46:46]  This is whiteness, white supremacy, and that black people are the victims.
[00:46:51]  Even those cops are the victims, you know?
[00:46:53]  And you can kind of pit everyone against each other.
[00:46:55]  But if you don't do that, then when you look at it, you just kind of plainly see what it is, which is actually that this video kind of destroys the racialist narrative.
[00:47:06]  That really it has nothing to do with what race the cops are or what race the victim is.
[00:47:11]  What it has to do with is the power imbalance.
[00:47:14]  Like, that's the obvious thing.
[00:47:15]  It's like, why should any of these people have the power to do this to somebody else?
[00:47:20]  And it just makes it very clear that it's like, oh, no, it's actually a police versus citizen issue.
[00:47:25]  It has nothing to do with like a racial issue.
[00:47:27]  It's a government versus people issue.
[00:47:30]  And they can't let that be the narrative.
[00:47:32]  So they have to continue to make it something that divides all of us.
[00:47:36]  And even when it's as goofy as this, where it can't possibly be justified.
[00:47:41]  Like, how could you possibly justify?
[00:47:43]  You're bending yourself in pretzels, you know?
[00:47:50]  So that's that's one thing that's very interesting to see about how they handle this.
[00:47:54]  The other thing I got to say is that, so there's been some like protests, I guess.
[00:47:59]  I don't know.
[00:47:59]  Did they have any here in maybe in Baltimore they had some, but there was a big one in the- It's hard to tell in Baltimore in Baltimore.
[00:48:08]  You're like, they're either protesting or it's Friday.
[00:48:12]  I don't know.
[00:48:13]  They burned down.
[00:48:14]  Oh, those are already burned.
[00:48:17]  The other thing I would just mention is that, okay, so they've had some protests, but the protests have been much tamer and calmer, at least so far, than anything after George Floyd.
[00:48:31]  And, right.
[00:48:33]  You know, well, that's part of it, right?
[00:48:35]  So there's, well, look, there's pretty much no question this is a far more brutal video than George Floyd getting killed.
[00:48:43]  Like, I think George Floyd was horrible.
[00:48:45]  I think that dude Chelvin deserved to get convicted of murder.
[00:48:49]  I mean, you sit there with your knee on a dude's neck while he's begging for his mother and can't breathe and then goes silent.
[00:48:55]  And he sat there for like another two minutes after he went silent.
[00:48:58]  He's already in cuffs on the ground.
[00:49:00]  I think I have no problem with that guy getting convicted of murder.
[00:49:03]  But this video is way worse.
[00:49:05]  I mean, it's way worse to be spinning a dude around in circles, beating the shit out of him on the ground.
[00:49:11]  There's more of the video we didn't show you, if you guys haven't seen, beat the shit out of him, pepper spray him a whole bunch of times.
[00:49:16]  And they just like beat this dude to death.
[00:49:19]  Like, you know, you put your knee on a guy's neck and sit on it, probably most of the time he's not going to die.
[00:49:25]  I think there were probably other complications with George Floyd, too.
[00:49:28]  Like, he was COVID positive at the time and was probably having trouble.
[00:49:31]  No, that is true.
[00:49:32]  He was, no, he really was, I believe.
[00:49:35]  And they didn't blame COVID?
[00:49:36]  He was COVID positive.
[00:49:38]  He was...
[00:49:38]  No, he was.
[00:49:39]  He had COVID.
[00:49:40]  He was on drugs.
[00:49:42]  I'm saying I think there were other issues with his.
[00:49:43]  So it was clearly the COVID.
[00:49:45]  That's what I'm hearing.
[00:49:46]  I mean, after all that information from the CDC and how kind of COVID is.
[00:49:50]  No, but I'm just making the point that it was like there were several factors plus the knee on his neck.
[00:49:54]  Now, the knee on his neck is still, I don't care.
[00:49:56]  I'm fine with that guy being convicted.
[00:49:58]  But this was like beating a man, like as also crying for his mom, like all of the same shit, just beating him.
[00:50:07]  Huh?
[00:50:11]  Who was a skateboarder?
[00:50:13]  Oh, this guy was.
[00:50:14]  Okay.
[00:50:14]  Well, I'm just saying, there's no reason why this video, this video is much more horrific, but why doesn't it lead to the same type of riots and violence?
[00:50:23]  And one of you guys said, well, it's not a presidential election year.
[00:50:26]  I think that might have something to do with it.
[00:50:29]  I think also the fact that it's not coming off of three and a half months of lockdowns might also have something to do with it.
[00:50:36]  Like, there's a lot of factors, but it does kind of let you know that the whole summer 2020 riots, there was a lot more to it than, oh, there was just a fucked up video here, right?
[00:50:48]  Because you see this right now, and I don't think any of us think, I could be wrong, but I don't think it's going to lead to like months-long riots like that.
[00:50:54]  So you realize it's like, and then the other thing is that, you know, the rioters seem, at least in 2020, seem to be somewhat organized.
[00:51:06]  And there seemed to be somewhat of like, you know, even Kamala Harris was raising money to bail out people who had been arrested in these things.
[00:51:14]  And like, Yeah, like it just seems like there's not going to be any effort to do that right now because it's not politically, you know, helpful for them.
[00:51:24]  So, anyway, I just think that's another interesting little angle about all of it.
[00:51:28]  Anything else on any of this stuff, Rob?
[00:51:31]  I got nothing.
[00:51:32]  All right, you covered it.
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[00:52:16]  Want to take some questions?
[00:52:17]  Yeah, let's do it.
[00:52:18]  Let me just have questions.
[00:52:20]  Rob's going to come out and ask you.
[00:52:23]  And let's have some fun.
[00:52:25]  All right, you.
[00:52:26]  So it's been said that if Robbie and Dave hadn't existed, it'd be important to invent them.
[00:52:34]  I've never heard that said.
[00:52:35]  I've been hearing it.
[00:52:36]  It's been said all around town.
[00:52:38]  So you and I had this mutual Twitter spat that you haven't really been involved in, but I'm Hooper Sweet Art on Twitter.
[00:52:48]  And what's your Twitter name?
[00:52:50]  Hooper Sweet Art.
[00:52:51]  All right.

=== Governor Family Complications (07:59) ===

[00:52:52]  There's this supposed governor of Arizona that has been calling you out constantly on some.
[00:53:00]  Can I say shit?
[00:53:01]  I'll say I've said shit.
[00:53:02]  So it's on some shit.
[00:53:03]  I'm still freaked.
[00:53:05]  I don't agree with.
[00:53:06]  You're the governor of Arizona.
[00:53:08]  Governor William Pones Jr. is his name.
[00:53:10]  Okay.
[00:53:11]  And he has been wanting you and I specifically to he was the question.
[00:53:21]  Hold on, no, no.
[00:53:22]  That's why you hold on to the mic.
[00:53:24]  Yes, hold on.
[00:53:25]  I just, no, no, no.
[00:53:26]  It's fine.
[00:53:26]  I just need some quick, some quicker ones.
[00:53:29]  Hold on, hold on.
[00:53:30]  So there's a guy who identifies as a governor.
[00:53:34]  Like, this is not an actual governor of a state.
[00:53:36]  He's a massive goober.
[00:53:38]  But he's the co-chairman of the Presidential Exploratory Committee with Jesse Ventura.
[00:53:44]  He's like homies with Judge Joe Brown.
[00:53:46]  And he called you and I out that we should wrestle him because he thinks that you're a Zionist.
[00:53:57]  Oh, yes, it's just.
[00:53:58]  I did.
[00:53:58]  I responded to one tweet he sent me when he called me a Zionist.
[00:54:01]  I found out.
[00:54:02]  And I went, you got my number, pal.
[00:54:04]  Or something like that.
[00:54:04]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:06]  I found out why.
[00:54:07]  And it's because he voted for you and you didn't win.
[00:54:11]  I've never run for anything.
[00:54:12]  I know.
[00:54:13]  Yeah.
[00:54:14]  What did he vote for me on?
[00:54:15]  President of Legion of Skanks?
[00:54:17]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:54:22]  The only thing there was ever that you could have voted for me on.
[00:54:27]  That sounds like a three-year-old reporting on the activity of other retards.
[00:54:33]  All right, what other questions we got?
[00:54:35]  All right, right over here.
[00:54:36]  Let's do it.
[00:54:36]  Yeah, I don't think I'm going to wrestle the governor.
[00:54:39]  First time long time.
[00:54:43]  Just real quick on the Paul Pelosi thing: how do you have a $10,000 fridge and then your house is protected by SimplySafe?
[00:54:49]  Doesn't make sense to me.
[00:54:50]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:54:52]  Although, I will tell you, it's really important to have a good fridge.
[00:54:56]  So I could see taking care of that first.
[00:54:59]  And then you're like, we'll figure out the security system.
[00:55:02]  They have the best ice cream.
[00:55:04]  You have mentioned running for president in the past.
[00:55:07]  I would support you 100%.
[00:55:09]  But for good reason, like the president, it's a roadblock, right?
[00:55:13]  So like, hopefully the president shouldn't have too much power.
[00:55:16]  Why wouldn't you try for something more like governor where I think you could win and then actually get some stuff done?
[00:55:23]  It'd have to actually work.
[00:55:24]  Yeah.
[00:55:25]  That's not what this is about.
[00:55:26]  Yeah, I would never run for any political office that I could actually win.
[00:55:37]  It seems like it was a terrible idea.
[00:55:40]  I'm just having a very nice time in my life right now.
[00:55:44]  I don't want to, but the truth of the answer to it is really that, even though I say it kind of in jest, like I don't like, I'm trying to like, you know, I like, I'm a comedian.
[00:55:54]  I like to make people laugh and entertain people.
[00:55:56]  I really like to talk about these ideas and I like to make people think about them.
[00:55:59]  But that's what I'm here to do.
[00:56:01]  I'm here to like spread ideas and that.
[00:56:03]  And that's my mission.
[00:56:05]  It's not to like, I'm not interested in wielding political power over people.
[00:56:11]  I want to talk about the things that I think are really interesting and I want to like be a really good husband and father to my kids and my wife.
[00:56:18]  That's it.
[00:56:19]  Yeah, that's all, but that's all I want to do.
[00:56:21]  And so I'm not, you know, I remember was Tho Bishop, who I really love.
[00:56:27]  He's a good dude, but he was like, let me tell you something.
[00:56:29]  What Dave should do is move to New Hampshire and run for Senate because he could actually win that and then he could be a senator from New Hampshire.
[00:56:37]  And I'm like, dude, so Tho, you have me moving my family and then instead of coming out and telling jokes and having fun and spending so much time with my family, I'm like, we're going to live in Washington and I'm going to just be in the Senate every day going like, can I have to read this 3,000 page bill?
[00:56:55]  Like, I just, like, do you hate me?
[00:56:57]  No one.
[00:56:57]  Why would you want me to do this?
[00:57:00]  That is true.
[00:57:00]  I don't have to read it.
[00:57:01]  But you know what I mean?
[00:57:02]  Like, that's not, that's not a good thing.
[00:57:03]  I'll do so much blow with Matt Gates.
[00:57:05]  Let's do that, Dave.
[00:57:09]  Shit.
[00:57:09]  I mean, I'll be honest, Rob.
[00:57:11]  He's in the house.
[00:57:12]  So we might have to do it.
[00:57:14]  But I should read.
[00:57:16]  But I would, like, I'm sure there's someone who's like the guy to do that role.
[00:57:21]  That's not who I am.
[00:57:22]  That's not what I'm here to do.
[00:57:24]  All right.
[00:57:25]  Next question.
[00:57:26]  Hi, Dave.
[00:57:27]  Hello.
[00:57:29]  Simple question, but it's a little bit of a deeper question.
[00:57:32]  Where do you draw your sense of morals from?
[00:57:37]  The first show that I listened to was your show where you talked about your daughter being born.
[00:57:41]  And I'm a mom and a dola.
[00:57:43]  And I listened to that and got really teary-eyed because birth and babies are so beautiful.
[00:57:48]  And I know we've heard you talk about that it's wrong to tear babies apart in the womb.
[00:57:52]  So I'm just, and that you're kind of transitioning to believing there is a God versus atheism.
[00:57:57]  So where do you draw your morals from?
[00:58:00]  We all know that it's wrong to do what we just saw up there.
[00:58:03]  Right.
[00:58:05]  Yeah.
[00:58:05]  Yeah, no, like, I mean, that's a really interesting question.
[00:58:08]  And I don't, like, okay, so I certainly think that we all, like, I don't know.
[00:58:15]  I've told the story before on the podcast about like really when I, what changed with me, like, believing in God, whereas I used to be an atheist.
[00:58:24]  And I, um, and it was when my daughter was born, my first was born.
[00:58:29]  And basically the story, you know, it's kind of hard to tell the whole thing in the live podcast after a comedy show.
[00:58:37]  But basically, when my wife had a very tough delivery with my daughter, and I was really like, I was really so excited.
[00:58:47]  My wife's like the best person.
[00:58:48]  I was so excited that we were going to, like, we had gotten married and we were starting a family.
[00:58:53]  And I was just like, you know, like when for people here who are parents, like when you have your first, you're kind of like waiting for it the whole time.
[00:58:59]  And then you get there and it's finally like the day and you're going to have it.
[00:59:03]  And it was even before a lot of the complications she had in her pregnancy, it was just when she was getting her epidural.
[00:59:11]  And the guy made me leave the room because that was like his thing, the anesthesiologist, you can't be there.
[00:59:16]  Because it's very, like, if you, when they give, you know, you an epidural, if you, like, flinch one little bit, you can end up like paralyzed and stuff.
[00:59:24]  It's like a very kind of dangerous thing.
[00:59:26]  And he was like, I like the father to leave, and I just will do this.
[00:59:31]  And anyway.
[00:59:33]  I was out in the hallway, and I was, I started, for the first time, it started dawning on me that like this could go bad.
[00:59:43]  Like that I could, I'm like so excited for this family I'm about to start and that I could like walk out of here.
[00:59:48]  Like I could lose my wife.
[00:59:49]  I could lose my daughter and this something really bad could happen here.
[00:59:52]  And I realized it was completely out of my control.
[00:59:54]  Like I wasn't even there.
[00:59:55]  And as soon as I realized that, I immediately started like talking to God.
[01:00:01]  And I was an atheist at the time, but I still just started talking to God.
[01:00:05]  And I immediately started like negotiating with God.
[01:00:09]  Like I wasn't just talking with him.
[01:00:10]  I was like, if you please just make sure my wife and daughter are okay, I will do X, Y, and Z.
[01:00:16]  And all the X, Y, and Z things were just like being a better person.
[01:00:19]  Like, and then there was something later, and then there was a lot more complications later that day, and I talked to God several more times.
[01:00:26]  And I remember like just in the following days, thinking back about that, and I was like, that's kind of crazy that even as someone who didn't like really consider themselves a believer, that when shit really hit the fan, not only did I immediately talk to God, but I also immediately knew what he wanted from me.
[01:00:46]  Like I immediately knew, it was just like in me to know that he wanted me to be a better person.

=== Nuclear War Predictions (07:24) ===

[01:00:52]  And that I, you know, so look, I'm not saying this is like a perfect logical argument or anything like that, but it was just something that I could never shake.
[01:01:00]  And I've just never been the same person since then.
[01:01:04]  So where exactly, before I really thought of myself as someone who believed in God, I probably would have said, well, I don't know.
[01:01:11]  There's just like a common sense argument that obviously it's wrong to just kill someone like this.
[01:01:15]  Or it's wrong to like murder a child.
[01:01:18]  It's wrong to do these things.
[01:01:21]  As I've gotten older and had kids and stuff, I think that a lot of even like atheists who believe that if they really scratch the surface, there almost is this belief in a God.
[01:01:35]  There is this belief in like there's a reason we're here, there's a purpose behind it, and we're supposed to do right and not wrong.
[01:01:42]  I think that's really where morality is drawn from.
[01:01:46]  And like, I'm sorry I can't give a longer answer than that.
[01:01:49]  But that's kind of how I feel.
[01:01:55]  Thank you for the question.
[01:01:56]  That's awesome.
[01:01:56]  You're a doula.
[01:01:58]  That's very cool.
[01:01:59]  Yeah, Dave, I'm a big sports fan, but I just wanted to know: do you think that the American sports industry is going to be able to recover from how they reacted to COVID with a lot of these athletes?
[01:02:12]  That's a great question.
[01:02:13]  That is an interesting question.
[01:02:14]  You know, can American sports recover?
[01:02:17]  You know, we got a lot of black people in this country, and they are, man, they are athletic.
[01:02:24]  You know, I think, like, I think probably they will, at least to some degree.
[01:02:33]  I think that one of the things that I realized during COVID was how important sports were to a lot of Americans.
[01:02:41]  One of the things that I realized during the lockdowns and stuff like that was that a lot of things that we may all take as oh, the silly little distractions that Americans like and they don't care about things that really matter.
[01:02:56]  They just care about like the latest game or whatever.
[01:02:58]  I think a lot of that stuff's actually really important.
[01:03:01]  That people need that stuff.
[01:03:02]  They need like something.
[01:03:04]  And, you know, one of the things that like the functions that sports serve for our kind of modern secular society is that at least that's something where there's a real feeling of like tribal togetherness and like identity and there's some like meaning and purpose.
[01:03:24]  Like we all get out there and you're like, okay, we root for these guys and not these guys and someone will have victory over the other ones.
[01:03:32]  It's an expression in a lot of ways of like naked masculinity.
[01:03:38]  And we don't have a lot of things like that in our society anymore.
[01:03:41]  So I don't think that's going anywhere.
[01:03:45]  I'd like to see that kind of expressed in maybe like more productive, healthier ways.
[01:03:49]  But I think that that's, I'd rather have it than lose it.
[01:03:53]  And I don't think any of that's going anywhere.
[01:03:55]  As long as LeBron's doing 360 dunks and shit, everyone's going to keep watching.
[01:04:00]  I swear to God, this guy walking back, I thought that was Rob Bernstein for a second walking right back.
[01:04:04]  I was like, Rob, here he is.
[01:04:05]  He's back.
[01:04:07]  All right.
[01:04:07]  All right.
[01:04:08]  Before the next question, I want to do a quick plug, firstly, for Fifth Company Brewing for hosting us tonight.
[01:04:12]  Delicious Beers.
[01:04:16]  The beer is excellent.
[01:04:18]  And then we also got the Rage Against the War Machine anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. on February 19th.
[01:04:28]  I believe Scott Horden and some other Meekhawks will be there.
[01:04:31]  So if you're available, check it out.
[01:04:33]  Next question.
[01:04:34]  Bring more than words.
[01:04:35]  What was that?
[01:04:36]  Bring more than your words.
[01:04:37]  Oh, I thought I was going to have to fight that guy.
[01:04:39]  That sounded...
[01:04:40]  You said, bring more than your words.
[01:04:42]  We're going to need a hammer.
[01:04:46]  Okay, just a very quick comment and then a quick question.
[01:04:50]  Sure.
[01:04:50]  Comment is, we need to roll back the state.
[01:04:53]  Agreed.
[01:04:54]  I'm not the first person.
[01:04:55]  I'm never the first person on YouTube to have that in the comments.
[01:04:59]  But the question is, not that you have any special insight, but what do you place the odds of nuclear war at this stage?
[01:05:08]  Well, I mean, just to I think the odds of nuclear war are relatively low.
[01:05:17]  I don't think we're going to go to a nuclear war, right?
[01:05:20]  I think the odds are higher than they've ever been in my life.
[01:05:24]  So, you know, that's the first one, if that's comforting at all.
[01:05:29]  The second one is not.
[01:05:32]  But so I think, like, I don't know exactly what the odds are, right?
[01:05:36]  There's probably no perfect way to predict them.
[01:05:38]  But I think that there's, if, let's just say, hypothetically, they were, it was a one in, like, let's say five years ago, it was a one in 500,000 chance that we go to nuclear Armageddon.
[01:05:53]  I think it's probably, it went from that to being a one in 50,000.
[01:05:58]  You know, it's still pretty low, but it's like, it's discouraging that it's like 10 times higher than it was.
[01:06:05]  Is that right?
[01:06:06]  10 times, 100,000?
[01:06:07]  Whatever.
[01:06:08]  So it's getting higher and higher.
[01:06:11]  And with each one of these kind of escalations, you know, you just see with Germany announcing that they're sending in new weaponry and with America announcing that they're training new people.
[01:06:21]  Like all these things make it higher and higher.
[01:06:24]  I mean, look, we saw that incident a few months back where there were those rockets that went off in Poland and immediately Zelensky says these were Russians.
[01:06:33]  These were Russian rockets.
[01:06:34]  And then we find out they were actually his rockets, right?
[01:06:37]  But you had, in those couple days, you had American politicians, you know, saying we should invoke Article 5.
[01:06:44]  We should be going, you know, we should have NATO start moving toward war with Russia.
[01:06:49]  Then we figured out, we determined that those were Ukrainian rockets, and so all that talk goes away.
[01:06:54]  But like, what if they weren't?
[01:06:56]  What if Russia even accidentally, you know, like hit Poland with some rockets, which is not inconceivable.
[01:07:02]  I don't know.
[01:07:02]  Where does that go?
[01:07:03]  So there's just a lot of dangers with this situation.
[01:07:07]  And anyone, like, if there were any type of like cooler head sanity in all of this, it would be like, okay, we are going to work to like de-escalate this situation.
[01:07:17]  And that is not what's happening.
[01:07:19]  It seems very clear.
[01:07:20]  And I'll say this, both from the Russian side and from the Western side.
[01:07:25]  Everybody seems to want to prolong this thing.
[01:07:28]  It seems like Russia, if you actually look at like how they've been logistically fighting this war, it seems like their strategy is to prolong this thing as well.
[01:07:37]  Like they believe that eventually the West will break and they won't be willing to like keep supporting Ukraine and then at that point they'll have their way with him.
[01:07:46]  But they haven't been coming in with like a shock and awe style, we're taking over the whole country.
[01:07:51]  Russia really could have done a lot more damage already and hasn't, which is like kind of interesting.
[01:07:56]  And I don't completely understand it.
[01:07:57]  But from the Western perspective, it seems clear that the goal is to bleed Russia dry.
[01:08:03]  And this is just so insane from all sides, that the goal is to prolong this thing, which then gives more and more opportunities for any one thing to trigger what could lead us into World War III or nuclear war.

=== Rand Paul Rogan Support (10:01) ===

[01:08:17]  So it's all just so fucking crazy from all sides.
[01:08:20]  And, you know, I still think the chances are not high.
[01:08:23]  I don't think we're all going to die in nuclear war.
[01:08:25]  I am building a bunker, but I think you'll be fine, is my point.
[01:08:32]  Rob, what do we got?
[01:08:33]  So, Dave, I know you talk about your kids a lot.
[01:08:36]  Are you ever worried when they start going on the internet that they're going to find out about Legion of Skanks and be like, what the fuck, Dad?
[01:08:44]  No.
[01:08:44]  No, my kids will never go on the internet.
[01:08:51]  You know, I'd be lying if I said that's not like something I'm a little bit concerned about.
[01:08:58]  It's like, yeah, I think that I want to.
[01:09:04]  I want to, I'm very good about like not, I mean, my kids are young, right?
[01:09:09]  So I can't even say I'm very good about it, but I'm not going to be one of those kids who's one of those parents who's just allowing their kids to like surf the internet like crazy for a very long time.
[01:09:19]  And I like to think that, like, I'm a very, very present father.
[01:09:24]  I'm very close with my kids.
[01:09:26]  And I think by the time they're ever of the age where they're going online and seeing this, I don't think it's that crazy to like explain to them that like, you know, daddy does like adult comedy and this is for adults.
[01:09:40]  And to kind of get it, like I think they kind of know me and kind of just know my not that they know how crazy shit is on Legion of Skanks, but I think by the time they get to that age, they'd know that like they get who I really am and why this is comedy and that it's not real.
[01:09:58]  But yeah, there is something about that that I'm, you know, there's some of the harsher stuff out there that I'm like, I could live with them not seeing that.
[01:10:05]  So like, I don't know.
[01:10:08]  Yeah.
[01:10:10]  Awesome.
[01:10:10]  Thank you, Robbie.
[01:10:11]  I saw you probably nine months ago or so in downtown D.C. You killed it then.
[01:10:15]  You killed it tonight.
[01:10:16]  So thank you for telling us that we killed D.C. You did great work.
[01:10:22]  You should keep them on the staff.
[01:10:24]  And Dave or Mr. President, I'm not sure what to talk or what to call you, but I'll give you one of two questions and you can ask or answer whichever one you think you'd rather answer.
[01:10:34]  First one is if on January 28th, 2023, there is someone you would be willing to be vice president for.
[01:10:41]  Who might it be?
[01:10:43]  And then the second question is, have you seen the four-star general that put out that we're going to go to war with China in 2025 thing over the last two days?
[01:10:53]  No, no.
[01:10:54]  Someone messaged me about that, but I did not actually see that.
[01:10:57]  So I don't know about, but please send that to me if you will.
[01:11:00]  I haven't taken a look, so I can't comment on the second one, but we'll see.
[01:11:04]  That's great.
[01:11:06]  Is there someone I'd be willing to be vice president with?
[01:11:10]  Well, like, be vice president or run as vice president, you know?
[01:11:15]  The problem.
[01:11:18]  Well, like, there's, look, the thing about it is, is that, yeah, look, all of these guys are great.
[01:11:25]  Like, okay, so, like, if Rand Paul was running for president and was doing, like, a great job.
[01:11:35]  Like, let's just say tomorrow Rand Paul kind of shed his Rand Paul-isms and was really Ron Paul.
[01:11:42]  Like, when Rand Paul's at his best, but when he's at his best, he's Ron Paul.
[01:11:46]  You know what I mean?
[01:11:47]  And that I'd support him.
[01:11:49]  If Thomas Massey ran for president, was putting together an amazing campaign, I'd support him.
[01:11:54]  If, like, there's a lot of people out there who I'd support, but if the question is, would I be their vice president?
[01:12:01]  Probably no one, because I don't think I'd help them.
[01:12:07]  Like, I don't think that would work.
[01:12:09]  It doesn't, like, what would I add as being someone's vice president other than an albatross around their neck that would be like, wait, what?
[01:12:18]  Your vice president's joking about like fucking, you know, like all the horrific shit I joke about?
[01:12:24]  Like, so it's kind of almost like wouldn't make sense because it would just be like, I'd probably help them more by just being the guy who went on Rogan's podcast and was like, you got to support Rand Paul because he's right about all this shit, right?
[01:12:40]  So it only makes sense for me to be the top of the ticket because if the reasoning is because no one out there is better at explaining this shit than I am.
[01:12:52]  But if there's someone out there who's better at explaining it, then I'd be thrilled to just fall in line and support them explaining it.
[01:12:59]  But I don't think it would make sense for me to jump on as like the VP.
[01:13:02]  Like the VP role is almost like the idea would be like, okay, well, you add something that the top of the ticket doesn't have that can support them.
[01:13:13]  That I don't do for anyone.
[01:13:15]  Like I just don't.
[01:13:16]  Like if Rand Paul, let's say, was running like Ron Paul and kicking up dust and looked like he could win the Republican nomination, wouldn't it be the worst move ever for him to pick me?
[01:13:27]  Like you'd be like, what the fuck are you doing?
[01:13:29]  Like, God, no.
[01:13:30]  Pick Massey or someone else.
[01:13:32]  Justin Amash, someone like that would make way more sense.
[01:13:35]  Spike Cohen.
[01:13:36]  Okay, someone.
[01:13:37]  But not me, because I would just fuck that all up.
[01:13:40]  So let me just be on the outside supporting them.
[01:13:43]  You know what?
[01:13:43]  Does that make sense?
[01:13:44]  So the only reason, even and more realistically, within the Libertarian Party, if it's not me, if someone else is running for president, I shouldn't be the VP for them because I would just kind of like hold them back.
[01:13:55]  And only I'm going to be able to really defend.
[01:13:59]  Like I could defend any of the shit I do.
[01:14:02]  If anyone's ever like, you made the most horrific joke ever, I can be like, yeah, that's the point.
[01:14:06]  It's a joke, you retard.
[01:14:08]  You know, but like I can do that.
[01:14:10]  But I can't ask someone else to go defend like my retarded jokes, you know?
[01:14:16]  So that's, yeah.
[01:14:17]  So no, no to the VP, and I will check out the general on China thing, which is terrifying.
[01:14:23]  Awesome.
[01:14:23]  Awesome.
[01:14:24]  Thank you very much.
[01:14:24]  And for anybody who doesn't know those names that you alluded to, check those names out too.
[01:14:28]  Hell yeah.
[01:14:29]  Absolutely.
[01:14:30]  All right.
[01:14:30]  How many more do you want to take?
[01:14:32]  Well, what do we got?
[01:14:32]  We got a heart out here or what?
[01:14:34]  It's 1152.
[01:14:37]  Let's take a couple more.
[01:14:38]  All right, who we got over here right here?
[01:14:40]  Hey, Dave.
[01:14:41]  So I just came through in New Hampshire, and the boys at the shell wanted me to formally ask you to do a show there where Robbie does his end-of-year special.
[01:14:48]  So they wanted to ask for you to go.
[01:14:50]  But my main question is, if you do run for president and Trump also runs, have you ever given any thought to what his nickname for you would be?
[01:15:02]  That's a good question.
[01:15:04]  That's a good one.
[01:15:09]  Wow.
[01:15:10]  Wow, that's really good.
[01:15:11]  I've never thought about that.
[01:15:14]  He'd be like, who am I running against?
[01:15:15]  Skinny Dave?
[01:15:18]  I don't know.
[01:15:19]  I don't know.
[01:15:20]  I have given no thought to that, but I would kind of be honored to get one.
[01:15:26]  And in terms of performing at the shell, yeah, I'd be down to do that.
[01:15:30]  I don't think we have any gigs in New Hampshire planned right now, but maybe we'll be back at Porkfest this year.
[01:15:35]  I'd love to be there.
[01:15:36]  So I'm down to come do New Hampshire gigs.
[01:15:39]  I love my New Hampshire people.
[01:15:43]  So I want to ask, next time you're on Rogan, could you just explain to the audience the significance of modern central banking and why it's more than just part of the problem?
[01:15:59]  Yeah.
[01:16:01]  Well, I'll tell you, it's like there's, so the last time I was on Rogan, a lot of times when I go on the podcast, I'll have things that like I really want to talk about.
[01:16:12]  And I'll kind of have them in my mind.
[01:16:14]  Like I'll be like, okay, I really want to talk about this and this and this.
[01:16:18]  And you don't always get to all of them because the way it is, like Joe's just such a like, like if you hang out with him, he's this unbelievable, like magnetic person.
[01:16:31]  And that's part of the reason why he's so like such a rock star because he's just kind of like, like he's, he's very authentic.
[01:16:39]  Like if you ever hang out with Joe Rogan, he is exactly what you'd think he would be.
[01:16:44]  Like he's that.
[01:16:45]  He's everything you've seen exactly like that.
[01:16:47]  And you kind of, like, he just does this thing in his show where it's so conversational.
[01:16:52]  And he just starts talking to you.
[01:16:54]  And you just go down all of these different avenues and you don't always get to the thing you wanted to talk about.
[01:16:59]  The last time I was on his show, the two things I really wanted to talk about were the war in Ukraine and inflation.
[01:17:08]  Those are like the things I went in with.
[01:17:09]  Like, this is what I really want to make sure I talk about.
[01:17:12]  And I got to the war in Ukraine.
[01:17:16]  But we really never got to the inflation stuff that I wanted to.
[01:17:20]  And it's just because, you know, like you'll say something, and then he asks you a question about that.
[01:17:24]  And you're like, okay, well, let me tell you about that question.
[01:17:26]  And then he goes on that thing.
[01:17:27]  And then he starts talking about it.
[01:17:28]  And he's like, that kind of reminds me of when a bear fights a salmon.
[01:17:31]  And you're like, okay.
[01:17:32]  Wow, that is, that's fucking really interesting, Joe.
[01:17:36]  Like, wow, I never thought about that.
[01:17:38]  And then you're just sitting there, like, almost in awe of him.
[01:17:40]  And he's like, the bear will just draw you into the salmon and fucking rip it apart.
[01:17:43]  And you're like, really?
[01:17:44]  Like, word?
[01:17:45]  That's how it happens?
[01:17:46]  And like, and then, you know, and then you're just kind of like, it's just like, it's hard to like kind of like, but that, so yes, I would love to, you know, like really talk about that stuff with him.
[01:17:58]  I probably, I'm sure, I don't know.
[01:18:00]  I've been on there a lot of times.
[01:18:02]  I'm sure I've talked about the Federal Reserve on Rogan before, but I don't know if I've ever probably given it like the correct, you know, attention that it deserves.
[01:18:11]  So maybe that'll be my focus next time is to do that.

=== Out of Control Authority (06:54) ===

[01:18:18]  All right.
[01:18:19]  Where are you, Robert?
[01:18:20]  Right here.
[01:18:22]  All right.
[01:18:23]  So this is going to be kind of a rewind to what we were talking about before with police brutality.
[01:18:29]  So it seems to me it's not necessarily a race issue as it is a socioeconomic issue.
[01:18:36]  So in terms of that, like we, we, the four of us live in Baltimore, we kind of see it all the time, right?
[01:18:43]  And it's a matter of where people are in terms of their economic status.
[01:18:50]  What in your, and this is going to be really broad, but like what in your opinion would fix that outside of kind of the basics of more police presence and things like that.
[01:19:00]  Before you answer that, I just want to say that guy held my hand the entire time.
[01:19:04]  And I think I'm in love.
[01:19:06]  He's got soft hands for a manly man.
[01:19:08]  That's a chisel jaw and some moisturized fingers.
[01:19:12]  Hell yeah.
[01:19:13]  Well, he held your hand like that microphone was a hammer, if you know what I mean.
[01:19:18]  It was like, you ain't swinging this shit on me, Robbie.
[01:19:24]  So, all right.
[01:19:25]  All right.
[01:19:26]  So I think that the police, I think the policing issue, and we could, got Tom, we could do another question or two after this, Rob.
[01:19:36]  I think the policing issue is a socioeconomic issue, like you said.
[01:19:40]  I think that's correct.
[01:19:41]  But I think it's a socioeconomic issue to the extent that people on the lower end of that hierarchy have less recourse.
[01:19:52]  And that's kind of known.
[01:19:55]  So if cops are in a wealthy neighborhood, they know that whoever they're messing with, they're messing with some kid.
[01:20:04]  He might have parents who are connected politically.
[01:20:06]  They probably have money for a lawyer.
[01:20:09]  They kind of know there might be ramifications for them.
[01:20:12]  But when they're in kind of like, you know, like the hood, they know they have free reign.
[01:20:17]  No one's doing shit here to them, you know?
[01:20:19]  And so there's that.
[01:20:20]  But to me, the core of the issue is a monopoly issue.
[01:20:26]  Like the core of the issue is that there is a monopoly by force that dominates security.
[01:20:34]  And that's the police.
[01:20:35]  You have no other fucking choice.
[01:20:38]  No one else is allowed to be the police because of what the laws dictate.
[01:20:42]  Like this is the police.
[01:20:43]  And monopoly, monopolies always end up giving you shitty service at a high cost.
[01:20:51]  That's just like an economic law.
[01:20:53]  And what this service happens to be is force.
[01:20:57]  This is the service of enforcing the law.
[01:21:00]  And so when you have the mix of a monopoly and a monopoly on force, you just get horrific outcomes.
[01:21:09]  Like this is human beings do not do well with authority and a lack of accountability.
[01:21:16]  It's the worst combinations for human beings.
[01:21:19]  Most of us would be made to be bad people if we were put into that situation.
[01:21:24]  And so that's kind of, look, even just authority without the monopoly, you see like bouncers at clubs and you're like, look at this prick.
[01:21:34]  Like he's probably not even that bad of a guy.
[01:21:35]  But as soon as he's out there, like, I decide who comes in and who doesn't, he starts turning into like an asshole.
[01:21:41]  But imagine that and he can do whatever he wants with no repercussions.
[01:21:45]  So that's kind of like the mix.
[01:21:47]  So what you need, like the ideal solution to that would be make it so it's not a monopoly.
[01:21:52]  Like make it so they actually had to compete.
[01:21:54]  They're providing security to people.
[01:21:57]  They have to compete for your business.
[01:21:59]  But short of that is like anything like, look, ending qualified immunity.
[01:22:04]  Make it so that they're actually held accountable if they do do stuff like this.
[01:22:08]  You know, that make it so that they don't have all of these bullshit laws that are excuses to go bring this type of violence to people who, you know, were in possession of a gun or of some drugs or something like that.
[01:22:21]  So that to me is like the heart of the issue.
[01:22:23]  The socioeconomic thing plays a big factor, but that's only because that's where they know they can get away with it.
[01:22:29]  You know, like it's, it's, that's, and, and the racial issue, I won't say is nothing, but is the least of all of these issues.
[01:22:38]  And it's, it's made out like that's the number one thing.
[01:22:41]  Whereas to me, you know, if like George Floyd was a white dude who acted exactly the same way, I really don't believe that the cops would have been like, you're cool, white guy, get out of here.
[01:22:53]  I think they probably would have done the exact same thing.
[01:22:55]  And, you know, you look at Daniel Shaver or videos like that.
[01:22:58]  There's no more horrific, you know, example of that.
[01:23:00]  So again, it's like an out-of-control authority thing more than anything else, in my opinion.
[01:23:08]  So what do we got, Robbie?
[01:23:12]  Oh, hey, I just got summoned for the third time for jury duty on Monday, and I don't feel like showing up.
[01:23:18]  Should I ghost them or what?
[01:23:22]  Yeah, I wouldn't.
[01:23:24]  I would not advise ghosting them.
[01:23:27]  I've done it before.
[01:23:29]  But I wouldn't advise it.
[01:23:32]  Just show up with your face.
[01:23:33]  They're not going to pick you.
[01:23:36]  From what I understand, and I'm listening, I'm no lawyer, so do not take any of my legal advice to the bank.
[01:23:44]  But from what I understand, if they don't, like, so you get, like, picked in the pool, and then if you don't actually get selected, you'd be fine if you ghosted them.
[01:23:55]  But if you get selected and ghost them, you could actually get in some fucking trouble.
[01:24:00]  So I'd say don't do that.
[01:24:03]  You know, respond, and then I don't know.
[01:24:06]  You know, if you really don't want to do it, you could like act like a crazy person or something, and they probably won't pick you.
[01:24:12]  But if I'm being completely honest, if you can, I think you should do it and fucking nullify that shit if that person is not guilty.
[01:24:22]  Like, it might be the case, and I'm not saying it will be, but it might be the case that someone's life is about to be majorly fucked up, and you yourself on your own can insist that no, their life won't be majorly fucked up.
[01:24:37]  Like, there's an opportunity if you're selected for jury duty that it might be something where it's like, oh, they need a fucking, you know, like a unanimous 12-person, you know, guilty verdict.
[01:24:49]  And even if it's some bullshit crime, you can just be like, nope, not guilty, and just not budge on that and go, I'm just saying not guilty and get that person off.
[01:24:57]  So that'd be my, like, if you're willing to do that, I understand people are busy and stuff, but if you're willing to do that, that's the best thing you could do.
[01:25:05]  Wear that shirt.
[01:25:06]  Wear this shirt right here.
[01:25:11]  Last question right in the middle.

=== Maryland Nullification Season (01:10) ===

[01:25:13]  The last question of the night.
[01:25:18]  Something you're going to try to offer?
[01:25:21]  It's an easy one, and it falls off the nullification.
[01:25:23]  It's nullification season, and will you tell everyone what I'm about to say, which is that Maryland has Defend the Guard HB0220 on February 15th.
[01:25:35]  There's a hearing, and I just tell everyone about Defend the Guard one more time.
[01:25:40]  Yeah, hell yeah.
[01:25:41]  Well, you just did.
[01:25:42]  And everyone listening hear about that now.
[01:25:44]  Yeah, Defend the Guard is like one of the most important movements in the country.
[01:25:50]  And that's great.
[01:25:51]  I didn't know they had a hearing.
[01:25:52]  I had heard that there was a hearing coming up.
[01:25:53]  I didn't know it was February 15th.
[01:25:55]  But absolutely, if you're in Maryland, do whatever you can to support that.
[01:25:59]  Hell yeah.
[01:26:00]  Love all those guys.
[01:26:01]  Badass anti-war combat vets.
[01:26:04]  That's the most important movement in the country.
[01:26:06]  So, hell yeah.
[01:26:09]  All right, sir.
[01:26:11]  Another one for another live podcast in the books.
[01:26:14]  Guys, thank you all so much for coming out tonight.
[01:26:16]  We appreciate it.
[01:26:17]  Have a good night.
[01:26:18]  I'll be out hanging out if you guys want to in a minute.
[01:26:21]  Thank you very much.
[01:26:22]  Have a good night.
[01:26:23]  Peace.