Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - Live From Chicago
Aired: 2024-03-21
Duration: 01:45:58


=== America's Next Enemy (13:50) ===

[00:00:00]  Fill her up!
[00:00:02]  You are listening to the gas human!
[00:00:08]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:10]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:00:12]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
[00:00:16]  If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
[00:00:21]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:00:26]  You're listening to the problem on the Gash Digital Network.
[00:00:30]  Here's your host, James Smith.
[00:00:34]  We're back.
[00:00:35]  Daniel Chicago.
[00:00:38]  Man, this is incredible, Rob.
[00:00:40]  This is, and I mean this, I'm not, I say this everywhere I go.
[00:00:44]  Most of the time, I'm just lying.
[00:00:46]  But this is genuinely one of my favorite clubs in the entire country.
[00:00:50]  I love Daniel Chicago.
[00:00:51]  It's just unbelievable.
[00:00:53]  It's just, it's just, it's got like this old school comedy club feel to it, you know?
[00:01:00]  Like, you're like, there should be a whites-only sign on the door.
[00:01:05]  I mean, like, I'm saying there shouldn't.
[00:01:07]  Morally, there shouldn't.
[00:01:09]  But just to be consistent, you should feel like it should.
[00:01:14]  This place is so old, you can just scrape the walls and you'll get some cocaine.
[00:01:20]  Yeah, you probably could.
[00:01:21]  And the stuff with no fentanyl in it, you know what I mean?
[00:01:24]  It's a good old school.
[00:01:25]  Good old school cocaine.
[00:01:27]  That's what you're getting off those walls.
[00:01:28]  By the way, I swear to God, I just, as you said that, I looked and I saw three different headshots and I was like, they were all cokeheads.
[00:01:37]  I'm not going to say who, but take a look.
[00:01:41]  We'll figure it out pretty quickly.
[00:01:43]  You having fun in Chicago, Robin?
[00:01:44]  I'm having a blast.
[00:01:45]  It's been a great weekend.
[00:01:46]  Have you done anything?
[00:01:48]  Nothing.
[00:01:50]  I did the comedy shows.
[00:01:51]  That's the fun part.
[00:01:52]  Yeah, all right.
[00:01:53]  You didn't go get yourself a deep dish pizza or something?
[00:01:56]  No, my biggest regret in life is that I didn't eat that before I became lactose intolerant.
[00:02:02]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:02:04]  They're already turning on you.
[00:02:05]  Yeah.
[00:02:07]  Not having kids, relationship with my parents, that doesn't bother me.
[00:02:10]  But having gotten this far without deep dish pizza is a real regret.
[00:02:17]  I get it.
[00:02:17]  Yeah.
[00:02:18]  I wish I spent a weekend in high school when I was real fat and didn't give a shit about anything and just deep dished it up.
[00:02:24]  That would have been a good time.
[00:02:25]  I just love how much the audience turned on you when you said you were lactose intolerant.
[00:02:30]  Like everyone was like, I think this guy's got the gaze.
[00:02:35]  We're here in Chicago.
[00:02:37]  Here's what I really appreciate, that we sold out two shows in Chicago on St. Patrick's Day.
[00:02:44]  That's pretty cool to me.
[00:02:47]  Because evidently a lot of people were like, when I, I didn't even think of it, but they were like, ah, St. Patrick's Day weekend.
[00:02:53]  That's not going to be a good weekend in Chicago because everyone's doing Irish shit.
[00:02:57]  And I didn't even realize you guys were Irish.
[00:03:01]  Like, I didn't go to Boston.
[00:03:02]  Do you see how pasty and unattractive these people are?
[00:03:08]  I'll be honest, now that you mention it, sure.
[00:03:11]  Sure, now that you mention it, it's a real problem.
[00:03:15]  But I appreciate you guys all coming out here.
[00:03:17]  And I know a lot of you guys, were you guys here for the stand-up show?
[00:03:20]  Thank you.
[00:03:21]  We appreciate that.
[00:03:22]  Always fun.
[00:03:23]  Always really fun here in Chicago.
[00:03:24]  I like it.
[00:03:24]  There's three clones of me in the front row.
[00:03:28]  Oh, wow.
[00:03:30]  Dude, holy shit.
[00:03:31]  They look like the different stages of Rob Bernstein.
[00:03:35]  They're like, oh, look, remember when he believed in himself?
[00:03:38]  Remember when he realized it wasn't going to happen?
[00:03:41]  And then years later, when he was like, if I only did things different, we're all right here just haunting you.
[00:03:49]  Three ghosts of St. Patrick.
[00:03:55]  What did St. Patrick do to become a saint?
[00:03:58]  I think he got the snakes out of town, right?
[00:04:00]  Yeah, those fucking snakes.
[00:04:02]  Snakes.
[00:04:03]  Yeah, that was innuendo for the black dudes.
[00:04:07]  Oh, Rob, you don't say the quiet part out loud.
[00:04:11]  Oh, come on.
[00:04:12]  Listen, we have nothing against black dudes.
[00:04:14]  I'm sure we have one.
[00:04:19]  Are there any black guys here tonight?
[00:04:21]  Sir, what are you?
[00:04:22]  You're something.
[00:04:24]  You're from Yemen?
[00:04:25]  Man, that is so much worse than black.
[00:04:29]  Yemen is like, Yemen is like, black guys are like, you got a rough.
[00:04:36]  I like how we.
[00:04:37]  Are you like a first generation from Yemen?
[00:04:40]  I was born here.
[00:04:41]  You were born here.
[00:04:41]  Your parents were born there.
[00:04:43]  And they moved over here.
[00:04:45]  Good call.
[00:04:48]  It's like, shit, man, shit's been rough over there.
[00:04:51]  Do you have like any Yemeni pride?
[00:04:54]  You can say that.
[00:04:55]  Like when they fucking hit a cargo ship, are you like, fuck this?
[00:05:00]  You got that fucking shit real good.
[00:05:02]  And you're like, it didn't sink, but we got it.
[00:05:04]  We got it pretty good.
[00:05:05]  Be honest, a little bit.
[00:05:08]  You're going to put him on an FBI list, my friend.
[00:05:11]  Hey, hey, we're all on an FBI list.
[00:05:16]  Join me, join me.
[00:05:18]  Join me, my friend, from Yemen.
[00:05:20]  I want you to be on my.
[00:05:20]  I'm trying to be inclusive.
[00:05:22]  Join me on my FBI list.
[00:05:23]  That's all.
[00:05:24]  All right, well, that's cool.
[00:05:25]  From Yemen.
[00:05:26]  I appreciate that.
[00:05:27]  Sucks what's happened over there.
[00:05:29]  I've been trying to talk about it.
[00:05:31]  So, you know.
[00:05:32]  That's how I found you.
[00:05:33]  Oh, that's how you found me?
[00:05:34]  Because I was the only guy who was like, it's fucked up what we're doing to Yemen.
[00:05:38]  And then everyone else is like, what the fuck is Yemen?
[00:05:42]  All right, I tried my best.
[00:05:43]  And how are you?
[00:05:44]  You guys are friends?
[00:05:45]  No, we just met each other here.
[00:05:47]  Oh, you don't want to sit next to that guy.
[00:05:50]  Your skin tone's close enough.
[00:05:52]  The FBI is going to put you on the same list.
[00:05:55]  Yeah, you're really begging me to collateral damage in a drone strike, sir.
[00:05:59]  You're really fucking.
[00:06:01]  Like, I was just going to a wedding in Yemen.
[00:06:04]  I wasn't like a part of anything.
[00:06:06]  So just so we know, since you're not Yemen, what kind of brown are you?
[00:06:11]  I'm Puerto Rican.
[00:06:12]  Puerto Rican?
[00:06:14]  Oh, that's a much more close-to-home brown.
[00:06:18]  So you just met him tonight and you guys became friends?
[00:06:23]  Just right now, yeah.
[00:06:24]  Terror cells come together at the part of the problem podcast.
[00:06:29]  Well, for the record, all you white people don't get.
[00:06:31]  I'm on their side.
[00:06:32]  So don't get fucking, don't get weird.
[00:06:34]  I mean, here.
[00:06:35]  So you guys just happen to sit next to each other.
[00:06:37]  You both came individually.
[00:06:39]  Yeah.
[00:06:39]  Okay.
[00:06:39]  All right.
[00:06:40]  Well, let's see if we can make some magic happen.
[00:06:43]  Any single ladies here tonight?
[00:06:48]  You know what?
[00:06:48]  I'll tell you what?
[00:06:50]  There's no magic happening as I tried my best.
[00:06:54]  It's not single ladies don't come to our shows.
[00:06:58]  I don't know whatever it is about the audience that we've like that we've garnered.
[00:07:03]  I don't know.
[00:07:04]  And it's fine.
[00:07:04]  I don't give a shit, but it sucks for this guy.
[00:07:08]  There's never any single ladies who are ever out of the show.
[00:07:12]  Like I'm always like, Rob, go talk to the girls, see what happens.
[00:07:15]  You know, you'll find a nice girl at one of our shows.
[00:07:17]  And then it's just fucking a dude from Yemen and a Puerto Rican.
[00:07:22]  Those are Rob's options.
[00:07:24]  Rob's just going to be hanging with them, smoking weed and crying.
[00:07:28]  That's all we got.
[00:07:29]  I don't know.
[00:07:30]  Sorry, dude.
[00:07:32]  You should have hit your wagon as someone who had better prospects.
[00:07:36]  That's not what I draw, evidently.
[00:07:39]  Me and Rob were talking about this earlier today, where I kind of like, my audience used to be young, and they're not anymore.
[00:07:48]  And then I just realized I'm not young.
[00:07:52]  That's what happened.
[00:07:53]  They grew with me.
[00:07:55]  And sometimes I'll still be like, we got a pretty young audience.
[00:07:58]  And then Rob will be like, no, you don't.
[00:08:00]  They're all in their 40s.
[00:08:02]  And I'm like, yeah, but I'm still.
[00:08:05]  And I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm not young.
[00:08:07]  That's the problem.
[00:08:08]  That's a real problem.
[00:08:09]  You guys shouldn't have come here tonight.
[00:08:10]  That's the part of the head.
[00:08:12]  You guys should go out.
[00:08:14]  This is Chicago.
[00:08:15]  Go flip a car over or something.
[00:08:18]  How do you meet girls in Chicago?
[00:08:20]  How old are you, dude?
[00:08:21]  21.
[00:08:22]  21.
[00:08:22]  That is young.
[00:08:24]  I let him know I live in Michigan.
[00:08:26]  So if you guys could teach me, any older ladies?
[00:08:32]  He's looking to be taught.
[00:08:33]  All right.
[00:08:35]  Anyone want to teach him a thing or two?
[00:08:38]  How to flip a car and give a hand tie or something?
[00:08:40]  I don't know.
[00:08:41]  I don't really, I don't know.
[00:08:43]  All right.
[00:08:44]  Well, listen, if you've never been to a live part of the problem podcast before, what we do is we talk about some issues, we mix it up a little bit, and then we take questions from the crowd.
[00:08:55]  So if there's anything you guys want to hear me and Rob talk about, you'll get a chance to do that in a little bit.
[00:09:01]  But first, we just talk about what's going on in the world.
[00:09:04]  So what's going on in the world, Rob?
[00:09:07]  From what I understand, Donald Trump just said there's going to be a bloodbath if he doesn't win.
[00:09:16]  Well, he also said there was going to be a wall.
[00:09:18]  So he's not that good at getting his shit done.
[00:09:22]  Let's be honest.
[00:09:23]  Yeah, if Donald Trump says there's going to be a bloodbath, it's good evidence there will not be a bloodbath.
[00:09:30]  Probably not going to make that happen.
[00:09:31]  So I guess did you guys see this in Donald Trump gave a speech and he said something about a bloodbath, but it was more or less like he was like, I want to put 100% tariff on Chinese goods.
[00:09:43]  And if we don't, there'll be a bloodbath.
[00:09:45]  And then the entire media freaked out and they were like, he's calling for blood.
[00:09:50]  Which is, I mean, just pretty fucking hilarious.
[00:09:54]  So it was actually more specific.
[00:09:56]  He was saying, in the auto industry, there will be a bloodbath.
[00:09:59]  So he was literally referring to, if you guys don't elect me, I'm good for, I'm the greatest, I'm going to get it all done, right?
[00:10:06]  He was doing his Donald Trump thing, and he said, if not for my plan, there will be a bloodbath.
[00:10:11]  And it was in the auto industry.
[00:10:13]  They took out that part and they just went, Donald Trump said it's going to be a bloodbath.
[00:10:19]  He might not be wrong.
[00:10:21]  No, I mean, not even about the auto industry, but just like, you know, a bloodbath, where we're at in America these days is if you go, there's going to be a bloodbath, we're like, probably either way.
[00:10:33]  I mean, a lot of people took that Pfizer vaccine.
[00:10:40]  Blood clot city, baby.
[00:10:42]  Ironically, if you actually literally interpret the term, bloodbath is what keeps Nancy Pelosi young.
[00:10:53]  She takes one every morning.
[00:10:58]  A lot of people know what's your secret, and that's her secret.
[00:11:01]  That's what she does.
[00:11:04]  But it's pretty wild.
[00:11:06]  It's like the media is just so, it's, if you actually look at the speech and then look at the articles they've written about it, it's like almost so obvious that you're like, you guys are so grasping for straws.
[00:11:16]  So it was kind of, it reminded a lot of people of the, the, there was the famous comment that Donald Trump made that they twisted that there were good people on both sides back in Charlottesville.
[00:11:28]  That he, you know what I mean?
[00:11:30]  And I listen, that's not what he said, but I do think there were good, I podcasted with both sides.
[00:11:36]  And I said, you guys didn't follow me back then?
[00:11:40]  Okay, whatever.
[00:11:42]  That's fine.
[00:11:43]  We could let those die in memory.
[00:11:46]  No need to Google search.
[00:11:49]  But it was very clearly not what he was saying.
[00:11:51]  It was just kind of another example of how desperate they are to get him.
[00:11:55]  And it's funny because there's so many easy things to get Donald Trump on, but they still have to try to get him on the most ridiculous shit ever.
[00:12:03]  Like as if he called for a fucking bloodbath, which is not true.
[00:12:08]  He just was saying like, oh, the auto industry will be fucked up if there aren't huge tariffs, which by the way, is also retarded as shit.
[00:12:17]  Like that's the whole argument is dumb as shit.
[00:12:20]  I love how people like, look, the actual economic argument that we should just tax Chinese goods coming into the country and that'll solve our problems is really stupid.
[00:12:33]  Like, think about it like this.
[00:12:35]  All right.
[00:12:36]  This is basically the economic situation in America.
[00:12:40]  China makes all of our stuff for us and we pay very little for it.
[00:12:48]  And then we turn around and we go, you guys are ripping us off.
[00:12:55]  And they're like, how are we ripping you off?
[00:12:57]  And you're like, well, the way you're doing cheap labor for us is ripping us off.
[00:13:03]  And we should penalize you for working as slave laborers for us.
[00:13:09]  And we should make what you're doing more expensive.
[00:13:12]  And they're like, why would you do that?
[00:13:13]  And they're like, because the stuff we make is more expensive.
[00:13:18]  And they're like, okay.
[00:13:19]  So then basically, Americans would only have the option of buying more expensive things.
[00:13:25]  That's how we win, guys.
[00:13:29]  Does that make sense to any of you?
[00:13:32]  That's how we win by being like, hey, like, why is it that we're buying the Chinese stuff rather than American-made stuff?
[00:13:40]  The answer is because it's way cheaper.
[00:13:42]  Well, maybe we would make it where it's not cheaper.
[00:13:45]  And then the American stuff that you don't want to buy, you'd have to buy that.

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[00:13:51]  And I don't know.
[00:13:52]  Have you guys seen Americans recently?
[00:13:56]  Do you want to buy anything that they've made?
[00:14:01]  Have you ever seen a 20-year-old American besides this guy from Yemen right now?
[00:14:09]  And I mean, listen, he's one of the better ones, but you want to buy anything that that guy made?
[00:14:17]  If it was him versus a 12-year-old Chinese girl, and I don't even know what they make, I'm taking that Chinese girl 10 out of 10 times.
[00:14:27]  All right, that's all I'm saying.
[00:14:29]  Any thoughts, Rob?
[00:14:30]  There's also something just so ballsy about the claim that they were making when you can see the original footage.
[00:14:36]  You know what I mean?
[00:14:36]  It's like, it's almost like, I don't know, if you won a fight that someone else picked, and then they went, look, this guy beat this person up in the street.
[00:14:43]  It's like, no, I was attacked and you can clearly see it.
[00:14:45]  It's almost, it's so odd that they win.
[00:14:47]  I guess people are in that much of a MSNBC bubble that they're only watching and they'll never see the original footage to know that that was a complete and flagrant lie.
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=== Elon Musk vs Don Lemon (15:09) ===

[00:16:44]  So Donald Trump also in his speech, he started talking about MS-13, who the gang that this guy's in.
[00:16:55]  No, so no, Rob, he's Puerto Rican.
[00:16:58]  Okay.
[00:16:59]  He can join it, but he couldn't be like a major dad.
[00:17:04]  Like, I'm sure you have friends.
[00:17:08]  So he was talking about, and I'm pretty sure in the speech, he was specifically talking about the ones in prison for murder.
[00:17:15]  And he said, you know, these people, and I don't even know if I'd call them people because that's the level that Donald Trump operates at.
[00:17:24]  But then The Hill ran a story that said the headline was, Trump says some undocumented immigrants are not people.
[00:17:36]  And it was like, yeah, some, but he was saying the some is the murderers.
[00:17:41]  It's like they're trying.
[00:17:42]  It does seem at a certain point like they're trying to make us like him.
[00:17:47]  Isn't that like a weird dynamic?
[00:17:49]  Like, listen, I'm, as I'm sure most of you guys know, I'm just a pure libertarian.
[00:17:55]  Like, I don't, I don't care about any, I think heroin should be legal.
[00:18:00]  I don't judge you if you live an alternative lifestyle.
[00:18:03]  I'm just like, hey, man, ought to be free.
[00:18:05]  That's my position.
[00:18:06]  But then, you know, like when someone tries to make you like, someone goes so far to the left that they try to make you a right-winger?
[00:18:16]  You know, like, like when the transgender thing first started, I'm just like, hey, listen, man, if that's, that's an adult, they want to live their life, they can live their life the way they want to.
[00:18:25]  And then you see like a video of like a dread queen giving a lap dance to a six-year-old.
[00:18:32]  And then you're like, we need a right-wing dictator.
[00:18:37]  I hope they put them up against the wall.
[00:18:39]  You know what I mean?
[00:18:40]  Like they just like try to push you to the other direction.
[00:18:43]  That's how I feel with all this shit.
[00:18:45]  They literally, Donald Trump said, he goes, the MS-13 killers are, I don't, I don't even consider them people.
[00:18:54]  And then the article title is, he says, some undocumented people are not human.
[00:19:02]  You're like, yeah, who were the some?
[00:19:06]  All right.
[00:19:07]  God, date, you guys don't have to whisper.
[00:19:11]  What the fuck did you order, dude?
[00:19:13]  Did you order a cup of MMs?
[00:19:18]  Is that on the menu here?
[00:19:21]  Chuck it.
[00:19:24]  Chuck it.
[00:19:26]  Hold on.
[00:19:27]  Hold on.
[00:19:28]  I got some questions.
[00:19:30]  Is that like a St. Patrick's Day special?
[00:19:33]  Or is that just their regular like Sunday cup of MMs?
[00:19:38]  All right.
[00:19:40]  All right.
[00:19:42]  Where are you guys from?
[00:19:45]  And that's close to which is close to that guy.
[00:19:55]  Is that that guy's down?
[00:19:56]  Yeah, why don't you try to be an American like this gentleman?
[00:20:01]  Are you guys Irish?
[00:20:02]  No.
[00:20:03]  Just wearing green, because it's St. Patty's Day.
[00:20:05]  All right, I understand.
[00:20:06]  And you looked at a menu and you saw a giant cup of peanut M ⁇ Ms and you went, I'll take one.
[00:20:15]  Sure.
[00:20:16]  All right, sure.
[00:20:17]  What are you drinking?
[00:20:19]  ABC?
[00:20:21]  Some signature whiskey thing.
[00:20:23]  Oh, okay.
[00:20:24]  That goes with M ⁇ Ms. I'm just trying to figure out where the country is.
[00:20:31]  This guy's got a big cup of whiskey and a big cup of M ⁇ Ms to each other, and that pretty much sums it up.
[00:20:39]  He might have just said, give me the Joe Biden.
[00:20:42]  You know what I mean?
[00:20:44]  Or the Joe Biden?
[00:20:45]  Big cup of whiskey, big cup of M ⁇ Ms. All right, you got that coming up for you?
[00:20:50]  Sure, no problem.
[00:20:55]  All right, Rob, what other stories we got?
[00:20:58]  Well, I think the next one is Bernie Sanders working on a four-day workweek for everybody.
[00:21:04]  That's the answer.
[00:21:08]  Problem with America is we got to work less.
[00:21:12]  Now, what is his argument that we should have a four-day work week?
[00:21:15]  Well, this is what I love about Bernie Sanders is we have inflation and he's so close to getting it where he's like, why is it that people are working, they're making more money and yet they can buy even less and then we give them more money and then they still can't buy things?
[00:21:36]  And it's like he's so close to being like, oh, it's inflation, but instead he's like, oh, we need a mandate that they work less hours, which I guess people would make less money and then there'd be less inflation.
[00:21:47]  I don't really know what he's, but it's like, it feels like he's just so close to getting it while missing the picture at the same time.
[00:21:54]  Yeah, it is funny to be like, okay, like we keep printing all this money and then the money's worth less.
[00:22:00]  But you know what would solve that is if you were making less money.
[00:22:07]  That would probably fix the whole goddamn thing.
[00:22:10]  It's almost like they just sat around and they realized, oh, everyone hates the Democrats right now.
[00:22:13]  And he's like, I got this.
[00:22:15]  I'll tell everyone, work even less.
[00:22:19]  Well, I do understand where that would be.
[00:22:20]  Like, if I didn't know anything about economics, I do understand.
[00:22:23]  And I was just like working a nine to five.
[00:22:25]  I'd be like, I like the guy who says I get another day off.
[00:22:27]  That guy is a lot of fun.
[00:22:29]  And he's so Jewish, people are like, I think he understands money.
[00:22:37]  I mean, the most Jewish guy is saying that I can work less.
[00:22:40]  So let's go with that guy.
[00:22:48]  Yeah, look, by the way, the truth is that, and I've seen some studies that kind of back this up, we probably could work less because no one actually works a five-day work week.
[00:23:00]  Like everyone gets, because when you go to work, you fucking go in there, you sit down, you fucking flirt with the chick next to you, you play Minecraft or whatever, you know, like you got Facebook on your thing.
[00:23:15]  I don't know.
[00:23:15]  Listen, I don't know.
[00:23:16]  I haven't had a job in a long time.
[00:23:18]  The point is, I know exactly what you do, but you don't actually work the full day.
[00:23:24]  You fuck around for a lot of it and you work for maybe a portion of the day.
[00:23:28]  And sure, if you consolidated that, you could probably get all your work done in a shorter day.
[00:23:34]  But that's not really what Bernie Sanders is saying.
[00:23:38]  What he's saying is like you're getting ripped off by going to work five days a week and we should just let you need to outsource more of the jobs.
[00:23:49]  That's, I mean, really what he's saying.
[00:23:51]  If you're going to make a 30-hour, 35-hour work week and then everything is overtime after that, what you're talking about is more of your jobs going overseas.
[00:24:00]  Yeah.
[00:24:00]  See, listen, I kind of get where Bernie Sanders and people who like him like are coming from.
[00:24:07]  And like, I could kind of understand.
[00:24:10]  I totally could understand if anyone was going to be like, hey, look, there's these people, like the working man in America is totally getting ripped off.
[00:24:19]  You know?
[00:24:19]  And all these fat cats are getting all these benefits while this guy's getting screwed over.
[00:24:25]  That I'm totally on board with.
[00:24:26]  But if you really believe that, what I don't understand, and where I just stop being able to take you seriously at all, is that isn't your obvious position then, that you should end all taxes on middle class people because like, if you actually give a shit about them and the federal government wants to help them, or there's one really easy way you could help them stop stealing all their fucking money?
[00:24:51]  You know what I mean, like as that first thing, what would let me?
[00:24:58]  Let me ask, I will ask any like middle income, middle class working class person in America, which would you prefer?
[00:25:08]  Uh, four hour, uh sorry, a four day workweek rather than a five day workweek, or you don't have to pay taxes anymore?
[00:25:18]  You tell me, let's take a fucking poll on what you like out of those two options better, and I guarantee you, somewhere in the high 90 percent will vote on just no more taxes.
[00:25:31]  So it's like it's such a like it's all, it's a I don't know.
[00:25:35]  It's like a mind fuck that you live in this world where anyone who represents the federal government could look at you and be like we're trying to help you out, and you'd be like okay, it's like uh, somebody who mugs you and then they come back the next day and they're like, i'm really working on getting you back some of your money and you just got to just be like well, I got a great solution, like you could just stop doing what you do, and you're like yeah that's, that's off the table.
[00:26:05]  But like I got another idea, how about you just don't work so much and then there won't be so much for me to rob from you?
[00:26:14]  It's also, I mean, if you just look at the entitlement programs, the fact that I think we're spending another trillion dollars every hundred days, the idea that you're gonna reduce the labor of people and the amount that you can tax and then also be able to cover the entitlement programs with what money.
[00:26:30]  Like, what exactly is the plan?
[00:26:32]  At that point?
[00:26:33]  And he goes, well, you'll tax the corporations more.
[00:26:35]  You mean the corporations that you're now forcing to be less profitable because they have to pay the workers overtime.
[00:26:41]  It's like, what exactly is the plan?
[00:26:43]  Of course there is none.
[00:26:44]  Yeah, you know, always the cool thing about doing these live podcasts is, I see, like the staff in the back and they they see like the stand-up show and they're like oh, these guys are really funny comedians.
[00:26:56]  And then they see the podcast and they're like what the fuck are we going right now?
[00:27:00]  What just happened here?
[00:27:02]  Like are we being indoctrinated?
[00:27:04]  And and just so you know, you're Nazis?
[00:27:06]  Now we're all in this together, all right, nobody gets left behind okay uh, all right, what other uh, what other topics do we have?
[00:27:18]  Next topic, oh, Don Lemons, don't.
[00:27:21]  Oh, so you guys, you guys were disappointed.
[00:27:27]  So evidently, Don Lemon made some type of agreement with Elon Musk that they were in some type of partnership, which I will say, and I believe I said on the podcast, never made any sense.
[00:27:39]  I don't know what is going on.
[00:27:41]  Like Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon trying, because they got fired from CNN, trying to move over to like the podcast space was always a disaster.
[00:27:56]  It was never going to work.
[00:27:57]  Look, Barack and Michelle Obama tried to start a podcast and their podcast failed.
[00:28:04]  You mean Michael?
[00:28:11]  Robert.
[00:28:13]  Now we can't put this episode on YouTube.
[00:28:18]  Brian, if you're listening, leap that out.
[00:28:21]  And if you want to catch the episode, check it out on Rumble.
[00:28:26]  So let's try to say this the right way, Rob.
[00:28:30]  Barack Obama and his lovely husband.
[00:28:38]  My worst honk is so long, I fuck it like a vagina.
[00:28:46]  The point I'm trying to make, sir, in this portion that will be edited out, is that, look, even they tried to do a podcast and it failed.
[00:28:59]  And the reason their podcast failed is because, like, look, there's a difference in the audience for shows in the internet space and shows in the corporate media space.
[00:29:11]  And the people who are looking for an, like, like the people who, like you guys who like our show, you're not like, you're not looking for a CNN show on the internet.
[00:29:21]  You're looking for, you, you already recognize that that was all bullshit and then you're looking for something else.
[00:29:26]  So all of these guys like Don Lemon, Tucker Carlson having a show on Twitter made perfect sense.
[00:29:33]  Don Lemon never made sense.
[00:29:34]  But then it came out that basically Don Lemon had an agreement with Twitter.
[00:29:40]  They had some type of partnership and his first show was going to be an interview with Elon Musk.
[00:29:45]  Now, as of this recording, the interview has not been released yet.
[00:29:49]  But Elon Musk did the interview and then after that said, I don't want to do a partnership with you.
[00:29:56]  Now, Don Lemon was spinning it like Elon Musk canceled him.
[00:30:00]  But Elon said, you're not canceled.
[00:30:03]  He hasn't been banned off Twitter.
[00:30:05]  You could still post your show.
[00:30:06]  They just don't want to be in a partnership with you anymore.
[00:30:08]  And people were taking that like, oh, someone pressed Elon Musk and now he doesn't want to be in a partnership anymore.
[00:30:15]  I don't know what happened.
[00:30:17]  The interview has not been released yet, but I'm very confident from watching Don Lemon's show on CNN that what happened is that Elon realized how stupid Don Lemon is and was like, holy shit, I can just not be in business with this guy.
[00:30:36]  This is too ridiculous.
[00:30:38]  And that's why he canceled him and he was like, I don't even care if you put your show up, like put it up, but we're not doing this together.
[00:30:44]  That's my guess.
[00:30:45]  Any thoughts?
[00:30:46]  Yeah, I feel like there's a word to describe Don Lemon.
[00:30:49]  I don't quite know what it is, but he demanded.
[00:30:51]  Please don't be the N-word.
[00:30:55]  Rob, I'm trying to do a thing here, man.
[00:30:58]  I got a mortgage to pay.
[00:30:59]  I got two kids to support.
[00:31:01]  Please tell me that's not the word.
[00:31:02]  No, I don't think that was the word.
[00:31:03]  You know, the guy, he just wanted massages for him and his...
[00:31:07]  No, it's the F-word.
[00:31:10]  He just wanted massages for him and his fiancé, and he just wanted to show up and be able to criticize his boss and put crazy demands, right?
[00:31:19]  Yeah, and one of them was he wanted one of those Tesla trucks.
[00:31:21]  Are you telling me Don Lemon's even going to drive that thing?
[00:31:25]  He's going to show up on some work site.
[00:31:26]  and he's the the Tesla truck.
[00:31:28]  Come on.
[00:31:29]  Yeah, he did.
[00:31:30]  He had like crazy demands, I guess.
[00:31:32]  Anyway, I don't know.
[00:31:32]  Maybe more details about this story, I'm sure, will come out.
[00:31:35]  But evidently, he had crazy demands of what he wanted from Elon Musk.
[00:31:40]  And then he had some contentious interview with him, which I guess it's going to come out soon.
[00:31:44]  So that'll be interesting, I guess, to see.
[00:31:46]  But yeah, that hasn't come out yet.
[00:31:50]  Oh, I guess the other thing, by the way.
[00:31:52]  Sorry, do you have anything else on that?

=== The Shady Interview Gaffe (11:10) ===

[00:31:54]  The other big thing was that Lex Friedman had that five-hour debate on Israel-Palestine.
[00:32:01]  Did any of you guys see that?
[00:32:03]  It's, yeah, well, you've got to be able to do that.
[00:32:04]  He had that guy.
[00:32:06]  He had five hours to invest.
[00:32:08]  He had that guy, Destiny, who's that my little pony coming to life.
[00:32:15]  Dude, it was, I just can't explain.
[00:32:20]  It was so ridiculous that that Destiny guy was in the debate.
[00:32:25]  Because you had, so it was Norman Finkelstein, who's written like many books on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
[00:32:33]  And he might be the only Jew who's a bigger Jew than Bernie Sanders.
[00:32:37]  Like, if you had to rank Jews, Norman Finkelstein might win that Jew off.
[00:32:42]  That's the thing.
[00:32:43]  That's what they hate about Norman Finkelstein is you can't out-Jew him.
[00:32:47]  It's like his name, his voice, like every, you just can't even get through it.
[00:32:54]  He's just like, I think it is wrong.
[00:32:57]  What the Jews are doing to the Palestinians.
[00:33:01]  And then, you know, like the go-to line, if you criticize Israel, is that you're an anti-Semite, but like no one can even, like, you can't even read it off a piece of paper.
[00:33:13]  You're like, I think you hate Jews.
[00:33:15]  Norman Finkelstein.
[00:33:23]  And he was like, all right.
[00:33:25]  He goes, he goes, he goes, are you saying that I hate the Jewish people?
[00:33:31]  But he's totally brilliant.
[00:33:33]  He's written many books on the subject.
[00:33:36]  He's read, he's clearly, whether you agree with him or disagree with him, he's clearly read every goddamn thing that's been ever put out about it.
[00:33:44]  Like, I've read a lot of books on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but Norman Finkelstein's like read all of those and then a hundred more.
[00:33:52]  And then was the other guy whose name I'm blanking on, but he's been a reporter for doing shows since the 80s, like very immersed in it.
[00:34:02]  Then there was Benny Morris, who is a world-renowned Israeli historian.
[00:34:07]  And then there's a Twitch streamer.
[00:34:13]  And that was like, like, literally, that was the debate.
[00:34:16]  Like, these three renowned experts and a guy who evidently lets his wife bang other dudes is what he's famous for.
[00:34:27]  So charitable.
[00:34:33]  He's giving back to the community.
[00:34:36]  Like, from the other dude's perspective, he's a pretty cool guy.
[00:34:40]  Anyway, but it was just totally ridiculous.
[00:34:43]  I mean, like, the debate was fine enough, but Destiny being there was weird.
[00:34:46]  And I was on, so I don't know if you guys saw, but I was on a panel on Piers Morgan's show recently with Destiny on it.
[00:34:54]  And a lot of people have asked me to debate this guy.
[00:34:58]  And I guess I would do that.
[00:35:00]  But I just, I can't tell you how much I hate hearing him talk.
[00:35:08]  It's just, it's brutal.
[00:35:10]  It's just the pitch of his voice and the things that he's saying with his voice, they're all just horrible.
[00:35:16]  And here's it.
[00:35:17]  So there was the moment that we had was at one point that this was the moment that went kind of viral from when I was on Piers Morgan, was that I said something about how there were a bunch of lies within the official narrative of the COVID regime.
[00:35:34]  Like there were a whole bunch of lies that we were told.
[00:35:36]  Yeah, shocking, I know.
[00:35:41]  Are you saying that seventh booster I just got isn't going to protect me?
[00:35:45]  No, I'm saying the eighth one will.
[00:35:49]  I'm saying you need one more.
[00:35:51]  Man, you're almost there.
[00:35:52]  You're so close, Rob.
[00:35:55]  I said something about like how, you know, there were all these like official statements about how, and I think I said that the it was said that the vaccine would protect you from getting COVID.
[00:36:08]  You wouldn't get it and you couldn't transmit it.
[00:36:11]  And his initial response, immediate response was that he goes, oh, you call out Joe Biden gaffes, but you won't call out Donald Trump gaffes.
[00:36:23]  And I thought that moment just like encapsulated everything that is wrong with that guy.
[00:36:30]  Because on many levels, like it just shows that he's not, when you debate that guy, he's not doing what I'm doing.
[00:36:40]  Like I've done a lot of debates and a lot of different podcasts and stuff.
[00:36:43]  And look, I might be wrong about some stuff.
[00:36:46]  I'm not, but I might be, okay?
[00:36:50]  But I think the relationship I have with my audience is that you guys kind of know that I believe what I'm saying.
[00:36:56]  And I think I'm right.
[00:36:57]  And I think what I'm saying is right.
[00:36:59]  And I'm a true believer in it.
[00:37:00]  And that's where I'm coming from.
[00:37:03]  And if I'm in a debate and someone makes a good point to me, which I've done many times in debates, I'll go, okay, that's a good point.
[00:37:12]  But here's where I, you know, like, here's what I think.
[00:37:15]  And what that guy's doing is not that.
[00:37:19]  He's not debating like, okay, I believe this, you believe that.
[00:37:24]  Let's have an exchange of ideas.
[00:37:26]  He treats debates like it's a tennis match.
[00:37:29]  I'm trying to win a point, you know?
[00:37:31]  And so if you were being honest, when someone goes, look, they said if you get the vaccine, you can't get COVID.
[00:37:37]  You can't transmit COVID.
[00:37:39]  He would go, okay, that's a good point.
[00:37:40]  They shouldn't have said that.
[00:37:41]  But here's what I feel about that.
[00:37:43]  But he doesn't do that.
[00:37:44]  He immediately goes, oh, you're just criticizing a Biden gaff, but you can't criticize a Trump gaffe because he thinks that's the best way to win the point in the moment.
[00:37:54]  Now, of course, the problem is that it wasn't one Biden gaff.
[00:38:00]  It wasn't like one time Biden said that.
[00:38:03]  It was that every important person said that, from Biden to Fauci to the CDC director to everybody in the corporate press.
[00:38:12]  They repeated this over and over and over again.
[00:38:16]  And it was bullshit.
[00:38:17]  It's not true.
[00:38:18]  Everybody got the COVID vaccine and all of them got COVID after it.
[00:38:22]  So it was bullshit.
[00:38:24]  And also, his response was just, how can I win this point?
[00:38:27]  So he went, well, you apologize for the, you know, you criticize Biden for the Biden gaffe, but you'll make excuses for Trump for a Trump gaff because he doesn't know me.
[00:38:37]  So he just assumed I was a Trump supporter.
[00:38:40]  And you're like, yeah, retard?
[00:38:42]  I'm not a fucking Trump supporter.
[00:38:45]  So I don't fucking make any excuses for a Donald Trump gaff.
[00:38:49]  So it's just like, there's some, I know people want me to like go debate the guy.
[00:38:52]  And I guess I would do it.
[00:38:54]  But there's just someone like that.
[00:38:56]  You're like, dude, we're not even having a conversation.
[00:38:59]  Like, I'm trying to be real, and you're trying to get a tennis ball over the net and score a point.
[00:39:06]  And I just fucking hate that.
[00:39:07]  I find it very unpleasant to talk to people like that.
[00:39:10]  You're full of shit.
[00:39:11]  He should just compete Ben Shapiro for who can say bullshit quicker.
[00:39:16]  Well, they did.
[00:39:17]  He did a debate with Ben Shapiro, and it was literally just like...
[00:39:26]  It was like if Adderall formed a podcast.
[00:39:32]  That's what you would just watch on.
[00:39:37]  Just take a thousand milligram Adderall pill and break it in half in front of a microphone, and that's what falls out.
[00:39:46]  All right, what do we got?
[00:39:47]  We had one other topic, which was the Boeing whistleblower who Clintoned himself.
[00:39:55]  I do like that that's become a verb.
[00:40:00]  And so what was he?
[00:40:01]  Okay, so I don't know as much.
[00:40:03]  I think you might be a little more off on this than me.
[00:40:05]  Or maybe some of you guys know what.
[00:40:07]  Did you guys know what the story is here?
[00:40:09]  You know what we're talking about?
[00:40:10]  So there was a guy from Boeing, very honest mom and pop shop.
[00:40:17]  I guess he was speaking out about how unsafe the new planes that Boeing's making.
[00:40:23]  As someone who gets on a plane every weekend, that's great.
[00:40:27]  Also, just in terms of like being even like a safety inspector or like a higher up at Boeing, he looks like he would have been like a 1982 bowling champion.
[00:40:35]  That's what the guy looks like.
[00:40:37]  All right.
[00:40:38]  Yeah.
[00:40:38]  He doesn't even look like he'd be the guy who's inspecting planes and certainly not the one going, these aren't safe enough.
[00:40:44]  All right.
[00:40:44]  Well, so you know you can trust him.
[00:40:47]  And so he was complaining that there's major safety issues with the new planes.
[00:40:52]  Then there was a different inspection team that came in, right?
[00:40:55]  So he was at least on TMZ, which I saw, and you can always trust TMZ.
[00:41:00]  That's the best source of news, everybody.
[00:41:02]  But, I mean, there have been a number of incidents with Boeing planes as of late.
[00:41:06]  You got to bring your own doors that you're flying.
[00:41:08]  I hope you guys all know that.
[00:41:11]  I hope you know that.
[00:41:12]  You got to bring your own wrench.
[00:41:14]  You got to inspect everything.
[00:41:15]  You can't.
[00:41:16]  And they respect it at this point.
[00:41:17]  If you're like, hey, I got to check some things, you know?
[00:41:19]  I bring duct tape.
[00:41:20]  That's what I do.
[00:41:21]  I just bring my own duct tape and I pull the hoot.
[00:41:23]  Like, anyways, moving on.
[00:41:26]  So he was on TMZ, and he said that they had gone to one of the factories and they found, I forgot the number, but there was a number of problems.
[00:41:35]  And then he got in trouble at Boeing for finding so many problems.
[00:41:38]  So they went with a different inspection team that didn't include him.
[00:41:41]  And they came back with only 50 problems.
[00:41:43]  And so he went to those inspectors and he was like, I don't understand how that factory cleaned its act up that quickly.
[00:41:49]  And they're like, yeah, they basically didn't let us inspect it.
[00:41:52]  That was what he said.
[00:41:53]  And I'm not sure if it was just a deposition or if he was actually part of a court case or looking into Boeing, but he was part of a formal, I guess, looking into what was going on.
[00:42:05]  And then he fell coincidentally into a terrible depression and committed suicide.
[00:42:12]  Yes.
[00:42:12]  Or met the Clintons, one or the other.
[00:42:16]  But something very shady happened there.
[00:42:18]  And I'm particularly annoyed about these things.
[00:42:19]  Like, after the COVID thing, I don't want to have to research everything.
[00:42:22]  Like, I got to fly planes.
[00:42:24]  Like, which way are they going here?
[00:42:25]  Are they trying to keep the planes just for like wealthy people so they don't want them on them, right?
[00:42:29]  Are they just lying to us?
[00:42:30]  Or like, I don't know what the fuck is going on with Boeing, but I don't want to research it.
[00:42:34]  I just want to get on a plane and fly.
[00:42:36]  Yeah, you do want to just feel comfortable when you get on a plane.
[00:42:39]  Like that is when you fly a lot, you do just, deep down, you want to just explain it away.
[00:42:46]  Like you're like, this fucking chick probably cheated on them or something like that.
[00:42:49]  I don't know.
[00:42:50]  But now if there's any turbulence, I'm demanding they give me all the bist off cookies.
[00:42:53]  That's what I do now.
[00:42:54]  If there's any turbulence, I'm like, this thing's going down.
[00:42:56]  I'm jerking off in the aisle.
[00:42:57]  Give me the bist offs.
[00:43:00]  Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say, you'll be fine.

=== Establishing Relationship Boundaries (15:18) ===

[00:43:04]  That's all it takes.
[00:43:06]  Yeah, I don't know.
[00:43:07]  I don't really have an answer for you on this question, but I will say that does seem suspicious.
[00:43:12]  It does.
[00:43:13]  There's some times where you just feel like you're in a movie where you would have thought in America someone involved in a court case like that can't just be murdered and that would be the end of it.
[00:43:22]  Same thing with Epstein.
[00:43:24]  Like things become so public and so obvious you're like, can they really resolve things just by killing people?
[00:43:29]  Which is why don't tell people about this show, okay?
[00:43:32]  Because I feel like we're at the level right now that we float under the radar, but it does appear like the system will just kill you.
[00:43:40]  Yeah.
[00:43:40]  Well, say what you will about Epstein.
[00:43:42]  His plane never went down.
[00:43:45]  So he knew something about what was going on at Boeing.
[00:43:48]  That's true.
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[00:45:45]  All right.
[00:45:46]  All right.
[00:45:46]  So number one, hey, to the staff in the back, can I grab another beer whenever you get a chance?
[00:45:52]  That'd be great.
[00:45:52]  Thank you very much.
[00:45:53]  And let's take some goddamn questions from the audience.
[00:45:56]  How about that?
[00:46:01]  Robbie will be coming around.
[00:46:03]  Now, here are the rules.
[00:46:04]  Do not take the microphone from Rob because we've had some incidents with crazy people who want to give a goddamn lecture.
[00:46:17]  Now, okay, where are we going?
[00:46:19]  Here we go, right over here.
[00:46:20]  What do we got?
[00:46:21]  I guess, like, my goal in life is to like in your stand-up set.
[00:46:26]  I want to get married.
[00:46:28]  I want to have kids.
[00:46:28]  Like, I think that's true freedom.
[00:46:31]  I totally agree with you.
[00:46:33]  But it's a real struggle these days.
[00:46:35]  Finding someone that like really kind of goes along with your values and is along with your principles.
[00:46:43]  And I'm just, I don't know if I have a question.
[00:46:45]  I do have a question for Rob after this.
[00:46:47]  It's real quick, but it's, will you marry me?
[00:46:53]  Is the question for Rob?
[00:46:56]  Is do you want to be my girlfriend?
[00:47:01]  I think I joke.
[00:47:02]  I'm kidding.
[00:47:03]  I joke around.
[00:47:04]  I think his problem is he hasn't checked out unjected.com.
[00:47:09]  Well, no, all right.
[00:47:10]  Hold on.
[00:47:11]  I got to ask you a couple questions here.
[00:47:13]  Okay, so the girls who these are different girls, right?
[00:47:17]  Oh, yeah, not getting the vaccine, not voting for Biden.
[00:47:20]  He's getting late and complaining to us.
[00:47:21]  I don't like this guy.
[00:47:25]  How long were you with them for?
[00:47:28]  The most serious one was about like five months.
[00:47:33]  All right.
[00:47:34]  Let me tell you, this is my honest opinion, okay?
[00:47:37]  And I don't think you're going to like this.
[00:47:38]  Oh, no.
[00:47:39]  But this is, no, listen, this is my honest opinion.
[00:47:41]  I think you fucked up.
[00:47:43]  And I think you weren't establishing that you were the man in the relationship early on enough.
[00:47:50]  That's my honest opinion.
[00:47:51]  I think that this is my advice to people, especially to young men.
[00:47:57]  When you enter a relationship, I think from the very beginning, like very early on, you got to establish that, hey, this is who I am.
[00:48:07]  And I'm a man and this is who I am.
[00:48:10]  And if you don't do that, and you just start a relationship by kind of being like, hey, let me come, if I do this, can I be with you?
[00:48:18]  Then you end up in this place where once you try to establish that, hey, I'm a man, the woman is like, no, that's not what the deal has been this whole time.
[00:48:25]  That's something you should establish immediately.
[00:48:27]  And I think if you work on doing that, you'll find that women actually respond very well to that and that they like that.
[00:48:34]  And even if they disagree with you, they will like appreciate the fact that you're being the leader in the relationship.
[00:48:41]  I think that's incumbent on men to do, to establish from the very beginning of the relationship that you are going to be the leader in any partnership that you're in.
[00:48:50]  And that's just my honest opinion.
[00:48:52]  I think that actually women find that very attractive and that then you kind of inoculate yourself from no pun intended.
[00:49:03]  Inoculate yourself from the situation where if you take some position she doesn't agree with, she's going to leave you over that.
[00:49:09]  And what's required in that is to kind of have the confidence in yourself that you can, when you start a relationship, be like, hey, listen, I'm a man and I'm going to be a man.
[00:49:22]  And you kind of have to have this confidence that it's like, if that's a problem for you, no problem, but then we won't be together.
[00:49:29]  Totally.
[00:49:30]  That's what you have to do going forward.
[00:49:32]  And even then, if you're with a woman who has some different views than you, she'll realize that she's a stupid woman.
[00:49:41]  You are the man.
[00:49:43]  I'm just kidding about that.
[00:49:45]  But ladies in the crowd, do you not get what I'm saying?
[00:49:48]  Like, does that not make sense to you?
[00:49:49]  But I think that's what men need to kind of be.
[00:49:52]  And I actually think women respond very well to a man being like, look, if we're going to be together, I'm going to be the leader.
[00:49:59]  And that's what's going to make this work.
[00:50:01]  No, they don't agree.
[00:50:02]  But let me crazy.
[00:50:04]  That's what they say in public.
[00:50:06]  Yeah, it actually fucking works.
[00:50:08]  I very much so agree with you.
[00:50:10]  I think that's very true.
[00:50:12]  It like kind of rules out a lot of relationships right off the bat.
[00:50:15]  So I'm all about that.
[00:50:16]  That's what you want.
[00:50:17]  Yeah.
[00:50:17]  I mean, if you're talking about actually wanting to be with someone, like being with them.
[00:50:21]  Totally.
[00:50:22]  If you're just trying to like hook up with a chick, then who cares about any of this shit?
[00:50:26]  I love Bernie Sanders.
[00:50:29]  As a rubber say, if you're talking about like being with someone long term, then yeah, you want to rule a lot of people out.
[00:50:36]  Totally.
[00:50:37]  That's the goal.
[00:50:38]  So that sucks that that happened, but learn from that.
[00:50:41]  Totally.
[00:50:41]  And maybe like, I think just make it more clear up front.
[00:50:44]  I also think it's the more, it's the more noble way to go.
[00:50:48]  Like, it's, in some ways, there's this weird dynamic with dating at the very beginning, right?
[00:50:57]  Like, if you, we all play this game, right?
[00:51:01]  Like, if a guy asks a girl out on a date, he goes, hey, could I take you out sometime?
[00:51:06]  Everybody in here knows, both guys and girls, what he's asking is really, is there any chance I could fuck you?
[00:51:15]  Right?
[00:51:15]  No, okay, you can't just ask it like that, because that's weird.
[00:51:19]  But both guys and girls know that's essentially what a guy is asking if he's asking a girl out on a date.
[00:51:24]  He's not saying, like, hey, I would love to just have a conversation with you and nothing more.
[00:51:29]  He's hoping that this will lead to sex.
[00:51:32]  That's what motivates men.
[00:51:33]  And men know that, and women know that.
[00:51:35]  And actually, women, they don't look, women don't want that from the guy they don't want it from, but they do want it from the guy they want it from.
[00:51:46]  Does that make sense?
[00:51:47]  You know?
[00:51:48]  That is what they want.
[00:51:49]  Women want a guy who's interested in them, who's like, desires them.
[00:51:53]  And so in a sense, obviously it's creepy if you were to just come up to a chick and be like, any chance I can fuck you?
[00:52:01]  You know what I mean?
[00:52:02]  Like, I don't know why I give Lewis' voice for that.
[00:52:05]  That's just what came out, to be honest.
[00:52:09]  And there is some, yes, it could be creepy if you put it that way.
[00:52:12]  But in a weird way, it's also kind of creepy and even shittier if you kind of present it from the like, I don't even care about fucking you, but I would just love to talk with you when you know that is what you're actually trying to do.
[00:52:25]  And so there's something, almost the most noble way to approach a woman is to let that be known without being a creep about it.
[00:52:34]  You know, to just be like, like, if you're just like, hey, like, if a guy's interested in a chick and he goes up to her and he's like, he's like, hey, like, I saw the way that guy was hitting on you and that was just totally not cool.
[00:52:49]  And I'd love to just like study with you sometime.
[00:52:52]  That dude's a fucking piece of shit, you know?
[00:52:55]  And if a guy goes up to a chick and he's like, hey, I want to fuck you, Lewis again.
[00:52:59]  That guy's also a piece of shit.
[00:53:01]  In a way, the most noble thing a guy can do is just kind of be like, you're so hot, I had to come talk to you.
[00:53:08]  Because you're kind of, you're, you're being real.
[00:53:11]  You're like letting her know that it's like, hey, look, this is what I'm interested in, but also I want to talk to you.
[00:53:16]  And I want to see where this goes.
[00:53:18]  I think it's with the dynamic of relationships, it's really important how you establish things immediately.
[00:53:26]  And I think you can find, like, walk the line where you're not being a piece of shit, but you're also letting the woman know, like, hey, this is what I'm interested in, and this is what I want to do.
[00:53:36]  And I think it's really important to start that way.
[00:53:39]  And then you don't find yourself in the situation where six months in, you have to let her know, hey, I'm a fucking man, and I'm not going to like bow down to this bullshit.
[00:53:49]  So that would be my advice.
[00:53:51]  I don't know if any of that made sense, but it did to me.
[00:53:53]  So unlike all the fucking red pill podcast fucking people, I'm actually happily married.
[00:54:05]  So I feel like I can give.
[00:54:07]  God damn, by the way, what is up with all these podcasts?
[00:54:10]  Like the fresh and fit and whatever and all these guys, whereas every clip that gets sent into my algorithm every day is just them arguing that the same basic point over and over again.
[00:54:23]  Like their genius insight is that you shouldn't marry a prostitute.
[00:54:29]  You're like, wow, I never thought about it like that before.
[00:54:31]  Yeah, I guess maybe you shouldn't marry a prostitute.
[00:54:34]  That was just, we all knew that at 15.
[00:54:37]  All right.
[00:54:37]  All right.
[00:54:38]  So congratulations, genius.
[00:54:40]  You figured it out.
[00:54:42]  And then my question for Rob is not, if you will marry me, although I'll ask him that after the show.
[00:54:49]  What kind of Zen do you like?
[00:54:52]  I'm all for the citrus.
[00:54:53]  I'm a fatty and I like the fruity flavors.
[00:54:55]  That's me.
[00:54:56]  I'm a smooth guy.
[00:54:57]  There you go.
[00:54:58]  Well, to each their own.
[00:55:00]  Hey, Dave, I'm happily married.
[00:55:02]  I've never had a problem being a man in my relationships.
[00:55:04]  There you go.
[00:55:08]  Well, your voice would beg to differ.
[00:55:15]  I'm sorry.
[00:55:16]  I didn't mean to.
[00:55:17]  My wife just loves me and I do so much manly shit.
[00:55:22]  Hey, Dad, now probably Mary dick down over here.
[00:55:28]  I'm sorry, that's not cool of me.
[00:55:30]  I appreciate you, bro.
[00:55:32]  I did just eat a whole glass of MMs.
[00:55:34]  That is pretty gay.
[00:55:40]  My question for you is: you've done a lot of podcasts.
[00:55:42]  You do a lot of podcasts every single week.
[00:55:45]  Many of the podcasts you do are very high profile, have big followings, and you're talking about difficult topics every single time.
[00:55:51]  Do you have any kind of preparation that you do before you go into a podcast?
[00:55:56]  Do you do anything to get in the right headspace for a podcast?
[00:55:58]  And what, in your opinion, makes a good podcast?
[00:56:04]  You know, so I don't really do too much preparation for big podcasts.
[00:56:09]  I mean, sometimes like, you know, if there's like a, sometimes there'll be like a show, like if I'm going on Rogan or I'm going on one of the big podcasts and I know there's like a topic we're going to talk about, I'll go over some stuff.
[00:56:20]  Like I'll reread something, you know, I'll be something in my mind like, okay, I should go back and reread this piece or something.
[00:56:27]  But my whole thing is that basically I was totally obsessed with politics and economics and all this shit for so long that even if I didn't, even if that wasn't my career, I would always be up on what was happening because I'm just so, it's like, it's like my calling is just to be interested in this stuff.
[00:56:49]  So I'm usually already doing the work the whole time.
[00:56:52]  And then sometimes it'll be like, I kind of have this weird thing when there's big podcasts, like the ones that are going to get millions of views.
[00:57:01]  And so when I book it, it's almost kind of like a fight camp for a fighter.
[00:57:07]  You know, like fighters are always training and they're always like learning new stuff.
[00:57:12]  But then when they're like, okay, the last few weeks before it, you kind of like go into this training camp, as they call it.
[00:57:19]  So I will have something where like, like if Rogan texts me and he's like, dude, I want you to come on the podcast and talk about this.
[00:57:26]  And he gives me the date and it's like in three weeks.
[00:57:30]  So then I'll kind of have the day he texts me.
[00:57:33]  I'll kind of start thinking about what are the things we're going to talk about?
[00:57:37]  What are the things I want to talk about?
[00:57:39]  And it's kind of like these, it's almost like it's these like loose forms, like maybe this topic or this topic.
[00:57:46]  And then as the time gets closer, it gets more and more clear.
[00:57:49]  And I'm kind of like, oh, I want to make sure I say this.
[00:57:51]  I want to make sure I say that.
[00:57:52]  I want to make sure I say that.
[00:57:54]  And then, so there's kind of like a process in a way, but it's not like, I'm not like cramming to go do one of these podcasts.
[00:58:02]  It's like, no, it's all the stuff that I want to talk about that I love already.
[00:58:06]  So that's that not that I love that I love talking about already.
[00:58:11]  And so, you know, there's an interesting dynamic where I always, like, I don't know if you guys like have seen my podcast on Rogan or seen like with Ari Shafir when we would do the skeptic tank.

=== Why Demand Drops for Bullets (14:13) ===

[00:58:23]  Or yeah, so like, thank you, guys.
[00:58:27]  But like, so me and Rob, we do three episodes a week, every week.
[00:58:34]  And then it's almost like you go do this big podcast and they're like, well, hey, what's the story of this year?
[00:58:41]  And so you're doing three hours, but I do three hours every week.
[00:58:47]  So it's kind of easy in a way because it's so much more that I've talked about.
[00:58:52]  Like for me to cover the whole last year on Ari Shafir's State of the Union, I have like a thousand hours worth of stuff to say, but he's like, hey, condense it down to a few hours.
[00:59:04]  And I'm like, oh, so I can just give you the best points, the most important thing.
[00:59:10]  And that, for whatever reason, just comes natural to me.
[00:59:13]  So it's not that much work.
[00:59:15]  It's more like just getting yourself.
[00:59:17]  And then in terms of like, what do I do like that day?
[00:59:19]  You know, it's just like whatever you do.
[00:59:22]  You wake up and maybe like, you know, have some coffee and go for a walk or whatever and get yourself like in a good place to do it.
[00:59:30]  So that's, that's all.
[00:59:34]  Who's next, Rob?
[00:59:35]  Dave, right here.
[00:59:36]  How are you?
[00:59:36]  I just wanted to say good.
[00:59:38]  Congratulations to you and Robbie and voices like yours for the departure of Victoria Newland.
[00:59:48]  I don't know if we can take credit for that, but she'll end up somewhere fine, I promise.
[00:59:55]  In the ground.
[00:59:57]  What's up, Dave?
[00:59:59]  We don't approve of that here.
[01:00:01]  In Chicago, for the record, political violence is not the answer.
[01:00:07]  How are you, Sarah?
[01:00:08]  What's up, Dave?
[01:00:09]  Love your set, man.
[01:00:10]  Great to see you.
[01:00:10]  Thank you very much, brother.
[01:00:11]  Appreciate it.
[01:00:12]  Thank you.
[01:00:12]  Thank you for braving the deep blue of Chicago.
[01:00:16]  But dude, I'm from New York and New Jersey.
[01:00:18]  I live in this shit.
[01:00:20]  So, yeah.
[01:00:20]  Right.
[01:00:21]  Okay, slightly.
[01:00:28]  So a lot of times, you know, having a discussion with friends, they, you know, you're talking about libertarian ideals and they kind of ask you, how would that world work?
[01:00:40]  My question's kind of about that.
[01:00:41]  So like, if, for instance, if the government were to be, let's say, abolished or drastically downsized, like tomorrow, we'd all be really happy, I'm sure.
[01:00:52]  But like, what would happen economically, I guess?
[01:00:56]  Like, for instance, weapons, bullets, demand would go down.
[01:01:02]  And so those things would get probably a lot cheaper.
[01:01:04]  Probably a lot of those businesses would just go out of business.
[01:01:07]  But all of a sudden, we're all keeping twice as much money as we're used to because we're not getting taxed.
[01:01:14]  You know, maybe the demand for like homes, cars, phones goes up because now people can afford that type of stuff.
[01:01:20]  Or maybe they just save.
[01:01:21]  I don't really know.
[01:01:22]  I guess I'm not really sure.
[01:01:23]  Like what happens in that scenario?
[01:01:26]  Well, okay.
[01:01:27]  So if there's demand for something that goes down because the government is drastically reduced, then what like the real, and this is the basic like economics of it, right?
[01:01:41]  Is that the real information there is there wasn't true demand for that.
[01:01:47]  There was only like forced demand for that, right?
[01:01:50]  So let's just say, like hypothetically speaking, right?
[01:01:52]  Let's say there's like a piece of art that nobody likes.
[01:01:57]  Nobody fucking wants this art.
[01:01:59]  But someone comes in with a gun and says, you better buy this fucking painting or we're going to shoot you.
[01:02:05]  And then you go, well, if you took the gun away, then no one would buy this painting.
[01:02:09]  It's like, okay, that's true.
[01:02:10]  That sucks for the person who made that painting.
[01:02:13]  But there's also information in that that is, oh yeah, no one wanted it.
[01:02:18]  Like it's not valuable.
[01:02:19]  It's not improving anybody's life.
[01:02:21]  So the essence is that whatever demand goes away was wasted resources to begin with because no one really wanted it.
[01:02:29]  And then the demand that's increased is demand because people find value in that.
[01:02:34]  So that's kind of the essence of the whole situation is that it's like, and look, I don't know exactly, like you make a good point.
[01:02:40]  That's a good example, like bullets.
[01:02:42]  Sure.
[01:02:43]  I don't think like if you didn't have like the military industrial industrial complex and the police state and all of this, yeah, there probably wouldn't be as many bullets sold.
[01:02:52]  But what there would be is the amount that people actually fucking need and want for legitimate purposes.
[01:02:58]  So that, to me, is the essence of the answer there, is that it's like, yeah, you would have less of some things and more of other things.
[01:03:05]  And it would reflect, like, look, like even my joke earlier, if you guys saw that, where I made the comment about like, I want money and you want milk.
[01:03:14]  And that's like the, it's like, that's how every interaction in the free market works, is that you're trading what they want for what you want and everybody wins.
[01:03:23]  This is what John Stossel used to say is the great moment.
[01:03:26]  You know, it's like a weird thing where, So, you know, like in life in general, sometimes you'll say thank you and someone will say you're welcome because you did something for that person.
[01:03:37]  You know, like if you do something for someone and they go, thank you, you go, you're welcome.
[01:03:40]  But there's this weird thing in capitalism where you could go to a store and buy something and you go thank you and they go thank you.
[01:03:50]  Because you actually both kind of made an interaction where the other one wanted what you had more and you traded what you wanted more.
[01:03:58]  When you go to a store and buy milk, you're saying, I want this milk more than I want this money.
[01:04:03]  And they're saying, I want this money more than I want this milk.
[01:04:06]  That's the essence of reducing government and letting markets decide is that you get these win-win situations.
[01:04:13]  So whatever the number of bullets that would be sold under free market conditions are is the correct number by definition, if that makes sense.
[01:04:24]  Thank you.
[01:04:25]  My gun stops off fans.
[01:04:28]  All right.
[01:04:31]  All right.
[01:04:32]  So my question is, you had a rant maybe about a year ago where you were talking, I think you're on the PBD podcast and you were talking about how everybody was so focused about how the banks ripped us off and like 2008 happened.
[01:04:45]  And it was a great rant.
[01:04:46]  Honestly, probably the best rant I've heard in like, I don't know, since a long time I can remember.
[01:04:52]  Thank you.
[01:04:53]  Yeah.
[01:04:53]  But my question is like, I feel, I was in college at that time and, you know, I'm in my 30s now and I feel like the climate is similar where we're all pissed off about, you know, wars and COVID and just all the BS that's going on in this world right now and in our own country.
[01:05:12]  Do you feel that we're kind of at that same political climate as to when everybody was mad about the banks ripping us off and generally?
[01:05:20]  And do you think there's going to be a different outcome that's for us and the people?
[01:05:23]  Like with like, I know you have your differences with RFK, but do you think he has a shot to maybe make a difference, especially in the blue city like Chicago?
[01:05:32]  You know, I mean, does, and I know it's kind of a two-part question there, but I'm just curious on your thoughts on all this here.
[01:05:37]  Okay.
[01:05:38]  So for people who don't know what he's talking about, the rant that I had on Patrick Bett David's podcast was about how in if you look at like the Nexus charts that measure words that were used in mainstream publications around the year 2012, all the woke shit just explodes.
[01:06:04]  Like in the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, like in all these like all CNN and all these men, all of a sudden they started talking about transgenderism and racism and toxic masculinity and white privilege and all these things.
[01:06:18]  And if you look at him on a chart, it's unbelievable the way it maps out.
[01:06:22]  Like it just goes like and shoots up.
[01:06:24]  And this kind of, if you look at the charts, it seems to be very strong evidence that it isn't the case that college graduates who were like woke started entering the workforce.
[01:06:37]  Because if that were the case, then you would expect to see like a slow rise in it, but it shoots up.
[01:06:43]  It seems like it's a top-down decision to start talking about.
[01:06:47]  And this happened to be on the heels of Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
[01:06:52]  And then Barack Obama, who was supposed to be a repudiation of the Bush administration, but then continues all the policies of the Bush administration, is up for reelection.
[01:07:01]  And it seems like my conclusion is that there was this huge intentional distraction campaign where basically people were waking up to how corrupt the government is.
[01:07:13]  And then every powerful person in America decided we have to have a national conversation about chicks with dicks.
[01:07:21]  And I'm just saying I don't think that was an organic thing.
[01:07:24]  I don't think that came from the bottom up.
[01:07:27]  I think this was designed to pit Americans against each other.
[01:07:31]  I think that it's not a coincidence, as I said on Candace Owens' show, that all the most powerful people in America who are responsible for ruining everything about this country are every time you see them trying to convince you that you should hate your fellow Americans.
[01:07:48]  I don't think that's a coincidence.
[01:07:50]  I think that's a divide and conquer strategy.
[01:07:52]  And so if the question is, and sorry, because I just wanted to say that and then get back to your point.
[01:07:59]  So if it's, well, now that people are waking up to COVID and all of this crazy stuff, and people are really waking up to the corruption of government, which I do agree with you is happening at like an unprecedented level, like nothing I've ever seen before in my life.
[01:08:15]  So what is their strategy now to deal with the population who sees how corrupt they are?
[01:08:22]  Well, I would say it might be 7 million foreigners flooding our country in the last three years.
[01:08:33]  Maybe that's part of their strategy.
[01:08:35]  That they're just going to be like, well, maybe we'll just kind of flood a whole new population in here who has no idea about the corruption of this country and is actually just grateful to be here.
[01:08:46]  And in fact, we're giving them a free hotel room and free health care.
[01:08:49]  So maybe they're not going to have anything to say about that.
[01:08:52]  And that doesn't mean, again, it's like, don't, like, people get trained to be in this like left-right kind of...
[01:08:58]  That's not me saying I hate those people who are coming over here.
[01:09:00]  I have nothing but like empathy for those people.
[01:09:04]  But at the same time, recognize that this is intentional.
[01:09:08]  The example I used the other day on the podcast is like, imagine like I'm a trained killer and I'm in my house and I have an AR-15 and it's loaded and ready to go.
[01:09:22]  And then some unarmed people break in and come in and like start assaulting my wife and my kids and I don't do anything.
[01:09:30]  You could deduce that I allowed that to happen, right?
[01:09:34]  Because like you're a fucking trained killer with an AR-15.
[01:09:37]  This is your family.
[01:09:38]  You could have easily protected them.
[01:09:40]  That's what's going on right now with the mass influx of migrants.
[01:09:46]  The U.S. federal government is the most powerful organization in the history of the world.
[01:09:51]  They could easily stop this.
[01:09:53]  If there's a fucking wedding in Yemen where we have someone who we suspect of doing something bad, you know, we will fucking blow up that wedding.
[01:10:04]  Because that's how much power the U.S. federal government has.
[01:10:07]  Don't tell me for a fucking second they can't stop the influx of migrants.
[01:10:10]  They could in a minute.
[01:10:12]  They're intentionally allowing this to happen.
[01:10:15]  And so I think that's kind of what's going on.
[01:10:18]  Now, as far as your comment about RFK, look, man, his position on this fucking war over there, it's not just that he's on the wrong side of it.
[01:10:33]  It's that he's racing to prove that he will say whatever the fucking pro-Israeli propaganda is.
[01:10:42]  He's going around the country with Rabbi Shmooley.
[01:10:45]  Okay?
[01:10:45]  That's not just you're not great on this issue.
[01:10:50]  That is you are letting everybody know that you are controlled.
[01:10:58]  And if you are fucking controlled, then you need to drop out of the race for president.
[01:11:03]  Sorry.
[01:11:06]  That's all I can say.
[01:11:09]  It brings me no pleasure to say that.
[01:11:12]  I have a relationship with the guy.
[01:11:14]  He has, you know, he's like a celebrity who has tried to like kind of, I've been invited out to go like take a summer vacation with my family at his compound and all that stuff.
[01:11:29]  And like he's, he's like been nothing but cool to me.
[01:11:33]  I wish there was a way that I could like protect the relationship because like, oh, that's kind of neat.
[01:11:37]  This Kennedy likes me and we could have a, but I'm sorry.
[01:11:41]  His position on this is a deal breaker.
[01:11:43]  And it's got to be.
[01:11:44]  It's got to be for anyone who's being honest here.
[01:11:47]  I can't sit here and say, oh, we're going to get dragged into another fucking pointless war that is not in our country's interest, that is in a foreign country's interest.
[01:11:57]  And even if that foreign country is made up of my people, I don't care.
[01:12:03]  My kids don't live in that country.
[01:12:05]  My kids live in this country and they have to grow up in this country.
[01:12:09]  And if you're trying to support a policy that's going to make our country worse, then, you know, it's like Tucker Carlson says, if you're, if you're trying to make the country that my kids are growing up in worse, you're my enemy.
[01:12:22]  Very easy.
[01:12:27]  So no, I don't think you'd be any better.
[01:12:29]  If you're that controlled, you won't be any better than the rest of them will.
[01:12:33]  And it sucks.
[01:12:33]  It really is disappointing because he did seem like he'd be better for a little bit.

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[01:13:53]  All right.
[01:13:54]  All right, we'll hear me.
[01:13:57]  Hey, hey, Dave.
[01:13:58]  So a little contents.
[01:14:00]  Wait, where are we?
[01:14:01]  I can't see it.
[01:14:01]  Right here.
[01:14:02]  Back left corner.
[01:14:03]  Ah, there you go.
[01:14:04]  So the four of us, I just want to give a little.
[01:14:06]  By the way, I'd say, because there's always lights in my face.
[01:14:09]  I get it because I'd say the same thing.
[01:14:10]  But there's always lights in my face.
[01:14:12]  And then when someone will talk, I'll go, where are you?
[01:14:14]  And the answer in all these live shows is always right here.
[01:14:19]  And I'm going to go, that doesn't help that much.
[01:14:22]  But I do understand I was in the same place.
[01:14:26]  First time here, man.
[01:14:27]  I can't describe where I'm at.
[01:14:29]  No, but just a contest wanted to say that before tonight, I actually did not know about you.
[01:14:35]  We were coming to you.
[01:14:36]  You just ended it up here?
[01:14:37]  No, yeah, a little bit like comedy.
[01:14:39]  We were like, let's go to a comedy show.
[01:14:42]  I saw the podcast in the name, but like everyone has a crazy tour name.
[01:14:45]  So I was like, it's still going to be staying up.
[01:14:47]  But this is actually pretty cool to come here.
[01:14:49]  And like, I've never been a part of this.
[01:14:51]  So anyway, I just want to say that give contents.
[01:14:54]  But thank you.
[01:14:56]  I appreciate that.
[01:14:57]  I'll tell you, I always love doing.
[01:14:59]  So we did a whole week of stand-up shows.
[01:15:01]  Like we did four shows in the Rosemont Zane's Club.
[01:15:05]  And then we did the stand-up show here earlier tonight.
[01:15:07]  And then so sometimes we'll end it with this with the podcast.
[01:15:11]  And a lot of what most of it is the people from the stand-up shows stay and come to the live podcast.
[01:15:16]  But then there's always like one or two people who just came to a comedy club.
[01:15:22]  And like it's it's a it's enough of a thing when it's just our stand-up set.
[01:15:26]  But then when it's like this, I do feel like, I get it, man.
[01:15:29]  This was not at all what you signed up for.
[01:15:32]  This is like, like at first we come up and make some jokes and you're like, this is funny.
[01:15:36]  And then they're like, are they talking about the fucking business cycle?
[01:15:39]  Or what the fuck is happening here?
[01:15:42]  So I do appreciate you hanging in there.

=== A Revolution of Sorts (04:23) ===

[01:15:45]  I'm sorry.
[01:15:46]  I was a little nervous about it, but it's been good.
[01:15:49]  But one thing that resonated with me is you said something about you're talking about the Trump and Biden thing.
[01:15:54]  And, you know, I was the same way.
[01:15:56]  Like, I hate, I was like thinking back in the day, like, I'm not a big Trump supporter, but like, it was annoying that they were like nitpicking every little bit of thing, you know?
[01:16:06]  So in like 2016, going to my head, I probably would have voted Trump.
[01:16:10]  Didn't vote.
[01:16:11]  I'm not political.
[01:16:12]  And then 2020, I just couldn't because I, you know, one, I just don't think like a president should not be divisive.
[01:16:22]  So I was like, can't go with Trump.
[01:16:24]  And then Biden is, you know, should probably be in a home.
[01:16:28]  So I'm not going to do that.
[01:16:30]  But my thing is, like, what I tell people when you get on politics, it's like, why are we in a two-party system?
[01:16:35]  Why is it us versus them?
[01:16:38]  And I just want to see why you, what, like, if you have any opinion on like, why are we not getting to more than two parties?
[01:16:44]  No, hey, that's not, don't fucking absolutely.
[01:16:46]  This guy's going to leave here tonight being like, we got to fucking end the Fed, motherfuckers.
[01:16:53]  What's up, what's up, honey?
[01:16:54]  What's that?
[01:16:56]  You have one more question.
[01:16:59]  So you, okay, so basically, here's the whole thing, right?
[01:17:03]  Is that one of the like the genius of the American fucking empire is that they figured this out a long time ago.
[01:17:12]  That there's, look, all over the world, and to be fair, in America, in this country, we've had many revolutions that we don't recognize as revolutions.
[01:17:23]  So most people, your textbook will tell you we had a revolution, you know, starting in 1776, and then we fought the Revolutionary War, and then we've been the United States of America ever since then.
[01:17:34]  But that's not right at all.
[01:17:36]  And in fact, we operated under the Articles of Confederation for quite a while before the Constitution was even written.
[01:17:43]  And that was a coup.
[01:17:46]  That was a revolution of sorts.
[01:17:48]  And then there was a revolution of sorts in 1861 through 1865, where it was totally believed.
[01:17:56]  If you go back and read American literature before the Civil War, they never used to say the United States of America.
[01:18:03]  They used to say these United States of America because the understanding was that we were states that had agreed to be a part of this union and the states had autonomy.
[01:18:17]  And now, of course, obviously, you know, this gets into touchy issues.
[01:18:21]  Slavery is fucked up and the South wanted to protect slavery, but it was always a given that states had a right to leave.
[01:18:30]  And then when a bunch of states tried to leave, they were forcefully, you know, brought back into the union.
[01:18:36]  And so that was a revolution in the sense that we changed from being these United States to being the United States of America as if that was one nation state rather than a group of nation states in an agreement together.
[01:18:51]  And then I would say that under Woodrow Wilson, I think there was a revolution of sorts where you created a central bank and a federal income tax.
[01:19:01]  I think you could argue under FDR, there was another revolution of sorts, you know, where we completely changed our system of government.
[01:19:09]  And then most importantly, in the post-World War II era under Truman, where you created the CIA and the national security apparatus, which has really ruled our government, really ruled our country ever since.
[01:19:22]  And so what they figured out that a lot of other nations have not figured out is that giving people the illusion that there haven't been these revolutions is much more powerful than letting them know that there have been.
[01:19:40]  And so you have these one-party dictatorships all around the world.
[01:19:44]  And what happens?
[01:19:45]  When that one-party dictatorship fails, there's a revolution and they overthrow them.
[01:19:49]  And everyone knows it was a revolution.
[01:19:50]  But what we have in our country is a uniparty, two wings of the same bird.
[01:19:58]  And they're always trying to convince you to be scared of the other one to support this one.
[01:20:02]  Because if you do that, when you get furious at one side, you vote them out and put the other side in.

=== Perfect Enemy of the Good (15:38) ===

[01:20:08]  But the other side is all part, it's all part of the same fucking thing.
[01:20:11]  So that's why they're always trying to convince you to see it from this side or this side.
[01:20:16]  Those are your options.
[01:20:17]  Your options are Bush or Obama.
[01:20:22]  Your options are Romney or Obama.
[01:20:24]  Your options are Clinton or McCain.
[01:20:28]  And Trump, it does represent a little bit of a departure from that.
[01:20:32]  He is kind of different and both sides of the parties don't like him.
[01:20:38]  But at the same time, he was always just never up to the task of actually recognizing what was going on there and overthrowing the system.
[01:20:48]  And what really motivates Donald Trump is just how great he is.
[01:20:52]  You know?
[01:20:53]  That's all he really gives a shit about, is being like, I won because I'm tremendous.
[01:21:00]  And so that's the whole fucking game, is that they got to keep you really arguing about these two sides when anyone with any amount of common sense could go, both these sides fucking suck.
[01:21:13]  And like, so that's it.
[01:21:14]  That's the whole fucking game right there.
[01:21:17]  You're like, what do you like?
[01:21:18]  Coke or Pepsi?
[01:21:19]  And you're like, I think they're both really bad for you.
[01:21:30]  Now, let us create the fourth rank.
[01:21:34]  Hey, Dave.
[01:21:35]  I'm just kidding.
[01:21:35]  Guys in the back.
[01:21:36]  I'm kidding, okay?
[01:21:37]  That was the comedy part.
[01:21:40]  Yes.
[01:21:41]  Dave, you always say don't let perfect, don't let perfect get in the way of good.
[01:21:50]  He was very close with that.
[01:21:54]  Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, I believe.
[01:21:57]  Yeah, almost on the first try.
[01:22:00]  I don't think good is necessarily the best word, but do you think that's how you view the Israel-Palestine situation?
[01:22:09]  Well, what do you mean by that?
[01:22:10]  I mean, good would probably, perfect would be no civilian deaths.
[01:22:17]  And what would be good?
[01:22:19]  You tell me.
[01:22:21]  Well, you're asking the question.
[01:22:24]  No, I'm not being a...
[01:22:27]  I'm just saying.
[01:22:28]  That's perfect.
[01:22:28]  I'm going to name perfect.
[01:22:30]  Okay.
[01:22:31]  But What is the good that I'm making that perfect be the enemy of?
[01:22:36]  Right.
[01:22:37]  Hamas leaving Israel.
[01:22:39]  Yeah, Hamas leaving Israel.
[01:22:41]  Well, Hamas isn't in it.
[01:22:42]  I mean, Hamas thieving Palestine.
[01:22:46]  Okay.
[01:22:46]  So that would, okay.
[01:22:48]  So Hamas leaving Palestine would be great.
[01:22:52]  That would be very good.
[01:22:54]  And the Likud party leaving Israel would be very good too.
[01:22:58]  Yeah.
[01:22:59]  So if you had a plan where you were like, hey, we can remove Hamas from Gaza, then great.
[01:23:09]  You know, I'm all ears for that plan.
[01:23:11]  If you had a plan that was like, hey, we could make these Likud fanatics leave Israel, then that'd be great too.
[01:23:17]  But if the plan is that you're telling me that what we're going to do is fucking level Gaza and kill tens of thousands of people, which by the way is the least of it because there's the situation there now, I was just looking at the numbers the other day.
[01:23:33]  I think 70% of the buildings in Gaza City have been destroyed.
[01:23:38]  There's 2 million people.
[01:23:39]  You're telling me about the people who are in the world.
[01:23:41]  I mean, short of some crazy intervention, there are going to be hundreds of thousands of people who die in the following years because of that.
[01:23:49]  And if you think that's going to remove Hamas, I think you're totally misunderstanding this whole dynamic here.
[01:23:56]  This is a guarantee that there will be more Hamas or Hamas-like organizations or worse than Hamas.
[01:24:05]  There will be terror.
[01:24:06]  Look, there is no group of people in the history of human beings will accept what is being done to them, what's being done in Gaza right now, without dedicating their lives to violently fighting back.
[01:24:21]  And so if you were trying to ensure that there will be more Hamas, I think this is the best thing you could do.
[01:24:30]  So I don't think I'm making the perfect the enemy of the good.
[01:24:33]  I think that, look, if you're aware of the history of Israeli responses to terrorist attacks, before Netanyahu, for the entire history of Israel, they always, and there's been terrorism going back before the creation of Israel on both sides.
[01:24:53]  And Israel always fought terrorism with assassination campaigns, special operations campaigns.
[01:25:03]  That was always the way they did it.
[01:25:05]  They never treated it like a full-on military response.
[01:25:09]  That's only been true since Netanyahu's been here.
[01:25:12]  And this is unlike anything they've ever done.
[01:25:15]  And it's just, it's, I don't think this is making the perfect the enemy of the good.
[01:25:21]  I think that what I'm talking about here is making the catastrophe the enemy of the good.
[01:25:27]  And that there, you know, I'm not saying that after October 7th that Israel was going to respond with zero violence or something like that.
[01:25:36]  Obviously, they were going to go after those people.
[01:25:39]  And there were a lot of different ways that they could have done it.
[01:25:41]  Cutting off the entire water and electricity to a concentration camp with 2 million people in it and then going on a massive bombing campaign against those people.
[01:25:52]  That's not making the perfect the enemy of the good, dude.
[01:25:55]  That's just saying this is a goddamn atrocity that should never have fucking happened.
[01:26:00]  So that's, yeah.
[01:26:03]  All right.
[01:26:04]  Straight in back.
[01:26:04]  Oh, we divided the crowd a little bit.
[01:26:07]  Sorry, Jews.
[01:26:10]  Me and Robber.
[01:26:13]  Hi.
[01:26:14]  Name is Ashley, Singlewoman from Michigan.
[01:26:20]  Ashley, are you going to be controlled in a relationship?
[01:26:23]  Because I got a guy right here.
[01:26:25]  Hey.
[01:26:26]  Not the guy I have eyes on.
[01:26:28]  Sorry.
[01:26:29]  This is for Rob, actually.
[01:26:32]  Hello.
[01:26:33]  I am.
[01:26:34]  Oh man, your voice is making the perfect the enemy of the good right now.
[01:26:38]  I am here with a friend.
[01:26:40]  She's single, and I was totally interested in Rob until I found out his friend Gary is here.
[01:26:46]  But he had to pay for his tickets, even though I hear that he has his own podcast and gives a lot of information.
[01:26:52]  Listen, I didn't understand a word of that.
[01:26:54]  Can I ask you a question?
[01:26:55]  Go for it.
[01:26:56]  Choose to talk like that.
[01:27:00]  Any guesses?
[01:27:02]  You can just talk the way you actually talk.
[01:27:05]  Maybe this is the way I talk.
[01:27:07]  No.
[01:27:08]  No.
[01:27:08]  Maybe it's just for Rob who's just standing close.
[01:27:11]  No, this is performative.
[01:27:13]  It absolutely is.
[01:27:14]  Thank you so much.
[01:27:16]  All right, Rob, you like these ladies or not?
[01:27:19]  She's all right.
[01:27:19]  I don't know where this question's going.
[01:27:22]  There's no question, just statements here.
[01:27:25]  Okay, so we'll take another question.
[01:27:28]  Well, Rob, if you ever care, right?
[01:27:32]  Excuse me.
[01:27:34]  Hey, Dave.
[01:27:35]  What's up, dude?
[01:27:36]  Well, this question might put you on the spot a bit, if that's all right.
[01:27:40]  Bring it on.
[01:27:40]  Come on.
[01:27:41]  Thanks, sir.
[01:27:42]  You said many times over the years that the Ron Paul moment is what opened your eyes and set you down the path to libertarianism.
[01:27:48]  I know you've heard from a lot of people, myself included, that you've done the same for us, that what Ron Paul did for you.
[01:27:53]  So my question is, where would you be right now if Ron Paul had woken up one morning and decided that his true calling in life was to be a country doctor, not a congressman?
[01:28:05]  That's a good question.
[01:28:06]  I have no fucking idea where I'd be, you know?
[01:28:09]  And, you know, that's a counterfactual like that is kind of impossible to answer.
[01:28:15]  I don't know where I'd be.
[01:28:16]  Maybe I would have heard him on C-SPAN and become a country doctor.
[01:28:25]  You know?
[01:28:26]  There's like a lot of, everybody I'm sure has a million like moments in their life that were like big pivotal moments.
[01:28:32]  And if that hadn't happened, then who knows where they would have ended up.
[01:28:36]  So I don't know.
[01:28:36]  That was a big one for me.
[01:28:38]  And I don't know where I would have ended up.
[01:28:41]  But I do, if I'm just telling you what I believe, and this, maybe I'm not right about this, but I kind of, this is to the extent what I believe in terms of like God and the nature of existence is that I do genuinely believe that I would have found my wife and I would have been with her.
[01:29:06]  That's what I honestly believe.
[01:29:08]  Just to be honest with you.
[01:29:09]  I believe that like in 100,000 different lifetimes, with 100,000 different set of circumstances, I believe me and her would have always found each other.
[01:29:20]  That's what I believe.
[01:29:21]  Yeah, isn't that sweet?
[01:29:23]  All right.
[01:29:24]  Now, lady, are you going to fuck Rob tonight or not?
[01:29:31]  But I really genuinely, that's what I believe.
[01:29:33]  But I don't know.
[01:29:33]  I might have been doing something completely different with my life.
[01:29:36]  Probably, I still would have been a stand-up comedian.
[01:29:39]  I think I still would have been doing stand-up comedy and podcasting and stuff like that, but I maybe never would have been a libertarian or cared about any of these political issues.
[01:29:48]  But, you know, also the world went crazy so much that I probably would have gotten into it at all.
[01:29:53]  I think probably I would have cared.
[01:29:55]  I would have been a stand-up comic.
[01:29:56]  I would have cared about politics.
[01:29:58]  But I think I might have been way more lost and not had the kind of like correct theory to guide me through all of this stuff.
[01:30:06]  That's what I guess.
[01:30:08]  Yeah.
[01:30:09]  I'd have been Lewis.
[01:30:10]  That's where I would have been if I hadn't.
[01:30:14]  Hey, Dave, a big fan, hardcore libertarian, too.
[01:30:18]  I feel like I got the perfect follow-up question here just like by accident.
[01:30:22]  But what I was going to ask is the principles of the Libertarian Party are very easy to spell out and very easy to get behind.
[01:30:31]  So why is it so hard to get people behind the Libertarian Party and take it seriously as a third option?
[01:30:40]  Why is it that the Libertarian Party is so bad at branding itself and getting the message of libertarianism publicly in the mainstream discourse?
[01:30:51]  It's very confusing.
[01:30:53]  I don't get that.
[01:30:54]  Well, I guess there's probably several factors to that.
[01:30:57]  And one is that the libertarians in the Libertarian Party haven't been particularly good at doing that.
[01:31:02]  But also, it's like what I was talking about before.
[01:31:05]  Like there's this kind of the uniparty thing where there is this so many people are called and understandably to it to a certain extent where it's like the whole like look if you make all of the the media that's targeted toward the left half of America is about how dangerous Donald Trump is and how if you support Donald Trump, it's the end of democracy.
[01:31:31]  And so then even the people like who they don't really love Biden, but they're like, I don't know, it's him or the end of democracy.
[01:31:38]  And then vice versa.
[01:31:40]  That's always been the case, right?
[01:31:41]  That like the right half of America, their media is telling them that Joe Biden is going to be the end of America.
[01:31:48]  And so it doesn't matter how bad you think Trump was on so many things.
[01:31:52]  It doesn't matter that Donald Trump, you know, like I talk about this.
[01:31:56]  I talk to people who are Trump supporters all the time.
[01:31:59]  And you'll be like, dude, but you know, he kept Fauci on the job through all of 2020.
[01:32:03]  And they're like, yeah, but Biden, you know?
[01:32:08]  And so they get in this thing where they're so scared that to go in another direction would allow this evil to take them over.
[01:32:16]  And by the way, they're both so evil that they make good, it's a fair argument.
[01:32:20]  But that's also, that's what stops people from ever willing to be outside of the box.
[01:32:26]  And so that's, and that, and a mix of the fact that the libertarians are just not very good at selling themselves, you know?
[01:32:34]  So that's, I think that's really what the problem is.
[01:32:37]  All right, what do we got?
[01:32:38]  How are we doing on time, Ron?
[01:32:39]  Let's take two more.
[01:32:40]  Two more questions.
[01:32:42]  Let's do it.
[01:32:43]  Hey, Dave, just want to say you and Ron Paul were my two inspirations too.
[01:32:47]  Ron Paul woke me up, and then you were all over the internet talking about this shit.
[01:32:50]  So I send your videos to everyone I possibly can, get them all on board.
[01:32:54]  Thank you.
[01:32:54]  I really appreciate that.
[01:32:55]  Hell yeah.
[01:32:56]  No, hell yeah.
[01:32:57]  So, I mean, yeah, I was a huge RFK supporter until the Hamas and Israel shit too.
[01:33:01]  And yeah, I'm lost there.
[01:33:03]  But so what you said about RFK, you said he, you know, is controlled.
[01:33:07]  So my question is, how deep do you want to put you on a list even further?
[01:33:19]  But yeah, so basically, I mean, if you can say what you think, how deep do you think it goes?
[01:33:25]  You know, I know you say CIA and stuff, but like, you know, they're, you know, Freemasonry, whatever it is, Illuminati, however you think it is, how deep do you think the power structures go?
[01:33:37]  You fucking asshole.
[01:33:40]  God damn it.
[01:33:41]  This is the problem.
[01:33:42]  I got on these live shows and people are having a few beers and I'm just letting it all flow.
[01:33:46]  And then it wasn't until he said, well, you said RFK was controlled.
[01:33:50]  And I went, fuck, did I say that?
[01:33:52]  God damn it.
[01:33:53]  I'm going to have to deal with a few text messages tomorrow.
[01:33:57]  Look, I try to not go down too many conspiratorial rabbit holes that I can't prove or don't have good evidence for.
[01:34:09]  I always try to just kind of like prosecute the case that I think I can convict, if that makes sense.
[01:34:16]  And I don't have any answers to this that you don't have.
[01:34:22]  I'm not like claiming to have any inside information.
[01:34:25]  I've been a little bit on the inside in terms of the corporate media.
[01:34:31]  I've been on shows, but it's not like I've been to the top of that and really seen what goes on in the back end or anything like that.
[01:34:38]  I think that, okay, we know what we know.
[01:34:45]  We know that there was this guy named Jeffrey Epstein, who almost certainly was working for Mossad, who was in the business of getting blackmail information on powerful people in America.
[01:35:04]  We know that.
[01:35:06]  That one was discovered.
[01:35:08]  Does that mean that that's the only blackmail operation?
[01:35:12]  Or is it more reasonable to assume that there's many and that was the one that was discovered?
[01:35:18]  You can answer the question on that.
[01:35:20]  If there are people who were on Jeffrey Epstein's flight log, who when the topic of Israel comes up will only ever say the most pro-Israel thing.
[01:35:39]  Maybe they're from a family of people who are not known for their self-control.

=== Elite Conspiracy Theories (02:14) ===

[01:35:46]  My family was taking vacation.
[01:35:48]  You know, like, I don't know.
[01:35:50]  This is not, I'm not, I'm really not, by the way, I'm not saying I know what the answer to this is.
[01:35:55]  I'm saying this is what I know.
[01:35:58]  And what do you think about all of this?
[01:36:02]  Let's say there's a gigantic lobby in the United States of America that works for a foreign power that will ruin your life if you criticize that foreign government.
[01:36:16]  And then let's say you know about that.
[01:36:18]  And I ask you, do you think that foreign government has too much influence in our country?
[01:36:23]  And you are silent for seven seconds while you think about what you're allowed to say.
[01:36:33]  I mean, I don't know.
[01:36:34]  Like, I'm not trying to, like, I'm not saying like, oh my God, I think there's lizard people here.
[01:36:39]  You know, I'm like, I don't know.
[01:36:41]  I'm open.
[01:36:42]  If you got a good answer for me on that, anyway, I'm open to what the good answer is on that.
[01:36:47]  But, you know, the idea, when you think about the concept of conspiracy theories, and that, by the way, that term was designed, I believe, by the CIA, after JFK was assassinated, because they wanted to find a term to denigrate anybody who would dare question whether what obviously happened in that situation actually happened.
[01:37:13]  And so, which by the way, RFK will be the first to tell you was bullshit, right?
[01:37:21]  Like, so I would say that the idea that believing in wild, there's a lot of people who have conspiracy theories that are insane.
[01:37:30]  And it is true if you go down like the Twitter rabbit hole of like QAnon people and they believe that like, you know, whatever Trump's about to be, for years they were saying he's about to be reinstated and all the pedophiles are going to be arrested.
[01:37:46]  Yeah, I think a lot of that shit is stupid.
[01:37:49]  But if you're talking about are there conspiracies, do elites conspire with each other to get, like, come on.

=== Meaning Life With Children (06:38) ===

[01:38:00]  I mean, of course, of course they do.
[01:38:02]  And so many things that we've known, I mean, look, the war in Iraq was a conspiracy theory.
[01:38:08]  There's no question about it, that elites conspired to frame Saddam Hussein for having weapons of mass destruction that they knew he didn't have because this was the war they already wanted to fight.
[01:38:18]  And they use this conspiracy to launch a war where a million people died.
[01:38:24]  That's real.
[01:38:25]  That happened.
[01:38:27]  With all this stuff, I'll be the first to say, I'm speculating to some degree, so I don't know.
[01:38:31]  But all I'll say is look at what you do know and then draw the most logical conclusion from that.
[01:38:42]  Oh, man, I really do.
[01:38:43]  I keep thinking about the people who are here who weren't here for this show and how it started off with a lot of funny stuff.
[01:38:49]  And they were like, okay, I'm kind of getting there.
[01:38:51]  And by the end, they're like, what am I a part of?
[01:38:54]  What did I just join up with?
[01:38:56]  All right, last question.
[01:38:58]  Last question.
[01:38:59]  So I feel like we've established that having children is pretty hard, especially for women.
[01:39:05]  But I feel like more and more, especially women, I think some men too, but especially women are even more afraid of having children.
[01:39:14]  And that's kind of tipping them over the edge just by fears pretty much about what the world is like nowadays.
[01:39:24]  Like pretty much all walks of life, no matter kind of what beliefs you subscribe to, you find some reason to not have children, like whether it's climate change fears or just, you know, China or Russia or whatever.
[01:39:40]  There's just a lot of reasons.
[01:39:44]  What would you tell someone who's maybe not rationally afraid of having children or maybe like wants children?
[01:39:55]  Like I don't necessarily want to convince anyone who doesn't want to have children to have them, but someone who maybe would have them accept they're afraid of the world.
[01:40:07]  So if there's someone who says the world is so messed up that I can't have children now, what would I like say to convince them to have children?
[01:40:18]  Well, look, like you, I mean, there are some people who don't want to have children who I very much believe should not have children.
[01:40:24]  So I'm not trying to convince all of them.
[01:40:27]  But I would say to anyone who's like, anyone who's like a good person, who wants to have children, or anyone who's in like a healthy marriage or anything like that, which is, I think that's where you should start from if you're going to have children.
[01:40:40]  And I do very much believe, and again, I don't consider myself to be like any, like a radically socially conservative person, but I do think that like if you have children, you should do that with the commitment that you and the mom or you and the dad are going to be together for the rest of your life.
[01:40:59]  That's what I believe.
[01:41:01]  I would say that the idea that anyone alive today would go, well, we can't have children because the world is just so dangerous, should zoom out and have some understanding of what history has been like.
[01:41:17]  And that you exist because people 10,000 years ago had children.
[01:41:27]  And you would not exist if they hadn't.
[01:41:30]  And if you want to compare the struggles that you're up against against people living 10,000 years ago and you even think this is a difficult time to have children, you're a fucking asshole for even like comparing yourself to people in times where antibiotics didn't exist and OBGYNs didn't exist and like women having children would be having them in the fucking grass.
[01:41:58]  You know what I mean?
[01:41:59]  And just going through it.
[01:42:01]  You know what I'm saying?
[01:42:02]  Like have a little bit of perspective to how hard it was even just not forget even going back like thousands of years or anything like that, but go back to like not that long ago.
[01:42:12]  Like you're, you know, I bet almost everyone in this room knew their grandparents.
[01:42:17]  And I bet some of the people in this room knew their great-grandparents.
[01:42:21]  So just go back to your great-grandparents and how much more insane the idea of having children in that world would have been compared to today's world.
[01:42:32]  So this is all, like, I just hate this.
[01:42:34]  This is all a bunch of bullshit excuse making.
[01:42:37]  You know, if you want to say, oh, things are tough, yeah, things are fucking tough and they always have been and we have problems.
[01:42:43]  But I'll just say this.
[01:42:46]  First of all, two things.
[01:42:48]  Okay, to have children is number one, the most base, like even whether you're religious or an atheist, if you had to reduce what the meaning of life is, there's nothing that you could reduce more to the core of it than to continue the species.
[01:43:06]  Like that's from a from an evolutionary standpoint, that would be the meaning of life, is to continue the species going.
[01:43:14]  And from a religious standpoint, that would be the meaning of life, to be fruitful and multiply.
[01:43:19]  Like no matter where you come from, that's the closest to what we have, to what this is all about, is to have kids.
[01:43:27]  And then number two, I would say that as someone who has kids, having kids provides you with something that you would never have otherwise.
[01:43:40]  The relationship that you have with your kids is different than any relationship you'll ever have with anyone else in your life.
[01:43:48]  I love my wife like crazy.
[01:43:51]  I would die for my wife.
[01:43:53]  I would do anything for her, but there's nothing like the relationship I have with my kids.
[01:43:59]  You know, they look at me like I'm their hero.
[01:44:03]  I look at them like they are my complete purpose in the world.
[01:44:07]  There is nothing, like you guys here who are parents, when you have little kids, they have a desire to just be with you.
[01:44:14]  Like that is, it's hard to describe.
[01:44:17]  They're just like, hey, can I just, can I just watch you?
[01:44:20]  Can I just work with you?
[01:44:22]  Can I just hang out with you?
[01:44:24]  And there's nothing that makes you a better person than having that relationship.
[01:44:30]  And so you can make all the excuses you fucking want to, but that just comes down to like, oh, you're a fucking Freddy cat, basically.

=== My Kids Are My Purpose (01:19) ===

[01:44:39]  Oh, things might not be easy.
[01:44:40]  Yeah, no fucking kidding.
[01:44:42]  There were people in the middle of fucking wars and fucking hunter-gatherer groups who had fucking kids.
[01:44:48]  Who the fuck do you think you are?
[01:44:50]  That this, oh, what, Donald Trump might be president again, so I can't have kids?
[01:44:56]  It's the best thing I've ever done in my life.
[01:44:58]  And I'll just tell you, I think if you're in a loving relationship, I think it's the best thing you'll ever do in your life.
[01:45:02]  So that's all I say about that.
[01:45:07]  Man, did this podcast end on a wholesome right-wing message?
[01:45:17]  I just, I can't tell you how much I like I love, we were at the Rosemont Club, the Zane's out there for the last two days, and I love the shows out there.
[01:45:25]  I love this club even more.
[01:45:27]  Last year, we had an incredible weekend.
[01:45:30]  This year, it was even more incredible, and we sold even more tickets.
[01:45:34]  And I just, I will say I am really grateful to all of you guys for coming out to the show tonight.
[01:45:39]  I really appreciate it.
[01:45:41]  I think we're going to wrap it there.
[01:45:43]  I have to run up to the green room and call the family and pee, and then I will come out and take pictures with anybody and talk to anybody who wants to hang out for a little bit after that.
[01:45:53]  All right.
[01:45:53]  Thank you guys so much for coming out to the show tonight.
[01:45:56]  I really appreciate you guys.
[01:45:58]  Have a good night.