Dave Smith

It's a weird thing.

And I remember talking about this for many years on the show, like back in, say, 2017, 2018.

This would be the type of thing we'd talk about where every now and then.

And I was still, you know, I was I was a stand up comedian.

I mean, I'm still a standup comedian.

I have to remind myself.

But now I'm like a national headliner.

Like I tour around the country doing headlining shows.

I used to just do showcase shows in New York City, which is what most comedians do for, you know, some comedians do it forever.

It's what most comics do to start out.

And, you know, a lot of like wokeism and liberalism and leftism, that was all, it was a dominant thing in the New York comedy scene.

I used to talk to like some of these woke people at the time.

And it would be, it would be, um,

Kind of a fascinating but futile effort at times to like talk to someone who was really in the middle of the woke cult in 2017.

And you'd talk to them and they would just swear – they would make these assertions about our society and you would find yourself – like it's almost like –

It's hard to refute this other than to just assert that they're wrong.

I'm not sure if that makes sense.

But for example, feminists would say we live in a rape culture where women are terrified.

Women have to walk the streets every night being terrified of being raped.

I'm like a girl would say like a 22 year old girl would say this to me who I knew, you know, at a comedy club who was a waitress there or something.