Dave Smith

This was...

you know, one of, if not the best weekends of comedy me and you have ever done together last year, sold out every show.

So hoping to do the same this year, please come on out and see us in Denver, Colorado.

Love that place.

Let's go over what's happened this weekend for a little bit, Rob, because it has been quite an eventful weekend.

You know,

I almost don't even know where to start.

The, you know, when this war first broke out, I think the first thing I said about it was what a horrible way to be vindicated, you know, and that like, that has been kind of a feeling throughout this whole thing.

And maybe that's, I don't know, maybe that's not what I should be focusing on, but it is a weird thing that just as this thing goes on and on, and I've experienced,

this a lot over the years with major issues where we were like staking out a position and the kind of mainstream institutions are calling us crazy for staking out this position and then little by little it's like you're like yep god damn it of course of course that's what it was okay a lot happened this weekend and i think we've kind of entered a new phase of this ridiculous war

um this was entirely predictable and we've been talking about this for for months at this point but at least to me rob iran has emerged as more of the winner more clearly the winner of this war after this weekend than even at any point throughout it even though it's been pretty obvious so far that like iran actually stands to win this asymmetric war

Let's go over it real quick, and you can kind of interject at any point, Rob, or correct me if I get the timeline of anything wrong here.

But essentially what happened this weekend is, as we've been talking about basically since the ceasefire, the ceasefire first broke out,

Iran is insisting that Lebanon is a part of it.

The Pakistanis backed up the Iranians early on when the ceasefire was first tentatively reached.

That, yes, this was also part of it.

Donald Trump weeks ago had made a big show of announcing that he is forbidding Israel from attacking Lebanon.

And as we've been covering over the last week and a half, Israel's response was to light Lebanon the fuck up.

So Israel's been given an opening, in a sense, to sabotage these the peace deals.

Israel does not want peace.