Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I'm Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. It's good to be back with you. How are you doing today, Rob?
Fun weekend out in Chicago. Rough Monday traveling back, but those were good shows.
i had the same exact experience uh rough rough recovery just traveling around it was a rough day of travel on monday uh for me but man that was up there with one of the best weekends of comedy i've ever had i think one of the best weekends me and you have ever done together and We've done a lot of weekends at this point, but it's just really great.
The, uh, the Zanies clubs in Rosemont and Chicago are just two of my favorite comedy clubs in the world. I love Zanies in general. The one in Nashville is great too. I'm really excited to go down there and do that this summer.
Chapter 2: What recent threats did Trump make on social media?
Um, But yeah, always just have a great time in Rosemont, Chicago.
And we don't do a ton of live pods anymore, but the one we did on Sunday was fun. And the only way to catch it is that will be the members-only content this week. So subscribe. And we got dates coming up. What do we got? I don't know off the top of my head.
Oh, yeah, we do. I know we got Tulsa and Oklahoma City coming up soon. You're right. I should be pimping all of this stuff, Rob. This is why we do it. May 1st, one-night-only podcast. We're in Tulsa. And then May 2nd and 3rd, we'll be in Oklahoma City at the Bricktown Comedy Clubs there, which we had a lot of fun last time we went. Really looking forward to getting back then.
Our next stop after that, for the first time ever, I've never done stand-up in Phoenix. For the first time ever, we're going to the Desert Ridge Improv.
It's been a porch tour staple.
I know you've told me that you do great out there. And so, yeah, it should be fun. Yes, we got five shows out there in Phoenix. Then we just added, one night only, we're doing the Parkdale Hall Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. So we'll be up there. I do not... I think...
we did one night in canada where we added was that that town right over the border from buffalo um but i haven't been to yeah well we did it but i haven't been to toronto i think since like 2017 or something like that so long time uh and i love i always had fun out there and then we got um greenwood uh oh oh that's the uh the denver comedy works uh run after that then houston
Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Appleton, Wisconsin, Austin, Texas, Louisville, Kentucky, Fort Worth and Dallas, San Diego. A lot of fun stuff coming up. So ComicDaveSmith.com for all those ticket links. Of course, me and Rob will be together on all those gigs. But yeah, really, really fun weekend. And I guess...
if you're keeping up with the news uh some stuff we'll get into today i i i don't even know what to say exactly right now rob um of course there's there's another round of supposed negotiations are going to happen in islamabad um and pakistan uh do you ever know i never know how to say pakistan like that's how i always said it my whole life for me
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Chapter 3: How did Hillary Clinton critique the ongoing war?
Because like... He looked like an asshole for saying it and then it being a completely empty threat. And keep in mind, again, this is a very important part of this timeline here, at least from everything that we have, everything that's been reported on this. The best we know is that there is no indication last time that in this game of chicken that Iran swerved first.
All the indications are that Trump swerved. Trump just swerved and announced we've agreed to the 10 point plan. And that kind of kicked off a diplomatic, you know, chapter in this war. But it's like you threaten something you don't follow through. Now you're threatening it again. I just this is supposed to be art of the deal to just. I don't know.
All this shit where people, you know, because of course this is Donald Trump, right? He wrote the book Art of the Deal. This was kind of a big part of what he always ran on. It's a big part of what his lore is, that he's just the best at making deals. And that's why, forget NAFTA, rip NAFTA up and let me negotiate a new NAFTA. It'll be way, way better.
By the way, that's essentially what they did, right? You know what the new NAFTA is? Basically, NAFTA. It's almost exactly the same. Now, I will say this. I did hear once... What's that lady's name? Barbara Cochran, I want to say. The one on Shark Tank. Rob, you know what I'm talking about?
Yes, Barbara Cochran.
Okay. So I heard her one time say that Donald Trump is the best salesman she's ever met. He was better at selling a room, at working out deals than anyone she's ever seen. So I'm not even saying... It's quite possible that he is... Look, he's Donald Trump. He'd be a phenomenal salesman, I'm sure.
Because that's what it takes to be good at sales, is to just be totally shameless and moving straight forward, throwing haymakers. He's got that style. But in terms of working out political deals, which obviously is a very different beast than business deals, there is no evidence at all that he's good at it. Like there's just, he never ends up getting anything.
He gets us out of deals that were good deals. He doesn't get us into better deals. He doesn't, none of the, and you're watching it right now where he just sits here and like, he's just arguing like a drunk teenage woman. or child, I guess, woman and teenager are kind of oxymoronic, contradictory. But you know what I'm saying?
It's just arguing, like, literally, like, it reminds me of, like, getting into an argument with your 18-year-old girlfriend when you're drunk. This, by the way, I was 18 at the time. Just to be clear. It's not like a current situation that's going on. But, like, just like, wait, what? This makes no sense. Just threatening them up and down. Another thing I'll say that's kind of been...
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Chapter 4: What criticisms did Sam Harris have regarding Joe Rogan?
you know, what I thought was really fascinating was there was one, um, so there was Hillary Clinton was talking about the war.
And of course, you know, look, Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton and she's, uh, it's, you know, it's a very evil person and has a terrible track record and the highest level of politics being the, uh, you know, a very influential Senator, a secretary of state and a very influential first lady. Um, she, um,
But and of course, she's going to trash Donald Trump no matter what, because her entire the entire point of her even appearing on a show is to go over how much better the country could have been had she been elected president. And you know what I mean? Like, that's always the narrative is that it's so awful because of him and whatever. But so she's she's opposing the war and.
And which is not shocking, but it is, you know, it's interesting to see Hillary Clinton in that role. But so she wants to criticize Donald Trump. And she wants to make Donald Trump look bad for the war. So she's saying things like, she's going, he said it was a shock that they closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Like, she goes, every war game that I've ever participated in, and I've participated in a whole lot of them, every one of them had Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, like, phase one. Like, that was always, you know. So pretty low-hanging fruit, obvious thing. But I just found this real interesting, is that then she says...
She goes, you know, she goes, Netanyahu tried to get every president to attack around, but they were all just strong enough to resist him. And so Donald Trump. So anyway, I guess my point is just that the Overton window has moved so far that even the establishment Democrat.
know it doesn't get any more establishment democrat than hillary clinton even their official talking point for criticizing donald trump now is that look we all know you gotta you have to tell the israelis no like we all know we all know that this country is trying to get us in wars all the time and you gotta only do some other wars you can't do all of them like it's just that is again this is the type of thing that like just five years ago
Five years ago, if you had said something like that, you'd be like, oh, who said that? Nick Fuentes on his show? You're like, oh, Hillary Rodham Clinton. That's who said that. It's just so been accepted at this point. And really, with this war...
mean i thought with the 12-day war but with this one i think the mask has just really been blown off like it's just everybody knows this to the point that trump has to address it he has to say it had nothing to do with them you know like but but everyone everyone acknowledges that is that is almost the starting point of what the conversation's about now which is just really wild really wild to say
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's negotiation tactics?
And it's just like, we're $40 trillion in debt. We just have so many problems. And you're like, you're going to spin me on this. Well, we got to keep supporting the Republicans, even if they betray all of their foundational campaign promises. I think it's just we're much more at a time, at a moment where the feeling is obviously no.
Yeah.
Because that's doom then. Then we just conceit this whole thing. And so, no, I'm sorry. We can't move on from the Jeffrey Epstein thing. That's just like one of those things that like essentially we will never move on from that.
That's always baked into the political class and how we feel about them until it's not until they release all the files unredacted until until they get to the bottom of this. Then why? Why would any self-respecting American citizen move on? An active criminal cover-up is still going on right now.
And it's one of our best opportunities to actually clean up the government that the general population is aware, oh, are there criminal or private interests that are actually running our government? And that would have been purely conspiracy theory even a year or two ago. And now the general mainstream public is open to the idea and there's a demand to fix it.
And now what you want to continue just to have a D.C. criminal enterprise where, you know, specific individuals with money are able to run the show. And this is coming from the guy who is debate with you as an age. Well, because he's of the opinion that you can have casual relationships with war without them turning into full out wars.
and that we could just do targeted strikes and kick people's ass and get out of there. Hey, no concerns. This is a new and smarter government run by Donald Trump, and he knows how to conduct warfare without them becoming ongoing escalations.
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Chapter 6: How do Trump's supporters justify his controversial actions?
He's not saying there are no mistakes here. He's saying the stakes are as high as they could possibly be. But could you imagine, Rob, I mean, this is what I always, I don't know, and maybe I think about this, about me because I, you know, I experience life from behind my eyeballs. And I always think like,
When I see these guys who all of them have called me out, talk a lot of shit about me personally and personally, not things about what issues I get wrong, but personal shots at me. And they all refuse to step up and come do a show or have a conversation, make those arguments to my face. And let's see the counter arguments to it. And then you see what they do. And I'm like, I don't know. I just.
So my first reaction when I saw this clip and you sent it to me this morning was I see Sam Harris goes, look, I mean, like what they're doing is evil and you know it's evil because of what it results in. It results in people dying. And the first thought I had was just like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, you definitely shouldn't debate me. You definitely shouldn't bring that to me.
Imagine bringing that to me as that's your standard. The standard here is like if the policy you're advocating for gets enacted and then people die as a result of it, that's evil. Hmm. Okay. So why are we even talking about Joe Rogan then if that's the standard? Wouldn't we be focusing on everyone who supported this war? There's real people dying as a result of that. No question.
But anyway, I don't know. What can you say? It's more it's like covid nonsense. Just say misinformation.
The pitch is we need full indoctrination and loyalty to the elitist class that I've anointed myself to be a part of. And any questioning of what we dictate to you is dangerous. And by the way, I'm going to pitch for experimental vaccines and more wars. And no religion, but for some reason a support of Israel, which does not align with any of my other general theories.
And everyone's got to be fully indoctrinated in line and respect the fact that I am the intellectual who's supposed to lord above you.
Yeah. No, that's Sam Harris. There is no such thing as God, but he did give the land to Netanyahu. That's the Sam Harris view. No. So, by the way, I saw this and we wrap on this because I got to go. I actually got to go record the Tom Wood show. But so I saw this clip, which I think I had missed. Somehow I just hadn't seen this. But it was Anna Kasparian on the Young Turks.
They did a segment about Sam Harris and they pulled out a clip. of Sam Harris reacting to my debate with Douglas Murray from last April. And so, okay, so this is like a year ago. And, you know, I thought in my mind, I thought I had actually, I had seen Sam Harris react to it. And I think I had said something like maybe we covered it on one of the shows or something like that.
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