Chapter 1: What are the latest developments regarding the Epstein files?
what's up what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he of course is robbie the fire bernstein and we are on our way to key west manana looking forward to a weekend of shows out there and get out of this uh northeast uh criminally cold conditions that we've been living in for the last few weeks here. How are you feeling today, Rob?
I'm excited for Key West. This is the free vacation of the year, escaping brutal winter, because I'm not getting on a plane to go anywhere unless it's for a gig. So this is the best excuse to be out in Key West, just boozing it up.
Literally, we did this last year in February, and then I was like, I think we might have to just do this every February. Every February, me and you, and I bring the wife down with me too, just go down, fucking relax in the sun, have some fun, low stakes shows. Yeah, just a good time. We got a bunch of stuff coming up. We're really kicking into high gear here. We got a weekend in New Jersey.
We got a one-nighter in Perryville, Maryland. We got... all types of different markets coming up. I know we got Pittsburgh and Boston and Rosemont and Chicago, a bunch of stuff coming up. Comic Dave Smith.com for all of those ticket links. Anything you want to plug before we get it? Yeah.
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Hell yeah. So, all right. There's a good amount of stuff going on. More stuff coming out from the Epstein files. A bunch of new developments in the situation with Iran, which, spoiler alert, it all seems to kind of bring us back to the same point where we were. But there's a bunch to go through there. And yeah, there's some other stuff going on.
If you have any questions in the live chat, go ahead and ask us some questions. Natalie, you can copy some into our chat and we'll get to a few of those if we have time. There's, yeah, it's, I don't know. It's been an interesting fallout, let's just say, of the Epstein files being released and all of the,
The layers and layers of weird shit that's in them, I think we're still, broadly speaking, kind of at the place where we were, where there's not exactly smoking guns. But then again, Rob, as you pointed out on the last episode, they've kind of already admitted we held back the smoking gun stuff. But there is just an enormous amount of incredibly creepy material. And...
It does, at least from my perspective of this, I think this is so far very vindicating for the people who took the conspiratorial view of Jeffrey Epstein. Now, that's not to say, as is usually the case with conspiracies, that's not to say that every claim that's ever been made has been vindicated, but in terms of
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Chapter 2: How do Bill Gates' statements relate to the Epstein scandal?
But he's going on and on about how he has withdrawals from the parties and how much fun they are. There's all this type of like sex talk. And it's clear that like, oh, that's the appeal of Jeffrey Epstein, that like you go to him. He's got the parties with with like these sex parties. It's like it seems very obviously like that's what he's saying.
In fact, you can't believe how direct they're being over email. And then there's the one with Bill Gates. And the reason why the Bill Gates one was so interesting is because that was one of the, even though the email wasn't sent directly,
That's one of the pieces where you connect not only that there's sexual activity going on with Jeffrey Epstein, but then he's also using that activity as leverage over you. And so one of the things that's been very interesting in the last couple days is that both Melinda and Bill Gates have responded. to this.
And I don't know if you read any of the Melinda Gates response, Rob, but let's just say it was really fucking cryptic. And there's, now look, again, this is all, we're in the realm of speculation. You're talking about a divorced couple.
I mean, it's, you know, as we all know, oftentimes after a divorce, the two parties are not fond of each other and are not going to look to rescue the other person from anything. But the accusation here is incredibly embarrassing for her, right? The accusation here is that like your husband was out, got an STD, brought it back and then at least attempted to like treat you without your knowledge.
So she's asked about this and she just says like, it's so terrible, all of the things. This reminds me of a terrible point in my marriage and I really don't wish to relive that part. There's a lot of questions for all the people involved to answer, but those aren't my questions to answer. A bit strange. Like, if this was... Again, this is speculating. People are divorced.
Who knows what the dynamics are there. But... Do you remember Robin Seinfeld when George Costanza asked the doctor if he thinks it's cancer? And he goes, I don't know. And then George's whole thing is he goes, you didn't give me a get out of here. And he goes, every doctor should have a get out of here. Like that should just be your response. And if it's not that, that makes me worry.
And it was a funny bit on the show. But like this is the type of accusation that you almost go into it thinking, but this is crazy, right? Like this couldn't. This couldn't possibly be true, right? And she's not giving you a get out of here. She's not going, what? No, I mean, that didn't happen. You know what I'm saying? And so that in itself was like, all right.
Anyone in that situation knows what they're doing. If they're not giving you a get out of here, none of this happened.
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Chapter 3: What insights do the hosts share about Kash Patel's handling of the Epstein files?
Even if it did happen, you kind of expect that that would be the reaction of someone just like in an embarrassing situation like that. So she is intentionally not doing that. And, you know...
letting it fester um and then there was bill gates's response which is on camera um and so we have that uh here so let's go let's play the clip here of bill gates responding to the accusation that he was uh or responding to the what was in the files in the email written by jeffrey epstein that wasn't sent to him claiming that he got an std and then gave it to his his wife let's uh let's play
No, apparently Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is false. So I don't know what his thinking was there. It just reminds me every minute I spent with him, I regret and I apologize that I did that. You know, it's factually true that I was only at dinners. You know, I never went to the island. I never met any women.
And so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it'll be that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior. All right.
Now, Rob. Look, man, we're in a little bit of a space of stuff that we don't normally do, but it's like impossible with this being the number one story to not kind of speculate on this a little bit. I got to say, I don't know. I'm curious your thoughts. I found this to be a weird answer. I found this to be a weird answer and also not really addressing the thing.
But anyway, go ahead. First is he's really aging into a reptile.
I mean, I don't know how much you want to delve into reptilian conspiracies, but this guy could not look more like a human lizard and could not be aging more into the presence of... If you were to do like the green reptile face of what you think the reptiles look like, it's like he Michael Jacksoned his skin color, but it's exactly that reptile. I've seen Bill Gates in...
a number of interviews, and he just kind of always comes off guilty. He is clearly rich and is clearly... And I think he might just be guilty in all these things, but if you go back to the COVID stuff, he always sounds very guilty. And so this would follow that track that...
Maybe that's his goofball presence, but my read on this is, dude, this is some goofy evasiveness that makes you look very guilty. You do not have Bill Quintlinton suave. You should just not be in front of a television camera for a while.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the recent military movements in Iran?
You told me... Great follow-up questions about the evidence. I mean, that's hard-hitting journalism right there.
Yeah, no, of course. Well, look, Rob, as we've... broken this down for years specifically and specifically with Brett Bayer. Brett Bayer is his role is to pose as a guy doing actual journalism but never ask you the correct follow-up questions and essentially let you skate. But
Look, I mean, it's just one more time, Kash Patel going on record, but this time he throws 100% in, which really is a thing that like, at least, and like he's the FBI director, but at least in the intelligence world, you know, Rob, you've read enough about this that I'm sure you've heard this before, that they are famously allergic to that sentence, that you never say 100%.
You never say 100% because you don't know anything 100%, you know? And then for Kash Patel to be saying he's 100% sure that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, all right, it just, again, at the risk of beating a dead horse here, which I don't know how else to describe Kash Patel and Dan Bongino other than dead horses, and at the risk of beating them,
where is that evidence now we haven't seen evidence to make us even five percent sure and you're claiming here that you've released everything yet like there's just it doesn't you it's not as if they're giving us a reason they're going look I've seen such conclusive evidence that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself that I would put it at 100%.
It is a 100% certainty that he killed himself, and I've seen the evidence. But here's why we can't release that evidence. Right. Like they don't have a thing that it's like like national security or victims would be retraumatized or other. Right.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts view the current negotiations with Iran?
Like they're not offering us any reason why they would keep this information from us. But they're just going to continue asserting that it's 100 percent and then end up insulting anybody who keeps asking this question. This seems to be the play right now. This is the plan. And it is shockingly pathetic. What can you say?
Well, yeah. I mean, how can he make this claim again? Just he absolutely killed himself without anything to back that up. Especially when Bongino said, I've seen it. I've seen it. What do you see? What do you see, dude?
Yeah, it's just wild. And they're not even going, look, I've seen it, and we're doing everything we can to get it to you as soon as possible. I've seen it, and you're going to see it soon. I've seen it, but here's why you can't see it. Nothing like that.
Just as they said the whole time, it's always been, since Dan Bongino and Kash Patel and Pam Bondi and Donald Trump flipped on a dime and tried to cover up the whole thing, it's all been, trust me, bro. That's the entire thing since then has been trusted. If I had files, you'd think I wouldn't have shared them. This is me we're talking about. That's all they have.
Or just the assertion, which implicitly is like a trust me. So they are offering nothing. Here, let's go to the next clip.
The Epstein files, the last tranche, we're told, put out. Looking back since the beginning, and you've been a part of talking about this, and DOJ has obviously produced these elements,
Do you have regrets about how it's been handled? Look, like any other hot topic issue, the American public and the world had a great interest in this. And what we did under President Trump's leadership is produce the most transparent DOJ and FBI in history. Three other administrations had the opportunity to do this, and we produced everything we legally and lawfully could.
We worked with our partners in Congress. We followed the statutes and the court orders, and we produced, what, 3 million-some pages? So I think we got to the result in the right way. Could we have gotten there faster? I'm not really sure because of... numerous court cases, multiple protective orders, multiple court ceilings.
And so now we've produced everything we can while protecting victims' rights.
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Chapter 6: What criticisms do the hosts have regarding U.S. foreign policy towards Iran?
Also, if I learned anything from Steve Bannon, it's that Epstein doesn't really even mind being in prison and enjoys the Almond Joy bars. And he can really see the beauty in any situation. So what evidence do you have that the guy was even suicidal in prison? He's not a very remorseful individual. And he seems content to go, hey, it was a good time and it was a good time.
And now's the prison time. No big deal.
Yeah, and he was, according to his brother at least, he wasn't at all suicidal. His brother seems like a little bit of a kook, so who knows. But according to him, he wasn't at all suicidal. And he had been attacked in prison just shortly before he ended up dying. So anyway, there's a lot of questions here. And these guys are just saying, no, we've been very transparent. Now trust us.
Now, it's also, I mean, the levels of lies to this is first, they're trying to, this is the classic government lie, no one's more concerned than we are. The second something goes wrong, no one's more concerned than we are. And so here you have the public is interested in this case, and they were forced to release this information. But they're not actually interested in investigating it.
They're not interested in new information. The only thing they did was put out the information that they were forced to do. They didn't want to put out this information.
And not even that. And at least according to Thomas Massey, not even that. Yeah, they haven't that they haven't complied with what they were forced to put out.
They're still doing the best that they can to brush this under the rug. And so to claim no one's been more transparent. No, you were forced to release the files that have come out. And he's been going with this lie for a long time of we're going to do everything that we legally can. What exactly is holding you guys back? What? Yeah.
If anything, the law right now is you're supposed to release all of these files. And so now you've come up with ongoing investigations, images of murder. But he's been going with that line for a long time. Every time he's asked, well, whatever. I don't know. The second you start going, whatever we legally can do, it sounds like you're not actually interested.
Donald Trump's breaking the law all the time. If he's interested in getting something done, he's getting something done. This is the only time I've ever heard this administration go, well, we're looking into if we can legally blow up boats. We're looking to if we can legally start a war with Iran because Congress doesn't seem to be all that into it.
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Chapter 7: What are the hosts' thoughts on the transparency of the U.S. government regarding Epstein?
We will continue to provide this information with our partners on Capitol Hill when we are legally able. It's never going to be enough for everyone. It's never going to be enough. But what we are saying is we're not saying trust us. We're saying we did an exhaustive search of that. We presented that information to the Department of Justice, and a decision was made on what to release.
Yeah, but okay. You said we put out everything we could. Do you think that everything's been put out about Eric Crump's, the shooter, alleged shooter?
Whether it's Epstein or Charlie Kirk or whether it's this shooter in Butler, we always put out what the law permits us to put out.
Wow. I mean, wow, dude. It's like, it almost feels like a... when Kash Patel is thrown into these spots, like it almost feels like if someone, like if someone just made me like, I don't know, they had like a fuck, they had my family held hostage or something. And they were just like, you're going to go out there to 3000 people and give a lecture on quantum physics.
i'd be like but i don't i don't know anything about that like what am i gonna say i'm like better convince him that you know something and then you're just out there you're just like so all right guys now the way you've been thinking about physics is an apple but like he's just got nothing what the here you are on record last may
saying we're gonna we're have to do a much better job of of flushing out what really happened here for the american people here we are almost a year later you've given us nothing like what like What do we what what information do we even have about this, Rob? We have absolutely nothing. There is nothing has been explained. And he's just going to say he's saying, I'm not saying trust me.
We put out everything that we're legally allowed to put out. Well, Kash Patel, can we verify that? No. So then you're asking us to trust you. That's what it means to ask someone to trust you. You're asserting something. You're backing it up with no evidence and asking us to believe your assertion. That would be called trust. This is literally you saying, trust me, bro. What do you got, Rob?
Man, I pick up on a lot of stuff here. Firstly, he's repeating this phrase of releasing everything that we legally can. It's also, I envision him walking into a room after they put out files and he's like, double-spaced it. I want to be able to say I put out $40,000 instead of $20,000. So that's meaningless.
Also, Brett Baer had a moment there where he was actually giving some pushback and just realized, I better let him off the hook. And you can see as he's asking the question, he just stops and pivots to another question. But I don't think I've ever done this on the show. There was one thing that I really picked up on, which is he said we couldn't release it because of unrelated information.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts share before concluding the episode?
It kind of feels like you're looking for an escalation.
Sure does. Sure does. And even it sure feels that way. And even if you're not looking for an escalation, the thing about wars is you start putting your guys in harm's way and you might get that escalation whether you're looking for it or not. So that's the situation as of right now.
Look, they're just like I said, it was just reported earlier today that Iran's pulling out because the deals won't be just about the nuclear talks.
over the last week there's been a bunch of other arab countries um and european countries who have stepped up to offer to uh facilitate negotiations maybe we can get back to a place like that you know iran also this has also been reported in multiple outlets that iran refused direct negotiations and said they'll only enter into third-party negotiations which makes a lot of sense but
given the way they got burned last time, that they want as many other people to be there as possible to also be like, hey, you were here too. You saw this deal. We will see, and we will keep talking about it. All right, guys, we're leaving for Key West tomorrow. Catch you guys soon. Peace.
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