Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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what's up what's up everybody it is monday february 16th welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein how you doing today rob i'm doing well i had a blast up in new hampshire i did a presentation on fbi entrapment schemes and uh it killed i think uh i gotta bring back the props bring back the projector it was groovy there you go
That's beautiful. I saw a bunch of people on Twitter talking about how it was a great show and you sold it out and stuff. So congratulations. And then me and you, this Saturday, one night only, we'll be in Perryville, Maryland. Low ticket warning on that one, guys. If you want to come, the show's going to sell out.
So if you want to come, go grab tickets right now because it's very close to sold out. ComicDaveSmith.com. You can get tickets there.
And there's no DC date on the tour schedule this year. So for the deep sea people, this is probably your best opportunity.
sorry, we don't play that swamp. You got to come to Perryville if you want to see me and Rob this year. But then we will be out in a bunch of different places. We got a whole weekend out here in New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Boston, whole bunch of stuff coming up. ComicDaveSmith.com for all of those ticket links. All right, let's get into some stuff that's happened over the weekend.
By the way, happy Valentine's Day to everybody. I hope people had fun celebrating and For those of you who aren't, miserable, depressed, alone people like Rob, who has to dull the pain by giving hilarious presentations in New Hampshire. For those of you who have someone in your life, I hope you had a good time.
We got a, I mean, look, I think we won't do the whole show today on Epstein files related stuff. There's some other stuff going on that's important to talk about, but it's very hard to not open with this. So that on, I mean, this is just, at this point, Rob, it almost feels like this administration is just punking us
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Chapter 2: What Valentine's Day letter did Pam Bondi release?
Firstly, the supposed 6 million files are after they went through it and told us that there are 6 million.
and at first it wasn't six million they just said 200 i think it was 200 000 was the first release yeah so the the idea that that they're now trustworthy with the redactions that we saw on that these other three million don't need to come out because it's b a it's either privileged information or redundant information i'm calling and if you're alex jones and you're just running with oh
fully vindicated. They put it all out without just simply looking to see, wait, did they put out those other 3 million files that we know about? And then keep in mind just one last thing. It's not just about the files.
They haven't even pretended like they're going to investigate the idea that you would have watched Pam Bondi's, uh, that, that, that hearing in one thing that she's honest and not covering up for it. And two, that there's not enough information here than an honest government would actually want to run an investigation, uh,
Like, even if she put out the other 3 million files, that shouldn't be the end of this. And if you're Alex Jones and you're watching the way that this unfolded, and even if it was true that she put out the other 3 million files and go, oh, it's over now, wait, so you don't want to see what's in the rest of that information? You don't have any calls for a government investigation?
You're not concerned with any of the things that we learned about so far? I mean, it was unbelievable to me that people were trying to run with this ruse of, oh, look, Trump's totally vindicated, most transparent. They actually got the files out. Did you not watch that hearing?
There were redactions of what we saw, and they couldn't even get all the information because some of the stuff had been doubly redacted. It's ridiculous.
Yeah, no, absolutely. That's absolutely right. And even, like, even to your point, though, it's like, look, just the way the administration, like, they claimed that emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were privileged.
I'm sure the thing about the privileged is it's going to be fought about for a while.
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Chapter 3: How do the Epstein files impact Trump's defenders?
there is uh well look i mean number one because there's something about uh children being abused in this way and we know at least that there were several children that were abused um we don't know exactly the extent of it i don't know there's all types of weird emails where they're talking about nine-year-olds and ten-year-olds and there's one where epstein's
He's telling a 14-year-old, you're going to be 22 tonight or something. So how many children, we don't know. But as soon as you hear children's sexual abuse, human beings have a... an impulse about that. It's something that is, you know, as we've talked about before, it really is crazy. It's that you, if you're a pedophile, you can't go to maximum security prison and be safe.
Because even amongst fucking killers, there's a moral code that that is some evil shit. And like there's just there is something about it. It evokes like a very primal rage out of people. So that's one thing. Then you also have the element of it's this crazy spy thriller thing. You know what I mean?
And then you also just have the story itself and how it as soon as you know a few details about the Epstein thing. You're just like, dude, something is good. We're already now exist in a spectrum of some horrible scandal. You know, it's just unclear exactly what it is.
And then, of course, the other factor, Rob, is that there are millions of documents that are out there and it's going to be years.
of people reporting on this stuff you know there's still um scott made this point scott horton made this point on uh unprovoked great show by the way with uh scott horton and daryl cooper uh he made this point the other day but he compared i thought it was a good comparison is he compared it to like um the the wikileaks dumps and how it would still be years later that people would find a random little thing oh i found this you know in this reason and and then it almost like it almost became
like one resource of information that's out there that people would use to make their case. So like when Scott's, you know, arguing about whatever, Ukraine or something, he can go back to, like certain things like the Nyet Means Nyet memo that Burns wrote to Condoleezza Rice, that we only know of that because of the Julian Assange dumps.
Like it was the WikiLeaks dumps is that we found that email. So like there's things like this is going to be a thing that people are going to be reporting on and finding new emails and finding new interpretations of different connections and emails for years and years to come. It's nowhere. It's not going to be over.
And at this point, this administration is just kind of solidified that their legacy was the attempt to cover this up.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the U.S. military's movements regarding Iran?
So you have, what's his name? Bob Barr's father. I'm blanking on what his first name was. But Barr Sr. is the guy who hires Epstein for his first job at Dalton. So this dude was an OSS agent. He was a CIA guy before the creation of the CIA. So Barr is an intelligence guy, right? They throw him into running Dalton.
which is like, you know, when somebody who used to be an intelligence agent then goes in to run like an elite, you know, like prep school in New York City, you'd always assume like, oh, well, this must be like some type of recruiting or something like that, right? So he hires Jeffrey Epstein at 20 years old as a college dropout to teach math in Dalton, right? And then his son...
Bob Barr and also works for the CIA for many years. He ends up being the guy who Trump puts in as the attorney general who oversees the arrest and then is in charge while he gets, while Epstein gets murdered. So like already just there, you'd go like, what are the odds of that?
Like,
This just seems like a really unlikely thing to say. Right. Right. So like what? So like that's what. Right. Wouldn't Alex Jones be interested in that? Now, just to here's one of the things that's OK. So Bob Barr, who this guy was. Right. So he works for the CIA for years. Now, he works for the CIA during the the church committee.
So there was for for people who don't know, this was like the time period in the 70s when it was like the CIA's probably most threatened period since their existence. I mean, maybe you could argue, you know, a few years earlier when Kennedy had fired Dulles and was threatening to break up the whole CIA.
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Chapter 5: What are the potential consequences of a military campaign in Iran?
But, you know, Rob, they dealt with that problem. so this is uh this is now in the 70s and i think it was like i think it was a bunch of seymour hirsch reporting that got uh the church committees going but there was like if you'd imagine right after kennedy got killed there was like a whole different level of like
awareness and distrust of the shadow government and like what exactly was going on a lot of americans just did not buy that like their president got murdered in front of all of them and none of the story added up and so eventually they get these uh the the church committee and then there was a the church committee was in the senate and then the house had a version of it too and there was like actual pressure being put on and you know who the head of the cia was rob george h.w bush
And so George H.W. Bush hires Barr, son of the guy who hired Jeffrey Epstein. He brings Barr in to basically be like the conduit between the Central Intelligence Agency and Congress. His job is to go to Congress and say, like, look, we can declassify these and these files. This is all you really need. Let's give them this. Will that keep them off of the rest of the stuff that we want?
So he does that. Then he becomes attorney general for the first time under George H.W. Bush. George H.W. Bush brought him in there. Well, why would he be using the same guy who he used as the CIA's guy to cover the story, you know, cover up fucking like what's to be released in the church committee? Why would he bring the same guy into the Justice Department?
like how do you go from working for the intel well this is immediately following around contra and so he brought in his cia guy to what do the exact same thing again so then donald trump brings this same guy into his administration and he goes and prosecutes ebstein who then you know the cameras malfunction and the guards fall asleep and then winds up dead like look we're living in tel aviv
Yeah, right. So, like, look, just knowing that, like, again, like I think I said on one of the episodes here, some mathematician... Give me the odds of all of that happening. And they're not being like something more to the story. Like just all of that's a coincidence. So again, by the way, this is, I just gave you like five minutes of this. There's hours and hours and hours more.
And I didn't even get into girls or connections or Mossad or the Russian oligarchs or any of the goddamn meetings that this guy was involved in. By the way, also seemed to be involved in Iran-Contra. shit you not.
And so there's just, it's like, once you know that you're kind of at a place where, and this is why, where I think some of the guys like Michael Tracy and them are being like particularly disingenuous when they kind of like mid pick on all the little things, you know, Dave, you said it was a giant, um, child sex trafficking ring. That's not true.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the Epstein files in the context of U.S. politics?
We don't have proof of that. You're like, okay, fine. I really should have said it was a giant scandal involving a sex trafficking ring that involved children. Good one. You got me. Okay. So while you're focused on that, what the fuck explains what I just said? You know, what the fuck is your theory of what's happening here?
You know, there's, there's, it's like, look, it's one thing when you go, Hey, people, you're kind of speculating here about what you don't know. And we should stick to the facts or something like that. Like, okay, that's reasonable enough.
But sometimes you have a set of facts that are so crazy that you go, it's actually much more reasonable to speculate about what might be here than to go, you can't prove one outlandish claim. Therefore, Nothing. None of this matters. Like, I'm sorry, dude. What explains all that? And again, that's like five minutes of laying the shit out.
You could sit here as Daryl Cooper's done several times for three hours and lay out a ton of shit and just go, what is it that explains all of this? And it's something pretty bad.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts view the concept of government legitimacy?
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You would think at a minimum there'd be an investigation of Wexner. I mean, he was named as a co-conspirator. I think he's still alive, right?
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Chapter 8: What are the hosts' thoughts on the future of U.S.-Iran relations?
Yeah. Yeah. He's old, but he's still alive.
Bring him in front of Congress or something. No talks to the staff of the island.
Nothing. Yeah. No, that's right. Like all. And then also, like, there's just like these weird kind of conflicting things where like You know, again, not that you should trust anything the administration says for shit, but it's like, remember when Pam Bondi at one point when it was thousands of hours of kiddie porn? And that's why we can't release any of this.
you're like okay but then like doesn't that kind of conflict with the idea that like oh no like this guy was a womanizer and like yeah like a 15 or 16 year old slipped in there but he wasn't like preying on he's not a pedophile like okay but he has thousands of hours of kiddie porn because like the only people i know who have that are pedophiles you know pedophiles
OK, I don't actually know anyone who has that. But the only word I would use to describe people who have that is pedophiles. You know, that came out the wrong way, Rob. Thanks for catching me on that, though. No, but I mean, like it's like I saw Tracy. It's honestly it's just too stupid. I know he's like challenging me to debate.
And you're like, I just don't even know what it is you want to debate here. But it's literally what he's doing. And the reason why it seems pointless is that. It's just like nobody's agreeing with him. He's just like destroying his reputation. Every goddamn response to him is like fucking how ridiculous this is. But so he he played the clip from our show.
And I did get it wrong, like fair enough, in this moment. But he played the clip from our show where I said, I go, and didn't he win the lottery twice? And then you immediately corrected me. And you go, eh, I don't think that one's right. As I looked into that, it doesn't seem like that's right. And I go, oh, okay. All right. I thought I read that.
And then he plays that clip as if this is some huge own. And you're like, dude, it was addressed on the show by my co-host the moment after I said that. And yes, okay, fine. Tracy, you're right. It was correct. We got these files and we were looking through them. And yes, a company with the same name as his company had won the lottery. I guess it turns out it was not the same company. Okay.
Again, what's your theory to explain the information that we know? This is the one question he'll just run away from. I asked him on this on Twitter and he immediately just five paragraphs running away. I don't have to give it a theory of totality or any of this. Well, yeah, you kind of do at a certain point. We've got a lot of information here.
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