Chapter 1: What are the sponsors mentioned in this episode?
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All right, let's start the show. What's up? What's up everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem. I'm Dave Smith. He's Robbie the fire Bernstein. How are you feeling today, Rob?
I'm good, man. I had a fun time at that last Legion of skanks. I ate some of your retirement cake. It was delicious. Oh, very good. Yes. And I got to watch Lewis cry. So it was a fun evening all around.
It's always a good time when you get to watch Lewis cry. Of course, not the last episode of Legion of Skanks, but my last episode. Well, technically, we're doing another one. It was the last live one at the stand. Yeah, it's... You know, look, I mean, it's easy to make fun of Lewis for crying and stuff, but it was... You know, I definitely was feeling it, too.
I mean, I'm not a fucking... I didn't cry, but I was... I mean, I'm not... I'm not a girl, but no. But, you know, it's like, you know, leaving something that I've been doing for like 15 years and something you did with people you love is, you know, I don't know, Rob. It's, you know, I know I've talked to you about this a lot. It's like one of the only lessons. I don't know.
One of the only lessons that I've really like learned from, you know, my career. There's a lot of lessons you learn. But so I remember I know I've told you the story. I tell almost every comedian who's like younger than me. or started comedy after me, I ended up telling them this at some point, but it's not that even as that big of a deal, but to comics, they kind of get it.
But there was, um, I used to, when, when I first started comedy, I was like maybe like a year into doing standup comedy. And I got, I got in at standup New York comedy club. Um, the, the, I had done like a showcase for MTV and it went really good and they took an interest in me. And then that made this one booker at standup New York really take an interest in me.
And he, he was managing like Patrice O'Neill and some other guys at the time who liked me. And so like it, I just kind of got in there and I,
this club was on fire at the time it was like sold out on the weekends every weekend like you know whatever it's like 150 people or something like that but when you're a young comic to get like prime weekend stage time is like amazing and then anyway it turned out that guy the booker who took an interest in me was um stealing a lot of money from the club And he got caught and he got fired.
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Chapter 2: What personal experiences does Dave share about his comedy career?
It's always just been something that's kind of guided me since then. That it's, like, after things kind of worked out then, I was like, okay. Whenever there's, like, a change, you don't have to feel like the world's falling apart. I mean, don't get me wrong. Sometimes maybe the world is falling apart. But it's not always. And so, anyway.
i just you know life is life is full of chapters that you know this show has really blown up i i really had a monster year last year and i'm just too busy um to to do all of it and i got a family that's you know the most important thing to me is so i gotta you know like my work family balance was a little out of whack over the last year and the most important thing to me is like keeping that balance right so anyway so yeah
Thank you to all the fans of Legion of Skanks and to all the, you know, everybody who works on the show. I love everybody involved. And, you know, it was kind of sad. But anyway, moving on. We got a war.
Don't make me cry. We got a war to end.
No, I'm kidding. Oh, by the way, before we get into the show today, I just, I have to say something. And this is a, I don't know, because, like, I don't know how to do this other than to just say it on the show. But I've just been getting...
Like flooded with requests from corporate media outlets, like all types of like Washington Post and Vanity Fair and like all these different like kind of like corporate publications that are constantly now reaching out to me for comment. And it's always... By the way, it's always the same thing, Rob. It's always in service of their agenda. Like, I'm not an idiot. I know what you're doing.
Oh, we're writing a piece about the divide in MAGA and prominent, you know, people who supported Donald Trump who are now critical of him and blah, blah, blah. It's like, yes, I understand. You hate Donald Trump and now you'd like to use me. You know, it's like, first of all, I don't really like being used in that way. But... Just to all of you, listen, if any of you want to interview me,
and record it unedited and we put it online, I'll do that. In other words, a podcast. In other words, you know what I'm saying? Like it just, if you want to come over to this superior medium, then fine. But I'm getting like these requests and it's just like wasting my team's time. Like, do you, you know, Ben Shapiro did this segment about me.
I forget which one of them, Vanity Fair or the Washington Post or whoever. They reached out. Would you, does Dave want to comment? You're like, I'm about to do a show on it. What do you mean? Do I want to comment? Essentially, what you're asking me is before I go do my podcast, can you get the scoop of what I'm going to respond with? Why would I want to do that to you?
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Chapter 3: How does Dave critique corporate media's portrayal of the Iran conflict?
You see, like, what are ridiculous talking about? The short-term pain is offset by this long-term gain. By the way, every last person involved in this conflict, Rob, fully admitted already on the record, they have no plan for the long-term. They've all said, I don't know. Witkoff just said again, I don't know. I don't know how this ends. I don't know who's next. Hopefully someone better.
What long-term gain are they even talking about? The one they would just wish would come? Got to break a few omelets to make an egg. Let me tell you something. There's one thing I know about politics. Everyone who's ever said you'd need to break some eggs to get an omelet, basically just a different way of saying short-term pain for long-term gain, was wrong about the long-term.
The omelet never comes. It's just, it's always just, oh yeah, this is, I mean, again, we're told this with every single war, but what do you think here, Rob?
Well, yeah, it strikes me like COVID. It also strikes me like the transitory inflation storyline. And here's the thing. I'm all for short-term pain for long-term gain. I like the concept. I'm a big fan of investing in the future. And if you want to do austerity measures and get rid of our entitlement programs and handle our debt problem,
I do think that there would be growth down the line from that. It's always when they're flirting with the risks of a disaster that has no upside that they try and pretend like it's an investment in an upside. So in this case, I don't even know what the long-term game is going to be. I guess Israel is going to be safe for out in its region. I don't really know how this ā
leads to better oil prices for us, which I think is what they're referring to here in terms of the short-term pain. But, you know, it's always... Or inflation. Oh, it's just going to be transitory, except you're going to still have more of it, and it's not like your money's ever going to become more valuable. It never becomes good, but they just try and pretend like...
So it's not even like the point I'm trying to make is it's not even like an investment in a short term pain for long term gain. It's them just trying to be like, oh, the pain that you're suffering now, it's a mitigated risk and it's not going to grow. And more often than not, it actually does grow.
Yeah, yes. No, there is such a thing as like short term pain, long term gain. Like that is it's like exercising is a really good example of that. Right. Like you go do something that's going to be hard right now, but you are going to feel better and you're going to get more acclimated to it and then you're going to enjoy it. And, you know.
But then there's also just hitting yourself in the hand with a hammer and going like, okay, short-term pain, but then we need long-term gain. But long-term, you're just breaking your hand. You're not actually doing anything. It's purely destructive. Well, look, I mean, I think, yes, they are, Rod, to your point, they are talking about the rise in oil prices. And there's, you know, Donald Trump,
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Chapter 4: What is Trump's stance on the war and how does he communicate it?
We can have a more excellent win here. The war is one. We could end it tomorrow, declare victory, but we want a more excellent win. I don't, you know what I mean? It's like running up to, and he's trying to sell it. Like we're running a points in a game. We already won the game, but let's play a couple more quarters and run up the scorecard.
Yeah. Unfortunately in this game points are dead children. But yeah, it's, you know, dude, I gotta say, man, it's like, you know, with the George W. Bush administration and there were many books written about the, you know,
you know the behind the scenes stuff and and like it turns out that there were people who were really against going to the war going to war in iraq um but not in front of the cameras in front of the cameras dude they all sold the thing they all stayed on message and they were all they all had the same message if you go listen to interviews and there were lots of public interviews
with uh donald rumsfeld colin powell dick cheney george w bush they were all saying the exact same thing it was coherent it was like there was never a situation again like i'm sure you all understand i'm not defending the bush administration or the war in iraq they all are war criminals they should all all of them the ones who are still alive should be rotting in prison in the hague somewhere or something like that or just a good us prison i don't much like international law um but
Like, I don't know. They, they had a, they sold a war. They had a coherent like message. They don't, you didn't have things like no one was ever going like, Hey, um, president Bush, you said that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, but the secretary of defense said they don't. You know what I mean? Like, it's, it's like, this is Donald Trump's just getting caught.
You and your fucking secretary of war are saying 180 degree opposite things about this war. And he goes, they're both true. Okay. I mean, like, how, you know, how do you even say this shit out loud?
At first, I thought it must have been AI. I sent it an email. I think it might have also been in your text thread, but I realized it was true when Glenn Greenwald retweeted it. But it's one of the few examples of where someone actually had an opportunity to do honest journalism and questions Donald Trump about the Tomahawk missiles. I don't know if we can roll that clip, but... Well, that was...
Yeah, part of that was at the beginning of this. But yeah, we could we could go to that one, too. But you can go ahead and make the point about it even.
Oh, it's just it's amazing the way that even amongst the press that hates Donald Trump, that they can't ask him questions this clearly. And this is one of the first times where you see in Trump's eyes like, yeah, you got me for lying. And so he has to walk it back with the.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's comments on military actions?
don't collapse in three days.
I also seems like he never once happened. I don't think you can be a great and powerful Navy without a significant submarine presence.
I'm just saying in the, in the, since probably world war one, even when the Germans kind of turned it on the great Royal Navy because of their submarines, I'm just saying, if you have zero submarine presence, I think the title of great Navy is probably not, not also, you can add that to the not truthful claims pile.
No, but I'm sure someone told them, you know, So there you go. That's enough. That's enough for the president of the United States of America to take during wartime to the American people. I don't know. I don't know much about it. Someone told me. So that's the standard.
And they were also apparently, I think, invested in these drone mines, which, from my understanding, are still keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed, except for the Ghost Fleet, which is the actual Iranian regional partners trying to get oil to China. Although I don't know if anyone's tested the Trump's bluff yet of just go through, you'll be protected.
You know, I mean, yeah, right. Well, I mean, you can take everything else he says to the banks. Why weren't, why aren't you confident when this guy tells you that I just felt, you know, just drive your ship in there. You'll be fine. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Sheath Underwear, the underwear of legends.
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was just the it's such confirmation of the the war of choice aspect where Donald Trump just straight up says we could stop now. But we're going to go a little further. You know, like we in other words, like we don't have to do any of this. We could stop now and call it a tremendous success. Now, again, like.
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