Chapter 1: What recent political events are discussed in this episode?
What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. Man, you really think I would get that one right every time. Said that about 10,000 times. How are you today, sir?
It can be a mouthful. I understand. Doing well. Filmed a bunch of stuff for the weekend. If you haven't already, go to Robbie the Fire. I put out a new Epstein sketch. It's right up on the channel. So go check that out.
And of course, this weekend, big weekend of shows, Boston. We will make it there. Listen to me. In fact, I was going to call Robbie earlier this morning and figure this out. But listen, I know there's a lot of airport craziness, but we will drive if we can't fly. So we will be there this weekend in Boston. This is one of our most fun weekends last year. We sold out all five shows.
Help us sell these ones out. The tickets are moving fast. So go grab them now if you want to come on out this weekend at Laugh Boston. Really looking forward to that. I do have to jump on a quick plane before that, so I'm really hoping nothing goes bad with that one. Have you seen some of these airport footage, Rob? It's not looking good.
Planes are flying into fire trucks and lines are out the door. I don't know.
I don't like it. I heard that ICE was on it, so you can look forward to not just being groin checked, but also maced at the airport.
Yes, it turns out there was a miscommunication and instead ISIS has shown up. Oh, they are. It's a lot easier. No one's getting checked going in now. Yeah, I don't know. So I might either be flying or I might be deported. You don't know in Trump's America. It's a roll of the dice. What's going to happen? You're going to get somewhere. You're not going to be at home when the night's over.
My guess is a Newark on a bad airport day. It has to be the word. Like I there's some airports that are just better managed. And then there's some that are rough. The Atlanta airport's rough and Newark's rough. And I can only imagine if there's a slowdown with TSA, that that's going to be a particularly long day. It's going to feel like you're crossing the border.
I've had some bad days in Newark where I debated leaving and trying to cross the border, like just walking from there to whatever border is nearest. Newark can be rough, but knock on wood, I don't get caught in it this time, and that none of you good people who are listening get caught in it. By the way, we are a little bit late recording today because I just was on Piers Morgan. It was...
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Chapter 2: How did Trump handle the war rollout and its implications?
But anyway, those are the different messages in this whole thing. So anyway, that being said, let's go to this clip of Donald Trump.
A top, a top person.
Don't forget. We've wiped out the leadership phase one, phase two, and largely phase three. But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out, we've wiped out everybody.
Is that the Supreme Leader?
No, not the Supreme Leader. Well, nobody's ever, nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the son. Nobody, we have not heard from the son. Every once in a while you'll see a statement made, but we don't know if he's living. But the people that seem to be running it, and they seem that based on really fact, because things they've said have taken place.
Mr. President, I don't want him to be killed. OK, I don't want him to be killed. Nobody wants to be that. Nobody wants that job right now. You know, nobody's exactly looking forward to being the head of that particular country. But perhaps we'll be able to solve that problem.
I mean, holy shit. Holy shit is this thing a mess. Here you have the President of the United States telling us that he's in negotiations with the Iranians and then telling us he thinks the people he's talking to are in charge. It seems that way. And I can't say who they are because then they'd be killed. I mean, Rob, you go ahead.
I really, I have not, and again, I have seen and spent a lot more time focusing on than most normal sane people, because I'm not normal or sane, but I've seen a lot of presidents sell a lot of wars based off lies. I've never seen – and I guess in some sense there's an honesty component to this. Like Donald Trump just blurts out things and he can't really control that.
But I've just never seen a president say anything like this. Like, well, it looks like it's going good. Oh, the Ayatollah?
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Chapter 3: What are the consequences of military actions in the Middle East?
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And you're lying through your teeth about a war you just launched like this. It's pretty bad as a commander in chief. You really betrayed your people. But on the topic of Joe Kent, this, I thought, was just way beyond the pale and just appalling. Here was Donald Trump giving his thoughts on Joe Kent.
Mr. President, do you know whether Joe Kent was leaking? Look, I'm not a fan of the guy. If you look at, and you never cover this, if you look at his truths or whatever he went on, if it's X or truth, if you look at his truths or his statements, he was all for everything. All of a sudden, he wasn't. He was a man that I met at Dover. He came and his wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly.
His wife was killed.
Let's pause there. Let's pause there. I mean, look, man, you really can't overstate how fucking despicable of a human being Donald Trump is and how much there is just no low that is too low for him. And, you know, if you don't know the story, Rob, Joe Kent's wife got killed in Syria. Like she was killed in action. Joe Kent is a decorated combat veteran. You know, in wars that the U.S.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump’s communication style affect public perception?
Very hard thing to judge other people for that situation. Donald Trump is on what? How many wives has he had? Donald Trump is like fucking porn stars while his wife is pregnant. The nerve, the nerve of this motherfucker. to like say something about this war hero who lost his wife, who gave her life in one of these stupid wars.
The idea that, I don't know, I don't know, Rob, maybe you think I'm making too much of this. I think that's fucking despicable. Just like, you know, you should burn in hell for talking about someone like that, dude. Make a comment on their family. Like Donald Trump, you never lost a wife in Syria. You were never in war. You don't know what that does to people.
you don't know who the other woman he met and married is like who are any of us to judge that judge the fact that he found someone else to be with after that who knows what conversations him and his first wife had about what they would want for these are the type of conversations that husbands and wife have like what they would want for you if they weren't around anymore and um you know i don't know i just find this to be like literally like you should burn in hell for saying like that dude
I don't think it's a, I mean, not that I'm married or even have a girlfriend, but I don't think it's a slight on somebody's character to get remarried after losing a significant other. And if you're as handsome as Joe, Ken, I'm sure good options.
He's a good looking guy. Yeah.
He's a good looking guy. Options present themselves. And I think it's better in life to, to move on. Why do you gotta, why do you gotta sit in misery forever? It's I don't think it's a, I don't think it's a knock on your previous relationship or your previous spouse if they pass away. to move on. If anything, I think it's a good sign of character that you're continuing to live.
would want i would all i would want for my wife and kids was for them to be as happy and fulfilled and and you know have as good lives as they could have you know and i that's all i would want but i would like once you get to heaven you got to ditch that guy he can't come up like it's me and you for the rest of this i'm not waiting all these years and then i gotta like be like okay this is awkward um anyway by the way also if i do die none of you move in on my wife i take that back okay
Okay, anyway, but you know what I'm saying? It's just like such a low blow for someone who resigned, you know, in protests over this stupid war that you're lying the American people into.
You hired the guy. It's particularly disgraceful afterwards to go, I don't even think that's a good guy. He got remarried pretty quick. Well, then you shouldn't have. If you actually feel that way, you shouldn't have hired him. And you clearly don't feel that way. So it's just kind of a disgusting way to try and degrade somebody.
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Chapter 5: What are the differing perspectives on the war's impact?
The grand achievements in my collection, it's an Al Smith poster he lost in 1928, Democrat to Herbert Herver. Republicans, too, on the wall here from the modern era. There's autographed Romney and Ryan from 2012, autographed McCain, Palin from 2008. The oldest one in the corner there, 1844, that's Henry Clay of the Whigs.
And beneath that, you have the 2000 butterfly ballot voting booth and a Jake Tapper Muppet from a viewer.
Rob, I mean, this seems like low-hanging fruit here, but what a hilarious design centered around losing campaigns. for Jake Tapper to announce that we're now going to start running out. We're not going to start recording just in my office, you know, where I, where I read and put together stories for the day, which is clearly a podcast set clearly been designed as a set.
And this is somehow, this is an experiment. And it's so funny, Rob, because it's just like, you know how you do this thing. You have a knack for doing this thing where you're like, you could coach the bad guys better than the bad guys coach, you know, and like, but I can't believe they haven't stolen you away from me at this point.
But if I could try to put on the Rob Bernstein shoes for a second here, because obviously they can't do this. But like, guys, the answer isn't for you to try to look like the podcaster. That's almost the worst thing you could do. The answer is what you should do is tell the news. but just do a good job of it.
Any of these guys have a little bit of time preference, a little bit of not just what'll be good for this month, but maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe the next few years. If you guys just sat there and consistently got stories right and didn't get out over your skis and didn't just try to
uh sell wars for the military industrial complex or just make profits for big pharma or just lie the american people into whatever the next disaster is because there were some powerful interest of people who wanted you to do it if you just stopped being vaccine slash weapons salesman and told the news you could build a track record of getting stories correct and then you could say look
People like this podcaster and this podcaster got way out over their skis here, but we gave you the objective news. And then you could get people to go, you know, we really do need objective news. Now, podcasts are entertaining, but look at the objective news, guys. They got a good track record. That's your exit strategy here.
That's how you win back is do your fucking job, not try to convince people that you're Andrew Schultz.
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