Part Of The Problem - Professional Liars

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss the situation where CNN incorrectly interviewed who they thought was a Syrian prisoner, Katie Couric's discussion about the immigrant crisis, and more. Support Our SponsorsBetter Help - https://Betterhelp.com/problem for 10% off your first monthMonetary Metals - https://bit.ly/4eoich3YoKratom - https://yokratom.com/Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Rob's live Dates12.19 - Rutherford NJ - https://www.ticketweb.com/event/the-political-comedy-jam-with-williams-center-spring-tickets/1404936312.21 - San Antonio - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/backyard-comedy-party-san-antonio-texas-tickets-1102952734319?aff=oddtdtcreatorFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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but we are together and we are recording. The drones are shutting down our communications. I mean, it's not, let's not rule it out. Let's not rule it out. It is a possibility, but yes, we're having some tech issues with the site. So no live stream today. These things happen.

I do apologize, but we will be recording an episode for you guys to all get so you know can't believe I came all the way out to Jersey to be in the past yeah that's right it's a little disappointing well the drones have changed everything he went from a non drone state to a drone state and he thought everything was gonna be the same do you like this by the way this little it's never in frame of Trump but my father-in-law got me this. It's a bobblehead Trump as Terminator. I pray to that every night. I thought it was cute.

Fucking cut some government spending, god damn it. By the way, we should- Or at least send him out like that to take down the drones. He should personally get on the back of a bike with a shotgun. Come on, tell me that wouldn't be some cool first footage. First thing in office, personally going out and shooting drones like your ski shooting That's that listen if that ends up happening then we're off to a good start. Yeah government space chariot I'm sure Elon Musk has some flying car that they don't actually haven't released yet and that could be the I mean

That's what went all around Donald Trump flying around in Elon Musk flying car You roll out the flying cars and you shoot down the drones personally Listen, this is why we got to get you in the cabinet Rob because you're the you're the guy who comes up with these ideas I wasn't gonna think of it. I did like on a more serious note seeing on Twitter that it looks like our good friend good friend of the show who's been on several times, Thomas Massey, the best congressman in America by far, looks like he's gonna be working with the Doge Boys over there.

Stacking the Doge card. So, you know, we got Ron Paul as an advisor, Thomas Massey getting on board with it, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. You know they just need David Stockman. Get Stockman on there for sure. Although honestly, I mean, you know, Ron Paul knows all that stuff too, so that's fine. We'll see, I'm interested to see what Doge

is actually able to accomplish and if anything, as we've said several times before, I mean, you have, you got a team of very capable, very intelligent people over there. But man, if nothing else, I just love this stuff being inserted back into kind of like the popular discussion. And it's really something that would have been impossible

to predict. Like a year ago, if I told you Trump was going to make up a fake department and then put all these people there, but I saw it just, uh, yesterday I saw on Twitter that, um, Elon Musk just, uh, tweeted another Ron Paul clip and was like Ron Paul spot on, you know, as always. And you just take his like, I don't know how big his Twitter account is, but it's tens of millions of people. And you're just like, geez, man, that is so, it is pretty damn cool to have this,

you know, debatably second to Trump, most influential, most famous kind of person, putting out like this hardcore, you know, libertarian message like our leader, you know, like his message out to the world, just incredible. It's an incredible time to be alive. And that obviously there's there's lots of issues that we still have to deal with but that is I gotta say pretty encouraging um, and uh, also I You know, I don't mean to be self-serving with it at all, but I do think it's um That alone let's say we had nothing else, uh, just the doge stuff

No, you know pardons or anything else. The libertarians who supported Donald Trump are looking better and better. It's just looking like, oh yeah, this way. Because I mean, even just that, it's. That's more than you get with anyone else. That's it. Ron Paul's message is being amplified by one of the most influential human beings to ever live and the richest person to ever live. That's a pretty big deal And you know if that if that had been achieved by the Libertarian Party, I

Don't think any of the I think all of the people in the Libertarian Party would just be taking credit for it and talking about how awesome it is, but the fact is it was achieved by supporting someone from a different party. And okay, you may not love that, but the goal should never be which vehicle achieved success. And again, I'm not saying this is, I don't, I'm not trying to spin it into something it's not. I'm not saying like we've cut government spending, but to get this message amplified like that is,

that's what we've all been in the business of trying to do. So pretty incredible. Anyway, yeah, we'll see. I don't know, we'll see what Doge is actually able to do. I'm kind of optimistic about it. If nothing else, they're gonna be giving proposals that I think are gonna be pretty awesome. You know, there's also, weirdly, I think there's kind of,

there is to some degree, an advantage to the fact that it's outside of government. You know what I mean? And the advantage to that is like, It won't take three years to get a single report that mostly brushes it onto the rug and goes, oh, well, we did a full review and it looks like we're actually doing OK with spending.

I mean, there's too much, but we recommend no changes. Yeah, right. Exactly. It's like too much but we recommend no changes. Yeah, right exactly Exactly. It's like once you're inside the apparatus of government things just work in a certain way And that's basically it and then and then the recommendation becomes like well, we're recommending spending freezes or we're recommending, you know the old Paul Ryan thing that he used to do. And the Democrats would flip out and be like, he's suggesting these major cuts. But what he would be suggesting was cuts to future increases in spending. So like if they have a projection of spending

over the next 20 years and it's increasing by five trillion, he'd go like, let's only increase by four trillion. And they'd be like, he's cutting a trillion dollars out of the budget. You're like, no, he's not. No, he's not. He's actually increasing by four trillion and They'd be like he's cutting a trillion dollars out of the budget. You're like no, he's not. No, he's not He's actually increasing by four trillion, you know, and the numbers are I'm just making up these numbers for the sake of the example But anyway, but when they're outside of government, maybe it's it's possible that we'll see something like, you know proposals for actual spending cuts, not this like, okay, you can't touch military and you can't touch entitlements and you can't touch my other three pet projects, but you can cut $2 million out of the, you know, whatever budget it's maybe they'll actually

have some good recommendations and get Americans thinking about the fact that yeah, you could actually have severe drastic cuts in government spending that would make the American people's lives much better. So we will see. We will see on that. All right. So there is a just wonderful story coming out of a CNN And when I shouldn't say coming out of CNN, it's kind of about CNN but it's funny because you know, you sent me this article today Rob as I was just I was just looking over it a few a Few hours ago and so you sent me the zero hedge article the title it was written by Tyler Durden

That's who writes all the author. He is Unbelievable this guy cranks out material left and right and Handsome handsome fellow as well great apps world class incredible and he's and he's willing to throw down Which is one of the things I really respect about him Okay, so the the title of the article is it's the waste of the day which is like a recurring piece that they have there. $267 million spent on fighting quote misinformation. The federal government has recently spent $267 million on grants meant to suppress supposed misinformation according to this new report from Open the books calm. So anyway, if you just think about the fact that

The government is spending hundreds of millions of your tax dollars to fight misinformation Which is you know as as I was reading this article this morning I was kind of thinking about maybe in a way that I haven't thought about it before but I was like Really? That's what we do We fight misinformation Like that's kind of the whole thing of this show. It's always like pointing out like this guy's giving you information. That's bad This is bad information. This is bad information

Like this guy's giving you information. That's bad. This is bad information. This is bad information So it's wild to see you know, the government's spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this topic and There's still quite a bit of misinformation out there anyway speaking of misinformation, I guess we needed 268 million dollars because they missed this piece which Let's play the video this ran on CNN not can't make this stuff up let's jump into it I'm a civilian, he says. I'm a civilian. He tells the fighter he's from the city of Homs and has been in the cell for three months. Okay, you're okay.

You're okay. You're okay. He clutches my arm tightly with both hands. Does anyone have any water? Water. Water. Water. Water. Water. Water.

Water, water, water. Okay, it's water, it's water. Okay. Okay. Okay, you're okay. I did? Ladies get an Oscar for pretending like she cares. You're okay.

I mean, the conversation they had off camera of, hey, can you find me a clean one? Can someone clean one up and throw them in there? Well, the thing about it is, and look, this is true in general with corporate media, but they are, even as you say it jokingly, like can someone get her an Oscar? The thing is, they are actors.

That is what they're, this is acting. This is a performance by everybody involved, but they're not good actors. Like as somebody who I am not a good actor, it's like a showtime porn acting. Yes. Well, that's Cinemax. Cinemax is a look, you know, when I, when I first started standup comedy, it was still in the old world. This is like, I started Stand Up in 2006, which was pre-revolution.

There's, this whole industry has been revolutionized, but I was in before it. And back then, MySpace was the social media thing, and like some comedians had MySpace profiles, but many didn't. It wasn't like even viewed as a necessary thing to have. But what they used to do is, it was like the big thing for comedians was like, all right, well, you're doing standup.

Can you write? Can you act? Because those were the things where it's like, well, if you can act, they'll send you out on auditions. And so the first managers that I ever had sent me on several auditions. I've auditioned for parts before. And however bad you think I am as an actor, I promise you it was worse.

Dude, I wish, I wish I had the tapes from some of these auditions. It was so brutal. Dude, I don't know, I just, whatever that skill is, I do not have it, and I'm so bad at it that you wouldn't even go like Oh, you really got to take some acting classes. You would go you cannot do this Yeah, like it'd be like, you know, just somebody like if you were like Oh, I've never played basketball before and they went out and they they were just so bad that you were like, dude

There's no point in me even like trying to get you better. This just isn't gonna be your game. Like that's it and but anyway, so I, I just, I remember like very clearly being like, well, I'm terrible at this. This is not for me. I also just had no interest in it. I don't really like acting, but when you see someone who's really great at it, it is, it's an impressive skill. And when you realize like,

it's such a weird thing because you're like, how are you so much better at playing pretend than me? That's all this is is playing pretend. And like somehow you're just really good at it. And I'm not. But anyway, you just notice that you once, once you try to do it yourself and you're really bad at it, it kind of makes you appreciate, you know, a little bit more like, oh, some, oh, he's good at it. You see like a good movie and you're like, yo,

that guy's fucking an incredible actor that you're watching this in this video right now. You're watching bad actors I know what acting is not now by the way, and we'll play more of this but There were so many giveaways that right away as soon as all of us saw this video We all know I was texting with Rogan a whole bunch about it before That it was all admitted that it was bullshit and he he said he said to me, he goes, do you see this shit? And I go, yeah, I saw it. He goes, dude. And I was like, I know. And it's because just very basic things where he goes, OK, so the claim is this guy

was held in one of Assad's notoriously brutal prisons for four months. First of all, just the way he stood up. You were like, nope, nope. You have not been like the second of all. There's the room is clean There's not feces there's not you know what I mean It's like a cleaner and then to me the most obvious one They said that the claim was that he hadn't had food or water in four days Pull up the video. Just look at his face. Let's just take a look at his face.

Maybe even. Start to walk. Here, you could just play for a little bit until it comes to it. Right there. Nope, nope. Sorry, that's not the face of someone who hasn't had food or water in four days.

I don't know. Like, if you've ever seen, um, somebody, okay, here, here's a good, uh, pull up, um, uh, Natalie, if you could just Google real quick, uh, Connor McGregor, uh, 145 weight cut. Okay. So see a picture, if you know what Connor McGregor normally looks like, look at a picture of Connor McGregor, maybe even if they have like a side to side one with his like, uh, yeah, because then you can kind of see like what he looks like and what someone

looks like when they're cutting weight. Uh, the reason I, I bring this up is because, um, essentially, so, so yeah, look, look at that. Okay. Now, by the way, that's not, look at that picture of Connor McGregor right there, look at that, okay? Now, by the way, look at that picture of Conor McGregor right there, look at that. Now, when you cut, the reason I bring up cutting weight, this is for people who don't know if you're not into MMA. So essentially what they do is they have weight limits,

right, so you have weight classes. But, so Conor McGregor there is fighting at 145 pounds. But Conor McGregor weighs like 170 pounds. So what, and this is what they all do, is they cut weight, they weigh in, then they rehydrate. Now cutting weight is essentially dehydrating yourself. That's what you're doing. So when they say this guy hasn't had water in four days,

this is what people look like if they haven't had water in four days. You are sucked out. You're gonna look like, almost like, I don't know what the word is. Skeleton? Skeleton-like, you know? This guy, back to the CNN video, it just clearly is not, he has not gone four days with that water. It's very obvious. You can look at his cheeks. Sorry. Nope That's not what a person looks like in that situation Anyway, he looks like every foreigner trying to find their way in Times Square. Yes. That's right. All right, guys

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but the camera turns away when he shoots. Anyway, let's, let's keep playing the video to get a little bit of say, which is how, how fake the whole thing is, how much this is all just theater, just acting. It's water. OK. OK. OK, you're OK. Hadid. Hadid. OK. OK.

We start to walk him outside. Thank God you are safe. The film crew still rolling, so I continue to walk him outside. Thank God you are safe. The film crew still rolling, so I continue to touch the man. This is the third prison they brought me to, he says. The third prison. After three months, I got this nice jacket at this one. So you can finally see the sky. Oh, all right.

So let's pause it right there. After months in a cell, he can finally see the sky. Oh, all right. So let's pause it right there After months in a cell, he can finally see the sky and yet the Sun seems to have no impact on him Did that set off any alarms for anybody? You are aware. I don't know if any of you guys have ever spent some time in a dark room and then walked out into the sunlight But you're not you're gonna squint at least a little bit. So again, this is the point I'm making on picking up on all of these things. And there's of course, like, you know, these days with the internet, there's people far smarter than me who pay attention to detail, who picked apart, you know, 17 more things that were obvious giveaways but the point is that even if hypothetically this CNN lady got fooled

or something like that there's no way the amount of people the amount of eyes that would have to be on this and before it airs on CNN's network and nobody picked up on these obvious tells these obvious it reminds me of um oh my god maybe you could find this actually Natalie but if you if you Google MSNBC Bloomberg gives all his money away. I want to say it was on the Lawrence O'Donnell show. There was, it may be, you know what, those might not be the best keywords to find it, but do you remember what I'm talking about? So this was like, I believe it was Bloomberg.

So it was right around the time that Bloomberg is, um, was running for president and they run, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Let's wait for this, this clip to come up. Cause this was really an entertaining one. This is from, I guess, it would be 2020, right? Wasn't that when Bloomberg ran? Um, okay. So here it is here. Yes, let's play it. This is just okay. There's something really remarkable about this. So here, let's play this clip. It has a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks. I was with Brian Williams.

This guy, he could do it. Absolutely. Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars. I've got it. Let's put it up on the screen. When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads, U.S. population $327 million. Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over. It's an incredible way of putting it. left over. It's an incredible way of putting it. It is.

It's an incredible way of putting it. It is quite literally an incredible way of putting it. I could not have said it better myself. I mean, and it's just, but you just go like the number of people, listen, just as somebody who's done cable news a decent amount, right? The fact that they don't do it like we do it. They don't have me go. Hey Natalie, would you Google this for me? That's not the way things work in cable news. They don't do the Jamie pull that up stuff

They have this laid out already at least seven or eight people had to look at this and no one went Wait, what? I'm sorry. Let me get the math on this right? You're telling me he could have no no, he could give everybody one dollar and have money left over for lunch Not one million dollars. How do you get this? So wrong like that? and the thing about that one is that it's not just like, oh, I forgot to, you know, carry the one or whatever. You know what I mean? It's such as a math mistake.

It's that your entire worldview would have to be like right away. If I just said that to you and go, wait, hold on, hold on. That can't be right. That can't quite be right. It can't be that he could give every single american a million dollars and so like that's not exactly that can't be the numbers of this and Again, it's just it shows you Like this example is a little different. I think this is just you see the incompetence of it But in in this one i'm saying like even if they weren't just lying through their teeth, which they are obviously but How do you not have some how does somebody not look at this and go guys guys guys

We we can't just rush to air with this. This is too crazy I mean, this is just you know, at the very least there'd be like Some eyebrows raised. You wouldn't do what she's doing, which is just reporting it as if it is fact. As if it is like, first of all, you'd go like, okay, Al-Qaeda just took over the country, right? Who exactly am I getting this source from

that we're just gonna trust right away? You'd have a little bit of skepticism. But then, I mean, just again, just look at this. Who would look at this and not know it's fucking fake? I mean, like, who would just look at this and not be like, oh, these are people acting, they are lying. These are these are a group of people all lying. But again, I guess maybe the bigger point here is like. And why? Why are they lying?

I mean, you know, why are they lying? I mean, you know, it's fairly easy to see when, if the corporate media is lying about how terrible Donald Trump is, it's like, well, why are they lying? I mean, because they want Joe Biden to win or they want Kamala Harris to win. Like you kind of say, when they're lying

about the vaccine Working in a way that it doesn't you know, you can't get covid you can't transmit covid if you get the vaccine Well, why are they doing that because they want you to get the vaccine right? Like you could figure but so then that's that What are they doing here? Like what is the goal of the media and it's very clearly is that they want to Essentially rehabilitate al-Qaeda. They wanna convince you that what just happened in Syria is a good thing. Now listen, Bashar al-Assad had these brutal prisons. Look at this poor guy who was there.

He's freed now. Because Assad is gone, he is free. See, things are better in Syria now than they were before. And I mean, why on earth anyone would want to be in the business of rehabilitating Al Qaeda's image? And people can give me whatever shit they want to about, you know, it's, it's, it's so funny to see these people. I remember Kathy Young, who is, you know who she I mean, I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates.

I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. on Ukraine at a pork fest. And if you've never watched it before, it is, I mean, I've been a part of some pretty one-sided debates. It was the most one-sided debate I think I've ever seen.

I mean, it was just, it was worse than Bill Kristol. Maybe not worse. They were both pretty bad, but they did, you know, Gene Epstein does the Oxford style debates. By the way, the Soho Forum, unbelievable debate series. If you're in the New York area, make sure to go check one out. It's run and moderated by the great Gene Epstein. But she literally, you know, he does the Oxford style debate.

So you vote at the beginning where you stand on the resolution. And then you vote at the end. And they measure who moved more people. And she got one vote at the end and they measure who moved more people. And she got one vote at the end and it was the guy she came with. There was one person in the crowd who was like her, I don't know, her husband or boyfriend or friend lying to try and bang her. Yes. Like that was the vote that she got was the one,

but it was just so overwhelming. But there's one point, it's so funny to watch them. But so there's one point where, uh, she goes, uh, she goes to Scott as she's like, well, you know, um, she goes, we, we, we could get it. She goes, it's probably not important to get into the A's of battalion. Like that could be a whole separate debate for itself. I don't really want to spend time on that now. And Scott goes, of course you don't want to spend time on that now. Of course you don't want to talk about that. And then she says something else. And he goes, he goes on a scale of one to 10, how much do they love Adolf Hitler? And she goes, well, and

he goes, it's 10. The answer is 10. They love, you know, like these are for people who don't know it's a all covered in Scott's wonderful new book. But yeah, Ukraine has a real Nazi problem. And I don't know, honestly, I'm not sure exactly where that Nazi problem is today, because I do know that it's true that a lot of them were on the front lines in this fight. You know, the Nazis, we're not talking Nazis here here the way people call people in America Nazi You know what? I mean, it's not like the way people call Donald Trump Nazis I'm talking about like swastika tattooed on your fucking shoulder

The Ukraine war actually got rid of Nazis this whole time I've been talking about all these innocent soldiers that had to die and really we just cleaned Ukraine of some Nazis Well, there were a lot of innocent soldiers too, but or innocent conscripts Whatever however you want to think of them But yeah, there were some Nazis that got killed in it for sure too, but Ukraine's had a long Nazi problem as people history nerds may know Ukraine was once occupied by the Nazis and A lot of them joined up with the Nazis and you know to some degree

You know a lot of them joined up with the Nazis. And, you know, to some degree, you know, it's kind of somewhat understandable. Like if you were living under Stalin and someone came in to liberate you, you might be on their side. So there was some of that. And then a lot of them were kind of like, oh, these Nazis aren't doing too much liberating around here and turned against them later.

But there were a whole bunch of people who really wanted the Nazis to invade beforehand and then enthusiastically joined up and then were Nazis all the way through and their kids were Nazis and the grandkids were Nazis. Like that's, and that's who the third generation Nazis. Yes. Um, so anyway, so, and then Kathy Young in the debate, when he says that he goes, she goes, yes, you know, um, the Azov battalion started as a Nazi organization. It's, yes, you know, the is a battalion started as a Nazi organization.

It's evolved since then, which is just like, yeah, what are you talking about? Like you would never, you would never, if there was a right wing American group that was founded by a racist, you would never say to that, you know, like it'd be like on the level dude, if I was just kind of like Defending the Ku Klux Klan and you were like the clan didn't they like burn crosses on black people's yards I was thinking yeah, but when was the last time they've done that it's a totally different organization today Now by the way, that is true, right? There is not violence from the Ku Klux Klan today at all I don't think correct me internet if I'm wrong about that. But when was the last time you heard about a Klansman being violent? I don't think correct me internet if I'm wrong about that but when was the last time you heard about a Klansman being violent I don't think it

exists yet if someone joins that group you still go I don't know dude you're a Klansman like what are you talking about yet well for Nazis in Ukraine somehow will make this this distinction but it's the same thing here going on with Syria. Like they can say, oh, Jelani's, he's not in Al-Qaeda anymore. You're like he was the emir of Syria, Al-Qaeda's head guy in Syria for years. This is a true real deal Ben Laden night jihadist Hey, you tell me the work of this PR campaign that they're doing to like rehabilitate his image Like he's some type of moderate freedom fighting rebel This is just absurd then it's like insane to watch people do it to watch people go like wait that the only

Again to be clear here The only, again, to be clear here, the only real enemy that we have in this whole fight, al-Qaeda, the only ones who actually attacked America. I guess you could say ISIS did some attacks too. But that's, and CNN is on a campaign to rehabilitate them and just lying through their mouths. Anyway, Rob, you wanna read another piece about why trust in the corporate media is evaporating?

I could, it must be because Rumble's filled with liars, right, that must be the answer. And this story's even richer, it has a punchline. You would've thought it couldn't get any worse than them just fabricating a story. Who the guy turns out to be. It's now being reported that he was a actual torturer in these prisons. Yeah. And I guess a high-ranking torture. It's a steam position and when you're working for a dictator

If you would you want to just turn the heat down a little bit? Uh, I there is something and listen, I want to preface what I'm about to say By saying torture is bad Don't torture people if you're any of our listeners out there if you were on the fence If you were like I might torture someone today. out there, if you were on the fence, if you were like, I might torture someone today, let me nudge you in the right direction here. Don't do it. It's not worth it. We've all been there, but it never works out well. That disclaimer being said, kind of impressed with that guy.

Oh, you mean just the sociopathness It's a balls-out move to be one of Bashar al-assad's torturers in one of his notoriously brutal prisons And to just be torturing people in that prison and then the regime falls and Assad flees and then you just get under a blanket And you go oh liberators thank you so much for coming and saving me like that is something that you're like that's that's incredible that's right out of a bank heist movie yes yeah trying to blend in with the hostages to get out yeah there's like that guy in one room there's an Asian in a tiny box in another room there's fun yeah it's

it's truly incredible but again I mean what I don't even know it's it's truly incredible. But again, I mean what I don't even know. It's such a the the whole thing is so cartoonish But that you literally go. Okay. So this is what's coming out of the cable news network This is what's airing on cnn While the while our government has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fight disinformation Over the last few years and then you know just all of them sitting there. Why are people trusting Joe Rogan? You know, why do people trust comedians on the internet over the the mainstream media? Because none of us do that, you know, whatever that is none of us are in the business of lying to you do that. You know, whatever that is, none of us are in the business of lying to you. I'm mostly of the opinion that CNN is just another division of government and that's

why Brendan works there. It's just a different role within the CIA. And it seems like if there's one thing that the Biden administration did not do well was coordinate with the news networks. So for example, pardoning his kid and bitching them all out on getting his back or stepping out of the election right after they go, hey, you're actually just watching cheap fakes. This almost feels like someone at CNN had to call them up and be like, why didn't you give us warning? We could have gotten great footage of these prisons and like, all right, I guess we can fake it.

Yeah. All right. I guess like, you know what I mean? The like the actual filmmakers were like, I guess we can, can We'll try and find a guy we'll figure it out and then the best thing to get was and they couldn't even think to put the guy in prison clothes or Go to Gaza just recruit someone first Yeah, really find someone who's hungry Yeah, you could find someone who actually looks like they haven't had food or water in four days

And if you're gonna do propaganda this level where Steven Spielberg, know, get some good, get some good lighting that makes things look more torturous. Well, that just looked like my apartment. I do remember CNN got busted for, I think it was, I do, see if you could find this, Natalie. If you, if you Google CNN fake Persian Gulf footage, I believe they got busted for this, If you Google CNN fake Persian Gulf footage, I believe they got busted for this, but it was like they got away with it at the time. And then they, you know, like years later,

I think someone got, I forget exactly how it went down. My advice to the networks is hire ugly. Yeah, here. Yeah, that's it. My advice to the networks is to hire uglier people possibly well here you go yeah Scud missiles incoming were fired at Riyadh and according to the Saudi military they were both shot down Charles J. Coe CNN reporting live from Saudi Arabia What that was just in studio? There's no palm trees in Saudi Arabia. What's the punchline?

Yeah, I guess he's Hold on here. Yeah, skip skip ahead a little bit, you know, I don't I don't exactly remember the details of this All right. We are now let to understand that there are also firings in another city in Saudi Arabia CNN's Karl Rochelle is here with me just came up Pearl I know we can't be very specific given these restrictions, but within those parameters. What did you say? Yeah, anyway, okay we could turn this off but yeah it was a whole fake thing. My point is just they've been in the business of doing this shit for a very long time. It's just like oh like the constant theme of all of this of the whole last year. It's like their inability to adjust to the new reality where it's like you just can't do this shit anymore.

There's a whole internet world out there now and yeah by the way I mean when you said it turned out to be one of the torturers just to be clear CNN admitted this. CNN themselves went yeah we got it wrong so it's just like the pressure they got from everyone online and then everyone online has all these people online have so much bigger Audiences than CNN has so it's just not it's like, you know, I've said a few times before it's like this game only works When you're giant and we're small That's what the game relies on but when we're bigger than you You can't you can't lie like this So at least you got to do a better job

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But I put a lot of work into the Thursday show got a god It's like a dandy year things I was doing, so come hang out for it. Hell yeah, hell yeah. And then of course, me and Rob are going to be all over the place. That was good, right? We're going to be all over the place. We're going to be in different locations. There you go. Yeah, I should maybe rattle off some of these dates here. We're just going to arrive there. Maybe rattle off. We're gonna just we're just gonna arrive there just Just added for this summer to Denver Comedy Works Wow very excited to go go do that

We're gonna have a lot of fun out in that one, but how many how many days we we do in that place? It's not that I'll have to check I think three days Yeah, it's for our first time out there at that club is supposed to be one of the best clubs in the country So very excited to go do that, but we will be in Bozeman, Montana Louisville, Kentucky Fort Wayne, Indiana Key West Buffalo, New York. When we do in Buffalo March 6 through 8th and then back in Boston Back at the Chicago Zanies Appleton Wisconsin Cleveland Ohio spoken and and Tacoma again and Tampa back in Tampa Florida what was the other one there was one other one that we just added I think that I can't remember now Larry's I remember you mentioned yes I've

mentioned Cleveland Clevelandilarities. I'm excited to go back to that one. Denver Comedy Works. Yeah, there was one other one. Anyway, comictapesmith.com for all of those ticket links. Okay, let's switch gears and go to one of these topics that I had. I did wanna play this from a couple days ago.

Found it kinda interesting. More on a kind of similar theme of People in the corporate media world. This was Katie Couric and Jessica Tarlov talking about you know kind of more on the theme of Post-mortem of what happened here. I will say by the way, you know, I've never I've Never met or been a fan of Katie Couric. I did like that documentary Fed Up that she made. I thought that was actually very good.

I don't know if you ever saw that. As a document, you know, I actually don't know if she made it or what her involvement was, but she, like, narrated the documentary. It's about, it was about the obesity epidemic in America and she was actually she they got into a lot of how corrupt the kind of whole government You know system is and that you know Like the food pyramid and all that propaganda that they put out which is really Fuck it as somebody who grew up on that like that was a thing

I remember it being pulled up in my classroom Yeah, make sure you eat your bread. Yes. This is literally what the government told told people in in the 90s It was and I think it was may have come out in the 80s Well, they were like you're gonna want to limit your meat and vegetables I'm not saying you can't have any of them, but like don't go overboard with these meat and vegetables You're gonna want a lot of carbs White bread, you know, Cheerios. This is what you really-

Like you're running a marathon tomorrow and you got a carb load. Yeah, they literally were telling people to be addicted to sugar. Like eight servings. Yes, an insane amount, an insane amount. And it's just, you know, these are the people who are in charge of fighting

misinformation, by the way, you know. But it's the documentary was, it was really powerful. It also, it showed, like it followed a few of these like obese kids. And it was just so... Thumbrthighs. Oh, dude, it was so sad though. Like there's these kids who are like, just morbidly obese and they're like seven and it does that One of the things that's powerful about that is that you go like look you could kind of say whatever you want to when it comes to adults it's very easy particularly with fat people because You know

People have their own kind of impulses about how they view somebody who's like morbidly obese and it's very easy to say like, ah, get your life together, man. Come on, this is a decision. And to some degree, that's true. But when you're talking about little kids, it is very much different. You're like, no, no, no, that kid is just a victim. It was not their job to fucking make sure that they didn't become morbidly obese by age seven.

That's not right, you know and What you do one of the things you see in the documentary out of going off on a tangent here But it is like the level of ignorance that some of these parents would have where they really didn't seem like bad people They just I have no so they just do You know There's be like this fat mom with her like morbidly obese son. And she's like, we're trying to do everything we can. Like he likes hot pockets, so I get him the lean pockets, you know? And it's like, that's this mother's conception of like, what healthy eating is,

is like, instead of getting hot pockets, I got the lean pockets. So your kid is just eating this microwave. But there's one scene where there's this obese girl and she's just they're all they're sitting there being Interviewed for a documentary about her kids health and they're going over and she starts her morning with a bowl of pops You remember the cereal corn pops delicious like gotta have my pops That is what they say But anyway, and she goes to anyway, the documentary was kind of good. And they go through the Michelle Obama thing, which was really interesting. That essentially,

when Michelle Obama comes in to the White House, her first thing that is going to be her big initiative that she's going to is like healthy kids, and which is such a great first lady thing to do, because who could be offended by that? You know what I mean? It's just like everyone can agree. Like, let's get these kids healthy. And she had, I forget what they called it, but she had this whole campaign to like get kids eating good and get them and you just see the way it works. So I can be a man looking like a lady. You can be a skin. If you can turn your kids any, that's right. She goes, biology isn't real, evidently. So, um, but, but you see the way it comes. it's like immediately

All the big corporate money starts flowing in coca-cola and mcdonald's and all of them are like we love your initiative We're gonna donate 10 million dollars to it blah blah blah And in fact, we're even going to give you some of our experts to help craft the thing And then it ends up being the uh, the I don't the calorie in calorie out thing, which was all just a big scheme by the, these big companies. And it's, it's like, it's just like the COVID stuff. It's science. E it's kind of science. It kind of smells like science. You're like, yeah, isn't that it? It's really a matter of how many calories you consume versus how many you burn. But what's very convenient

about that is that you're like, yeah, but calories of what? Which calories? Because you know, if you have calories from almonds, or calories from a Big Mac, it's not exactly the same. Now is it? I would say the as a compulsive eater, he deals with the fats comes from a long line of fans. The bigger problem with the calorie and calorie out perspective is the addictive quality of food So if you're giving the kid, uh, you're saying hey, it doesn't matter what he eats So as long as it's under this amount of calories him hand him the chocolate cake and the coca-cola as long as it's small portion You're getting a kid who's now wired for I need more chocolate cake and coca-cola. No, well, that's that's 100% true

but then in addition to that, it's not as if if you have the and they go through this in the documentary, but if you have like x amount of calories of Of a Big Mac and then you have x amount of calories of like chicken breast It you can burn off the chicken breast calories way quicker than you can burn off the fuck You know what I'm saying? So it's not even like it's a whole different equation Anyway, that being said I did kind of like that documentary Jessica Tarlov the other person in this interview I should full disclosure. I've met many times and I like her very much. She's a very nice person She is the and I don't mean to say this in an insulting way

But she's the token liberal at Fox News or I don't know if she still works at Fox News, but she did for many years. And she's essentially. She's there like she's there to lose. That's kind of the business model. We have to pretend that we have one liberal here, you know, so it'll be four conservatives against her and then they all beat up on her every day. But there is something about that. I just every time I ever met her, she was always like just very, very nice person and

very kind and sweet. And I guess you have to be to be the liberal at Fox News. But she got, you know, so I have nothing bad to say about her. But aside from maybe disagreeing with her politics. But anyway, let's play that clip because I did find this interesting. On the immigration front, there was a tendency amongst Democrats and especially Democrats were discussing the issue. So people who do interviews or are part of the media to minimize it over the first two and a half years when there were a lot of people coming in here. And I thought that it was a stunt. You know, when I they started busing migrants, they go to Martha's Vineyards. Yeah, it

was the smartest thing they ever did. Well, it's interesting because I have a friend who lives in Florida and I said, what did you think of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott taking some of these immigrants and moving them to northern states? And she said, I thought it was great because nobody really was paying attention before that. And I do think that this untold story was the strain on social services and communities particularly along the border this influx huge influx of immigrants was having and I think the mainstream media however you define that these days kind of ignored that story to its peril. Yeah, well, I mean, they're certainly right about that.

I did think that was a I thought that was one of like the better moments that I've heard out of like people in the corporate media world giving a postmortem because they're actually dealing with one of the major issues that moved people I would just say. in addition to the point that they made, what you want to get yourself into thinking about if you're people like Jessica and Katie here, it's like, why were you not able to see that at the time? Why did you minimize it?

Me and you sat here on this show and called it the most brilliant political stunt we had ever seen. It was brilliant. It was undeniable and it just so clearly worked. The second they went there everyone at Martha's Vineyard was outraged and they got rid of them the next day. Yeah, no kidding. You gave the whole game away. This is, there used to be a popular phrase when I was a kid called limousine liberals. And this is that much like the term liberal, this has kind of gone out of out of style. But this is a huge, huge component to progressivism in general. And it's something that makes voters white hot angry and justifiably so. And this dynamic exists all over the place, all over the place where and the reason why

limousine liberal was an attack is not simply an attack like, oh, you're rich and you drive in a limousine. The point was that you advocate for policies that you yourself are completely removed from the repercussions of. Other people have to suffer through the repercussions of these policies and you see this all over the place right? You see all of these people who advocate for global warming jet travelers. Exactly they're a great example. I advocate for climate change, but I fly on a private jet. I advocate for open borders, but I live in a gated community. I advocate for gun control, but I have armed security guards.

I advocate for degeneracy being taught in public schools, but I send my kids to private schools. This is all over the place. It's constant. We saw during COVID that people advocating for mask mandates going out in public without masks. It's like there is something about that, that level of hypocrisy. And it's not just hypocrisy because hypocrisy is one thing.

Hypocrisy is like contradicting what your stated views are. But this is actually imposing disastrous consequences on other people while you yourself don't have to suffer through them and then acting like you're morally superior to somebody for enforcing that. So everybody in border towns across the southern border have had to live through these policies and they get called bigots by these people in Martha's Vineyard, but then the first day that there's an influx of migrants to Martha's Vineyard, they're all up in arms and it actually gets taken care of. Of course that's gonna move voters. Listen, I do have to wrap up because I gotta go watch my kid. Because my wife's gotta go pick up the other one. Thank you guys for tuning in. Sorry about the mishap with the live episode.

We'll make sure to fix that for tomorrow. Alright, catch you guys next time. Peace.