Part Of The Problem - Prosecute Fauci

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave and Robbie "the Fire" Bernstein discuss the war with Iran slowing down apparently due to low stores of missiles, the recently revealed Anthony Fauci diaries which prove that he was lying to the public during the pandemic, and more.Support Our Sponsors:Ultra - Don’t sleep on Ultra Pouches. New customers get 15% Off with code PROBLEM at https://takeultra.com!Prolon - https://prolonlife.com/potpHexclad - Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get10% off at https://hexclad.com/PROBLEM! #hexcladpartnerPart Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!PORCH TOUR DATES HERE:https://robbernsteincomedy.com/eventsFind 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#libertarian See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. How are you feeling today, Rob? I'm doing well, man. It was an epic run of porches. And once you get into a groove, you don't want to come home because you just like, it starts off and it's tough. And then you just get used to being on the move and playing people's lawn. So I was having fun. Well, that's good. You were on quite a run. I got to, by the way, I should mention, I got a tomorrow, tomorrow night. I will be in Cincinnati. One night only for the Young Americans for Liberty event. I'll be given a speech there tomorrow night. And I'm also recording with Matt Kibby while I'm

out there. So there'll be some content for you guys. And we've got days this weekend. We're in Florida this weekend. I think it's... Go for it. Dania Beach Improv, I believe. But yeah, we'll be out there in the Fort Lauderdale area. Comic damesmith.com for those tickets.

And I'm sticking around on Florida. I got St. August Florida on Saturday. And I'm sorry, Coco, Florida on Saturday, and then Sunday in St. Augustine, Florida. And then the next weekend is Walpole, Massachusetts, somewhere else,

like I think Boston and Newton and Rhode Island. So come hang out. Hell yeah. And then, of course, in August, me and Rob will both be at the Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Wisconsin, comedy mothership in Austin, Texas,

then Louville, Kentucky, Fort Worth, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Salt Lake City, bunch of stuff coming up. Comic-Tapesmith.com, PorchTor.com for all of that. All right, Rob. Well, there's a lot going on. There's some updates with the war, some actually pretty interesting updates,

and then we got these Fauci diaries that I really want to talk to you about. Let's here, let's start with this, because this is something I've been thinking about this morning, and I guess for a bit now. But Mark Levin took to the airwaves, over the weekend to give his take on the legacy, which many people have been thinking about as we come in on 10 years since he was first inaugurated. The legacy of Donald Trump. What other president has the golden coin, his face on the $100 bill on this many policies

and buildings across our nation? No other president has ever had his name so finally displayed. Rob, the worst thing, the worst casualty in this war has been high energy Mark Levin. He's been taken down to a Mark Levin that none of us are comfortable with. But yes, yeah, let's hear from Mark Levin himself on the legacy of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The reason this president will get on in history for a thousand years. The reason the Prime Minister of Israel will go down in history for a thousand years is because they saw the danger and they stood up to the danger and they're fighting the danger. And Donald Trump will go down in our history is one of the greatest presidents ever, ever.

Because of what he is doing today as well as other things that he's done, but certainly because what he's doing today in dealing with this grave threat in Iran. All right. Now, Rob, part of the reason why I thought this was interesting is just because, well, on one level, like probably on the most surface level, you just love. look at that and you go, wow, what world are you fucking living in? You know? And perhaps that is just a comment on the fact that we're living in very different worlds. I mean, that is true. If you're, if you are a boomer con TV host, you live in a very different world than

we do. But I suppose, Rob, well, look, on one level, right, you just look at it, you go, imagine going on like a college campus today and going, I think Benjamin Netanyahu. whose legacy is going to be great. He's going to be viewed in history as a great man for a thousand years. You know, it seems a little removed from reality. Then again, Rob, I mean, monstrous presidents have been viewed as, you know, if you ask historians who the greatest president is, they typically give you our most monstrous

presidents. Like they'll say Truman and FDR and Abraham Lincoln were the greatest presidents. And they're like, you know, whatever grand chessboard geopolitical argument you want to make, you're like, what, you do have to get past a lot. You know, like pick those guys as different. Like just right off the surface, you'd be like, wait, the guy who's like, who like started world wars and dropped nuclear bombs and started civil wars, killed like hundreds of thousands, millions of people.

Those are your best guy. All right. But anyway, I guess one of the things I thought was so interesting about this is just that like, look, I never really have the confidence, Rob, that left-wingers have a lot where they go, you're on the wrong side of history. Like, in my view, it's kind of like, I guess if we win, yeah, if I win, it's going to look real bad if you were a neocon, but if the neocons win, it'll probably look really bad being mate. I don't know.

But I really do think he's wrong about this. And I think some of the examples of this that are pretty obvious is that I remember Rob at the end of George W. Bush's term, people saying he's very unpopular right now, but historians are going to remember him for winning this huge battle in Afghanistan, you know, being the one who brought democracy to Afghanistan or something. I don't know, Rob, doesn't seem to me like George W. Bush is being remembered as a hero. Doesn't seem to me like Anthony Fauci's being remembered as a hero, which we're going to get into. And the idea that, like, I don't know, and I'm curious to get your thoughts on this, Rob, but to me, it seems like this idea, you're banking on a lot of things.

things here. Number one, you have to kind of have the people tricked at the time. Like, you got to get those people to believe it at the time because then 40 years later, they'll swear by that lie of what the myth was, like the greatest generation. They'll go to their deaths, be like, yeah, it was great what we did. In other, like, you also need a control mechanism of propaganda, you know, to like maintain that. That's the only way it's ever worked. You don't even have the people fooled at the time that this is a good war, let alone the propaganda machine to keep it going. Am I crazy, Rob? You're a delusional old man to think that, oh, yes, Donald Trump, there's any indication that him and Netanyahu will be remembered why, you know, fondly from history.

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Let's get back into the show. I mean, firstly, Mark Levin is so low energy there. I feel like we're watching this guy in his deathbed. It's like last remarks before passing. And I'm just going to assume that he's not the same since his truck stop lover, a Lindsey Graham passed. So, you know, he's got a hole in his bottom side right now. He's looking to Phil. Uh, and Graham Dick's eyes hole. Yeah. With all that said, I mean, it's just, it's, it's exactly what he does is WWF pro wrestling. He's trying to sell his fans on that this war is the

greatest idea of all time. And listen, don't listen to any of the naysayers. There's still a pathway to victory. And a thousand years from now, people are going to be celebrating how great what Donald Trump did. And the ad, the adversarial. The adversarial. climate he had to overcome of people who didn't see the risk of Iran and the need to stop them now. So, you know, he's just doing what he's doing. He's going with the biggest possible lie to sucker people into his world vision. And that includes that there will be a victory and a victory that is so celebrated that a thousand years from now, people are going to look back at Trump as the savior of our universe. Yeah, yeah. You know, I will say, though, Rob, and I don't, I hesitate

to like jump to conclusions, but I don't think there's nothing to that. Even though we're kind of like joking around when we say this, there's something to the fact that he's like more low energy than ever. There's something there. I've noticed this across the board with the war hawks and the cheerleaders of this war, just like watch their energy. They're all zapped of it. It's horrible.

You almost look at them and feel bad in a lot. a way. Like, it does feel like, um, like you just drew the toughest hand in a game of charades or something like that. Like you're like, oh, you got to go out and still defend this shit. Okay. Yeah, dude, Donald Trump's going to be remembered so well in history. And what's Donald Trump? Where is he 15 points underwater from where he was a year and a half ago or before he launched the 12 day war? Um, I don't see it. Netanyahu, the guy who's under ICC, you know, uh, indictment. there's a criminal warrant out for his arrest.

He's going to age well. And then, of course, Rob, in the backdrop of this, we have what? That over this weekend, evidently, at least according to the newspaper of record and whatever the official regime stenographers are, Donald Trump wanted to escalate and has been warned that we're running out of missiles. This is a major problem that our stockpiles have been depleted. Now, this is something that has been. It does almost feel there's been a few reports about this,

but it almost feels like this is like a new topic being introduced to the corporate media. This has been a real concern for quite a long time. And look, Rob, this was, I know they had a, what's his name? I'm sorry, I'm blanking on his name. Who's the former national security advisor who's over at the, where is he at the UN now? Waltz? Well, they had him on the Sunday shows saying that, don't worry about this. There's no problem. If there is a problem, it's Joe Biden's fault over Ukraine. And you're like, hey, that's really contradictory. Which one of those two is?

Like, is it, we're running out of missiles, but it's Joe Biden's fault or we're not running out of missiles? Because even if you're going to blame the last guy for that, that's information we really need to have cleared up right now, which one of those two it is. But the, you know, they're out saying this is not true. The New York Times, are out there saying people should be indicted whoever leaked this which by the way rob that is quite a leak this isn't just like your run of the mill leak because if true i mean hey that is given up very important information to the enemy and and the whole world that being said that wouldn't be american citizens biggest concern our biggest concern would be the fact that we're actually if

whether if this is true um but anyway the thing that's that gives it a lot of uh legs rob is that three nights in a row now there have been no attacks and so it does seem to back up that there was a reason why Donald Trump stopped here. By the way, double cross your fingers and toes, but this could be really good news if this is the reality on the ground that gets Donald Trump to just walk away, we'll say. Well, firstly, I'd been saying for, or I've said this in the past, that if there was a Donald Trump on their side, that every time Donald Trump was saying they have no Navy left, we've taken out 90% of their missile capability, someone over there would be going, they used up other Patriot missiles, we took out other bases, they have a storyline too.

And I think Donald Trump, you read all of his threats, and they seem to live in a bubble that Iran can't escalate back. He seems to constantly be in some illusion of, oh, we're going to go hit all their power plants. And Iran goes, go ahead. We're going to start taking out power plants in the neighboring countries. But he seems to constantly be in like a bubble reality where he feels like we can escalate. We do have escalation dominance and they won't be able to match us.

And I think Donald Trump just throws these threats out there with none of the the actual reality in mind. And in this case, someone had to actually sit down and go, hey, this is going to be a big mistake. We don't actually have the interceptors if we're going on the offensive. And I think on the Iranian side, they're not looking to escalate because they don't want to give an excuse for Israel or America to basically nuke them. They don't want to do anything so tragic that the world would be on the side of, hey, this regime has to go. And I think they're just kind of comfortable sitting in this mess feeling like they won and that at some point Donald Trump is going to have to actually give them a real version of the MOU, admit defeat,

and walk away. And so they're happy to kind of just sit in the current status quo. And Donald Trump is really just working with his bomb and hope strategy of let's keep the current conditions and let's hope that some sort of a pathway opens up. But now that the Red Sea is shut down, Saudi Arabia's got to be pissed off as all hell is some critical infrastructure is now being targeted and hit by the Houthis. It seems like there's just more of a shock clock running out on America of how much. which we're going to be able to, how much our voting public is going to be willing to tolerate without turning on Trump. So it just kind of feels to me like the Iranians just have this chess game pretty figured out and Donald Trump is still fumbling along.

Yeah, I think, I mean, I think that's exactly right. That's like spot on. And even down to your point with the, look, the nuclear threat and Donald Trump being the guy sitting there does give it a little bit of a credibility from the Iranian perspective that like, look, I mean, he is the craziest motherfucker in the world and he does have his finger on the button so like gee you know like you're essentially if you're like if you're trying to which is a useful thing to do in war even though it literally gets every low IQ moron to you know like lose their minds if you ever do it but like put yourself in the perspective of the other guys imagine right now you're an Iranian imagine your survival and your family's survival depends on Iran coming out on top of this and you're operating

from their point of view I think exactly what you said is how you have to approach it You'd go, look, we're winning. But there's this big, you know, like ace in the hole. So we don't want to do anything crazy. You just want to win. Play conservatively at this point. But also, if you were being smart from their perspective, but you don't give up the straight.

You don't give up anything. You don't because you're winning. And why would you? So, yeah, I think that's essentially right. And look, man, if this is the case, I mean, in some ways, it's another level that we're going to get a reality. check on exactly how much of a paper tiger this whole U.S. Empire is, and exactly how much of a big Ponzi scheme is this whole thing, you know, where you've got, I mean, Rob,

if you look into it, and there's some people who have done good detailed analysis on this, but there's been some reports even in the New York Times and in the Wall Street Journal, where they'd even, when you just go through it, it's like, dude, we dropped like more THAAD missiles than have ever been dropped in human, something like some crazy number, like a huge percentage of the world stock of thad missiles we dropped in the first month of this war and you'd like look at the numbers it'd be like it was like five billion dollars worth of thad missiles alone like it's the numbers are getting really crazy when you got this war department that's now coming out and they're asking first they said they needed 200 billion for this war now pete higgs said this coming out robin saying

the biggest threat to national security is that we don't give you guys 1.5 trillion dollars and it's like yo dude like the money you're talking about here where we've spent we've probably you know america has since the collapse of the soviet union maybe put 20 trillion dollars into militarism um you're now talking about you need another 1.5 trillion just to get you through the next year and this is the biggest national security like at what points of the taxpayer get to kick the tires on this thing rob and go and what do we have for all that you're telling me we we've spent this many trillions of dollars. Do you understand the level of wealth that we've robbed

from the American people extracted from the economy and given to cronies at weapons companies and to the tune of trillions and tens of trillions of dollars? And you're telling me we run out of missiles in a war with a third rate power after a few months? I mean, I'm sorry, what the fuck are we talking about here, Rob? Yeah, well, this came up during the, when we were funding Ukraine against Russia.

Russia. I think I heard Ron Johnson say this on the Senate floor that they're able to produce just the basic stockpiles of ammunition at like a seven. It's like a seven to one cost ratio. And I mean, and this is also just, this is Trump's fault of piss poor planning gets piss poor results. At the outset of the war, people were talking about the cost of our interceptors versus the cost of their cheap drones. And I was talking with Kyle Ansela on my podcast, running your mouth at the start of the war. And he was basically saying what you're saying is that the problem is that our entire military industrial complex is basically just a money laundering scheme. And so they are not actually prepared for these fights because they got these super targeted,

very expensive pieces of equipment that are kind of outdated. And they are spectacular and they are precise. But if you're up against heavy volume super cheap, it's not a winning strategy. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's right. You know, I think about this quite a lot. But it is, there is also something interesting about how, like,

You know, they say the Pentagon's always fighting the last war. And there's no question. There's truth to that. I mean, if you look at where so much of like the, so much of the military buildup has gone, it was almost like we're planning for another World War II. Or we're planning for another conventional war. But even as you look around, you're like, dude,

I mean, all the superpowers got H-bombs at this point. Like, we're not doing another conventional World War II war. So why are we planning for that? Like, our boys aren't going to be in foxholes. shooting at other, you know, boys in foxholes. Is it right? We're not going to fight World War one if we do have another World War. It'll be something, but it won't be that.

And, you know, when you think about the fact is, and this really is the fact that if there's a reason, if you had to, obviously, these are layered questions. But if you were to say, why is America the superpower in the world right now? And you had to give the shortest possible answer to that. It's like, well, because we won the two world wars in the 20th century. something like, we won the two world wars and then the Soviets collapsed or something like that. So where the superpower left. And the reason we won the two world wars is because we have this giant industrial base. We were the most productive nation in the history of the world.

We made so much stuff that it made us the richest country in the world. And then when our government decided to take us to the war, they converted that productive capacity toward warmaking. And so we just outproduced everyone. So we won the big wars. And then through a bunch of government policy, we deindustrialize the whole country. And now we don't have a productive capacity. And there is just something interesting about that, like Rob, where it's like, look, obviously we're not fighting the last war anyway.

But even if we were to fight the last war, like we don't have that anymore. You know, like we don't have the thing that made us the superpower, both economically and then militarily. We gave up on that. And now we're an economic superpower because we trade more pieces. a paper electronically that anybody else does or whatever, you know? And then you're like, oh, all right. Also, we spend more of that paper money on our military. And that's not nothing, because you can buy some cool missiles and stuff, but all of this stuff is getting put to the test

right now. And I mean, we're failing it in real time. You're watching. We're just failing it at every turn. I don't know what to say, Rob. Donald Trump lost the war. Then he pivoted to an economic blockade and lost that war now he's pivoted back to this and he's losing this one so what's the next pivot here i i have a feeling that's just walk away i'm hoping all right guys let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show which is hexclad i've been telling you about this company for a while now if you want to level up your kitchen game you got to check out hexclad and summer's here i don't know about you but i'm a big barbecuer i've been out on the grill every day and i'm using hexclad's barbecue collection. Hexclad is bringing its hybrid technology outdoors with products specifically designed

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kind of admit that Iran's not a mortal enemy and the big loser in that equation is Israel yeah well yeah one would think one would think um all right you want to just get into let's get into some of the uh the Fauci stuff because this is uh something prosecute Fauci there you go it was something, man. Reading through, I will say there's something about COVID and that time period. And, you know, I remember when I read Tom, Tom Woods' fantastic book, Diary of a Psychosis, really great book. But I remember it was like, it was like a cathartic experience, but it was emotional.

Like I got, like, it was just such a period. You know, I mean, I think COVID is one of these things that like it affected everybody, everybody's life. For me and you, it also like affected our career a lot and and in many ways our show kind of blew up in those years and, you know, I kind of made a name for myself off being one of the guys who was opposed to the COVID stuff. I mean, I've been around a little bit before then, but that was, those were big years for sure. I still, everywhere I go, everywhere I go, people come up to me and talk about the Cuomo debate. I'll never not, I'll never not get just regular working class dudes coming up to me going, thanks

you're kicking Cuomo's ass. And there's, well, look, it was a crazy, it was a crazy time period. And even for me, I still, when I, like, as I'm reading some of these Fauci emails, you're like, was it all a dream? Did this really happen? And I'll tell you, there was something where I've seen on social media,

a bunch of people, like posting stuff about it. And it's like, it's almost like getting the boys back together. It's all the people who were against the COVID tyranny. Like, I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember all these guys. And there's something, there is a bond, I think. think that all of the people who were really, really outspoken critics of the insanity, of the insane response to COVID, you know, there's like a camaraderie that we all have with each other because the world really went crazy. And it was, it was a time where it took,

it was really, it felt like it really cost you something to stand up and be against it and tell the truth. And not just like, cause you something like, I'm not trying to exaggerate. Like, It wasn't like, oh, you were going to go to jail for this. But I never felt like that. But it did feel like you might be silenced permanently in the public conversation for this. And it did feel like, I think for a lot of people, like, you might really lose friends over this. Like people, you know, and there's just a crazy time. And look, I don't know how else to say this, but we were so goddamn right, Rob.

We were so right. And they were all so wrong. It is, I don't know. And I know that this is one of the things that I appreciate where people come up to me about the Cuomo debate all the time. It's not just about the Cuomo debate. It was much bigger than that debate. It was much bigger than me. It's that during these COVID years, there was, Rob, the attempt to gaslight you, to gaslight you.

But from all the halls of power. And while you sit there and go like, no, no, no, no, this clearly makes no sense. This is wrong. And they tried to be, and then to like find other like-minded people and have their whole narrative fall apart. There's something just very cathartic about that. You're like, thank you. I'm not fucking crazy. You people, not only are you people,

were you guys always out of your fucking mind, these absolute, you know, just sociopathic liars. And we'll go through some of this in a little bit. But like, look at the actual guy who you were defending. He's a little fucking weasel, a little weasley liar who was like overwhelmed and thrilled with the moment that he was in. It's just, it's unbelievable.

The more you learn about these people, the more information as time comes out. And then you try to put yourself back in the space of what they were telling you at the time that he was this hero. He was truth science and above, you know, reproach. I don't know. You can take this anywhere you want to, Rob. All right. I want to give you the highlights of what I've seen so far that are in the diaries. I'm going to have to actually go and read all of these because I will for sure turn it into some comedic

bits. It's really made for a Rob Bernstein piece on all of this. Yes, this is, I will be delving into this, but the single most damning piece that's in there, and we'll get into all of them, but the single most damning was that he acknowledged, and I don't know why he put this in writing, but when he was out there, three weeks after he wrote this in the diary that the death rate was upwards of 3%. He acknowledges in his private diaries that this is basically a bad flu at like 0.02%. And so if you want, if you. just want one little piece of evidence of this entire thing being a fabricated mess by the works of Fauci. It's right there in his diaries that the death rate that scared the shit out of all of us

was completely overstated and he knew it at the time. Which is so huge, which is so huge, man. And I'm sorry, don't lose your place on that. But this was the whole debate at the time. Because at the time, this was the whole numbers. It's like, okay, well, if it's 0.03, then who really cares? It's a bad flu and we go on with life as normal, but if it's 3.0, then we're looking at the black plague and like, fucking hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to be dead on the street. And so we have to. And so, dude, conflating that is such a huge, you know what I mean? Like it's, you kind of can't overstate, like, what a big deal that is. He knew it. And they were smearing us. Dude, I remember sharing

studies at the time that were like, hey, indicating maybe it's lower than that. And people would be furious at you over it. And this motherfucker knew the whole time. And then, uh, next is you get just the insight into the institutional problems. So for one, apparently he ended up in his position because Donald Trump liked the way he looked on television and everyone kind of thought he was a good TV character. And so that's how he became the Lord of Science was not because he was actually doing the research, but because he was good on television. Next you have, and this gives away the entire thing and people don't understand just how dirty

this is. He's getting awards from people that have gotten big grants from the NIH. And isn't that nice that you can get a huge sum of money from the NIH and then turn around and go, we're going to give an award to the guy who gave us a ton of money. But it's not just the awards. That's why all of the institutions were in lockstep with what was coming down. It's socialism that there's so much federal money going into the system. None of the big institutions or doctors or anything wanted to criticize the system because that's where the actual money's flowing from.

And then the last piece of just institutional rot that's very apparent is when they first get together with the scientists and, Fauci knows that this leaked from a lab and he's got the committee and he's like, all right, well, we're going to have to make this look like it's like it was out of the wet market. And then they, you know, I think two people left that committee because they were kind of the dissenters. The same thing happened with the CDC. They got rid of the guy who, I think it was over the same lab leak thing that they basically got rid of him. Also, every time they were proving the vaccines when there were dissenters, those guys magically decided to resign from their posts.

But that's the rot is that you get these people at the top of these institutions that are not going, hey, go perform science and give me an answer. They're going, this is the conclusion I'm looking for. I need it on government paperwork so I can go people, hey, this is the scientific process of government paperwork. You got to trust the government paperwork. No, you're exactly right. That's it.

And so, well, look, dude, I mean, this is the shit that Rothbard taught me about how you got to analyze this shit. It's like in the same way that like, you know, when it comes to economics, I always say there's Austrian economics and then there's junk economics. It's like because there's a correct way to view things here. incorrect way to view things. And so like, like for example, just off topic on the economic stuff, right? Like this was the basic messessian idea of what praxeology is, right? That praxeology is the study of human action. And when humans are acting, you think about that in a different way, right?

So like, for example, if you, if you saw, I think Bob Murphy might have used this example. If you threw a rock up in the air and it came down and you caught it in your hand. right? Or then you saw, let's say you saw a plane take off and then you saw a plane land. Like you were just at the airport, you saw it takeoff and land. Now, if we were scientifically analyzing what just happened with that plane. And I said to you, I came to you with a hypothesis, which is that the pilot didn't like the looks of it. He changed his mind and he decided to land. That's like a reasonable hypothesis in that case, right? Like that maybe he didn't like the looks of the weather and came, but we just saw a plane take off and come back down. Now, but if I was

analyzing the rock and I said to you, looks like the rock didn't like the way things were going up and he decided to come back down. Okay, like, that would be really goofy in the rock example, but it would be totally scientific in the plane example. And in the same way that like, vice versa, if I were to try to describe the plane as if it was a rock, as if gravity just blotted back down, you'd be like, no, no, no, you don't understand. That's human action. There's a human being acting here. And so we analyze that in a different. way than we would. So in other words, you know any type of economics that's giving you like a formula,

like that's trying to be physics. You're not doing it right, dude. This has nothing to do with science anymore. This is anti-scientific. It's as anti-scientific as if I said the rock decided it didn't want to go up anymore and decided it wanted to come down. We don't think of rocks as making decisions and we don't think of humans as not making decisions.

Neither one works. In the same way, sorry, that's just a little off to the side. but for those who it connects with, I think it makes sense. In the same way, Murray Rothbard used to put it like this. I believe what he called it, what you're talking about right now, was economic incentive history. He was saying that that should be a whole different branch of history. And Murray Rothbard basically argued that we have good military history

where they'll be like this battle happened, then this battle happened, then this battle happened. But if you look at real, like, historians and the work they do on policy, It's almost always like the gaps are filled with just narrative nonsense. Like, dude, and I can't tell you how many times this, this happens. This was one of the great insights as a historian that Murray Rothbard had. So I get this all the time when I talk to liberals or left wingers. And in fact, I think even like, I think Nick Mullen once came at libertarians with this like dismissal,

which is a pretty popular one you hear on the left. They'll say something like, yeah, Rob, we tried it that way, and that didn't work. And that's why we have what we have now. You know, and to some degree, there's like a superficial level of plausibility with this because, yeah, we used to be a much more free market economy. And now we're a much more centrally planned economy. And so, yeah, we used to do it like that and then found out it doesn't work. And now we do it like this. But then Rothbard would point out, hey, is that really how the,

mechanisms of government work? Is that just right now, when you look at the mechanisms of government, is that how it works? The people, we all found out, and then legislation gets passed. Like the example Rothbard would use, he goes, let's say Congress passes a tariff on steel, okay? Or let's say Trump passes, you know, it doesn't have to be Congress, the government, maybe it does by executive order, whatever. There's a tariff on steel.

And you were to go, hey, here's my hypothesis on how this happened. the people woke up and they realized that free trade and steel just didn't work. There were these major problems in the buying and selling of steel. This didn't work. And the people realized that a preferable economic system was that Washington, D.C. tax foreign production or foreign imports of steel production. Or is it more likely that special interest from the steel industry lobbied per said policy? Which one's more likely? Every last one of us knows that the second is the actual mechanisms of government.

And yet, real deal historians and regular people will tell you history as if it all happened the other way. They will fill. So one of the ways Rothbard does history, it's just really fascinating. So he says, and this is the way Rothbard described it, even back then. And I believe he was writing this in the 70s. So if you could try to picture how brilliant and how much this applies to today. But he goes, look, this is why the term conspiracy theory was developed and used to slander anybody who does real history. Now, he made the point. Rothbard goes, there are cooks out there

who do bad conspiracy, but real history is almost always about economic incentives and thus a conspiracy of sorts. And so when you read Rothbard, well, Rob, you know, in 1850, they put in that big railroad. What was it? Around 1850. So that's the one that left from, yes, the one that went, no, I don't think it was the Pacific. I think it was Chicago. I think it was like a north-south railroad before the Pacific. But maybe you're right. Maybe I'm getting that. But people could go like, well, they did that because the economy didn't work in this way. And then they did this. And therefore, we realized that we needed centrally planned railroads. And then you read Rothbard. And Rothbard goes like, whatever it'll be. It'll be like when

Madison was lobbying for the second central bank of the United States of America, his cousin got to underwrite the bonds that were written by the state government. And his old business partner got to have the job on the railroad that got to. And then you find the actual connections. And you go, oh, well, okay. Well, that's actually pretty, okay, if we're doing real history here, it makes a lot more sense to maybe focus on the fact that, like, you know, Madison's cousin stood to become worth $50 million if the second bank got passed. The cousin thing is not a specific detail from history,

but there was shit like that with Madison and the second bank. You got to go read Rothbard. But there's all types of great, like, nuggets in there. But the point is that, like, my point is that what you're, getting here and what you're talking about is real history, really how things work. And no, it's not the case that just like the mechanisms and the machinery of government all get behind this guy because we all had some view or something like that. It's like, no, follow the money here, man. Like, who's making money off of this? And to your point, this stuff is all over the place here. And you see it.

It's like, dude, between his emails that have come out, now his diary entries, the picture is just so clear. they never thought it was racist to say that it came from a lab. They never thought it. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, they knew it probably came from the lab and they knew they were implicated. They knew that the death rate wasn't this high, but they knew that they would get a lot more power if people believed it was. And also, we can go through some more if there's others on your list here. But I got to say, dude, because part of what Rothbard is getting at in his way of how to conceive history here,

And part of public choice theory or things like that are understanding what, a kind of basic thing. It's the same insight that Mises had with economics, but with politics. What we're looking at here is human action, meaning we're viewing human actors, meaning they work like human beings work. And me and you, viewer of this show, Rob and Natalie, we know a thing about how humans work because we are humans, right? So we can kind of like understand some of this. And one of the things that's crazy to me, Rob, here is not, it's not just the lies.

It's not even just like the money complications. I do put this right up there with the, with like, say, the death rate. Fauci as a person, Rob, is smitten with being famous. And that's the thing that really comes through here, which is wild to think about. That at this moment, at this moment when you're like, okay, he knows that he knows that he, He funded the lab, right? We don't know that yet, but he knows that. There's the biggest, like, outbreak of this virus and this guy is concerned with the fact that, like, pretty neat that everyone on TV is talking about me.

Yeah, it's incredible how drunk on power he is and that he doesn't seem to be all that concerned with the actual science behind the policies as much as these policies are leaving me to be more of a celebrity and to be more in power. and I mean it's almost remarkable to try and wrap your head around a villain of that nature who will make choices that while pretending it's the only way that you're going to live, but the choices are actually being influenced by this grants me more power as people are kind of listening to me. And at the same time, when getting in trouble going, I never said that. That wasn't my decision. That for me, that was from all these agencies.

And then he's in his diary going, oh, look, these governors saw me. on television and so they're closing the televisions. I mean, they're closing the schools and they're going to be closing the bars. And it's just wild to see someone making such bad decisions and then just enjoying the fame that's coming from his horrible decisions. Yo, I mean, he had, if you remember, the famous one that we played a million times on the show is where he goes later. This is two years later.

He goes, I never recommended. I never recommended we locked down everything. This is him in his diary. By the way, also, who writes a diary? Oh, I don't want to insult some people. So apparently I was suspicious of this at first because I was under the who would, who would keep a record of incriminating evidence against themselves. Apparently high-ranking government officials do this.

My guess is it's because they want to write books later and celebrate how they are. I think it's almost like it's a very corporate thing that if you get off a call with someone, you might kind of keep a call log so you got a bit of a record that you can point to. And so I think these. guys are, I think it's the opposite where to dodge culpability, they're kind of keeping, um, like an informal record. Yeah. Well, here. I still, I'm reading. Let me, I still can't wrap my head around writing a diary that includes incriminating things such as the two percent. Uh, but apparently from, from what I've seen thus far, I was on a, I was on a flight last night after a gig. I got to

actually read all these, uh, files and sink my teeth in, uh, but apparently this is like pretty, pretty common practice. I also don't know how Iran got his hands on. Well, I will say, I will say, I think there might be some human dynamic to like, because I know I've been in this situation before. I've been in like, well, let's say, let's say this. Like, when I have, when I have private communications with people who are like, you know, I mean, I talk to people at pretty high level, like media and, and even in government at times and politics and stuff like that, I've had the thought before like you think maybe some people are listening and I've had talks with people before where I know that that person's been spied on by the feds and I'm talking to them and they

and you know what Rob after about three minutes into a phone call you completely forget that and you just get lost in a phone call and like I'm just making the point that like you do get sloppy I you know I've been miced for on TV gigs where they mic you like a half hour before you're on and you completely forget that you have a mic on and start talking to people in a very unguarded way because you're just, I don't know, you've had a lot of time being used to being a human and you're not, like, I don't know, you're just not, you're not expecting to be guarded. Oh yeah, there's a thing right here and I'm saying it all. And I've been there before where I'm getting all wild conversations and shit. And I'm like, oh, there's some guy in sound just here and all of this.

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Prolonlife.com slash P-O-T-P. All right, let's get back into the show. Here's from Dr. Fauci. I spoke with Bill de Blasio and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversations tonight to close the New York City schools. He has already decided based on what I was saying on TV or he had already decided. I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in New York City. He said he would base this on my recommendation.

I had a similar call with Anne O'Leary, the COS of Governor Gavin Newsom of California, Chief of Staff. Anne said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants. When I left the White House and crossed Pennsylvania and 17th, several cars honked their horns and shouted, thank you, out the window. Well, people are honking and shouting today, Tony, but they're shouting something different. Sorry, go ahead. Well, bless Rand Paul on this one. I know we've been criticizing them recently, but we were hoping that there might be some COVID justice. And for the first time in a couple years, we see some headway here.

And this is a great setup for him coming in to give testimony on Wednesday. And I will state a bold prediction that I hope turns out not to be true. but I'm going to guess in an old, fragile man who can't remember a single thing is going to be who shows up. But I'm excited to see how much peppy still has in his step

and to what extent he wants to combat this new narrative, especially as nobody's profiting off him or off vaccines and he's less protected. So it will be interesting if he actually has to get grilled for hours on end and has some bad moments.

Yeah, you know, I personally, am a believer that it is really important for us to get as many moments like this as we can. And don't get me wrong, this guy should go to jail for the rest of his life. I mean, I almost think it's necessary for our society to heal for him and some others to go to jail over this stuff. Because the Normies need to see it. Yes.

You need to see, oh, you were blatantly lied to. You were this wrong. You were this wrong. By government, yes. And everybody in government needs to be scared that that could happen to them to. If they go this far, there's got to be some line that you can't go over. I mean, you know, dude, when you think about the. cost of this shit. And it's like, we will, dude, first of all, there are costs involved in,

in the COVID tyranny that you cannot put a price on. There were, how many old people died alone? How many, you know, how many, you know, women gave birth alone with a mask on, you know, like how many, how many people spent their last few days isolated from their families? There are things you cannot put a price on. Also, Rob, I mean, you could go look into some of the numbers of the absolute collapse in, like, cancer screenings during the time of the pandemic. And there's some doctors out there who have tried to put together, you know, assessments of how many people are going to die. The educational gap, dude, I mean, it was, you know, kids do bounce back in an amazing way. But it, I mean, it threw a major wrench into the childhood.

of tens of millions of kids in this country alone, let alone the rest of the world. I know several, I'm sure almost everyone does kids who fell behind during that time period. Dude, the amount of economic devastation, I mean, you know, again, people do their best to try to measure these things. But there's, at the bare minimum, there's tens of millions, tens of millions of small and mid-sized businesses that have closed their doors permanently. That'll never be open again. suicides and broken families and the enormous cost of all this shit. And by the way, we're still living through so much of this. I mean, so much of the inflation that we're dealing with is due to the money printing during COVID. So much of the supply chain issues that we dealt with over

the last few years was that had to do with COVID. And, you know, when you look at the young generation of people and they seem kind of crazy to you, also know a huge portion of that is that they grew up during COVID. I'm going to mention another more silent one, which is also less quantifiable, but I think if a lot of people listening to the show are honest with themselves and they'll know what I'm talking about, but I remember like three years after COVID,

sitting at home watching a movie drinking, and I was like, COVID is over. Like, there's no excuse for this. And I can only speak for myself that like, you create some forward momentum in your life and you get things going, you develop good habits. And then the government sends you back,

back home with nothing to do and no ability. to do the things that you're trying to get done or like, you know, you could just kind of have been a lazy person. You finally landed a job. You're in an office or in a groove and they take that from you or your guy who never went to the gym. You're going to the gym every day. You're not allowed to go to the gym. I'm sure, I mean, you could probably even look at the numbers of, of like health rates in those years or alcoholism and whatnot. But I know that there's people out there that by now you should have gotten back on your feet. But, you know, I bet some people, I'm not the only one who picked up some bad habits over COVID.

that took some time to shake off and you lost some momentum in your career. Yep. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, tons of people like that. I know a few people who had like real like mental episodes during COVID, you know. It was really bad for a lot of people. And, you know, the thing is that, again, it's like there's something about these years where, like I said, I have a tremendous amount of like respect for the people who were good on this issue,

who were there alongside us, who were kind of like fighting against all the tyranny in those days, and a special amount of contempt for the people who were pushing the lockdowns the most aggressively. And but there's almost something about it where you're like, yo, guys, we can't just, I know there's a lot of crazy shit going on. And I know I'm as guilty of anyone who's falling for the next shiny object, especially when the next shiny object is like a disastrous war or an economic collapse or something. it's easy, but we can't just forget that this happened. You know, like, it's like, I think there's something valuable in all of us remembering.

And then also, you know, I mean, look, there's a little bit of a gray area there, Rob, between like who was good and who was bad, because as the thing went on, some people started getting good who had been bad a lot. And I'm not even getting back to like, I don't know how we parse through exactly where it was acceptable before you started getting good. Because there's a lot of people who would try to pretend that they were against this whole thing at the time. But I'm sorry, man, like, this should be a litmus test for, like, how you judge your favorite political commentator or what group you're in or who you listen to.

Like, dude, this thing was fucking obvious, man. You're telling me that we got to lock down all of society over a virus that we know next to nothing about. You're telling me that, like, for against all, like, traditional, like, norms and practices, we have to quarantine the healthy. and but Rob, I mean, to find out that the guy at the time, this is how corrupt this guy was, Rob, that he funded the thing and knew it and lied through his teeth about it and then knew he was lying about the death rate about, mask efficiency, about all of it. And try to, here, Natalie, let's play this clip because, I mean, it really is something here. There's actually, I guess, two that I had sent over.

Let's play the first one that I had sent you with the media's coverage of Fauci. to try to go back at the time. Let me see, was it, one of them was a Tom Elliott one, but the other one. Wait, hold on, I'm sorry. Is this the, yeah, okay, let's play this one. The single most respected voice in the pandemic, it's Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The man who's become known as America's doctor. The nation's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci. You are seen to many as a superhero. Dr. Anthony Fauci, American hero and New York Yankee fan. We've done so much for this country in terms of this crisis, so I really appreciate your insight. Who better to give us answers that we can trust than Dr. Anthony Fauci? The perfect person to answer our questions today, joining us now, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Anthony Fauci, appreciate your candor.

Dr. Fauci, appreciate the candor. We appreciate your service to this country. We appreciate your service. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Greatly appreciate your service to America. Thank you for your 37 years of service, I believe, to seven presidents, and thank you for your work over the past year.

The great news is you're sticking around in the Biden administration. We are so grateful to you, Dr. Fauci, for everything you do. Thank you so much for everything you do. Thank you very much for everything that you do. Thanks so much for the work that you do. Thank you very much for the reassurance. And as always, for all of your public service. Thank you, Dr. Fauci.

Thank you for all your guidance this past year. And it's greatly appreciated. Dr. Fauci, on behalf of all of our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world, thanks very much for doing what you're doing. Thanks very much for joining us. thank your entire team as well. We are all grateful. Get your rest because we need you. You are one of the busiest scientists in the country right now. It is an honor to have some of your time to help us understand what is going on. I know a lot of people have a lot of questions, so we appreciate your

time, sir. We need people to continue to have faith in science. So thank you for your time, sir. Thank you for being straight with us. Thank you for being able to come on. You will always have this show as a platform. Sir, whenever you can be here, it's, we'll have you. It's always an honor to have time with you. Thanks for being here. Good enough for you, sir. It's good enough for me and my family. So thank you, Dr. Fauci. Thank you.

Got about that one. Keeping it straight. Thank you for fighting the good fight. I am sincerely appreciative. You are not walking. All right, all right. We can cut it off. I think we got the point.

I forgot about that one. I forgot about Chuck Todd. The moderator of Meet the Press actually went, if it's good enough for you, that is good enough for me. I will turn my brain off and defer to you now, sir. I mean, dude, look, look, don't ever. ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, allow one of these people ever again to look down their nose at you or the podcaster or the conspiracy theorist or the, I think Candace Owens has gone too far. All you say I'm happy.

We need institutions with trust, all of you. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. This is what they did. This is what they did when it really mattered. By the way, again, Rob, you know, it's objective journalism. What a fucking joke, Rob. What a joke that these guys call themselves journalists and they would view,

Rob, again, no matter what the situation is, Rob, maybe, maybe, I'll concede this right here, okay? It's vague, so it's not much of a concession, but maybe there is a time where the correct course of action, Rob, is to shut down the world. Okay? But if ever there is a time where that's the right course of action, to shut down the world, and you call yourself a journalist. And someone comes on to argue to you, hey, you know what I think we should do right now is shut down the world.

You would think that you wouldn't take it upon yourself to go, well, my role as a journalist right here is to shut my brain off and not along with this guy. And if we got time at the end, probably try to kiss his ass and tell him how great I think he is, you'd probably go, we're going to be skeptical of this claim. sir, we're going to have to be a little bit adversarial because that is by objectively speaking, a radical step for us to take right now.

You know, I'd look for a little bit more healthy skepticism than this. This is what they did, Rob, just ball wash them. Well, when he said to shut down the world, it was I was only making a health decision. And no, I wasn't taken into account if your business was shut down, what that would do for your health. And also when the decision was made, that wasn't me. It was all the other guys. And I don't know who's telling you that there was a mandate. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, what, like, it's, look, dude, there's one of the things, and I think one of the best things about COVID, I will say this. And I think we're still living, in many ways, we're living in kind of the post-COVID reality, is that it, you know, this is what blew up the system. You know, in a lot of ways, like, whatever it is, and there's benefits and costs to this like everything else.

I think the benefits far outweigh the costs. But I remember saying this around 24 during the election where the media would be running certain games that they would try to play. And I remember just being like, you know, dude, this is not going to work anymore after COVID. You know, I got in arguments. I got in public arguments with Robes-Swav and Michael Tracy at the time when I had said, that Donald Trump winning again was going to destroy the corporate media. And both of them had argued.

And I understand why they made the argument that because Russiagate, they go, no, look, dude, Donald Trump had, they had their biggest ratings when Donald Trump was in. You know, and I was like, yeah, dude, but they got that off Russia gate. Let them try a Russia gate now. After COVID, no one's buying it anymore, dude. And it's not, it's really not anything. Nothing, nothing delivered a blow to the legacy media and just, institutions across America like COVID. Not the wars, not the

Great Recession, not, you know, Russiagate, nothing else did quite what COVID did. It realigned everything because there was nothing to kind of like, and this is the best part of it. There was nothing to wake people up to like, it's not, it's not whether you agree with this policy or disagree with this policy. It's whether you look at that montage we just played Rob. and whether you have any illusion still that you were just watching the news, that's really kind of the most important red pill, is that you go, oh, what we just watched, like, like the blue pill perception is that that's the news.

You know, they may get it right, they may get it wrong, but that's the news. Those are adults in suits and ties, and they're telling you what a senator said about the Pentagon and, like, this is the news. And then when you look at it now, just with a few years, right, Rob, we're not looking back at the 1940s, from the 1980s or something like that.

We're just looking back at the year 2020 from 2026. And you look at the montage, you go, oh, this is so obvious now. That is a coordinated propaganda effort. And all of them are on the same team. All of them know exactly what we're doing. They're not there to interview Dr. Fauci and get the latest information about the virus, Rob.

This is WWF. They're there to get him over. In the same way that if I'm a wrestler, and if you're Andre the giant and you're fighting Hulk Hogan, your job isn't simply, you know, like your job is to help get Hulk Hogan over and take all the energy you used to have as the biggest, baddest wrestler,

and now give it to him. Like, that's clearly what they're doing for him here. This is an op. This is propaganda. And that is kind of the essence of why everyone is now getting their, all the young people are now getting their influence. from podcasters and not all these guys. You know, it's because of what happened here with COVID.

Yep. And I'm, I'm looking forward to this. I think it's a Wednesday showdown to see what comes of it. I can't wait. I can't wait. It's always, there's nothing.

Ram Paul at his best is when he's grilling Fauci in these hearings. And I am, I am with you, Rob. I think we might be seeing an old, we might be seeing a Robert Mueller come Wednesday. So very interested to see how this ends up going down. And of course, there is um you know like i said there's something nice about getting the band back together seeing all

the anti you know covid restriction people speak up about this um and i hope i hope they continue to because like we we should never let this go and and you know you know if you remember rob there was that piece in uh what was it in time magazine maybe it was the atlantic i can't remember but there was that i think it was the atlantic actually but there was the piece about like a a covid um um um uh what's the word i'm looking for you know, like a get out of jail free card, like a COVID, blank, you know, pardon or something, like a blank slate. It's like, hey, let's all just move on.

And we were like, no, no, no, no, I don't think we're quite ready to move on. Look, it's not about like always, like, torturing your uncle or your aunt, more likely your aunt, who got it wrong on COVID. But it's like on some national level, like, no, there needs to be accountability for this. And who better to be accountable than the guy who has made the face of the whole thing. thing who literally said that disagreeing with him was disagreeing with truth and science. Right? Let's start with that guy.

And yeah, find your legal, find the legal way to get around the Biden pardon. Yeah, Rand Paul's put up an argument that it was too broad. I mean, the administration dropped the auto pen stuff. And I got to be honest, whether or not Fauci sits in jail, I don't really care. Let's find him guilty. Let's expose the story. Let's let everyone know what exactly happened. Let's let him sit through the public shaming and let the whole hundred percent.

And there's plenty of individuals who are in in line with him. I bet DeBora Burks is one of them. That other head of the NIH whose name I can never remember has the mustache also. What's the guy's lady? No, not mustache lady. I'm blanking on who you're. I remember the bar, yeah. Whatever.

There's other characters who did not receive pardon. So go ahead and prosecute those guys. And if you really want to cleanse the system, do a massive overhaul about how much government money is being spent on this grant system that every institution that had all the science and knowledge that could have debunk this in real time was just in lockstep with the government narrative because that's where the money was. And let's also investigate because Rand Paul, I mean, Rand Paul asked Fauci about this and never got a straight answer, but people at the NIH can have patents on medicines that they are then,

that they are then approving and getting payouts for. or even patents on bad medicine that they would like to push government policy to implement because they are still making money in the private sector off of that. Fauci claimed he had made like pennies or something, acknowledged that it was true, but wouldn't really give any answer. So no, no, no, he's acknowledged that it was true and then said, for example, one check was for 14 cents. You're like, okay, but what about the other ones?

Yeah, like, all right. But I think the starting point is if the masses were made aware of the fact that all of COVID was a lie from Fauci, then I think you could have enough interest. And I don't even think it's this party. But you could have people running the next time. I think there's going to be a big lane for running for public privacy. Well, how about this? Dude, you know, like, listen, don't get me wrong. This is purely a thought experiment because obviously Donald Trump isn't a great leader who cares about anything other than himself.

But like, how about if Donald Trump had just gave an address to the nation of everything we have here? And he goes, listen, guys, this isn't about left or right. We need to understand how this guy didn't just get things wrong. He was lying. And imagine this would make it ten times more powerful. You go, and I got it wrong too. And he fooled me. And I should not have kept this guy.

I should not have kept this guy on the job the whole time. But he really did lie to us about all of this. I'm just saying, obviously, that had never happened because we're dealing with Donald Trump. But imagine, just forget even the levels. of government, forget the law, forget the justice system. Imagine what good that could do for the country to just understand what just happened to us here. The reason Donald Trump won't do that is because then it will raise massive questions about on the Iran war if he also has faulty advisors. And he's bad at management and realizing that he's got bad people in his court giving him bad

advice. Yes, but that is the truth there, Rob now isn't it? But yes, you're right. He probably won't admit that. All right, look, we got to run. Thank you guys very much for listening. Come check us out on the road, comictapesmith.com, porchtor.com. Catch you next time. Peace.