Part Of The Problem - Responding to Konstantin

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

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Welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the fire Bernstein. How are you today, sir? I'm doing well, Mr. Smith. How about yourself? Very good. Very good.

It's a beautiful day outside. It feels like spring is finally here, Rob. I think it's going to be 80 degrees today. So I'm gonna have to trade in this hoodie for a t-shirt after this podcast and go with tits and some bath, baby. There you go. Now there's a, there's a visual for you. All right. Okay. So let's, let's jump into this today. You know, I was a full disclosure. I was a little conflicted about whether or not to even do a response to this, but I decided

to be full, go unsquashed. Well, you know, look, I do. I feel like I, you know, I, at the risk of, I don't want to beat, uh, some of these topics to death. Um, but at the same time, you know, when somebody's make, when somebody is specifically making content about you and it's being viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, there does, you know, there, there's a feeling of like, well, I should respond to this, especially when I think they're making very bad, uh, arguments, dockingly bad arguments, I would say. And, you know, look, I mean,

this debate is just, it's been huge. It's really been unbelievable to me that it just has not stopped. Like I kind of thought it would be like a few days being crazy, but it is just, there were a couple of weeks later and it is still just you know Really crazy the response to it. And anyway, so The video I'm gonna respond to constant in Cassin's video He We've tweeted back and forth many times over the years at each other But recently this morning he he irked me a little bit with something he

said. So I was like, all right, you know what? Maybe it makes sense to do a response to this. He certainly seems to want to jump in to the conversation. So let's do it. I, as, as I've said before, many times I, I, I claim the right to respond when I am criticized. And so this is, I'll be exercising that right today. I do think, and I'll, I'll be obliged. Yes. Well, look, I mean, me, me and Constantine, I think have, you know, I don't remember every interaction, but I think we've done a pretty good job of remaining civil while going back and forth and disagreeing on things. It seems to me like over the last couple of times he's tweeted at me that that civility is, is going away a little bit. I'm, you know,

like I always am. I'm, I'm, my starting point is always like, let's talk about the ideas, let's debate the issues. But if you want to be insulting and vicious, it's like, okay, I'll, I'll do that too. If that's what you want, I'll kind of try. I'm going to try my best not to do that. Uh, in this episode, he did tweet at me, um, something this morning about how he's always said I was very intelligent, but now he's beginning to question that or something like that. And it's just,

you know, with all of these things, it's like, look, I get into sparring with people and I'm on Twitter and I do, you know, internet debates and stuff. And so I've, I've been a part of all of this. The truth is that I really do care about the issues that I'm talking about. And I just find them to be much more interested. Like I don't give a shit. What Constantine, what Constantine thinks of my intelligence, like who cares? It's just the most uninteresting and unimportant thing anyway

What I do care about is some of the ideas that he is presenting here, so he made a Well, he wrote an article and that this is how he does it. He like writes articles and then he reads them So we'll go through the video because that's a better More enjoyable way to do it for podcast listeners. So let's jump into it Um, uh, so we'll, we'll go through the video cause that's a better, uh, more enjoyable way to do it for podcast, uh, listeners. So let's jump into it. This was a constant in Cassin's take on the debate between me and Douglas Murray. And he did, excuse me, playing there.

He did say, um, which was interesting that this is his most red article ever. Um, and you know, probably just because it was, you know, you have a debate on Joe Rogan. There's just not that many debates on Joe Rogan show and it's the biggest show and we had, you know, two big names debating about the most contentious issues. So it makes sense to me that this would be a, you know, a widely read article. All right, let's, uh, sorry, go ahead, Natalie, you can play it. Prepare for the unprecedented. I'm about to admit I was wrong.

For years, I've celebrated the rise of new media and its impact on our ability to seek truth, challenge false narratives peddled by legacy institutions, and transform the way we conduct our public debate. The rationale behind my thought process seemed solid. After all, the medium is the message. The reason I thought our conversations about politics, culture, and entertainment had become so fake was the rapidly shrinking sound bite and a media elite more interested in winning than learning. Journalism, academia, and politics merged into a monoculture whose consensus rested primarily on the vigorous inhalation of gases emanating from their own backsides into which they'd firmly inserted their heads.

I don't know anyone who voted for Trump was their mantra. Far from being a confession of ignorance and a lack of perspective, this phrase was uttered with pride at dinner parties to signal membership of the elite class. The response from this contingent to the sequential dismantling of their core assumptions about the way the world works was an attempt to use credentialism to make reality go away.

Experts think vaccinating newborns against COVID is essential, now pipe down, mask up, and follow the science, TM. In decades past, absent the ability to make their voices heard, the proles would have had to grumble away about big pharma in obscurity as people, mostly hippie lefties, had been doing for ages. But thanks to the technological revolution, which reduced the cost of running a major broadcasting channel from millions of dollars to the price of a smartphone, the era of gatekeeping was well and

truly over. The discredit to mainstream media continued to pedal lie after lie in an attempt to keep its political opponents from governing and being re-elected. But it then faced a powerful counterweight. Elon Musk ended the regime of censorship and enforcement bias in the digital public square of Twitter, declaring, you are the media now, as major podcasts and YouTube shows secured audiences most mainstream media outlets can now only dream of. By the time of the last year's presidential election in America, the rise of new media had become undeniable, with many rightly calling it the podcast election. Curious, open-minded, inquisitive podcasters unrestrained by the need to comply with corporate media message discipline and social media censorship were finally able

to speak freely, seek the truth, and debate controversial ideas in good faith in front of grateful audiences of millions. So far, so wonderful. We could pause it right there. After all, I could not agree more with the so far so wonderful point. So this is, I mean, I think a pretty good start that me and you Rob would probably largely agree with. I mean, I do think to some degree he's still, he's underselling exactly how corrupt and evil the old media guard was, but more or less that's a,

I think what he's starting with there is exactly right. And it's exactly the type of stuff that we've been saying for a long time on this show. Um, there's, uh, there's just no question that this is what's happened. You know, I mean, the, the corporate media lost all of their trust. They were you, they were lying and weaponizing these lies for, to maintain power. It got to a point where everyone saw through it and now people are pursuing alternate voices. I guess the only thing in there that I'd kind of disagree with is that there was

never, you know, when he says the era of gatekeeping was finally over. Well, that's not exactly ever true. It's never the case that there's no gatekeeping. You know what I'm saying? Like there's always, it's just became a much more decentralized group of gatekeepers, but there's still always going to be some voices who get in and some voices who don't every show, no matter what the show is, they get to choose who they have on and who they don't have on.

It's just that you don't get to gatekeep in the same way. So like, let's say for example, you're talking about the idea of vaccines. Well, the pharmaceutical companies with their somewhat significant influence over the corporate media can gatekeep voices like Bobby Kennedy from ever getting on there. But if Joe Rogan wants to have Bobby Kennedy on, there's nothing they could do about it. The same can also be said for the military industrial complex. I mean,

if you turn on CNN or MSNBC or Fox news, you are hearing from former CIA director, former Pentagon employee, former director of national intelligence, but you're not hearing voices like whether left or right. You're just not hearing the people who are outside of that. We're very rarely hearing the people who are outside of that establishment. But now Dr. Carlson gets to decide it's not up to some suit and a corporation somewhere.

It's up to the guy who's built the trust with his audience, like it or not. So anyway, that would just be my, my only bit of critique there, but a good start from a constant in Kusin. It seems, it seems like he, we've got a great bit of content here. He gets it. We'll say any thoughts on any of this rub? Well, I'm looking forward to the pivot to, to hey but there's this one thing that's just too important for people to be allowed to have free but not Israel everything else is fine

does not we got wars to fight here and that's different than when you heard that pitch from people that wanted to tell you that about global warming and that's different than when you heard it about COVID and it's different when you heard it countless other times but this one is actually so important that we can't allow for that freedom thing because people are getting it wrong. There you go. Okay let's keep playing. Oh what could go wrong with democratizing information? Well as it turns out quite a lot. Just as the assumptions of the elite class

were proved wrong by the actions of their fellow citizens during the era of Trump, Brexit, and COVID, the assumptions some of us held about the future of the media are now crumbling before our very eyes. With politics becoming the primary form of entertainment in Western society, more of us now get our news and opinions from entertainers rather than serious commentators, and, just as importantly, we often struggle to tell

the difference between the two. Now, having transitioned from a career in comedy to my current role as writer, interviewer, and political commentator, I can hardly complain about the meshing of culture, politics, and entertainment. And I am not complaining. I am merely pointing out that the incentive structures and thought patterns we would typically associate with the entertainment business are not the same as those we would expect to see in journalism and academia.

This difference was perfectly illustrated in the recent debate between journalist and author Douglas Murray and comedian and podcaster Dave Smith on The Joe Rogan Experience, the world's biggest podcast. Officially, the full three-hour discussion was mostly about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, with Smith being in the so-called anti-war camp and Murray being a supporter of both Israel's campaign to eliminate Hamas, and Ukraine's struggle to retain its sovereignty and independence. These conflicts and both men's positions have been debated endlessly. That part of the discussion is less relevant here. The much more

interesting fault lines were exposed on the fringes of the debate. Let's all right. Conversation began with it. That's a mighty convenient approach to have. It's a mighty convene. Sorry, go ahead. Bulk of the conversation or the substance of it. Like I mean, it's, it's wild to me how many people who want to find a way to defend Douglas Murray in this debate, which just on so many levels to me seems to be like a crazy losing

game. Like I just like, why would you want to go down with this sinking ship? But okay. But really to just brush away, forget about any of the content of the debate. Yeah, that's been debated before. Well, well, okay. But like there's two wars raging on right now. You know, again, as I've made the point before, I often call what's going on in Gaza war. Not really sure that's the appropriate name for it. Um, but no, I am sorry, especially if you're going to be talking about like, uh,

journalistic standards and the difference between entertainers and commentators. Um, which again, as, as Constantine admits himself, he's essentially the same thing. I am. I mean, I guess he doesn't still do comedy I still do comedy, but he's a guy Talking about issues that he cares about on a podcast who is not an expert in any of these areas But it is all isn't it awfully convenient how there could be so much discussed and written about

so much discussed and written about, you know, like the, the, my standards or my lack of expertise or all of this. And none of them ever want to do is point to like, they've got these five things wrong. Douglas Murray demonstrated his expertise in this point. It's never that. And in fact, he just openly imagine like starting your review of a debate and then openly going, Hey, I'm not so interested in the debate. That, but I forget that part. But how about the other part? Like we're whatever.

I will see what he's about to say here, but it is just, I don't know. I do find it incredibly revealing that anybody would would be giving their take writing their most read article on a debate and just totally take a back door out of the substance of any of the debate. I don't know. It's very strange. It's, Oh man, this is my most, uh, my most read article I've ever written. It was about the Lakers Knicks game, uh, last night, but forget about the game. Let's just talk about the halftime show or where it's just very bizarre to me. But all right.

And do they have a specific credentialing system that they'd like to speak to for who would be qualified to be a commentator on these issues? Cause I feel like if you took our track record against Rachel Maddow, we probably have a better track record of a better political analysis about basically everything from the time that I've been on this podcast. So, we'll be back to just if MSNBC platforms someone. Are they endorsing Rachel Maddow right now and saying that that's the kind of expert class that we should be listening to?

Or is there some sort of a test people are supposed to take? And what test would be better than the track record of commentary and the legacy of getting things right than you and I have. So I'm curious to know in this discussion of that we need to go back to some sort of a credentialing standard. What specifically is the standard that they're advocating for? And then give me give me the specific names who were supposed to be the voices of reason or where are they supposed to Have come from that they now have this standard of a stamp of approval. What is the what it no we can't just you

Rob you can't just have Podcasters talking about these things says a podcaster That's I mean, there's no problem having Dave Rubin and Bill Maher talk about them I mean, there's no problem having Dave Rubin and Bill Maher talk about them. We need experts. Oh, but like they're supposed to be extra. No, no, no. What this all is, is just a naked, like, I don't like that. They disagree with me. I don't like the people who are critical of Israel or critical of Ukraine.

I don't like them getting platformed. Essentially what's happening here. And this is just the fact, right, is that our side is winning. We're winning the battle on the podcast front. And yes, I mean, Constantine kind of lays it out there. Yes, this became the new center of where the American political conversation is happening. And because, and in large part it's because, well, I mean, it's a mix of things, but in large part, it has to do with the fact that the biggest podcasters happen to be really open to this antiwar point of view, you know, and, um, they, they've heard people make the antiwar argument and they're like, shit,

that is really compelling in the case of Tucker Carlson, for example, I mean, he's really like, you know, what went from being kind of like essentially a neocon and then went to Iraq. He's been, he's been there and then got turned around on it and was like, oh my God, this is a disaster what we're doing here. But so because of that now, the gatekeepers, the new decentralized gatekeepers, aren't keeping the anti war voices out. And so we've got a shot now to make our argument and we're winning. And you could see this in opinion polls. Support for the war in Ukraine has gone way down since the beginning of the war.

And support for the war or Israel's assault on Gaza has gone way down, particularly with the younger generation. And so this is essentially it. It's like you're losing the argument. And so now we got to figure out, you know, how to plug up this hole. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Monetary Metals, an amazing company run by amazing people. They are revolutionizing the way you invest in gold and silver They've been paying interest in silver and gold for over eight years helping you grow your wealth in real tangible assets Finally, there's a true alternative to saving in dollars a yield on gold and silver with monetary metals

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We can't have people. The new Ministry of Truth can be Douglas Murray and Constantine Kusen. Maybe the FCC should take over podcasting and also make sure that there's no curse words or sexual content of any kind. words or sexual content of any kind. I mean, what legislative body is supposed to reside over this misinformation on the internet and make sure that it does not appear so that Israel can continue to have public support? Well, it's a let's see if Constantine lays it out. It's an interesting question, Rob. Yeah, let's keep playing. Discussion of Rogan's decision to host Darrell Cooper, a man described by Tucker

Carlson as America's most important popular historian. Cooper himself has the self-awareness not to own the label of historian, instead describing himself as a storyteller. His latest work is a series whose aim is to show World War II from the perspective of the Germans. To those who have studied World War II extensively, like Murray, Cooper's comments on Tucker Carlson's show and his podcast with Joe Rogan are obvious and frankly boringly familiar Nazi apologia. Far from being novel, the idea peddled by Cooper the Churchill was a warmonger who, quote, turned the invasion of Poland

into a global war because, quote, he was funded by Zionist financiers, formed the core of wartime propaganda fabricated by Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels. The argument that Cooper advances. So is Douglas Murray the credentialed historian that gets to legislate what history is supposed to take place on the internet? Or is it supposed to be some sort of other administrative body that should be able to rule in Douglas's favor?

Is there a court in which the opinion should be presented? Because if you notice, Rob, it's a very good point because if you notice and then you know, he's veering into Constantine here Which is again, it's identical to woke leftists. I don't even know. I know, you know, sometimes I'll argue that they're the woke right, but they're not they're the left. They're just woke. I don't know. It's oh, yes Yeah, Nazi apology if you're not even allowed to discuss these issues You're not allowed to look at anything from the other point of view even when he says things that are mainstream history like there's um the you know, like the claim that Adolf Hitler was downplaying his anti-semitism in the early 30s if there's um Hitler was downplaying his anti-Semitism in the early thirties. There's, um,

fucking blinking on the historian's name, but he did a whole thing on this about how at the, at the Olympics, I think it was the, uh, Sagar and Jette was just talking about this on, uh, breaking points, but, or maybe it was Ryan, one of them was talking about this. Um, but it, there's a, but I had read this book many years ago, but there's at the ninth, I think it was 1936 Olympics. The ones that are in Germany, the ones where you see Hitler tweaking out like a maniac there. Um, they like took down a whole bunch of the anti-Jewish stuff when they were

hosting the Olympics because they kind of knew this isn't going to play that well in the rest of the world. And this is before the war. They were still kind of, you know, you're like all nations, uh, nation states, you know, they're, they're trying to maintain good standing, but anyway, it's just, oh, you're a Nazi. You're not, this is straight from garbles or science. Like just so cheap and lame. But you take your point. He just kind of throws in there as an assertion that to people who have really studied world war two, like Douglas Murray, like what,

they never seem to have to explain, like by what metric have you decided that Douglas Murray has studied world war two more than Darrell Cooper. Like, listen again, there's, there are levels to, um, intelligence and there are levels to knowledge. And I think that like, this is one of the things when I was admitting, I'm not an expert, like I've had a lot of people on Twitter be like, Dave, you are an expert.

You should just say you're an expert dude and be done with this like debate. It's like, no, I'm not. Here's the thing. It's like, in the same way that you could like, okay, let's, let's imagine me and you are sitting down and, uh, or we're, let's say we're playing basketball and there is a, um, the, the number one high school player in America, like, is that, you know, you're talking like Kobe Bryant when he was 17 is sitting there and it'd be very easy for me to you and me and you to be like,

that's the best basketball player in the world. Like this is just insane. You just did a 360 dunk. This guy's lightning quick. He's six foot eight. This guy's just incredible. But then like to someone who plays in the NBA, they'd be like, slow down, like there's levels to this shit. And much like as a lot of people who fight, they talk about this. It's like the better at fighting you get, the more you realize how much you suck at fighting, you know, because you like, but you become a purple belt and it's like, Oh my God,

you could kick anybody's ass. And you're like, I roll with brown belts and black belts all day. I could not kick anybody. So anyway, I say all of that just to say this for anybody who's consumed Darrell Cooper's work, feel however you feel about him. You could completely disagree with his politics or his conclusions or any of this the dude is insanely well researched insane like I mean I Genuinely think he's probably read over a hundred books about Israel Palestine

Like he's read everything dude Like it's just and so for him to just casually, and I just, and I know Darrell, and I know there are anybody who actually knows his work knows, like if he's doing a world war two series, he is going to be reading everything about it. So how he just gets to claim that Douglas Murray really does his research and he does. Do you guys ever feel the need? Like do you ever have to show your work on these claims? How do you know that?

How do you know what Douglas Murray's read verse what Daryl Cooper's read by what, uh, um, by what metric are you making the decision that he's the one who's done his research and he isn't, I don't know. By the way, that doesn't mean who's right or wrong. These are two very different claims, right? Like there are people who are extremely well read, who are wrong about everything politically, but like the way they just get to play this game and just dismiss Darrell, it's, it's pathetic.

It's like, this is not again, not an argument. None of this is an argument. This is just assertions backed by nothing. We need censorship because too many people are listening to the other people. Seems to be what it boils down to. But okay, let's say I mean, they would claim they're not advocating censorship, but it's like, what exactly are you advocating then? Are you advocating Joe Rogan stop having me and Daryl Cooper on the show?

Because what's really the substantive difference between that and advocating censorship? Well only their credentialed people who aren't actually credentialed such as Douglas Murray Right who have lots of different opinions on lots of different subjects We can hear from all of them You could even be a comedian who hosts a podcast and then you could talk about serious things. We could have a range of opinions except for war, except for when it comes to war, in which case we all must be lockstep on the side of these

disastrous conflicts that all of you guys support that never work out, that never work out. You know, it's crazy. It's whatever. Anyway, it's, I'm sure. I know Douglas was saying he downplayed it. People have sent me since then, but I should add that this is one area I fucked up on a little bit. I should have had that more in the front of my mind. But when I was like, didn't you go to Ukraine and write that article saying that Ukraine will win? And he goes, no, I didn't say that. I said it was possible. Ukraine, right? Go read the article. The line is Ukraine will win and he goes no I didn't say that I said it was possible Ukraine go read the article the line is

Ukraine will win Russia will lose is okay. So sorry guys Yeah, you guys got much like the kovat experts you guys have been too spectacularly wrong for too long and you're losing You're losing the argument. Sometimes, you know, it's an expert from regime based on how many things they've got them wrong. And so perhaps that's specifically why we need to listen to these people more is because of their track record of getting things so wrong. That's how you know that they're credentialed regime experts. It does seem to be the standard. All right, let's let's keep playing.

Millions of prisoners of war and civilians died on the Eastern Front because the Nazis failed to plan properly for the invasion is simply a lie. There is extensive documentary evidence that confirms that the reason millions of prisoners of war and civilians died on the Eastern Front is precisely because the Nazis succeeded in their plans. Because Murray is educated on this issue, he assumes that everyone else, including Smith, is too. Exasperated, he tries

to explain that far from being revolutionary, these ideas have been pushed by discredited historians like David Irving for decades. Have you listened to his podcast though? Okay, here's just pause it for a second. So here's just an interesting little thing that you might notice. And again, listen, Constantine, like what you're engaged in here is propaganda. Like this is just pure bullshit. Um, and it's not again, it's, it's always what it always relies on. Like if you notice with these videos, right? And this is why I say it's propaganda. You're reviewing a debate and brushing aside the debate. You're talking about expertise, but you're not pointing out anything that I got

wrong. You're not with Daryl Cooper. You're not going expertise, but you're not pointing out anything that I got wrong. You're not with Darrell Cooper. You're not going Okay here He had the fear and loathing in the New Jerusalem or he had the anti humans Or he said these big huge series and you're not going like this is riddled with inaccuracies and here are five of them You're not doing that what you're doing is taking a couple of sentences taking them wildly out of context Misrepresenting them what Darrell Cooper actually said he did not make the claim that the Nazis didn't intentionally kill people in Eastern Europe that was not his claim what he was saying Was essentially and he said that this applies to Israel also

So it ended so he started making this point then Tucker kind of went on a different path And then he never got back to like really finishing the point. But the thing he was making was actually what he was doing was attacking neo Nazis. Actually, what he was doing was attacking the defenders of the Nazi regime. He was saying that it doesn't even matter because you're responsible either way. So in other words, his point was Rob, I don't know if you saw him make this, saying that it doesn't even matter because you're responsible either way. So in other words, his point was, Rob, I don't know if you saw him make this, but he was saying, listen,

if you're Israel and you go into Gaza and then you don't have a plan for how to get innocent civilians to safety, well, that's on you. And it doesn't matter whether it was intentional or not intentional or nothing. It's your responsibility now once you commit the invasion. And so likewise he was saying even too, um, because he, what, what are the things he brought up? And this is a, it was a letter from like one of the Nazis back to Germany who was out in Eastern Europe. And I guess it was, um, I think it was in 1940,

if I'm remembering correctly, but so he said, basically they're right there in the middle of the war. Um, you know, there's a lot of devastation and he was writing back going like, listen, you know, like all these Jews that we got in these camps, or maybe not just the Jews, but whoever was in these concentration camps, he goes there. I think a lot of them are going to starve to death and it might be more humane to just execute them or something like that. But Darrell was saying like, look, even if that's the case, that even if you're saying like, Oh, it was just like in the war, they didn't mean to do any of this or nothing.

He goes, it's still a bullshit excuse because it doesn't matter. You invaded these countries. You set up these camps with no plans for how to take care of these people and you're still responsible for it. So he wasn't making the argument that they never did this intentionally. He was saying, even if you make that argument, the argument still fails. That was the point. So again, you know, Darrell Cooper just wrote a piece the other day.

I still have not gotten a chance to read it, but Darrell Cooper just wrote a piece last week, um, like, uh, um, condemning anti-Semitism. None of them will ever bring that one up. You know, they always bring up the three lines that they like to take out of context. They never bring that up. Um, but aside from that, um, there's, you know, a constant in here, and this is what I mean, like when it's starting to get into, um,

propaganda is that he sits there and he goes, actually, you know what, bring it back a second, Natalie, cause I want to make sure, let me, let me get this right cause I distracted myself from this rant. Just bring it back a few seconds cause I want to get the point that he was making. Far from being revolutionary. These ideas have been pushed by this credit that historians like David.

Thank you. That's all I needed. So this is the other thing that's propaganda here. Okay. And you remember I give a Michael Malice a lot of credit for being the one who pointed this out to me. And then as soon as he points it out, you go, Oh, that's a really, really good point. But his point was, because you remember when they tried to cancel Joe Rogan last time, I'm sorry that I might've brought another one on him,

but it'll fail. So it's cool. But, uh, so last time they were trying to cancel them over the COVID stuff. And you remember, do you guys remember? I'm sure Natalie, you weren't with us on the show there, but I'm sure you remember at this point, every single person in the corporate media, all of them, all said horse dewormer. Joe Rogan is taking horse dewormer. Now,

Ivermectin the drug, first of all, it's, I think it's been prescribed a billion times to people. It's quite, it's a very, there are people have won Nobel prizes for Ivermectin and stuff. It's like, it's, it's, it's people medicine. Now it's also veterinary medicine, but it's given to like hundreds of different species of animals. Now one of those things is for horse deworming. And yet they all picked that one. Like just think about that from like a mathematical point of view,

like the odds of that are like one in a hundred billion or something like that, that you would all pick the one thing if there's like tens of thousands of different options and every single person in the mainstream media happened to pick this one. Hmm. Why is that? Okay. Because they all decided that this was the most discrediting thing to say that this is the thing that would make him look the worst. So likewise, where'd you get David Irving from? Why are you saying, okay, now it is true that David Irving may have shared some of these views,

but Pappy Cannon wrote a whole book about Pappy Cannon was, um, a speechwriter for Richard Nixon. He worked in the Ronald Reagan White House and And I think he worked in one of, I believe he was in three White Houses. He ran for president twice. He's he's a New York Times best seller. He was on TV and wrote a very successful column for like 50 years. He's a household name more or less in this space. Why aren't you picking him? Why are you saying this is from David Irving? You know why Rob?

Cause David Irving was also a Holocaust revisionist. He also, I, I don't remember, I don't know enough to know exactly. They call him a Holocaust denier. I think, I think his argument was that it was like a couple million people, but it wasn't 6 million people, regardless of any of that. They could, you know what I mean? Like say, Oh, he's regurgitating Pat Buchanan's thing. Why do they all pick David Irving for the obvious guilt by association thing to smear him as a Holocaust denier, even though he's never once done that. Like I'm sorry, this is a woke leftist tactic.

Like I don't, you know, and this is why it's such a losing, like all of this to me and don't get me wrong. I'm taking on this stuff cause I think it's, it's a bad argument. I think they're wrong and I I'm, I'm actually shocked by how bad the argument is. But what, the thing that's been so strange for me over the last couple of weeks is that you're just like, I can't believe you guys all want to go down this path. Like you really want to sit here and argue on behalf of the expert class and the, you know, the, oh, these, these issues have been dealt with long

ago. But what does that mean? You know, like when, when someone like Constantine will say the reason why Douglas Murray is so frustrated is because we've already batted down all these stupid ideas. But, you know, I think for a lot of us, um, we go, oh yeah, but that was back when the evil machine had full control of everything. Maybe we didn't really back down these ideas. Maybe Papu Cannon was right about all those things he was saying. I mean, I don't know. You know, the, I, yes,

it is true to some degree that Douglas Murray's ideas won the day and people like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul's ideas lost the day. But what have we gotten for that? And you know, at a certain point, if we figure out that we've been lied to about everything for the last 20 years, some people might go, well, what were they saying 30 years ago? What were they saying 40 years ago? What were they saying 60 years ago? It's a natural reaction. That doesn't mean everything they were saying is wrong, but it definitely means you can't just dismiss it away as we that's already

been taken care of. Sorry. We've seen how this machine works. Um, okay, let's keep playing. Have you listened to his podcast though, Rogan interjects? It turns out Murray hasn't, and this is later used as evidence against him after the episode airs. Unlike Murray, I have listened to Cooper's podcasts, including the one about the history of Palestine that people often cite in his defense. He details the persecution of Jews preceding the events he covers, and so he couldn't possibly be anti-Semitic, is their argument. From this, they conclude that he couldn't possibly be a Nazi apologist. The reason they make this logical error is that

in the entertainment world, words do not have meanings, they are feelings. And thanks to the woke left's misuse of the word Nazi for the last decade, in Pakistan the term is not a descriptive label, but a vague, meaningless insult used to cancel people. Unlike his opponents, Murray clearly understands that the term Nazi apologist has a defined meaning. And the fact that most Nazi apologists are anti-Semitic does not mean you have to be anti-Semitic does not mean you have to be anti-Semitic to fit the description. The GroK definition of a Nazi apologist is someone who defends, justifies, and minimizes

the actions, ideology, or atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, often by excusing Nazi policies or promoting revisionist narratives that distort historical facts. Since Cooper does precisely this in… No, he fucking doesn't even by your dumb grok definition. Cooper does not do that. But hey, listen, this is like, again, I'm just so sick of like having the same argument over and over again. He's about to put a world war two series out. I say he's not going to minimize the Nazi atrocities at all.

You clearly think he's going to let's see who's right. Let's see who's right when it comes out. Okay. And like, yeah, I mean, again, it's almost like we're getting into this territory. In fact, I don't know if you remember this, Rob, I believe we played it on the show, but there was this great moment that Sam Harris, my dear friend, had when he had Chelsea Handler on his show. And they were talking, I think it was about Bill Burr, but I'm not sure about that. But someone, I think Sam, I don't remember exactly how it went, but the idea of having black

friends got brought up and it was like, oh, he's not racist. He has a black wife and she goes, oh yeah, but that's the old, uh, you know, I'm not racist. I have black friends. And then Sam just destroys her on it. And he goes, no, I know the left like does this thing where they just repeat that over and over again until it becomes like a trope. But like that's actually very good evidence that you're not racist. It's excellent evidence. Now I am not saying it is technically impossible to be married to a black woman and hate black people. I suppose you could hate your wife. You could make an exception for

your wife and hate all other black. Like, okay. But it is pretty damn good evidence. Like it literally is on the level of if, if, uh, I was like, Hey, Rob, you hate eggs. And you were like, I don't hate eggs. I had scrambled eggs for breakfast. And I go, Oh, that's what they all say. They all said scrambled eggs for breakfast. And you're like, no, that's a very good defense against saying you don't now, technically speaking, is it possible that you hate eggs and you just force feed yourself eggs every morning, even though they discussed it? Like, yeah,

I guess technically it's possible, but it is like overwhelming evidence in the direction that you like eggs. If you eat them for breakfast in a very similar sense, yes, it is very strong evidence that you're not a Jew hater, that you're not a Nazi apologist. If you detail in graphic, brutal detail, the horrific treatment of Jewish people in Europe. Yes, those two things don't jive together and you got to really jump through some mental hoops in order to tell yourself that no, they don't.

Pretty straightforward. All right, let's keep playing. Several appearances on major podcasts, how his series on Palestine will change this reality is clearly as confusing to Murray who hasn't listened to it as it is to me who has. Indeed, one of the main areas of misunderstanding in the discussion is the role of expertise. He doesn't claim to be an expert is Smith's repost to Murray's suggestion that Cooper doesn't know what he's talking about. He uses the same defense when Murray questions Smith's own willingness to opine on geopolitics. The central critique of Murray here is that he's arguing from authority, which is what the mainstream media has done for years to gaslight the public

about everything from transgenderism to COVID to war. Smith and his supporters argue that the concept of expertise has been so discredited that he and anyone else for that matter is entitled to express any view about any issue they want. The audience, they say, can judge these views for themselves. Murray's attempt to dismiss such views on the basis that they don't align with expert opinion is seen as an ineffective argument at best and an attempt at credentialism at worst. There's a sliver of truth to this criticism. Engaging the argument someone is

making directly is a much more powerful approach. But to suggest that arguments from authority are entirely invalid is silly. Almost everything you believe is based on an argument from authority. Light bulbs, for example, are a fairly unsophisticated and omnipresent part of our lives. Yet the number of people watching this video who are capable of explaining how they work without resorting to arguments from authority will be vanishingly small. I'm not just talking about this. This is what a constant in starts doing this in a lot of his videos here. And it's just a, you know,

it's like the last time we took it apart when he's explaining first principles and just clearly does not know what a first principle is. Like objectively, not my opinion or your opinion, just like, that's not what a first principle is because my first principle is that October 7th was wrong Like no, no, no, no, no, that's not how that works at all He's just misusing terms here In argument to it from authority or an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy Okay, it's saying that because somebody's an authority figure therefore they are correct

what he's talking about is specialization, the division of labor and the fact that human beings have very limited knowledge. We don't, I don't need to know anything about light bulbs to that's not an argument from authority. That's, that's just, I don't know. And other people do. And I judge it based on the fact that it seems to work in our, in appeal to authority would be if I were to say, um,

none of these lights are working. None of these are turning on. And you were to say, yes, they are because an electrician said so. You get the difference. It was just different things. One's a logical fallacy and one is not. But again but again This is as I've made the point several times now you can pick your logical fallacy here But Douglas Murray is clearly making one it's either an appeal to authority or he's just straw manning because if you're saying that the claim here is that I don't think we need expertise so I've never said anything that even kind of indicated that.

And in fact, as I go out of my way, every time I'm on Joe Rogan's podcast, I'd make sure to mention all of the experts who have influenced my thinking on these topics. So again, is just a non-argument. There's nothing here. It's just not true. Yes, it is true that we rely on expertise. Nobody is, nobody is arguing against expertise. What I, what I argued against was that the expert class should be

the only ones who can weigh in on these topics. Not that expertise isn't important. Again, as I've said over and over again, if this really was Douglas Murray's argument, which it was a bit more than that, but if this really was his argument, then he could have stated it in one sentence and we could have moved on. Hey, when you talk about these issues, it's really important to know what you're talking about. You agree, Dave? You agree, Joe? Yes. 100% agree. Yes. 100% agree. Let's have the debate now. That's it. Otherwise you're just knocking down straw men. All right guys,

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will marry black people is because they have white vaginas. And I'd like to be on the record with both of these factual statements. There you go. And he's an expert to this conversation. He's an expert, folks. All right, let's keep playing. People couldn't explain how electricity works. I'm talking about the fact that almost everyone who can will only be able to do so by quoting

the work of other people rather than experiments and research they themselves have conducted. While Rogan seems to side with Smith in this exchange, it is highly unlikely he would adopt the same approach to his own areas of expertise. When it comes to mixed martial arts, his interview guests are the best of the best. The dazzling array of UFC champions, top MMA coaches, respected trainers and other experts does not appear to include comedian Dave Smith. There's a popular clip on the Jerry YouTube channel in which-

Pause it for a second. Wrong. I've talked MMA a bunch with Joe on the podcast. You're just factually wrong. In fact, Joe talks MMA with comics all the time. And you know what he does is like, yeah, okay. It's an area that Joe has legit expertise in. And if they get something wrong, he'll be like, nah, I think that's wrong. And if they get something right, he'll go great point. That's exactly right.

Cause he takes on what you're actually saying. He doesn't just say, I'm the expert. Therefore, everything you say is wrong. So you just just blatantly wrong. Terrible example and a terrible example to pick me up because I've actually talked to him and a bunch with Joe on on and off the podcast. You want to get also the same example Douglas Murray used. Interesting. I'll tell you something interesting about light bulbs. I don't understand how light bulbs work, but I have electrocuted myself. And from learned experience, I'll tell you something interesting about light bulbs. I don't understand how light bulbs work, but I have electrocuted myself. And from learned experience, I could tell you if you touch the exposed light bulb, you might

electrocute yourself. You know what else I can tell you from learned experience? If you consistently listen to regime experts, you're probably getting bad information. Now I might not actually be an expert in any of the topics that the regime tries to pitch to me, but I can tell you more often than not from the 10 years of following these topics, when the regime is really selling you on something, you might want to do your own homework, because from my own experience, they seem to be lying a whole bunch. I don't need an expertise on light bulbs to tell you, hey, I touched one and I got electrocuted.

Hey, you might be careful, you might want to be careful touching that thing and don't use Christmas lights as a shower lights. I can tell you that one. I'm not an electrician, but I learned my lesson on that one. Say, I don't know. I, it's just, it seems like a lot of a fancy talk for, Hey, we need some censorship because I got a check from Israel and I got a word to sell here. It sure does feel that way. Um, I will say it's like, again, you know, Bobby Kennedy made this point. There's a excellent point, but when someone said something, they, they hit him with this appeal to authority and they were like, well, the experts say that vaccines don't cause whatever negative outcomes.

And he said, uh, something along the lines of he goes, listen, when I, he's an environmental lawyer for many years and he was like every suit I ever brought, uh, the prosecution called expert witnesses and the defense called expert witnesses. And every single time the experts completely disagreed, you know, you could find experts that said, Oh, there's this, this lake is horribly polluted. And then I, other experts would say, no, this is a safe level. And so this is kind of where a lot of this breaks down too, is that you go,

it's always like, listen to the experts, but then it's also like, well, which experts, which experts are you listening to? Are you arguing that there aren't experts who agree with what I was saying? Is that really the claim here? It's like, okay, no, nobody's making that claim. By the way, it's great. Like they, especially the pro Israel, it's like, they're like, we have to defer to the experts. And you're like, okay, every single international humanitarian organization claims that there's like a goddamn catastrophe going on over here and that it's war war crimes are being committed and have been for

many, many decades. Like, okay, well, not that you go like, then they appeal to international law, you go, well, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. No, no, no, that part's stupid. You know, it's like always like, okay, there's no list of x, there's no shortage of experts who are critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. So again, can we just have the actual debate? Can you make a real point? Seems like you can't. All right, let's keep playing Smith breaks down why Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine I was unable to find one of him breaking down Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu moves Despite Smith possessing a similar level of expertise on both subjects Smith and and Rogan are irked when Murray expresses his befuddlement that Smith has become a prominent voice in the team.

Let's pause it right there. Okay, you're right. It didn't get clipped up. I mean, I have talked about Jiu-Jitsu on Rogan's podcast before. And like, I don't know. But just, the point just fails because like I have talked to, I guess he's right. That clip, they put out that clip and it went super viral. You notice again, what Constantine's not doing is pointing out what I got wrong in the clip. He's not saying like, oh, he said this and he got it wrong. But I want you to genuinely ask yourself this,

everybody who's listening, cause this is like a very basic honesty test here and Constantine to you too, cause I'm sure you'll watch this. How the fuck do you know what level of expertise I have about Brazilian jiu-jitsu compared to the cause of the Ukraine war? By what are you claiming to judge that? I have the same, you're just putting me at zero at both. Like me and Constantine debated Ukraine and like the general consensus was that I

smoked him in the debate. So like what expertise does he think he has that I don't have? Where, where, but why would you, how would you possibly know how, how many books have I read about the lead up to the war in Ukraine? How do you know you have no fucking idea. You're just pretending you're lying. You're making this up. It's just, and it's, it's ridiculous. I mean, like I would never, I don't know. I don't know. I just would never do this. Does that like, I would never engage in this tactic. I mean, it's possible that after smoking someone in a debate, if it was like, re like, okay, I, the one thing I could think of was when I debated Austin

Peterson on Israel and it was coming off. He debated Clint Russell, and then he debated me and they both went terribly bad for him. And at one point I remember, I mean, he got so much wrong, just didn't know it. At one point, um, when mentioned, uh, the knock bar and he goes, the knock, but I haven't heard of that. I think you're referring to the Balfour declaration. And Clint was like, no, the Balfour declaration was in 1917. We're talking about 1948 right now. And like, okay, so after that debate, then after my debate, I did conclude, I go,

I don't think this guy's ever read anything about this topic, but it was like four reasons. You know, it was like, I think you're, you, you don't know what you're talking about for reasons. These guys seem to never feel the need to give any of the reasons just asserted. Douglas Murray knows. Darrell Cooper doesn't. Dave Smith doesn't. Like, okay. Dare to elaborate. All right, let's let's keep playing. Bay about Israel and Palestine without ever having visited the Middle East. The shock at the idea that someone ought to see things with their own eyes before

commenting on them is palpable. Indeed, in the aftermath of the debate, Smith promoted a popular video in which Murray's statements to this effect are contrasted with his previous ridicule of the concept of lived experience. This is very low-quality thinking. If you do not see things with your own eyes, your opinions are by definition not your own. They are an agglomeration of opinions and facts you have gathered from other sources

whose veracity you cannot properly evaluate That doesn't necessarily make them wrong indeed. Let's move on right there about This is an absurd Climb like just totally ridiculous your opinions aren't your own Unless you've been to the place like I mean, I just do. I do not understand how those how he wrote that down. Sent it out then read the words in front of a camera and didn't think to himself. Oh, wait, what?

Wait, what am I saying? Exactly here. Your opinions aren't your own. If you got them from somebody else, or if you haven't gone to the place before, like that just makes absolutely no sense. So you're saying if I, let's just say you, um, you attend a debate between two experts. Now, the whole purpose of a debate, right, is to persuade the audience.

You hear the arguments this guy makes, you hear the arguments this guy makes, you go, I think that guy made superior arguments. Oh, and he had no answer for that. And that, Ooh, that was a really good point. He just, I think this guy's right on that issue. That's not my opinion now because somebody else informed my opinion. By the way, the logical conclusion of this, you understand is that none of us have any opinions about anything because even going to a place you're still being influenced by the people like it's not as if Obviously again if douglas isn't knocking down a straw man, obviously you can gain insight by traveling to a place

You could learn things that you didn't know before But to pretend like by putting your feet on the soil, you magically now take in all of the information and everybody's experience and see it from everyone else's perspective is fucking ludicrous. The idea that like that's the only true opinion is if you go somewhere like anyway, it's just it makes absolutely no sense. No, you can gain. In fact, you can gain. In fact, you can gain a lot more insight by reading experts than you can just by going

on a trip. I mean, like, look, let's say Rob, me and you went, uh, what was it? Two years ago. Now we went on a European tour. Um, we went, we went to, uh to Ireland and Scotland and Amsterdam and London. Um, I don't know too much about those countries history. Like I know a little bit here and there. Um, I know mostly what kind of involves America. You know what I mean? Like are the areas I know most about, but like, okay, let's say we went, we go to Ireland,

right? Um, if I were to do a deep dive on Ireland or the Irish history, the way I have on Israel, Palestine or Ukraine, or you know, any of the topics that I talk a lot about, like, let's just say, if I were to read 15 books about the history of Ireland, okay. Um, which I'm not going to do, but like I could do it if I had to. Um, so let's just say, I read 15 books. Are you honestly telling me that you think I would get more insight from our trip

there than from reading 15 books about it? Like, that's just not clear at all. But anyway, the idea that we don't, we don't have opinions in less. We've been to the place and seen it with our own eyes. This makes no sense. This show is sponsored by better help guys. If you are considering starting therapy, maybe you're on the fence about it. Let me just say that I highly recommend therapy. It's something I've benefited from in the past. I know many others who have benefited from it too.

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I can't have an opinion that they're impressive because I haven't actually been there and Inversely if I read or see footage of the Holocaust in Auschwitz I can't have the opinion that it's terrible because I wasn't there and The only way that you could form an opinion is by actually being somewhere So I guess the entire field of history by the way that doesn't exist. I guess all of physics I mean, I don't know how many people are in a lab observing the laws of physics. I guess maybe, I don't know. Maybe that's not a good example, but there's entire fields of study that are conceptual. So absolutely. Or the idea that like an astrophysicist can't have a real opinion,

only an astronaut can. Right? Like you haven't been there. So it's just it's it's I mean, literally, I'm right. I can't do the analytics about the being on Mars to try and plan for how someone could survive on Mars, I'd have to actually go to Mars. Yeah, it's not your opinion. Only way that I can decipher the information about how we might survive on Mars. I am I mean, there's never been a guy who's before he went to a factory was pulled in for a consulting job and then looked at the spreadsheets in the books to figure out what might actually help the company be more profitable. Never. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's again, like I said, I'm shocked and not like Douglas Murray was like being performative

that he was shocked. I haven't been there. I'm genuinely shocked that Constantine would go down with this. It might be the worst argument I've ever heard. Anyone like that? You don't have opinions unless you've been to the place. It's wild. Let's keep playing. They are an agglomeration of opinions. In fact you have gathered from other sources whose veracity you cannot properly evaluate. That doesn't necessarily make them wrong. Indeed.

Why can't you evaluate other people's opinions? You can't have an opinion like why can't you evaluate somebody else's expertise? If that's the case true, then shouldn't nobody be allowed to side with Douglas Murray in the debate. After all, they're just listening to another expert who's been there, right? Expert. Anyway, let's keep playing. Most things are not our own. You know why? Because we get them from people we consider to be authorities on the subject in question.

You might call them experts. The great trick being deployed here is to allege that experts can't be trusted while relying on a different set of experts. On Ukraine, the non-expert Smith is using the ideas of people he considers experts like John Mayersheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. On World War II, the non-expert Cooper deploys the arguments of people he considers experts like David Irving and so on and so forth. All opinions are valid and should be given a hearing, screamed the people whose entire media diet is made up of people who only push the narrative they prefer. This is where Smith.

Who said that? Who said that? Again, just blatant straw man. Pause. Who said that? Who said that? Again, just, just blatant straw men. Yes. Again, the none of us were ever taken. Not me or Joe were not arguing against expertise. And we were not saying, I certainly have never said I'm not informed by experts. Yes. I've read the experts that back up your side. I've read the experts that back up the other side I've read the experts that back up the other side.

I think the ones on your side are full of shit and the other ones make much better arguments. That's my opinion on this. The point is that I still get to talk about this and I still get to have an opinion just like fucking you do. Constantine, this is just too nutty, dude. You're in the, you're in the process. I mean, isn't this, how is this not a performative contradiction of some sort, sentence Rob? He's explaining all of this, right? On a podcast.

Like what, what are we talking about here? This is too crazy. All right, I'll play a couple more minutes of that. I think we're just gonna call it an episode because this is just too nutty. Really turning into space balls here. Is the arguments he makes about countries he's never visited from other people. And the arguments are then judged not on whether they're true

Something Smith does not have the ability to assess but on whether they sound true This is why he routine. I don't have the ability to assess the truth So then get okay listen, but he does it then neither do you motherfucker? So you can't make that claim This is it's you're in you're contradicting yourself. It's like saying, okay, it's like saying the truth doesn't exist. What's the problem with that sentence, Rob? You're making a truth claim, right? If you're saying the truth doesn't exist, you're saying that's the truth. Well, then the truth would have to exist. It's a self contradicting statement. If you're saying I can't assess the truth,

then neither can you, dude. By the way, you've also never been to Israel or Gaza. Yeah. So you can't have a comment on this either, or it just sounds true, right? No, this is, this is, um, this is wokeism. This is postmodernism. This is, I mean, yeah, there's no truth. There's no way of knowing what truth is. Yes. There are things called facts and logic and regular people can actually use these things. All right, let's keep playing a little bit more and then we're going to wrap up. Lee makes basic cognitive errors of the kind I described the last time he and I sparred over my viral Israel video.

As for experience, the woke concept of lived experience was not ridiculed because experience doesn't matter. You would have to be deeply dishonest to deny that experiences are informative. If Michael Jordan claimed that there is a correct way to dunk a basketball based on his experience and his conversations with Kobe Bryant. Do you imagine that Smith and his defenders would screech about MJ just using arguments from authority and lived experience? The reason many of us pushed back against the concept of lived experience, other than the great team tautology.

Well, like, yeah, we would if he was lying to us, you know, like if he told you the best way to dunk a basketball is with your feet, I'd be like, well, first off, that's illegal in basketball. And that'll be a turnover. And also I've watched you dunk with your hands many, many times. Again, you could see, right? Everyone could see this here. This is like a blatant straw man. No one's arguing arguing against expertise and nobody's saying that your experience doesn't matter The point is that to say something like your opinion is not valid because you've never been there Isn't actually taking on someone's argument and that is identical to the lived experience argument

To just say that like like literally the argument would go something like that This is how the lived experience argument would go would be something like you'd be like well I'm looking at this data here and I can see the number of police shootings last year and I can see the number of Unjustified police shootings here and it's actually very very few amount of black people were unarmed black people were killed by cops and it doesn't seem to be at a much higher rate than other races and they'd go You've never been a black person So you don't know what it's like You don't have the lived experience that is identical to the argument douglas murray was making

It's not saying that like look here's the thing is that if I got into a debate with michael jordan about how to play basketball He should just fucking school me at the debate Michael Jordan about how to play basketball, he should just fucking school me at the debate. He shouldn't have to sit there and just tell me he's an expert the whole time. And if he was just telling me, then that's a non-argument. And the thing about Michael Jordan is that he won a lot of championships, as did Kobe Bryant. And so if they decided to talk about that topic, I go, wow, these are the experts. But when the expert class decides to tell me something and they've gotten it all

wrong repeatedly, I go, it's like if Michael Jordan broke his legs before he got to the NBA and never played basketball, uh, other than at the high school level. And then, uh, yeah, it's cause he won a lot. That's why you're even bringing up his name. It's cause he was right in the sense in your analogy, right? So like yes I suppose that if douglas murray if the

War in iraq was a smashing success and then the war in afghanistan was a smashing success and then the war in libya was a Smashing success and then the war in ukraine was a smashing success then yeah, maybe he'd get a little bit more of that respect But the thing is he supported all of them and they were all unmitigated disasters while I was good on them. So yeah, forgive me if I don't just take him at his word. And I'm going to insist that him or you Constantine have to make a fucking argument, which none of this is. Um, all right, we're going to wrap up on that. Um, and I promise we will move on to other topics, but you know,

they keep handing me free content and let's get real. It's fun. It's fun. People like it. There's always these episodes where people go like, Oh, I don't even like these episodes. And you're like, well, they do really good numbers. So I think, I think you do. All right, guys, we do got to wrap on that. Thank you very much for listening. Catch you next time. Peace. Thanks for watching!