Part Of The Problem - Thoughts on the Candace Owens X Spaces

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein for a discussion on Dave's recent X Spaces with Can...dace Owens, Andrew Tate, Dan Bilzerian, and more! Plus his spirited debate with Mark Pellegrino on the objectivism of supporting Israel, ominous warnings and social penalties for communicating with mainstream pariahs, the different levels of censorship between hot topics in the news, and so much more!Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com/ as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Support Our SponsorsBetter Help - https://Betterhelp.com/problem for 10% off your first monthMoink - https://www.moinkbox.com/potpCrowdHealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promo...Get your tickets to Porch Tour Herehttps://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@robbiethefire2577iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RA...Follow the show on social media:Twitter:https://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttps://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/theproblemdavesmith/https://www.instagram.com/robbiethefire/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, hello, hello. What's up everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I'm Dave Smith. He's Robbie the Fireburnstein and we are back in the Gas Digital Studios. This is the first podcast we've done here since I believe 2022. And they gave us Studio B. What the fuck, people? This was supposed to be our triumphant return
Starting point is 00:00:28 and you stick us in the small studio? Look, it's bullshit. It's bullshit what's happening here. There's no question about that. In their defense, we left the network. Oh. Wait, we're not on the network anymore? We're not on the network. So they do have a leg to stand on where they could say,
Starting point is 00:00:46 we don't get the studio of our choice. Do you know what they're charging me to record here? I do not. Do you know? No. No, nothing, that's ridiculous. But that would be insane. That would be insane if they were.
Starting point is 00:00:58 But no, but they did say A was taken. No, I didn't want to bump good Zak Amiko out of A. That was kind of a dick way to say it. It was almost like, I could have bumped Zak out of A. But I didn't want to bump good Zac Amico out of A. I don't, that was kind of a dick way to say it. It was almost like, I could have bumped Zac out of A, but I didn't want to bump, no, I didn't even, I didn't even really test my juice like that, but I don't know, maybe I could have. Maybe I would have been like, no, you gotta bump Zac,
Starting point is 00:01:15 and they'd have been like, no, that's not that, it's not that important that you get Studio A. Anyway, the point is we're back here. We're back here in the studio, across from the studio where it all started. I like the high chairs, I get to be your height. That is true, that is true. We are equal height.
Starting point is 00:01:32 You might even be a little bit taller than me. It doesn't look like it on that camera, but you're up there with me. It is a little bit strange coming back here, because this is, I just, you know, we've been on this network for so many years, but Legion of Skanks we do over at the stand, and part of the problem, I've been doing it
Starting point is 00:01:53 my home for years now, so this is the place where I used to come to work all the time, and I'm back here so infrequently now, that it does kind of like, I don't know, it just brings back memories of 2018 or whatever it was, and, oh, it's like I can just smell the poverty. I come back here and I'm just like,
Starting point is 00:02:12 oh, yeah, late on rent. I remember what that smelled like. Except that everyone here is so rich. Well, not us. Not us, I mean, everyone else is so, it's all, I feel like when I walk around here, it's like a movie set of extras where it's just all these kids with the wealthiest parents. They've never done anything in their entire lives, so their skin just still is like Nancy Pelosi out of a clinic fresh.
Starting point is 00:02:39 Do you feel like it's changed drastically in that regard? Because I do. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like New York City has really changed. It is like, I remember, you know, whatever. I know I'm an old man, so when I talk about this, it like puts me in a different category, but when I got out of college,
Starting point is 00:02:58 I didn't say graduate, but when I got out. I mean left, I think the word's just left. Okay, when I quit college, I wasn't there for long. I was there for a year and a half, and let me tell you, that half, there were no classes happening whatsoever. But anyway, I remember it being like, you know, you could get like, you could find an apartment for like $1,200 a month.
Starting point is 00:03:23 You could find that place if you got like a good deal or something like that. And you get 1200 bucks a month with a roommate and you're like, okay, you know, I gotta make 600 bucks a month toward rent and then everything else is going toward beer. It was like, you could start a life. And then around, I don't know, I wanna say around,
Starting point is 00:03:44 like when I was living down here in this neighborhood you could get like maybe like twenty five hundred a month you could get an apartment for now if you lived with your girlfriend or if you lived with a roommate or something like that. And a couple rats. We did have some rats. Anyway but okay so then that would be the deal and it was still like oh man These are getting it's getting a little expensive here, but like you could maybe pull it off The the rents have gone up so much now that I mean I I don't think I'm I saw one thing my wife Just sent me a listing that was a
Starting point is 00:04:20 Now I don't know I I'm not not really following New York real estate like this, but she sent me a listing that was a one-bedroom apartment down here, and the rent was seven grand a month. Yeah, you can own a mansion in most of America. Literally, your mortgage payments for seven grand a month, you could be in a beautiful home, just a home that people walk into and go, my God, you have such an amazing house. But for a... It was a nice one bedroom, but I mean that was, now I don't know, maybe you can do a little bit better than that.
Starting point is 00:04:48 But I do think that it kind of like hit a point where it's like for that person who I was when I finished college, and I did fin, I was finished. So I did finish. But for that person, it's just like, oh, that's impossible. So it just takes off the table, like living here, and I do feel like you feel that it's all like rich kids who are basically left, and that's why there's so many
Starting point is 00:05:15 trans walking around on the streets. It's like you walked into a country club where everyone's perfect looking, and you're just like, I am out of place here. Yeah, it's very bizarre to see the way this city particularly this neighborhood has has changed over the years but yeah I've just like even taken Ubers around here like looking out I'm like what am I looking at this isn't the East Village anymore this is something else. If you got a girlfriend bring her to the East
Starting point is 00:05:41 Village you'll take her down a peg. You got a girlfriend in things like? She's hot shit. Little highfalutin, maybe? Just do a little New York City visit and walk around the East Village. I'd say drop her off. Kick her out of the car. Say, I'll be back in two hours.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Make some friends. And let her come back. You'll come back to a humbled girlfriend. That's for sure. Anyway, so I was in the city because I just recorded an episode of the Flagrant podcast with Andrew Schultz and Akash Sen. I love those guys.
Starting point is 00:06:09 It was very fun to do that. Thanks to all those guys for having me on. Me and Andrew and Akash, we've been doing shows together for, I mean, we started, I don't know if exactly started, I didn't meet those guys in like my first year in comedy, but we were all like young comics with nothing, working clubs. In fact, in this neighborhood, we used to all work
Starting point is 00:06:32 Eastville Comedy Club together all the time. And it's just cool, it's one of those, I will say, there's something kind of heartwarming to see the guys you started with, who we all had nothing, like kind of coming up and getting stuff going for themselves. Just very cool. It's a little bit of a surreal feeling.
Starting point is 00:06:52 But anyway, I had a great conversation with them. We just talked about everything under the sun. So look for that episode. I think it should be out in the next couple of days. I think it was a good one. You never know. Whenever you do these long form podcasts, you always kind of.
Starting point is 00:07:07 You haven't done, I can't think of any Dave Smith stinkers. No, I don't really do that, man. That's not my deal. That's other people's things. No, no, I leave that for other people. I crush, bro. But yeah, no, I think it was a real good one. Okay, so I figured we would talk about this.
Starting point is 00:07:22 We talked about it a little bit on Flaygrant, but I figured we would talk about this we talked about it a little bit on flagrant But I figured we would talk about this today just because this happened yesterday and it is Really the talk of social media and so it's kind of like how am I not gonna address this a little bit? But I I also think there's a lot that's interesting to talk about on the subject. So anyway, I did Twitter spaces with Candace Owens that she was hosting, with Candace Owens and Andrew Tate, and a few other people were on there as well. I'm blanking on Dan's last name.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Let me pull this up here. I apologize, guys. The poker guy? I don't think he's a poker guy. No, it was a And Jingo or? Dan Bilzerian. Yeah, that's the poker guy.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Is he the poker guy? I think so. Maybe you're right about this. And then also with Andrew, who's's I'm blanking on his last name I'm sorry. I probably should have just had this information Ready to go when I when I started this. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Here. I here we go. I got I got it up here Okay, so it was a and then Andrew mayor So yeah, so the five of us.
Starting point is 00:08:45 I was not there for the whole time. I kind of just jumped in because Candice invited me on. Or she didn't. Someone literally tweeted, was like, you should have Dave on. And then Candice was like, Dave's invited to everything I ever do, or something like that.
Starting point is 00:08:58 And so I was like, oh, okay, I'll jump on for a minute. But I had to run. But it was, I thought it was interesting. And Candice has really been setting the internet on fire over the last few days. And she's- Well, someone's gotta take on the Jewish pedophiles. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Not everyone's just willing to do the research into the origins of Kabbalah and the Jewish pedophiles out there. And so she's willing to take the torch and go after, I don't know what she's talking about. Well, you know what was kind of wild about it was that the guy, okay, so first of all, so Andrew Meyer, I apologize if I'm pronouncing
Starting point is 00:09:38 your name wrong, but so I found this out halfway into the conversation, he is. A Jewish pedophile. A Jewish pedophile. A Jewish pedophile. And it turns out he's exactly why we needed these type of Twitter spaces. No, that is not true. Can we pull up some pictures of these people?
Starting point is 00:09:51 Please. Andrew, he's Jewish, so he might sue me. Do not, no. No, he was actually a very good sport, and I enjoyed the conversation, and we kind of said, like, hey, we should do a thing again together. He was kind of, and I think maybe I didn't even fully process this kind of at the time,
Starting point is 00:10:12 because he started by saying something like, it was along the lines of, like I think Andrew Tate asked him, well, can you name another country where there's this relationship, like we have with Israel, where you can't criticize them, you know, or whatever. And he was like, well, I think China's kind of in a similar thing, you know, they have, and look, I kinda got what he was saying.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Like, you know, when you've seen those things where NBA players will get asked about human rights abuses in China, and they just won't say anything. The difference is that that's a little bit more of a A clear business dynamic where it's like look the NBA is trying to get into this market There's over a billion people They don't really want to pick a fight with the government there because the government won't let you in the market if you pick
Starting point is 00:10:59 A fight with the government, but I kind of made the point to him where I was like, yeah, but dude, come on That's not the same thing I mean our former Secretary of state accused China of genocide over nonsense over Adrian's ends Bullshit numbers that were just not right And we've had this aggressive posture toward China forever. It's nothing like that with Israel You know, not only are we not talking about how like Israel might you know, you you know, the way we're like, if China ever attacks Taiwan, we'll defend them militarily, said Joe Biden. But there's no talk like that with Israel. If Israel attacks Gaza, we'll give them the weapons to do it.
Starting point is 00:11:34 So anyway, so we kind of, but then as the conversation's going, he starts, uh, talking about how he believes they allowed October 7th to happen and how Israel was involved in 9-11. And I was like, oh, well you might be further than me. I'm like, I don't know, which side are you on here? You know what I mean? So I was kind of like, almost like, it wasn't until afterward that I was thinking,
Starting point is 00:11:57 I was like, so what was he really arguing? And I guess that would be what would be interesting to have another conversation with him about. Because that's kind of interesting already that you're a little bit further on the being critical of Israel than I am and you're still kind of on at least defending them in some regard anyway you know a lot of people are very furious about this this Twitter spaces I have gotten a lot of people, let's say, a lot of people angry at me that I was a participant in it.
Starting point is 00:12:33 And I've even had, let's say, some people reaching out under the guise of giving me advice, telling me, you know, this Candace Owens person is gonna be your downfall. You can't continue to do shows with her. You can't continue to go on these spaces. It's just not right. So I'll, I wanted to kind of say a couple things on this.
Starting point is 00:12:54 What is the actual conversation about? Just what's going on in the Middle East? Well, it was, no, it was a bit deeper than that. I mean, at first it was like, um, there was stuff where that when I came into it, they had already started, but they were talking about like the Tomlitt and what exactly that says that Jews are allowed to do to other people. And then the question, I guess, was kind of like, does the, like this Tomlittic belief, um, uh, give license to like the government of the Jewish state.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Like, do they feel like, hey, these are going them and so therefore they're allowed to do whatever they want to these people. Do you know what they were referencing the Talmud as? You'd have to go back and listen to the spaces. I just don't know enough about it. But like Dan and Andrew were going back and forth and he's like, well, what about this one and this one? And actually, I actually kind of thought Andrew was making some good points on some of this where he's like, well, what about this one and this one? And actually, I actually kind of thought Andrew was making some good points on some of this where he's like, yeah, that's not actually the correct translation.
Starting point is 00:13:50 And I've never been one who gets into that stuff. I think that the truth is that, at least in my opinion, if you are, if you're judging a group of people based off religious scripture, and I think this is reasonable, you can find pretty ugly parts of almost any religious scripture, and that's just not, I don't think, is a fair way to go at it. I can also, I mean, I have no context for what they were quoting or not quoting, but I can tell you I've spent an entire year studying a page of, it's not an exaggeration, I've spent an entire year of my life studying a single page of Talmud because the amount of comment... That is the juist waste of time I've ever heard of.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Fair enough, but I'm just saying the amount of commentary that exists to decipher what's there the amount of commentary that exists to decipher what's there and The rabbis in a way with the examples It's almost like at times are talking in jokes with very extreme examples to prove concepts So I is that true. Yes Wow So I'm not I'm not there and I don't know what was quoted But the idea that like you could just pick up a single line English translation and say, hey, it says this, and talk with some sort of an expertise of that that's what it's talking about. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:14 I don't have the context of the conversation, but I would just be reluctant to any individual, if you open up a random page, just read the English and said, oh, the Jews all stand by this, you could literally be referencing the wrong opinion that everyone takes issue with. Yeah, and I mean, look, again, I know that people who are, let's say, critics of the Jews, would, there's, as a Jewish person, there's no winning that game.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Because if you come out and you go like, yeah, there's actually no reason to hate all the Jews. They go, see, he's controlled opposition. He's just trying to take down the temperature so we don't wake up to what's really happening. And if you say, oh yeah, you should hate all the Jews, then oh, I'm saying you should hate me and shouldn't listen to me.
Starting point is 00:15:53 So it's like a heads you win, tails I lose type of game. I don't care. I don't find that argument to be compelling at all. Candice Butt was just like, I haven't looked into this. I have not, you know what I mean? That wasn't her thing that she wanted to talk about but I do think that like I don't know you could find all types of stuff in the Quran and the Old and New Testament I don't that don't jive with modern morality
Starting point is 00:16:15 so I just I kind of roll my eyes at that stuff and just go like I I'm certainly not an expert in it and almost I'm certainly not an expert in it and almost always the person who's quoting it to prove what, you know what I mean, they're really not an expert in it. Then the topic of conversation at one point hit on what I think is Candace's thing that she's deep down the rabbit hole on, which is the, you just said the term before, the Kabbalah type stuff, and what group of Jews were, I think essentially her theory, which she did explain to me a little bit when I saw her last, but it's one of those things that I just don't, I haven't read about it, so I have no, you know, like sometimes when someone's down a conspiracy
Starting point is 00:16:59 and you're like, I don't know, I don't know what to say here, like maybe it's all true, maybe not. To me it's like, I don't even know how many things are on the table of elements because I don't care I'm not into chemistry. But if you told me that there's actually supposed to be one more thing on the table of elements Okay, what the amount of research that I have to do to find out whether or not that was true or not true and it has Nothing to do with me. It's not like I don't care. So sometimes the conspiracies all fall into that camp well, right, so it's it's one of these things where like I've after figuring out
Starting point is 00:17:29 As best I can what's kind of really going on in the world You're not as quick to just dismiss something right now, maybe Maybe there is something to this. I don't know, but I can't really comment on it, but her Maybe there is something to this, I don't know, but I can't really comment on it. But her theory, to be clear, is that essentially, there's this group of really bad people who aren't Jewish, who they believe something totally separate. Is it the Kazarian conspiracy?
Starting point is 00:17:56 I don't know exactly the details of it, but it's the Frankists or something like that. But the theory is that it's like these people are kind of pretending to be Jews, and then they're bringing all the Jews like, you know, if there's any backlash against them, they're like, oh, so you hate all Jewish people, and then they're kind of bringing regular Jewish people in when this isn't even what, like, they're not even a part of that thing. That's her theory. Whether true or untrue, I just, I don't know enough about it to say say but even if you're operating under the boat say it's all bullshit Which for the sake of argument, let's say it's not true at all. I get so many people
Starting point is 00:18:31 You know like appalled that I was on this stream and then even telling me you should never do shows with her again You should never do this and it's like hey look what? Right. So again, there's just kind of these red flags that pop up to me. It's like number one, if you have an issue with the fact, if I was on a show and you have a major issue with me on that show and that issue does not involve anything that I said on that show, I'm immediately kind of dismissing you. Does that make sense? It's, it's, it's like, what is this? Or it's a guilt by association thing.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Like, I just don't believe in that. It's like, what is this? It's a guilt by association thing? Like, I just don't believe in that. And especially when it's kinda like, dude, you could go on a show, like I could go on a show with somebody, I just did last night, I mean it was a debate, but I could go on a show with somebody who's advocating that they step it up
Starting point is 00:19:18 in Gaza and start killing more people. The problem here is that Israel's been too restrained. Israel's got it right. And it's like, hey, if that isn't, hey, you can't go on a show with that guy, then like, I don't want to hear how I can't go on a show with someone because they believe a conspiracy that you think is wrong, or even that is wrong. The other thing is that people are telling me that Candace hates Jewish people. And I'm just saying that is not what she's saying. Also, you're there, so.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Right, I mean, you know, look, it's not what she's saying publicly, it's not what she's saying privately in the conversations we've had. I'm sorry, you don't just get to say, no, I know what she really means. Even though you know her and you've had conversations with her, I don't
Starting point is 00:20:06 know her and I've never had conversations with her, but I get to tell you what she really means. I've just a long time ago decided, no, that's bullshit. I'm not playing that game. I'm sorry. That's just, I think that's reasonable. This show is sponsored by Better Help. Guys, if you've been thinking about starting therapy, first of all, I highly recommend it. It's something that's helped me tremendously in the past and helped a lot of people I know. And if you're thinking about starting therapy, you gotta give BetterHelp a try.
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Starting point is 00:21:20 You gotta go listen to her to hear it out. All right, you piqued my curiosity. I have to see what they were quoting in the Talmud. Go here, the space is up there. I mean, the thing blew up. It had, at least last I had seen, I'm sorry, it's up to two million views. And what was Andrew Tate coming in
Starting point is 00:21:40 to add to this conversation? He seemed to, from what I was there of it, he was more just kind of talking about the relationship between Israel and the United States, and how kind of, you know, what Israel's doing is wrong to Gaza, and like, what's the benefit for the United States? Like, why, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:22:01 Like, this partnership seems to be costing us so much. Why is it that there's this kind of country? we're not allowed to criticize whereas like if we criticize China or Russia or wherever or Or if we criticize any of these other countries there's just not the same energy that comes along with it you're not like worried about getting canceled over that and At least from what he said when I was on the spaces I thought he was making solid points and he was actually kind of pulling the conversation back more into what I wanted to talk about. Right.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Which is like, okay, no, let's actually, let's talk about the wars, the neoconservatives, the terror wars, what's going on in Israel. You know, like the tangible stuff that I like to focus on more than that other stuff. Listen, I agree with all the broad strokes of anti-Israel criticism, but you can criticize it to the same extent you can criticize anything that the regime doesn't want you to criticize. If you were talking about what was going on a Yemeni year ago, they weren't platforming you if you were talking about how- Well, that's not even the best example. I mean, the vaccine-
Starting point is 00:22:57 Russia. I was going to get to the vaccines, I'm just saying if you go to the beginning of Russia, Ukraine- Oh, yeah. Oh, it was incredible, the pressure. As someone who went on Joe Rogan's podcast and very passionately opposed American support for Ukraine in this war, I can tell you, it's, look, all I'm saying is that,
Starting point is 00:23:16 and this is why I think these conversations are kind of important to have, because I do think it's important to, you know, point this out, listen, I'm in a unique position to say because I went on at the height of the, the Ukraine Russia war and, and was passionately against supporting Ukraine financially. And I also went on at the height of the, this latest war in Gaza and was enormously critical of Israel It was about the same The respect it was by the pretty overwhelming on both of them right like totally viewed
Starting point is 00:23:52 You know what? I mean? Like now I will say this latest stuff with Candace's It does feel a little bit like the volumes turned up on that, but I don't think it's so like overwhelmingly true I I actually think your explanation is correct that it's like it's kind of like whatever the regime's issue of the day is right now, you're not allowed to talk about. There's no question that just as a nation, Israel is a little more radioactive than than others.
Starting point is 00:24:17 You're really you get more heat for talking about it. But look, it's not it's not more heat than the vaccine when the vaccine was being I'll tell you I got one strike on my YouTube channel this year, and we don't have to get, I had a doctor on my show who is largely defending the current childhood vaccines, and I got a strike on that just for having the conversation. I've criticized every step of the Israel war,
Starting point is 00:24:39 I mean, the operation in Gaza, since I've never gotten a strike for that. So I think just to pretend like there's more censorship on the Israel topic to me is not true. Yeah, I think there, I'm not saying even there isn't censorship, and I'm certainly not saying that there isn't like this frenzied pushback that you get on it.
Starting point is 00:24:59 This is the problem with, there's a real problem with starting from a conclusion, you know what I mean? And that it's very easy to, once you start from the conclusion, see all the evidence and not keep perspective with other things, you know, where it's like, no, it's, it's, it is just kind of like, are you opposing whatever the dominant, the dominant regime propaganda is that does seem to be the case. I did want to talk about something kind of like the broader theme of this,
Starting point is 00:25:32 which is that what people will say is that there's like kind of a rise in antisemitism, there's a rise in Jew hatred, and in the midst of that, you're going on these streams and you're talking to people who are whatever, I guess seen as on the other side, or seen as aiding that,
Starting point is 00:25:57 but again, I don't really think is fair. I remember thinking this, so me and you obviously have talked a lot about this conflict since it at first started Since the latest I'm saying since October of last year, obviously the conflict has been going on a lot longer than that But I remember you which I still say was one of the most like astute Observations at the very beginning of it where you were were just like, Israel's not going to be able to sell this. And you really just looked at it like as a salesman, you were just like, this is not going to work. It's, and this was early. I mean,
Starting point is 00:26:34 this was like in the first week of response when they had just turned off the water and electricity. And you were just like, no, not going to work. Too many images on social media, too many dissidents out there on social media. And I remember thinking of very similar thing where it was kind of like, I just kind of saw this coming, not specifically with Candace Owens, and not specifically with me being a part of it. But I remember thinking to myself when it, when Israel, when their first move was to turn off the water
Starting point is 00:27:06 and the electricity, so this is the week of October 7th, and we were kind of gearing up for like, oh my God, they're gonna, you just knew that this response was gonna be unlike anything Israel's done before. It was clear from the fact that the October 7th attack was unlike anything that that Israel that had been hit with before and that Netanyahu was still in there and he was in political Trouble it was just like and then all the signals from the politicians Set talking about flatten Gaza and all this stuff and when they started with just like
Starting point is 00:27:38 Starving out the people there was pretty obvious. It was gonna be like, you know this massive over response and I remember thinking to myself You know, they're not gonna be able to control the narrative anymore because it's not like that guy Heidi Masson or whatever his name is he got fired from MSNBC because he's like real pro-Palestinian. It's like yeah Okay, you could still do a little bit of that But how are you gonna stop Andrew Tate from talking about it? real pro-Palestinian, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. You could still do a little bit of that. But how are you gonna stop Andrew Tate from talking about it? You know what I mean? Like, how are you gonna, the landscape is different now.
Starting point is 00:28:11 You can't just like control the flow of information. And I did kind of know right then, and I'm not saying Andrew Tate has done this, but I did know right then too, because I just, you know, I've to some degree had my finger on the pulse of the internet to some degree for the last few years that I was like, Oh, there's going to be, there are going to be a lot of people at least on Twitter online, just totally flipping out and being real against the Jews over this. Like that is just inevitable that
Starting point is 00:28:42 this is going to happen. Um, and at least to that, I think I was right about. I see it all over the place. I mean, look, it was one of the first things that Andrew Schultz asked me about when we were talking today. And then I understand why, because, you know, he's kind of coming at it from me. He's like, look, dude, I'm a layman on this. I'm not really, like, deep in this. But I see people talking everywhere And like I never used to see this before so what the hell is that and I'm trying my best to explain it And I was like well You know, it's it's pretty horrible what they're doing It's the thing you're not allowed to say and so I do think it just kind of has this energy And then I also think people are connecting a lot of dots Some of them fairly some of them unfairly, but this is where it's it's kind of ending. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Do you have any like more thoughts or insight to what do you think is going on here? I'm still I'm missing a little bit of context even on what Andrew is asking, but I don't see a rise in anti-Semitism in this country. I do see a rise in people being against the actions of Israel and Gaza and the level by which we support this. I think those are two separate things. I see a rise in people talking shit about Jews on Twitter, to be clear.
Starting point is 00:29:56 I'm not saying, I don't see a rise in life of anyone being anti-Semitic. To me, the way people talk on Twitter are the way people talk when you're playing a video game on Xbox, which I don't do anymore. I don't take that language and go, hey, this is real life or the way people really feel about things. I think that's a great way to put it.
Starting point is 00:30:13 That's a really great way to put it. Because there is, like I was kind of trying, I wish I had thought of that example, because I was kind of trying to say it when I was on Flagrant earlier. And at one point I was like, look, it's just like impossible to know what that is When someone's like hey gas all the Jews on Twitter you're like what's behind that is it someone cracking up laughing like you know What I mean like is it kind of just like in the spirit of like talking shit is it a? 14 year old you know what I mean a 14 year old who's laughing or is a 14 year old who's stepdad just beat him up And he's furious and is it you know what
Starting point is 00:30:45 I'm saying or is it a real adult who actually would love for the fourth rite to be instituted You know what I'm saying? You're just like there's no way to know I do ten people can say I'm being naive on this But I also think amongst Jewish people there's a there's a tremendous amount of paranoia about this stuff I do think you're right. I generally I tremendous amount of paranoia about this stuff, I do think you're right. I generally think it's kind of, and I never did that, but it's kind of headset on Xbox, you know what I mean, like just talking shit while you're fucking someone up in Madden,
Starting point is 00:31:16 and going like, oh yeah, did you like that? Your mother liked it last night type shit. That's what it seems like to me. I mean, I hope I don't kick any cans of worms here but I don't see that much of it on Twitter but for example like I see it from Top who I like Top or friends. Every time I've hung out with him he's a sweetheart. I did a porch store in his backyard. I do another porch store in his backyard tomorrow. So I mean if he's an example of other people so there's dialogue online that is completely unmatching
Starting point is 00:31:45 the person that I know. So I don't know what to say about that. Well, I also, I did Topps podcast recently, and I think I said at one point on it, I was like, I don't know, I said something like, I was like, look, man, there might be these people who like to joke around on Twitter, but you don't want to live under a Nazi regime or something like that. And he was like, yeah, of course not. It's all just fucking around. You know what I mean? So yeah, I don't think, at least that's my suspicion, I think it's all just fucking, you know what I mean,
Starting point is 00:32:10 like jokes, maybe with a little hint of truth besides some of them. But I will say that, I guess one of the things that really kind of, you know, I've just been thinking about a lot lately, as I've got these the things that really, I've just been thinking about a lot lately, as I've got these people coming around me, advising me not to do shows with Candace Owens or something,
Starting point is 00:32:34 and it's like, okay, first of all, look, no. I'm gonna do shows with her. I like her. She's been nothing but sweet and complimentary and helpful to me. And also she's not saying, like I don't know what to say. She is publicly and privately saying, I have nothing against Jewish people. I don't want to see more hatred of Jewish people. I have a problem with this cabal of evil people who I believe many of whom are part of
Starting point is 00:33:00 this like satanic, you know, like cult type thing. Sorry, no. And you know, it's, it's funny because it's almost like, um, it's like, look, when you have someone like that, who's up there, if you're just going to call them a Jew hater too, okay, good luck. What do you want to do? You want to take out that person and then who do you think is going to be the person who fills that space? It's like, I just think this is a very short-sighted
Starting point is 00:33:27 and not a good idea. Candice is also someone, and again, look, I'm not, I have done a couple of podcasts with Candice Owens, and the last time I was down there, like we hung out a bit and like grabbed lunch and stuff She's first of all my impressions of her as a person is that she is lovely very smart and been nothing but kind to me I have not Detected anything that I find to be hateful in her in all of the conversations that we've had If she's guilty of anything, it's the fact that she's going down some rabbit holes
Starting point is 00:34:07 that may or may not be entirely correct. Perhaps she's missing things on there. But that's a different accusation than being like, oh, you hate a group of people or something like that. But no, I'm not going to not do shows with someone because you feel that there are no-no topics that they're hitting. I just I've always been so against that.
Starting point is 00:34:28 I couldn't ever I can like deal with myself if I just said, oh, you're right. I better protect myself and not be able to come on. That's not that's never going to be me. But on top of that, it's like. I just feel like as with a lot of these things, it's like, okay, but the elephant in the room isn't that some people on this, this X spaces we're talking about topics. You're not allowed to talk about the elephant in the room. Is that like what Israel's doing at Gaza is unfathomably evil
Starting point is 00:34:59 and that you're essentially not allowed to criticize it in this country. And maybe not allowed as an overstatement, but like certainly there's, there's an attempt to put a massive penalty on you for doing so. And that I just have so much more of a problem with that than I do with people going down conspiracies. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Moink. Moink delivers grass fed and grass finished beef, lamb, pasteurized pork, chicken, and sustainable wild-caught Alaskan salmon all straight to your door.
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Starting point is 00:36:34 she did start off by just talking about how sad it is that all these babies and guys are dying and they flipped out on her for that it's like yeah maybe you shouldn't have done that maybe that was a really stupid way to handle this whole thing, you know? Like, it's like, could you think of a recipe to try? Like, by the way, it's kind of, in a sense, when you look at it like that, it's remarkable that she hasn't just turned on the juice, at this point.
Starting point is 00:36:59 These people try to ruin her life, you know? And, but I will say that I appreciate ruin her life, you know? And, but I will say that I appreciate that she's stuck to that and that she's saying that publicly as well as privately, because I do think that, I do think it's unfair, it's unfair to make this about like all Jewish people or it's unfair to draw conclusions that aren't accurate in the same way that like, you know, like people get propagandas, you know, I was um, I was I Didn't I meant to say something on the spaces But just other people started talking and I didn't get the point but at one point Andrew Tate was asking
Starting point is 00:37:40 I think it was Andrew was asking about like what percentage of people in Israel support what Israel's doing to Gaza And I always am a little hesitant To say I was talking about this on flagrant today, too But I always go like I don't know man my rule of thumb is like I'm not against the people I'm against the corrupt politicians, but I'm not against the people I find that I think that's true in America and I think I feel the same way in Israel and You know you could say something like well look a lot of the people in in
Starting point is 00:38:12 Israel support what their government's doing in Gaza by the way just so we're clear. It's the identical argument That the pro-israel people use about Gaza They'll go did you see this opinion poll? 70% of people support Hamas. The problem with that is that first of all support is like a weird thing. What does that exactly mean? You know, first off supporting a crime is not a crime. Like, materially aiding a crime or inciting a crime is a crime. But if you just like, if you come and you were just like, you went and robbed a bank or something like that and after it's over, you robbed the bank and I went, I support
Starting point is 00:38:59 Rob for robbing that bank. I haven't committed a crime. Now, I'm not saying material support. I'm saying just what they mean by support policy. Like I just, I like that. You can like that. And if you want to go down that rabbit hole, I mean, you can condemn almost every group of people. You know, it's like, okay, well, right wingers in America overwhelmingly supported the war in Iraq. Overwhelmingly were convinced by all the propaganda. But do I look back at that and go like all those people should be tried as war criminals? No. I mean, okay.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I'm a little annoyed at them for doing that and I'm a little annoyed at the people of Israel for doing that. Less annoyed at Palestine. I understand that a little bit more when you're being totally dominated like that. But that doesn't really prove anything other than the people have been Propagandized and they were hit with a terrorist attack and then their leaders came to them and said we can make this all better By going and fighting this war and then they went all right then we're behind you fighting this war That's just it. That's not the same like If that were to be the standard then I think you could condemn The United the people of America the people of Israel the people of Palestine all of them
Starting point is 00:40:14 I think it's more reasonable to just err on the side of like I'm on the side of the people I'm against the corrupt politicians Do you agree with that Rob or you're giving me some faces there like maybe you don't. By the way, before you answer, Frank, can I grab another one of these if you get a chance? Could you open it for me? Because I don't have an opener. Oh, sorry, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Can you just clarify what you were saying for me? So this is people that who are criticizing the people. So if critics of Israel were to say, well, it's not just the government of Israel. The people of Israel also support say, well, it's not just the government of Israel, the people of Israel also support what their government's doing. So isn't it really more of a problem with Jews or Israelis or whatever?
Starting point is 00:40:54 And I'm just saying it's like, I don't know, they were able to whip up enough American support to support the war in Iraq. I don't think the takeaway from that is that American people are evil. Thank you, brother,. Appreciate that very much You know what I'm saying? I think it's like yeah people can be propagandized and I kind of blame their political leaders for that I think also
Starting point is 00:41:15 Governments can do a good job of hiding their crimes like I mean even if you were to look at Germany During World War two with the killing of the Jews. I don't think I would hold a typical German accountable. No, that's a good point. They did hide their crimes. Yeah, they're not actually at Auschwitz and going, oh yeah, I endorsed this specific activity. Yeah. There might be something else that they endorsed,
Starting point is 00:41:36 which turned out to lead to that. But I think I'm not in Israel. I don't see the news cycle. I think that they're probably, listen, I don't know that I would try the individuals. But yeah There's people who probably are calling for more violence against even Palestinian civilian and children because they think that that's in the best interest for their safety and so they're morally wrong
Starting point is 00:41:54 But no, I guess it's not or as a mark Pellegrino told me last night that they those people have no rights Which was actually actually the argument that I got in this debate last night. Oh my god That was just too ridiculous But anyway, okay So but like that's actually kind of I guess on point with what I'm trying to say, right? So I debated this guy Mark Pellegrino last night, which by the way, I can already see the money Lebowski Well, so I said him. I don't know it was he was he that guy Frank. Can you look that up? I think he's one of the words mark Pellegrino I think he's the guy that he shoved the dude's face into a toilet or he was one of I think he's one of those
Starting point is 00:42:34 Dude, it's fucking it's crazy now that this is all coming together for me. Is that right? Did I debate that guy last night and I just realized it now, you know, I knew he was on lost I never watched Lost. And I know he was on Dexter, but I didn't remember his character. I did watch Dexter, but I did watch Dexter. I really liked Dexter for the first four seasons. And he was on in that time, but I just don't remember him from it. By the time he came into Lost, did you watch Lost at all?
Starting point is 00:43:02 Never, no. So the first couple seasons of Lost were great until you followed the whole ride and realized the writers had nothing and he was the nothing. Like he was like, yeah, I think he was, I mean, I gotta stop just pulling things off memory because sometimes I get it wrong, but he was like- By the way, that is my biggest, I'll say my biggest pet peeve with like movies or shows or something like that is when they're building up to a thing and you're kind of like, okay, look, you're enjoying the buildup and you're like, obviously, look, they're gonna wrap this up together and sometimes they wrap it up in a way
Starting point is 00:43:35 where you're like, that was the greatest thing ever, the way they tied it together. And sometimes they tie it together in a way where you're like, I didn't really care about that, tying it together. But the ones where they just don't, you know what I'm saying? Where they just build up this whole thing and then at the end you're like, oh, you didn't really care about that tying it together, but the ones where they just don't
Starting point is 00:43:50 Build up this whole thing and then at the end you're like, oh you didn't have a fit you didn't have an answer to that I don't know. Um, whatever. What was the movie that the and I saw this I did not know that the Obamas like produced it but they they produced like an end of the world movie Which wasn't good. Did you watch it? Yeah, it was not good. It's not only that it wasn't good, it was that. It was that they just got to a thing at the end and you're like, oh, so you didn't have a thing. You didn't have an answer. They literally at the end, they just go like a, they go, oh, you know, like Iran and China and all these countries,
Starting point is 00:44:17 they figured out our weakness. And you're like, and that weakness involved the deers warning us? What? They didn't even attempt to have an answer for why this thing, because the whole time you're like, oh, this is kind of cool, they're kind of building something up here, like what, the fucking cars are turning against us
Starting point is 00:44:35 and the animals are coming out, what could this be? And they're like, fucking Iran, you know? You're like, but how would they do any of that? And they're like, ah, it's okay, she found a bunker. Like, this is the dumbest fucking movie I've ever seen in my life And then I didn't find out till the next day that the the Obamas were involved in it So I just want you to know I hated it going in before that was the the bias anyway
Starting point is 00:44:54 Do we figure out who was he in lost? I mean not in lost in uh in the big Lebowski Yeah, treehorn thug number two. I believe oh there you go all right. I did not recognize him I I apologize for that. I would go back I would lose the debate if I knew that coming. No but so it's just look it's this pattern again I already see it happening. So we did the debate last night and it streamed on some service I
Starting point is 00:45:18 apologize. Civil I think was the name of it and so that was the deal it streams just there and now it's coming out tonight for everyone it'll be out on YouTube and all this streams just there and now it's coming out tonight for everyone. It'll be out on YouTube and all this stuff. But I already saw, it's just a pattern that I've seen happen many times before. This guy lobbied for months and months and months to debate mate. As of yesterday, before the debate, he was tweeting,
Starting point is 00:45:41 Dave has no idea what he's walking into. Blah, his few followers were like he's gonna destroy Dave blah blah blah It's like okay. I I knew this I knew this as I was saying. It's literally my wife Saw that he treated Dave as nothing to It was something like that doesn't know what he's walking into. And she was like, who is this guy? And I go, he's just going to have nothing. I go, it's going to be, I know I already knew going in. I go, it's going to be nothing. I thought I kind of liked the debate
Starting point is 00:46:14 because he was the first objectivist that I've debated on the subject. So I thought it was interesting to, like, just kind of point out how supporting Israel is completely incompatible with all of the objectivist principles, which I think I did a pretty good job of Look I don't know what to say we ended the debate on a nice note I think the debate speaks for itself and if you guys want to go watch it I'll tweet it out when it when it's up And we ended on a nice note and then I already see him talking shit on Twitter about how well
Starting point is 00:46:43 This is the reason why people think Dave won is because he used this but it's like I don't know how many times how many times do I just have to have someone go oh yeah I want to debate you and I'm gonna destroy you and blah blah and then I just fucking wreck them and then they're like it's an enemy for life it's like oh nothing was settled over this you're just gonna keep talking shit and I can already tell I know what's gonna happen I can predict this right now. Alright guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is crowd health I love this company. Look, we all know health insurance is broken premiums are increasing
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Starting point is 00:48:51 the simplest of questions, even when I asked them seven or eight or nine different times. And then he's gonna start talking shit about me because he's got an effect. And then eventually I'm gonna be like, well, now I have to just talk shit back to you because like how much can you talk shit about me before I go,
Starting point is 00:49:05 Hey buddy, I fucking destroyed you last night like an embarrassed. So anyway, the point I'm trying to make though from all of that is that Literally you have a guy with me last night who's debating with me That then this is his argument and go watch the debate debate for yourself if you think I'm caricaturing this, I just want to say, I completely understand why you think that, because you'd be like, no one would actually take this position, but I'm telling you, this is the position that he took. The position that he took is that because America and Israel are, quote, rights-respecting regimes.
Starting point is 00:49:46 Now, I pointed out at one point that they are not, and he conceded, yes, that's true, they're not. But compared to the Islamists, they are. So because comparatively, they're rights-respecting regimes, they have a right to defend themselves. However, these Islamist regimes do not have a right to defend themselves. However, these Islamist regimes do not have a right to defend themselves. And in fact, their people, not the government, but their people, do not have rights. That the people of Gaza have no natural rights. And I pressed him on this and I
Starting point is 00:50:19 said, well, I mean, there's some like, is there a limiting principle to that? Because there's some pretty ugly conclusions from that. Like if you're going to say that anyone in a despotic third world government has no rights, then can we just murder? And he specifically said there should be no rules of war also. So I was like, so can you just like round up babies and kill them all? Is that fine? And he goes, I didn't say that you said that. And I was like, no, no, no, but it follows from your logic, right? And just wouldn't answer, would
Starting point is 00:50:48 not answer on what the standard is for when your people lose rights. But, and he's advocating that Israel step it up. He thinks they've been too soft. They should be killing more innocent people there. This is what he's advocating. And, or to be completely fair, he's advocating they step up the fight on Hamas and that will mean killing more innocent people but they should do that. And so my point is that to all of the people who are telling me, don't do a stream with Candace Owens. She's too far. Going, talking about a conspiracy theories and saying she thinks Freud was a part of some other religion, not Judaism, and that he was doing really
Starting point is 00:51:31 dark things or whatever the conspiracy is. That's too far, yet saying entire swaths of people have no rights and we should step up the slaughtering of innocent people. By the way, in the worst case scenario, if Candace Owens is completely wrong about all of this, she's talking about men who died over a hundred years ago, and it has no effect on anything. But right now, women and children are being slaughtered in Gaza, and someone who's advocating, we step that up. If you wouldn't have a problem with me doing a show with them Which I have a feeling none of these people I have a feeling if I just did a show with with Mark Pellegrino about something We agreed on if we just did a show tomorrow about How regulation hurts the economy? He's an objectivist. I bet he'd be really good on that subject
Starting point is 00:52:19 If we just did a show about that, do you think I'd be getting messages from all these same people? We just did a show about that. Do you think I'd be getting messages from all these same people? And they'd be like, yeah, you can't just do a show with somebody who fucking is for slaughtering innocent women and children. Even the people on the Palestinian side wouldn't be messaging me that,
Starting point is 00:52:35 because they just don't even think like that. And so I'm sorry, but like, you get the point I'm making? I just think this is such bullshit to draw this one line. And essentially what it is, is that these people don't want to say you're not allowed to criticize Israel. So instead, they'll say, No, you can criticize Israel, but you've crossed the line with this thing. And it's gonna ruin you. So don't do this anymore. I'm just looking out for your own good, Dave.
Starting point is 00:53:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, um... I'm just looking out for you. I love Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is looking out for you I love your career. I love everything that you're doing and so just to help you my friend Dave I'm letting you know. Hey, I think you're crossing the line hanging out with Candace. They're just trying to be nice Dave Yeah, yeah, and and you know, I don't know Even obviously I've done I've done shows years ago,
Starting point is 00:53:26 but I've done shows with people who I think you could call Jew haters, you know? And I always had the attitude that it was like when people would be like, well you can't platform these guys. And then I'd be like, wait, really? Is that the argument? Because that's, I mean, people have had conversations
Starting point is 00:53:47 with all types of people and people in the corporate media interview whoever, they interview tyrannical leaders of countries and they'll go, well, okay, it's not that you platform them, it's that you're too friendly to them or something like that. And even when it's debates, they say that because it's kind of like, the way I treat even when it's debates, they say that
Starting point is 00:54:05 because it's kind of like the way I treat things is it's like, if you're respectful of me, I'll be respectful of you. And I am by nature a fairly friendly person, I think. So it's like, okay, if you're respectful of me, we'll have a nice conversation. And if we disagree, we disagree, it's fine. By the way, that's how I was with Mark Pellegrino last night.
Starting point is 00:54:22 The guy who's advocating the stuff I just said, I was still like cordial and friendly last night. The guy who's advocating the stuff I just said, I was still like, cordial and friendly, and we left on a positive note. I thanked him for the spirited debate, and he said likewise. He's got a different attitude now that he's getting dragged on Twitter, but whatever. But it's like, okay, so if I can do that with them,
Starting point is 00:54:37 why wouldn't I also do that with someone who, by the way, hating Jewish people is not the equivalent of nobody, by the way, and I've done podcasts back in the day with a lot of these people, alt-right people and stuff like that, pretty much all the toxic people you could think of I've had a conversation with, none of them ever advocated what Mark Pellegrino advocated last night to me. None of them ever said anything like Jews don't have rights. We should step up the killing of innocent Jews none of them ever said anything like that and in fact if they had It probably would have been a more adversarial conversation
Starting point is 00:55:14 So maybe that's a bias and on my part that I'm admitting to but it's like There they maybe just don't like a group of people which is not nearly as big of a crime You know as as like advocating they don't like a group of people, which is not nearly as big of a crime, as like advocating they don't have rights. But I've also always thought it was like, so what would you have me do? You would have me, if I'm talking to somebody, let's say, and by the way, I'm not talking about Candace
Starting point is 00:55:37 or anyone who is on that spaces, but if I was talking to someone who genuinely does not like Jews, maybe hates Jews, let's say, you're telling me the thing to do is either to not talk to them or be a prick to them? Why would that help? Why don't I just be like a Jewish dude who was cool, heard what they had to say, told
Starting point is 00:56:00 them what I think I understand, what I think they're wrong about? You know what I think I understand what I think they're wrong about you know what I mean like isn't that a better Isn't that a better strategy for how to actually maybe get through to somebody if not them than their listeners Like this is all I don't know this seems like obviously correct to me. I don't know what you think I think I'm just in my head It's very funny that you and Candice were having a conversation with Andrew Tate, because I would think that in normal circumstances, you guys would be taking issue. You guys are both socially, in a marriage type way,
Starting point is 00:56:32 a lot more conservative about what relationships should look like. Oh, well, I certainly, listen, I have said this publicly many times, I am not a fan of that, like the Andrew Tate pimp shit. I think is just horrible and You know, I don't know, you know, I don't know enough about the guy and I don't know I'm If I'm judging him I'm judging him off like very short clips that I've seen and then it would be the fact that At least from what I understand
Starting point is 00:57:01 He was him and his brother were basically locked up without charges for quite a while, and then just released. In Romania, right? In Romania, and no charges have been filed against them. And so that to me is like, whatever you think it is that he did, I'm a libertarian, and that's like, that is an outrage.
Starting point is 00:57:21 So I certainly think, also the fact that, so I have several different feelings about Andrew Tate. And again, just to be clear, this is from a very limited knowledge of who he is. So just to be clear, I think that, I think the pimp shit is disgusting. I think the kind of pushing of like, the version of masculinity for young
Starting point is 00:57:46 men is like get a Bugatti and bang lots of chicks and all that I think is like up there with the worst message you could send to young men, only a little bit better than be a male feminist. It's pretty bad. I think the fact that they were held for so long in a Romanian prison without charges and then nothing was ever presented and no Restitution is offered or nobody gets in trouble for kidnapping these two is appalling I think the fact that they are American citizens Being held there and that the american government does nothing to even attempt to uh... to put pressure on romania to get them out i think that is appalling uh...
Starting point is 00:58:30 and i think that i understand why they have so much appeal amongst young men in a world that is constantly demonizing masculinity and telling men that hey look we're in the d e i world uh... and and your job is to take a step back so that a woman of color can take that position because you've held power for far too long.
Starting point is 00:58:52 I totally get why the men who are coming out and being like, listen, youngster, here's what you do. Forget all that gay shit, go take that position of power. I totally get why that's appealing. You know what I mean? Like, I think to any young man, and I'm not a young man, but I remember being one. I can still remember it. I'm young enough that I can still remember being young.
Starting point is 00:59:12 I'm not quite at Joe Biden's age where I can't remember shit. To any young man who's just not a bitch, I understand why they're going to be looking for anything to counter that bullshit, you know narrative So that's kind of my feeling on on the Tate brothers I Don't know What else to say other than that? I don't know there people are like, uh, well, that's the other thing I've been message, you know, they're guilty of that, you know, they're guilt, you know, they're saying about the down guy, too
Starting point is 00:59:40 I don't even know what the story is But I'm getting messages from people like this guy's a rapist and this guy's a this. And I'm like, oh well, then you should probably take that to the authorities. I don't know what to tell you. Like, is there enough evidence of that to convict them in a court of law? Then okay, go there. Otherwise, I just joined a stream with Candace Owens and these are the guys saying, and I'm going to judge them based off the last thing they said on that stream and whether I agreed or not with that point. I'm not you know man, this was I remember it's it's really it's a weird like a like almost like throwback for me because I remember like in
Starting point is 01:00:14 2017 when I had conversations with some of the alt-right guys and people be like you can't talk to him You can't do this and I'd be like, I mean I was just done Fox News with a CIA operative I think it's okay you know and they're like we're just explain it to me maybe it's just that I'm really stupid and I need these things explained to me very simply so I can understand them but explain to me what is the moral criteria of when I'm allowed to do a show with someone and when I'm not, and explain to me why advocating slaughtering innocent women and children is not as bad as looking into what religion Sigmund Freud really believed.
Starting point is 01:00:55 It's the same thing. It's the, hey, these are the group of people we're trying to ostracize, and you're not helping. Yeah, and it's like we want there to be a social penalty for interacting with these people. And so we're going to try to impose that on you. And I'm just, I'm sorry. I've just got, it's too much of me. It's just like, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 01:01:17 Sorry. Fuck you. No. Because that's, because what are you telling me? You're essentially telling me that you want me to be your bitch. Like you want me to be afraid of getting like a smack on the nose with a newspaper. Like I'm a fucking puppy or something. And the people who are telling me, it's like, fuck you. Who are you to tell me who the fuck I can have a conversation with and who I can't
Starting point is 01:01:38 have a conversation with? Like especially people who support what Israel's doing to Gaza. It's like you're worse than them. I don't know what to tell you. That is worse than... Even if they came out and they were like, I fucking hate Jews. I hate them.
Starting point is 01:01:55 The sight of one makes my blood boil. Even if that's what they were saying, if you're advocating that Israel continue doing what it's doing to Gaza, you're worse. You're a worse person than them. And I don't like either of those things for the record. Anyway, alright, I thought it was worth it to kind of give my thoughts on that. Thank you everybody for listening. Yeah, plug stuff, yes.
Starting point is 01:02:19 Everyone, Myersville this Saturday, the OG porch tour at Max's house. It's one of the biggest parties of all the porch store So if you're in the DC Maryland area come on out for that and check out the run-your-mouth podcast I'm gonna dig in a little bit to what they were quoting from the Talmud cuz I'm Yeah, oh, please do I'll actually I'll be very interested to see that But just to give you guys a bit of it like just two quick examples for like how out of context you could pull something From the shark. Okay, please do you could spend an entire year of your life learning about the rules for putting women to death who cheated in a relationship and you would think like oh this is what they did until you get to
Starting point is 01:02:55 the last page and it says oh if a court ever did this twice in 70 years they were shut down as a blood-hungry court and then you could start and then you could that's well okay all right that's really And then you could start digging into all the laws that literally make it impossible to even try the case because of all the parameters. And then you realize, oh, the 75 pages I was reading about throwing a stone on top of a lady are kind of irrelevant. But they're technical and they're argued.
Starting point is 01:03:20 I'll give you another example. This is the chewiest shit I've ever heard in my life. It really is amazing that they worked all this out. And then you also just have to realize the way that they talk about things. Because like I said, it's kind of like jokes about the way that the laws are. So there's a line where they're talking about,
Starting point is 01:03:33 you're not allowed to have sex with your wife while she's on her period. And there's like full track dates on this, right? And then someone brings up like, well, what? I'm in trouble. Whatever. I'm not judging you. It's all good. But oh, you're actually in the clear, because they bring up, what about having'm in trouble. Whatever, I'm not judging you. It's all good.
Starting point is 01:03:45 But oh, you're actually in the clear, because they bring up, what about having sex with a non-Jew? And they say, having sex with a non-Jew is like having sex with an animal. Now that sounds like the rabbis are saying having sex with a non- they're calling non-Jews animals. Now where are we on animals? No, but really, they're just pointing out
Starting point is 01:04:01 the extreme of the laws of the blood thing don't apply to non-jugees. And it's almost funny to just... it doesn't mean anything. When they're saying animal, they're just pointing the extreme of the concept of this law doesn't apply to them the same as it doesn't apply to a sheep. Doesn't it feel like as these laws are coming out, you should just hear like, bow, dow, dow, I can't do good Seinfeld music. So I'm just saying, like, in my limited time of half paying attention on this stuff, that I wasn't that interested in,
Starting point is 01:04:31 the ability to pull things out of context, single lines, I mean, it's... If you really are, like, in this to search for truth, you might not be actually getting it, if you're going down that line. That's a good point. All right, well, also, did you run your mouth? Rob's other hand? Oh, you just did mention that, I'm sorry. ComicDavidSmith.com for all of me and Rob's dates. We will be in Dallas and Fort Worth at Hyenas,
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Starting point is 01:05:11 Thank you guys for listening, watching. Catch you next time. Peace.

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