Part Of The Problem - War With Venezuela

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave and Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein talk about the capture of the president of Venezuela, questions answered and dodged by Trump as far as plans moving forward, and more.Support Our Sponsors:BodyBrain - Go to BodyBrainCoffee.com, use code DAVE20 for 20% off your first orderMASA Chips - https://www.masachips.com/DAVE My Patriot Supply - https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/problemCrowdHealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/potpPart Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!PORCH TOUR DATES HERE:https://robbernsteincomedy.com/eventsFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

what's up what's up welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i'm dave smith he is robby the fire burnstein and we got a big one uh for you today uh real quick before we start the show this weekend is me and rob are back on the road for the first time in two thousand twenty six uh will be at helium comedy club in philadelphia uh so go grab your tickets to that still some tickets available, but they are moving quick. So comicdaversmith.com is the website for that. Really looking forward to this weekend. It's going to be fun.

Well, speaking of the weekend, over the weekend, since our last episode, we got another war in or something like that, certainly an active war. If someone did that to the United States of America, we'd certainly call it that. Let's get into it. So I just, you know, I got a lot to say on this. I'm sure you do too, Rob. and I swear my my instinct with these things is almost always to go like hey let's go over the last 15 years of history in Venezuela real quick you know but I just don't I want to get to all the stuff we want to say

so I don't want to waste too much time with that but Hugo Chavez took over the country and ruined it and then got stomach cancer and handed it off to Maduro and he continued to ruin it even more and socialism doesn't work and also they pissed off the United States of America and also it's been Marco Rubio's wet dream to get a regime change there and of course course, as you know, we've been blowing up boats and telling lies about drugs and the whole bunch of stuff lately. And of course, me and you have been saying for a while now that you kind of don't know with Donald Trump. Like, it's kind of hard to judge. Like, is he going to, is he, you know, is this all just bolster and nothing's ever going to come of this? Is he actually

going to, going to invade the country? Is, you know, like, what's going to happen here is always unclear. And essentially, I think we're still at that place right now, where it's very unclear what, if anything, is actually going on. But what happened over the last few days is that the Trump administration launched a military offensive and they were able to kidnap, extract, Madera. And the first thing I got to say about it, which I did post post on Twitter and some people got upset by that. This was like the quickest regime change, if you can exactly call it a regime change,

that I've ever seen or read about. And even in other like successful, you know, I think of examples like Panama or something like that where we got Noriega. There was a much bigger military operation and there was much more of a fight to get them. And so it was, I will say it was at least a little bit surprising to me because there's obviously Donald Trump

has wanted to reduce, has wanted to remove this guy, not just now, but through his first term, too. Maybe we'll get into some of that stuff. If we have time, if you remember, Rob, and it was in 2019 when persuaded by John Bolton, Donald Trump did that thing where they just announced that Guido was the president. And the plan was that the entire military and government would just, go, okay, that guy's our president now, and none of it happened. It didn't work out at all, which I think Donald Trump is informed by that a little bit in the way he's handling this situation.

But anyway, the thought was like, if they just could have kidnapped the guy this whole time, probably they would have done that. I know I've read a lot about different assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein and things like that where the U.S. simply couldn't do it. And in fact, we needed to invade the country and militarily occupy the country. in order to capture Saddam Hussein. So just in terms of the military logistics of it, pretty impressive that they got the guy.

And it is something that, you know, people can forget that we do have the most badass military fighting force in the history of the world. And our guys are capable of really impressive operations like this. But then again, the issue has never really been that the American military isn't strong enough to kill leaders, or capture leaders or take leaders out or even topple governments. You know, the major problem that we've had is with what comes next after that.

And so this, you know, this operation was successfully achieved. And then comes Donald Trump's press conference after that, which we're going to play some clips from in a second. But I'll ask maybe if you have anything on the actual operation itself or robber, were you surprised that it was so successful or that it happened, what had happened or anything like that well i love a good action movie and i look forward to watching this in theaters in five years uh and uh and uh i i like when warfare actually goes against the elites i'm not a fan of warfare and i don't think that long term us uh running around the globe

and being imperials is a good long term strategy but versus a full ground invasion or sanctions or everything that seems to punish us via inflation and a civilian population and a civilian population over there with death and destruction of their cities, actually just going after the elites, which are usually off the table, is much better. So from like an operational standpoint, going to make a good action movie down

the line in terms of better than a full-scale war, that's way better. There's a potential here. And this is a, you know, this is if you want to go to Donald Trump Lala Land, for a long time, you know, they weren't making full use of their oil capabilities.

And they had a bad leader there. And I guess there's a potential here that we go in and we steal a lot of oil, but we give them more money than the otherwise would have had. And both people end up in a better place. All that's possible. But on the flip side, you know, we might have just destabilized another region. We might have to go in there and actually have more warfare against cartels or whoever might still have been loyalist to the Maduro regime. I'd like to hear more of what the actual plan is for day two. well uh or the the thing about it is right now is like or we may have done none of this you know like

look i i mean i'm with you like as i said before it took a ground invasion to topple saddam hussein so okay we didn't have to do anything like that but also whatever and we can get into a little bit going forward but to your point about um this like they're being a movie about this in five years i mean not that we know all of the details at all right now but i was reading it was reported that he was because like from what I understand he was in like essentially on a military base you know it's not like this guy didn't know that he was in the crosshairs of the most powerful government in the history of the world who's not that far from him

right like if you could picture like in the map in your head Venezuela being like at the very north of South America like there's a Cuba in between us and Venezuela it's not that so like it's not as if this guy didn't know that they're coming for him and from what I heard or what I it was reported I read this we'll find out probably in years whether this is true or not but evidently he had made it like to his safe room but just didn't finish sealing it off before the guys got it so like it was this probably is a mission that would be something that a movie is built out of but where things got a bit more interesting um of course it also should be mentioned that like a bunch of people were killed in this and there was a series of like

bombing campaigns that at least Rubios claimed were all in service of this operation. So, like, you know, I don't know, taking out the guys who would be defending the area or something like that. But the reporting, like, something like 80 people got killed. It's not clear at all how many of them were civilians or military or, like, Cuban intelligence that was defending Maduro or what. But where things got real interesting was at the Donald Trump press conference where he says this let's go to the to the video judicious transition so we don't want to be involved with

having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years so we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe proper and judicious transition and it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela. And that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States. All right. So, and there was a lot of things that Donald Trump has said since then. But Donald Trump announces after this that we will be running Venezuela until there's a transition to something.

what is the transition that's unclear how are we running venezuela when we don't have any boots on the ground you know don't know if you saw the part rob where someone asked do we have boots on the ground and he said we did have boots on the ground like kind of referring to the mission being like there were people on the ground who extracted maduro but we don't have boots on the ground anymore and this is where people are like in la la land on this whole thing like they're going essentially like with all these wars they've thrown 50 justifications at us every last one of them is bullshit but now they seem to be going toward the oil we're going to we're going to transition to some other government and they're going to what give us the oil or do business with us or maybe

we'll just seize the oil and take it but look what's the major problem here look i've uh i've i've seen several regime changes in in my day um i guess even i mean i didn't see it i was too young and i don't remember it but even like i guess you could look to something like panama and like the noriega example where they really did extract that guy and i don't know that much about panama but i think like it wasn't a catastrophe i think it worked out better than it otherwise would have they took the guy out the government collapsed a new they had elections a new government arose but like look there are regime changes like in in Libya where we had um and by the way I should just point out before I use the examples of

North Africa and the Middle East there's a lot of people pointing out that like hey look that's different they're Muslims these are Christians that's the Middle East this is South America there's different traditions all fair enough that is true but so but just saying you could have a regime change like you did in Libya where there was like a no fly zone and a bombing campaign and you're assisting the rebels on the ground and you're able to topple the leader that way. You could have a regime change like you did in Syria, where we had special forces and the CIA in there, and we funded and armed the anti-Assad rebels. And then many years later, he had to flee as those rebels were taken over the city. Okay, you could have regime

change like that. But in both those cases, Rob, what you might notice is that you have no say in who the next government is, or in the case of Libya, whether there's a government, I guess, or not. Like, you don't, in order to actually impose the next government that you want imposed, you almost always have to have a military occupation to do that in order to take the oil out of Venezuela. I mean, like, look, we, I heard one military expert was saying that if you look at, like, Puerto Rico and the surrounding bases and the military mobilizations that we've made over the last few months, there's about 20,000 troops in the region. Again, I'm not a military expert. I can't possibly imagine that that would be enough to do this,

to transition to the government that you want. You'd imagine this would have to be like at least 100,000 troops to really affect a regime change in the way that you want to. And as we know, like say in Afghanistan, we had well over 100,000 troops there at one point. and we were able to put in a new government, and the Warhawks swore through their teeth for 20 straight years that this government would stand,

and they fell essentially the day that we pulled out. Also, by the way, even with a military occupation in Afghanistan, for much of it, the Taliban still controlled huge portions of the country. By the end, when we didn't have huge numbers, like we had drawn down the number of troops there, the Taliban controlled a majority of the territory. And so even with the military occupation, it's not necessarily that easy to impose your will on a different country. Now, obviously, Venezuela is a very different country than Afghanistan, but I think the principle still remains.

Now, on top of this, and this is where I say this might be something that Donald Trump learned from 2019, but in a strange twist, he also marginalized the opposition. It said they don't really have the support. and then he's allowing, allowing the vice president to assume the control of the country. Now, the vice president of Venezuela, she is saying that Maduro is still the legitimate leader of the country and that nothing has changed and she's publicly vowed just yesterday that they will not be the puppet of the United States of America. So my point is this. I hear a lot of people on Twitter and God damn, we'll get into what a lot of people are saying about

this but they're going right now like i've seen a bunch of them they go dave i don't know what you're talking about dude we literally just had we didn't lose any soldiers we had minimum minimal casualties we got a communist dictator and we just got 17 trillion dollars in oil for the american people i've heard people saying we just liberated the people of venezuela and got 17 trillion in oil except the one problem rob is no we fucking didn't we haven't done any of that and like i'm just saying somebody explain this to me and speak slowly so we all understand how exactly so you're saying okay what the u.s military is going to invade the country and just start taking their oil and is the expectation that they're like they have a military not saying it's as sophisticated as ours but

neither was the iraqi military and they they have a military and they're probably not just going to accept, this defiant regime is probably not just going to accept like, yeah, America won because they kidnapped our guy. So now you guys get all of our oil. And even if that regime collapses or you install a new puppet regime in there now that you're militarily occupying the country, just in theory, hypothetically, you think you're not going to get guerrillo fighters. You're not going to get an insurgency. They're just going to sit there and take it while you walk in and just openly say, we're raping your country right now. Not even like George W. Bush, where there's a pretense of like we're bringing democracy,

but just straight up telling them, we're here to take your oil, which, by the way, is, as is always the case with these situations, Rob, this was the impetus of the rise of Hugo Chavez to begin with, is that he was like, look, they're all ripping you off. All these Western corporations are ripping you off. So screw that. You know, we're going to run a socialist economy on behalf of the people. I mean, they had already nationalized the oil from before him. But regardless, you're like, dude, you guys, you're talking a big game about what you're going to do here.

But none of this follows simply from the fact that we could kidnap Maduro, whatever people want to call it, bring him to justice or whatever. The fact that we could take that one guy, none of this demonstrates that we can now go in there and take all of their oil or that we get to steer the direction of the country. And then another thing, Rob, is that even if you insist on elections, It's totally unclear right now who would win those elections. Maduro doesn't seem to be very popular. I don't think he was ever as popular as Hugo Chavez. And people say the last election was illegitimate, which was quite possibly true. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the overwhelming majority of the people are going to vote for like Jeffersonian republicanism or something like that.

We have no idea where they're going to go. And in fact, we do know that at least at one point, Midoro, and certainly at one point, Chavez, had popular support. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is crowd health, an amazing company that I've been telling you guys about for many years because they really offer a solution to the broken health care system in this country. And now they have the Black Swan membership. This health care alternative is for those people who want autonomy over their care,

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a variable which is sure i think elites and oligarchs they just need their piece of the pie and i think that's true of the people as well and we change the warfare dynamics here because in taking out maduro i think we signal to the other guys hey you got two options here you can work with us and we can all make oil money, or you can get taken out. And I think that's just very different than what we usually see with warfare, which is the elites get to sit on top. They kind of continue to make their money and rule on top and just everyone else is punished. So there's a possibility that the new leader and your oligarchs in that country go,

hey, we want to take this deal. And because artificially they weren't really able to develop and sell their oil, it's even better for your average citizen there, that they're not looking at it as, hey, our country's being raped. So there is a possibility here of we all get along and we sell the oil. With that said, the big variables that, one, just Donald Trump saying, we're running the country without explaining what that means. I mean, that's cartoonish.

A day after you take out a leader, you just go, we're running the country. He didn't fly the military down. A military presence there. Yeah, he didn't fly. Have they agreed to that? What does that mean that we're running the country? Is that we give orders the vice president and they're running with our orders? The fact that that's totally unexplained is crazy.

And then also, I would just think even if you're Chevron or the others and the U.S. is going to back you and maybe they'll even give you the money to go in, it's a very risky investment because you're talking about billions of dollars. It's not 10 years until you get the oil. You don't know that you're not going to end up with another Hugo Shabbas situation. And then I think more so than the civilian population, if we continue to go after regimes that are aligned, and this might not even be true in Venezuela, but with cartels, I don't think the cartels are just going to take. this sitting down. And I think that's going to be more of the variable of where you're going to need a standing military presence. So I just think that there's a possibility for a little bit more of an upside here. But the fact that Donald Trump doesn't seem to have a plan or state the plan

and just declared, well, we're running the show now and don't worry, oil costs are going to cover everything. It does sound like a bit of a long shot. I would probably even go a little bit further than you there, and not just say there's a possibility, I think probably the most likely scenario out of this. Like, I just, even now, and I saw people on Twitter who were, you know, who don't agree with me on this shit, who were like poking fun at me. And they were like, oh, Dave's going to be losing his mind. He's going to be furious.

You know, just like with Iran, I'm not actually nearly as furious as I was about the Iran strike for a few reasons. Number one, Iran was just a different dynamic. It also was, look, there was Israel involved in that one, and, you know, I'm not saying Israel has no involvement in this, but I don't really think Israel's too involved. I think they're probably happy with this, but I don't really think they're the driving factor here. But Israel was the driving factor in Iran, and Israel wanted a regime change war there. Like, their goal was to suck Donald Trump into a full regime change war. And it seemed like Donald Trump was going along with that plan, at least for a little bit, certainly flirt.

with that. And also, this is the country next door. This is the country in between Iraq and Afghanistan. And it just seems much more like, oh, look, this could go exactly the same way as that. The truth is that I just, even as of right now, I just find it very hard to believe as Donald Trump is actually going to like invade and militarily occupy Venezuela right now. It seems unlikely. seems very unlikely to me that in the in the year going into his midterm elections he would open up that camp now again he's saying he's going to do it and he did just kidnap the the leader of the country so like you have to treat it as a possibility but i think the most likely outcome here just to back up your point i don't know if you saw um but donald trump uh he threatened the shit

out of this vice president lady he said that if she doesn't play ball she will suffer a worse fate than Maduro. And that is a thing that might spook this woman. You know what I mean? And so I think probably the most likely scenario here is that like we get like a few points on a deal. You know what I mean? Like like okay. I mean, I think is if I understand, I believe it was Exxon who's always had some access to Venezuelan oil. I believe it was Exxon. I double check me on that. But I believe they've like one of their, they hired one of like, I think Hugo Chavez's friends or something like that. and he kind of let them still have some access. I wouldn't be surprised if they kind of, you know,

this regime stays intact, but they kind of let like some more oil companies come in and get a little bit more of a percentage of the oil money or help them out with the refining a little bit so they can produce more. So like a marginal win, not really for the American people, but really for big giant corporations.

And all you had to do was kill a few people and threaten them and they get, like it's very possible that something like, that happens. But with all these things, you always do take on that risk. And look, when Donald Trump is sitting there talking about all the shit that he's going to do and then goes and actually does this, you kind of got to listen to him talking shit about the other stuff that he's going to do. Also, one more point in there, Rob, if you remember, it was a few months ago that Donald Trump said that Maduro had already offered him everything he wanted. So by his own logic, even though

Marco Rubio saying shit that completely contradicts that, but by Donald Trump's own statements, you probably already could have had that without having to do any of this. But what is almost certainly not going to happen is that America gets $17 trillion in oil or that we liberated all of the people of Venezuela. There seems like almost no chance that that's what's happening here. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is my Patriot Supply, an amazing company I've been telling you guys about for a while. We're only a few weeks into winter, but it's already brutally cold, at least by May.

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That's my patriot supply.com slash problem. All right. Let's get back into the show. Well, it seems like even if Maduro was willing to give himself up, Donald Trump wanted a nice show for the military. Yep. He sure did. Here, let's play the video of Donald Trump.

answering questions. Exxon was involved in Venezuela since the 20s but left in 2007, according to Google. I thought they still had access there. Maybe I was wrong about Exxon. It might even one of the other companies. But anyway. It would be run. It might have been. You said that the U.S. is going to run Venezuela. So who's in power right now? Well, we're going to be running it with a group and we're going to make sure it's run properly. We're going to rebuild the oil infrastructure, which will cost billions of dollars. It'll be paid for by the oil companies directly. They will be reimbursed for what they're doing, but it's going to be paid.

And we're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be, as you know, it was just a minor flow. It was actually a minor flow for what they have. But we're going to run it properly. We're going to make sure the people of Venezuela are taken care of. We're going to make sure the people that were forced out of Venezuela by this thug are also taken care of. You got to just pause there. Sure.

So just everything's perfect. the oil companies are already on board they're going to pay for it uh we're running it with a group i can't tell you who that group is or what that means or how that functions but don't worry it's all already perfect we're running with a group it's going to be better for the people there our oil companies are happy it's all perfect you don't need any more information it's Pete Buttigieg on climate change like the identical thing she goes oh we're going to switch to all electric cars but electric cars are powered by the power grid and we don't have enough uh energy to power uh everyone switching to electric cars. That's why we need a better power grid. Yeah, there you go. That's why

we're going to do it. We're going to do it and everyone will be taking care of everyone will be happy. Okay, that's nothing. Let's keep playing. President, does the U.S. running the country mean that U.S. troops will be on the ground? How will that work? Well, you know, they always say boots on the ground. Oh, so we're not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to have. We had boots on the ground last night at a very high level, actually. We're not afraid of it. We don't mind saying it. But we're going to make sure that that country has run properly. We're not doing this in vain.

This is not, this is a very dangerous attack. This is an attack that could have gone very, very badly. Could have gone very badly. We could have lost a lot of people last night. We could have lost a lot of dignity. We could have lost a lot of equipment. The equipment is less important, but we could have lost a lot. And we're going to make sure that this is proper.

We're there now. We're ready to go again if we have to. We're going to run the country right. it's going to run very judiciously very fairly it's going to make a lot of money we're going to give money to the people we're going to reimburse people that were taking advantage of we're going to take care of everybody it's very important we couldn't let them get away with it you know they stole our oil rob look it's me we are the socialist now we're going to we're going to institute welfare for the venezuelan people oh there you go that's the thing so look

I mean, here is, again, as I said, I just, I find it hard to believe that Donald Trump would actually do this because it will be a disaster and that will absolutely destroy his presidency and his legacy, but you're like, we don't have a problem with boots on the ground. It's like, okay, but why is it that all the rest of us do? It's not just because we don't like the idea of boots touching ground. It's because that's how you get our boys killed is putting them over there. That's how you get the idea that you're going to. go, look, people try to say, as they tried to say this with Iran too, that, you know, there's no support for this regime and that there's a long history, you know, of like not being like this in Venezuela and that before Chavez, they were once a wealthy country, which is true, by the way, they were once like a wealthy country. In fact, I remember this because this was always one of the great examples of just how much socialism always fails. But Venezuela was a richer country than Poland when the Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union. And which is pretty wild to think about today, right? Venezuela was

richer than Poland. And then when the Soviet Union collapsed and Poland went capitalist, you know, and then Venezuela went socialist and now look at it. I mean, look how much richer Poland is than Venezuela. So anyway, yes, they were once a rich country, but, look, first of all, there's, um, Venezuela is like an incredibly poor country. I think the poverty rate is like 90% in Venezuela or something like that. They're an incredibly poor country. And of those people fleeing, um, over the last few years, like I think there's a 30 million people in the country or something like that, of the people fleeing, and they fled by the millions over the last 15 years, it's been a lot of the people who were in the middle class were fleeing, because those were the

ones who were, like, really furious about the socialist takeover and the socialist policies. So now, minus them. You know, I remember reading about the way Hugo Chavez won his last election, because he had been, like, he was very popular, and then he had been sliding in popularity, as his policies weren't working out that good. And he had really pissed off like the rich elites. And then he had really pissed off the middle class. And so then his answer to that was he just stole more from him and gave a whole bunch of shit to the poor people

and then carried the poor vote. And that was enough to be over 50%. You know? Because like that. So anyway, just saying it is not the idea that like we are going to be greeted as liberators and the whole thing will be paid for in oil, which I have heard before, this is preposterous.

It's not going to work like that. And so, you know, like if Donald Trump is serious about what he just said right there, which I find it really hard to believe that he's actually going to follow through with boots on the ground here, but if he's serious about that,

we are opening ourselves up to a real potential danger. And there's just no reason to do it. He's being, once again, he's just being sneaky and saying nothing because when he says, on the ground. He's referring to the raid that he just did. So is

that boots on the ground, the way we understand it, where you're going, hey, we'll put down a military force if we have to. Or is he saying we'll continue to do targeted strikes and he's using his own definition of what boots on the ground means. And whoever wants to oppose us over there, we'll just keep doing secret

missions and taking them out. So he's not really committing to we are going to go invade that country and put down a military force. He's just kind of reasserting the fact of No, we run the country, and it's perfectly run because now we run it. What does that mean? How are we running it?

Don't worry about it. What happens if anyone opposes us? Well, we'll do boots on the ground. Does that mean soldiers on the ground? Well, you know, maybe. Yeah, yeah, it's hard. Right, hard to say. Yeah, it's, again, as you said, it's just completely unclear what he's even saying.

And I guess that's what Donald Trump likes to do. he likes to be on every side of every issue and then talk like a madman so you never know what he's going to do but uh again you know he kind of indicated there like we didn't do all this for nothing and think about how fallacious that line of thinking is rob we could have lost a lot of people back there and we did so that means it can have been for nothing right like what type of sunk falsey for war is that shit but like that well we did all that so now we got to get something out of it of that's the attitude then like all right but do you have any type of a plan do you have anything resembling a plan because you're sure not sharing it with us um all right let's uh

you know let's play a little bit let's go to um Marco Rubio who then went out and did all of the Sunday shows uh in response to this um so Marco Rubio um let's see uh yeah let's go the um hold let's see which one let's go to the first or the the let's do the second clip that I sent Natalie um you're describing the regime is

still in place curious because you you just described the regime as still in place essentially I mean I'm curious why the Trump administration decided to leave it intact and only arrest Nicholas Maduro and his wife. The person who controls the police, the chief thug,

D.S. I. Cabello, he's the interior minister. He's been indicted by the United States. He was in that indictment administration released. He's a narco terrorist. There's a $25 million price on his head. He's still in place. The defense minister who has deep ties to Russia, $15 million price on his head. He is still in place. I'm confused. Are they still wanted by the United States, why didn't you arrest them if you are taking out the narco-terrorist regime? You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you. They're still in power. We're not going to go in and they wrap up. But yeah, but you can't go, you're going to go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls

we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people. We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy, who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not and he was arrested along with his wife who was also indicted and that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation it was it is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country the guy lived on a military base land within three minutes kicked down his door grab them put him in handcuffs read him his rights put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any american or any american assets that's not an easy mission and you're asking me why didn't

we do that in five other places at the same time? I mean, that's absurd. I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable and tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, who we don't recognize, the Biden administration didn't recognize, 60-something countries don't recognize the European Union doesn't recognize and many countries in Latin American don't recognize he was a convicted he was a indicted drug trafficker he was arrested his wife was arrested right but the others who are also indicted are still

the others who are also indicted are still in place so all right let's uh we can end that clip there I just here's what I thought was interesting right so obviously ABC Face the Nation Lady asks the question all wrong because she's a dummy who just doesn't understand and it really is baffling so she essentially lets Marco Rubio out by just phrasing the question all the wrong way, because she goes, how come you didn't do five of these operations, which is retarded? Because, like, as I opened the show by saying, this one was crazy impressive. Like, even with us, with the most impressive fighting force in the history of the world, we usually are not able to pull shit like this off. And so this was really impressive.

So the idea of doing it five different times is obviously just logistically impossible. But a different way to ask, but what's also ridiculous is to pretend that you, just liberated the people of Venezuela and that now you have all of the oil and that now we're in charge of it and now we're determining what's happening next with Venezuela when her point is yeah you got the one top guy but you left his entire crew of socialist thugs in power so like what is the plan here are you saying that now they're so intimidated by this that they're going to all bend the knee and and just submit like because that seems unlikely I like again like I said it might be likely that like you could get them to do a little deal with you in exchange for their safety but that is nothing to do with all these lofty plans you're talking about and so the way that she should have asked that question is to say you and president Donald Trump are acting like you just did a whole regime change here and we're occupying the capital city and we're determining that elections are going to happen or not happen or this will person will be

temporarily in power but how are you going to do that when you didn't take out the whole regime you just took out one guy which he would have no answer for frankly i'm a concern for my safety knowing that there are still four narco terrorists at large right yeah the narco terrorists oh it couldn't isn't it something though right like that the whole this whole thing was sold off of the drugs for so long isn't it so ridiculous rob that like dude they're charging him with drug dealing and gun control violations or something like that. It's all just too ridiculous. I think that was, well, two things stand out to me on that one is I think that court case

might be a mistake because it doesn't sound, I mean, how do you charge another leader with unlawful possession of a machine gun? That seems like a bad thing. The answer is, is they're saying the legal defense that they're going with is that he's not the leader. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the other funny thing is just Rubio going international law and all that we heard about Putin and how Saint-Dimodia's borders are after this operation. I would think you'd be trying to run from the world stage and the idea of international laws and who's considered to be a leader. I don't think that those are going to be the best defenses in court or the best way of selling what you just did.

Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. And I think that there's, well, the idea that you could just say, as I've seen many really dim people on Twitter saying or something like that, they'll say like, oh, well, the last election was illegitimate, therefore he's not the leader of this country. And you're like, dude, we have so many allies, Saudi Arabia, UAE. allies all over the place who just straight up don't have elections it's just straight up don't running the country now and he wasn't elected well okay you know well what do you mean this time he wasn't i'm just saying no no trump is currently running venezuela and he wasn't voted by oh yeah yeah yeah yeah well that's that's right there's another right of course and so and of course um donald trump you go he wasn't a president he was a dictator he ruled illegally so donald trump

illegally launched a war to topple the leader of another country and then also is now leading that country right without being elected or whatever. It's all just completely incoherent and falls apart. But also, by the way, like you almost go, what is the logic here that Donald Trump is on record saying that the 2020 election was illegitimate and that Joe Biden was an illegitimate leader. So, like, are you saying that it would have been legitimate for, I don't know, any other country who could to come in and arrest Joe Biden and then put themselves in charge? They just, they get to rule the country now because that election was illegal and then they get to just take our natural resources as they decide what percentage they're

entitled to or something like that. And it's just like the whole thing is so incoherent and ridiculous. You also, I'm going to guess that China and Russia don't agree to this definition of him not being the real leader. And so I guess they're abiding by a different international law, and in which case, I guess there's no longer international law. There's Western Hemisphere law. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Or something about he keep quoting the Monroe doctrine, which clearly Donald Trump does not understand. I think Donald Trump thinks, I think Donald Trump thinks the Monroe Doctrine means in our hemisphere, we're allowed to do whatever we want to do, which is not exactly or at all what the Monroe Doctrine is.

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to some degree and i've always kind of said the same thing that international law is kind of made up but at the same time the idea that look nation states exist however any of us feel about that and that if you're really going to say well when nation states make agreements with each other that don't mean nothing. The agreements mean nothing because there's no enforcement mechanism or something like that. You think that's a better world?

A better world is that if nation states agree that we won't invade each other and we won't topple each other's governments, you could just break that whenever you want to. That is the way the United States of America operates. Every president tears up treaties or walks away from treaties that previous presidents have agreed to.

And in fact, by the way, that's one of the major reasons. at least stated by Vladimir Putin, why Donald Trump can't bring an end to this war in Ukraine. Because he goes, yeah, we could come to an agreement and then in three years you're up. And the next guy might just walk away from it. I have no way of, you know what I mean? And he's at least got an argument on that case that, you know, Iran made an agreement with Obama, but then Trump comes in and he tears it up because he don't like it.

Or, you know, Russia made an agreement with America, but then George W. Bush tears it up because he doesn't like that or whatever. like they all just can walk away from whatever deals they want and that's a terrible way um to lead and i also think um you know this is it's so clearly unconstitutional and i was uh you know i was talking about this on a on a show the other day that i think hasn't come out yet but you know look there's there's a lot of people who i really really respect and really love who i think are just getting this thing wrong but the idea that Because the Constitution has already been shredded or already been trampled that we just shouldn't care.

Look, the thing is so obviously unconstitutional because, look, the administration has been gearing up for this for months. There was no imminent threat. There was no like, well, we had to do that. It's not as if the story even is that there was an imminent threat. It's not like we had information that Maduro was about to launch these missiles, which had already been, you know, pointed us. So we had to do this mission in order to stop that from happening. So in other words, there was all the time in the world to go to Congress, to have this debate, to let the, you know, supposed system of representative democracy work.

And then the elected leaders, you know, get to debate this and whatever. But the bottom line is that that's what the Constitution says you have to do. And I just think there's something like very degrading for all of us. if we just accept the fact that, yeah, that don't mean nothing to us. They can violate that any time. Like, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. The Constitution is what created this national government. And if the Constitution is important enough to create this national government,

then it ought to be something that the national government is bound by. And just on, like, a human level, every one of these goddamn politicians in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump included, they get up on stage and they put their right hand on a Bible and their other hand in the air or the right hand in the air and the other hand on a Bible and they swear to God in front of all of us

that they will defend and preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States of America. The idea that, like I'm a spooner in on this, like Lysander Spooner. I don't believe the Constitution is binding to any of us

because none of us ever agreed to it. But they did. They all swore an oath to defend it. And so the idea that you would just say like, eh, well, they get to violate it and launch a war whenever they want to is horrible. It's totally indefensible, if you ask me. All right. Any thoughts on that, Rob, or you want to go to another Marco Rubio clip? Well, on the last Constitution point, while I agree with the broad strokes, I still will take targeted missions that are illegal versus full-scale wars that are illegal.

Sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, that's true. It would have been worse to invade the country without a, without a declaration of war. Congress is such a joke, like a couple weeks ago, they voted down their own authority, which was essentially that he can't launch a war without congressional approval. Well, they try and even the war powers act failed. Yeah. Yeah, and that shouldn't even require a vote because that's actually just the way it's supposed to operate. By the way, it should be mentioned that just to catch Tucker Carlson's back here and maybe myself a little bit too. But Tucker Carlson, if you remember, what was it, two weeks ago, came out and said that Donald Trump was going to announce, we're going to war with Venezuela tonight.

And then he had, like, a press conference that night. And then he didn't announce it. And then people were trying to dunk on Tucker Carlson, like, oh, look, he got his information all wrong. And now, in hindsight, clearly, like, no, he basically got the tip right, but the details wrong. And he was off by a couple weeks. But anyway, I don't think there were weather delays on the operation, too. so you might have you might have been right yeah i doubt will be hearing any apologies from all those people who were we're talking shit two weeks ago but anyway um there is that here let's go um

hold on one second i want to do one more mark or rubio clip and then got a couple other things to say before we uh before we wrap this up oh no no no i'm sorry let's go to um elections in venezuela are premature because i've found that's interesting talk about a holistic transition I think there's a lot of focus on potential elections. How soon will elections be held within 30 days, Mr. Secretary? Elections? Well, look, this is a country that's been governed by this regime now for 14 or 15 years. The elections should have happened a long time ago.

The elections did happen. They lost them, and they didn't count the votes, or they refused to count the votes, and everyone knows it. So all of that, I think, is premature at this point. There's a lot of work to be done here. Right now, what we are focused in, let's be realistic here, what we are focused on right now is all of the problems we had with the, when Maduro was there, we still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed. We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems. Until they address it, they will continue to face this oil quarantine.

They will continue to face pressure from the United States. We will continue to target drug boats if they try to run towards the United States. we will continue to seize the boats that are sanctioned with court orders. We will continue to do that. You got to pause. I'm sorry. This is just driving nuts. I thought we're running the country and everything's good now.

I'm very confused by. This is why I wanted to play this clip because this is Marco Rubio essentially admitting that we've done nothing. We've done nothing. We're right back in the same position that we were is essentially what he's saying. Oh, we're going to keep bombing boats. We're going to keep the pressure on them unless they do the right thing. okay so then we haven't liberated the people we haven't gotten the oil right and again rob it's just there's no plan there's just no oh we'll keep doing what we're doing here they won't rule out boots on

the ground but they won't say we're going to have boots on the ground and again this is just it's it's this is nothing here let's finish you think uh donald trump would be better at running the venezuelan government that we wouldn't have to be worried about uh narco terrorists anymore i wish he was just better at running our government, to be honest. When did they come to liberate the people of America? When does that happen? Here, let's keep playing. We need to see addressed are addressed, because ultimately, above everything else we care about, elections, we care about, democracy, we care about, all of that. But the number one thing we care about is the safety, security, well-being, and prosperity of the United States. And that's

what we're going to focus on first and foremost here. And that's what these policies that these changes we need to see made are about. there you say you will continue to seize boats when necessary i want to ask you about boots on the ground okay so yeah um that we do care about democracy but the more important thing is the security of america and that's why we're going to blow up drug boats from the country that brings us none of our drugs like five percent amazing how this administration is not even trying to play the moral card of uh implementing democracy in other areas It's just thrown out the window.

Hey, America, we're taking other people's oil and they're going to like it. You know, I'm glad you brought that up because this was kind of like the final point that I really wanted to make sure we head on. Because there really is something there. Real quick before that, just saying again, because I know we've mentioned this in the past, but it is really important to go like, look, there's like, I forget the exact numbers. I think they are down. But we've had something like around 100,000 or over 100,000 drugs. O.D. deaths a year. And there's about the, I remember the numbers that I've read on this,

I think like something ballpark, about 70% of that is fentanyl. And as we've talked about before, there's a real difference between fentanyl overdoses and other overdoses. And there's, they're different in kind. And there's an interesting like conversation around. all of that. But then there's a whole interesting conversation about drugs that we could, you know, have at another time. But the, like for when I was younger or traditionally, I think even when you were younger, Rob, like traditionally what we all knew of an overdose to be is like you're essentially, you know, you're a drug addict. You do so much of a drug that you raise your tolerance really high. And then you have to do more and more and more and more of the drug in order to get

high and then eventually you have to do so much that it destroys you to get that high and can kill you you know that's kind of like what we all knew as a drug overdose fentanyl is a very different thing and there's something really scary about it where because the and not that it's not tragic when someone overdid doses like that but that's almost like akin to suicide you know like you you poisoned to yourself until you died fentanyl is like some kid wants to take a percassette he thinks he's just taking a percocet. He may not be a drug addict at all. Now, he thinks he's just taking a pain pill

that's going to give him a little buzz for a few hours. It turns out there's fentanyl in there and it kills them. Now, that's not akin to a suicide. That's akin to, like, being poisoned, okay? And that is like 70% of the overdoses. None of that comes from Venezuela. So the major new crisis, the major new thing that everybody loves to invoke as they go after this,

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to what Donald Trump's doing that is different from, from previous U.S. military adventurism. And that they're not saying, I mean, he is adding all this other bullshit in there too. But primarily, it's not like, oh, we're liberating the people. We're bringing democracy. Oh, my God, they had nuclear weapons, so we had to stop them. Donald Trump is, at least eventually, after all these other bullshit excuses, going like, no, we're taking the oil. that's what we're doing and i got to say i've seen a lot of people uh i've been tremendously disappointed

in a whole bunch of like popular right wing you know influencers commentators who have have embraced this they they'll say things like well the problem with all the terror wars was that they weren't in our interest that was the problem with those wars and so hey if we can go in here and kill some people in Venezuela and take a whole bunch of oil and then we get that, then that's in our interest. This kind of like really naked might makes right thing. And well, I will certainly agree that like one of the major problems of the terror wars was that they weren't in our interest.

I would also suggest that it's not clear at all that this war in Venezuela is going to be in our interest. but the idea that if it's in our interest, then it's just okay. Like, we should support just going in and like killing a whole bunch of people in any country and taking all their stuff because screw you, it's in our interest. That is a level of like brutalism and just a complete rejection of morality on any level that is disgusting. And that is bad for your soul.

I would say this, at the very least, if you believe that, like, if you, if you believe that that's the answer, that if it's in our interest, therefore it's okay, moral considerations not need be considered, fine, don't ever call yourself a Christian. Now, I don't like to say this because I'm not Christian, you know what I mean, and I don't like when non-Christians lecture other Christians about Christianity, but that's a pretty blatant, easy one man. Like, if you think that that's the way your government should operate, just straight up, take people shit, kill people if you need to, as long as we win, then we win,

then okay, but don't act like you're a Christian in any sense of the word, or for that matter, a Jew or a Muslim or anything, man, because that is just like the idea of having no moral code whatsoever is just incompatible with any of the major religions. And, you know, I got to say, it's a whole lot of the right wingers who have been very critical of Israel over the last a few years. And they love using the moral case when it comes to them. You know, killing Christians was a really big deal when Israel does it. Is it not a big deal when Donald Trump does it? That doesn't matter now. Or just like might makes right. We can take whatever shit you have. Yeah, that's the justification for Benjamin Netanyahu. And like, if that is the case,

if you're going to, if you're going to make the argument that might makes right, also understand, that you, now you have no leg to stand on ever complaining about what your government does to you. And all those January 6thers who were tortured in solitary confinement, yeah, D.C. could do that to you. Everyone who got kicked off of social media, yeah, Mike makes right. They could do that to you. Washington, D.C. destroying this entire country, hey, they got a lot out of it.

Like, right? Isn't this literally exactly the justification for Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein and John McCain and, you know, all of them? Yeah, they took your shit and they took it for them and they're friends. So like I just, I'm appalled by that. It's like true. And I got to say hearing, you know, all this stuff about like the Constitution doesn't matter, might makes right, political power comes out of the barrel of a gun or something like that. you're like you know you don't hear any of the founding fathers talk like that you know that's not how george washington or thomas jefferson or john adams or any of them ever talked about nothing you

never read nothing from thomas pain like that you guys all sound like moussaintong and musilini and some other tradition that is not americanism and it's like really sad to me the idea that that so many people would embrace this especially people that i consider to be like pretty good on on some issues at least and and i don't think it's a good long-term strategy either because if we're going to play that game, other people are going to play that game. And then you just got to continuously invest your earnings back into your military to try and stay ahead of the other people and then also try and not escalate it towards full-scale war with other nations that are more qualified for that kind of activity. So I don't think on top of being

fucking morally horrible, it's also a bad strategy. And it's also just not American. It's not Americanism. Like, look, as everybody, I think everybody basically knows this, right? But like, America, we won the two world wars in the 20th century, however you feel about those world wars, but we did win them. And the reason why we were like the powerhouse in them was because of our productive capacity. It was turned into military capacity, right? Like in World War I and World War I, in World War II, particularly in World War II, we had this huge base of factories that we transitioned. Like, you're not making cars anymore. You're making tanks now. And then we just pump out more than anybody else. Now, who was stronger in World War II? The British or the

Americans? How about the French who just let the Nazis come in and didn't even put up a fight? Just let them take over their country or America. Oh, yeah, we were so much better. We were richer and stronger and more able to fight a war because we were economically productive. The British and the French had spent centuries raping all types of foreign countries, being imperialist empires going around, I guess that's a little redundant, but going around and taking everybody's stuff. But that didn't make them richer than us. That was like the whole experiment in Americanism was like,

we didn't have to get rich that way. We didn't have to get rich by going and just taking other people's shit. We got rich by having a free market economy and allowing American ingenuity to be unleashed. And so I just, I don't know. It's a terrible path to go down in every sense. in every sense of the word. And again, I mean, you know, it's just like,

I see this all over the place. And I see these people like who just, it's like right wingers, man. It's like they got this thing that like, no matter how good they seem to be getting, there's like a factory reset button where there's like one explosion. And all of a sudden the reset gets hit

and they're right back to 2003 retardation again. Like they all become George W. retards. after one thing blows up, all of them hoist in their mission accomplished banners, after one day, it's totally unclear where this is going. To the point, Rob, that like, it's, it is totally unclear as of right now, the spectrum of where this could go. It's not even like the spectrum is like Panama to Iraq or something like that, right? Like, you know, you topple a government, like maybe it works out like that,

maybe it works out like this. It's not even that. The spectrum is from like nothing, like literally we just leave the whole. whole communist government in place, and we just took the leader and absolutely nothing changes to a military occupation or something like really hard. But the spectrum is this wide. And people are celebrating like America, fuck yeah, because we, you know, had a successful mission and all the bravado and the bluster.

We've liberated the people and taken the oil and all of like, you have no idea what any of this is going on. And I see, you know, I made, I guess I was sub-tweeting a little bit, but I kind of, I shared Jack Passabiac. he had like a real good little mini doc on the war in Iraq and the clean break strategy and the neo-conservatives and Israel and how they all had this project in Iraq and what a disaster it was. Now, pretty sure he wasn't saying that at the time.

But 20 years later, he's making a really good documentary about that. And I just wonder like, well, at least I'm sure, at least I could count on a lot of these right-wingers. I'm sure in 20 years, they'll make a really good documentary about how we were right about this. But they'll fucking, and then in 20 years, they'll be mocking us about the next retarded thing that they want to go do. And it's just so, you know, it's like, I watch all these guys who were just bad on all this shit.

Fucking Dinesh D'Souza, dude, tweeted at me today. He had the nerve to tweet at me, and he tweets a Venezuelan guy celebrating. And he goes, this is what we're for. And I went, oh, yeah, that's right. The people are celebrate. Well, then case closed. I mean, if people are celebrating, then obviously you made the right. Maybe they'll even tear down a statue of him.

That's real proof that this thing's good. right you know how many people celebrated when saddam hussein was deposed they remember the famous image rob of them tearing the statue of saddam hussein down in bagdad it's like yeah he was a brutal dictator a lot of people didn't like that a lot of people are happy he's gone of course you understand that and you root for those people but like when you when you cheer led the war in iraq you have the nerve to say to somebody else oh look they're celebrating that proves something I don't think so, man. And it's just a, you know, it's wild to see how quickly, like, there is no one.

It's just, I don't know, I guess it's just, it's sad. It's sad to watch people so degraded. Like, I'll say it like this, Rob, right? No one. No, you remember like a year ago, maybe a year and change ago, a year and a half ago, you know, when people were like, the Trump supporters were excited for Donald. Trump to come back in. Not a single one of them was like, because then we'll overthrow the government of Venezuela. You never met a Trump voter in your fucking life who you went to. And I don't mean like

Marco Rubio. I'm just saying like a regular, a real person. You never met one who was like, why are you so excited to support Donald Trump? And they were like, because then we'll be able to bomb Venezuela and capture Maduro. That's what not one. Doesn't exist. And in fact, had Kamala Harris let's just say campaigned on we're going to have regime change in Venezuela and Donald Trump were to say no that's a stupid idea I'll keep America out of regime change wars every single Trump supporter all of the ones celebrating this right now would have said hell yeah that's why I'm on Donald Trump's side and if Donald Trump had come in and said we're not doing any military engagement in Venezuela whatsoever all of the Trump supporters would have been fine with that and gone with that

None of you actually wanted this. But then he turns around and goes, we're doing this. And then you tie yourself in pretzels to do mental gymnastics to try to defend this guy who's already spit in your face at every single turn. And then, okay, and this is the last thing I'll say, Rob, and then I'll give it to you. You could have the last word on this. But I'll tell you, there is one thing that just drives me so goddamn crazy. So goddamn crazy.

But then it's when, and again, this is on the level of how degraded people. are how much they degrade themselves is like when they act tough they act tough for supporting a military action or a war you know what i'm talking about like where they go like uh yeah dave you're just too much of a pussy that's why you can't ever take the gloves off and do what needs to be done you're like excuse me you're tweeting right now you're not tough you didn't fight anyone you didn't go over there and do anything like i'm sorry that is not It takes the exact same amount of courage to support a war or oppose a war, which is really none. I mean, in some cases, it takes more courage to oppose it, I guess.

But like, regardless, it doesn't really take that much courage. You're not a big tough guy. It's like the most pussy shit ever to be celebrating some other tough guys going and doing something tough and then to feel tough because you supported it. And it reminds me, I don't know. I don't know if you, did you see this dude, Rob? There was a video of one guy. I don't know the guy.

but I guess he was like friends with uh I guess he was friends with like Nick Fuentes and Sneco or them because he goes up to them at the end of the video but I don't know it's like a guy with a mustache and he's this guy and he's uh they were at some event and there's like some protesting but there weren't there's only like seven or eight people there but there's like this short little fat Jewish guy I think I'm guessing he's Jewish that was his look uh and then there's this guy and and the guy the mustache guy they're like saying something and he's going, he's going, beta, beta, beta, just chanting beta at this guy. And then the little fat Jewish guy comes over and slaps the fucking shit out of this guy.

Like open hand, palm, with all his drink, just slaps the shit out of the guy who was going beta. And then the guy goes, whoa, dude. And he walks away. And then he goes up to Nick Fuentes and sneak out. And he goes, I just got punched in the face, man. And you're like, no, you didn't, dude. You got slapped in the fucking face.

And I'm just saying like, could you ever imagine the moment, Rob, of just screaming beta at someone and they're getting slapped in the face and just from a little fat guy and then taking it like a bitch and walking away. Like there's just, that's who you are when you're out there talking shit about how you pussy's oppose war, but us tough guys support war. Fuck you, man. If you want to go fight in a war and even an unjustified one, all right, there's some toughness to go in fighting in war. just supporting it you don't get any of those points sorry uh anyway final thought to you rob and then let's i agree uh anyone if you don't currently follow me robby the fire all social media platforms i just had my stupid hitler joke are very viral and uh that was quite satisfying i got to write more even more horrible jokes that's the uh goal for next year because even if audiences don't like it

the internet does and uh please go check out porching episodes one and two the uh critics in the youtube comments are agreeing that it's a hit so Go get a watch. It's excellent, dude. And I love the Hitler joke, too. And, of course, come out and see us this weekend in Philadelphia. Helium Comedy Club, Robbie the Fire, Bernstein, and me will be there all weekend. Comic Dave Smith for tickets.

Comicdaversmith.com for tickets. You got to put in that.com thing. Actually, if you Google, it'll probably come up. But whatever. ComicDepsmith.com. See you in Philly this weekend. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. There'll be lots more to talk about, I'm sure.

All right. Peace. You know,