#632 - Dave Smith

Dave Smith is a comedian, podcaster and political commentator. Check out his shows “Part of the Problem” and “Legion of Skanks”. Dave returns to talk about what comes next after the regime change in Venezuela, what President Trump got right and wrong in 2025, and what journalism means in the wake of the Minnesota fraud scandal. Dave Smith: https://www.instagram.com/theproblemdavesmith/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Acorns: Go to http://acorns.com/theo to get your $20 bonus investment today. Mercy: See “Mercy” in theaters on 1/23 http://mercymovie.com Better Help: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Go to http://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month! AG1: Go to http://drinkag1.com/weekend to get a FREE AG1 duffel bag and FREE AG1 Welcome Kit with your first subscription order while supplies last. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Andrew https://www.instagram.com/bleachmediaofficial/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Theo Von?

  Today's guest is a comedian, he's a political commentator, he's a podcaster. You may know him from his shows Part of the Problem and Legion of Skanks. Uh, I caught up with him last time about a year ago, so I'm, uh, I'm grateful for his return. Today's guest is Dave Smith.

• 0:34Theo Von?

  We've seen him.

• 0:35Speaker 01

  You too, brother.

• 0:35Theo Von?

  Yeah, we're gonna go to Candace's after, that'll be fun.

• 0:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

• 0:38Theo Von?

  Your kids are so funny, dude.

• 0:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, I bet.

• 0:41Theo Von?

  Instead of playing hide and go seek, they'll play like, who did, who killed Charlie Kirk?

• 0:46Theo Von?

  So that's the craziest thing about...

• 0:51Speaker 01

  Oh shit.

• 0:52Theo Von?

  About Candace's kids, like-

• 0:53Speaker 01

  Kids are talking about Egyptian military planes and shit.

• 0:56Theo Von?

  Yeah, like it, instead of pin the tail on the doggy, they're like, it's like, pin the small wiener on the Macron.

• 1:03Theo Von?

  Like, yeah, they just have a different kind of like, I mean, yeah, she's, her, their kids are beautiful.

• 1:10Speaker 01

  Sorry, let me just turn this off.

• 1:11Theo Von?

  They're beautiful children, uh, I ta- I end up talking about them a lot, I'm sorry, I feel like it's like a little, I'm like, dude, do not bring up that lady's kids again.

• 1:20Speaker 01

  Well-

• 1:21Theo Von?

  And I don't, I've never gotten to see mixed children up close that much, like, I just don't get it, you know, I've never had that kind of opportunity.

• 1:27Speaker 01

  Really?

• 1:28Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:28Speaker 01

  You didn't grow up with like, mixed race kids?

• 1:30Theo Von?

  Yeah, they had to, mixed race, but a lot of them, the dad was gone or something, so-

• 1:34Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, I mean, that's, they're mixed race, I mean-

• 1:37Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's true, so, one of the parents was gone, and, yeah, and I don't wanna just blame it on the dad, but one of the parents was gone, but, um, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I guess I haven't seen where both the parents are around, and it's like this functioning, like, uh, type of thing.

• 1:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, okay, now that makes sense, mixed race functioning families, those are, those are rare.

• 1:57Theo Von?

  Function, yeah, like something that could create a Ben Simmons.

• 2:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's true, I didn't see too much of that, you know, weirdly, I knew, um, now that I'm thinking about it, I knew black kids who had a full family together, but all the mixed race kids that I'm thinking of didn't have dads.

• 2:13Theo Von?

  Hmm. Well, I think it's an, you know, uh, uh, when we were kids, it was probably a, it was, I don't know if people were super geeked in some areas on like racial, like biracial parents living together or interracial relationships. I remember, um, we had a bus driver, this fellow, Milford was his name, and he,

• 2:36Theo Von?

  like, he had a lot, he'd done a lot of things wrong and one shouldn't have been driving children. And, uh, anyway, he would end up knocking up the lady that swept his bus out. He knocked up the lady that swept out the bus, who was a black woman.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  Can I just say, just, just on that?

• 2:50Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:51Speaker 01

  Impressive.

• 2:52Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:52Speaker 01

  That's an impressive thing to be a school bus driver and to just pull the black chick who's sweeping up your bus. Like, that's just a, that's a good place to start from to get laid. You just, as a dude, you have to respect that.

• 3:02Theo Von?

  Yeah, shout out, uh, Milford, and he was a ginger too, and this was a time when, the science wasn't even there on them. You know, there was.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  And a black chick to like, go back to her black friends and tell them she just, she just fucked a ginger bus, school bus driver, like, that's, that's crazy.

• 3:19Theo Von?

  Well, they probably thought she was coming up, probably, at that time, it was different times, right?

• 3:23Speaker 01

  Look at you, girl.

• 3:24Theo Von?

  Yeah, okay, Shawty, get an Irish, okay? Uh, but the crazy, the crazy, the craziest part was, uh, yeah, I guess I could just see him, he's up there and he's like, just having a cigarette or having a dip or something after, after a drive or a haul or whatever they would call it. What do they call that, a haul, I think they would call it.

• 3:44Speaker 01

  A haul, you're hauling the kids to school?

• 3:46Theo Von?

  My route, probably.

• 3:49Speaker 01

  I think so, yeah, your route?

• 3:50Theo Von?

  After driving my route, and, um, and he heard that broom start going in the back of that bus and he's got him a little, and starts scratching his crotch a little or something. Who knows, brother, that's love. Hey, love can strike, that's the craziest thing about love, like, love doesn't even know any boundaries between races or anything.

• 4:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, and it's, uh, it is at least to some degree an involuntary reaction. Like, you don't really get to choose.

• 4:16Theo Von?

  Do you love?

• 4:17Speaker 01

  You know what I mean? Like, it kinda just happens to you. And then you're like, ah, shit. I love this chick now.

• 4:23Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's the tough, that's the toughest part. And it's sometimes you don't find out till later, kind of, where you realize that you were just kinda messing it up, you know?

• 4:29Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, no, I know what you mean. I had that with, um, But with my wife and with both my kids in a weird way, where it's almost like I remember having moments. It's like you start realizing how deep you are in. And I remember having this one moment with my daughter, I think she was, she must have been like four months old. So like I'd been a dad for a while and I just haven't like my, my wife was like running the supermarket and I was just like bouncing her on my knee or whatever. And she just, I don't know, she was like yawned or like looked at me in some way. And I remember just having this realization where I was like, oh shit. Like I love this little baby.

• 5:04Theo Von?

  Oh.

• 5:05Speaker 01

  And then I was, and then I just started having this panic attack. Like I was like, something bad's gonna happen to her one day. Like something, you know, like no one gets through life without something bad happening to them. And I was like, oh my God. Like I have to deal with that. I was just like, nothing happened and I had already been in love with her. It's just like, it just hit me.

• 5:20Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 5:21Speaker 01

  Like, oh crap, I'm in real trouble here.

• 5:23Theo Von?

  I'm in for this gal.

• 5:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, and I still am.

• 5:26Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's great, dude.

• 5:28Speaker 01

  One more year and then she's on her own.

• 5:29Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 5:30Speaker 01

  But I'm still, I'm still in.

• 5:32Theo Von?

  Yeah, I guess that fa- like, is a father daughter love different than a father son love? Do you have each gender child?

• 5:38Speaker 01

  I got one of each and yes, it's different.

• 5:39Theo Von?

  It is.

• 5:40Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm. Well, it's like a different, I definitely like, like my wife points it out a lot and I notice it too, but I'm definitely harder on the boy than I am on her. Like there's just kind of a natural thing where you're just a little bit more like, you, you just have a more of a thing like, you know, your daughter, when my daughter's three, if she like falls, I'm like, oh sweetheart, are you okay? With my son, I'm like, come on, you're tough, get up. You know what I mean? Like you just have a little bit more of that. And I definitely have more of like, um, I feel like more of a pressure to be like a role model for my son that I don't feel for my daughter.

• 6:13Theo Von?

  It's your wife's job.

• 6:14Speaker 01

  Yeah. And, and also my wife's awesome. She's like, she's really sweet and smart and she's a great person. And so I always kind of felt like with my daughter, I was like, oh, well, she's already got an awesome role model, you know? And like my job is just like to love her and to provide and protect her and stuff. But with my son, I was like, oh, I gotta teach him how to be a man. And you're like, all right, I better figure out how to be a man real quick so I could teach him, you know? Like, I don't know what that means. Um, and then it's just like, there's a lot more stuff with having a son. As it, it, uh, it, it made me, uh, understand.

• 6:51Speaker 01

  Not having a father better in a way, you're like, oh, I get there was supposed to be this here. That there wasn't, you know? And um, and so, yeah, it is totally different. Like, there's a, there's a different thing like, uh, uh, having a little girl, like, you just like, you, like, I was just like, she has me wrapped around her little finger. She knows it. She always has. My son, it's a whole different thing. Um, obviously, I love them both equally, you know, it's not like more than the other, but it is a different, a different type of thing.

• 7:19Theo Von?

  Yeah, no, I've just never thought about it. I never thought about it from like a, yeah, I guess, yeah, it's like the mom would probably be more the role model for the daughter. I mean, obviously, there's a father-daughter relationship, but the, um, but the mom would be more the role model.

• 7:30Speaker 01

  I think I'm, like, I'm the role model of what her expectation for a man is gonna be. I think about that a lot, you know what I mean? I think about that, like, the way I treat my wife in front of her and stuff like that. Like, I'm like, I always want to make sure that she, you know, you know, her expectation is that a guy would be really sweet to her and, you know, stuff like that. Um, no, but with your boy, you're like, oh, I'm the one he's gonna be like, trying to be like. And you're like, oh, man, that's a whole pressure. Don't be like me.

• 8:03Theo Von?

  Yeah, and you see him one time being like you and you're like, oh, this kid is screwed.

• 8:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, right.

• 8:08Theo Von?

  He's just vaping in the yard.

• 8:10Speaker 01

  I, I'm off the vapes. I don't vape anymore.

• 8:12Theo Von?

  Dude, I'm off three, I might be off almost a month right now. I can't even believe it.

• 8:16Speaker 01

  Were you smoking or vaping?

• 8:18Theo Von?

  I was vaping.

• 8:19Speaker 01

  Yeah. I get scared of that shit, man. I did it for so many years, too.

• 8:23Theo Von?

  Yeah. Oh, I'm so at risk adverse right now when it comes to vaping. I won't even like, any smoke stacks, I wouldn't even fly in a Newark right now. Like, just because, just the idea that there's some smoke stacks in the distance, like, anything could, could, uh, set me off.

• 8:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, you, well, you want to get through that, that beginning time, for sure.

• 8:41Theo Von?

  And I'm getting close, so I can kind of feel that we're like, it doesn't even pop into my head. The toughest parts are like, if I'm having a conversation in my car and I'm driving, that's kind of the time I would like it. And then that's also the time where I'm most able to go get one, because I'm like, I'm in transit.

• 8:56Speaker 01

  Right, right, yeah, yeah.

• 8:57Theo Von?

  I can pull off somewhere and pick one up, so.

• 8:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, as you get older too, like all those, the health things get scarier. Cause it's not so like way off in the future anymore. You're like, oh, you're like, oh, but you gotta smoke for 30 years before that does. You're like, I'm at 30 years. And you're like, oh, all right. Oh, shoot. All right. But it's a different thing. When you're 15, you're like, yeah, in 30 years, there's a problem. Whatever. Who cares?

• 9:20Theo Von?

  I would not, what idiot would smoke for 30 years? That's what you tell yourself at 15.

• 9:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, right. And then you go, if I make it another 30 years, that's fine. Like I've had plenty of life. But actually, then you're 45 and you're like, oh, 50, whatever.

• 9:33Theo Von?

  I gotta start a Roth IRA.

• 9:36Theo Von?

  That's when it gets weird, dude. Everything's getting weird, man. Dave Smith, good to see you, bro.

• 9:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude, you too, man. Thanks for having me.

• 9:44Theo Von?

  Yeah, we met up around this time last year.

• 9:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. Yeah. As we, it's funny that we set this up like really quickly. And they snuck in a regime change war in between when you said, it's 48 hours we planned this. And they fit a whole regime change in that 48 hours.

• 10:00Theo Von?

  Well, it's good to know that they're making them faster.

• 10:03Speaker 01

  Here we are.

• 10:04Theo Von?

  And it's happened, man. The crazy, they had that, the photo came out of Maduro and his wife, I guess they picked him up.

• 10:10Speaker 01

  Well, the, the.

• 10:12Theo Von?

  The US plans to run Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says after operation to oust Maduro. What were the actual, um, hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolas Maduro from power and removed him from the country? President Donald Trump says Saturday, the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations.

• 10:34Speaker 01

  Well, at least they're being honest about that part.

• 10:36Theo Von?

  Yeah, it makes you wonder kind of what's going on. What were the exact attacks that happened? Does it say? Like, did we go kill a bunch of people?

• 10:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, we definitely killed some people. Um, there were a bunch of attacks. Uh, and then there was like an elite, uh, team that went and got, uh, that was able to kidnap Maduro. And I know, so Mike Lee, the senator, posted on Twitter that he had spoke to Marco Rubio. And that Marco Rubio had said something like the other attacks were like in service of the mission to get Maduro. So like, I don't know what the, you know, taking out their defenses or something like that. Um, but, so. I mean, I don't know even where to start here, right? But so there's a lot, there's been, obviously for, for months now, there's been like, they've been attacking, they've been bombing

• 11:26Speaker 01

  the boats that they're claiming are drug boats, but they haven't really demonstrated that they are. It's kind of just taking their word for it. Right. And we don't know. You just see this video, you see this footage of like a black and white and then like a, a zooming in of a night goggles explosion. And there was that whole controversial double tap strike where they came back to kill the survivors, which there was a big controversy about, you know, because that's illegal under international law. You'd have to demonstrate that they were like still in the fight. And then there was, you know, I guess Pete Hegseth had said someone else made the decision, but then they claimed that they were still trying to get in the fight. It's all kind of sketchy. It's not exactly clear. Marco Rubio, who's the Secretary of State and also the National Security Advisor, and he's had that position for most of the

• 12:08Speaker 01

  last year. This has been his pet project for a while. He's really wanted to get rid of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. The drugs thing has always just been an obvious bullshit pretext. I mean, like, there's no. That's what it feels like to me. Well, if you just look at the numbers, the Venezuela is responsible for like a tiny fraction of the drugs that come into America and like almost none of the fentanyl. And if you really had a, you know, when people look at like the OD deaths, the fentanyl is really where the action is there. And that's all from Mexico, from parts made in China. Then even when like Donald Trump or Vivek Ramaswamy or, or some of these guys would have real tough language about the, the drug cartels on the campaign trail, it was always the Mexican drug cartels. They were always saying that because they could

• 12:52Speaker 01

  at least point to that and say, look, that leads to fentanyl, which leads to all these overdoses. Now, those numbers have been going down and getting better. But I think some people, people I love, but some people have falsely like attributed that to the attacks on these, these boats off the coast of Venezuela, when really all that is, is that there's a secure border now. And so less of the stuff is getting in than was under Joe Biden. Oh, for sure. Um, but so, so then cut to, what was it? Last week?

• 13:25Speaker 01

  It got a

• 13:26Theo Von?

  Well, I want to bring this up.

• 13:27Speaker 01

  Sure, sure, go ahead, go ahead.

• 13:28Theo Von?

  Venezuela is involved in trafficking cocaine. Current data shows it is responsible for only a small share of the drugs that actually end up in the US market. Especially compared with routes through Mexico and Central America. US government classifies Venezuela as a major drug transit country, mainly for Colombia cocaine moving towards the Caribbean and Central America.

• 13:45Speaker 01

  But even that would be more of a justification to deal with Colombia.

• 13:49Theo Von?

  Right.

• 13:49Speaker 01

  Than it would be.

• 13:50Theo Von?

  A hundred percent. A DEA fact sheet cited in 2025 reporting says 90% of cocaine reaching the US is produced in Colombia and enters through Mexico without even mentioning Venezuela as a primary corridor. Yeah, and there's some other reasons I want to go into to why people think that we're what we're doing down there. But yeah, I just wanted to get some of the stats.

• 14:08Speaker 01

  Sure, sure. No, that's important. I'm glad you did.

• 14:10Theo Von?

  Where were you?

• 14:11Speaker 01

  Well, so last week, if you remember, Tucker Carlson had said that he had he had a source saying that Donald Trump, because Donald Trump was addressing the nation that night. And he had said that Donald Trump's going to announce, you know, an escalation in the war or a declaration of war, which, you know, technically the president can't do, but I guess we're way past that.

• 14:30Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 14:31Speaker 01

  That he was going to announce that he was going in there. And I had a couple, I had a couple of people I know who were like close to it who said the same thing. And then he didn't, which was kind of strange. And he also like, he interrupted your regularly scheduled programming, like it was a presidential address to the nation. Yeah, a week ago, but then like, didn't really announce anything.

• 14:49Theo Von?

  I didn't see that.

• 14:50Speaker 01

  Just announced how great the economy was or something like that. And so then it came this week instead. But this was, look, it's an unbelievably successful operation as of right now. And so that's, well, maybe I got that wrong. I said last week. I guess it was a couple of weeks ago.

• 15:05Theo Von?

  On the evening of December 16th, political commentator Tucker Carlson said off a firestorm when he claimed that President Donald Trump was poised to announce a US military invasion of Venezuela during his primetime address.

• 15:16Theo Von?

  But as the hour came and went, no such announcement materialized. President Trump made no mention of Venezuela nor of any military operation targeting the embattled South American nation. What if he did that because he didn't want Carlson to actually have called it? No, it wouldn't have been that.

• 15:30Speaker 01

  You know, I don't know. I mean, it's like, it's, I don't know. It's possible that he was planning on doing it and then backed out of it. It's possible Tucker got bad information. It's possible that plans just changed or whatever, you know, it's, but, but the thing did come a couple of weeks later. So it does at least seem like there was something that might've been, you know, accurate about it.

• 15:52Speaker 01

  But, look, I mean, I guess first and foremost, this really wasn't an incredible success, just in terms of a military operation like.

• 16:00Theo Von?

  Oh, I was shocked. They got it done and then they checkmated, they took the king and queen?

• 16:05Speaker 01

  Dude, there's a, well, that's right. I mean, and okay, so this picture now.

• 16:08Theo Von?

  And now it looks like he's playing one of those games where those things drop and you have to catch them or whatever.

• 16:12Speaker 01

  Like where Ilya Topor will be like real good at it. You're like, whoa, that's how he knocks people out like that. He's got crazy speed. If that's all he was doing.

• 16:19Theo Von?

  But it's, this is so, because I first saw this, this morning, I was like, who is this? I thought it was like one of those like, um, the Masked Singer or whatever they were doing, like at the military or whatever. I was like, who is this? I just couldn't, I couldn't figure out because I just saw the image and then I realized, oh my God, that's, uh, that's Maduro.

• 16:34Speaker 01

  So evidently the vice president was in Russia at the time and the vice president demanded proof that he's, that Maduro's alive. And then Trump tweeted this out. So not clear whether it's like in response to that, like here's the proof that, that he's alive. But it does seem like they have him and his wife. And I just say like the success of the military operation, like I know there's, um, you know, there's been all types like historically of, of attempts by the US and the CIA to, to kill, you know, Saddam Hussein or to kill, uh, Castro or all types of other leaders. And they have succeeded in something. Noriega, they got him and whatever, but like, there's been attempts to like kill or capture all types of leaders.

• 17:18Speaker 01

  But for it to happen like this, like in one day, in one attack, go in and get him. I mean, we, even in, in 2003, I think we were in Iraq for a couple of months before we got Saddam Hussein, you know? So they got him. Okay. But one of the things that's so fascinating is like, it's almost like, like the last 25 years don't exist. When you go on, like I go on social media today and you just see all the warhawks, all got their mission accomplished signs up.

• 17:46Theo Von?

  Right.

• 17:47Speaker 01

  Like they're all celebrating like, look, we got them. When really getting them, I mean, look, it's impressive. They did it in one day without like a lot of boots on the ground. You know, we got a real badass military, if people haven't noticed, like the most badass group of, of fighting men that have ever been assembled in human history. But we know we can kill these guys. Like, we know we could kill Saddam Hussein. We know we could kill Muammar Gaddafi or, or Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad. We could get him out of, it's like, the question is what comes next?

• 18:17Theo Von?

  Next.

• 18:17Speaker 01

  That's always the question.

• 18:18Theo Von?

  Right.

• 18:18Speaker 01

  And that's the question that DC has always gotten wrong, you know, for 25 straight years. So like to see them celebrating when there's not even, we have no idea what the hell is going to come next now. And it's not even a situation like Iraq or Afghanistan, where we were militarily occupying the country. So it's a lot easier to direct who comes next when your troops are in there. We don't even have that right now. Trump just said-

• 18:42Theo Von?

  He's gonna run it.

• 18:43Speaker 01

  He said, we're gonna run it and then we'll decide who to hand it off to. Well, that's fucking vague. I mean, all right, like what, and, and since when, you know, I listened with a force of like over a hundred thousand troops, substantially more than that, over 200,000 at one point, I listened to for 20 straight years, every warhawk in this country lie through their fucking teeth about how capable this Afghan government that we had just built up there was. And how, no, I'm not saying Venezuela and Afghanistan are the exact same thing, but I'm just saying like, that was with a 20 year military occupation and all this backing and hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons. It fell apart in two days.

• 19:23Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 19:23Speaker 01

  You know, so like-

• 19:24Theo Von?

  They were in the monkey bars. Remember all that shit?

• 19:27Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, and so-

• 19:28Theo Von?

  They send that out. They were doing like those tire drills.

• 19:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, we, our guys lost to that.

• 19:33Theo Von?

  We were doing, they were doing those like running through the tires, like get your knees up type of shit.

• 19:38Speaker 01

  And they were, and they were like, huh? We fucking kinda nailed it there, didn't we?

• 19:42Theo Von?

  PE teachers over there. Just it was unbelievable.

• 19:47Speaker 01

  And so anyway, I guess they're just like the hubris of just being like, you know, like, look, I don't. I said, people were kind of giving me some of the anti war people actually were kind of giving me shit today. Cause I just, I posted something on Twitter where I was like, well, I hope this works well. But like, I do, I hope it works out. Well, like I, I, I would take it working out real well. And then, okay, that doesn't look as good for the non interventionist types like me like, see this one works. Well, okay, it's already done now. So like, I hope it works out. But to watch people celebrating as if it's a given.

• 20:17Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 20:18Speaker 01

  That, that it's gonna work out. It's like, it's dude. So you're, and by the way, we didn't, at least as of now, Donald Trump kind of like diminished the opposition leader. And is at least floating out the idea that the, the vice president can like, kind of maintain a transitional control.

• 20:34Theo Von?

  In Venezuela.

• 20:35Speaker 01

  Yes, we haven't even overthrown the communists or anything like that yet. And the idea that.

• 20:40Theo Von?

  Right. So what exactly is being done? That's the biggest question, right? Cause he was arrested on narco terrorism. This is Del, that's Del.

• 20:46Speaker 01

  And gun charges. And evidently US gun control covers Venezuela now.

• 20:52Theo Von?

  There's a couple of theories of why we're even doing this, right?

• 20:57Theo Von?

  One of the reasons is because there's certain countries that are outside of, um, like our kind of comfort grid, right? And there's certain countries that are outside of our banking system.

• 21:08Speaker 01

  Yes, yeah.

• 21:09Theo Von?

  Right? And Venezuela is one of those.

• 21:11Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 21:11Theo Von?

  And so, and they also control a lot of oil.

• 21:14Speaker 01

  Well, so in, in a weird way, like what I, one of the things I like to do with these, with these wars is like, you can kind of peel away the excuses. So, you know, for, for what, so when people, uh, you know, say, oh, we're, we're fighting the war in Iraq to spread democracy or something like that. And then you could go, okay, so we're close allies with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and like all these other countries. But we have an issue about democracy in there. No, sorry, that's bullshit. Because if it was, or then they'll say like, oh, we have to support Ukraine because of Vladimir Putin's human rights abuses. And you're like, wait, human rights abuses? But you sent $25 billion to Netanyahu in the last two years? Like nah. I don't think human rights abuses is really the issue.

• 21:58Speaker 01

  And then even they'll say like, well, it's because they're socialist. And it's like, we've been arming the Kurds in Iraq and Syria for decades now. Also socialist. So like nah, I actually don't think, so it's like, you kind of can peel away some of these bullshit excuses. And then go, what's it really about? And I got, my best guess on this is that two things I think play huge influence in this. Number one, Donald Trump, who always seems to just see a deal. And that's all, you know, like in his mind, he seems to think. He's an opportunity. His military is telling him, we can take this guy out and put our people in. And then I could get huge oil sales and then I could turn around and say, look how good this economy is. And we win the midterm elections and whatever. He always has like, he sees. Yeah, I can sell Trump oil. I can sell like baby oil.

• 22:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, right. From Trump. I can sell, yeah, the new gold shoes. Like when the gold shoes came out? Yeah, he looks at Gaza while the rest of us are all like crying for the baby who's being crushed to death by cement. And screaming for his mother who can't come help him because there's no bulldozers in Gaza. We look at that and go, oh my God, the human tragedy. Donald Trump and Jared Kushner see beachfront property. Like that's like where their mind goes. They're like, God, that baby's ruining this bulldozer's opportunity. No one's going to want to relax with a Mai Tai with this crying baby. We gotta get this baby out of here. See, they, so they're not like, they're not like ethnically cleansing because they believe in greater Israel. They want to ethnically cleanse so that rich people can enjoy a sunset on the beach. There's just always gotta be a better place to have a Mai Tai.

• 23:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, right. So anyway, but then the other thing, and I do think this is a real part of it, is that Marco Rubio is Cuban. And they're also allied with Cuba. Now, a lot of this, a lot of this stuff with like the allies, it's kind of like if you heard any, you know, like the BRICS agreement stuff that that's like really advanced over the last few years.

• 23:44Theo Von?

  Is that the stuff with China?

• 23:46Speaker 01

  China and Russia and all them. So like what happens is that if you're, the US is the world empire, the most powerful empire in the history of the world. So if you're on the outs with us, you kind of have no choice other than to make friends with the other people who are on the outs with us. Cause those are like your only options left. Like, that's actually why Fidel Castro went communist to begin with. Because he was enemies with the United States of America. And so what were you gonna do?

• 24:11Theo Von?

  Right.

• 24:11Speaker 01

  You gotta ally with the Soviet Union.

• 24:12Theo Von?

  You gotta have some boys.

• 24:13Speaker 01

  Right. That's, it's like going to prison, right? You gotta join one gang or the other. And so a lot of them, they end up having friendly relations. But the belief is, and they've said this quiet part out loud a bunch of times. I don't know if this is true or not, but they think that the, the regime in Cuba will fall as a result of this regime being overthrown. And there's a whole bunch of Cubans in America, Marco Rubio being one of them, who understandably really hate socialism in Cuba, but remember it as like a, a successful country before then. Even though I think Rubio was actually ruined before the Castro, his family was like.

• 24:48Theo Von?

  Cuba was actually ruined, you mean?

• 24:49Speaker 01

  No, no, I, I think Marco Rubio, if I'm remembering this correctly, his family got kicked out by like the Batista regime, or they had some beef with them.

• 24:55Theo Von?

  But they would.

• 24:56Speaker 01

  But they, they want to overthrow the communists.

• 24:58Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's like, I want to, I want to get done what my parents wanted to get done.

• 25:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, something like that. Yeah. And, and you know, which is somewhat understandable. I just think like, you should be upfront with that and not try to use the US military to like, live out your personal fantasy. In a weird way, it's a similar thing with Israel.

• 25:15Theo Von?

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• 27:53Theo Von?

  Um, yeah, it's like you kind of get Trump in there and he is a boss. You know what I'm saying? The dude is like merc, like you almost want to say merciless. I don't know if that's the word.

• 28:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:04Theo Von?

  Um, I mean, he's,

• 28:07Theo Von?

  he's, he's, he's him. I mean, he's exactly, I don't even fucking know how to describe him, dude. Um, but, but you know what I'm saying?

• 28:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:16Theo Von?

  It's almost like I don't even know how to describe things.

• 28:18Speaker 01

  Well, he's a different kind of person, man, than almost anybody else for good and for bad.

• 28:23Theo Von?

  One of the, um, one of the things you just said, though, was, uh, just about the Venezuela thing. There was another article, a guy was talking about, uh, a paper tiger.

• 28:32Theo Von?

  And it was kind of a challenge to the BRICS countries, like to that outside group. And, uh, first I want to get, what is a paper tiger? Hold on, ask perplexity, what is a, a paper tiger?

• 28:42Speaker 01

  Well, something that appears to be ferocious, but is really just, you know, like made, made of paper. Like the idea is that like, oh yeah, you, you present yourself as strong and powerful, but you're really weak.

• 28:51Theo Von?

  It's like a bluff.

• 28:52Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 28:53Theo Von?

  Yeah. Yeah. In foreign policy, a paper tiger is a state alliance or threat that looks militarily or politically powerful from the outside, but is actually weak, limited, or unwilling to act when challenged.

• 29:02Speaker 01

  I always love it, by the way, which is like, if they're a paper tiger, then why the hell we got to fight wars against them then? You know, like essentially, because this is what they always said about Russia. They, they'd say in, in one breath, John McCain would say Russia is just a gas station with nukes. So they would go, all they are is this, you know, they got some gas and they got some nukes, but they got no economy and they got this tiny GDP. And then in the next breath, all the hawks go, if we don't fund Ukraine, they're going to take over Poland and reconstitute the Soviet Union. You're like, well, I thought they were weak.

• 29:32Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 29:32Speaker 01

  So like, which one is it? Are they taking over all of Europe or are they not? Cause if they're, if they're weak, then maybe we don't really need to worry about them.

• 29:39Theo Von?

  Yeah, there's, there's a lot of hypocrisy that goes on, you know? I mean, it's constant. This guy is just an interesting take, I thought, just about this stuff, then we can get it out of our systems.

• 29:47Speaker 02

  The Venezuelan issue is both crucial test of paper tiger quality on the part of all the great powers now. China, Russia, and the United States. China knows very well that the fentanyl excuse to stop.

• 30:03Speaker 02

  The alleged fentanyl trade into the United States is used by Trump to mobilize for war against Venezuela, where China is the largest of them, international investors. If China and Russia let the US make a regime change, just kill President Maduro and destroy the Venezuelan government and replace it with Mrs. Machado or something else, what's the credibility of the two of the three powers in BRICS to assist anyone, even themselves? That's the paper tiger aspect. If it's the case that neither China nor Russia can deter,

• 30:42Speaker 02

  nor BRICS, Brazil, India, and the others, Iran, can deter the United States from destroying, invading Venezuela and destroying its sovereign government. If they can't, then BRICS is a paper tiger too.

• 30:59Theo Von?

  Just kind of interesting.

• 31:00Speaker 01

  It is interesting.

• 31:01Theo Von?

  Just interesting, all the little things that could be a part of it, right? Because it does, it does just seem kind of confusing. Like, most people could not pick out where Venezuela is on a map, right?

• 31:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:09Theo Von?

  Most of us had never even thought of Maduro or heard of him before, probably within the past month, right? Unless you, like, you know, I mean, he's had a very interesting story, is like, coming up as a bus driver and being like a man of the people and everything, but then seemingly getting compromised and like overwhelmed by wealth and power over time. And then like a lot of his influences and stuff were very like socialist influencers and stuff like that. And so, but then...

• 31:35Speaker 01

  But like also to your point, like imagine, you know, when you're saying so many people couldn't have, you know, picked this out, picked Venezuela out on a map or something like that. I mean, if you just think, right, so I was here a year ago with you. How drastically different things are, just a year ago. I mean, like a year ago, Donald Trump had his highest approval ratings that he's ever had. He was the greatest political comeback story in, in American history. Just something that was totally like, it was amazing the way he not only came back from like, say, where he was right after January 6th, when the question was whether he's going to go to jail and go- Going through all the trials and getting shot and then to not only come back and win the

• 32:16Speaker 01

  popular vote and win every swing state, but he won the culture. He won the youth. Yeah. It would have been like, it would have seemed impossible just a few years earlier. Black kids were calling him daddy. Literally, black kids, John Jones is doing the Trump dance at Madison Square Garden. I think we were both there that night. And just a crazy, a crazy thing, right? And now, you know, he's, he's totally like divided his base. There's an infight in the repu- all this stuff. But anyway, so a year ago, when people were so excited about Donald Trump coming in, you never met one Trump supporter in your life who went, now we're going to get regime change in Venezuela. Yeah. That's why I'm excited that Donald Trump's here. I mean, people wanted no new wars. They

• 32:58Speaker 01

  wanted the border secure. They wanted the economy turned around. They wanted inflation dealt with. Nothing, there was never, there was no demand from Trump's base. And so this is like one more example of Donald Trump just siding with the warhawks over his own people. And one of the things that really, I find it like to be so, it's such a like a, an intolerable humiliation of Donald Trump supporters, is that all these guys, the warhawks, Marco Rubio, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, like go down the list, all of them, Ted Cruz, every last one of them, they were the never Trumpers. Like, I don't know if maybe some people just weren't paying attention to

• 33:40Speaker 01

  politics as long as I've been. They were the never Trumpers. Anyone but Donald Trump. They ran a front page, uh, cover of National Review saying never Trump, anyone but Donald Trump, all of them. Ben Shapiro said on issues of, because it's a matter of principle, I will never vote for Donald Trump. He said he would, he would hold his nose and allow Hillary Clinton to be a, a, elected president before he sent his, at the time, massive audience to support Donald Trump. And now, Donald Trump turns around and makes little Marco his national security advisor. Remember how he embarrassed him on the, in the debates? Yep. And he called him little Marco. He used to tear him apart. And you know what he used to say?

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Man, oh dude, I hope I'm getting this right. There was, I believe there's a tweet, you could probably find it. Where Donald Trump said something like Sheldon Adelson will be able to control little Marco. And that's why you can't let him be president. And that's the, the guy, the lady's husband? Yeah, he died, but Miriam Adelson is still alive and they're his biggest donors. They've given him like hundreds of, I saw that a quarter billion. Millions of dollars. Yeah. It's, it's a, and that's, I don't even think that, like if you counted the money for his first run, his second run and the midterms, they're, they're probably close to a billion dollars that they've given. Look at this tweet right there. Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. Wow. I agree. He says.

• 35:07Speaker 01

  Okay. He agrees with that. Just to be clear, this is, and this is just a fact. This is 2015. Nobody, nobody has been molded into more of a puppet for the Adelsons than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump now, which I know you've probably seen a couple of the, it, it's so crazy. It almost, and I'm not saying this is the case. I don't think this is the case, but it almost seems like Donald Trump is like mocking them. When he'll talk about how much they just care about Israel. Like he'll open, he goes out of his way. About who, that who just cares about Israel. Miriam Adelson and Sheldon Adelson. Then he'll go, they gave me a lot of money and they called me all the time.

• 35:48Speaker 01

  And they always come by and they're always asking for something and it's always for Israel and I do it all. I give it all to, like, he's just openly telling you. That these, look, Miriam Adelson is a Palestinian, Theo. She was born before the creation of the state of Israel in what is today, Israel. Am I right about this? What year? Born in 1945 in, yeah, you could say Israeli-American, but there's no such thing as Israel in 1945. Israel wasn't created till 1948. She was born in Palestine. She was born in Tel Aviv, mandatory Palestine. Mandatory Palestine. Right. So anyway, so. She's from there now.

• 36:22Theo Von?

  Are they, is this a new term mandatory Palestine?

• 36:24Speaker 01

  It was a term at the time.

• 36:26Theo Von?

  It was.

• 36:26Speaker 01

  It was a term at the time where they, uh, they basically like, they were like, you know, we're not doing imperialism anymore. We're just doing mandates. It's mandates where we come in and run the country and we'll take some of the resources too, but.

• 36:39Theo Von?

  It's just such an interesting term mandatory Palestine. Um, okay. Um, so she was, that's where she was born though.

• 36:45Speaker 01

  Oh, and let me just say back.

• 36:46Theo Von?

  So by land, she was Palestinian.

• 36:48Speaker 01

  Yes. So now he was born in America, but.

• 36:51Theo Von?

  Who Sheldon?

• 36:52Speaker 01

  Yeah. Sheldon was born in America. No, he's not black. Actually Jewish fellow. He, he is on record saying that his biggest regret in life is that he wore the American military uniform and not the IDF uniform.

• 37:05Theo Von?

  Really?

• 37:05Speaker 01

  So these are like Israel firsters.

• 37:07Theo Von?

  Right.

• 37:08Speaker 01

  Openly and Donald Trump says as much.

• 37:11Theo Von?

  Oh yeah. Well, he just, I mean, Donald Trump is definitely, you know, like they just had an announcement the other day or he was in a, um, he was at a event where they, he said he was Israel's best president. They said, you're Israel's best president.

• 37:23Speaker 01

  Mark Levin said he's the first Jewish president.

• 37:26Theo Von?

  It's wild.

• 37:27Speaker 01

  By the way, Mark Levin called me a Nazi.

• 37:29Theo Von?

  He did?

• 37:29Speaker 01

  Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, two days ago.

• 37:31Theo Von?

  Oh gosh.

• 37:32Speaker 01

  On Twitter. No, he called me a neo-Nazi to be fair.

• 37:34Theo Von?

  Oh, that's cool.

• 37:35Speaker 01

  Which is nicer.

• 37:35Theo Von?

  Well, new.

• 37:36Speaker 01

  Yeah. Like he wasn't actually claiming that I was a member of Hitler's, you know, National Socialist Workers Party.

• 37:43Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's impossible. First of all, for you to pull off. And second of all, neo-Nazis, I don't think it's, it's not even determined what they're gonna do with their whole plan yet.

• 37:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, we're still working on it.

• 37:53Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's, you gotta play that out and you gotta play that out.

• 37:56Speaker 01

  But it is a funny, like I'm literally all, um, essentially my politics are all just like, uh, like I'm against, I'm against wars and government. Like I just want government to have less power and fight less wars.

• 38:07Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 38:07Speaker 01

  Which is strikingly similar to Adolf Hitler, as everybody knows. That was what he was known for too.

• 38:13Theo Von?

  But that's the biggest.

• 38:13Speaker 01

  Individual rights.

• 38:14Theo Von?

  That's the biggest weapon though. I mean, even Tucker was talking about this. It's the biggest weapon of, um, people like him, I guess, to just call you Hitler or to call you an anti-Semite. It's just like, it's, I don't know. And it's a weapon that's kind of out of bullets a lot of times, you know?

• 38:31Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 38:31Theo Von?

  We've talked about that before about how it's just been used so much. What is this part right here?

• 38:36Speaker 03

  And these people do like Israel. Hold on.

• 38:42Speaker 03

  And he loves Israel too.

• 38:50Speaker 03

  Six years ago, I was up here. And I said, this is our first Jewish president.

• 38:58Speaker 03

  Now, he's the first Jewish president to serve two.

• 39:02Speaker 04

  Not consecutive.

• 39:03Speaker 03

  Not consecutive. Presidents. We thank you for everything.

• 39:08Speaker 01

  Like, there's another one? No, well, he's saying like that he lost and then came back in, that he served two terms. But like, you could have just said, served two terms. Like, what was the... And also, he is like, which is very weird to see done to Trump, but a lot of people would make it. He's kind of like big dogging him, like, he's like, you know, like, kind of pulling him closer. It's all very bizarre, but yeah.

• 39:27Theo Von?

  That's a little condescending.

• 39:29Speaker 01

  Donald Trump is the most pro-Israel president in American history. There's no question about that. But the thing is that, like, what's omitted there is that actually, all the other presidents were pro-Israel too. They would just have some demands on Israel. Like, they would just go like, hey, could you just stop doing this? Because this is a huge problem for us. And then Israel wouldn't stop doing that. And then they would get annoyed at them. And then, so like, then there's lots of examples like this, like, both George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama made a big thing out of asking him to stop building settlements on the West Bank. Could you just not do that? Because you're expanding these settlements, causing all these problems. The whole international, you know, community is outraged by it. And then they just wouldn't stop.

• 40:12Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's one of the things that caused a lot of rifts over the years, too, was just the taking over of Palestinians' homes. Like, people walking in, and it was known, it's not a debated thing.

• 40:22Speaker 01

  Oh, it's on video.

• 40:23Theo Von?

  Yeah, there's tons of video of it. So, it was just, but it was walking in and taking over native Palestinians' homes, just taking it over and kicking them out. And I think after 30 years of that, it just became too much for people over there.

• 40:34Speaker 01

  So, well, the one poll I saw was, they said, it was before October 7th. They said, who do you sympathize with more, the Israelis or the Palestinians? And it was plus 48% pro-Israel. And then, taken like, a couple months ago, it was plus 1%. For the Palestinians. So it was a 50 point collapse, right? So anyway, we had speculated because Israel's in this situation where everybody's turning on them because they just committed a genocide in 4K and forced us to fund it and we're all appalled by that. But at the same time, they have the most pro-Israel president in right now. So they could look at the writing on the wall and go, this is the best opportunity we have right now. And then a lot of us, and I said this on Rogan last time I was there, I go, they might move to annex the West Bank,

• 41:19Speaker 01

  like to formally just take the whole thing because now is their best opportunity to do it. Now, Trump came out and said, kind of unprompted, it was in a Politico article. He said, uh, someone asked him about that and said, what, and he goes, no. I will not let Israel annex the West Bank. And so they go, well, what are you gonna do? If they did annex the West Bank? And he actually said they would lose support from America if they annex the West Bank. And then-

• 41:44Theo Von?

  And when you say annex the West Bank, it just means take it over completely?

• 41:46Speaker 01

  Just take it over and claim it as part of Israel, which by the way, they've in effect already done, but they haven't formally done it, okay? So now, this, so this is the Politico piece. So then cut to a month later, JD Vance is in Israel and the Knesset holds a vote over annexing the West Bank. And it passes. They intentionally, now this was like kind of a symbolic vote or whatever, but they, Donald Trump, who's been the most pro-Israel president, goes, I'll, I'll fund your genocide. I'll arm your genocide. I'll bomb Iran for you. I'll shoot down the Iranian missiles coming back at Israel in response.

• 42:23Speaker 01

  We'll, we'll bomb the Houthis for you. We'll, go, all, you bomb the, the, um, the negotiators of a deal I'm trying to make and I'll still work with you. You'll still get funding. One request, just don't annex the West Bank. And they go, nope. And we're gonna intentionally vote that way while your vice president is here just to let you know that you get, that we run this shit and you don't. And that for all the billions, for all the billions you give us, we're still in charge. It's just too crazy, man.

• 42:56Theo Von?

  Fucking gangster.

• 42:57Speaker 01

  It is gangster. You gotta admit that.

• 42:58Theo Von?

  I mean, oh dude, you have to also, there's a, there's like a gangster part of you that's like, fuck. These motherfuckers are not playing, dude.

• 43:06Speaker 01

  Oh yeah. Yeah. No, no question about it, man. And that's all it is. That's all any government is at the highest level is gangster shit. And that, uh, they are really, really good at it.

• 43:16Theo Von?

  Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty fascinating. Um, let's talk about like, so it's been a year since Trump's been in. You said some of his base is kind of split now. It does feel a little bit like there's like this. How do you feel like Trump's done in his first year? Like, what are things he's done that you like?

• 43:32Speaker 01

  I think he's been terrible. And I assumed he probably would be a disappointment, and I supported him last year just because I thought like, all things being considered, it was better for our country that he win than Kamala Harris win. Um, and also the Democrats just so deserved to lose. Like, you just can't reward that.

• 43:50Theo Von?

  Well, Kamala, I just saw the Kamala.

• 43:51Speaker 01

  We had a senile president and they all pretended we didn't. It's just too crazy.

• 43:54Theo Von?

  That was too crazy.

• 43:55Speaker 01

  They also like, I mean, they're, look, I mean, their, their policy on COVID, their policy on Ukraine. And then don't forget, they were a full year into back in the genocide when it happened. So they were, you know, they, they deserved to lose. Donald Trump has done a really good job in securing the border. You know, we had a really open border under Joe Biden. We have a secure border now.

• 44:19Speaker 01

  Aside from that, it's just been disastrous. I mean, I just couldn't, and, and not even just disastrous, like the policy was wrong, but just the way they handled it. I mean, the handling of the Epstein scandal is got, that goes down in history as like the worst handling of a scandal I've ever seen. Literally from all these guys running on, we're gonna release this stuff. Pam Bondi having that thing where she gave the influencers the binders.

• 44:45Theo Von?

  Remember them holding the binders?

• 44:47Speaker 01

  And then it turns out there was nothing in them that was new. And then they pivoted on a dime to there's no such thing. I don't even know what you're talking about. You're crazy to think there was a thing to be released. It was, and then to turn around, and then they turn around, and Mike Johnson said, it will end the political order if we vote for Thomas Massey and Rokohana and Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to release the files. And then they turn around and get pressured into voting for it. And now they're just redacting everything and like, it's just, I mean, just, he lost so much credibility on that. Obviously, the, um, I think bombing Iran was terrible.

• 45:22Theo Von?

  Well, let's go one thing at a time. So the Epstein, so look, so yeah, break up some of those pictures that they just released too. What was with the photo drop right before Christmas? It's all so bizarre. Like, what is that picture about? If you're a married guy, you know what I'm saying? Like, what are you doing there?

• 45:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, like-

• 45:38Theo Von?

  You're a married 60-year-old guy?

• 45:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, listen, I'm never gonna be in a position with some chick like that. I'm a married guy. It's a weird thing, yeah. I mean, now, again, it doesn't give us that much more information, and we don't see her face, but sure does look a lot younger than him.

• 45:52Theo Von?

  Yeah, go through some of these. I mean, this is kind of, I mean, it's all just kind of wild.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  Kevin Spacey and Bill Clinton there.

• 45:59Theo Von?

  And was this at Epstein Island? Allegedly. Allegedly.

• 46:06Theo Von?

  And there's some photos, this is the best thing. Look at these photos, everything redacted in them. Here's, these could be photos from anybody's phone. Everything redacted. And then one mark of the beast or something from Zodiac Killer on the one that he'd drawn on.

• 46:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:19Theo Von?

  Just bizarre. I mean, it just like-

• 46:22Speaker 01

  It's so strange, man.

• 46:23Theo Von?

  Why? Why would they just show us some of this stuff right before the holidays? Are they just trying to like, everything now you start to, you have to think, is this like, is it trying to distract my attention from something else, you know? And the news reports, they don't even tell you about the real shit that's going on anyway.

• 46:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:40Theo Von?

  So, most of the stuff that's happening, here's the crazy part. We don't even know anymore. Like, most of the most serious shit that's going on?

• 46:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:48Theo Von?

  We don't even have a clue.

• 46:49Speaker 01

  Well, I think part of the thing, look, the Epstein, the whole story is so, like, it's so dirty. Like, it just stinks. I mean, you just look at it and you're like, dude, look, we know what we know, but knowing what we know, how could you possibly piece this together that it's not some huge scandal? I mean, like, already when you just go, okay, so there's a guy who was convicted of pedophilia, or convicted of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

• 47:17Speaker 01

  You know, then a decade after he's convicted, or at least eight years after, he's still like in the most influential circles with all these. And then for national security reasons, you're telling me that this has to be hugely redacted? Like, what the hell? This just makes no sense. And his connections to Ehud Barak and Mossad now all being known. It's just too crazy. And Donald Trump, I mean, I think, I think, I think covering up the Epstein thing the way he has, has like profoundly hurt him in a way that isn't even measurable on polls. And like his poll numbers are lower than they were, and I'm sure that's a big part of it. But there is something where like, look, the fundamental animating spirit of Donald Trump's

• 48:02Speaker 01

  political existence, his, his central promise was drain the swamp.

• 48:08Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 48:09Speaker 01

  You know, like the, the reason why people love Donald Trump is because everybody on some level knew that DC is just corrupt as shit and that they're screwing all the rest of us over and they face no consequences for it. And there's something about covering up the Epstein thing that it's like, oh, when it really came down to it, you didn't want to drain the swamp. You wanted to protect them and maybe because you're pretty close to it.

• 48:34Theo Von?

  You're a gator. Yeah. Ah, it's just so twisted. And one thing that Tucker Carlson said that was interesting to me, um, yeah, I mean, some of this stuff is just, I mean, weird writings from the Lolita books on these women's bodies.

• 48:49Speaker 01

  Very strange.

• 48:50Theo Von?

  I mean, that's really wild.

• 48:53Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 48:54Theo Von?

  Just bizarre.

• 48:55Speaker 01

  There's Noam Chomsky, legendary anti-war leftist. Steve Jobs, I'm sorry, not Steve Jobs, uh.

• 49:02Theo Von?

  Bill Gates.

• 49:05Speaker 01

  I apologize for that, Steve, R I P.

• 49:08Theo Von?

  Couple bow and arrows. But yeah, just bizarre that these would come out right before Christmas. It kind of like keeps your attention focusing on that.

• 49:15Speaker 01

  And also.

• 49:16Theo Von?

  It's like a drip. It's like a morphine drip.

• 49:18Speaker 01

  And delivered in a way that is more confusing than illuminating. You know what I mean? Delivered in a way where nobody's attempting to actually get information to you that you can even try. I mean, like, obviously, like, good journalists will be tearing through these documents. I think they said there's like 1.7 million more to come. The journalists will be tearing through these for years, but like, I, I think you just

• 49:38Theo Von?

  It's like watching Lost after a while.

• 49:40Speaker 01

  Well, also, I can't, look, man, I know, I know people get. People get tribal about politics and I know like there was a whole, when I came out like a little over a year ago and I said I was gonna support Donald Trump in the election. I know that Trump people were like, "Yeah, Dave Smith's on board." And then, and I always knew, I was like, "Listen, guys, you're gonna be mad at me when he does something I don't like and I'm back to criticizing him." But like, if we're just being fair about this, I just, I can't not say this shit. Dude, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino made millions of dollars, dude. Like, they made so much goddamn money. I mean, I don't know, Cash did a lot of big shows. Dan Bongino had a huge show. He made millions of dollars all day long talking about this Epstein scandal. How they were gonna get to the bottom of it.

• 50:21Speaker 01

  He even said, Dan Bongino, the, I guess he's leaving now, but the deputy FBI director even said on Tim Poole's show that he had it on good authority that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to Middle Eastern intelligence. Now, which Middle Eastern intelligence do you think he was talking about? Which Middle, Epstein was surely working on the Saudi payroll or something like that? Like, yeah, okay. So like, they said this, they promised they were gonna get to, and not just did jack shit, lied through their fucking teeth. Told us there were no co-conspirators, there was no sex trafficking, that he killed himself. Like, hey, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino, you, you looked me in the eye, not to me, but to

• 51:03Speaker 01

  the American people, and said, "He killed himself, I've seen the proof." Why can't we see that proof?

• 51:08Theo Von?

  Yeah, I don't even know if Cash can look somebody in the eye, first of all.

• 51:12Speaker 01

  Cash, you looked all of us in the eye simultaneously.

• 51:14Theo Von?

  When you, it is funny, when you start to look at Cash Patel, you're like, "There's no way this was the guy. How did we ever think this was the guy?" And Tim Dillon has, Tim Dillon has totally kind of like, Tim Dillon has brought this guy's life down, but to a manageable level, to a realistic level. Like, yeah, those guys, it makes you realize that there's, there's a, there's something above the FBI and the CIA that gives them what they, then you're allowed to work from here.

• 51:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 51:43Theo Von?

  Here's the, it's like you said at the kids' table at Thanksgiving.

• 51:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:47Theo Von?

  And you, you play with these, you know, we'll give you, you can do the drug charges and a little bit of this and that and, but otherwise, we're gonna handle. The big shit.

• 51:54Speaker 01

  That's right. That's right. Or it's it's either that they were they never really got in control and there was a level of control above them. Or that they were lying and that they or that they sold out or that they were compromised, but there's some answer to it. But there is something where like you just the credibility damage on all of them. Like like just the amount of like street cred that Cash Patel had a year ago compared to now.

• 52:19Theo Von?

  And Trump too, I think.

• 52:20Speaker 01

  All of them, all of them.

• 52:21Theo Von?

  But some of it is also, I think, is um it's the communication, right? It's like, why not come and say, hey, I got in here. I'm not even allowed to see the things that I really want to see.

• 52:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:33Theo Von?

  And I'm also not allowed to say the things that I really want to say.

• 52:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:36Theo Von?

  Right? Like if you said that, or if you said, like, honestly, there's so many this this Epstein stuff has has to go through so many hands before we can even put anything out to the public. So that everybody can safely get their stuff for that that uh that it's unbelievable. And the best we're ever gonna get is this.

• 52:53Speaker 01

  Well, the other thing, the other thing that um.

• 52:55Theo Von?

  Because didn't he say that they had seen everything and there was nothing there?

• 52:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 52:59Theo Von?

  Can you pull that up? I think he said it on Rogan.

• 53:01Speaker 01

  Now they're saying there's 1.7 million documents. Like, did you go through all of those yourself? Like, are you confident? Yes, he did say that.

• 53:07Theo Von?

  You and Dan had a sleepover or whatever and just stayed up all night going through those?

• 53:11Speaker 01

  And you also just know, right? Like, it's like, you know, if he had come on Rogan a year earlier, you know, he would have been saying a whole different thing about that. And so it's like, you got to at least explain to me like what changed from there to now. Because otherwise you leave us just speculating like, I don't know, dude, either you're compromised or you got put in your place or you or you're just a liar and a fraud.

• 53:30Theo Von?

  Yeah. Let me see what clips. Oh, here's a clip we have. This this uh this is a Tim Dillon uh this is a Cash Patel Rogan clip that Tim Dillon covers. This is this this is good.

• 53:40Speaker 05

  Patel talking about why they can't uh put the Epstein stuff out because it will revictimize the women.

• 53:47Speaker 04

  We're not gonna revictimize women.

• 53:49Speaker 05

  What?

• 53:50Speaker 04

  We're not gonna put that shit out there. It's not happening because then he wins. Not doing it.

• 53:55Speaker 05

  Who wins? He's dead.

• 53:57Speaker 01

  That's too ridiculous, man.

• 53:59Speaker 05

  I mean.

• 54:00Speaker 01

  Look, look.

• 54:01Speaker 05

  The victim.

• 54:02Speaker 04

  If there was a video of some guy or gal committing felonies.

• 54:08Speaker 05

  But there is.

• 54:09Speaker 04

  And I'm in charge. Don't you think you'd see it?

• 54:12Speaker 05

  Yes, but that's, that's why everyone's confused. Pam Bondi said there were videos. She's the Attorney General. She goes, there's hundreds of hours of videos. That's a quote from Pam. But get the Pam Bondi quote up, but the videos, there are tens of thousands of videos of Epsi with children or child porn and there are hundreds of victims. So that's Pam Bondi. Now let's go to Cash Patel, who goes, um, so if there were things, let's go Cash Patel, everyone.

• 54:33Speaker 04

  If there was a video, don't you think you'd see it? If you have access to it. If I have it, period. If I have it, if I have it.

• 54:41Speaker 05

  You got it?

• 54:42Speaker 04

  So. Okay. Where else would it be?

• 54:46Speaker 05

  It's just.

• 54:47Speaker 01

  This is why, dude, this is why Tim's a better comedian than me, because he could just be so funny with this shit. And I'm just, it just makes me so angry. Like even just watching that, I'm just like furious. So I don't like even think of the funny thing to say. I'm just like, yeah, because dude, what does that essentially come down to? Trust me. Don't, if I had it, don't you think I would? And then, and what is Cash really trading in his trust for? Is we liked you because you said you were going to get to the bottom of this shit. That's the whole thing we liked you for. So you can't turn around and then go, and now I'm here, but wouldn't, you know me, I mean, I would, and look, dude, it's, it's, there's, there's a broader thing that's involved here, right? The point is that the drain, the swamp, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino, their whole brand,

• 55:28Speaker 01

  the whole thing was that, look, there are these criminals in DC and look at all the things that they've done. And, and they would all talk, it wasn't just, uh, Epstein. They would all talk about Russiagate, the 2020 election. I mean, look, what these guys are claiming, and I don't know about the 2020 election, but I, they're 100% right on Russiagate and Epstein, when they were talking about it before they sold out, is that they go, look. The intelligence agencies framed a presidential candidate and then the sitting president, they framed him of treason in order to unseat a democratically elected president of the United States of America. That is the biggest scandal in the history of the United States of America.

• 56:10Speaker 01

  Like this is the, these are huge crimes, sedition, treason, very serious crimes.

• 56:15Theo Von?

  And nobody's paying him.

• 56:16Speaker 01

  They locked down the whole country based on pseudoscience. They fucking, they, they covered up a senile president. They covered up a pedophile ring. They like all, and, and now you guys are in charge of the Justice Department. How many indictments?

• 56:30Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 56:31Speaker 01

  Zero, zero. And then you're gonna sit there and Cash Patel is gonna tweet out a picture of like some dude throwing a sandwich at a cop and go, "We got him." Cause this is Cash Patel's America, boys. People don't get away with crimes here. Like that's, oh wow, great job. Wow, Cash Patel, we're all so impressed that you brought down Chauncey Billups.

• 56:50Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 56:50Speaker 01

  Like, okay, that's great, you know? Like, that's great, but like, that's not exactly what we were voting for.

• 56:55Theo Von?

  Can't a cop get a free Reuben? I don't care how he gets it.

• 57:00Speaker 01

  And that sandwich was still pretty good.

• 57:01Theo Von?

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• 59:31Theo Von?

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• 59:40Speaker 01

  Dude, and I gotta say, another one who, uh, who is somebody personally who I really like in the administration is Tulsi Gabbard, which we don't hear that much from her these days. But she came out and had a press conference several months ago where she announced, and this is a pretty big deal, like a lot goes on these days, Theo, but this is a pretty big deal. The Director of National Intelligence came out and said that she had found proof that Barack Obama committed, her words, treason, and that she had sent the proof over to the Justice Department. And I will say, reading through some of those documents that got released... It's a pretty big smoking gun.

• 1:00:14Theo Von?

  Really?

• 1:00:14Speaker 01

  Like, yeah, they, they basically had.

• 1:00:16Theo Von?

  Let me see this. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a previously classified report, which he says points to a treasonous conspiracy to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election. It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files, Democratic Senator Mark Warner said. But that has nothing to do with this, right?

• 1:00:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's just a distraction. Yeah.

• 1:00:38Theo Von?

  The report Gabbard declassified was prepared by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee is dated 18th of September 2020. These bizarre allegations, these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at a distraction, a spokesperson for Obama said. Huh.

• 1:00:50Speaker 01

  Well, what they, one of the things that was revealed in the documents was that there was a.

• 1:00:54Theo Von?

  Oh, I'm sorry, one thing.

• 1:00:55Speaker 01

  Sure, sure.

• 1:00:57Theo Von?

  It was declassified on Wednesday, a day after President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of leading an effort to falsely time to Russia and undermine his 2016 election campaign. Is that what the documents were about?

• 1:01:07Speaker 01

  Well, what the documents showed was that there was essentially a national security analysis. It was, what do they call it? The threat assessment analysis after the 2016 election, where the intelligence agencies had reached a consensus that there was no meaningful interference in the election.

• 1:01:27Theo Von?

  Of course, for Russiagate?

• 1:01:28Speaker 01

  So now, yes, now, if you remember, now, if you remember, the central claim of Russiagate was there were two aspects to it. One was that the Russians interfered in the election on behalf of Donald Trump, and number two, that Donald Trump was involved in the conspiracy to do so. That like Donald Trump and the Russians were working together to overthrow the election. Now, if true, that's the biggest story in American history, right? That the sitting president is a foreign spy. But what Tulsi, now, it had been, the part about Donald Trump being involved in the conspiracy had been completely debunked. It was all based off the Steele dossier. It was all lies. It was all Hillary Clinton op research, you know,

• 1:02:09Speaker 01

  campaign bullshit that the CIA and the FBI jumped on. But what Tulsi Gabbard revealed was that they didn't even believe the first part of it. They didn't even believe that Russia interfered at the time. And so, anyway, but the broader point to that is, so the Director of National Intelligence came out, said there's proof that Obama committed treason and that she sent it to the Justice Department.

• 1:02:27Theo Von?

  What happened?

• 1:02:28Speaker 01

  And that's the last we heard of that.

• 1:02:29Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:02:29Speaker 01

  And like, well, what the hell? At some point, you gotta come through on one of these things.

• 1:02:34Theo Von?

  Yeah. Yeah, that's it. There's never any explanation for a lot of stuff. There's never any real communication. Um, the, the, uh, yeah, the, the Russiagate thing was just like, obviously that was ridiculous. Remember it was just that they were getting a lot of ads to, to on Facebook.

• 1:02:50Speaker 01

  And it was like 30 grand worth of ads. It was like nothing.

• 1:02:52Theo Von?

  And Facebook was, um, I think they were, I don't want to say they were convicted, but they admitted to in helping to influence the.

• 1:03:00Speaker 01

  2020.

• 1:03:01Theo Von?

  Yeah. They admitted to helping influence Biden's campaign in 2020.

• 1:03:04Speaker 01

  Well, not only that, but Zuckerberg on Rogan's show, uh, Rogan asked him about the Hunter Biden story. And he was like, yeah, well, we didn't, we didn't censor it the way Twitter did, but we turned down the signal so no one could see it. And then he says, he offers this, Joe didn't like ask him, he just goes, well, you know, the FBI came and visited like a week before. And they said, be on the lookout for a big Russian dump. It's going to be Russian influence as Russian interference in the election again. Which never happened the first time, but it was going to happen again. And so then he said that essentially he thought that was it. So when it came, he was like, oh, the FBI told, so it's not just Facebook interfering.

• 1:03:45Speaker 01

  It's the government, it's the, it's the FBI interfering to put their thumb on a scale in an election. By the way, against the current commander in chief.

• 1:03:55Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:55Speaker 01

  Like the current sitting US president. It's even worse than like if they were interfering, which would still be really bad. To keep like the president's competition out, but they're insubordinate. They're, they're interfering to unseat the guy who is the head of the executive branch.

• 1:04:09Theo Von?

  And it seems like that, that led to also Trump getting reelected the second time. Cause it was like, oh, well, the system, they, whatever this dark system is that already feels dark and feels controlling. Hates him so much that they must hate him because he's the guy that's going to help. He's the guy that's going to make things different.

• 1:04:25Speaker 01

  No, that's, that's right. And, um, there's, and, and also because it was just like the, um, I think the, when they, when they went after him. When they weaponized the justice department to go after him, that played into that too. Like they just raided Mar-a-Lago. They're trying him for some bookkeeping issue in New York. I mean, none of this makes any sense at all. It's obviously just that like these shadowy forces don't want this guy in. And so that was a huge part of Trump's populist energy.

• 1:04:50Theo Von?

  Yeah. Yeah, it became like, well, yeah, if the Justice Department isn't fair to him, right? That's the one thing it feels like that we would have, you would hope would be fair in this country, right?

• 1:05:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:05:01Theo Von?

  Is like a sense of justice. There's some sense of justice here. And when that starts to fail, you have to start to, you, there's a part of you that just cheers for that guy. It's like, oh, he can't even get any justice, you know?

• 1:05:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right.

• 1:05:13Theo Von?

  It's just, how, how do you think, um, how do you think things look as we go into 2026 here? Cause it's, it's just baffling, man. Like, I was hoping to see more things where it's like, okay, we're building things. We're, we're bringing businesses back and we're gonna, you're gonna start to see certain jobs and opportunities come back to different areas. And if they are, why wouldn't you talk about that more and share that more and inspire people more with that, you know?

• 1:05:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:05:40Theo Von?

  I think that's some of the communication that would be nice to hear more of. I think you kind of have to, you kind of need a couple of years to kind of see maybe what they're gonna do with some of these tariffs. If we're making money from these tariffs, what does that go into? You know, and maybe it could be set aside and said, well, the, the, the money that we're keeping from these tariffs, it's gonna go here, here and here to support these things or to rebuild these efforts, you know?

• 1:06:03Speaker 01

  The thing is that we're like, we, the problem in America isn't that the federal government doesn't have revenue. They have a huge tax base. I mean, we, we bring in more revenue now than we've ever brought in before, just through taxes. Forget the tariffs. Um, the problem is that no matter how much revenue DC brings in, they spend three times as much.

• 1:06:23Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:23Speaker 01

  You know, I mean, we're, we're 38 plus trillion in debt and you know, the real-

• 1:06:30Theo Von?

  It fucking feels like a number a kid would say.

• 1:06:33Speaker 01

  Well, and but the crazy thing is, right? Is that our government is so big that the 38 trillion isn't even nearly enough. I mean, it's like the 38 trillion is just what they racked up on the credit card. They were spending our tax revenue that whole time. So they spent tens of trillions of dollars of our tax revenue. And even that's not enough. They can't tax enough and they can't borrow enough. And so then they just print the money.

• 1:06:56Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:57Speaker 01

  And this is really the central problem that everyone's living through today is that if you- Go look this up on like charts, but like between essentially from the financial collapse in 2008 to today. So like from and George W. Bush had printed a ton of money too. But if you just look at like Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump again, we printed something like a third of the money that's ever existed. Like the answer has just been always just keep printing money, keep flooding this is and now people are looking around and they're going, wait a minute. Why is the price of everything out of control?

• 1:07:32Theo Von?

  It's crazy.

• 1:07:32Speaker 01

  Like the Democrats who won, not just Mumdani in New York, but also the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey that they just won in this last elections in November, all of them ran on what they call now the unaffordability crisis. But like, what is unaffordability? That just means you've debased your currency, right? So this is the kind of the now. So the answer is we got to stop debasing our currency. Like the solution would be a gold standard or something where you don't just print money out of thin air. But the problem with that is that you can't really be a world empire and do that. And so in a weird way, you really do have to, I mean, you can't be a giant welfare state either, but you kind of have to make a choice between like Donald Trump siding with the warhawks at every turn, or Donald Trump siding with the American

• 1:08:15Speaker 01

  people and not debasing their currency anymore. But he doesn't want to do that. In fact, he wants quite the opposite. He wants the Fed chairman to lower interest rates. He wants more money to be lent, more money to be printed because that he assesses that that'll be good in the short term and help him win the midterm elections. But of course, that's like what got us to this place to begin with. So once you're not, once you're not willing to compromise on actually cutting spending and you want to keep the empire strong, now you got to come up with other schemes. Well, maybe we put a tariff on Chinese goods, then maybe that'll make them more expensive. So people will want to produce here. But those type of schemes never work out, man.

• 1:08:51Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:51Speaker 01

  You just can't tax your way into prosperity.

• 1:08:54Theo Von?

  Yeah, we'll put a tax on ball caps or whatever, on butterscotches or whatever.

• 1:08:57Speaker 01

  Because real people got to pay those taxes too.

• 1:09:00Theo Von?

  And it just comes back to the people. It's like, I don't know where it's such a spot where it's like.

• 1:09:07Theo Von?

  It's like, how much more can we take? We're also gotten too comfortable.

• 1:09:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:09:13Theo Von?

  You know, it's like, we're too comfortable, like, how? It's, it's, it's hard to like, be like, yeah, I'm gonna go and talk about this, or I'm gonna go, protest about this, or I'm gonna not pay my taxes, or, you know, it's hard to, I mean, you're like, ah, but, you know, we got Netflix, we got this, there's enough food in the cupboard.

• 1:09:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, when you're, when you're comfortable, yeah, that's right. People aren't gonna, no, no comfortable country ever leads a revolution, you know, but, but at the same time, one of the things that I find

• 1:09:46Theo Von?

  That's a good statement, man. No comfortable country ever leads a revolution.

• 1:09:49Speaker 01

  Well, there's a, but I will say-

• 1:09:52Theo Von?

  We're getting uncomfortable, it's just like-

• 1:09:53Speaker 01

  But there's a big trend, I think we talked about this a little bit last year, but this was a big trend, one of the things that I'm really optimistic about, that I just think is really interesting, is that, so like, one of the crazy things, and you were a big part of this, but one of the crazy things that happened in the 24 election, was that the whole, like, the whole corporate media, what used to be called the mainstream media, which seems like a ridiculous title for them now, uh, cause like, they're not the mainstream at all, but they kinda had to admit it was over. Like, if you, there was-

• 1:10:24Theo Von?

  Did you see that CBS clip?

• 1:10:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're like, which is crazy that it's the first one, that it like, it's, it's, you're the first one who mustered up the thought-

• 1:10:32Theo Von?

  The courage?

• 1:10:32Speaker 01

  Here, here, play, yeah-

• 1:10:33Theo Von?

  And they sent this white guy to do it, too. And this is, CBS says that, uh, starting today, they will be reporting the news more from the average American perspective, rather than solely the opinions of the liberal elite.

• 1:10:45Speaker 01

  It's just such a funny thing to announce that CBS is gonna do news. Like, hey, guys, we're gonna try something new here, alright? This is a crazy thought, I had a crazy thought, we were workshopping this for a little while. What if we reported the news, and not through an angle that always protects, uh, you know, Goldman Sachs? Maybe we'll do it through an angle that's like, for you?

• 1:11:05Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:05Speaker 01

  Is that crazy?

• 1:11:06Theo Von?

  Yeah. Let's hear it.

• 1:11:09Speaker 06

  A lot has changed since the first person sat in this chair, but for me, the biggest difference is people do not trust us like they used to. And it's not just us, it's all of legacy media. And I get it, I get it because I've been hearing about it from just about everybody for more than 20 years as I've traveled America on this assignment or that. My mom's neighbors in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City, thousands and thousands of conversations in between. Sometimes people want to talk to me about our coverage of NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times, it's all about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russiagate. Or more recently, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's fitness

• 1:11:52Speaker 01

  It's just scary, it's like, you mean when you ruined the country? Does that come up? Does it come up that you destroyed the greatest country in the history of the world?

• 1:12:00Theo Von?

  That you had people fighting about shit that you knew wasn't real? And never even an apology in any of that?

• 1:12:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:12:06Theo Von?

  Dude, my neighbors and I didn't talk for like a year and a half because of the Russiagate shit, I was like, that's complete bullshit, I could just, immediately I knew when I saw it, like, none of this makes any sense, Russia? Russia's a bunch of fucking rusted out vehicles.

• 1:12:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, all these, all these stories.

• 1:12:20Theo Von?

  And kids carrying stone dolls made out of stone, which I respect, because there's a lot of like, you know, you really learn to do something if you, if the doll is heavy. You know, there's something about that that I really respect, but this, I just knew, it just seems so ridiculous. Maybe 50 years ago, maybe, but not today.

• 1:12:38Speaker 01

  Well, right, and then just like, as he just casually mentions, like, or lockdowns, it's like, oh yeah, like, when they, when they turned our country into a totalitarian state, remember they did that for a year plus? And you guys did what? What, you guys, you're sitting here, you're the journalist, you have this role as the media, and you always talk about how important this role is, right? And then, they locked down the country! And you decided in that moment, here's what we'll do, we'll demonize anybody who's skeptical of this, we'll call you names, we'll, we'll shame Americans for, for demanding some degree of basic liberty during a crisis. And then, by the way, you know what? Happens as a result of that when you do it, which by the way, there's been a ton of studies on this now.

• 1:13:21Speaker 01

  They didn't even, the lockdowns didn't even slow the spread of the goddamn virus. It wasn't even like there was a benefit that you got this cost in exchange for. It did nothing. The lockdown areas, the thing spread just as badly as they did through non lockdown areas. Mass compliance had nothing to do with anything, but you know what was real is how many families got broken up.

• 1:13:41Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:41Speaker 01

  Over lockdowns.

• 1:13:42Theo Von?

  How many AA rooms were closed and people couldn't go to get recovery and ended up relapsing.

• 1:13:46Speaker 01

  How many people fell off the wagon during lockdowns? How many people who were like on the edge, ended up losing their apartment, ended up living outside on the street? How, no, all those guys, they gotta live with that tragedy. And you, but your response is to go, finally, after all these years. I'll acknowledge some people were upset about this. We'll do it a little bit differently going forward. Like, shouldn't you resign in disgrace? Like, just, just, I mean, like, listen, I'm trying to be reasonable here. I really think you should fall on a Japanese sword in public in front of a lot of people. But I will accept resigning in disgrace and picking up garbage on the side of the road for the rest of your life.

• 1:14:24Theo Von?

  And they've shunned that dude they got caught jerking off in the Zoom meeting, remember?

• 1:14:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. That's right. He faced more consequences. Tubin faced more consequences than any of these guys.

• 1:14:35Theo Von?

  That dude, they, at least they made him come on. Because he was jerking off during a Zoom meeting, which first of all, who doesn't want to jerk off during a fricking Zoom meeting? And who hasn't if you're, if you're, most of your body's off screen?

• 1:14:47Speaker 01

  How do you not?

• 1:14:48Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:49Speaker 01

  It's an impossible challenge. But is it crazy, Theo, that I get now, because I do this, you know, whatever the weird career that I have is? But like, I'll get all these people now, like high profile people, who will be like talking shit about me. It'll be like, Dave Smith, what does he know? What does he know what he's talking about? He's some comedian. He's not an expert. He get, and look, fair enough. What the fuck do I really know, right? I am just a comedian who's read a lot about this stuff and I get on shows and I talk about like, it's like this, it's not like that. So like, fair enough, call me out. I'm just a guy and if people want to listen, they can. If they don't, they don't have to. But I'll be arguing, like, I'll be arguing on Twitter with Dinesh D'Souza or recently David Wormser. The, remember last time I was on here? So I, I told you about the, the clean break memo?

• 1:15:32Speaker 01

  That, uh, it was, uh, the neocons wrote to Netanyahu to get away from the peace plan and to overthrow Saddam Hussein for Israel. So the guy who wrote it. Is now talking shit to me on Twitter. The neo, he was at the Pentagon, he was at the State Department. And they'll say things to me like, they'll be like, they'll be like, Dave, you, this guy's a comedian. He doesn't know what he's talking about. You go, dude, you were the architect of the war in Iraq. Go away forever. Like, you don't get to tell, you don't get to come out here and go, who does this guy think he is? Who do I think I am? You got a million people killed and didn't get punished for it. Just kindly go away. Is that an unreasonable request? I know. Like, it's, but anyway, the CBS guy, I guess what's interesting is at least he's acknowledging it. I guess. At least they're saying. It's bizarre.

• 1:16:16Speaker 01

  Now, by the way, also, in the background of this is that CBS News was just purchased by the Israel lobby. Yes. And so this is there. It's a lot. I'm sure we can really trust you now. Yep, let's put a little bit more of that clip of the guy that was talking.

• 1:16:28Speaker 06

  Fitness for office. The point is, on too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you. And I know this because at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way too. I felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life.

• 1:17:01Speaker 01

  We're living in a dystopian time, bro. Yeah, it's like, and, and then is it too much for me to ask that you resign in disgrace? Right. You know, like, or in disgust, I should say, like, I'm, I'm saying, like, if you, if you're going, I've felt that same way too at times. Well, then, what the fuck, man? Like, no one's putting a gun to your head. So, so leave and blow the whistle and become all of our hero. Yes. And go have the biggest podcast ever, you know, like, it's not even like a difficult thing to have done. It's not even like, like, there is more culpability for you than there was for the average Nazi soldier. At least the average Nazi soldier was like, I'll get shot in the head if I don't do this, you know? Like, you had nothing except giving up a $10 million salary or something like that. Maybe.

• 1:17:42Speaker 01

  You know, and, and, and by the way, you could still go make lots of money because the people would rally around you if you did something like that. And like, it's like when there's that tape of, um. If you're not going to tell the truth, what are you?

• 1:17:52Theo Von?

  Like, you know what I'm saying?

• 1:17:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's your job.

• 1:17:54Theo Von?

  Right. It's like, but it's like, if you're not gonna try your best to figure it out, I don't know. It just, I couldn't imagine sitting there regurgitating lies. Like, just how much it would make you crawl on the inside.

• 1:18:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. No, it's an, it's an amazing ability. I mean, I've been close up with it. And it's a, it was one of the things when I debated Chris Cuomo. It was like, one of the things that really was like, it was startling to see. Because it's how comfortable he was just lying. Like, lying through his teeth, a, um, a, a demonstrable lot. Like, I would, I would say, like, there was one point in it, and the Patrick B. David production staff, always be grateful to them, because, man, they got my back that day. And they had the clip, they pulled it up real quick. But I went, he went, look, I don't think the guys at CNN should have mocked Joe Rogan for taking ivermectin. And I went, you did.

• 1:18:42Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:42Speaker 01

  You mocked Joe Rogan for taking ivermectin. And he goes, no, I didn't. I go, yes, you did. I've seen it. I've watched you do it. And then he goes, no, I didn't. And then they pull up a clip of him going, Joe Rogan, ivermectin, I mean, horse dewarmer. And the entire room, because it was a live show, the entire room goes, oh. And then he goes, oh, no, no, no. I was saying, like, the veterinary version, not the regular version. You go, what version do you think Joe Rogan was taking? You think Joe Rogan went to the pet store? Like, yeah, he's got a few bucks. I don't know if you've heard, you know? But there-

• 1:19:12Theo Von?

  Is that a fucking pet co?

• 1:19:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:19:14Theo Von?

  Do you think he drove and parked at a pet co and walked in there? Past the gerbil cages?

• 1:19:19Speaker 01

  Like, believe it or not, Joe Rogan can afford doctors.

• 1:19:21Theo Von?

  Past the part where they're grooming the dogs right in the front when you walk in?

• 1:19:25Speaker 01

  Uh, hi, I'm world famous Joe Rogan. I was here to pick up some ivermectin. I have a prescription for my dog that I'd like to fill.

• 1:19:32Theo Von?

  Oh, you got worms, Joe, huh?

• 1:19:34Speaker 01

  But these people who work in corporate media, man, they get real comfortable just saying, like, a knowing lie that they will just repeat because that's the business. But the thing that's interesting to me, and this is the last year, right? Is that they admitted it. Because this was true five years ago, too. Five years ago, four years ago, three years ago, Rogan had a much bigger audience than CNN had. But they would still pretend like he was the fringe and they were the mainstream media. But after Trump got reelected, they admitted it. They all said, we need our own Joe Rogan. Like, they admitted that the podcasting is where it was. And part of that is because Trump- Very wisely, and I guess I've heard that it was his son who convinced him to do it.

• 1:20:14Speaker 01

  But he went on your show and Joe's show and Andrew's show and you know, like some of the other ones.

• 1:20:20Theo Von?

  Y'all boys.

• 1:20:20Speaker 01

  Y'all boys, yeah, I don't know them, but like, yeah, they're a huge, I've learned. And so he rode this kind of podcast wave where the new media was, he went to them.

• 1:20:30Theo Von?

  It was smart of him.

• 1:20:30Speaker 01

  Very smart. And then there were, and I thought it was really, like even when on your show with him, one of the things that was cool, like we've never really seen that, just like in the middle of a presidential season, where a president comes in and just doesn't really talk politics. Talks about like his brother's struggle with alcoholism and you're like, oh wow. We kind of get to see a candidate in a new way. Now, one of the things I think that's interesting about this now, what's happened over this last year, is that a lot of those guys, and I remember arguing about this with people at the time, but they were kind of like, oh, now the problem is that all these podcast bros are just Trump stans now. And they're all gonna just, you know, support him no matter what. And I was like, no, I don't think so, dude. Like, I don't think.

• 1:21:13Theo Von?

  That's never been the thing. And so what's interesting is that this whole media environment, like if J D Vance wants to be president, like I'm not saying he has to come do your show, but he kind of has to come do your show. He kind of has to go do Rogan's show. He kind of has to like do, or at least he's turning down a big opportunity not to. And so. And it will be known by people, I think, if you don't go do Joe's show. If you don't do, um, you know, I'm trying to think of like Schultz's show, uh, that.

• 1:21:41Speaker 01

  You gotta at least do some of them.

• 1:21:42Theo Von?

  Or go sit with Tim Dillon.

• 1:21:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:45Theo Von?

  That would be amazing.

• 1:21:45Speaker 01

  Well, because you know this will do huge, huge numbers.

• 1:21:48Theo Von?

  Right. And you know, though, that it will be, uh, that, that Joe's gonna do his best job to be, you know, he's gonna do what he does best, which is he's the best to do it.

• 1:21:57Speaker 01

  But I just think that they're gonna.

• 1:21:58Theo Von?

  It's not gonna be controlled.

• 1:21:59Speaker 01

  Right. That's the thing. And they're gonna have to answer some questions next time. And like, that's one of the interesting things right now, right? Cause like, there was over this last year, really, I mean, it's the last two years, but really over this last year, there was this huge, like, um. This huge split in the right wing over Israel, obviously. Was it the biggest cause, you think? I think that, look, obviously Charlie Kirk being killed was a, but look, Charlie Kirk was already dealing with it before he died. Like, it was a dynamic at turning point. It was a huge scandal when he had Tucker and me and Megyn Kelly at turning point. And then he's, he went on Megyn Kelly's show and talked about how all the Zionists were like flipping out on him and how crazy it was that he had been such an ally.

• 1:22:44Speaker 01

  And they were turning on him just for hosting a debate and hosting a few voices that were critical of Israel. Not really that many on, actually, but this was, this has been a huge split, but it's not a split like it's 50 50. It's a split like the entire youth is against this unconditional support for Israel. A huge portion of, you know, like Candace and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have been surging over this last year. They're, they're bigger than ever. Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro is like losing a thousand YouTube subscribers a day. Mark Levin is just getting ratioed every time he opens his mouth on, on social media. And so what's happening now is there's this dynamic where.

• 1:23:29Speaker 01

  I thought he was Jim Cramer. I didn't even know who he was. I, I kept, I, I got confused. Go on. But now there's this situation. Well, so, but I'm saying now you have this dynamic where JD Vance wants to be the, the Republican nominee. Well, like 80% of the base is against, is for America first, not for Israel first, you know? And now, and particularly with all those shows we were talking about, like your show, Rogan's show, Tim's show, Andrew's show, all these guys. Everybody, my show, all, all of us are like, we don't want to fight wars on behalf of Israel. So it's like, where do you go now? Now there's a, now there's a real media environment. I'm not saying it's perfect and I'm just naming the comedians. There's a lot of other great, like news shows out there too.

• 1:24:12Speaker 01

  Like Breaking Points with, uh, uh, Sager and, and Jedy and, and Crystal Ball is a great, uh, show. Like, there's, there's a bunch of really good, uh, shows online that aren't in this corporate controlled media environment. Where they're actually gonna have to face some of this stuff going forward. So I'm like, I'm very optimistic about that kind of long term that we've like cracked the state's monopoly on propaganda.

• 1:24:35Theo Von?

  Yeah, it is gonna be interesting because you're gonna have to answer, I don't know if you're gonna be able to say you're a pro-Israel candidate.

• 1:24:41Speaker 01

  It's gonna be tough. Now, here's the thing is that, and they're gonna be in a Charlie Kirk type situation here, and I'm not talking about Charlie Kirk's assassination, but I'm saying the position that Charlie Kirk was in right before he died and the reason why he was sending those text messages to Josh Hammer and them that I have no other choice than to abandon support for Israel, and while he was complaining about all that stuff on the Megyn Kelly Show, is that he was caught between a rock and a hard place, which is exactly what J.D. Vance is gonna be caught between now, because you've got, well, look, in order to, in order to lead an organization like Turning Point USA, you need your young activists, and then you need your donors, right? You need billionaires to give you money, but you need young activists to show up. And so Charlie Kirk was in this position where he's like, dude, the young activists

• 1:25:24Speaker 01

  are completely against this shit, but the donors won't even let you host a debate about it, let alone take that position. And so what do you do there? And now J.D. Vance is gonna be in a similar position, too. If you come out and you say I'm pro-Israel, well, man, I mean, at this point, that turns a whole lot of us off. But if you say I'm anti-Israel, that's a tough, in Washington, D.C., you can't survive there for long. So he's gotta try to walk this tightrope that is becoming more impossible by the day.

• 1:25:57Theo Von?

  He's gonna need a strong mascara.

• 1:25:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, you better put your best mascara on for that one.

• 1:26:02Theo Von?

  Type shit, and I like J.D., man, I like, he knows.

• 1:26:05Speaker 01

  I like J.D. too.

• 1:26:06Theo Von?

  I like J.D.

• 1:26:07Speaker 01

  I like J.D., I even would like to maybe be able to support him.

• 1:26:12Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:26:13Speaker 01

  But I'm in a position right now, I don't see how I'm gonna be able to, at least from my perspective, because you're coming off of, you're gonna be attached to the administration that did everything Netanyahu wanted and covered up the Epstein scandal and didn't solve any of the major problems in the country, short of maybe the border. And also, J.D. Vance, what are you gonna say? What are you gonna run on? This time we'll really drain the swamp?

• 1:26:35Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:26:36Speaker 01

  Like, what are you gonna, and also, just because Trump is Trump, he can't really criticize Donald Trump, because he's still his vice president as he's running a presidential campaign. It's a tough spot. Yep.

• 1:26:46Theo Von?

  Bro, he's good. That's the tightest rope in the world. Now, there is something about that tight rope that I can tell JD like loves. Like, he wants to challenge himself. He's a guy who's challenged himself a lot in his life, and he wants to challenge himself. So he's gonna try to navigate that. That's gonna be super tricky to figure out because those are, I mean, that's like his, I mean, that's just like a, it's such a fine point.

• 1:27:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, well, you, I think, you know, you see it like already.

• 1:27:12Theo Von?

  That's such a fine point, man.

• 1:27:14Speaker 01

  Well, it's happened a lot just with, um.

• 1:27:16Theo Von?

  And it's kind of become MAGA versus America first, too, is kind of where that thing, where that, uh, where the Republican, kind of the right divide is. Like, yeah, I was, I mean, I liked Trump the first time because he was an underdog. I was like, oh, this dude is just some guy, like, I, I know he's Donald Trump, and I know he's like been known for crooked antics and dodging, like, um, contractors and shit over the years. Um, but then also it was like, fuck, if this guy wins, I remember when he won the first time, I remember driving down the street and thinking, oh shit, anybody could be president. And it was the feeling you had when you were a kid, a little bit like, dude, I can be president. But just the idea that anybody could be president.

• 1:27:55Speaker 01

  Because there's something about Donald Trump that even though he's a billionaire, he's such a regular guy billionaire. Like, like, he's, he's a billionaire the way the average guy in a trailer park would be a billionaire if you gave him a billion dollars.

• 1:28:11Theo Von?

  Well, he's not pretending not to be a billionaire.

• 1:28:13Speaker 01

  Right, but, right, but it's also just like, uh, it's like, how about we make it the biggest gold sign ever? It's like someone who never had money, who just like, is, like, wants to show off that he's got some.

• 1:28:22Theo Von?

  Now I see why him and Kid Rock are so close because Kid Rock is like that. He's like, let's make it like this, dude.

• 1:28:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's, it, right, which I love that guy, by the way. Um, but he's awesome. I met him, uh, last time I was down here, I met him at, uh, I did his show, which was so much fun. Uh, he does like a comedy show in the Nashville Comedy Festival, so I did that last night. So much fun. He's an awesome guy. Um, but, so, Donald Trump, and then also you had, he speaks like a regular guy, like, he doesn't speak like a highfalutin academic or something like that. He speaks like a regular guy. Regular people can understand him. And then. He announces he's running for president and his, again, his pitch is drain the swamp. And I'm gonna fight for you. I'm gonna fight for you to win. And then because he says that, every media apparatus, every Hollywood actor, academia, and the entire political class all hate

• 1:29:12Speaker 01

  his guts and are working against him. And so he's naturally just cast as like the underdog, the guy who's there for you, who's gonna take them. And then he sits in South Carolina. It was so ballsy. And Donald Trump always had an amazing ability to like, say the obvious truth and then give you permission to also agree with him. So like, he goes in South Carolina, of all places, at the Republican primary, and he looks at Jeb Bush, and he goes, "Your brother lied us into war." And like, and this was an amazing moment in American history. So he says this to Jeb Bush, and Jeb Bush goes, "That's very offensive that you would say something like that." Then he doubles down on it. He goes, "They lied. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction."

• 1:29:56Speaker 01

  Like, the biggest accusation you could make. Your brother led, I mean, you're looking at South Carolina. It's one of those militarized states in the Union. At the Republican National, he's like saying, "Your brother's dead because of him, and his brother, and what they did", you know? And then that night, on all the cable news, it was unanimous by everyone who knew, all the experts, all the ones who say, "I'm just a comedian. I don't know what I'm talking about." They're the experts. Every single expert went on TV that day to say, "Donald Trump is done. He's finished." Because let me tell you, one thing you can't do in South Carolina is insult the military and George W. Bush and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the next day at the primary, Donald Trump dominated, just destroyed Jeb Bush,

• 1:30:39Speaker 01

  who walked away with like 1%. Or something like that. Just destroyed him. And so, and then that guy ends up siding. By the way, did you see this the other day? This is, this is how bad the Trump administration has done one year in. You know who just praised Donald Trump on Twitter? Jeb Bush. Uh-uh. Jeb Bush. You're lying. I swear to God. Bring it up. It'll be right up there at the top. It might, oh, everything is that first one. Yep, right there. Pinned tweet. The Islamic Republic does not represent the great Iranian people. President Trump continues to demonstrate historic leadership on Iran. So why Jeb Bush is now praising Donald Trump? And why? Is it because Jeb Bush woke up and became a lot better on stuff?

• 1:31:19Speaker 01

  No, it's because Donald Trump is finishing off what was the seventh country on General Wesley Clark's list of seven countries that were to be toppled. Oh, that's true. If you remember that. We talked about last time. People try to give me shit for bringing this up. Was that the neoconservatives? Well, yes, it was him talking about the neoconservatives' plan that they had, uh, that they had just instituted under the George W. Bush administration. And this, this list of seven countries with Sudan being the one exception. Now Sudan did collapse and fall into a state of civil war and the country broke off. And I think there's still a horrible civil war going on there. Good athletes. Very good. Uh, but of the other countries, okay, there's six left on that list.

• 1:32:02Speaker 01

  Israel, the US, or both have attacked all of them. Yeah. Since that point, bombed all of them. And the last regime change was supposed to be Iran, which, okay, Donald Trump stopped short of regime change there, but he did launch a war against them. Still flirting with it though. Over the summer and still flirting with it. That thing is not over at all. We're at halftime. I, again, like the mission accomplished banner, like the people with Venezuela right now, they always love to celebrate immediately. Oh, Dave, you warned this might be a catastrophe, but look, it was just 12 days. You're like, yeah, but look, it's not over. Like, I'm old enough to remember very vividly, uh, in 1991, after George H. W. Bush led the Persian Gulf War and all the warhawks were celebrating what an easy success the war in Iraq was.

• 1:32:47Speaker 01

  But then we went on to bomb that country for 30 more years and lost trillions of dollars and a million Iraqis died and 5,000 of our bravest young soldiers died and then like 30,000 committed suicide in the aftermath of the whole thing. So you sit there celebrating these wars right after, you know, like in the immediate aftermath of them. Netanyahu and Trump were just talking the other day about when they're gonna bomb Iran next. That thing ain't over at all. But anyway, the point being Jeb Bush loves Donald Trump now because he's siding with the warhawks. He's siding with the neocons against his own voters.

• 1:33:24Theo Von?

  That's, I mean, I don't know, like, whatever you think about him, you have to respect

• 1:33:33Theo Von?

  his ability.

• 1:33:35Speaker 01

  Oh, for sure.

• 1:33:36Theo Von?

  Unless, now what about this part? Do you think that, uh,

• 1:33:43Theo Von?

  do you think that assassination attempt was real? After this much time has passed?

• 1:33:50Speaker 01

  The, uh, the Butler, Pennsylvania one, I mean...

• 1:33:53Theo Von?

  Did you see that reverse camera shot that came up the other day?

• 1:33:56Speaker 01

  No, I don't think so.

• 1:33:57Theo Von?

  They showed the reverse camera shot of the Butler, PA, shooting. This was like a new footage that hadn't been shown before.

• 1:34:03Speaker 01

  Oh, really? No, I missed that.

• 1:34:05Theo Von?

  Uh, yeah, this is just new.

• 1:34:09Speaker 07

  Has this been shot? Oh, no.

• 1:34:15Speaker 07

  Either that or they're covering, we don't know. Either that or they're covering him.

• 1:34:20Speaker 07

  We love you. We love you, President Trump. We love you. We love you.

• 1:34:28Theo Von?

  Now, they've, he ushers in photographers from the left side of the stage. This is kind of bizarre.

• 1:34:34Speaker 07

  We love you, President Trump.

• 1:34:41Speaker 07

  We love you.

• 1:34:42Theo Von?

  That is crazy. The flag was lowered into position. Is this real?

• 1:34:47Speaker 01

  Or is the flag being lowered or is the camera moving?

• 1:34:50Theo Von?

  That's a good question.

• 1:34:53Theo Von?

  That if they paused to lower the flag though, that is, but we are, everything just feels now like we're living in a, kind of like a diorama or something like we're walking in a total Truman Show, it feels like.

• 1:35:08Speaker 01

  It does, it does feel like, like one of those time travel movies where like you go into the future and everything's wrong. And you're like, oh, someone's got to go back and fix this. What did we do? Something was supposed to happen different.

• 1:35:20Theo Von?

  Go back, Trump, show this a little, go back to that flag lowering. I want to see that part. I mean, that's.

• 1:35:31Theo Von?

  Flag is lowered into position.

• 1:35:32Speaker 01

  It doesn't look like the camera's moving.

• 1:35:34Theo Von?

  Dude, that's crazy. That's crazy. And it's crazy to think this is how long they were. They had this dude up on stage, like get him off of the stage.

• 1:35:43Speaker 01

  It was crazy.

• 1:35:45Theo Von?

  And then it's odd behavior shows how they staged the famous photo. And then he starts moving the camera, people come around, like, wouldn't there be people pushing the camera people away? Like, whoever could get close to him right now?

• 1:35:56Speaker 01

  Well, look, I mean.

• 1:35:57Theo Von?

  They explained to me why his press agent went to grab photographers after shots were fired, then they lower the flag in the frame. It's just wild.

• 1:36:06Speaker 01

  It is, it is weird. Um, but also Trump had the presence of mind to be like, let me make this a photo op, one way or the other. I mean, clearly, he said, the first thing he says is wear my shoes. Like, he's like, Trump is so cognizant of being the alpha and like, like, he's, he's just the ultimate genius marketer, says PR person. So he knows, like, even in this moment, I gotta be strong. Get my shoes on. I'm not walking out of here barefoot, you know? I'm gonna throw my fist up. I'm gonna like, like, he's, so that's like, it's amazing how hardwired into you that has to be, you know what I mean? To have it in a moment like that. I've always thought there were just. So many questions about how this could have possibly happened.

• 1:36:48Theo Von?

  Yes.

• 1:36:48Speaker 01

  And that are things that are really not answered and.

• 1:36:51Theo Von?

  And it went by fast.

• 1:36:53Speaker 01

  And there's, and there seems to be no even like desire to get to the bottom of this.

• 1:36:56Theo Von?

  Not anymore.

• 1:36:56Speaker 01

  We gotta figure out what happened, obviously.

• 1:36:58Theo Von?

  Because, because the people who are supposed to be figuring out what happened there, it's.

• 1:37:03Speaker 01

  Well, they're making apologies at CBS about how they're gonna do better going forward.

• 1:37:07Theo Von?

  If they're the ones, if they are somehow the same ones who created this.

• 1:37:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:37:12Theo Von?

  Then of course they wouldn't keep looking into it. It would be so ridic- that's, that's at the, that's where you realize it. It's like, oh, of course they wouldn't, they'd have no, because you couldn't maintain a real strong enough desire to continue to look into something. If you knew there was absolutely nothing there.

• 1:37:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:37:30Theo Von?

  Right? Especially if you had created the false, the falsity. It's like, bring that back up though. That flag lowering is unbelievable. Bro, they lowered the flag into the shot.

• 1:37:40Speaker 01

  That is crazy.

• 1:37:44Theo Von?

  Ah, they staged a famous photo. That's crazy. They lowered the flag. And then what are the other things it says? Is that how the Secret Service has always been prepared to act after an assassination attempt? That's not even, and that's not even mentioning how his ear apparently regrew. This new camera angle makes it look really suspicious. I do think it is interesting how they just allowed photographers to get right there. Like, wouldn't you think, what if somebody's coming to stab and what if one of these people?

• 1:38:08Speaker 01

  Right, right. Oh, no, you, you would think you're in a moment of complete chaos and confusion. You have no idea where the threat is. They have no way of knowing if it's a lone gunman. They have no way of knowing whether there's a team of people here, right? I mean, this is.

• 1:38:20Theo Von?

  And what happened to that shooter?

• 1:38:22Speaker 01

  Well, they, they ultimately killed him. Yeah, they, they took him out.

• 1:38:26Theo Von?

  Or they just put some kid on a roofie.

• 1:38:28Speaker 01

  And they remember they said, they, they said that they couldn't get on the roof because it was too slanted. But then they killed the guy and his body didn't roll off. So even a, a dead corpse stayed on the roof. Uh, it, it was, all of it made no sense. And then they said he had no internet history. It is very, very bizarre.

• 1:38:48Theo Von?

  This is fun to talk about and look at, huh?

• 1:38:50Speaker 01

  It's wild, dude.

• 1:38:51Theo Von?

  That flag lowering is bonkers.

• 1:38:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's a little strange.

• 1:38:54Theo Von?

  And the, but the, the wound to his ear, I mean, bro, how? What are the odds?

• 1:39:03Speaker 01

  And also just the way he turned at the moment. I mean, it's the craziest thing ever. It'd just be like that a shot was coming at him and you just like you rolled with it like you're a boxer rolling with a punch.

• 1:39:14Theo Von?

  Where are my shoes? Yeah, bro. I thought he said, where are my Jews too? That's what I thought he said. That would have been crazy if he said that.

• 1:39:24Speaker 01

  And then if someone went, well, obviously they're here.

• 1:39:25Theo Von?

  Yeah, yeah. He's just like, just make sure I got my boys with me, you know?

• 1:39:28Speaker 01

  Dude, you know what's weird? And this is totally-

• 1:39:30Theo Von?

  But dude, where are my shoes? Did he have them on? Did they get knocked off or something?

• 1:39:33Speaker 01

  I guess, I guess he hit the ground at first. So I guess he lost them in the shuffle of that. I don't know.

• 1:39:38Theo Von?

  First of all, imagine being, going to something like this and wearing shoes that are comfortable and casual enough that you could slip right out of them.

• 1:39:46Theo Von?

  You could have some balls. I'll say this, whenever, whenever Trump does pass away eventually in time, if he does, they gotta auction off his balls, dude. Or give him, they gotta auction off his balls.

• 1:39:57Speaker 01

  That would, he should start thinking about provisions for that. He's already over the average life expectancy or right up there. I don't know.

• 1:40:04Theo Von?

  They said, they said they were gonna put, um, they were gonna create a $250 bill with his face on it. You see that?

• 1:40:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, probably because all the money he's printing, it'll, it'll only be worth 20, but they'll make you a nice Trump bill.

• 1:40:18Theo Von?

  Yeah, the Trump $250 bill refers to the H R one 1761, the Donald Trump $250 bill act introduced in February 2025 by Representative Joe Wilson. Did it pass? The bill proposed an exemption to laws preventing living people on currency, though it's, oh, living people can't be on currency. The bill proposes an exemption to laws preventing living people being on currency, though it's a symbolic proposal. The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives, February 2025. Its future in Congress is uncertain. Its proposals often face significant legislative hurdles. The US currency denominations haven't gone above $100 for general circulation.

• 1:40:54Speaker 01

  You know, I don't know if you feel this way, but I, I just find myself over the last year just really getting tired of a lot of this stuff. And like, it'd kind of be like one thing, if Trump was doing all the, the right things, and then you wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, you'd be like, yeah, okay, sure, you know, like, that's fun. And I like triggering libs as much as the next guy, so like, that's fun.

• 1:41:18Theo Von?

  Or let us have a, let us have a game each year, a competition, and whoever, whatever country wins a competition, it's like in America, South America, whoever wins gets, gets to name it, gets to have it for that year.

• 1:41:28Speaker 01

  Well, that was a great idea, but it's like now, after like, when you're just like, kind of like being Israel's bitch, and then you're burying the Epstein stuff, but I repeat myself, it's like, and then he goes like, we're renaming it to the Gulf of America, you're like, shut up, dude, like, give me something serious.

• 1:41:44Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:41:44Speaker 01

  It starts to feel like you're just insulting me. It's like you start like bragging about how you're redoing the White House, or how much nicer it looks than when Joe Biden was there, like, you know, I don't care, man. Like, the average guy, like, people who are making 70 grand a year can't afford to live.

• 1:42:00Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:01Speaker 01

  You know, that's a real thing, that we're, we live in a society now, in my, in my grandfather's day, you could just work. My grandfather worked at a factory, that's all he ever did. By the end of his life, I think he had been made floor manager of the factory, but that was his whole life, he just worked in factories, all his buddies worked in factories, none of their wives worked, they all owned homes, they all had two cars, they played poker on the weekends, they sent their kids to college, they participated in like, the country, in the ownership class, they owned their house, you know? Today, a 25-year-old, even if they got a job where they're making 70 grand a year, or something like that, they're living with a roommate.

• 1:42:38Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:38Speaker 01

  You know what I mean? Like, and the chick is working, and they don't know how the hell they're ever gonna buy a house, the average house is going for 700 grand, no idea how they're, and it's

• 1:42:45Theo Von?

  And they're ovulating stressed eggs, and then they're making DS, Down syndrome children half the time.

• 1:42:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:42:51Theo Von?

  And those kids are back in the factories, you know what I'm saying?

• 1:42:54Speaker 01

  Like, well, we, and we don't even know, because there's so much goddamn poison around, and, you know, all the stuff that, that Bobby Kennedy always talked about, it's like, I don't know. I don't know any of which one of them was the culprit or not. It's like, is it the fact that we do 50 vaccines now instead of 12? Or that there's plastic in our water, or that there's all these chemicals? Like, I don't know that all our food's over processed and all this shit. I don't know, but it's bad. We lead the world in, in, uh, in like, uh, disease.

• 1:43:18Theo Von?

  Come to America where we don't care if we take care of our health or our, um, like, our procreation.

• 1:43:26Speaker 01

  Well, think about even like, right, the Epstein thing, which look, nobody knows exactly, and I guess probably will never know, exactly like the entire details of what type of intelligence operation this was. And even when people say like, oh, he worked for Mossad or something like that, you're like, well, somebody doing what Jeffrey Epstein was doing wouldn't have been like an employee of the Mossad. You know what I mean? They would have had an actor outside. We know already that he was organizing meetings for the Mossad and Russian, like, uh, oligarchs. We know that Ehud Barak was coming over and like staying at his house and stuff. And that the, you know, that Alan Dershowitz was his confidant and his lawyer. So like, he's all tied up with Israel and the Israel lobby.

• 1:44:10Speaker 01

  But so if it is what it looks like, which is like, are you telling me that like a foreign government? That by the way, is our welfare state that aren't, we pay portions of our taxes to every year. You're saying they ran an op to American children, American girls to compromise people? Or at least there were American girls raped in the process of this network of events? And that you're covering that up? Like, and then you're gonna sit here and tell me about how you redid the White House or something? And I'm supposed, or, or even just like the moment, like when he called the reporter a fat pig? Like he called some female reporter a fat pig? And then you're just kinda like, dude, you're a scumbag. Piggy, whatever. But he's like, you're a scumbag, dude.

• 1:44:56Speaker 01

  And it was over an Epstein question.

• 1:44:57Theo Von?

  Was it?

• 1:44:58Speaker 08

  Hence exchange that President Trump had with the press aboard Air Force One is now going viral. It stems from the words that he chose to try to get a female reporter to stop asking questions about the Epstein files. Here's the clip.

• 1:45:20Theo Von?

  Ah, so dark.

• 1:45:21Speaker 08

  That reporter was Katherine Lucy.

• 1:45:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, that shows like a, there's a nastiness to Donald Trump. And when it's harnessed the right way, we all loved it because the people he was taking on were so evil. And so when Hillary Clinton goes, "Good thing someone with your temperaments never president", and he goes, "'Cause you'd be in jail." We're like, "Yeah, dude, get her," you know? But then you turn it around and like, "Look, this wasn't someone in the liberal media asking you about Russiagate for the 19,000th time." And you're like, "Shut up." She was asking a totally legitimate question. Like, "Sir, you campaigned on releasing these files. Your FBI director and deputy FBI director and attorney general all told the American people they were going to. She asked a totally reasonable question about the files." And then he just goes to this vicious, like, insult.

• 1:46:07Speaker 01

  And I don't know. Look, I know there's a lot of people out there still support Donald Trump, that's fine. But like, I'm out. I just don't, I can't. I can't defend that shit.

• 1:46:16Theo Von?

  Yeah. I mean, no, it would be crazy if the lady had a name tag on that said "Piggy," right?

• 1:46:22Speaker 01

  That would, if there was another angle that then showed that, and you'd go, "Aw, man. Ah, this is like one of those videos where I blame the cop, but then I saw that the guy had a knife. Aw, shit."

• 1:46:31Theo Von?

  It's like, it's almost like a Family Guy set. We're like, quiet.

• 1:46:33Speaker 01

  And then, and then after people go, "Oh, you see Trump go? It's Piggy. This is her name. I was just, I don't know."

• 1:46:39Theo Von?

  Or if it was Halloween or something, you know? And she was costume.

• 1:46:42Speaker 01

  She's got a pig nose on. She's dressed up as Miss Piggy.

• 1:46:45Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's the only way that I think that would have made sense.

• 1:46:49Speaker 01

  I'll apologize if that, if that information comes out.

• 1:46:51Theo Von?

  That just, I think that irked me because like, um, it was like, you start to assume, okay, maybe the girl's thick or like a, you know, or has some thighs or something like that, maybe. It just isn't a body style that he likes. And so that that's why he was like trying to find this.

• 1:47:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, like you're thinking, like, he was trying to say the thing that'll have her crying tonight when she gets home or whatever.

• 1:47:15Theo Von?

  That would hurt her feelings. And everybody hates that.

• 1:47:17Speaker 01

  And also, but it's just over, it's clearly in that example, it's over his defensiveness.

• 1:47:23Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:47:24Speaker 01

  His insecurity, that this isn't going well for him and that he's covering something up and he looks bad.

• 1:47:28Theo Von?

  But it just seemed, yeah.

• 1:47:30Speaker 01

  You remember when Elon said, when him and Elon had their, their split? And that was the thing Elon went to? That was his go-to when he got real furious? He goes, "Oh, yeah? Well, let me tell you something." It was like your girlfriend saying you have a little dick when you break up or something like that? His go-to was... You're Trump's in the Epstein files and that's why they haven't come out. And that was before he made his whole move to like publicly try to cover them up. And I do, I gotta say, does make you wonder, does make you wonder what exactly did Donald Trump do? He definitely knew the guy. He definitely partied with the guy. And he's on record, I don't know if you've ever seen this, a videotape of him talking about how Jeffrey Epstein likes the ladies young. Like he, he knew something about that.

• 1:48:11Theo Von?

  Do your best to find it.

• 1:48:12Speaker 01

  There's the, they have the quote, I've known Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years, terrific guy, he has a lot of fun to be with. He likes the beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. From 2002.

• 1:48:23Theo Von?

  So 2002.

• 1:48:24Speaker 01

  And I was, I'm almost positive I have seen it on video, but that's the statement. But still like, ah, really weird things to say about a guy who six years later gets convicted for soliciting an underage prostitute, like.

• 1:48:36Theo Von?

  Yeah, it makes you wonder what type of control these higher entities have, right?

• 1:48:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:48:44Theo Von?

  Because do they do something like that with Trump? Where they say, okay, we're gonna, we have a bullet that's so accurate. Cause who knows, maybe they used a drone, right? You know what I'm saying? And had it 20 feet off or hidden behind the, you don't know. They could have, you know, they could have done something like that and just said, okay. If you don't do this, if you don't, whenever this phone rings, if you don't pick it up and do whatever is said, you're gonna die, right? You have to just wonder what kind of things are they using? Cause that could be the ultimate thing, you know what I'm saying? We're gonna harm someone from your family.

• 1:49:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. Well, it's something people have always wondered about because, you know, you get people who, like, we know, right? We know for a fact that these are people who will lie the country into war. You know, like, so these are people who are comfortable with like killing a whole lot of innocent people.

• 1:49:40Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:49:41Speaker 01

  For an agenda. And in fact, I think like, um. Uh, Henry Kissinger even kind of said, like, his whole worldview was that once you rise to the upper echelons of power, there's no such thing as like morality anymore. This is like a grand chessboard, kind of, you know? And so like, once you look at things like that, like, just think about like, if you were, you were like, if you're willing to make the decision to send Israel more weapons, after you've seen what they're doing with those weapons, or even you'll go over there and like Nikki Haley, autograph a bomb that's about to go be dropped. Like, even if you, even if you somehow supported what Israel was doing, which I don't know how you could. But even if you did, like, you'd go, look, it's so horrible that they have to do this,

• 1:50:25Speaker 01

  but they've got to get Hamas out, or more people will end up dying, or some, you know, whatever your rationalization or justification was, you still recognize that a lot of these bombs are dropping on kids. I'm not going to autograph it. That's something like, it's so tasteless and evil. But so you're already that type of person, what else would they do to control people? Well, it seems like killing's not off limits. So it does make you wonder, like, what, and, and we know some things, like, from history, like, we know, um, the way, say, like, uh, the FBI was blackmailing Jack Kennedy, where they were basically, um,

• 1:50:59Theo Von?

  Were they?

• 1:50:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, they, uh, yeah, yeah, it's all, this has all been like, uh, um, well-reported on and documented that, um,

• 1:51:06Theo Von?

  Jack Kennedy, you mean?

• 1:51:07Speaker 01

  John F. Kennedy, yeah. So in fact, even in the, in the movie that they did, they had,

• 1:51:11Theo Von?

  Cause his wife's nickname was Jack Kennedy.

• 1:51:14Speaker 01

  Jackie Kennedy, yes, yes, yes. They, but they called him Jack, uh, for, that was his nickname. But, uh, no, they, they, um, uh, what's his name? Um, the head of the FBI.

• 1:51:24Theo Von?

  Oh, the JFK movie?

• 1:51:25Speaker 01

  Uh, Hoover, uh, um, John Edgar Hoover, like, presented Bobby Kennedy was the Attorney General. And he presented him with a whole long, uh, like, document, all the women that JFK was cheating on his wife with. And then gave him a like, you know, don't worry, there's, we, we have all of this, we'll make sure it doesn't get out, you know? Hey, who are you thinking of nominating for, uh, FBI director? Cause I'm thinking you do me again, you know, like, and he did. And he just had, and so there's all types of different levels of that shit.

• 1:51:56Theo Von?

  And you know what's messed up, dude, is like, it's dark and it's twisted, but some of it also sounds kind of like, There's an excitement and there's a, there's an addiction about the nefariousness.

• 1:52:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think so.

• 1:52:09Theo Von?

  There's something tantalizing about it, you know?

• 1:52:12Speaker 01

  And I bet there's something, I, I bet that's true with just power.

• 1:52:15Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:52:15Speaker 01

  You know, like just the power has got to be a drug.

• 1:52:18Theo Von?

  Everything must just be.

• 1:52:19Speaker 01

  When I was, when I first started stand-up, so this would be like, I started in like late 2006. And this was somewhere in 2008, so I'd been doing comedy for like two years. And I, it was my first road gig that I ever did. Uh, Jay Okerson brought me and it was in Detroit at a Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle. And they, at the time, like none of us had, none of us sold tickets or anything like that, but they papered the room. So it was a full room.

• 1:52:45Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:52:45Speaker 01

  And I had only, I had maybe been in front of like 70 to a hundred people in like my biggest shows. And this was a 350-seat room.

• 1:52:52Theo Von?

  Nervous?

• 1:52:53Speaker 01

  I was super nervous, but they were an unbelievable crowd. Like they were, it was easy. They were just white hot. I was a brand new comic, you know, it was probably doing like kind of horseshit jokes, but like I, they worked and I was getting laughs. But I'd never done a room of like 350 people and they were hot. They were just white hot. They just loved everything. It was easy. And just the, I remember the feeling of just killing with a room of 350 people, which I had never experienced before. And it be, almost like just being like intoxicating, you know? Like, ah, just like, you know, it's just so great. And like, almost like there's nothing I could do in life right now that could ever recreate that. Cause you know, there's something about being a new comic too, that like even doing like a big room now, it's still fun. It's still great, but it's not quite like that first time when you're so nervous and then it's so awesome and then it's so.

• 1:53:38Speaker 01

  But so like, imagine the feeling of power of when you could like move nations. You know, like you could make a decision and I'll tell you, there's this tape of Hillary Clinton right after, uh, they overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Which was her big, they called it Hillary's War. It was, she was, and even Barack Obama in his memoir said, she was really the one who pushed him over the edge. He was like 50 50 about it. Hillary Clinton really got him to do it and they wanted this to be the thing she ran on.

• 1:54:06Theo Von?

  If for, against Iran?

• 1:54:08Speaker 01

  Uh, no, this is against Libya. This was when they overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. And she comes, and this is when you, you might remember there's like her famous thing where she goes, she goes, we came, we saw, he's dead. Ha, ha. And then just starts cackling, laughing and you can see in her, the sociopathic excitement that she. Just overthrew a government of a nation. Like, and now Libya has been a failed state ever since and probably hundreds of thousands of people have died. And there's open air slave markets still to this day. And even by the time she was running for president in 2016, she couldn't run on this anymore because it was five years later. And the whole thing was a disaster already. But look at the happiness in her face. Look at the excitement.

• 1:54:46Speaker 09

  No, it's so, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed. Yes, we came, we saw, he died.

• 1:54:54Speaker 09

  Did it have anything to do with your?

• 1:54:56Speaker 01

  I mean, she's talking about a human, however you feel about Muammar Gaddafi, he was a rough dictator. She's talking about a human being who was dragged through a street by an angry mob and sodomized to death. Like, I'm just saying, most normal human beings would have at least a thing in them where you're like, you probably aren't cackling about that.

• 1:55:14Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:55:14Speaker 01

  Like a couple of days after it happened.

• 1:55:17Theo Von?

  Yeah, I just, I guess there's a, there's this other world where it's like, it's just dark up there. But yeah, people are toppling nations, people are thinking about world power and world control.

• 1:55:26Speaker 01

  Moving trillions of dollars around, you know, like it's, it's a, so there's, there's an element of that. And then, you know, there's obviously an element of like, there are ideologues, like there are people who believe things. Like the guy, David Wormser, who wrote the clean break strategy, who I was arguing with, he believes things. Like he's, he's got a worldview, right? So he's a Jewish neoconservative who believes that the relationship between Israel and the US is in our interest. And all of these things and believes that Israel is the cradle of Western civilization. And that if we topple these regimes, it will improve the region. But the reason why a guy like David Wormser can go to Washington DC and actually get things done, isn't really because everyone there is an ideologue.

• 1:56:10Speaker 01

  It's because weapons companies will fund the think tanks that produce that type of bullshit.

• 1:56:16Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:56:16Speaker 01

  Even though it's the dumbest shit ever. His whole plan was that like they would install a Hashemite in Iraq and that the Shiites of Iraq would have to listen to the Hashemites. It's all ridiculous. It's like they're, they're like a. It's like a Muslim lineage that supposedly is royalty or something like that. Like the king of Jordan is a Hashemite. They're originally from Saudi Arabia. I forget like the whole story, but they're not native to Jordan. They're Arabs. But anyway, the whole plan is ridiculous. But the reason why like Bill Kristol, like all the neo cons, their think tanks were always funded by like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. It wasn't because those guys believed in any of it.

• 1:56:54Theo Von?

  Right.

• 1:56:55Speaker 01

  It's business. It's just like, yeah, there's going to be another war. We'll get to sell a whole bunch of weapons to the government and rip them off, you know, and make the hundreds of billions of dollars. So like, it's not, so like, I don't know, there's just all these things going on at once. And I don't know exactly how they control everybody, but it sure is interesting watching all those guys. You know, you just like, you watch Cash Patel on a podcast and then Cash Patel, you know, when he's in power. And man, are they different people.

• 1:57:21Theo Von?

  Yeah. It's wild. I mean, it, the wildest thing to me is how kind of accessible everything kind of seems. It's like the fact that like comedians are trying to be comedians. Well, we're comedians, you know, comedians like ourselves are people that have started a podcast at some point. That the fact that we're all that, I don't know, sometimes it just blows my mind.

• 1:57:48Speaker 01

  Well, it's crazy. It's a crazy.

• 1:57:50Theo Von?

  That we're involved in it somehow. Not involved like in an egotistical way, like we have something, but it's like, yeah, it's just like, what the fuck are we doing, dude? We, and it's, it's only because the news just completely fucking shit itself.

• 1:58:02Speaker 01

  Well, it's, there was a weird thing that happened at the exact same time. There were these two phenomenons where number one was that the media had like been exposed in a really big way. And there were a lot of issues they were exposed on, but I do think the two most devastating ones to them were COVID and Biden's senility. Because the, the two things are that number one, like, I mean, there was WMDs in Iraq really degraded the institutions and things like that. The Obama recovery, there were a lot of things, Russiagate was a big thing. But like, if you look at, say, I remember arguing with people about this, a couple of people who I like and respect, but I was arguing with them about.

• 1:58:45Speaker 01

  So when I was supporting Trump in, in 2024, they were like, dude, what are, what are you doing? You had all these criticisms of Trump his first term. He did all these bad things and now you're supporting him. And I was like, look, man. This is got, this is gonna destroy the corporate media. And that's like the most important thing in America right now. Now, what they said, they're, they're counter to me. And at the time, we were guessing, because we didn't know where this was gonna go. But their counter was, they go, yeah, but Dave, last time Donald Trump came in, the media ratings actually went through the roof. Like MSNBC and CNN got higher ratings out in 2016 when Trump came in. And I was like, yeah, but that's because of Russiagate. They got everyone to watch because they said they had this bombshell story. And then that turned into nothing. But the big difference now is after COVID and after Biden being senile,

• 1:59:30Speaker 01

  no one trusts those guys anymore. So they're not gonna come back. And I, I turned out to be right about that prediction. Like they, the numbers didn't go back up this time. And so, anyway, there, there is something there where like COVID, at COVID affected everybody. It wasn't like the war in Iraq. Like, yeah, you kind of know they lied us into war and a whole bunch of people over there died. And maybe if you know someone who went over and served, you know, and, and if you're lower on the socioeconomic scale, you're more likely to know someone. But like, a lot of people don't know anyone who went over to Iraq. And it didn't really happen here. It happened over there, you know? And yeah, we deal with the occasional terrorist attack or something like that. But like it did, but COVID changed every, it affected everybody's life directly. And it all got proven to be bullshit.

• 2:00:13Speaker 01

  And then Joe Biden, it was just, you don't need to pick up a book or even read an article to look at Joe Biden and the average guy could just go, yeah, this guy's clearly has lost it. And you're lying to me. And so that happened at the same time, the media blew every major crisis of the 21st century, lied through their teeth and was, were exposed. And the technology got to a point where essentially you could have, you would have needed like a multimillion dollar budget to have a studio and a show just a decade ago or two decades ago. Whereas now, now we live in an environment where some random guy can just post something and then he'll have like the CEO of the Daily Wire going, this kid's a bigot.

• 2:00:54Speaker 01

  You know, did you see, did you see that, that, the, not the CEO, it was the, uh, like, uh, some title, some higher up at the Daily Wire tweeted, uh, got some kid, just some kid, who made like a video, he, he had asked a question at a Turning Point event and then made some video. And then he goes, look at the Nazi youth scum. So like some regular, like, the point is when we were younger, it would have been impossible for you to even get the attention of that guy.

• 2:01:21Theo Von?

  Oh, if you'd ever got, who was the guy on the, on the Today Show, the black guy? Um, uh, kind of chubby, lost a lot of weight.

• 2:01:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, Al Roker.

• 2:01:31Theo Von?

  Yeah, you would have never been able to get.

• 2:01:32Speaker 01

  No, you can't talk to Al Roker. That's Al Roker, dude.

• 2:01:35Theo Von?

  That's Al fucking Roker, dude.

• 2:01:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's like.

• 2:01:36Theo Von?

  That's Al.

• 2:01:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, like, maybe you would see a famous person on the street one day and that'd be like exciting. But the idea that now some kid, some 25 year old, like, right wing kid could get like a journalist at the New York Times furious, you know, and like, and even this story, which I gotta say, I am a little bit skeptical of the kid Shirley, I think is his name, right? Cause I saw one, cause I did see the other day that CBS, I believe it was, did send a camera crew down to one of those places that he claims were, and there were kids there and stuff. And they should, so it was all, it was not exactly what he was representing it to be.

• 2:02:13Speaker 01

  I do think there's probably widespread fraud there, but I'm just saying, making the point that this guy, at least to me, was an unknown, unknown entity as of last week. He got like, last I had seen it was over a hundred million views on the video. And so it's not CNN who's breaking that story. It's not NBC or CBS.

• 2:02:32Theo Von?

  Cause nobody believes them anymore. They've lost their, they've lost their credibility. I mean, they're sitting here, sitting here semi apologizing for not even really apologizing, just saying, kind of mildly admit something. Like, shouldn't there be a class action lawsuit against them?

• 2:02:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:02:49Theo Von?

  Is there any code of liability? Like, could there be a class action lawsuit against them against for just?

• 2:02:55Speaker 01

  Something, yeah, well, that's right. It's not even like you go to jail or there's a lawsuit, but how about just like mass firings?

• 2:03:01Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:03:01Speaker 01

  Resignation, something? No, and then for anyone paying attention, you're like, dude, we know what just happened. The Israel lobby just purchased you. Barry Weiss is now in charge because you guys are bleeding support. You're, you're not even in the business of news. You're in the business of an agenda, obviously, right? Like, it's almost like, so I don't even like, sometimes with people like Barry Weiss and Ben Shapiro and all these guys, people who are sure not fans of mine. But it's like, I would at least just appreciate, just admit you're the Israel lobby. Then at least we could have an honest. Conversation, at least admit your priority here is Israel. And then we could talk about like-

• 2:03:42Theo Von?

  And pro, just skewing things pro-Israel.

• 2:03:44Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:03:44Theo Von?

  Like, they just had those announcements of, um, of like, that they need, who was the guy who just said we have to adjust social media to, to, are we gonna lose the First Amendment? Did you see that guy?

• 2:03:55Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, right, yes, yes, I did, I did see the video and bookmark it. I forget what the guy's title was. But also, just, these people are like so concerned about, they'll be like, you know, there's this rise of antisemitism. And like, fair enough. I, I personally, and maybe I'm biased because I'm Jewish, so maybe I'm not, you know, the one to speak on this. But like, personally, I've always been very critical of Israel and the Israel lobby, but I'm not like critical of Jews. I have regular people are regular people and you shouldn't judge individuals based on groups. I'm against collectivism, unlike Sauron Mamdani. Um, like, I don't, I'm an individualist. But if you're real concerned that there's a rise in hatred toward Jews, isn't it kind of reasonable to go like,

• 2:04:37Speaker 01

  maybe you shouldn't have prominent Jews out there saying, "We're gonna repeal the First Amendment"? Like, maybe that's not helpful?

• 2:04:45Theo Von?

  Yeah, I don't know if this does help. I mean, I just don't understand why this guy, just in Israel, cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer says, "It's time to limit the First Amendment. We need to control all the social platforms and take control of what they are saying." Let's see, let's see this.

• 2:05:01Speaker 10

  I know it's difficult to hear, but it's time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it.

• 2:05:08Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 2:05:08Speaker 10

  And quickly, before it's too late. What do you mean? I mean that we need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. We need to stack rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control over what they are saying based on that ranking. The government. The government should- The government should control the social media.

• 2:05:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's what you want to hear out of a-

• 2:05:37Theo Von?

  Fuck you, dude.

• 2:05:38Speaker 01

  Thick Israeli accent?

• 2:05:40Theo Von?

  But fuck anybody who says that kind of thing.

• 2:05:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. No, you're my enemy now.

• 2:05:43Theo Von?

  Yeah, you're the enemy, dude. You're gonna control- What we say in order to, but this is the crazy part, to protect the First Amendment.

• 2:05:50Speaker 01

  It's George W. Bush's line about the free market is he said when they asked him about the banker ballots, he go, I thought you were supposed to be a free market guy. Now all of a sudden you like socialism when it's big banks that fail. And he said, I had to abandon the free market to save the free market.

• 2:06:04Theo Von?

  Hmm.

• 2:06:05Speaker 01

  Hmm. That sure is a nice way of saying nothing. Actually, you just abandon it. You didn't save it at all. You just bailed out a bunch of rich bankers. And actually, government taking control of what people are allowed and not allowed to say, isn't preserving the First Amendment. That's just, this is straight up Orwellian newspeak.

• 2:06:23Theo Von?

  But it, we're just, everything is, there's, it's, there's this, it's, there's another level of control. It's, I think like it's never been more obvious that there's another level of control. But, but also that people are nervous. Cause I don't know if you'd have a guy saying this sort of thing. I mean, a lot of social-

• 2:06:40Speaker 01

  No, they're freaking out.

• 2:06:41Theo Von?

  A lot of social platforms, I know TikTok just got bought by Ellison from Oracle. And there's a lot of concern that they're gonna try and, you know, limit or dictate what can be said on there, you know?

• 2:06:57Speaker 01

  Yeah. Well, that's what, look, I mean, that's what all of this is about. And this is kind of what I meant by like, at least just be honest with it. Look like the reason this guy's saying this, and the reason they just bought TikTok, and the reason Barry Weiss was just installed at CBS News, is all for one obvious reason, which it's the letter that Charlie Kirk wrote to Benjamin Netanyahu. And Benjamin Netanyahu, right after Charlie Kirk got murdered, read a couple lines from that letter, but he didn't read the whole letter.

• 2:07:24Theo Von?

  Did he write him a letter? I didn't even know that.

• 2:07:26Speaker 01

  Yeah. So the letter basically says, we're getting killed out here. The Israel side is getting annihilated.

• 2:07:33Theo Von?

  Dear Mr. Prime Minister, one of my greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with the Jews in the fight to protect Judeo-Christian civilization.

• 2:07:40Speaker 01

  So Netanyahu reads that part, you know, doesn't mention any of the rest of this.

• 2:07:46Theo Von?

  Most recently, I'm proud to have taken over Ambassador Huckabee's show on TBN, where we continually support Israel and the Jewish people. My team and I have spent months analyzing these trends and debating ideas that could help you and your country push back against the disturbing developments. Anti-Israel sentiment can undermine American support for Israel. The purpose of this letter is to lay out your concerns and outline.

• 2:08:09Speaker 01

  If you get down to it later, I mean, he just, he basically, what he's just saying here is like, listen, he has a whole proposal for what Israel has to do for their new PR strategy, but he's very brutally honest. And he's like, you guys are getting killed with the young people here. And so anyway, that's just the point is that all of this, that's why you're talking about limiting the First Amendment, because everyone's talking about how evil the Israeli regime is. Everyone's talking about how much undue influence they have over our government.

• 2:08:35Theo Von?

  Right, so why not just be, this is-

• 2:08:37Speaker 01

  Be honest about that.

• 2:08:38Theo Von?

  This is what, like, I wish they would just tell us why we pay Israel every year, right? Like, and I know some of it is that they just buy weapons and it's, it seems like it's like this, it's like a lot of defense and technology stuff and, and that's a lot of, it's not like we just send the money there, but um, I mean, we do send the money there, but then it's used to buy wea- you know, it's like part of a-

• 2:08:57Speaker 01

  A percentage of it is spent on our military companies. So, so yes, a percentage of it is redistributed from the working class in America to Israel, but don't worry, a percentage of that is also redistributed from the working class to big weapons companies. So if that makes you feel better, so that they can use those weapons to drop bombs on behalf of Israel on like Houthis in Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East.

• 2:09:18Theo Von?

  Right.

• 2:09:19Speaker 01

  And then they can sell new weapons to our government.

• 2:09:21Theo Von?

  And then we can also weaponize those countries to fight back against us.

• 2:09:25Speaker 01

  Right, right, right. Oh, and also, you know, and look, I mean, it's the same, it's, it's the crazy thing with like these, uh, these guys celebrating the success of Venezuela. You're like, look dude, the war, we just had an Afghan, uh, who murdered a few American citizens, right? Because he was one of the, the people who was a collaborator with us in Afghanistan. And so we felt we had to protect him by bringing them in, as we brought in a whole bunch of them here. And also, who is a collaborator with us in a war means what? He was a 20-year-old who grew up in a war. So, yeah, there's a whole bunch of like PTSD and crazy shit going on there too. How many of those are we gonna have out of Venezuela? The answer is, we don't know. We don't know. It's a total guess.

• 2:10:05Theo Von?

  Out of Palestine.

• 2:10:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, right. Oh, yeah. No, and I'm real, I am real concerned about that stuff too, man, because-

• 2:10:10Theo Von?

  Oh, the long-term effect, it's unbelievable.

• 2:10:11Speaker 01

  Well, this is, this is what motivated a whole lot of the terrorism problem that we've had to deal with from the very beginning. And so you think you're gonna just fund and, and arm this- genocide for two straight years. There's a whole bunch of people who really do hate our guts over that.

• 2:10:24Theo Von?

  And but but but regular humans like us, regular American people are the ones that suffer because we're the ones out on the street that are walking somewhere. If there's a mass shooting, like these rich people, these fancy or, you know, like these elites, they never deal with anything like that, you know, like

• 2:10:37Speaker 01

  No, that's

• 2:10:38Theo Von?

  They're all have security and are protected. It's like, it's the everyday person out on the street who's got to worry about some psychos, you know, going off.

• 2:10:46Speaker 01

  Well, that's but that's the whole thing, dude, too, about the nature of our decadent elites. That's so infuriating. And there's so many examples like this, right? Where like even during during covid, if you could think about like how much they're lecturing everybody else for not wearing a mask. But then you see Gavin Newsom, or you see Nancy Pelosi, she ain't wearing a mask. They're at the fancy restaurant yucking it up, right? But it's people who they live in gated communities, but they call you a racist if you believe in a strong border. They got armed security, but they believe in gun control for you, you know, they get they uh they they, you know, destroy public schools, but they send their kids to fancy private schools. So they don't got, it's like they don't got to suffer any of the ramifications of the hell on earth that they bring for all these other people. And obviously, like the the biggest victims here are the Palestinian people.

• 2:11:31Speaker 01

  But yeah, it's also the American taxpayer who gets ripped off. And we also open, look, Mohammed Atta, who was the lead hijacker, right, who flew into the North Tower, he was radicalized when Israel slaughtered a bunch of people in Lebanon. He signed up with Osama bin Laden that week, I believe. It's like this is one of the, it was one of the biggest grievances that Osama bin Laden had was your support for Israel and what they do to the Palestinian people. His other

• 2:11:56Theo Von?

  In his letter to America, you mean?

• 2:11:57Speaker 01

  It in his letter to America, I believe it was in there and and he had two declarations of war against America, which I think were even more interesting than the letter to America. But he lists his grievances very clear. He didn't like that we had our bases in Saudi Arabia. And why did we have our bases in Saudi Arabia? For the dual containment policy against Iraq and Iran. Well, who needed Iraq and Iran contained? You know, like it's always and and so it's like we we do this at our own peril.

• 2:12:24Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's almost like the elites, they just they they open up like the game of life and we're all the pieces and we're all the like, and they're just playing this thing like it's not even real to them. Oh, it's your turn. Yeah, go to the community chest, get some money out of there. Oh, go over there. You want some houses? Sure, sell them. You want some oil? Get a railroad, whatever you need. Oh, your dad owes you whatever. Oh, it's just so crazy.

• 2:12:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, but like you said, it is more, it's so much more exposed now than ever before.

• 2:12:49Theo Von?

  It is.

• 2:12:49Speaker 01

  And that's what makes, that's what makes the, the time so interesting.

• 2:12:53Theo Von?

  Yeah, I will say this, it's interesting. This year is gonna be interesting. Do you think that things get even crazier this year? Or do you think, because I do think there becomes a level of kind of like exhaustion, right? And there becomes a level of like, we're not gonna get any truth. We're not gonna get, um, and then, and then truth, people who are trying to seek truth, right? Or trying to share truth, that they're, they're not even gonna be able to allow, be allowed to put their information out there.

• 2:13:23Speaker 01

  I think, uh,

• 2:13:23Theo Von?

  That's probably the biggest fear of this year for me.

• 2:13:25Speaker 01

  It's hard to make predictions.

• 2:13:27Theo Von?

  I'm not saying me, I'm just saying for other people.

• 2:13:28Speaker 01

  No, I understand what you're saying. I, I think it's hard to make predictions because it's such, so many crazy things happen. And so many things are gonna happen. So like now, right? Okay, well, what happens with Venezuela? That's a huge question mark, and that's gonna have a huge impact on where the rest of this year goes. But where things are right now, my best guess is at the end of this year, uh, in November, I think the Democrats are going to destroy the Republicans in the, uh, in the midterm elections. And I think, I think they're gonna, I think they're gonna run and win on, um, on affordability, which has been this, you know, which I hate the term because it's like, they literally just like, it's price inflation, we already had a term for this, it's debasement of currency.

• 2:14:13Speaker 01

  Now you come along and you make some other term, and then you go, oh, and the answer is socialism. So the answer is, we need more government, even though the whole problem is that we have so much government, we can't afford it, we have to print the money. So like, I think they've got it completely backward, but at the end of the day, that's actually what people care about, man. People are getting killed out here. What they actually care about is that, it's like, you know, I talked to my, my father-in-law, who's a truck driver, and has been a trucker for 50 years or something like that. And, um, he's, you talk to him,

• 2:14:46Speaker 01

  You know, he's like, listen, I see how much taxes are taken out of my paycheck every week. And the price of everything just goes up and up and up. That's what he wants to talk about. You know what I mean? Like, that's what, that's what the entire working class of America is thinking about. As if Trump could sit here and brag that he degraded Iran's nonexistent nuclear weapons program. No one cares. No one cares. Like, to the extent that people care, we're against it. And even the people who are for it, it's not act. So I just think as of right now, he hasn't delivered nearly enough. He, he overpromised like crazy and the Ukraine war on day one. You know, all these things, which I think he's, he's tried to at least do that, but he's failed so far.

• 2:15:27Speaker 01

  And so unless he can rack up some wins, like some real clear W's for the American people, not I liberated the Venezuelans, which no one believes was actually the, the, the goal anyway.

• 2:15:38Theo Von?

  And the last thing we want as a, as a people here is to have the, now there's like this stress of like, okay, well, what do we have to do to take care of them now? What's that going to cost us?

• 2:15:47Speaker 01

  Right, right.

• 2:15:48Theo Von?

  Wherever that, you know, like, what were they really doing? What are you guys really trying to do here? It's just like, fuck.

• 2:15:53Speaker 01

  It's just whatever. It's a shame to me because also like, look like if you take Zohran Mamdani, the, who just got sworn in as the mayor of New York, right? Like they, it was such a funny thing, man, because they, first off, they ran Cuomo against him of all the people. Like he was the establishment figure, the, the murderer governor who like killed all these old people and locked down the city and that just had all this baggage. And then he's also a huge Israel supporter, a friend of Netanyahu's and all that. And so they thought the way to attack Mamdani was to go like, he won't even commit to visiting Israel. And you were like, dude, everyone hates Israel right now. Like what? So, but in his speech the other day, he has this line that of, of course, a bunch of the conservatives are flipping out about.

• 2:16:38Speaker 01

  But he said, we're going to, something like, we're going to shake off. Rugged individualism in favor of collectivism. And I just find it so interesting that the guy, the one guy who's running for mayor, it's not a position that matters for foreign policy, but he would at least, you know, I don't like socialism and I don't like woke-ism and he was one of each. But he at least stuck up for the poor Palestinians a little bit and I kind of liked that. But it's so funny to hear that guy embrace collectivism. When like, hey, you want to see collectivism? Look at Gaza. That's collectivism. That's collective punishment. That in fact, what is the defense? Oh, you want to play the clip? Yeah, play the clip.

• 2:17:16Speaker 11

  We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because no matter what you eat.

• 2:17:35Speaker 01

  Well, let me, let me say my point. So the, oh, look, when I say what's going on in Gaza is collectivism. What the number, and I've done like a bunch of debates on Israel, Palestine over the last couple of years, like, you know, dozens of them. And the number one defense, I'm sure you've heard this back to, right? Like, the number one thing that an Israel defender would say to you is, um, don't start a war. You know, they'll go, this is war. Yeah, innocent people are dying. It's terrible, but it's war and Hamas started the war. And this is what happens when you start the war and therefore it's on Hamas. Right? And so like, no, look, there's a lot of things wrong with that defense. Like, part of it is that like, okay, yeah, but what about a brutal 60-year occupation? What about being kept as permanent refugees for 80 years?

• 2:18:19Speaker 01

  What about you killing a whole bunch of people? Like, who really started it? But the most fundamental thing that's wrong with saying that's why you don't start a war is that the people we're talking about didn't start a war. That two-year-old girl didn't start a war? What are you talking about, man? This, this, this mother who's, who's, who just lost her child, she didn't start a war. She just, you got, half the people in Gaza are kids. They didn't start anything. They just got fucked. They just got born into hell. You know, like that, they didn't start anything. And so. Collectivism is like saying, oh, you're collectively responsible. No, you guys as a, as a you guys started this war. You go, that's just what bigotry is, man. That's just blaming everybody for the sins of one group.

• 2:19:03Speaker 01

  That's saying a black guy mugged me the other day, therefore blacks mugged me the other day. Like, no, they didn't. There's some other black dude. I had nothing to do with that, who is just getting blamed for that, you know? And so it's interesting to see the guy said like, oh, we'll, we'll shake off. Actually, individualism is the reason why what Israel's doing is wrong. It's collectivism is what would justify it.

• 2:19:24Theo Von?

  What do you think will be different with him and Officer as mayor? And do you also think, some people think he, um, he's actually for the opposition, really?

• 2:19:34Speaker 01

  I don't know. Do you ever see, um, you ever, he had one of my favorite woke tweets of all time. What was the, did you ever see the, um, it's the defunding the police queer liberation?

• 2:19:47Speaker 01

  Tweet, if you just look that up, Mamdani, defunding the police queer liberation. I believe the tweet still hasn't been deleted. It's the, it's a great, like a woke ad, uh, Mad Lib. Queer liberation means defund the police. So Ron Mamdani, like he was real into that woke shit back then. I just love, it really does feel like you just picked out woke words and put them all together. Um, but that's, I don't think, I think this guy's just kinda like an intellectual lightweight and, uh, kinda goofy. I don't think he actually gets that much done in New York City is my guess.

• 2:20:24Theo Von?

  I can't imagine.

• 2:20:25Speaker 01

  But maybe.

• 2:20:27Speaker 01

  I don't think any of it's good. If he gets any of his plans through, it ain't gonna be good.

• 2:20:32Theo Von?

  Well, you know what I like? I think, and this is just my perception, right? I could be totally wrong. What I liked about him was I just felt like he was the underdog.

• 2:20:38Speaker 01

  Well, that is true. No, he, he was. He was.

• 2:20:40Theo Von?

  That's what I always like. It's like I always, that's the thing that always gets me. It's like, are you the underdog?

• 2:20:46Speaker 01

  Well, I get, I get that impulse and I do, I share that too.

• 2:20:49Theo Von?

  That could be a trap.

• 2:20:50Speaker 01

  I was kinda rooting for him to some degree too, because of that same dynamic. I guess it's just like, the problem is that like, Essentially, the Republicans endorse a whole bunch of socialism. You know, like, there's a, we have giant entitlement programs, um, that, you know, social security and Medicare, they're actually, both of those programs are socialist programs, but they're socialist programs that redistribute money from a poorer group to a wealthier group, which is pretty indefensible, when you think about it. Like, young people are poorer than the old people that they have to work to pay their social security and Medicare payments for.

• 2:21:24Theo Von?

  That's pretty wild. But they're assuming that it's them.

• 2:21:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, supposedly, but what's actually happening is you're transferring wealth from a poor to a richer group with the promise of, like, you'll get some back one day. Um, Medicaid is actually a welfare program that redistributes from working people to poorer people, uh, but they're giant socialist programs. The military itself is a giant socialist program. It's a big government program. So, the Republicans endorse a ton of socialism, you know? And then, um, the Democrats, whenever the Republicans, you know, lead to disaster, they go, "Well, what we need is even more. What we need is even more government, even more socialism." And there's just, what America really needs is Ron Paul, um, who's, you know, just turned 90, and I think he's got one more presidential run in him, but I'm not sure. He might be, he might be done.

• 2:22:12Theo Von?

  I don't know, his emails are getting...

• 2:22:15Speaker 01

  But, look, the point is, the real...

• 2:22:16Theo Von?

  Look, I love Ron Paul, but I, his emails are getting a little bit... They need his spell check, and you can tell.

• 2:22:24Speaker 01

  All right, listen, that's, that's fair. The guy's not perfect, but he's the closest to it.

• 2:22:27Theo Von?

  Look, he could be perfect. I'm just saying, he's got his spell check, his shit a little better. But also, we just went through the Biden thing, I don't think you can push an old person like that out there.

• 2:22:34Speaker 01

  I was, I'm joking about him being, he's not running for president again, but Ron Paul was right about everything. He was right about just about everything. And he's, and the real answer to all of this stuff is actually Americanism. Like, true Americanism, and the best part of Americanism, which was always, and that's why that Israeli guy talking about limiting the First Amendment is so infuriating. The best, the best, what America needs is the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, what we were always supposed to be, what we abandoned long ago. That's actually what we need. And, you know, I saw, um... A good friend of mine, who I love and really, really respect, who I think is brilliant, Daryl Cooper, and he was saying on Twitter today that like, he goes, dude, it's not even,

• 2:23:19Speaker 01

  it's pointless to make the argument that this war in Venezuela was unconstitutional. You know, he goes, it's a pointless argument to make because we've shredded the Constitution years ago, and we've already accepted that presidents have these, these war powers. And so like, I mean, I don't want to mischaracterize what he was saying, but I think it was essentially something like that, like the, the argument just rings hollow. But I just kind of respectfully disagree, where I'm like, no, man, like, we either have the Constitution or we don't. And it's a whole lot better to have it. And could anyone read the Constitution and actually, this is where he said, stop whining about the action in Venezuela being unjustified or unconstitutional.

• 2:23:52Theo Von?

  Or whatever. You look weak and might as well be complaining that it doesn't follow Hammurabi's code. Trump knows that American leaders are judged by whether they win or lose, nothing else.

• 2:24:01Speaker 01

  Now, look, he's right about that to an extent, right? Like, if Venezuela turns around tomorrow and is a bastion of freedom or something like that, then that's a huge win for Donald Trump, and he's going to be able to brag, and people will go, oh, Dave, you care about morality and the Constitution, but this worked. So like, he's right about that. But the point is that it's like, dude, if you just, like, the Constitution claims to be the law of the land. The Constitution is what created this government. So if you're going to accept that they don't have to live under that own Constitution, which they put a hand on the Bible and a hand in the air and swear. Our politicians, Donald Trump, the political class who swears to God in front of all of us that they will uphold and defend this document. Like, I'm not arguing any of us are bound by the Constitution, but they are.

• 2:24:46Speaker 01

  They swore an oath to it, you know what I mean?

• 2:24:48Theo Von?

  Yeah, they went into politics, that's their.

• 2:24:49Speaker 01

  Yes, their, their obligation in front of their nation and in front of God was to defend and protect the Constitution. And you can't tell me, dude, that it's constitutional for a country that clearly poses no threat to us, even if the drug accusations were true, it's not like an immediate, it's not, there's nuclear missiles lined up on Cuba and the president has to take action. It's, you had all the time in the world to come to Congress to have a debate about this and for our elected representative government to, you know, like, vote how they feel about the war, make their arguments to their candidate. But if you're telling me that our, the legal justification that they're going with is that he's not the president. That's what Marco Rubio said. No, we didn't get the president of Venezuela. We just got some drug dealer.

• 2:25:33Speaker 01

  He's just a gangster. He's not the president. That was Marco Rubio tweeted today. Uh, that that's the like, dude, come on. This is so illegal. This is so unconstitutional. And if you're just gonna sit back and allow a government to be that like, okay, well, that government who can violate the constitution against Venezuela is powerful enough to violate every American citizen's rights as well.

• 2:25:51Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's weird. It's like we, you have to, if you stand up for it, you have to stand up for it, you know?

• 2:25:56Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 2:25:56Theo Von?

  And also, one thing that was interesting was whenever Ken Burns was here, we talked about the declaration of Venezuela. Oh, this is Secretary Marco Rubio right here. It says Maduro is not the president of Venezuela and his regime is not the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel de los Soles, a narco terror organization which has taken possession of a country. And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States. Who's he? He's being indicted by us. But what proof do we have that he is the head of the Cartel de los Soles?

• 2:26:22Speaker 01

  Zero, zero has been offered. Zero has been offered. It's not even clear the thing exists.

• 2:26:27Theo Von?

  Yeah, I was looking forward to it.

• 2:26:28Speaker 01

  Seems to be like some low level mid-network thing. It's all bullshit. And look, like what they could say, which is might be true. I'm actually not sure, but this might be true. But they'll be like, he lost the election, or the election was illegitimate or something like that. It's like, yeah, like I, I referred to them on Twitter as a sovereign nation. And some, a bunch of people were saying, oh, they're not a sovereign nation. But it's like, listen, man, first of all, we do business with dozens of countries that just don't have elections. Like that are just aren't democracies at all. And also, you're saying the last election was bullshit. Isn't that what Trump said about us? Like, is that, so by your logic, could anyone just come in and depose the Biden? Like even right winger, Trump supporter, who believes the 2020 election was stolen.

• 2:27:10Speaker 01

  Do you really believe that China or Russia could have come into America two years ago and just kidnapped Joe Biden? Like you would have no problem with that? I think you'd right away be like, no, no, no, motherfucker. We will decide whether our illegitimate government stands or falls or what. And so all of these things, this is all just complete nonsense.

• 2:27:29Theo Von?

  I wonder how the people there feel.

• 2:27:31Speaker 01

  Well, there were some people celebrating for sure.

• 2:27:33Theo Von?

  I saw that, but then also some of those celebrations were happening in different countries and stuff like that. So you don't know exactly what was going on. One of them was also from a Soccer game after a soccer game in the streets. So you don't know some of exactly what's happening.

• 2:27:44Speaker 01

  And that also doesn't mean it's going to lead to something that they'll be celebrating. I mean, look, this could be a nightmare for them. Saddam Hussein was a Sunni Ba'athist party, right? The Sunnis are like 20% of the Iraqi population. And I think 60% are are Shiites. Definitely like there's a super majority of Shiites in the country. And so when Saddam first got toppled, a lot of people were celebrating. So a lot of them were Shiites who had been brutally oppressed by Saddam Hussein. So they're celebrating, but they didn't know that they were about to enter into the most brutal civil war. Where just hundreds of thousands of people were going to get killed. Again, I'm not saying because it happened that way in Iraq, that means it's going to happen that way in Venezuela.

• 2:28:26Speaker 01

  But the idea that the people are celebrating day one, like, OK, yeah, look, Maduro was not a good guy. And he was a socialist dictator. So like, OK, fine, there's people happy he's gone. But that don't mean that what replaces him can't be worse.

• 2:28:40Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:28:42Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's just and then if we're involved in it, you know, um, how much are we there to help? That's the question that used to feel different. It used to feel like we're there to help. And then now it's like, are we there to help? Or are we just there to serve somebody's interests, you know? And not even like a regular person's interest, right?

• 2:29:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right.

• 2:29:00Theo Von?

  One thing that Ken Burns said, uh, and he did like the Ken Burns documentary, he just, um, he's a documentarian, you know, he is. He had, he has a new documentary about the American Revolution. But he said that the Declaration of Independence, um, it talks about the pursuit of happiness, right? And we talked about it being like an active document. It's not like a receipt, right? It's like a, it's kind of a, um, it's an evolving document, right? Like, we're not guaranteed to have an America, right?

• 2:29:30Speaker 01

  Yes, was Benjamin Franklin's line was right. Some woman said, what have you given us? And he said, a republic if you can keep it. Which is like a great like, and then Thomas Jefferson had some line where it was like, uh, the tree of liberty has to be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots. So like. Even they were going like, this thing is gonna have to be kept. Like, there's gonna be a process of having to continue this thing. Like, it's not just like, oh, it's written down on a piece of paper, so it's a magic potion, and now this guarantees a free society. But I will, and I will say also, like, because there's like this debate about like a propositional nation versus like a blood and soil nation or something like that.

• 2:30:12Speaker 01

  And I'm not saying like, America isn't just a nation of ideas, it's a nation of people, like, who actually existed and a common culture and a tradition and like all of those things. And Christianity and like, there's a lot of forces there. But the fact that our first founding document is the Declaration of Independence, and the fact that we became the wealthiest, most prosperous, freest country in the world, is not a coincidence, dude. And like, it's so beautiful that the story, that there's no country in history that is started. The starting place is that we say, man should be free. And also, I love this about the guy, is like, in like the first sentence or the first couple sentences, they say it's self-evident.

• 2:30:57Speaker 01

  They say, they say it's self-evident that God wants us to be free, which is not actually self-evident, but I just love that as a starting point, that it's just like, you know what? Here's our starting point, we're not debating that. There's a God, and God wants us to be free. And then it says, and these are my words, not the thing, but then it says, uh, governments are just a thing that man institutes to protect our liberty. And if government's not protecting our liberty, then we have, uh, the right, and maybe even the obligation, to violently overthrow that government and institute a new one that will protect our free, like, that concept of like the individual and freedom and the natural rights.

• 2:31:36Theo Von?

  It never happened before in time.

• 2:31:37Speaker 01

  It'd never been like based on a government or a country based around that idea.

• 2:31:41Theo Von?

  Well, I think that idea had never really occurred. I mean, it had been, like, I think you were coming out of a time where there was a lot of colonialism, it was like us as a group, and what are we doing for, you know, our flag and our, you know, or what are we doing like as a group, you know? Um, and then, America, it was like, no. We can be free. You can be free.

• 2:32:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:32:02Theo Von?

  Yeah, I think it lit the pilot light of like creativity and individualism in people.

• 2:32:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, no, that's right. And was something always to strive for, like even when we weren't living up to it. And in fact, even right, like, I mean, and look, the civil rights movement is complicated and stuff, but at the heart of it, that was Martin Luther King's, uh, that was what he said in his famous, uh, um, I have a dream speech. Where he said, I forget the exact line, but it was something like, he said, uh, we went to deposit our check. And we were told there were insufficient funds or something like that. He had a line like insufficient funds. But essentially what he was saying, which he did spell out in other, uh, speeches, was that he's like, you said all men are created equal. You said all men have inalienable rights. So what are we talking? Like, he was able to play on that to go, right?

• 2:32:50Speaker 01

  The metaphor is a bad check marked as, uh, insufficient funds. But it's basically, but the bad check is that he's saying like, look, we have these constitutionally protected rights here.

• 2:32:58Theo Von?

  Highlighting how the nation defaulted on the promissory note of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, leaving black people to cash a check for liberty. That came back unpaid.

• 2:33:07Speaker 01

  So he, so he was able to say, hey, look, if the Declaration of Independence means what it says.

• 2:33:12Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:33:12Speaker 01

  Then you can't have Jim Crow. What are you talking? And so like, even like, it was always something that we, and, and then of course, America did relatively to every other country that had ever existed, have the most free market economy ever. They're the most free market laissez faire capitalist country that was ever, uh, created. And that led to the most prosperity ever. We didn't, we didn't become a rich country, like in the way that the French or the English did. It wasn't like, oh, you're, you're an empire that goes around and colonizes other countries and extracts their resources back to yours. We just built things. We just had factories and men who worked and you know what I mean? Like, so anyway, I just, I think that.

• 2:33:52Speaker 01

  There's, there's like, there's been a huge, like, we've gotten away from that as a country for far too long.

• 2:33:59Theo Von?

  But do you think as people we have, or do you just think that just as the, as the upper realm and as the leaders and as the politicians?

• 2:34:06Speaker 01

  I think we've, look, as people, I would say, we've allowed our politicians and our government to get away from all of those things and for the government to amass.

• 2:34:16Theo Von?

  We've been eating, we've been too comfortable.

• 2:34:18Speaker 01

  Well, and they've just been amassing more and more power and it's like, it's this, this buildup effect where they always take a little bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more and then you get to a point where the government spends like over seven trillion dollars a year. It's like unthinkable.

• 2:34:31Theo Von?

  And forcing most people into lifestyles that makes it tough for them to even have time to see who they're voting for and to know what's going on.

• 2:34:39Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 2:34:39Theo Von?

  And it's so hard to even know what's going on. It's so hard to find good information and real information. It's just, you know, and now it's like, where do you even get that from? It's really, really tough because you can't like the news.

• 2:34:50Speaker 01

  You gotta just believe anything Candace says, man. That's the new world we live in. I don't know, dude.

• 2:34:55Theo Von?

  She's pretty, I mean, she's brave, dude.

• 2:34:58Speaker 01

  Oh, she's brave. That's an understatement, man.

• 2:35:00Theo Von?

  That's what we're saying at the beginning that, yeah. Um, yeah, dude, her kids play like games or like instead of playing cops and robbers, they played who killed Charlie Kirk. That's so crazy.

• 2:35:14Theo Von?

  What do you think about journalism? Before you go, we gotta get you out of here in a little bit. They just had the, um, they just had this stuff in Minnesota recently where the, where this young guy, Nick Shirley, I'm sure you're familiar with him now. And like you were saying earlier, like in a week, everybody knows his name. Now he's been YouTube and he's been doing kind of like, uh, I would say kind of vigilante journalism for a while. But like he kind of, he was going to investigate some of these Somali daycare centers. What were your thoughts on some of that? And then what do you think about vigilante journalism? Like, I think this is just gonna be like gasoline on, on, um, on just like anybody becoming a journalist now.

• 2:35:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, I love that. I mean, I think it's great. And again, that's not to like vouch for this kid or something because I don't know.

• 2:35:57Theo Von?

  Andrew Callahan's been doing it for a long time, guys like him.

• 2:35:59Speaker 01

  No, I think those guys, I think those guys are really important. And one of the things that I found so fascinating about this was just that. Look like there's been, there's been reporting on the, the fraud in, in Minnesota before this. And there's even been like, they claim some indictments and stuff like that. But like, dude, just the fact that this guy is driving the media narrative now. And then you see CNN and, and CBS and them, they gotta now respond to him. Like he's, it used to be, and I remember that, like when I started paying attention to this stuff, which has been like 20 years or something like that now. It, the way it worked 20 years ago was that the New York Times Sunday paper came out every Sunday.

• 2:36:40Speaker 01

  And then that dictated what all the corporate media outlets were going to talk about for the next seven days. Like this was in the Times and so it filtered out. Now it's this guy with a YouTube channel or with a Twitter account and they can go and kind of like, they can expose that like, there's this scandal. And then like by exposing the scandal, it also exposes the media and the justice department. And it's like, why is this kid the one who's bringing us this information?

• 2:37:08Theo Von?

  Right.

• 2:37:08Speaker 01

  But I do think going forward, that's going to kind of be the new normal.

• 2:37:12Theo Von?

  Well, we already had the information, right? I think a lot of the information was already there. But it is interesting of how it's served to you and how, what you'll, like, why now is it so much? Did it seem more real because he was right there with the people and you're hearing the?

• 2:37:28Speaker 01

  Sure, I think so.

• 2:37:29Theo Von?

  And all the windows are blacked out at all these places.

• 2:37:33Theo Von?

  And then some of it, like the Leering Center, that seemed too on the nose to me. Like that almost seemed fake.

• 2:37:38Speaker 01

  That's, it just seemed crazy that no one would catch this. I mean, like that, yeah, it did seem almost a little bit too much.

• 2:37:43Theo Von?

  You're telling me a parent is dropping their kid off there? Or even somebody that works there that is pretending and they're, if they're getting money and they're gonna have that. It just seemed, that seemed like staged.

• 2:37:54Speaker 01

  It seemed almost too on the nose. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. But what is interesting is that, you know, Tim Walz, um, he ran on this as vice president. Now, he said it at the vice presidential debates that he was bragging about how they upped the money that was going to daycare and that him and Kamala Harris were going to take this program and federalize it and bring it to the national level. And it's just, it really is something. You know, I don't know, I find like, I think there's so many interesting conversations about all of that. But I think that, um, Like it does, it kind of ties back into the stuff I was saying about inflating the currency, destroying the purchasing power of the dollar. Now everybody, it's so weird to me when you think about like, like when I was saying like my grandfather could have his wife not work and own a house.

• 2:38:36Speaker 01

  And we are so much richer than he was. The technological advances between then and now, we should be living at such a higher standard of life. And yet, almost no young people can do that today. Like literally, the only people I know who can do that today are like rich, successful comedians. Like if you know, like rich people could have their wife not work. That's the only people who really do that these, or, or pretty much.

• 2:38:57Theo Von?

  I know, it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart that both parents have to work all the time if they don't, if they don't really want to.

• 2:39:02Speaker 01

  Well, so now while the, while these Democrats are talking about how the more socialism, right? The government should provide your childcare, your daycare for you now. It's like, does anyone ask like, do we want to live in a society where our kids are raised in daycare? Like, I don't know. I got, I got little kids and I know people and I, I know when I say this, people get upset sometimes. I don't mean to be like judgmental of you personally, because I know if you put your kid in daycare, then this seems like I'm attacking you or something like that. But like, I just can't imagine. People drop their babies, babies, off at daycare.

• 2:39:36Theo Von?

  Dude, I managed a daycare, dude, when I was like 15 and a half. Bro.

• 2:39:39Speaker 01

  Dude, I love you. I would never drop my babies off with you at 15 and a half. Are you crazy?

• 2:39:44Theo Von?

  Especially when I was 15, I might have been, I might have been 16. But dude, I remember one time I stayed out really late. My buddy and I were, had been actually stealing boat radios to put a radio into my car. And we're like, oh dude, nobody's monitoring these boat radios like at, at the marina. Let's go there, get some radios out of there. But there's some different, there's like, some of the wiring is different or whatever. Anyway, fucking nightmare. So we just got to work and I was like, well dude, I'm just gonna lay in my car for a little while. Because we'd, we'd been drinking a decent amount. And so I was like, I'm just gonna lay in my car for a little while. And then, um, I'll wake up whenever the sun pops up and then I'll, um, manage the daycare or whatever. And then, so dude, bro, I fucking, I guess the sun, like it wasn't that hot or whatever.

• 2:40:27Theo Von?

  I, I parked like where like the tree, like I was in the shade of a tree too much. And I, one of the, um, the owners or whatever came over and knocked on my windows like at eight. And I was supposed to be there at 6:30. It was like 8 a.m. And dude, it was like, my car just smelled like vodka and had all these fucking radios all over. My hands were cut up from like getting the radios out and, um, Anyway, nightmare. But yeah, bottom line, dude, I ran, dude, we.

• 2:40:49Speaker 01

  You probably shouldn't send your kids to that daycare.

• 2:40:51Theo Von?

  Yeah, but I'm just saying, anybody can do a daycare, right? And we, dude, we watched Terminator, I remember with them kids. And them kids were little.

• 2:41:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:41:01Theo Von?

  They shouldn't have been watching it.

• 2:41:03Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, that, I appreciate your honesty there. But it is like a thing where.

• 2:41:07Theo Von?

  Shouldn't have been. I still feel bad. Sometimes I still wake up and I'm like, fuck, they shouldn't have been watching it. Well, cause there's one scene where you see like three tits in it or whatever. Or Total Recall.

• 2:41:15Speaker 01

  Total Recall. That's, I remember that. That's the three.

• 2:41:17Theo Von?

  We were watching Total Recall. And there's a scene where the three tits are on there and there's all these kids looking at it. I'm like, dude, y'all shouldn't be watching this.

• 2:41:23Speaker 01

  That wasn't.

• 2:41:24Theo Von?

  And we were, we were watching it. That was a problem. I, sometimes I forgot that I wasn't, I felt like I was in the class or whatever.

• 2:41:31Speaker 01

  Well, I will say, a lot of the reason I think why, uh, you know, these people who are like the big government progressives and stuff like that, and, and the whole kind of like neoliberal culture in America, which has always kind of like for years been demonizing, you know, straight white men and demonizing patriarchal families and all of this. There's a reason why, um, like big central governments don't like the family structure and religion and community and all of those things, because they're all a hedge against their power. And the system, right, like this inflating the currency, that leads to all the things that we were talking about, right?

• 2:42:15Speaker 01

  But that is actually very good for the political class. It's very, like inflation in general is very good if you hold debt. If you're a big debtor, inflation is your friend because you pay off the debt. Like if you, if you want, if you want to buy something, but the money is worth a lot less. Well, now your hamburger used to cost five bucks. Now it costs 15 bucks. That sucks for you if you're the person who wants to buy it. But if you owe a thousand dollars and now.

• 2:42:44Theo Von?

  You're selling hamburgers at 15 dollars a pop.

• 2:42:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, you owe less than you did before. So like, if you have debt, inflation is your friend. And also.

• 2:42:52Theo Von?

  Damn, we gotta get some debt.

• 2:42:53Speaker 01

  Well, in the old, it's not a bad thing to have in an inflationary environment. But in the old system, like in the old order, right? My grandfather would work at the factory all day long. My grandmother would work, you know, taking care of the kids and managing the house and cooking and cleaning and all that stuff all day long. But only one of those incomes was taxable. Right? My grandfather's was taxable, but you can't tax my housewife grandmother. But if she goes into the workforce, now there's two taxable incomes. Then you hire a daycare worker, that's a third taxable income. And so there's just way more revenue going to the federal government when the government's raising your kids.

• 2:43:31Theo Von?

  And now you have-

• 2:43:31Speaker 01

  Rather than your mother.

• 2:43:32Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:43:32Speaker 01

  But it's not really so good for the babies.

• 2:43:35Theo Von?

  No.

• 2:43:35Speaker 01

  Like, it's better for the babies if their mom and dad are the ones raising them.

• 2:43:38Theo Von?

  I agree.

• 2:43:38Speaker 01

  Or their grandmother, or their aunt, or someone who's just inherently always gonna love them more than some worker at a daycare.

• 2:43:44Theo Von?

  Well, that's why when a kid's mom comes to pick them up from a daycare, as opposed to your babysitter coming to pick you up or something, there's just a different feeling about it. Even watching it, there's a different feeling about it.

• 2:43:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:43:56Theo Von?

  You know, and then it's also, it's like if you get someone else to work, then you need another car. Now they need another car to get to work, right?

• 2:44:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:44:01Theo Von?

  And so then you have gas lobbyists and auto lobbyists that are gonna push for those things. You need those things.

• 2:44:06Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 2:44:08Theo Von?

  I don't know. But then also, it's like, dude, I feel so bad sometimes because I get stuck in these circles of just being like, like a Debbie Downer sometimes, you know? And I don't think that that's, that's not good.

• 2:44:19Speaker 01

  No, no. And I think, no, you're right. It's not good. And you don't want, and I also don't think we should be a downer. Like, I'm, I'm still somewhat pessimistic on the short run here. Like, I don't think things are gonna, all these problems are gonna be solved tomorrow. But like, we do, we're at the precipice of a new age. That's gonna be something wild that none of us can really understand. You know, I was, who was it was saying, um, might have been Jimmy Carr? I can't remember. Somebody was talking about, um, when AI gets pointed at physics, and then we can like actually have AI like inventing new things about physics. Because like, all the things that have like really changed our world are related to the study of physics, like, you know, and the fact that like, dude-

• 2:45:03Speaker 01

  My grandfather fought in World War II. This is a thing that happened in the previous century. There were two world wars, you know? Things looked pretty bad there for a while.

• 2:45:12Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:45:12Speaker 01

  Like people getting slaughtered by the tens of millions. In World War I, fighting and, you know, 17 year olds fighting in trench warfare and stuff like that. And now we're, we live in an age where like an infection that would have killed you, you know, a hundred years ago is like, you go grab some amoxicillin, you're fine. You know, people, literally you get strep throat, that's like no big deal, man. Strep throat without amoxicillin is a really, really big deal. And so we have, my, my son was saved with a, um, uh, open heart surgery that just 30 years ago, you just would, didn't have, and I would have lost a kid. Like, so we do live in this amazing time and we all have more of a voice and more of a platform and more opportunity to like, to work together and find truth.

• 2:45:56Speaker 01

  Like, I think there's a lot of really beautiful shit going on, but part of that beautiful thing is that we can expose how ugly this corruption is. And man, even as somebody who's really lived in the world of like being furious at these guys for how corrupt it is, the more you get, the more information you get, it's so much uglier than you. So it's like, it's like a metaphor for life in general, right? In life, you gotta deal with, there, there's like tremendous beauty and there's tremendous tragedy. And we all have that within us and you all, and you gotta somehow like stomach the tragic part of it so that you can get to experience a little bit of the beauty, you know?

• 2:46:32Theo Von?

  Yeah, and even we're able to sit here and at least like feed ourselves, we're able to talk about things. Like there's places where people have no freedom at all right now, you know?

• 2:46:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:46:41Theo Von?

  This is this video by Jimmy Carr here. Jimmy Carr drops a wild take on AI and physics.

• 2:46:45Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, it was Jimmy Carr, I was right.

• 2:46:47Theo Von?

  He's excellent.

• 2:46:47Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, and this was on, uh, I think it was on, um, is this on trigonometry?

• 2:46:51Theo Von?

  Yeah. He's excellent, let's play it.

• 2:46:54Speaker 12

  The other thing is physics. So this is Peter Thiel's point, but minus the screens from any room, we're living in the 1970s, right? So nothing's happened in physics since 72. String theory has not got us anywhere. But if you take the compute power of AI and point it at physics now, everything else in science is stamp collecting, right? Physics is the real thing. That gave us everything. Every bit of technology that we have comes from the physics department. And, you know, what happens when you point AI at that? That's a, that feels to me like something that people aren't really thinking about and

• 2:47:36Speaker 12

  is incredibly, could be incredible. We could have a world of plenty where there's no, you know, if we, if we increase productivity by 50 times and there's a human flourishing, fantastic. I hope that's the world we live in.

• 2:47:54Theo Von?

  But they, but we've done that and they haven't. And I'm not disagreeing with Jimmy. This is obviously, this is just a hopeful thought that he has, and it's a beautiful thought.

• 2:48:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, look, like who knows? Or maybe the AI will become our overlords and we'll live in some terrible, but like, you know what? There's still that hope. And so then, you know, you gotta keep moving forward. And there were more hopeless times than this.

• 2:48:16Theo Von?

  Oh, for sure.

• 2:48:17Speaker 01

  And, um, and I do think that it's like, look, it's, it's quite possible that we're gonna come into an age where it's essentially impossible for politicians to propagandize their own citizenry. And it does seem like we're moving much closer to that. And that.

• 2:48:32Theo Von?

  What do you mean by that? Tell me a little bit more about it.

• 2:48:34Speaker 01

  Well, look, I mean, so.

• 2:48:35Theo Von?

  What does propagandize their own citizenry mean?

• 2:48:37Speaker 01

  Well, look.

• 2:48:38Theo Von?

  Just so to be clear.

• 2:48:39Speaker 01

  So, living through, so in, in 2001, I was like 18, right? I was born in 83. I was 18 in 2001. So you had 9/11, the whole country's totally traumatized. For all of 2002, the whole, we invaded Iraq in 2003. For all of 2002, they just laid out this war propaganda. And there, which was, you know, the Israelis played their role and the Israel lobby, of course, and Benjamin Netanyahu came and testified before Congress that, you know, all this stuff. And Perez was a former prime minister of Israel, wrote an op-ed in, um, in the.

• 2:49:18Speaker 01

  Washington, in the Washington Post and Ehud Barak, Jeffrey Epstein's good friend, wrote an op ed in the New York Times, all saying, you know, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and if you overthrow him, and they convinced Americans, I mean, they really convinced Americans that Saddam Hussein was had or was building nuclear weapons and he was friends with Osama bin Laden and if we didn't go overthrow him, he was going to hand these nukes that he didn't have off to these terrorists who he wasn't friends with and that they were going to nuke Kansas or something like that.

• 2:49:45Theo Von?

  How many times do we fall for the same fucking trick?

• 2:49:46Speaker 01

  But the thing is, all people, everybody who people look to to get their news, like the entire Republican base, they were getting their news from Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, who would just, and Mark Levin, and these guys would just repeat the government propaganda over and over and over again. They were nothing other than, in effect, state propagandists, just repeating it. And then liberals looked to the New York Times and Judith Miller was repeating the state propaganda and her source was Cholabi, the same source that the neocons had, who by the way, turned out to be like an Iranian spy essentially. But regardless, they were able to, today, if Donald Trump was trying to sell us on something like that, he doesn't have Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, who will just repeat his propaganda. He's

• 2:50:31Speaker 01

  got Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Those are the biggest right wing commentators in America. They're going to destroy that propaganda. You know, like, it's like, the media, it's not state media anymore. It's actually independent media. And so their ability to like, launch another propaganda campaign like this is just, it's not what it used to be.

• 2:50:50Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:50:51Speaker 01

  And so I think that leads, you know, this leads to the potential of a much better world.

• 2:50:55Theo Von?

  Yeah, I mean, even today, when we're looking at the Venezuela thing, we can pull up clips of other, other people's thoughts and theories on it, so we can get a bigger look at it.

• 2:51:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. And they actually have to kind of like, face our ideas now. Like, it's interesting, like, even, even- Even if you watch, I mean, I get it a lot. They flip out about me, but like if you watch the way they flip out about Candace, the way they flip out about Nick Fuentes, or Tucker Carlson, or someone like that. It's like, but they have to flip out about him. You know, in years prior, they would have just marginalized and ignored these guys. And they tried for a long time. They sure did. Well, they got Tucker fired from Fox News, right? They thought that was gonna help him. He's bigger. He's bigger now. So what now, what are you gonna do? And then Nick Fuentes, what are you gonna do? He's banned off everything, you know? I mean, he's on, I guess Twitter and Rumble. But so what are you gonna do? And he's huge. He's bigger than ever. He may be bigger than ever. You had him on your show. Yeah. How was that? What is he like? Is he big or is he small?

• 2:51:46Speaker 01

  He's not big. He's not a big guy. He's a small. I mean, he's not like tiny, but he's not a- Somebody said he rides a bike. Is that true or not? I did not see him on a bicycle. I can neither confirm nor deny. I believe he took an Uber- Okay. -to the studio. Someone said he rode a bike to- Oh, listen, I'll be honest. He told me he took an Uber to the studio. I did not see with my own eyes how he got there. He could have- Not an Uber black. He could. It was certainly an Uber white. No, you know, honestly, my, my impressions, I like Nick. And my- Oh, he seems like a fascinating, I mean, he's obviously fascinating. He's fast, he's, people are fascinated by him. Well, he's brilliant, and he's hilarious, which is already something that just like, I just like that. I like funny people. He's fucking brave, dude.

• 2:52:29Speaker 01

  Well, he's definitely brave. And, you know, we have, we have some pretty large areas of disagreement, I think. But I've always kind of believed like, I've always kind of believed like, okay, so then, it's just, maybe this is kind of like a little naive or something, but my attitude is always like, all right, so we got some areas of disagreement. So like, hey, let's talk about them. And let's kind of like, let's have more conversations and more debates and more, you know what I mean? And just, you know, I think he gets a few things wrong, but then again, he gets some really major things right. And I think that this is part of the reason why they're all so scared of him. You know, if you want to say that like, Nick goes down a road of like racialism, and even, it's not exactly that he like-

• 2:53:13Speaker 01

  Like, it's not that he like is praising Hitler and Stalin. He's saying some complimentary things about them or something like that. But if you want to say that like going down this road of like racialism and kind of revisionism about some brutal dictators in history. If you want to say, hey, that's wrong and that's off limits or something as like a cultural rule or a cultural norm. Well, how the hell is the guy who's defending a genocide going to tell me that that's the case? You know what I mean? It's like, oh, you guys, you guys are going to tell me like, oh, Nick, Nick Fuentes is morally reprehensible. Says the people signing the bombs that are going to drop on babies.

• 2:53:53Theo Von?

  I agree.

• 2:53:53Speaker 01

  Sorry. So you've lost that. It's just like, to me, it's like, that's over. You lose the ability to gatekeep this conversation. And now people like us will decide who the hell we want to talk to. And I decide Nick Fuentes is a very relevant, interesting person who I'd like to talk to.

• 2:54:08Theo Von?

  Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with talking to most people. That's what I think most of the time. Every now and then there'll be somebody like, I don't think I would talk to them. But also it's wild that people assume you know everything about somebody. When you're going to have them on the podcast or you're going to talk to them. It's like, dude, sometimes I haven't looked like I'll know the person. I'll be intrigued by one or two things I heard from them, but I'll have no idea. Sometimes if they were, you know, if there's been other stuff that people widely disagree with or whatever.

• 2:54:35Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, yeah, like the responsibility or the responsibility then, which I think is ridiculous is that it's like you're endorsing everything they've ever said. If you agree with them on one thing or something like that. But I do think, you know, when Nick was on Pierce Morgan, who, by the way, for the record, I really like Pierce Morgan, too. I'm not like, and so I like Nick, I like Pierce, I like.

• 2:54:52Theo Von?

  Pierce is funny.

• 2:54:53Speaker 01

  I love Pierce. I think his show is actually really great.

• 2:54:55Theo Von?

  He's brave and he has on a lot of great guests.

• 2:54:57Speaker 01

  It's a circus at times, but I think it's like a really important circus. But the thing that.

• 2:55:01Theo Von?

  Dude, that's a great statement. Some of these things are circuses, but it's a really important circus. When you talk about like podcasting or some of these types of interviews, it's like.

• 2:55:09Speaker 01

  Well, he had, he had like, he said a ton of things. He had Wesley Clark debate Scott Horton. He had, um, he had, um, Norman Finkelstein, uh, Norman Finkelstein debated Benny Morris. Like these like huge, very interesting debates with really brilliant people, you know? I'm like, and, um, but anyway, so when Nick was on, it was almost like there was the conversation that was going on, uh, they're both speaking past each other completely. It's almost like Pierce does not understand the phenomenon that this kid is. But to me, the more meta like kind of analysis of it, like what was going on there is that what, what I think what Nick represents in a lot of ways is, okay, there's been now

• 2:55:51Speaker 01

  in the country for at least 30 years, maybe a little more than that, really exploded in the last 15 years. There's been this attempt by every single institutional force to police what Americans are allowed to say by shaming people as racist, sexist, anti Semitic, all these, these is, and look, you know, cause the funny thing about someone like Nick is people will make the point, they'll be like, well, look, you could criticize Israel without criticizing the Jews. And you're like, yeah, hey, I do that every day. And you know what I get called for it by Mark Levin? A Nazi. Yeah. So it doesn't matter.

• 2:56:31Speaker 01

  So what Nick in a way to me at least represents is a big fuck you to that whole game. I reject that whole paradigm. If you, you're not going to police me by calling me sexist, racist, or, or anti Semitic because I say I am all those things. So now what?

• 2:56:47Theo Von?

  Now what are you gonna do?

• 2:56:47Speaker 01

  So now, so if you come at Nick the way Pierce did, where you go, you play, let me play a clip of you. That's horrible what you said right there. I think you're a bigot. And he'll go, yeah, fuck you. I am. Whereas when I talk to Nick and I go, all right, dude, listen, I think shutting conversation down with accusation of bigotry is fucked up. But what do you actually believe here? He actually opens up and gives you a much more nuanced take. And like, no, is he a few clicks to the right? Of me, definitely.

• 2:57:15Theo Von?

  He's a sensationalist though, too.

• 2:57:16Speaker 01

  Sure. And there's a lot of sarcasm in all of that.

• 2:57:19Theo Von?

  If I could see him being a conductor, or I could see him being a, um, the guy at the circus who's like dealing with all the animals, he would be perfect at that. Um, and I say that respectfully because yeah, he's just, he's good at, um, doing it all himself, right? But you have to have those moments that are, that are bonkers out there or that seem bonkers to people.

• 2:57:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely. I also just think like in that, you know, it's like from being, doing standup comedy. So, you know, I know you know too, it's like you get, you, you develop a bit of an eye for talent. And that doesn't even mean like, it's not a question of whether like you agree or disagree, or whether they're your favorite comic or not your favorite comic. Like, but you could, you could love really edgy, really filthy comedy. And you'd still go, Nate Bargatze is a beast of a talent. You know what I mean? Like you just recognize talent.

• 2:58:06Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 2:58:06Speaker 01

  He's very good at what he does. And Nick, Nick's ability, like it just as a broadcaster, his talent is like legendary. I mean, he's like, he's second to none. Maybe there are some tied with him, but like, like Tim Dillon's ability to just rant into a camera. Nick Fuentes has that level of ability. And so there is a part of it too, where you watch, you watch all of these guys, uh, um, you know, freak out. But you're like, look, man, the kid's really good at what he does. He represents a lot of people. He was deplatformed for having views that actually a lot of people have. And also there's just, look, like there's nuance to a lot of this shit. I think that being racist.

• 2:58:49Theo Von?

  And where was he deplatformed from? From YouTube?

• 2:58:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, YouTube. He was kicked off Twitter. He was kicked off like everything at one point. Um, I'm not sure what he's, what he's back on now.

• 2:58:58Theo Von?

  Yeah. And I haven't, I don't know a lot of the stuff that he's, you know, I don't know a lot of the things that he said. I mean, I know I've heard him say the N word. I've heard him say.

• 2:59:06Speaker 01

  Definitely said that.

• 2:59:07Theo Von?

  Some other stuff, but some of those same word clips go hard, dude. I'll be honest with you. And some of them, I've seen black people, um.

• 2:59:13Speaker 01

  Loving them.

• 2:59:14Theo Von?

  Do mashups and love them.

• 2:59:15Speaker 01

  There's always been something where, there's always been a real weird dynamic about how, um, being offended. Being offended by words or jokes or is such a white chick thing, but they project that onto black people. But actually, black people, because I've known a few of them, are like the the least offended people ever. Like, you know, it's, it's just, so there's a weird dynamic there, too. Also, though, and I'll say, maybe this will be a real controversial thing to say at the end, but I do think that there's, we've, we've lived under a, a world order for a long time, where being a bigot is the worst thing in the world. It's like the worst thing you can be is racist, you know? And part of that is because that, you know, we live in the world order that defeated the Nazis.

• 2:59:57Speaker 01

  And so the, the biggest villain of all time is viewed as the racist, and the greatest liberator of all time are viewed as the anti racist. And the biggest villain in, in the religion of modern America, like the devil is Adolf Hitler and Jesus is Martin Luther King. That's kind of like the, the, the way popular, you know, the culture is constructed. I think that there is actually a lot more nuance to bigotry and that everybody has a bit of bigotry in them. Um, and, but I think that America, it is true to some degree that Americans have been replaced by immigration policy from their government. America went from being a 90% majority white Christian country

• 3:00:39Speaker 01

  to now being, it's like in the 50s percentage and may even be a majority minority country in the next couple of decades. And then white people might ultimately be a minority in this country going forward.

• 3:00:48Theo Von?

  And the mainstream media demonized white, white-

• 3:00:50Speaker 01

  Yes, this was done, this was done against the will of the domestic population. No, there was never a referendum on open borders and massive racial change in America, because it would have failed. No, the country wouldn't have supported it. And there is going to be a group of people, not just white people, but there are going to be a group of people who wish that America remain majority white. And that doesn't mean you have to hate black people. Or that doesn't mean you have to hate Muslims or hate Latin American or Latino people or whatever. It's like, there's nuance between, there's a view where you go, hey, I want America to remain majority white, because that's kind of what America's always been. And I want it to continue being what America's always been. That doesn't mean I want to reinstitute slavery or have a genocide or something like that.

• 3:01:33Theo Von?

  And I'm, and if you're a white person, you're like, well, what the fuck? I don't exist.

• 3:01:36Speaker 01

  Why, why am I supposed to root for my own destruction?

• 3:01:39Theo Von?

  I don't have a place to exist at? Fuck that, dude.

• 3:01:41Speaker 01

  Well, it would be crazy to go-

• 3:01:42Theo Von?

  I'm just so sick of like, there's just so, it's like- Yeah, it's just so sick of white people are always the bad people. I'm sick of your movies of white people always bad people. And that's one of the things that's craziest about um the genocide stuff. It's like, well, now you have a group of people, you have Israel and their government that has set the bar for who the new bad people are.

• 3:02:03Speaker 01

  Dude, they act like it's anything but. It gets anything. Dude, I was listening. Mark Levin gave a speech about the rise of anti-Israel sentiment and antisemitism. And he discusses, doesn't mention the genocide. Like as if that's not a part of it. It's like everything. It's like, it's like you mentioned everything.

• 3:02:19Theo Von?

  That's the part of it.

• 3:02:20Speaker 01

  There's this one tiny detail you're missing, which is that you committed a genocide in 4K.

• 3:02:24Theo Von?

  Well, you taught me my whole life that if somebody is doing like something like that Hitler and the Nazis did, that it's wrong, right? All these movies, all the books, some of that, many of that I paid to see and paid to read and wanted to absorb.

• 3:02:36Speaker 01

  You see Obama's speechwriter, she's this Jewish chick, Obama's speechwriter, but she goes, the Holocaust training really backfired. Because now people are conditioned to see like when a big powerful state is just killing helpless captive people, that they view that as the same as like the Nazis do. That's it. So she's actually going like, oh, the real problem with all this Holocaust education is that now people are pissed off when we try to do it. Like, Jesus Christ, lady. You said that out loud into a microphone?

• 3:03:06Theo Von?

  Yeah, here it is right here.

• 3:03:08Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 3:03:08Speaker 13

  And so while in the 1990s, you know, a young person probably wasn't going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes. Today, those media outlets find them. They find them on their phones. It's also this increasingly post-literate media, less and less text, more and more videos. So you have TikTok just smashing our young people's brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us can't have a sane conversation with younger Jews. Because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they are just seeing in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene. And, you know, I think-

• 3:03:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. We see the dead babies. And that, believe it or not, these dead babies are having an effect on people, Theo. People are feeling feelings.

• 3:04:00Theo Von?

  Who would ever have thought?

• 3:04:02Speaker 01

  When we witness children being tortured to death by the tens of thousands, we think about that. And your bullshit propaganda doesn't work as well. This, this next part is actually the craziest part.

• 3:04:11Theo Von?

  I don't want to pause it, Ms. Hurwitz, and, uh, and hear about the statist- the statistics at the moment.

• 3:04:16Speaker 01

  Which, by the way, it's not even like she has a statistical argument to make.

• 3:04:19Theo Von?

  I know, but it's, they try to build a graph or something.

• 3:04:22Speaker 01

  It's more like, it's more like, I see, uh, I've seen thousands of images of dead kids. And then you're calling me a bigot.

• 3:04:30Theo Von?

  And it wasn't a choice I made with my brain. It was a choice I made with my heart, you idiot.

• 3:04:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:04:34Theo Von?

  It's not like I, you can't rationalize me into thinking that genocide is okay. You cannot do it. I don't care how many graphs or people you interview or someone, you cannot do it. It's not a, it's not in here. It's in here. That's how I know it's wrong.

• 3:04:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, come on.

• 3:04:50Theo Von?

  Let's go, let's play a little more.

• 3:04:51Speaker 13

  The very smart, I think, bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as antisemitism education. In this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit. Because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential. But I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism. Because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews. And they think, oh, antisemitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people. So when on TikTok all day long, they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians. It's not surprising that they think, oh, I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big, powerful people hurting the weak people.

• 3:05:34Speaker 01

  Yeah. Well, yeah. Yes, and a captive people, a people who can't leave, don't have the option to go anywhere.

• 3:05:42Theo Von?

  Imagine you can't even leave.

• 3:05:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, that's a big part of it, but it is just-

• 3:05:45Theo Von?

  It's like Saul. It's like a huge game of fucking Saul.

• 3:05:48Speaker 01

  But it is amazing just to me that she said that out loud and didn't think to herself, oh, huh.

• 3:05:53Theo Von?

  That's the scary part.

• 3:05:54Speaker 01

  Like, man, oh, I, if I just looked at this from the other perspective, yeah, what I'm saying is that, like, oh, we're actually against Holocausting powerless people.

• 3:06:03Theo Von?

  It feels sociopathic almost to be like, oh, yeah, I just, you know, I don't know. I don't know, man.

• 3:06:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, it sure does. Sociopathic is a good way to put it.

• 3:06:12Theo Von?

  Yeah, I mean, I think it's like, yeah.

• 3:06:13Speaker 01

  She's talking about the topic of all of this shit, whether it's Charlie Kirk's letter to Netanyahu, or that conversation, or the guy at CBS News, or like any of it. The topic of all of them is, we're losing. How do we get back to winning? So like, at least they're acknowledging that like, shit, this just isn't working anymore, man. And, and I do think there's something beautiful to it, man. I think there's something beautiful where like, even just you, you just making the point that you just made, where you're like, look, this isn't something in my head, this is in my heart. I just saw a child being tortured to death. I'm not okay with this. And when I say tortured to death, I just mean like, a building crumbling on them as their bones crush and they cry out and no one comes to save them. It's pretty bad. And then, you know, Ben Shapiro could come up with all those fancy arguments in the world, but the audience is looking at that and going, I'm not with you on that.

• 3:06:57Theo Von?

  But just how are you still creating? And I, I don't understand how somebody could still be creating an argument. I think that's where the weird disparity comes in. Like, I can't even, you know, I mean, yes, I make a lot of poor choices in my life and I'm, I've done a lot of things that are not great. But, but yeah, I don't understand how you could just think that that's okay, you know?

• 3:07:16Speaker 01

  You got zero supported genocides on your track record, though, so that's good.

• 3:07:19Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. Thanks so much, Dave, for stopping by, dude.

• 3:07:25Speaker 01

  Dude, absolutely. Anytime, man.

• 3:07:26Theo Von?

  I appreciate it, man, so much. Great to start the year off with you. Yeah, I'm hopeful that 2026 will bring in good things. I will say this, a lot of my life I've thought, man, our, our, my time on earth has been a little, it's been exciting and fun, but it's been a little boring as a society. Like, as a time period in America, it's been like, it's kind of a comfortable time. And man, it's just, in a couple of years, that's changed a lot.

• 3:07:51Speaker 01

  It's gotten, it's gotten real interesting, but yeah, I'm excited. I like being alive during these times. I'm excited to see where everything goes. And I kind of like, I love like, the relationship we get to have like with our audience. Like, we kind of all go through this together and we're kind of all like, yo, did you see that? That was crazy.

• 3:08:05Theo Von?

  Oh, it's crazy?

• 3:08:06Speaker 01

  I enjoy it.

• 3:08:07Theo Von?

  Yeah, I mean, whenever Charlie Kirk, I was texting people and like, other podcasts and stuff, like, stay alive, dude, you know? Or like, if I have a tough question, I can call you and ask you about it. You're like, fucking bothering this father out there in fucking Jersey.

• 3:08:19Speaker 01

  You're never bothering me, dude. I love talking to you.

• 3:08:22Theo Von?

  But yeah, man, thanks so much. I'm curious to see what Candace has for dinner for us.

• 3:08:25Speaker 01

  Ooh, I can't wait.

• 3:08:26Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 3:08:28Theo Von?

  All right, thanks so much, Dave. Ah, you're the man, dude. All right, peace, buddy.

• 3:08:31Speaker 07

  Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone Oh, but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take