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Chapter 1: Who are the hosts of Part of the Problem?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith, and that lovely cupcake to my left is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. How are you, Mr. Smith? Very good, very good. I cannot complain. I mean, I always can, but I'm not going to.
Can I register a complaint? Go ahead. You know, my apartment's not clean, my studio's not clean, and I don't own this desk, and it's not my desk, but I'm still annoyed by all the shit on it.
Listen, I think of the studio as a shared space.
I'll bring it up with HR.
That's right. I think none of it is my responsibility. And if I'm being honest, I'm a little annoyed with you two that this place is such a mess.
Why is it?
Why are there wires everywhere? Yeah, I know. I really am. It's unbelievable because I was always a slob. And I really do. My wife makes fun of me for this, but I really do have this feeling like I used to be a slob and I'm not a slob anymore. And then I realized that I, I just married my wife.
Right.
And she walks behind you with the, this is the only room of this gigantic house that I'm responsible for. And it's a goddamn mess. And then I go, every other room is really nice.
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Chapter 2: Why was Joy Reid's show canceled?
They let you use there?
You sure? Well, we're going to find out. All right. We're going to push our luck. We're the good kind. The self-hating kind.
How about that?
Will you make an exception for a couple self-hating Jews? We will find out. Canada. I have not been to Canada since the Just for Laughs festival in 2017. It was the last time I was up there. And I think, I believe we had planned, I was planning to go up there during 2020. And then, you know, 2020 happened and Canada was not the place you wanted to be. So I have not been up there.
And I do know, despite, you know, what a communist nightmare that country is, we do have some great fans up there in Canada. So looking forward to that one night only.
And out of support for the prime minister, I'll be performing in blackface.
Out of support, Rob's going to do all his shows in blackface going forward. Your legacy is not forgotten, Trudeau. Don't worry. And then, of course, later in the month, we got Boston coming up. I'm very excited to go back to Boston and laugh. Boston's a great club and Boston's just.
like one of the best comedy towns in in the world so very excited to go back there uh the other thing which i do not believe i have mentioned this on the podcast yet although i did tweet about it but i am uh maybe i mentioned i can't remember i talk too much i am returning
to the... Or we, I should say, are returning to the Soho Forum, the wonderful debate series run by the brilliant Gene Epstein. And Rob's going to do a comedy set, and then I am doing an Oxford-style debate. I will be debating Alex... I do not mean this as a slight on him, but I always get his last name wrong. Norwash... Norwatchter or something. It's not... Listen, I'll take 50% of the blame.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of MSNBC's ratings?
You know, I remember it was an interesting thing like once podcasts first came out and became a thing, I remember just thinking about it. Really, the comparison that I would make was Sirius Radio because Sirius Radio had like, you know, some comedy shows there. But then as podcasts started getting big, you would just kind of look at it like on a – just the business model of it.
You're like, okay, so – We, the three of us, we're kind of doing a radio show right now, right? Like what really is the meaningful difference? It's on the internet versus being on a thing that you have to have like in your car or whatever. I don't know. Okay. Ours is out of the garage of my house. That's our business model. I have a three car garage.
I turned one of the car garages into a little studio. Okay. Cost a few bucks to make this room and get the equipment and build the walls, but like nothing that crazy. Your business model is we're launching satellites into outer space. I don't know what that runs you, but my guess is it's not cheap, you know? And so the same with MSNBC. Even you look, it's like these gigantic building in Midtown.
You know, they're at the... I think they're at the 30 Rock building. It's just like the expenses that go into all of this. And then for the numbers to be this low. Anyway, how is it even shocking to anyone? Like, what is... MSNBC is like... Who's it for? It's like four leftists who love corporate America. How big did you think that audience was, you know?
And Joy Reid, I mean, for people who don't know, the woman is, I mean, she's gotta be the dumbest woman in cable news. And she's just like utterly retarded, knows nothing about anything, is a vicious racist. I mean, like, just point blank, she's an insane racist. She sees everything through the prism of race. That's always been her thing.
And, yeah, it just turned out that after a while, no one wants to fucking watch that shit. Anyway, here she is. This is the fun part. Let's check in with, as Tucker used to call her, the crazy race lady over at MSNBC. And here she is.
My show had value. And... that i'm sorry that um that what i was doing had value and value and in the end i'm sorry i'm not i try not to cry on tv and i think this is kind of like being on tv so i apologize and that it kind of, and then it mattered. I see Karen is there and she's been texting me as well.
And so what I will just say is that in the end, thank you, where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was
the black lives matter issues of a young baby uh or a mom or a dad that was killed or um when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that asian americans were being targeted and not just black folks that or immigrants who've done nothing another racial country like my parents did and tried to make a life and defended them um or whether we've talked about
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Chapter 4: How does the media landscape change with podcasting?
I really can't imagine a scenario where, like, let's just say, you know, whatever the views that our podcast gets, let's say they just evaporated. And after a while, I just went it went down to like no one's watching the show anymore to the point that it's not economically sustainable, like just can't do it anymore. I could never imagine that.
Not at least having some element of like, fuck, what did I do to lose my audience? You know, like, man, I guess I could have, you know, even if I didn't think I was wrong about the issue, I immediately, my mind would go to like, I guess I'm not saying this in the right way. You know, I guess I didn't like, there's something, something I did wrong. Not an inch of that.
She's crying talking about how great she is and how she's of God and she's did everything right. That's her takeaway. the dumbest person on cable news. That's what she thinks of herself.
Well, lucky for her, unless she has a non-compete clause, she can take her show to the open market, she can put it out on YouTube, and she can see how much the market actually values her programming. And maybe she'll make more money because she doesn't have to pay out a cut to MSNBC and she doesn't need that fancy studio and quite that roster of producers behind her.
It can't be that much less viewers. Yeah. I mean, I don't... Like... In a way, when you say it's got to be a higher profit margin for her to just go do a podcast at this point. But again, like, you know, you know, these people just don't prove your value.
You got all the you got an open contract now or someone else might just come scoop you up if MSNBC is not seeing it. But I think we all know. I think the gravy train of full-scale socialism has come to a halt.
And as the Biden administration was ushered out and people had placed their bets on a continuation of socialism and that the internet was going to be censored and that there would continue to be state-run propaganda and that they'd figure out how the pharmaceutical companies or whatever else were going to keep buying out these ad contracts that were going nowhere.
So that you could pay for your propaganda. It seems like that's over. And I guess even networks like MSNBC are going like Zelensky at this point. They bet on the wrong administration and the profits aren't coming. So they got to figure something out.
There is something you make a great point. And it does just it feels like a Ponzi scheme falling apart. You know, like it just has that feel, you know, the whole, you know, so Bernie Madoff, who ran the biggest, who ran the, excuse me, who ran the second biggest Ponzi scheme of all time next to the US government.
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Chapter 5: What was Joy Reid's reaction to being fired?
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All right, let's get back into the show. This, I will say, is one prediction that I really got right, at least as of now. I got a few predictions pretty wrong about this last year, but I was arguing with... I was arguing at one point with Michael Tracy, and I think it was Robbie Sov, who I was basically saying...
The best thing about Donald Trump, if he wins again, is that it's going to completely destroy the corporate media. And they were arguing with me somewhat reasonably. They were just like, well, no, actually, their ratings all went up the last time he was in. And my prediction on this, which I think has really come true, is just that, yeah, but they're not going to be able to do that again.
Because it was all based off Russiagate, and that completely fell apart. And then the COVID thing got so blown up that I just think people were underestimating how much... So many people have woken up to like, oh, this is bullshit. They're liars. They lie to us. Anyway, it's always nice just to see people get a little bit of comeuppance. You know what I mean?
Like something because there's just all these people are so goddamn awful and it seems like nothing bad ever happens to them. So it's just nice. It's nice to see her cry. I don't know. Maybe that's kind of evil. I got to say I enjoyed this, too. Let's play the Rachel Maddow clip. So here was Rachel Maddow, by the way. I can't remember which one of her books it was, but Ann Coulter wrote this.
This has got to be over 10 years ago. But she wrote about this dynamic. And I used to watch MSNBC, and it was a real thing. If you watched it, you know what I'm talking about. But Rachel Maddow would always, like, go out of her way to be, like, extremely complimentary of Joy Reid. Like, every time Joy Reid was on her show, she would introduce her as, like, the brilliant godsend Joy Reid.
And it was always obviously this, like, weird liberal white guilt thing. And, like, and then she'd be like, also, Chris Hayes. Yeah. Look, I don't like Chris Hayes, but he's way smarter than Joy Reid. You know what I mean? So anyway, here's Rachel Maddow responding to the news of Joy Reid being fired.
And even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m., 7 p.m. Eastern, where Joy Reid's show, The Readout, ended tonight. And Joy is not taking a different job in the network. She is leaving the network altogether. And that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12.
And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her.
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Chapter 6: How does Rachel Maddow respond to Joy Reid's departure?
This is, you know, these are the big, these aren't joy read numbers talking about millions and millions of people watching the show. And you're invited to come on and make your case. And he won't because he knows Tucker would humiliate him. Like absolutely body him the same way he did. You know, what's a, what's Mike Pence doing politically? Oh, nothing since Tucker fucking bodied him.
So what do you want to do? Go on the Tucker show and then go the way of Mike Pence. He'll end your political career if you go on that show. So literally now you're out there, you know, like saying you're going to kill the guy and you just look like the biggest pussy in the world because you're scared to have a conversation with him.
By the way, not the only person he's scared to have a conversation with. But that's another story for another day. Anyway, yeah, I don't know what... I guess we could transition from that into the Ukraine stuff because it does certainly seem like... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ,,,,, being the pettiest human being who's ever lived is like what he does, what he always does. And he starts talking shit. Like that's how Donald Trump is. Now, listen, It's not the best quality in Donald Trump.
One of the better qualities about Donald Trump is that he'll move on from that shit immediately if there's a deal to be made. It doesn't matter what he said to you or what you say to him. If you can do business after that, he's totally fine to do business. But he has the fragilest of egos. And yeah, if you talk shit about him, he's going to come up with a nickname for you.
That's how Donald Trump works. Whether you like it or not, that just is the situation. So look, again, to your point, you know, when he says Zelensky started the war, that is kind of fucked up because it's like, really? Look, there's an argument. But the argument would be... Look, there's a very strong argument to just say Vladimir Putin started the war. Vladimir Putin invaded the country.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of race-related issues in media?
And in fact, that's what got America into World War I. was that they said, it wasn't even ever going to happen, but they said Mexico was going to join in with their alliance. And we went, okay, well, then total war. Then that's our response to that. And what was Jack Kennedy's response to them putting nuclear weapons in Cuba?
He said, I'm treating that as a nuclear attack on the United States of America, meaning I will blow up the world. Like, and I'll tell you, I don't know too many people, even real non-interventionist libertarian types, which are the circles I swim in. I don't know too many people who think Jack Kennedy was wrong to say that.
To say that, like, no, no, we cannot tolerate nuclear weapons in Cuba pointed at America. I mean, you know how fucking close Cuba is to us? Like, we were just down in Key West right there. Yeah, we're right there. Like, it's just right there. People raft over from Cuba. You can't have nuclear weapons pointed at you from there.
It's a knife to your throat, which I think was a line Putin said about military hardware in Poland. He said, this is like a knife to our throat. And that's in Poland. Ukraine is closer, you know. So, again, I think the Donald Trump shit-talking Zelensky, I think, is personal and doesn't really add much to the negotiating.
But I think saying nice things about Vladimir Putin is like, that's just a smart negotiating tactic right now. People can have a problem with it if they want to, but... I don't see what – you know, it's like in D.C., it's just forever wars never make you – that never turns you into a predator state.
But yet as soon as somebody actually looks like they're going to end one, that's when all these people start attacking. It's the most upside-down, demonic-like thinking.
Yeah, I haven't seen or I don't think the full details on it are available. At first, it seemed to me that perhaps we were going to continue to back the war. But we were saying we want mineral rights in return for backing. Now it sounds like no war's over and we still want the mineral rights.
which either sounds punitive or perhaps Donald Trump has some different play in mind, which is specifically to get Zelensky out and then maybe cut a better deal with somebody else. But I also don't understand the security guarantee. So they're not going to be a part of NATO, but the US is going to be more invested in the country and Putin's going to be OK with that.
And I don't understand how you don't end up with essentially the relationship we have with Taiwan, with the semiconductors, where we've stupidly Rely on the semiconductors there, but we're not actually in it. We're not we don't actually have the ability to defend. Right. So why would we have the strategic asset there?
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