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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Hey, man, it's like sniffing your own farts. You know, at some point you get used to hearing yourself talk and you kind of prefer it.
And this is why we come to you, Rob, for these great philosophical tidbits that you give out. That is true. You know what? It is a lot like that. And it all works out okay in the end. Well, if you want more of these comedy stylings, come see us in Houston, Texas, Rob. We're leaving the day after tomorrow, I believe. Excited to be down there with the fine people, the Texans, the Houstonians.
Is that correct? Is that what you call people from Houston? I don't know.
I'm fat.
Well, that is... Now listen, we'll see when we get down there. Bobby Kennedy has been in for four days. There might not be... I think you're going to start seeing a lot less fatties out there. You watch, Rob. But yes, we will be out in Houston this week. And then after that, the next stop is Buffalo, New York. Comicdavesmith.com for those ticket links.
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Chapter 2: Who is Dr. Deborah Birx and what did she say about COVID?
where we are you're i don't know rob you're old enough to remember it used to be kind of a big deal when we first hit trillion dollar deficits and you're like wait a minute hold on our deficits have gone from the hundreds of billions into over a trillion like we had a year where it was over a trillion dollars where we're adding over a trillion dollars to the national debt every year well just to make this clear right now and going forward
even if congress balanced their budget which is a pretty huge if we're still running a trillion dollars plus deficit even if they balanced everything else we're still in the hole in other words to truly have a balanced budget we would now need more than a trillion dollars of surplus just to break even
And while that's going on, they're freaking out about the prospects of theoretical cuts to government spending. Let that sink in for a little bit. That's where we're at. It's truly unbelievable.
Any thoughts, Rob? I think this is going to be the new Russia collusion story with just the level of lying that's coming from the press. You know what's most interesting about that clip is she says that the political story is not true. So somebody's blatantly lying.
Either Politico had a newsletter that was $40,000 subscription that the US was paying and they were giving them, what was the, I forget the number. Was it 4 million a year? I forget the number, but either there was a number that the US government was paying to Politico or not. So like that one should be black and white.
If you're a journalist, do you have the receipts for why Elon Musk was just lying on that? Because it was reported by a number of news outlets. Or are you literally just lying? Because if you're just on the news lying, shouldn't there be, I don't know, a defamation or something? How do you just get up and say that's not true? They are lying to you.
Politico is not getting money from the United States government. Because then you're leaving me here. I don't know how to research these things. Who's on?
there's no like ever like further explain explanation it's like oh you just make that claim and then you go like well here's what they're claiming was the payments but it didn't actually go to political it went to this but they don't have anything like that but i do think the broader point is just that it's like the idea that they'll try to somehow convince you that this is the crisis when you are like you're talking about like the interest
The interest on your debt is bigger than the GDP of most nations.
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