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Chapter 2: Who are the hosts of Part of the Problem?
what's up what's up hello everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith he is robbie the fire bernstein how are you doing today good sir you know i snuck i slept on my neck weird last night and uh i don't like being old if we have to start pitching wars to get the baby blood i'm in just as someone in the deep state can reach out and let me know
That's all. It's really all it takes to change your mind. Yeah, it is a thing, dude. Getting old. I do think like for me, it was there was something around your age. It's like mid 30s is like when you start just like. you just like slowly start noticing like, Oh, like, you know, like something hurts and you're like, Oh yeah, well it'll get better. It'll go away.
It doesn't.
I'm doing the Frankenstein walk today of, and there's like things like that. Like if you fuck up your neck or fuck up your back or something like that, whereas like in your twenties, it'd be like, Oh, that was stupid that I did that. But then like, when you get in closer to 40, it's more like,
ah dude i just up like the next few weeks like like this is gonna suck now for a while that's fun but you know you're smarter and stuff so that's cool
I guess that's the... Yep, I'm smart enough to learn no more porn on the pillow with the this, and then you got to go to your desk like an adult. I guess at a recent age, you just learned you got to make these adjustments. We run a classier show, and you guys want to hear the news.
It is true. It's just it's so much more... to hurt yourself during sex, if it makes sense, like the real thing. Okay. By the way, let's start off with just some quick plugs before we get into the meat of today's episode. We're going to be in Boston coming up very soon. Looking forward to that. Come on out, Boston.
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Chapter 3: What are Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein's upcoming events?
We always fill up the shows in Boston, so if you want to come, get them now because these shows will sell out. Comic Dave Smith dot com. And we're traveling all over the place for the rest of the year. So come come see us there. And then, Rob, you got some some gigs coming up, I believe.
I've got a steamboat. And now I'm confused because I got it wrong the last time. Idaho and Iowa, it's all kind of the same state to me. I think it's in Idaho. I don't know. Just go to my website, Rob Bernstein, comedy dot com. I got two dates coming up and one of them is in a state that starts with an eye. And I'm really looking forward to being there.
There you go. Also, I should remind her. I know I've told you guys I'm debating Alex Norway. I just still I will learn his name by the time we debate debating immigration at the Soho Forum. The Soho Forum dot org is the website to go to go if you want to come see it live. If you're in the New York City area. Also, little teaser for you. I've got some big ones coming up.
Not going to tell you what they are, but I've got a few big, big shows coming up that I'm very excited to do. It's interesting.
A couple years ago when you said that, it was very obvious, and now there's a couple different options on the table.
yes it's uh well one of them's the obvious one that's all i'll say and then uh and and then a couple one uh one of them i'm doing uh tomorrow doing a big show that i've never done before so very excited uh to go do that um not i'm not sure when it's coming out but we're recording it tomorrow so probably soon uh okay so There's a few things going on.
One of the things that I wanted to talk about on the show that I don't, we may have briefly mentioned it, but I don't think we've really given it too much attention, but I do find this to be very interesting because it's such a comment on kind of the moment that we're living in. And obviously there's all these kind of major themes of 2025 so far.
And one of the major ones being the disastrous state of the Democratic Party. And obviously this has to do with many factors, but really the, you know, losing the
propaganda apparatus of the corporate media is probably the biggest one it's not just that they lost an election it's that they lost the mechanism by which they win elections and so anyway so the topic that i'm i'm thinking about is uh which i'm curious if you've watched any of it but have you seen gavin newsom has started a podcast I've seen clips. Yeah, same with me. I've just seen clips.
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Chapter 4: How is podcasting changing political communication?
just as someone who's just been in this for a while, that the move for the darling of the Democratic Party, the guy who kind of all of the Democratic bigwigs wanted to run for president but couldn't either convince him to or couldn't maneuver around Kamala Harris, to see that as he's clearly, I mean, I don't think this is too much of a leap to say, clearly building toward a 28 potential run,
Just imagine, Rob, how crazy it is that like the move is, well, you're going to have to go start a podcast. And it is the correct move. I'm not even like criticizing him for that. Like that is the thing to go do now. And that in itself is just so wild to me. And I just like I love that. You know, I think it's great as awful as he is. How crazy is it that that's now what...
the the ruling class has to do in order to get somewhere is, you know, and obviously it's a different version, but it's like they have to do what me and Lewis did in 2010. Like, that's what they're there. But yes, that is the move. So anyway, that's just kind of interesting in my mind. But before we get into because I wanted to play a couple of clips from he had what's his name?
Tim Walsh on his show, the vice presidential candidate in the last election. I think it's kind of interesting to me. But of the like, I'm just curious to you, like of the clips you've seen, what do you think of this move? Gavin Newsom getting out there on a podcast. What do you think about him being the Democratic, you know, potential nominee or any of that stuff?
All right, I got a lot on this. All right, let's have it. You know, there was a time in this world where you had to put on a suit to look like you were in the professional class and go and get a job. And this speaks to the degradation of the news networks where it used to be. In order to be treated seriously, you needed to have...
an academic standing or you needed to look like you're in this beautiful studio and that's why people took you seriously and those guys so eroded their credibility that suddenly doing the makeshift thing that we all did because we couldn't afford to be in the big news studios and we weren't given those opportunities but then we brought something different to the market which was truth and now this is almost the suit and tie of truth dude it's such a good point rob yeah
He's not he's not in the big studio. He's doing the makeshift thing, which almost signals to people, oh, this this might be truthful. So that's one element.
Then the next element. Can I just I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Just keep that thought in mind, because that's such a good point. And it does. It's like it's like in the 90s when billionaires started wearing T-shirts and jeans. Like it all of a sudden became a thing where Steve Jobs would give his his presentations just in a T-shirt and jeans.
It's almost like, oh, you have to like assume the aesthetic of the regular guy in order to like talk to the regular guy. And there's just something that's a really interesting observation. There really is something to that, that they now have to almost like abandon the cable newsy looking background because our our monkey brains have just associated that with liar.
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Chapter 5: Why is Gavin Newsom starting a podcast?
there is a quality to the way that we consume information now now uh ideally you would just be a great governor and you would go sell look at how well i've done in my state and that would be the way and go to sell yourself but that's not the he's a terrible governor that's not the skill set that he has and so as we come into the next election cycle and you basically have to be great at radio now because that's going to be the new place that you go to to try and sell yourself
Um, it's, it's almost smart to get good at radio because, and I think that might be why Michelle Obama is trying to launch a podcast too, which she's terrible. And it's, uh, it's, it's unbelievable how bad it is. And maybe, maybe we could delve into that one on another episode. Cause it's shocking. And you know what?
It's we could even talk about it a little bit today because it is interesting how much, you know, podcasting is I know I used when we were going back and forth with Jonah Goldberg. I use the the metaphor of like fighting and how the old school people found out they couldn't fight in the UFC. But there is something about it that is kind of similar in a way.
Maybe it's just that I'm a fan of both the two things. So I see the parallels. But like there's there's something where it's like revealing of what you really got. Yeah, you could talk a tough game or something like that. But let me see you in a fight. Let me see you when you're hurt and you're tired. And then you really test character.
And there is something about podcasting that like actually tests like it just it separates the wheat from the chip. Like you're like, what do you really have? What do you really have to say? Let me get let me get into your mind and see if you actually have something here. And for all the talk over these years of how somehow it was always so ridiculous.
But Michelle Obama was like the dream scenario that she would come and run for president or something. Hey, you just watch her. And again, I've only seen some of the clips, but it is like she is boring. She is totally boring. She's nasty. She's got, like, a real kind of, like, bitter thing to her. And she's vapid. Like, there's just, like, I don't know. It was very interesting.
And the other thing that's so interesting about that is the numbers have just been abysmal. When you see her, she's getting, like... I don't know. She had like a video that had like 40,000 downloads or views on YouTube or whatever or something. And you're like, what's this fucking Michelle Obama? Really? She can't put together a couple hundred thousand views on an episode. Anyway, sorry, continue.
But it is very interesting.
And just on that topic, it's odd how much her brother looks like a lady shaved her wig. So backwards that apparently that's a man and she's a lady, but I guess just bad genetics going back to going back to Gavin Newsom. I think in this media climate, it's good to practice podcasting. If you want to be in politics, I think it's probably a necessary tool.
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Chapter 6: How does Gavin Newsom compare to other politicians?
Yeah, I look, I mean, I think that's exactly right. And there is look, you can't deny it. he's got he's he's incredibly talented and he's a talented politician. Now, I completely agree with you. And I think that kind of almost goes without saying, yes, obviously, his policies have been a disaster. I mean, he's he's been a truly a. He's been a uniquely terrible governor.
Like what he's done with the state of California is as bad a job as I could think of any governor doing with any state. But like there is something, you know, he's he's an interesting figure because he is in a way he is like a traditional politician. And a very good one, like a very good traditional politician.
I think the the way I look at it is kind of like in my lifetime, I think pretty undeniably the most talented politicians have been Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for people. Bill Clinton lost a step. I think he did too many drugs when he was young and it kind of fucked him up later in life. Like he doesn't he doesn't have it anymore. But
For people who like are around my age, like if you remember the 90s, I mean, he was just like the guy. I mean, he he just charmed the pants off of everybody and rip some pants off of some people against their will. But that's another story for another day. But he was just incredibly smooth. And he had this like very like unique ability. You know, I mean, I wasn't alive for like Jack Kennedy or.
And people would say similar things about him and maybe for his time, you know, like 1960 is just such a different culture and a different time that it may be. But it wasn't like what Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton could go on like at the time. Right. It's almost like if you think about the version of going on a podcast with the time, what Bill Clinton would do is like go on MTV. Right.
and just get the kids into what he was doing. He was really just incredible and very good, not just good at giving a speech, but really good at interacting, really good at winning people over and being charming. And then Barack Obama was never quite as good at the interacting as Bill Clinton was. But his speech giving like blew him out of the water.
I mean, he was just in he was truly like in his prime. Barack Obama was a master orator, like just on another level. Incredible. And wrote a lot of his own speeches, too. I mean, I know he had he had speechwriters, as they all do, but he wrote a lot of his own speeches and they were like excellent, excellent speeches.
Gavin Newsom can literally be standing in front of a state on fire and going, we're doing the best possible job of anybody who's ever stood here. He's got that Trump quality, but it's a different style of lying.
Trump, in a way, the way I look at it is like I think Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were the best politicians of my life. Trump is like an anti-politician almost, which is I'm not saying there aren't similarities between the two, but it's like he's a whole different thing. He decided, like, I'm not going to do that thing that I'm not going to do the politician thing. I'm just Donald Trump.
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Chapter 7: What are the criticisms of Gavin Newsom's governance?
Yeah, it's a bad track record. And then he's really got no there doesn't seem to be any real argument that he's there to make. And so that's an issue, too. But anyway, so this is all fascinating to me. And of course, the conversation that is dominant in the Democratic Party right now, which is the kind of like, what do we do from here? Talk.
I also just find it very interesting how they're just they're at such a they have such an inability to grapple with what actually just happened and why it just happened. And I it's interesting to see them spin their wheels. So anyway, let's go. Let's go to this clip from the Gavin Newsom podcast. I believe it's called Meet Gavin Newsom. Am I right about that?
Anyway, let's let's let's go check out that clip.
Have they figured it out that the identity piece of this is more important than the actual substance behind it?
Well, they've been doing it for decades. I mean, we've saw the welfare queens. They've seen the southern strategy. We've seen it over and over. It's an old playbook. And we're as dumb as we want to be that we allow them to do this with CRT and ESG and DEI and every three-letter word. And then they demonize people. Yeah, demonize, and they weaponize grievance. They other people.
They talk down to people, pass people. They humiliate people. They weaponize difficult issues. But the problem line is, and I think it goes back to what we began with, is, and I applaud you for this, is we cannot continue to be on the defense reacting to this.
I agree.
We've got to go on the offense. We've got to meet people where they are. But I also think this, and this is where, you know— Just pause it already.
Just pause it already here. Isn't it like— You get what I'm saying when I say it's like a beautifully wrapped present, but there's no gift inside? It's just already like, what is this? This is empty sloganeering. Like there's no actual comment being made here. We can't play defense. We got to play offense and we got to meet people where they're at. What? What does any of that mean?
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the Gavin Newsom podcast clip?
But then just sitting here again, I don't have used this example before, but it's just like when I hear Tim Walz talking about how he could kick anyone's ass. It just to me, it sounds it's like that scene in the 40 year old virgin when he's describing what a boob feels like.
like it's just like i know you're saying the thing that you think is the thing to say now but you clearly have no experience in this department at all um all right let's keep playing
Actually, I think it's one of the reasons we're losing so many men. And again, it's multi-ethnic. It's not just white men. We're losing them. We're losing them to these guys online. We're losing people that I'm bringing on this podcast as well. These are bad guys, though. These are bad guys. But they exist. And we could deny they exist. They exist. Not only do they exist, they persist.
And they're actually influencing young kids every single day.
How do we push some of those guys back under a rock?
I think we have to first understand what their motivations are. I think we have to understand what they're actually doing. You don't think it's racism and misogyny? I think there's a lot of that, but I don't think it's exclusively that.
When you talk to a guy like Steve Bannon, he talks about work. I mean, this is the part that was like actually most interesting to me is that the – because it just shows you it's such a – It's the mentality of the old order, you know, and that that's this is what Tim Walz's idea. But how do we push them back under a rock? How do we take them out?
And this is the mentality that the Democrats have, you know, and this is the mentality that the Democrats. that the government has had for a very long time. It's like, that's it. Okay. They're a problem. So how do we eliminate them? What's the plan here? Censorship. So, you know what I mean? Like, what do we do? There's, that's the goal. How do we, they're bad people. How do we get rid of them?
And it's like what Gavin Newsom is a few steps ahead of, of waltz on this is that he's like, at least he's recognizing like, oh, oh yeah, no, the answer is we can't. The answer is we can't push them back under a rock. We do not have that ability to do that. It's just it's not even an ideological question. It's a it's a reality based question. Can you do that or can you not? It'd be like, you know.
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