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Chapter 1: What are Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein's thoughts on recent travel and shows?
what's up what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem it's good to be back home we are live back from houston thank you to everybody who came out we had a great time out there and of course i'm joined by robbie the fire bernstein as i was in houston how are you sir i'm doing well how are you mr smith Very, very good. I cannot complain. Well, you know I can.
Now that I thought about it out loud, I can complain a little bit. No, I'm just... You know, Mondays, after a long weekend, for whatever reason, it's always like... You know, I have a long weekend and a lot of travel. And then Monday, I have to go in to the city for Legion of Skanks. I have art podcasts. And it's always like clockwork.
That Monday coming off of a weekend of travel is always when Pierce Morgan calls or whoever wants to add a show. And always, for whatever reason, that Sunday night, my kids won't sleep. So I'm just up all night. And then after being up all night, because you know the way, so like we'll be, I got back to the hotel at like one in the morning on Saturday night.
And then I had to leave for the airport at three in the morning. So there's no sleep that night. And then I come back and I got a packed day on Monday. And I'm like, all I need is a good night's sleep on Sunday. And my three-year-old just somewhere in his soul, he hears that. And he was like, all right, let's wake up 15 times tonight. How about that?
Anyway, I can't complain. Pecan pie from the supermarket and went to sleep around 9 PM. It was great.
Well, there you go. I mean, that's listen, there's a, there's benefits to the single life. That's all I'm saying. There's one of them. I do not have the opportunity to do that. Um, Anyway, though, it was a lot of fun and we had a particularly great time. A lot of our people were out there in Houston, so it was great to see Tom Woods and all those guys. So, that was a lot of fun.
And then our next stop is in Buffalo, New York. And it looks like, I don't know if I have the go-ahead to promote it yet, but it looks like we're going to attach a Canada show to that as well. But comic Dave Smith dot com for the ticket links there will be up at Helium Buffalo and then doing a show in Canada. It looks like after that. So please come out and see us there. Comic Dave Smith dot com.
OK, so there's a few things that I was thinking about talking about on today's show. I guess we could start with the fact that since our last episode, Kash Patel has been confirmed as the FBI director. Dan Bongino has been added as the deputy director, which was that I had not heard floated out before, so kind of interesting. And so, yeah, this is... a big development at this point.
I think it's kind of safe to say that basically Donald Trump got all of his controversial appointments through minus Matt Gates. And by the way, when I say controversial appointments, I don't mean that at all as a slight, these were the only guys that I liked were the ones who were controversial. But I, but so he did get cash Patel and he's got Bongino there at the FBI. Now, I don't know.
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Chapter 2: Who are the new appointments in the FBI under Trump 2.0?
Well, I was just kind of thinking in my head, you know, idiots are going to idiot. And that doesn't mean that you should go out and scam people. But if someone decides that, you know, there's people that lose money in casinos every single year. And I don't know why some people should have the right to operate a casino and other people shouldn't.
It's just that government gives a handout to some people that they get to have the business of a casino and other people can't.
if i want to have meme coins and sell you meme coins and you're a person that wants to buy meme coins why is a government regulator coming into that market how does that help if there's a market for meme coins and people are going to buy meme coins which is essentially hey i'm going to gamble on which one of these artificially goes up and when i could sell it why does it help to just let single individuals and companies work in that field under the guidance of government
And if if somebody if an advocate of government intervention is coming around and telling you how awful casinos are and how terrible it is that people lose their money there, it's not unreasonable for me to point out that they have a state lottery, which way more people lose money in. You know what I mean? Like, it's not crazy for me to be like, wait a minute.
I don't think you guys actually really care about gambling because you literally have a state lottery that sucks all of these people into, which is a way bigger scam than casinos. And at least like with the breaks example, at least the casino is kind of like, it's a little more obvious that it's just a scam. You know what I mean?
Whereas like with the government, you give people this illusion of like, it's not a scam. It's not a scam to open a 401k, Rob. That's a responsible investment tool. You know what I mean? And so it's like, no, but you're doing the same thing. In fact, to a much worse degree. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Tax Network USA. Do you owe back taxes?
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