Part Of The Problem - Kyle Kulinski Gets It Wrong
Episode Date: December 17, 2024Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss their thoughts on the mysterious drones ...flying over New Jersey, Kyle Kulinski's comments about Joe Rogan, and more. Support Our SponsorsCrowdHealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/potpProton Pass - https://go.getproton.me/SH18OPaint Your Life - Text PROBLEM to 87204 to get 20% offPart Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Rob's live Dates12.19 - Rutherford NJ - https://www.ticketweb.com/event/the-political-comedy-jam-with-williams-center-spring-tickets/1404936312.21 - San Antonio - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/backyard-comedy-party-san-antonio-texas-tickets-1102952734319?aff=oddtdtcreatorFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hello, hello, what's up 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 feeling brother?
I'm doing well. And this Thursday in New Jersey, I have a committee coming together to solve
the drone crisis. So very good out Out of New Jersey, bring your guns
and get ready for my commission to deal with this.
Yes, that's right.
While other people are fleeing, we
are bringing people to the area.
You come here, they can't scare us off.
By the way, I will say.
If you learned anything from COVID,
it's no time to hide in your homes.
It's time to band together.
Gather your arms, bring your pitchforks,
and hear my pitch for what we can do to address this. Very good. Very good. Come on out to Rob's shows. to hide in your homes, it's time to band together, gather your arms, bring your pitchforks, and
hear my pitch for what we can do to address this. Very good, very good. Come on out to Rob's shows. Of course, Rob's comedy special, his debut special is also up for free on YouTube. If you have not
checked it out already, please do. It's excellent. And San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. Busy week. Whoo look at that and then of course me and Rob are we will be on the road in
2025 coming to a city near you. Oh, that's better. That's an improvement
Hopefully what coming to a city near you was that better? Okay? Oh that way you can't make anything gay out of that
I mean, you still can you probably can if you really want to but Bozeman, Montana
can you probably can if you really want to but Bozeman Montana limited seats still available for that one in January and then we'll be doing Louisville Kentucky Fort Wayne Indiana
Key West Boston Rosemont Chicago San Diego San Diego Appleton Cleveland just added Tacoma
spoken Tampa Florida whole bunch of stuff I think there's some more dates that still aren't on the website yet
But we will be all over the place try to make that gay
Couple of dudes hitting the road together
What's gay about that? All right. Anyway
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So we talked a little bit about this drone situation. I, for people who don't know, I know our schedule is a little messed up. I was on a family vacation last week. I saw them,
I saw a couple of them, I guess this was two nights ago now. And then last night,
Rob, I mean, they were just all over the place.
They're fornicating.
Yeah.
I mean, they seem to be like rodents of the skies.
You let them in your apartment, you try and ignore them.
And next thing you know, you got an infestation.
Well, I will say it was pretty creepy.
I mean, me after we got the kids to bed, me and my wife literally went out on our deck
and we're just watching it like they're all over the place so I I will say to the people who are because there still are
obviously there was um what's his name um I want to say kiss and jerk is that
his name the former congressman yeah he was out saying like oh there's no such
thing these are all just planes I still did see some people on Twitter even today saying that like there are no drones and and I'm just saying
I've seen them with my own eyes. They are 100% drones. These are not plans
So if most people seem to have accepted that but if anybody is still hanging on to that line, I'm telling you with
100% certainty I saw a bunch of them. We took some videos of them
They are not planes. They are clearly drones. They are flying
Unless you've got planes that can fly incredibly low and move in zigzag patterns that don't look like planes
We're looking at drones
It seems very clear
to me that the government is lying. These are government drones.
You know the government is lying because if this was not, if this was not either the government
or something the government knows of kids, kids, kids and jar.
Yes, there you go.
Kinzing jar.
I always say that wrong. Adam kids Kinzinger
was the one who said that as well as some other government officials there if these
were just if these were enemy drones, which I don't think there are any drones capable
of actually like crossing the Atlantic Ocean or something like that. But if these were
enemy drones or if these were private drones, know you would see them being shot down and you would see government officials threatening
Prosecution and you know just threatening the crap out of the people who were flying them. They're not doing that at all
So I think it's pretty reasonable to say it's the the government who's doing this or at the very least the government knows
What's going on and won't tell us
Um, but I would I would venture to guess that it's it's do day. Um
The the I essentially think my guess like gun to my head if I had to put money on it. I don't know i'm speculating
I would guess that this is some type of test. They're testing their capabilities to detect. Um,
Uh radiation or to
detect dirty bombs or whatever. That's my guess. And then I think part of
that test is also a test on us. Like what if we did this and gave the public no
information about it? How would they react to that? That is my guess.
I know there's a lot of people speculating that a nuke has
somehow made its way to the New York City area. I don't really see any evidence or any
reason to believe that that is the case. But I don't know, Rob, you can give on the main
show here now, whatever you want to be on the record of how you feel about the drones.
I think we summarized our best estimate
is that it's probably the government.
The only thing that you didn't mention
that we mentioned in the private episode
is that maybe it's literally just testing our response
and nothing else.
It's quite possible.
One of the things I did think was interesting,
by the way, I know there are people out there,
a lot of people are pointing to this one video
of some guy,
again, this is like the level that people go through
to build some of these theories,
but there's a video of one guy who says,
he knows a guy who told him that it was a nuke,
that he had put his hands on this nuke
and it was on its way to America.
Was that Chris Farley driving a bus?
Yeah, the problem with this of course is that there's just no this isn't evidence of any kind the guy
He didn't say how he knows the guy
How he knows that this is credible. Does he know the guy?
Well, is it just some random person who told him this he says he put his hands on a nuke
How did he know it was going to America? The
logistics of sneaking a nuke into the United States of America and then detonating a nuclear
weapon. It's a pretty far fetched idea. I would I would caution against that type of
panic and believing that seems much more likely to me that this is just some type of some
type of test like you like, you know
Testing us testing their capabilities. Maybe both
Anyway, let's go to the Donald Trump video because I did find this kind of interesting Donald Trump gave a press conference where he was
Asked about these drones and this was his response and there was a classic
classic Trumpian moment
Let's let's play that
Trumpian moment. Let's let's play that
The government the government knows what is happening
look Our military knows where they took off from
If it's a garage they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went.
And for some reason, they don't want to comment. And I think they'd be better off saying what it is
our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason, they want to keep people in
suspense. I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy that blasted out, even if they
were late, they that blasted.
Something strange is going on for some reason they don't want to tell the people and they
should because the people are really I mean they happen to be over Bedminster.
We are very close to Bedminster I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster.
I've decided to cancel my trip.
Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones?
I don't want to comment on that.
Have you been doing that?
Isn't it just so Trump?
I swear this is one of the reasons why they are so freaked out by Donald Trump and why
the powers that be hate him so much is that he just it's like he has no other speed than
stream of consciousness.
And he just, it,
one of the things that I just love about Donald Trump is that he will say the
thing that everybody is thinking.
It's just so bizarre to see it come from a president's mouth.
You know what I mean? Like it's just, they go for everybody is thinking,
they know what this is. They're not telling us
They don't want to create panic
They don't want it whatever the Donald Trump just comes out and says it and then jokes about how he'll be avoiding his vacation
Out here. It's like dude, like that's the whole thing that any president wouldn't say because they're like
No, the thing we're concerned about here is this and let me at least get in and see
What's really going on before it but Donald Trump just doesn't have that speed
So it's just right out to like yeah, they don't know they know what's going on, but they won't say they won't tell people
But they know let me tell you they know we could follow them anywhere that we could follow them to the garage
But we won't you know it's maybe this is the next assassination attempt is one
Accidentally falls on him
One that falls from the sky just lands right on Donald Trump
well look I mean I I will say I
Don't like it. I don't like drones flying all around
Fairly close to my house
Maybe they just want new drone regulation
They just want us all furious about drones so that they can enact some some stricter regulations about who can own them
Private ownership of drones and then we'll find out in 20 years that these were all just government drones
Couple of them to crash into each other and fall on a president. It's
And then yeah two birds with one stone you take out the guy you were trying to assassinate and you get some drone regulation
And then and then you erase you arrest one idiot out of his garage and go look at this guy who is flying drones up in the sky
And you know what's fun about the government not telling us anything is that you can concoct whatever story you'd like
they're tracking Bigfoot in the hills of
Of New Jersey it just come up with any story. No one fucking knows it might as well. Just tell us
it's um
You know you wonder because there are other possibilities that you just kind of get to it's like
Oh, is this kind of a setup or they trying to create some type of crisis who knows?
We shall see I
For one I'm not a Biden art exhibit. It's a really he's playing with new colors out in space
an art exhibit. It's a really he's playing with new colors out in space. Maybe. Maybe that's it man. I mean these days who knows but it does you know I
was joking around with my wife about it the other night but it is just like
these weird times that we're living and we're like can we just get a little
break from like these weird freaking things happening? I mean, Jesus, over the last four years, there's just been so many things as
COVID and the, you know, all the craziness that was associated with that.
Um, the, you know, these things like the ministry of truth and, uh, all the
crazy, ridiculous hype about January 6th and just all just the wildfires in Canada
It just seems like every other week
There's like something that you're like, are you trying to convince me end times are near or something all the UFO?
You know stuff that would be coming out of the Pentagon. It's just a lot
It's a lot. Anyway, I'll take the other side on that one
sure and Anyway, I'll take the other side on that one. Sure. And say that it's only because we hear about these things
that they don't just happen.
And so in other times, in other media landscapes,
they might have just enacted a truth panel.
You know what I mean?
Like, we just wouldn't have had the information
on these things.
You might not have had daily footage on Twitter
of drones in the sky, so you'd hear one scattered story
from one guy in New Jersey,
and they could run tests forever.
So I just think, I think we're just more aware of things
because it actually gets reported to us,
and if anything, that kind of keeps the government
a little bit in check.
Yeah, I think probably it's a mix of the two.
I mean, there is definitely some truth to that.
I also do think that some weird things have been happening
over the last four years that hadn't really been happening. And all you know, the drones are also a fairly new
technology. But I do know that, you know, they've been drones have been a big part of
the war in Ukraine. And drones are kind of the future of warfare in general, and the
future of government surveillance and the future of a lot of different things.
And so it's there's many reasons why they might want to be testing things out.
I think we have to scare the aliens back into the ocean.
It's because we let so many Mexicans pour over the border that we've let people show how weak we are as a country.
And it's now the aliens are testing the waters.
Well, maybe the Biden administration, maybe all of them are really good guys, you know,
and there is just some stuff that they know that we don't and maybe sending all the Mexicans
in was to take care of the alien problem.
It's kind of like, you know, you send in the bears to get rid of the bees and then we'll
deal with the problem with bears next.
But for now, this is the issue we have.
I don't know.
I'm just we're all just speculating.
Let's speculate something fun.
You know? Why not?
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Okay, so I did want to spend some time on the show today responding to a clip
That's been been going around of
Kyle Kalinsky
The
criticizing Joe Rogan and showing off a new hair color
and well I think he's had that for a while
at this point
let me say
I guess before we get into this
because I kind of like to disclose these things
just because I feel like
that's the responsible thing to do
to be like ok well look here's where I'm coming from
and I am not
I'm certainly not without my bias
when it comes to this topic.
You know, obviously I'm friends with Joe
and I've been on his show many times,
but full disclosure,
I also don't have anything against Kyle Kalinsky.
Me and you have, I think a time or two in the past, done
segments like responding to viral videos that he's been on where like, I think economic
stuff where we thought he got it all wrong. But I never like had a beef or anything personal against Kyle. And he's made I think a couple videos of me over the years
where it's like stuff we agree on war for the most part,
where he's just like been like,
oh, Dave Smith shreds this guy or whatever.
And we've been cool.
I did his show with his podcast
that he hosts with Crystal Ball, who I like very much.
And I enjoyed our conversation.
So it's not like I'm not coming at this like I have anything against Kyle, but I did think
that this warranted a response from us.
So let's let's get into this clip a little bit.
Let's start it off and we'll we'll give our thoughts
Then you're fake independent media you're not real independent media and i'm now going to war because what we saw is
A lot of these people like joe rogan
You know
I was there I was on a show four or five times
He would sit there and not an agreement when I would make anti trump arguments and and arguments in favor of a left-wing world
View then three weeks later ben shapiro would come on and say the exact opposite of me on every issue and he
would nod along an agreement.
And so at some point you got to call spade to spade.
You're not independent media and you're clearly just a vibes based voter.
You cocooned yourself in this right-wing echo chamber where you got right-leaning UFC people
and right-leaning comedians and Dana Whitehead. I guess I'd be in the category of right-leaning comedians in Kyle's estimation.
So it's a weird, the criticism that he's calling Rogan out that you're not really independent
media.
What exactly does Kyle mean by that? because it's not clear and
like what are you saying you're saying that like because
Rogan would have conversations with people on the left and the right and be agreeable
with them
that therefore
You're not really independent media. Well, I don't think Joe has ever really branded himself as independent media.
I don't think that's what he's claiming to be.
I think he is a comedian who does a show where he has conversations with people that he finds interesting.
And the fact that he is agreed with lots of views on the left
and then agreed with lots of views on the right,
seems to me, my conclusion from that
wouldn't be that therefore you're not independent media.
My conclusion would be, oh, you're a regular person.
That is, it is very typical for regular people to agree with some things
that are considered left-wing views and some things that are considered
right-wing views. And it's also not completely, it's not that odd, you know, I
think sometimes people who are in this world, it's almost like we get lost a
little bit in what we view as the importance of this world.
I think it's quite, it's not actually that peculiar for somebody to like hear a left
winger make an argument for universal health care and go, okay, that makes sense.
I see what you're saying.
And then hear a right winger make an argument against universal health care and go, ah,
all right, you do make a point to like that.
That in itself doesn't isn't really a gotcha.
It doesn't like, it doesn't prove anything.
In fact, what it seems to indicate to me is that Joe's a pretty open-minded guy who's
willing to hear out arguments from both sides.
And to say again, that Joe is, you know, he's, he's cocooned himself with right wingers or
something like that. Now, of course, Rob, I guess we're supposed to pretend that Elon
Musk and Bobby Kennedy are right wingers now. Tulsi Gabbard's a right winger or something
like that, which seems pretty ridiculous to me. Particularly when none of them, all of
them would have been categorized as liberals just a few years ago, when none of them, all of them would have been categorized as liberals
just a few years ago and none of them have really changed their fundamental views. They're all still
saying the same thing they were saying back then, so it doesn't really seem like he's cocooned
himself amongst right-wingers. I think a lot of times left wingers almost there's this atrophy that developed
over the years.
Okay, so I remember one time, Rob, when Anthony Jeselnik was trashing Legion of Skanks. I
only saw this because I was involved, so that's the extent of why I cared about what Anthony
Jezelnik was saying but he said at one point he he talked about how
Ann Coulter used to come hang at the Comedy Cellar
I don't know if you remember this Rob this might have been a little bit before you started stand-up
But Ann Coulter used to come to the Comedy Cellar. That was like a known thing
She would come and she would hang out
She was friends with some of the comedians and Jezelnik was talking about how disgusted he was that Ann Coulter was like hanging out
with the comedians. And I remember when I saw it, just thinking to myself, it's like,
this is the kind of the unseen, like this is progressive privilege that they don't even
recognize because if you're not a progressive that's every
single day in New York City every single day there's some progressive hanging out
there it's just you're upset by the one time that there was actually like a
conservative who was there your expectation in other words is that those
people should never exist so it seems to me that one of the things
that I think Kyle doesn't like about Rogan
is that he'll also talk to the right-wingers.
That's really kind of your beef,
that he's not exclusively talking to left-wingers.
I don't know, do you have any thoughts on this, Rob?
Well, my autism was somewhat focused
on his concept of vibe based
voters and firstly he doesn't really a classic clarify what a vibe based boat
voter is or what exactly would be the problem with being a vibe based boat
voter I'm pretty sure that's just called voting and I also don't understand how
being if there was a category of vibe based voters, which is different than
other voters, I don't understand how being a vibe based voter makes you not independent
media, which then brings me to your point of what exactly is the, what exactly is independent
media and how is what Rogan's doing not independent media, which is just my autism of me saying, what the fuck, what's your point, dude?
What point, like in other words, you seem to have,
it seems like you're trying to make a point
of that he's actually secretly conservative
or secretly has a gender,
or secretly is working for someone,
but your actual evidence of this
is that he's a vibe-based voter,
and as a vibe-based voter, you can't be independent media.
I don't understand the logic to that at all
Well also, you know if you just think about
Like what conclusion you would draw from the information that Kyle's given where he'll go like hey look
Rogan regularly had me on his show and I would make arguments and he would kind of nod and go
Okay, I get your argument then he'd have some other guy on a show make some other argument and he'd nod and say oh I get your argument
Then now it seems like he's hanging out with those other guys and not with me
Because my conclusion from that would be like I guess you lost that argument. I
Guess he was more persuaded by what they had to say than what you had to say. I don't know.
I like that's been my attitude, not just with Joe, but with everyone.
I don't, you know, I remember going on Rogan's podcast last year at some point and being
very, very critical of Israel.
And then after that, he had several pro-israel guests on and
My thinking on that was always just like oh, I got to like I got to really make sure I'm persuasive on this
Next time I'm on you know what I mean like I wouldn't say like oh therefore it proves that you're the bad guy
Because you talk to these other people after you talk to me. It's like I don't know there's also just um
And and maybe I'm like guilty of this to some degree but I also just kind of think there's something where
it's like I don't know Kyle so he had you on four times or whatever he said on the biggest show on
the biggest show there is he gave you the biggest platform to let you make the argument to as many
people as you could and if ultimately you didn't persuade his audience
and his audience then went in a different direction,
how is that not on you?
That would be my attitude.
It's a little bit like Peter Hotez
if he then goes back on CNN and says,
hey, he's only having on anti-vaccine people.
And it's like, well, you kind of went on there
and weren't all that honest or persuasive
and refused to debate anybody.
So you're not really a very credible personality anymore.
Yeah, I mean, let's just say, for example,
because Joe will have, he has me on pretty regularly,
and he also has Mike Baker on pretty regularly.
Now, Mike Baker, I think me and Mike Baker
have about as diametrically opposed
foreign policy beliefs as as two people could have.
But if we both went on the show, and then like, let's say there was a poll of all of
Joe Rogan's audience and 90% of them agreed with Mike Baker, my conclusion from that would
be like, shit, I'm just not doing a good job.
I'm not making the case very well.
What am I missing?
My conclusion wouldn't be like, this is why Joe Rogan
and Mike Baker aren't really independent media or something.
I thought Mike Baker is independent media.
But you get my point.
It wouldn't be like to deride them.
I think I would take that as a like,
shit, I got to step my game up.
You know, what's so persuasive about what he had to say?
Seems reasonable to me. All right. Seems reasonable to me.
All right. Let's keep playing.
His boss is super right wing and loves MAGA.
He put himself in this echo chamber.
COVID helped to break his brain.
And then we'll get that. He goes, oh, Mac.
And you know what? That makes me.
OK. So first of all, I mean, I guess there's some technical truth to it, but it's a little
disingenuous to refer to Dana White as Joe Rogan's boss.
It's just a much more complicated relationship than that.
Joe Rogan, I believe, worked for free for many years for the UFC. Joe Rogan was always for those years,
much bigger than the UFC was.
He was the one who lent credibility to the UFC,
not the other way around.
It was like, oh, the host of Fear Factor
is hosting this UFC stuff.
And yes, the sport has blown up to the point
where as big as Joe Rogan is
yeah I guess now it's debatable like who's bigger but the let's be real the
UFC is a passion project because Joe Rogan loves martial arts it's not as if
like and in the context of talking about his status as independent media, Dana White is not his boss.
The biggest thing Joe Rogan does is his podcast and his comedy.
And Dana White is not his boss in those fields that you're talking about.
So again, it's just to say like, oh, his boss likes this.
I'm not saying Dana White doesn't have any influence over Rogan.
I think they are very good friends, but it's not.
I just think there's something a little misleading about describing it that way.
But here's really where we get to the heart of this.
It's oh, over covid broke his brain.
So there's just a whole lot that's kind of snuck into there.
And that is is again, as
progressives have a nasty habit of doing, you are presuming the
conclusion of your argument without actually making the
argument. It's circular logic. There's you can't just say it's
like, wait, no, no, no, no, wait, what happened during
COVID?
What happened again?
So because obviously if you're talking about what has moved Joe Rogan politically over the years and not, you know, this I'm not giving away any inside information here. Anyone who watches his show would know this.
But obviously yes, COVID had a huge impact on him.
Now you can say that it broke his brain
But the thing that's I guess the thing that's just
Infuriating to me infuriating to me about this is that
Well, look rob, you know the dynamic right
joe rogan says something at the height of
covid this thing is now becomes a
Huge controversy one of the biggest controversies in the country of COVID, this thing is now becomes a huge controversy.
One of the biggest controversies in the country.
Everybody in the corporate media world
is slandering Joe Rogan labeling.
I mean, literally, I have a cartoonish level.
They're changing his skin tone to be green.
When he's, you know what I mean?
Like they're, I mean, I've been on episodes
with Rogan during COVID where Fauci and Biden
responded to the episode.
OK, it's a kind of surreal feeling to be in that situation.
And what ended up happening was that objectively Rogan was proven right and
they were proven wrong, but then then the years go by.
And then you just go, yeah, remember that whole thing?
Yeah, I remember it was like a controversy.
It broke his brain. Wait, what?
No, look, again, as we've mentioned before on the show,
but the one video that was the one I'm referring to,
that both, and if you can imagine, right,
at the height of COVID,
both Anthony Fauci and President Joe Biden responded
because what Joe said in the clip what he said to me
As the guy who was there having this conversation
He said I wouldn't really like personally recommend that like young healthy people get the vaccine
I would just say like be as healthy as you can
Exercise eat really good get lots of sunlight if you can't get sunlight take vitamin D
That'd be my recommendation to young people.
If you do that, I don't think you have much to worry about with COVID.
And in Fauci's response to that, he said,
what Joe doesn't understand is that you don't get the vaccine to protect yourself.
You get the vaccine because if you get it, then you can't spread COVID to anyone else.
I'm sorry. Whose brain was broken?
Does anybody does anybody, including Dr. Foushee, would anybody be willing
to defend that his position was closer to the truth than Rogan's position?
So what are you talking about exactly?
No. What happened is that during the rise of sweeping totalitarianism
Joe Rogan told the truth was viciously attacked for telling the truth turned out to be 100%
correct to the point that literally look man when I was when I when I was debating Chris
Cuomo what can any of them even say that Rogan was wrong about that?
No, because Cuomo's saying the same thing that Joe Rogan was
saying then, now.
Saying the exact same thing about Ivermectin now that
Rogan was saying then that got him in all this trouble.
The same thing that Chris Cuomo mocked Rogan for at the time,
he himself is now saying.
And as I raked him over the coals for, without an
apology, without an acknowledgement that that he was
right and you were wrong. But so to sit here and say, like,
again, it does late, like you said before, Rob, what you go if
Hotez were to say, Oh, he only has vaccine skeptics on it's
like, Yeah, but you're not willing to do it. I remember
when, again, this is another thing that that
progressives have this nasty tendency to do. But so after Louis C.K. got
canceled, I remember one of his first or his first comedy set in America, I
believe, was in our festival when he came back. Um, and I remember reading
like a bunch of these articles that were written by progressives and they said oh
Louis CK because Louis CK was a very liberal guy and used to be loved by
liberals and progressives
They said oh Louis CK is courting a right-wing audience now
But you'd be like wait a minute, but what do you even mean by that?
Because first of all the audience at skankfest is not right wing
I mean it's a it's so ridiculous to describe skankfest as right wing to anybody who knows what right wing means
And has ever been to this festival that is just not the first term that would come to mind
Okay, like it we have the abortion stage. Yeah, I mean like there's there's a whole lot of debauchery going on there for a right-wing event
But anyway, but I'd go like well no Ari Shaffir shit splatter art. Yes, that's so right-wing truly a conservative
right-wing event if ever I've seen one
But it again it would be this like this circular reasoning where you'd go hey
What do you mean he Louis CK is
courting a right wing audience, what makes them right wing, and
then you realize, oh, what makes them right wing is that they
still like Louis CK. So, so then by definition, any audience that
he performs in front of his now right wing to you, but Louis
didn't go, Louis didn't go, Hey, I'm going, I don't want a left
wing audience. Now I want a right wing audience. Now, Louis didn't go, Hey, I'm going, I don't want a left wing audience. Now I want a right wing
audience. Now Louis just wants to tell his jokes. And if the entire left wing is going, Oh my God,
you're a monster. And the right wing is going, Hey, we sure did like your jokes. The fact that
he's performing again, even if you were going to call them right wing, which in this case, they're
not, but even you'd go, yeah, that's, that's a little bit different. There's a little bit more to the story here so if you had let's say
the
You know
because there were some left-wingers who were good on this and I don't miss wish to like smear them or
lump them in with those who were bad, but if
You'd say like the broadly speaking. Let's say the liberal world was viciously attacking
Broadly speaking, let's say the liberal world was viciously attacking Joe Rogan for telling the truth and broadly speaking, what you consider the right wing world was lauding him as a
hero for telling the truth.
Why would you be so shocked that like, oh yeah, he probably found those people to be
more reasonable.
He probably was nudged in their direction a little bit.
Right? I mean, am I missing something here?
Doesn't that seem like kind of the obvious answer?
And if you're not going to address that and sweep it all under the rug is just,
he lost his mind during COVID.
I don't think that you're being very honest with yourself or with your,
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into the show. Anything you want to add before we jump back in Rob? Sounds like a big old
whiny pants. Let's keep playing. And Natalie just do me a favor. Just bring it back a few
seconds in case there was anything we missed there. COVID helped to break his brain.
And then look at that.
He goes full MAGA.
And you know what?
That makes me look like a jackass because I was the one going in there, taking him at
face value, acting kind, holding his hand and walking him through it like he was a toddler
on these topics.
And then, wow, in retrospect, would you look at that?
You completely flip. All right, just pause it here And then, wow, in retrospect, would you look at that? You completely flip.
All right. Just pause it here. No, Kyle. It makes you look bad because it makes you look
like you lost the argument. It makes you look like maybe you were wrong about a lot of that
stuff. And I'm sorry, but like-
He did the universe such a favor by going on Rogan.
Yeah, right. Right. Yes. You went on there and held his hand like a toddler and walked him through these topics in other words
You got invited on the biggest fucking show and you went on to take advantage of that
Opportunity where Joe was open and gave you a platform and listened to what you had to say and you said because I've seen
some of his episodes on there
You said a bunch of standard boilerplate left-wing things.
That's what you did.
You don't fire me, I quit.
Sir, you don't have a job here.
Yeah, like you did not hold his hand like a toddler.
Come on, dude.
You had a conversation with him
where you said many standard things.
I'll be honest, some of the things you said I liked.
I liked some of his stuff where he would talk about his anti-war positions.
He never really demonstrated much of a depth of knowledge of them.
He didn't really get into detail, but he would say, I don't like Obama's drone wars and stuff
like that, and good for you.
And then you made some arguments for why you believed in like universal health
care or things like that. Okay. You ultimately,
I guess he wasn't persuaded by you. Like what,
what do you want me to say that you, that's the only reason why you look bad.
You don't look bad in hindsight because you went on the show,
but isn't it
convenient Kyle? Right? Like you're going to say, okay, so when you got invited on the
biggest show in the world, you were happy to go. When you say you held his hand like
a toddler, that's certainly not what you were saying at the time. You certainly didn't say
that. You certainly didn't come back on your show the day after. You certainly didn't say
on the Joe Rogan experience, Hey man, it kind of feels like I'm holding your hand like a toddler here you know no you said
thank you so much for having me on you're the man Joe Rogan thank you for letting me
get on the biggest show in the world and and give my ideas and and get more fans and get
more exposure so you said thank you you came back again you came back again after that
you came back again after that and every single time
You never said hey, man. It really feels like I have to hold your head. You didn't say anything like that, right? Okay
So you took it when it was advantageous to you now
That Donald now that Joe Rogan ended up supporting Donald Trump and has become like, you know
It's been acknowledged that he is at the center of this ecosystem of information
Whether you want to call him independent news or not. I don't really give a fuck what you call him
He has the biggest show now
That maybe it kind of hurts you personally to have this
You know attachment to Rogan or to have this this thing where you're connected to him or known as someone who went on his show
several times
Now you're gonna turn around and say I held his hand like a toddler
It seems like the common denominator here is what's self-serving for you?
Not so much any argument or principle that you got right that he then got wrong
Maybe I'm missing something but that seems more to be what the
the story is here. All right, let's keep playing. I mean, we were defending him,
unfortunately, way too late, right? When people were already on to I don't know, man, you're saying
a little bit more right wing right here. And we would be like, Well, no, look, here's a compilation
of all the times Joe Rogan said base things. He argued for universal health care.
He argued for free college.
He argued for higher minimum wage and this good thing.
And I would show show that compilation and go see, I don't know what you guys are talking
about.
But guess what?
When you decide I'm going to endorse Donald Trump after he lied to your face relentlessly
for the entire podcast telling brazen lies, then I'm sorry.
All the charity is gone.
All the sympathy is gone all the sympathy is
gone and I have to come to a different conclusion now my conclusion I'm sorry
but now that I've taken all the help you can give me and it's only hurting me to
be associated with you the charity is gone now it's time to take off the gloves
and what is he guilty of he's saying I defended him when he was saying some right wing things.
And then he ended up supporting Donald Trump and that's the cardinal sin.
Well, okay, look, Joe has always said some right wing things.
You never seem to have a problem with that when you were getting invited on the biggest
show.
Now that you're not getting invited on that show, you have a problem with that when you were getting invited on the biggest show now that you're not getting invited on that show you have a different attitude I mean I'm just
but by the way I'm just saying like maybe I'm wrong about this but like okay Joe texted
me and asked me to come on on the podcast on November 6th the day after the election
I was really honored by that.
I was like, oh, that's really cool that he wanted me to be the guy the day after this historic election
to come, you know, discuss it with him.
I could be wrong about this.
I have a really tough time believing that if Kyle got that invite,
he wouldn't have taken it.
Right? Kyle got that invite, he wouldn't have taken it, right?
That he wouldn't have taken it and he wouldn't have just taken the opportunity
to go talk about these things.
And I don't think he would have claimed
that he's holding Joe's hand like a toddler.
And I don't think he would have called him out
on all this stuff.
I think he would have tried to be like, oh, okay.
There's a big opportunity for me.
I'm gonna go do that.
If you are going to say, again, this is what I mean by the circular
Logic you can't just say
That he's wrong because he said right-wing things or he's wrong because he supports Donald Trump
He's always had lots of right-wing things and he's been very clear about why he supported Donald Trump. So why don't you take on?
that And he's been very clear about why he supported Donald Trump. So why don't you take on that?
Take on his right wing positions or take on the reason why he supported Donald Trump.
Why do you think he's getting it wrong?
Because there's a really strong argument to supporting Donald Trump in this last election. And there's an and look, by the way, he still says lots of left wing things.
When I was on the podcast with with Rogan last time, he went off on a whole thing about
how he doesn't think like how he's pro choice. And I disagree with him on that. But we didn't
really particularly argue about it. But you know, he still has some more left views But yeah, he supported donald trump and I think what everybody knows is that again while you could sit here and
spin
Covid about how it broke joe rogan's brain
Which you know, by the way, we I just want to say like we've made this argument a bunch rob, right?
That there were people whose brains were broken by covid
Explain to me in what way joe rogan qualifies for that joe rogan is not out there doing what sam sam harris is doing
Joe rogan is not like it's like when someone says that like trump broke sam harris's brain. We're saying like dude you're on
Camera saying that if they found children's corpses in jo Biden's basement, you'd still vote for Joe Biden
It's not an exaggeration. That's what Sam Harris said
That's when you go like dude Trump broke your brain dude
Like you're not thinking anymore if you say I wouldn't care if this candidate murdered kids
You've lost the plot. Okay
If you're making the argument that like change the variables of the vaccine and then I'm right and you're wrong or something like that
You know
Rogan's brains, but believe me I go down to Austin several times a year
I hang out with Joe every time I'm down there. He's thriving
He has not been broken by this whole situation by broken brain. I think you might mean woken up Yeah, right, right like and then oh, and I also love this concept of that. Oh, I'm now removing my endorsement for Joe Rogan
Okay, I don't think what audience do you think your command that all of a sudden you going out publicly and going I now have to
Remove my liberal endorsement for this show first. He's not a politician. It's like man. I don't think anyone cares
I think Joe's gonna be just fine. No, it's like at the beginning when
he goes, he goes, that's it. I'm going to war now. And you're like, you're, you're going
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Um, I, uh, I watched the, uh, I had this thought the other day. I watched, uh, Chris Rock's
monologue on SNL, which, uh, I mean, he's a great comedian. I thought it was kind of
weak. Uh, I'll just say it. All right, fair enough. I hate shitting on comics, but there you go.
And he had a line, which I'd done this on the podcast
years ago that basically the people who were upset
with Donald Trump and all the claims
of the dignity of office are basically just saying
that they'd like a more dignified rapist.
He had a similar joke.
But then I was thinking about this.
What's funny is I think actually the reason
that people did not vote for Kamala Harris
is with as big of a pottymouth as Donald Trump is
People were like she's just too retarded and I can't have someone that stupid being the president
And I think Rogan has said something along those lines that there was just something too offensive about her as a candidate
I don't know that he specifically are take articulated
That it was her lack of intelligence. I think it was more, I forgot specifically the
dishonesty on some issues, but going back to what you were saying of not really
contending why people might have voted for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, it's
that Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate. It's what we were talking
about on the last show, which might have been the subscriber one. Who's
that? The black dude from CNN
who used to work with?
Oh, yeah, Van Jones.
Yeah, where they're calling Trump such a genius
for going on podcasts, it's like, no,
it's just your candidate was too stupid
that you couldn't put her on podcasts.
And so you're not really contending with why
that Kamala Harris was so unlikable that admits the two.
Even classic liberals might prefer freedom right now
Might not like an open border might not like the wars and just have gone with Donald Trump because he was the better of the two
Options. Yeah, and and look I mean for for the times that you know the stuff that I know
Kyle
agrees with us on and
And I know that he's you know, like he's as I said, he's made like videos with clips of me being like Dave like
eviscerates these war hawks takes this guy down
eviscerates this pro-israel, you know idiot all this stuff. It's like I
Mean you gotta look I'm not saying Donald Trump is perfect. I
Think I've been a pretty fierce critic of Donald Trump over the last eight years.
And I would argue a much more effective critic of Donald Trump than a lot of the progressives
who don't seem almost incapable of actually understanding him and taking on what his flaws
are.
But for all of those flaws aside, like which are all very real and worth talking about,
which is why we talk about them all the time, but
It's like Kyle come on. I mean you you sit here and you hate the establishment
Too I mean you hate the war machine and you hate big pharma and the big banks and all of this stuff
And do you not kind of see that Kamala Harris was the establishment's pick?
Like maybe that's a huge part of this too.
I mean, I think you're right. A huge part of it is that she was just so awful. I mean, it was like,
it was like two, it was like people who supported the Democrats in this last election, they played
two full rounds of the emperor's new clothes. They played a full round with Joe Biden, pretending
that he wasn't senile. And then they played a full round with Joe Biden, pretending that he wasn't senile.
And then they played a full round with Kamala Harris, pretending that she had anything to
say and was not just like the worst candidate imaginable.
I mean, she would do an interview and you would just be like, my God, was this terrible.
But first, she'd avoid doing an interview.
She wouldn't do one for six weeks.
Then she'd finally go, fine, I'm going gonna do an 18 minute interview and just just do terrible fall flat on her face
Have nothing to say like somehow you got through an interview without
Demonstrating and understanding of one topic like it would just be unbelievable
And so like yeah, okay. So here you have this
Moron
Who is completely backed up by the establishment, who Joe Rogan, I think
much like a huge percentage of Americans woke up to during COVID, how corrupt and evil they
were.
And I mean, that's again, that's what you say.
Like you could talk about what that it broke Joe Rogan's brain again, tell me what he got
wrong and then let's measure it.
Let's brain again. Tell me what he got wrong and then let's measure it. Let's compare it. Let's compare it to Fauci or Hotez or one of the establishment guys. Let's compare
them to Chris Cuomo. See who had a worst track record. Let's compare them by the way. And
I'm saying this not knowing at all what Kyle Kulinski's position was on this. Let's compare
him to you. How were you during COVID Kyle?? You know, like, I don't know, but like, let's compare Rogan's track record to yours.
I'll certainly compare mine to yours or Rob's to yours.
But like one of the themes throughout COVID for many people, now I think me and you perhaps
don't even fully appreciate this because we were already red
pilled on how corrupt this whole thing is.
But one of the major themes was people realizing like, oh my God, this is so like every inch
of from every inch of COVID from the fact that while they were while the mask mandates
were at their absolute heights,
we would have pictures of Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein and AOC going maskless while
their servants were wearing masks, the amount of money that was stolen by corporations out
of the big spending bills in 2020.
Just the sheer amount of corruption of the big pharmaceutical companies just lying their
asses off about their product.
This was something people woke up to and Donald Trump is at least somewhat of an outsider,
is certainly hated by that establishment and had a lot of these outsider people around
him.
That alone already explains
Why people would be more drawn toward him in this in this cycle?
I think people needed to learn how to complain in private
I mean the way to have this conversation is hey
It's a shame that the left has gone so batshit crazy that we seem to have lost
Even Joe Rogan who aligns more with the right now because of some of the
mistakes that we've made.
And here's what we have to clean up or here's the new media strategy for how we need to
have more compelling contents that we can get more of our talking points across.
Hey, we're losing the story on some of the most important issues such as the need for
this style of wealth redistribution, but you're just complaining in public. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, it's even I remember me and you, if you remember, this is kind of
a forgotten chapter in history, but there was one podcast a couple months before the
election or I guess it was several months before the election where Donald Trump, I
mean, excuse me, Joe Rogan, he didn't endorse Bobby Kennedy, but someone asked
him who he's voting for. And he was like, I don't know, I really like Bobby Kennedy. This is before
Bobby dropped out. And then Trump attacked Rogan. And me and you were both sitting here going like,
Oh, how stupid is this of Donald Trump to do? This is the dumbest way to handle this. I mean,
like you want to try
to win that guy back over, not attack him for saying he likes Bobby Kennedy. And then
I remember going on Twitter and getting in a war with people who were doing exactly that,
Trump supporters who were attacking him. And if, let's say, as a result of now, Rogan ended
up coming back and supporting Donald Trump, but let's say he didn't Let's say he didn't support Donald Trump after that and Rogan was like, you know what? Fuck that guy. I like to it
What would anyone what would any of our view be on that be like? Yep
That's why it was pretty stupid to attack him like that. You probably shouldn't have done that
You were you don't sit there and go like oh what a disappointment it is that he didn't come back
The fact is that Joe Rogan was not
Viciously smeared by the right wing over the last few years and he was viciously smeared by the establishment
And by liberals and leftists he was smeared by left wingers for saying he had a problem with a man cage-fighting a woman
That got him attacked. So just that alone.
Let's say, hey, here, we had this guy with the biggest show
in the world, and he was really open to talking to
left-wingers and really open to talking to right-wingers.
And then we viciously attacked him for the crime of saying, I
don't think a man should be cage fighting a woman.
That right there, you'd go. Oh, it was our fault
Kyle I'm not saying Kyle attacked him. He doesn't have to take responsibility for that, but his reaction to that should be hey you idiots
You know left-wingers. What are you doing? You're attacking someone for having a totally reasonable not only reasonable
For having the only sane opinion on the topic
I'm sorry the only sane opinion about whether men should be allowed to cage fight women is no, they shouldn't. That's the only sane opinion on that. And so he
gets attacked for having the sane opinion, the correct opinion. I mean, then this is just one
example. I'm not even gonna forget all the COVID shit and not for nothing, but like
how when Joe Rogan was telling the truth through
COVID, and I don't know where Kyle was on COVID, but all I know is that in this clip,
he's saying Joe Rogan's brain broke during COVID. So it kind of tells you something.
People like me and you were what? Adimately defending Joe, adamantly defending him for
telling the truth and getting smeared for it because that's the right thing to do when someone tells the truth
And gets viciously attacked for it
So we were defending him were you guys defending him when CNN was trying to cancel them when when?
Spotify was under all that pressure to get rid of them were you guys standing up for it?
Were you not you know because it you would kind of understand where if somebody is really under attack and under attack unfairly for something
They did nothing wrong. Just telling the truth and they're under attack
Yeah, the people who have their back are probably gonna have their ear more in the future than the people who don't
That's just human nature
All right, let's keep playing
Don all the sympathy is gone and I have to come to a different conclusion now. My
conclusion of you could hold these people's hands and walk them through it and talk to
them like they're reasonable and work it out. It just didn't work. It just didn't work.
And that's why you see a much more bold, aggressive style out of me where I'm like, fuck these
people and the horse they rode in on because if what I did before didn't work
Okay, I got to try a different approach now. So right just call these people the fucking frauds
They are well, then guess what? We're gonna call them the frauds that they are
But don't be like hard pause it here. Okay, so I tried the approach of winning the argument that didn't work
So I guess I'll have to just throw a temper tantrum and call everybody names. I
Mean, okay, that is one conclusion to come to.
The other one would be that you need to sharpen up your arguments, that you're losing the
argument and you might need better ones, or at least you need to improve on the argument
that you have, for the response to be, hey, I tried it that way.
I tried going on Rogan Show and making my case and then someone else would come on and make their case and people went in the other direction.
Well, I guess I got a name call.
That's one that's one lesson to take from this, Kyle.
I don't think it's the correct one.
All right, let's keep playing.
Right yourself in that way.
I mean, Bernie Sanders did the same thing where he was trying to go there.
And I thought at the point Rogan could be reasoned with in that way and his audience, it was important to try to communicate with them.
Like the thing is, is like go on all these platforms.
It's like why I went on Tim Pool, but I'm going to go there in a way where I'm not I'm not going to try to get invited back.
Like I'm going to go there and try to write adversarial.
At this point, specifically with explicitly right wing outlets, you got to go in there and you've got to eat their lunch because the only time that leftists get re-invited to these places is if you validate everything that they say.
And then that creates a perverse incentive for those leftist communicators as well, because there's so much more money on that side of the equation. Man.
All right.
Let me just, okay, that's the end of the clip.
So let me just say this.
I mean, I, again, I do just find this, I find it infuriating because it's very, I feel like
it's insulting to me personally, um, to just be like, oh, almost the only way you can do
it is just go in there and validate everything Rogan says which I
Don't know, you know, I've been on Joe's show
a lot of times I
Think I've I think I've done it 12 times by myself and three times with
Jay and Lewis something like that
times with Jay and Lewis, something like that. Um, anybody who follows me, who listens to this show, so I assume the people I'm speaking
to right now fall into that category.
Would you say I just go on there and validate what Joe believes?
Or would you say I go on that show and talk about the things that I want to talk about
the things that are my priorities, my things that I want to talk about the things that are my
priorities my issues that I know the most about I go on there and I'm like dude Joe I gotta tell
you about this let me say let me tell you this about this okay and then I mean there are certainly
things that he says that I validate when I think they're correct but the idea that it's like oh
you know like I went on there and failed and therefore you know it's like it's like, oh, you know, like I went on there and failed and therefore, you know, it's like
when a stand up comic bombs and then it's like, you know, it's all the crowd's fault.
It's all this is and then some other comic goes up and kills and you're like, oh, you
just had a bad set, dude.
Like to say that you went on there and the thing failed and therefore the conclusion
is that the only way you can succeed is if you go on there and just validate anything they're saying.
Again there's another option there which is that what you had to say wasn't that compelling.
And I will say I really do resent the thing at the end where it's like oh but there's
just more money in that.
There's just more money in that as if these guys aren't making good money as if Kyle
Kalinsky isn't making good money as if Kyle Kalinsky isn't making
good money and hasn't been for quite a while.
It's just dishonest that there's no money in the land and particularly, you know, I
remember this was a thing.
It was part of the reason why I was so vicious in the Chris Cuomo debate was because he said
something along those lines to me
Like he said I made some point early on in the debate if you go watch and he said something like he goes Yeah, this is good for clicks on the internet, but you know
And it's like the implication
Not even implicit pretty explicit is like oh, yeah, you make money from doing this, you know
And there was something
so infuriating about Chris Cuomo telling me that I make money from this, even though like
on the surface level, look, there's no question Rob, right?
Me and you did our profile rose a lot during COVID and the fact that we were like such
outspoken critics of the lockdowns and the mandates and the vaccine and all this
stuff. Yeah, there were a lot of there were people out there who were starved
for that, who wanted the voices that were standing up against the insane totalitarianism and
particularly voices who would arm them with really good arguments against it or a really
good understanding of what was happening here.
But to turn around and say, because a lot of us have become successful, that, oh, yeah,
there's just money in that, especially getting it from someone like Chris Cuomo, where you're
like, motherfucker, you made 10 times the fucking money any of us are making and the whole time you were
cashing those CNN checks you never said one thing that would upset CNN you never said one thing that
would go against the establishment now you may hear him now saying ivermectin is actually a really
great drug show me the clip of him saying that great drug show me the clip of them saying that on cnn
Show me the clip of them saying that schools should be reopened or that the lockdowns are causing all of this devastation show me that
Show me the clip show me the clip of chris cuomo on cnn saying the most obvious
Thing that would have gone against the network that would have gone against the establishment something like, you know
I don't really think a 22 year old who had COVID last month should be forced to get a booster. Did he ever say that once on CNN's airwaves? No,
not once. Okay. So yeah, so then don't turn around and tell me like we're just motivated by the money, especially when like we were taking real risk by having these opinions. Yes, in hindsight, we get the benefit of we
told the truth when it mattered, but there was real risk to doing that.
Like there. Meanwhile, you guys are taking positions that are completely risk free and
then saying like, oh, there's just money in that. Look, man, if you want to say, oh, I'll
go on these these platforms and be
adversarial okay there's lots of platforms where you can be adversarial
there's lots of things where you can have debates you could go on Rogan and
be adversarial like okay but why didn't you do that there's a very convenient
excuse to say oh because at the time I believed I could do this but hey like
again like Kyle I think he said he went on four times right like I said before if you
had to hold his hand like a toddler well how come you didn't mention that the
first time how come you to mention that the second time or the third time or the
fourth time okay so you're gonna say oh because I thought this method of being
nice would work but now I realize I have to be adversarial. Okay.
It's just very convenient to say that.
It's like, maybe it wouldn't go that good for you.
Maybe if you went on there and you were adversarial, you'd end up getting fucked up.
Just saying.
I mean, like I'm, I'm very confident that if you went on Rogan's show and told Joe,
you know, COVID broke your brain, I think he'd eat your lunch.
I think he'd fuck you up.
Like I think I don't mean physically obviously I'm saying like I think he
would just like destroy you because you'd be like whose brain was broken.
Dude, there are there are people out there who were scared to leave their home.
You know, whose brain was broken during COVID Howard Stern Howard Stern's brain
was broken. He lived like a germaphobe and still is I believe to this day.
That's a brain was broken. Huh? Either that or having attended a Diddy party that might
it's not turns out long term health effects. Not so great from Diddy parties. All right.
We're gonna we're gonna wrap on that. Catch you guys next time.
Peace.