The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1728 A Sacrament to the Woke Religion with Dave Smith

Episode Date: June 5, 2023

Adam and Drew are in New York as they talk to comedian and libertarian Dave Smith and try to find the definition of freedom. They break down the "don't say gay" law before Adam gets into how people aren't allowed to ask questions about certain topics anymore. FInally, they talk about the role the CIA played in the 2020 election. Please Support Our Sponsors: Angi.com Simplisafe.com/ADAM2

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Get it on. Got to get on the show. Get it on. That's Dr. Drew is a board certified physician, Dick's medicine specialist. And we're sitting in his condo in New York city. Yeah, we are.

It's weird. It's fun though. Comedian Dave Smith, co-host of Legion of Skanks, is going to hang with us. He did my podcast, which I recorded from Drew's Kitchen, and we love Dave so much

we told him to just hang out, do an episode. It wasn't just he loved him so much that we couldn't stop talking to him. It's like, we've got to turn the mics back on. This conversation is wild. Put it on the record. All of life is a podcast, really.

It's how I spend time with friends now. Really, if I want to see somebody, I'm like, come on, my pod. We'll hang out for an hour. Yeah, Dave's a libertarian. He's just a thinker. I'm always overjoyed to find people like Dave in the world, and then I'm simultaneously disappointed at everyone else.

Why aren't there more normal people who think? Fucking Euster fucking head. I know. I walked through the kitchen here when you guys were talking about how the regime needs to find racism and white supremacy

because they've run out of things to rescue people from. COVID, white supremacy. We've got to be the to rescue people from. COVID, white supremacy. We've got to be the regime of rescue, of helping people get away from trouble. Except once they've done it, now what? Well, right. And isn't it, because it is kind of like, even when you think about like American wars, you know, it's always like the Nazi shit is always evoked.

Like Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler. What are you? You know, oh my God, what are you going to, you're going to give him, you're going to appease him? No, that's just like with Hitler. This doesn't work. Saddam Hussein was Hitler. It's this, it's like they always got to go. But remember that one war?

Remember that one when we beat the Nazis? Now Trump is Hitler. Everyone, it's always got to be this thing, even though it doesn't, it just doesn't make sense. We need a new trend. Trump is Napoleon. Yeah. Trump is Napoleon. Putin is Napoleon. No, he's Peter the Great.

Let's go back all the way. But isn't it, why can't he ever be one of the other ones? Why does it always have to be Hitler? And then you're all, it's like none of them ever make sense. Like comparing any of these people to Hitler just makes absolutely no sense. But then, and also you have to wonder, like, what is the true game? Like, I'm seeing the governor, Gavin Newsom of California, and he's like, we dare to be free in California,

not like Texas, not like Florida. And at first I was like, free? Your state income tax is 13.5%. We were talking about free? That's the opposite of free. You are extracting tons of money from your citizens like number one number two what is your definition of freedom we just pretty sure it's cutting your son's dick off i'm pretty sure is the definition we had a punt pass and kick competition of freedom amongst states. It's called COVID.

Yeah. And different states reacted differently. California, if this was a punt, pass, and kick competition, like they used to have at the halftime of the NFL game, the pass would have traveled four yards. The kick would go behind the goalpost, over the guy's head, full Charlie Brown, and the punt would go up in the air, get hit by a gust of breeze, and then land back onto the punter. You failed.

If you're talking about a punt, pass, and kick competition of freedom, California is at the very bottom of the freedom competition. And you guys, now you're boasting about freedom? Yeah, because you have your dick cut off for free. Did you see the commercial he made attacking DeSantis? Which, number one, was just very strange, because it's strange to see a governor running a campaign ad against another governor that he's not even in an election against.

But he literally, I was blown away. Like, my jaw was on the floor. That he literally did a Florida versus California commercial and went, come move toia where there's freedom yeah and you're like wait hold on wait a minute so you're actually telling me your definition of freedom is like okay yeah sure we had lockdowns here and they didn't but you know you can't teach your first grader about transgenderism in florida and you can't even give them puberty blockers. So how free are you really just because you can work? It's like, is this actually your argument?

If you've read the law, the so-called Don't Say Gay Law, it's four pages. It's very simple. It's the most reasonable bill that's been passed in the last 30 years in any state or federal level. It's sentences of substance that essentially say we don't want things from kindergarten to third grade. It is not age or developmentally appropriate.

Parents are allowed to complain, which is sort of the issue that people are worried about. Like how far will that go? But the actual substance of the law is maybe we shouldn't be discussing all this stuff with little kids. And by the way, it qualifies it if not developmentally and age appropriate. not if and by the way it qualifies it if not developmentally and age appropriate but this and then the thing is when you argue with progressives it's so they have this this real dishonest tactic of like they'll go to like kind of the extreme example yeah but they'll never deal with like what what we're really talking about so even in like you know he and i talk about all the time right like even when they talk about abortion if they talk about it it's always like okay but what

about the 12 year old who's raped by her dad and is this and that and then you're kind of like all right i get your argument there but how about like the 90 of times when it's this can we take so what they'll do is they'll be like so wait so you're saying now if there's like a second grade teacher who's a gay dude you know he can't be like oh me and my boyfriend just went on vacation but like the straight guy can be like hey me and my wife just went on vacation or but the straight guy can be like, hey, me and my wife just went on vacation or whatever. And you're like, all right, I kind of get your argument about that. But that's not true.

But how about... That's not even true. Right, but even if there was a case where you're like, if my reading of the law implied that maybe that would be talking about some of these things you're not allowed to talk about. It's a curriculum. But how about just don't teach these crazy books?

Curriculum. Right, how about just don't teach the idea of transgenderism and all this stuff to that which you see happening not to six years just to this age level you know whatever yeah the truth is the law didn't go nearly far enough it's just the the the reasonable take on all that is everybody could have that would be a reasonable argument right yeah for you to argue with somebody that feels it went third grade is still way too young in my opinion right but okay it's the weirdest i mean look first things yeah when i was a kid i remember spotting like divine uh who was the uh john waters you know creature he she you know early money tranny loved her and her. I was a huge Pink Flamingo fan in college.

You don't even know what that is, do you? This is all. Go on Amazon and watch the documentary. Divine was like a transvestite, as we used to call him, you know, back in the day. When I was a kid, trans people, like a man dressed as a woman like an adult man you know with the thing frightened me like it would freak me out sure it's frightening when you're when you're you're you're a white supremacist so of course you're freaked out i'm just saying it was weird and it was kind of freaky i but so was so was just a lot of sexual stuff yeah you know what i mean

i just didn't need to know about it but you could argue back to dave's point you could argue that that we needed to loosen that up a little bit so people could be themselves and not worry about it i mean like ban these people or whatever but that's like i remember once when i was like um eight or nine i had a neighbor who was about four or five years older than me a guy guy, and we hung out. We were kind of like best friends. And I remember one time my mom said, if he ever tries to touch you in a way that doesn't feel good or something, and I remember going, oh, ew, come on, like, yuck. Like, I was embarrassed that, come on, man, man i don't even say it's not gonna do that

you know it was creepy and weird sounding to me and i'm just saying in general like this notion that we got to tune up every nine-year-old on sex whatever it is you know it could be heterosexual positions you know aids you know tranny transsexual he she's trans it's like maybe we just save it until they sprout a pube but i don't need to know it's like you don't need to know about ethnic cleansing when you're nine yeah no i agree i just just let me a kid for a while and then they'll find out about all this shit at some point yeah you got to be an adult for like the vast majority of your life well i mean hopefully uh so like let's just extend the innocence as long as you can it's kind of how i feel at least with my kids like i don't want them

i'm also i feel this weird like kind of embarrassment on behalf of adults like i got i got little little kids but i'm like oh man i don't want you to find out how much of a like a mess this whole thing is you know what i mean like you're like oh yeah these adults i'm pretending we all have it together but we really don't right now so like but just for now like let be in your little world where you think the adults have it together that was always the thing. I mean, that was why, it's going to sound weird, but that's why Catcher in the Rye was such a thing for our generation. You're too young.

No, I read it. I read it in school. But it was about the loss of innocence, ultimately. That was the metaphor. Meanwhile, fucking J.D. Salinger is molesting teenagers, but that's a whole other story. Do you know that story? That I do not know.

Oh, boy. But anyway. and J.D. Salinger's molesting teenagers, but that's a whole other story. Do you know that story? That I do not know. Oh, boy. But anyway. And really shitty stuff. Really. But that makes me look at the book differently now. Yeah, I know. Like, oh, you creep. I read all his stuff.

I was such a goddamn fan when I was growing up. And then I watched the documentary. I'm like, oh, no. But anyway, so the point is, though, loss of innocence was something meaningful that we don't even think about now. Right. Really, what about the people that need to be represented

to those little kids? Oh, I mean, what about when you see, like, people dragging their four-year-olds to, like, the Black Lives Matter protests and they're screaming in front of a cop, you know, just kill me now. People dragging their four-year-olds to the Black Lives Matter protests, and they're screaming in front of a cop, just kill me now, I can't breathe. You're looking at the kid, and you're like, Jesus Christ. That's very weird, but there's...

That's a very weird thing, but there is nothing... I mean, like, dude, it is shocking the parents who will actually, like, really start transing their four- or five-year-old kids. And, like, you're like, well, this a like you're profoundly fucking with this kid for as like it's really it's like some type of sacrament to the woke religion where you're like you're like you know you'll see like these parents where they're like i have i have three kids two of them are transgender and you're like okay well already the odds of that are like so like the odds are so much higher that no you're just guiding your kids into this thing that you believe in.

But what a disturbing thing to do to a kid. To be fair, we don't know, and we've got to figure that out. But the really challenging part is I have known people who've gotten hormone-blocking agents at 11 and 12 and become whatever they wanted to be. And it's pretty clear to me, maybe it wasn't, I mean, it was the right choice for them. I mean, might there have been other choices? Perhaps. But they are thriving.

And so I don't want to take that away from people that, you know, that's a possibility. It is a possibility. But it's about the doctors picking the right patient to do that to. Not everybody the parent presents to them. You have to have criteria for this. And it should be very strict, I'd imagine. the right patient to do that to. Not everybody the parent presents to them. You have to have criteria for this. And it should be very strict, I'd imagine. It should be very strict.

Because you're talking about something that's irreversible. You've seen it go bad also. And so that's the problem. And that's the doctor's fault. Nobody else's. We shouldn't be doing that unless we know exactly what we're doing. And that's why some countries have backed away. Because we don't really know how to select that right patient for the right treatment. Well, from what I understand, that the biggest study on it showed that for about 80 percent of kids who claim, you know, to identify as the opposite, if they don't know there's still there's an argument there

but it's just what the the religion of it is that it's like twofold it's like any kid whoever says it or utters the words that is right and must be treated as the opposite and then that it actually is the same thing that like trans women are women which is actually what they'll claim and that you're not allowed now we're not allowed to live in biological reality and point out that like no there are there are biological realities that exist whenever there's evangelism around biology or medicine watch out yeah yeah well the doctors do this all the time what i push back against is the fact that I'm not allowed to push back. You've told us that there's a virus that came from a pangolin in a wet market, and there's a lab up the street that works on such viruses,

and I'm not allowed to ask whether it came from there, or there's been a 7,000% increase in women becoming men and men becoming women in the last 10 minutes. And I'm not allowed to ask a question. So I'll be shouted down or deplatformed or called whatever, the denier, whatever, vax denier, whatever it is, or racist or something. Because we're not allowed to ask. And my whole thing is like you know i'm not a physician but if i see things they're well i grew up um i never met a kid with a peanut allergy now we have peanut free zones at schools and i'm like am i allowed to ask what what what did we what

happened biologically in the last 20 minutes that everyone's now rejecting peanuts on a cellular level? Maybe there's something that we did. Maybe half these kids don't have peanut allergies. Maybe they should have been exposed to peanuts instead of hiding from peanuts. Maybe too much antiseptic soap. Look, I have questions. Can I ask these questions? Are you just going to go, we need to cordon off a bigger zone for the peanut kids? Too much antiseptic soap. Look, I have questions. Can I ask these questions?

Are you just going to go, we need to cordon off a bigger zone for the peanut kits? I think COVID particularly woke a lot of people up to this, and myself included, I mean, to different levels. I like to think I was somewhat aware of this before, but you just kind of like, you just have a lot less trust in these people in positions of authority and institutions, especially in the medical community. We didn't know. To me, it's not only less trust. Less trust is sort of like, well, the guy's not as good at fixing transmissions as I thought. It said A number one on top of his transmission shot. He may be a B minus. This isn't that. This is like Fauci's talking

and Rochelle Walensky's talking and Biden's talking and I'm sitting there going, alright, what are they really trying to do? It's not even like, oh, I think he knows 20% less than I thought he knew. He's fucking lying about something and I want to know what his endgame is. I agree with you on that.

When it comes to the people at the top, it's not even like I'm saying I lost trust in them. It's like, oh, I realized how evil, what evil monsters they are. That's what I think. Captured. Yeah, but it's still pretty evil, if you ask me. And by the way, so I'm working with this attorney, interviewing this attorney that is suing a lot of these

organizations for things. And we were talking about how the NIH was funding the Equal Health Alliance and Peter Daszak, and I couldn't understand it. I was like, what the hell? What are they doing? And I told this guy, I go, the only way I can understand it is if what they're doing

is funding some counter-espionage so we can understand what China's doing with these viruses. And he went, stand by. I got details. So there you go. So there's shit going on we don't these viruses. And he went, stand by. I got details. So there you go. So there's shit going on we don't know about. No, that's for sure. But the point, what I was talking about even with the trust things,

I'm not even talking about the captured or corrupt people at the very top. I'm talking about my kid's pediatrician who I had to leave because he's trying to get me to vaccinate my kids with this COVID vaccine. I'm having arguments with him, and I'm right about everything. You're a comedian. But I shouldn't be. I should not be winning the argument against a medical doctor. But he just fell for the propaganda.

And I'm not even saying it's my opinion that I was winning the argument. I'm saying it's been demonstrated now. This was a year ago. it's been clearly demonstrated he's arguing with me that you you won't be able to get covet or transmitted if you have the vaccine you know like things like this and you're you just go like oh wow i can't i can't trust a doctor to know more about medicine than i know that kind of sucks yes because i'd like to be able to be like, okay, this guy is a doctor. He would probably know.

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You've said this before. He goes, I'm worried about Germany. They thought it was a good idea to have as their enemy the world. He goes, they made war with the world. And then they came back around again with this guy. And he decided it's time to do war again with the world. Such a they came back around again with this guy and he decided it's time to do war again with the world. Such a great bet.

So, yeah, I find myself listening to, and sometimes watching old norm clips on YouTube. Some of which is, you know, he and I breaking down Kenny Rogers songs or something like that. Some,

it's a little self-fulfilling. I gotta be honest with you, but I'm mostly laughing at his contributions to it. But yeah, we were talking about this notion of experts not being experts. I just saw somebody tweeted me today. I guess it was a study out of Israel where they now think no young healthy people died of COVID. Like, none.

That's the latest one, which I've been saying. And by the way, when somebody goes, you know, they do a thing where they go, well, not none. There may have been seven. That's none. Statistically speaking, it's zero. It's just zero. Well, what it means is we don't have to think about it like it doesn't have to be considered and i always said that this whole thing was about panicking

the populace and the people who are in power seizing more power and you couldn't do it without the kids and i tapped into it super early which was it's about scaring the moms and scaring them about their kids. And I don't see any evidence that I was incorrect about my number one assertion. My first impulse about this whole thing was this is killing old, sick people. And that's not scaring moms so we're going to scare the shit about out of the moms by focusing on kids and that's and then we just hustled down that road and we never looked back and it got back to like your pediatrician which is there is no reason to get a five-year-old vaccinated and i was screaming about this the whole time there's no reason to get healthy people

vaccinated really are people that are don't have comorbidities. Where the rubber really hits the road is we don't know how yet to counsel on the risk-reward of this. That's our job. And as you find out, less and less were injured by the virus itself and maybe more and more by the vaccine. How do you counsel the risk reward for every given patient that's in front of you? And there's a school of thought now that we really did not give proper consent to anybody. And that's, you know, you should sign a paper with consent usually.

Nobody did that for the vaccine. It's going to be an issue going forward. You know, another thing on the fear thing, I heard you guys on ACS talking about the AIDS pandemic and how they scared the shit out of your generation. I was part of that. And it's a really interesting playbook that Fauci opened up in 1983.

He kept telling us, you've got to scare, tell them there are going to be 2 million dead, 2 million dead. And we ended up with 275,000 AIDS deaths, and we congratulated ourselves, scared the shit out of a whole generation, but it was worth it, right? And so when it came around to COVID, I thought, oh, I recognize this playbook. It's no longer valid.

It certainly is not appropriate for this virus, but it was that same old playbook that he pulled out in 1983. Yeah. You know, I'll tell you this, too, and I don't want this to come off as conspiratorial as it sounds because I'm not suggesting this is – I'm not suggesting some wild conspiracy about this that you might infer. But you know like America sponsors color-coded revolutions all around the world. This is like a thing that our CIA does. This isn't a controversial thing to say.

We've done this many different times. I was going to say, we've done this many different times. And there are these, the playbook is basically like, okay, when we want to overthrow a regime, but we're not willing to commit the military to do it, we try, and if we can't get the CIA assassins to be able to do it, because sometimes these governments are good at protecting their leaders, what we'll do is we'll foment massive riots and protests in the streets. You run big propaganda campaigns against the leader, ballot stuffing, cheating in the elections, like all these different things. And if you look at the year 2020, there are a lot of hallmarks of a color coded revolution. Now, I'm not saying they like they made the virus for this

or something i'm saying i think the opportunity presented itself yeah and getting trump out was at a very high priority for let's say like george soros the person who sponsors all of these color-coded revolutions is also the biggest donor to the Democratic Party. And it does seem like a lot of money went into, say, bailing out all of the people who were rioting and making sure that they were back at the protest the next day. We overhauled the way we do elections with the mail-in votes, not even saying there was necessarily any fraud there, just saying it made it a lot easier for people to vote,

which helps the Democrats. And there were just a lot, it seemed to me like a lot easier for for people to vote which helps the democrats um and there were just a lot it seemed to me like a lot of the goal in 2020 was like we're gonna bury this guy by making his fourth year the worst year in modern american history and it's very hard to win a re-election if that's the case no matter whose fault it was it's just very hard part of that i i think that they jumped on the opportunity to sabotage trump's economy never what was the phrase you know never waste a disaster essentially yeah they jumped on it and and you knew they jumped on it because they were simultaneously saying covet is a world-class killer And then Trump would send over a hospital ship

and they'd go, get your ship out of here. It's like, okay, well, which is it then? Is it killing everybody? And if it is killing everybody and we're running out of beds and we're overstaffed, then why don't you thank Trump for sending over the hospital ship? Why are you rejecting everything Trump sends you

to try to mitigate the disaster that you guys are saying COVID is? And that's when it became pretty transparent what was going on. The sad part about the election is I've said to everyone a million times, like, everyone is talking about sort of ballot harvesting and stuffing boxes and Dominion being corrupted or whatever. And it was like, no, the tampering with the election was done by the CIA and the FBI and CNN. Those were those and Twitter. Yeah. And Trump made a real mistake, I think, by having his lawyers focus on all this, these wild claims that he couldn't prove. Like, I don't know if they're true or not,

but I know that I've never seen any evidence to like suggest that they are. And they all got laughed out of court every time they went because they just had no case. So however you feel like you could believe in your heart that like the Dominion voting machines were flipping votes, but you don't have any evidence to provide that. But what you do have is like what you were saying. I mean, we now know that it was actually, it was Blinkit on the Biden campaign who reached out to the CIA to ask them to put together this letter with four former directors of the CIA, all saying that this Hunter Biden laptop had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation to get Donald Trump out of there there so you have the cia working against the sitting president of the united states to unseat him that's all you need you don't have to go to some of these other claims of like like that's

really blatant election i know that's trump's like somebody stole a sack of mail in arcadia california that had ballots in it we have ring doorbell footage of it's like you don't need that the cia turned against you to try to get biden elected this is a huge story that nobody will report on because they were they're on the other side and they got this story wrong although i don't even know if they got the story wrong or they just knew what they were doing. Yeah. I treated a CIA agent once alcoholic.

It's really interesting. Something you, most people don't know is this guy was the most never. She baby Huey. Like you couldn't imagine this guy was up to anything. Right. And he goes, that's how we all are.

He goes, I blew up ballot ballot boxes. I blew up voting places. I he goes, that's how we all are. He goes, I blew up ballot boxes. I blew up voting places. I was a ballistics expert or whatever, explosive expert. And this guy, you look at him, you can't even believe it. And that's exactly who they put out there in the field. That is really something. That's interesting.

Yeah, he goes, we're all like this. We're all like all the CIA agents. They don't want you to see Sean Connery, Roger Moore coming in. Right, right, right. That's what they expect. Yeah, it's interesting that they're actually sort of groomed to some degree or vetted. To fit, to blend in, to not be noticed.

Yeah, to not be the Hollywood version of what they are. But, yes, I do agree that it is insane that it's nonstop discussion. I mean, if you really just think about the sort of nuts and bolts of it, nonstop discussion about the Russian government interfering with our election. We had the American government, CIA, FBI, interfere with our election, and none of the people that cared about the Russians interfering with our election and compromising and corrupting are saying jack shit about what the CIA did with our election, and they ain't interested.

R.M.K. Jr. is. Oh, R.M.K. is interesting. That's very interesting. He's talking about it because the actual story is that the story about russia interfering in our election was the cia interfering in our elections that they were knowingly making up this story or at least the fbi was knowingly making it up because they knew from the very beginning you know and this is the only one guy who got charged and i think he he like pled down his case because government people don't really get held responsible for what they do but the one guy who did get charged was the the fbi

agent who uh like lied on the fisa warrant for carter page because the cia told the fbi that they go oh no he's not a russian agent he's our guy. And so basically the FBI had, oh, well, he met with these Russians who tried to get in and flip sides. And the CIA was like, yeah, we know he met with those Russians. He came back and told us about it immediately. He's our guy. And so then the FBI on the FISA application goes, we have reason to believe he met with these Russians. And this was confirmed by the CIA. So they said, yes, the CIA confirmed this, which is technically true,

but they left out the part that they confirmed it and said, but he's with us, and we know this because he came and told us. So the whole thing, the whole start of it, which was with the Carter Page stuff, they knew going into it that there's nothing here. And then Robert Mueller knew. I mean, you've got to think, right, what was it?

It was like two years that the Mueller investigation is going on. The whole time he's well aware that he's found no evidence of this. But he keeps his mouth shut the whole time. Through the midterm elections, through everything. And here's one detail that's real interesting. I don't know if you guys remember this, but about a month before the Mueller investigation was released, before the report was released, BuzzFeed ran this story that they just pulled out of their ass. They had two reporters who claimed they had seen evidence that Michael Cohen had been instructed by Donald Trump to lie under oath, and this was going to be the big thing. Donald Trump, there were going to be charges brought against Donald Trump.

This was all coming out in the Mueller report. And Mueller sent one of his people from the team to tell the press, hey, this is not true. This accusation that's out in the press is not true. It was the only sort of affirmative thing he said the whole way. So you're willing to come out and tell the press that a rumor circulating is not true. to come out and tell the press that a rumor circulating is not true but you sat quiet for two years while they're saying the sitting president is a russian spy and you never once thought to come out and go hey by the way we haven't found anything that way so like don't get ahead of yourself no he let them get through the midterms with that hanging over trump's head

let the democrats take back congress and then came out with like, oh, yeah, we have nothing. It's insidious, and it's also, the part that's really weird about it is like when I was interviewing Chris Hansen about, you know, catch a pedophile or whatever it was. But I realized that Chris Hansen had been done straight news for like 30 years, you know? And I was like, what's going on with the news outlets?

Like, why aren't they doing, oh, you know, they're underfunded. They don't have the budget. And they got a bunch of 23-year-olds. And it's like, no, they're not doing news anymore. They're acting as a, like, wing of the Democratic Party. And he's like, no like no no they're not you know this was the problem the problem was that we just went through was the denial you know it's like a cia makes some mistakes or the fbi makes some mistakes or cnn gets it wrong every once in

a while the los angeles times can they make it something wrong about covet or fauci make it something wrong or michelle walensky may not have all that. It's like, but they would never interfere with anything. They would never knowingly give you misinformation. LA Times is trying their best. They don't have the money that they used to have. It's like, that's not what's going on. All this stuff was pretty knowable. It was all knowable.

100%. 100% knowable if you were interested at all in doing news. But think about how much stuff is knowable now that's not being addressed on COVID. Oh, yeah. Yes. Lockdowns on mass. It's just not. Move on.

Moving on. All right. Well, speaking of moving on, Dave Smith, everybody. Love talking to this guy. Legions of Skanks is a co-host of. And Comedian Dave Smith is where we go. Comicdavesmith.com. Comic. Love talking to this guy. Legions of Skanks is a co-host of. Comedian Dave Smith is where we go. Comicdavesmith.com.

Comic. I didn't write it down because I didn't know we were going to roll it over into this show. But no. Very funny stand-up. Watched him do stand-up the other night. Very enjoyable. Dave, thanks for joining us. Thank you, guys.

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