#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 207 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:10) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(09:32) - Libertarianism
(10:47) - Ron Paul
(13:59) - Military–industrial complex
(20:53) - War on Terror
(33:12) - China and Taiwan
(41:00) - Just war theory
(48:09) - Israel and Gaza
(1:05:35) - Douglas Murray
(1:13:29) - Hamas
(1:29:48) - Hitler and Stalin
(1:32:01) - Darryl Cooper
(1:41:13) - Antisemitism
(1:54:46) - World leaders
(2:07:21) - Jeffrey Epstein
(2:15:24) - Sam Harris
(2:28:07) - Ukraine and Russia
(2:47:32) - Joe Rogan
(3:00:01) - Conspiracy theories
(3:17:52) - Hope
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Dave Smith, |
| 0:02.6 | an outspoken and at times controversial anti-war libertarian, comedian, and podcast host. |
| 0:10.3 | And now a quick few second mention of his sponsor. |
| 0:13.6 | Check them out in the description. |
| 0:15.3 | It's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | We got Call of Duty for Video Game Fun Tax Network USA |
| 0:21.6 | for figuring out your tax problems, |
| 0:26.6 | Notion for collaborating with your mates |
| 0:28.6 | and integrating AI in the whole process, |
| 0:30.6 | Shopify for selling stuff online, |
| 0:32.6 | and Better Help for figuring out the problems of your mind. |
| 0:36.6 | Choose wisely, my friends. |
| 0:38.8 | If you're watching or listening to this on Spotify, |
| 0:41.5 | I decided to start putting the same ad reads from me |
| 0:44.3 | at the beginnings I do on Apple Podcasts and the RSS feed, |
| 0:47.6 | since a lot of folks in the survey said |
| 0:49.3 | that they actually like the random non-sequitur, |
| 0:53.5 | weird, strange, chaotic things I talk about |
| 0:57.9 | in these avenues. And they said that they would be happy to skip when they don't feel like |
| 1:02.5 | listening. I do make it easy to skip with timestamps on screen and in the description. |
| 1:08.3 | And I'm not adding ads in the middle. So hopefully this whole thing works for you. |
| 1:13.4 | Let's see. I do try to make the ad reads interesting and personal, often related to stuff I'm |
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