What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.

I am Dave Smith, riding solo for this episode. Before we get started, a couple quick plugs. I should

let you guys know, because I'm on the road for the rest of the year.

The next stop is June 5th, one night only. I'll be at the Parkdale Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

which I've not been to Toronto in many years. But I always love doing comedy there. So really

looking forward to getting back there.

And then Denver, Colorado, Houston, Texas, Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Appleton, Wisconsin, Austin, Texas, back at the mothership, Louisville, Kentucky, Fort Worth, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Salt Lake City, San Diego, California,

bunch of stops, Comic Dave Smith.com for all the tickets to come see me and Robbie the Fire,

do some stand-up comedy.

All right.

So for today's show, I wanted to give my thoughts on a podcast that came out yesterday, of course, talking about the greatest podcast

in the world, the Joe Rogan experience, and Joe had on GADSAD.

And I just want to start, I thought this was a fascinating episode, really, really interesting,

and it's kind of lit the internet on fire, but that's typical. Almost every Joe Rogan experience episode does that. But so we're going to play some clips from this. I'll kind of give you my thoughts on it. There's too much here for me to do an episode on. I don't even know if we'll get through the clips that I had prepared. I'd sent Natalie a bunch of timestamps. It's just, you know, it's a two and a half hour episode and it, I don't know, it takes a lot of time to respond to all this stuff, but I'll go through what I can. I just wanted to kind of say this. First of all, I did I try my best here to like, I don't know, to be as generous as I can be.

So I will start by saying, now, me and Gad have had some, you know, not friendly back and

forths.

He just kind of does this thing.

He mockingly posts about me a lot.

And it's always the same thing.

It's always just like, oh, let's hear what Professor Dave Smith, geopolitical expert has to say on the subject.

So it's always kind of this like just kind of mocking me.

Like who the hell is this guy to even be credentialized to be in the conversation, which as I've always said, fair point.

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