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What's up, everybody? What's up? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of The Problem. I am Dave Smith and I am Roland Solo for this one. Rob is out on the road and he's getting ready. I think he's getting on a plane today and then I'm getting on a plane tomorrow and we're going to meet down in Tampa. We'll be doing shows the whole weekend at side splitters down there, which is like one of my favorite clubs in the country. Always have a great time down there. So really looking forward to it. I hope to see some of you guys out there. If you'd like to come, there still are some tickets available, comicdavsmith.com to go grab some. And yeah, hope to see you guys there. Looking forward to a fun weekend.

All right. So for today's show, you know, as you guys know, typically when it's just me and I do a

solo show, I usually like to kind of, I have like a topic, a broader topic and then I rant about it

for an hour.

Today, I don't really have anything like that in mind. There's several different things that have happened over the last few days that I wanted to address. So, you know, I'll still be ranting for an hour, but there's several different topics, and I kind of wanted to hit a few of them. And I don't know. We'll see how much time I spend on each one. But a few things have happened that have really caught my eye that are in the news today.

And a couple of the stories are somewhat related, but it's not exactly like it all has one clear thread. So I guess I'll start with this. There's a couple of controversies. I don't know. I guess I'm always involved in a

controversy now, but there's specifically been two over the last couple days that I did not address. And one of them I meant to address in the show yesterday, but just it never came up.

And I think I had planned on on pointing this out toward the end of the show.

And I might have like, I might have slightly mentioned to this, but I don't think I really got into it.

So let's just do that now.

So I was, I guess the guys over Stephen Crowder and his co-host Morgan were, I don't know,

they were trashing me a little bit on the show or something.

I saw Stephen,

you know,

it's like with all these things.

Like I don't watch Stephen Crater show,

but I get tagged on Twitter whenever he says something about me.

And we had like gone back and forth a couple times when he was,

he was kind of like criticizing me during the war with a round.

And then I guess recently he was kind of like criticizing me during the war with a round um and then i guess recently he was uh um criticizing me too and he also said on his show he said at one point that i i refuse to go

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