Hello everybody welcome to another episode of pseudo intellectual live appreciate you being here today we have a very special guest someone who I've been falling for a while but this is actually my first time getting to speak to him so I couldn't be more excited. We have

Dave Smith, he is a husband, father, comedian, libertarian, and host of the

part of the problem podcast and by the way if you're not following this guy on X

I highly recommend that you do.

Dave, thank you for being here.

Oh, thank you, Lauren.

Very good to be with you.

Now, there's a bunch that I want to talk to you about,

you know, you're a libertarian, comedian, podcast host,

so much going on, but one of the things

that I find your takes really the most interesting on

and they really set you apart from other counts.

Is your discussion of foreign policy on X?

And now there's a lot going on in that sphere.

So I thought we could kind of kick off the conversation with that.

Let's talk about it the Middle East situation.

You're someone who's been very vocal about what's going on

especially with regards to obviously Israel and the situation in Gaza.

Can you give us a little bit of a, I guess, kind of a rundown of how you see that situation?

And obviously, very broad question, but I guess in regard to the, what's going on right now?

Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, that is a broad question.

It's just, I don't know, I mean, it's a catastrophe, obviously,

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