Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. It's Friday. Yes, we

made it. What's happening in the world? Well, Canada's Freedom Convoy protest continues

with talk of U.S. truckers disrupting the Super Bowl. New York is set to fire thousands

of unvaccinated government workers. Still, they're still holding on to this as of now.

And Joe Biden can't explain what what temporary inflation is or when it will end and instead

goes after a lester halt as a wise guy. He's a wise guy. This is another parent is physically

assaulted for not wearing a mask. Sure. It's going well. But we're going to laugh instead

of cry. Today, happy to bring to you stand up comedian libertarian and host of the podcast

part of the problem, Dave Smith. Hey, Dave, how's it going? Hey, Megan, thank you for having

me on. I don't know. I don't know if I can promise to make good on that laughing rather

than crying, but we could cry together. That'd be fine. We're going to try it. I love that

part of the problem, by the way. I love because I just, whenever there's something it's

like hashtag part of the problem and it's a thing. So way to embrace it lean into it. Yes,

that's the idea. All right. So you are, as I understand it, pretty much a lifelong New

Yorker grew up in Brooklyn. And you're from, but like parts, parks, love, which you tell

me because I heard you describe yourself as sort of lower middle class, but parks love

these days is where all this nudie journalist live. And it's anything but middle class.

Yeah, it was, it was a much different area in the 80s and 90s when I grew up there. It

was, it was coming up. It wasn't like a, like a terrible neighborhood or anything like

that, but you didn't have to be a multi millionaire to live there as, as you do today. But, uh,

yeah, it was much more, I feel like I was born in 1983 and I think I was like the last

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