On this episode of Part of the Problem, Dave Smith and Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein return from a weekend apart to find the world in roughly the same place they left it: mired in a failing war with…
Dave Smith — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Dave Smith has appeared on 17 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Part Of The Problem. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Dave said
“If you were to flip a coin and risk the future of the United States of America, would you consider that policy to be conservative?”
— Dave Smith, challenging the neocon gamble.
“You motherfucking liar. You said it was a victory, and now you say 'this isn't the war we wanted.'”
— Dave Smith, reacting to Abe Greenwald's tweet.
“The neocons have three modes: (1) a puny third-world country is a world threat, (2) permanent mission accomplished, (3) 'well, that was a failure, not our fault.'”
— Dave Smith, summarizing the cycle.
“If a capitalist in England or in America wanted to get farm workers to come work at their factory, they had to offer them wages for it. Mao Zi Tong could just put a gun to their head and collectivize all the farms. Do you think that might have had something to do with why there was mass starvation?”
— Dave Smith
“What you're doing is indistinguishable from the people who deny Hitler's genocide. It's literally what they say. That there were excesses, that it wasn't intentional, the numbers are exaggerated.”
— Dave Smith, comparing Hasan's Mao minimization to Holocaust denial
“You can't defend your own positions here. Don't act like you were just trying to get a few more regulations. What you've been saying is 'workers of the world unite' and all that shit. So make it very clear and say it so all your comedy listeners can hear you too.”
— Dave Smith
“Your job is a journalist is to be skeptical of that. Sorry. If you're not, if your position isn't skepticism on that, then there is absolutely no role for journalism.”
— Dave Smith (32:06)
“There's a thing they got here with the vaccines... 'Worked' is vague. My marriage worked. Our last comedy show worked. What do you mean by that?”
— Dave Smith (36:12)
“You support killing citizens for the purpose of maintaining the only true monopoly. So don't give me this hippie dippy stuff about how you're the ones for dignity... You are for the monopolizer, and you are willing to kill people for it.”
— Dave Smith (71:58)
“I will give them credit for this. This indictment on the Southern Poverty Law Center is excellent. This is the type of stuff that you'd like to see the Trump Justice Department, the Trump FBI doing.”
— **Dave Smith** (37:54)
“Strength isn't blowing shit up. Strength is restraining yourself from your worst impulses. Strength is admitting, 'I really got this wrong.'”
— Dave Smith (25:05)
“Don't you just want to know? Don't you just want to know why they really framed Nixon in Watergate? I would love to really know.”
— Dave Smith (40:29)
Episode appearances
17 In the weeks after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Candace Owens says a text message existed that she claims showed Kirk feared for his life the night before he died—and that Turning Point USA’s…
The War Sold On Lies Dave Smith and co-host Rob Bernstein open this episode of Part of the Problem with a specific target: John Podhoretz, the neoconservative commentator and son of Norman…
Dave Smith dedicated this solo episode of Part of the Problem to responding to a video from streamer Hasan Piker, who had reacted to a panel Smith appeared on with Piker's uncle, fellow…
You Don’t Hate Neocons Enough Dave Smith and Robbie Fire Burnstein open this episode of Part of the Problem with a grim assessment of the war in Iran: it is going badly, and the neoconservatives…
RFK Jr. Eviscerates Dana Bash The central question of this episode is whether the corporate media and government officials who enforced COVID policies can be held accountable for what the hosts…
The Legacy of Lindsey Graham “This is what we've been trying to do the whole time.” That's Lindsey Graham, caught on camera in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. launching its war against Iran,…
Dave Smith and Keith Knight open their conversation with a surprising point of agreement: both opposed the recent war in Iran, and they note that some Democratic Socialists have even acknowledged…
You're All A Bunch Of Socialists Dave Smith opens with a confession: he's been a committed Austrian economist for nearly two decades, and he's watching his side lose. The foreign policy arguments…
J.D. Vance went on Bill Maher's show this week to sell the Iran deal, and Dave Smith and Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein watched him try. The verdict, from their perspective, was brutal: "This puppy…
The Democratic Socialists Are Coming The Democratic Socialists had a big night in New York City. Zoran Mamdani and his allies went seven for seven in their endorsed primaries, including three…
The hosts open with a grimly comic domestic scene—Dave Smith’s wife stockpiling sugary Starbucks drinks in the fridge, Robbie Bernstein recalling a three-foot jug of cold brew that convinced him…
Donald Trump’s approach to the Iran war—what his supporters call “the art of the deal”—has produced nothing but a cycle of maximalist threats, empty boasts, and retreats back to the same…
Their Arguments Haven't Been Weaker Dave Smith and Robbie "the Fire" Bernstein open the episode by cataloging the absurdity of the current news cycle: a ceasefire that hasn't stopped the firing, a…
Defending the Indefensible The Trump administration went into 21-hour negotiations with Iran demanding zero enriched uranium—the same red line that was unagreeable before the war started, after…
"Bridge and Power Plant Day" On Easter morning, President Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social that began: "Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.…
Trump's War in Iran: Escalation, Contradiction, and the Collapse of a Narrative The episode opens with Dave Smith and Robbie Bernstein tracking the latest developments in the Trump…
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