Two weeks before the 2026 midterms, Dave Smith opens the show with a 1999 Pat Buchanan quote warning that expanding NATO onto Russia's front porch would "schedule a 21st century confrontation" and…
Dave Smith — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Dave Smith has appeared on 22 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Part Of The Problem, Piers Morgan Uncensored. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Dave said
“Is there any worse way in life to get bad news than having a really excited, flamingly gay dude give it to you?”
— **Dave Smith**
“That's my economic system. Stuff works out good.”
— Dave Smith, mocking Mamdani's lack of mechanism
“Every leftist says big business owns the government... so why is government so big? Why aren't they moving toward laissez-faire?”
— Dave Smith's devastating question
“Every billionaire in this country is on some type of welfare in this goddamn corrupt system we live on. Big farm is on welfare. Big banks are on welfare. You know, every goddamn university is on welfare. Israel is on welfare. NATO is on welfare. And who did you pick? An American in his living room.”
— **Dave Smith (09:47)**
“They'd rather demonize the people who look like their own grandchildren, so they don't have to feel racist about themselves.”
— **Dave Smith (21:35)**
“I feel a sense of like deep profound embarrassment on behalf of the human race that this was allowed to happen.”
— Dave Smith, reacting to the Gaza satellite imagery.
“The people didn't want that. This was done to them by government policy. There's kind of no other way to look at it, as far as I'm concerned.”
— Dave Smith
“It's like the most kind of like fucked up thing a leadership class could do to its own people is kind of like erase them or dilute them with foreigners, like totally change the country against their will. But then on top of that, if they dare complain about it to like morally condemn them, it just seems to be about as despicable a thing as a leadership class could do.”
— Dave Smith
“It's not the same thing to like think, oh, we could like oppress a minority of people amongst us... It's a whole different thing to really think you could exploit a minority... That is a totally different thing than being the majority of a country and wishing to remain that majority.”
— Dave Smith
“But what is it? A few thousand people died on 9-11 and we killed like four million people as a response to that.”
— Dave Smith, highlighting the disproportionate scale of the US response.
“Bill Moore just offered a definition of terrorism... Now, is there anything in this definition that doesn't apply to the U.S. military or the IDF other than the word non-state?”
— Dave Smith, exposing the hypocrisy in defining terrorism.
“The global war on terrorism was an absolute disaster. It was evil, it was sold off lies, and you know who I blame? Your buddy John who bought into the propaganda and joined the army... No, we're blaming the politicians who lied us into these conflicts.”
— Dave Smith, clarifying the anti-war position on veterans.
Episode appearances
22 On October 7th, 2026, three years after the Hamas-led attack on Israel, Dave Smith of Part of the Problem argues that the event itself was less transformative than what it revealed about American…
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, went on Theo Von's podcast and was asked a simple question: define socialism. His answer, according to Dave Smith and Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein on Part of…
American Identity, Welfare Politics, and the Coming Demographic Reckoning The episode opens with Dave Smith and Rob discussing a campaign ad from Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders that, on…
“I’m Getting EMOTIONAL!” — Gaza Debate and the Political Fallout The Google Earth images are devastating: before-and-after satellite photos show an entire urban landscape—apartments, mosques,…
Donald Trump stood at the United Nations and laid out his two options for Iran: give them a massive rebuilding deal, or "annihilate the Islamic Republic" and "drive them into hell." Then he…
Congress Takes a Break: The Argument That Exposes the Whole Game Dave Smith opens this solo episode of Part of the Problem by revisiting the central fight that has defined his show for the past…
Enjoy Your Replacement A viral photo from a University of Texas football game sparked an internet firestorm. The image showed a section of the stands packed with students who appeared to be mostly…
"Let's give a hand to the Americans who made that happen," Bill Maher said on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, asking for applause because there hadn't been another attack on that scale. Dave Smith…
The Israeli Terrorists When even Mike Huckabee—the Baptist preacher who denies Palestinians exist and calls the West Bank "Judea and Samaria"—is forced to describe Israeli settlers as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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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