#1562 - Dave Smith

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The Joe Rogan experience.

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What's up, Joe? Good to be back. Good to see you.

Good to see you. What are you doing in town?

I came in, I was doing my buddy Scott Horton show and hanging out with him for a little bit.

And you're looking for a place to escape.

Yeah, exactly.

New York Schultz told me that New York is like they just won World War II. People are dancing in the streets.

I was there in Union Square the other day. We did a show at the stand, and it was the day they called it for Biden. And as much as I just despise Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it was kind of nice for the city to just have one, just to have a day. It's the only day that it's felt happy there since March.

Here, too, people are honking in the streets. I went to dinner with Tom Segura. He was in town, and we were driving on the streets. People were honking and cheering, and people were so happy. I'm happy for people to be happy. I like that.

Even if they're happy for a stupid reason. Well, you're like, at least be happy.

It's too complicated. And you're a guy who knows a lot about politics and the way the world works, but it's too complicated to really go into depth about it for most people. So, so many people just have this sort of cursory understanding of politics, and then they follow a narrative. The narrative is, Trump is bad. You get him out, Biden's good, and then you go, yeah, well, what about the crime bill? What about the Iraq war? What about. What about what she did? Nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it. All they want to say is that the good guys won. Now we're going to go back to being America again. Then Pfizer announces a new vaccine.

Well, it would be nice if we could go back to being America again. I think we're still far off from that happening. But you're right that I think most people, and it's not just politics. It's true with everything in life, like, most people have expertise in very limited areas, and for everything else, you're kind of just trusting what somebody else tells you.

Yeah, especially with politics. I know very little about it. Even though I've read a lot about it, I'm still. I'm like, what is all this? You know, there's some fuckery going on, and, you know, there's a lot of special interests, and there's a lot of money and there's a lot of shenanigans. But it's like to really know how this stuff works, to really understand lobbyists, to really understand how bills get passed, to really understand Congress, to really understand the Senate, you got a deep dive for years.

Yeah. And then you still don't know a lot of it. I mean, you can go based off, say, like, what's been declassified that the CIA has been doing, but what do we not mean? And there's a whole lot that we don't know, but I think we know enough to know that it stinks, that there's a lot of corruption. And in many ways, I think that's what Trump, at least the people who support Trump saw him as, is the guy who was outside that system, who was kind of fighting for them. Not saying that's the truth, but I think that's what a lot of Trump supporters saw in him.

Yeah, that was the simplistic comic book version of what Trump was to them. And that's where that QAnon stuff all comes in and people thinking that it's really like this plot to stop child molesters.

Yeah, well. And the system is always corrupt enough to give cover to the wildest conspiracy theory because they are already, like, you could say, okay, well, perhaps QAnon conspiracy theorists believe some really crazy shit, but then you just go, but look at what happened with this Jeffrey Epstein guy. I mean, there really was this child sex trafficking ring that was covered up. I mean, we have that woman on ABC News who was basically saying, I broke the story and my bosses told.

Me, no, I think it was NBC.

Was it NBC? Yeah, we broke the story, but they wanted to protect access to the royal family. So we would let a powerful multimillionaire or billionaire child sex trafficking ring leader skate because we wanted access to the royal family.

What the fuck, dude? How about that video where. The interview where Prince Andrew. It's Andrew, right? Princess Andrew. I misgendered him. I'm so sorry. Prince Andrew is on television with that lady, and they're asking him questions about whether or not he was there and what happened. And you could see this look in his face, like he's never really been questioned before. The fact that he agreed to do that is so weird. It's almost like he doesn't understand what a trap is. Look, I've never been trapped before. I'm a royal.

Yeah.

Is he a royal anymore, or did they kick him out? Something happened.

I'm not sure I'm not sure they.

Can kick you out.

Yeah, they can.

They kicked out the dude who hooked up with the actress.

Yeah, he wanted to bail. I think he left.

I think he left, too, but he wanted to go back for something. They go, nah, son, you're done. Wasn't there something recent, Jamie? Wasn't there some weird. Which one's he? Harry? Or is that Harry Potter? Am I thinking of Harry Potter?

I think you're right. It's Harry. Yeah, thanks. You confuse me with the Harry Potter.

I just think it's fucking so preposterous that we literally don't know anything that guy's done. Other than that he's a prince. Prince Harry saddened and disappointed that his request for Remembrance Day wreath was denied. Oh, no.

The duke of know we spend a lot of time.

Look at that name. Sussex.

Yeah.

Was saddened and disappointed at the decision to snub his request for a wreath to be laid out at the national memorial in London.

Man, the level of suffering that he must go through to not get his royal wreath.

Yeah, I wonder why. Yeah, I don't think they let him. Decorated war hero. What? Prince Andrew is a decorated war hero. What did he do?

That's news to me.

High pressed buttons had led to victory.

Yeah, I have a feeling the prince wasn't on the front line. They weren't just, like, throwing him out.

He's a Royal Navy helicopter pilot in the war with Argentina to recapture the Falkland Islands in the 1980s and returned as a hero. I didn't even know there was a war with Argentina. Oh, I remember the Falkland Islands. I remember the name.

Yeah. This smells like bullshit to me. I don't believe he's a war hero for a second.

I'm a war hero and a royal. I demand a 16 year old girl.

Well, when you say it like that, I mean. All right, we'll see what we can get you.

It's just amazing that that Epstein guy roped so many people into that shit. It's real weird, man. It's real weird when something that creepy turns out to be true.

Yeah. And it's very revealing. I mean, it's like, so if you had an honest press, if they weren't every bit as corrupt as those conspiracy theorists think they are, you would think that the fact that, say, like, a former president was on his flight logs would have led to a huge scandal where they would really want to get to the bottom of that. You would think right now, they'd still want to get to the bottom of that. Like, hey, who else was involved in this. Now, okay. He was on his plane. We don't know that that means that Bill Clinton was involved in the worst aspects of. Of it. But you would think the press would at least want to find that out. And there's very little interest.

No, because the press goes after Bill Clinton, then Hillary Clinton gets somehow another connected to it, and then that could sink Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And that's bad for the people that hate Donald Trump.

Well, that's for sure.

To be demolished. Oh, my God. Local real estate developer says he's in contract to buy the waterfront estate and is planning to knock it down and build a new home. That's the smart move.

$22 million house.

Oh, shit. Yeah, well, it's expensive down there. Meanwhile, it's going to be underwater in, like, five years, according to Al Gore. Right.

I also already left it to a christian group, which I was trying to find, too. I don't know which one of those two stories this is in the Wall Street Journal, so I'll believe that over the. He left it to someone.

Do you think they just have to knock it down just because it's his? So they kind of have to, yeah. Do you think it'd be awkward if there was, like, part of it they wanted to keep?

When I was looking at real estate in Boulder, the house where the little girl was killed. What is her name? The little girl who's in the. Johnny Ramsey. That house has been for sale forever. They can't sell it. I think they even changed the address. They might have even changed the name of the street trying to sell it, and they just couldn't sell it. Because I remember we were looking at it, we're like, this house is nice. Why is it so cheap? It's one of those deals, and then you find out and you're like, oh, fuck.

Because if you can afford a nice house, you'd probably prefer not the one that a little girl was killed in.

Nobody wants that house. Yeah, nobody wants that house.

They're going to do it. The one in New York, it says it's listed at 88 million.

I'm going to buy it. I'm moving to New York. Moving the show to New York. I'm buying it. As long as it comes with the painting of Bill Clinton in the blue dress.

I heard it's set up with a lot of equipment, so we should be.

Able to do a show.

Okay. Yeah. It streams right to the sea. Ia. You don't even have to get them to watch you on YouTube. They get a live feed. Yeah. I'm going to buy that house. All right, fuck it. Do it. Why not?

Be pretty epic.

It's probably a really good investment. Probably worth 89 million eventually.

Yeah. And then 70 or something.

So it's already gone up.

And then if you try to sell it, it'll be like, oh, this was Joe Rogan's place. It won't have that Epstein stink on it anymore.

Right? That's what I'm saying.

I think it's a good move. I support it.

My guy. See if I can make it happen. I wouldn't buy a fucking newsstand in New York City. I don't believe in New York City anymore. I don't. I think that de Blasio guy has ruined that place for a solid ten years.

Yeah, I think you're right.

We got the fans on here, right? I could smoke the cigar.

They were. I'll go