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30:34So think about the realities on the ground. Think about the escalation trap and all of that when you had like maybe 150 ,000 U.S. troops in the region as well. So anyway, there were things like that that kept it from happening. But I think for anybody to try to spin this as, oh, see, this is proof that the Israelis didn't always control everything. It's really Donald Trump who's making the decision here. It's like, dude, there's just essentially what happens is that they would all try to argue, even though they're wrong, they would all try to argue that all of those other wars weren't for the Israel lobby.

31:17But the thing is that this one, they just can't even argue. It's just like this one's so obviously like there's just this is the story of this war. Netanyahu persuaded, pressured Donald Trump into it. against the will of the American people. Now, I guess the other thing here is that I just don't like, you know, it's like the Democrats, they just, you know, they were substantially better on Iran than Donald Trump is. There's no question about that. But, you know, I don't like them kind of sweeping everything else under the rug as they blast him for this. Like, it's like, look, man, the truth is that the Democrats hold a tremendous amount of responsibility for all of this stuff.

32:10And even Obama's foreign policy holds a tremendous amount of responsibility for all of this stuff. And the fact is that it was, listen, George W. Bush got us into Iraq and Afghanistan, down. But the, in terms of the, uh, the precedent for nuclear proliferation, nothing was worse for that than Libya. And that is 100 % on, on, on Barack Obama and John Kerry. And, um, well, I guess Libya, I guess he wasn't in there yet for Libya. So Hillary Clinton and, and Barack Obama, um, the, the catastrophe in Syria was started by them. Um, and look, the Iran deal was good, But at the same time, if Democrats are coming around, you know, Donald Trump tore the deal up, but the Iranians were still in the JCPOA all through Joe Biden's four years.

33:04And there's just and people say there's been some reporting on this like Joe Biden tried or whatever, but there's no excuse for why they didn't get back into that deal. Like absolutely no reason. They had four years where they're doing everything else wrong. Just wrecking the country and wrecking the world and supporting this proxy war on Russia's border. And they just simply did not make it a priority to get back into a deal with the Iranians and get a stronger deal. So it would be that much harder for Trump to come in and tear it up again. Like they had their chance and got nothing positive in that direction.

33:39so i don't know kind of hard for them to come around now and uh you know act like oh we always resisted the israelis only donald trump was pressured by them that is not exactly right it was shocking though because uh you had mentioned hillary clinton basically said the same thing yesterday which i hadn't seen but now the democrats are just totally jumping on hey israel's dictating our foreign policy um which as you said was basically complete conspiracy just six months ago. But yeah, I mean, it's incredible that a it's come to this point. And that also, you know, the Democrats are seeing enough of an opening in this storyline.

34:16They're going to run with it. I mean, you see two officials on big platforms with the same talking point that that means that's political strategy. Oh, and it's not just it's not, you know, just to be clear, it's not just like a couple of Democrats said this. It's not even like a couple of high ranking Democrats said this. It's like the both of them were the presidential nominees and the secretary of state under barack obama these are about with the exception of barack obama there's really no higher ranking you know kind of i understand they don't have an official position anymore but there's no like kind of more um like they are the standard bearers of the democratic establishment both saying israel got us into this war i mean yeah that's uh it's gonna be an eye opener to the American public.

35:05Yeah. I mean, for sure. And that's, it's not the last you're going to hear the storyline. They're taking a victory lap of a look at the mess. Trump got us into, and we were smart enough not to be in this mess. That's not, it's not the last you're going to hear of this, which is look, I mean, again, I could point out how terrible Obama and Biden's foreign policy was, but like they got a fairly strong pitch there that it is like all the other things were constants. Netanyahu's always wanted this war. Both Bush, Obama, and Biden didn't launch it. Only Trump did because he thinks he's so much smarter than everybody else.

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38:09Dude, 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, because it's actually important. And what is being alleged here is pretty wild. For people who don't know, the Southern Poverty Law Center, they're in the business of monitoring hate groups, as they call them, and trying to bring them down, supposedly. From my understanding of the Southern Poverty Law Center, it's like they did kind of start with some noble intention. Like they were the ones who would like they were basically like if the Ku Klux Klan was violent toward someone, they would go and try to sue people on their behalf.

39:03and kind of like they would monitor like real deal clown meetings and stuff like that. And then, of course, over the years, you know, there are a bunch of lawyers and they're in the business of finding racism and there's less and less racism to find. And so they just get into inventing racism where it doesn't really exist. Now, they have written several pieces about me personally attacking me in pretty vicious ways. I thought it would be fun to go over some of that actually today. But evidently, so Kash Patel just announced this kind of stunning indictment where there's all types of allegations of fraud.

39:47But also evidently, Rob, the allegations are that they were funding to the tune of, I think, maybe in the millions, was certainly like high six figures, hate groups, the very hate groups that they were trying to business that were kind of keeping them in business. I got to say, and this is now purely conspiratorial, but it sounds to me like the new FBI is going after the old FBI, because this sounds like a very FBI like activity to fund activities that you're looking to police and to justify your own existence and to pay informants so that there are news stories that validate exactly what you're doing.

40:30It sounds to me like the Southern Poverty Law Center is working the exact grift that the FBI is working. And I wouldn't be surprised to find out if it was someone at the FBI that taught them how to do it or someone who left the FBI and went private with the exact same fraud scheme or if this directly tied into the FBI under the Biden administration or previous FBI that was looking for these racist storylines. They're literally describing exactly what the FBI did with the entrapment schemes. Come see me on the road. I'm doing a whole presentation on this with some comedy. But it's literally what they did.

41:08They created their own marketing grift. They spent$500 million mainly on informants that they had dirt on so that they could go convince people to commit crimes that they never could have pulled off. And then they could have a storyline the next day in the New York Post Oh, look, someone was going to blow up the Sears Tower. And then they go, oh, wow, look, the FBI is keeping me safe from terrorism. And they're keeping you safe from things that never would have happened to justify their own existence and making their own news. And I haven't dug into the Southern Poverty Law Center. But as I was reading the articles today and the description of the scheme, I'm like, oh, I guess the FBI is shutting down the Democratic division of the FBI.

41:46Well, whatever. Let's OK. I'll celebrate that if that's what's happening. OK, good. At least shut that down. And, you know, it'll be interesting to see what comes of this. I mean, obviously, there's a grand jury has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center. They'll get a trial and we'll see what what comes of all of this. But I mean, well, one of the things that I thought was so interesting about it is that one of the one of the allegations is that they gave I think it was like somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars to this organization that is credited with organizing the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

42:28and you know it's in the same way rob because you're speculating here that this sounds a lot like an op like this sounds a lot like the same way that ops work in general and you know if you think about the fact like if you remember um when i was arguing with people about the war in ukraine that i would point out that like the made on revolution was not an organic revolution it was a u.s backed street push that overthrew a democratically elected government and people would say oh you're denying all those people agency who were out in the street and you're like well look no dude all people have agency you know granted maybe there's some i don't know maybe there's people with an iq of 70 and you could argue whether they really have agency or something like that children maybe you could argue but like generally speaking yes human beings have agency but like if the national endowment for democracy and the usa id pour a hundred million dollars into a street protest that was started and organized by NGOs that they've been pouring billions of dollars into for three decades.

43:30Yeah, that's a little bit different. I don't know. And so like, you know, if you come to like, you know, unite the right and look, I don't know, I'll be interested to read up on this trial and see how much of this is actually proven. But like, the Unite the Right rally, Rob, right, for example, this is, this was a very small event, right? This was an event with like a couple hundred people and then like a few hundred more counter protesters. But all in all, like at the Unite the Right rally, there might have been, I don't know, 700 people there or something like that. Like it's half of as many people come see us any given weekend at a comedy club.

44:12We're at the Unite the Right, right? Like we have, it's more of a non-event than every show we do. It's hugely different if you're talking about like the shows online. But dude, Rob, think about how much this dominated the American cultural and political landscape for all those years, right? And when you're talking about something, you know, So when you're talking about something on the level of organizing a few hundred people, because, of course, they are not really organizing the counter protest. Right. They were just organizing the few hundred people who were there. You're talking about something like that.

44:48Like, think about that, Rob. Right. Like in real life, organizing an event where a few hundred people are there. That is something you've had experience with. You've done that many times in your life. Right. Yeah, that's right. OK. So, you know, this. someone giving you a quarter million dollars to go organize that do you know how many porches i can do yes that will really change your ability at that level of organization because this is what matters with these ops it's you're putting your finger on the scale and you only want to put your finger on the scale as much as you have to you don't want to put any more than you have to you just want to put enough on to to get the outcome that you desire and anyway i guess my point of this is it's conceivable that like none of that even happens without their support.

45:31And so if that is the case, that is a question like we absolutely have to get to the bottom of because it just makes you realize like, oh, how much of all of this is fake? You know, like I want to know what organizations, what individuals, what was done with this money? Because all the time, right, you heard the FBI, the Biden, the old FBI that you're speculating is who the target is here. They'd always say, you know, that white supremacist radical right wing violence is the biggest terror threat and all this. And it's just like, man, I wonder like how much of it was even real to begin with. I don't think it's an unfair question when you find out that the group that's posing as the hater of them is actually funding these groups.

46:17And because, of course, obviously, from the starting point, we all know that, like, look, the thing is that if you're in the business of fighting the Ku Klux Klan, well, then you got a real problem in America in 2017, which is that there's no such thing. It's just not a thing. There was never there was never it was always seemed like the left was so animated by anti-racism. But clearly the supply did not match the demand. There just wasn't enough. We weren't a racist enough country. And they've been in the business of creating that one way or the other for many years now. And that is that is a really profound crime against a society to do something like that.

47:02Like, yeah, what are you doing? They're stoking up the worst elements in humanity and just making everything worse. And, you know, I will say, of course, I have my own personal bias here because this is an organization that attempted to ruin me personally. That was their goal. Anyway, here, I think I pulled up. I believe I had this here from before. Here, this is what they wrote about me back in 2022. So this is four years ago. This is from the Southern Poverty Law Centers. It's still up on their website. Smith, who is Jewish, has long invited extremists and hard right and fringe figures, including Hotep Jesus, on his podcast, Part of the Problem.

47:55Smith has also appeared on podcasts hosted by extremists. Smith posts part of the problem episodes on his YouTube channel, which has over 77 ,000 subscriptions. Recent videos receive roughly 25 ,000 views as of early April 2022. Smith fans frequently post racist and anti-Semitic thoughts online. A source gave Hatewatch a screenshot of part of the problem's inner circle, a group dedicated to the podcast hosted on MeWe, an alternative to Facebook popular among libertarians. The posts include racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic slurs. They also shared links to articles supportive of Trump. Oh, no.

48:39Supportive of Trump's Stop the Steal conspiracy theory, and that claimed Democrats stole the 2020 election. The conspiracy theory culminated in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Smith is active in the group. Those screenshots of Smith's activity – hold on. Wait a minute. Sorry, I took a shot of this, but then it cut off there. Here, I got it here. Smith is active in the group. Those screenshots of Smith's activity that Hate Watch reviewed were taken after the slur-filled post. Kudak, a former member of the group, said members post racist and anti-Semitic posts, quote, all the time.

49:25He knows his fans are like this. Smith did not respond to Hatewatch's request for comment sent through his personal website. So, it is true, Rob. I did not respond to an inquiry from Hatewatch. We're running a piece on what a hateful person you are. Do you have a comment on this? Like, yeah, no, I don't. By the way, I just want to make this clear, okay? Because this is four years ago this is written. As they mentioned there, I had 77 ,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel at the time. And they're literally, this is an organization with a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars. that is known, and they're saying this about me in 2021 with obviously the express goal, if you can remember what the culture was like back then, of getting me kicked off of YouTube, kicked off of Twitter, kicked off of iTunes, kicked off of all this.

50:23The goal here is to smear me so that they can censor me. And I gotta say, it's an odd position being in when you're like, hey, like I'm getting a little bit popular here, but like I got 77 ,000 subscribers on YouTube. I'm kind of a small show. They have this major national organization that's known for going after the Klan, like sicked on you. This is a weird, like this is what these people would do, like bully and attempt to intimidate American citizens for the crime of speaking their mind. And I'm sorry, this like, oh, he's right. I mean, just how pathetic is all of this? Like even when you read the details, they'd say they're going after they get Smith's fans frequently post racist and anti-Semitic thoughts online.

51:09Now, it's not even anything I've ever said. It's the people I've talked to. And then the fact that some people who listen to me, they may also say offensive things that some, by the way, I just want to for a little bit of these details here, just because it's crazy. It's a really weird thing. like when when you know you when you find out there's no such thing as grown-ups like there's just none of that like there's just zero integrity you know people can you know give me oh he's just a comedian he wears a hoodie or something like that dude this is a an organization that's been praised by members of congress and people in the corporate media that's that it has a war cabinet of hundreds of millions of dollars like a huge i think they're just they're not quite in the billions, but I think they have like$700 million or something like that.

51:58So they go, okay, so they're talking about the posts in our group. Now, Rob, you may, you may remember this, right? So they're saying, well, hold on one second. Just, I want you to hear this out, Rob. Part of the problem, inner circle, a group dedicated to the podcast hosted on me way. That wasn't where we were. I've never been to me. It's not our group. It's not our group. It's not our group. No, what happened is we had a group called part of the problem inner circle on Facebook. We got kicked off Facebook for being correct on COVID. That's literally what happened. Our group got taken down. Sorry, go ahead.

52:39I just want to clarify how egregious our takedown was. We had a private group on Facebook that was sharing information that turned out to be more than accurate. And this was not a public forum. This was a private group for only subscribers of our podcast. And because of things that were being posted, such as the lab leak theory or otherwise, not only was our Facebook group banned, but I know that I personally as an administrator of the group permanently banned from advertising on Facebook or Instagram. I don't even think they've reversed that since. And those are the little things that they do to create their own little track record of how bad you are, is that they do something that's completely done on false pretenses.

53:19And then they get to turn around and go, look, they were even these people are so egregious. They were even banned from Facebook. Yep. But now so anyway, so if you just remember what happened, OK, so then a group of of people who used to be in that group, they went and formed their own group on MeWe. We had nothing to do with that. It wasn't our official group. But like, why should they bother to know any of this stuff before they write about it? But just to be clear here, when they say here, they go, Smith is active in the group. those screenshots of Smith's activity that Hatewatch reviewed were taken after the slur-filled posts.

53:55No, I never was in the MeWe group. I never posted in the MeWe group. They're literally just lying. Like, they just got this all wrong. They don't have screenshots, which, by the way, they don't include. They claim to have screenshots but don't include it in the article. No, they don't have any posts of MeWe group. Also, this isn't show content. You do a show for four hours a week. You state what your actual opinion is. So the idea it's once again, not contending with an argument with the argument. It's like a diversion tactic to not actually take on what you say on the podcast. Dave Smith, who allocates for less wars and freedom in our country, who doesn't advocate hate against a single group.

54:31I mean, dude, like, first of all, I believe in liberty. You're allowed to hate groups of people. You're allowed to be against one group or the other. But like, just objectively speaking, that's not us. we're not out here saying it's any in terms of any immutable characteristic group of regular people. We're saying we're pointing at people with power and talking about how we disagree with their policies. It's like, but anyway, then they say okay, so then this part where they go Smith is active in the group, just a lie. They say Kudak, a former member of the group, said members post racist anti-Semitic posts all the time and he knows about this.

55:07Now, this guy, he was like a gay dude in the Libertarian Party who was like anointed himself hall monitor of all racist things, but he wasn't in this group. He was never in my group. We never would have had him in our private group. We knew he hated us. No, he used to be in the Mises Caucus Facebook group and left that, but like, okay, I understand this might be a little bit inside baseball to people who don't know this stuff, but he was in a different organization's group on Facebook. He was not in the part of the problem group on MeWe. And like you would just think, yo, you're trying to ruin someone's life.

55:45Like that's the goal of this article. And you don't even feel like you kind of got to get these facts right. You even kind of got to get it right. Just fucking smear them. And like, again, this would be the equivalent. And I mean this, them going after me in 2021, you know, where I was, or they say 77 ,000 subscribers on YouTube. This would be like on the level of us going after somebody who gets like 5 ,000 views an episode and just trying to do everything we could to ruin their life for having different views than us. Truly a reprehensible thing to do. And then they. OK, so here continuing to the article.

56:26Smith has appeared alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes three times, most recently in December 2021 on Hard Right podcaster Ethan Ralph's Killstream. Ralph was convicted earlier this year of disseminating revenge porn. I was like, OK, well, I debated Nick Fuentes. This is the guy who moderated the debate. We debated for it was like a two and a half hour debate. And you know what the debate was, Rob? It was over state authoritarianism. Nick supported it. I opposed it. That was the debate. I mean, that's three levels removed. That's Dave Smith, who has a father, a grandfather who went to fight Hitler, had a relationship with Hitler by fighting him, meaning he had a personal intertwined showcasing that this man is actually engaging with Hitler or whatever.

57:20I don't know. I mean, the levels of nonsense to that is just ridiculous. Am I supposed to run a criminal background check on the moderator of the debate? Like, what is even the point of it? So they don't mention that it was a debate, but they do mention that the moderator caught a charge afterward. Like, it's just so dirty. Just like this is it's like real unscrupulous lawyers just trying to smear someone.

57:48Again, then it goes. Smith also had Fuentes appear on part of the problem. Fuentes uses anti-Semitic tropes, engages in Holocaust denial and openly uses Rachel epithets to refer to black people. You know, it's just all this stuff is whatever. It's just so dirty. It's all just so they start getting into more the Rothbard and paleo conservatives and stuff like that. But I don't know. I mean, I guess I would just say it was funny that at one point they said that I had fringe figures on my podcast. and, well, I don't know, in some way it's like, well, yeah, you said my podcast had 77 ,000 subscribers.

58:32So I guess I would have fringe people on there. You know what I mean? I don't know, it was a smaller show. Hey, listen, it's four years later and now my YouTube channel has 500 ,000 subscribers. So not so fringe anymore. And you are under federal indictment, Southern Poverty Law Center. are so you just got fucked in the butt. Can I tell you? Sorry. I know there's good people who listen to this show. I apologize. But you can you can see like, look, don't get me wrong. I've always been outraged when they do this to other people as well. But there is a thing like when it actually comes to you and you're like, dude, you're like, you know, I'm a like I'm a father.

59:13I have children. You're actively trying to ruin my life. Like that is the goal of this, to destroy someone's livelihood with the most vicious smears. You know, if you are an organization that's dedicated to fighting the Ku Klux Klan, fighting violence based on racial hatred, like, okay, that's, look, if we're talking about violence against innocent people of any kind, whether based on racial hatred or not, then that is a noble thing to oppose. And if you want to say that we specialize in fighting the violence that is based on racial hatred, we're like, OK, I'm right there with you on that. But that's a kind of sacred responsibility you hold now.

1:00:00If you're going to say that this thing is so evil that it warrants us creating a hundred million dollar, you know, like a nine figure organization to attack it. Like, OK, fine. But if that force is that evil, that it warrants that, then that comes with a responsibility to not smear good Americans as being something when they're not that at all. And I'm sorry, but like there is just no way you can get around the fact that the essence of my political worldview is that you should not ever bring violence toward peaceful people. And if you want to try and spin that as a message of hate, like. Then then anything could be spun as a message of hate.

1:00:45Gandhi was an anti-British racist or something like that, right? Like, I mean, I don't know. This is a it's too crazy. And they take there was one point later in the article. I can also say this could have been four years of Trump dismantling the left censorship apparatus and getting all these evil forces out of our government. Instead, though, he completely embraced warfare spending, centralized economy, tariffs and other nonsense. But this this is what we voted for. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, that's right. Right. Seeing stuff like this is actually important. That's why I'll give the Trump administration credit, even though they're fucking up on every other single thing.

1:01:27But this is important to disarm this whole apparatus because it's just like, listen, literally, as we used to say back in all those years, although I don't think we ever actually had an indictment that they were funding hate groups. But like they're the hate group. They're the hate group. They're terrorizing American citizens and trying to create a culture of intimidation and censorship that runs completely counter to the spirit of a free society and the First Amendment. That people ought to be allowed to say what they want in an unguarded way amongst consenting adults. Like, again, it's not like me or Fuentes or any of these guys.

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1:04:03OK, like, yeah, I believe in freedom. Smith so it says Smith pushed back on the idea of a white ethnostate however he has learned he has leaned I'm sorry on the history of Mises figures like Murray Rothbard working with paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan whom Fuentes and his followers admire so you just see the levels of like I've leaned on Pat Buchanan's work, who is someone that Fuentes and his fans admire? So in some way, we just connected you to Nazis or something like this is the implication. Meanwhile, Pat Buchanan served in four presidential administrations, was the host of CNN's Crossfire, and I think has written 13 New York Times bestselling books.

1:05:00So again, you don't have to make the connection through a Nick Fuentes fan. You could just go right from me to CNN or me to the Reagan administration or the Nixon administration. Like it's just so again, as you can see with it, like the tactic is just so obvious. It's that you're not allowed to even have a conversation about these topics. I'm not allowed to even go, hey, I learned a lot from Pat Buchanan's books. They're really excellent books. I highly recommend people read them. I don't agree with everything Pat Buchanan agrees with, But sure do think he's got some key insight. Like you're not even allowed to have this conversation.

1:05:37And as far as all the stuff that they try to spin, like when saying things like, oh, Dave believes in something like, you know, Dave objects to a white ethnostate but says it would be OK if it was done voluntarily or something like that. It's like, but how are you making that sound like it's hateful? Like what even could be the controversy in that? I've always said it's like, hey, if a bunch of white people want to go buy up some plots of land in, you know, in Montana and only live there amongst each other, then like, hey, go do that. Same for black people. Same for the Amish or the Pennsylvania Dutch or the are those different things?

1:06:22Are those the same thing? I couldn't tell you. Same for any group of people. I just don't. Who does object to that? Only what type of what type of communist would you have to be to be like, no, the government should break that up, seize their property and make sure it is racially egalitarian. Like, OK, that is not the same thing as endorsing any violence against any group or any hatred of any group. And there is not literally there is not one thing I've ever said in my career that you could spin as endorsing violence or hatred against any group of regular people, period. Then everyone who listens to me knows that there's never a time when you could find either of those things.

1:07:04And yet that is not – just being a pro-peace person who's against the warfare state and against racial hatred and against violence against all innocent people, that's still not enough for organizations like this to not try to ruin your life. And so in conclusion, I would just say I really hope every one of them gets their life ruined. Like that's what should happen here. People there, there should be fines and jail time and just absolutely shut down this corrupt organization. We cannot have organizations like this. And I guess I will say, you know, you kind of took the point for from me. I mean, I don't mean like, you know, you just made a good point first, but I'll frame it as you stole.

1:07:51I'll do Southern Poverty Law Center stuff. You are a thief of a good point. But really, like the most the most. Listen, I'm happy to give Trump credit for this. I'm happy to give the Trump administration credit for this. But Rob, as you said, it's just so hard. It's so hard to not see the counterfactual here and not go like, look, first off, you had your first four years, you know, but then even just the year and a half or so that Donald Trump's had since he's been back in. Just imagine you weren't Israel's bitch and you were doing shit like this. Like, just imagine this. Look, I'm not even saying we get every.

1:08:25I know I'm not going to get every policy that I agree with. I'm sure, you know, even Donald Trump would still be bad on some issues here or there. But if he wasn't like burying the Epstein files and launching wars of aggression and, you know, just like, oh, imagine it was just really this was the effort to dismantle this like progressive establishment censorship regime. And then really at least go, hey, whoever comes in here next, whoever the next, at least they don't have this. At least this mechanism has been, you know, destroyed. man it could it could be so great if this was the focus again i will try to at least give credit where credit is due um any any final thoughts rob uh check out run your mouth doing an episode later today and uh if you got a porch for me uh sign up uh submitted at the fire ticks.com then of course you and i we got some shows coming up uh oklahoma city uh tulsa oklahoma comedy works at some point other things at other points but you can find it all at comicdavesmith.com here I got it here Bricktown Comedy Club May 1st in Tulsa and then May 2nd and 3rd in Oklahoma City and then the next up after that is Desert Ridge Improv in Phoenix, Arizona Toronto Denver yeah bunch of stuff, Houston, Huntsville, Alabama comicdavesmith.com for all of those ticket links catch you guys tomorrow peace

1:10:05We'll see you next time.