Dave Smith (65:07)
Well, you know, one of the things that, you know, we've talked about over the last few weeks, too, has been kind of the, you know, as we talked about today, like, the response of the corporate media to all of this and even the stuff like when Obama was coming out and lecturing black men about how they're sexist. And we've seen a lot. Michelle Obama continued that trend in her speech the other day. And I think that there is one of the things that holds them back, whether it's Comedy Central or the corporate media or something like that, is that they still have the, like, the hubris and the set, like, like, they still have this mentality, this very pompous, like, holier than thou mentality that was developed over the years of having this monopoly control. And as the control has gone, they have been unable to adjust to that. So, like, the people at CNN still look down their nose in disgust with anybody who doesn't. You know what I mean? Like, do it the way they do it, even though they're failing. It's almost like, you know, if you could imagine, like, if someone was a bodybuilder and they cheated. They cheated to get where they were. They took a bunch of steroids. They had the whole system rigged for them. The judges were all in their pockets and were saying, but they were like a buy. And then, like, over time, because they had bought off the judges and whatever, the whole thing, they just. They started to have a lot of atrophy. They got smaller and smaller and smaller. They weren't that big. They weren't even in the gym anymore. Now it was just like a fat guy. And everybody started leaving. Nobody started coming to their bodybuilding competitions anymore. You know, they're all gone and they're over at a different one, but they still had the same attitude. Like when they were the successful bodybuilder and everyone was coming to their show and they're still sitting there like, like, you know, like, flexing and posing, but you're like, you're just like a fat guy now with no one in the audience. But it's almost that mentality where they can't escape it to even adapt to the new market and figure out what we have to do. It's like, it's all across. It's like the legacy media people have this enormous sense of superiority. I was. I was briefly talking about it backstage with Metty Hasan earlier today, where he, you know, we were kind of talking about. And he's from, like, the corporate media world, and he was still going like, he was like, yeah, well, the whole podcast scene has totally killed the media. Like, And I was saying that. And he was like, oh, yeah, it's totally true. It's a shame because we need real journalism, you know? And like, he's like, what Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan did with Trump was not real journalism and blah, blah. And like, I kind of get what he's saying. I get that. Like, they weren't just grilling him about, like, his. Fuck it, you know, like, well, your battle plans in Syria were this and not that, you know, but, but. But it's not like you get anything like that out of the corporate media anyway. All they would do is ask him Gotcha questions about January 6th for. For 20 minutes and ju. And then just spin everything and lie and, you know, it's like that we weren't getting it from them anyway. So fuck that. Burn that system down and let's try to build up something, Something better at least that's how I feel about it. And it's hard to not say, like, I, you know, I also do think that, again, libertarians can, can take this or leave this. And I know that, you know, look, I know whenever it comes to, like, voting for someone or even talking about thinking about voting for them, there's always going to be people who get annoyed by whatever decision you make. I understand that. But it is hard to not like, kind of like as you, you look at it and go, look, this isn't the fantasy. You know, whatever the fantasy is about, like, the people wake up, the message is delivered to them the right way, and they understand free markets and central banking and government intervention and all this shit, and they're good on all of it now, and a young Ron Paul is going into the White House to clean up this whole mess or something, or. It's not that I'm not saying that's what's happening at all. However, I will say that within that world, world, this new world of influence that's being built up, you're talking about people like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson and Vivek Ramaswamy and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard. And, you know, like, in that world, there is a real libertarian influence on all of those people. Now, none of them I would describe as, like, strict, pure libertarians. You know, Vivek is probably the closest, but, like, I'm not, you know what I mean? None of them are exactly good on everything. But there is no question. I mean, Elon Musk will, if you follow his Twitter, like, he'll often tweet out a Milton Friedman video or, you know, okay, again, I'm not saying anything's perfect, but is at least something about, like, government being too big and out of control? There is. None of them are good on Israel, but other than that, there is a tendency to be more suspicious of wars than for them, a tendency to be more suspicious of regulation, a tendency to be more suspicious of kind of like government collusion of power. You know, they may dismiss them as conspiracy theorists or something like that, but it's like, I'd much rather have the people who are very concerned about government colluding with private interests to rig the system against regular people. Like, there's just, we, we at least have some influence with them. There's some type of libertarian spirit that animates a little bit of that conversation. On top of that, you have Donald Trump, who came to the Libertarian Party convention, has promised to free Ross and to put a libertarian in his Cabinet, God willing, he keeps those promises. Who knows? But there's at least like there's something there. And at the same time as you have that you have Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney and the entire corporate media meltdown machine desperately trying to prop her up so that they can retain their importance in dominating American thought. And it is, I will just say, and I feel this way, including 2016 and 2020, there's never been an election that I've seen before where there wasn't like of the major two party candidates, there wasn't like there was such a major difference between them and one that was doing something so clearly preferable to what the other one is doing that at least like, like even you said, like, I don't know, there seems to be a chance that he's at least going to unleash Bobby Kennedy and Vivek Ramaswamy on some little portions of the government and let them go attack the, you know what I mean? The corruption there. It's something. It's something. And the goddamn close to this campaign has really been something. Um, I don't know. Final thoughts of the show, Rob. I'll, I'll give it to you as.
