Name: Dave Smith | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #555
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Dave Smith | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #555

we have added a second show in nashville baby on may 3rd it's an early show 4 p.m
at the bridgestone
arena and i can't even believe that and thank you guys so much for all the love
and support and i'm
honored to be performing here in uh in nashville we also have tickets remaining
for east lansing
michigan victoria bc in the canada college station texas gigim belton texas oxford
mississippi tuscaloosa
alabama winnipeg um in the canada and calgary in the canada get all your
tickets at theovon.com
t-o-u-r today's guest is a comedian a podcaster and a social commentator um you
know him from his
show part of the problem and you also know him from legion of skanks with big j
and lewis j gomez we get into a lot of topics in this one one of them being the
israel and palestine
conflict um which we've been learning about on this show over the year uh we
recorded this on monday
january 13th which is why there was no talk of the ceasefire just wanted to
make that note i'm really
grateful for his time and his insight um and today's guest is comedian dave smith
i mean that's most of my goal each day is to stay is to uh just babysitting
myself a lot of it well
that's a good that's a good way to do it we have some other people help babysit
you oh i'd like to
get to that point you know i think i would like to get to that point get a
spouse or get a uh
get some you know a spouse or something yeah caretaker or even get into hospice
dude i have some
friends you just but not dying but just have hospice that's a new thing a lot
of guys yeah see if you
bring that up if you bring young men going to live um my buddy caleb presley
you know he is he works
with barstool long hair yeah i think so he does the sunday conversation okay he
uh lives in a senior
retirement home how old is he he got loopholed in i think 33 34 that's that's
getting an early start
loves it tanning listening to him argue stuff like that it's down in florida so
it's a um
yeah he gets all of that three meals a day or like two and a half meals i'm not
sure what they're
doing i feel is there a gym there i feel like you'd feel really good about
yourself in the gym
like if you're just like you know what i mean like it's just like yeah i'm
wrecking these fools here
i'm the only one going hard that's a good point dude some guys just
fucking look at this chump some guy just zoned out some i was like i was mr olympian
1938
some dude just hopped up on ed pills you know that's got to be the scary thing
i think when
you get to a certain age is risking the erect going for the erection because of
the blood
just moving all the blood to one you know oh yeah you're probably gonna you
probably can't stand up
to that battlefront yeah but that's like there's got to be something it's
probably a real compliment
to a chick if you're like i'm risking it all yeah i'm risking it all just to
try to you right now
it's got that's the ultimate like nothing could be any better yeah my
grandfather lived in uh like a
like i don't know what nursing home type deal for like a couple years before he
died he was really the
people who worked there it was just such a funny dynamic it was like all it was
like all black
people from like the inner city and then like old jews and they the all the
black people who worked
there just rolling their eyes at these old people the whole time my grandfather
every time i went to
see him he accused them of stealing from him none of these people were ever
stealing from him none of
them it was just pure racism like it was just and it was like things that like
he'd be like they took the
art off the wall and i'd be like there was no art on this wall this is all in
your mind he's like
there's not now he made me he made me move a dress i was like 12 and he made me
move this big dresser
to check if there was change behind it oh yeah and then there was nothing i was
like there's no change
behind it and he was like they stole it ah and i was like wait there was
supposed to be change behind
it like you were keeping your change that's the old jewish change behind the
dresser trick i think
um you're jewish you're yeah okay i am you are and so um are you israeli too is
that the same thing
no no no no israel is the nation i have nothing to do with that okay but are
but some are some jew but
someone's jewish they're just they're just means that they have family that's
from israel originally
no not even necessarily it's just like you it's you know judaism it's a weird
thing because it's like
a religion but then it's also kind of a race and then it's kind of a nationality
with israel so
basically a bunch of jews went and started their own country in israel in the
40s but these were jews
from europe okay went to you know now according to the bible or whatever
thousands of years ago we
were all from there but the jews from europe went and started there but lots of
other jews just didn't
leave europe or didn't leave america and so they never had anything to do with
israel yeah oh okay
but they still play on kind of like your you know come on you got to support us
because we're for you
we're this is the jewish state this is what protects jewish people so a lot of
jews do feel
sympathy to israel even the ones who don't have like any any connection even
ones who have never
been there okay got it got it okay no that's interesting yeah because sometimes
i wonder like
yeah because i start hearing about like jewish then i hear zionist and zionist
means
zionist means i think technically speaking zionist
means you believe that jews should have a homeland in what is now called israel
so that's more like the
belief that jews should have this country over there um and then they're now
then there's like kind of a
separation between that and someone could theoretically be a zionist but also
be like the way they're
doing it over there is all wrong right so you don't have to like support the
government but zionist
typically means that but now it's just kind of become it's become shorthand for
someone who supports
israel okay okay so somebody supports the country israel right is zionist and
what sometimes i see
black zionist is that just like is that like zionism just like with a backbeat
or whatever like what is
it because you know what i'm talking about yes that well those guys they're
like we're the reels and
i'm like i don't know what is going on those guys uh they were so i grew up in
new york city and they
would always be out like in midtown manhattan and there was no let me tell you
something and theo i mean
i've come up around some incredibly talented comedians i've seen some of the
best in the
world there is no better comedy show than being like 15 and just sitting there
and watching these
guys they'd scream at people and then people would get furious back at them i've
watched like they
because their thing is that they're the real jews and then they get like little
old jewish men will
start yelling at them no you're not the real jew i'm the real jew and we would
just be like stone
teenagers just watching just it's like with the real slim savings please stand
up you know
is that an okay jewish joke to make or not that's i mean as far as i'm
concerned it's good just yeah
sorry i thought it was pretty that was pretty good so they i don't know what
their whole claim is i
don't know but they say they're the real jews and the jews are just pretending
to be the jews
but they're really the white devils or something yeah because that's a new
thing i've been seeing
i would see it and then sometimes i wouldn't see it and now in different when i'm
in uh sometimes i'm
performing different cities you'll see a group of black zionists and they're
trying to get you in
this something you know and i can't tell what it is and but yeah and then you
see you hear a lot of
different terms so um yeah i was just curious about that um dave smith thanks
for joining man absolutely
you are a comedian and a i want to say like a politico is that fair to say kind
of or sure
you're like somebody with a point of view yeah definitely that yeah i love i i'm
obsessed with
politics and i talk a lot of about it so yeah i guess whatever you want to call
that but yeah
and you're very funny man um well thank you and um and you are a libertarian is
that right yes okay
and this is awesome man because so much of my audience and me really is just
like i don't know
what a lot of the terminology is right um like even asking about zionists like
you hear it but you're
like what is it right what is what is libertarian mean uh to to me it's
basically just it's the
belief in like in in self-ownership in non-aggression and private property
basically the idea of
libertarianism is that like you own your body you own your life you ought to be
free so long as you're
not impeding on the rights of other people you ought to be able to do whatever
you want to do okay um
and so a belief in free market capitalism peace non-intervention and just
basically the idea of
what the idea of what most people think of americanism as that like oh yeah you
have freedom of speech
you have the right to own a gun you have the right to own some property you
have the right to to live
your life the way you see best and do do libertarians believe in government
well there's a range of of
different you know thoughts within libertarians i to the extent that libertarians
believe in
government we believe like the role of government is to protect people's
liberty um the government
shouldn't be doing anything more than that yeah like if they're doing anything
more than that then
they've become tyrannical yeah which i think is true i think is just
objectively true like no matter
what is if government's doing anything that is more than just protecting
property or protecting
people then it's always at the expense of someone even if they're giving
somebody something they're
taking it from someone else because they don't actually have anything
themselves right so like
what would an example of that be kind of i mean anything like even if you just
took it down to like
if government is cutting a check to one person well how do they get that check
right it's not like
you know what i mean like they didn't pool their money together right people
did they took it from
someone they taxed one group of people to give it to another got it so any
service is falls within that
got it understood um cool man yeah i um okay so that's good information thanks
what uh let's talk
about some things that are happening right now one of the biggest ones right
now is tick tock and the
sale of it right um like there's a big uh uproar right now you see a lot of
videos on tick tock about
what to do if tick tock disappears where to go people like there's like safe
rooms and i'm like
i think people are probably they'll figure it out but maybe some people won't
what do you think um
is behind the tick tock ban do you think it's actually going to get banned i'm
very unsure about
the second question i really don't know um it'll be interesting i don't use
tick tock um and so i
don't really but have a connection to like though but the people who love tick
tock i've seen this too
they're losing their minds like they're like i think they are some type of
addicted to it um what's
behind it is really interesting and i think that that's like it's kind of a it's
a it's a microcosm
of like kind of what's going on in general but tick tock very quietly to people
who are not
like on it and not using it but it became like the main like news source for
young people yeah and like
in a crazy way that for people our age if you even think back to like when we
were little
kids it's so like it's hard to even imagine that it's real it's like oh they
now these young people
are connected to information in a way that totally like goes around older
people at all they have
nothing to do with it you know what i mean like nancy pelosi's sitting there
just furious like what
is this no they don't care about like the