#2299 - Dave Smith

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

Jamie (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

And one day, Smith, good to see you again, sir.

Dave Smith (0:15)

Good to see you too, man.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Good to see you again, these times of trouble and chaos.

Dave Smith (0:20)

Wild, wild times.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Where leftists are lighting Teslas on fire and putting swastikas on them.

Dave Smith (0:28)

And that's the commas they've been in years. This is actually for them probably the best.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

It's so weird how these people are so easy to wind up and get them to do what you want them to do. Just put a narrative out there. You're a good person if you go do this and they just go run out and fucking cause chaos.

Dave Smith (0:43)

And it's the most, I mean, look, it's not like as much chaos as say like the Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 or something. But the one about the test, it's like you're destroying electric cars.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Which are mostly owned by liberals.

Dave Smith (0:56)

Yeah, but I thought you've been telling me for so long that this is going to save the world. Like the importance on going green was that we're all going to die unless we do it. And now you're taking the most successful electric car company and trying to destroy them. Because for the crime of pointing out that maybe the $7 trillion that our federal government's spending has a wee bit of corruption in it, you know? Like maybe we could cut some of that. It's so, I don't know, it's so, on every level it's just so surreal.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

It is surreal. It feels fake. It does. It genuinely feels like we're living in some sort of a stupid movie.

Dave Smith (1:34)

Yeah. Well, it makes you wonder, it makes you wonder how controlled the whole thing is, you know? And I don't know, I don't know, but there is a, do you remember? I think I sent it to you at the time, but there was like four years ago, there was a Time Magazine piece about the 2020 election. It was like a real long article about, it was something, like the title was something like how the shadow government like stole. It wasn't exactly that, but it was like, basically went through the real conspiracy of 2020, and they're writing it from the pro conspiracy point of view, but they're, forget anything about like ballots or any of that stuff, which I don't, you know, even when you interviewed Trump, he didn't really have a good answer for that. You know, it was like, it was stolen. And you're like, well, how do you know it was stolen? And he's like, it was stolen, you know?

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Is that the information?

Dave Smith (2:22)

Yeah, but what we do know, like the real conspiracy and broad daylight, that they just totally like tanked the economy, overhauled. Yeah, that's it. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Saved.

Dave Smith (2:37)

And they go deep into like admitting so much about like the censorship on social media, the support of the riots and the protests. And what's amazing about it is it really is incredible, their ability to turn on and turn off the protest machine.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Well, it's just money.

Dave Smith (2:57)

Yeah. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

It's just money. There's a lot of people out there that have nothing to do. There are a bunch. We were talking about the other day. I was like, if I was 21 years old and someone said, hey, they're going to pay $400 to go to a Kamala Harris rally, would you go? Yeah. I'd go. I'd hold that sign up. I'd probably vote for.

Dave Smith (3:14)

When I was 21, you had me at $400. The conversation was over. It was like $400.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

I heard you get $1,000 to go protest for Tesla.

Dave Smith (3:23)

Can I sneak in both of those? Can we do one?

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Yeah. $1,400 in a day, dude. Nice.

Dave Smith (3:28)

Yeah. I mean, I was thrilled when I was 25 to make like $75 at the comic strip or something like that. So yeah. But also, it's like, and that's kind of like the whole CIA deep state game, is it's always moving around the margins.

You know, like, if you, if there's, because like when I, you know, on the show, I've talked about a bunch, like the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine. And when I'd say like, this was a US-backed coup against a democratically-elected president, the response I'd get from people who disagreed with it would always be like, oh, you're denying the agency of the Ukrainian people? Because like, look at these pictures. There's all these Ukrainian people in the streets. And you're like, well, yeah. But the US poured $100 million into that street protest. Like, you think that made a difference a little bit? You know? And so like, it's not that there weren't real people there.