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Dave Smith

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“Baby survives and gets a shot at having a life. And there is a lot of that stuff is just kind of easy to take for granted. And it's like, you know, when it touches your life, you don't take it for granted as much, but it's just like, now it really is, there are miracles going on all over the place now that like everybody in human history did not have access to.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And then certainly, you know, like for me, just personally, because this is like really touched my life. But, you know, the innovations in medical technology are just hunts. And, you know, my son had a congenital heart defect at open heart surgery when he was three days old. And I mean, it's like something that 20 years ago, I would have lost my child, you know, and he's fine. Just absolutely fine because it's just amazing what these surgeons and cardiologists and neonatologists and all of them, what they do now is like goddamn magic. And so there was always something about that that would, it was almost like that inoculated me against ever having a sense of like, well, I wish it was a previous time. Because like now, sorry, in a previous time I lose my kid. So I don't get whatever other challenges there are out here. Like, I'll take that trade off where this.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I just look at that and I go, like, yo, I mean, we're at a place now where we have this world of possibilities that would have seemed impossible just so recently. And so just thinking like all of that rambling stew, whatever all that was, that leaves me feeling very, very hopeful for the future.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In this country, he was completely convinced that we have to go invade Iraq because he has weapons of mass destruction and you're some type of leftist homo if you don't agree with that. That was the entire culture in this country. And it was the one thing that the New York Times and Bill O'Reilly and CNN and the Washington Post all agreed on. They were all on board selling this war. You could not do that today. They could not get away with that today because if they did How do you control this entire problem? You tell me how do you control Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson? You know, how do you get these guys to go along? They're not going to go along with it. And in fact,”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this opens up enormous possibilities for what, you know, I remember so vividly. 2002 And 2002, 9 11 happened in late 2001. We invaded Iraq in 2003. But all of 2002 was a massive propaganda campaign, just constantly laying down the blueprints for this war that we knew George W. Bush was about to launch. And it was, you know, they have weapons of mass destruction. They were in on 9-11. They're friends with al-Qaeda. They're going to hand this weapon that they don't have off to the terrorists they're not friends with. And then they're going to nuke Kansas. And every right-winger, by the way, this is also, sorry for rambling a little here, but this is also one of the reasons why when the Jew haters will say things like they'll be like, oh, look, all of the Jews support Israel, or 70% of the Jews vote this way, or the 70% of the Jews support this world. It's like, listen, I don't like blaming or even when the Palestine haters will say, 70% of Gazans support Hamas or whatever. It's like, okay, look, I remember a time in this country. I know I'm going back 20 years, but every right winger.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are people being vaccine injured? You'd like to lose your YouTube channel, get people getting kicked off Twitter, left and right. And I just saw it and I was like, dude, the grasp is just getting tighter and tighter and tighter. The regime is not going to allow these alternative voices, you know, in here, and they're just getting too big and they're going to shut this whole thing down. And I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to do after that. And I was totally wrong. It just, the trend totally went in the other direction. And things are now at a point where it's like I couldn't even imagine it. I never would have envisioned Elon Musk was going to get $44 billion together and buy Twitter. And then he was, you know, it's like, and so I just think that if you kind of like zoom out, I think that the regime has lost their monopoly on propaganda.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would give is he goes, he was talking about how at the beginning of the Reagan administration, like in 1981, that the neocons, because when he was trying to have d ⁇ tente with Russia, the neocons were in the presby and like he just guaranteed another hundred years of Soviet dominance, you know, and if someone had just been to you like, hey, listen, calm down. In 10 years, there won't be a Soviet Union. It's just been like, what are you? Like, okay, nice idea, but you're out of your fucking mud. And yet that was true too. And so there is, even when, you know, and you can see some dynamics even in our politics today, where like, you know, three years ago, I was really concerned about whether they'd shut the whole thing down, us, I mean, you know, like when it was during the COVID times and during times where it was like everyone I knew was just getting strikes on all their channels. And if you just even wanted to like talk about how there are”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In 20 years slavery is going to be abolished across the West. And like if you told that to someone, they'd be like, dude, slavery has existed for all of human history. Slavery is, look around. It's not going anywhere. You'd have to be out of your mind to think we're 20 years away from abolishing slavery. And yet we were. I mean, it's just like the greatest thing in the history of the world. And unfortunately, America had to fight a bloody civil war to get there, but many other countries didn't. And they just walked away from what had been the status quo forever. You know, and just stop doing it. And now, look, you can argue there's slavery by other names and things like that. And like, you know, to some degree paying an income taxes some degree of slavery. But there is not chattel slavery in the way that they're used to be. And that is like an incredible advance for humanity. And then the other example.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, so this is not mine, but this is Gene Epstein, who's a really brilliant economist and a great guy. And he told me this once, and I just always loved it. And so I call it Epstein's Ebstein's case, not that Ebstein, different Epstein, Gene Epstein, no relation. I want to be clear on that, okay? This is genes, let's call it Jean's case for radical optimism and the way he put it was he goes, so imagine you were sitting around in 1845. And you're at the height of the slavery and you were like, hey.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is one of the real problems, you know, and then, like, people attack Donald Trump for being like a narcissist Have to be a thing. But who the hell else is going to ever do this?”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is something about John Stewart that is. He's, and obviously I disagree with him on a lot of stuff too, but he is an authentic person. And there's something about that that gives you a huge advantage, particularly in our current political climate. People are so sick of the phoniness. It's like, and it's, and they're right to be because you could only, you know, so you can lie to some of the people some of the time. You can only lie so much before eventually nobody wants to hear you in that phony voice telling the same phony lies anymore. And at least John Stewart is, I will say, I think he john stewart is telling the truth the way he sees it. Like, I don't think he's necessarily right about a lot of things. He is right about a lot of things, but I think he's wrong about a lot of other things. But I just get the impression that he believes what he's saying. And there's something powerful about that.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very powerful people behind his presidential run. It's not like he was a true, just like grassroots guy, but he wasn't anyone we would have been necessarily thinking about. I mean, he gave that big speech at the 2004 DNC, but that was it. That was the thing he was known for. He gave one great speech. Besides that, he was a state senator and then a junior senator. No one's thinking he was going to be the next president.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I don't see AOC being the one to do it, but I could be wrong about that. She's got some qualities, unlike almost all the other ones you could think of. I just, you know. I don't see anyone right now who I think could be that person, but I never would have said, I mean, if you had asked me in 2014, who's going to come take over the Republican? I never would have guessed Donald Trump was going to come do what he did. So it might be the person we're seeing who we're not even thinking of, or it might just be some unknown. You know, same with Obama was an unknown. I mean, obviously he had...”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Support on the ground that they couldn't do it. Right now, someone could totally do that to the Democrats. But the thing is, it would have to be somebody outside of the three-letter agency control because that's what everyone's rejecting right now. But if you were to actually sit there and go like, and even policies I don't necessarily agree with, but there are a lot of policies that if it was actually like a pro-labor working class party, you could, you know, Bernie Sanders showed you a little bit of what's possible. And this was from like an 80-year-old socialist who didn't really have the balls to go through with it at the end of the day. You know, like if somebody younger and a little bit more More with the current zeitgeist, we're able to do that, that could happen.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, like somebody, what Donald Trump did, people tend to forget this because now, like it's also because the accusation from the Democrats is that, you know, the Republican Parties are all a bunch of Trump cultists or something like that. But like, I'm old enough to remember 2016. And what actually happened was that Donald Trump came in and just really resonated with the voters. And the establishment of the Republican Party hated it. They were openly talking about changing the rules at the Republican National Convention to deny him the nomination in 2016. What they were saying is that they were going to raise the number of delegates required so high that nobody could hit it and then say, hey, since nobody hit it, we select Mitt Romney again and we're going to run Mitt Romney again. Like they were openly, openly conspiring to steal the thing from him. And eventually he just had so much.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll say the fact that she came as close as she did to being president is pretty goddamn insane, if you ask me. But yeah, the Democrats are a mess. They're a mess like I've never seen a political party before. But that in itself is, I think, a very good thing. And what comes from here is there's a lot of possibilities now. And, you know, there's never been, like, I don't know who the person is. I don't see anyone out there that I could think of that would fill this role. But there's never been a more ripe time for someone to Donald Trump the Democratic Party now.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The go bag and then play the sacks and then have a couple good answers to a small. I'm from a little town called Hope, you know, like that, that's not the game anymore. Now the game is like, can you sit down and actually have some ideas in a long form? And I think that's so much better because it's so much more revealing of, you know, kind of like what we were saying before. You reveal a little bit. It's not 50 hours, but in those three hours, you reveal a little bit of your soul.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, it does seem like, oh, the standard is kind of. You're going to have to do a long form show where you really have to have, you know, and that, I think, is long-term, a real positive development, you know. Like, you just kind of know going forward, the Democrats, right, which I think is kind of what you were saying, right? You can't run a Kamala Harris if she can't do a long-form interview. You got to run somebody who's able to sit down and express themselves and have real genuine thoughts, or at least try to convince people they have real genuine thoughts, at least, you know. And that's very different in a way than, you know, I look back at some of the most talented politicians of my lifetime, which I'd have to say the two were Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, which is like the most talented traditional politicians. Trump's like the anti-politician, but like they were like the traditional and just unbelievably, but they never had to do that. It was just a different time. Bill Clinton had to walk up and like, you know, be like, oh, it's a beautiful baby.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As of, you know, like the last few years. But I'd be like, so it's like, so I'm May, you know, and for me to do what I do, it's kind of expected that I'll probably like, I don't know, I get like at least maybe 15, 10 to 15 times a year, I'll come do a show like this, like a long-form show on a big platform where I'm gonna, you know, like my ideas will be poked and prodded and tested and there'll be pushback questions and they'll be there. Sometimes they're more, you know, adversarial, sometimes they're more friendly, but like you're gonna, and then yet our standard for who is the commander in chief was like you show up to these debates that are like 90 minutes long with these really, really stupid questions and you give a 90 second answer to it or blah. And at least for the first time.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's one of the best things that happened in this election. And I'm not saying I did think they were great, but I'm not saying that like any of the Trump podcasts were perfect or like maybe there'd be a better way that they could be done. But I will say that I always used to say this for a while.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got kicked out of polite society. You know, like, I'm not even saying, oh, they went to jail for war crimes, for life, but was just like, yeah, you can't, we're not looking to you for advice on the next war. Thanks. Go home. Like none of that, it's like all these like crazy things nobody goes down for it. I mean, like, they freaking, they lied us into war after a war. They've bankrupted the country, damn near destroyed the dollar. They locked down the country on the basis of pseudoscience. then lied through their teeth about what this vaccine would do as they were forcing it on people and like no one loses their job no one even gets in trouble over any of this and look in any in any area of life whether a business or a relationship or whatever you can't you cannot screw up that catastrophically and face no repercussions for it and think that your business”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And has anybody, I mean, obviously Just Lane, however you say her name, Galaine Maxwell, okay, she went to jail. Like, is anybody else? Has anybody anywhere been forced to resign? I mean, like just even like say like, I don't know, like at the FBI or something, just for not like catching the thing sooner. Like even if you weren't in on it, it was like, no, there's a real problem with the American system, and it's that, that I think this just went on for too long before the American people just wouldn't put up with it anymore. And this is why trust in every institution and the corporate media and Congress and all of it has evaporated is that it's like, you just saying of all the people who sold the war in Iraq, no one so much as like...”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got to work on training your brain and you have to be conscious about it. And so you have to go like, hey, if there's something here that is confirming my bias, that I get that, you know, you start getting that little sense of pleasure of like, oh, great, here's another point that proves the thing I want to be true. Then you have to be 10 times as, you know, like, you know, skeptical about this. You have to really examine this one and be like, okay, am I sure that this one, you know, because sometimes you'll hear people even throw out things where it's like, oh, I know you liked that because it was helping your case. But come on, think about this. This doesn't even make sense. It's like, okay, I want to make this argument. And then everything that would support that just gets sucked in, like a force of gravity or something, and you're like, you have it, half of these are bad data points.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is true. I've noticed that for a long time, though. It's almost like in a weird way, it's kind of like a prerequisite for leadership in a way. You kind of have to be certain about things. But then there's a real problem with that, which is that a lot of times you're just bullshitting or you're just, or you're not correct to be this certain about this. It's at least debatable. And, you know, so you always try. And then the thing, like I feel like at least for me, is which I try to do. I'm sure I fail at this a ton, but you try to at least go like.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, I really have enough evidence that I think I can prove this. I think I can prove that the neocons didn't invade Iraq because they were worried about weapons of mass destruction, and they actually had this agenda for at least a decade before the war broke out. You know, like there's strong, tangible evidence for that. Sometimes the constant conspiracy guys, not always, but sometimes they just get sloppy when it comes to actually analyzing how strong the case is.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's just little things like that where, like, if you're being sloppy and you already really want this conclusion, I see where you could see these things as evidence, but if you're just being a little, if you're critically thinking about them, it's actually, it's not as strong a case as you think it is. And I like to, again, I'll speculate every now and then on things, but I like to take on something where I feel like I can prove this case”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And even if you like that story of 9 11 was an inside job, you know, because it's kind of sexy and exciting and like, oh my God, what a crazy world we're living in if that's true. And I'm not even saying it's not true. I'm just saying if you're not sloppy and you're scrupulous, you go, that's not really evidence. It sounds like evidence. It's evidenceee, you know, but it's not actually a piece of evidence because that doesn't in any way demonstrate that they actually were in on the thing. And there's just a lot of things like that. There's a lot of things I even see like, because it's a very popular conspiracy theory online now that Israel did 9-11. And I'm like, I'm open, you know, what do you got? What's the evidence? And they'll be like, well, did you see that Larry Silverstein took out a huge insurance policy on the World Trade Center? How did he know? And you're like, how did he know that the number one terrorist target in the world might need a big insurance policy on it? You realize that the same guys attempted to knock those towers down in 1993, right?”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Project for the new American century was how we're going to have hegemony for another hundred years now that we won the 20th century, how are we going to win the 21st century? And they were like, okay, well, here's what we want to do. We want to start multiple wars in the Middle East and we want to go like all the plans that they had, NATO expansion in Europe was a big part of it too. And then there was one line where they said it's going to be tough to work up popular support for these multiple wars. We want to fight in the Middle East short of another Pearl Harbor style event. And the 9-11 Truthers would point to this and go see clearly they did it. They did 9-11. They even say in their own words here that they want another Pearl Harbor event so they could do this. And it's like, well, look, that doesn't actually prove anything. I mean, it might just be the case that they were like, oh, we wouldn't get this without a proliferation. And then when 9-11 happened, they went, hey, we got our Pearl Harbor style event. And, you know.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Back in the day, in the 9 11 truth movement, there was this one of the huge smoking guns that they would point to was that in the 90s there was this one document, I'm blanking on the title of it, but it was from PNC, the Project for a New American Century. And this was the think tank, or one of the think tanks of the neoconservatives. Like all the big neoconservatives were involved in Peanak from Dick Cheney to Rumsfeld to Richard Pearl, David Worms are all the big neocons. And there was this one document where they basically, they were like, you know, they're...”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is something that some people in the conspiracy world do, which is like they. Like, ask questions, and it's fine to speculate about things, but you also have to, it's true in general in life. You got to be really careful about presuming your conclusion and then working backward from there. And then sometimes when you have one or like it's just, it's a matter of being sloppy versus not being sloppy. And like sometimes people, like I remember for a long time”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, during the COVID stuff, man, I mean, he was like interviewing Dr. McCullough and who's the other one, Malone, Dr. Malone, and had Bobby Kennedy. All these people, like at this time when it was like, so, and he's had it with me before too, like talking about Ukraine and Israel, like at the time when it's really white hot. You know what I mean? And like there's this huge penalty on not going along with the regime's talking points. And he's like, like it's really hard to overstate it. I mean, There was there used to be nothing like this. It used to be that if CNN and Fox News agreed, well, then that was it. That was the line now. And now we got the biggest show in the country will actually allow the other perspective on and allow people to challenge the regime. I think it's been historic.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's more than that. I mean, I'm sure that's a component of it, but there's people who have that who still don't have this fearlessness. A lot. Most people.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the last thing I'll say is that it was freaking crazy because he's like, you know, got more shit going on than anybody else in the world and is still very interested to take time out to like discuss some thing that I'm asking him about, which is a really, really great quality.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, again, like this is, it's just hard to over. Again, I have a wife, I have two little kids. Like, he's put me in a situation where I can provide a great life for them. And like, don't get me wrong, I mean, you know, like I did something with the opportunity. It's not like he just gave me, you know, like, it's like he gave me the opportunity and I did something with it. But still, I mean, he didn't have to give me that opportunity. And I will always go to my grave of being enormously grateful for his friendship and his, you know, the platform that he's given me and also just he is like, and I try not to abuse this, but there's been like a few points like over the years where I was like, I really need advice on this. And I've gone to him and he has been like the absolute best at literally every single time. I've followed it a few times. A few times I didn't follow his advice and I really regret not following his advice, but he was the absolute best like guy to be like, all right, let's talk about this.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The people who he sees as like the good guys, like the guys worth helping. And I just think that's like such an unbelievable thing. You know, the first time Rogan had me on his podcast was, I believe, in 2016. And I had like, I might have had 5,000 followers or something like that. Like, I was completely unknown. And like, it was like, I did nothing for him. It was just the fact that he heard me on Ari's show. And he was like, oh, I like what this guy's got to say. I think this is cool. Like, let's talk about it. And yeah, I mean, it's just like, you know, like, again, he's just been such a great guy to me. And at every little angle, like everything, you know, you open for him. He takes care of you better than anybody else does. You'd work his club, his club pays better than anybody else does. You know, like just everything is always like, he's always great to the people who are around him.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I didn't realize it was going to be quite what it became, but I did think, oh, this is going to be an awesome thing. And then, so there's like that. So like I always really admired him. And I was always a huge fan of his. And then he literally, not only did he like change my life, but he changed all of my friends' lives. Like it's like a very weird situation. Like he's like, he's the Santa Claus of my world. Like he's literally just, and there was something like, I don't know, man. He's just he's just a very genuine person and he's really loves. I think he really derives a lot of pleasure out of the fact that he gets to help.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember I was a fan of his before he confronted Carlos Muncia, and the day he confronted Carlos Mencia, I watched the video on his website and was like, oh shit, Joe Rogan called him out to. This is the craziest thing ever. And then I was a fan that like when he started the podcast, I remember going, this is going to be big because he's going to be so good at this because he's got so much interesting shit to say.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Joe Rogan was like, I was a huge Joe Rogan fan before the Joe Rogan experience. Like, I'm an old school Joe Rogan head. I used to go on Joe Rogan.net when websites used to end with that.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there's Ron, like Ron Paul and Joe Rogan, I like our view, those are like my generals, like an I'm a soldier. Those are my guys. If Joe Rogan pointed to some guy and said, you got to go fight that guy right now, be like, all right, I got to go fight that guy or what, you know, Ron Paul too. I just think it's both very personally for me, you know, like Ron Paul introduced me to like a set of ideas that changed my life and just enormously grateful for that.”
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“And you know that about them. This is a guarded person. This was ultimately Kamala Harris's issue, right? And this is why she was probably correct not to do Rogan. Even though everyone looks back at that and says like, no, no, no, this was the big disaster of her campaign. It's like, I don't know. She was so guarded in every single interview that she ever did. She was always constantly not trying to let you see who she really was. And if she was going to try that on Rogan, that would have that. Everybody involved.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're speaking in a very unguarded manner, even though this is your show and you asked a lot of questions. You don't know exactly where this is going to go. Then you're seeing what I say and then going, huh, okay, well, let me ask something based off that. Let me make a point based off that. We're both kind of like unguarded. And when you consume somebody like that for like 40, 50 hours, you do see into their soul. I think there's almost no way, there's no way to avoid that. And also, I would say if they're not letting you see into their soul, you'll notice that.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Three hour podcast. You come away knowing a lot more about that person. It's not like just a little taste. You know a lot about it. But there is, I probably would put the threshold at 40 to 50 hours. Like, if you've consumed 40 to 50 hours of somebody, especially when they're doing what we do on these shows where you're just, you're speaking very”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kind of interesting in a way, right? Because the thing before, like. The Joe Rogan experience and was like kind of the thing that made comedians big, the things before that used to be like Letterman and Leno and Conan. Like comedians would get like a seven minute set on there. And even if you do great, like if you're just like, you killed and someone watching is like, I love that comedian. That comedian's amazing. First of all, unless they were like on social media and then went and like shoot you, there was no way to connect. It'd just be like, love that guy. Anyway, back to my life. And then maybe you'll remember him. And maybe when he's coming to town, you'd see, oh, that same guy I saw in Conan is going to be at the local comedy club or something. Maybe. But then, like, Rogan became the main thing. And now they didn't just see you do seven minutes of stand up. They sat and listened to you for three hours. So even let's just say even off that one.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very weird. It's very strange in a way. It's very interesting. And it's also there's something there which is more your area of expertise than mine, but there's something there where like technology is playing this wild role. Like we could have a two-way friendship without actually having to meet each other all facilitated by the machines that we built. It's very trippy.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the same way that you can't lie to people in your life, you also can't lie to your, like they're a relationship too. You can't lie to your audience. And that I think that there's Like there's often almost like kind of shortcuts that are presented before you, but there is a payoff to not taking the shortcuts and to like kind of doing it the way you want to do it.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then at the same time, right? Like, even though we just kind of met that one time and then we talked on the phone, and now we're doing the show, I know you already. Like I already know you. And it's not just that we have friends of friends, but I've just seen so much of your stuff that it's like, I know who you are. And then it's weird because people come up to you and they're like that. It's like they know you. And I've had this experience. I had this experience with Joe. Like I knew him before I knew him. And so that was kind of like one of the things that I really learned from doing the podcast over the years was like how much that's actually a relationship. Like you actually have a relationship with your listeners and almost like in the same way”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was while Joe was going through the shitstorm of cancel culture and he was on the phone with Dana White and stuff in the back. It was a wild night”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I've learned just from the podcast is that there is. There's an interesting relationship that you build with your audience. And I travel a lot and I do shows a lot. So I meet people who listen to the show. And I know I've had this experience before. I kind of had this experience with you where me and you met once, I think, before today. Me and you actually met on a very interesting night. I don't know if you remember this, but we were at before the comedy mothership was built you came by a Joe Rogan and Friends show at the Vulture.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something about like Both Russia and Ukraine, in their own ways, got so absolutely fucked over in the twentieth century multiple times in a way that Americans just it is just too foreign to us to even understand anything like that, like millions of people starving to death, being invaded, the entire nation collapsing. And the Russian government collapsed twice in 100 years, right? That's pretty traumatic. And we just simply have never been through anything like that. And so when you have that kind of like trauma as a society, and then there's a war on your border, I'm sure there's a whole lot of different kind of feelings that we just can't relate to.”
2025-04-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not just like, you know, the wars we're used to are we send a military that is a hundred thousand times more sophisticated than anything it'll be meeting on the ground over to a third world country to go do that. Now, as we found out over the years, there's still a lot of challenges to that. Even when your side has night vision goggles and the other one doesn't, and your side can call an airstrikes and the other one can't, and your side has all the sophisticated training and the other side's practicing on monkey bars. Still very hard to occupy a people and dominate them and defeat an insurgency. But that's very different than like two nation states on right next to each other on the border. Like there's just a real feeling of like survival in that moment. And I do think that probably I don't understand this as well as you do and probably you don't even understand it as well as maybe like an older generation of Russians and Ukrainians would. But like there's all”
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