Some say that when he walks, the earth shakes beneath his feet. When he does stand-up, they have to replace the stage because he wrecks the joint. He beat Archie in a sumo wrestling competition. The man who is undefeated in the political debate scene and at the buffet line is Fat Dave Smith.
00:01:07.300You're one of my favorite Twitter accounts.
00:01:08.800Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this for us, brother.
00:01:11.920Dude, I always look down on you peons and try to, you know, make your day just a little bit better by giving you, gracing you with my big-ass presence.
00:01:24.640But before we get started, before we get started, I think we should have another guest because this show just isn't big enough, even with Fat Dave here.
00:01:33.800And we also have the Robin to Robbie's Batman, the man who interrupts the genius that is the fire, the reincarnation of Ron Paul, but upgraded with Tourette's syndrome.
00:01:49.460This whole thing would have been better if you just promoted it this way and it was just Fat Dave and I wasn't here and just leave the audience fucking like, oh, seriously, man?
00:03:21.040I just did the fucking Reason podcast and it came out today.
00:03:24.820And the picture that Nick Gillespie, who I love, but this passive aggressive motherfucker, the picture that he chose for me looks like Fat Dave's.
00:03:32.840Like it must have been after the worst hangover ever.
00:03:35.880My face is so goddamn bloated in the picture.
00:03:39.780I've had so many people be like, dude, after seeing you, I can't look at Dave the same anymore.
00:04:34.340If we're on the subject of a picture that we're using for you for a show or that somebody else used for you for a show, why do you not have, why do you have that same picture from like 2015 with that little shit eaten grin that you had that's on every single thing that you're on?
00:04:49.680Why can't you get a new headshot, Dave?
00:04:51.720I mean, I, listen, I'm certain that there's been thousands of pictures of me taken since then.
00:04:58.500But I just, any, anytime anyone, even people I really respect, they'll be like, send me a headshot.
00:05:07.820I just, I just, I don't know, whatever it is, my personality, I just can't be bothered with this dumb ass shit where I'm like, I don't know, go find a picture of me.
00:05:20.120God damn it, I'm blanking on his name.
00:05:21.480But the photographer who was at Freedom Fest, and he was at Pork Fest too, and dude, he sent me some of the pictures.
00:05:27.820He's been at like a million of these things.
00:05:29.280He's taking like the best pictures, and he sends them to me.
00:05:31.680And I, I showed them to my wife, like, look at all these pictures of this guy.
00:05:34.220And he was like, oh, and she was like, oh my God, these pictures are so great.
00:05:36.900And I probably should send those out to people, but I just, I don't, I don't care.
00:05:42.320I don't know why you would use that, that one Legion of Skanks picture of you and Louis and, and Jay from like, back in like 2012 or something like that, where you're, you're like, you look so young.
00:05:55.360That's the one you should always send out, that you're laying, sitting on the ground.
00:05:57.720That one would be, it would be hilarious.
00:05:58.640Yeah, I was a much younger, much more degenerate person at the time.
00:06:03.120By the way, I love people, I saw people tweeting at me when I said I was doing this show, and they're like, oh, you're really, you're really taking your career in your hands this time.
00:06:12.040Are you, are you aware of the show I do twice a week?
00:10:26.300Seriously, though, my dad can't shave, like, very much because he's got severe neck problems, so he can't, like, look and turn his head to shave and stuff.
00:10:33.160So that's why he looks all scruffy like that.
00:10:53.520I did want to welcome you because this is actually the Archie Flowers gang podcast, and I wanted to ask you, first of all, why are you a bastard?
00:11:06.100Dude, I fucking – so I muted Archie Flower, like, a while ago, months ago.
00:11:35.520But I did mute Archie and a bunch of the other guys after a while because I just – I mean, it's just – after a while, it's just so boring.
00:11:42.460But you know how it is, like, when you mute someone on Twitter, like, fucking – you know, you'll see people respond to them, and it's like, do you want to view it?
00:11:49.240So, every now and then, maybe, like, four or five days ago or something like that, I just saw a thing, and I was, like, view – and I could already tell.
00:11:55.760I was, like, I bet this is fucking Archie.
00:11:57.440And view – and I hadn't checked in on him in months.
00:11:59.940And I literally just viewed it and clicked on his account, and, like, the last five tweets were, like, will Dave Smith talk to Nick Fuentes?
00:12:07.820You're, like, are you still doing this?
00:12:18.880Just saying the same thing over and over again, and no one gives a shit.
00:12:23.440And you're just still going on this fucking crusade.
00:12:26.520It's – dude – and let me – I'll tell you, because I did watch – I'm embarrassed to say it, but I did watch – I told you, Nick, that I watched that fucking Fakeritarians episode.
00:16:50.320The best part, like, just regarding that, the bet, like, in terms of their confidence of, like, a particular thing was whenever they were so sure there are Holocaust deniers in the Mises caucus.
00:17:02.100And me and Josh were sitting there, like, name one, like, I think I mentioned this on Josh's show, like, Christopher Hitch is just, like, name one, name one.
00:17:08.600And then Archie just goes, Dave Smith is a transphobe.
00:17:18.140But Archie is actually, like, I think – I mean, by the way, I don't even mean, like – I don't even want to be shitty to him.
00:17:25.380It's just impossible not to because, like, one of the things that that show made me realize was, again, it was fascinating.
00:17:32.100It was fascinating on a psychological level.
00:17:34.480And that's – like, I don't mean to, like, get serious here on this fucking show.
00:17:38.160But I remember I was talking to Jeremy about this when we were up at Porkfest.
00:17:43.160And I was telling him he shouldn't be fucking with that kid who he was talking shit to.
00:17:47.800And I wasn't coming at it from, like, an angle of, like, you know, the retarded, like, you're sexually harassing a minor or something, which is stupid.
00:17:55.720Like, the idea that saying suck my dick is actually propositioning someone.
00:18:01.720Like, it's not like – it's, like, as if there's no difference between me being, like, suck my dick and being, like, hey, why don't you come up to my hotel room?
00:18:07.700Like, obviously there's, like – and the idea that any 15-year-old who's ever, like, played a video game with a headset or anything has never heard suck my dick.
00:18:18.360So I wasn't coming at it from that angle.
00:18:20.220But I was coming at it from the angle where I think he was kind of like, look, these people deserve to be bullied.
00:18:25.780And I was like, but who are you really, like, bullying here?
00:18:29.000Like, this dude is – no, I'm not telling you lots of shitposts, Top Lobster.
00:18:34.540Don't you fucking talk to me like that.
00:19:01.140So do you really want to be bullying, like, a kid with psychological issues?
00:19:04.420Like, maybe just fucking pass on that.
00:19:06.520And the thing to me, like, that was, you know, I'm seeing there is in that show, you're like, god damn, like, who are these fucking people?
00:19:15.600These are some real troubled fucking people who have real – like, Archie Flower, I mean, I don't mean this to be a dick, but it'll come off that way.
00:19:24.580But, like, honest question to the five of you guys.
00:24:50.140He couldn't even wrap his head around the point he was trying to make.
00:24:54.100There was a certain point, like, where he's, like, arguing that racism violates the non-aggression principle because it dehumanizes people and makes them less than human.
00:25:03.680And I go to him, well, what about racism that doesn't make someone less than human?
00:25:08.040And he goes, well, that's an interesting question.
00:25:13.080Like, he didn't think through that possibility that someone might point out that.
00:25:18.840Like, he didn't even think through that.
00:25:20.240So it was just the worst debater you could ever imagine.
00:26:03.000Nick can completely out-debate him even if he's 14 beers in.
00:26:06.540I was at least a dozen beers deep whenever we were talking about the populism thing.
00:26:11.500I was like – and so looking back at that, it's like, wow, they really are not smart at all to be intellectually dwarfed by somebody who was hammered and didn't even remember it at that point.
00:26:20.560The thing – what I was going to say earlier – I'm sorry, Jose, because I know you haven't even spoken at all.
00:26:24.880But the one thing I want to say about Archie is there is someone in him that is sort of cool because he laughed at my joke where I said – yeah, where I said he's – I told him I said he is more libertarian than Nick Fuentes because he's gay.
00:26:39.540And he actually laughed at that, like, a really good laugh.
00:26:43.600Do you remember – listen, no, listen, Nick, you're completely correct and you're really on to something there.
00:26:48.680I don't know if you guys remember when I debated him.
00:26:52.080Not only did he laugh at some of, like, the racist jokes I was making.
00:26:54.920By the way, for people who remember, me and him were completely cool.
00:26:58.700It wasn't until after the debate and the fallout that he became who he fucking is now.
00:28:01.640And then he went, well, listen, who can I go with?
00:28:04.640Well, I can't go with them because they all think I'm a fucking joke.
00:28:07.640So I'll go over here with them and double down and double down.
00:28:10.440Well, I just found out that Dave did a podcast with Nick Fuentes, and now I'm building a case and all of this goofy, like, embarrassing shit.
00:28:44.280I think this is actually a really good analysis of the entirety of cancel culture is that it's largely people that can't find a peer group unless they are, you know, using otherization where, like, we hate these people.
00:28:58.980So the fact that none of us fuck, we could all kick it.
00:29:01.880You know, like, I honestly think that's what it is.
00:29:09.220If I was them, I would just – the only thing I would care about is legalizing prostitution.
00:29:14.400Oh, dude, I had a tweet the other day that was, like, libertarians are only so pro-sex work because it's the only way they'll ever get laid.
00:30:07.540You can take that to the bank from the richest homeless person in America, Liberty Clint.
00:30:14.960Clint was like, hey, if any of you wants to fuck, I'm available.
00:30:17.440I just wish that Legion of Skanks did pick Clint for the most baller skank, and then they show up to his house, and they're just like, who the fuck are you?
00:31:05.980I've watched a couple of your shows where you're like, look, I'm a fucking retard, but this is what's going on, and you're like, oh, I can't even be angry at you.
00:31:11.900No, because you fucking said – here, I'm just airing out all my beefs on this fucking dumb show.
00:31:16.980Because you said – I saw a thing that you did where you said that I didn't fucking really address the arguments that fucking Matt and Vin made.
00:33:41.200Like I mean it wouldn't mean – that's not you preying – like if you're trying to save someone and you say, hey, we should run through this door instead of this door.
00:33:51.140But this door actually leads to certain death and that door is actually safety.
00:33:55.160That doesn't make you a predator to run through that door.
00:37:12.720And I'm sure that he gets Jason's dry cleaning delivered on time.
00:37:16.420But the point is that he said, right, which he said to you that I'm not willing to have this conversation anymore.
00:37:25.560It's always just these assertions about what they know about reality.
00:37:28.580I'm not willing to have these conversations anymore because I'm already in running for president mode.
00:37:34.080And I'm not in the mode of having debates anymore.
00:37:38.060That's why I'm on this show right now because I'm in running for president mode.
00:37:41.440I'm not willing to fucking risk anything.
00:37:44.220Yeah, I'm not willing to risk anything.
00:37:46.660But here's why he's such a fucking lying cunt is that after his show on fucking after his episode on Pete's show, I fucking reached out to him and said, hey, dude, like that was an interesting show.
00:37:59.340I disagree with a lot of what you're saying, but I like the way your mind works.
00:38:28.260And then he went on Clint's show and when fucking Cypherion is like, oh, he's a fucking narcissistic predator, he goes, yeah, you know, I agree with that.
00:38:38.640And I'll tell you, I want to give Dave the benefit of the doubt.
00:38:41.100So maybe he doesn't mean to be a predator, but his behavior is predatory.
00:39:59.800So he fucking underestimated me and who I was.
00:40:03.600And he was like, I'll go fucking debate this guy.
00:40:05.920And he went from being the longest serving chair of the Libertarian Party to being the noted laughingstock of the fucking liberty movement.
00:40:18.100Because when you do these debates, and I love this shit, you take your career in your hands.
00:40:26.000Like, imagine for a second, like, people don't think about it because, like, I smash all these guys when I debate them.
00:40:31.240Like, I fucking smashed Archie and fucking Andy Craig and Sarwak and Hudak and all these guys.
00:40:39.600But imagine for a second, one of them had smashed me.
00:41:39.120But if you come at me in that way and not just like, hey, I want to have a conversation.
00:41:43.180Not like some people like Eric Brakey or Tho Bishop come at me like, hey, I think the Republican Party is better than the Libertarian Party.
00:41:49.780We could have a conversation and whoever you thought won, whatever, we all respect each other.
00:41:54.140But if you come at me like that, great.
00:42:00.720Like, you're trying to ruin me, so I'm trying to ruin you back.
00:42:04.360And so here's the thing about calling you a predator, too.
00:42:07.680The implication there, you would have to say that every third-party candidate that has ever run in America is also a predator because no third-party candidate has a chance of winning.
00:42:19.500But everybody that runs in politics at least pretends to some extent that they have a chance.
00:44:06.440Anyway, to those guys, I really don't have anything against those guys.
00:44:09.840I do think their shit is complete bullshit.
00:44:12.340And it's disappointing to me that people in our space, particularly in, like, my camp, actually think there's anything impressive about either of those two.
00:44:40.160Someone sent me the other day screenshots of it and Matt's, like, Trump will be inaugurated or whatever.
00:44:44.880Like, I don't fucking know what they're talking – and at least, like, I understand, like, I, like, you know, speak above my pay grade too, I'm sure.
00:44:52.180But I don't claim to have this level of fucking certainty about what the future will hold or we are in the forthcoming chapter and that's why this will be this way in the future.
00:45:21.760Like, they really are – like, the same way when Archie was, like, trying to go, like, you know, the non-aggression principle is violated by racism, that, like, dumbass argument he was trying to make,
00:45:33.480like, where you go, hey, Archie, if you're right about this, then you are up there with the greatest philosophers who have ever lived.
00:45:43.900Like, if you're right about this, then you're the next great libertarian philosopher.
00:49:16.160Let me say real quick too that, you know, I essentially live the lifestyle that Matt and Jason espouse.
00:49:24.740You know, I'm a successful entrepreneur that became financially free at a young enough age that I'm now able to migrate to freer places.
00:49:31.700And that's fine advice, but it ultimately hasn't changed the fact that I'm being labeled a terrorist because I speak out about the government online.
00:50:07.180And I could be misquoting and Daniel could be misquoting there.
00:50:09.780But I do remember the point being – like, I remember thinking he – it did not seem like the point he was making was having more money helps you fight the state until other people said that and kind of assumed that's what he meant.
00:50:21.920And then he said, yeah, that's what I mean.
00:50:23.840Having more money makes it easier to fight for liberty.
00:50:25.900Do you think someone who's homeless could fight for liberty better than someone who's rich?
00:50:28.500I don't think that was his original point.
00:50:35.640And don't get me wrong because I do this shit too.
00:50:37.600Like if you listen to my show, I do this all the time where I'll go, listen, I want to make my argument.
00:50:42.640But I'm going to set it up first with like five minutes of like here's what I think the narrative is and the bigger picture is and here's where my argument makes sense, right?
00:50:54.740But if you'll see that there's that YouTube page, part of the problem, clips, and then there's like a bunch of other people who put out little clips of mine.
00:51:02.740And they'll just put out the argument, like literally two minutes.
00:51:05.600And even in those two minutes, I think it always comes across as like pretty clear what my argument is, even without the whole setup, right?
00:51:13.600But what those guys do is they have this whole setup, which is all about them telling these grand stories.
00:51:20.160But the stories are always like, listen, you've read three books and I've read the same three books.
00:51:26.760And this is not the like totality of the universe.
00:51:30.040It's just you're really interested in these books right now and they're fine.
00:51:34.080But when you just clip the argument and you'll see that just put out there, the argument is like so astoundingly weak that people are like, holy shit.
00:51:45.220Is your argument actually that you don't hate taxation?
00:51:48.340You just hate that you don't have more money?
00:51:59.040I mean, sure, I don't like paying the government all that money, but that's not at all my problem.
00:52:04.080But no, what I what I hate about it is that like, I mean, primarily what they do with the money, you know, like that's really it.
00:52:14.800The fact that I'm funding like I am actively every year writing a check to fund genocide and like incarceration for bullshit for gun, you know, possession charges or drug possession or dealing charges.
00:52:29.320I mean, that like drives me crazy or to bail out big corporations.
00:52:44.780Like if you went back in my family's history to all the way to the beginning, I have more than any of them.
00:52:50.740It's not the problem isn't that I don't have more or like it's that what the money is being used to do.
00:52:56.100And then also the fact that the fucking income tax like destroys people like just you ever hear Scott Horton tell that thing that I love so much that he's like, could you just imagine if like some foreign power invaded and imposed the income tax on us?
00:53:12.260Like if they invaded and just went, OK, everyone like we didn't have an income tax and then Russia invaded, took over our government and they were like, OK, everyone now you live under the IRS, you know, the USS IRS system.
00:53:26.940And everybody now there is a fee for production and your Fifth Amendment rights are gone because you're you have to incriminate yourself and then fucking I love you, Drew.
00:55:49.320Yeah, because I think that their primary argument is that that following the Mises caucus path, the political path, will be ultimately a waste of energy.
00:55:59.800And that and that we shouldn't be using it.
00:56:02.460And that ultimately, you are endangering your followers.
00:56:05.020Now, I think that's that's an assertion.
00:56:06.740I don't and I think that's like, right.
01:01:38.540And then the rest are going to fall in line.
01:01:40.040I could already tell you that a whole bunch of people in the Mises Caucus are telling me that everyone else in the party is coming around and kind of being like, hey, so like, I know we were against you before.
01:01:51.260But like, when you guys win, like, we're all cool, right?
01:01:54.600Because they all see the writing on the wall.
01:01:56.760Fucking Nick Gillespie, who I just did, his show, he told me he'd vote for me.
01:02:02.920Like, he's fucking, he's on board and after the show was done, he was like, look, you know, I know we're in like these different camps, but we should all get along and blah, blah, blah.
01:02:11.000Like, all these people are coming to the table now because they realize what's going on the same way they did during the Ron Paul movement.
01:02:18.620I don't know if you guys ever saw when that Elizabeth Nolan Brown lady, who I just like saw this weekend at Freedom Fest.
01:02:26.320She was cool to my face, but she'd block me on Twitter and stuff.
01:02:28.780But she was like, oh, the Ron Paul movement brought in all these racists and blah, blah, blah.
01:02:33.680And then people were sending her her old tweets in 2012 where she was like, the Ron Paul revolution is the greatest thing that's ever happened.
01:02:41.400Because when it was going on, she didn't want to fucking call it out because that was the energy in the room.
01:02:48.240So what's going to happen is when we become the energy, everyone's going to fucking fall in line.
01:02:53.420That's like, or they'll bail and that's fine.
01:02:56.740But like, that's what's going to happen is that we're going to be the force and everybody else can either fucking bail or, and they don't even, you could be a fucking agorist.
01:03:38.760So do you think that, that there is value in it?
01:03:42.820Is there some sort of like professional veneer that is bestowed upon you because you're no longer just a comedian, but you're a political figure?
01:04:03.320So, and I, and I'm happy you're doing, I've just, I've heard people ask that.
01:04:06.720No, I, I, I think it's a reasonable question, but you tell me this and like, honestly, you, all you guys tell me this.
01:04:12.960Do you think it's like, obviously there's a certain amount of value in me going on Rogan or Tim Pool or whatever Fox news show it is or whatever fucking, you know, show it might be.
01:04:26.160There's value in that and I can talk, should I talk, do you think there's more value in me going on as the Libertarian Party presidential nominee for like president of the United States getting the endorsement of Joe Rogan and Tim Pool and Dave Rubin and fucking Kennedy and like all these people.
01:04:45.140Do you think that might get a little bit more buzz going than just a guy on the show?
01:04:51.320So like, I'm not saying, by the way, I'm not saying it's a given that I get all of those fucking endorsements.
01:04:55.640I mean, like some of them have already said they're fucking endorsing me, but do you not think that's like more valuable towards spreading the message?
01:05:05.160And I've, I've maintained this from the beginning, which is what's so stupid about what those two guys were saying that I've maintained from the very beginning.
01:05:11.580All I'm fucking selling here is a speaking tour.
01:05:14.560And by the way, I'd really rather not do it.
01:05:17.600I wish there was someone else who could fucking just do it and do it better or as good.
01:05:27.420You tell me who else is going to fucking do it on that level and then I'll support that fucking person.
01:05:32.880But so I think, I think to ask the question answers the question.
01:05:35.500Of course, it would be more fucking valuable to, to be the guy who's like, oh yeah, we actually now have to compare this guy's values to these other guys.
01:05:46.360And that's unfortunately the way Americans fucking look at politics.
01:05:50.020I mean, there is a morbidly obese man that has, that shares your name that could probably take your place if you want.
01:05:55.100Hey man, I'm already in the LP also too.
01:05:57.600Dude, I'm dead serious if you want to do it.
01:06:00.240Hey, hey, I'm too scared of getting that, uh, that reptile coming into my, getting replaced with a reptile before.
01:06:22.780I think, I think you gotta like fucking, I think you gotta walk that fine line, right?
01:06:27.520Like, I think, I think basically there's like a line where you're considered a threat and like, they'll really come after you.
01:06:36.120And we want to walk right up to that line and then bail and then walk right up to the line again and then bail and then right up to the line.
01:09:00.300Like, he's, you know, in the middle somewhere of the, you know, the bell curve.
01:09:05.580But he has this personality thing where what he, when he got hurt, which basically is what happened, by the way, is the whole story with them, is that he got real hurt.
01:09:17.420Because I brought him on my show, and it was the biggest thing he's ever been on in his life or ever will be on.
01:10:52.600Well, listen, by the way, I fucking, I haven't even, like, fucking read the Mighty Ducks article.
01:10:59.120But it's so funny when they think they're fucking, like, criticizing.
01:11:02.480Lou Rockwell, by the way, who has fucking 40 years of writing the most impressive fucking libertarian shit that's ever been written.
01:11:12.420And started the Mises Institute, which has kept the ideas of Mises and Rothbard and Hoppe alive.
01:11:18.680Unlike any, like, literally, just a hero, an undeniable hero in the Liberty World.
01:11:24.140Like, if you call yourself an ANCAP and don't have respect for fucking Lou Rockwell, who kept Murray Rothbard, the guy who coined the term ANCAP, his ideas alive.
01:11:37.020You don't have, like, a little bit of respect for that guy.
01:17:15.760He's not, you know, impressive or anything.
01:17:18.940But the thing is that he's got a personality thing that's very weird that he reverted to, let me be, like, the hall monitor.
01:17:30.600Like, he really has, like, a thing in him.
01:17:33.160Like, he was that guy as a kid, and he is that guy now that he's like, I'm going to be the fucking hall monitor who takes notes and will report back to the teacher what everyone did wrong while they were in the hall.
01:17:45.500Except that the teacher, like, in this case, doesn't care.
01:35:01.800If you're going to say ejaculation is the problem, that means you could, like, fuck a chick for, like, 45 minutes and just not come and be like, I never fucked that chick.
01:35:47.980Marriage, like, makes you, like, fucks you up like that.
01:35:50.440I remember the long period of time just raw, or using condoms, and then I go to raw dogging because I'm married, and I'm like, then you go back to condoms, you're like, what the fuck is this bullshit?
01:47:30.940Dude, I fucking love all you guys, and I think what you guys are doing is fucking great.
01:47:35.540And I think that, you know, man, Nick, you made this point when you were on with Josh, and I was watching that fucking, that stream, because I was, you know, telling you guys you're legends for what you did on that dumb podcast.
01:47:50.740But when you said it, I thought you made a point, and the way you said it, it was, like, something I thought about a lot, but I thought it was, like, I had never, like, really fucking, like, verbalized it or intellectualized it, like, in that way.
01:48:01.820Where you were, like, you know, part of what we gotta do here is let people know that this is fun.
01:48:09.760And, you know, so much of this shit, it's like, and there's a big problem with libertarianism, right?
01:48:14.600Is that what are we inviting people to do?
01:48:17.500Like, we're inviting them to be angry.
01:48:20.100Like, sometimes there'll be people who I'll meet at all these fucking events and at the shows I'm at, and they're like, dude, you made me a libertarian.
01:48:30.700Like, I just, I made you angry about the Fed when you never would have known about this shit before, or I made you fucking fear it, you know?
01:48:38.380And, like, what I like about shows like this is that it's like, okay, we can signal to you that we're having fun with this whole thing.
01:48:47.300Like, yeah, we are angry about all this shit, and we are against all of it, but we're also like, hey, let's, like, have a few fucking beers and be bros and, like, be fucking free.
01:48:59.520I think there's something really important and really powerful to that, to let people know, like, why is it, and this is why all those loser brigade types have been nothing but a recruiting tool for us in the Mises Caucus.