Biography

Dave Smith is a stand-up comedian who hosts Part of the Problem, a political podcast on the GaS Digital Network.

Part of the Problem

The show’s own feed describes it in its own words: “Dave Smith expounds upon current events, our government, foreign policy, and all things Libertarian. He is part of the new generation of pundits.” That self-description is the show’s, quoted here rather than restated as a characterization.

Both Part of the Problem and Legion of Skanks, the comedy programme Smith is also associated with, are published by GaS Digital Network and retain only a rolling window of twenty episodes in their public feeds, with the back catalogue behind a subscription. Both were still publishing at the start of September 2026.

Libertarian Party Mises Caucus

The Libertarian Party Mises Caucus’s own roster lists Smith on its Advisory Board, alongside fellow podcaster Tom Woods and others. Reason reported in 2022, around the time the caucus won every Libertarian National Committee leadership position at that year’s convention, that Smith was the rumored frontrunner for a caucus-approved 2024 presidential nomination.

Digital Political Impact

  • Works in the overlap this site tracks between stand-up comedy and political commentary, with the same person and network producing both
  • The truncated public feeds are the notable structural detail: the network gates its archive behind subscription rather than distributing it openly, which is a different economics from advertising-supported podcasting

What Is Not Established Here

Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; YouTube and Twitter follower counts; his start in the New York comedy scene and the dates of it; the claim that Legion of Skanks was one of the early independent comedy podcasts on the network; and the launch date and original framing of Part of the Problem. The feeds establish what the shows are, who publishes them and that they are running; they do not establish when they began, because the public feeds do not go back that far.

Sources

  1. 01.

    GaS Digital Network. Part Of The Problem — podcast RSS feed. The programme's own feed, retrieved 2026-09-01, listing GaS Digital Network as publisher and partoftheproblem.com as its subscription home, and still publishing (most recent episode 1 September 2026). The feed retains only a rolling window of 20 episodes, which is consistent with a subscription model that gates the back catalogue. The show's own description names Dave Smith and reads: 'Dave Smith expounds upon current events, our government, foreign policy, and all things Libertarian. He is part of the new generation of pundits.'

    rss.art19.com/part-of-the-problem
  2. 02.

    GaS Digital Network. Legion of Skanks Podcast — podcast RSS feed. Feed for the comedy programme with which Smith is associated, also published by GaS Digital Network and also retaining a rolling window of 20 episodes, most recently 28 August 2026.

    rss.art19.com/legion-of-skanks
  3. 03.

    Libertarian Party Mises Caucus. Meet the Team — Libertarian Party Mises Caucus. The caucus's own roster, listing Dave Smith on its Advisory Board alongside Tom Woods, Scott Horton, Gene Epstein and others. This is the caucus's own claim about the association, not an independent one.

    lpmisescaucus.com/meet-the-team
  4. 04.

    Doherty, B. (2022). Mises Caucus Takes Control of Libertarian Party. Reason. Contemporaneous report of the party's May 2022 convention. Source for Dave Smith being the rumoured frontrunner for a caucus-approved 2024 presidential nomination, as reported at the time.

    reason.com/2022/05/29/mises-caucus-takes-control-of-libertarian-party