""There's a lot of people that say people are getting paid by this Middle Eastern money right, you know, and that they can say this, or they can't say that or that they are over there, they're going to try to influence you guys in order to speak certain ways," Von said. "Are you part of that conspiracy theory or is that nothing you're on?""
""I've heard there's subreddits of like, 'I think all these people are in bed with that.' I just, you know, I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, 'I'll go,'" Pete said. "I've been getting a little bit of flak just because my dad died (in) 9/11. So they're like, 'How could you possibly go there?'""
Pete Davidson is performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which runs Sept. 26–Oct. 9 and features about 50 comedians including Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari and others. His father, Scott Davidson, a New York City firefighter with Ladder Company 118, was 33 when he died responding to the World Trade Center; Pete was 7. On Theo Von’s podcast, Von raised claims that performers accept Middle Eastern money to influence speech; Davidson said he saw the routing and the payment and decided to go, and acknowledged criticism because his father died on 9/11. Human Rights Watch said the festival aims to deflect attention from Saudi repression; Saudi officials deny involvement despite lawsuits alleging links and the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
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