March 9, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| During the direct message last week, I mentioned how people from all over the world watching and listening to the Rubin Report are connecting through the power of ideas. | ||
| Immediately after we posted the video online, the comments section lit up with people chiming in from around the globe. | ||
| For those of you keeping score, here are the countries I heard from. | ||
| In no particular order. | ||
| Macedonia, Hungary, Poland, Lebanon, Denmark, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Finland, United States, Canada, Italy, Iraq, Slovakia, Israel, Greece, Taiwan, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Argentina, Ireland, Belgium, Georgia, Netherlands, Bangladesh, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Norway, Brazil, Australia, Portugal, Spain, and even North freaking Korea. | ||
| By my count, that's 35 countries, and that's just from the people who happen to comment on the video or tweet to me. | ||
| Wherever you are, you are a living, breathing example of why ideas about secular values and free speech matter. | ||
| From my interviews to you guys furthering the conversations on social media, we're igniting ideas in people all over the world who share in the same ideals. | ||
| As the civil rights activist Medgar Evers said, you can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. | ||
| So whether you're listening to this in the comforts of your vacation home on the Italian coast, while on a bus in India, or in an apartment complex in war-torn Iraq, you are a piece of the puzzle of reclaiming liberalism and having honest conversations even with those whom we disagree. | ||
| Ideas have brought us together, but I think we're just at the precipice of what this conversation about free speech and liberalism could become. | ||
| So now, I want you guys to be part of the show more than ever before. | ||
| I think we can do something bigger than just emailing, tweeting, and Facebooking. | ||
| I want to talk directly to you. | ||
| Consider this my official request to have you, yeah you, on The Rubin Report. | ||
| We're going to take a group of 5 viewers from 5 different countries and I will interview you via Skype for 10 minutes, posting them all as one complete episode. | ||
| I want to know who you are, what you do, why you think the conversations we've been having here are important. | ||
| Yeah, you got it. | ||
| and how you came to think the way you do. | ||
| Together I think we can amplify our message of conversation, human rights, and secular values in an exponential way. | ||
| I don't care if you're religious, atheist, Republican, Democrat, black, white, gay, or straight. | ||
| What I care about is, yeah, you got it, your ideas. | ||
| With this in mind, joining me this week are my friend and former guest, Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, | ||
| and first time guest, Melissa Chen. | ||
| Faisal was born in Iraq and now lives in New York, where he works with Movements.org, an organization dedicated to helping people escape closed societies. | ||
| Melissa is from Singapore, got her PhD at MIT, and is the manager of the Global Secular Humanist Movement. | ||
| These are two people who are using their voices to help those who need it most. | ||
| And now it's time to make your voice heard, too. | ||
| Go to aura.tv slash RubinReport or click the link in the description right down below and let us know why you want to be on The Rubin Report. |
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