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Sept. 15, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, I believe that I am streaming live on the YouTube.
		We've only done a couple of these.
		I think this thing's working.
		It says live.
		I think that means live.
		There are people already in the comment section.
		That's what I like to see.
		I actually checked in about a half hour ago, and you guys were in there already.
		All right, yes, people are there.
		All right, what's going on, everybody?
unidentified		How's it going?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I haven't done one of these in a while, and, you know, we're doing this YouTube week thing here.
		And we did five shows that I taped over the last two or three weeks, so we're not taping any new shows this week.
		And I feel that I owe you guys.
		I always feel that I owe you a little bit more, no matter how much I give.
		I always feel I owe you a little more.
		So we weren't taping a new show this week, we're giving you five shows in five days, but I thought let me give them a little more.
		Let's jump on the live stream, see what's going on.
		All right, I can see, you know, I always talk about how our comment section, one of the things that I'm most proud of, is that our comment section Is really, maybe the best on YouTube.
		Truly might be the best.
		Like, the issues, you guys talk about issues.
		You talk, you have philosophical battles.
		Yes, there is some trolling, but it's usually good natured, and Harambe's there, and Pepe, and the whole thing.
		But like, we've really created something really, really great.
		I have to say, the live chat tends to be slightly more insane.
		I see a lot of you with caps lock.
		Turn off the caps lock and I'll see if I can read some of them.
		No need for the yelling.
		We don't have to yell.
		It's a little early for the yelling.
		Anyway, so it's a happy hour here in Los Angeles, about six o'clock.
		I'm going with the Stone IPA today.
		Anyone else drinking at the moment?
		If you are drinking, let me know.
		All right, oh man, I told them to shut the caps lock off.
		That's what I asked.
		Now I've instigated the caps lock people.
		Do I know nothing about trolling?
		It's really, it's really sick.
unidentified		Anyway, it's 3 a.m.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		in Brussels.
		Okay, a lot of you want me to talk about Gary Johnson.
		Obviously, I'm gonna have to talk about some Hillary stuff and some Trump stuff and all that.
		Anyway, but first I just want to talk a little bit about YouTube Week and what we're doing.
		So if you saw YouTube Week on Monday, we had Karen Strachan, who's a men's rights activist, who's a really interesting person and I really enjoyed talking to her.
		And you get a different perspective talking to a woman who's a men's rights activist and really against modern feminism.
		I have to say, because I'm not afraid to acknowledge when I get shit from people, I got a bunch of shit because at one point in the interview we talked about, she was basically spinning it so that saying that there are some positives to Sharia law for women, basically, that they sort of have it good under Sharia law.
		I'm sort of paraphrasing what she's saying.
		And I basically kept saying, well, you know, I think you would agree that without that it would be
		better, but she laid out some ways in which the woman actually has more power than man and Sharia.
		Now obviously I'm not a fan of Sharia or most of the practices that Islam does to women
		and minorities and gays and others and blah blah blah, but a lot of people were giving me shit that I
		didn't push back enough and it's like I asked the questions that I thought appropriate and I
		pushed where I felt appropriate.
		I think my feelings on it are quite clear if you guys watched what I do here.
		And then, you know, literally the next day, that was Monday, then on Tuesday I had my man Joe Pharaoh, Joe the Pharaoh in Egypt, a guy in Egypt who's living in an Islamic theocracy.
		We didn't talk about Sharia specifically, but we talked about the system of government that he lives under and, like, I listen to him just with the same amount of respect that I listen to her.
		So, you know, if someone's going to say, oh, it's an echo chamber or something like that, it's like, come on, guys.
unidentified		Like, it's just, it's just silly, you know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, so then, and then today I had Chris Reiglin, and you guys are loving that one, and I really enjoyed talking to Chris, and we got him live, and he's usually doing jump cuts and video editing, but I had him live in studio for an hour.
		It was really fun talking to him.
		And, you know, it's just very cool.
		I think there's something just very cool about the community that's being built on YouTube.
		And we're all realizing that we don't need this mainstream bullshit.
		There is no filter between me and my audience, between you guys and each other.
		And we'll get to the Hilary Held stuff in a minute, but that was just such an example of why the mainstream media is just so freaking awful.
		Okay, I see all the usual nonsense in the comment section.
		I will try to play along.
		Okay, so here's what we're gonna do.
		So first off...
		To catch you guys up, for some of you that are new to what we're doing here and everything that's going on, we are fully fan-funded.
		We are 100% fan-funded.
		We're working on a couple of partnerships and we're expanding in a few different ways, but we are fan-funded.
		So, for anyone that donates anything while I'm doing this livestream, while I'm having a beer and shooting this shit with you guys, I'm gonna give you a live shout-out on here.
		And if you donate some crazy amount of money, I will Skype with you live after this, just one-on-one.
		But anyone that donates, it's patreon.com slash RubinReport, or you can do a one-time donation at rubinreport.com slash donate on PayPal.
		And yeah, basically the more, the higher budget that we have per month, the more shows we can do.
		I really want to, you know, we're doing one show per week.
		I think we can get this thing to two pretty quick.
		We just gotta have the budget for it.
		And then we have a whole bunch of other ways that I want to expand.
		I want to start doing like a weekly news thing, and we want to do some live streaming stuff after debates and all kinds of cool stuff.
		Anyway, alright, so that's that, so yes.
		And I'm not going to tease you as to who the two remaining YouTube week guests are, but you're going to dig them.
		Just trust me on this one.
		You're going to dig them.
		Okay.
		Let's see.
		Where am I?
		Okay.
		So, man, this chat moves so fast.
		I can't really do anything on it.
		Okay.
		So where do I want to start?
		So let's first talk about the Hillary and the health stuff.
		Okay.
		So if you've been part of the Twitter machine or what's going on on YouTube, And all that stuff.
		People have been clamoring.
		Those people on the right have been clamoring, and the alt-right people, and including some of my former guests.
		Mike Cernovich has been one of the guys leading this thing about the Hillary and the health stuff.
		I had not commented once.
		You can check my Twitter feed.
		You can check all my YouTube videos.
		I don't even think I had mentioned it with a friend.
unidentified		Once!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Anything about Hillary's health.
		Until this thing happened in New York a couple days ago.
		If you watch, forget who you were voting for right now.
		Forget if you're a Trump guy, a Hillary guy, a Gary Johnson guy, you're voting for the meteor to strike us, which I'm pretty much for at this point, or the alien invasion.
		If you watch what happened to Hillary, the standing there, the bobbling, that was not a stumble.
		I was watching cable news after.
		They said, well, Hillary stumbled, or she tripped, or she lost her balance.
		It was none of those things.
		There was barely any consciousness there.
		and she was dragged, and you can watch her feet, they're dragging what appeared almost to be a limp,
		lifeless body into that car.
		It's scary, whether, again, whether you like her or not, just let's remove the politics for a second,
		this is a human being, right?
		And she could be the most powerful person in the world.
		And her body basically went limp.
		Now, maybe it's a combination of pneumonia and the coughing and allergies
		and God knows what drug she's on and everything else.
		But then of course, their immediate secrecy and the way the media then jumps in to suddenly,
		I'm sure you guys saw this Daily Beast and Vox and all these sites saying,
		"You shouldn't care about Hillary's health and Hillary's health is better."
		Meanwhile, when McCain ran, they were endlessly attacking McCain over his health,
		which actually was fine.
		And by the way, we're eight years after McCain ran and he's still alive and running for re-election right now in Arizona.
		So it's a pretty shitty situation.
		We simply don't know the truth.
		And this is again why the YouTube thing and the Twitter thing and all this stuff.
		Why it's so important, because we cannot filter any truth from our mainstream media anymore.
		And then you watch, you watch them analyze it on CNN, and it's like, wait a minute, you have a Hillary, I watched MSNBC, they had Thomas Roberts on with Hillary's, like, main PR woman.
		This woman was spewing lie after lie.
		I saw Wolf with Hillary's main PR guy, and this guy's spewing lie after lie, and you're like, you're not being honest.
		When was she diagnosed?
		Blah, blah, blah.
		It's all insider nonsense, but it's like, there's just no level of trust here.
		There's just no level of trust, and because of that, not someone saying Dave Rubin, the last liberal on YouTube, there are some others, and we need to get louder, most importantly.
		But I'm trying.
		I know I'm fighting something that, you know, the left has just lost its fucking mind, and I'm fighting something that is exhausting and that is, that I know I can't win, I guess, in a certain way, but I'm not going to stop fighting for it.
		Anyway, so the Hillary thing, The health thing is one thing, but it's not just the health thing.
		It's that the trust thing.
		It just goes further than trust.
		That their intuition, that their inclination on Friday, if she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, which I don't even necessarily believe.
		But if that's the truth, it's like, well, why didn't you just say that then?
		And why was she out?
		She could have then taken a day off.
		Like, it's just lie after lie after lie after lie, and the Clinton Foundation, all this stuff.
		Now let's pause there for a second.
		Let's talk about Trump.
		Because I know when I talk about Clinton, even most of the Clinton people don't really love Clinton.
		You don't get that many people screaming about Clinton.
		They love Clinton.
		Okay.
		And partly it's partly the far left's fault.
		They demonized her to the point that they crushed the base of the young vote that should be left, that should be Democrat.
		They crushed it.
		They demonized her so much because they loved Bernie that now those people aren't going to come out to vote, which in turn helps Trump.
		Which again is one of the reasons why I say the far left helps the right constantly.
		So, okay, let's talk about Trump a little bit.
		So Trump, he's had an actual pretty decent couple weeks.
		Now, if you guys saw my interview with Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, it was really one of my probably five favorite interviews we've ever done.
		Oh, wait, I gotta stop and pause for a shout-out.
		I want to shout-out to Ricky, who just gave $25 on PayPal.
		That is a one-time donation.
		Ricky, thumbs up, man.
		Appreciate it.
		Cheers for ya.
	Again, you guys are giving us the budget to go ahead and build this show.
	And as I said, we want to get to two episodes per week.
	And we're building a lot of good stuff.
unidentified		Okay.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So Trump had a pretty good week by basically not doing much of anything, right?
		Because he let the focus be on Hillary.
		Now, both of them lie.
		I don't know that I believe anything out of either one of their mouths.
		And I don't think you do either.
		So I know this is going to upset the Trump people that are in here.
		But the simple truth is it's impossible to know what these people believe and that they flip-flop on every little thing and all that.
		Yes, it is a stone IPA, that's right.
		So Trump, in a way, it's becoming obvious to me that what he's gonna do now is really tighten this thing up.
		He's going to start saying less crazy things, but will still say them when he feels
		like he needs to just stay in the media.
		He's doing this campaign virtually on no money because the media is giving him all the exposure.
		And now you wanna expose the silliness.
		So now you have the people on the left are all in on the Wall Street candidate,
		the one who's getting all the Wall Street money, the one who's spending all the big money.
		There's a, I think it's Bill Clinton's birthday party that they're having in New York City in a day or two.
		And you can donate like $250,000 to be a sponsor or $100,000 to be a semi-sponsor.
		And it's like, all the rich people, all of the money people, the Wall Street people, the celebrities, all of that are all on the Clinton side.
		And Trump's got Scott Baio and, what's his name?
		The other guy, Lorenzo LaMasta, that other guy.
		So I don't know.
		We're just in a shitty situation.
		So now, putting that out there, let me talk about Gary Johnson.
		So you all saw or many of you saw my video about Gary Johnson about a month ago.
		And what I said in that video was we got a shitty situation on our hands.
		And because of this shitty situation where we don't have two great candidates.
unidentified		Right?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So even if you love Trump, you've got to admit he's not a great candidate.
		Okay?
		You're just not sure what his principles are.
		You like certain things about him and you like that he's cutting through the bullshit and trolling everybody.
		I get all that.
		I really do get it.
		And I also get the fact that people are just sick of the political correctness stuff and I get all that.
		Okay.
		My point of what I said with Gary Johnson was, if nothing else, it's not like Gary Johnson's going to be president.
		And I didn't even say I was going to vote for him.
		I said, I am going to support this guy for the next month or so, so that maybe we can get another voice in the debates.
		That's what I was saying.
		And for whatever influence that I have, if I can promote, I'm going to a fundraiser.
		Someone's buying me a ticket on Monday in Beverly Hills where Gary Johnson will be there and Bill Weld will be there.
		Whatever I can do to get another voice out there, just so that in the debate, look, I've said this repeatedly, Gary Johnson is not a particularly good debater.
		I don't think he has a great handle on the issues, actually.
		He's not a forceful speaker.
		He's not even a great libertarian.
		He wants to force those people to bake the gay cake.
		I don't care.
		I wouldn't force anyone in a small business to bake a gay cake or any other cake.
		He had that little meltdown two weeks ago with Guy Benson on town hall, where he got really indignant over the phrase illegal immigrant.
		And then at the end, Guy kept saying, well, they are illegal, right?
		They are illegal.
		And then finally he said, yeah.
		And it's like, well, you're doing, that's some regressive shit, getting upset about a word that's just a distraction from the truth.
		That doesn't mean you can't be empathetic towards immigrants and want to help the 11 million people here get pathway to citizenship or any of that stuff.
		But he's done some pretty, some stuff that I don't like either.
		My point with Gary Johnson was, let's get the guy in the debate so that for one second, For one night only, and by the way if he killed it in the debates and crushed the two of them, which he would not do because Hillary has a better command of the issues and Trump has a better stage presence and Gary has neither, that at least maybe people would hear some libertarian ideas.
		Hear some ideas about smaller government and lowering taxes and some things about having a strong defense so that you don't have to use it and not nation building and all those things that I think he does basically get.
		So, that's what sucks, is that he's not a great candidate, but that was my point, was let's at least get the guy that far.
		But even if he killed it, believe me, the media would not let him stay in it any longer than that.
		Alright, shout out to Ian, who just donated on PayPal.
		Thank you, Ian!
		Appreciate it, my man.
		It's patreon.com slash RubinReport and rubinreport.com slash donate.
		A couple people have asked if I'm watching South Park tonight.
		I will watch South Park tonight.
		Last season was incredible.
		It was exactly everything that I'm talking about on the show.
unidentified		Outrage, culture, PC, bullshit.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oppression Olympics and all of this lunacy.
		Oh wait, I guess I should back up for a second.
		So just putting a cap on the Gary Johnson thing.
		So look, my point was, let's get the guy in debates just so some people,
		because it is about ideas.
		If you watched the interview that I did with Joe in Egypt yesterday,
		he said that his awakening about politics and the regressive left
		and what a real honest debate is.
		Happened that night on Real Time that you all know about with Sam Harris and Bill Maher and gross racist Ben Affleck and all that.
		And basically mine was too.
		This is a guy, he's nine years younger than me.
		He's 8,000 miles away in Egypt.
		I'm in Los Angeles at the time.
		I'm still in Los Angeles now.
		But our awakening to what's going on here politically was very much in line.
		That's why ideas are so important.
		So my hope is that if we could get Gary Johnson up there, just one time, a couple people might be like, you know what?
		This guy's not the greatest.
		He's kind of, he seems like a bothead.
		He doesn't really know what he's talking about.
		You know, he likes gay marriage and weed and whatever.
		He's not the greatest candidate, though, but I'm gonna look into some of these classical liberal and libertarian ideas.
		That's what I thought, and I guess it's not gonna happen.
		A lot of people I see want me to run for president.
		You know, I wanted to be a politician at one time.
		I was a poli-sci major in college, and I thought I'd be a politician, but I think I've got a better, I think this is it.
		Okay, let's see.
		Man, these comments are completely insane.
		Okay, so South Park.
		So yes, I will watch South Park.
		I thought it was awesome.
		We've been trying to get Matt and Trey on the show.
		They don't do press when the season is on, and then they only do press for like three days when the season is off to promote the next season, and then they need a break after the season.
		So we tried with Comedy Central.
		We haven't made any major headway, but I'm hoping it'll happen, so stay tuned on that one.
		A bunch of you are asking about university tours also, so I'm going to be doing a lot more touring in the fall, going to a bunch of different schools.
		So if you're at schools right now and you want to get me there, talk to whoever your people are over there, and you can go to rubenreport.com contact, and you can contact us about it, and we'll set it up.
		And man, a lot of people want me to run for president.
		What a sad state of affairs.
		I may have to run for president because of this shit.
		That is some shit.
		Okay, what else is going on here?
		Oh, you know what I'm gonna do?
		Because, so we have about 2,700, about 2,700 people that currently give us money on Patreon.
		Anywhere, literally from a dollar to $500 a month.
		So I do have to give them a little extra love and attention here, and I want to give them a little extra love and attention, because they're basically footing the bill, so you guys get to, the rest of you get to watch this for free, and that's all good.
		If you don't have money, if you don't want to give me money, whatever.
		It's all good.
		It's all working.
		Okay, so a couple people asking questions.
		So Kevin asked, would you consider having comedians like Louis CK or Seinfeld on?
		I would love to have Seinfeld.
		I really want Larry David on.
		I'm working on him.
		I do have Richard Lewis coming in, who's one of my favorite comics.
		Would love to get Louis CK.
		My dream of all dreams would be to Reincarnate or resurrect George Carlin because he was simply the best.
		I will tell you one beautiful insider moment.
		You guys know I'm friends with Kelly Carlin who's been on the show, George's daughter, who's a wonderful writer and thinker and interesting person.
		She had all of George's old jokes in a couple boxes in her room in her house.
		And one night I was at a party at her house, and I had a couple of drinks, and we smoked some pot, and she let me and another comedian just go in the room and read jokes.
		So if he was out and he had an idea, so he's at a restaurant or something, he'd take the receipt, he'd write the premise up front and the punchline on the back, and we just read jokes back and forth to each other while stoned, and it's pretty much a comic's dream.
		And I was crying in tears of, it was tears of laughter and joy, and just, Carlin was simply the best.
		Watch his last special.
	If you do one thing tonight, or this week, his last special, which I think it's called It's Bad For Ya, I don't know that he knew that it was going to be his last, but it's so brilliant, and it was such a good example of everything that was great about him, and I wish we had him now.
	And by the way, if we had George Carlin now doing that politically incorrect shit that he was always doing, he would be getting so much shit from the left, and that's what the sad Situation is that we're in at the moment.
	I want to thank Anna who just gave $15 on Patreon.
	Thank you, Anna.
	I appreciate it.
	And you guys are helping us build our show.
	Somebody just said Dave's a Nazi.
	Not true.
	I don't know where that, I don't know who started that rumor, but I am not a Nazi.
	Okay.
	Someone says get more regressive.
	This is one of the things that I get a lot.
	First off, I've had a bunch of people on the left who I think have pretty regressive thinking.
	And you're well, I don't need to call them out by name because some of them are actually friends of mine.
	Because guess what?
	I have friends on the left and friends on the right and friends in between and friends who don't give a flying fuck about politics.
	But I have had people on the show that have regressive ideology, for sure.
	And guess what?
	I treat them with the same respect that I would treat Sam or Ayaan or anybody else with.
	And on any given week, I will have somebody that says this, says something to the left or something to the right, and short of them blatantly lying to my face in something that is so factually wrong that I feel I have to adjust it, what I try to do is ask them questions to understand their line of thinking.
	That's the way I like conducting an interview.
	It's just kind of really as simple as that.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on.
	Oh, what's the Binghamton University thing?
unidentified		Something happened at Binghamton University.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Somebody wants a Binghamton University shout out!
		All right, I went to Binghamton University, my alma mater.
		Binghamton University, for those of you who don't know, it's a SUNY school, State University of New York.
		So it was very cheap to go to and I got a great education.
		I studied politics and I guess I used it to do something in my life.
		And I was at Newing, if you're there.
		I was at Newing was my thing and I smoked a lot of pot in college, mainly.
		A lot of pie.
		A couple people asking about Ben and Milo, hosting the Ben and Milo thing.
		You know, it was agreed upon, and then Milo backed out first, and then Ben got fed up, and then he backed out, but then I heard this week that Milo publicly announced it again.
		I don't know where Ben's at with it, but I would be happy to host it, and I think I could really do it well because I like both of them individually.
		I agree with them on certain things individually and disagree, and I think it would be great for them to do.
		I think it would be great for both of them to do.
		Okay, a couple people asking about a UK tour.
		We have been contacted by a couple schools in the UK and London and there was something maybe going down in Ireland.
		We're working on it.
		We've got a lot cooking.
		Okay so uh oh and also people are asking am I gonna have Stefan Molyneux on the show.
		I'm doing his show in a couple weeks.
		It was supposed to be next week.
		They canceled it.
		I think I'm on it in like two weeks and then we're gonna get him on.
		His schedule is a little nuts and yes I'm gonna be on.
		I'm having Rogan in and I'll be back on his show.
		Okay let's see what else is going on here.
		Someone said Dave's thoughts on Christina Summers getting body shamed by Lindy West.
		I'm not sure what that's about.
		A couple people asking about Cenk Uygur as usual.
		I have asked.
		He's publicly said that he won't do it.
		I mean, I would crush him.
		I wouldn't even, it would be unpleasant because this unfortunately has gotten sort of personal.
		And I know all his lies and manipulations and bullshit nonsense.
		And I've called him out.
		And by the way, you can go back to the Twitter history between the two of us.
		For the first months after I left, I engaged him in a totally respectful, honest way about
		ideas.
		I did not do anything mean or whatever.
		And he just repeatedly kept lying and repeatedly kept lying.
		And no matter how many times he would lie, he would just double down on it.
		And it's like at some point now your intentions are bad.
		Right.
		And Sam Harris always talks about intentions.
		It's like, I don't mind being wrong.
		I don't mind if someone else is wrong.
		I love that exchange.
		Why would I ever want to sit in a room just with people that I agree with?
		Some of my best moments of my life.
		[BLANK_AUDIO]
		Or with my three best friends from childhood, who I'm still great friends with, and they're all over them.
		One of them doesn't care about politics at all, so he's sort of like the everyman.
		One of them's become like a far right winger, and then there's me, a liberal, and the other one who's probably a centrist for the most part, and we have these great arguments and debates and whatever, and it's like, I don't need to sit in a room with a bunch of people that think like I do.
		So I would be happy to talk to any of these people, and oh yeah, I've offered it to Greenwald and Reza.
		I said I would have, Lalo and Gad, I moderate a debate if they want to put Lalo and Gad against Resident Greenwald's site.
		These guys don't want their ideas challenged because they've been proven repeatedly to be liars so many times in this space.
		You know what I mean?
		In this space.
		So that's what I would say.
		Okay, a couple other things cooking.
		Blair just gave on Patreon.
		Thank you, Blair.
		I appreciate that.
		And some other things are being written down over there.
		So that's good.
	Wait, you know what?
	Let's pause from politics for a sec.
	How about that?
	You want to talk about something else for a second?
	Like, you want to talk about comedy, or cartoons, or video games, or Star Wars, or beer, or wine, or what else do you guys like?
	Yeah, oh, someone's saying get to some Patreon questions, so we'll get to some Patreon questions over there.
	Ethan wants to know, Alfredo or Maranar, I love a red sauce.
	There's nothing like a good red sauce.
	My husband, in case you guys didn't know, big flaming homo over here.
	I don't make a big deal about it, but it's true.
	But my husband's an incredible chef.
	And if you guys want to check out, go to instagram.com slash davidscookbook, and you can see some of the things that I eat on a nightly basis.
	I am extremely spoiled, and it's why I have to go to the gym almost every morning to do cardio, and that's when I watch cable news.
	I pretend I'm running from these fucking maniacs.
	Wolf Blitzer's chasing me!
	But I do love a great red sauce.
	I love Italian in general.
	It's probably my favorite cuisine.
	Although I'm big on Greek lately.
	Also, like, Mediterranean stuff.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
	I want to thank King, who just donated on Patreon, and Derek, who donated on Patreon, and Eric, who donated on PayPal.
	Thank you guys.
	Basically, here's the deal with the Patreon situation.
	First off, You know, you all heard about the YouTube monetization issue, which hurt a lot of channels significantly.
	Now it did not hurt us the way it hurt some other channels.
	And I think partly is that we don't do clickbait.
	We don't title things in ways they shouldn't be titled.
	We don't miss tag things.
	We don't use thumbnails that are misleading or anything like that.
	Like we treat this, this channel, we treat our YouTube channel the same way I treat The interviews that I do.
	And I think that's why you guys dig it and that's why I like doing it.
	But we were hit on certain things.
	All my videos with Douglas Murray, who I think is one of the sharpest minds on earth, who is talking about some seriously scary shit in an honest way, all of our videos with him were demonetized.
	So that thing is affecting people.
	Didn't hurt us that badly.
	But that's one of the reasons that Patreon is important, by the way, because then I'm not beholden to picking topics just based on what kind of money we're going to make by them.
	So that's it.
	Thank you, Roger, I appreciate that.
	Squirrel wants to know what my favorite band is.
	So I'm a big, I love classic rock in general, like 80s classic rock, love, love, love.
	So I know it's a little corny, but Journey is probably my favorite band of all time.
	Went to Journey concert last summer in Orange County at an outdoor theater with Kelly Carlin, and we were smoking some pot, and we got narced on at a Journey concert by some old man behind us, and the security came over, they let us stay.
	Anyway, so I love all 80s rock, but Fleetwood Mac is probably, would be the top.
	I consider them a better band than Journey, even though I do love Journey.
	I love Fleetwood Mac.
	I love jazz.
	I love the chill channel at night.
	Like, you know, if you just go on Spotify and do like a chill or like a Cafe Del Mar kind of thing.
	A couple people asked my favorite pot, so here's the deal.
	I actually don't smoke that much pot anymore.
	Maybe like once every two weeks or so.
	And I really just smoke just to chill out at the end of the night and lay on the couch and that's it.
	I don't like the mental high anymore.
	I think enough.
	You know what I mean?
	Like I think you probably can understand that.
	I think about stuff enough.
	So for me it's like I want to smoke a little pot and like you know watch The Simpsons or something.
	Preferably seasons four through nine.
	So I went to the shop here.
	I have the license and it's LA, so you can just, there's shops everywhere within walking distance.
	And I said to the girl, you know, what can I get that'll, you know, just shut me down at the end of the night and just nice body high and that's it.
	And she gave me granddaddy purple.
	So I've been on the granddaddy purple.
	So there you go.
	A couple of people shocked that I'm gay.
	It's true, no big deal.
	Not that there's anything wrong with that.
	Yeah, who cares?
	Like, if you really care, I could talk about it more, but who cares?
	I just don't think anyone cares, and I wouldn't want to be judged on anything other than my thoughts, so who cares?
	A couple people asking about artificial intelligence, so I definitely need to do more on AI.
	Check out my last interview with Sam, the last half hour or so we did on AI, which I thought he was writing a book on AI, and I'm not totally sure.
	Maybe I forced him to write a book about it, because I mentioned it, and I think I said it in the intro.
	So I should do, I love AI.
	I mean, I love science fiction movies, you know, just from 2001.
	I even love the sequel, 2010, and Contact, and iRobot, and Total Recall, and Aliens, and I loved Interstellar, and what was that one with Sandra Bullock in space?
	What the hell was that one called?
	Gravity.
	I love science fiction movies.
	Moon, I loved.
	Um, Thomas says talk about Gab, and he showed me a couple frog emojis there.
	So Gab is the new social media thing that they're trying to be totally free speech based.
	I am on there actually, slash Dave Rubin, and I think we have slash Rubin Report too.
	And to me, Look, anyone that's trying to make something that's going to free us all up and not have to worry about censorship in the future or any of that stuff, be it coming from the government or from corporations or whatever, I think is great.
	So I'm happy to help them in any way that I can.
	And, you know, I just don't have much more time to put into that at the moment.
	But if one day I got to spend more time there because some shit's gone down on the mainstream ones, I'll be there.
	So I hope my shout out was worth it.
	OK, a couple more shout outs to you guys.
	I want to shout out to Elliot.
	Thank you, Elliot.
	who just gave on Patreon.
	I want to thank David on PayPal.
	I was at a meeting today.
	My name's David.
	My producer's name is David.
	We were at a meeting with two more Davids.
	It was insane.
	So there's David, who just gave on PayPal.
	Jackson, who just gave on PayPal.
	Craig, who just gave... Greg!
	Sorry, Greg, not Craig, who gave on Patreon.
	And Andrew, who just gave on PayPal.
	Thank you, guys.
	Thank you for keeping the dream alive.
	Somebody's in there from Somalia.
	Shout out to Somalia.
	That's awesome.
	You know, one of the things I'm really proud of is that we truly have a worldwide audience.
	I mean, I see how many people are watching.
	I think Saudi Arabia is like our seventh most watched country.
	So it's pretty sweet.
	Uh, Minds is another.
	People are asking about minds.com.
	That's another social media network that, uh, that I've talked to some of the people that are creating it.
	And they're really trying to do like a YouTube, Twitter, Facebook hybrid.
	Um, and all of these things, you know, the question is, do they get to critical mass?
	And, uh, you know, to all of us who are the freethinkers, uh, do all the freethinkers get to get to have a place to our, not to ourselves, but do we have a place that really is safe for all of us ultimately?
	Is the real question.
	All right, so I'm gonna do a couple more on the Patreon questions.
	By the way, I see ThatGuyT in here, so you know what I'm gonna do?
	I'm gonna announce right now that tomorrow's YouTube Week guest on The Rubin Report is ThatGuyT, my man in Atlanta.
	I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed talking to him.
	He's a great guy, wickedly smart, funny.
	Really, really enjoyed it.
	I think you guys are going to as well.
	Okay, a couple Patreon questions.
	Jeffrey says, pop over to Sydney and we'll make it through a Little Creatures pale ale six pack.
	That sounds good to me.
	I would love to go to Australia.
	Both of my neighbors on this side and this side are Australian.
	I love Australians.
	We get a ton of fan mail from Australia.
	I've worked on a couple of side projects related to the show with some Australians.
	And I'd love to get there and meet Crocodile Dundee, check out the reverse Coriolis effect toilets, see the frog that Bart Simpson brought there, all that stuff.
	That would be fun.
	Sabrina says, do you have a favorite wine variety?
	So I'm a big, so I like red wine in general.
	I really don't like white wine.
	But, oh, can you bust out one of those Ruben Record bottles?
	I don't really like white, so I'm usually big on cabs.
	I like big, bold, earthy wines, so I like Cabernet usually.
	But, you know, it's hot in LA all the time.
	We're at the end of the summer now, beginning of fall, but it's still hot.
	So I've been doing some lighter ones.
	I was sent some great light Italian wines by a distributor that I really loved, and like, you know, a nice Pinot Noir.
	Anyway, they also sent me this.
	We've got some sparkling, some Rubin Report sparkling Wine right here, which if this was chilled, I should be drinking that.
	But we were thinking about maybe selling this, selling these.
	So, you know, we'll see.
unidentified		So we got a lot of plans, so we'll see.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Somebody said that I should moderate a debate.
		There could possibly be something in the works where I would be moderating maybe something with Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.
		Possibly, possibly, possibly.
		I'd probably just jinx the hell out of it by saying it.
		So there you go.
		All right, let's see.
		Daniel says, do you have any limit line about people you'd be unwilling to interview?
		Would you ever interview a legitimate white supremacist, a jihadist, etc?
		If you were directly Well, look, my only limit on free speech, I have no limits on free speech as a general rule.
		You can say whatever you want.
		It's words.
		And that's why this whole silliness about banning Milo on Twitter and when they talk about all the hate that's online, it's just words.
		It's people just expressing words to upset people.
		And that's what these idiots don't get.
		So as a general rule, in terms of free speech, I'm for everything.
		If I wouldn't bring someone on the show who is directly calling for violence to people because I wouldn't want to help instigate violence, Um, but short of that, yeah, if a white supremacist, I'm not opposed to it morally, well, I'm opposed to white supremacism the same way I would be opposed to any other supremacism, I suppose, um, but no, I don't think so.
		I think I would talk, I would talk to anyone and try to teach, you know, Teach them a slightly better way of looking at the world or something like that, but that's a good question.
		Let's see.
		This thing's moving so freaking fast.
		Okay, what do we got here?
		Hey Dave, how about the schools like University of Chicago sending out those letters alerting incoming students that they're not going to get trigger warnings about freaking time?
		Yes, that is the best news to come out of academia in months.
		If you guys didn't see this, but basically the University of Chicago said no more trigger warnings.
		If you want to come here, no more safe spaces.
		We're going to treat you like individuals and intellectuals and we're going to make this a learning space.
		And a place where there should be a diversity of thought, not just the diversity of people.
		And that's what we need.
		That's what we need.
		You will never beat bad ideas by silencing them.
		You will beat bad ideas by showing good ideas.
		And this is what, sadly, this is the far left and the far right have this in common.
		They want to silence people and they want to silence dissent.
		It's not cool and it's not good.
		It's not good for a functioning society.
		You know who does that?
		Theocrats and the theocracies across the world and places that are dictatorships and all of that.
		We have freedom here and freedom is based on the exchange of ideas and the more we are afraid.
		You guys, I see this all the time in the comment section on Facebook, Facebook especially, where you guys say to me, you know, I'm afraid to post your video because I don't want my friend to block me or my mom to defriend me or blah blah blah.
		It's like, man, if that's where we're at now, if that's where we're at in 2016 now, that you're self-censoring now, what do you think it's going to be like in 2020 if you're self-censoring when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the best two candidates we got?
		What do you think it's going to be like in four years?
		So that's why you have to speak up.
		I'm nobody special.
		I'm somebody that believes in what I'm doing and I see this thing.
		Man, wake up!
		Wake up and don't be afraid to share your thoughts.
		And if someone tells you you should be afraid to share your thoughts, use your thoughts and tell them to go fuck themselves.
		All right, a couple more.
		I wanna thank Jason on Patreon.
		I wanna thank Jeff on Patreon, Nicholas on Patreon, Chris on PayPal, Anthony on Patreon, and Casey on Patreon.
		Appreciate it, guys.
		You guys are the lifeblood of the show.
		It really is that simple.
		The more, the bigger our monthly budget is.
		Basically, Patreon is our monthly budget.
		PayPal has helped us buy equipment and all this stuff, and Patreon's become our monthly budget, so we can go ahead and grow the show.
		My hope is that when we hit 30,000, We're going to double the episodes immediately.
		That day, we will double the episodes per week.
		And we have a lot of cool things.
		Someone said, why do you hate Trump so much?
		I don't hate Trump.
		I think I understand what's going on with the movement behind Trump.
		I spoke at UCLA with Milo, which in effect was a Trump rally
		'cause they all were there for Milo.
		And he loves Trump, obviously.
	And I met a lot of young, smart people.
	And by the way, they were every color and race and religion and sexuality and all of that, that were supporting Trump.
	And they all kept saying it's because they're so sick of this political correctness bullshit.
	Now, if you think that Trump, who often threatens to sue reporters
	and blacklist reporters and news organizations, If you think he's the answer to free speech, I think that's a little misguided, but I fully understand why people are voting for him.
	We're just in a fucked up place right now.
	Somebody says, do you know, do you think that the government knows more about UFOs?
	Yes, I do.
	But I would say that what Carl Sagan always said, which was extraordinary claims require extraordinary
	evidence.
	So I don't believe it until I have more evidence.
	But I like that.
	You know, I like to entertain that thought.
	I think there's a lot of shit that the government doesn't share with us.
	A couple of people asked about my feelings about Bernie.
	I mean, I liked him as a person more than I liked a lot of what was happening to the movement behind him,
	because I think it really was caught up in this social justice, oppression Olympics thing.
	And I think it was all about, you know, how do we take, instead of building up everybody,
	it was about taking from people to...
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	Harm success to give to other people.
	No one should give you anything in life in general.
	You have to go get yours.
	We have to create a system, a fair system, that allows everyone to get yours.
	But I'm much more for the individual than I am for the collective.
	I think ultimately, you know, whatever Hillary did and the DNC did to shut Bernie down, they've in effect, they've gotten rid of him.
	Like his movement is over.
	I hate to tell you.
	But it really is.
	I know his people don't want to believe that, but she kicked him to the curb, and then what did she do two weeks ago?
	She mentions the alt-right by name, talks about Breitbart.com, references Milo, and it's like she made the alt-right stronger while at the same time she got rid of Bernie.
	So that's what I mean about these misguided people.
	It's really, it's nutty.
	Let's see.
	Okay.
	Alex on Patreon asked if I can get Austin Peterson on the show, who's the runner-up in the Libertarian Ticket.
	So he's a young guy.
	We had him on the show, actually, right around the Libertarian Debate, and then I think he cancelled on us, if I'm not mistaken.
	Oh, we cancelled on him.
	Something came up with us.
	But yeah, I'd be happy to have him on.
	He's a true libertarian, almost to the point where I think it's too much.
	You know, if you saw the libertarian debate and the convention, it's like, these guys are arguing about whether we should have driver's licenses.
	And it's like, guys, I get it.
	I'm for the individual.
	I'm for not having huge government and low taxes and all those things.
	But it's like, yeah, you should have some standards to drive a car.
	Like a couple little things.
	And it's like, if you guys are going to argue about that, then you're never going to be taken seriously.
	But I would like to have mine.
	So somebody said Bill Burr would love to.
	I opened for him.
	My first, like, big road gig when I was doing stand-up in New York, I opened for Bill Burr at the Mohegan Sun, which I think is in upstate New York.
	Maybe it's in Connecticut.
	And it was a great weekend.
	It was the first time I ever, like, made real money doing stand-up.
	And I was treated well.
	And they took us to the venue in a limo.
	And before I got on stage, The manager, it was big theater.
	I had never performed in front of like 500 people before.
	The manager was like, Mr. Rubin, can I unscrew your bottle of water before you go on stage?
	And I was like, what?
	Because you're treated like such shit as a comic in New York City.
	All right, I want to thank Adam!
	Who just gave 50 on Patreon.
	Thank you, Adam.
	You're getting a t-shirt, you're getting a mug, you're getting all the previous rewards before that, so appreciate that.
	And Nathan, thank you.
	Nathan just went up on Patreon, so I appreciate that, Nathan.
	Awesome, thank you.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
	Yeah, Mark Stein.
	We're talking to Mark Stein.
	It's gonna happen.
	He's writing a book right now, so his schedule's been a little whacked, but it is gonna happen.
	Someone's asking about Douglas Murray.
	We've had him on, and as I said, his videos all got demonetized, but I would have him on again.
	A couple people asked me to take my clothes off.
	Not going to happen.
	Benjamin on Patreon says, what's the most recent video game that you played that you enjoyed?
	So this is funny, so I was at, my brother had his third kid about two weeks ago, so I was in New York, and I was playing with my nephew, who's just gone into second grade this week.
	Playing with my nephew, we were playing Wii U, we were playing Mario Kart, and we were playing, what's the big fighting one?
	Where everybody's fighting.
	Oh man, what the hell's that game?
	What's that game?
	Somebody let me know.
	They're all fighting.
	Mario something.
	Oh man, somebody help me here.
	I can't believe I'm blanking.
	We did play Contra 2, but I'll get to that in a second.
	What's the one where they're all fighting?
	All the Nintendo people.
	Mario Party.
	Thank you.
unidentified		Jesus.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Smash Brothers.
		It was Smash Brothers.
		Yeah.
		Thank you.
		You guys are better than my people over here.
		Yes, it was Smash Brothers.
		Okay.
		Holy shit, the chat's freaking out.
		Yes, it was.
		Look at this.
		Look at that.
		The chat is absolutely out of control.
		Holy shit.
		That's hilarious.
		So yes, we were playing Smash Brothers, we're playing Mario Kart.
		Like, I'm just not that good at these games right now.
		Or at least the second grader was just kicking the shit out of me.
		So finally, I was like, forget this.
		I was like, let me get on the Wii Store, and I downloaded like a whole, I downloaded like 10 old NES 8-bit games, and we downloaded Contra, and Bases Loaded, and Life Force, which was sort of like a Gradius, a space shooter.
		I love the shooters.
		And Life Force is particularly cool, because you go, you know, it does the scrolls that way, and then top to bottom, or bottom to top.
		And we played a bunch of those games.
		And, you know, it's funny because even playing those games for a while as an adult with, you know, basically what's pretty much the equivalent of an old Nintendo controller, your hands hurt after.
		I was in pain, but I was pretty good at the games.
		Oh, we played Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, but the one that you can download now doesn't have Mike Tyson anymore.
		It's like Mr. Dream's Punch-Out, but that's a great game.
		I used to be pretty damn good at Goldeneye on N64.
		And yeah, we played Contra.
		Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, PA, select, start.
		I used to be a pretty good gamer.
		I was my first job out of college.
		I was an assistant manager.
		At Electronics Boutique at the Broadway Mall in Hicksville, New York.
		You guys may know Electronics Boutique as GameStop now.
		I think they were bought by GameStop, but I mentioned that on Twitter recently, and a couple of you said that GameStop, or that Electronics Boutique still exists in some places.
		A few people asking about Bill Maher, of course.
		I've been trying to get him forever.
		I'm trying to get on the show, and I've met with all the producers there.
		My agent's been working on it.
		We're working on it.
		I think it's going to happen, getting me on there.
		And Richard Dawkins, you know, he's coming to LA in November to do a chat with Sam.
		So I'm hoping I can go to that, and I'm going to see if I can get him in studio for that.
		That might be tough, but I think we can figure out something.
		Lauren Southern, we'll have her on when she's in town.
		All right, let's do a little quick radio reset.
		You know, I used to be a radio host.
		I was on Sirius XM for a while.
		I did more of like a pop culture thing, not very political.
		I'm much happier doing what I'm doing now.
		But in a radio reset, just to remind you what we're doing here.
		So we're doing a little fundraiser, I guess, for the Rubin Report.
		I was just really talking to you, but it's patreon.com slash rubinreport, rubinreport.com slash donate.
		And you guys are helping us build this show and not worry about YouTube monetization.
		I don't have to enter deals that I don't want to enter.
		There's no middleman between me and you, and I think this is what news and current events and everything else is supposed to be.
		I don't know.
		I don't know.
		People asking more about Hillary's health.
		Do I think she's sick and unfit to be president?
unidentified		I don't know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		I know that what I saw the other day was extremely disturbing.
		And do I think they're being honest with us or would be honest with us in the future?
		No.
		So I think that if you're voting for Hillary, you do have to think at some level, maybe you are voting for Cain.
		This is a situation where the vice president situation is important.
		We simply just don't know.
		And if they had been more transparent and we felt like we could trust them a little bit more, I think that would be better.
		But we, but I don't.
		Again, about a couple of people asked my thoughts on India.
		So I would love, love, love to visit India.
		The two places that I haven't been that I want to visit the most are Japan first and India second.
		Would love to visit India.
		I should do more on India on the show.
		We did a little bit about the history of India with Tarik Patat, which was brilliant and it was a joy to chat with.
		So I should do more on that.
		Amit says come to Israel.
		I was in Israel in November.
		I gave a speech there and I stayed in Tel Aviv for a week.
		It was amazing.
		People are incredibly Nice.
		Let's see.
		Man, this thing's going fast.
		Martin Shkreli.
		He's the guy that jacked up the prices on the drugs and everyone hates him.
		He follows me on Twitter.
		I've messaged him before.
		I would like to talk to him.
		I think it would be really interesting.
		Talk about the outrage machine.
		Talk about the economics of doing medicine and all that stuff.
		I think he would be really great.
		Let's see.
		iPhone or Android?
		Got an iPhone.
		I have the 7 coming on Friday.
		I have a cracked iPhone.
		Isn't that sad?
		Isn't that pathetic?
		Isn't that just pathetic?
		Let's see.
		A bunch of people, Jackson on Patreon is asking about gun control, which I want to do more on in general, by the way, but I've talked about it a bit.
		Look, my feelings are I'm for the Second Amendment.
		I believe you have the right to bear arms.
		I think that our founding fathers, on one hand, didn't know that weapons were gonna be as destructive
		as they are now.
		At the same time, the whole idea behind them was so that we could form a militia
		to stop a government that became too powerful.
		So our government also has weapons that are far more powerful.
		And if you don't believe me, just see what they do on the streets
		when there are protests, right?
		We have things that look like weapons of war on our own streets and in our country.
		Um...
		But as a general rule, I'm for the Second Amendment, and I think we have to, we have to protect the Second Amendment, while at the same time having an honest discussion.
		Look, if I had, let's say I had a semi-automatic right here, a fucking giant ass, let's say I had Jesse Ventura's gun from Predator, remember that thing?
		Let's say I had it right here.
		I would not walk outside and start mowing people down.
		I would not walk into a church and kill people.
		I would not walk into a mosque or a temple or anywhere else or a school or anywhere else
		and start killing people.
		So the gun is the tool, but the real issue is what causes people to do this,
		be it mental health or medication or some combination thereof,
		or all of those other things that would cause people to kill.
		A knife doesn't just magically stab somebody.
	You have to, a person grabs a knife and stabs somebody.
	So we have to talk about the root of these things.
	So these things should be talked about in conjunction with each other.
	So when Omar Mateen goes into Pulse nightclub in Orlando, kills 30 something or almost 40 gay people.
	Or people that were at a gay club.
	It's not the gun's fault.
	Now did he have probably too easy access to a gun?
	Yes.
	But those systems will never be perfect.
	If you're going to want to get a gun, there are so many guns out there, you're going to be able to get one.
	What we have to talk about is the roots of why he did it.
	Religious indoctrination and being taught that gay was evil and all this other stuff.
	It's a complex thing that we should talk about two things at once.
	Every time there's a shooting, immediately you have people saying, take all the guns away.
	That causes gun purchases to go up every single time.
	So that, to me, is the real issue.
	We have to have mature conversations about these things, which we're not really good to do.
	Joseph says, Sam Harris has a great podcast on guns.
	I haven't heard it.
	I'm a couple behind on that, but I will check that out.
	Couple more shout-outs.
	I want to thank Moises on Patreon, Brendan on Patreon, Blaine on Patreon, Manuel on PayPal.
	Thank you, guys.
	It's very mail-heavy today, I think.
	Well, Blaine, that's 50 on Patreon.
	Thank you, my friend.
	You're getting a mug, you're getting a shirt, you're getting bonus videos, one more thing, all of that stuff.
	Where are the chicks?
	Where are the ladies at?
	Where are you, the ladies, at?
	Somebody said Cornel West would be happy to have him on.
	He goes on Bill Maher.
	I disagree with him on a lot of stuff.
	I think he does go into some of that regressive stuff, but I also think he's incredibly smart, and I treat him the same respect that I treat all my guests.
	So yeah, there you go.
	Casey on Patreon.
	This is probably the most important question that anyone has asked me, and I don't know why anyone's talking about it.
	Asked, can we talk about the upcoming controls of the Internet?
	Nobody's talking about this, or barely anyone's talking about this, and I hope you guys know about this.
	But right now, the basics of this are that the United States controls the Internet, for better or worse.
	We have the basic set of controls of the Internet.
	Obama is trying to give control of the internet to the United Nations, to ICANN, which is run by the United Nations, which in effect would allow a lot of seriously repressive regimes like Russia and China and many others to have control over our information.
	The United States is not perfect.
	We do surveillance shit.
	We do, you know, Obama's the longest serving president ever at war because we've been at war every day of his presidency.
	All of this shit, right?
	So I'm not, this is not a, oh my God, the United States is so great and we're the best and blah, blah, blah.
	But I think we've let the internet be pretty freaking free.
	And the idea, Emma wants in on this, The idea that we're going to give up control to the United Nations.
	The United Nations is a horrifically corrupt organization that almost no good comes out of in most ways.
	That, you know, Libya at times sat on the Human Rights Council and Saudi Arabia runs things about women's health and all this crazy shit.
	So we have to be very careful about that.
	We have right now control of the internet, and it's pretty good, right?
	It's pretty, pretty good.
	And we shouldn't be afraid of losing that.
	I think Emma wants a little love.
	This is Emma, who is the best dog on Earth.
	Emma, say hi.
	She's a little camera shy.
	Say hi.
	She's the best dog on Earth.
	I've told her story a couple times.
	Emma is 12 years old.
	She is a rescue from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
	They found her in a box, and she had given birth during the hurricane.
	And she was in a box and they had, she had three puppies and she was nursing them.
	But when they rescued them, she was really sick.
	Cause you know, they're drinking oil in the water and God knows what.
	And the puppies were healthy.
	So they sent the animals all over the country to be adopted.
	I don't know if you guys remember at the time, but all over TV, they were sending, you know, on the internet, you could see to adopt animals from, from New Orleans and Louisiana, whatever.
	And the, the hurricane was in August of 2005.
	I got her in June of 2006.
	That's how long she was sick and stuck in her crate and all that.
	And this is crazy.
	The first day I had her, the first day that I had her, I was in Central Park and this woman came up to me.
	And Emma's had three names because she's had her name in New Orleans because she had a tag with no collar.
	So we didn't know her name there.
	And then at the Humane Society, they named her Paisley.
	And then we named her Emma.
	But the first day I had her, I'm walking her in Central Park, and this woman comes up to me and says, is that Paisley from the Humane Society?
	And I said, yeah.
	And she said, this is her son, Bernard.
	And Bernard got adopted by someone that lived like two blocks away from us.
	So they survived all that.
	And Emma's lived in New Orleans.
	She's lived in New York City.
	She's lived in LA.
	She's been to the Grand Canyon.
	She's been to the White House.
	Where else have you been?
	You been anywhere else?
	She's part Basenji, which is known as the barfless dog.
	So she pretty much never barks.
	It's hard to get a peep out of her, but she's really the best.
	Let's see.
	All right, what else is going on?
	Want to thank Luke.
	Is that Luke Skywalker?
	Thank you, Luke.
	May the force be with you, who just gave on Patreon.
	I want to thank Terry.
	Thank you, Terry.
	Is that Terry Porter, point guard of the early 90s Trailblazers?
	One of my favorite basketball players of all time.
	Want to thank Omar, who just gave on Patreon.
	Thank you, guys.
	Appreciate it.
	All right, let's see what else is going on here.
	Penny, who gives on Patreon, I'm just giving her a shout out just for that.
	Uh, Let's see, someone said I should have a female, Brendan says, have a female conservative on.
	We've been talking to, what's her name, Dana Loesch from The Blaze, so I'll see about getting her on.
	And look, by the way, oh, and then a minute later, he said Dana Loesch, okay.
	King McKay wants to know if I watch Game of Thrones.
	Yes, I watch Game of Thrones, gotta tell ya.
	Don't love it the way everybody else does.
	I know right now I'm gonna lose money on Patreon, and a lot of you are gonna unsubscribe.
	I like it.
	I do like it.
	I can't name, look, I know there's the Midget.
	I know there's Cersei.
	I know there's the Dragon Lady.
	I know there's the guy with no nuts.
	I know there's the guy with no hand.
	I know there's Littlefoot.
	And the guy who ran the Red Wedding with all his ugly daughters.
	You know, who else?
	Oh, and there's the girl.
	I like the girl with no face.
	Or no name.
	Whatever her thing is.
	But, I don't know.
	I like science fiction more, personally.
	Like, that's what I like.
	Oh god, I said midget.
	There we go.
	Now that's, no, that's, it's over.
	Honduras wants me to get an interview with Ben Shapiro.
	Had Ben Shapiro on.
	Disagree with him a lot, but I like him and I think he's a decent guy.
	I'd be happy to have him on again.
	Littlefoot?
	Is it Bigfoot?
	No, his name's Littlefoot.
	Oh, Littlefinger!
	Littlefinger.
	Right, right, right.
	Okay.
	Let's see, wait, let me just try to think of like two more people in Game of Thrones.
	Well, there was Lannister's father who got killed while taking a shit.
	And there was the big guy, the big guy who crushed the other guy's head.
	There was that guy.
	And then, you know, there's the king with the blue face.
	Man, it's a lot.
	Okay, let's see what's going on here.
unidentified		Okay, I'm not sure what that is right there.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There's a lot happening here.
		Oh, a couple people are asking about Ann Coulter at the Rob Lowe Roast.
		I only saw two minutes of the whole thing.
		You know those roasts, I think, you know, back in the day, Roasts were cool.
		If you wanna watch a cool roast, go on YouTube, I'm sure you can find it.
		You'll find like the Bob Hope roasts, and Ronald Reagan would be there, and Dean Martin, and obviously Bob Hope, and Joan Rivers, and like these classic legends of Hollywood who were friends.
		You could tell these people were actually friends with each other.
		What the roasts had become, and it was like this insider thing, what the roasts had become is this Hollywood thing where they just slap together all these people who don't really know each other, Who tell generic jokes about each other.
		It's not particularly funny or interesting.
		So yeah, I don't think it's that great, frankly.
		Somebody said Dennis Prager.
		Yeah, I'm doing something with him next month, I think for his university, and then I'll do, I think he's coming on at some point also.
		Someone said James Franco.
		I was about to say he's dead.
		Who was I thinking of?
		James Franco's not dead.
		I was thinking of the guy from the car thing that died in the car.
		The guy, the car guy.
		Who's the car guy?
		Not... The car guy!
		He's in Fast and Furious, the dead guy.
		I don't know, that made me think of James Franco.
		Who the hell am I thinking about?
		Paul Walker, yeah, Paul Walker.
		He's not coming on, he's dead.
		Okay, let's see.
		Thank you, Paul Walker.
		This is hilarious.
		We should just do something where I can't quite come up with the reference that I'm thinking of, and people just slam me with comments until the chat explodes.
unidentified		Okay, Paul Walker, I got it, I got it, Paul Walker, okay.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Little insider info about me, have never seen any of the Fast and Furious.
		Not a minute of any of them, but I was recently at Universal Studios here in Burbank, and there's a Fast and Furious ride, which was pretty awesome, actually, although the Transformers one was by far the best.
		I'd be happy to answer any Star Wars, Transformer questions.
		G.I.
		Joe, good at that.
		Love the movie District 9.
		Somebody mentioned that.
		I've only seen it once in the movie theater.
		Haven't seen it in, like, it's gotta be 10 years or something, but I loved it.
		Okay, let's see, what else?
		Oh, a couple people asked me to do more on GMOs.
		We'll definitely do more of that.
		Look, once we can start doubling the content, which I think we're pretty close to, then yeah, we'll do a lot more.
		And also, I'll do a little more debate stuff.
		You know, the thing is, I don't want to moderate debates where people are yelling at each other.
		Like, if I can get it to a place where we're really having conversations, I would love to do that.
		But I don't want to do the yelling back and forth thing.
		You can turn on cable news to see that.
		Somebody said something about Jurassic Park.
		I think they're referencing the Universal ride, which is a log flume, which is pretty fun.
		Carl Sagan, I'd love to have him, but he's dead too.
		But I've read many of his books and the movie Contact, which is one of my favorite movies, is a Carl Sagan.
		It's his only nonfiction, it's his only fiction book, I should say, not nonfiction.
		Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
		A couple shout-outs.
		I want to thank Sabrina, who went from 5 to 50 on Patreon.
		Thank you, Sabrina.
		I want to thank Jaden.
		Is that Jaden Smith?
		I'm sure he's a big fan, I would imagine.
		Jaden, thank you.
		Creston and Honduras, thank you guys.
		Honduras jumped up on Patreon and Creston's all new.
		Gonna get a Rubin Report t-shirt.
		So, I thank you guys.
		Yes, I would love, of course, to interview Edward Snowden. I think we've tried a couple things through
		the the WikiLeaks people.
		So I will keep pushing on that. Yeah, we've tried for Clinton. We've tried for Trump. I tried for
		pretty much, you know, the thing is that most of the candidates during the primaries
		They don't want to do real one-on-ones.
		What they'll do is they'll do a six-minute snip on 60 Minutes or they'll do, you know, the usual nonsense with Wolf who couldn't ask a follow-up question if his life depended on it on the cable news stuff.
		So they don't like doing long-form stuff because they would really actually have to think.
		And it's not even that I would do gotcha questions.
		You guys know the way I conduct an interview.
		But I would really ask You know, I would ask honest questions, and I would let them talk.
		And I think mostly what they're afraid of is if they talk in a broad way that they're going to start slipping up because they don't really know what they're talking about.
		By the way, this goes for everybody.
		You know, one of the things about Obama that I don't like is that Obama has a way, when he does do a press conference, you know, they've got 80 people there, all that want to ask questions.
		He'll take three questions because he answers them in such a long-winded way that by the time he's done, you forgot what was asked of him in the first place.
		Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
		What else do we got?
		There's a lot happening.
		All right, so what are we doing?
		You know, we're gonna go till 7 30.
		We'll do an hour and a half.
		I think that's fair.
		And then I have to, I gotta do stuff.
		I got some roofing to do or something.
		Anyway, you can go to Patreon.
		Oh, somebody asked about psychedelics.
		I've done a couple of them.
		I've done shrooms probably, I don't know, maybe 10 or 15 times in my life.
		It's been at least 10 years since I've done them, but always love them.
		I think they're a great way of expanding your mind.
	I talked a little bit about it with Sam in our last interview, Sam Harris.
	You know, look, this is something that naturally grows out of the earth, right?
	There's been nothing chemically added to it.
	It grows off of cow shit.
	And if you eat this mushroom, you have a deeply spiritual experience.
	You know, and there's other things like this, like ayahuasca and several other things that you can either smoke or eat or whatever.
	Like, that's coming from the earth.
	Marijuana comes from the earth.
	And guess what?
	You try all these medicines that are on commercials all day long.
	You've got restless legs.
	You can't sleep.
	You can't do this.
	Everything else, you might have thoughts of suicide.
	You might hate people, jump out the window.
	You start vomiting, diarrhea.
	Guess what solves all those things?
	Usually, marijuana.
	There's something to be said about what magically comes out of the earth.
	I never had a bad experience on mushrooms.
	I did acid once.
	It is made in a lab, or wherever they're making it, in a frickin' Winnebago, whatever.
	But I did acid once, and I hated it.
	I remember the last two hours, I just saw three-dimensional triangles flying at me for
	two hours.
	I was like, "I'm never doing that again."
	But the stuff that comes out of the earth, I almost see no reason why it would be illegal.
	And nobody that I know of has ever died of a marijuana overdose.
	And I don't think anyone's dying of a mushroom overdose either.
	That would be a hell of a way to go, though, if you were going to go.
	Let's see.
	Oh, a lot of people asking about Phil DeFranco.
	Tweet him or something.
	I would love to have him on.
	We've exchanged a couple DMs about it.
	And, you know, he was really the one that put himself out there after that whole YouTube monetization thing.
	I think he's a really good guy.
	I think he's built a really fascinating business.
	And I think we line up a lot of ways politically.
	He endorsed Gary Johnson for the last election, which I think is really interesting.
	I think there's a ton we would talk about.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
	and this level of connecting with fans and building businesses around it.
	So I would love to have him on, I really would.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
	What about Steven Pinker?
	He'd have great insight into why regressives work the way they do.
	That's from Bradley on Patreon.
	He'd been asked about him a thousand times.
	We must have reached out to him.
	I will follow up on that.
	I'm pretty sure we have.
	I follow him on Twitter.
	I love him.
	I've read some of his work.
	I would love to have him on.
	Penn Jillette, we're working on.
	I did Reason Rally with him, so we're trying to make that happen.
	I think we made a little headway on this this year.
	Paul Joseph Watson, I've had him on before and I'd be happy to have him on again.
	Let's see, I see a few of you are disappointed in what I said about Game of Thrones.
	But I do like it and I watch it.
	Is that not enough?
	Is that not enough?
	You know what I mean?
	I was also really glad that a lot of you liked the interview with Chris Regan today.
	I really liked talking to him, sitting down and shooting the shit.
	And it's very cool, you know, we're people on this side of the screen too.
	Just like you're people on that side of the screen.
	And what I liked about Chris in particular is that he does, you know, really well produced, cool, fun music videos and a lot of stuff about the regressive left and SJWs and all that.
	And it was, I thought it was really nice to like get to see a guy that you don't get to see that often.
	Get to see him in a long-form conversation, so that was very cool.
	Let's see what else is going on here.
	I want to thank Manuel, who just gave on PayPal, and Scott, who just gave on Patreon.
	Thank you.
	Dougs on Patreon is asking about Ricky Gervais.
	So I was hounding and hounding the guy on Twitter for a while and every time I tweeted him,
	gets like usually like a couple dozen retweets, couple hundred favorites.
	So he did say he would do it.
	So I said, by saying you're gonna do it, I'll now give you like two, three months off.
	And that was a good two, three months ago.
	So I'm due to follow up.
	So we'll make it happen.
	A couple of people asked about Peter Hitchens too.
	He's Christopher Hitchens' brother.
	We traded a couple of like somewhat hostile emails, I thought, but then he said he would do it.
	So we'll make that happen.
	Um...
	All right, let's see.
	Oh, this is a good one.
	Casey says, what are three people you would want to be with on a deserted island?
	Then I lost the rest of the, oh, celebs, musicians, professionals, anyone, thanks.
	All right, three people on a deserted island.
	All right, well, first I would need someone funny to be around.
	He's obviously a curmudgeon, but I would go Larry David.
	I need to be around someone funny that would really like, ah, this situation, just gotta be around that.
	Then I would need to be around somebody, I'm doing public people, not people in my personal life for this.
	I would need to be around someone that could get some shit done.
	So I need somebody that can, like, build shit.
	Who's, like, a pro that can... Oh, you know who would be good?
	What's his name from Dirty Jobs?
	Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs would be good, because he could, like, do shit.
	You know what I mean?
	I feel like he would get a lot done.
	And then I would need, let's see, I would need somebody that...
	What else?
	I'm sort of entertained by someone.
	I have someone that's building some shit.
	And then I would just take somebody that I'd like to shoot hoops with, because I would eventually build a basketball hoop out of a tree and some netting and stuff.
	So my favorite basketball player of all time, who's long retired, former trailblazer at Houston Rocket, Clyde Drexler, who I would love to get on the show.
	Yeah, someone says get Mike Rowe on the show.
	I should.
	I think we've asked him and we'll ask him again.
	Get George Stanz on the show.
	I would like to have Jason Alexander.
	I think that would be interesting.
	You know, just to talk about what is it like to have your whole life associated with one character.
	I saw something in an interview with him somewhere where he's like, you know, everywhere I go, no matter what I do for the rest of my life, people are just going to yell out lines from George.
	Yeah.
	And that's really an interesting place.
	Ah, I see some love for Clyde the Glyde.
	That's what I like to see.
	Very nice.
	A couple people asking...
	It's going fast.
	I would have Wolf Blitzer on.
	I went up to him once at the debate, one of the, which one was it?
	It was a Republican, no, no, it was the Democratic debate that I was at in Vegas a couple months ago.
	And I went up to Wolf and I said hi, and he said, oh, you know, I work with Larry King at ORATV.
	He said, oh, you know, tell Larry I said hi.
	I said, well, could you do my show for a couple minutes?
	I'll just interview you right here.
	We'll grab an iPhone.
	We'll do a little thing.
	No, not into it.
	Not into it.
	But that's the difference.
	That's the difference between being a major, big-time, prime-time player and someone that will connect with their audience in this way.
	It's different.
	I used to want that.
	I wanted that sort of mainstream successor to be accepted by that gang or make that level of money or something like that.
	But I would not trade anything that I have right now for that.
	I truly wouldn't.
	Okay, let's see what else is here.
	Oh, you know what?
	Someone said they were the Dean Martin celebrity roast.
	I think I said they were the Bob Hope roast.
	They were the Dean Martin roast.
	I stand corrected!
	I don't mind being corrected, by the way.
	That's not a problem.
	Tom says, have you tried any people from Fox News?
	We've been working on O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly.
	I hope we make some headway with either of them.
	You know, O'Reilly doesn't do that many interviews.
	Off his show.
	He goes on The View maybe once a year.
	I feel like he goes on Bill Maher maybe once a year.
	He doesn't do much.
	I think Megyn Kelly would be interesting because she's a news person who got herself caught in the news, which I think is an interesting thing.
	Justin says that Dave, you're the best.
	I appreciate that, Justin.
	Thank you very much.
	A couple people have asked about Colin Kaepernick.
	Look, my thing is very simple.
	We live in a free country.
	You do not have to stand for the national anthem.
	And also, they can't force you to do it.
	But at the same time, if people want to make fun of you, if you want to exercise your freedom of expression by not standing, well then at the same time, people can make fun of you for... They can use their freedom of expression and freedom of speech to mock you for it.
	I think generally speaking, look, the guy's a...
	Multi-millionaire who plays football for a living saying, you know, how, you know, that we live in this system of oppression.
	Yes, things are not perfect here.
	But as I say on the show all the time, it's like, you know what, as screwy as things can be sometimes, and it seems like we have a lot of problems, we have every race and religion and color and creed and sexuality and everything else living in this country right now.
	And I was just in New York City a couple weeks ago where I lived most of my life, going to New York City subway.
	And see everyone from every walk of life there.
	And guess what?
	Even if we don't all aren't hugging and kissing the whole time, we live and we coexist together.
	And that's much better than it is in most places.
	Much, much better than most places in Europe and most places elsewhere in the world.
	We are a melting pot here and it's been great.
	And my, you know, I've said this before, my best two friends growing up, one of my buddies was Italian.
	One was Greek.
	I was Jewish.
	And we celebrated each other's holidays.
	We did Greek Easter at Ari's.
	We did Christmas at John's.
	They came to my house for Hanukkah.
	And yet we all went to the same public school.
	And we all lived in the same community.
	And all of us were third generation people.
	So our grandparents all came here.
	I don't know.
	So our great-grandparents or grandparents came here, made a better life for their kids,
	and our parents made a better life for us, and our hope is that we'll make a better life
	for whoever comes after us.
	And that's what America's all about.
	So we have to remember within the context that it's still pretty good here.
	And you can complain about whatever you want, that's your freedom, and you don't have to stand,
	you don't have to, but are you making anything better at the same time?
	I don't know, maybe he is.
	Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
	Um...
	ThatGuyT, who is my YouTube guest tomorrow, with a good question.
	Have you ever thought about having someone on to interview you on your own show?
	We have thought about it, and I happen to know one of the best interviewers alive, so we're thinking about doing that sometime soon.
	I would like to do that, because I've done A bunch of podcasts and print press and other things like that.
	But no, I don't think I've really ever had the thing totally flipped on me for an hour or two.
	Although I think you guys pretty much know what I think about most things.
	Somebody said, get Gary Johnson on again.
	So I'm going to this fundraiser that I mentioned earlier that somebody's paying for me to go to next week in Beverly Hills.
	And Bill Weld will be there as well, his VP candidate.
	And I'd be happy to have him on again.
	So maybe we can...
	Make that happen.
	All right, what else is going on?
	Okay, I want to thank Christopher, who just gave on PayPal.
	I want to thank Jane, who just upped on Patreon, and Aaron, who just gave on Patreon this very second as I said that.
	So thank you guys.
	Ethan says George Bush Jr., so George W. Bush.
	That's a great one.
	He's really, really stayed out of the limelight.
	I would love to talk to him for a series of reasons.
	I think he probably virtually never does an interview like I would want to do, but we will reach out.
	Oh, and a bunch of people have said Nigel Farage also, who was one of the leaders that led the Brexit thing.
	I would like to have him.
	I think we have reached out as well.
	Justin Trudeau, of course.
	I mean, you guys are on it.
	You guys basically are my bookers, which is nice.
	You know what I mean?
	If I'm ever, if there's ever a day that goes by that I'm like, ah, who could I interview?
	It's like, we have a master list now.
	We do write down all these names.
	So, yeah, I think you guys are my bookers and you're my producers, you know?
	I'm a producer in Hollywood.
	What a producer does is fund the production.
	That's all a producer is.
	Anybody can be a producer.
	You wanna move to Hollywood, if you got some money, congratulations, you're a producer.
	So all of you guys, whether you give a dollar or 20 bucks or whatever it is, you're my producers.
	Somebody asked for my shirt off.
	I'm gonna need a few more of these for that.
	Let's see.
	Leon would love to see Harambe on my show.
	All hail Harambe.
	Praise Harambe.
	We've been working on him.
	I think we emailed the people from his estate to have him hologrammed into the show.
	We're also working on Pepe, but the guy's busy.
	The guy's incredibly, incredibly busy.
	So we're working on it.
	Peter says, Lawrence Krauss.
	Yes, I met Lawrence Krauss at the Reason Rally.
	We did a panel together.
	Really nice guy and a genius.
	Brilliant guy.
	And he said he would do it at the end of August if he was in LA.
	Turned out not to be in LA.
	I will follow up on him.
	We'll make it happen.
	Somebody asked about Stranger Things.
	I loved Stranger Things on Netflix.
	If you guys haven't watched it, I hope you will.
	It takes place in 1983 with a bunch of like seven or eight year olds.
	On a very Goonies style adventure.
	I was 7 in 1983.
	Used to ride around the neighborhood with my friends on bikes and think about monsters and creatures and whatever.
	So I just loved it.
	I thought it was just great.
	It was creepy and fun and the way it was shot and the music and the intro.
	Everything about it was just great.
	Yeah, let's do a little TV for a second.
	Break it up from politics.
	Right now I'm watching the last season, the most recent season of Orange is the New Black.
	Which I'm really digging.
	Oh, and my friends over at the Skeptic Fence Show.
	A bunch of great guys.
	I did their show, by the way.
	You can find it on YouTube.
	Just Google my name, the Skeptic Fence Show.
	Oh, that was an interview that I did of me.
	So there you can find it.
	We did it for about an hour.
	Great guys who just went from 15 to 25 on Patreon.
	And I really enjoyed talking to them.
	I met them also at Reason Rally.
	And that's the cool thing.
	There's a cool community of people who are coming together and we're connecting through the power of ideas.
	Yeah, a lot of you are asking about Stephan Molyneux.
	I mentioned before, I'm gonna do his show, I think in a week or two.
	I was supposed to do it this week.
	They needed to delay and we'll get him on.
	Bret Easton Ellis, I would love to.
	I've tried from a bunch, hasn't happened.
	Interviewed Cenk about the Armenian genocide.
unidentified		Let's see.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Harambe has risen.
		That's right.
		Matt Dillahunty, we're in touch.
		Thomas says, more Sargon, please.
		I love Carl.
		He's a great guy.
		You know, when I was sort of having my political awakening about this regressive stuff and all the crap that was happening on the left, But this is not liberal.
		To silence everyone is not liberal.
		Every time someone disagrees with you, that they're a bigot and a racist and a homophobe and a sexist and a blah blah, this is not liberal thinking.
		This is not critical thinking.
		When I was having that awakening, and I started tweeting about it every now and again, people started saying, you gotta talk to Sargon of Akkad, you gotta talk to Sargon of Akkad.
		And he was one of the first guys that I did chat about this, and I thought, wow, there are people who think similar things as me politically.
		And that's a beautiful thing, because it's nice to know.
		That's what's nice about it.
		All I'm doing is telling you guys what I think.
		Not much more to that.
		And you guys are going, oh, I think some of the same things.
		Or maybe you're bringing up some thoughts to some of your friends.
		And that's how you change minds.
		It's not by screaming at everybody, telling everyone that disagrees.
		Guess what?
		Everyone that disagrees with you is not a racist.
		It's just stupid.
		Everyone that disagrees with you is not a homophobe.
		Seven years ago, when Barack Obama ran for president the first time, he was not for gay marriage.
		Hillary Clinton was not for gay marriage.
		They ran against a guy, Kucinich, who was for gay marriage at the time.
		I didn't see all the gays rallying behind Kucinich.
		They were rallying around Clinton.
		And the thing is, these people, politicians, generally are not brave.
		They get there when the masses get there.
		But do I think Barack Obama seven years ago was a homophobe or that Hillary was a homophobe?
		It's just silly.
		So one of the problems with the progressives is they want everyone to change the second they change.
		And it's like, no, that's not it.
		So that's why they'll say, oh, well, these old people just have to die so that we'll get rid of racists.
		That's just, you're gonna be old one day, and guess what?
		Young people are gonna be into some weird shit, and you're gonna go, that's a little weird.
		And then they're gonna go, you're a fucking racist, or a homophobe, or some other buzzword that they'll have come up with by then.
		People calling me racist.
		Oh, a lot of you are asking about Thomas Sowell.
		We have tried a thousand times.
		We finally got his assistant's email yesterday, and have reached out, and I sent a personal note, so I hope it happens.
		Yes, of course, I would love to talk to him.
		I would love to talk to Seth MacFarlane.
		We're working on Stephen Fry again.
		He's a great guy.
		By the way, Real quick on Stephen Fry, I hope that you've seen the interview that I did with him.
		To tell you what a good guy Stephen Fry is, Stephen Fry came to do the show when I was at Aura, so Larry King and I had the same, we shared the same studio, so they would just flip the set.
		So the walls for my set would be built over Larry's set, and Larry's been great to me, and he's a hero and a friend and a mentor.
		And Stephen was there to do Larry's show, and I met Stephen in the green room because Larry was doing something else, and we chatted for about a half hour.
		He did not know who I was.
		Totally, Excuse me, totally open and fun.
		We had such a nice chat.
		And then I said, you know, would you mind, after you go on Larry's show, would you mind just sticking around for 20 minutes and let me interview him?
		So he let me interview him on Larry's set.
		He didn't even have time to flip the set.
		And it was just incredibly nice of him and gracious.
		And then he got in a lot of shit for something that he said about political incorrectness.
		It was on the cover of all the tabloids in the UK.
		And I felt terrible because I was like, here's a guy just doing a nice thing.
		He didn't ask me any, you know, tell me questions in advance or anything like that, which I never tell any of my guests.
		And that just tells you, he was talking about political correctness and then got shit for not being politically correct.
		Tells you all you need to know about the outrage machine that we live in these days.
	All right, we got about 12 more minutes left.
	It's patreon.com slash RubinReport, rubinreport.com.
	Slash donate.
	Can you tell I used to be on the radio?
	I do love radio.
	I love talk radio because you can extrapolate ideas.
	Oh, by the way, we dove into our YouTube analytics today for something that we're doing.
	And our numbers are awesome.
	Like the everything that we're doing.
	It's all tracking great.
	It's all looking great.
	But one of the things that I thought was best is that our watch time on our videos averages about 10 minutes and 40 seconds.
	10 minutes and 40 seconds.
	Now, I understand we put up videos sometimes that are 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and then at the end of the week, we put up the full hour.
	But on YouTube, the average watch time, someone can Google this right now, the average watch time is probably 5 seconds, 8 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds max.
	So people are watching what we're doing.
	And by the way, the longer you watch, it helps us in the algorithm so that more people can find the show.
	There's a lot that goes on in the back end that I don't fully understand.
	But I'm so proud of that, that people are actually coming here and they're going, there's something good here.
	Believe me, I know how much content there is.
	I know what it's like to be on YouTube, where I start watching something and then out of the corner of my eye I'm like, oh wait a minute, there's something else.
	You go, but you guys are watching.
	10 minutes is incredibly long on YouTube.
	I would venture to say we're in the good 1% on that one.
	So I'm very happy about that.
	Okay, let's see.
	People ask me if you watch Rick and Morty.
	I don't.
	Is it on Comedy Central?
	I think it's on Comedy Central.
	A logo?
	Oh no, it's on MTV maybe?
	I'm not totally sure.
	Oh, it's Adult Swim!
	You know, a lot of people have mentioned it to me.
	So I should watch it.
	I should watch it.
	I wish I had more time in the day.
	I don't have a freaking second, but I wish I did.
	Let's see.
	Somebody says, shit on the floor.
	No.
	Okay.
	Then someone says, are you going to interview any regresses?
	As I said before, I've All the big ones I've asked to come on the show, okay?
	So this is not of me not asking.
	And I have had some people on that I have that have some regressive tendencies, and that's fine, and that I'm friends with, by the way.
	You can probably figure them out.
	I would love to, somebody one day should just take a guest list of all my shows since we started Aura last September.
	And in the last year, it was our one-year anniversary of the new version of The Rubin Report on September 9th, was the first one was now.
	And we could really break down the politics of all the people, where people lie.
	And I think you'd see people all over the freaking map.
	All over the map.
	And I'm very proud of that.
	And I treat everyone with the same respect.
	And just as I would want them to treat me.
	Again, not rocket science.
	Okay, let's see what else is going on here.
	Jan says, did the TYT crowd cut you off because of your views?
	Yeah, basically, whatever, I have better friends, that's fine.
	Okay, man, this is moving fast.
	Somebody said something about, a few people have been saying things about getting someone on to talk about vaccines.
	I should, that hasn't been like one of my wheelhouse issues, so I definitely should do that.
	You're awesome, Dave, from Tea Cakes.
	Thank you, Tea Cakes.
	Man, this should be a show.
	Just trying to read YouTube comments during a live stream.
	That really could be a show unto itself.
	Do I think it was a Hillary body double?
	I will say this.
	Not a conspiracy theorist, and as I said before, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
	When I saw the video, before I had heard even about her being sick, I think I had turned on the TV, so I saw that before I even scrolled Twitter and saw the thing about the passing out or anything, I thought she did look weird.
	I thought she looked a little different.
	I don't know if I just thought she looked haggard or thin or what, but no, I don't really think that it was a body double, but as I said before, I don't believe the information that the That Clinton or Trump, but in this regard, Clinton more than Trump, I don't believe what the campaign tells us about anything.
	And that's a real problem.
	We have a major trust deficit with these people.
	And it's like, what kind of administration is that going to be?
	But Trump too.
	Seth Brownwell says, fuck you, you are so boring.
	Thanks for watching, dude.
	I mean, really, that's more of a judgment on you, that you would be watching something this boring and make a comment about it on YouTube.
	That's on you, man.
	That's not on me.
	So, you know, good luck with that.
	Let's see.
	If you could interview a past world leader, who would it be?
	That's a good one.
	I think Reagan would be particularly interesting because he's taken this strange place in lore now.
	Or even Obama yesterday.
	Did you see Obama was giving this speech for Hillary that she was supposed to be at but because she's got pneumonia or Parkinson's or God knows what that she wasn't there.
	But Obama was even saying nice things about Clinton.
	About Reagan.
	And I thought that was particularly interesting because it's like, Republicans hold him in like, almost like he's Jesus.
	And now Democrats, when they have to use his memory, use it very positively, but then also will tell you all terrible things that he did.
	With Iran-Contra and drugs and AIDS and blah blah blah.
	So, I think he would be particularly interesting to interview.
	Who else do I think?
	Neville Chamberlain would be an interesting one, because he fucked up some shit pretty bad.
	Winston Churchill, of course, would be amazing.
	I mean, there's all kinds of... Hitler?
	Yeah, yeah.
	You reincarnate me Hitler, and I'll talk to Hitler.
unidentified		All right?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I'll talk to Hitler.
		All right, Kyle just gave 50 on PayPal.
		Thank you, Kyle.
		Appreciate it.
		Casey wants to know on Patreon, will I do more of these live YouTube Q&As?
		Yeah, we're gonna try to do more of this stuff.
		We really have, you know, keep in mind, we just went independent.
		In June.
		So I can't really begin to explain to you guys how hard the three of us, we have a three-person team here, how hard we had worked to not only go independent, but we had to buy a tremendous amount of equipment, get set up at a studio, get our show rolling, get new graphics, new music, get a functioning business.
		We got a business.
		I got to deal with taxes and payroll and insurance and a lot of shit that is no fun, that has nothing to do with this stuff that I really enjoy.
		And we've done all of that.
		So my hope is now that we're out of the summer, we got out of the gate, we're good, it's great.
		My hope is that now we can really blow this thing up.
		Like, how do we now take the next year?
		So that 2017 is the year that this thing goes off the charts.
		And I think we can get there.
		And I think the things that we're doing and the way we're all connecting and the way you guys are connecting with each other, it's awesome.
		It's incredible.
		I can't tell you how validating it is.
		And that I have a sense of purpose when I wake up, which is, I think, all anyone would want.
		And it's very cool.
		All right.
		Let's see what else.
		Oh, this is a good one.
		Chaz says, do you think something like Bitcoin and decentralized social networks will give more power back to the people?
		So I sort of referenced this with Gab and Minds.com earlier.
		I'm on both.
		I'm on Gab and I'm on Minds.
		And right now I don't have a ton of time to devote to them until they grow a little bigger.
		But I know that the people from both of them are happy that I'm there because it'll show that there are places to be.
		And if all hell breaks loose with Twitter or Facebook, that there's an escape plan.
		You know, you got to have an escape plan.
		So I had the escape plan.
		As for Bitcoin, you know, I didn't know that much about Bitcoin.
		And when we started doing the fan funding, a lot of people said, get on Bitcoin.
		You got to try the Bitcoin.
		I know libertarians love the Bitcoin.
		And my man T in Atlanta, we talk about Bitcoin.
		You'll see in our video tomorrow.
		But we did create a Bitcoin, and if you want to send me a Bitcoin, or part of a Bitcoin, or whatever, you just fill out our contact, it's RubinReport.com contact, and I'll give you the Bitcoin thing.
		I don't know if I should have that public for everybody, but if you want to do it, we'll give it to you.
		More on Harambe.
		God bless him.
		Great gorilla.
		We're all very sad about what happened.
		All right, we got four minutes left here.
		All right, so let's finish strong, people.
		Let's finish strong.
		Let's finish strong.
		Patreon.com slash RubenRort.com slash donate.
		Andy says, is Dave a cuck?
		You know, this cuck word, I don't like it.
		I think you guys could do a little better than cuck.
		You know, like, come on.
		No, I don't think I'm a cuck.
		I don't even think it's a good word.
		It's not that great.
		Man, there's a lot here.
		What else is going on?
		We love you, Dave!
unidentified		Yay, Dave!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay!
		Let's see.
		Gavin McGinnis.
		I was on his show, and yeah, we'll have him on.
		I don't know why he hasn't been on yet.
		Let's see.
		A bunch of you people are asking about people from my old life that haven't responded.
		Let's see what else.
		Papu Cannon.
		That would be interesting, because I read an article maybe a week or two ago, about how Trump is basically Pat
		Buchanan, but like on steroids. That the things he stands for are basically the
		things Pat Buchanan was standing for for a long time. And by the way, for those of
		you that are totally freaked out by the Trump situation, you know, keep in mind
		this. Look, if you're a liberal, right,
		If you're a liberal, you're a classic liberal, you're basically a centrist or even a moderate conservative that didn't want a lot of wars and all that stuff and wants a stronger economy and that.
		If that's what you are, well, Trump basically destroyed the Christian right, right?
		They don't own Trump and the Christian right.
		So all the progressives hate the Christian right.
		Well, the Christian right is basically irrelevant right now.
		Trump is also running an incredibly anti-war campaign, talking about how our allies have to pay us to protect them, and that he doesn't want a nation built, and blah blah blah.
		So, ultimately I think he's probably a centrist.
		He says crazy shit to win, and then when people yell, no matter who the Republican nominee would be right now, this is simply the truth.
		If we were two months away from the election, and it was any other Republican, what would the media be saying about him right now?
		The media would be saying he was a racist and a sexist and a homophobe and whatever.
		So Trump is more politically incorrect in what he says, but the media is saying the same exact, they would have said the same exact things, they did say the same exact things about Romney, and they did say the same exact things about McCain.
		So he's flipping the game on its head.
		I don't know, someone's saying he's a war hawk, but I have no evidence that he is a war hawk.
		I just don't.
		A couple people have asked about Dan Carlin.
		I would like to have Dan Carlin on, and we've traded a couple tweets on it, so we'll see.
		Talk about veganism more.
		Yeah, we'll do some vegan stuff.
		Oh, the Mid-American says, Dave, you're killing me.
		You're mentioning my messages, but not my name.
		You're killing me.
		All right, there you go, Mid-American.
		So somebody said, we'll go down a little bit there.
		Somebody said, what if a big company, a little more.
		This is Roger on Patreon.
		This is a good way to end.
		We've got a minute left.
		So what if a big company offered you big money to do a show?
		The truth, really, I have no need to lie to you guys.
		I would not do it.
		If CNN tomorrow offered me $3 million a year, I would not do it.
		I am not rolling in dough, but we're doing well and we're building this thing.
		By the way, I take the same salary as my two employees, not a penny more.
		Um, but we're, we're building something great and we have direct access to each other and I own and control the message and the way we can distribute it.
		And I don't have to worry about what I say on social media or, you know, beyond.
		You know, whatever.
		Like, I don't have someone telling me what I can say.
		That is priceless.
		Like, being able to be free in that way is priceless.
		So I would not trade that.
		And the idea, so yeah, CNN can give me $3 million.
		That would be great.
		And I could live in a sick mansion and have a Tesla and all that cool stuff.
		But I would trade something that, I don't know, I've worked very hard for this.
		And I somehow got pretty much what I want.
		And it can grow and it will continue to grow.
		And I want it to grow.
		I really don't think I would.
		I really don't.
		Anyway, I really want to thank you guys.
	This was a pleasure talking to you.
	It's very cool that we're able to do these kinds of things, and this is what it's all about.
	This is why we have to keep control of the internet, to the people, because we've got to make sure this shit is always able to happen, that we can communicate this way.
	I have not eaten since about 11 o'clock.
	It is 7.30.
	I am starving.
	And now you want me to do jumping jacks?
	Not now.
	Anyway, thank you guys.
	Thank you for your support, as always.
	And thank you for sharing the videos and doing all that stuff.
	And thank you for being—if you're talking about the things that we're talking about.
	If you're talking about them in your real life, and you're arguing about it at the kitchen table and with your family and with your friends, then that's great.
	But don't lose friends over this shit, you know?
	Like, I've seen—it's happened to me, and I hear about it happening all the time.
	Don't lose friends over it because someone's voting for someone that you're not voting for.
	Big deal.
	The world goes on.
	There's more important things out there.
	There really are.
	Anyway, so thank you guys.
	Again, patreon.com slash reubenrapport, reubenrapport.com slash donate.
	I'm gonna go eat something.
	So have a good night.
	And yeah, we're in New Orleans.
	So until next time, guys.

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