Sept. 21, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| I can't believe we're almost four months into the fan-funded version of the Rubin Report. | ||
| To say this has been a crazy couple months doesn't even begin to explain it. | ||
| Our team has always worked hard, but since we went independent, things are at an entirely new level. | ||
| This show, based on honest conversation, exploring big ideas, and not pretending to have all the answers, is by far the most rewarding thing I've ever done. | ||
| And it's all thanks to you. | ||
| So to the nearly 3,000 of you who have joined us on Patreon, and to all of you who made and continue to make contributions on PayPal, my team and I humbly thank you all once again. | ||
| While I knew that going independent was going to be a big lift, I didn't fully realize how many things were about to change. | ||
| We've now built a business from the ground up. | ||
| We had our own production company and own all of our equipment and our content. | ||
| There's no longer a middleman between me and my audience. | ||
| I answer to nobody except when David and Amira outvote me, which has happened more than I'd like to admit. | ||
| The real beauty of fan funding the Rubin Report though is that you guys have given us the budget to do the show as we see fit. | ||
| As I said the day we launched, we now don't have to enter partnerships we don't want to enter, we don't have to make sales deals that don't fit with our ethos, and most importantly, we don't have to answer to anyone but you. | ||
| Many people, organizations, and institutes reached out to us after we relaunched to partner with us one way or another. | ||
| We put them on the back burner, though, because we wanted to let the dust settle and make sure that we only collaborated with like-minded projects. | ||
| One that really piqued our interest was the YouTube channel Learn Liberty. | ||
| After doing a little digging, I quickly realized that they were a great fit for our commitment to free speech and big ideas. | ||
| See for yourself. | ||
| Learn Liberty is your resource for exploring the ideas of a free society. | ||
| We tackle big questions about what makes a society free or prosperous and how we can improve the world we live in. | ||
| We don't have all the answers, but we've got a lot of ideas. | ||
| By working with professors from a range of academic disciplines and letting them share their own opinions, we help you explore new ways of looking for solutions to the world's problems. | ||
| I then did even more digging and found videos they've made using Star Wars to explain freedom, war, and more. | ||
| The force is strong with these people. | ||
| So here's exactly what we'll be doing together. | ||
| Once a month we'll be collaborating to bring you an interview with a classical liberal, usually a professor, for an interview series based around free speech. | ||
| Learn Liberty is reaching into their extensive network to send us the guests and I'm conducting the interviews, as I would any other, with open dialogue and a skeptical eye. | ||
| The really cool part of this is that the list of guests comes not only from all over the country, but from various disciplines, be it math, science, economics, or something else altogether. | ||
| We'll explore how free speech really is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy, and we'll dive into the current political climate on various college campuses. | ||
| Our first collaboration with Learn Liberty will hit on both of these topics. | ||
| I'll be sitting down with the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, Randy Barnett. | ||
| Professor Barnett teaches constitutional law and contracts and has also been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern, and Harvard Law School. | ||
| He's argued in front of the Supreme Court and has written several books on the Constitution, liberty, and the rule of law. | ||
| You know, old school stuff. | ||
| So much of what we're bombarded with in the mainstream is designed to distract and confuse us. | ||
| I like to think that the Rubin Report has been an antidote to some of that lunacy. |
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