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Oct. 18, 2016 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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LIVE! Happy Hour with Dave Rubin (Shots every $250 on Patreon!) | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, I am live.
		I've got a tremendous amount to talk about.
		So first off, what are we doing right now?
		So in case you didn't see the YouTube video, or you didn't see what we did yesterday, or you didn't see Facebook before, what in God's name I don't know, but I've got a lot of updates to tell you.
		So the big thing that we're doing, and then we're going to talk about Project Veritas, we're going to talk about the election, we'll do an AMA, you can ask me anything, whatever you want to do.
		We will be doing shots of Patron for Patreon.
		I did about half this bottle last time we did this.
		Can we knock this thing out?
		Will I be in the hospital tonight?
		Find out later!
		Alright, so a couple interesting things are going on here.
		So first off, I'm incredibly excited to tell you guys that we, because of you guys supporting us on Patreon since we went independent back in June, a couple things lined up and we were able to find a home and buy a home so that I'm going to be building out a home studio.
		I will be moving my Ikea couch and my Ikea table And we are building our own home studio.
		Once we do this, we'll be able to take more episodes, we'll be able to do longer interviews, we'll be able to do like a weekly news segment, more live streaming stuff, actually from the studio instead of from my laptop like we're doing right now.
		And to celebrate this thing, we are giving you guys two interviews per week starting next week just to show you how committed that we are to this whole thing.
		We do need to get Patreon up to 30 grand a month so that we have enough resources, not only to build the studio, we gotta do drywall and insulation and hang lights and a lighting grid, which is really expensive, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
		Ensures that I don't have to sell out to some other network.
		Or do partnerships that I don't want to be part of, that we can remain dedicated and connected directly to you guys, my audience, which is pretty awesome.
		And as I've said many times, the best part of that is that you guys are as diverse as probably any channel, especially in the political sphere, that there is.
		So some of you guys are Democrats, and you're Republicans, and you're Independents, and I got some Regressives and Progressives.
		Conservatives and whatever else there is, and I'm beholden to you guys, but I know that what you want is for me to be beholden to my own mind, so I do tell you what I think, and that's the direct thing that we have right now, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, so I'm incredibly excited that we're going to go ahead and do this, but all week long we're going to be doing these live streams, trying to raise some funds, so here's a couple things.
		So first off, if you donate, RubinReport.com slash donate, which will take you to either Patreon or to PayPal.
		If you donate while I'm doing this live stream, I will give you a live shout out.
		And for every $250, I will take a shot at Patron.
		But what?
		Every $250 on Patreon, I will do a shot at Patron.
		But to start, first off, I have my Decepticon shot glass here in honor of Soundwave and Starscream and
		Megatron and the guys.
		So for the first 50 that we get on Patreon I'll kick this thing off with
		with a shot right there where I got my limes right here too.
		Got my limes and So yeah, so everyone that donates, we'll get a shout out on here as long as you donate live at ReubenReport.com slash donate.
		And it's Patreon.com slash ReubenReport.
		I just watched those Project Veritas videos from James O'Keefe, so we can talk about that.
		A lot of other stuff.
		And I really hope, more than anything else, oh my God, I see Emma's here.
		Emma, what's going on?
		Emma wanted to get in on this and say hi.
		She doesn't drink anymore.
		She's about 12 years old.
		Her doctor doesn't want her to drink anymore.
		But she is she is a real beauty.
		Have you ever seen a more beautiful dog?
		Look at this.
unidentified		Look at this.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Say hi.
		Okay, so...
		So that's what we're going to be doing.
		Shoutouts for all of you guys.
		ReubenReport.com slash donate and get me as drunk as you want and I have a couple Gatorades in the fridge so that's how I'll deal with my hangover later and I'll hit the gym and sweat it out early in the morning.
		Alright, so let's do it.
		I also have a Corona just to start this thing off.
		What are you guys drinking?
		Let me know in the comments down below.
		I've got Amira and David are monitoring the comments so you can ask me anything and they'll read stuff out and let me know what you think.
		All right, so, remember, first shot at 50, and then it's 250 after that.
		And by the way, for those of you that do support the show on Patreon, you know, a lot of you guys, you know about the YouTube monetization problems, where YouTube is selectively, they're not censoring people, but they're selectively demonetizing videos on certain topics.
		Now, some of those topics are the things that we talk about a bunch here, so we've lost a bunch of videos in terms of monetization.
		Emma's got a squeaky toy right now.
		But the point is, I'm not beholden to that because of Patreon, so it allows me to do the work that I think I should do.
		And also, for those of you guys that do donate, you keep this show free for a lot of other people that can't afford it.
		For a lot of young people that can't afford it, or people that aren't doing as well financially as you, or whatever it is.
		So that's how we don't have to put any of this behind a paywall, because we can have a certain subset of you guys that are keeping these ideas free and getting this stuff out there and all that, so it's very cool.
		All right!
		So, shoutouts to anyone that donates.
		RubinReport.com slash donate.
		Patreon.com slash RubinReport.
		And a couple quick shoutouts.
		Daniel on Patreon.
		Huda just gave $100 on PayPal.
		And Sheila just gave on Patreon.
		Thank you guys.
		And I'll be doing this throughout.
		Wait a minute.
		Oh, so the first 50 on Patreon are doing this?
unidentified		Yeah.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So that was 100 on PayPal by Buddha.
		The first 50 on Patreon, we start the shots, and then we go from there.
		So I'll start first, because I know a lot of you guys want to talk about this Project Veritas video, which I just watched parts one and part two.
		Interestingly, I tried to tweet about it on Twitter, and I noticed that the hashtag didn't auto-populate, which is ridiculous, because a gajillion people are talking about it.
		Look, here's what I can tell.
		Now first, you have to take all of these things with some grain of salt, because we don't know all of the objectives or the goals of James O'Keefe or whatever.
		And you know, any of these things that can be selectively edited, you know, I know this from doing video stuff, because I see what people do with my videos every now and again.
		They'll selectively edit something.
		So that if I say one thing, if I say no, I'm not going to do that, and then they'll take the part that says what I am going to do, right?
		Or you guys have all seen the way that, you know, the Regressive Clown Show has selectively edited or selectively taken out of context things that Sam Harris has done.
		So you have to be somewhat aware of that.
		That said, this guy, That they caught the main guy that was working for this PAC that's connected to Hillary and they figure out ways through dark money to get money to people.
		This is pretty damning stuff.
		This is pretty damning.
		I haven't seen any coverage of this yet on mainstream news.
		Have you guys seen anything on cable news?
		Please do let me know.
		I think it's possible that Jake Tapper, who is one of the few mainstream guys that I think is trying to do the best job he can in a tough situation to be mainstream and still be awake enough to try to tell the truth.
		I think he's doing the best he can.
		I think he might have mentioned... I got the hiccups already.
		I haven't even started this freaking thing.
		So it's pretty damning stuff.
		Man, this election, you know, it's got people crazy.
		It's got people crazy.
		I was at a party on Friday night.
		I live here in LA, so it's a lot of, you know, lefty, liberal people.
		But there's this palpable sense that this whole thing is completely out of control right now.
		And you guys know, the way I treat this show, I would much rather talk about the role of government, and let's talk about states' rights, and let's talk about the Constitution, let's talk about foreign policy, let's talk about economics, let's talk about philosophy, all of those things.
		Let's talk about those things.
		And instead we're talking about grabbing pussy and we're talking about these elite, you know, these undercover tapes and we're talking about WikiLeaks and it just doesn't feel right.
		It's almost like, as I said, uh, oh, you know, it'll be up tomorrow, the DM that I just shot, um, before our Lawrence Krauss interview, which I think you guys are going to really like.
		Um, and by the way, for all of you that are Trump supporters, uh, Lawrence Krauss does not like Trump at all, but, but makes a really interesting case just on the science front, not even really getting into the political front, but just on the science front.
		But as I say in the DM tomorrow, it's like, in a weird way, Clinton and Trump sort of deserved each other.
		Like, as kind of disgusting as this all feels and as angry as people are, doesn't it sort of feel like this is sort of where we had to end up?
		And if that's the case, well then maybe on the other side of this there'll be some good opportunity, as Scott Adams said on my show, you know, out of this chaos.
		Uh, comes, comes opportunity and I think hopefully we'll have a lot of new people engaged in the political process.
		And I also think that one of the things that I've tried to do here, where I've tried to talk to conservatives and liberals and progressives and alt-right people and all that, that we'll all realize that we're not all mortal enemies with each other and that we can try to find some common ground with most people, not with everybody.
		Some people you can, but with most people you can.
		I had Andrew Klavan on.
		We're going to air it in a couple weeks because we're trying to get a little ahead of ourselves now because building out the studio is going to take some time.
		Andrew Klavan's a conservative, extremely principled, really nice, interesting guy.
		Former atheist.
		He was born Jewish, then was an atheist, now is a believer, and he's a Christian.
		So really interesting guy who I disagreed with on some of that stuff, and I pushed him where I felt appropriate.
		But then the goal is to hear what he had to think, so really, really interesting stuff.
		All right, a couple quick shout-outs.
		Justin on Patreon, Char02 on Patreon, and Michael on PayPal.
		And it looks like, have we hit it?
unidentified		Should we say that we started at $23,500?
unidentified		I'm going to add $50 on Patreon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're about $10 away from the first shot of tequila, and then it'll be $2.50 after that.
		Remember, you're all getting shoutouts.
		We can do this for a couple hours.
		We can have some fun with it and see what happens here.
		So more on this Project Veritas thing.
		So look, you have to view it with a skeptical eye, I think, as many of my guests, certainly as Michael Shermer would say.
		You can't take all these things at face value, but this does seem pretty scary.
		I mean, if it is true that a PAC related to a Clinton campaign, whether Hillary knew about it or not, my suspicion would be that she wouldn't, but that you've got other shady people doing things.
		If there is a connection there, and this is all turns out to be true.
		Then it is seriously slimy stuff that is the height of anti-democratic values.
		And it also, you know, it plays into, and the guy even says this in the video, it plays into the media narrative.
		And when he talks about, you know, get them riled up outside because once they're inside, it's so, it's a secret service, but outside we can say anything and we want to call them Nazis and everything else.
		So it's seriously dangerous shit.
		And I, by the way, I would be calling this out if it happened on either side.
		We found out that there was some Trump affiliated pack that was doing this at
		Hillary rallies. We will be talking about that. But by the way, there was a lot of
		violence from the far left at the DNC, outside the DNC, when they were
		coronating Hillary and nobody really talked about that.
		That was barely shown on the mainstream at all. So you have to be leery of some
		of this stuff.
		And then you also have to be awake enough to know that it's disturbing when this shit goes down and that you can't be afraid to talk about it.
		We've gotten ourselves, everyone's so polarized right now that it's almost as if, you know, people that support Hillary think, well, wait a minute, if I see this Project Veritas thing and it looks pretty bad, but if I talk about it, somehow are people going to think I'm defending Trump and the pussy grabbing?
		No, no, you should be able to have two thoughts at the same time.
		If you talk about Trump and the pussy grabbing, does that mean that you're letting Hillary get away?
		You know what I mean?
		It's just, we need to be better.
		We need to all be better and demand better of our public, but we're not going to do it unless we call out both sides.
		And that doesn't mean that both sides are equal, by the way, because they both have seriously major shortcomings, and I'd be happy to answer any of your questions on any of this stuff.
		All right, wanna shout out to James on Patreon, Amadeus on PayPal, and Brett on PayPal, who just gave $100.
		Thank you guys, and I believe we were at the 50.
		We have hit the 50.
unidentified		Yep, so we're at 23,540.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we have hit the 50, so I'm doing the first shot.
		Now, legally, I'm 40 years old.
		I don't know how many shots of tequila a 40-year-old man can do on the YouTube, okay?
		How high do I go on this thing?
unidentified		No, no, it's a double shot.
unidentified		Woah!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a double shot!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah?
unidentified		Yeah, we went over this last time!
unidentified		It's a double shot!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, this is a big shot, guys.
		This is a big shot, guys.
		Alright, I'm gonna start this with a double shot.
unidentified		Well, I guess the top would be a double, so this is... No, so you have to go a little more than a shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		This is like one and a half shots.
		I'm gonna start this thing.
		I've got my lime right here.
		And again, remember, you got... Oh, man!
		All right.
		You guys are funding the show.
		You guys are funding my ability to build this new studio, to do more shows.
		As I said, we're going to double the interviews starting next week.
		We're going to start doing some live stream stuff.
		We want to do more like a news segment kind of thing.
		I'd love to start paying contributors.
		You know, I have a great network of YouTubers that I love, that I would love to start paying people to do things.
		We get more editors involved.
		I mean, there's just a lot of stuff that we could do.
		And you guys are helping us do it.
		So I think it's money well spent for you guys.
		You know, I guess this bottle of Patron was a write-off for me.
		So, cheers to you guys.
unidentified		Here we go. Okay. All right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, here we go, people.
unidentified		All right, so the next shot is at 23,800.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		The next shot is at 23,800.
unidentified		You need a chaser?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Well, I got a beer here, but I guess a water would be nice, too.
		Okay.
		Got a little flush there!
unidentified		Okay.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So yeah, so that's what I would say about the Project Veritas thing, is that this could actually get really fun if we do this thing right.
		And the Patreon goes well, because who else on earth right now is drinking tequila in front of hundreds of people talking about this stuff?
		Look, you have to view it with a skeptical eye, but you also have to acknowledge that when you see some bad shit, like something, it sounds to me like one of the guys, please correct me if I'm wrong in the comment section, because I was viewing this real quick between our Facebook stream and our YouTube stream, but it sounds like the main guy got fired already from the SuperBat.
unidentified		This might be breaking news right now.
unidentified		ABC News just tweeted, Ecuador government acknowledges it as temporarily restricting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet access.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So now Ecuador is restricting WikiLeaks founder Henry Valdes.
		I mean, this is crazy.
		I don't know what's going on here.
		It's really hard to figure out what to believe.
		But the broader point, which I will always come back to for the next three weeks while we're doing this election, is if you think this thing's hit rock bottom, it hasn't yet.
		And the point is that we've got to get to a place, no matter who is elected at the end of this thing, no matter which one of them is going to be beaten up and abused and whatever, I think there's a good chance that either one of them would
		be impeached, but for a slew of reasons, you know, that haven't even happened yet.
		But we have to get back to talking about why government is, what the role of government
		is in your life.
		You know what I mean?
		You know what I mean?
		Like the left has to get back to, if the left wants more social services and wants to have the government have more of a safety net and do more, take more taxes to do more, then the left has to make an argument for that.
		If the right wants it to be more about individual liberty and lower taxes and states' rights, Things that I'm personally more interested in at the moment, although it doesn't come at the expense of my liberal values.
		I'll be happy to defend any of those liberal values if you guys want to ask me anything that I believe on anything.
		I'll talk about abortion, or legalization of marijuana, or whatever you want to talk about is fine.
		But those are the things we have to be talking about, and we're so far from that.
		We are in the reality show from hell right now.
		We really are.
		It's completely nuts.
		So that's why I'm doing the show, and that's why it's working.
		That's why it's working with you guys.
		Real quick on the YouTube front.
		And talking about, you know, cutting internet and things like that, YouTube has confirmed, confirmed with me personally via email, that our channel has a bug on it causing people to unsubscribe.
		So we were getting about a thousand subscribers a day for about two months, so we should have hit 300,000 subscribers a couple weeks ago.
		We're gonna cross it in the next probably three days or so, but we've suddenly been down to like 300 and they're telling us it's because people are being subscribed, unsubscribed, and I get Tons of tweets every day saying I was unsubscribed.
		Also, we know there was a problem with our feed so it's like...
		I gotta be beholden to YouTube, right?
		And I love YouTube.
		I love connecting with you guys through YouTube.
		But there's something kind of scary there.
		So that's why being on Patreon for us gives us the leash to be allowed to do all the things that we need to do.
		And maybe we have to put things on backup servers or figure out some other thing.
		And you know me.
		I don't like going down those conspiracy routes.
		And I'm not implying that there's a political agenda to what YouTube is doing.
		But you simply never know.
		And this gives us a backup plan.
		To go ahead and do that.
		All right, so we're gonna be giving patreon comments top priority But as soon as any of them become, you know patrons, they'll just start commenting on our livestream Okay, so as far as commenting on this, I've got a David and Amir monitoring the YouTube section But we are gonna give priority to if you're on patreon So even if you do a dollar on patreon your questions will get priority over everybody else So it's patreon.com slash ReubenReport.
		I'm giving shout outs to all of you So it looks like I can give Penny a shout out who just donated on patreon and Ryan and Nick And what is that other one?
		And Razvan, who just donated on Patreon.
		So thank you guys.
		You're giving us the budget to go ahead and grow this show.
		I can't wait to build this home studio.
		I mean, it's just we're just going to be able to get this thing.
		It's the final step, right?
		When we went independent in June.
		It was to leave the network, to figure out if we could operate this thing and how we could expand it, and now this is truly the final step.
		I have no boss.
		As I said in the video yesterday morning, if CNN offered me a million dollar gig right now, I would not take it.
		That's how much I believe in what we're doing.
		And by the way, the more the show grows and the more content we make, the more money we'll make on YouTube, the less reliant we'll become on Patreon, we'll be able to make other deals.
		We have a real business plan in place right now, and I'm very excited, and we're gonna hire an editor, and we're gonna try to get a graphics guy, and a few other things.
		We've got a gajillion of you, by the way.
		I should thank you, because you guys offer us, I mean, I've had people offer legal services, and food craft, you know, food services, and lighting services, and a gajillion other things.
		It's been amazing connecting with you guys.
		And part of Patreon, by the way, For those of you that aren't on there, depending on how much patronage you provide, you can get a newsletter, you get extra videos.
		We do a segment called One More Thing, where I ask my guests one more interesting insider thing.
		We do Google Hangouts with people, where I do group Hangouts with people from all over the world.
		We do one-on-one Hangouts for 15 minutes or a half hour, depending on how much you give.
		And I hope that you think it's money well spent, because I know that a lot of people are afraid of talking about these ideas and speaking freely.
		That's such a shame.
		Um, but, uh, but I hope that, you know, I'm just some guy doing what I think is right.
		And I hope that, um, for those of you that have donated, that you're proud of what you've donated to.
	All right, so I want to thank Daniel on Patreon.
	KingofChaos went up on Patreon.
	He increased his pledge, or she increased the pledge.
	And Shirata on PayPal just gave $50, so thank you guys.
	You're literally building the studio.
	This money, every cent of it, I kid you not, will be spent on building the studio.
	We've got to build a lighting grid, and we've got to insulate it, and all kinds of other stuff.
	Alright, so you know, let's do a little AMA.
	You guys can literally ask me anything.
	It doesn't have to be... nothing's off the record.
	This is all off the record.
unidentified		Don't tell anyone we're talking about all this stuff.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		But you can ask me anything.
		It doesn't have to be about politics.
		It can be personal.
		It can be whatever.
unidentified		I'm not sure if you already got this, but Malcolm on Patreon is saying, Hey Dave, did you hear that two of the people in Project Veritas Studios were fired?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so Malcolm on Patreon mentioned that two of the people in the Project Veritas video were fired.
		I just saw that right on Twitter right before I jumped on here.
		So it sounds like the main guy in the first video was fired, and then I guess maybe some other guy.
		So that does lead you to believe that this shit is real.
		It's not comfortable.
		It's not fun to talk about.
unidentified		You know what I mean?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Like, this is not good.
		Regardless of... Look, if you're the biggest Trump supporter in the world, Right now.
		I guess you could be taking some comfort in this.
		You're like, holy shit, the things that I thought are coming true, and now someone's been working on this, and who knows what else he'll keep holding, right?
		And who knows what else WikiLeaks is holding?
		And by the way, who knows what else NBC is holding on Trump?
		You know, we know that NBC held those tapes, the pussy tapes.
		The pussy tapes.
		We know that NBC held pussy tapes.
		Since when does a news organization hold things to create maximum damage for a campaign?
		That seems kind of shady too.
		So it's almost like all gloves are off.
		Everybody's just out there destroying each other.
		And that's why I personally, and today's, what's today's date?
		Today's October 17th maybe?
		Um, can I get a date?
		The 18th.
		Um, I think that although they're showing polls that are, that are pretty widening right now, right?
		Like Clinton's pointing pretty much everywhere.
		I suspect that the polls are actually a lot tighter because why else would everyone be throwing out the kitchen sink right now?
		Or is Trump just trying to burn the whole thing down?
		I mean, there's so much going on right now.
		So for a political person and a free speech person and someone that's interested in this, this is an exciting time, but it's also kind of mental.
		But, you know, you just keep going.
		All right, what are we doing here, people?
		I'm doing a quick radio reset from my old SiriusXM days.
		We are building a home studio on the Rubin Report.
		For every $250 that you guys donate on Patreon while I am live here for about two hours, I will take a shot, already did a shot, and have $50.
		It's patreon.com slash rubinreport, or you can run over to rubinreport.com slash donate, and there's the Patreon link and the PayPal link.
		And that's all on there.
		I want to thank Michael, who just donated on Patreon, and Dimayan, who upped his, his or her Patreon thing.
		You gotta clean up that handwriting for me, because I gotta, I got a lot to read here.
		Okay.
		So yeah, let's do a last minute anything.
		I mean, I'll talk sports, I'll talk Star Wars, I'll talk personal life.
		What else is going on?
		By the way, you know what?
		I'll show you guys real quick.
		If David wants to dip out for just a sec.
		One of the things we did last time was we got that fish tank.
		All of those fish are named after people that donated on PayPal.
		So there's Hitch in there.
		There's Pippin.
		There's Clyde.
		There's a couple others.
		There's Sue Ellen.
		Sue Ellen and Sue Ann are in there.
		Those are all for people, I think, that donated $500 on.
		On PayPal last time, and they literally, you guys enabled us to, we have a full-on production company right now.
		Our production company, we own everything that a production company needs to own.
		We own, you know, four cameras, we own all our wireless mics, we own our entire set, and we own, uh, what else do we own?
		We own a TriCaster, which costs like 20 grand, which Amira is the queen of the TriCaster.
		That's what should be on her business card.
		Clean to the TriCaster.
		So we have a full-on production company, and that's the other beautiful thing, is I've connected with so many cool people over the last year or so.
		I'd love to start producing shows for other people.
		Maybe we can start becoming a multi-channel network, which is, you know, one of these big YouTube networks.
		Maybe there's some off things.
		I've had some interesting meetings with some agencies here in LA in the last couple weeks.
		Like, it's a lot.
		There's a lot cooking right now, and you guys are helping us do it.
unidentified		All right.
		Let's see here.
		Paul on Patreon, have you seen Cassie's Red Pill movie yet?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So what is your opinion on Cassie J?
		Paul on Patreon asked about Cassie J. I interviewed Cassie J today.
		That's right, I did two interviews today.
		Cassie J of Red Pill Movies.
		She started as a feminist doing a movie about feminism and then learned a bit about the men's rights movement and had a really interesting evolution.
		I think you guys are going to enjoy that.
		That'll be up on Monday.
		And then I interviewed Andrew Klavan, who's a really, really interesting guy.
		He's a screenwriter who's written many, many books that have gone into movies, including True Crime with Clint Eastwood.
		And he now works with Daily Wire, which is Ben Shapiro's site, and he's a conservative and a really good guy and a fun guy.
		I really enjoy talking to him.
		And he's got an interesting story.
		Born Jewish, became an atheist, and then became a Christian.
		I mean, how often do you hear about that?
		We had a really healthy exchange on that.
		Really a pleasure.
		We're going to hold that one for a couple weeks, because as I said, we're about to double our interviews starting next week to show you guys that we're working hard.
		So we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here.
		So that in case the studio bill takes a little time, that we'll do that.
		We also interviewed Michael Shermer.
		We're holding that one and a couple others.
unidentified		This is Craig on Patreon.
		I know nothing about you outside of TYT and The Report.
		Can we get a rundown of your personal life, family, hobbies, history, et cetera?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, Craig.
		Yeah, that seems like the type of question that should be held for more tequila, but all right.
		So Craig on Patreon.
		Craig on Patreon is asking, he just wants to know more about my personal life and generally says I don't know that much about you outside of the show.
		And TYT and that kind of stuff.
		So personal life and all that.
		In a weird way, I know for you guys, because I'm fans of people that are on YouTube and on television or whatever, it's like in a weird way, the people that you watch, like for you watching this right now, it's almost like we're not human.
		Like we just exist as these things, you know?
		And I know what that's like.
		Like there are celebrities that I Adore, that I really am fans of.
		And it's like, you don't realize that they're real people in a certain way, but I assure you that I am a real person.
		So yeah, so I was born in Brooklyn before it was cool.
		It was still when Brooklyn wasn't cool.
		And then we moved out to Long Island.
		I went to college in upstate New York, SUNY Binghamton, which is a state school.
		So I got a great education, pretty cheap, and I was a political science major.
		So I like to think that I've used my major.
		I'm a rare person that's actually used a poli-sci major.
		To do something with it in real life.
		And from there, the second I got out of college, I started doing stand-up comedy in New York City.
		And for 12 years I did stand-up.
		I used to be funnier than I am now.
		I'm going to start, once we get this home studio and I don't have to just do interviews and I can start doing more stuff, I'm going to start being funny again.
		Because I used to be pretty funny.
		I was pretty successful, especially when I was a younger comic.
		At one time, I was told that I was the youngest comic ever passed at the Comedy Cellar, which was like the real hot club in the city.
		It's still like the most important comedy club in the city.
		And I used to work on the road and do all kinds of stuff.
		And I ran a couple clubs in the city and I used to stand out and hand out tickets.
		We used to call it barking.
		And some of you guys that have been to Times Square know this, where comics stand out.
		We'd stand out for an hour per show just to get people into the clubs, and then we'd perform.
		And sometimes they wouldn't pay us, and eventually I started some clubs with some people, with some other comics, and then we would actually make some money.
		But it was all just to get good, just to get better and better and better.
		And I was always very into playing with the crowd and being impromptu and I'd walk on stage
		and I would just try to get something funny to happen or I'd bring a newspaper,
		I would talk about what happened that day, which was really great for the audience and great for me,
		but it wasn't the type of thing that translates to television.
		In television, they want you to have like a packaged five minutes like a robot, what's the deal with that?
		And that never seemed fun to me.
		So then I had a show on SiriusXM for a couple years, had a podcast, it was called The Six Pack, which was on the LGBT Channel.
		I've been married for a year to David, who's sitting right over here, and we have the same name, and that freaks people out, they can't believe it.
		We've got a dog, Emma, who is over there.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		I don't have time these days, but I wish I had more time.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		But you know that new Nintendo, the old school NES Nintendo is coming out.
		8-bit Nintendo is coming out for high-def cool TVs, so I'm going to snag one of those.
		And more than anything else, I guess, is that this show and the things that I've been talking about, I mean, these are the things that I think about and talk about constantly, and the fact that people care about what I think.
		And care about the things that I care about, and that so many people had their political awakening lined up with mine.
		It's incredibly... It's humbling, and it's awesome, and it's cool that you guys have made me a better person in the last year because of it.
		All right, what do we got?
unidentified		I think our stream dipped out for a second there, but luckily for them, we'll have better internet soon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, the stream might have dipped out there for a second.
		I'm sorry if it did, but as David points out, we are getting fiber cables in the new studio, so we will not have any of those issues.
		I'm on this fucking time-water table here, which is just a nightmare.
		But yeah, we're going to have fiber in the new studio.
unidentified		Brennan asks, do you think anything in the emails to come could actually compromise Hillary's chances?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Do I think anything in the emails to come could compromise Hillary's chances?
		Look, the main stuff with the emails at the moment seems to me that there definitely is some level of collusion between the campaign and Politico and the New York Times and CNN.
		They find friendlies to write stories.
		They tip people off, they give them information.
		Donna Brazile, who was a CNN analyst while being a super delegate.
		I called it out a gajillion times on...
		On Twitter, you can find it.
		The second that Debbie Wasserman Schultz steps down, or they forced her out because she was sandbagging Bernie, Debbie Wasserman steps down from the DNC.
		She goes to work for Hillary, and then Donna Brazile goes from CNN to work at the DNC, to run the DNC.
		So the whole thing is just gross.
		It's gross.
		I normally say gross and racist.
		In this case, not necessarily racist, but it's pretty gross.
		So do I think there's more?
		There could be more.
		By the way, none of me talking about any of that.
		I know a certain amount of you are watching that and going, ah, that means he loves Trump.
		And it's like, no, that is simply not true either.
		I'm talking about the specific instances with Hillary, and now I will be glad if you have any questions about Trump, my feelings on Trump, I'll be happy to answer those as well.
		By the way, As I mentioned, Laura, I have Lawrence Krauss, who's an astrophysicist who really doesn't like Trump and takes it from a science perspective.
		We have his interview going up tomorrow.
		I'll have Hillary Rosen on, who's a huge Hillary Clinton supporter and a CNN contributor.
		I have her coming on next week.
		So I'm trying to talk to people from both sides.
		Big echo chamber here.
		It's a real echo chamber.
		I had a conservative on today who used to be an atheist.
		I had a feminist who became a men's rights documentarian about men's rights movement.
		I'm really trying to mix it up, and I don't mind hearing opinions that bother me.
		I don't know if that makes me somehow old school or something, but Emma's into it, so that's the cool thing.
		All right, where are we on Patreon and everything?
		So remember, guys, what we're doing here is I'm doing shots of Patron for every $250 that we get on Patreon.
		We're 200 away.
		I should mention a couple things.
		The Midmerican, who's been a big supporter on Patreon, he just upped his pledge.
		Thank you.
		George just upped his pledge on Patreon.
		Sean jumped in on Patreon.
		Mac jumped in on PayPal.
		And Kyle jumped in on PayPal.
		By the way, I see that Sean spells his name S-H-A-W-N, not S-E-A-M.
		That's how, if my name was Sean, that's how I would spell it.
		Emma's getting very jealous.
		She's playing with all her toys.
		She's got Darth Maul, not Darth Maul.
		She's got Kylo Ren, she's got Chewbacca, she's got Yoda, yeah.
unidentified		That guy T is in the Patreon chat right now.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh man, that guy T is in the Patreon chat.
unidentified		I think you would leave me for Milo, or I would leave you for Milo.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So that guy, T, if you guys don't know T, he is really, really great.
		I'm going to boost his ego, which probably doesn't need to be, but I'll just do it for 10 seconds.
		He was on my YouTube week show, so you can check him out there.
		He's in Atlanta.
		He's just a great, smart guy.
		You know, big libertarian, sort of an arnac... Man, that's a killer.
		Arnaco capitalist?
unidentified		Anarcho-capitalist.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Anarcho-capitalist.
		Man, what happened there?
		That was weird.
		And just a really smart guy who lays out some interesting principles and turns some of this social justice bullshit on its head, so you should definitely check out his channel.
		Very subtle, dude, to get me to give you the shout-out there.
		Very clever.
		Okay, so yeah, live shout-outs to all you guys.
		250 doing the shots.
		ReubenPort.com slash donate.
		Alright, what do we got?
unidentified		Have you watched this season of South Park?
unidentified		What do you think about their take on the election this year?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So I have been watching South Park.
		It is as good as it's ever been.
		I missed the fourth episode.
		That was up a day or two ago or a couple days ago I guess.
		So I'm one episode behind but it's been so good.
		They understand internet trolling.
		They understand the political It's political bullshit.
		They're calling out both sides.
		Like, it really, it's just nailing internet culture.
		And the difference, by the way, the difference, you know, people have given me shit that I've posted Pepe memes and I talk about Harambe and people have made me green as Pepe and I retweet it or whatever.
		And it's like, there is such an obvious difference to me between the actual white nationalists, which there are some, the white supremacists, there are some of them, For sure.
		And then just the huge bulk of you that are just shit posters having fun.
		The idea that you're posting a frog meme to somebody who's a well-known writer at some like big magazine like the New York Times or something and then you get them to retweet it and go, I'm being persecuted!
		Like, it's actually funny to me.
		Like, I get it.
		I fully get it, guys.
		And I didn't, maybe I didn't get it six months ago, but I do get it now.
		So you guys absolutely have an ally in me.
		And it's such, it's such silliness.
		It's such silliness.
		Now that doesn't mean there aren't real bigots and real racists.
		But by the way, they're on the right.
		That was my left hand.
		They're on the left and they're on the right.
		They're on both sides.
		And they're just different on both sides of what they're, what they're bigoted at.
		All right, a couple updates.
		Brent on Patreon, Johannes jumped his Patreon pledge, Jose on Patreon, and Brett upped his Patreon.
unidentified		Thank you guys.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're 190 away.
		We are 190 away from a shot.
		Don't you people want to see me do a shot?
		I think one person could do it in one snafu.
		I think we have a, is there one 250 left?
unidentified		No, I'll have them.
unidentified		All right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You know what?
		There are no 250s left.
		So at 250, I do a private Google Hangout with people once per month.
		There are none left at the moment because I just, we could do them all day long, but there's only so much time that I can be talking and everything.
		But you know what?
		We'll open up one bonus one right now, right?
		How many do we do normally?
		We only do 10 of these.
		So we're adding an 11th right now.
		So any of you can grab that right now and I'll do a shot in honor of you and I'll give you a shout out.
		We have two slots at the group hangouts which are $100 each.
		This is like the Jerry Lewis telephone.
		Was he ever drinking during that?
		Alright, cool.
		All right, we just added the 1-250 slot, so if you want to see me do a shot right this second, now is your opportunity, the 250 slot.
		And then the award for that is that I do a private Google Hangout with you, which has become pretty cool.
		Every month I do it, by the way, I do it every month, not just a one-time deal.
		And I've met so many cool people from all over the world, and it really is awesome.
		And what it is also is proof is that That's how you can really prove that it's about the individual.
		You know, it's so easy to be like, ah, Russia did this.
		This is the way Russians are.
unidentified		And Mexicans don't want to come and bring crime here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's the way Mexicans are.
		Every stereotype.
		And Americans are loud and blah, blah, blah.
		That was probably right.
		But all of these things, you know, it's like, the fact that I've been able to connect with all of you all over the world, and I'm talking age range from, I'm talking people that are probably from like 18, I'm definitely talking to at least two or three people in their 70s, and it's like every race and religion and color and creed, and it's like, who cares?
		We're trying to connect over ideas.
		Nobody cares about that other stuff.
		They're just trying to control you every time.
		They want to control your thoughts by telling you that every time you think something different that your group is supposed to think.
		Don't be controlled by these fuckfaces.
		Did you give shoutouts to these people?
		I did give shoutouts to those people.
unidentified		Alright, so let's ask some more questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, so we can run back to questions.
		We got that 1-250 slot open!
		Who's doing it, people?
unidentified		Is the last debate more or less a formality at this point?
unidentified		Short of Hillary stabbing Trump in the neck, it's basically over, right?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Is the last debate basically a formality, short of Hillary stabbing Trump in the neck, it's basically over?
		You know what?
		This is what I said during the Facebook stream that we just did.
		My sense is that, look, if you go by what the general polls are telling you and what the media is telling you, then she's crushing him at this point, and he's going down with the ship, and it's just going to get nastier and nastier.
		So that would be conventional thinking.
		I think there's a chance that there's a little bit of a Brexit fact here, which is that a certain amount of people are simply not, are not being polled or are not telling the pollsters what their true feelings are.
		And I do get messages often from Trump people saying, I could never say this at work or whatever.
		So I don't know how true it is.
		It does seem to me that if she was winning by that much, that it would be a lot more cat-like.
		You wouldn't need to be hearing about all this pussy stuff all the time, because they would just be riding it out to the win.
		We know for sure, mark my words right now, Trump is going to go bananas tomorrow.
		He's got to throw out everything but the kitchen sink, and he'll probably throw that out too.
		And Hillary's going to come back with everything too.
		Very little of it will have to do with the issues.
		Unfortunately, very little of it will have to do with, you know, how do we fix our economy
		and do, you know, make a better country and all that stuff.
		We're stuck in a reality show right now.
		We really are.
		All right, a couple updates.
		Gregory upped on Patreon.
		Thank you, Gregory.
		Raj jumped in on Patreon.
		Joel jumped in on Patreon.
		Jeremy R. jumped in on Patreon.
		And Not Sure jumped up to his Patreon.
		So up to his or her Patreon.
		So thank you guys.
		All right, we're getting there.
		I sense a shot is coming.
		I sense something's coming in my trusty Decepticon class.
		We can talk Star Wars, we can talk Transformers, I'll talk Transformers.
		Can you believe Michael Bay is doing a fifth one of these fucking things?
		If you want to see a good Transformers movie, watch the 1986 cartoon, which is one of the greatest movies of all time.
		Orson Welles as Unicron, Leonard Nimoy as, not Optimus Prime, Oh, man, I'm blanking on his name.
		Somebody help me out.
		Who was Leonard Nimoy in that Transformers movie?
		Not Rodimus Prime.
		He was... Oh, man, I'm blanking.
		But, you know, just the great Frank Welker, who was both Optimus Prime and Megatron and Soundwave.
		Leonard Nimoy... No, he was not the voice of Galvatron.
		That's a mistake.
		That was Orson Welles.
		Who the hell was Leonard Nimoy?
		Sentinel Prime?
		Leonard Nimoy was Sentinel Prime.
		In Transformers 3, the Michael Bay movie, but who was he in the cartoon?
		In the cartoon movie, he was... Oh man, Ultramagnus!
		Ultramagnus, I think.
		Am I right?
		I think Ultramagnus.
		Somebody please confirm that.
		Ultramagnus?
		Or is that a condom?
		An Ultramagnus?
		That might be a condom.
unidentified		There is an Ultramagnus.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There is an Ultramagnus.
		I think it was Leonard... It's a condom and Leonard DeMoy.
		There you go.
		By the way, I watched the last Star Trek movie the other day.
		Did you guys see Star Trek Beyond?
		I guess it came out a couple months ago.
		I watched it the other day on TV.
		Meh.
		Not that great.
		Not that great.
		I would take the Force any day over Logic.
		I like Logic on my show.
		I prefer the Force in real life.
		Alright, what do we got?
		Excluding mainstream media, where do I get my news and who do I trust?
		I mean, this is the question that I get more than anything else, and it's really, really tough to find things to trust.
		So I think you can sort of pilfer truth out of some mainstream things.
		So as I've said before, I think Jake Tapper does a nice job on CNN.
		Don Lemon, who you guys probably know and are friends with, who's been on the show, I think he does a nice job about having a conversation about the news.
		I think he does it with good intentions.
		I think even somebody, even though a lot of you are going to disagree with me on this, I think even someone like Bill O'Reilly is starting to become more middle ground as the sides have gotten nuts.
		I watch him every now and again and I say, you know what, he does bring on people from both sides and he does offer them an opportunity to talk.
		I've been on Bill O'Reilly, by the way, and he compared something I said to Hitler.
		Take that for whatever it's worth.
		Where else do I get my news?
		You know, it has a lot to do with who I follow on Twitter and what they're talking about, but it's really hard.
		You know, I read some Politico stuff, I read some stuff from the New York Times, but a lot of it's crap.
		You can tell if somebody's always trying, if their whole goal is always to make one side bad and one side good, most likely that's not the truth.
		That, again, does not mean that both sides are equally bad.
		Of course it doesn't mean that.
		But, you know, if you're always demonizing one side, then you don't want answers.
		You just want more conflict.
		And that's not good.
		That's not good.
		All right, let's see what else we got here.
		All right, we've made some moves here.
		Tom just upped on Patreon.
		Connor just did $200 on PayPal.
		That's Canadian money.
unidentified		What does that turn into in America?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're going to look at the conversion on that.
		I don't know what you guys are doing up there, but I haven't been to Canada in a while.
		I did the Calgary Comedy Festival years ago.
		It's gonna come out to $142 on an American money, the dollar, while it still has some worth.
		So thank you, Connor, appreciate it.
		And Benjamin jumped in on PayPal and donated $4.20.
		$4.20.
		$4.20, you pothead.
		All right, there you go.
		I have my weed license, by the way.
		All right, there you go.
		I have my weed license, by the way.
unidentified		What are we trying to get to here?
unidentified		23,800 for a shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		23,800, so we're about 160 bucks away from the shot.
		I think we can make this happen, people.
		Can we make this happen on Patreon?
		RubinReport.com?
		Let's make it happen.
		I'll do the shot.
		I feel like Conor wanted the shot to happen for his PayPal 200.
unidentified		Yeah, he probably did.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		He probably did, but we're doing it on Patreon.
		Okay, what else have you got?
		What else we have on the... I think this bug is messing with our... It sounds like... So maybe this bug is messing with our screen right now.
		It sounds like the comments are a little coming out of order.
unidentified		No, we've got a ton of comments, but the views, it's like, it's not going out to everyone's feed.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I guess this thing's not going out to everyone's feed.
		I mean, this is... Look, this is the problem, right?
		Like, this is a real issue.
		Like, YouTube is our distribution.
		They, as I said earlier in this, they've acknowledged with me via email, as most recently as yesterday, But there is a bug on our channel that is stopping people, that is unsubscribing people and affecting our feed.
		They acknowledged this with me.
		And it's like, what do we do?
		I don't know what we do to resolve this.
		Like, they're the biggest game in town.
		We gotta stick with them.
		But that's why the dollars that you guys donate on Patreon...
		Allow us to continue the show in a way that we become less beholden to anything except for you, which is the best way to do it.
unidentified		Okay, here we go.
		Great question, Caleb.
		Basically asking, will I do longer interviews, even an hour and a half or more?
		Absolutely.
		it's hard to get into the meat of conversation in just an hour. Great question, Caleb. Basically
		100%.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		asking, will I do longer interviews, even an hour and a half or more? Absolutely, 100%.
		So one of the things that we can do in a home studio is, it's a home.
		We can go as long as we want, right?
		Until it's dinnertime, I guess.
		Yeah, we can do that.
		Like, right now, we have to... The studio that we're at has been absolutely great to us.
		I'm so thrilled that they let us build the studio out the way we wanted to.
		It's been amazing.
		But we do have to pay, basically, per shoot that we're doing, so there is a time limit.
		And other things are shot at the studio as well.
		So I would love to... I don't necessarily want to go the Rogan route where you do it three hours.
		I think that's a great...
		Game for him, and he does a great job at it.
		But yeah, in certain cases I would go three hours, in certain cases I would go two hours, or whatever it is.
		In the home studio we will have no time limits.
		We will be able to shoot whenever we want, for however long we want, until the guest just doesn't want to talk anymore, or I've run out of things to say.
		Which, by the way, is pretty rare, because both of the interviews today—you know, I wrap up a lot of my interviews, I say, you know, it's a good interview, but I don't have to look at my cards once.
		Both of the interviews today, with Cassie and with Andrew Klavan, I didn't have to look once, because you have a real conversation.
		That's not what you're going to get on cable, is they're never going to give you that, ever again.
		Because that thing is slipping, because they're trying to control what everyone thinks, and they're trying to give you a narrative.
		I don't want to teach you what to think.
		It's really the truth.
		I really don't.
		I learn from my guests, and I don't think I know everything, and I wouldn't pretend to know everything.
		All right, I want to thank Gunnar, who donated on PayPal.
		Thank you, Gunnar.
unidentified		And what are you showing me here?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We'll do another question.
unidentified		Is there a good place or way for us to talk about why we decided to donate that would be helpful?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a good question.
		So somebody said, is there a good way or place for us to talk about why we donated?
		So one of the things that we're starting to do, Patreon is really just beginning and they really love us because we're one of the sort of more legit operations that's gone there because we're doing a real show.
		You know, they have people out there that do some silly videos or do some cartoon stuff.
unidentified		It's all good.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's all great for any of these creators.
		It's wonderful.
		But they really like us because we're doing like a legit, you know, our show could and should be on television.
		If we can figure out the right distribution deal.
		And as I said, I've had some meetings about that kind of stuff.
		So one of the things that they want to build out, I think, is more of a community there.
		Make it really more of a social media site.
		So actually if you guys do join on Patreon, there's a feed on Patreon where you can talk to all the other patrons.
		And as I mentioned, there's also an app on There's an iPhone app, and I think it's on Android, too, for Patreon chat, and it's basically like WhatsApp, and whenever I jump in there, you can jump in and chat with other people, and I've had all sorts of people from all over the world connecting with each other, talking to each other, and you guys are making friendships that have nothing to do with me.
		It's pretty freaking great.
		All right, a couple updates.
		We got Ross on Patreon.
		We got, can't see, we got Ginger, who upped on Patreon.
		We got Costa, who jumped in on Patreon.
		And Michael, who jumped in on Patreon.
		It seems like it's moving fast.
		What else do we got here?
		We got, whoa, a lot happened here.
		All right, Stephen jumped in.
		Stephen edited his pledge on Patreon.
		Tommy edited his pledge on Patreon.
		Thomas jumped in on Patreon.
unidentified		And...
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Cyrillian jumped in on Patreon.
		Cyrillidian, yeah, jumped in on Patreon.
		All right, hope I'm pronouncing all these correctly.
		All right, we're getting close.
		It seems like we're close.
		A lot of people, you guys are doing two, five, it's all good.
		So it seems like we're inching closer to the next shot.
		By the way, we're gonna be doing these- We're about 110 away.
		We're about 110 away.
		We're gonna be doing these all week.
		So tomorrow, of course, is the debate.
		So we'll, We'll see what happens, man.
		It's going to be nuts tomorrow.
		I really think it's going to be like something that we have never seen before.
		At this point, you know, I heard a rumor or I guess on Twitter, people were saying that, you know, Trump's really, what he's really going for is he's conceded the loss or that he doesn't even really want to be president.
		But the whole point was to get popular enough, turn everybody against the media enough, But he could get this Trump TV deal and it would either be an actual, you know, set cable network or a digital network.
		My suspicion would be a digital network, but maybe a cable network or maybe both.
		And that's why he's firing against the media so much, because it's like, then he'll lose, claim that the media was in on it against him, and then start his own network, which would have massive numbers.
		I don't know what to believe at this point.
		But I hope there are some moments of actual policy.
		Do you think there'll be some moments of actual policy tomorrow?
		It's almost too late.
		in a way.
		You know, and what's interesting is the way that these debates have started is there's
		this like hostile burst for the first half hour, and then the rest of it sort of derails
		because they can only maintain that sort of level of energy and hostility for a certain
		amount.
		At this point, Trump has nothing left to lose, so we'll see what he throws out there.
		And Clinton just has to play ball with it.
unidentified		What do you think of the Amy Schumer walkout?
unidentified		Do you know what this is?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		First quick one, I want to thank Matthew who just upped on Patreon.
		Somebody asked about the Amy Schumer walkout, so I guess Amy Schumer was doing standup in Texas, I think maybe in Dallas yesterday, and started really lambasting Trump, and about 200 people walked out of her performance.
		I didn't see the video of it yet, but you know, this is one of the things, one of the things that disheartens me as a liberal, But also as someone that can stand up for a long time, and someone that doesn't mind hearing ideas that I'm not for, but I don't, but I don't lose my shit when someone says I don't like, is that comedy, you know, it's one thing for the media to become partisan, like it's pretty obvious the media is breaking towards Clinton.
		Okay, that, it is what it is, right?
		But there's another thing that comedy is becoming partisan.
		I look at so many good comics.
		You know, really like what I would consider edgy, relevant comics that are all just endlessly trash and trouble and can't think of a thing to say about Clinton.
		And it's like, I get it.
		You're supporting Clinton, which is completely fine.
		That's completely rational in your mind.
		So be it.
		Okay.
		But a comic is supposed to be unpartisan.
		A comic is supposed to fight the power, call out the bullshit, call out the lying, you know, be against the establishment.
		And it's like, all these comics that are so relentlessly in the bank for Clinton, you're actually for the establishment.
		There's not a lot that's funny in that.
		So I've really tried to call out both.
		And every time I call out Trump, the Clinton people get angry at me.
		And every time I call out Clinton, the Trump people get angry at me.
		But so be it.
		I think I would rather have all of you guys who kind of get what I'm doing here.
		But that's why we so desperately—you guys know that I'm friends with Kelly Carlin,
		who's George Carlin's daughter, and she's been on the show.
		And she's been a wonderful friend of mine, and welcomed me into her LA community here.
		And I always say to her, man, I wish your dad was still alive, because for him it was about the system.
		It was about principles.
		It was about who were being manipulated, and the powers that be, and all of those things.
		And we're so getting lost in the weeds with that these days.
unidentified		So we're 50 away from our goal.
unidentified		50 away from the next shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're 50 away from the next shot.
		Quick shout out to Kent and Nigel, who both jumped in on PayPal.
		Thank you, Kent.
unidentified		This is Dennis on Patreon.
		I'll let my pledge of data answer my questions.
		Here it is again.
		How about not voting, whether it's for political conviction, anarchism, or ethical reasons, or even pure indifference?
		Do you find it a defensible position?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so basically the question, what was his name?
unidentified		Dennis.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, this is Dennis, and he said he would up his pledge on Patreon if I answered the question, so Dennis, I'll talk directly to you on this one.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Basically, your question was, is there a defensible reason not to vote, whether it's just a protest, or what were some of the other reasons you said?
unidentified		Whether, you know, if there's ethical reasons.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Ethical reasons.
unidentified		Indifference.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Indifference, protest, et cetera.
		Okay, so I would say this.
		In a democracy, it's very easy to take for granted what we have here.
		And let's put everything aside right now for a second.
		Put Trump and Clinton aside.
		What we have in the United States of America is still pretty great.
		Most of us, we're not killing each other on the streets to fight for food.
		We're not fighting for natural resources.
		We're not, you know, we have violent Problems with violence and crime, of course, but we're not slaughtering each other.
		Go to New York City and jump on a subway and be on a subway with people from every walk of life, from literally the entire world on one subway.
		And know that this thing here is pretty good, but it's only good because it comes from the people first.
		So as long as it comes from the people first, I would say it's your duty as a citizen to vote.
		Now I would have, we have all these random days off for random holidays, I would make election day, to me that would be the most important day to have off, so that Tuesday should be off number one.
		But I would say, look, I get it, George Carlin didn't vote, and laid out in one of his routines, he laid out why he didn't, because then it's like, he can't blame me.
		And I get it, a lot of people don't want to vote, but you know what?
		The shittier the system becomes, and the shittier that the politicians become, the more that
		good people will vote.
		So then you just leave it up to bad people, or not even bad people, I don't want to say
		bad people, you leave it up to people who aren't as educated or as insightful or as
		philosophical or as critically thinking as you are.
		So I would say, I'm not going to guilt you into voting, but I would say this.
		Oh, it looks like we got the shot.
		But my thought would be this.
		I'm not going to guilt you into doing it, but I would say it's your civic duty to try to take a few minutes out of your day if you can and go ahead and do it.
		And by the way, we can talk a little bit more about what I'm going to do if you guys want to.
		But I'm in California where my vote itself obviously doesn't matter that much because California is going for Hillary.
		But for what value my voice has, there's a reason to talk about all this stuff.
		So I would say that, but I'd be willing to... I would have someone on the show who's completely against voting and we could talk about that.
		Alright!
unidentified		Alright, so we passed 23,800.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We passed 23,800.
		Do you want to give some last shoutouts?
		Time for a shoutout.
		I'll give a couple shoutouts.
unidentified		Or do you want to take a shot and then shout them out?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, I'll do a shot and then shout them out.
		Alright, here we go.
		So you're saying half of this is a normal shot?
unidentified		Half of that's a normal shot.
unidentified		You can do it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Half of that's a normal shot.
unidentified		And then I have an idea for our next show.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, that's a little more than half.
		There you go.
		Transformers, by the way, I got this at Universal Studios in Hollywood.
		They have an amazing Transformer ride.
		It's a 4D Transformer ride.
		It's really, really frickin' awesome.
		All right, well, thank you guys.
		You're supporting what we do here.
		My liver doesn't thank you, but the rest of me does.
		So, cheers.
unidentified		Here we go. (whistles)
		All right.
		Shout out to Emma. - Oh.
		All right, shout out Ben up on Patreon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Gabriel went and jumped on Patreon.
		Drew on Patreon.
		David on Patreon.
		And Dennis did a major... I got some lime in my teeth.
		And Dennis, who I just answered his question about voting, went from $20 to $100 on Patreon, so thank you.
		Is there lime in there?
		All right, whoo, okay.
		I think I'm getting a little of the Asian flush.
unidentified		So how about, uh, when we pass 24, you take another shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, good God.
unidentified		Are you kidding me?
		All right.
		All right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We don't have to.
		All right.
		When we pass 24, we've now gone from 250 to 140.
unidentified		All right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, we'll do it.
		All right.
		What are we at?
unidentified		What are we at?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're at 23,829.
		We're at 23,829.
		When we pass 24, I'll do another shot.
		I hope you're happy.
		And then we go back to 250.
		Just make it easy.
		Just make it easy.
		All right, so that's, oh, there was some lime in there.
		All right, I got it now.
		So look, we're in a crazy time.
		Yeah, what do you got?
unidentified		Oh, I just got a bunch of questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, all right, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
unidentified		Thoughts on the potential Russian and U.S.
		conflict after the election?
		Do you think World War III speculation is ridiculous, or are we actually in a dangerous place right now?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, so a lot of you guys are asking me about this, and I mentioned Russia on the show last week when we attacked the Yangon.
		And people are starting these rumors of World War III.
		Look, I don't think there's any reason for us to be in a military conflict with Russia, period.
		That's number one.
		Now, is WikiLeaks somehow in cahoots with the Russian government?
		Or are the Russians hacking us?
		I don't know what the truth is.
		But it seems to me that if it is happening right now and the government knows it for sure, then you would think that Obama would be laying massive sanctions on Russia or something, right?
		Obama wants Hillary to be president.
		If WikiLeaks and the Russian government is undermining Hillary, You think Obama would be doing something about that?
		At the same point, I think if you were a rogue state or if you were someone who really wanted to mess with the United States, the best time to ever do it would be now because you have a lame-duck president who's riding out his last three months, you have two very polarizing candidates, so you could really affect the election.
		I don't know what the truth is.
		What I've said repeatedly now is that it seems to me that the Democrats are going more hawkish on Russia.
		I sense nothing from the Republicans at the moment.
		The Republicans who are thought of as being more hawkish, more for military adventures and things like that.
		I hear nothing from Republicans about fighting Russia.
		Although remember four years ago it was Mitt Romney who was mocked for saying that Russia is our biggest geopolitical foe.
		I think I mocked him too.
		You probably find tweets of me saying that.
		And everyone said he was a fool, and it's like, wait a minute, maybe he was right.
		Putin has obviously made some moves.
		Look what's happened in Crimea, you know.
		And NATO's not doing much of anything.
		So that's the thing with the United States.
		We're stuck in a position where it's either if we do things, people hate us, and if we
		don't do things, people hate us.
		I don't think we're going to World War III.
		What my fear would be, and again, as I quote almost every day now, the great Carl Sagan
		who said extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
		So I'm not saying this is true, but this would be my fear, would be that if Russia and WikiLeaks are somehow working together, and they have something on Hillary, well, if she becomes president and now they can blackmail her, if they hold something till after the election, now we have a real situation, like there's something really bad So I don't think we're heading to World War III.
		I would see no reason for us to attack Russia.
		We might be in a sort of newer Cold War that's much more cyber related.
		But I would say we got to find some common ground with them and let's not get into another military conflict.
		At the same time, I would be 100% for ending the war in Afghanistan, like tomorrow.
		What are we doing there?
		We've been at war in Afghanistan every day of Obama's presidency.
		What in the world are we doing?
		Forget what we're doing in Iraq, which by the way was getting better and then we took everybody out and it got worse.
		Now you can make an argument that we obviously shouldn't have gone in the first place.
		You can make an argument that we should have stayed as long as we did.
		You can make an argument that we should have phased out.
		Differently, all of those things.
		But what are we doing in Afghanistan?
		Does anyone have any freaking clue anymore?
		And we don't even talk.
		Has it been mentioned in the debates for even one second?
		And I guarantee you it won't be mentioned in the debate tomorrow.
		Okay, a couple thank yous.
		Richard on PayPal, thank you.
		Travis, thank you.
		Lucretius on Patreon, thank you.
		Oh, Lucretius, thank you on Patreon.
		And Garrett, thank you on Patreon.
unidentified		So we're 170 away from the next shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're 170 away from the next shot.
unidentified		I got tons of questions here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We got tons of questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, let's go.
unidentified		Dave, do you think Bill Maher has gone full regressive?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh man, you're trying to set me up against one of my heroes.
		Dave, do you think Bill Maher has gone full regressive?
		Okay.
		All my cards on the table on this one.
		My cards are always on the table, so I don't know why I haven't said that, but obviously you guys know that I really admire Bill Maher.
		When he was doing the show Politically Correct on ABC way back when, I wanted to be on that show when I was first doing stand-up.
		I've met with his booker, I've met with his executive producers, I'm trying to get on the show.
		I really, really like Bill.
		I've met him twice.
		He's stood for every liberal principle as long as it's been cool and when it's not cool.
		He's treated horribly by the regressive left because he isn't afraid of talking about Islam.
		Do I think he's gone full regressive?
		No, for sure no.
		I think my one criticism of Bill, which by the way I would say to him in person, and I hope to be on a show and I would say this to him, and I hope he'll come on my show, we're trying to make that happen too, and I would say this, my one criticism of him Would be that I think for someone that's been called racist, for someone that's been called gross and racist unjustly, he's not racist in any way.
		He's not, you know, like, that's just crazy that he goes to calling people racist and rednecks and backwards and all that stuff too easily and saying that people that disagree with him are bigots too easily.
		I really try not to do that.
		Look, I have all sorts of problems with people, especially with the regressive ideology, and most of you guys know who they are at this point.
		But my issue with them is not that, I'm not saying you're a bigot or racist, it's saying more that you consistently lie no matter how many times we show you something that's true.
		You don't mind manipulating truth, you don't mind lying about what people say, things like that.
		And that becomes regressive, not progressive.
		Now, I'm not the perfect person, and I've probably used the phrase in a broader sense, but calling someone regressive doesn't cost them their job, doesn't cost them—you know, no one's getting fired over regressive.
		Half the world doesn't even know what it means.
		But the cries of bigotry and racism and homophobia and transphobia and Islamophobia and ableism and blah blah blah, all this bullshit, it does actually silence people.
		And I think he does veer in that direction a little bit too much.
		That said, you know, you don't have to agree with everyone on your side to respect them.
		And this is somewhere where I would say, you know, somebody asked me earlier about Sam Harris's defense of Clinton, that he's been more of a vociferous defender of her.
		Watch my video that we did when we launched our independent show back in July.
		He was my first guest and he's been so wonderful to me and I feel that I owe him many life debts over and over.
		And he gives a really good defense of her while at the same time saying he's sort of begrudgingly supporting her.
		But he also, it's based in a lot of that how horrible he thinks Trump is.
		Now I don't fully agree with all of that but that doesn't mean I have to lie about the guy or I would engage with him or discuss it over dinner or drinks or whatever.
		But we have to learn how to It would be crazy to think that for however many of you are watching this right now, that we all think the same things, or that I would ever want a show where you guys would only come here because you think the same things as me.
		That's fucking stupid.
		So I would hope that you have some disagreements with me, but if you don't, if you don't have disagreements with me, I bet you actually do and we just don't know what they are yet.
		Because very rare that two people think exactly the same things.
		And that's what's cool, and that's why cable news sucks.
		Because everyone that's on there, and everyone that's tweeting all day, everything, they know everything about everything, anything happens.
		Real quick, and then I'll answer some other questions.
		You know, remember when we had the fall with Cuba, and Obama restored relations with Cuba?
		That, for like three days, everyone on Twitter, every expert on Twitter, every comic, every pundit, was going on and on about Cuba, and how great Cuba is, and the relations with Cuba, and Obama, Cuba, now forgetting whether it's good or bad, or any of that.
unidentified		I have never heard any of these people say anything about Cuba ever.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I actually tweeted something to that effect.
		I said, you know what?
		I don't know a tremendous amount about Cuba, so I'm going to just lay off this one.
		I've since read a bunch about it.
		But everyone wants to pretend they know everything about everything.
		And the more they do that, the more you know they're a bullshit artist.
		And yeah.
unidentified		Okay.
		Where are we?
		Okay.
		Let's see here.
		Dave, in your infinite wisdom, how many more centuries of human existence do you think we have left?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Dave, in your infinite wisdom, how many more centuries of human existence do we have left?
		I would say a couple answers to that.
		So one would be watch my interview also with Sam, where we started talking about AI.
		And, you know, I immediately went to sci-fi stuff, a point of the robots going to take over and John Connor and the Terminator.
		And you know, I love dystopian futures and Total Recall and Minority Report and all of these things and 2001 and all these, you know, things where we end up destroying ourselves and iRobot and whatever.
		And I love zombie things too, like Walking Dead.
		I think that the future of humanity actually does, it's out there.
		The future of humanity is in space.
		At some point, either because of the weapons that we have or the biochemicals or the viruses or all these things,
		we will ultimately create something that I think with good intentions will go out of control
		and we'll have to get out of here.
		That's why Elon Musk and many others are working on Mars, working on other things.
		But maybe that's all part of the human experience and the human evolution to keep going and going and going.
		And I would wonder if that there's other planets out there and these billions and billions of stars,
		there's other planets that have the same star stuff that we have here on Earth,
		that had the right chemicals to get some sort of intelligent life,
		not that we're that intelligent, but get some intelligent life
		that maybe they're trying to get here at the same time.
		That's a little Battlestar Galactica for you.
		But how long do we have here?
		I think we have more time than we think.
		And I say that as someone that loves all of this stuff and loves the end of days stuff, and I watch Ancient Aliens and all that other stuff.
		All right, a couple quick shout outs.
		Robert on PayPal, Stockton on Patreon, Michael on Patreon, Xiao on PayPal, and... We're 160 away from the next shot.
		We're 160 away from the next shot.
		That doesn't seem like we moved.
unidentified		Did we move?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		No, we moved.
		We moved, we moved.
		Alright, we moved.
unidentified		160.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, wait a minute.
		He's gonna, he's gonna refresh that.
		But we're close to the next shot.
		We'll do another shot.
		And I'm gonna have to do a big dinner tonight.
		I had Chipotle for lunch, so I went into this knowing there would be drinking.
unidentified		Next question, you ready?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I'll take a question and I will take a beer.
unidentified		Okay.
		Yeah.
		Despite whatever outcome this presidential cycle, is there someone you would like to see run in 2020 for president?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a good question.
		Despite whatever happened in this president's race, who would you like to see run in the future?
		I really, really, for the parts of us that are still thinking, the parts of us that want a better country, that don't want to demonize everybody, whether it's I don't mean just demonizing immigrants and minorities, but don't want to demonize every one of us that think differently, and that want to have diversity of thought, and that want to bring rational thought back into this, and want to have honest debate about ideas.
		Um, there's a couple people.
		So I think, I don't, I don't, I can't say that I would vote for him.
		He's a Republican that I've disagreed with on plenty of things, but I did watch Paul Ryan the other day, give his little spiel about, you know, go to, go to GOP.gov or something.
		And here's the things that I believe in about liberty and whatever.
		And I thought, you know what, this guy who I probably could come up with a list of things that I disagree with him about.
		I thought this guy is really trying to, to, Explain the role of government.
		Explain the vision he has for America.
		And seems like a decent fella.
		I don't think that really plays on TV anymore.
		It doesn't play on social media.
		And maybe after this whole thing we'll all be so sick of the bullshit that we'll start veering back to that.
		But I think that his voice, whether you agree with him politically or not, I thought it was actually kind of refreshing listening to something kind of old school.
		On the Democratic side, I would love to see a younger person pick up the Bernie mantle and own it a little bit more.
		You know, one of the things I said about Bernie a lot was that I liked Bernie the man better than Bernie as a movement, because I think there were a lot of things that the movement didn't quite understand.
		It's very easy to always say I'm for higher minimum wage and free college and all the things.
		At the end of the day, someone has to pay for it.
		So hire a minimum wage, $15 minimum wage.
		Eventually, McDonald's workers will all be replaced by iPads, and then you'll have one guy with a job because he's fixing iPads, but everyone else will be fired.
		And free college, guess what?
		Someone pays for it.
		But I think there is a voice within that to say we can find ways to help people at the bottom.
		And it doesn't necessarily mean redistribution, but there's ways to make people at the bottom be able to attain middle class status better.
		So I don't know who the standard bearer would be for that kind of thing.
		So who else would I like to see in politics?
		You know, it's so hard to say because right now it's like we're watching this reality show and Clinton, even though she's been involved in politics forever, is sort of a reality thing because of all her entire history, Secretary of State, First Lady, all the shit with Bill, Senator, blah blah blah.
		And Trump obviously is a reality star.
		By the way, I don't know if any of you guys saw this, but did you guys see that Howard Stern, I think this morning, said that he was not going to release tapes of old interviews with Donald Trump.
		He said, because Donald Trump used to come on his show to entertain, and they would talk
		about women and all, think of all the things that Howard Stern has done related to women
		having sex on air and, and, you know, obviously talking about lesbian stuff, but talking about
		drugs and all kinds of stuff.
		And he said, he said, Trump came on my show to entertain and talk about women and talk
		about his life and blah, blah, blah.
		And he's like, I'm not going to betray that trust.
		And I thought that was really, forgetting anything that Trump may or may not have said,
		I thought it was pretty principled by Stern.
		Like, not throwing someone on the bus who was part of his little game all these years, before Trump had any thought of running for the president.
		So regardless of who you think, I would, you know what, I would be for Howard Stern running for president.
		I think this is a free speech stalwart, who basically, who's basically a, he's a disgruntled liberal, very much like myself.
		I would love to do a Howard Stern show.
		Feel free to tweet it, at Matt Howard Stern.
		I would love to get on there, and I used to work at Sirius.
		I've never met him, unfortunately.
		But I would love to talk about him.
unidentified		This question's from Patreon.
		Dave asks, what do you think about the Republicans' ever-changing stance on climate change?
		Do you think they could sway a lot of voters if they just acknowledged the sun?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a good question.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Who said that?
unidentified		It's Dave on Patreon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Dave on Patreon!
		Good question, Dave.
		It wasn't me, I promise you.
		Dave basically said, what do you think about the Republicans on climate change, and do you think if they evolve a little bit, they could get a lot of voters?
		Yeah, I do.
		Look, there's a certain subset of people that simply don't believe in climate change.
		I've said on the show a gajillion times before, I am not a scientist.
		So I have to trust people.
		And I have to trust the main people in the scientific community.
		And time and time again, I've had many people on my show who I do trust at a scientific level, including Lawrence Krauss, who I have on this week, and including Sam Harrison, including Cara Santa Maria, and Michael Mann, and many other people who specialize in this that I've read about and know their work.
		They believe in it.
		Or not they believe in it.
		They believe it's a quantifiable, testifiable thing.
		So who am I to say, well, I just don't... I believe in science in other ways, but not in this way.
		It just doesn't seem right.
unidentified		No.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Does that mean that the government hasn't done some strange things like Solyndra, where they push green energy things on us that aren't financially sensible?
		And that's where a guy like Alex Epstein, who I had on, basically was saying that using fossil fuels is still the
		best economic way to max out human potential. That's sort of a separate argument
		than whether climate change is real or anything like that. But I think the
		Republicans, if there's no reason, well I don't know what happened within the last
		four or five years or ten years or whatever it is, where the Republicans decided
		to stake out positions either based because of religion and the way the
		Christian right had a hold over them.
		So they were really against gay marriage.
		This is the best example to me.
		So if you're really against gay marriage because you're a Christian, that's your own personal belief.
		But as a Republican, And as a conservative, you should be for small government.
		So you should not care whether two guys get married, or two women get married, or a guy and a woman get married, or whatever else there is.
		Every time they said, this is going to destroy the family, this is going to destroy the communities.
		How many of you are gay people in your community?
		Guess what?
		I'm guessing they probably have the nicest house on the block.
		I'm guessing that their yard is probably as nice as anything else.
		And that they bring some culture and music into the neighborhood and that kind of stuff.
		Not in every case.
		I know plenty of gay slobs.
		Um, but, uh, but my point is that the, so the Christian conservative portion of this, which by the way, in effect, which is so bizarre, is Trump is not a Christian conservative by any stretch.
		He's a New York big government guy running as a Republican.
		He has the, one of the groups that really hasn't abandoned him at all is the Christian conservatives.
		Which makes no sense because should they like the way he talks about women or whatever else it is, regardless of whether you think that's an issue or not.
		So they haven't abandoned him.
		But I think one thing that's been unmasked in all of this is that the Republicans that... I completely lost my train of thought.
		I think that was the tequila, people.
		It kicked in right then and I lost my train of thought.
		Something was going bad for Trump.
		Oh, is that people just want to pick a winner, basically.
		So for the Christian conservatives, it's like they want to pick a winner and they're just hedging their bets now with Trump because it's too late for them and they hate Clinton.
		You know, it is what it is.
unidentified		Let's throw you a softball.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, a softball.
unidentified		Would you ever do DMT with Joe Rogan?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Here's a softball.
		Would I ever do DMT with Joe Rogan?
		So I've never done DMT.
		I'm happy to answer these type of questions, too.
		I've smoked plenty of pot in my day.
		As I said, I have a license here in LA.
		I can walk through the dispensary over here.
		I don't smoke pot that often, but when I do, I take a little puff.
		I watch Seinfeld, usually, or The Simpsons.
		I've done mushrooms many, many times.
		Not in many years, but I always loved that.
		I did acid once, which I did not like at all.
		I've done a couple other things that need not be mentioned.
		But DNT, would I do it?
		What is DNT?
unidentified		What?
unidentified		DMT?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, what is DMT exactly?
		Yeah, it's ecstasy.
		Oh, DMT is like ecstasy?
unidentified		Yeah.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I'm not sure, DMT, I've done ecstasy before, I've done MDMA is ecstasy.
		I'm not sure what DMT is.
		DMT.
unidentified		DMT.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, we're doing a little research on that.
		Man, I'm out of game, I guess.
		I do need my wits about me, and I don't really want to fry any more brain cells, so I'd be a little leery.
		But you know, I do have a friend from high school who's into ayahuasca, which is... So TMT is the active ingredient in ayahuasca?
		Oh, all right, so there you go.
		So DMT is the active ingredient in ayahuasca.
		Okay, now I know what I'm talking about here.
		So I have a friend from high school who's big into ayahuasca.
		And, you know, this is where you drink this tea and basically you start vomiting, but then you have like a 20-hour trip where, you know, people say you meet ancestors and spirits and all kinds of stuff.
		And there are people that argue that you can actually cure yourself of diseases and body pains and all kinds of stuff.
		Yeah, I'm kind of curious to do it.
		I think maybe I would consider doing it.
		You know what?
		Next time I get on Rogan, I'll unfurl it a little more.
unidentified		It's the most powerful hallucination known to man in science, and it's the most common hallucination in all of nature.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there you go.
		So it's the most powerful hallucination known to man.
		So yeah, I would consider it.
		You know, on another hand, You know, I've had a lot of the doors open.
		You know, you talk about the doors of the mind.
		I've opened a lot of those doors.
		I don't know that, you know, I don't want those hinges to be blown off to the point that I can't do anything else.
		But I would be happy to discuss it further with Joe.
		And my friend, as I said, from high school who's into this, has told me some really amazing things about it.
		But that's also why I would love, you know, we will talk more about drug policy in general on the show, because the idea that we're throwing people into jail for drugs is so absolutely ridiculous.
		And you know, if you've got a good lawyer, you can get caught with a ton of coke and you're okay.
		And if you have a shitty lawyer, you get caught with a little weed and you're in jail.
		And that's just not right.
		That's where I think you could make an argument for some level of systemic racism.
		Not that the laws are written with race in mind, but due to economic status and socioeconomic stuff, it could be viewed as some level of systemic racism.
unidentified		That doesn't seem right to me.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You think it's right?
		Alright, we're 137 away from the next shot.
		Thank Brent on PayPal and Ryan on Patreon.
		There's a few more we're going to do in a second.
unidentified		I mean, basically, if anybody joins, we've got another seat open on the group hangout
unidentified		and we've still got that 250 open.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, all right.
		So we have one 250 open.
		The one we opened up before is still open.
		So someone can get the shot right now.
unidentified		Basically, that's two shots if somebody joins.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Two shots, I can do two shots back-to-back if you people really want that.
		We've got the 250 open on Patreon, that's a private hangout with you on Google Hangout, we do that with you once a month.
		And then there's one $100 slot left, which is the group Google Hangout, which is actually a lot of fun, talking to people from all over the world.
		By the way, I'll just do a quick little radio reset of what we're doing here.
		We're building our home studio.
		We went independent five months ago in June.
		I was not intending that we could do this this quick, but you guys have been good to us.
		We put a couple business things in mind.
		I was able to get a fairly large loan.
		To make this happen, sort of two loans in a way, but we're making this happen, and we're building this thing, and I believe in it.
		This will be what, you know, my whole life has sort of led up to this, and we're building something that I think and hope that you'll be proud of, and you guys are a part of it.
		You're a part of it, you know?
		The cost that we do one episode of our show for You could do a year of our show, really.
		A year of our show costs probably what one episode of a cable news show.
		If you think, watch CNN, watch Anderson Cooper for one night, think about his salary.
		The massive studio cost, the overhead cost, the lighting, the janitor, all the producers and associate producers and production assistants and all of that.
		And for what they do for one episode, we can do for a year.
		That's why it's not like we need, I don't need 100,000 people.
		That's a good question, too.
		to help us spread these ideas.
		We need this core group, and right now we've got about 3,000 of you, and I thank you guys.
		And we need to up that a little bit, and get a little bit bigger so that the engine
		can move enough so that eventually we can shift out of Patreon and figure out some other money situations,
		and all that good stuff.
unidentified		All right, what do we got?
		Back to politics here.
		Dave, what are your views on the seemingly illegal expansion of the executive powers of the president?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a good question, too.
		What do you think about the seemingly illegal executive powers that seem to be expanding?
		Look, every president does it.
		Everybody running.
		Every time they're running for presidency, they say they don't like executive actions, they don't want to do executive actions.
		Go back and look at Obama in 2007, talking about George W. Bush abusing executive power.
		By the way, George Bush did abuse executive power and Obama's done it, I think, even less than him, but has done it plenty.
		Because our system is in such gridlock and Congress and the Senate don't really do anything that the president feels they can do it.
		Also, look at the way we react to a presidential election.
		We all go bananas over a presidential election.
		Because we think we're electing a king, but all the president is, is the executor of the law.
		The Congress writes the law, the legislative branch, they write the laws, right?
		The president, the executive branch, he executes it, means he signs it into law.
		And then the judicial branch, the Supreme Court, says this is either legal or it is not legal.
		That is a beautiful system.
		And then the president selects the people that can be on the Supreme Court who have to be confirmed by the Senate.
		I mean, it's a really beautiful system that our forefathers created, our founding fathers created.
		And unfortunately, because of the cult of personality around the presidency, the way our media works, the way that our education is so bad, people think they're voting for a king.
		But you know what?
		We left because of that King George guy.
		That's why we left a couple hundred years ago.
		Because we didn't want to be ruled by a king.
		And we have to really understand that the Senate and the House is as important and Congress is as important as the executive brain.
		So don't just vote in presidential elections.
		Vote for your local things.
unidentified		And by the way, somebody asked me this yesterday.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I would say, That the Libertarians, one of their huge mistakes, I think a lot of people could get on board Libertarian ideas, for as flawed as Gary Johnson is.
		I think a lot of people could get on the ideas of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism, meaning you're okay with weed and gay marriage and all that social stuff, that should have very little to do with our public debate.
		Just let people have it, as long as you're not bothering anybody who cares.
		And then lower taxes and not nation building and all that stuff.
		I think a lot of people would be for that.
		The Libertarians, their problem is that they think the only way you can gain power is by running for the presidency.
		And it's like, wait a minute, how do we get three senators?
		How do we get one senator that's a Libertarian?
		I guess we have Rand Paul, but technically he's a Republican.
		But wouldn't it have been better if Rand Paul had been the Libertarian candidate this time around?
		I think it certainly would have been.
		So the Libertarians have to get their shit together, the Greens have to get their shit together.
		Let's have a more robust debate in America.
unidentified		So basically the question was about my classical liberal values and why I believe certain things that I believe.
		which is to require arguments or ideas, such as free speech, free markets, et cetera.
		Or are they based more on posturing arguments, like the best evidence we have suggests
		that free markets and personal liberty live in most prosperous societies?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, so basically the question was about my classical liberal values
		and why I believe certain things that I believe.
		So I would say most of my classical liberal values are based on, you know, classical liberalism
		and libertarianism are not that different.
		So you believe in the individual.
		You believe in the right to do what is best for yourself, to find the best life.
		You believe in liberty.
		So, and it's evidence-based liberty and it's evidence-based reasoning and using logic and things of that nature.
		Those are very much things that I try to incorporate into my life.
		And I would say that if you were to look back on the entire breadth of my work, if you found any video you could ever find I don't think you would ever once find me blatantly intentionally lying or distorting the truth about an issue.
		You would certainly find instances where I screwed up a number or I may have misquoted somebody accidentally or something like that.
		But I try to base everything, my views on your, you have personal, it is your job as a human being to have your own personal interests in mind.
		That is a very classical liberal and a libertarian value.
		I don't care what you do.
		Whoever you watching this right now, I don't care what you do.
		As long as you don't infringe on my life, as long as you don't murder somebody or do something grossly illegal, why would I care?
		Why would I care?
		That is up for you to do.
		So you only, that's why I always talk about the individual instead of the collective, because we have to care about individual people.
		Otherwise you will always throw away the minorities within the minorities, which by the way, I addressed on the show today.
		I think I've quoted that many times and credited it to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, but I think it's actually Ayaan Grand, which I know that pisses off a lot of progressives.
		But you have to care about the individual is the ultimate minority.
		And you can do whatever your life, whatever you want with your life, as long as it's not illegal.
		As long as it's not illegal.
		That's what you can do with your life and what you should do with your life.
		So my classical liberal ads are based on logic and reason.
		And they're based on the principle that the government should facilitate you living the best life you can, but not handing, not giving you stuff because that's what you deserve, or taking from you and giving to somebody else.
		And that doesn't mean that you should have no social safety net.
		That doesn't mean we shouldn't do more to help people.
		But there's some happy medium there.
		And I wish we talked about those things more than we do.
		All right, a couple quick shout-outs.
		Brian on Patreon, Matthew on PayPal, and Cam on PayPal, thank you guys.
		Giving live shout-outs to anyone who donates for RubinReport.com.
		Donate!
		And we're 137 away from the next shot.
		I can tell the next shot is gonna do something to me.
		So, do you want that to be done or not?
		Now is your chance, people.
unidentified		What do we got?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What do we got?
unidentified		What economically liberal ideas do you support?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What economically liberal ideas?
		So I think you're talking about more left ideas, probably is what you're getting to.
		So I would say, so look, if you were a pure libertarian, which I don't consider myself to be,
		if you were a pure libertarian, you would want no social safety net.
		So you would say that, you know, you get rid of welfare or something,
		and that people as individuals or their faith-based communities or whatever,
		that they would make up the difference.
		I think that's a legit argument.
		I actually really do.
		I think when the government gets out of the way, you might find that there might be more churches or community groups or whatever that would help poor people so that the more, and that the more you have the state do it, the less that they do by themselves.
		I think you can make an argument for that.
		That said, I would, I'm still for the state creating some level of help.
		And you know what?
		I would say some of that level of help, you could do it in the form of taxes.
		So like, look, I'm not an economist, and I will definitely do more on the economy over the next coming months and everything, but I would say I'm for something along the lines of if you make under $50,000, let's say, don't quote me on this exactly, but if you basically make under, let's say, 50 grand, I would be for you paying no taxes.
		If 50 grand you're not rolling in dough, you're trying to get ahead, it would be, I tried to live in New York City for many, many years, into my 30s, Making barely that and it was extremely difficult.
		No taxes at that point.
		Then from 50 to like 5 million or something, I would be for let's say 15%.
		But everybody pays the exact amount from 50,000 to 5 million.
		Now I know there's problems inherent in that because people always gain in the system.
		So why would you ever want to make You'd want to make $49,000, not $51,000, because at $51,000 if you're not taxed more, you'd want to make $49,000.
		I mean, putting aside some of that stuff, at all of that, let's treat everybody equally.
		Then at above $5 million, you know, we could up it from 15% to let's say 17%.
		And then if you make over $15 million, Another 10 million higher, we up it to 20%.
		Then if you make over 100 million, we up it to 25%.
		I don't know, something like that.
		Where you have some level of a progressive tax.
		So some of that money could be moved to give the poorest people some support.
		And I fully get the arguments why libertarians are against that and why some pure capitalists are against that.
		I think that's perfectly legit.
		And I'm not an economist.
		But I think in some society, you would want the massive, massive, massive bulk of people to pay the exact same amount, regardless of how much they make, because you don't want to punish success, because we all want to be successful.
		We all want to be successful, right?
		So you give a break to the people that are having it the hardest.
		You make everyone else pay the same.
		And then when you're off the charts rich, 5 million bucks, 10 million bucks, whatever it is, 100 million bucks, you can pay a little bit more and move some of that to do some greater good stuff, even if the greater good stuff would be done without you by private things.
		I think there's some legitimacy to that.
		That said, this is not my full forte.
		And I would gladly have more people out on this, and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.
		A couple quick thank yous.
		Ricky on PayPal, Andrew on PayPal, Gordon on Patreon, and Richard on Patreon.
		We're 78 away, people, for the next shot.
		Man, it's only five.
		I was about to say, we may have to wrap this for dinner soon, but it's so early.
unidentified		It's an hour and a half yet, and Milo's stream just ended, so.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, and Milo's stream just ended, apparently.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You want to send out another tweet?
unidentified		If the DNC had never rigged the primary, and instead of Hillary being the nominee, Bernie Sanders was the Democratic candidate, would you vote for him, or would you still have voted for Gary Johnson?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Good question.
		It's a little loaded, but I'll go with the others.
		If the DNC had not rigged this thing, and if Bernie won, and Hillary not won, would you still have supported Gary Johnson?
		So first off, we don't, there's not enough evidence to say that what the DNC did, which by the way, they did do shady shit.
		There is not enough evidence to say that had they not done that, that Bernie would have automatically won because she's still won by millions and millions of votes.
		So, but I'll go with your premise for the purposes of, for this little thought experiment, right?
		So would I have supported Bernie instead of Gary Johnson?
unidentified		I do.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		First off, just to be totally clear on my Gary Johnson thing, and I did a Patreon video for this for people that are on Patreon already.
		Which if you join on Patreon you get access to, where I really fleshed out my feelings about Gary.
		Fully flawed candidate, who's done a terrible job over the last month and a half, when they were such a great lane for Libertarians to be thought of as a real legitimate party, and he just terribly dropped the ball.
		Everything being equal, would I have supported Bernie or Gary Johnson more?
		I still think I would have supported Gary Johnson.
		And I know that a lot of you are not going to be happy with me when you hear that, but my feeling of what the role of government should be.
		Bernie wants more and more and more government.
		I know it feels good to say we're going to give $15 minimum wage, but what do you do then?
		You force a small business to pay more in wages than they can when they can hire people at a lesser wage, young people at a lesser wage who are willing to work hard.
		and that could cause them to close.
		And, you know, say college is free when you know that it's not free,
		that different people have to pay taxes.
		Yes, would I be for scaling back some military expenditures so that we could do some of that stuff?
		Of course.
		But I think a lot of what Bernie did, it all sounds good.
		Go look at Bernie's Twitter right now.
		You can pause this if you want.
		Go look at Bernie's Twitter, and it sounds like an Oprah episode.
		Everything that he tweets now is like, the America I want is the perfect utopia, utopian, utopianist.
		And it's a lot of that.
		And it's like, okay, that all sounds good, so I get why young people like it.
		But I would much rather deal in the world as it is, not the world as I want it to be.
		And with the world as it is, I would want to talk about the role of government, and I would want to give more power back to the people.
		And I think that's the difference between a big government person like Bernie and what should be a small government person like Gary Johnson.
		Gary Johnson's not a perfect example of it.
		But that's a good question, and I think this is an area where I would definitely have a big difference with a lot of my audience, and I think that's totally cool, and I fully respect your opinion.
unidentified		This is from Brian on Patreon.
		Will you have Sam Harris on the show again?
		Maybe disagree a little bit on?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Will I have Sam on again?
		Yeah, of course I would.
		If he was willing to come back, I would be willing to go.
		Actually, I'll see him next week.
		At November 2nd, he's giving a speech.
		He's talking to Richard Dawkins, who's in L.A., and Sam and him are doing a sit-down in L.A., and Sam hooked me up with tickets, so there's gonna be a cool little thing.
		To start that, and I'll be there, and we're... I assure you, as I said earlier, even if I see some of this a little differently than him, he has no problem with that, and I have no problem with that.
		That's what makes the world go round.
		And I would be happy to have him back, and I hope he would want to come back.
		So yeah, we're totally good.
		All right, a couple thank yous.
		We're $64 away from the next shot, by the way.
		Someone could just knock that out right now.
		Brendan on Patreon, thank you.
		Daniel on PayPal, thank you.
		John on PayPal, thank you.
unidentified		Why don't you reset and I got a few questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, radio reset here.
		As you guys probably know now, we are fully independent, but we're taking the final step to true, true independence.
		Literally nothing else between me and you guys.
		We were able to do a couple good business decisions.
		We took out a couple loans.
		So we're behind the eight ball again, but I'm fully confident in the future of this thing.
		And we are building a home studio.
		We will have 24-hour-a-day access to ThingBeat because it will be in my house.
		We're going to build out our set, as you know, from the room in our home right now.
		We're going to double the amount of interviews we're doing starting next week, just to show you how committed we are, even though the studio is not able to be built yet.
		We're going to try to do... I'd love to start doing a weekly news segment.
		I don't want to get into The Daily News game, I think, becomes just dribble for the most part.
		I'd love to do more live streaming.
		We could do a lot more fun stuff.
		We have a full-on production company right now.
		We own all our cameras, all our audio stuff.
		We own our set.
		We own our TriCaster, all of the things that make the show the show.
		And this is just the beginning, and you guys truly have built this.
		And you have enabled me.
		I don't have to sell out.
		I've had an offer, even in the last month, I had an offer from a pretty Influential media conglomerate type thing to do something with, and I didn't do it because I wanted to keep doing this.
		And it would take a fucking hell of a lot to have me do something else.
		All right, so Levi on PayPal gave $6.66.
		Is that a tip off to the devil?
		I do not know.
		And Jared jumped up on Patreon from 25 to 50.
		So we're just rolling.
		Tony's getting an autographed mug.
		That's right, at $50 you get an autographed mug, the official Rubin Report mug.
		Here, you know what I'll do?
		I'll sign a mug right now.
		And that mug that I sign right now, we'll give to the next person that will pick a number or something in a second, but I'll do the next shot.
		And that will be the mug that I will send directly to you, right there.
		So yeah, it's very cool what's going on here.
		You guys have made this, you know what I mean?
		Like, this is...
		You know, turn on any of the cable news things.
		You don't know what these people are thinking.
		You really have very little insight into what these people are thinking.
		I don't want to get that close with the people that I'd be interviewing.
		I like having some of the people I become friends with, which is great, but I'm talking about the real people in power, the real politicians.
		What they do is, and you can see a lot of this in some of the email chains that are being released, they're all going to the same parties.
		They're all related to each other.
		Cousin used to work at this one's campaign, and now he's on CNN, and you know what?
		Turn on CNN!
		Right now, you got David Oxirod, who used to work for the Obama campaign.
		You got Corey Lewandowski, kind of still works for Trump right now.
		You got Paul Begala, who's an advisor on a Hillary super PAC.
		You got Donna Brazile, who left CNN now because she's working for Hillary.
		Like, it's this merry-go-round of these people that are all just protecting their own interests, and all of us that are doing this online.
		I don't think I'm the greatest.
		I never intended to be the greatest journalist in the world.
		I never intended to be the, you know, whatever.
		Like, I just tell you what I think, really.
		You know, I think we're seeing a growth of that.
		And I would love to figure out a way to make this a real network, a real something that we could really blow up, that I would build a studio that we could start bringing in other shows and figure out all kinds of cool stuff.
		And you guys can all be part of that if you care about these ideas, which I know you do.
		And if you don't have a dollar, literally, if you don't have a dollar, that's cool too.
		And if you just click like on these things or you tweet about them or share them or whatever.
		All right, so I'm going to sign a mug right now, right?
		I'm going to sign this mug.
		And then we're going to figure out what to do with it, right?
unidentified		We're $22 away from the shop.
unidentified		No, you make that $28 away.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're $28 away, so I just signed the mug, and I'm going to, I'll write on here that this was our YouTube Live, just to prove that you're going to get this exact mug.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's the YouTube Live stream on 10-18, am I right?
unidentified		Yeah, 10-18, 2016.
		Yeah, yeah, yeah, 10, 18, 20, 16.
		YouTube live stream.
		10, 18, 16.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Sixteen.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, if you want this mug, what are we gonna do for this mug?
unidentified		This mug right here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what should we do?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What should we do?
unidentified		Should this be for someone, I mean.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I could put an old piece of lime in here, that would be weird.
unidentified		So these mugs are usually for people that do 50 or above.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, these mugs are usually for 50 and above.
unidentified		So you take one of those final stuff and get it anyway.
		So this needs to go to somebody that wouldn't get it anyway, you think?
		Or this is like an extra special.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, how do we do this?
unidentified		Either go to a PayPal person, because they don't get these, or go to the person that takes the 250 slot.
unidentified		That last 250 slot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there is one 250 slot right now on Patreon.
		Whoever takes that slot, you've got this mug.
		That mug goes to you.
		Bam!
		Mug.
		Right there.
		It is signed.
		It is waiting for you.
		It will also push us over to the next shot.
unidentified		I mean, arguably, you could say... Well, I won't say.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, where are we at?
unidentified		You want to know the question or you want to know where we're at?
unidentified		You're basically 28 more dollars to the next shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're 28 bucks away from the next shot either way.
		But that mug is waiting for somebody.
		You know what?
		Why don't we just do this?
		We'll make this nice and easy for everybody.
unidentified		Yeah.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're going to make it nice and easy?
unidentified		Sure.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, the next 100 bucks on PayPal.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We'll do it.
unidentified		100 bucks on PayPal.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		100 bucks on PayPal.
		Make it nice and easy.
		One-time donation.
unidentified		100 bucks on PayPal.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		But it has to be the next one.
		Whoever the next one is.
		We got five right now.
		It's just gonna be whoever the next one is.
		It's right here.
		He's got the live thing.
		I just signed it.
		I'll even put your name on it if you'd like me to.
		It's the next one that comes in right this second.
		And we'll have the evidence of it right here.
unidentified		Okay.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		There you go.
		And then we're like 20 bucks away from the other thing.
		Alright, what's the next question?
unidentified		Let's see here.
unidentified		Would you ever consider having written pieces for The Reuben Report?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Would I ever consider having written pieces for The Reuben Report?
		Absolutely!
		There was a couple months when I was at Aura where I was writing a little bit more.
		I wish I had more time because I would like to write a little bit more for sure, of course.
		So yeah, what I really like to do is if we can build this thing out a little bit more, I really am connected with a great network of people.
		I've met so many cool people in the last year in the public space that I just I respect so much and really love working with and getting to know from Gad Saad and Laola Degash and Christina Huff-Sommers and Milo and Ali Rizvi and people all over the place and Sarah Hayter and so many great people.
		I would love to figure out a way that now that my social media has gotten to a point where I can really help amplify some of these voices, really figure out a way that we can do, we can have video content, we can have written content.
		Really figure out something that's beyond this.
		This is the first step.
		And it's funny, we're back at the beginning again, because we've got to do the studio thing.
		But this is it.
		This is it.
		If we get this studio, I don't see any reason why we need to do real pushes on this stuff in the future, because we will have built the engine that will fully allow us to do it however we want.
		All right, a whole bunch of people just jumped in on PayPal, but nobody did the 100, I guess.
		So 100 still stands, but Jean-Luc just upped it on Patreon, Nicholas on Patreon, Bobby on Patreon, Carrie on PayPal, Cam on PayPal, and John on PayPal.
		But whoever does the next 100 gets the mug.
unidentified		That's actually the second time Cam gave us some money on PayPal.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's the second time Cam gave us some money?
		You know what?
		What can we do for Cam?
		What can, what can Cam, what can we do for Cam?
unidentified		We'll sign a mug for Cam.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		How about, what?
unidentified		We'll sign a mug for Cam.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're signing a mug for you, Cam, alright.
unidentified		This one's still available.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, this one is still available, but Cam, you're gonna get a different mug, but whoever gives you one is getting that mug.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Um, so where are we at?
unidentified		I mean, did that get us to... Uh, let's see... The shot?
		$15 away.
		We're $15 away, people.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		$15 away on Patreon.
unidentified		$15 away on Patreon for the next shot.
unidentified		Dave, given an electoral tie at 268-268, if the House elects Clinton, will there be a revolution?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Given an electoral tie, if it's 268-268, will, if the House elects Clinton, will there be a revolution?
		Let's just remove Clinton for that, but the House might either way.
		Which I don't see how it could go for Trump, since so many Republicans have bailed on Trump.
		I think, if I'm not mistaken, the only way the math shakes out that that could actually happen is if Evan McMullin A revolution?
		Like, are we talking about an armed insurrection?
		I don't know.
		It sounds like he's pulling it maybe 20 or 30%.
		So realistically, it's not gonna happen.
		Would there be a revolution?
		A revolution, like are we talking about an armed insurrection?
		I don't know.
		I do think one of the issues is, and I think this is where Trump in the last few days,
		I think has gone a little dangerous, is that by attacking, all right, we got the PayPal.
		We got the PayPal, but I will, I'll just hold it, let me just finish my thought.
		But we did get the PayPal.
		That by Trump so saying that the election is rigged and going that route without any evidence of it, You know me, as someone that I don't trust the system, I don't trust the media.
		But by Trump going that route, what he's setting up the stage for is his loss, but then to have all these really aggrieved, angry people.
		That is a problem.
		That is a real problem.
		Because we've always, one thing that America has done really well, when we've bounced across from a George W. Bush to a Barack Obama, we allow for a transition of power.
		That's the strength in our democracy.
		And Trump truly is threatening that.
		Now for those of you that are Trump supporters, your argument would be the system is so fucked that if he's threatening it, so be it.
		He's threatening like a bullshit system.
		So I hear you on that, I really do.
		But I think he's veering into waters that are uncharted and that could end up being particularly dangerous.
		All right, so congratulations to Alexandros on PayPal who gave $100.
		You are getting the mug, my man.
		Thank you very much.
		And I'm going to write your name on it right now so that you know that you got it.
		I'm going to use a different marker, the Super Marker.
		I'm using the Super Marker.
		So there you go.
		Oh, we got an official trigger warning, by the way.
		That's a $50 on PayPal.
		You guys can all get the mug.
unidentified		$50, huh?
		So, that's Alexandros.
		Yes.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Right on that.
unidentified		We're $11 away from your next shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're $11 away from the next shot.
		Thanks, Alexandros!
		There you go.
		I'm not sure that this is machine washable for this marker.
		We thought it was.
		There's a little question about it.
		So, hand wash gently.
		All right, we're $11 away from the next shot.
		What's for dinner, by the way?
unidentified		I don't know.
unidentified		You also got a couple more shout-outs here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, a couple more shout-outs.
		Steven, thank you on PayPal.
		And Jacob on Patreon, thank you guys.
		You guys are building the show, one thing at a time.
		All right, give me a question here.
		What do we got?
		Feel free, guys.
		It doesn't all have to be politics.
unidentified		We can veer into really anything.
		Do you always get so long-winded when you're drunk?
		Ha!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Do I always get so long-winded when I'm drunk?
		That's fucked up.
		Have I been long-winded here?
		You know, I'm talking to myself in a weird way, right?
		Like, you guys are talking to me, David's reading things, Amir is texting me, or texting David stuff.
		But I am talking to a screen, so, over the course of several hours here.
		So, do I always get so long-winded?
unidentified		How are you doing on getting access to the political A-listers?
unidentified		How often are you getting shot down?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That's a good question.
		How am I doing on getting access to the political A-listers?
		How often am I getting shot down?
		So we reached out, not on Twitter, although I did some of it on Twitter, but I mean through proper channels, we reached out to pretty much every Republican nominee.
		Every single one we found their proper channels and we were either ignored or rejected by every single person.
		Even a guy like Rand Paul, who should have been all about doing my show because it would have helped some of his ideas.
		He would have got a fair interview and been introduced.
		Some liberals would have been introduced to his ideas.
		So we were, we were nagged by pretty much everybody.
		The Bernie campaign, I met Bernie's, the head of Bernie's Public Relations, his com director.
		I met her in Vegas at the debate, had a great chat with her.
		I tweeted at her with, well I emailed her obviously a couple times, and tweeted at her with Bernie attached.
		That all got hundreds, some of them I think thousands of retweets and favorites, and they just ignored, ignored, ignored, ignored.
		She's no longer with the campaign.
		You know, this is part of the problem, is that they feel that they only have to do media that's friendly to them.
		I would not be unfair or not friendly to them, But they're in it.
		That's why Hillary in the last couple weeks, what press has Hillary got?
		She did In Between Two Ferns, the Zach Galifianakis show.
		She did a Steve Harvey interview that she was given the questions in advance.
		She did Ellen last week, which is pure fluff.
		She was interviewed for, I think, Parade Magazine by an eight-year-old or something.
		Like, this is garbage.
		This is actual garbage.
		At the same time, Trump basically goes on Fox a lot and calls into some morning shows.
		I would interview them both fairly.
		I would do it with a completely critical lens.
		And I don't particularly like either of them.
		And I wouldn't edit, by the way.
		I would make it clear.
		We're not editing.
		So sorry if you say something that you don't feel is right.
		We're not editing.
		We don't edit for content, period.
		All right, we're $11 away.
		Thanks to Brent on PayPal and Ryan on PayPal.
		We're $11 away, folks.
		Oh, here we go.
unidentified		Thoughts on the current state of social media and clickbait and its influence on politics and people's opinions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		That is a great question.
		I've said that for the last couple questions because you guys are good, but that is a great question.
		Thoughts on social media and clickbait and its influence on the elections.
		Look, this is a huge, huge, huge, huge problem.
		Two election cycles ago, the internet had barely anything to do with this whole thing.
		Now it's almost all being fought in the digital space.
		Look, You can look at some of my old videos that we have on our channel from our previous networks that we were at, and we did do clickbait stuff.
		It was part of the YouTube game.
		You could title videos in a way to get more clicks.
		You can use thumbnails in a way to get more clicks.
		That's how we learned to do it, and that's what we did.
		When we relaunched the show on Aura back in last September, when I had Sam Harrison on the first time, I did a Rubin Report Rules.
		These are the ten principles that I will guide the show by, and I've tried my best to uphold those principles.
		We know that we could title things differently to get more clicks.
		I know that we could game the system and do misleading thumbnails and misleading meta tags to do all that.
		The clickbait thing, everyone wants clicks.
		They want clicks because clicks equal money.
		They want more views because more views value their companies more and all that stuff.
		I'm really, really trying not to play those games.
		We're not.
		There are some times when we're tagging and titling things.
		And my guys have given me a couple options.
		You know, here are five options that we tag and title is.
		And almost without exclusion, I always say, the most generic one is the best way to do it.
		Knowing that if you put a certain word here, you could get a couple more views,
		and if you put this here and all that.
		I don't like doing that.
		I think it's an actual danger, because the more that we become beholden to clickbait,
		the more we become beholden to salacious nonsense, and this drivel, and pussy,
		and all this stuff that has nothing to do with, the more we become beholden to pussy,
		the bigger the trouble--
		Every time you say it, I hear it.
unidentified		Yeah, you guys should drink every time I say pussy.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we're doing this for three more nights.
		Thursday night is pussy night.
		Yeah, we're figuring out it's a pussy night on Thursday.
		It's the Thursday Pussy Drinking Game.
		It's the Pussy Drinking Game on Thursday.
		So the point is that we try not to do that stuff.
		We know we could do it, but what it becomes dangerous about is that then you just want the most clicks so you'll do the most salacious, dishonest stories.
		And we see this time and time again.
		And that's not helping democracy.
		It's not helping free thought.
		It's not helping, you know, secular values or constitutional liberties or any of that stuff.
		It's a huge problem.
		All right, where are we at?
unidentified		Let's see here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's refreshing.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's refreshing.
unidentified		Six dollars.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're six dollars away.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Holy shit.
unidentified		Have you ever won a shot of that in your life?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We're $6 away from the next $250, guys.
		We are trying to get to $30,000 to fully fund our new studio, our new home studio, which I'm incredibly excited to show you.
		We're meeting with contractors.
		We're soundproofing.
		We're building a lighting grid.
		We will have unfettered, unlimited access.
		I will have no boss.
		I hope that what you are seeing from me right this second, this is it.
		No boss for the rest of my life that we can pull this thing off right.
		Hopefully we'll be able to figure out some distribution deals and some other side things.
		But we've built a really good production company and I have great people working for me and we want to expand that team.
		And you guys, even today, I got emails from people that want to intern for us and work for us and do work for free.
		We want to pay you guys.
		I was an intern at the Daily Show in 1989.
		It sounds like another lifetime ago.
		But I don't want anyone to work for me for free.
		I want you guys to Should be paid for your work.
		All right, so quick shout out to Daniel on PayPal, Isla on Patreon, and David on PayPal.
		We're like five bucks away, I think, maybe from the next shot.
		We're right there.
		All right, what else we got?
		What's happening in the world?
		There's a lot of questions.
unidentified		Would you ever want to bring on others and do a news style show in addition to the interview part, similar to 2IT?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Would you ever want to bring on other people to do a news style show similar to TYT but without the regressive part?
		So we're two dollars away from the shop by the way, so I assume by the end of this answer we'll get there.
		Yeah, so what I'd like to do I think is do a weekly news wrap-up show where I get a couple people on and maybe we do it via Skype where I have a couple people literally in all over the world because I've connected to some really cool people.
		So maybe I have somebody in India, maybe I have someone in England.
		Have somebody in Canada and Switzerland and all, and it's a rotating group of interesting people.
		I think that would be a really cool idea.
		It's something that we've been discussing that I've been formulating for a while.
		Could do it, of course, we could do it in studio too.
		So one of the things that I want to do as we build the studio is we have a pretty big room.
		So we're making the garage, which has a high ceiling.
		We're making that the entire studio.
		I'd love to figure out a way that we can have our interview portion or, you know, like a desk portion, which I think is more in line with what you're talking about.
		Green screen area and a couple other things.
		So I'd love to get some of my allies and some people I agree with and disagree with to get in there and do like a weekly news wrap-up kind of thing.
		I would have no problem getting regressives.
		By the way, a lot of times people ask me, get some of these regressives on the show.
		I've asked almost everybody and they usually ignore me or say no, but I have had plenty of people on that have some of the regressive ideology.
		I don't need to call them out.
		Some of them I consider friends actually.
		Um, so I think that's unnecessary.
		But yeah, this is all part of the expansion.
		Look, I want to work.
		I love doing what I'm doing.
		It's incredibly rewarding, you know?
		You know, there are drawbacks to it, too.
		Twitter used to be a lot of fun to scroll Twitter, because I'd see people saying nice things about me all the time.
		Now I get 90% nice things, but it's gotten so loud all the time that I can barely decipher the good stuff.
		So there are some costs, too, as things grow bigger, but it's the price you have to pay, and I'm not complaining.
		Quick shoutouts to Nicholas on Patreon, Justin on PayPal, and Michael on PayPal.
		Michael, who gave $6.01.
		I would love to know more about that, Michael.
unidentified		That seems interesting to me.
unidentified		$6.01.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What's that about?
		I like that.
		Are we there?
		We're there.
unidentified		All right, we're there.
unidentified		That's $24,000.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Scepticon shot glass.
		So let's see.
		The first shot that I did, I think, was in honor of Soundwave, Starscream, and Megatron.
unidentified		So this shot will be in honor of, what other good Decepticons?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You know what, this is going to be in honor of all the Constructicons.
unidentified		Dennis did it again!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What did Dennis do?
		Alright, Dennis went from 100 to 111.
		So this is for the Constructicons.
		Of course, all of the Constructicons, you had five Constructicons, will form Devastator.
		And this is for the Constructicons.
		I can't remember all their individual names.
unidentified		And for Dennis, here we go.
		Woo!
		Alright.
		It was the Mid-American that gave $6.01.
		He said it when we were six away to put us over.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It was the Mid-American who's on Patreon.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I think he upped already earlier today.
unidentified		I think I'm gonna get a little water here.
unidentified		Okay.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh man, okay.
		Alright, very good.
		So I'll give you a little more inside info while we're... Let me just take a quick reset while I get my thoughts straight so I'm not babbling on about politics while The warp of the tequila enters me.
		So we will be in the new house sometime next week.
		And then I'm meeting with the contractors to figure out what the next steps are and how we can build it out and all kinds of cool stuff.
		Oh, you know what?
		All right, so we're gonna do this for another 20 minutes.
		All right, 2.50.
		All right, so there's one seat on Patreon right now at 2.50, because if you do 2.50 on Patreon, that's the monthly chat, the one-on-one chat with you guys.
		I can only do so many of those.
		I love connecting with the people, and I would love to do more.
		I just cannot.
		I physically cannot do any more.
		When we do them once a month, I literally talk to people from like 8 a.m.
		to 6 or 7 p.m., and sometimes it's split into two days.
		I can't talk anymore, believe it or not, for the guy who said I was long-winded before.
unidentified		That's another shot.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So we have one left.
		So we have about 20 minutes left.
		Is someone going to take that $2.50 shot?
		If someone takes that $2.50 right now, I'd do the shot right now.
		I want to thank Brett who just upped on Patreon.
		So thank you, Brett.
		Appreciate it.
		All right.
		Give me a couple more questions.
		Yeah, feel free, guys.
		It doesn't have to be political.
		We can go any which way.
unidentified		How tall are you?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I bet you want to go.
		How tall am I?
		I'm 5'11".
		And I will tell you this, because I'm kind of proud of it.
		I have lost about 10 pounds in the last about five weeks.
		I have been doing a crazy amount of cardio every morning.
		I'm getting up and I go do cardio.
		And for the first like three weeks of it, I was watching, I would flip the entire time because I don't bullshit you guys.
		I actually, I would flip between Fox News and CNN and MSNBC to get a flavor of what they're all doing.
		But then I've, in the last like week or so, I switched to, I've been listening to binaural beats.
		Are any of you guys doing this?
		You know about binaural beats?
		There are these like, I don't know, there's these things that like, you can get them on YouTube, and they supposedly like affect your brain waves.
		I don't know if it really works, but like you can find one that are cool to work out to.
		And I find it really easy to focus, and before I know it, I've done an hour of cardio
		without even paying attention.
		So I've lost about 10 pounds in the last, yeah, it's been about a month.
		And my goal is I'd like to lose about 12 more, about 12 more.
		I'm not saying I'm fat, I'm just saying, you know.
		Yeah, there we go.
unidentified		This is from liverjayterian on Patreon.
unidentified		Any plans or thoughts on new traveling live shows?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Liverjayterian on Patreon.
		Any plans or thoughts to do live shows, travel and do some live shows?
		So yeah, so I mentioned before that Faisal and I are discussing doing some sort of tour together.
		I've had a gajillion universities reach out to me.
		Basically, we got to get this studio thing lined up.
		Like, I need this studio thing to be in place, which is going to probably take us about a month or a month and a half.
unidentified		Our $50,000 goal.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		But, yes, so at our $50,000 goal, which is way over, yeah, we will fully take this thing on the road.
		I mean, I will hire a freaking road crew, and we will go all over the place.
		Like, we'll fly anywhere, literally anywhere in the world.
		We will do some, like, seriously crazy shit.
		In the short term, since I don't think we're going to get to $50,000 tomorrow, yeah, I'd love to do some more traveling to universities.
		I'm speaking at a high school in Santa Monica later this week, That I was invited to.
		And I'm speaking at USC, I think, in a couple weeks.
		And a few other little things.
		But I want to start doing more of that kind of stuff.
unidentified		I don't know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Are they going to have to issue trigger warnings?
		Dave Rubin's coming.
		Somebody better put up a trigger warning.
unidentified		He might say the word progressive.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You know, so we'll see.
		Anyway, we've got about 15 minutes left, guys.
		Let's get to that $2.50 thing.
		I mean, let's just... Oh, shit.
unidentified		Someone just took it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Are you kidding?
unidentified		Eric Young went from 25 to 250.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I'm not going to say it, but Eric, you bastard.
		All right, Eric went to 250.
		All right, Eric.
unidentified		All right, shot time, shot time.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I am a man of my word.
unidentified		I'm a man of my word.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I wish, you know, one day when the internet really starts getting good.
		They'll be Smell-O-Vision.
		I don't know if you guys saw that Futurama episode.
		Futurama, the most underrated cartoon of all time, by the way, where they had Smell-O-Vision, or Dr. Farnsworth could smell garbage, like, in the distance or something.
		Because I wish you could smell the tequila while I was drinking it, if not taste it with me.
unidentified		Alright, so Eric, does that seem fair?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, this is a big shot glass here.
		All right, so this is for Eric, and can I think of another Decepticon?
		Hold on a second.
		So we did Soundwave, we did Starscream, we did Megatron, we did all the constructed... Oh, Shockwave!
		Shockwave, who is a great, very underused Decepticon.
		Certainly in the movies, Michael Baden screwed him up really badly in the third one, but who's a really cool toy that turned into a gun that had a purple electronic laser.
		To Shockwave and to Eric.
		Wait, where's my... Woo!
unidentified		Hmm.
		Woo!
		(claps)
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Thank you Eric.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Really appreciate that.
unidentified		All right, where are we?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We can do some shout-outs here.
		A couple shout-outs.
		Alistair on Patreon, thank you.
		And Preston on Patreon, thank you.
		Xiao on PayPal, thank you.
		Tommy jumped up on Patreon, thank you.
		And Jacob jumped up on Patreon, thank you.
		You're good people, what can I tell you?
		I mean, look, for the cost of one beer a month, you know, you can support some ideas that are about big ideas and other ideas and things of that nature.
		We could get into weird territory.
		We're only going to do this for another 15 minutes?
unidentified		6.30?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We've got another 15 minutes and we're veering into weird territory.
unidentified		Do you think it's weird that online poker is not legalized in the U.S.?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Do I think it's weird that online poker is not legal in the U.S.?
		I haven't thought about that one too much.
		I would have no problem with it being legal.
		Really?
		Gambling is legal here, obviously in certain states.
		I've only been to Vegas once, actually.
		It was at the Democratic Convention last year, last November.
unidentified		And actually, David won a couple bucks.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		And he was like, I'm going to take it.
		I'm going to take it.
		And I'm going to take this money and go.
		And I was like, no, no, we're going to win more.
		Trust me, we're going to win more.
		And we ended up losing some money.
		Because that's the way I think.
		Look, it's your money, it's your life, and your responsibility, and if you're going to allow... I understand that gambling can be an addiction, but if you're going to allow your demons to get you, guess what?
unidentified		They can get you with booze, and they can get you with drugs, and they can get you with sex, and they can get you with all kinds of things.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		So I would have no problem with it being legal.
		I think it's probably silly that it's not, and people are going to do it either way.
		So I'm not for the government regulating things that are vices.
		I think Emma probably wants dinner.
		I think that's what's happening.
		Everyone wants some dinner, so David's going to take a quick break.
		But what do you got?
unidentified		David, can you define what the right means today?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		David, can you define what the right means today?
		That's good, too.
		Man, you guys are good.
		I think I've cultivated too good of an audience, because they ask me too good things.
		So what the right means today.
		So look, first off, it depends what country you're in.
		So when we talk about left and right, that's why I'm trying, I'm really trying, believe it or not, to get away from From some of this left and right stuff, because I do think it really is about authoritarian versus libertarian.
		I don't mean libertarian party, but it's about a certain ideology that wants to control you, that wants to tell you what to think and what to do, and another ideology that wants you to live for yourself and find what is best for you.
		And that doesn't mean you can destroy everybody around you, but you can live for your own personal liberty.
		I think you guys know which camp I'm in on those two.
		So what does the right mean today?
		Traditionally in America, the right meant conservative.
		So that was lined up more with the Republican Party.
		So if you were on the right, if you were a Christian conservative, or you were a neocon, or you were just sort of a traditional conservative, or you were for smaller government or states' rights, or some of those things, you were thought of as on the right.
		Now in Europe, I think when they talk about the right now, they're really talking more far right in a lot of ways, where they're talking about the
		anti-immigrant, immigration people and things like that, which in many ways is a reaction to the
		way the left has treated immigration. So if you won't talk about something honestly
		and you keep screaming that everybody's racist, the average person goes, "Wait a minute, I'm not
		racist, but I do want honest discussion about who we're going to allow into this country and our
		people are going to assimilate."
		And what does that mean to our social services and our taxes?
		And if the government won't talk about that, well, then suddenly people turn to the right.
		Now, in some cases, there are people on the right who are legitimately Xenophobic, but in some cases there are also people who just want their society to stay as it is.
		This is where we should not try to demonize every other person.
		I think this is pretty good what I'm telling you right now for five shots and a couple of beers.
		So it's hard to say what the right means.
		The interview that I did with Andrew Klavan today was really an absolute pleasure chatting with him.
		It's at Andrew Klavan on Twitter.
		He's a conservative and he doesn't consider himself really part of the right.
		He considered himself a conservative and really laid out some interesting principles as to why he's conservative.
		We disagreed on some abortion stuff.
		We disagreed certainly on some stuff around belief and atheism and things like that.
		He wasn't for how the Supreme Court decided on gay marriage, although he's for gay marriage, which I thought was a really interesting distinction.
		So he said that he was for gay marriage many, many years ago as a conservative, but he just didn't like the rationalization that the Supreme Court used for it.
		Now, the Supreme Court used equal protection under the law to say that everyone should have the same rights.
		I'm basically okay with that, but maybe I'm slightly biased in that.
		But I thought it was a really healthy, good discussion.
		And I said to him at the end, I said, you know, it's funny, I have more in common Uh, with a conservative like you that I do have with the average person on the left these days, who is really railing against free speech and is judging us all by the collective and is not fighting for real liberal values, but is, but is looking to demonize everybody at every turn and all this stuff.
		And you know, we all evolve differently at different points.
		Um, and you guys, you know, for whatever it's worth, You guys have fully been on the adventure with me.
		And I see, I get emails from you guys that some of you guys are, you know, were hardcore, you know, on the right a year ago, and now you're leftist.
		Some of you were leftist, now you're on the right.
		It's all, you know, let's not get caught up in all that.
		I'm doing a video for Prager University, actually, on Friday, where I'm going to talk about some of this a little bit more.
unidentified		All right, where are we at?
		We've got a ton of great questions here I'm trying to pick out.
		Just to give you the last ten minutes.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		How about this one?
unidentified		Do you ever serve your guests dinner in your home studio, home slash studio, and would you consider smoking a bowl and having a drink during the evening?
unidentified		Who said that?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Who said that?
unidentified		I got to find a name.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We might have lost the name.
		Okay.
		So the question was, would I ever do, have we ever served our guest dinner and would you ever consider doing like a dinner thing and smoking a ball and having a drink with a guest?
		So I love, love, love that concept.
		And I've said that to David a million times.
		So for those of you that have missed it, so David, my husband is an incredible chef.
		Go check out Instagram.com.
		You can see the types of things that I'm eating almost every day.
		He's an incredible chef.
		He made the best Indian food you've ever had, the next night he made the best Italian food we've ever had.
		He's big into cooking cold chickens lately, filet mignons, soups, Japanese, I mean just really good.
		The question was from Mark.
		From Mark, the question was from Mark.
		He's really an extraordinary chef and I'm very spoiled, hence why I'm going to the gym for an hour every morning to do cardio.
		But I love that idea.
		He doesn't really want to be on camera, and I fully respect that.
		But I really, really love, you know, food is so important, I think, to conversation.
		You know, having dinner with someone and having a drink with someone.
		As I said the other night, I don't want to tell you who, but I had dinner at the house of someone that's extremely well-known and influential and another person who's also extremely well-known.
		One of them a Trump supporter, one of them a Hillary supporter.
		And we had such a great conversation over dinner and over drinks, and it continued over dessert wine a little later, arguing and agreeing and disagreeing and all that stuff.
		And I think food and drink is so important to all of that, because it's the stuff that makes us human.
		We all want to eat.
		Emma just ate dinner, as you probably saw her just pass in the back.
		We all want to eat.
		We all want to drink.
		We all want to find commonality with other people.
		So I would love to do that idea.
		I don't know that David himself wants to be on camera, but I would love to do, and this is something we'll be able to do because our studio, which is going to be in the garage, is going to be pretty close to the kitchen.
		The kitchen is nice and open.
		I would love to do like some sort of cooking thing, which that way, you know, that's another way we can leverage This amazing audience of you guys, that you guys care about politics, right?
		You care about philosophy or whatever, but I know a lot of you also care about food, you care about cooking, you care about drinks, or like wine, or whatever else it is.
		I think there's an awesome way to leverage this really amazing audience that I've cultivated somehow, or that you found me, or however we did this.
		And then also start doing, yeah, like I would love to do like a weekly, like Friday nights, it's like Cook with Dave, and in the morning I'll tell you what we're gonna do, Here are the ingredients you need.
		You're going to cook with us, and then we're going to put a camera at the table, and we are going to figure out what we're going to talk about, and I'll bring over either celebrities, or friends of mine, or whatever, and we'll hash it all out.
		I really love that idea.
		I think that's clear, by the way I'm saying it.
		But I really, really, really do love that idea, and we're gonna have the opportunity to do that in this new studio.
		You know what?
		Here's what we're gonna do.
		I'm gonna give you a bonus 15 minutes.
		I'm gonna give you a bonus 15 minutes because I really like that question.
		Let's knock out at least one more shot.
		I think we can do that.
		Then we're gonna have to figure out some sort of dinner.
		I'm gonna need something very bread-based to soak up the alcohol.
		So yeah, we'll do an extra 15 minutes to 645 Pacific.
		Right now we're at 24,239.
		So yeah, I mean, let's just get somewhere.
		Someone surprised me right now with something.
		I don't know, something.
unidentified		What would you do, a shot?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'll do a shot for, all right, next shot for, what do you want to do?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		What do you think is fair?
unidentified		I mean, I don't know how you're feeling right now.
unidentified		It's completely up to you.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, the next 150 on PayPal.
unidentified		On PayPal?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Sure.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, the next 150 on PayPal.
		You got a shot right now in honor of you.
		You got a shot right now in honor of you and we'll send you a mug that I'll sign right now.
		There you go.
		150 on PayPal.
		Whoever does it next.
		Right there.
		The funny thing about this is that this actually is like sort of the future of sort of business and media and all of this stuff.
		Like it all sort of seems silly.
		Like I'm telling you what I think about things.
		We're building this thing.
		It's all, it's all great.
		And it's like we're watching the old media just decay right in front of us.
		Like I would ask any of you that are watching right now, this will be kind of funny.
		For any of you that are watching this right now that have a TV in your room, wherever you are, like turn on CNN or turn on Fox or turn on MSNBC right now.
		I'm like, what are they doing?
unidentified		It's the same old bullshit.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's the same old bullshit.
		And I'm not pretending that I know more than all of them, but I'm pretending that, but I'm, I was about to say I'm pretending that I'm trying.
		What I was going to say is that I'm trying.
		I'm trying to find a little truth in some of this nonsense.
		And I think that's pretty obvious to you guys.
		And I think that's what every single person is trying to do.
		So then all these morons on television pretend that they know everything.
		It's so fucking boring.
		All right, where are we at?
		I've got a couple of thank yous here.
		Thank Gerardo on PayPal, who gave 420!
		We got a lot of potheads.
		It's a lot of potheads that we have.
unidentified		We got a lot of potheads.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		And we got Paul who gave on Patreon.
unidentified		I feel like these fine people would like to see something that I smoke weed out of.
unidentified		We'll just show them something I smoke weed out of.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, for tomorrow night, I'll show you guys a bowl that I smoked out.
unidentified		I got a couple.
unidentified		We got three more streets left.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we got a couple streets.
		I gotta keep something secret, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
		Got a couple, got a couple.
		And then, Turg, T-R-G, gave on Patreon.
		Thank you.
		T-R-G.
		There's no vowels in there.
		How do you say that?
unidentified		We got T-U-R-G.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Will you cover free speech issues in regions like Asia, India, etc.
unidentified		and not just the US and Europe?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
		I promise you that I'll do that.
		Free speech issues in other places besides America, absolutely.
		We've done a little bit of that.
		You know, I talked to Amos Yee and we got his hat.
		Actually, last I heard a couple days ago, I think maybe he was going to jail.
		I need to follow up on some of that stuff.
		You know, there's a certain bandwidth that all of us have in our brain to do To do this stuff, and I find, for me, it's like, I wake up and immediately, if I check my phone in the bed, I wake up at, let's say, 7.30 in the morning, I check my phone, and I'm just slammed with information, and often nice things that people are saying to me, but also just like, you look at your Twitter feed, and it's just information, people saying nice things, people saying mean things, every combination thereof, and you're just slammed with it.
		And that, for me, goes through all day long, every day.
		Until very late at night.
		So I'm trying to get a little better at shutting off at certain points.
		I'm really trying not to bring my phone in the bedroom, because it just, like, the outside world shouldn't, you should have some, like, sacred spot that's outside of, you know, your most personal place.
		But I'm trying.
		All of this is a work in progress.
		For all of us, I think.
		You know, I really think, I don't know how many of you are watching, Black Mirror on Netflix, which I think there's a new season coming out.
		But if you haven't watched Black Mirror, I really would recommend you do it.
		It's about the black mirror, meaning that this, this device that we all have, whether it's an iPhone or an Android or whatever, that it's this mirror that we're staring into all the time.
		And, you know, it's like, what's cool about Black Mirror is it takes place a couple of years in the future, so you can't really tell if it's like three years in the future or seven years in the future or whatever, where it's all still mysterious and weird and just the ways that all technology is changing us all the time.
		And it's like, think about it, there are so many people right now that you, that I'm connected with, such as some of you guys, and that some of you are connected with that you know only in the online space that you chat with or that you video, Conference with, or Snapchat with, or whatever you do that you know in a more intimate, honest way than some of the people in your actual life.
		So the more that we become intimate in this universe, the more we become distant in the actual universe.
		This is sort of Matrix-y stuff.
		Wow, Patreon just crashed.
		Patreon just crashed.
unidentified		The entire site is down.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		The site of Patreon... Wow.
		Wow, a lot of people...
		Patreon has crashed.
		Did we crash it?
		Or did the globalists come to destroy us?
unidentified		So PayPal is.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Ruben's making too much.
unidentified		We must... Soros is up there.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, so what you can do if you can't get on Patreon right now, you go to rubenreport.com slash donate.
		I don't think they've taken PayPal down yet.
		So you can go to PayPal on there.
		By the way, we also on there, we have a link if you scroll down below on that.
		If you're just, if you don't want to give or you don't have any money to give, but if you shop on Amazon, if you click our Amazon link, we get what you're looking for.
		A little percentage of that.
		It's a very easy way for you guys to hook us up without costing you even two cents.
		But it sounds like Patreon's down, so it's ruinport.com.
		Yeah, it sounds like it's down for a couple.
		How fucked up would that be?
		Are the powers that be taking down Patreon?
		Wait, can you guys in the comments section let us know?
		Even if you're not giving on Patreon, that's fine.
		Can you let us know is Patreon down?
		Yeah, click the link in the description and let us know.
		Has it been taken down?
		Wouldn't that be something?
unidentified		Are you still answering questions?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm still answering questions.
unidentified		What do you got?
		What do you believe the modern definition of feminism is?
		Can one be for gender equality without being a feminist?
		I can tell you're not in the mood for these serious questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I don't know that I'm quite in the mood for that.
		But no, it's a good question.
		So the question was what do you think of feminism and can you be for gender equality without being a feminist?
		I don't mean that I'm not in the mood for it as much as like Not totally in the mood for it, you know what I mean?
		No, what I would say is this.
		Watch my interview with Cassie J that I did today, which she went from being a feminist to learning about the men's rights movement.
		I would say, I think you guys know what I would say on this, I am for all people being treated as individuals.
		And being treated fairly in that regard.
		So I don't care if you're a man or a woman, or if you're black or white, or if you're gay or straight, or if you're whatever.
		What I care is, is that I care about the content of your character, which everyone should be looking back to that amazing quote by Martin Luther King Jr.
		Why should we care about the color of our skin more than the content of our character?
		And that's what I would say is, is the most important thing that you could care about.
		So, you can care, you, look, a simple example of sort of what modern feminism, a simple example of what modern feminism has become is that, you know, in Germany on New Year's, after they had those attacks, those sex attacks in Cologne, that the regressive left suddenly kept saying, How they were so upset about how people were talking about immigrants.
		And it really wasn't about immigrants and migrants and Muslims that were attacking women.
		It was about men.
		It was just men.
		Except all the men had certain things in common.
		And if you allow that to supersede your rationality, then there's a problem there.
		So I would be for any woman to do with her life and her body what she cares to do.
		So I would be, if a woman truly Truly, in her heart, wants to wear a burqa?
		Go to town, lady.
		But you know what?
		If you don't think that the burqa, or you know, lately, the new thing, the new thing in BuzzFeed all the time, and Playboy, and a few other things, they're really fetishizing the hijab lately.
		Have you seen this?
		They're really trying to make it like, when you were, and that woman was on, I'm blanking on her name, she was on The Daily Show, A couple days ago, Lala Degas has been attacking her, pushing back on her on Twitter, but she was on, there was some woman, a hijab-wearing woman on the Daily Show saying that hijab privatizes a woman's sexuality, so it's great for women.
		If you want to wear a hijab, go ahead.
		But 90% of the women wearing hijabs don't do it out of choice.
		They do it either because of some ingrained societal thing that has been taught to them, or because the men around them are telling them to do it.
		And if you don't think I'm true, then why don't the men have to wear any fucking thing?
		So I'm for women empowerment, because I want women to do whatever the hell they want.
		I don't care who you have sex with.
		I don't care who you...
		what you wear, wear a bikini or wear a burka, but it has to be truly about you.
		And that's what liberty, and that's what the individual is about.
unidentified		Yeah, simple as that.
		So, dear Dave, sorry we broke Patreon, but please let us know if there's any scheduled service
		tomorrow as we're trying to raise hella money.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		(laughs)
		So, sorry we broke Patreon.
		No problem, guys.
		It's all good.
		So, we do have a schedule posted as to what we're going to be doing.
		So, tomorrow, we're going to go live before the debate and after the debate.
		We're doing some Facebook stuff, some YouTube stuff.
		So, we'll post it tomorrow.
		Catch me on Twitter.
		It's AdWordsReport.
		And we'll go from there.
		Alright, where are we at here?
unidentified		We've got someone who deserves a mug here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, no.
		We've got somebody with a mug.
		What does that mean?
		All right.
unidentified		Oh, no, I thought that was a shot at 150.
unidentified		No, all right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, should I do a shot too?
unidentified		I might do a shot for you, Christian.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Let's see here.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's fucked up, Justin.
unidentified		You tried to give us a $1.50 knowing it was 150.
		Clever.
		You know what?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		In honor of Christian and Justin, I'll do the shot.
unidentified		I'll do the shot because Christian, because he did it.
unidentified		trick us by giving us a dollar fifty.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's fucked up, Justin.
		You tried to give us a dollar fifty knowing it was a hundred fifty.
		Clever.
unidentified		You know what?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		In honor of Christian and Justin, I'll do the shot.
		Okay.
		I'll do the shot.
		'Cause Christian, 'cause he did it.
unidentified		And Justin, 'cause he was like, let me see what I can do.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		He drunk.
		Let me see what I can do.
		All right, so this is to... Christian.
		This is to Christian.
		All right, so... Can I see you sign it?
		Yeah, so I'm going to sign it right here.
unidentified		And I'm going to date it.
		Ten.
		Eighteen.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Eighteen.
		Sixteen.
		And on the back, trigger warning, because you know when you're drinking coffee, is that coffee very caffeinated or not that very caffeinated?
		You need to know.
		Because if you drink coffee and you think, oh it's a mild, it's a mild coffee.
		That's not a very, not mild coffee.
		You need to have a trigger warning.
unidentified		Uh, and I'm gonna do a little... Thanks... Christian?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I signed it again.
		I did a double sign.
		That might have been slightly because of the tequila.
		All right, you take that.
		All right, so Christian gets that.
		So that was for Christian and for who at the $1.50?
unidentified		That was for Christian.
unidentified		I don't know why you said that.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Sorry, that was for Christian.
		But a clever move by the other guy.
		Forgot your name.
		Alright, so I said I'd do a shout for you.
unidentified		So, we'll do it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We'll do it.
		I'm a man of my word.
		Imagine if those morons at CNN or one of these networks did this.
		It's like, you know what?
		We're all humans.
		We're all humans.
		You know what I mean?
		You get drunk sometimes.
unidentified		Maybe Jake Tapper will join you.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Where's the tapper?
		Where's Jake?
		I'm giving Jake Tapper a lot of credit.
		That guy, what?
		He's like, I'm on the show.
		All right, here we go.
		So this is for Christian who gave 150 on PayPal.
		Thank you, my man.
unidentified		Woo!
		How many shots is that?
		I don't know.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		How many shots is that?
unidentified		I don't even remember.
unidentified		All right.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, here's the goddamned truth.
		I cannot do more than one more shot.
		That's it.
		I'm going to have a glass of water.
unidentified		It's annoying that Patreon's down.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I also really have to pee and Patreon's down.
		The universe is conspiring against us.
		All right, so we've got eight minutes left, so just knock out a couple other questions.
		Let's move away from politics just for the end.
		So really, anything you want to know.
		We can talk about music, we can talk about video games, we can talk about sports.
		Let's just move away from politics right before the end, then we'll do something fun for the last minute.
		But I'll be happy to answer anything else for the last little bit here.
unidentified		And really, I thank you guys for... Well, I was monitoring all the questions on Patreon, which are down now.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Patreon is down.
unidentified		Alright, so we'll jump over to... Amira sent us some stuff on some YouTube questions.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I know the YouTube feed runs so fast, and we got the Harambe people in there, and the... Oh, I saw something today.
		Did you see this?
		I saw it on Twitter.
		That some university said that if you wear a Harambe costume, you're racist.
		You wear a monkey costume.
		If you even watch Planet of the Apes, you should be shot dead.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Let's see here.
		How do you feel about the use of eminent domain to give land to private companies?
		Ooh!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Can you give me some personal questions, some fun things?
		How do you feel about eminent domain?
		All right, eminent domain.
		I would say Basically, I have a problem with it.
		So eminent domain basically means that if you own private property, that eminent domain allows the government to say, we really have domain over this land that supersedes your personal property.
		And if we want to put a train track through it, or we want to build a park around it, or we want to do something underground, aquifer, that would no longer allow your house to be there, we're allowed to do it via eminent domain.
		Which would be very relevant, by the way, to Trump's wall.
		That it sounds like there would have to be, the government would have to do a lot of eminent domain along the border to move farms and houses and all kinds of stuff.
		So Republicans, that should be for small government and states' rights and all of that, are suddenly going to have to be for eminent domain to build his magical wall.
		Okay, fine.
		We'd build a force field.
		Can't we do the dome that they did in the Simpsons movie?
		I would be for that.
		So am I for eminent domain?
		Basically no.
		I would say basically no, I'm not for it because again, as I've now said many times, and I really do believe I'm for individual rights and that the right of the individual and your individual liberty should supersede the government.
		The government should get its rights from you, not the other way around.
		So I'm not really for eminent domain.
		I think there could be circumstances at some level None of which I can think of at the moment, but I think there could be some situation where aliens invade us and we need your house, because it happens to be in a particularly good situation, a particularly good spot to stop the alien invasion.
		Is that tequila talking?
		Or does that make a lot of sense?
		That's for you to decide.
		All right, it's 6.40.
		We've been doing this for how long?
		How long have we been going?
unidentified		Since 4 o'clock, basically, so two hours and 40 minutes.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
		All right, we've been doing this for two hours and 40 minutes.
		I would consider this a success.
		So we're gonna wrap it up.
		Really, I genuinely thank you guys.
		You know, this is silly, right?
		I got drunk so that we can help build our future so that we can keep talking about the things that you care about.
		What a cool thing that is, really.
		That's pretty fucking cool.
		So I thank all of you, not only all of you that donated, of course I thank all of you that donated, but I thank all of you that watch, I thank all of you that share our videos, that tweet about this stuff.
		I thank all of you that fight.
		You know, every so often I'll jump on Twitter, I'll jump on Facebook, and I see people that are sometimes saying mean things about me, or they're misquoting me, and I see this army of people that defend me, and then I don't have to get involved.
		You know, like, I can't get involved.
		Like, it's just what it is.
		It's too much.
		And, like, I see it.
		So I thank you guys for that.
		And this has been totally fun.
		There's, like, five beers here, and I have more than half a bottle of Patron here, and I gotta have some dinner, and Emma probably has to walk, and I have to pee.
		So we're building this studio, and I think you're gonna be really proud of what we do.
		And it's just the beginning.
		I think, you know, as I said, we're meeting the contractor.
		We're going to build out something really, really cool.
		And I'm really proud of it.
		And I'm proud of what we've done.
		And now I'm like, I'm like the end of the night.
		You know, I'm like the end of the night.
		Yeah.
		All right.
unidentified		Thanks guys.

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