Dave Rubin hosts a live stream discussing the US election, Project Veritas, and WikiLeaks while detailing plans for a new home studio. He opposes California's mandatory condom laws yet supports health checks, navigates abortion complexities, and critiques Donald Trump as Starscream versus Hillary Clinton as Megatron. Addressing free speech via Charlie Hebdo and employer rights, he defends Peter Thiel and warns against political apathy regarding Russia and UN internet governance, urging viewers to speak honestly despite social pressures. [Automatically generated summary]
Yes, people have done it many, many times before and probably for many more days than four.
Nonetheless, here I am.
We are one day, basically 24 hours out of the final debate, so we'll obviously talk a lot about that.
I'm happy to talk about Project Veritas.
We can talk about WikiLeaks, all kinds of stuff.
There's obviously a lot going on.
We still have about 20 days.
For this election and people are going completely insane.
Like it's just, if you think that we've hit bottom, we have, we're not even close.
Just think how nutty this thing is going to get before it's over.
I think both of these guys, this guy and this gal Hillary and Trump.
I think they have so much more on each other.
And because it's such a ratings machine right now, it's just going to get worse and worse.
And I will say this, I don't think it's over yet.
I really don't think it's over yet.
I think anything can happen.
So I'm happy to share my thoughts on what happened last night.
We'll do an Ask Me Anything.
You guys can ask me any question.
It can be personal or private or about politics or about Nintendo or basketball or anything else.
And the reason that we're going live all week, in case you don't know already, is that we are building a home studio.
It's our final step towards true independence, where we will have no boss.
We will have no rental stuff.
We will own and distribute and control all our content ourselves.
Starting next week, just to prove to you guys how hard we're working, we're doubling our content.
Even though we're working incredibly hard already.
But we're doubling our content.
Starting next week will be two interviews a week.
Once we have our live studio, which we have to build out now, and that's what...
We're hoping you guys will help us out with.
Once we do that, we're hoping to do eventually, you know, like a live weekly news segment.
We'll live stream from the studio more.
We'll be able to not only do more interviews, but we'll be able to do longer interviews.
You know, I was renting before at the previous studio that I was at, which was great, but sometimes we realized it wasn't even financially sensible to do more interviews because it costs more to actually rent the studio than we could profit from the video.
So the more work I did, the less money we made, which obviously doesn't make any sense.
So it's the true last piece to us being fully free, and Amira and David work incredibly hard.
For me, we've got a great little production company here and we've had so many people offer to work for us and work for free for us, but we want to pay people.
So we're putting all the pieces together to have a really awesome company here and hopefully talk about issues that you think are important, classical liberal values, and talk to people that are progressives and that are conservatives and everything in between and things that are even more fringe than certainly either of those.
So that's what we're doing.
So I'm giving live shoutouts to anybody that donates on RubinReport.com slash donate, where the PayPal link is and the Patreon link, and Patreon.com slash RubinReport.
And we just opened up a couple hundred dollar slots if you want to join us on the Google Hangouts where we do these mini chats, mini video chats with people from all over the world.
It's really cool.
And fun, and you get mugs and t-shirts and all kinds of other stuff on there.
Alright, that's enough housekeeping for now.
Now I'll take some questions, and it looks like the chat was quite lively before I even got in here, according to my team over here.
So Amira's gonna fire off some questions, and yeah, we can do politics, whatever you guys want to do, and I'm a live, breathing human being, far more human and animated than anything you'll see on cable TV tonight.
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That's on CA Prop 60, which is condoms and porn.
A yes is you are required, or other protective measures, and no is no.
So as far as the health checkup part of it, I'm basically okay with that.
I think that would just be them doing their due diligence and responsibility.
As far as forcing them to wear condoms, I mean, you guys know my feelings on generally
the government forcing private companies and private people to do things.
So if we can trust hopefully that these companies wanna keep their employees healthy
and that people have access to the right kind of healthcare and information so that they don't do risky things
and things that are gonna get them in trouble one way or another,
I would be against forcing a company to do that because truly the end of the day,
what will happen if people want porn without condoms, well then if you say, all right, in California,
that's the only way you can shoot it with condoms, well, guess what?
All the pornographers here are gonna go to Vegas.
So they'll go to something right outside California.
And this is one of the issues.
If you saw my interview with Randy Barnett, who's a constitutional law professor,
we weren't talking about porn and condoms.
Specifically, but one of the things that he really laid out that I think was really brilliant
about why states rights are important is he talked about the foot vote.
That one of the reasons you don't want the federal government to control everything
is that you ultimately, if the feds control everything, You have very little control of your life, because your only way to say, I don't like this system, is actually to leave the country.
But if you have states' rights, and you allow the states to say, we're going to tax differently, we're going to have this different law, in this state you can have legal marijuana, in this state you don't have to use condoms in porn, or whatever it is.
What you do is you allow people to vote with their feet, foot vote, so that you can take your money, your work, your economic benefits, and you can take it to another state that holds more of your beliefs.
And if that state starts doing well economically, maybe then you force some of those other states to change.
That's how you, I think, create real change using the individual, using the economy properly, without having the government slam down edicts on everybody.
So yes, you know, I always say the phrase, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The intentions are good for people that want this, this Proposition 60 to go through.
They don't want people to get STDs.
That's an admirable quality.
But the idea that the government should force it down everyone's throats, no pun intended, When people just go to another state is kind of silly and short-sighted, I think.
Remember, we're giving live shout-outs the entire time, so I just want to quick thank Kyle, who just jumped in on Patreon, and Jesse, who just jumped in on PayPal.
So Trump talked last night that he is pro-life, is what he said, and that he said he would appoint justices, and this next president may get to appoint four justices because of the age of some of the justices right now.
So he said he would appoint pro-life justices.
Now first off, that statement in and of itself is not really how it works.
You're supposed to appoint judges based on how they Not on their political beliefs, but how they view the Constitution.
Now, I know you can basically discern how someone views it, and then you can figure out what they think.
But anyway, what he was saying was, I would have right-to-life justices, which ultimately would reverse Roe v. Wade, which would kick it back to the states.
So just to clean up a little bit of what he said, he never said that he would have abortion be federally illegal.
That's not what reversing Roe v. Wade would do.
Reversing Roe v. Wade would kick it back to the states.
Roe v. Wade says it's a woman's right at a federal level in the entire country.
Now, I would not be for reversing Roe v. Wade.
I am pro-choice.
I do not like abortion.
As I said in a tweet last night, I don't think most women want to have abortions.
And if you're going to take away the right to have an abortion, what you're going to do is force a lot of women to have illegal abortions.
People are still going to do it.
And by the way, all of these Republicans and people on the right who are against abortion, guess what?
If their children most likely were raped or something happened, they'd still find a way to have an abortion.
So you're going to create a situation where you're going to have poorer people doing illegal things, and that's not good.
At the same time, I do believe that at some point, that entity, that is in the woman at some point is a human being, maybe
not at inception when it's just the cosmic stew, so to speak. But at a few months in, what
do you do? What do you do if a woman doesn't want to have that pregnancy? If you offer her no
help, then she's going to find a way to have an abortion anyway. So this is somewhere where we have
to, I think for people that are pro-life, well, if you don't want someone to have an
abortion, then maybe you have to figure out ways to help them, either more easy ways to adopt or
something.
This is really where most decent people can come together.
Everyone knows this is a very polarizing topic, and as I said last night, people on the right make it sound like people on the left hate babies, and people on the left make it sound like people on the right hate women.
Neither one of those things are true.
So let's kind of figure out how to have an honest discussion about it.
I personally would not be for reversing Roe v. Wade, but just to be very clear, Reversing Roe v. Wade does not make abortion illegal, it just puts it back in the state's hands.
And you could be completely against that, and that would be fine.
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George from Patreon says, what Decepticons are Hillary and Trump?
I mean, I've had Tino Sanandaji, we did a whole episode on Sweden.
I had two Australians on in the last two, three weeks.
I had Rita Panajian, who's a writer for "The Australian Son"
and I had NBA star, Andrew Bogut.
I've had the leader of the Assyrian army on.
I've had Douglas Marty, where we talked mostly about the UK.
I've had Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, who's the US representative of the Kurdish regional
government.
Certainly I can do more.
Certainly I can do more.
And that's one of the things that I would love to do.
I wanna do more.
I had Tarik Fatan, we talked about India and Pakistan almost the entire time and also Balochistan,
which nobody talks about.
So I would love to do more of that kind of stuff.
And that's one of the things we'll do as we expand the show.
This really, these few months since we've gone independent is just the beginning.
Now is where we're really gonna kick it up to high gear.
And well, I mean, I will literally have a studio in my house and be able to just take more and more content.
By the way, the more content that we take, the more revenue that we can generate
and the more revenue we generate, the more people we can hire and the more people we can hire,
the more content we can create.
So it's a nice little engine that you guys are helping us out with by going to RubinReport.com slash donate or Patreon.com slash RubinReport.
Alright, let's go on.
By the way, we think right now, so it looks like there's about 470 people.
In the stream right now.
YouTube has confirmed with us.
I have emails from YouTube saying there is a bug on our channel causing people to be unsubscribed.
And we know that the feed is not going out to people.
So for any of you that are in here right now, for some reason you're on there, but make sure that you click that little bell so you get all of our notifications.
But also you can share this.
It's becoming more and more important.
They're telling me it's a bug.
I don't like going down the conspiracy routes thinking that they're doing something for political reasons or whatever.
Even though I do suspect that Twitter is starting to shadow ban a lot of people with similar political beliefs to me, and we know that YouTube's demonetizing a lot of videos on the types of things that I talk about.
But that's why it's important for you guys to share these things.
Forget about Patreon for a second, or PayPal, or any of that.
It's just important for you to share it because sometimes we're swimming uptight for several reasons here.
We know that this live feed did not, I have 300,000 subscribers, this thing did not go out to all of you guys, obviously.
So if you could just share this, if you want to take a second, maybe just tweet out the link or something, that would be great.
Okay, what do we got?
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The Real Dating Patreon says, "We have a Brexit kind of finish here, since the polls are slanted
and voter turnout is going to be a slide since everyone assumes Hillary is going to win."
Yeah, so basically a couple people asked on Patreon the same sort of question of like, have the liberals just gone so crazy with all of this?
Um, you know, to the point where you could say that you're, uh, you're for abortion.
Now you have the slut walks, like all of this stuff.
Yeah.
They've gone crazy.
And that, and that's why I've said repeatedly, if the left won't deal with issues, honestly, if the left won't talk about immigration, honestly, but instead, the second you say something about borders, if you get yelled at as a racist or a bigot, Well then what's going to happen?
It's going to strengthen the right.
It's going to strengthen somebody that will come in with an easy answer.
It's easy answer to just say I'm going to build the wall.
I don't think Trump is going to build the wall.
I don't know that it's financially sensible.
I don't know why Mexico would pay for it.
I understand why he would try to trade Change trade deals to make it happen.
A lot of what's happened with the rise of Trump is a direct causation of the language control, the political correctness, and the use of these phrases of Islamophobe and racist and bigot and all of that.
Which is why I've tried so hard to clean up the left and I think I've done a decent enough job of it.
There's plenty of other people that are doing the same thing.
But we need to be better and louder because we're completely being pushed out of the mainstream.
I mean, I'll see articles written about me where they'll call me... Mike wrote a piece, MIC.com wrote a piece, and they call me a right-winger.
And then, of course, they wanted me to be in the original piece, by the way.
And I sensed that the writer was just a bullshit artist, so I said, no, I'm going to pass.
No thanks.
Then in the article he writes that I'm a right winger and then when I publicly shamed him, which got hundreds if not thousands of favorites and retweets, Of course he didn't respond, and their editor-in-chief didn't respond, and I know someone that works there, and I contacted them, and he said, there's nothing I can do.
And it's like, you guys are all clickbait losers, and you've tried to... That's why the cries of racism and bigotry are so dangerous.
The left has used them so overboard that they have become meaningless, and you're getting a counter-reaction of people who now want to use Nazi memes to...
To basically upset people.
And yeah, it's just a big mess.
What are we doing here?
We're raising funds for our new home studio.
We got to insulate this thing.
We got to build a lighting grid.
We got drywall.
All kinds of stuff that we got to build out.
I'm meeting with the contractors over the next couple days.
It's very exciting.
We're going to start doubling shows and doing a lot more content.
RumorReport.com slash donate.
We have seven slots.
Yesterday we opened up 11 slots at the $100 level to join us on the mini group Hangouts, Google Hangouts video, where I talk to people all over the world in little groups of 10 or less.
We have seven slots left on there.
You can join us for Patreon chat and mugs.
T-shirts and all that good stuff.
And we're doing a Patreon-only, no matter how much you donate, just for tonight, whether it's a dollar or a hundred dollars or whatever, Patron-only chat on YouTube right after this.
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Amira?
Do employers have the right to fire workers for what they say on the internet?
Do employers have the right to fire workers for what they say on the internet?
You know, I used to give a lot of the anonymous people shit, and then a lot of people would write back to me and say, I could lose my job if I said what I thought, blah blah.
I'm not talking about people that are in closed society, so I'm not talking about if you're You know, a Muslim-majority country, or you're in Egypt or something.
But if you're in the West, do employers have a right to fire you for something you said on the internet?
An employer, you work, you enter a contract with an employer to do your job, and if you are doing your job, you should not be allowed to be fired for private thoughts.
Now, if you publicly, let's say on your Facebook page, It says that you work for Microsoft, and you're fighting with people online all the time, and you're saying really racist shit or over-the-top shit, and it implies that you are a representative of Microsoft.
That's a slippery slope.
But generally, this idea that we could be fired for our thoughts or for political wrong-think really is what it's about.
Because there would be a slew of political thoughts you'd be allowed to say, because they'd be the popular things, no problem.
So it would be all the wrong things.
You guys know that I say things that are considered wrong to think these days, so I would be very against, generally, company firing people for personal beliefs.
All right, a couple quick thank yous.
John on Patreon, Benjamin, who donated $4.20, 4.20, a lot of 4.20s in the last couple of minutes.
I think it's always Benjamin.
Is it always Benjamin?
It's always Benjamin.
We know what Benjamin's doing right now.
Suresh, who donated on PayPal, and Alastair, who jumped up on Patreon, thank you guys.
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This is funny.
The Real Dick from Patreon says, should I keep my Patreon, or should I own my Patreon, or keep my Sunday NFL ticket?
Dave on Patreon, he said, should I up my Patreon or keep my Sunday NFL ticket?
My wife says I can't have both.
Your NFL rating's not too good this season, so they kind of need you, but at the same time, you know, I'm trying to save the world over here.
So it really, that's what it comes down to, you know what I mean?
You can probably find a lot of those streams for free, but I know that you would not hijack our stream and find it for free.
I've never given anyone systematic concussions, that's very true.
And, you know, the choice is obvious.
David's got something.
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Josh on Patreon, if speaking your mind could get you killed, for example, Charlie Hebdo, why is speaking your mind and free speech more important than preserving your life and safety?
Alright, so basically he said if free speech could get you killed, like with the Charlie Hebdo guys, why is that more important than your safety?
Um, because without free speech and without free thought and without free expression, what is the point of being alive?
I mean, all of those cartoonists did was share a politically incorrect thought.
And if you know anything about Charlie Hebdo, they were not actually mocking Mohammed per se.
They were mocking the hypocrisy of religion, which by the way, only 3% of their covers dealt with Islam.
And they, they were an equal opportunity offender where they make fun of Christianity and Judaism.
and a bunch of other things all the time. We need those abilities. The whole purpose,
I think, of being a human, the one thing that separates us from the animals,
is that we have a thinking consciousness where we can actually make judgment calls,
make decisions, expand on what the human experience is.
And if you, and the idea that we would live, that you would live and not say something that you believe or not express something that you believe because it might offend somebody who then might kill you.
Well, you better fucking say it because then otherwise you just will live your life as a hostage.
So I refuse to live my life as a hostage.
I know that upsets some people.
But I just simply won't live that way.
And by the way, if you say to somebody, you know, all right, you can decide what cartoons I draw.
You don't want me to draw that cartoon, I won't draw that cartoon.
Do you think ultimately they're going to stop there?
Or they're soon going to say, you know, we don't want you to have your women wearing this.
Or we don't want gay bars in your area.
Or we don't want this or that.
It's not going to stop with that.
Tolerance is a two-way street.
And don't be tolerant of intolerance, because that's just a slow death.
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Oh, this is interesting.
Peter from Seattle says he wants to see the gay community kind of wake up and all the gay friends who are Hillarybots.
But then someone else said they live in Tacoma and a lot of gay people are Trump supporters.
So the first part of the question was somebody saying that the gay community should wake up, that they're all Hillary bots, and then somebody responded in Tacoma and said that a lot of the gays there are Trump people.
I think that's really interesting because I live in West Hollywood here, which is, it's basically like the gayest place on earth.
I don't even think I'm gay enough for this place.
We got rainbow crosswalks, every restaurant and bar is gay.
You know, gays all over the place.
And sometimes I think when I'm here, you know, if you go here, it's like every guy is jacked and buffed,
they work out all day long.
And it's like, I wonder what it would take.
I was in Trader Joe's once and there was a guy in there who clearly, he didn't look like he was a West Hollywood
guy.
And he was, I think he may have been on drugs or something, and he was kind of yelling at people and sort of like, fag, fag, like muttering under his breath and getting in people's faces.
And all of these guys that worked out all day long, that have muscles on top of muscles, nobody did a thing.
Nobody did a thing.
They all kind of walked away and skirted away and whatever.
Now, I didn't do anything either.
Okay, so I'm including myself in this group.
But I do think that Milo does make one point correctly when he talks about this stuff, that gays, I think, have to learn how to defend ourselves.
And, you know, when this guy shot up the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, it was really sad and pathetic to see what so many people on the left were doing, which was that their natural reaction was to somehow defend Islam, or suddenly make it seem like Muslims were the victims of this.
When one particular person did it in the name of a bad ideology, but gay people were thrown under the bus because this is what the oppression Olympics does.
Gays are held below.
For some reason, Islam is the highest.
It's the least progressive thing out there.
I'm not just saying that.
Go to any place that is governed by Islam.
It's extremely unprogressive.
But that's at the highest of their oppression Olympics.
And gays are below that.
Women are below that.
So they have to throw everybody else under the bus for that.
So I do think at some level gays have to start defending themselves properly, or at least having these conversations.
And believe me, I get into it all the time with my gay friends.
Anytime I say something remotely anti-Hillary, everyone gets their panties in a lot.
But you gotta keep saying what you think.
Well, there you go.
No big deal.
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I don't want any extra credit or any points for it, but I'm not even that good at it.
And Emma -- I don't think Emma's gonna have a canine sibling.
She's been such a great dog and as I told you guys she's from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and she's had a couple puppies over the years and she's just wonderful and she's had a good life and She's lived in New York.
I don't think I would want to upset her with anything else, but she does have, we got about 12 fish over there.
That she is, she does get to see.
Alright, someone just stabbed one of the $100 slots on Patreon.
That was Shane who just upped on Patreon from $15 to $100, so I look forward to chatting with you in the Google Hangout.
We got six slots left, and these are just mini video chats that I do with people all over the world.
It's really, it's fun, and it's cool, and I've gotten to know you guys, and you guys have not gotten to know you guys, but you can keep talking without me, that would be fine too.
Well, more than over-informed, I think sometimes that I wish that I was able to put some of this stuff aside sometimes.
It's become so big, and especially in an election year like this, that it is hard to shut off sometimes.
You know, I can lay in bed and wake up and immediately scroll Twitter and be slammed with so much information and people saying, Nice things to me are horrible things or whatever.
And you know, there's just an endless news cycle.
So I think, I don't know that you can be over informed in terms of your breadth of knowledge, but I think you could be overstimulated to the point of stupidity.
And I think that's one of the things where everybody pretends that they're experts in everything.
And I never try to do that.
I like learning from people.
The best example that I can give, which I've said a couple times, is when we had that thaw in relations with Cuba.
I guess that's probably about a year ago now.
Suddenly, all of these pundits and comics and people and actors and everyone on Twitter was going on and on about Cuba.
unidentified
I thought, I've never heard any of you say anything about Cuba ever.
Relations, and the thawing of them, and Castro, and blah blah.
And it's like, stop pretending.
Why does everyone have the need to pretend they know everything all the time?
Want to thank a new Shane.
We have back-to-back Shanes.
Shane just jumped on Patreon, so welcome forward Shane.
He's at the $50 level, which is gonna get him a Rubin Report coffee mug.
Also works with whiskey, by the way.
And you get the t-shirt, and you get every reward before that, by the way.
RubinReport.com slash donate.
We're only doing one more day of these live streams.
This is our big push for the week.
We're gonna build out the studio and do all that stuff.
Then we're gonna do a lot more live stream stuff, but it's gonna have nothing to do with fundraising.
You know, we did this back in June when we built our studio.
I don't intend on doing these twice a year.
We'll maybe do it once a year after this and not even necessarily that.
But we got a nice little company going, and an engine growing, and it's because of you guys.
Man, I wish this fucking thing was going out to the feed, because it's unfortunate that there's only about 600 of you guys in here right now, because we know it's not going out to the feed.
I mean, YouTube has basically told us that, and told us that people are being unsubscribed.
I don't know what I'm supposed to think about that.
And they're the game in town, you know, for us to...
What's your definition of presidential?
so it's kind of shitty, but if you can keep sharing these videos, that's the
most important thing that you can do.
unidentified
What's your definition of presidential? Is it based on a behavior or an outcome or both?
So I think it would be, it would be great if we understood that the power of the presidency is only a third of the government and he's not supposed to make laws.
He's supposed to sign laws.
Um, so I would say that the president should more than anything else have, and this may be Trump's biggest flaw, I would say, Uh, and by the way, Hillary's not great on CNN, but I would say you have to have a vision for what you want the country to be, and that hopefully you can ignite people, because we're all looking for some sort of leader to basically have a vision for what this country could be like, and now let the process be part of the process enough to help some laws get passed,
Or help change some things or whatever.
But I don't think the president has to be... I don't think it's purely based on outcome and I don't think it's purely based on ideology.
I think it has to be someone that basically wants to do good for the country and has a decent moral center.
My main issue with Trump is that I don't know exactly what his moral center is.
And my main issue with Hillary is that I think she's made a lot of terrible decisions.
I would say that the best world leader at the moment Well, I'll answer it this way.
I think probably the greatest world leader ever was Winston Churchill, who, at least in modern times, let's say in the last hundred years, because what Winston Churchill did was realize what was happening with Nazism and laid down the law to not allow it to spread.
And then the United States became part of that, and the Allies, and eventually we won World War II.
You need leaders that have a certain set of principles, and I go to, just put Winston Churchill quotes in Google right now, just press images, and you can see some amazing quotes from this guy, and he actually did live by a lot of this stuff.
It is not easy being a world leader.
It really is not, you know, and none of these people are perfect, and a lot of them are extremely flawed, and a lot of them have good intentions.
So a simple way that Gary Johnson could have answered that question, by the way, if he couldn't, he just couldn't think of anything.
He literally couldn't think of any world leaders.
That's the problem.
Maybe it's the weed.
But he could have said somebody like, he could have said, well, you know, I don't know who's a great world leader, but he could have said, you know, I know that in Germany, they've had a really rough history and they've tried to atone for their history.
And Angela Merkel has tried to do good and given them a basically good economy, and she's made some tough decisions with immigration that haven't worked out the way she wanted.
But she's, you know, helped them be part of the... I mean, he could have come up with something that would have had some semblance of decency, but he just dropped the ball, and that's very disappointing to me.
Shitlord on Patreon.
Welcome forward, Shitlord.
And Franz just upped on Patreon from 20 to 50, so he'll be getting a mug and a t-shirt and all the rewards before that.
But there were other productions going on there and we had to pay every time we did it.
And as I mentioned earlier, it started becoming financially unfeasible for us to do more.
Because the more we were paying for the studio, the more content we made, we started losing money per episode, the more content we made.
Because by the way YouTube pays us out, it basically wasn't financially feasible all the time.
Sometimes if we got huge numbers and a huge guest, it would be worth it.
But if we had a more random person and the numbers were lower, and I don't want to do everything based on the most popular people, I want to bring you interesting people, it was becoming not financially sensible.
And then we realized that really the last piece for freedom We control our company, we have employees, health insurance, lawyer, accountant, all that stuff.
the last piece to true freedom to decide who, if we're gonna do distribution deals,
or how much content we wanna create, or do we wanna do more than just an interview show,
do we wanna do a weekly news thing, or other live streams, or any of that.
Or debates, a lot of people want me to moderate debates, which I'm totally down to do.
We realized the only way to do that properly would be to fully own and control everything,
and that's why we decided that the home studio was the way to go, so I took out two big loans,
but I'm confident we can do this well, and you guys are helping us.
And by the way, as I've said before, when you donate, we have a lot of young people,
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So I think, hopefully, you think it's an investment in yourself as well.
If you want to see some of the things I'm eating, by the way, go to Instagram.com slash David's Cookbook.
David's an incredible chef.
I'm very spoiled that way in terms of the type of stuff that I'm eating all the time.
I have no problem with vegans.
When I lived in New York City at Fairway, I lived on the Upper West, they had like their vegan area upstairs.
A lot of green people.
Everyone always looked a little green to me.
Looked like they could use a piece of meat, frankly.
But I know plenty of people that are vegans and they're good people and, you know, I try to get them to just, wouldn't you just have a little piece of chicken?
Have a piece of fish, it's not gonna But yeah, I'm fine.
I'm totally fine with vegans.
You do what works for you.
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This is going to be over soon, but we've got another stream.
Oh, and this is going to be over soon, but we do have a Patreon-only stream after that where, depending on how many people are awake—we have a lot of people in Europe that might be sleeping right now—there could be a dozen people in there, there could be a hundred people in there, and it's a lot easier for me to communicate directly to you guys.
Where are we at?
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As a gay man, do you ever feel disenfranchised by the gay community because you have different views?
So as a gay man, do I ever feel disenfranchised by the gay community because I have different views?
Yes, hugely.
I think I've always sort of felt this.
I had a show on Sirius XM, which was on the OutQ channel, which was the LGBT channel.
I always wanted to do politics, but they just threw me on the gay channel because they were like, you're gay, you're going on the gay channel.
It wasn't really where I wanted to be.
I wanted to be on the nonpartisan political channel, which existed at the time.
I'm not sure that it still exists.
But anyway, yeah, I've never been, I've never really I've been into group think, so I've always sort of thought as the outsider.
I don't know if you guys saw this, I tweeted about it a bunch this week, but you know, Peter Thiel, who was one of the founders of PayPal, an early investor in Facebook, the guys were, you know, billions of dollars, who runs Thiel Capital and spoke at the Republican convention.
I don't know that he was even a huge Trump supporter, but he's a conservative, so to speak, but openly gay.
He got, there was an article in The Advocate this past week, you can find it, it's a fucking horrible article.
about how he's not gay. He's not really gay. Yeah, he has sex with dudes, but he's not really gay
because he doesn't identify with the gay struggle and blah blah blah blah blah. And it's like, what
bullshit? What, what regressive bullshit? He's gay because it takes one thing to be gay and I'm
pretty sure he doesn't. So he's gay. And for you to say he's not gay because he has different,
the advocate, the advocate, which is supposed to be an advocate for gay people and gay issues,
that is completely irrelevant, by the way.
I don't know any gay person who reads it.
But the point is that what they tried to say is that the mainstream gay group think now says that if you think differently politically, you're not even gay.
I mean, it's actually disgusting.
So I went on a very vociferous defense on him on Twitter.
And I would love to see the gay, you know, the gay community loves diversity, right?
We love diversity.
We love, I don't really care for drag queens, but we love, you know, they love, you go to a gay pride parade, you got every single color, person, boa, feathered, blah, blah, blah.
Love diversity.
Diversity of thought, not so much.
I think the gay community could get a lot better with that.
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Do you have any outside investors in the production company, or is it all fan club?
What do I think of Putin's moves in the last decade?
I mean, look, I've said this a couple times the last few days.
I think it's obvious that there's something going on with Russia right now.
Mitt Romney was mocked by everyone, including me, four years ago when he said that Russia is our biggest political foe.
And right now, what's happening?
We see Russia's expanding.
and the US is taking a step back in the world. In and of itself that doesn't necessarily mean
anything's bad, but Russia seems to have completely reverse goals in Syria than we
have, although it's unclear to me what exactly our goals are. You know, Russia took Crimea,
which was against the NATO charter, that if they went into a NATO country, NATO was supposed to
protect them, and NATO didn't. So, you know, we had our red line, and Syria didn't do anything.
I think Putin sees an America in retreat and thinks he can just do whatever he wants.
Now, I don't know what he wants.
Does he want to form greater Russia again or somehow bring back the Soviet Union?
I'm not totally sure.
But I think we got to tone down some of the rhetoric.
The real issue with Russia right now is that if they're somehow in cahoots with WikiLeaks, then, and let's say Hillary gets in, we don't know what they have up their So let's say Hillary's the president, and they've held back a lot of blackmailing shit, and now she's the president?
We could end up in some really awful Cold War or Hot War situation because of information that they have.
So there's several dangers here that, you know, you don't want to go down the conspiracy route, but you have to at least think of and be very clear there are people in D.C.
I mean, I think the most important thing to shake off the political apathy is to be engaged.
The reason we got here is because, you know, the two parties just offered us so little of nothing that this is the best two people that they gave us.
People are engaged right now.
Scott Adams said on the show, you know, I said, what do you think of this?
Just disaster.
He's like, this is chaos.
But out of this chaos is going to come some goodness.
I've really come around on that idea.
I really do think that no matter who wins, look, if Hillary wins, the Trump people are going to be engaged.
They'll be fighting the system and engaged.
You may not like what they stand for, but they'll be engaged.
If Trump wins, the establishment will suddenly be on the out, and they're going to have to figure out how do we get popular again.
So I hope that people, if nothing else, will stay engaged.
And more than anything else, I hope that what we really get out of this is a viable third party.
We get a group of people that are basically liberals or classic liberals and mainstream conservatives and some libertarians and all those people who go, you know what?
Fuck the fringes.
We're all here and we don't all have to believe the same thing.
And I don't have to think exactly what you think about abortion.
You don't have to think exactly what I think about taxes, but we do have to realize that we're here in the same country and we want to live under the same Rules and let's let's get there together.
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While we're waiting on that, something light, Obama giving the Internet away.
So this was a massively under-reported story, but basically the United States has controlled the Internet, for better or worse, since, you know, for these last 20 years that the Internet's been relevant to us.
A couple months ago, or where is it, about a month ago at this point I guess, they gave the Internet up to the United Nations, which now means that countries that don't respect human rights the way we do, that don't respect Uh, free speech the way we do now have more of a say over the control of the internet.
So China and Saudi Arabia and plenty of other countries.
I view this as a problem.
You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And yeah, the US shouldn't have a monopoly over everything, but the internet has been working pretty great.
It has caused revolutions.
Look what happened in Egypt.
Um, it is, it has changed the world and it's been working and it's been accessible and free.
And I fear that we've now given, we don't know what the ramifications of this are yet.
But it's a big problem.
Why if it's working?
It's working.
Let's not have this thing be censored.
This is the great equalizer.
Watch my interview that I did on YouTube Week with Joe in Egypt, where he talks about, this is a 30-year-old guy in Egypt, who's a free thinker in Egypt, who didn't mind going on video, even though I said that you don't have to show your face if you don't mind.
And he said that his awakening was the night, because he saw on the internet, he saw the night that Sam Harris was on Real Time with Bill Maher, and that was his own political awakening.
How cool is that?
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I'm 8,000 miles away, or whatever it is here in California.
Sometimes I do find it's hard to just shut this stuff off.
You know, I've been trying to shut down online a little bit earlier because, you know, it just kind of gets in your head and just rattles around in there and you can be looking at your phone when instead of having a private thought or an intimate moment or Whatever.
I think about the broad stuff a lot.
I think about, really, I don't think about, like, you know, like, the day-to-day minutiae, really, of my life doesn't really worry me.
I do think about broad trends, about world war and AI and all kinds of other stuff that I probably shouldn't be wasting my brain cells on.
Words and actions are not necessarily the same thing.
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Really the most important thing you can do is say what you think.
Don't be afraid to say what you think in real life, to sit down at the dinner table with your spouse or your wife or your friends or your co-workers and tell them what you think.
The cries of racism and bigotry have silenced people to the point that it is causing a lot of the support for Trump.
Now you may like Trump and that's totally fine with me.
You may like all of that stuff, but we have to have honest conversation.
I don't want to make this about Trump.
Wherever you fall politically, don't be afraid to say what you think.
That is the most important thing you can do.
Share videos.
It doesn't have to be my videos, but share videos of things that will get people thinking.
Tell your friends what you think, and if you lose friends because they tell you what you think about politics, Then you'll find better friends.
I've lost some friends, and guess what?
I found better ones in the last year.
So that's what I would say is the most important thing that anyone can do, is share what you think.
We have the great luxury, if you live in the West and you're watching this, we have freedom, for now.
But freedom is not free, and we won't always have it if we don't defend it.
So there you go.
All right.
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