Dave Rubin celebrates the Rubin Report hitting 400,000 subscribers via a chaotic live stream featuring old-school Nintendo gameplay and viewer Q&A. While struggling through the difficult NES title Contra, he tackles Antifa comparisons, crybaby culture, and free speech concerns amidst technical glitches. The segment highlights his Patreon's recent $40,000 surge toward a $100,000 goal and teases future guests like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson, blending gaming mishaps with serious political discourse to engage his rapidly growing audience. [Automatically generated summary]
Some of you may have seen I was on the Greg Gutfeld Show on Fox News on Saturday night, had a great time.
Live studio audience, I think that may be a move we're gonna have to make here at the Rubin Report at some point.
It was great, good times over there.
So I was in New York for a couple days, saw the family, got on a plane the first thing this morning, I don't want to brag, but Samuel L. Jackson was on the plane.
Like, you cannot possibly get a better celebrity sighting on a plane, nor feel safer on a plane.
I wanted to say something about snakes, or may the force be with you, or something, but I...
Let it be, but I did tweet at him in case he wanted to meet by the bathroom or something.
It didn't happen.
Anyway, guys, I'm super excited today because we cracked the 400,000 subscriber mark on the YouTube.
We started this show back in February of 2013 when we were on The Young Turks, it seems like many lifetimes ago, and it took us about a year and a half to get 100,000.
100,000 subscribers.
I think we hit that in September of the following year.
Then it took us about six months to get another 100,000, another four months to get another, and now it took us like three months to do this.
Last month was by far our best month.
We're crushing it on all fronts.
The audio podcast is killing it.
I'm just, I'm humbled and honored and excited that you guys have made me a little part of what you do about Some of the information you get and that you like the interviews we do and listen to me talk politics and talk social stuff and play some video games and stuff like that.
So, it's YouTube week over here.
Yesterday we posted with Colin Moriarty from Kinda Kinda Funny Videos and we played some video games after that some of you guys may have seen that we streamed on Periscope, but I'm very excited.
I'm super excited.
Okay, the guys over at RetroVision, HD RetroVision, they hooked us up.
So this is the RetroUSB, the AVS RetroUSB old school Nintendo, okay?
Eight bits of pure video game power.
That is my Super Mario 2 from childhood.
So some of you may remember that a couple weeks ago I was back at my parents' house in Long Island, and I found my childhood Nintendo Entertainment System.
This thing had not worked in literally 15 years.
I took it apart, screwdriver, I live tweeted the whole thing.
I mean, this thing was in pieces, cleaned it up with rubbing alcohol,
did every little, got into every little nook and cranny and corner, three hours,
and I brought this thing back to life.
And we have it in the green room here so that the guests can play Nintendo,
and a couple guests have.
uh...
By the way, since it's 400,000 today, I'll tease that tomorrow's guest is another gamer, Sky Williams, who many of you guys know here on the YouTube, and we played old school NES baseball.
His choice of what game we were gonna play I beat him 8-0.
Just saying.
The guy makes his living playing video games.
I'm a 40-year-old retiree.
You know what I mean?
With a bum knee.
Beat him 8-0.
Anyway, so, I'm super excited.
So, Nick and Ste over at HD Retrovision, these things are impossible to get.
This retro USB Nintendo.
They gave us their own.
So, thank you guys.
And I'm super excited.
And also, there's just so much going on.
There's so much going on politically, socially.
There's so much upheaval in the country.
People think that all hell's breaking loose.
And I'm still, as I've said many times, even though I think that there's a lot of craziness right now, I'm very hopeful for the future of what's going on here.
And I'm gonna be traveling a lot more.
I'm doing a ton of stuff at colleges that we're gonna post publicly soon.
And it's very cool.
So how can I celebrate?
400,000 subscribers.
We're going to do it with a little Nintendo.
That's right.
We're going to start with Contra.
Oh, and by the way, I should mention that we've enabled Super Chat on the YouTube chat over here.
So I'm still the guys.
I literally walked in the door like a half hour ago, got off the plane.
I didn't know we had this Nintendo here.
I was not ready to do any of this.
But Amir and David work hard even when I'm out of town.
So they got the Super Chat going.
We got the Nintendo going here.
I'm going to play some Nintendo.
We're going to talk it out via Super Chat.
You'll be able to bump your chat up higher, and then they're going to read some comments, maybe do some Q&A, all that good stuff.
But I know that more important than anything else, people want to see Nintendo.
So we've hooked this thing up to the TriCaster.
Look at this.
Look at this.
I'm controlling that right now.
What a world this is.
Apparently, people have been doing this online.
I guess on their fancy PlayStation 4s and their Xboxes.
Uh, so let's see here.
I am going to play Start Card.
I think that's what I'm going to do.
Yeah.
Now I'm going to do the up, up, down, down.
Up, up, down, down.
Left, right, left, right.
B, A. Start.
I'm going to play some Contra for you guys.
I think I can beat this game on 30 lives alone.
Usually I play with a partner.
Maybe I can get David Erdemir in here.
They're a little shy.
So I'm going to play a little Nintendo.
I know this is a little different than what we normally do.
But for me, this is basically as good of a way that you can celebrate 400,000 subscribers.
Sure, we could, you know, do it with a lot of drinking and, you know, whatever, celebrities, things like that, but I think playing Nintendo is better.
Can I beat the first board?
Oh man, spread's up there and I can't.
I can't get back there.
That's the thing, you can't go back the other way.
That's rough, that's rough.
All right, so if you jump on the Super Chat, David and Amir are gonna run off some comments to me and some Q&A stuff.
I'm gonna let the F go, the F is fire, but I like the machine gun here.
How many lives do you think it will take?
How many lives can I, will I die to beat Contra?
Anyone wanna put money on it right now?
Who's gonna, what's the over under on that?
Um, let's see, hold on, hold on, it's gonna be hard to talk and play.
I gotta focus, you know, I'm a little out of my element here.
You know, I'm not, you know, this is in 1984, you know, when I was at my prime-o video game playin' days here.
So I haven't played it yet, but I stopped by GameStop in New York City yesterday, and they were sold out, so I didn't get a chance to see it.
But it looks pretty cool.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
This is really funny, how video games sort of just came back into my... Oh, sorry!
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Alright, here we go.
That they just kind of came back into my life because I fixed the old, the old childhood system and like the whole thing just came back, came right back to me.
This is funny because, you know, I have a lot of new subscribers.
We got, like, about 50,000 subscribers, I think, in the last maybe 40 days or so.
We've been averaging about 1,500 a day.
And there's plenty of people who are just very, very serious political people, too, which is great.
You know, like, I love that, too.
But if you're just tuning in and you don't know what I do on this channel and you just subscribe, you may be... This is very, uh, not necessarily indicative of what's happening here.
If I don't beat Contra on 30 guys on a live stream to celebrate 400,000
subscribers, it will be a disaster of epic proportions.
All right, so how's that Super Chat going?
So we just enabled that thing, so I think, so I don't know about it that much, but basically I think what it enables us to do is for you guys, because, you know, I don't know if you guys know this, but the YouTube comment section can be quite psychotic.
So Super Chat basically enables Dave, I'll ask you questions in between games, okay?
You want me to ask you in between boards?
You can keep your comment up there for a long time, thus ensuring that we see it.
All right, now we got a weapon here.
unidentified
Dave, I'll ask you questions in between games, okay?
So basically you're talking about the Bill Air's Weather Underground and how it sort of relates to the left today and Antifa.
Antifa, these anti-fascists.
Who use violence to stop speech, which I'm pretty sure is a fascist activity.
Irony is in their strength.
Is there some relation to that?
Well, look, one of the things that I say on the show all the time and why I personally put free speech above everything else is that everything comes after free speech.
Our ability to negotiate, our ability to be in a fair society, forget a fair society, our ability to be in a functioning society comes from our ability to debate and have free speech first.
So if you are going to paint all of your opinion, all your opponents, Nazis and Hitler and racists and bigots and homophobes and blah, blah, blah, you're going to do all that Well, then the next move is violence, right?
You've pinned yourself into an intellectual corner where you say, oh, that guy's a Nazi, and then suddenly it's okay to punch Nazis.
And then, and by the way, Nazis don't exist.
Not to say there aren't racist people and there aren't real white nationalists and things of that nature, but Nazis were not in Indiana Jones, and this is in 1941.
But basically, if you use all these words, and then you say, it's okay to punch Nazis, well then can you burn down a Nazi's house?
Can you blow up their car?
What if their kid is on the way to school?
Can you punch a guy who sits down and sits across from a Nazi and all that?
So I do see some parallels there, and we have to watch out for that.
And that's why we have to fight these ideologies.
I'm not trying to fight people.
I'm trying to fight shitty ideas.
And I'm a firm believer that if we let all these ideas out there, that the good ones will win.
All right, what do we got next?
unidentified
This is super chat, people.
LA Times projects about 20% of LA voters to go to the polls today.
After November, LA was rioting, but now where are they?
Is this indicative of a crybaby culture that whines but fails to act?
Yeah, we have a huge crybaby culture, and people think it's easier, or they know it's easier, and in fact it is easier, if you just tweet about things and hashtag about things and show your outrage all the time, and you're the biggest victim, thus you're the most virtuous It's actually insanity, right?
That's not how a normal functioning society should work.
You have to become part of it.
Use your voice.
Use your vote.
All of those things.
All of these people protesting right now, it's like, how many of them actually voted?
You gotta get out there and make your voice heard.
Instead of just telling everyone how horrible things are or how great they would be if only your people were in charge, you gotta do the things to be part of the system to change it.
unidentified
Somebody wrote Deus Vult, which I'm guessing you don't know what that means, so I googled it.
It was the battle cry by the Crusaders at the declaration of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II at the Council of Claremont in 1905, when the Byzantine Empire requested help and defense from the Seljuk invasion of Anatolia.
A few people mentioned that name to me, so we've got master lists of, believe me, we have probably, quite literally, probably 100 YouTubers that we want to talk to, and we're going to do more of this stuff.
We're just in day two, by the way, of YouTube week.
You're going to like what we have coming for you.
So yeah, we're going to do more of that, and I'm pretty sure he's on the list.
unidentified
Uh, and somebody had a suggestion.
Why don't we just pause the game every time a Super Chat question comes in?
I was focusing on how many guys I had instead of keeping my eye on the prize.
This is gonna be, well, I can't beat the game now, right?
We know that can't happen right now.
All right, they're bringing me water.
That was a sad death.
All right, I'm gonna have to use one continue.
And I think you guys who have been with me for a while will understand why.
You know what I mean?
I'm just getting my groove back here and talking to you while I'm doing this.
It's a different thing.
Oh, that's a spread, that's a spread.
No, it's R.
So yeah, we're gonna pause during Super Chat.
But you know, we'll take a little break, because my next life is gonna be my last one in this game.
We'll take a little break before we do the continue.
And then we'll go from there.
Alright, that was... I'm sorry you guys had to see that.
Okay.
Alright, we're gonna stop for a second.
Stretch out the finger.
By the way, I can jump over to Super Mario Brothers.
We got Adventure of Link.
We got Duck Hunt.
I'm playing a mashup game right here.
That's why it's taking its toll on me physically.
All right, but yes, so we will pause every time we do the super chat thing.
I think that's fair if you guys are donating while you're doing it.
By the way, anything that you donate while we do one of these things go directly to the show.
We are figuring out some pretty big expansion plans.
We have a whole bunch of meetings coming up this week, next week.
And there's a lot of cool things happening, so all of it will go directly to that, or maybe to fancier wires for the Nintendo, but nothing beyond that.
All right, I think David's set up the other room, so I'm gonna start to continue.
It's gonna give me 30 lives, snow field board, I promise you.
Where are we at right now, Amira?
Note it on the timeline of this thing, because I promise the good people, from here forward, I will beat Maybe I spoke a little too soon.
I will beat Contra on this continuation, and I apologize for not beating it on my first one.
That was wrong.
Okay, here we go.
Getting my groove, getting my groove.
Okay.
Got the machine gun, feeling good.
Not feeling good.
All right.
It's something about talking to you and playing.
How do these guys do it?
It's that multitasking that they're always talking about, right?
Look, I went to State University of New York at Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton, so it's a state school in New York.
Was a great school, I probably smoked a little too much pot at the time, but I was a political science major, and I like to think that I used some of the things that I learned to apply in my life right now, right?
So yes, there's obviously a tremendous amount of indoctrination going on, and by the way, that's why I talk about so much what's going on with the left all the time, because that's what's being indoctrinated to young people.
There isn't far-right garbage, or even much right garbage, or even stuff That's pro-capitalism or basic rights stuff being taught in colleges.
Somehow it's thought to be cool if you're communist or socialist or far-left and they do all these studies showing that kids aren't for free speech anymore and safe spaces and trigger warnings and all that stuff.
So are you going to be hit and slammed by a lot of that?
Yes.
But college, I think the reason college is important Is because if it's done right, without a lot of that nonsense, that's where you should learn to think critically.
You're not in high school anymore, but you're not an adult, as far as I'm concerned, and you can learn to debate ideas.
Hear economic theories that you eventually will agree with or not agree with, and hear other ones.
And see different people.
Meet, you know, most of us don't live around every type of person from all over the world.
In colleges, you're going to meet all kinds of new people.
That's what the higher education experience should be about.
Now, by the way, there's plenty of great jobs that you can have without a college education.
I'm getting a little feedback here, that's why I'm stuttering a little bit.
Yeah, alright, we got a whole bunch of questions, so I gotta do this a little bit faster, and I'm feeling good.
The thumb's feeling good.
How we doing?
Yeah.
Here we go.
unidentified
There's a lot coming in, so the more money that people spend, the longer they stay up.
The more you throw in, the higher you bump up, so I have to... So by the time you're done answering, whatever, some of them might disappear, but you're going to do the best that you can.
I think the Libertarian Party should be the most centric party there is.
The most centrist party there is.
You can argue for something like gay marriage.
I mean, I say this all the time.
From a liberal perspective, where you want people to be treated equally, and that's a liberal principle, and from a libertarian perspective, because you don't want the government involved in interpersonal contracts.
That's a beautiful thing, when liberals and libertarians can come together on something.
So, I think the Libertarian Party is ripe for a hijacking.
Maybe the classical liberals will take it.
If I had to change one thing with the Libertarians, I think their biggest issue is, first off, they don't do anything down-ticket, right?
They only try to run for president, so they only appear every four years, and then they put out, this time and the time before, a very nice guy who I've met and I've had on the show, and I would have loved to have over for dinner, but it was not a great candidate in Gary Johnson, and not really a great Libertarian.
But I think more than anything else, when you're a libertarian, because you're about liberty and the individual, it's hard to get people to coalesce around all that, right?
So I think because of that, they could do a better job in figuring out what do we really stand for?
And I think through that, you could get a lot of people on the left to come over and a lot of people on the right come over.
All right, let's see.
Uh, okay.
Oh, somebody threw in on Super Chat five bucks to ask my feelings about jank.
Um, alright.
I would say on that one, you know, just save your money.
There's no point in me shit-talking people.
Or just search.
You can figure it out on Twitter if you search both our handles, the things that I've said to him.
By the way, we may crack 200,000, oh, that was bad.
We may crack 200,000 Twitter followers while we're live here doing this.
Okay, I think there's a spread right here.
If my old video, that's a laser, that's a laser.
We'll take a look.
Can't get off the screen.
Did you see that?
What is that called?
Somebody's going to know in the chat.
Can you let me know?
Colin Moriarty mentioned it, that in these old games where you couldn't run backwards, there was like some technological thing that they couldn't figure out how to get you to run backwards.
You know, if you run off a screen, you can run backwards obviously like that, but not off the screen.
That's interesting, working at a high school and hearing about Ron and Rand Paul, and there's obviously a libertarianism feeling there, and PragerU, that's a little more on the conservative side.
But that's what it should be all about, is getting ideas out there.
That's it.
People hear ideas, and then move on from there.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Could we please have on Jordan Peterson, Alfonso, Rachel, Gavin McGinnis, and the indefatigable David Wood.
Gavin McGinnis wanted to come on two weeks ago, but I wasn't in town.
So yeah, these are all within the people.
And by the way, you guys have helped us book this show, because you alert me of people that I should know about, and that's kind of a beautiful thing.
unidentified
Vault7Details, WikiLeaks released part one of a series of leaks today detailing various CIA tools, documentation, and alleging that they failed to contain various cyber weapons.
Right, so I heard just a tiny bit about this that I guess even if you were using Signal or WhatsApp or stuff like that, that apparently there were ways that could be hacked in if they could hack into your phone first, maybe before you downloaded it.
I can't confirm that I'm totally saying this correct, but I'll obviously do some reading on this tonight and I'm sure this story's not going anywhere, so I'll talk about it in the future.
unidentified
Awesome, he said, thanks for the great free content.
I live in North Carolina and I want to move to California.
I'm not sure I'm the best guy that can tell you on that.
I mean, there's probably more for you to do in San Francisco than there is here in LA.
But, you know what?
You mentioned getting free content.
I'm thrilled that we can give this to you guys for free, by the way.
You know, we do the Patreon thing, and that's amazing, because there's about 3,000 people that support this show, our ability to do this, for the rest of you.
It's great that people can do it.
Sometimes people do it for a few months and drop out.
People have been with us from the beginning.
It's fantastic whatever you guys can do it because it's not that you're just supporting it for yourself, you're supporting it for literally hundreds of thousands, probably millions of other people.
And then we do things like Super Chat and a whole bunch of other stuff and we figure out some other ways to fund and expand and it's very cool and we don't put any of this behind a paywall.
Well, I mean, look, this is everything that I'm doing.
This is everything that I'm doing.
This is everything that I believe to my bones.
Most of us don't hate each other.
Most of us don't want to impose our will on everyone else.
Most of us don't want to force everyone to live like we want to live or think like we want to think.
We can get there, and I think we can get there by showing people that we're listening to people, that we're willing to have our ideas challenged, that we'll sit across from people that we don't agree with on certain things.
And all that stuff.
And I know it's tough, but I think actually the most important thing is something that all of you can do right now, which is don't be afraid to say what you think.
I get so many emails every day from people saying they're afraid to say what they think, they're afraid to post things on Facebook and tweet this, and they have to do all this stuff anonymously, and their brothers aren't talking to them and all this other shit.
And it's like, if you're self-censoring now, How will the world be in 2020 if you're doing it in 2017?
And the trends are all leading to silence us even more.
If you're concerned about the way Trump is treating the media, if you're concerned about trigger warnings and safe space, all that stuff, well, guess what?
All the trends are going against free speech.
All the trends are going against finding common ground.
All the trends are going against building bridges.
So it's our job to fight that, and I'm gonna keep doing it.
90s NBA, the 1990s NBA, like prime years of Michael Jordan and the 92 NBA Finals versus my favorite player who I've got a little character of right here, Clyde Drexler, who won a championship with the 95 Houston Rockets.
By the way, guys, I mentioned a second ago, but the reason I'm stumbling a little bit is I'm getting a little bit of a delay here, so I'm hearing myself twice.
So if you think I'm, my cadence sounds a little weird, that's why.
Yeah, the 90s, I miss basketball.
I miss playing Sega Genesis.
Maybe we can make that happen.
And, you know, I was younger in the 90s.
I was quicker.
My hand didn't cramp up when I was playing video games.
Larry Elder's friends with him, he's putting in a good word for us.
You know, he's retired, he's 86, he's sort of moving out of that phase of life, but I do think there's hope, so please hang tight, and I would love, love, love to do it.
unidentified
Is there, oh no, can you get Jacque Fresco before he dies?
Yeah, so we're working on getting them on the show.
I've made a little headway with the Comedy Central people.
The thing is that when they're in season, they turn them so quickly that they can't do any press, and then they're burned off-season, and I fully get that.
I would love to have them on.
Interestingly, I didn't get into South Park until the last couple of years.
I'm going to take this off for a sec.
I didn't get into South Park until the last couple of years.
Because those first few years the Simpsons was still so strong that I thought it was like an affront to the Simpsons to like South Park.
I know that doesn't really make any sense.
Then I had a couple years where I thought Family Guy was the best.
But yes, I would love to have them on and they're so on it when it comes to the free speech stuff and mocking the powers that be and all these outraged virtue signaling morons and the rest of it.
What do we got?
Man, you guys are hooking it up on the Super Chat.
Did not know about the Super Chat.
Playing concerts?
unidentified
Is it strange that I seem to have become completely conservative and cringe at my liberal past in just a few months?
We had this connection because of Long Island and video games.
I've already been messaging him.
I think he could make huge, huge noise in the political space, and if there's anything that I can do to facilitate that, I'm gonna, and I've already put a few things in motion on that front.
unidentified
Live audiences interrupt conversations and ruin good talks with their laughing and clapping and booing.
I think they've soured on each other to the point, and now with this other stuff going on with Milo, I think he's been kind of off the grid, so I don't sense it.
I will always be happy to moderate it if we can get them.
But look, all of these people, as the show gets bigger, as the numbers grow and all of this stuff, which we're tracking in a really great way, it makes it easier to get all these people.
So yeah, we're working on it.
unidentified
First thing you do upon waking up and last thing you do before sleeping.
First thing I do when I wake up, I always try to have a glass of water when I wake up.
I've been trying not to have my phone in my bedroom so that it's not the last thing I do before I go to sleep, and it's not the first thing I do when I wake up.
I fail at that sometimes, but I've actually gotten a little better about it, and you guys know my feelings about doing digital detox and getting off the grid a little bit.
But I have a glass of water, I walk the dog, and I feed the fish.
That's my first thing in the morning.
unidentified
All right, this is gonna be the last one.
Oh, wait, I think there's a couple more, and then you can... A couple more, then we're going back to Contra, people.
But, you know, Sargon got banned from Twitter for a little bit, and then I saw that Steven Knight, Godless Spellchecker, who is one of the most decent, honest people trying to have hard conversations, that he got suspended from Twitter temporarily, and it's like, what is going on over there on the Twitter?
Okay, so I will try to play The Last of Us when we get the PS4.
As for Seth, look, I love Family Guy.
I think Seth is a funny guy.
He goes on Realtime a lot.
I like him personally.
I like Ted.
I didn't see Ted 2.
I think he's veered a little bit to the left for my tastes, become sort of humorless online.
I totally like him.
I totally respect him.
I probably shouldn't have even said that.
It's totally fine if you don't see eye to eye with people on everything.
There's a lot of people right now, by the way, especially comics that I used to respect a lot, that have become humorless and joyless and unfunny and preachy bitches.
I'm not talking about Seth in this instance.
On their Twitters, mostly.
But I really, really do like Seth, and I would love to have him on.
I've asked him many times, and I'll keep trying, and I hope that it will happen.
unidentified
Let's see.
Prominent memory from all the years on the Rubin Report.
Prominent memory from all the years on the Rubin Report.
You know, people always ask me what my favorite episode was, and I think that the first episode where we kicked this thing off, the first time I had Sam Harris on, which was our first show at Aura TV, to me that was the seminal moment of the whole thing, because I was doing a totally different show before that, when I was with TYT, and I was doing the Sam thing.
I really thought doing an interview show was a one-off for me, but I loved it so much, and I felt that it was real, and it was important, and I thought that Here was something that I felt was tangible, and it had real worth, and it made me want to do it more and more, and I think it fit the way people consume media, and it makes sense for the way you guys can watch it on YouTube, or if you download the podcast and all that stuff.
So I think that that moment, there was a moment about halfway through where I was like, whoa, this is actually really good in a new way, and I'm still very proud of that interview.
But I've had a ton of interviews that I've absolutely, absolutely loved.
unidentified
Okay, we only have time for only a handful more questions.
Handful more, because we gotta get to Patreon and I gotta beat this game!
unidentified
I'm a gay conservative and I'm worried about coming out of the closet, not because I'm worried about people accepting, but more so I'm worried that I will be called a traitor to my people because of my views.
Yeah, I mean, this is the through line to so much of what I talk about, and I mentioned something earlier.
If you know what your views are, and if you're not a bigot, and you're not a racist, and all of these nonsensical words that are holding people hostage, that's what they're doing.
They're holding people hostage against their own consciences.
And I suspect that you're probably not a bad person.
You happen to be a gay conservative.
What does that mean?
You happen to be gay, so you like someone of the same sex, and you're a conservative, meaning you either have some more traditional values, or you feel this way about economics, or foreign policy, or whatever it is.
Whether I agree with you or not on some of those things is completely irrelevant.
We are allowed to disagree.
The reverse of that is being in some utopian, psychotic place where conformity is held above everything else.
Be who you are.
That's all you can be.
unidentified
Last question, then you get back to games.
Any chance of an eloquent, Keynesian-leading economist such as Joseph Stiglitz coming on the show?
No, I guess you can give me questions, but we got a lot going on here, and I'm trying to save the world, and I got YouTube Super Chats, and I got a dog licking me, and my finger's gonna break!
Alright, keep going, but I gotta cut you before the Patreon stream starts.
I got another question for you.
Given the nature of the recent WikiLeaks Vault 7 detailing CIA hacking, do you worry about the future of freedom of speech when political parties hold this type of power?
As I said, I need to do a little research on this thing, because I was in a plane all day, so I didn't read that much on it yet.
But yes, I think we have a major problem with free speech coming from two fronts.
There's the front of government and people spying on us and all that, and Trump's nature of his relationship with the media, and the media that's just generally terrible, that people don't trust anymore.
So it's a multi-pronged thing, and the fact that you guys know the one I'm most concerned about Is that we're censoring ourselves.
I fear that much more than the other ones.
So there's a big thing here, and on top of the fact that I'm dealing with pretty intense shrimp, and this guy, and it's a lot.
And it's much more intimate there because it's the people that fully support the show and people have gotten to know each other.
It's actually really cool.
All right, so if there's anything left on Super Chat, two minutes, here we go, Super Chat.
Man, this thing is really cool.
Thank you to the guys who hooked us up over at HD Retrovision, and it's the AVS Retro USB that we're playing this thing on, and this isn't even available.
They gave us their personal one.
It's really hard to get this thing.
Anything else you want to finish up on, or I'm going to have a sip of water?
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Yeah, just people saying great work.
Dave, love your show.
Do you have any plans to do news articles like Steven Crowder's site?
So we're thinking about that kind of stuff, that the next step here is not just doing the interviews, but like a weekly news segment, maybe some more written stuff.
I don't know, we're trying to figure out all that stuff.
It really has to do with ways we can expand, get some financial things to work out, figure out some partnerships, and things of that nature.
But I'm super psyched, and we got this last $100,000 so quick.
I mean, really, over $40,000 in the last month.
When the total that we're looking at is 400,000, so 10% in the last month.
We've been doing this for years.
We're hitting on something awesome, and I'm very excited about it.
And I've had a whole bunch of other opportunities for television stuff and being invited to other networks, but we're in a beautiful place, thanks to you guys, where I don't have to make any decisions that I don't think are right for us or for the team or for Emma over there who's watching.
And all right, let's go over.
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Jason Blaze is very excited that we're having Jason Staple tonight.
Really, the way that we've gotten so intimate with this whole thing and that I interact with so many of you, it really is awesome and it's energizing and it's really cool.
All right, we're good to go.
I beat Contra for you.
Thank you.
Next time I'll do something better.
We'll do some two-player things also with some guests and stuff like that.
That'll be fun.
But yes, this is not becoming a video game channel.
This was a silly little thing that we did here.
All right, awesome, thank you guys, and keep watching, and we're heading over, if you wanna join us, patreon.com slash RubinReport, and you'll get access to the feed if you jump in at that level right then and there.
All right, that's it for promotion.
My hair is going crazy, I'm sweating, my thumb hurts, I'm hungry, I have to pee.