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I'm Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report Direct Message for today, May 13th, 2021.
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Today we are doing a Ask Me Anything Q&A.
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And I'm gonna hit up one story before we do all that, because as we've talked about, A lot, I think it's a lot, officially.
Wokeism is pretty much destroying everything and it's destroying the very industries that brought it into the system in the first place.
In this specific case, I'm talking about Hollywood because there ain't gonna be no Golden Globes this year because of all that racist stuff.
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All right, let's talk about the Golden Globes.
We've got a tweet here from Axios.
Quote, "NBC says it won't air the Golden Globes next year over criticisms that the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association is not sufficiently committed to diversity."
Oh, you can never be woke enough for the wokesters.
We've got some quotes from NBC.
We continue to believe that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is committed to meaningful reform.
However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right.
As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes, Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we'll be in a position to air the show in January, 2023.
Oh, for God's sake.
So this is just Hollywood eating itself.
And although with all due irony, as I sit here in Los Angeles, I have to say I'm sort of enjoying it.
I mean, this is what you get at the end of wokeism.
Everything is racist.
Everything must be destroyed.
It's time to take everything out.
As you guys know, the Oscars were just in the last couple of weeks, or maybe you don't know it, because basically nobody watched.
Less than 10 million people watched the Oscars.
When was the last time you saw a good new movie?
You know, there's a couple TV shows that trickle out on some of these streaming services, on top of the fact that, you know, COVID caused all these shutdowns, so there's just way less stuff.
Out there, it's like all I watch, basically, are the same.
I watch the same things that I watched in 1989.
I watch Seinfeld, I watch The Simpsons, and I watch Golden Girls.
That's pretty much good enough for me.
I'm also watching Handmaid's Tale.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
But they got the whole thing wrong.
All the wokesters thought that the bad guys were like the Trump people, and no, it's just actually completely reversed.
Anyway, seeing these things crumble, it's just so consistent with everything that the modern left does.
They are here to crush everything.
And are we to believe that the Hollywood Foreign Press is a racist organization?
The idea that they can't get their awards show in order because they have to get more black people in?
They are the ones ushering in the systemic racism.
We have to get more quotas in, guys.
We can't give all the awards to white men and we've got to make sure more black women get it and trans people and people with a bad hip and a lazy eye.
It's just endless stupidity.
And it will continue.
All right, let's get away from stupidity and let's go to the questions.
Patrick says, Dave, you have talked about the increasing divergence between red and blue states.
If this trend continues, could it result in the fragmentation of the U.S., similar to what happened to the USSR, where some former Soviet republics are democracies while others are dictatorial hell holes?
Sounds outlandish, but outlandish things are already happening.
There was a long while, I would say about a year, where I was starting to think about some of this stuff, probably even more than a year actually.
And then of course, COVID just completely blew that thing open because the radical difference between lockdowns and states that were basically left free and crushing people's jobs.
And now we're seeing just the growth of the state that we're gonna give people unemployment forever, all of the stuff that you guys all know.
And while I was thinking about that for a year, year and a half, maybe even more, I didn't wanna bring it up that often, because I don't like the idea of like adding to the, it feels like it's like adding to the embers of the fire in a way, you know what I mean?
Like it feels like, oh, if we talk about this stuff, some of it will just, will will it into being.
I want the United States to remain the United States, right?
the founders had such a brilliant idea that you could live in these geographic places
that would be very different from each other, but what would bring us together
were the ideas of freedom and liberty.
And that if there was a place that was more in line with whatever your belief system was,
religiously or whatever your belief system was, economically or philosophically, whatever it was,
you could find a place to be.
So in many ways, what's happening right now, where you see places that are much more in line
with say what I believe.
Let's talk about obviously Florida and Texas and Tennessee.
I mean, if you would have ever said to me 20 years ago, I'd think the world was upside down, but I guess the world is upside down.
The fact that they are doing what they think is right, related to lockdowns and everything else, is great.
And then, of course, you've, in my opinion, it's great.
And then, of course, you've got places like New York and California that are, in my opinion, doing much worse things.
Well, we know, they actually just released a study that California, this year, had their first net loss of people, meaning more people moved out of California than moved in.
First time in the history of California.
So people are waking up.
So I would say this is what the founders sort of envisioned in a way.
And the real question will be, is will the federal government keep becoming so big that it will start infringing on the rights of those states?
You know, I've joked about it, but it's like Florida should build a freaking wall and get that Get that National Guard armed up because the federal government will infringe on that.
They're not just gonna let people roam free in the free state of Florida.
So I'm slightly kidding about a wall and an army, slightly, but it's like the states are gonna have to really figure out how to defend what it is that they believe in those states and the laws that they pass and defend their citizens and everything else.
Because the federal government's completely out of control and the blue states are just patently ridiculous at this point.
Stephen asks, do you feel more and more blue team people are waking up and fed up with the mandates, overreach, and woke politics, California?
I think in reality, yes, everyone is sick of this woke thing.
And we know it statistically, and it's weird that it doesn't...
I don't fully show up in voting, but what is possibly left of the Democratic Party?
Show me someone on the Democratic side of things that is against wokeism, really fighting it, someone that is against identity politics.
The Democrats literally, in a completely partisan vote, voted to continue to allow If you're Asian, how in the world could you be a Democrat at this point?
You have half a brain and that's not to say that you should be a Republican.
I'm not saying that and I don't think the Republicans are that great, but they're better than that thing.
Like we all know they're better than that.
So are more people waking up?
I think people are, like if your takeaway in the past year of lockdowns and everything else,
regardless of what you feel about like some of the specific political issues,
but if your takeaway of the last year was, yes, we need more government,
if only government would do more for us.
If only those people had more power, things would be better.
Then, I don't know, you need some kind of psychological evaluation, I would say, more than a political class.
You need to really look at why you look at the world in such a backwards way.
So I do think a lot of people have been red-pilled in that regard.
And the question is, will they vote that way?
And will all the people fleeing the blue states into the red states, will they finally realize that they had a little something to do with this disaster, and will they vote accordingly?
Alicia says, I know you went to college.
In this environment, do you think it's worth going as a conservative and either speaking up or just quietly passing classes?
Do you see any future for people who work to prove their competence in manners other than college attendance?
Look, we're working on having kids right now, so that means I'm not gonna have kids for a long time.
I'm gonna be an old timer.
I'm gonna be an old father.
However, the idea that in like, you know, 18 years from now or so, I'm gonna send my kids to college, if by college or university we mean anything close to what exists right now, you're basically sending young people to a brainwashing institution.
That is pretty much it.
When Bernie says we want free college for everyone, he knows that's the best place to get brainwashed socialists.
It's not because he wants them to learn something from Thomas Sowell or libertarian economics, or even that the history of the United States was good.
But all of the stuff that's leaking out into society everywhere, it started on the college campuses.
We all know this.
It's partly why I was ahead of the game on all of this stuff, because five years ago, if not more, I was speaking at college campuses
and I saw all of this craziness.
And I was like, wait a minute, these kids are gonna get out into the real world
and they're being taught by these awful people.
And what's been strange is, you know, there were all the people that said,
oh, once they're out in the real world, they'll fall into line, you know,
the real world or get them.
But the real world just kind of collapsed.
They just ran right over it.
So I think there's probably a gajillion ways to think about educating yourself outside of college.
The amount that you can learn, you know, just listening to lectures on YouTube.
And then of course there's the part of the college experience
about getting away from your parents, living with friends,
living somewhere say in between high school and then fully as adult,
hopefully married with a family.
We could figure out what the social things are with that.
Should young people live together differently in communal thing?
Like, I don't know.
There's something we can figure about about the social part of college that I think is important.
But the idea that you'd save 80 grand or something as an adult to send your kid to one of these places
where they're most likely gonna learn that your evil and everything you've done for them is horrible
and the country is terrible is a bad idea.
How about just give them that cash and help them get out on the world without debt and help them put the down payment on a house or car or whatever else.
Michael says, it appears that much of what we're seeing take place within the leftist controlled government is not incompetence, but a well-executed example Of the Cloward-Piven strategy laid out in the 1960s, modified for current politics.
Thoughts?
So without going too much into the specifics on this, the question really is, is this all happening by accident or is this a plan?
It feels very much like a plan to me.
Who was the Russian former KGB agent, Yuri Bez, give me the last name, Yuri Bezmenov,
slightly butchering it, we'll get it for you in just a sec, who talked about how you would instill communism, basically,
in the United States, and that you could take out a free country
like the United States without ever having to fire a bullet because you would do it through the inside.
We just had his name there.
Yuri Bezmenov is his name, and you should check out the YouTube videos of him
from literally, I think they're from 30 or 40 years ago, and they're absolutely fascinating
and lay out exactly kind of what's happening here.
So I think there is a strategy.
None of this feels organic to me.
It feels very coordinated with big tech and what trends and what doesn't and then the way the media only covers things if it covers issues when they fit their racial narrative and they don't cover the other things when they don't and the way That NBA players like LeBron James fall into line but won't say anything about China.
It all feels like part of a pattern.
And it's like, what is that?
Like, what is that whole thing?
I don't know.
It's almost like asking what the meaning of life is.
Like, you can just sort of see what you see and figure out how to act accordingly within it.
I think that's the best thing that you can do.
Leo says, thoughts on Biden's first 100 days.
Where did he go wrong and did he do anything right?
I mean, I think they've been pretty much a disaster on all fronts.
There was no healing, there is no unity.
Gas prices are going through the roof.
We're actually having gas shortages right now that they're not really covering on mainstream media, but it is happening.
The Middle East is on fire again.
It was basically peaceful.
Not basically, it was peaceful, and there were at least five peace deals signed under Trump, but now the bad actors now realize they can start doing stuff again.
So we've got war on the horizon.
You can sort of feel it.
We've got gas shortages.
We don't have any of that unity.
We have a media that is completely emboldened to hide everything that the Democrats do, where we know if Trump farted the wrong way, they would have done three weeks worth of coverage on it.
I don't know that you can fart the right way, but you see my point.
So I don't know.
I think that the modern Democratic Party has been completely decimated and is basically A radical extremist leftist organization.
I don't know how to say it any differently.
And it's very sad to me that my liberal friends didn't see this coming because I thought it was pretty obvious.
And believe me, if there was something to give this guy credit on, I would love to find it, but I don't know what it is.
Do you feel confident that we will get through lockdowns and not have more lockdowns when he's saying, oh, you know, remember two months ago it was, oh, you can get together in July.
And now it's like, well, we'll see what happens in July.
These people just want more and more and more and more.
And they're just going to keep taking it as long as you give it to them.
Elijah says, what do you make of the situation in Israel?
At the moment, so look, there's a barrage of rockets coming from Gaza, hitting Tel Aviv, hitting Jerusalem, hitting, well, basically all over Israel.
First off, I would say, if you have known nothing, you know, a lot of people, whenever you bring up the Middle East, say, all right, I know nothing about it.
Like, you know, what do we do?
I would say first, look at a map.
Look at a map.
So Israel is obscenely tiny to the point that it's basically the size of New Jersey in a pretty rough neighborhood, right?
And Israel is by far the country in the Middle East with the most diversity, meaning that there are Arabs and Jews and Christians who get along.
I've been there many times.
I've been to Jerusalem.
Where you can, within moments of each other, walk to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is the holiest site in Christianity, to the Western Wall, which is the holiest site in Judaism, to the Dome of the Rock, which is the second or third holiest site in Islam, which is built on top of the decimated Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.
There was a temple there, now all the Jews have left is a wall.
But there is diversity there.
You can see women walking around in burkas next to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in black hats.
Like, there is no place in the Middle East that is freer and lets their citizens vote and all of those things.
That's not to say that any country doesn't have its flaws.
They all do.
But I would say this, that every single country on earth has the The right and I would say the duty to defend its citizens as it sees fit.
And I'm fairly certain that if a whole bunch of rockets were coming from Canada and hitting us in Detroit, we'd probably bomb Mexico.
So every country has a right to defend itself.
So Israel's got the Iron Dome, which is blowing these rockets out of the air.
We know that Hamas shoots the rockets from hospitals and from children's playgrounds because they want Dead Palestinians, that's just their cynical view of the world.
They want dead Arabs because then they think that that will turn the world against Israel.
And then also learn a little bit of history about all of this.
There was never a nation known as Palestine, meaning a Palestinian people.
The Arab nations used to boycott Palestine, which was the British mandate of Palestine after the Ottoman Empire.
So it was Turkish during the Ottoman Empire.
Then it was British.
Then they said, okay, we're going to split this thing up.
The Jews said yes in 47.
The Arabs said no.
Then they all attacked.
They lost a war.
They're still upset about that war.
That's what this is really all about.
And, you know, the West Bank used to be part of Jordan, and Gaza used to be part of Egypt.
They don't want it anymore.
But there was never, there was no Palestine.
Who was the prime minister?
Like, there wasn't.
There just wasn't.
You can read New York, old New York Times, when it was sort of a newspaper, articles in the 30s and 40s that the Arab states were boycotting Palestine because that's where the Jews lived.
Anyway, I could do this forever.
It starts becoming like a little, That comes like some long thing that you gotta talk about in great detail.
But also, you know, I saw these ridiculous tweets from Ilhan Omar, who's just absolutely awful, you know, basically calling Israel a terrorist state.
And it's like her buddy Rashida Tlaib, on one hand, you wish Jews happy Hanukkah.
And then at the same time, you know, Hanukkah is the story of the Jews defending the Judean hills.
You're not gonna believe what Judean means.
Rashida.
And where are those hills?
Oh, they're in the West Bank.
So that holiday that Jews celebrate for 5,000 something years has something to do with Jews living in that place that you don't want any Jews to live in.
Or that Jesus guy, remember Jesus?
He lived in Bethlehem.
That's also in the West Bank.
So Jews must have lived there a long time too.
I mean, the hypocrisy.
Is just off the charts, but removing any of all of that, I would say every nation has a right to defend itself.
So Israel can defend itself.
And if you're for Hamas, then they can defend themselves.
And if you think, if you believe that Hamas firing rockets is some way defending themselves, then I think you're just sorely mistaken, but everybody can defend themselves as they see fit.
But I don't think that there would be any nation that would be more restrained than Israel at the moment, probably to a fault actually.
Ben says, I've been watching Bill Maher for the last few months to get out of my conservative echo chamber.
There's times when he seems to get it, but always follows up with Vote Democrat, which makes me want to scream.
Do you think he'll ever have that moment where he realizes Democrats are the anti-reality party?
If you do, do you think he'll accept it when it happens?
So first off, I just want to put this out there.
I was booked on the show twice and they canceled on me twice.
One was COVID related when my book came out.
And then there was one other time.
I would be happy to go on the show.
I would be happy to have Bill here, literally in my house, or we could do it via Skype.
I would say that Bill, in essence, is an old school liberal who maybe hasn't quite been mugged by reality yet, because he's just so rich.
So he thinks he can kind of get away with it, something like that.
And I don't even mean that to be a dick.
Like he's a single lifelong bachelor atheist.
So he can just like have all his ideas.
That sort of makes sense in his liberal worldview that don't have any concrete reality anymore.
But if he wants to live free, if you think that the Democrats and the left are the party and the political ideology that makes sense to you, that just doesn't make sense to me anymore.
But does he get some things right, which is your point?
Yes, he's pretty good on the free speech stuff.
He really is.
And he does call out both sides when he can.
But the example I always bring up is he had Adam Schiff, our moronic, You know, representative from California, from the Bay Area, who was the lead, you know, lead guy during the Trump, the first Trump impeachment before the second sham impeachment.
And he had Adam Schiff on and he's complaining to Adam Schiff about how high taxes are and regulations are high and all his friends are leaving.
And it's like, he can't put it together that it's because, well, Bill, you support Democrats.
These are the people that run this state, and if you think all of the things are bad in this state, and you do complain about how bad education is, and you do complain about the drug problem, even though I think Bill's answer would be to legalize more drugs, which I don't think is the totally right answer, but you complain about high taxes and all the people fleeing.
But then your answer is always, okay, keep voting in the same people.
So I think Bill is actually a libertarian.
And at this point, I would say he's a conservative in that new way that I've been talking about conservative, but he can't say it because it's like his whole audience will turn on him.
And the guy's, you know, he's at the end of his career.
You know, you could go on for a couple of years, obviously, but like, he's sort of at the end and it's like at the end, are you going to really make a stand?
Actually, that would be the honorable, cool thing to do, and I would love it.
I actually think it would be awesome if he would start really saying it as it is.
But he's a TV host, and it is what it is, and I say that as a YouTuber.
Oscar says, there's a lot of people on the right and in the media who have a lot to say about what the Harris-Biden team is doing wrong and how it's destroying America.
What is some actionable advice that you and your guests could give us to individually counter the deterioration of America?
Under this administration, start caring about local elections.
Know who your congressman is.
Like, that kind of stuff.
Like, right now, here in LA, like, our roads are gross.
There's homelessness everywhere, encampments, all of these things.
Like, I don't expect Joe Biden to fix it.
I actually don't expect my Democratic congressman to fix it either, but we've got a better chance to work on that guy, right?
So we've actually been trying to make some contact over there.
Like, that's the point.
That's the point.
that you must have some ability to affect your life.
And the way we've outsourced all of this, that the federal government should make every decision
for everybody, whether you live in downtown Los Angeles or you live in rural Pennsylvania or something,
is actually crazy.
So I would say that's the political level.
And then the other part is the family level.
I would say at the spiritual level, something like that, like know what you believe.
Do a little bit of what Jordan Peterson was saying in that video that we played a week or so ago about truth, you know, telling truth, telling the truth for truth's sake, that in some ways that's the ultimate expression of faith, that if you just say, I will tell the truth, that it doesn't mean that everything will be right, but by putting truth out there, that will be better than all possible, you know, alternatives.
Like, that seems like something that gives us a little power back to ourselves.
So if the world is going to hell in a handbasket, it's like we don't have to speed it up ourselves with lies.
I don't know that there's much more that we can do right now.
The best you can do, I think, is make your family stronger, your local community stronger.
Maybe vote for those people at that level that can help you do it, but I don't think the answer is political.
The fact that you think everything is political is part of the problem in the first place.
James, who is your favorite Democrat?
Well, all my favorite Democrats are dead, but I would say JFK.
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
That's reverse Bernie Sanders.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who I had the pleasure of meeting, who was a great senator, a liberal Democrat from New York.
who was an incredible senator, who fought for true liberalism, which again, is modern conservatism, was wonderful.
Ed Koch, who was the mayor of New York City.
There were some good Democrats, like who now?
I mean, I guess Tulsi Gabbard, but honestly, I'm not totally sure that Tulsi considers herself a Democrat anymore.
I don't wanna put words in her mouth or claim anything that isn't true.
But look what the party did to her.
Here she was, she was anti-war.
She was anti-identity politics.
She was for reaching across the aisle, right?
Like, think how differently.
Imagine if Joe Biden, you know, imagine if dementia ridden Joe Biden had chosen Tulsi Gabbard instead of Harris, Kamala Harris, like where we would be right now.
Things could actually be a little bit different, but they went all in on radicalism.
And centrism has nothing to do with the Democrats.
So it'll be interesting.
I'd love to discuss that further with Tulsi, like where does she shake out on all of this?
It's an interesting question, but who's my favorite Democrat?
Yeah, they're all gone.
Debbie says, are you still coming to Florida in June?
Hopefully Orlando will be on the schedule.
So I had six stand-up shows in six nights, booked in the middle of June, and then a couple other important travel things came up and we realized, we looked at the numbers, I will be totally honest with you, because I am trying to be totally honest, we looked at the numbers and the schedule and it just, like, it didn't really fully financially make sense to step out of the studio for that long and do it.
In comedy clubs where there's only like 200 people there per gig or whatever, especially now because they're still socially distanced and they're not at full capacity and all that.
So I want to do theater shows.
So we are looking at a whole bunch of theater shows which we will start in Florida for sure and we're trying to figure that out for the fall because by then everything should be fully open, open, open.
And then it will make sense to do.
But I will be in Florida June, I think, 17th to 19th.
I'm interviewing the mayor of Miami who's doing a great job.
Well, he's actually a Democrat.
Mayor Suarez is a Democrat, but he is welcoming tech to come to Miami to build the future of tech infrastructure.
It's a really beautiful thing.
So I'll be interviewing him.
We're either doing it at City Hall or we may be doing it on location somewhere.
And maybe I can pull together.
You know what?
We will pull together, not maybe.
I will do a Locals event there, for sure.
So if you wanna find out what we're gonna do, rupemport.locals.com.
Oh, he's a Republican?
Hot damn, the one Democrat I like is a Republican.
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Well, there you go.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼
Sorry, Suarez.
Sorry, Mayor Suarez.
You are a Republican.
I retract.
You're my favorite Democrat because you're a Republican.
You gotta love it.
I mean, it doesn't get better than that.
Otto says, what is your favorite thing about your career?
Well, I love this, right?
Like, I love the ability, like, this is what I do for a living.
I'm able to tell you guys what I think and be around good people and meet so many cool people and travel and all of that.
But I guess more than anything else, like, I've said this before, but it has something to do with the purpose part of this.
I wake up every day with purpose.
Like, there is a reason to fight and I know, well, I know we all have a reason to fight, but like, I know that I can have some influence in that fight.
So even, you know, a couple days ago when I, I read you guys that New York Times thing where the reporter basically called me a white supremacist and that I regularly have white supremacists on and Yang didn't really defend me or whatever.
It's like I woke up and while in the old days that would have angered me, it kind of seemed funny to me.
And then I was like, well, okay, this is what happened.
The New York Times is crap.
This is a journalist, not a journalist.
Like let's fight.
Let me fight for what I believe in and say what I believe and get my voice out there.
And then of course what happens is you guys back me.
You watch this show, you comment on things, you've joined us on Locals, and like, I've just had a great community, and to the point of, you know, when we go down to Florida, we'll do a Locals meetup, like, I've been doing these meetups in LA, and we did them in OC, and I've done one in Dallas, and we're gonna keep doing them, and it's like, I'm meeting great people.
I think you guys are way better than our political class, and so my favorite thing is people, humans, you guys, yeah!
Tyler says, if you had to live the rest of your life without basketball or BBQ, which would you choose?
Well, the answer is obvious, which is BBQ.
That's not a slight to basketball.
I love basketball, but as you know, I've got this torn ACL.
I may have the surgery this summer.
I'm actually leaning towards it because for the first time in the five or six years that I've had this, This torn ACL, it's actually starting to bother me.
And I was also thinking the other day, you know, if the zombie apocalypse comes, which it seems like it's getting closer and closer, I'm gonna need to be able to run freely.
You know what I mean?
I can't just sit up on my porch up there and shoot zombies all day.
Like at some point, the zombies always break into the house, in which case I'm gonna need to be able to run.
And the thing is, when you have a torn ACL, you can run straight, but you can't do zigzags.
And I feel like there would be a lot of zigzagging.
If I was running away from zombies.
So anyway, I think I'm probably gonna get the surgery sometime in July, we shall see.
And the point is, I can't play basketball that many more years, even if I had a good knee, right?
Like productive, fun basketball, I could play horse.
But barbecue can last a lifetime, so there you go.
Jamie says, do you read fiction?
If so, what is your favorite novel or classical literature book?
You know, I don't have time to read in that sense anymore.
So I tell you guys that when I have guests on, in the old days at the beginning of the show, before I was also running a tech company and had so much going on, I would always read the book of the guest.
And then over the years, that's become less and less and less.
And then sometimes now I don't read any, which I think sometimes can make for a better interview, because I can ask more questions that are vague and open-ended, let's say, and with less of my opinion in them.
So that can be kind of good.
Sometimes I have to read a little bit more.
Sometimes my producer, Michael, gives me a recap of certain things.
We try to play it by ear, depending on what the topic is, who the guest is.
Do I know them?
What type of interviewee are they?
Et cetera, et cetera.
So unfortunately, Fiction books have become, have really been pushed down because most of the stuff that I'm interviewing people about is nonfiction.
However, I will say this, this wasn't the last one I read, but one of the great fiction books that I've read, which is one of my favorite movies also of all time, is the movie Contact.
And a lot of times you guys will ask me about a book that I think you should read, and I always talk about Billions and Billions, which was Carl Sagan, who did Cosmos, of course, it was his last book, he actually died.
At the end, before the book was finished, then his wife, Ann Druyan, who was also a professor at Cornell, she ended up finishing the book.
But Carl Sagan wrote one fiction book, and it was Contact, and I'm sure many of you have seen the movie with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.
That movie just blew my mind, opened me up to such a new world of things.
I saw that in 97.
I had eaten pot brownies and we were going to see "Air Force One" and "Air Force One" was sold out
and we just go into contact.
We didn't know what the hell it was, me and my buddies.
And that panorama of the universe comes out and I'm stoned out of my mind and that thing just got me.
And just a great, great movie.
James Woods is in it too.
And then I ended up reading the book.
I read all of Sagan's books.
That's his only nonfiction.
And in the nonfiction one, without getting too lost in this,
if you remember "In Contact,"
she goes into the machine alone.
In the book, several scientists go into the machine and all have different experiences.
So it's just a great, wonderful book.
Owen says, are there any films you think put out the same message as the Star Wars prequels but are actually good films?
Oh my God, there must be.
Well, basically, you're talking about this thing that I always talk about, which is the accumulation of power, creating a war to, in essence, shut down one of the sides when you have enough power, and then you're the hegemonic power.
You are supreme leader, you know, you're Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.
I don't know.
Do you have any good ideas on that one?
If you're in, you know, there's a lot of dystopian future kind of things.
Yeah, I don't know one that like specifically that level of power kind of thing.
I'm not exactly sure, especially from a political perspective, which is why I love the prequels as much as I do.
I think that's it.
Is that all we're doing today?
Was that the final question?
That was the final question, guys.
Part two of my interview with Nigel Farage is up on YouTube right now.
And of course you can watch the full thing at rubenreport.locals.com.
And our panel show tomorrow will be Travis Brown Douglas Murray and Peter Boghossian, they're doing a documentary all on wokeism, how it's affecting the colleges, all the stuff that we're constantly talking about here from two of my favorite people, Douglas and Peter, and Travis is the one putting the doc together.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
See you tomorrow.
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