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Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
Today is June 15th, 2021, and California, by order.
of Lord Newsome is officially open.
I'm actually not even sure what that means and half the people are gonna keep wearing masks and hiding in their bunkers, but apparently California is open.
It's very exciting.
June 15th, 2021.
I'm Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report Direct Message.
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We're gonna be talking about Newsome And reopening California and that he gave himself powers to close down at any time.
We're gonna get to that.
That's the little asterisk in there.
You know, don't read the fine print, but yeah, that's happening.
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Alright guys, so as I said, today is June 15th.
This is the completely arbitrary day that Lord Newsome, the evil Disney cartoon character villain, has decided California can open.
It's a little unclear to me what that means because over the last couple weeks, even here in Crazy Cali, the traffic's been nuts.
Things have been opening up.
I've been to a couple restaurants.
Some people are not wearing masks.
Social distancing seems like it's completely gone.
The rioters and the people burning down buildings seem to be getting back to their normal activities.
So it's an interesting thing.
But in any event, June 15th is here.
Today's the day that the whole thing's open.
But as I mentioned before, there's a little asterisk next to open because Gavin Newsom, if you don't think he, in the last year and a half, usurped enough power from the people and did a whole bunch of stuff that he didn't have any right to do, Well, now he's ensuring that he can kind of do it at any time he wants to going forward.
We've got some quotes here from fee.org.
With one of the lowest COVID-19 case rates in the country, a 70 plus percent adult vaccination rate and widespread reopening set for June 15th, the pandemic is finally on the wane in California.
But Governor Gavin Newsom is still refusing to give up his emergency powers.
California is set to end most coronavirus restrictions on June 15th, but Governor Newsom is not lifting the state of emergency local media outlet KCRA 3 reports.
Newsom is keeping emergency powers given to him by a court in his back pocket in case things go south.
But Newsom is setting a timeline on his emergency powers that could let him hold onto them for years or even the rest of his time in office, insisting that the state of emergency can only lapse when the coronavirus is extinguished or vanished, gives the governor license to cling onto his expanded powers essentially forever.
So Newsom is setting standards that could allow him to never hang up his crown.
This is an unacceptable act of authoritarianism that has no place in a free society.
The people at fee.org know a little something about freedom.
Of course, when Newsom says, I'll put down my emergency powers, you know, when the emergency's over, very Palpatine, right?
Wasn't that what Palpatine was gonna do?
I'll set these emergency powers down.
I love democracy, right?
That's what this guy's doing.
The idea that we're opening up now and that he can just, we're closing down, COVID-6, the South Indian variant, whatever he might come up with, is deeply dangerous, and all this guy wants is power, and I hope he loses the recall, and it would be nice if he ended up in jail.
I'm sure there's a reason for it.
This is not a good man.
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All right, let's do a little Q&A, guys.
Craig says, what do the conservatives need to focus on to win Congress in the 2022 election?
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As for what the Republicans need to do in 2022, I mean, I think it's sort of happening already, which is kind of just be sane.
Right?
Like, that really is it.
You know, it's funny, because you guys obviously know my feelings about the Democrats.
They've all lost their mind.
I don't know where any of the decent liberals are.
Like, show me anyone that will stand up to the radicals.
They want to put racism into everything.
They want the government to do everything.
They want to tax the hell out of everybody.
They want to get rid of police departments and the litany of, like, crazy things they want to do.
So, pretty much, the Republicans just have to be like, hey, hello.
We don't want to do that.
We're not those guys.
I don't think the Republicans actually have to do much.
I think the messaging has to be, hey, We love America.
These guys don't.
We're proud of this country.
These guys aren't.
We don't want all your money.
These guys do.
We hopefully will cut some spending and regulations.
That stuff often the Republicans don't do when they're in power.
But we want you to keep more of your tax dollars.
We don't want to go to the crazy wars.
Like, it's all, all of the sensible stuff is on the conservative side right now.
So just be somewhat of a decent communicator in those ideas.
And I guess part of the problem is that there aren't a lot of Republicans that do that very effectively.
There are some guys that do it.
I think Rand Paul does it well, obviously.
Ted Cruz does it well.
There are a couple that do it well, obviously.
You know my feelings about Ron DeSantis doing it incredibly well.
But that really is the key, just being like, hey, you see the stuff that these guys wanna do.
They want eight-month abortions.
They want $15 minimum wage in a time when the economy is depressed
and the middle class is disappearing.
Like, they're gonna basically raise a group of racists and they want reparations.
All of the banana stuff is over here.
Hey, maybe we don't have the answers for everything, but we're kind of decent over here, and I know they call us racists and bigots and nobody wants to be called that, but, you know, if you hang out with us for a little bit, you'll find out we're not that way.
I think, like, some messaging around that, like, we can't solve all your problems, we like America, we're decent, we're happy, um, you know.
Like, we're trying, but we're not trying to control you?
That's pretty good.
Storm says, before this, what was your favorite job and why?
I mean, man, I had a lot of odd jobs over the years.
When I was doing standup at night, I would do all sorts of crazy stuff during the day.
You know, I did bartending and catering for a bunch of catering companies in New York City and in the suburb areas, and I really enjoyed that.
Well, first off, when you're doing it, at a catering company, you're usually working
with other actors and comedians.
So there are a lot of cool people.
I never really liked the actors, actually, but the comedians, there's a lot of laughing
throughout the day and just fun stuff.
But I liked bartending a lot of the catering gigs because we'd be in Long Island or we'd be in Westchester,
New York suburb areas, and I liked going to private parties and bartending
'cause you can really figure out who's wasted and you can see the family dynamics.
And when grandma comes up for her fourth white wine spritzer in an hour in Westchester,
you can find out a lot about that family.
So I always thought like little catering gigs were actually kind of fun and you know at the end they let you eat a little bit of the filet mignon if it hasn't been eaten and That kind of stuff was fun.
And then, of course, you guys know I was assistant manager of Electronics Boutique, now known as GameStop, in Broadway Mall in Hicksville, Long Island.
That was my first job out of college.
So I moved video games.
Nobody moved more Pokémon Red in 99 than me, okay?
Sally!
That says I'm starting to see pushback against the craziness.
Do you see it too or is it wishful thinking on my part?
No!
There absolutely is pushback.
I think maybe the silver lining of Biden winning and us being where we're at at the moment is that if Trump had won, they would be so crazy trying to destroy Trump that it wouldn't allow a certain amount of people to wake up.
This is the best way I can give you the silver lining on this thing, that because of the polarity related to Trump, and that Trump was sort of the center of the universe for so many people, and whatever they believed sort of orbited around Trump.
With Trump slightly out of the equation right now, I think the left has just made it very clear that they were bananas whether Trump was around or not, for all the reasons that I explained in that first question there.
Like, they're going for everything.
California is trying to pass a reparations bill right now.
Nobody in my family owned slaves.
I certainly never owned slaves.
And even if someone in my family did own slaves generations back, I wouldn't be guilty for their sins.
So, like, they're going crazy on all of these different things.
And, of course, the CRT stuff is the most dangerous.
And then they trot out Obama there to, like, mock the country.
Because people are basically pushing back against teaching racism.
And Obama's like, oh, but they should, you know, the Republicans should really be worried about the things that matter like climate change.
It's like, give me a break, dude.
Like, come on, man.
To quote Joe Biden, come on, man.
So I don't think it's wishful thinking.
I think that because Biden is in charge, And Trump is largely out of the equation, although he's
starting this touring gig with Bill O'Reilly.
And as I've said before, you know, I think he's going to act as sort of the bodyguard
if DeSantis does decide to run in 2024.
But with him sort of sidelined a little bit, at least, I think this idea that the Democrats
are just becoming what they are.
And that's good for people to see.
And it's up for you to choose.
Do you want your children to grow up in a completely racist, backward, self-hating world?
Or do you want them to grow up in the America that most of us have come to love?
And I think I'm gonna choose the latter.
Mia says, did you always want kids or has it just become more important to you as you got older?
You know I talked a little bit about this in Don't Burn This Book.
I never really wanted kids and I never, well I never really thought about it because also like when I was sort of coming of age and in my early 20s and everything else I was actually still really struggling with my sexuality and and just so I never I sort of just lived day-to-day and it was sort of like It was way before gay marriage where I could never even see a horizon where I could live in a normal relationship or have a normal family situation or be a father or any of that.
It was so crazy.
I guess that makes it sound like I'm from the 20s.
Yeah, we couldn't do all those things.
But that's how quickly things change.
And by the way, that's the best argument for equality, not equity.
The best argument for equality, of course, is that two adults should be able to make whatever decisions they want, just like any two other adults should be allowed to make.
But I never thought about it that way.
And as I've mentioned before, David's a little younger than me.
We've been together about 10 years now.
He grew up in a time where he was like, oh, I'm gay.
Nobody really cared.
It was okay.
He knew he was going to be married.
He knew he was going to have kids.
And then I was on tour with Jordan Peterson, and Jordan would often talk about how, for most people, he would always say there are some exceptions, but for most people, the process of Becoming a parent and then becoming a grandparent is just such a unique piece of the human experience that to live a fully actualized life, you have to do that.
And I would hear him say this every night over the course of basically a year and a half, hundreds of times, some version of that.
And I'd see people in the audience talking about it.
I'd talk to people after the show, and there were young parents there, and I'd meet grandparents.
And it was like, well, am I somehow the exception to the rule?
Am I?
And I started thinking that I wasn't, and then I knew that I was with someone who wants kids, and now I'm looking forward to being a father.
And as I mentioned on the show last week, our surrogate did actually just have a second miscarriage, which obviously sucks, and we're gonna keep going, and it's gonna take some time, and I'll be 45 in about two weeks, so I'm not gonna be the youngest dad at the soccer field, but hopefully the old bones will hold up so I can still play catch with this kid.
These kids, if it all turns out well.
Kevin says, with the upcoming book and the virus on the wane, will there finally be a tour?
Yes, hallelujah!
So I just had my book editor here, as I mentioned on the show yesterday.
We're putting the final touches on the second book, and we'll have an announcement in July for the presale, and we're gonna do all sorts of giveaways for the locals, community, and signings, and all sorts of cool stuff.
And I'm really psyched about the book, because it really is the next version of, that was my defense of liberalism.
The liberals have failed liberalism.
What do we do now?
I think there's some new ideas in there.
I'm really proud of it.
I limited the Star Wars references.
I think it's the right blend of info and humor and all that good stuff.
One of the things I really missed about Don't Burn This Book was that I was supposed to be on a tour.
I had like a 50 city tour that was gonna be, you know, basically all of May into June.
And then we were working on a European tour and we were working on an Australian tour
and I was gonna just go to wherever.
I was literally gonna go wherever.
That's what I said to the guys.
If someone wants me somewhere, I will show up and talk about this book.
That's what I wanna do.
And that year and a half with Jordan was just so freaking spectacular.
So I cannot wait to get back out there and tour the book and, you know, do Q and A's
and fiddle around with you guys and have fun So yes, there absolutely will be.
Though I will say this, because the book isn't coming out till April of 2022, I'm definitely going to start doing some road stuff starting in the fall again.
I miss it.
We're also looking into maybe doing a monthly thing here in Los Angeles.
We found a venue that we kind of like, like a dinner and show kind of thing.
So stay tuned on all that.
Elijah says, what's your favorite Biden gaffe?
Well, you know, I'll go early Biden, like before Biden was president.
You may remember first term Obama presidency, Joe Biden as the VP was on Meet the Press
and he basically just blurted out that Barack Obama was for gay marriage,
even though at the time, Barack Obama was not for gay marriage,
at least via a political calculation was not for gay marriage.
And then what happened was over the next two, three weeks, Obama basically had to admit,
or finally the pressure became too great to bear, but Obama came out for gay marriage.
So a Biden gaffe, 'cause he clearly was not supposed to say that.
I remember the press around it the next couple of days and the White House press secretary and everything else.
He was not supposed to say that Obama had a private feeling that was against his public feeling.
And that also shows you that these people are all sort of panderers.
And as I always say, the progressives of 2040, they're gonna burn down the Obama library because he wasn't for gay marriage.
And if we're to believe that gay rights are as important as civil rights and minority rights and all of those things, well then, the way we would look back and think that Thomas Jefferson must be a racist, Barack Obama must be a homophobe.
So congrats, Joe, on that one.
Tom says, what's your guess on the month and year that Biden leaves office?
Ooh, you're really getting me on this one.
You know, I predicted.
at the beginning of this thing that he would not make it to the end, that they will put him out to pasture before.
I still stand by that, but I think they're gonna push it as far as they can, because think about it,
the mainstream corporate press is not showing any of the gaffes.
So the gaffes that we show here, the puttering around and the mumbling and the confusion,
and I don't know where I am and what country is this and all these things, you don't see that on CNN, right?
You don't see it on MSNBC.
So they feel that they can hide reality from a certain set of people.
And I think what they're gonna really try to do is you wanna get Biden to as close to the end of the term as possible because if I'm not mistaken, if then Kamala Harris took over, you could get eight years out of her.
So she could finish the term and then you max her out at eight years.
So you want Biden to go as far as he can.
You keep this thing going.
We pretend that Biden's in charge basically for four years.
Then she jumps in in the last couple of months and then they would want her for eight years.
Who they are, I'm not sure.
Obama machine?
I don't know.
I don't know exactly what it is, but they're gonna try.
The real question, I guess, is does he just break down before then?
Does it just become so obvious that even the propagandists at CNN and MSNBC actually have to cover that something ain't right with this guy?
You know, again, if you're the Prime Minister of, or President of China, or you're Putin, or anyone that is, you know, considered a rival of America right now, you're just licking your chops, because you're like, that guy, that guy just ain't in charge and this is not a serious or strong country to lead the world.
Brad says, recently Congresswoman Laura Boebert Brought a cardboard cutout of Kamala Harris to the US-Mexico border.
Why do you think the real life, not the cardboard cutout, Harris is avoiding going there?
It's really interesting because it's like every interview she goes into now, which she doesn't do that many interviews, but she did do some while she was on this South American trip.
She was down there in Guatemala, which we talked about.
In all these media appearances, they are asking her, well, why aren't you going to the border?
I have been to the border.
No, you haven't.
Oh, I haven't, but I haven't been to Europe.
She's just an extraordinary bullshit artist.
Why is she not going there?
It's a good question.
Why wouldn't they just send her there to shut everybody up?
Why wouldn't they just send her there to be like, well, she did go there.
That would shut half of you people up.
It wouldn't matter if she did anything there or saw anybody, but that would seemingly quiet a whole bunch of you guys, you crazy right-wingers.
So I don't know.
Are they trying to just throw it in our faces?
I think it's partly that, but it's partly that our media here doesn't hold them to account.
Whatever is going on at the border right now, which does seem, from everything I can see, to be far worse of a disaster than anything under Trump, because even the, there's videos, I mean, you could see these videos, I'm not making it up, guys, of immigrants coming across, not immigrants, you can see these videos of, in effect, mass groups of people that we don't know where they're from or what they're doing.
You can see them coming across the border, and then when they get on video, some of them are like, well, Biden's welcoming us.
Trump was mean, Biden's welcoming us.
So do they want the border crisis?
Like, do I want to go through that?
If you take this thing to the end, do the Democrats want it so that they can just open up the borders and just assume that all of these people are going to vote for them because they're going to give UBI to everybody and voting rights to everybody and then they just have this like permanent class of voters?
You know, you just give them next to nothing and they think it's something so they vote for you forever, sort of like what the Democrats have done with black people for a long time?
I mean, is that a conspiracy theory?
I don't know.
I mean, this is the age-old question with these people.
to respond back to the libs and progressives who think Newsom did a wonderful job.
I want to find some way to reach them.
Why won't they wake up?
I mean, this is the age old question with these people.
It's like, have you not woken up at this time?
If your city is burning down, if your governor and your mayor kept you in lockdown
while they ate at French Laundry and went to visit family members
or flew to Mexico for vacation.
And all of the things that we now know are happening in blue cities
that are not happening in red cities.
I mean, I was just in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago for a speaking gig with Heritage, and the event was fantastic, actually, but Austin Which is like the blue, blue, blue center of Texas.
There's homelessness everywhere now.
There's just like sort of crazy people wandering the streets.
There's homeless tents.
It sort of reminded me of home up here in Los Angeles, actually.
It was quite nice.
That's exactly what my friend said to me.
We were driving and I was like, look at all this homelessness.
I can't believe it's all here.
Oh, doesn't it remind you of home?
Yeah, there you go.
That's a problem and it's not happening.
Like, why isn't that happening in Dallas?
Why isn't that happening in Salt Lake City?
Why isn't that happening in Carmel-by-the-Sea?
You know, Republican-run places.
So why won't they wake up?
This is partly a branding thing.
I think these people are so, they fear the bad policies, they fear the violence, they fear all that stuff, but what they really fear, what my liberal friends really fear more than anything else is being called a conservative.
Clyde was really into that.
Did you hear the rattling there?
You like that one, Clyde?
What they really fear is being called a conservative.
They fear that they will be thought of as the evil people.
They have said these people are such evil for so long that they know if they start coming, I'm against Gavin Newsom.
He caused lockdowns, destroyed the economy, did it all for no scientific reason, right?
There's no evidence.
Please, somebody prove me wrong.
Show me the side-by-side evidence that lockdowns worked and keeping things open didn't work.
There's no evidence of it.
We don't even have evidence at this point that masks work.
Again, if you wanna wear a mask, wear a mask.
You wanna get vaccinated, get vaccinated.
These people are just, you know, it's like if you go so in on a lie,
at some point the lie almost overtakes you because you can't get out.
You can't get out.
You've gone in so deep.
You've done things to get there that it would make you look in the mirror, and a lot of people don't want to do that.
But that doesn't mean it ain't worth the effort.
Amy says, should we begin to consider homeschooling children as a more mainstream approach to educating them?
Yes, absolutely, for sure.
You sort of must.
I promise you I will not be sending my children to public schools.
That is a damn shame.
I went to public schools.
David went to public schools.
I think that most of the people that go into teaching go into it for a good reason, and
then unfortunately they get sort of mugged by progressive orthodoxy.
They get mugged by the teachers' unions.
They get mugged by the fact that, unfortunately, a lot of liberals don't know what they believe.
It's a whole bunch of stuff.
But I can't see sending children to public school.
And that's a sucky situation, because not everyone has the time or the ability to homeschool.
I think one of the cool things that's happening right now, there's this big push to fund students, So in essence, the government would give you
X amount of dollars, you could send your children to a public school or you could homeschool them.
But I think there's so many things on the horizon that are gonna come related to schooling.
Like I think there's just gonna be local pods where you'll get 10 or 15 kids,
or maybe 40 kids together every day and they'll maybe do it in different people's houses
or whatever.
And yes, it will change the way we all socialized as young people, like all of those things will change.
But I just think if you think outside of the box, there's so many options there.
And always remember, who doesn't want school choice?
Who is 100% against school choice?
Well, it's Gavin Newsom, it's Elizabeth Warren, who sent her own children, you know, she's worth millions and millions of dollars, sent her own children to private schools, but she doesn't want your children going to private schools, she doesn't want your It was her stepchildren, is that right?
She sent her stepchildren, thank you for that, to private schools, but she doesn't want your children going to charter schools.
And the reason that they want all of your children in their crappy public schools is because that is the best place to brainwash them.
It is simple as that.
Bernie is not saying, I want free college for everybody so everybody can learn libertarian economics.
No, he's sending them there because if you ever wanted to brainwash a generation into believing that the state is God, then do it at one of Bernie's free universities.
Serona says, what are some of your favorite outdoor activities to do?
Well, I love playing basketball more than anything, probably.
That's number one, absolutely.
I just love shooting hoops, playing horse.
I've got this torn ACL on my knee, so I can't really play in full games anymore.
I'm thinking about getting the surgery, but it's a pretty brutal surgery.
Couple weeks just laid up in bed, and then months of recovery,
but I'm trying to decide what to do on that.
I really love gardening.
I picked up gardening during the lockdowns, and we have a pretty cool rooftop garden.
It's just a bunch of planters that we built ourselves.
And we got peppers, and we got tomatoes, and we got squash up there now,
and we got tons of strawberries.
We got a couple orange trees.
We're just doing stuff, and I just love it, and I love eating the food.
I love pruning the plants and all of that good stuff.
So I would say basketball, the gardening, and I actually just like taking walks.
Clyde's right here today.
Clyde, do you want to get up on the table today?
He's not doing anything right now.
I like just walking the dog.
I really do like just walking the dog.
Says, what are your thoughts on Caitlyn Jenner for governor?
You know, look, we tried to reach out.
They haven't got back to us.
Someone from the campaign did privately reach out to me saying that maybe we would get together at some point and see what's what.
She's welcome to do the show, I suppose.
I'm just not, honestly, I'm just not sure if this thing is real or not.
Again, everybody in California, all, however many, how many people we got in Cali?
This must be like, is it like 70 million people?
How many people we got in Cali?
Let's get a number on that.
However many there are, I'll have a number in one second.
However many there are, every single one of them would be better than Gavin Newsom.
I would vote for the crazy, lunatic, meth-addicted whack job wandering around Venice Beach right now before I would vote for Gavin Newsom.
39.5 million people in 2019 in California.
We did lose.
some people in California for the first time ever in 2020.
California had a net population loss because of Gavin Newsom.
Rhiannon says, "What's your favorite city "or national park in America?"
Well, as for city, I mean, well, I would say DC in its best sense,
not in the DC of the last two years, but DC with the history of America and the monuments,
like, I love that stuff.
I've talked about it before.
I love going to the Washington Monument.
I love walking the mall.
One of the highlights of my career, I guess, of my life was speaking at the Reason Rally
in like 2014 or so.
I spoke at the mall, like in front of the giant reflecting pool, like Forrest Gump style.
It was pretty incredible.
I love the Jefferson Memorial, which is a little off the beaten path over there, and the JFK Memorial, and just all, I'm sorry, not the JFK Memorial, the MLK.
Like, there's just so much stuff there in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Like, there's just so much history, and you just feel this incredible thing, and that's why it's so disappointing now, what's happening in D.C.
And to that end, you know, I'd say New York.
I lived in New York most of my formative years, you know?
Sinatra, like, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
And I lived in those years when I had nothing, and when I was a struggling comic, and I literally was, like, taking change out of my roommate's, you know, A cup of chock-full-of-nuts coffee to buy a cup of coffee, and sleeping on cots, and all those struggle years, which I now sort of look back on as the good old days, like they were the good old days.
Wandering in New York City, and just growing up in New York City, that place with that incredible energy, and it was like everyone was there to do something, and build something, and make something of themselves, and that spirit has just been extinguished.
That's just very disappointing, which is a perfect segue to Margo.
So if you're ever in New York City area, can you arrange a meetup?
This site has kept me sane the past year and I would love to meet you and thank you in person
now that we can.
Well, thank you for that.
As for a New York City meetup, honestly, the truth is I don't know
that I would do a New York City meetup.
Like, I don't think it's that safe.
Like, when I do meetups, you know, we do them for subscribers only at locals.
That's not a perfect system because obviously people could pay, I suppose, to figure out where I am or any of that kind of stuff.
I don't even like thinking about it.
But New York City, it just doesn't seem like that safe to do that sort of thing.
so I like doing them more so in red cities.
However, suffice to say, I like meeting people.
I really do.
I actually love meeting you guys, so maybe we can figure out a little something.
Anyway, I am off.
Well, truth be told, I'm taping this the day before it's airing right now.
You guys are watching this thinking it's live.
I'm actually taping this on Monday because I'm on a plane right now going to Florida.
So I'm in Miami the next couple days.
We're moving locals down there, meeting investors.
It's just blowing up as a city.
I'm gonna be talking to the mayor and a whole bunch of other stuff.
So we may do a meetup either Wednesday night, tomorrow night, Or on Friday, we're trying to figure that out.
And for more info, you can join us at rubenreport.locals.com.
Part one of my interview with James Lindsay.
So when they tell ya this is the new meme out there from the left.
Conservatives don't know what critical race theory is.
They talk about it all the time, but they don't know what it is.
I tell you what it is all the time.
Plenty of other people do as well.
James Lindsay has been one of the guys talking about this for years, distilling it to its disturbing racist roots.
and what it is and why it has become so sort of ubiquitous and leaked into everything in society.
I've had James on the show over the years on panels, but this is the first one-on-one we've ever done.
Part one is up on the YouTube and the full episode is up early and ad-free at rubenreport.locals.com.
And I hope to see some of you guys in the Miami area.
And that's it.
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