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July 30, 2021 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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unidentified		Alright people, this is it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		This is my last livestream before officially going off the grid for all of August.
		It is true that tomorrow is technically the last day of July.
		Tomorrow is July 31st, but it is a Saturday, so I'm getting a bonus day tonight.
		At midnight, that will be it.
		I'm wrapping up a couple things today.
		Obviously some live streams.
		I'm doing some stuff on OAN later, on Fox, on Newsmax, couple other media hits.
		It's a big day.
		And then I disappear.
		Off the grid.
		No phone.
		No TV, no news, no current events, no Twitter trolls, no bots, no nothing.
		In many ways this is the very moment right now that I sort of planned for the entire year.
		We bust our butts, obviously not only here at the Rubin Report, but everything we're doing with Locals.com.
		We work real hard throughout the year to do this.
		And it's, by the way, not just me going fully off the grid.
		Obviously, David's coming off the grid with me, but my team gets to relax and unwind.
		We've got some projects that everybody's going to be doing, but I try to do this so that all the people that I work with and who work for me are able to relax, to enjoy life, to enjoy the summer.
		to get a little mental space a little a little uh physical restoration um so i'm incredibly excited you know this is obviously a very weird year to be doing it because the news of the last few days and now with impending seemingly impending lockdowns coming and so much more it's like who the hell knows What's going to happen by the time I get back in September, but I want to make a couple announcements.
		We are going to do a two hour live stream today.
		We're not doing any news.
		We're going to do some Q and A. I want to talk to you about my new book, which really is, that's the real thing of the day.
		And some locals announcements that I've been teasing, but something absolutely insane happened last night.
		I suspect most of you know about it already, but I got into the news accidentally because I told the truth and you know, The thing is, if you tell the truth in a time of lies, the powers that be don't like that very much.
		So last night, I was on Hannity, although Judge Janine was guest hosting for Sean.
		I was on it about halfway through the show, and we were actually talking about the southern border and what's going on down there.
		And I said something to the effect of, you know, well, basically, because we have a democratic administration, It's like what was bad under Trump is now good under them.
		But the bigger issue is that the media just won't cover it, right?
		Because we see now, if you're online, you're seeing it, all of these people just wandering through our Southern border.
		Some of them have masks, some of them don't.
		They're not even all from Mexico, which it's obviously our Mexican-American border.
		Many of them are from Haiti and all sorts of other countries.
		They're not social distancing.
		It turns out that lots of them actually do have COVID.
		There was another report yesterday that about 50,000 people have all been sent into the country.
		They're going all over the place, and they're supposed to report back to ICE.
		But guys, you're not going to believe this.
		They're not doing it.
		Only about 12% or so are actually reporting back to ICE.
		So anyway, I was saying that, you know, in effect, because we have a Democratic administration with a mainstream media that's all lefties and Democrats, liberals, whatever you want to say, fueled by big tech, that we just can't get anything true.
		True information cannot get out there.
		Well, that's in effect what I said when I was on air with Judge Jeanine, and then when we got off air, Connor, my director here, handed me my phone, and I looked down and I was locked out of Twitter.
		So, the adventure began.
		So why was I locked out of Twitter?
		Why don't we pull up the first image here.
		Twitter, here's the, yeah, okay, so we're gonna do it that way.
		So here's the message that I got from Twitter is what you're seeing on the left.
		We've temporarily limited some of your account features.
		What happened?
		We've determined that this account violated the Twitter rules specifically for, and here's the key part, violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.
		Okay.
		So come back to me real quick.
		So before I read you the tweet, obviously what I was talking about on Judge Jean wasn't specifically related to COVID.
		It was ancillarily related to COVID, right?
		Because we're letting all of these people in.
		They don't have masks, no social distancing.
		We're told that there's a pandemic and we're sending them throughout the country.
		So maybe that's spreading a little bit of COVID.
		And I'm not a scientician.
		I'm just a regular guy.
		I don't know.
		But then they linked me to the tweet that I had sent out earlier in the day and I'm going to read the tweet for you and you tell me if I'm spreading misinformation with this tweet.
		They want a federal vaccine mandate for vaccines which are clearly not working as promised just weeks ago.
		People are getting and transmitting COVID despite the vaccination.
	Plus now they're prepping us for booster shots.
	A sane society would take a pause.
	We do not live in a sane society.
	When I saw that message, then you have two options.
	Twitter gives you two options.
	One option is you can just delete the tweet and then you're in a Twitter timeout for 12 hours.
	And they actually give you a countdown clock like you're about to launch a nuclear weapon.
	You can do that or they say you can fight it.
	You can submit another form to fight it but they don't give you a timeframe
	on when that might happen.
	Now, because I knew that today was obviously a huge day for us because I'm debuting my new book
	which we're gonna get to in just a moment.
	And because it's my off-the-grid livestream, I didn't want to risk just being in Twitter purgatory, because these companies have extraordinary power over us, our ability to communicate with each other.
	So I clicked the delete tweet, but I was not happy about it, because what I said in that tweet was absolutely true.
	So how do I know it's true?
	Or how do I know it's acceptable narrative, at the very least, right?
	I'll put aside true for a moment.
	Well, I went back in.
	I went back into the internet, and I got headlines from USA Today, and from CNN, and from Washington Post, all saying the exact same things that I said in that tweet yesterday.
	So first, what I said was, they want a federal vaccine mandate for vaccines which are clearly not working, as promised a few weeks ago.
	USA Today!
	Yesterday!
	An American tragedy.
	Biden offers incentives, mandates to get 90 million holdouts to vaccine.
	And there is video yesterday of Biden talking about whether the Justice Department is gonna have to look into whether you could do a federal mask mandate.
	So federal vaccine mandate.
	Okay, so number one, my first point, absolutely true.
	The second point was that vaccines are not working as promised just a few weeks ago.
	Washington Post, yesterday, Walter A. Orenstein, Associate Director of the Emory Vaccine Center, said he was struck by data showing that vaccinated people who became infected with Delta shed just as much virus as those who were not vaccinated.
	So the vaccine not working as promised.
	That's all I said.
	Here we've got a scientician saying it in the Washington Post.
	And then finally I said they're prepping us for booster shots.
	Now we know this.
	Everyone's talking about this now.
	That in a, you know, a few months after you get your second jab, they're gonna want you to get another jab.
	And people are even talking about would they want us to get monthly jabs or what else is gonna happen?
	Well, CNN!
	Pfizer data suggests third dose of COVID-19 vaccine strongly boosts protection against the Delta variant.
	Yes, so they want you to get booster shots.
	Not only was everything that I said in that tweet true, but the end of what I said, can we pull up my original tweet again for just a sec?
	The end of what I said was, a sane society would take a pause.
	We do not live in a sane society.
	The reason I wrote it that way was I am trying to de-escalate the madness.
	I think you guys see what I do on this show, what I've actually basically at this point devoted my entire life to, is de-escalating the madness, trying to clarify some of the confusion, trying to sift through the lies, etc, etc.
	That is what I am trying to do here.
	I'm not trying to do much more than that.
	If I could get that done, that would be pretty good.
	I think that would be retirement worthy, right?
	So the idea that I was spreading misinformation, if I'm spreading misinformation, well then you gotta ban CNN, you gotta ban Washington Post, and you gotta ban USA Today.
	I'm not really against those things, but that's what you would have to do.
	Now, a beautiful thing happened when I got that email saying that I was suspended.
	I created a tech company.
	Did you guys know about that?
	I created this tech company called Locals.com and we have several hundred thousand people in the Rubin Report community that are not all paying members.
	You obviously have to pay a couple bucks if you want to interact with all of our content.
	We have many thousands of people that are doing that.
	But I was able to then live stream directly from my phone.
	I was able to send push notifications to people.
	I was able to live chat with people.
	And that's what I've been talking about this entire time, that we need off ramps.
	They could take any of us out.
	You watching this on YouTube right now, they could take down my account, they could take down your account.
	You tweeting about this, they can take you out.
	They can shadow ban you, they can silence you, etc, etc.
	So in many ways, what happened last night leading into today, which is my big day of the year, is exactly sort of my life just kind of lining up in a sort of perfectly sweet and oddly perverse way, I would say.
	So I was able to communicate with all of my people, which was really just great, or anyone that joins us at Locals, obviously.
	Then I want to give a special shout-out, actually, to some of the people.
	I started texting people that are still on Twitter and saying, guys, can you amplify this?
	I've been suspended.
	So I want to give a shout-out to Jack Posobiec, who is huge, and Kyle Kashuv, and Bridget Phetasy, and Ron Coleman.
	And a bunch of the people at Post Millennial, and Melissa Chen, and a whole bunch of people that you know from this show that did actually promote what was happening to me, that risked themselves putting screenshots out there.
	Because it is a risk to themselves, and I appreciate people that stick their neck out for other people.
	I do it for other people all the time, and it's nice to see when it's reciprocated.
	Anyway, I went to bed.
	I was banned from Twitter, and I thought, boy, this is sort of ironic.
	I'm about to go off the grid for a month, and I'm getting banned from Twitter the day before, suspended from Twitter the day before.
	Like, this is kind of fitting.
	And by the way, it also felt sort of, like, pleasant.
	I was like, well, Twitter's horrible.
	I talk about how horrible it is all the time.
	Like, maybe the good Lord is sending me a sign, you know?
	Like, maybe something's going on here.
	Then, about an hour ago, you're not going to believe this, guys.
	So I was reinstated this morning.
	The 12 hours expired.
	The countdown hit zero.
	No bombs went off.
	And then, you're not going to believe it.
	Pull up the image.
	I got this email from the Twitter people, and I'll read it for you.
	Hello!
	We have restored your account, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
	Twitter takes reports of violations of the Twitter rules very seriously.
	After reviewing your account, it looks like we made an error.
	Thanks, Twitter support.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Let me get that other piece of paper here.
	Before, can we put up the original thing that they said that I did?
	That was misinformation.
	I could have been killing people.
	But then, can we get the apology again?
	Well, gosh darn it, it looks like they made an error.
	And not only did they make an error, but I've got the receipts to prove it.
	CNN, Washington Post, USA Today.
	I'm gonna go off the grid with the terrible paper cut.
	That's what's gonna happen here today.
	Anyway.
	This is exactly why I created Locals, and this is just a special shout-out to those of you that support me there.
	This is just the beginning.
	I'm going to make some announcements about Locals in just a second.
	But, putting all of that aside, because that is not why I intended on doing this big livestream today, and it was just like a little wrinkle in time that occurred right before our big day here.
	The main reason I'm doing this big livestream today is that, because I'm going off the grid today, we planned and plotted And arranged everything that my new book could be announced for pre-sale today.
	So my new book, are we gonna show it?
	I'm gonna, there we go, there's an image.
	My new book, Don't Burn This Country, is available for pre-sale now.
	Yesterday we were on Locals, we had a couple people guessing what the title might be.
	We said Don't Burn, then people had to guess.
	People thought this Constitution.
	You know, some other stuff, this YouTuber, et cetera, et cetera.
	But my new book, Don't Burn This Country, Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia, is up for pre-sale today.
	So what I'm doing today, the book will be out on April 12th, 2022.
	The publishing world is just sort of a slow slog.
	We still have a little bit of editing we're gonna do.
	I actually am gonna change the intro to the book to talk about what happened on Twitter because it's a perfect example of exactly what this book is about.
	But what we are doing today is I want to sign book plates for every single copy bought today.
	If I have to go off the grid with a crippled hand, if my hand at the end of the day,
	I got like the claw hand, I will be happy to do it.
	If we sell 10,000 copies today, I will spend the rest of my day going through my Sharpies
	and signing book plates.
	So you can buy the book right now for pre-sale at DontBurnThisCountry.com.
	That's gonna direct you to the Penguin site where you can pick which retailer.
	So you can do Amazon, obviously, Barnes and Noble, et cetera, et cetera.
	And then we've got a little form, which is in this YouTube description right now.
	And all you gotta do is fill that out, show us that you bought the book,
	and I will sign the book plate for you today.
	And our Locals members, as you guys know, because I did a live stream exclusive
	to you guys this morning, Locals members are getting signed and numbered copies.
	So anyone that joins Locals today, I will also, I can do a signed and numbered copy.
	So this is the book plate.
	These are numbered down here.
	But if you don't want to join us on Locals, you're a loss.
	However, don't burn this country.
	You can go to DontBurnThisBook.com too.
	I think there's something going on over there.
	Buy that one, it's pretty good.
	But DontBurnThisCountry.com, buy the book.
	And then I wanna sign as many as I can today.
	And I'm incredibly excited to be sharing this book with you guys.
	And as I said, I'll make a few little changes.
	I don't wanna change something at the top right now just because of what happened here.
	But it really is the next step.
	In some ways I now see "Don't Burn This" thing as a trilogy, right?
	So we had "Don't Burn This Book,"
	"Don't Burn This Country,"
	what could be the next one?
	But I really am seeing it as a trilogy now because in "Don't Burn This Book,"
	what I did was lay out what my beliefs are.
	I believe, and I still believe this to this day, that my classically liberal principles,
	the idea of individual rights and logic and reason and limited government and laissez-faire economics,
	what are thought of really as modern conservative principles,
	because I also talk about why belief is important as an under guard for all of those things.
	That is the right lens to look at a free society through and to build a free society.
	This book is about the things that you can do to make sure, as the subtitle says, that you can not only survive, but thrive.
	I want people to survive and thrive.
	Not just survive these lockdowns and mask mandates and getting jabbed and being lied to all the time.
	I want you to thrive in it, because I've managed to thrive.
	Thankfully, but it's not by accident.
	Maybe it's with a little bit of luck, but it's because I navigated this thing properly.
	I made the right business decisions.
	I took risks.
	And that really is what this book is about.
	Being less reliant on the system, being less reliant on big tech, on big government,
	on big pharma, all of those things.
	That really is what this is all about.
	And speaking of being less reliant on big tech, I...
	I've also been teasing that we have a couple big announcements related to locals.
	So all of you guys know this.
	I started Locals about two years ago because it was very obvious that big tech was coming for all of us.
	What happened to me yesterday on Twitter, the only reason they're sending me that email and retracting it is because I am popular enough, I have enough of a voice in essence to make a headache for them.
	Otherwise, if I was just a random person, I'm sure my account just would have been blown up, period.
	They wouldn't have even done the 12-hour suspension.
	They would have just blown it up.
	We know that if you talk about certain things on YouTube, they can just blow up your channel immediately.
	We had to censor part of our interview with President Trump.
	I put the full thing up over at Locals.com.
	So we all know that there are these huge problems, and the problems are just getting worse because mainstream and corporate media and big tech, we know they're colluding with each other, right?
	We know Saki's own words, not mine.
	The administration is flagging posts for Facebook, violation of the First Amendment, and I hope they get sued into oblivion.
	Saki also said that if you get banned on one thing, you should be banned on also had Twitter Banned me yesterday instead of done this temporary suspension should I have been banned on YouTube and Facebook and everywhere else so it was obvious it was just obvious to me that I had to build something for myself and it's been a lot of work we've built absolutely everything ourselves we own everything we wrote the code it's all ours we are working on all sorts of stuff related to decentralized storage and payments and all of the issues that you guys know about and no we have not solved everything but we have solved a lot of them and we are working on all of the other stuff I promise you so
	That all being said, I am thrilled to finally be able to announce to you guys a couple things right now.
	So number one, and this is the most important one, you guys all know about Rumble at this point.
	So Rumble is really the only YouTube competitor at this point, okay?
	This is where a lot of people are now posting their videos so that they aren't under the thumb of YouTube censorship.
	Well, we've been talking to Rumble for a long time.
	I really love the team over there.
	Chris, who's running the thing, is just absolutely spectacular.
	Fully gets it at an idea level and a technology level.
	And we've been working with him and the team there for quite some time on putting a partnership together.
	And I am thrilled.
	I'm truly thrilled to announce that Locals will be the official subscription partner of Rumble.
	So Rumble, which is where you put all your videos and it's got great search and they're not manipulating stuff and it is much more in line with my free speech values and I'm sure your free speech values as well.
	Every single Rumble creator will have a button so that they can create a Locals community so we are the subscription partner.
	So the goal, I'm telling you right now, we are coming for you Big Tech.
	The goal is Rumble will replace YouTube.
	The goal is Locals will replace Patreon, and this is just the beginning.
	Rumble also has the infrastructure to allow Locals to scale in the way that we want to scale, right?
	Because you want to scale.
	You want to just keep growing and growing and growing and growing.
	And we've done a great job on our own, but we're gonna tie those knots a little bit more, and it's gonna be a beautiful thing.
	I have no doubt about it.
	And just a couple other things on the Locals front.
	We have TV apps coming soon.
	Apple TV, Roku TV, we're in beta testing.
	My locals community, right now we have several members in there that are helping us beta test it.
	But TV apps coming soon, again, to make us less reliant on just, oh, if we get kicked off YouTube we're in a lot of trouble.
	Now we can be on these TV apps as well.
	There could be more related to that.
	Stay tuned, perhaps live streaming on those things.
	My God, is that doable?
	Holy cow!
	Also, Charlie Kirk.
	You guys know Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA.
	He launched his Locals community this morning and just in the last half hour or so, I've been given clearance on this one.
	Candace Owens, who has changed the world.
	Probably, like if you look at the top 10 people from an American perspective who've changed the world in the last five years, Candace is in that group somewhere.
	Candace Owens is now launching her Locals community.
	I believe it will be up today, maybe up in the next couple days.
	They were just working on some technical stuff.
	But we are growing, we are growing fast.
	We're gonna announce some other acquisitions.
	Just a lot of cool stuff and I just thank you guys for helping me, helping me just be on this road to do this thing.
	We've got the right investors right now, we've got the right Team, we built the team ourselves.
	It's awesome.
	As you know, we moved the company down to Miami.
	So lots of good things happening.
	Oh, and I am told, not bad guys.
	Don't burn this country is now number two in Amazon's movers and shakers category.
	Can we get this thing to number one while I'm doing a live stream?
	The book isn't even out till April.
	Let's show the powers that be.
	What is what?
	Okay, let's get this thing to number one in movers and shakers.
	We're already at number two, that's awesome.
	The book's not even out for six months.
	Everybody else is selling books that are out.
	We pre-sell books that are out here, okay?
	All right, so I'm gonna do a bunch of Q&A right now, taking questions from rubinreport.locals.com, so you can jump in right now.
	You can download our iOS app, you can download our Android app at the Google Play Store, or you can just go on desktop, rubinreport.locals.com.
	I will answer all your questions.
	Happy to talk about the book.
	Happy to talk about locals.
	Happy to talk about the Twitter nonsense.
	Happy to talk about going off the grid.
	Happy to talk about the form on shooting a nice three.
	Whatever you wanna talk about.
	That's what we're gonna talk about.
	So here we go, guys.
	Bradford says, I'm guessing that Liberty's Crown is what's burning on the cover of the book.
	How did you come up with that cover?
	So yes, that is true.
	Can we, why don't we throw up the image right there?
	That is Liberty's Crown.
	We had a couple, Different versions of this that we were going for.
	The funny thing about the book is that I actually originally wanted Don't Burn This Country.
	Like, when I fully agreed with Penguin that I was going to do another book, immediately I was like, well, it was Don't Burn This Country.
	And then for a second, and it was more of a joke, I was like, well, why don't we call it Don't Burn The Store that this book is in?
	Because obviously the targets were burning and everything else.
	They kind of liked that, but it was obviously a little wordy.
	So then the next version was, all right, don't burn this book, now don't burn this country.
	And as I said, if this is the middle one, if this is the Empire Strikes Back of the trilogy, I think you can probably figure out perhaps what the final one will most likely be called.
	But then, you know, when you're working with a big publishing house and the people at Penguin have been great to us, and a special shout out to my editor, Helen, who, as I said on the Locals livestream this morning, probably knows me better than I know myself at some level and has really been instrumental, I can't overstate,
	in helping me piece this together and getting the ideas right and understanding,
	understanding my voice even at times when I'm writing something and I'm not even totally,
	totally sure where it's going.
	She can always kind of bump me in the right direction.
	But there's a big team there and you go back and forth, you go back and forth about title,
	you go back and forth about what the flames are gonna look like.
	And we had one version without the Statue of Liberty.
	We had one version where it was the Statue of Liberty's torch and the flame was coming out of that.
	We had other versions all together.
	You know, I really wanted the word dystopian or dystopia in the subtitle.
	So it's surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia.
	I really like the word thriving too because it's not just that I want you guys to survive.
	I don't want you to just get by right now.
	Too many people are just getting by.
	You just wake up and it's another day and you didn't do anything yesterday and you're not gonna do anything tomorrow.
	You didn't take any of that power back to yourself.
	You didn't go for that purpose, see that star in the distance.
	And somehow I've done it kinda right.
	That's all I would say on that.
	Kinda right.
	So those are the tools I wanted to give you.
	I want you to thrive in this freaking thing.
	But I wanted the word dystopia or dystopian in there because that's what it feels like.
	What would a dystopian future feel like?
	A dystopian future would feel like tech companies that can control what you say and when you say it and who you say it to.
	An administration that lies about absolutely everything.
	The destruction of language.
	Right?
	The erasure of history.
	We remove Aunt Jemima.
	We get rid of TV shows.
	All of these things are exactly what dystopian future is all about.
	Read any Philip K. Dick movie, book, or watch any Philip K. Dick movie.
	So that was, that really was the idea behind this.
	And then we had a couple other versions where it was gonna be a little more of a dystopian landscape and we were gonna do a little sort of synth wave kind of, you know, the future that never quite arrived kind of thing.
	But I just love this.
	I really, I really, really just love it.
	There it is.
	And as I said, guys, it is up for pre-sale.
	A little radio reset for ya.
	I was a radio guy back in the day on the Sirius XM.
	Go to Don'tBurnThisCountry.com.
	You can order from your favorite retailer, whether it's Amazon or Barnes & Noble, whatever it might be.
	And then we've got a link right down there.
	I want to sign book plates for you today.
	We've got them right here.
	Look at this.
	I'm signing.
	While I'm live, someone's gonna get that.
	And if you are a member of Locals, you're getting the numbered ones.
	Everyone else is getting the non-numbered.
	But still good.
unidentified		Still pretty, pretty, pretty good.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, quick shout-out to Rubin Report community member Craig H. It's your 58th birthday.
		Happy birthday, brother.
		Appreciate the support.
		Says, when does the book tour start?
		So the book is coming out on April 12th, am I right?
		April 12th of 2022.
		I want to start the book tour that day.
		That day, I want to tour and I want to start here in Los Angeles.
		Maybe we'll do it at the Orpheum Theater, which is where we did the shows with Jordan.
		Although it is downtown and downtown Los Angeles is basically like a war zone.
		So not downtown.
		Can we put on the list somewhere else besides downtown?
		I don't, you know, it's like walking dead down there.
		I don't want to go down there.
		Something out of downtown.
		But what I'd love to do, actually, is start the tour in Los Angeles and end the tour in New York.
		I mean, basically just go across America, and we'll have to bounce up to the Pacific Northwest, and we'll have to go down to Florida at the end, but really just go across the country.
		You guys know this.
		I freaking loved every single minute of that tour with Jordan Peterson.
		I loved being on the road.
		I loved being in the cars.
		I love flying.
		I love saying hi to people.
		I love doing the signings.
		I love doing the meet and greets.
		I just wanna get back out there.
		I miss it.
		I really miss it so much.
		Just in the last couple days, You know, I was in South Dakota for Freedom Fest, and to just get out there and do a book signing, and I gave a big talk, a couple thousand people.
		We did a special luncheon for about 80 people.
		Like, I like you guys.
		I really do.
		I like meeting people.
		I miss human beings.
		I like seeing people with smiles on their faces, and you know, usually people say nice things to me, and that's nice.
		Most people like getting nice things said to them.
		So the book tour will start, I hope.
		We're working on it now, but I hope it will start on April 12th.
		2022.
		And by the way, you know, I didn't get to tour the first book.
		So the fact that Don't Burn This Book did so well, I was supposed to be on a book tour.
		I mean, that's really where you sell a lot of books because then all the people come and you can sign and you handshake and a picture.
		But we crushed it despite that.
		But I really did miss that.
		Would love someone to consider the Rubin Report t-shirts.
		We would definitely buy them.
		We've got a Rubin Report store, if I'm not mistaken.
		We're doing a little revamp of it in September.
		Is the store still open right now or did we?
		It's 50-50?
		There might be a Rubin Report store.
		I think there is, but we're doing a revamp in September.
		I've got a lot going on, you know what I mean?
		So I have to check the store today.
		You might be able to find the store online, but if not, we're going to relaunch it in September.
		Hang on, I need a little liquid.
		Cassie says, how can the far left not see the end result of the path that they are trying to force us down when a book like 1984 exists?
		We are practically mirroring it in this time.
		Your thoughts, please.
		Well, first off, if you want my full thoughts on 1984 and exactly how How prescient it was relative to what's happening right now.
		I did a PragerU book club with Michael Mose all about 1984.
		So you can find that on the PragerU channel.
		But yes, all the things that I talked about before, the doublespeak, the destruction of language, no one saying anything honest, people working meaningless jobs and just going from day to day, it's all here.
		The state looking down on all of us, right?
	Like no one knowing history or truth.
	It's all here.
	It is in our face.
	It is happening right now.
	And I would say we have a limited window, a shrinking window to stop it.
	I actually believe that that's where we're at at this moment.
	And don't take my word for it.
	Take Twitter's word for it.
	Twitter, which suspended me last night for misinformation only to admit this morning that it was a mistake.
	But we know that they obviously wouldn't have done that.
	If I was just a random person.
	Plenty of people get booted off Twitter and have no recourse.
	Fortunately, I have some level of an ability to get my voice out there.
	Mostly thanks to locals, but thanks to a couple other good people who I gave shoutouts to before.
	But yeah, we are entering a very weird 1984 time.
	The collusion, the collusion between big tech Between corporate media and the Democratic Party has become the most important thing to fight, period.
	I don't care what our political differences are.
	I genuinely don't.
	You could be a progressive and really think you want to tax everybody into oblivion or regulate everybody into oblivion.
	Or whatever it might be.
	Whatever I disagree with you on, right?
	You could be for nine-month abortions.
	Some of the crazy stuff that the left is for now.
	$15 minimum wage.
	Free pre-K and pre-college for everybody.
	Yes, like, I want to send people to state schools to learn.
	Like, you're gonna learn anything.
	You'll learn.
	To be a Bernie brainwashed buffoon, but Bernie brainwashed buffoon, let's use that for something else.
	But whatever our political differences are, that is completely at this point secondary to our inability to feel like we're communicating fairly and honestly, to making sure that algorithms aren't manipulating us.
	We just don't know how we're being manipulated.
	We don't.
	We don't.
	We have no idea when you watch this video, when YouTube shows you suggested videos, are they trying to completely change your opinion?
	Are they trying to strengthen your opinion?
	When you tweet something out, and I see this all the time now, I tweet something out, it gets thousands of retweets, so thousands of people agree, in essence.
	Then I have to look, and the first 50 comments were all horrible things by all anonymous accounts saying, you know, awful stuff to me.
	And then I always have to click more, and then suddenly there's hundreds of people saying nice things.
	So are they reordering things to make more controversy up top?
	Are they hiding tweets in the first place?
	Like, we just don't know.
	So we're in 1984, okay?
	We're in it now, but we've got hope.
	We've always got a chance.
	Humans have been through far worse than this.
	And this is what the human experience is about.
	Like maybe we were all sleepwalking before January, 2020.
	Maybe we were all just like too comfortable in what the world was and it was slowly slipping away
	and we didn't realize it.
	And now we're all seeing it.
	So this is sort of like, you know, you're red pilled and you see reality.
	You see reality as it is, and we've got major problems.
	And then the question from reality is, are you going to be white-pilled or black-pilled?
	Black-pilled is, oh, I give up.
	Like, there's no way we can defeat this, and big tech, and all of this stuff, and they're going to kick us off payment processors, and it's all terrible.
	Or there's the white pill, which is that humans Have fixed things before, and we will fix things again, and we will build better things, and we will build better schools, and we will build better institutions, and all of those things.
	And I think we're gonna do it, and I'm gonna do it, and I hope you'll do it.
	And that's all I've got to say about that.
	Kathleen says, what positions in a Rubin administration would these people hold?
	Greg Gutfeld, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Rick Grinnell, and Glenn Beck.
	I had a little lead time on this one because I got this question in our Locals exclusive, but we thought we'd, We thought we'd do it again, because it's just fun.
	So look, press secretary, I'm going Knowles.
	I think Knowles has just become an absolute all-star of ideas.
	His last book, Speechless, was just fantastic.
	And he would know how to fight with depressed people, and he would do it in a fun way.
	Greg Gutfeld, he's like me.
	He likes getting out on the road.
	I think transportation secretary.
	Now, I know you have to be gay for it if you're in the Biden administration.
	Gay Pete got it.
	I don't know that, well, I know that Greg's not gay.
	Maybe he was bi-curious a long time ago.
	We'd have to find out to see if he's fully qualified to be Transportation Secretary.
	That would be one.
	Let's see.
	Education.
	Secretary of Education.
	We're gonna throw that to Shapiro, right?
	Like, facts don't care about your feelings.
	That's all he would have to do.
	They'd be like, Mr. Secretary, do you want to teach the children critical race theory?
unidentified		Facts don't care about... Facts don't care about your feelings.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Facts don't care about your feelings.
		Let's see.
		What would he do here?
		Secretary of Defense.
		You know what?
		I'm going to throw that one to Glenn Beck.
		Glenn Beck is a, he's sort of a small L libertarian very much in line with me.
		He wants a strong, proud, prepared military like I do.
		I absolutely believe in funding the military and making it so strong that nobody's going to mess with us.
		But at the same time, we don't want a nation build.
		We don't want to do these Crazy wars and gallivants around the world and pretend we're the police, but we do know that we have a special place in this world.
		I think Glenn would be absolutely fantastic on that one.
		And let's see, foreign minister.
		You know, or Secretary of State, something like that.
		I'd throw that to Rick Grenell.
		You know, he was our ambassador to Germany.
		He pissed off all of the right people.
		And he's just a great guy.
		And, you know, to have such a high-level person also be gay, it would cause heads to explode.
		Not that anyone cares.
		Nobody cares what your sexuality is.
		Except the lefties.
		Patrick says, do you already have a candidate for the third Don't Burn title?
		My suggestion is Don't Burn This Tomahawk.
		I love it.
		So I do have an idea.
		I actually really love that one.
		And I should tell you that David's working on a cookbook.
		We're actually kind of working on it together.
		So Don't Burn This Tomahawk is pretty spectacular, actually.
		But if you don't know what Patrick's talking about, I've been making these.
		Well, we make a lot of different steaks, but my favorite steak to make
		is like a three or three and a half pound tomahawk with the big Fred Flintstone style bone.
		You gotta throw it over the shoulder and walk to Wilma and get in the car
		and the car flips over and Dino and bam, bam and the whole thing.
		But we've been making some great tomahawks.
		I posted some pictures in Locals last week.
		I got a big green egg for my birthday.
		This is that awesome smoker.
		I'm sure many of you have seen it or used it.
		So you basically slow cook, right?
		Indirect heat for a couple hours on that thing.
		And then you take the plate off.
		So the heat is now, the coals are coming, the heat's coming.
		And then you do a caveman style.
		You just throw the tomahawk or whatever the piece of meat you have is
		directly on the coals for about a minute, minute and a half on each side to get that awesome char.
		And you will get the most beautiful, delicious steak ever.
		Ever.
		By the way, you can go to DavidsCookbook.com.
		I'm in major promotion mode today.
		You can go to DavidsCookbook.com to see some of the recipes that we're eating and see some of the things that David is making.
		And yeah, as I said, cookbook on the way.
		Reminder guys, go to DontBurnThisCountry.com.
		Let's get to number one on movers and shakers.
		Are we there yet?
		Are we there yet?
		Don't make me attack these people.
		Go to DontBurnThisCountry.com, you can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it on Barnes & Noble, bunch of other retailers, and I'm signing every single copy that we sell today.
		Book plates for all of you good people.
		There you are.
		Here.
		I'll even sign one right now.
		Babe, Ruben, extra ones.
	They're all here.
	They're ready to go.
	Boxer says, Will Clyde be joining you guys on your beach getaway?
	Congrats on the new book and have a great time.
	We will miss you.
	So we are going.
	We're doing a beach situation for a little bit.
	We're going to escape.
	And I just really I want to catch up on a little reading, but more than anything else, I want to do some exercise in the morning.
	I want to eat right.
	I want to enjoy some good tequila and wine at night.
	I want to get a good sweat on.
	I want to get, you know, some vitamin D in the skin.
	And I want to just stare out at the ocean.
	That's really what I want to do for a good bulk of this off-the-grid time.
	I mean, it's truly, this is about restoration.
	This is about reset.
	Oh, and speaking of that, we are putting up content right here on YouTube throughout the month.
	You know, I didn't wanna do it actually.
	My gut feeling was, you know, if I'm taking the month, then I'd love to give my guys the month
	and I don't wanna overload everybody with politics and the madness and the current events
	and the craziness of the day throughout the month.
	However, if we really went dark on YouTube, it could completely destroy the channel
	because the algorithm always wants new content and more and more and more and more.
	So all we're doing throughout the month, we felt we had to do something.
	But we're not doing anything political.
	We are doing shows about health and digital detox and restoration and all that stuff.
	So next week, we already taped it.
	I've got Eckhart Tolle, who I've had on the show before, who was There's almost no words to describe this guy.
	He is one of the most enlightened, decent, evolved human beings on the planet.
	Obviously wrote The Power of Now, which is one of the best-selling books of all time.
	Really all about being in the moment.
	We talk about digital detox.
	I've got Ben Greenfield, who's a lifestyle expert.
	We talk all about diet and exercise.
	Matthew Walker, an entire episode about sleep and why it's important and some of the habits that you can get into and how to break some of your bad habits.
	So just like a little bit of stuff to hopefully help you enjoy the summer and then enjoy the fall after that.
	Alright, we're gonna go to Josh.
	Hey, Dave, just curious if there's been a Locals community started by someone that you didn't expect or that surprised you.
	Well, I can tell you this, there's a bunch of lefty communities on Locals, and that's just fine.
	I didn't build Locals, we didn't build Locals to just say, okay, these are communities built by people who Dave Rubin likes, or who like Dave Rubin.
	It's like, there are lefties on there who I know have political opinions that are complete polar opposite of mine, but what we're doing The best way I would describe locals is we are building digital homes.
	You could disagree with me and I still think you have a right to have a home, a place where you can have your stuff, you know, your clothes, your shoes, your toys, in this case your video, your audio, your data, etc, etc.
	So we're just building homes.
	We're a home builder.
	And guess what?
	Somebody built this house that I'm sitting in right now, in my office, and then what I do in this house has nothing to do with them.
	So that's really what we're trying to do with Locals, and it's a bottom-up way of looking at the internet, and I think it's the right way to look at all of these things.
	And that's another reason why I'm so thrilled to be partnering with Rumble, as I said before.
	We will be the official subscription partner of Rumble, so everyone that is a creator on Rumble We'll have a button to connect their locals community and you will be able to take questions from your locals community.
	You will be able to be supported and funded by your locals community.
	It's exactly what we built for me.
	It was like, well, can we copy that and spin it off for other people?
	And the answer is yes.
	Joe says, when you first sat down to write this book, what did you want most people to know after reading?
	Did that change?
	Oh, that's a good one.
	That's a good one.
	Well, first, the way it started was I talked to the Penguin guys because the number in this book did so well.
	And they were like, you know, we'd love you to do another one.
	And I was kind of like, you know, the world was in a very weird place because of COVID and lockdowns.
	And I had just done, you know, a digital book tour, but basically every day from like 8 a.m.
	to 8 p.m.
	for two months, I was pretty much sitting in my garage, just talking to people about the book.
	And I sort of wanted like a little bit of a break.
	So we had like a semi break.
	in August of last year.
	We didn't go away or anything.
	We did move, which moving is quite stressful, actually.
	But I had a little bit of a break, you know, just to kind of reset.
	And then when I came back in the fall, I was like, all right, I think I can do this.
	And my feeling was I didn't want to do my greatest hits.
	You know, one of the things that I find to be somewhat tough about doing a daily show that I do for you guys is I don't want to just be doing my daily, my greatest hits.
	You know, I left the left.
	You know what I think about Bernie and AOC.
	You know about that.
	I don't wanna just repeat those things.
	And sometimes in a daily show, it's like you kind of have to repeat some stuff.
	Like it's just sort of what it is.
	But I thought, what would be the new ideas?
	Like if you took Domper in this book and the ideas I believe in, well, that's one thing.
	Okay, and now I hopefully, I armed you with some stats in that book.
	I hopefully allowed you to think for yourself, right?
	That was the subtitle of the book, Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason.
	We went from an age of unreason into a woke dystopia, which is the subtitle of this book.
	I thought, well, all right, let's say you think that, don't burn this book, and the ideas in there were pretty decent.
	Well, what are the things that you can now do in your life?
	And that's really what this book is about.
	So I think the first book is really about ideas and the second book really is about action,
	whether it's what you can do to make yourself less reliant on big tech,
	what you can do to make yourself less reliant on big pharma, on big food, you know, garden,
	know how to change a tire, know how to do some basic electronics,
	basic wiring, things like that.
	And then, and then really, well, you know, I've got all the chapters right here.
	I don't want to give them away.
	I was going to give them away and everybody said no, but here, I'll just randomly pick one.
	You know, I think what I do in this book is give a really great defense of capitalism, which is on the ropes.
	I gave a little bit of a defense of capitalism, obviously, in the first book.
	And then there's a lot about the digital stuff.
	There really is a lot about the digital stuff, because it's not just The data they're taking and that all of us could be booted.
	It's also what this whole thing has done to us.
	We're all very different.
	We're all very different than we were 20 years ago.
	The way we react to each other, the way we stare at the devices all the time, that's obviously deeply connected to why I get off the grid.
	So your question was, was it easier to write than your first?
	Um, not really.
	In the first one, I didn't even know how to do it wrong, sort of, so I was just writing and writing and writing and writing, and I've told you this, I'd start my day basically at 7am, I'd go into my office, I'd be writing, and then it would literally be 3pm, and David would have, like I was in solitary confinement, he would throw a plate with some eggs on it, and I would eat real quick,
	and then when I was done, I was done.
	So I didn't even know how to make mistakes on that one.
	This one is a little more technical, it's a little more research heavy,
	there's a little more anecdotal stuff.
	So it's just a different thing.
	And what did you want most people to know after reading, and did that change?
	No, it didn't change.
	I want you to be more reliant on yourself.
	I want you to be less reliant on the government and less reliant on big tech.
	And I think I'm pretty sure we accomplished that here.
	Reminder, guys, go to Don'tBurnThisCountry.com.
	Pick up the book.
	You can get it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever you want.
	I'm signing every single copy today.
	You will get a book plate today.
	The link for the book plate, once you buy the book, is in the YouTube description.
	How are we doing on that Amazon right now?
	Did we get to number one?
	Come on!
	We did?
	Not yet.
	We're still at number two.
	What are you people doing to me?
	Help me out here.
	Help a brother out.
	We're getting there.
	And by the way, if we get to number one, that's great.
	If we stay at number two, that's fine.
	Buy the book wherever you want to get the book.
	I know some people don't want to buy on Amazon.
	It's all good, no matter what.
	Like, we already know that this is very successful.
	We saw some numbers this morning.
	It's all good.
	All good.
	Greg, was this book, oh no, we did that one.
	That's Greg.
	We did that one.
	Give me something else over there.
	Oh, Crystal, we need some baby updates.
	So unfortunately, I don't have great news in that department.
	Our surrogate actually ended up having two miscarriages, which really, after the second miscarriage, our fertility doctor wants to use another surrogate.
	And it's really unfortunate because the girl who was our surrogate, she's a great girl and I hope will remain friends forever and all that stuff.
	But we've had to get a new surrogate.
	And then the whole process is just, it's just long and it's slow and COVID has really complicated it, but it will happen.
	I appreciate the question and we're kind of ready.
	You know, I'm 45, I'm going to be an old dad.
	One way or another.
	David's a little younger, but I want to be able to play catch with that kid.
	And I want to be able to do all the things that a father should do with a son or a daughter.
	Well, we'll let the kid pick their gender, but the point is...
	You know, it's funny on the pick their gender thing.
	It's like when you're doing in vitro, you know, what they do is basically, you know, they take the sperm.
	I went into a room and I had to take care of business.
	So that's how they get the sperm.
	Okay.
	I did that on the first day of lockdown.
	Have I told this story before?
	I don't know if I've ever fully told this story publicly on the first day of lockdown last year.
	I had, oh, I don't know that I've told this story.
	I think we actually cut this out of the book, because it was getting a little long-winded, so I'll give it to you real quick.
	First day of lockdown last year, we were in the process of the surrogacy thing, and we were like, oh, we're gonna do the sperm in like a week or two.
	But then our doctor called us, and he's like, there's these lockdowns coming.
	We don't know when we're gonna open up again.
	Like, you gotta get here ASAP.
	So we jump in the car.
	We had about a 20, 25 minute drive to the sperm, to the fertility clinic, sperm bank, whatever you wanna call it.
	A lot of sperm over there.
	And you could feel the tension on the street.
	Like people were driving like crazy.
	It was like an oddly windy day in Los Angeles.
	And it was just like, there was just tension, right?
	Like lockdowns, what's going to happen?
	Do you have food in your fridge?
	Everyone's freaking out.
	We get, I open up the door when we park and my look at my phone, my phone rings.
	It's Donald Trump Jr.
	He was talking to me.
	He wanted to talk to me what I thought about lockdowns.
	So now I'm on the phone with the president's son.
	We're walking in.
	David's like, get off the phone.
	Get off the phone, we gotta give sperm, and I'm like, it's the President's son, we gotta talk to him.
	We're walking in, we get to the door of the fertility clinic, and Dennis Rodman is standing there.
	Dennis Rodman, on a scooter, is standing outside the door of the fertility clinic.
	I don't know if he was giving sperm, I don't know if he was just hanging out by the sperm bank, or whatever, but I was like, this is a moment I will always remember.
	We're in lockdowns, whatever the hell that is.
	I'm about to give sperm, I'm talking to the President's son, Dennis Rodman's standing right there.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	I took care of business.
	It all worked out, so we've got plenty of sperm.
	But joking aside, we're trying to... It's gonna happen.
	It's gonna happen.
	That's really the best I can give you.
	Oh, but on the gender part, you know, it's interesting because, you know, once they have the sperm and then we have an egg donor, so we have an egg donor who's separate from the surrogate, right?
	The surrogate carries the baby.
	It's someone else's egg.
	And we have the sperm.
	Okay.
	Our hope is to have two kids, one from David and one from me.
	The interesting thing where you really just learn what the obvious truths are about biology is, you know, they get the sperm, they get the egg, they put those things together.
	It's a blastocyst for a couple days, but within about three days, you know the sex.
	You know the sex.
	They go, OK, it's a male.
	We got eight males.
	We got four females.
	We got one and one.
	We got all males.
	We got all females.
	They don't say, oh, there's no difference between these things.
	Like, there's obvious biological difference.
	So that's another one of the reasons when I hear all these crazy debates, it's like, I'm going through something right now where I know very intimately what reality is.
	Okay, Matthew says, what do you think about federal employee VAX mandate announcement made by President Biden yesterday?
	I mean, I'm completely 100% absolutely against it.
	It's a little unclear to me whether it's constitutional and it's a little unclear whether he actually was saying they're gonna do it for sure, but this is what they do with everything.
	They lead with some authoritarian thing and then they just wait for people to get dumb and tired enough to go ahead and do it.
	I don't, I just, my personal belief For as long as we live in a free country, which is tenuous at best, my personal belief is that the government, especially the federal government, should not be allowed to force you to get an injection of any kind.
	That's just what I believe.
	I think you have to make the decisions that are best for yourself.
	I have a feeling if they do this federal employee vax mandate that there's going to be a lot of pushback and I think a lot of people might quit or retire and they'll just get on unemployment and maybe that's what the government wants.
	It's putting everyone else on unemployment.
	But I think it's deeply dangerous and I also think What's really happening here is we're just seeing an endless move of what the goalposts are, right?
	So it was two weeks to flatten the curve that it was, oh, maybe we'll have a vaccine.
	And by the way, many of the people who are now all pro-vax were against vaxes when Trump was You know, the one that was actually making it happen with Project Warp Speed.
	We did a story a couple days ago, all the hosts on MSNBC with their old tweets.
	Joy Reid is the all-star of that, basically saying, who could ever trust the CDC again?
	And Trump is evil and all that stuff.
	And Chris Hayes also had tweets like that.
	And Maddow, is she even still, no one even talks about her anymore.
	Is she still going?
	So it's like, they just moved the goalposts, where it's like, oh, we weren't for something when it was this guy, now we're for it.
	I don't think you can do a federal mask, a federal vax mandate.
	Like that just seems like a crazy thing.
	And it's also, did we flatten the curve or not?
	Why does no one ever bring that up?
	Is COVID roughly 98 to 99%?
	The answer to that is yes.
	Don't take my for it.
	Do a little searching for yourself.
	Then we were told the vaccines were 95% effective.
	Now we're finding out studies that it's significantly less than that or maybe that they weren't supposed to prevent COVID.
	The new one is they weren't supposed to prevent COVID.
	They were supposed to prevent you from getting a worse type of COVID or less symptoms.
	That's not what we were promised.
	So, you know, Fauci saying masks do everything, then saying masks don't do anything, then saying, we played the video the other day, oh, masks can make it much worse because you fiddle with your face much more.
	Now he's for a mask mandate again.
	It's like, well, wait a minute.
	Were you lying or not?
	Whether you touch your face a lot, like that doesn't change based on science.
	Like, come on, man.
	That's my Biden impression.
	Come on, man.
	Megan, what books will you read off the grid?
	So we have a list.
	We actually have a stack of books.
	I don't even know what's in the stack.
	So I had asked the Locals community to send me nonfiction books.
	I didn't want to do, I didn't want to do, Sorry, to send me fiction books.
	I didn't want to do non-fiction.
	I didn't want to do just like biographies and history and that kind of stuff.
	I really wanted to do fiction.
	And I mostly like sci-fi.
	So people gave us a bunch of recommendations.
	We went out and we bought a whole bunch of stuff.
	They're all in the other room right now.
	But I think what I'm going to do is for the first couple days I'm just going to do nothing.
	I mean, I really mean that.
	Do some cardio.
	I'll lift a little bit.
	Relax, and then I'll get into some reading probably in the middle of the month.
	Reminder guys, don't burn this country dot com.
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	I am the George Lucas of burning, okay?
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	We're signing bookplates.
	Don't burn this country.
	They're right here, and there you go.
	Tal says, what are you most looking forward to during your time off?
	I mean, really, the easy answer is just the general relaxation, just the generalness.
	But I would say at a different level, it's like, I know that those last couple days, what has happened in the four years that I've done this thing, is that those last few days when I have to come back, I do start thinking about like all the craziness of the world again and I start thinking about tech again and the news and all the lockdowns and like all the nuttiness even before last year just whatever the craziness of the day was and I really feel like and you could probably go back and look if you want to see some of my
	September shows where I come back.
	Last year, we did it with Michael Knowles.
	I think we did it with Glenn Beck the year before, two years.
	I think twice we did it with Ben Shapiro, if I'm not mistaken.
	I feel refreshed.
	I feel like, oh, I have fresh eyes to look at the world.
	That's why this thing feels important to me.
	Because I think we could all use some fresh eyes right now.
	Like we all had a problem with big tech and social media addiction and being endlessly stuck in the fight.
	We all had a problem with that before COVID.
	But in COVID, I mean, think about it this way.
	Since COVID, are you online more or less?
	Every single person's more.
	And if you had been asked before COVID, would you like to be online more or less?
	Everyone would have said less.
	So we all knew we had a problem.
	Then the problem got worse and no one's getting out of the problem.
	So that's why I do this.
	And just have, what I mean by fresh eyes are just a little space, a little space to allow new thoughts to come in.
	One of the things that I talk about with Eckhart Tolle, you'll see it next week, is that it's not just that we're being slammed with information all the time.
	It's that, you know, back in the day, Remember when you used to meet a friend at the bar, let's say, and what you'd do, it was before cell phones, you'd be like, OK, I'll meet you at the bar.
	I'll meet you at the corner at 8 o'clock, right?
	Meet you on 23rd and 5th at 8 o'clock.
	Well, then you'd show up, and you didn't have a phone back in the old days.
	And then if your friend was late, you would just kind of stand there.
	You'd stand there, and you'd kinda look around, and you'd see people.
	For me, one of the great things of living in New York City was people watching, right?
	You could stand there, or you'd think, or you'd stare at the sky, or stare at your shoes.
	We used to have built-in space to our day-to-day lives.
	We no longer have that, because everywhere you go, first off, you're texting with the people you're gonna meet the entire time.
	If somebody's late, you're tweeting, you're distracted, you're watching YouTube videos.
	We never give ourselves.
	When's the last time you did it, really?
	Like, just some time to just not be doing any of that stuff.
	To just stare out into the abyss.
	To stare at the ocean.
	To look at a view.
	Whatever it might be.
	You know, to drink a glass of wine and not be talking about politics or whatever.
	It's getting harder and harder.
	And I think giving yourself that space is as important as not being on the things.
	Like, just that ability to just be like, Maybe the brain needs a little breathing room.
	Maybe there's some new thoughts that are trying to get in, but they're constantly blocked out by algorithms and the day-to-day doom-scrolling.
	I think it's possible.
	Let's see.
	Who at Locals should write the check to Jack at Twitter for all the free PR?
	Oh, Jack Dorsey, Jack Dorsey, you had agreed to be interviewed by me many times over the years, and it never happened.
	I suspect it ain't gonna happen at all at this point, although my buddy and locals investor, Anthony Pompliano, has said he will try to set it up.
	Look, I'd love to talk to Jack.
	Look, I have harsh words for the guy at some level, but at another level, and I would say this for Mark Zuckerberg or any of the people, that run these tech companies, in some ways they're just all over their head.
	Mark Zuckerberg, I mean, if any of you saw the Facebook movie from, you know, what was that, 15 years ago?
	It's like he was a kid who was basically trying to get laid and then figured out a way to create this little college website to get laid.
	Next thing you know, he's like the most powerful man on earth.
	So I don't have sympathy like he's got obviously like an extraordinary life and every resource known to man and wealth that is beyond unimaginable and all of those things.
	But I have a little sympathy for, like, you creating something and then sort of losing control of that creation.
	And that's not to say he's made all the decisions right, although I think Zuckerberg in this case has been much better on some free speech stuff, basically saying, we're not here to police everything.
	AOC tried when he was under oath to basically be like, you know, you have to do what we want.
	And he was like, well, that's actually unconstitutional because you're the government and I can't.
	So I have more sympathies with Zuckerberg than I do with Jack Dorsey, but my gut feeling is he's probably not like a fully evil human being.
	How about that?
	And I would like to talk about some of these inconsistencies and how you can flag me for misinformation and suspend me, and then just the next day basically say, oh, that was a mistake, and why all the mistakes always are on conservatives or right-leaning people and never the other way around, and how many people have been unjustly banned from these things.
	And by the way, I can also say that, you know, from starting Locals, like none of these questions are easy, how you're gonna deal with free speech and how you're gonna deal, you know, with harassment and how you're gonna deal with if people start putting porn or whatever it is, whatever it is.
	Like I believe that companies are allowed to make decisions on their own.
	So there's just so many things that we could actually talk about.
	I suspect he won't.
	and one of the reasons he doesn't really do press anymore is 'cause you remember he was on "Rogan" with Tim Pool,
	and he really came off as not really knowing what was going on at the company.
	He also was the CEO of another company.
	What's the other company that, Square, I think?
	I'm pretty sure he's the CEO of Square as well.
	Try to imagine what the day-to-day operations of a guy that's running Twitter is,
	and he's also the CEO of another company.
	How does that make any sense?
	Like, I know for me, I'm doing the Rubin Report, and I'm co-founder of Locals.
	I'm not running Locals.
	I'm not the CEO.
	My partner herself is running the company.
	I know what kind of wherewithal and work that takes.
	But, like, running two companies?
	Seems, like, really weird.
	So, yeah, he's the CEO of both Locals and of Square, which is a payment—they're a payment processor, I suppose, yeah.
	Okay, let's see.
	Oh, I got a whole bunch of TV hits today, in case you're not sick of hearing me talk.
	I will be on OAN with Natalie Harp at 1.40 p.m.
	Pacific.
	I will be on Newsmax with Sean Spicer and Lindsey Keith at 3.10 Pacific.
	And then I will be on Fox News Primetime at 4.30 Pacific.
	And then, to end my day, I am busting out that big green egg, and we got a porterhouse.
	We got a juicy, Juicy porterhouse that we are gonna slow cook, and then we're gonna do caveman style, as I said before.
	And then tomorrow, although my public life will end online tonight, until September 1st, I will have my phone tomorrow, just to, not for news or anything like that, but just, I gotta, we have some travel plans, and I gotta coordinate some things, and you know, things like that.
	But Sunday, it fully begins in earnest.
	Uh, Karen says, what author has inspired your writing the most?
	Ooh, that's a good one.
	I haven't gotten that before.
	Well, look, of course the easy answer is Jordan at some level, because, but I will give you another answer.
	Jordan's the easy one because he gave me advice right at the beginning.
	I was, I was in, we were in Oslo.
	When I got the book offer.
	We were about to go on stage.
	It was one of the biggest shows we were doing.
	It was about two minutes to show time.
	And I got the call.
	We got the offer.
	And, you know, one of Jordan's rules in the original Twelve Rules, in effect, is, you know, have friends that are happy for you.
	Basically, I'm paraphrasing here.
	And I walked into Jordan's green room, and his wife was in there, and David was with me.
	And I said, Jordan, I just got the book deal.
	We just closed it.
	And he lit up.
	his huge smile, he slapped his hands, he spun around in his chair, he got up,
	he hugged me, he was so happy.
	And then he immediately, in just perfect Jordan style, immediately was like, "Here's how you,
	"you have to write, you have to write each sentence "four times and you have to have two monitors,"
	and blah, blah.
	So he gave me some technical advice.
	I tried to do the write each sentence a couple times thing, it was not for me at all.
	So everyone has to figure out your way to do it.
	But I think he inspired me in that he got me to really do it.
	And it was partly being on tour that got the deal in the first place.
	But in terms of... Let me see.
	I really want to get this question right.
	I really want to get this right.
	I'm going to peek over here for a second.
	I could probably give you a couple answers on this, but I'll say this.
	Glenn Beck, from reading a couple of his books, there's a sort of whimsical nature in some of them that I really have liked, even when you're talking about serious topics.
	So his last book, is it How to Fight with Socialists?
	Arguing with Socialists, that one's really sort of almost like an over-the-top sort of Humorous, sort of light book.
	But what I've always felt, and I think it's why I try to do this show the way I do, is that there's a way to talk about serious stuff, about censorship and about assaults on freedom and encroaching authoritarianism.
	There's a way to do it.
	I think I just did it, where you can talk about it in a somewhat amusing way, a somewhat fun way.
	You can still realize that you have to live.
	And that's what I really tried to do with Don't Burn This Country.
	We had to remove a lot of jokes, because I had it way more jokey than it was, but I loved hearing from people that they were laughing while they were reading it.
	I was a little more controlled, I think, with the jokes in this book.
	And I will tell you that for Don't Burn This Country, which you can get right now at DontBurnThisCountry.com, there is only one Star Wars reference.
	There is only one.
	And I only had two.
	We only cut one.
	You know my feelings about Star Wars.
	It has been butchered horribly.
	I didn't want to do too many.
	There's one Star Wars reference.
	That's it.
	Devon says, have you ever had withdrawals during your off the grid?
	Well, there's that weird tension the first couple of days.
	Like, oh man, did I make a mistake?
	What's going to happen?
	I can imagine this year it's going to feel really weird.
	Like suddenly in the last day or so, we're talking about lockdowns again.
	Lockdowns, which we know don't work.
	So am I going to come back on the grid and California will have been locked down for the month?
	Will businesses be open?
	Are people going to be outside?
	You know, we are going away for a little bit.
	So it's like when I get back, if I'm able to, you know, avoid everything while I'm away, you know, what happens when I come back?
	I'm on a plane, I get in a car and there's no cars on the street.
	I might be able to deduce that the lockdowns have begun
	or that we're in the middle of a lockdown or that the zombie apocalypse is here
	or there's been an EMP surge.
	I mean, who the hell knows?
	But yeah, there's always a little bit of tension those first few days because we're just so used to it.
	We're so used to grabbing our phone.
	We're so used to eating lunch while we're reading this stuff.
	So there's a little bit of that, but after, it's usually about three or four days.
	Then the space starts coming in and it feels good and there's a calmness and a decency and we're all running around this hamster cage doing this to our brains all the time.
	That's what we're all doing all the time.
	Somebody has a thought.
	Oh my God, somebody had a thought.
	Another thought.
	Boom.
	I'm asked what Twitter is.
	Thought, thought, thought, thought.
	You can't believe how many idiots there are, but it's like there were always a lot of idiots.
	We just didn't follow them.
	Now we follow all these idiots.
	Thought, thought, thought.
	I'm a moron.
	You're a moron.
	Yeah.
	So if you can get past that part of it, then it starts becoming fun.
	And then there's a moment, there's always a moment around day 16, day 18, something like that, where it's like, should I go back at all?
	Should I just call, you know, John Galt it right now?
	That's it, I'm out, I'm out, I'm done.
	But then I do come back and I will come back this year.
	And as I said, I do think this is gonna be the craziest of all of them because, The first couple of years that I did it, there was, you know, there was crazy politics stuff, but it was like, yeah, America is gonna be fine, like, one way or another.
	But now it feels like everything is just on, like, this, like, hairline fracture that could just, like, just erupt into a giant chasm.
	So that does feel different this year.
	It's like, what would surprise me?
	As I said, it would be like Biden stepped down.
	Would that surprise me?
	No.
	If all the blue states were locked down, would that surprise me?
	No.
	If they told us that China was actually, it was exposed that China's been running a giant misinformation campaign in America, and it's been fueled by Twitter and all the things, would that surprise me?
	No.
	Like nothing would surprise me.
	So that's a weird thing to come back to this year, which feels bigger than other years past, where there was like basic parameters, where now we have like sort of no rules anymore.
	Chad says, who is his front runner in the California governor recall election and who will you be endorsing?
	100% without question.
	If I say anything crystal clear, Larry Elder 100% has my endorsement.
	He is my friend.
	I interviewed him here last week.
	I saw him up at Freedom Fest in South Dakota.
	He is a good man.
	He has lived his life for this very moment.
	He did not want to do this, I assure you.
	Larry's got a great He's got a great gig, he's got a great life, his girlfriend's awesome, he's fun, he's happy, there's so many other things he could be doing.
	He's successful on other fronts, right, with his radio show and everything else.
	He's doing this by pure, by calling, like somebody's gotta fix it and I've gotta be the guy.
	I really believe if those other candidates, just over the next couple weeks, and of course this is one of the things I'm gonna miss in the next month, but if over the course of August, A bunch of those people.
	The Caitlyn Jenner thing is... Caitlyn Jenner is in freaking Australia right now shooting Big Brother.
	It's a sham and a PR stunt and she should be embarrassed, okay?
	And everyone involved in that campaign should be absolutely embarrassed, alright?
	But if the other people running against Newsom can just be like, you know what?
	Elder's got the momentum, and there is a much bigger fish to fry here.
	We've got to get rid of Newsom.
	If they can all coalesce behind him, and if he can get one debate, if they'll even agree to a debate, and Larry can get on stage with that evil Disney cartoon villain that is Gavin Newsom, Larry can make some moves.
	I also think that California, as crazy as it is, the average person in California is more in line with Larry's political beliefs that are very much in line with mine.
	He described himself as a small L libertarian.
	Obviously, he was a Trump supporter.
	He doesn't want lockdowns.
	He wants to lower taxes.
	It's gonna be a big slog, even if he becomes governor, because we've got really a one-party state here, but anything will be better than Gavin Newsom.
	So my hope is that Larry can bring the fight to Gavin.
	And then, as I said, if it doesn't happen, if Larry loses, If Newsom is reinstated or wins the recall, whatever it is, I'll make some decisions at that point.
	Ken says, how long did it take for you to write the new book?
	Well, it's a little hard to say.
	Like, the chunk of the writing, it was about three months, so pretty much from... we're at the end of July now.
	It was pretty much, like, February, March, April.
	But the editing process, like, we still just sort of finished the editing last week, and I still have actually until September 15th to do my, like, final, final, final edits.
	So, what I'm going to do while I'm gone is I'm taking the digital copy, obviously, that I have now, and it's going to be the first time we're actually going to print it.
	I've been reading it off my computer, which is not the best way to read these things, but we're going to print it out.
	I'm gonna take a sharpie and a highlighter, and I'm really gonna go through for those last couple edits
	and then I'll come back and I'll talk to my editor and we'll get it sort of fully lined up.
	I still have to write a little bit of the intro, as I said, I wanna change because of what happened
	with Twitter, and then I have to write the acknowledgments and a few other things like that.
	Guys, what are we doing here?
	Well, it's my last day on the internet until September 1st, 2021.
	My new book, Don't Burn This Country, Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia, and I assure you that's what we're in, is up for presale right now.
	And if you buy it today, I am signing book plates for every single person that buys it today.
	All you got to do is go to DontBurnThisCountry.com.
	The links for your favorite retailer are right there.
	and then we have a link in this YouTube description right down below where you submit your information
	so that we will mail you the book plate.
	You will then place the book plate in your book and life will be good.
	Patty says, "Are you leaving your staff a guacamole fund "for their Chipotle when you're gone for a month?
	"Enjoy your time off."
	You know what?
	You know what?
	You guys have been busting your butts for the last couple weeks.
	Chipotle on me for the month.
	Not just the guac.
	I'm not kidding.
	Every Chipotle you order for this month, and Connor, all he eats is Chipotle.
	It's going to be a lot cheaper for you, Michael, because you eat other things.
	But he's like 99%.
	The guy's half Chipotle at this point.
	I will pay for all your Chipotle for this month.
	Unlimited Chipotle on me.
	Done.
	Storm says, what hobby are you picking up during off the grid?
	One thing I can tell you, you know, I've told you guys about my torn ACL and my knee.
	So I got PRP.
	It's when they spin your blood around, they get the plasma out, they inject it back into you.
	It's really good for your cells and regeneration.
	So I did it about two months ago.
	My knee is feeling better than it's felt in years and years.
	So I'm playing basketball again, which has been really nice.
	I can't fully play in like a five on five.
	Like, really all-out game, but I can do some half-court kind of stuff and move around a little bit.
	I'm thinking about the surgery.
	I know a lot of people are telling me to just go get it, and I have a great doctor who's worked on a lot of NBA players, and he assures me that if I got the surgery and I did the rehab right, I'd be better than before, even though I'm a couple years older.
	But it's a long recovery, and it's like, I'm fairly busy, and if I was going to do it, it was going to be August, and I was like, wait a minute, am I going to lead Up to all of this just to be basically incapacitated for the month.
	So we're trying to figure out what to do.
	So basketball and hobby-wise, what else?
	Hobby-wise, you know what?
	I'm not going to do much of this.
	Or no, maybe I will.
	You guys know I've been doing a lot of gardening lately and we've got this really cool rooftop planter situation.
	It can be tough here in LA when it gets, you know, we could have days in a row where it's like high 90s.
	And you know, you need a little shade and we've got to water stuff a lot, but we're growing tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers and we got some lettuces and we got some herbs and all sorts of stuff up there.
	So I think I'm going to refresh the entire thing actually, because we've got some burnage.
	I was just up there this morning and it's been hot lately.
	Doug says, is locals looking to alternative payment methods?
	I want to dump PayPal.
	Yes.
	I promise you, whatever your concerns are on the tech side of locals, nobody has solved all of this stuff yet.
	And what I mean by that, nobody has fully solved decentralized storage yet.
	Nobody has solved fully the payment processor stuff.
	And by the way, when you say, okay, well, everything should be decentralized, meaning all of the data should live on a million people's computers so it exists forever.
	It's like, do you really want that?
	What if somebody puts child porn up there?
	Do we really want that?
	All sorts of, that's why I say it's like, there's legal issues, there's philosophical issues, there's technical and technological issues, and we have to figure out all of those things.
	And we're working on it.
	So yes, we're working on more payment processors, we're working on the storage stuff.
	You know, I can't lead too much about what we're doing with Rumble, but this partnership that I mentioned before, this is just the beginning.
	The idea that we're the official subscription partner of Locals.
	The idea being locals is, you know, the YouTube replacement.
	We're the Patreon replacement.
	We're now tied together, and it's just the beginning, but I kind of can't say more than that at the moment.
	It's like, we will do this.
	We will fight these guys, and they will rue the day that they banned Dave Rubin on the Twitter.
	Ali says, are you recording an audio version of your book?
	Yes, absolutely.
	Obviously, it's not scheduled yet because we've got to put the final touches on the editing.
	But I loved, loved, loved, loved doing the audio book.
	It was so fun.
	We did it in the course of about four days.
	I had to go across town and you go into a booth.
	And you've got somebody in your ear making sure you pronounce all the words right and make sure the names are fully right.
	Make sure you don't, you know, slur something or stammer or whatever it might be.
	You've got the engineer with you right in there.
	But I loved it because I was able to give a little more personality to it.
	I think I was able to hit the punchlines in the right way.
	I don't know that I'm supposed to say this, but I did change a couple words over the course of doing the audio book.
	Things that I just felt read, you know, read one way and verbally once you're saying them.
	We're a little bit different, but I love doing it and I can't wait to do it again.
	I hope so.
	I mean, I don't know what's going on on college campuses and, you know, Lord only knows where things will be at in the fall.
	My main goal is to tour Toward the book, as I said, starting in April.
	But what I really wanna do is I wanna start doing some big theater shows.
	You know, do less kind of, you know, I sold out a lot of stand-up clubs over the last couple years, and for those of you that have seen me do stand-up, it's like I got like three jokes, but I get up there and I have fun with you guys, and people have a ball.
	But I wanna do more theater stuff, like really kind of big theater events.
	So we're gonna look into that.
	We'll probably start some stuff in Florida, hopefully, in the fall, just a moment.
	Kim says O'Reilly has the Killing Series.
	Do you want to create a burn series?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's happening whether I want it or not, right?
	So don't burn this book.
	Don't burn this country.
	We have an idea for the third one.
	As I said, I got a cookbook coming, so you can kind of read into that what you will.
	I shouldn't say it's my cookbook.
	David's got a cookbook.
	I'll have a little something to do with it.
	And then I think there's all sorts of other things related to the name of a tour and all sorts of that stuff.
	Ian, oh, this is a good one.
	If Larry Elder wins and he offers you a job in his administration, would you take it?
	Let me say this.
	If Larry Elder wins, first off, I will be the happiest guy in all of California.
	I will be happier than Larry Elder, I assure you that.
	If he offered me a job, I would consider doing some sort of part-time, maybe press job,
	dealing with some of the bullshit, nonsensical, borderline evil press that he would have to put up with,
	the liars in the newsrooms and dealing with, you know, it would become then a mainstream story.
	The interesting thing right now is that even though the governor of the largest state in the union
	is being recalled, nobody's covering it in national media.
	They are getting a little nervous though, because there are more and more stories
	being written about Larry.
	But once CNN starts going after him, once Washington Post, New York Times, et cetera,
	starts going after him, then we'll know that there's really a move being made,
	which will be a nice moment.
	I would maybe, first off, I wouldn't want money for it.
	I do not want money.
	I don't want money from the people, and I don't want money from Larry.
	But just out of pure, like, I'm in this with you, man, let's fix this freaking place, I would maybe do some kind of part-time press secretary thing if you wanted.
	But we shall see.
	I hope I am presented with that problem.
	Why is there such, this is Amy, why is there such a fuss about people choosing to be unvaccinated?
	Shouldn't they have the same legal right to refuse treatment?
	Of course they should.
	We've been told for the last couple years, my body, my choice, and now we're being told, my body, your choice.
	None of this makes any sense, right?
	None of it.
	is logical or consistent with things that we were told we had to believe, otherwise we were right-wing racist maniacs a year ago when Trump was in office.
	Again, and I am not a scientist, and I'm not pretending to be anything other than I am, but we do know basic things about COVID.
	You know, this 98 to 99% recovery rate, especially if you aren't You know, 80 years old and don't have other comorbidities, other sicknesses and things like that, that virtually everyone survives perfectly fine.
	I have plenty of people in my family and friends that got COVID that all were sick for a couple of days.
	Some were barely sick, some with a little bit of a sniffle, some a little bit more sore throat.
	I know one person that had a really excruciating headache for a couple of days, but they all got better.
	Now, that's not to say everyone does.
	But the point is, why would every single person?
	This is never what we were promised.
	And that's what I mean about the moving goalposts.
	We were never promised, oh, we will never open up again, or we will constantly be threatening you with masks and lockdowns until everybody is vaccinated, and every federal employee is vaccinated, and every member of the military is vaccinated.
	We're gonna make sure that your job knows about your vaccination status.
	It's like, these guys lied to us about everything.
	Every big story in the last couple of years, you know it, Kavanaugh and Covington and Russia hoax
	and Jesse Smollett, they lie about absolutely everything.
	And then this is the thing that we have to have absolute trust in them and we can't question anything.
	Like, does that make sense?
	I don't mean that as a conspiracy theorist in like a traditional sense of conspiracy theory.
	I mean it as just as like a logical, decent person.
	Why are we being told we're not allowed to make decisions for ourselves and our family?
	Why is that?
	Do you really think that they care about you so much?
	The same people who wrecked your job, who locked you in your house, who lie to you all the time, they care about your health so much.
	They care about your health and they just want to keep you safe.
	Does that make sense to anybody?
	To anybody?
	Let me know in the comments right down below.
	Jesus, or Jesus, says, I found about you recently on Timcast, that's Tim Poole's podcast, and just ordered your book.
	Any plans to have Tim Poole back on the show?
	Yeah, Tim's been on a couple times.
	Tim is as close, I would say, to a real journalist as possible.
	He used to be out in the field a lot more.
	He was tracking Antifa, and he used to do more, as far as I know, like out on the ground reporting.
	So I don't know if he calls himself He's not a conventional journalist anymore.
	He's doing a little more of what I do.
	It's a little more of like a daily, like, here's what I think about the world.
	Here's my lens, and hopefully you can glean some information about that.
	But Tim is a good guy.
	He's welcome back anytime.
	I know he's wanted to do more in person, so usually on his show, it's when everybody's in person.
	I think, is he in Connecticut, if I'm not mistaken?
	Or maybe he's in D.C.
	now.
	I know he's somewhere East Coast, but next time I'm back there, maybe I can jump on his show, and he's absolutely welcome back.
	Anytime.
	Vic says, can you sell prints of the book cover art?
	Statue of Liberty on fire.
unidentified		Ooh!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Can we talk to somebody?
		We got a guy we can talk to?
		All right, we got a guy we can talk to.
		See what we can do on that one.
		Meredith says, are there any movies that you plan on watching while off the grid?
		So I should clarify, I will be avoiding news and current events and all that stuff, but I am okay watching some movies, right?
		Like I'm not, this isn't about, I can't see anything digital or electronic whatsoever.
		Like I will get in my car, there will be GPS there.
		There's no point in me having a month off the grid only to get lost going to the supermarket.
		so I'll have GPS in that regard.
		And yes, at night we'll probably watch some movies.
		We've been trying to do Quiet Place too, and just we've been so busy the last little while,
		but I really enjoyed the first one, so we'll probably get to that maybe even on Saturday night
		as our first night off.
		Is there anything else that I really wanna see or I'm looking forward to right now?
		I don't know, David's got a note in his iPhone about all the movies that we've been trying to catch up on.
		But I can tell you again, sort of like on the book front,
		it's not gonna be political stuff.
		Like it'll be some sci-fi stuff or some like kinda light.
		Stuff, but that'll be absolutely it.
		Earl says, have you read Ben Shapiro's new book yet?
		His new book, The Authoritarian Moment.
		Well, I just interviewed Ben.
		It went up this week.
		I will be, truth be told, I read about half of the first chapter and then I skimmed around before the interview.
		As you can imagine, this week has just been completely crazy on all fronts.
		And you know, I've said, I've tried to always be upfront about this.
		When I started the show, If I was interviewing somebody about a book, I really tried to always read the book.
		And I always did, probably for the first year or so.
		Since then, because my life and my businesses and everything else have become much more hectic, it's rare that I can read the full book.
		Occasionally I can.
		I did with Douglas Murray's last book.
		But it's pretty rare that I fully can.
		So, I usually have my guys try to give me some sort of synopsis of the book or I will bounce around and figure out what I think is best.
		But I also think as an interviewer, sometimes knowing a little bit less is actually better because then you can ask less leading questions.
		You can ask more broad questions and let the author kind of fill in the blanks for you.
		So, you know, it's 50-50 and I think there's probably some cases where knowing more is better and some cases knowing less is better.
		Beth says, what retailer should we pre-order the book from?
		I don't want to support Amazon and Bezos.
		I think that's totally fine if you don't want to.
		Whatever makes you comfortable.
		Can you read me the list?
		Or can you give me the list of... If you go to DontBurnThisCountry.com, it's going to redirect you to the Penguin Random House website.
		And they've got links there to a bunch of different retailers.
		So Amazon is on there.
		I know that Barnes & Noble is on there.
		Michael's given me a couple of them right now.
		Bookshop is on there, Apple Books is on there, Audible is on there, and then one of the things that we're gonna do, I don't think we're doing it right now, is Bookshop, are they the conglomerate of the small bookstores?
		So I think, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm doing some of this on the fly, obviously, Bookshop, if I'm not mistaken, they're like a conglomerate of small local bookstores, and I try to support small local bookstores as much as possible, so I get it.
		Sometimes the ease of Amazon is great, But we'd like to keep some small businesses operating as well.
		You know, one of the interesting things, I think, about the first book is that I did address faith, and I said that liberalism does not work without belief.
		That's thought of as more of a conservative belief, and perhaps that's why maybe I'm more conservative at this point.
		And I don't mind if someone says that I'm conservative.
		I actually think that shows the wide tent of conservatism.
		But a lot of sort of traditional liberals were not happy about that.
		And I know that.
		Even some of my friends were not happy about that.
		Because what do you mean, Dave?
		If you're talking about belief, that's conservative.
		What are you saying?
		That religion has some value?
		That's conservative.
		Are you saying time-tested eternal beliefs have some value?
		The stories of the Bible have some value.
	That got a certain amount of liberal people upset.
	Not everybody, but a certain amount.
	But to me, what's happening in our society right now is a purely secular society on steroids, where we worship science.
	And I believe in science.
	Of course I believe in the science, when the science is properly communicated to us.
	Everything we're doing is through science.
	I'm looking at a camera, how'd that get there?
	You're watching me on the internet, how'd that happen?
	You know, like science, cool stuff.
	But we're at the end of worshiping science where any given day, there's a study that says this,
	we better do this.
	There's a study that says that, we better do that.
	That thing's wrong, this thing's right.
	And then, and by the way, the same science people, also there's no biological differences
	I mean, it's all become sort of crazy.
	So I absolutely do believe that belief, I believe that belief, is a key part of a functioning society.
	That, by the way, is what most of the founders believed, even though they were trying to separate church and state, and they all had their own different struggles with religion, and was it Thomas Jefferson, I think, was writing a version of the Bible where he was removing references to God, if I'm not mistaken.
	So I think that there's all, There's all of these ways we can look at this, but your question, the question was actually, is there stuff about belief in here?
	I'm just quickly running through the chapters right now.
	Ah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, there's a little bit, but it's not to tell you what to believe or that you have to believe this religion specifically, but I do get into why I think tradition is important, why I think that time-tested ideals are important, and that is really a nod to religion.
	Oh, just to be clear, Thomas Jefferson wrote a Bible without Jesus, not God.
	Pretty close, considering I've got a lot going on.
	Guys, what are we doing here?
	Radio reset for you.
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	Holy schmoley, my throat's starting to get raw.
	I can feel it.
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	Sam says, what's your take on leaving big cities and moving to small towns to be more free?
	Tell you this, Sam, my family has had, and actually there is a little bit about this in the new book, my family at times since around 1910 has had dozens of family members in New York City and in the boroughs.
	I was born in Brooklyn, my dad grew up in Brooklyn, my mom grew up in the suburbs of New York City, but my grandparents all lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for the most part.
	I go into a little bit of that in the previous book as well, but dozens of family members, New York City, Lower East Side, like the Eastern immigrant story that so many of us know and experience whether you're Italian or Irish or Jewish or whatever it is, Greek, doesn't matter, or some other thing, all doesn't matter, like what that true American story is all about, like coming here with nothing and then Living in tenement houses and then eventually living in maybe a nicer walk-up apartment, but then eventually getting out to the suburbs and all that.
	Like, that is what my family story is.
	It's one of the reasons I'm so appreciative for this country.
	But we have one cousin left.
	That's it.
	My sister and her husband and two kids lived in New York City.
	They left during the lockdowns.
	They're down in Florida now.
	We got one cousin left.
	I may have to call the A-team and airlift her out.
	What?
	That's it.
	That's messed up.
	But I got one cousin left.
	Yeah, that's it.
	So to your point, it doesn't seem like the city thing is gonna work.
	At least cities that are run by Democrats.
	Because as long as they're gonna defund the police, as long as they're gonna give a nod to crime, as long as they're going to also be teaching all of the worst things, and we're gonna put critical race theory at all these schools and all those things, how can you rely on that?
	If you wanted to open a pizza shop in New York City, how would you open a pizza shop and have a big glass window in the front of your pizza shop knowing that some Antifa guy could come and punch it or throw a brick through it and break the window and no one's gonna do anything?
	The cost-benefit of living in New York City doesn't work anymore.
	And I say that with great sadness, actually.
	My formative adult life was in New York City from around, I moved to New York City in the end of 99, and I lived in New York City until 2013.
	I was in New York City for 9-11.
	Like, I loved, loved that city.
	The endless, all the stuff that I hated about the city, in retrospect, I love.
	Like, the smells, and the heat, and the subway, and the grossness, and the people, and the anger, and the love.
	It was all nuts, New York City.
	But if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
	And I think that stuff got into me and helped me do what I do right now.
	And living in a city that is a truly international city, I think, maybe I didn't even realize it at the time, but I think maybe has helped me Come to some of the ideas that I believe in now, because I believe that we can be a multicultural society in the best sense.
	That's what we are, and it's only the identity politics people that are now trying to turn us against each other because of skin color and all of that stuff, where if we live in New York City, nobody cares.
	Oh, there's a black guy walking down the street.
	Nobody cares.
	Oh, there's a gay guy walking down the street.
	Nobody cares.
	There's a lesbian with a lazy eye and a limp.
	Nobody cares.
	She's Latino, too.
	Who cares?
	And that's what America's all about.
	But broadly speaking, I would say, yeah, get out of cities.
	It sucks, it really sucks.
	It'd be great to go back to Lincoln Center and hear an opera.
	I'm not even a huge opera guy, but I did that once.
	It was awesome.
	To go back to Central Park.
	These would all be awesome things, but is it gonna be safe?
	Who's gonna really run this thing?
	You've gotta get rid of every Democrat, and then maybe it would be time to go back.
	Congratulations on the new book.
	How many copies of Don't Burn This Book sold at launch?
	I remember you and Candace Owens having a friendly wager.
	I don't know that I'm fully at privy to say what the answer to that is.
	I will say I'm a man of my word.
	Candace did sell more books week one, and I am completely, completely fine with that.
	There was a little tension there at one time, because Candace's book, we had announced my book first, but then it looked like Candace's was gonna come out the week before, and I was like, oh, you know, that's, because how many people are gonna buy two books from, you know, we're in similar worlds, obviously, and I absolutely adore Candace.
	I love Candace.
	She's doing such great stuff, and I'm so thrilled for her rise, and I think she can do Unimaginable things going forward.
	But her book was gonna come out a week before, and I was like, oh, that kinda sucks.
	Like, why'd they do that?
	But then they ended up pushing her book.
	She did sell more copies, for sure.
	I'm not denying it.
	But we did great.
	We did great.
	And by the way, I love competition.
	I really do.
	Like, I love the fact that around the time my book came out, Glenn Beck's last book that I referenced earlier came out a little bit before that.
	Douglas Murray's book came out a little bit before that.
	I'm in this game where people that I know and like are doing good things.
	And I just believe, like, we'll all rise together.
	It's not about, you know, Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan.
	Scotty Pippen's still pretty good, you know?
	Bill Weddington, not so good, but he was on the team.
	He did some good stuff too and got a couple rings.
	Like, you can figure out your place in the wider world.
	And I like the idea of thinking about things sort of through a team, a team aspect.
	James, oh, Ron says, can Larry Elder really save California?
	I don't think we've addressed this already.
	I think it's possible.
	I think it's possible.
	If I didn't think it was possible, then what the hell would I be doing with my life?
	Why would I be interviewing him?
	Why would I be talking about the ideas I believe in?
	Even in a crazy state, anything can happen.
	And remember this.
	Just think back to election night 2016.
	I was on air with the Daily Wire guys, and Andrew Klavan said something to me that really has stuck with me since then.
	And I've credited him with this many times since.
	When it was happening, when we started realizing Trump was going to win and suddenly some of the states started rolling in, it was like, holy shit, the thing that nobody thought could happen is about to happen.
	Orange man is going to be president.
	Hillary, who is being handed everything, is not going to be president.
	And at that time I had voted for Gary Johnson.
	I wasn't happy with either one of those candidates.
	Obviously my feelings on Trump changed, but like we were watching it happen in real time.
	And when it fully got announced, even though if you don't, if you remember, Hillary didn't concede that night.
	Remember that?
	She didn't concede till the next morning.
	I guess she's a conspiracy theorist or something like that.
	She also sent out a tweet a little bit later saying that Trump was an illegitimate president, but back then you were allowed to do that stuff, you know?
	But Clavin said something that really stuck with me.
	He said, and I don't think he was really for Trump either at that point.
	He definitely wasn't for Clinton.
	But he said, he looked and it was me and Shapiro and Jeremy Boring was in there and Knowles was in there and he looked at all this and he said, hey, do you guys realize that only in America Could this happen?
	The thing that nobody thought could happen just happened.
	That shows you the flexibility and the beauty of what a free system really is, because there's always a chance.
	So to liken that to Larry Elder, there's always a chance.
	And by the way, these things do happen in free societies.
	You know what?
	Even though Clavin said only in America, it's like, Brexit happened?
	Everyone said it couldn't happen?
	Free societies, as long as there's a little air for freedom, can do some pretty extraordinary things.
	James says, will the book tour be just in the States?
	Would love to see you in Spain.
	I would absolutely love, love, love, love to go to Spain.
	I've never been to Spain.
	David actually spent a semester in Spain and just absolutely loved it.
	We were gonna do a stop with Jordan on tour in Spain and then some travel things got a little screwy.
	As I said before, I didn't get to do any book tour for Don't Burn This Book.
	I will go basically everywhere.
	Basically anywhere they'll take me, except Portland.
	Who wants to go to Portland?
	That's a pretty big shithole.
	Ah, I'll go to Portland.
	We'll need more security for that show.
	But I'll pretty much go anywhere and I would love to go to Spain.
	I haven't done much of Western Europe.
	I really also want to go back to Italy.
	I haven't done Italy since 1997 when I was a poor college student
	and I was eating Big Macs the whole time.
	I didn't appreciate food.
	I didn't have any money.
	I didn't appreciate good wine.
	So I really want to go back to Italy.
	I really want to go to Greece.
	I want to go to Poland.
	I want to go to Hungary.
	I want to get out there.
	And if I have a book tour as an excuse, that would be pretty sweet.
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unidentified		Keep talking, Dave, keep going, you can do it.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Jan says, "How did society get to this place "where the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many?"
		Education.
		You know, a couple years back, when I started talking about what was wrong with the left, and I started going to college events, and I was showing up to talk about basic liberal stuff, and I was being called a white supremacist, and a Nazi, and a homophobe, and a whole bunch of other stuff, I started noticing the trend, the trend that now everybody sees.
		And I remember very specifically the first event that it really hit me how rotten something was.
		We were up at, well, Portland State, no surprise, and my friend Peter Boghossian, who's obviously been on the show many times, He is, I believe at the time, was an associate professor of philosophy at the school.
		And I was doing an event with Pete, Christina Summers, you all know Christina Hopp Summers, who's the original factual feminist.
		She's been fighting for first-wave feminism and true equality her whole life.
		So you have Pete, who is, he wrote a book at that time called A Manual for Creating Atheists.
		So you have this atheist philosophy professor, lefty, You have Christina, an original feminist.
		In essence, an old school lefty, an old school liberal.
		And you have Dave Rubin, who is a year off the Young Turks, still calling myself a lefty and all that.
		You have a bunch of us come to this event to talk about free speech.
		We go to the event, there's tons of antifa there, they're calling in bomb threats, they're blocking people from going in, there's a ton of security.
		I remember they had to keep us in a room off-site before, and there was security standing outside the door.
		And Christina is just a lovely, lovely, lovely woman, and I just adore her, and she's very dainty.
		If you ever meet Christina, she's very dainty.
		Her wrists are like this, and I remember we were being shuffled from the room with security to the event, and I was holding her hand, and I remember thinking how small her hand was, and I was like, this is nuts!
		Like, we're the good guys!
		What's going on here?
		Why are these people, they're calling us Nazis.
		Like, this is insane, and they're calling us homophobes, and Christina hates women, and you know, all of this insanity.
		And we gave a talk.
		I think it was interrupted once or twice, but not too terrible in the room itself.
		But I remember they had to shuffle us out after.
		They didn't want us to go, we all wanted to go out to eat, but they didn't want us to go out to eat near campus after.
		It was a whole thing.
		By the way, at that event, that was the first night I met a guy by the name of Andy Ngo.
		Yeah, that Andy Ngo.
		Andy Ngo was, I think he might have even been a student at Portland State, if I'm not mistaken, at the time.
		But in essence, he was a student journalist who, again, he was a lefty himself.
		And he started doing some journalism, actually saying, there's something going on with this Antifa thing.
		Like, what is this socialist thing?
		What is happening here?
		And we all started seeing it from that point forward.
		And I would talk about it on the show.
		And then obviously, you know, I brought on people like Brett Weinstein, who was a lefty at Evergreen State.
		And because he said that we shouldn't have a day where we tell white people not to come to campus, he was called a racist, basically he and his wife.
		My wife, Heather Hying, were basically chased off campus and had to lose their jobs over this.
		You know, the James Damore incident at Google, Lindsey Shepard up at Wilfrid Laurier University fighting, you know, she tried to, as a student TA, tried to show a class a Jordan Peterson video and she was basically suspended for it, even though she made no commentary about the video, she just wanted people to watch it.
		So there were all these things.
		that a whole bunch of us saw were wrong, and they're directly correlated to the Marxist quote
		that you gave me there.
		Like, college, and now we're seeing it actually that it's leaked into high school
		and it's leaked into junior high, and in some ways it's even leaked
		into elementary school and preschool.
		These ridiculous, awful.
		The worst time-tested ideas of equity instead of equality, and taking from some, and being embarrassed by success, and that jealousy is a virtue, and all of these things.
		We've decided to make these things good.
		I would lay a lot of this blame on Bernie.
		He somehow tricked an entire generation of young people to think that if just the system does everything for you,
		whatever you want it to do for you, and if the system just gives you everything,
		that things will be good.
		And that's why liberalism has nothing to do with modern progressivism.
		JFK, ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
		He was a liberal Democrat president.
		That's completely the opposite of Bernie Sanders.
unidentified		Free college for everybody, Free healthcare for everybody.
unidentified		We're gonna tell you that the minimum wage is $15 even though everybody's gonna be replaced by iPads.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, free this, free that.
		It's not because he wants things to be free because he's such a great guy.
		He knows in his heart of heart, I have no doubt, that if we had free actual universal healthcare the way he wants it, that service would go down, which is why people still come to the United States right now to take part in our evil capitalist system that is, by the way, it could be better for sure.
		But people still come here because they're on long ass lines in Canada for all sorts of services in their socialized medicine system.
		And if you don't believe me on that, talk to Lauren Chen, who's a friend and a former guest on The Rubin Report, whose father developed cancer, could not for months get the appointments he wanted.
		I was able to connect him with a fan of mine who was a longtime supporter I'm not gonna mention his name right now just in case he doesn't want to, but who worked at one of the best cancer institutes in the United States and we were able to get her father here and he's doing much better from what I understand.
		So why did he want to come here instead of Canada's socialized medicine system?
		So these people have all the wrong ideas but they've tricked young people into thinking that all the wrong ideas are the right ideas.
		I gave a talk right before the 2016 election At Crossroads School here in Los Angeles.
		This is like the most elite high school in Los Angeles.
		Can you see if we can find a price on it?
		It probably costs 50 grand a year to get students to high school.
		It's insane.
		This is where all the Hollywood moguls send their kids, all the Hollywood elite, all the super rich people send their kids.
		And right before the election, they wanted to do, they wanted to have a liberal, a libertarian,
		a conservative, a socialist, all come and debate and talk about who they were gonna vote for
		and things like that.
		They brought me on as the liberal, and I, of course, ended up agreeing mostly
		with the libertarian.
		But they had this socialist there.
		I don't even remember his name.
		It was a socialist who, it was a socialist who actually ended up running
		on the socialist ticket.
		And a lot of the kids were applauding him.
		A lot of the kids were applauding him.
		And then I went all in and had to rip him apart.
		And then by the end, I had a lot of the teachers nodding with me and everything else.
		Crossroads School in LA.
		Harvard High School in LA, which I'm getting some numbers on right now, is $42,000 a year for high school.
		I'm looking for Crossroads.
		I think it's maybe in Santa Monica.
		We'll check on that.
		So we have to fight these bad ideas.
		And by the way, these bad ideas aren't going anywhere.
		This is why we have to fund students instead of schools, right?
		We have to be able to give people more school choice.
		Why does Elizabeth Warren hate school choice and hate charter schools while she sends her own kids to private school?
		This is a woman who also pretended to be Native American to get a job, to get a professorship, right?
		We know that she did this.
		They lie about everything.
		Crossroads School is $38,000 a year, so it's a deal because Harvard High School is 42,000.
		Oh, we have an updated number.
		Crossroads is $45,000.
		So I guess the deal disappeared.
		So much for that deal.
		Let's see, okay.
		Oh my God, is that right?
		So the first number that I read, 38,000 was for elementary school at Crossroads.
		Elementary at Crossroads.
		Can you imagine $38,000 a year to send your children to some elite school where they're going to be brainwashed by some asexual Marxist?
		What's wrong with you?
		Kathleen says, sign book plates.
		What about paw print of Clyde available for extra?
		That would be fun.
		That would be fun.
		Maybe we'll do something around that when we get closer to actual launch.
		Let's see.
		Dave, does your book cover the subtlety the left is using to lull people into the collectivist mindset?
		It's less about that, honestly.
		I mean, that's sort of what I was just talking about for the last few minutes.
		It's less about that because that's really more what Don't Burn This Book was about, like exposing the left for what it is, why the ideas are wrong, why funneling money endlessly to programs like affirmative action don't work, and keep people in a cycle of poverty and all that.
		So I think I did that job there.
		Again, this book is more about the action that you can do to be more reliant on yourself, to be more reliant on your local community, To understand and think clearly about your relationship with big tech.
		Things of that nature.
	More than like, I'm trying to move past the why I left the left.
	I left the left!
	And then I lit the match and that's it.
	No more left.
	Okay.
	Vin says, do you think the universal mail-in ballot will affect the California News and Recall?
	So they're forcing basically a mail-in ballot.
	And from what I understand, Rick Grinnell is doing a lot of work on this.
	There is deep, deep corruption with the voter rolls here in California.
	Lots of dead people, a lot of people that have moved, a lot of people who are ineligible to vote for one way or another.
	So that right there is so broken and corrupt that that's one of the reasons I said before, it's like, Larry Elder has a massive hill to climb here because it's not just, oh, I have to have better ideas, I have to get more people to vote for me.
	It's like if the voter rolls are all screwed up and then we do all this stuff with mail-in ballots and you don't have to show your ID, which you don't have to do in California.
	Although, strangely, if you were to get on a plane to leave California, you have to show your ID.
	So, is that racist?
	By the way, do you have to show an ID to get a COVID vaccine?
unidentified		You probably, uh, you probably do.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		They put your name on a piece of paper?
		Racist fucks.
		That they are.
		That woman at CVS, racist, asked for your ID when you got the COVID vaccine.
		All right, we got about 20 minutes left, guys.
		Man, I am talking today!
		Sally says, is this book good to give on-the-fence liberals like the last one?
		Yes, it is, because my hope is if you gave the last book To a non-defense liberal, and I know a lot of you did.
		We got a lot of emails like that, like people saying, you know, I gave this to my cousin, I gave this to my wife.
		I had one guy, he kept saying, I kept putting it on my wife's nightstand for like six months, and she kept removing it, and finally one night, or he woke up one morning, and it was actually, it was flipped over, and it was open a couple pages in.
		Yes, it is because it's the next extension of that.
		Because my hope would be that if you gave this to a sort of self hostage liberal
		or an on the fence liberal, whatever you wanna call that,
		that they would have woken up to some of the ideas.
		And if they have, this is the next step, part two, empire strikes back.
		We're putting Han Solo in carbonite, you know what I mean?
		DontBurnThisCountry.com, guys.
		You can get the books at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, couple other places.
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		You just submit some information that you confirm that you purchased the book and we're gonna send you a signed book plate.
		Ellie says, what do you say to friends who are still afraid to leave their home?
		My friend who's vaccinated told me that she's terrified because of the Delta variant.
		Stop watching the news.
		I mean, I try to tell this to people, but it's hard.
		Once they're in that mindset, when you're in that mindset where you're just watching and CNN, they're showing you death tallies, which remember, CNN had a rolling death tally throughout the Trump administration.
		Then Biden became president.
		They don't have the death tally.
		Now they're trying to scare us again.
		So I'm guessing that any day now they're gonna have charts.
		They won't show numbers because the numbers are actually quite low, but they'll show percentage increases, which as I said, if you go from one to two, it's 100% increase.
		You gotta try to wake them up however you know how.
		Literally be like, do you wanna take a walk?
		Like, start with that.
		Do you wanna take a walk?
		And let's just take our masks off and go for a walk.
		Or, you keep your mask on and let's go for a walk.
		Like, I'm sure that the rates of agoraphobia, the fear of leaving the house, the rates of being afraid of just basic social interactions.
		You know, one of the things I've really, really noticed in the last couple months where I've traveled more is that Airline stewardesses, there's a tension on planes right now.
		There's a rudeness.
		I saw a flight attendant get into a fight with a guy and it was not the passenger's fault and they actually kicked all of us off the plane and I had to leave, take a flight back from Miami.
		We had to drive to Fort Lauderdale and get on another plane altogether.
		So I think sort of basic social stuff is breaking down.
		Again, that's why I go off the grid.
		I'm gonna see real humans for a month.
		I'm gonna talk to real human beings.
		I'm gonna talk to cashiers.
		I'm gonna talk to waiters.
		Or maybe I won't talk to anybody, but it'll be better than the other thing.
		Kurt, how about we disband the Department of Education?
		Yeah, I'd have absolutely no problem.
		What is it doing?
		What is it doing other than brainwashing people?
		Brainwashing young people to turn on America.
		Disband it.
		Destroy it.
		Disband the teachers union.
		Randy Weingarten, that woman is a complete maniac.
		Disband it, sorry.
		You should have no control or influence over anyone's life.
		Again, I don't have kids yet, so maybe at some level it's easy for me to say.
		And when we do have kids, God willing, we'll have the resources to be able to send our kids to private schools or charter schools or whatever it is.
		But that's why you gotta push for funding students instead of systems, because then it'll give the parents the flexibility.
		And that's, as I said before, it's exactly why the left doesn't want it.
		They hate choice because they want brainwashing.
	That is as simple as that.
	It is as simple as that.
	All right, four questions left, and then I have, well, I have 18 other media appearances to do, but I think I'm gonna not talk.
	I'm gonna go sit in a dark room for a little while.
	Johnny, can you implement a no-suit jacket rule for you when you're chatting with us on the private livestream on Locals?
	Yeah, we can do that.
	No suit.
	I don't think I've done any with the jacket on.
	Well, this morning I did, because we did it from the studio.
	If I'm out of the studio, you got a deal, my man.
	If I'm out of the studio, no suit jacket.
	I'm usually in a t-shirt.
	Last night I was wearing just a regular shirt, button down.
	But the policy has been instated.
	Can we make note of that?
	Make note of that in the report.
	MC, how will you know if new lockdowns are imposed if you're off the grid?
	I won't know.
	I won't, my goal is to not know.
	It is very possible that for a week I will be in my house and everyone else will be in their house
	and I will be in my house by choice and they will not be in their house by choice.
	I don't want to know.
	As I said, we are going away for a little bit.
	So when I get back and I get off the plane, if the airport is like completely empty,
	I think I will have gleaned something out of that.
	But I'm gonna try to avoid as many of those interactions as possible.
	I'm gonna work out here at home instead of going to the gym 'cause I wanna avoid the TVs anyway.
	I'm gonna do as much as I can to just make sure I don't get any of that stuff.
	And we have a very short list of...
	Well, we have a very simple way that people can get in touch with us, meaning family and things, and it's a very short list related mostly to health-related things, if people absolutely need to get in touch with us.
	But it's not, I mean, really, if Biden announces his retirement, I don't want to know.
	Or if Barack Obama slips and accidentally says, oh, we gotta get rid of Joe.
	Kamala, you're in.
	I don't wanna know.
	I'll find out on September 1st.
	The world will continue.
	Connor says, best guess on what was on Biden's chin in that video, banana pudding.
	If you didn't see this, like five minutes before we started this live stream, there's a video going viral right now where Biden, he's sitting at a desk and they hand him a note.
	His people hand him a note and you can actually see there are closeups of the screenshot where it says something like, sir, there's something on your face.
	And it looks like he has like a little goo over here and he wipes it off.
	And then he sort of eats it.
	Like, I don't know what it was.
	Maybe his face was melting.
	I don't know what's going on there.
	It's just all so ridiculous.
	Alright guys, we've got one more question for you.
	Michael says, give us a little hope before signing off for August.
unidentified		Look, we have hope.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption, hope.
		Like that's, it's the most human thing that there is.
		Hope and the belief that we can change things and make things for the better and that you have some capacity over your life and that you can fight for a world that you want to live in.
		We have to have hope because guess what?
		All the people coming to take that hope away, they believe.
		They believe that they can destroy all this thing.
		So how about the rest of us decide, hey, we're not just going to sit back and take it anymore.
		That would be my hope to you over the next month.
		Whether you take a couple days off the grid or whether you're as engaged as you ever were or whatever it might be.
		Fight a little bit more.
		And I don't mean violently, and I don't mean what the Democrats say, get in their faces, and don't give them any peace, or any of that stuff that Maxine Waters or so many of the Democrats have said.
		But in your own life, show up to those student council meetings, the parent-teacher meetings.
		Show up, say what you believe, go to, when you're in a, whatever your job is, and they're pushing some sort of racist diversity and inclusion program down your throat, say something.
		Say something.
		It will not get better unless you say something.
		No one is coming to save us.
		You know, like, they ain't coming.
		Like, 20 guys on horses ain't coming to town to save us.
		You got a chance to save yourself.
		And I truly, I swear, I believe this.
		Well, everything I've said here I believe.
		But I really, really, like, in my bones believe this.
		If enough of us stood up, Within three days, we could reset this entire thing.
		I actually believe that.
		If enough people said, nope, no more, I'm not participating in this anymore, and then whatever that means to you in your life, whether it's taking your kid out of a school, whether it's deleting your social media accounts, whether it's doing something new in business, whether it's moving your family, but if enough people said, that's it, We live in a time of lies and dishonesty and authoritarian bullshit, and I will not play any longer.
		I will not be part of this any longer.
		Three days.
		That's really what I think it would take.
		I honestly believe that.
		That, of course, is where a lot of my energy is gonna be spent over the next month,
		sort of when I'm trying to reset some of my thinking and get those fresh eyes on things, as I said before,
		and open up that mental space to get some new ideas in there
		and it's not even new ideas, really get some, just a fresh perspective
		on what's going on.
		That's where I'm gonna be.
		That's where I'm gonna be.
		How can I help?
		You know, I think, I think in the last year, I've helped an awful lot of you say,
		Dave, you help keep me sane.
		It's the best thing someone can say to me.
		You guys have helped keep me sane at the exact same time, especially those of you on Locals,
		'cause I communicate with you directly all the time and I get to see what your lives are all about
		and it ain't all about politics.
		We can fix this, but we got to do it together.
		It's really as simple as that.
		Guys, quick recap on the media hits today, although you've got to be sick of me.
		Maybe get out there, take a walk yourself, but if you're stuck at home, and you really just want more, if you're sitting there going, I want more, Dave, More Dave, please, for God's sakes, give me more!
		More Dave, more!
		Clip that.
		OAN, I'll be on with Natalie Harp at 140 Pacific.
		Newsmax, I'll be on with Sean Spicer and Lindsey Keith on Spicer & Co.
		at 310 Pacific.
		And then my last hit, the last hit till September 1st, I'll be on Fox News Primetime at 430 Pacific.
		All right, one more time, and then I'm gonna say goodbye.
		Don'tBurnThisCountry.com.
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		There are links right there, and then our description right down below has the link where you can submit your information so that I can sign a book plate for ya.
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		All right, let me take one more sip and then I'm gonna give you some final thoughts.
		We can fix this.
		I'll see you next time.
		I'm a piece of it.
		You're a piece of it.
		We're all a piece of it.
	I hope that this summer, whether you take A day off, or a week off, or a month off, or no time off.
	I hope that you give yourself a little space to be a human in all of this madness.
	I hope that I'm able to come back with those fresh eyes I was just talking about and continue to help give you guys a little perspective on some of this stuff that is okay.
	It is okay.
	And what sits next to all this is that, for me in the last year and a half, It's crazy, like we're in crazy times.
	We're in some sort of cultural revolution, there's no doubt about it.
	But life has been pretty good for me.
	My life is pretty good.
	And I want to show you, or not even show you, that sounds too pompous, I just want to be part of you realizing that life can be good within this thing too, because it can be.
	And maybe the best way for us to win this thing It's just being a little better than those guys.
	While they're burning, we can be building.
	And while they're complaining, we can be showing people that there's a better way to do all this stuff and be appreciative of this country and be appreciative of the people that came before us and the ideas that allowed us to succeed in all of those things.
	So on that note, guys, I am saying goodbye.
	I am a few hours away from getting off the grid.
	As I said, I'm doing a little smoked porterhouse tonight.
	We're gonna crack open a nice bottle of wine, and then I've got a little bit of travels ahead of me, and then I'll just be hunkered down at home, avoiding the machine.
	And I wish you guys a great end of the summer.
	I guess we're in the middle of it now.
	I hope you have a great month in August.
	I hope you take a little time off for yourself.
	As I said, we'll have some content here.
	And for those of you that are in the RubinReport Locals community, I know you'll still be interacting and talking and all that good stuff.
	And I'll catch up on all that when I get back.
	So more than anything else, I just thank you guys for being on this adventure with me, helping me build something that allows me to do something as crazy as what it is that I'm about to do, which shouldn't be that crazy at all, yet in our modern times it is quite crazy.

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