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Jan. 20, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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And, if I'm right, if all of our hard work has paid off, if all of the computer machines and the electronic wires and all of the weirdo gadgets that these two fine gentlemen who are in this room with me right now have been fiddling with all day, if all of that has come together, if that red light that I'm staring into is working, then this is officially The first Rubin Report from my new house in Florida.
There is an awful lot to talk about.
This is a rare nighttime show for us, but we got the keys at about noon today.
It was a mad dash to get in here.
It has taken about two and a half, almost three weeks extra to actually get in here.
I thought we were going to get to Florida.
Well, I know when we got to Florida, which was December 18th, I thought maybe we could close on the house right before Christmas.
Then I thought it could be right after Christmas.
Then it looked like it was gonna be right after New Year.
Then some other stuff happened.
Then all hell broke loose.
Whole bunch of things related to COVID and delays and banks and loans and all these different people pushing paper across desks.
But we made it.
We are in.
We've been busting our butts all day long.
And this is my first show from our temporary Florida home studio.
So I want to be very clear.
As you're looking at the beautiful Florida sunset behind you, sadly I Do not live right on the beach, right on the water, just like that.
But we thought we'd give you a nice feel of what it's like to live in Florida in this beautiful time of year.
This is the winter.
I almost said the summer, but it's the winter.
I guess people in Florida are saying...
A long time Floridians are saying it's been a little cold the last week.
I think it's been absolutely perfect.
Every day here for the last month has been absolutely perfect.
Like, it's just been absolutely wonderful.
By the way, I am drinking Dave's famous Paloma.
It's a tequila Paloma.
Sometimes people do a gin Paloma.
I like the tequila Paloma.
I normally wouldn't have my guys drink during work.
But I have allowed one Paloma each to Connor and Michael, and we're very excited to be here.
It's just been a crazy, crazy month.
So you all know I left California.
I left California about a month ago, and we fled.
I mean, we really did flee.
I sold my house so quickly.
Like, it was just like, I didn't negotiate.
I probably could have got more money.
I was just like, I have to leave.
This place is collapsing.
They're going to come arrest me.
The mob is going to show up at my house.
I was like, we just got to get out.
We got to get out.
I don't care how we're getting out.
We got to get out.
And then we weren't sure when we were going to close on the house here.
There were a couple of moving pieces.
Things are a little bit slower in general in Florida.
The real estate situation is a little bit different.
Also, the real estate market here is so ridiculously bananas hot that you have to just get in on every house that you like immediately, and then you're bidding against a million people, and I had to call in favors, and it was just a situation.
But we did get here.
We fled California.
We got to the free state of Florida.
And since I've been here for the month, I gotta tell you, I have seen more I have seen happy people.
I have seen smiley people.
I have seen fit people.
You know, Miami is the most fit city in the United States.
That's what they say.
Just everyone looks like a million bucks.
I have been to packed restaurants.
I ate out at a restaurant the other night.
This is a place where you go, where you sit down, usually with people that you know, and then perfect strangers bring you food in exchange for money.
I haven't done that in California in about two years.
So everything's just been great here.
There's such energy in this city.
I've bounced around a little bit throughout the Florida area, but mostly I'm in the Miami, sort of the rough Miami area.
Obviously not going to tell you exactly where I am, but rough Miami area at the moment.
And it's just great.
The refugees that are coming here, I know so many people moving here right now.
Even in the month that I've moved here, I've inspired a couple other people that I know, and at least two fans to move to Florida.
Like, there's just such great stuff happening here.
Like, two days after we got here, I was at a party, and the mayor was there, Mayor Suarez, who came up to me, and he's like, Dave, man, I'm so happy you're here!
And he gives me a big fist bump and a hug.
And I was like, I was legit an enemy of the state.
Like a month ago, right?
Like Gavin Newsom had me on a list.
And now I'm here where the mayor is welcoming me to the city.
As you guys know, I was invited to the governor's mansion with a couple other people and I had a great intimate dinner with Ron DeSantis, Governor Ron DeSantis.
It was just great.
Like it was so cool going up to the governor's mansion and I had a little tequila at the end of the night.
I don't think he was drinking, actually.
Most of the other conservatives, they love their whiskey and their scotch, but he did have a cigar.
He did have a cigar.
I think I can say that.
And just to go there and be welcomed.
He was like, Dave, we're so happy you're here.
It's great.
We love that you brought your businesses here and your family.
I'm like, it's just absolutely spectacular.
So my whole team has moved down here, or is at least in some version of the process of moving down here at the moment.
Everyone's getting apartments, buying stuff, we're helping the economy, it's all good, the weather's been great, the people are happy.
It's good, guys.
You think the audience can tell that I'm happy?
Can they tell that everything's... Yeah, I got the thumbs up from both of you guys.
Okay, yeah.
Everything really has just been great here.
I'm super excited.
First, that we finally got the house, of course.
So, referring to this little...
Fun background that we got behind us.
That's our evening background right now.
So while we're in the temporary studio in the house, because we are going to build out a major studio while we're in the temporary studio, we've just got a screen behind us, and we're going to work on some fun little things that we can do with the screen.
This will be our evening motif.
We're going to have a morning motif, an afternoon motif.
Maybe motifs will change without me even knowing, because I can't see what's behind me.
So who knows what Connie's doing over there with the computer?
I don't know.
But yes, we are going to build out the main studio, which will be a full proper set and all of that stuff.
But obviously it's going to take a little bit of time.
And I don't know if you've heard about this old fella.
There's this guy, very confused man by the name of Joe Biden.
And he's the president, or the man pretending to be president, and because of him and his poor policies, there's been a lot of supply chain issues.
So it is very hard to order things right now.
It was not easy to get all of these lights and the TV and the TV stand and the thing that I'm putting my Paloma down on every now and again.
And the desks, I've been to Ikea many times.
How many times did we go to Ikea in the last two weeks?
17, 27 times.
A lot of times to Ikea.
Even Ikea, we went to Ikea, and even Ikea is out of a lot of stuff.
And there is nothing worse than when you write down the number
or you take a picture of the Ikea thing.
I'm getting the Lack Shelf.
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It's in aisle 15, bin 4.
And you're all excited, and you're going, I'm going to do Ikea, and it's great, and I'm going to put all the stuff together, and the Allen wrench, and the other thing.
And then you go down to the warehouse area.
There.
It's a zombie zone.
Wasn't that terrible here, but there was a lot of stuff we couldn't get.
And anyway, so we've been trying to order stuff for the studio.
Not only new backdrop, shelves, items, all sorts of stuff.
But things are just taking a lot of time.
My house is completely empty right now because, well, we've got basically a couch and a carpet.
But other than that, pretty much empty because the truck That has all of our stuff.
We've got a big-ass truck.
I think that's the technical term.
The big-ass truck, like the Optimus Prime truck, was in L.A., and because we got delayed a little bit, usually takes them like four or five days to drive cross-country if they're just like, it's all your stuff and we're just going right to you.
But then we got delayed a couple days, so I had it in a warehouse in L.A., and then I told the guy, okay, you can leave now because we're gonna be in the house and everything, and basically there is a massive problem.
In the trucking industry, in the shipping industry, you guys know about this.
I think we've talked about it a bit on the show, that basically because everybody is moving from California.
And New York, the New York people go straight down to Florida, the California people go all the way across to Florida, or some of them go to Texas, some of them go to Tennessee, but basically everyone's going that way, or everyone's going straight down, nobody's going back up, and nobody's going west.
So the truck drivers and the entire shipping industry, this is an industry built on, oh, we take stuff this way, we make money, oh, and then we pick up stuff, we go this way, we take money, we go this way, we make money, we go this way.
And it ain't happenin', so there's been all sorts of delays, so we're not gonna have much stuff, basically, for the next 12 or 14 days.
That'll be alright.
We'll be okay.
We got a couple towels at Target, and we got these fancy new glasses that I'm drinking Dave's Fave Miss Paloma out of, and, you know, it's all gonna be okay.
I do want to just quickly thank a couple people because this was just like a crazy thing.
Some people in life I think you just make decisions and then you figure out all the other stuff after and that's very much how I operate.
David fills in all the little details and that's why we're a great team together.
But when I made the decision to leave California, and obviously it had been sort of a year coming and you all know the story.
of roughly a year and a half ago, or even a little bit more at the beginning of lockdown.
I'm sitting in my backyard with Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire and his wife and David,
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and we're all going, you know, we're gonna stay and fight and we're gonna
defeat Gavin Newsom.
This was before the recall even, but like we're gonna save California.
And then literally the next morning, Daily Wire announced they were moving to Nashville
and Knowles was gone.
But I did decide to stay and fight.
Obviously, as you know, I think it's worth fighting sometimes, I really do.
I think you have to stand your ground.
I do believe that good ideas win over time, especially if you're brave enough to put those ideas out there and fight for what you believe in.
But you can't win all the time, and sometimes things aren't worth saving.
And sometimes if you try to save somebody or something that wants to drag you down with it, well then that's what's going to happen.
And I gave California an extra year of my life.
And I'm not going to sit here and tell you that my life was terrible, because it wasn't.
I have a great life, like truly blessed.
Life and I'm around great people and I'm in a great relationship and I, you know, make money and I have great businesses and all of those things.
But the place was crumbling.
The place was crumbling.
The homelessness and the drug use.
You guys know all this and just everything felt wrong and the people that wanted more lockdowns and more masks.
And then there was the recall election and it was a disaster.
And the way the machine, the entire cultural and political machine went after a great man, Larry Elder, a great friend of mine and a great human being, more importantly, the way they called him the black face of white supremacy.
And I went and I traveled and I toured with the guy and we were on stage and it was amazing crowds and the recall was just a disaster.
So I don't know what to make of that other than these people just want more.
They want more and more rules around them.
They want to be told what to do.
They want to be spanked and put into bed in real tight sheets and blankets and just can't move.
And then you can wake me up when you want because I need you to tell me when I can get up and when I can go to bed and everything else.
So the last year, you know, even though what happened in our house, we had great parties.
I had a great 45th birthday party.
We had great dinners, all of these things.
It was like I was never leaving my house.
And when I was leaving my house, the few times that I did, I'd walk the dog and I'd sometimes get sneered at for not wearing a mask while I'm outside in 85 degree weather in California not walking the dog.
Or walking the dog, but I'm not wearing a mask, right?
So I'd get sneered at for that, and just, you know, I'd go to supermarkets, and I didn't want to wear a mask, so I'd get yelled at by a security guard, and then I'd be inside, and some Karen would yell at me, and then some other guy would yell at me.
And then David, who's completely tolerant of my radical right-wing beliefs, like, we were in the supermarket one time, like, right around when I was, like, about to announce that I wanted to leave, about to really tell him, like, we've got to go.
We have to escape before they build the wall so that we can't get out.
We were in a pavilion supermarket and I wasn't wearing the mask and I had it in my pocket, you know, so if someone wanted to yell at me, I could put it there and that would stop COVID, you know, I think that's how it works.
But someone was yelling at me and David just turned to me and he's like, and with sort of with a smile on his face, like it wasn't in a dick way at all.
He was like, you know, you don't have to come shopping with me anymore.
And then I was like, okay.
Okay, we gotta go.
Like, this is so insane.
And the level, you all know these stories.
You all have these stories in your life with your family and everything else.
Just the level of insanity.
It's just like, no more.
I just didn't want anything to do with it.
And then on top of everything else, and then I don't want to talk about California ever again.
Maybe that's gonna be the goal.
Maybe every time I bring up California on the show, I'm not kidding, I have to pay money to something.
I'm really not kidding.
Like, every time I reference California, if it just pops into my brain, I'm gonna donate $5 to something.
The California, like, Retard Association or something, or... Damn Paloma.
You know what I mean.
You know what I mean.
The California, or the Refugee Network.
We're gonna figure that out.
Something, something.
Larry Elder's Pack.
Yeah, maybe that'll be it.
Or how about the Save Larry Elder Fund, where I will put up enough money, the amount of times that I say California on the show, I'll put up enough money to privately charter a plane to get Larry Elder from the dystopian nightmare of California to the free state of Florida.
I'm not kidding.
We should do something like that.
Let's make note of that.
Every time I bring it up, you know, just sort of gratuitously, I will put five bucks towards something.
But then, of course, after the That starts after today's show, by the way, because I just got to finish up what I'm saying here.
But we get through the recall, and then three days after the recall, I got audited by the state.
Audited by the state.
And it's like, we know this is what they do.
Lois Lerner, remember that whole scam?
IRS scam during the Obama years?
Like, they used the levers of government as weapons.
And it's like, maybe it's a coincidence that I got audited after the state, after trying to take out Gavin Newsom, but maybe not.
And I was just like, okay, that's it.
And I have to say, and then we'll move on to Florida, I have to say that when I brought it to my team, I brought it to David, I talked to Helen, my whole team, and it was like, everybody was like, yeah, let's go.
Like, it was almost like they were all waiting for me to say it.
Like, Dave, what are we all doing here?
Like, it's time to go, man.
And fair to say you're happy here?
Fair to say you're happy here?
Everybody's happy.
Everybody's happy.
Everyone looks like a million bucks.
I think we've all lost a little weight.
It's just like, everybody's happy.
The food, the scene, the restaurants, everything is amazing.
So I'm just incredibly appreciative of not only my team who showed up and has busted their butts to build out the studio to get us back in line, but the people.
There are a couple people.
I don't even want to mention names because I know they don't want verbal shoutouts.
But somebody who helped me tremendously yesterday in the midst of some last-minute craziness involving paperwork, you know who you are and you're watching, I hope, and thank you, thank you, thank you.
And then to the couple, who I hope is watching as well, who hooked us up at their house for the last month so that we didn't have to bounce around hotels, and you just took extraordinary care of us and Clyde, and it ain't easy to have a dog in hotels, and you just let us stay every time I called you, and I was like, I got another sob story.
They moved the date again.
I gotta stay one more.
And it was like, you're welcome.
You're welcome to stay.
And you put all that cereal in the closet in the kitchen, and it's amazing.
I ate a lot of cereal.
They have a lot of cereal in the kitchen, in the closet, and I ate probably three boxes of frosted mini-wheats.
That's not healthy, but I did it nonetheless, okay?
It was a stressful month to some degree.
I got COVID!
Nobody cares about that.
I got COVID.
It was a pleasure.
I had that for a couple days.
My knees hurt.
That was like, really, my legs ached for a couple days.
It did hit David a little bit harder.
We're here in Florida.
Monoclonal treatment real quick.
I took a little ivermectin.
It didn't turn me into a horse.
I've had this penchant for sugar cubes lately.
But that's about it.
Like, it was just fine.
Michael got COVID.
Connor did not get COVID.
So you should be studied.
You should be, like, taken to a science place where the science people are.
And they should study you because everyone you know got COVID except for you.
Very bizarre.
But it's just, it's just been great here.
So anyway, the purpose of tonight, really more than anything else, is I just wanted to say hello to you guys.
I really realized in this last month, you know, we did five shows last week at Newsmax.
Oh, so I do want to thank the folks at Newsmax, particularly my buddy John Bachman, who hooked up the situation, and the staff there was great, and they let us do our thing, and it was just wonderful being there.
I loved being in Boca, it was just, Fun and, like, just nice to be in another city and see some other people.
A lot of old Jews there, so I basically pretended that I was in an episode of Seinfeld at Del Boca Vista the whole time.
It was really great.
Saw Morty and, you know, Helen and the whole thing.
And we did that, and then really the purpose of this tonight was that I just wanted to do a real thank you to you guys.
And I realized, I really realized, and I know this may sound cliche or silly or pandering or something, but it really is true.
Like, how much I love my job.
I was, like, not happy.
As happy as I've been here, the only thing that I wasn't happy about was that I couldn't do this.
I couldn't talk to you guys directly.
I did a bunch of local stuff, and I was livestreaming, and all that, and communicating with people on there, and Locals is now the only place that I respond to anybody, and I talk to people, and it's great, and we're building.
An amazing community, but I miss doing the work here of the show, right?
Like, I miss, like, talking to you guys about the news.
You know, I'd see things.
Twitter's not the same.
It's just not the same.
It's all negative bullshit, but not even that.
All the interactions are just purely meaningless.
Like, I missed, like, talking to you guys about the news, communicating things, the Biden press conference that we covered last week.
Like, there were so many instances of that.
The viral videos, and getting in here, and talking about the news, and sometimes being silly, and sometimes being serious, and doing something that has value.
You know, I can't tell you the amount of people that have come up to me here.
You know, I always tell you, it's like, when people come up to me, they're always nice.
But something about being here, the people that have come up to me, like, they're, like, overjoyed.
They're, like, thrilled that I'm here.
Just welcoming.
When I was waiting for my buddies the other night at STK in Miami Beach, which if you ever want to go to a steak joint that is loud like a club, and they got that thumpa-thumpa-thumpa, and you can't hear anybody, that's the place to go.
But the food was great, atmosphere was great, all good, loud, fun, whatever.
I'm sitting at the bar waiting for my friends, and this couple, I don't know, probably like mid-60s, sitting next to me, And the woman's looking at me, she keeps looking at me,
and then the guy goes, "You're not gonna, "I don't know if you know who this is,
"you look like this Dave Rubin guy.
"You ever hear of this Dave Rubin guy?
"You look like Dave Rubin."
I was like, "I have heard of Dave Rubin.
"He's right here."
And it was like, I've just had so many great experiences of just people being happy and nice.
I'm not kidding.
Even like stuff here at the house, like the inspectors are nicer.
And that is what I want to devote my life to.
I am not kidding.
I am here now in the free state of Florida to keep Florida, Florida.
There is something right here.
Something really, really right.
And by the way, it's not just here.
It's not just here.
Of course, it's in Texas.
Of course, it's in Tennessee.
Of course, there are pockets of it, even in blue states, believe it or not.
And of course, there are other red states and everything else, and not that the solutions are all political.
But people have managed somehow in certain places to figure out a way to live a free life of their own accord.
It doesn't mean they're perfect.
I certainly ain't perfect.
But like people are figuring it out.
People are figuring out how to tune out the lunacy, how to focus on the things that give them value and joy and passion and all of those things.
And I want the message of what has gone right here in Florida, I want that to resonate That is now the driving force of what I do.
In many ways, fortunately, it's what my new book is out, which comes out in April, Don't Burn This Country, and it's all good.
You know, people are live chatting in Locals right now, so if you want to go to rubenreport.locals.com.
Oh, man!
Michael almost took out the whole system right there, almost knocked over the Paloma right onto all the fancy new equipment.
It all could have ended.
Well, that's what a test stream's all about.
Can the supercomputer survive tequila and grapefruit juice?
These are the things we're testing out right now.
But people right now are chatting in rubinreport.locals.com, so you can throw me a couple of them.
Craig, this is important.
We don't have our teleprompter set up yet, by the way.
That's why I'm looking a little bit this way, because he's showing me on a traditional computer.
These are all the inner workings of a YouTube show that you might not know normally.
This is an important question.
Craig, how's the humidity treating your hair?
I gotta say, I'm feeling pretty good about the hair game.
I still don't have a stylist.
If you're watching this right now and you are a great Miami hair stylist, I need somebody.
I'm about five weeks out from a haircut.
My girl, Jess.
Jess, I love ya.
I miss ya.
Can I fly you out here?
If not, I need somebody in Miami.
Like, obviously I need somebody.
So if you're a hair stylist in Miami, reach out to me.
The best way to get me is at Locals, but find a way to get to me.
But I need everything.
I need a dentist.
I need a dermatologist.
I wouldn't mind getting a massage every now and again if you're a masseuse.
What else do people need?
I need an optometrist.
My eyes are fine, thank you.
But I guess if I had some strainage of the eyes, I could need an optometrist.
Allie says you need to post the Paloma recipe.
Allie, I appreciate that.
And first off, you know, David puts a lot of his recipes at davidscookbook.com.
He's an incredible chef.
Or you can check him out on Instagram at davidscookbook.
And he is actually working on a real cookbook, like a legit cookbook, which I'm super psyched about because I want to share some of these great meals.
And a lot of you in the community have made a bunch of his stuff.
I think the cast iron chicken parm usually is number one.
And the non-fried chicken wings also do quite well.
But there will be some drinks in there, and then the book is going to take an interesting other turn, so it's not just a cookbook, but I can't get into that, but I'm going to have a little something to do with that, I think.
But the Paloma recipe, well, I'll be quite honest, this Paloma is very simple because, as you can see, you're not getting much of a pink there.
In a normal Paloma, you'd be getting your grapefruit juice, you'd be getting a pinker thing.
I didn't have a grapefruit here.
We're running low on supplies.
I had to do what I could.
Grab the tequila.
Well, I filled it up with ice.
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Filled up my new fancy glass from Target at ice, with ice.
Went with the tequila, didn't measure, just did what I had to do.
And then it's just a grapefruit spindrift.
You guys know about the spindrift?
I'm like addicted to this stuff.
It's basically club soda with just like a splash of different juices.
So this one's grapefruit, but they got raspberry, they got lime, lemon.
You know, they got an Arnold Palmer, they got all sorts of stuff.
Normally I would put some lime juice in there, but really for a good Paloma to me, it's just like club soda, grapefruit juice, lime, ice, like you're good to go.
You could put like a little fruit in there if you want, but this is pretty basic.
Let's see, Rob says, I'm pretty sure that I'm on Newsom's list as well.
Yeah, the guy's definitely got a list.
Like, that's what they love.
These people love Liz.
Ah, does that count as me talking about California?
He duped me!
And I said it's after today, anyway.
So, Richard says, let's go, Brandon.
Ain't it the truth, man?
And by the way, Michael is here in a let's go Brandon shirt.
Very exciting.
Very exciting.
How's the stream going, guys?
Has anything crashed?
We feel good about this?
It's all good?
So, alright, we're gonna wrap because my guys have been busting their butts all day.
We wanted to do about a half hour.
Make sure the computers weren't gonna crash, and that everything else was gonna be okay.
So yeah, I think we're gonna be in this studio, or some form of it.
It's a little hard to say, honestly, because of the supply chain stuff.
Like, we're ordering backdrops, and bookshelves, and all the trinkets, and lights, and, you know, we're gonna hang, like, we got a lot of stuff to do.
We'll be here, but the show will be as sharp as always.
Our teleprompter does arrive in a day or two, so then I can get messages directly, so I don't have to look that way, because I would imagine in the last half hour, when you saw me look away, You're going, what's he doing?
What's over there?
As opposed to looking directly at you.
So we'll have the teleprompter and, you know, we have some tricks and fun stuff coming over the next little bit.
But I'm really psyched to be back and I just want to thank you guys all for your patience.
Oh, and very importantly, you do have to note that we are changing the time of the show.
We started it last week, but officially, really officially starting tomorrow, because I'm really considering this sort of the new beginning, is today.
Today's sort of day one of the whole operation.
Our new live stream time, every day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, at 11 a.m.
Eastern.
We used to be at 2 p.m.
Eastern, which was 11 a.m.
Pacific.
We are now at 11 a.m.
Eastern, and I think that's it.
I think that's it.
I just really, I want to thank you guys.
You've helped me build something here that is awesome and growing.
Oh, I officially want to welcome Phoenix to the team.
Phoenix was our intern, and can I say that he didn't, he left, can I say the thing?
Yeah, he left college to get a job here.
He was like, you know what?
Why am I wasting my time on these Zoom meetings with the masks and the morons?
And I was like, you want a job?
You got a job, man.
I'm paying you.
And I think he moves in like in two days from now.
So I'm just super psyched that you guys are part of this adventure.
I promise you that if you think that anything that I've done over the last few years has been halfway decent, that we are gonna make it all better.
And I'm truly feeling inspired.
Sometimes you have to look for inspiration in life, right?
Like you don't feel it, you're out of touch with what's going on, you're a little lost, whatever, like no, not for me at the moment.
We're going to save Florida, we're gonna save America, and then we're going to save the world.
I got nothing better to do than save the world.
Do you?
Let's find out.
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