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April 15, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Is This the Real Reason Why Twitter Execs Are Scared of Elon Musk? | Direct Message | Rubin Report
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How you doing, freedom lovers?
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I'm Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report Direct Message.
It's April 15th in the year of 2022.
The video that you just saw, that cold open we just showed you, that was Elon Musk.
You've heard of this guy.
He was at the big opening event for Tesla in Austin, Texas.
As you know, he took them out of Cali about a year or two ago amidst the lunacy of COVID craziness in California and the taxes and the big government and the regulation and all that stuff.
He moved them to Free Texas and they had this bananas event.
If you haven't seen the video, don't stop watching this, okay?
Obviously not.
But there is video that you can find on the computer machine where they had drones and a really just awesome show.
And I wanted to show you that because obviously we're gonna talk a bit about Elon Musk today.
Most importantly though, today, ladies and gentlemen, is day two Of the post-woke world.
This is a phrase that I have coined, and I believe it is what is happening right now.
The fight is on.
It's not just about complaining and exposing anymore.
That sounded kind of funny.
It's not just about that, though.
It's about actually how do we defeat the woke and build new things.
That's exactly what Elon Musk is all about.
And that's what's happening in this Twitter situation right now.
That's what I've been trying to do for quite some time and many others.
And the signal has been sent around the universe throughout the galaxy.
It is time To fight.
Speaking of fighting, people, although Facebook would not let us put ads up about it, and Twitter would not let us put ads up about it, I am going on tour.
That's right, it starts this Tuesday in West Palm Beach with Donald Trump Jr., and then I'm off to Clearwater, Florida with Benny Johnson of Turning Point, Raleigh, North Carolina with Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire, Atlanta, Georgia with the Willy Wonka of Politics, Michael Malice, Chicago, Illinois with the Wonderful, majestic, freedom-loving Yanmee Park.
Dallas, Texas, with Glenn Beck of The Blaze.
Washington, D.C., with former View host, I'm gonna have to ask her about that.
Meghan McCain.
West Nyack, New York, with the lovely and extraordinary Meghan Kelly.
Brea, California, with the one and only Dennis Prager.
Oxnard, California, with my man, the black face of white supremacy, Larry Elder.
San Jose, California, with British conservative Douglas Murray.
Phoenix, Arizona, with both the future senator of Arizona, Blake Masters, and Turning Point USA's own Charlie Kirk.
And then finally Denver, Colorado, with comedian extraordinaire Brian Callen, you can get your tickets right now at DaveRubin.com slash events.
And again, VIP tickets.
You get the one second hug.
Every single ticket, VIP or not, comes with a book.
Okay, there you go.
All right, so let's recap what's going on with this Elon Musk Twitter story.
This is the story, and again, even if you're not on Twitter, and God bless you for not being on there and keep doing what you're doing with your life, it's a huge story because Twitter is right in the center of the battle for free speech.
It is the public square where, whether you like it or not, the old days of the guy going to the town square and ringing a bell and demanding people listen to him are long gone.
It is just The center of how we communicate with each other these days, even if it's just a small section.
of Americans, from an American perspective, who are on there.
It's where all the politicians are.
It's where all the tastemakers are.
It's where all the culturally relevant people are.
And so much of that leaks down into all of our lives.
So it is what it is.
So Elon Musk, as you know, he has now offered to buy Twitter at a crazy price, about $44 billion.
Real quick, I'll show you the letter that he sent to Brett Taylor, who's the chairman of the board.
I read this yesterday, so I'll do it real quick.
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.
And I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
However, since making my investment, I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form.
Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
As a result, I'm offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $50.50.
$4.20 per share, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter, and a
38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced.
My offer is my best and final offer, and if not accepted, I would need to reconsider my
position as shareholder Elon Musk.
Okay, so what's the guy doing?
He wants to bring free speech back.
I am not gonna sit here and pretend that he is a god, or a perfect man, or any of those things, but he's pretty damn good, and he can do whatever he wants in this world, and he's chosen to get in the fight, put his money where his mouth is, get into a fight that is so murky, and messy, and gross, and evil, and the way the mob comes for you, and to fight the woke machine.
It's like he could do anything, and he chose to do this, so this is pretty awesome.
Whether he gets it or not, it's awesome because it's a signal that we can fight and you know how I feel about the signal.
Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy, who you guys probably know, he had an interesting Twitter thread on what's going on here that I wanted to show you.
He said, so Elon offered $41 billion to buy all of Twitter.
Now the board decides if they want to sell it to him.
It's a no-brainer offer and they'd all make a shit ton.
The only reason to say no is because they don't like him, right?
Do I have that right?
And if they say yes, then everybody who owns any Twitter stock basically gets cashed out at $54.20 a share, and it all goes to Elon.
That's wild!
So maybe it's not that great an offer.
Maybe the Twitter board thinks they are smarter than Elon and can get it to $75 a share, but if they don't sell, the stock price is gonna crash, I think.
Elon has them by the balls.
So without getting into too much of the nitty gritty related to stocks and how a guy like Elon Musk just saying he's interested in something, much less purchasing a part of it, much less making an offer for the full freakin' thing, how that can change the value of the stock, which is exactly what Portnoy's referencing there, and of course it's exactly what Elon himself is referencing in the letter, the game is afoot, okay?
There is something seriously interesting.
Now try to imagine, you're a board member, Of Twitter.
You're one of the people who has to make the decisions around this.
You're not just the CEO but you're a board member.
You're an influential shareholder.
You are going to make a crazy amount of money on this.
Why would you be saying no?
Most of these people invest in these things to make money.
Now, of course, some people invest in things purely for ideological reasons.
And if you were a free speech warrior 10 years ago who invested in Twitter, are you happy with the way Twitter is working out on the free speech front?
I mean, maybe it censored a lot of the people you wanted censored.
Maybe it killed the Biden laptop story and that got the president you wanted.
But are you really happy with how this thing has turned out?
Is there any chance that someone is going to come in and give a better offer?
Like this is what every company, every startup, every tech venture, this is what they want.
Like the billionaire to come in and buy the freaking thing and take the headache off their hands.
These people all have massive headaches.
So we shall see what they do.
It seems like a no brainer.
I can't imagine they're going to get a higher offer.
The issue that I think might be going on, and I don't think you're going to hear that much about this in mainstream media, is I suspect that under the hood of Twitter, there is so much dirt.
I mean, deep dirt relative to how the Hunter Biden story got killed, how they made the decision to get rid of Donald Trump, how they've decided to at times suspend people like me for saying that vaccine mandates were coming.
Back in July, when they obviously were coming, and then I was suspended.
How they've gotten rid of tons and tons of accounts, always right-leaning, or conservative-leaning, whatever you want to call it.
How they've done all of this stuff.
If that is all exposed, if emails are exposed, and especially, look, it doesn't matter, you know, whether they suspend a guy like me, or something like that, in terms of legal ramifications, but if there are real emails related to connections with governments, and how the Trump thing went down, and the Hunter Biden, There is a huge amount of problems here, and I think maybe they realize that.
Maybe Elon realized he opened a parent or his box and now he has to go for the full thing.
I don't know, obviously, but I think there's a lot here.
I think it would be pretty damn awesome.
Maybe Elon will buy the whole thing and then appoint Trump the CEO.
Wouldn't that be something?
Bring Trump back on, Trump's the CEO, and then every day Trump does a reality show where he just fires another lefty from Twitter.
Hillary, you're fired!
Wouldn't that?
Jennifer Rubin, you're fired.
Stelter, you're fired.
I'm not doing a good Trump impression, but you get it.
You're fired.
What does he do?
You're fired, like this.
Anything's possible, people.
I think there's something happening, and if you see it, You can start linking together some of the pieces of the future.
So Elon Musk, I'm with you.
The people are with you.
All right, let's get to the Rubin Report Locals Community Q&A.
Christy says, love the new book.
I just finished listening to it.
Have you guys reached out to Elon Musk for an interview?
The Babylon Bee was lucky enough to get one, so hopefully you will too.
Okay, so I've never actually directly reached out to Elon.
I think he's probably seen a couple of my tweets because when I've tweeted at him or asked him questions, you know, often things have gotten like 20,000 retweets or crazy numbers.
He actually just a few days ago did respond to something that I tweeted relative
to what's going on with Twitter and what I think the best course of action would be
and all that.
So I suspect the guy kinda knows me, whatever, it doesn't matter.
I would love to sit down with him.
I'm not gonna try right now.
It's like, there's enough going on.
He's probably not gonna be looking to do a lot of interviews right now.
But putting aside the Twitter thing, just everything that this guy has done,
we don't have that many people that are brave.
We don't have that many people that are true innovators, that see the world in a different way, that can create.
I mean, the guy's a creator more than anything else.
The Tesla, if you have not been in the Tesla, is an awesome freaking car.
Michael, you got a Tesla in the last month or so.
How would you say the Tesla is?
I don't know if they have it anymore.
They don't have the crazy button anymore, the ludicrous button.
It's gone.
So they used to have something on the Tesla called the ludicrous button.
That's literally what it was called.
And if you pressed the button, the car would explode like a spaceship.
I mean, it was super dangerous.
That must be why they got rid of it.
But it's just awesome.
The Tesla has a whole thing where you can set up whoopee cushions in other people's seats so you can just be driving and pressing them and then different kinds of the extended fart, the short fart, everything in between.
I mean, people need this.
You know what I'm saying?
So yes, I would like to talk to Elon Musk.
Michelle says, why does Bill Maher think all Republicans are racist?
What does he think?
What does he think?
We are a threat to democracy?
I know he's being red-pilled, but he really has some archaic thoughts about us.
Yeah, I mean you guys know my thoughts on this.
He's at the end.
He's at the end of liberalism and he has to make the choice.
And then every time he gets close, he then does something that's just so crazy.
You're like, man, you were right there and then you threw yourself right back into the stupidity.
So just last week on his show, after getting so close for so long.
He went on this rant about how Republicans would be thrilled if there were no black Supreme Court justices, and it's like, that is such nonsense.
I assure you, if there were 12 all Clarence Thomas clone Supreme Court justices, like, Republicans would be thrilled, obviously.
The idea that they still boil it all down to race, or as he said, that there should be a black seat on the Supreme Court, like, that's just...
Crazyness.
And he just has to get over that hump.
But I suppose this is something in life.
It's like we all head in a certain direction.
You can sort of see the promised land in the distance.
But that last moment...
Whether you're gonna go, or whether you're gonna turn back and do all the things that you knew before.
That's the moment of truth, and I think he's probably, to some degree, struggling with that.
I think the other thing related to him that's not fully about race, but connected to race, is that he's so deep on the religious thing and the anti-religious thing that he's pushed for so long.
I mean, I saw his documentary, Religulous.
Like, the guy hates religion.
He does not like believers.
It's just how he is.
He's mocked religion his whole life.
You can think of that what you will, But the fact that the people that now are defending all the things that he purports to believe are the religious, I have no doubt he's having some internal debate there and monologue with himself.
Like, how could this be?
How did this happen?
Maybe there's a religious story, perhaps?
Is there a parable?
Can someone give me a religious story that might be worthy of sending to Bill Maher that could bring this thing home?
Is there a biblical story about the non-believer who ultimately was defended by the believers?
And that's what gave him his redemption?
There's gotta be something there, gimme something.
Coco says, we have VIP tickets in Denver and we're so excited.
Reading the book now, what time do we show up at the Gothic Theater if we have VIP tickets for the meet and greet?
The meet and greet is after the show, so show up normal time for the show, and then after the show we grab all the VIP people, and I'll give a separate little talk for the VIP people, the shake hand and or the one second hug, the signing of the book, the picture, And then who else knows what's going to happen?
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Maybe we'll do shots together.
We'll see what happens.
But I'm looking forward to Denver.
That's the last show of this leg that we're announcing right now.
That's with Brian Callan.
It's going to be a fun one.
So I hope that you guys can get out there.
Remember, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates.
I don't want to see your papers.
I don't care what your medical conditions are.
Come on out if you want to have a good time.
DaveRubin.com slash events.
Nathan says, Hey Dave, excited to see you and meet you on your tour in Atlanta, the home of Chick-fil-A, where this gay man happens to work.
Hot damn!
Crazy sounding, I know.
I'm curious to know, what is your favorite menu item from there?
Are you going to bring me some Chick-fil-A in Atlanta?
The home of Chick-fil-A?
That would be something.
And a gay man working at Chick-fil-A.
You mean they haven't thrown you in the fryer?
They're not coming for you?
I can't believe it!
What is my favorite item?
I always go for the spicy chicken sandwich.
I always go for the spice.
I like the pickles.
I like the spicy.
I like the fried chicken.
I like the whole thing.
But my team does know, if we have Chick-fil-A, we pretty much have to shut it down for the afternoon.
It knocks me out.
It takes me out.
There have been times where we've had Chick-fil-A and, you know, I've got something to do, big meeting.
We have a lot of meetings around here where we talk about things very seriously.
And then suddenly people will be like, where's Dave?
And I'm like upstairs on the couch, just unconscious.
It's a...
It is what it is.
But I enjoy the Chick-fil-A.
I like the... Michael, you like all the sauces.
Name a couple sauces.
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Chick-fil-A sauce.
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You got the Chick-fil-A sauce.
The what?
Polynesian.
Polynesian.
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Zesty Buffalo.
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The what?
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Zesty Buffalo.
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Zesty Buffalo.
It's not just Buffalo.
You got the barbecue.
You got your honey mustard, I'm sure.
Barbecue.
Barbecue.
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Ketchup.
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Ketchup.
Those are the big ones.
Very good.
Very good.
I'm really taxing you today.
Emily says, are you and Dave taking time off once the first baby is born?
I think it's so important to have that time to bond, but I really just want to know how long we will be without the Rubin Report.
So the first baby is due in August.
So, you know, we're off the grid during August.
So hopefully we'll have a couple weeks there.
I know what the exact due date is, but.
It's obviously, babies aren't necessarily born on the due date, but we will have some time as a family, and we're gonna have family here, and his mom, and my mom, and his sister, and my sister will be around.
She's pregnant too, at the exact same time, supposed to give birth the day before, and we, of course, we want all of that time.
David's gonna take some extended...
Time off and really focus on that.
I'm going to try to do the show the second we get back in September.
It'll change my schedule, obviously, a little bit.
And from what I understand, my ability to sleep is going to be greatly altered.
So I'm trying to bank a little sleep right now.
But I don't want to take time off.
Now, the second baby, who is due in October, will be a little more difficult relative to schedule, and maybe I'll have to take a few days off or a week off.
It's obviously very amorphous, depending on just a gajillion things.
So we shall see.
But for the August situation, God willing, I will be back in here right on September 1st, or whatever that first Monday is, after Labor Day.
Amanda says, what are your thoughts on the Biden administration continuing this grace period for student loan repayment?
We should have done more on this and maybe next week or we're touring next week.
But when I'm back in studio, we'll do a little more on this.
I mean, look, the student loan repayment thing is basically a bribe.
That's all that it is to say to people, you got into debt by your own choice.
And now you're upset that you got into that debt and we're going to take care of you, even though we know we don't have any money and we're spending money we don't have.
And we're deflating the value of money because we keep printing it.
So we'll just print more to make it go away.
None of it makes any sense.
But it's a purely a bribe.
And if you listen to the messaging coming out of the Biden administration, they're basically saying it.
I mean, AOC is basically saying To Biden right now.
This is almost an exact quote.
She's like, you're not doing well with young voters.
You got to do the debt thing because that she feels that, oh, if you, in essence, give them money, give them that free pass, they'll vote for you.
I don't know that they're going to vote for Biden either way.
But but the thing is, it's one of those issues that if you think about for more than a second, you realize how faulty it is.
First off, to pay for someone else's debt.
I have a mortgage.
You gonna pay for my mortgage?
I mean, I have car payments.
You gonna pay for that?
Like, no one is deserving of having just a mortgage or a loan or whatever it might be just taken care of like that.
It can be done by the grace of God if your friends or family want to take care of you or whatever, but not by the government, because that's just somebody else's money that they're just moving over to you.
But also, the idea that you'd get rid of all student debt.
You know that there are kids who come from upper-middle class, if not rich families, That go to, say, Syracuse University.
How much is Syracuse University a year?
I'm going to guess it's about $70,000.
About $70,000?
Let's say it's about $70,000.
$70,000 times 4.
Well, times 2, it's $140,000.
Times 2 again, that's $280,000.
These are kids that have money, come from means, and everything else.
Now, you walk out into the real world, you got your degree in lesbian archery, and you can't really do anything, and you're $280,000.
Why would the government pay for that back?
It just makes no sense.
It's about 70.
Are we accepting that?
I'll take that as the number.
You guys can Google it yourself.
But it doesn't really make any sense.
It's not just... And also, you're punishing the people that took care of their debt.
That's what you're doing.
I remember about five years ago when we finally paid off David's last college loans.
He went to Penn State, worked real hard, got great grades, got a good job, life's worked out, and finally we had a little bit of money when we started making money about five years ago, and we paid off that last thing, and it was such joy, such joy that we did it.
Why did we do it?
Are we schmucks?
Are we pushovers?
Are you gonna pay us back?
So I guess not only should we pay off everyone's debt, but everyone who's paid off their debt will pay that off too.
You know, because we want to be fair.
We like equity here in the United States of America.
Zionist says, are you and David attending a Passover Seder on Friday night or Saturday night?
Yes, we are doing two Seders.
Lots of matzah.
We're going to Jersey to my aunt and uncle and my folks will be there and cousins and a bunch of other people as we as we try to do every year.
We got mucked up one year during lockdowns, but there will be horse riding.
We will tell the story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, that place where the progressives of today don't want Jews to live, but that is the story.
And I love Passover, actually, because the story of Passover is the story of freedom.
It is the story of a people taking responsibility for their lives and figuring out that you don't have to be ruled by a king and you can fight the power and you can survive and thrive in your own land by your own belief system.
And I love the family as part of it and doing the Seder and that whole thing.
If you're putting aside whether you're Jewish or not, if you've never been to a Passover Seder, I would highly recommend it.
You know, the Passover Seder is also what they think Jesus' Last Supper was at a Passover Seder in essence.
And I would recommend that everyone, I think we got an image for you, Dennis Prager has the rational Passover Haggadah.
Which it's the number one selling Haggadah, if I'm not mistaken.
And I just bought about six of these.
I think we bought six or eight of them that I'm gonna give to my family.
And I think we're gonna try to use that as the Haggadah this year.
Dennis does just an incredible job of explaining big biblical stories while still maintaining some of the rational beliefs that we have in explaining the difference between metaphor and story and all of these things.
And so we will be checking that out and you can get it on Amazon if you'd like to.
Emma says, what can be done about wokeness in corporations?
The parallel economy has taken a while.
Well, look!
The Twitter thing is a big boost in the parallel economy.
What's going on with Locals and Rumbles?
Big boost.
But do we need it to speed up?
Yeah.
Do we need more companies?
Yeah.
But what can you do?
You can cancel a lot of the stuff that you don't like or that you're paying for that is working against you, whether that's Disney Plus or Netflix or whatever it might be.
You can do that.
That's a way of doing something.
You can try to buy books, not just on Amazon.
I mean, I push the Amazon link, but usually I was pushing, actually 99% of the time, I think I was pushing DaveRubin.com slash book because there we had all the links.
So you could go to mom and pop shops.
I always encourage people to buy local when possible.
We try to do that ourselves as much as possible.
It's not to say we don't use Amazon.
Obviously we do, but you can do a little more To make sure that the little guy can survive amongst this woke insanity.
Wits says, Stephen Crowder said they would crowdfund to keep Brian Stelter on CNN.
Would you be inclined to join with them?
Yes, if that is a real thing.
And if it gets to the day that Stelter is going down, 500 bucks.
You got it, Crowder.
Rubin will throw in $500 to keep Potato on the air.
I enjoy a baked potato, by the way.
You give me a loaded baked potato, I am pretty much as happy as I can get.
Sidebar.
Eagle says, what's the most daring thing on your bucket list and what are your plans to do it?
Well, I would love to do this, you know, you can orbit the Earth thing that I think didn't Who did it?
William Shatner did it.
I think a few people have done it now.
I guess it has a little something to do with Elon Musk and SpaceX, but you can orbit the Earth.
I used to have a lot of anxiety related to flying, actually, and then when I started touring with Jordan, I knew I was like, I'm going to be in...
I don't know, I'm going to take 200 flights in a year or something like that.
I just have to get over it.
And I remember the first day of the tour, we were getting on the plane and I said, Dave, it's time to get over this bullshit.
And I just killed the fear.
I have no fear of flying anymore.
It's really weird.
I was just able to say to myself, enough is enough.
And I don't have that problem anymore.
So yeah, something in space.
Send me out to space.
Maybe that's all where this is all heading anyway.
You know, enough of this.
I've done everything I can do on earth.
I've tried.
You know, one thing they can't say, but they can't say he didn't give it the old college try to save Earth.
I tried.
So let's, you know, I'd like to go up to Elysium, live up there with those people, with the food and the wine and that whole thing.
Phil, oh, speaking of Elysium, just on a sidebar, if you haven't seen the movie Elysium, it's, um, who's the guy that did it, the director?
What's his name?
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Neil...
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Blumkamp.
He also did District 9 and just a few days ago on Sunday, we had nothing to do, we watched Chappie.
These are great sci-fi movies that have really powerful, did you see Chappie?
Freaking awesome movie that have powerful messages related to humanity and our struggles and class warfare and all bunch of stuff.
So it's Elysium, well District 9 was the first one, Elysium and Chappie was the last one.
Uh, Phil says, as we know inflation is absolutely killing us right now and it appears to me that the dollar may collapse, where would you put any savings or excess money?
I mean, look, the Bitcoin thing...
It's real.
The crypto thing and the decentralized thing, it's all real.
The idea that you can exchange money and you can exchange goods and services without the middleman of the government and without the system that at any point, because of a bad decision by a man with dementia, can devalue the currency, that is very, very cool.
And what's nice here in Miami, I mean, this is the hub of it now.
It was San Francisco.
It's all moved here.
I went to a talk last week where Mayor Suarez here in Miami was talking and
you know he's the one that really he sent out that tweet you may remember
this and I did an interview with him where we talked about it a guy by the
name of Keith Raboy who works at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund one of the
biggest VC funds over in San Francisco it was there now they're here he had
said something about I've been thinking about moving to Miami
This is like two years ago in the middle of lockdown.
And Mayor Suarez sent a tweet to him and said, how can I help?
That tweet blew up.
Keith Raboi then moved here to Miami.
And actually, the event that I was at was at Keith's house.
I mention all of this because it then started a tech revolution here, which is happening in Miami, which is why so many people are coming here and they're voting the right way.
And there's such a beautiful thing happening.
So I was at this event and Suarez, it was during Bitcoin Week last week, and Suarez, or the Bitcoin conference last week, And Suarez is just, he's so forward-thinking on all this stuff.
He's a good guy.
He's trying to get all these companies here.
It's why we moved Locals here.
Locals is building awesome offices and studios right now as we speak.
And yeah, so I think getting at least, even though I know a lot of it feels futury and weird and it's like what's it based on and all that stuff, like get a little bit of Bitcoin, get a little bit of Ethereum.
Get involved in that a little bit and see what happens.
Chris says, Dave, I believe you said that when you lived in California, you were a registered Democrat.
Now as a Floridian, how are you registered, Republican, Democrat, or unaffiliated?
Thanks.
100% honestly, I have been so freaking busy that I have not been able to get a driver's license yet.
We have the appointment with the DMV.
I think it's in like two weeks when I have a little break on the tour, but I assure you, With 100% certitude, I will be registering as a Republican here in the free state of Florida.
As I often say, you don't have to be a Republican, but you cannot be a Democrat.
I will be a Republican.
It does not mean I will agree with everything on the Republican Party platform, or everyone that is a Republican.
Okay, fine, we get it.
But I want the Republican Party to remain strong here.
I think we have a really great Republican Party here, obviously led by DeSantis, but I know so many of the people now.
And I want to strengthen that.
It does not matter if I agree with every little thing.
I don't even know that I have great differences on any level at this point with them.
But they are here to defend freedom and defend the sovereignty of this state and allow you to live freely.
So yes, I will be registering as a Republican.
Dave, says to Dave, can you tell the story of you and David buying your first gun?
That's a lot of Davids.
As someone who grew up with guns, I'm fascinated when disaffected liberals turn pro-Second Amendment and buy guns themselves, or maybe you were always pro-Second Amendment.
I'd love to hear your story.
No, I really shifted on guns.
I mean, that's when I really shifted on.
I was never against the Second Amendment.
I've always believed that you have the right to defend yourself and to defend your family and all that, but I really, really shifted in the chaos of the lockdowns.
We were at our house, not the last house I lived in.
We lived in a different house where the garage was, where the Rubin Report was shot out of when we were doing a lot of in-studio stuff.
And we lived off a main road in Los Angeles.
And when the riots, the BLM and Antifa riots were coming, the riots kept going basically by our house.
So it's not that the mass crowd was going right in front of our house, but a lot of people walking into the mass crowd were going there.
And we did not feel safe.
We did not feel safe.
I was obviously worried that people knew where I lived, which it's impossible almost to hide where you live, especially in a place like Los Angeles for a series of reasons because of celebrity and just snoops and all of that kind of stuff.
And it did not feel safe.
There was suddenly out of nowhere.
There was suddenly a lot of crime in our neighborhood.
Houses were being broken into and there were just vagrants around.
The homeless thing kept increasing.
All of that.
But with the riots kept when the riots kept going by, We just started feeling like, if something happened, like, can we call the police and would they even show up?
Because that was also in the midst of defund the police.
So we started realizing how much more important it was to have the ability to defend ourselves.
And then I'll tell you one day, well, actually, before we got the gun, our previous dog, you guys probably remember, Emma, had just passed away in February of 2020, right before lockdowns.
She was 16.
She lived a great life.
And we didn't want to get a dog for a while.
Plus, my book, my first book was coming out.
We wanted a little break.
I was going to be on a book tour.
But then when all hell was breaking loose, you know, there's some statistic.
It's something like if you have a dog, even if you have just like a little yipping Pomeranian, your house is like 90 percent less likely to be broken into because if a robber is casing a house, he's looking at two houses.
They look exactly the same, but he knows one has a dog, one doesn't.
It's just an extra So that was another reason that we grabbed Clyde.
It was really because the lockdowns were starting and they were gonna kill all these dogs, and I literally just ran to the shelter and grabbed him.
I tell the story in the book.
But it was also, it would be good to have a dog around, but we realized that wasn't enough too.
We wanted a gun.
So we, how'd we do it?
I have a friend who need not be mentioned, but it's a public person who, a former lefty, him or herself, Uh, who had a friend who was a gun dealer, and it was, by the way, it was very hard, it's always hard to get guns in California, but then it was crazy hard because everybody wanted guns suddenly.
So we went to the gun shop, it was about, uh, 45 minutes away or so, and it was jam-packed, but we had somebody that gave us really great service, you know, it took some time because you have to fill out the paperwork, then there's the waiting list and the background checks and all that stuff.
We had to get familiar with the guns.
Long process, but yes, we have guns, and I believe you should be able to defend yourself and your family without question, and I would say I'm as pro-Second Amendment as you possibly could be.
Missy says, what do you think of answering the left's anger over the Florida bill with OK Groomer?
Fair or not?
I'm glad you asked this one because I've been asked this on a couple other shows and I have not addressed it on this show.
So first off, I have not used the OK Groomer phrase once on this show.
I have tried very hard to calmly explain to you what Bill HB 1557 is.
I have tried to explain to you that it has nothing to do with being gay.
You could just as easily call it Don't Say Straight, etc, etc.
What, uh, what Amy's talking about, sorry, was it Amy?
What was her name on that one?
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What Missy's talking about there, uh, is that a lot of people online are just now saying, okay, they're just responding, okay, groomer to anyone that's for the, the HB 1557.
And the implication is somehow that all Democrats are pedophiles or something like that.
I chose not to get involved in that.
Um, but I get the inclination to fight fire with fire.
I really do.
Also, I don't know what a better, I had, I went on Guy Benson's radio show a couple days ago and he asked me about this.
It's actually the first time I've addressed it publicly.
And he asked me if I thought it was a good phrase to use or not.
And I said to him, although I have not used it, if you want to talk to someone else's child That's six years old, about sex or gender or sexuality, and you want to do that privately and alone, and you don't want to inform the parent of that conversation.
What would be a better word?
Now, I think his response was indoctrinator.
I'm not attacking Guy when I say this.
I don't know, is indoctrinator less offensive than groomer and is that more effective in getting the point across?
I don't know.
But in essence, I don't think groomer itself necessarily means pedophile.
You're just trying to confuse a child for a million different reasons.
Why would you want to confuse a child?
Is it just because you want to confuse them about sex?
Or you want to confuse them about the nature of the world and who they can be?
Who should be responsible for them, and who they should trust, and all of those things.
And then once you've broken that in an innocent six-year-old, what else could you get them to believe?
I think that has more to do with it than so specifically just the sex thing.
So if you want to say it to those people, it's fine.
I think their intentions are really horrible.
I really do.
There's just no need for any of this.
They lie about everything.
So if you want to fight back in a way that you might not be 100% cool with all the time, you got to do what you got to do.
Amy says, with the book tour starting next week, inquiring minds need to know, how do you prepare for a show and do you have a ritual?
You know, not really.
I kind of, I get to the, well, I'll tell you this.
You get a little rider when you sign a contract for a tour where they say, well, what do you want at each menu?
I ask for unsweetened iced coffee and a couple bottles of water.
That's it.
I don't want food.
I don't want booze.
I don't want anything else.
I try to have a very, the shows are mostly at 8 o'clock, so I'll probably have a very light meal at about 5 o'clock.
No drinking or anything like that.
Get there.
I do like a little bit of the caffeine right before I go on stage.
And, you know, I usually try, and this is what I was doing with Jordan or whenever I've done stand-up or when I speak at college events or whatever.
For about two minutes before, I try to just get my thoughts in order.
You know, I'll think about, all right, what have I been thinking about all day long?
And I kind of do it like that.
I kind of close my eyes for a second, like, what have I been thinking about?
What's been sort of rattling in the back of my head?
Not just all the stuff that I'm doing all day, but what else is there and how do I want to organize that?
And then I try to sort of roughly write something in my head where I'm like, okay, so I know I want to say this first.
I want to get a big laugh when I walk out on stage, usually something different every night.
Then I want to link it to this.
I want to make, you know, this comment about Biden and then let's go from there.
But I really don't have an end point necessarily.
You know, it's funny when Jordan, and I'm sure many of you came to the Jordan shows, I would always make fun of him, not in the nicest possible way at the end of the show, because Jordan would give this unbelievable Hour-long talk.
Different every night.
I'd watch him stretch the limits of his intellect and the whole thing.
But because he didn't prepare them in such a way that they were fully scripted, he would often end by saying something like, you know, da-da-da-da-da, and that's all I've got to say about that.
Good night.
And I always thought it was a funny way of ending it, because it was sort of like Forrest Gump.
Remember the ending of Forrest Gump?
And that's all I've got to say about that.
Like, you say this amazing story, you tell these incredible thoughts and all of this stuff, you link all of this incredible stuff together, and then the ending feels almost anticlimactic.
There was something sort of nice about it.
So, I will try to end with a big laugh, but some nights it will be, it's just going to be different every night.
That really is it.
So I guess my ritual is not over-preparing.
In closing, Ladies, gentlemen, and other assorted people.
I'm not a biologist.
I'm going on tour.
On Tuesday.
If you have not bought tickets, buy the freaking tickets now, would ya?
DaveRubin.com slash events.
We kick it off in West Palm Beach on Tuesday night, and then we're in Clearwater, which is the Tampa...
area here in Florida, and then we're bouncing around North Carolina, Georgia, Chicago. We're going to Dallas. We're
going to New York.
We're going to Cali, all the usual stops. You will have fun.
I promise you. I think there's some VIP tickets left, and if there aren't, we'll figure out a way to make it work
once you're there. Just get on board.
I promise you're gonna have a good time.
If you want to play along during the live chat during the shows, ReubenPort.Locals.com.
Part three of my interview of Michael Knowles interviewing me is up right now on YouTube and Rumble, and the full thing's up already on Locals, and my interview with David Janet, the better half around here, the other David, is up on Locals at rubenreport.locals.com.
That's all I have to say about that.
Have a great weekend, and hopefully I'll see a whole bunch of you next week.
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