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Brian Stelter Gets Visibly Upset as Host Asks Him Why He Was Fired | Direct Message | Rubin Report

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unidentified		I don't know what the difference between our Christian right and the Taliban is.
		What?
		I have no idea what the difference is.
		Chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
		It's utterly bizarre.
		Just told me to stand to the side because I'm a woman.
		You're not the only person who has said that.
		I don't.
		I just don't know what the difference is.
		What's happening in this country right now in the name of religion is so dangerous.
		Are you stupid or something?
		Put your mask over your nose.
		That's why you're in the theater.
		That is the rule.
		If you don't want to follow the rule, get the f*** out!
		What do you think you are if you do not respect the people that are sitting around you?
		You pay my salary.
		Chris Harper pays my salary.
		Who do you think you are?
		Just put your mask over your nose.
		This is the Rubin Reportage.
		This is the Rubin Reportage.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It is April 20th, 2023.
		That's right, it's 420.
		If you're watching this from Manhattan or any other big blue Democrat city, just walk outside, take a deep breath, get stoned, and get back in here and watch the show.
		I want to thank my man Brock for putting together that little cold open for us.
		That crazy lunatic that you were watching right there, first on The View and then on Broadway lecturing somebody during COVID, that is Patti LuPone.
		Who is a Broadway actress somehow comparing Christians to the Taliban.
		And what do I often say about these people?
		Once you scratch a tolerant progressive, you always, always, guys, find a nasty authoritarian.
		So she's very upset about the Christians in this country who, as From where I sit, I find to be probably the most decent and tolerant people in the whole world.
		And she's very upset that someone would show up to her show, pay for a ticket, and have the mask a little bit below their nose as she's spitting and genuflecting and screaming at them.
		These are just terrible people.
		As always, guys, we've got a post-game show.
		If you want to join us at the end of the regular program, rubinreport.locals.com.
		And before I get to the show today, I want to tell you about a dream I had last night because it was so bananas, yet so connected to what we do here.
		It was 4 a.m.
		I woke up and I was like, I've got to remember this.
		I have to tell the people this dream because maybe you guys can analyze it
		because the pieces are right there, but I can't quite figure out what it was.
		So I was at the debate, it was a presidential debate, and Joe Biden was on stage, and I think I was in Vegas.
		Like, it felt like Vegas to me.
		There was something Vegas-y about it.
		And I was in the front row.
		Joe Biden was on stage, and there was a big table, like a dais of people,
		but all the other candidates were just regular people.
		So it was Joe Biden and a whole bunch of regular people.
		And I was sitting in the front row, very close to Joe, so he was maybe three feet in front of me, and there was barbecue sauce pouring out of his nose.
		I kid you not, barbecue sauce was just pouring out of his nose, but nobody Saw it.
		Nobody else saw it except for me.
		And I was trying to take pictures with it, but my phone wouldn't take any pictures.
		It wouldn't let me take pictures of video.
		So I'm watching the barbecue sauce pour out of Joe Biden's nose.
		He's standing right in front of me.
		I can't take a picture.
		And then he walks backstage and nobody even notices.
		Still, he walks backstage.
		And here's where it really gets weird.
		He comes back out and he's Joe Biden wearing a Joe Biden costume.
		And he's dancing to Oh What a Night by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
		You know, oh what a night.
		And then everyone on stage starts dancing to it.
		And then I woke up.
		Like, what the hell is that?
		Joe Biden, what's the barbecue sauce pouring out of his nose?
		I mean, we do grill a lot around here, so it has something to do with grilling and smoking meats.
		A whole bunch of people not really noticing, I guess, that something's wrong with Joe Biden.
		But then he comes back in a Joe Biden mask.
		And, you know, I listen to a lot of Frankie Valli, so like that sort of makes sense.
		But there's some piece of this thing Help me, people.
		Please let us know if you're in the locals' comments right now.
		I'll read a couple of them at the end during the postgame.
		And if you're playing along on YouTube, please join us, or Rumble, please join us on locals, and we'll go through.
		You can psychologically analyze my dreams.
		Joe Biden, barbecue sauce pouring out of his nose in a Joe Biden costume, dancing to the Four Seasons.
		My phone wouldn't work, like there's something about that.
		The picture and the video not working.
		Help me, people.
		Just help me.
		Let's see if we can figure out the deep recesses of my mind.
		Anywho, on a less enthusiastic note than barbecue sauce pouring out of Joe Biden's nose, Brian Stelter.
		Remember him?
		Mr. Potato Head from CNN who got canned about six months ago and really he had been in many ways I think I sort of owe Brian Stelter a lot because he made my job very easy.
		Basically, I could wake up every morning and be like, Phoenix, what did Stelter do yesterday?
		And we could make, you know, make a program about it because, you know, he basically lied about everything.
		He's a Democrat operative.
	He still doesn't see why he got fired.
	He then gets fired from CNN.
	And what happens when you're a Democrat and you have Democrat privilege?
	You get actually moved up the chain.
	And then he ended up for the last six months, he has been, believe it or not, A professor of journalism, because irony is dead, at Harvard, which means that there are rich white people, white people, who pay like 70 grand a year to have their children learn about journalism from Brian Stelter.
	My God, if that doesn't give you brain damage, I don't know what will.
	Anyway, he's back, baby.
	He went on Dan Abrams Live.
	Dan Abrams, who was once an MSNBC guy, has done some other things.
	I don't know exactly where his show airs now, but he brought Stelter on to talk about what has happened to Stelter, and I just thought it will sort of lead us to a lot of things that are going on.
	With the machine and how some of our politicians starve the machine, some of our politicians feed the machine.
	And if you as a leader or a want-to-be president, let's say, rolling into 2024, if you don't know whether you're supposed to starve it or feed it or how to behave accordingly, it's going to eat you alive.
	And I think we have a very stark and obvious choice when it comes to that on the Republican side.
	So we're going to do all that.
	We're going to do a Rubin Report Locals Community Q&A and I don't know, maybe much more.
	There's only one way to find out.
	Maybe barbecue sauce will start pouring out of my nose.
	Who knows?
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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Use promo code Reuben for 20% off plus free shipping and let's Bake a potato, ladies and gentlemen.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Brian Stelter, after being away from the television and your screens for about six or seven months, he returned on Dan Abrams' program and he still doesn't know why he got fired.
unidentified		I want to ask you about leaving CNN.
		You recently, relatively recently, left CNN.
		And clearly they kind of pushed you out as they announced they were... I've embraced the F word, Dan.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		Fired.
unidentified		You got fired.
unidentified		Why do you think you got fired?
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
unidentified		Really?
unidentified		You really don't know?
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		I really, truly don't know.
		I know I had a popular show by CNN standards, and I know that it was pretty cheap to produce.
		But I also know every show gets cancelled eventually.
		Sorry.
		Knock on table, okay?
		Every show gets cancelled eventually, and so I was content with it.
		But I think what CNN's trying to do is what I just said.
		Lower the temperature.
		Lower the volume.
		And I'm rooting for them because we need to have a lot of news networks in this country.
		We need a wide variety of news sources that are just trying to gather the facts.
unidentified		The CEO, Chris Licht, has talked about wanting to emphasize news, for example, over opinion, right?
		And do you think you represented the kind of opinion, particularly from the left, that Chris Licht wanted to distance himself from?
		Because I think that's why he ended up letting you go.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm just gonna let you say it then.
unidentified		Yeah.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		I think we were doing really fantastic journalism at CNN for the nine years that I was there.
		I also think Fox News really enjoyed making me a target and making, you know, using horrible names about me and all that sort of stuff that happens in the cable news wars.
		And I think they enjoyed seeing me leave CNN.
unidentified		We think that part of the reason that he got let go was because Fox News was constantly making fun of him.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, look, that's something that I wonder, but I'm very happy, content not knowing exactly what happened.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Alright, first off, I'm going, believe it or not, to give Stelter a little credit.
		As Dan Abrams is beginning the thing, and he's like, uh, you know, you parted ways, da-da-da-da-da, like, he's being kinda soft-shoed with the thing.
		Stelter is fully like, yes, I got fired, so I will give him credit where credit is due.
		He doesn't know why he got fired.
		And, you know, Abrams makes the point, you know, you probably got fired because you're obviously a lefty.
		Stelter just can't come around to that.
		He still, at this point, thinks he was, let's say, fair and balanced, a phrase from another news network, when he obviously was not.
		He was a Democrat operative.
		He was a total part and parcel of the machine, always giving it what it wants.
		And he was always getting everything wrong.
		You're not going to believe this, guys, but we've got proof.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		That would be funny if it wasn't so insidious.
		Ginning up hate.
		CNN is so much bigger than any single individual.
		Too much of the U.S.
		media chatter is distorted to the point of being dishonest.
		Don't be so hateful.
		Is that too much to ask?
		I don't know.
		Maybe it is.
		Trust in media.
		Has CNN lost trust?
		We're living in two different realities.
		Supported by two different news worlds.
		It's almost like we need two kinds of newscasts.
		Or two versions of the weather report.
		The forecast is pretty sunny for the vaccinated, but it's quite bleak in some states for the unvaccinated.
		I'm glad that we work in a building where everyone's vaccinated.
		Looking ahead to 2020, one reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.
		What does the press get wrong when covering Biden's agenda?
		When you watch the news, when you read the news, what do you think we get wrong?
		I'm gonna go a little bit, uh, rogue here, so bear with me, okay?
		Trump's odd behavior with Vladimir Putin is compelling so many people to ask, what does Putin have on Trump?
		Has Trump been compromised?
		When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?
		Reducing a liar's reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech.
		Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.
		The media organs that profit from conflict are on a crusade now.
		Working overtime to demonize Disney, claiming the company is indoctrinating and sexualizing children who are through movies and TV shows.
		I'm sorry, just, it pisses me off.
		And, I mean, for all we know, these emails are made up, or maybe some are real and others are fakes, we don't know.
		But we do know that this is a classic example of the right-wing media machine.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I want to know which one you watching this right now laughed the most at, felt was the most ridiculous, because we were all having different reactions to all of them.
		The one with the, you know, there's a right-wing media trying to destroy Trump, does that exist?
		It's all so...
		Insane.
		And all of the lies related to COVID and Saki, how can we help you more?
		And like all of this stuff.
		But what he did not realize was that if you just give the machine what it wants, you are just a piece of the machine and the pieces of the machine always have to be replaced.
		And he was a very replaceable piece in that machine.
		Because if you don't do something that is true and unique, Then you're very replaceable.
		It's as simple as that.
		But interestingly, his little return there, to talk about Stelter in a sort of broader sense, to not really make it about him, he does represent something.
		He and the people like him, the Rachel Maddows and, you know, all of the clowns at CNN and MSNBC and the Joy Reads and all and the Don Lemons, you know, the cast of characters.
		They actually do pose a threat to, I would say, freedom, to liberty, to conservatism, to those of us, broadly speaking, on the right, because they're always lying about us.
		And then, as we've been really laying out on the show the last couple days, They demonize people to the point that we start losing culture, too, because then the TV shows are going against us and the movies are going against us.
		And then over time, what happens is you have a bunch of young people growing up not knowing the differences between boys and girls and believing the nonsense that they are hearing on these things.
		So stelter is the epitome of what the machine does to people who don't take a stand, don't be an individual and fight for actually what is true.
		Now, I want to connect that to something else, to what's going on in the sort of racehorse politics of 2024.
		Because if you, as one of the candidates, do not know how to properly deal with that machine, then you're actually just going to strengthen it as it drowns you.
		Meaning, if the machine is always lying about you, Let's take Trump, for example.
		If the machine is always lying about you, if corporate media, CNN, New York Times, blah blah blah blah blah, if they're always lying about you, but you're always talking about their ratings, or you're always going on their shows, and always attacking them, you're actually keeping them alive.
		You are thus part of the machine.
		My argument at this point would be, it's not that Donald Trump is part of the elite In a sense, but he is part of the machine because he feeds the machine, right?
		Now, DeSantis is doing something different.
		He's not feeding the machine.
		NBC, we played a bunch of clips on this, you guys know this, NBC lied about him so many times and lied about this ridiculous African-American studies course that they were going to push woke gender ideology into and then, what was it, Andrea Mitchell sat down with Kamala Harris and said to her, What is it that Ron DeSantis doesn't want people to know about slavery and black history and civil rights?
		And it was just like one of those times where they just lie and lie and lie and lie.
		And finally, DeSantis's campaign said, we're just not talking to you anymore.
		We're not going to take you serious anymore.
		So he's starving the machine.
		I personally think we are at the point now.
		I think we've been at this point for quite some time.
		We just don't know how to fully embrace it, I would say, or fully get to the other side of it, where the online media Whether it's Crowder or it's me or it's Rogan or Shapiro or all of us or whatever the version of it is on the left, we have so jumped ahead of those guys in terms of reliability and decency and something hopefully funny and amusing and worth your time and all of those things that we have to let it go.
		And Trump keeps feeding it.
		So now I want to show you just a couple of videos here.
		This is DeSantis talking about how much he's accomplished at governor and sort of how he's gone about doing it.
ron desantis ▲ ● ▼		You know, we also just made it very clear when you're going into executive position, you have to want you're the one that kind of makes decisions and you got to make good decisions.
		You can set the agenda and it's all very important.
		But you just doing that isn't enough.
		You got to have people in the administration who share the vision and who are going to put kind of the agenda ahead of their own agenda.
		And we just made it very clear at the beginning because you can make the decisions if they're going to act to frustrate your agenda or they're not carrying out the agenda, then none of this ends up working out.
		So we said very clearly to people, you know, if you're leaking, if you're bringing a different agenda into this administration, pack your bags right now.
		You're gone.
		We're not putting up with it.
		And the result is, is that we've had over four years, we don't leak to the media.
		There's no palace intrigue.
		Very little.
		There's no drama about anything like behind the scenes.
		All it is is just daily execution of the mission.
		And that's the reason why we've been able to get so much stuff done.
		We don't get diverted with all the nonsense that's out there.
		So we set that down on day one.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Daily execution of the mission.
		You think he was a lawyer in the Navy?
		What do you think?
		What do you think?
		Anyway, the point is, he's saying two things there.
		You don't feed the media through leaks, right?
		So the Trump administration, and all administrations, Trump had a lot of them, but all administrations
		have leaks to the media.
		It's one of the ways that the machine always stays in front of us.
		They have people, so Trump had people in his administration who were constantly leaking to the New York Times, who were writing bad things, that Trump was fighting them, and it becomes this sort of circular logic, self-fulfilling prophecy situation.
		DeSantis is saying we simply don't have that.
		We're making sure we don't hire people that do that sort of thing.
		So you starve the beast, right?
		You starve the beast.
		And then also, you know, by staffing with the right people, leaks aside, by just having the right people, Beside you who are not trying to take you out, who are mission aligned, who understand what their roles are, who aren't in it for themselves in a conventional sense, but they are in it because they believe that the vision of whoever that person is, whether it's a governor or a president, is the right vision and they will put their egos aside to make that happen.
		Well, that's what we've got right here.
		But Trump did not have that.
		That is that is just simply true.
		This is not me gratuitously going after Trump.
		He did not.
		And I think this is one of the things that we have to think about going forward.
		Right.
		Do you want someone that perhaps again is going to hire, you know, basically bring in a whole bunch of people like John Bolton and all the people that he then tells you are all morons and idiots?
		Plus have a whole staff that is constantly leaking to the media, thus keeping the media alive, as he's always attacking the media.
		We just have to decide what direction we want to go in that.
		But interestingly, what's happening with the Trump-DeSantis situation is that Trump has really shifted.
		You know, a couple weeks ago, he was constantly calling DeSantis a globalist and a rhino, and he just knows it's not true.
		It's just meaningless.
		Like, if DeSantis is a globalist and a rhino, then is anyone, Don, like, if you're watching this, Don, is anyone besides you not a globalist and a rhino?
		Everyone that you argue with is a globalist and a rhino and a buffoon and a moron, okay?
		Fine, so it's just meaningless stuff.
		This is a guy that he endorsed twice that he lives in his state and all that but he's shifted from saying all of that kind of stuff and basically saying he's cheating on his wife and like all the over-the-top stuff.
		Now he's just trying to get him not to run and I think that that's an interesting shift there.
		He's realizing that the over-the-top attacks are not working.
		So notice the tone change here.
		This is from yesterday.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Ron DeSantis is a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly.
		I believe that if he decides to run for president, which will only hurt and somewhat divide the Republican Party, which we don't need, he will lose the cherished and massive MAGA vote and never be able to successfully run for office again.
		I believe that.
		If he remains governor, which is what Florida voters assumed he would do, It would be a whole different story, just saying, but who knows?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You really need to understand, guys, and this is just the truth, and look, I know a huge percentage of my audience is on the Trump 2024 train, and again, there's a good chance I'll end up voting for him, and you know all my disclaimers related to all this, but you really need to acknowledge a truth here, which is that this is the first time we are seeing Trump absolutely quaking in his boots, afraid of another candidate.
		He did the attacks on Rubio, and he crushed him in three days.
		He did the attacks on Cruz, and it crushed him in three days.
		Now, both of those guys ended up being huge Trump backers once Trump was president.
		So a lot of this is just racehorse politics, and everyone should make sure their feelings aren't too hurt.
		But Trump has never had a situation like this, where he did all of his garbage attacks on somebody, and the over-the-top name-calling, and all the other stuff, and got pushed back to the point where now he's just, he's basically begging him not to run.
		And if you really didn't fear the guy, you wouldn't care if he ran.
		But notice, he's not attacking Nikki Haley, he's not attacking Vivek, he's not attacking Mike Pompeo, he's not attacking Tim Scott or any of the other people that might get in there.
		But every day, he's going after DeSantis.
		Because he sees, I think, what I see and what you see, which is that a whole bunch of people, a whole bunch of people are like, wait a minute.
		We're done with the show.
		We want competency, clarity, and communication.
		And that basically is what DeSantis is offering.
		We can actually skip my, we were going to show a couple tweets on that I put out about that, but I think I summed it up fairly well right there.
		I'll let you guys be the judge on that.
		Anyway, again, I don't say all of this to just add fuel to the fire of the fight here, but I think it is important to acknowledge what's actually happening in real time.
		Three weeks ago, he was all in on the crazy over-the-top attacks, and now he basically is saying, please don't run, please don't run.
		And it's not because I fear you, but it's like, yeah, it is because you fear him.
		I'm getting some breaking news right now.
		This is, yeah, is this right?
		BuzzFeed, remember BuzzFeed?
		It is shutting down and going out of business as of today.
		Wow.
		I mean, that's great.
		That's great.
		I mean, BuzzFeed became largely irrelevant over the last five years.
		Have we ever sourced a BuzzFeed article once on this show?
		But BuzzFeed was sort of at the nascence of the Internet when, remember, everything seemed cool on the Internet.
unidentified		What are your five favorite version colors of blue?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		And what are the five favorite vegetables you like?
		And do you like butts more than...
		Rimfire says, Why is the T part of the LGB anyway?
		particularly data mining everybody to see all of our habits so God only knows what information
		they stole from us on their way out the door.
		But watching a thing like them collapse is quite good and I would say also a good sign
		for all the independent creators out there.
		On that note, let's get to the Rubin Report.
		Dot locals dot com community Q&A.
		Rimfire says, why is the T part of the LGB anyway?
		Who added the T?
		Is it because of its letters?
		I don't see what the T has to do with the LGB anyway.
		One is about sexual attraction for males or females or either.
		T is about not feeling comfortable in the body you were born into.
		What are your thoughts?
		You are completely, completely right.
		I actually tweeted something about this this morning.
		The T's have nothing to do with the L's or the G's or the B's.
		There is a stark difference between sexual orientation and having a disconnect between your psychological state and your physical body.
		I have no more in common.
		As a gay person, I have no more in common with a trans person than you as a straight person.
		I am not disassociated from my own body.
		I am not trying to change my body in any way, right?
		I'm not trying to deny biology in any way.
		I think that's really the key part of this thing.
		Now, somebody may be watching this and be like, well, I don't like gays.
		I don't like the idea that you could be attracted to the same sex and blah, blah, blah.
		Okay.
		But first of all, I'm not asking anyone's permission to live my life, right?
		I want equality and nothing else.
		But the way they have combined these things, and I think you can even go a step further, the T's are actually actively at odds with the L's and the G's and the B's, because it is the T's that want a young Potentially lesbian girl who is, let's say, 12 years old who maybe is a bit more of a tomboy and likes playing softball and getting out there with the guys.
		They're the ones who want to chop her breasts off and transform her into a boy, right?
		It is the tees who want to take the young effeminate boy who maybe likes art and music more than, you know, video games and, you know, G.I.
		Joe and turn him into a girl.
		So there is no group of people at odds more with the gays than the tees.
		This is a huge problem.
		I also hate the phrase community.
		Like, there is no community.
		I have a couple gay friends.
		I don't think they're better or worse because they're gay.
		That's it.
		I don't think people are walking around, hopefully choosing me as a friend based on that.
		It's just absolutely, utterly irrelevant.
		And you are much more than your body parts, believe it or not.
		Pruski says, isn't it ironic that some people have fled other countries to come to the United States to get away from socialism and communism?
		Now some people are fleeing other states so they can get away from what the Democrats have done to some of these states of which they are fleeing, sort of like socialism and communism.
		You know, I can tell you very clearly.
		Being here in Miami where we obviously have a huge Latino, not Latinx community.
		Imagine walking up to my Cuban gardener and being like, are you Latinx?
		Ridiculous.
		Rolando, if you're watching, I love you.
		Being here in Miami, where we have a lot of Cubans, obviously, we have Venezuelans, there's just such an interesting, vibrant community here.
		The Cubans, especially, because Cuba is so close, obviously, to Florida, the endless stories of Flea and Castro and everything else, whatever generation immigrant you are, they have such a love of freedom.
		It is so absolutely spectacular.
		As a matter of fact, last week I spoke to the young Republicans of Miami at Calle Ocho,
		which is a legendary Cuban bar that was founded probably, I don't know, maybe four decades
		ago by a Cuban refugee.
		They have all his artwork that he had to send on a boat from Cuba and the boat sank.
		It's like a whole bunch of crazy stuff.
		But a lot of the young Republicans are Cuban.
		And it was just great to be around people that just have freedom is in them.
		They know what's in them.
		And unfortunately, what happens is, in these blue states, you get often, it is the liberal white person who's five, seven generations American, who has no idea what their ancestors fled anymore, that starts importing the very ideas that their ancestors were indeed fleeing.
	It is ironic and ridiculous.
	Nick says, did Tyrus reach out to you after your interview with Kat Timpf to assure you that he does not actually hate you?
	So for those of you that have not seen the interview yet, we just put it up.
	My interview with Gutfeld's co-host Kat Timpf, and as you guys know, the other co-host is Tyrus.
	Tyrus and I, I've always felt there's some sort of tension there.
	One night we did years ago, Me and Tyrus and Gutfeld and a couple other of the guests and some producers went out and we got into a majorly heated political debate.
	It's not even important what it was about, but it was hot.
	Like, at the end it was almost like people getting up and, you know, fists clenching.
	That was sort of the end of me and Tyrus kind of hanging like that.
	But when I do the show, I always just get the impression that he hates me.
	But then we'd go ahead and do the show, and I guess if I had to fight him, I could probably body slam that guy.
	What do you think?
	Yeah.
	I could definitely body, no, Connor, no, you can't body slam Tyrus.
	Well, I would try.
	I'd probably get a hernia.
	That would be an automatic hernia, you know?
	That would not be good.
	Cam says, have you thought about interviewing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
	He's been on several podcasts, but don't know if he's been on any lefty media outlets.
	So Robert F. Kennedy Jr., obviously from the Kennedy family,
	he has been basically the most outspoken public person against vaccines, mandates,
	the pharmaceutical industrial complex, the whole freaking thing.
	Have we reached out to him?
	I think he was on our master list.
	All right.
	We're going to follow up on that.
	Let's follow up on that today for sure.
	I would love to have him on.
	I guarantee you one thing, guys.
	There is zero, and I mean zero, not white supremacy zero, I mean regular old zero chance that they will let Biden
	get on a debate stage with him.
	Biden is obviously the presumptive nominee.
	What could be interesting is if Biden actually had the mental collapse that we all know he's sort of
	already had, but if they really were pushing him out of the way and they're gonna try to figure out
	how to have Gavin leapfrog Kamala, well then he might be able to force his way
	into some sort of debate or something.
	But I don't understand, and one of the reasons I'd love to interview him.
	Uh, is I don't understand what makes him a Democrat this point, other than that his name is Kennedy.
	He doesn't, as far as I can tell, believe in these big government programs.
	He does see the media the way we see the media.
	Um, I would love to explore that a little more because that's a rich thing.
	And it's also tactically, it seems odd to me because if he right this moment, if he just switched his party affiliation, There is a pretty damn good chance he ends up on a debate stage.
	The first Republican debate is in August.
	He will end up on that stage.
	You only need a couple percentage points to get on that stage.
	So why not jump in as a Republican and then you could still sell your Democrat policies and maybe it won't go that well, but at least you get out there.
	So there's some tactical stuff that I'd like to talk about with him.
	So yes, we will definitely follow up on that.
	Crafty Cat says, what are your favorite things to grow in your garden?
	You know, about three weeks ago, it's very difficult to grow tomatoes in Florida.
	That's one thing that I found because of the humidity and the heat.
	Tomatoes need a little more moving air and it's been tough, but I planted three very, very baby tomato plants that I got at Home Depot.
	No, I planted four of them actually, like this size.
	They are blooming right now.
	We got tons and tons of tomatoes out there.
	And they're feeling good.
	We've had a lot of rain lately, so I think that's good.
	And I, you know, one of the tips that I got from somebody was that if you really keep them slim and trim so that the air can get through, so you don't want them too bushy, you don't want them too leafy, you're gonna be able to keep them alive a little bit longer.
	That can sometimes be a bit of a catch-22, because if the sun is beating down all day, you do want some leaves to defray the sunshine so you're not burning the tomatoes, but I'm out there.
	We've also got a mango tree that's doing really well right now.
	We've got two bushels of bananas on the way, so if Monkeypox comes back, I've got plenty of bananas for everybody.
	What else do we have out there?
	We've got some basil out there, and I have this other area that I actually want to talk to my man Rolando about, who I mentioned earlier.
	I want to talk to him about today, about building out a bigger garden situation. But one thing that's nice about Florida,
	it's like because of the rain, because of everything wants to grow here, everything wants
	to be alive. We have a huge avocado tree also. You know, things just flourish here like
	freedom.
	Lynn says, what do you think about the Republican candidate, whoever it turns out to be, taking
	Robert Kennedy Jr.
	as his running mate, because you know they're going to pull a Bernie Sanders on Kennedy and install a certain lizard person.
	So the lizard person you're talking about is Gavin Newsom.
	You're probably right if it's not Joe Biden.
	Kamala, they're going to just—how ironic.
	It's the Democrats that are going to keep the black woman out of the Oval Office.
	Like, it's so perfect.
	Mwah!
	I respect you people for your evil.
	That would be interesting.
	That would be interesting.
	Maybe—you know what?
	I'll even have a little asterisk next to my previous answer, which is that maybe that's
	his move.
	Maybe his move right now is to try to get through the Democrat machine knowing how corrupt
	that thing is, how evil they're going to treat him.
	They'll never let him get on a debate stage, but a whole bunch of people will start hearing
	his ideas one way or another.
	Then let's say it's DeSantis.
	Then DeSantis running through.
	Now, DeSantis, you've got the conservatives, you've got the libertarians, you've got the right-leaning people.
	You hopefully work it out with Trump in some way.
	And then you're like, who could I have behind me that would be good, that might perhaps soften the ticket a little bit because he's a Democrat?
	Ooh, now we really got something.
	And then you got Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's freaking pissed at the Democrats, too, but can maybe bring you those disaffected liberals.
	Who wrote that comment?
	Whose comment was that?
	That was Lynn.
	Lynn, I will give you credit for this one if it happens.
	You were the first one to pop the idea in my mind.
	You will be given credit accordingly.
	You get nothing else besides credit, but that's pretty good.
	Kevin, proud Texan, I like that, says, how many lives could be saved if the government worked as hard to keep fentanyl out of the country as they did keeping ivermectin and HCQ out of the country?
	Man, I mean, if you don't care, About illegal immigration in terms of you just don't care how many people come here.
	At the very least, you should care because of the fentanyl situation.
	We know, we know China is pushing fentanyl into America to, in essence, destroy our cities and they're doing it because we have an open porous border in the South.
	It is simply that true, period.
	So even if you're sort of squishy on immigration, you're just like, I don't want a wall and people should come here and okay, okay, we should give them stuff and everything else.
	You should care about Americans dying because of this stuff.
	And you know, the thing with fentanyl, you take fentanyl once you could die.
	It's also being laced into all sorts of things on this 420.
	It's being laced into marijuana.
	It's being laced into these other drugs.
	And again, I don't welcome you to do it, but I would say just watch a video of what's going on in San Francisco and see what fentanyl can do to a society.
	There's more than one way to win a war, right?
	You used to have to win a war with an invasion.
	You used to win a war with an army on the ground.
	You don't anymore.
	Maybe you could just drug a country to the point of oblivion, to the point that its cities are failing.
	And actually, there's history.
	There's a little history on this, right?
	This is what the British did to China 500 years ago with heroin, which a lot of people are saying is now this is China's payback.
	You could do a little googling on that.
	It's actually a theory that people have right now.
	Oak says, Anheuser-Busch has lost three billion in value since Bud Light woke controversy began
	at the start of the month.
	Does anyone get fired?
	I heard it was about seven billion in market cap, but the market may have readjusted already or something.
	Does anyone get fired?
	Probably not.
	Because once wokeism is in these companies, the problem is that you start hiring so many woke people that if you fire one, everyone else will try to take your company down from the inside.
	This is very much what Elon Musk had to deal with at Twitter.
	Now, he's a unique personality who was willing to take the hits on that, and 80% of the people who worked at Twitter before he bought it are now gone.
	I don't know that Anheuser-Busch could deal with that.
	Uh, but they have seriously screwed themselves.
	I think this is the type of, uh, I don't even want to call it a boycott.
	I think this is the type of movement that will stick.
	People have just had it with this woke crap.
	And if you would have said to somebody three years ago, you know, Bud Light is going to be sponsoring this cartoon character of a woman who's actually a man.
	You would have been like, what the hell are you talking about?
	Bud Light?
	Like Bud Light is for frat guys to drink while they're being held upside down by their friends over a keg.
	Right?
	Like that's what it's for.
	Right, Connor?
	Yes.
	That's what it's for, right Daphne?
	Yes, that's what it's for.
	Not for the trans person who, again, there might have been some version of this that could have worked.
	Like some little nod to Gay History Month or whatever the hell they call it, Pride Month.
	There might have been some way to do it.
	By the way, they've been doing it for years.
	I'm pretty sure Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light, they all sponsor all the gay parades and everything and everyone kind of sucked it up, no pun intended.
	But once you went this far with this person who is a cartoon character of a woman, The worst caricature of a woman you could possibly come up with.
	People have had enough.
	I think it's gonna stick.
	And there are plenty of other great beers out there.
	Mickey says, what's your favorite car that you've ever owned and why?
	You know, I mean, the easy answer.
	I have this Tesla Model X. This is our second one.
	We we've leased them.
	So we had a three year lease and now we're in the midst of we updated the car and we're in our second three year lease.
	I like the idea of sort of getting the newer update every year.
	It's not it's obviously not the cheapest way to do it.
	And with the Tesla, it's probably not the smartest way to do it, because Tesla's The Tesla's of five years ago are still going hot on the market.
	It's very hard to get new cars and like people still want the Tesla's of five years ago and everything else.
	So buying it would have probably been a better financial decision.
	But if you have not driven in a Tesla, it really it is so cool and smooth and the screen is all digital and everything about it feels right.
	I have never once.
	I know, I can correct that.
	Only one time have I ever had to take the Tesla in for service.
	It wasn't even an issue that I was having in the car.
	They had like a generic Tesla update.
	But even the way they do that is incredible.
	You drive the car to a parking lot.
	That was about 10 minutes from my house.
	You leave the car there.
	You don't even see a human.
	And then somehow, once you leave your car there, your car knows that it's there.
	They text you a credit on Uber So that you can get a car ride home, so you don't even have to pay for that.
	And they give you another credit the next day, so you can go back to the parking lot and pick up your car, and you don't even see a person.
	Like, the whole operation is so smooth and clean, and the car is just brilliant.
	You know, you got the frunk, the front trunk, because there's no engine in there.
	It's just absolutely beautiful.
	I know it's pricey, but I really do think it's worth it.
	Smithy says, read the Connor Theory.
	Does Connor have a theory about Zoe Zephyr, the transgender Montana representative featured on Wednesday's livestream?
	Before I throw it to Connor, if you did not see the show the other day, Connor's been throwing around a theory for a while that the reason that Leah Thomas is beating all of these girls in these swimming races is because, as far as we know, Leah Thomas still has a penis.
	And Connor's theory has been that Leah Thomas is using the penis as some kind of propeller, okay?
	So he's getting an extra boost of speed using the propeller.
	So, Connor, do you have an answer to that question?
	Do you think that Zo... Oh, and Zoe was the trans... was the guy who's now a woman Who, there you go, who told a bunch of Republicans that they will have blood on their hands because they are not allowing for minors to be transitioned.
	Ironically, of course, it's the doctor who chops off a child's genitals who has blood on his hands, literally.
	But I know, again, irony is dead.
	Do you have a theory related to this in any way, Connor?
	His dress designer has blood on his hands.
	Look at you with a little sass.
	Little sassy Connor today, hot damn.
	Nate says, Dave, do you think the majority of the backlash against Anheuser-Busch is just about them sponsoring a trans person or does it have more to do with this specific trans person?
	Oh, I guess I jumped ahead on that one.
	Yeah, I think there was a way to have, they've all been doing this, banks, beer companies, Everybody sponsors Pride this blah blah blah.
	It's June.
	Oh my god.
	Yeah, we're dancing with sparkles And nobody cares, right?
	Nobody really cares.
	They all pretend to care, but nobody really cares.
	This had, I think, specifically to do with this person.
	I don't care for Dylan Mulvaney one way or another, but Dylan Mulvaney chose to transition.
	Again, we don't even know about the full surgeries, but then become the worst stereotype of a woman.
	A shopping obsessed, woman, the affect that he or she speaks with, all of those things.
	So I think it had more to do with the specific person.
	And also this moment in time, you know, we're getting some wins against the woke, right?
	Like the DeSantis Disney thing is the best thing.
	Well, school choice happening all over the country right now.
	That's a good thing, too.
	But we're getting some wins and I think people are starting.
	It's what I'm always talking about on the show.
	You start getting some wins and then you might start standing up straight with your shoulders back.
	You might start going for more wins.
	And I think they just poke the bear one too many times.
	Olivia says, your enthusiasm for the Sunshine State is inspiring.
	My husband and I live in Philadelphia.
	I'm trying to convince him to move to Florida.
	We're taking an exploratory trip soon.
	He works in the world of wine and is very accomplished.
	He would need to find a good job.
	Any advice is helpful as to locations to visit, slash move, work, etc.
	So I'm glad I came across your channel months ago.
	I love it.
	Thanks for what you do.
	Well, first off, I hope you can make it happen one way or another.
	I do not know anyone that has regretted moving to Florida.
	I meet new Floridians literally every day, whether it's walking the dog or at the store or wherever I am.
	And you'll see, you come down here, and it's not just, look, I'm in Miami, Miami's obviously a very hot city, but Rumbles in Sarasota, you know, I spend time on the southwest coast, you know, like, you go anywhere in Florida, the strip malls are all packed, there is business happening, people are out and about, the restaurants are all packed, like, you don't see just five stores in a row that are closed, you rarely see one store that's closed.
	I will tell you this.
	It's going to be tough to find a house because so many people are moving here and house prices are high.
	But hopefully you'll figure it out.
	And, you know, they're working on a whole bunch of infrastructure projects, escalating them to make building easier and faster and all that kind of stuff.
	As far as your husband's in wine.
	I'm going to do some thinking on this.
	I'm going to do some thinking on this.
	Actually, one thing I've been thinking, as long as we're talking about booze for a moment, is I really want to start my own tequila.
	George Clooney's got a tequila.
	Who was the guy that would drink his tequila the other day?
	Kevin Hart's got his own tequila.
	I feel like everybody's got their own tequila.
	Who else?
	Brendan Schwab has a tequila.
	He's got a whiskey.
	Everyone's got something.
	Dave Rubin's gonna have a Dave Rubin tequila.
	And I'm gonna tell you, this tequila's gonna be good, and it's gonna be clean, and it's gonna be reasonably priced.
	We're looking at about $35.
	Okay?
	Patience.
unidentified		$35?
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		You like the $35?
		Alright, we're gonna make it happen.
		Uh, stay tuned on that, and good luck to you guys.
		And if I can help in any way, let me know how.
		Elizabeth says, since we just finished tax season, what are you hoping your tax dollars fund?
		I know I'm hoping it goes with something worthwhile like paying bribes or funding foreign gender programs.
		Yeah, I really hope that mine are able to fund as many poor Mexican children having their wangs lopped off.
		That's what I'm really hoping for.
		No, you know, it's funny.
		I sat down with my business manager yesterday and we were going through our some tax stuff and we were going through our three month budget since being here.
		And when I look at those numbers and just see, like, what I would be paying to be living in California right now versus here, and that everything works here, you know, they've got everybody so bamboozled about the state income tax.
		They've got us bamboozled about taxes in general and federal income tax and everything else.
		Here's where I can go on a real libertarian high horse situation.
		But everything in Florida is working better than everything in Cali, and we don't have state income tax.
		How is it that we're able to fund our schools?
		How is it that our roads are not collapsing?
		How is it that everything's working here and nothing's working there?
		Do you think maybe it's not exactly about the amount of money you take in, it's about the amount of money you spend?
		Do you think that might be it?
		And if you live within your means, not only you as a person, but the state you live in, that things can actually get better.
		So I really was like, I ended the meeting yesterday, I was like, I have never, I mean, I said, I'm obviously not going back to Cali, but it was like, Lloyd says, with all the activities, family and business, any chance the third book of the trilogy will happen this year or early next?
		I am so freaking busy right now.
		I think I mentioned once, I've sketched out the basic idea for the third book.
		And once we did, you know, it was don't burn this book, don't burn this country.
		You can kind of think as to what the title of the next one might be.
		And I do have a way of sort of, I I think bringing it all together, it's very much in line with some of the things that I've been talking about over the last week or so related to culture and politics and our behavior when you live in a system that seemingly is always gonna drag you, sort of what you can do.
		So it's a little bit of an extension off the middle book.
		I just, right now, the time situation is just really freaking tough.
		You know, maybe, I think my best bet is we're gonna try to figure out the off-the-grid August situation, but the first Republican debate is during August and Rumble is the official live streamer,
		no YouTube.
		So I'm going to have to be there. We don't know the date yet.
		I'm hoping it's early August and then I get to do some off the grid later August.
		That's where I could really start expanding on it a little bit more.
		But I would say, I mean, it takes a while to write and publish.
unidentified		We're probably looking at 2025, probably.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		We'll see.
		We'll see.
		Tony says, which of your staff probably gets the worst targeted ads as a result of the Google searches that you have them perform?
		That's interesting.
		I usually go to Connor for the drugs and the booze for some reason.
		I feel like Brock, I'm usually going to you on whose wang has been chopped off, so I feel like you probably have the worst of all the ads, right?
		Like when you're at home, you're getting some pretty bad stuff.
		I've had you, Daphne.
		You've Googled a couple times.
		I hope you all have ad blockers.
		That's the point, right?
		It ain't pretty, it ain't pretty.
		I'll tell you something, speaking of tech, have any of you had this?
		I tweeted this out yesterday, but maybe you guys even here have had this.
		I just noticed that a whole bunch of my iMessages, the people that I've had long conversations with, Phoenix, the one that I have with you and the one that I have with you and Daphne, that we've had these conversations going for years at this point, gone.
		I have a new thread that started out of nowhere.
		Have you had that too?
		Really?
		So what the hell is that all about?
		Really?
		Weird.
		Ghosts in the machine.
		Or the government.
		Government in the machine.
		I'm pretty sure that's what we mean.
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		Part two of my interview with legendary Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss is up right now.
		We leave you with a cold close of Eric Swalwell being smacked down, and we've got a post-game show in about 36 seconds.
		See you there!
unidentified		Our rhetoric and to denounce anti-semitism and anti-police rhetoric in this country so that Jewish Americans and police officers can be safer.
brian stelter ▲ ● ▼		Congressman, I do.
unidentified		Thank you, and I yield back.
		The gentleman yields, and now I recognize the gentlelady from Georgia, Ms.
		Green.

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