July 27, 2023 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| You have to start with the obvious. | ||
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Gay! | |
| Ha ha ha ha! | ||
| What are the chances that I don't get kicked off Twitter and YouTube just for talking to you? | ||
| A good solid 10%. | ||
| 10% getting kicked off or 10% staying? | ||
| It's 10% staying on. | ||
| No, no. | ||
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Are you a good, decent citizen? | |
| Are you vaccinated? | ||
| It's nobody's business whether I'm vaccinated. | ||
| That's like me asking you the last time you got laid. | ||
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I mean, it's just irrelevant. | |
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| All right, people, this is it. | ||
| It is the big August going off the grid show. | ||
| I am Dave Rubin. | ||
| It is July 27th, 2023. | ||
| We are live streaming, as always, on Rumble Locals and, well, I said as always, but you never know when we'll be kicked off YouTube. | ||
| But we are live streaming there as far as I know right now. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| By the time we get back, Uh, if you have not subscribed, of course, go ahead and do that. | ||
| And, uh, I should note there will be no post-game show today. | ||
| I'm gonna tell you a whole bunch of stuff, get you caught up on a bunch of stuff. | ||
| We've got a Q&A, my best and favorite moments, uh, from the past year. | ||
| And then I am jumping over, even though this was planned. | ||
| to be it this next hour and this was it we were packing it all in and then I'm disappearing until August 23rd | ||
| this is a somewhat abbreviated off the grid August because As I told you guys the first Republican debate is August 23rd | ||
| in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Rumble is the exclusive live streamer | ||
| So it will be on Fox on television But YouTube is not getting it nor is anybody else if you | ||
| want to stream it It's going to be Rumble. | ||
| They are going to have a huge set up there, live audience. | ||
| I'm going to be interviewing a bunch of the candidates there. | ||
| So I'm coming back that morning. | ||
| We just confirmed this morning. | ||
| I don't want to say it yet because we'll leave it as a surprise. | ||
| But my guest host, 11 a.m. | ||
| on the 23rd, big time, big time guest host, will get me caught up on everything I've missed in August. | ||
| And then we will be doing pre- and post-debate shows. | ||
| DeSantis has committed. | ||
| Nikki Haley's in. | ||
| I think Frances Suarez is in. | ||
| Pretty sure we got Vivek. | ||
| We've kind of buried the hatchet on that one. | ||
| And we're going to work on everybody. | ||
| As I said, live studio audience. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| And I'm just going to shut it down for the next couple weeks. | ||
| I'll tell you a bit more. | ||
| We're building a new studio this month, so this is it. | ||
| Say goodbye to the old Rubin Report studio. | ||
| We're moving. | ||
| We'll have more on that in just a bit. | ||
| And for today, as I said, we're going to recap a whole bunch of stuff. | ||
| Some of my favorite moments, some of your favorite moments, we asked you guys. | ||
| And also a couple stories first, because oh, They found the aliens. Yeah, they found the aliens. It's | ||
| been confirmed and figures like that today's the day They found the aliens yesterday. I'm leaving today like, | ||
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| I just realized. | ||
| I said, I forgot that I started telling you something. | ||
| Then I jumped right into the ad. | ||
| So we planned that this was it, like one hour show off the grid. | ||
| Where's Dave Rubin going? What's happening? Nobody will know. | ||
| But then yesterday Rudy texted me Rudy Giuliani said I'm going to be in Miami. | ||
| You want to do something? So I said Rudy for you. We will do a sit down. | ||
| So, although this is the official off-the-grid show, and after today, the phone disappears. | ||
| No more news. | ||
| None of that. | ||
| We will be doing a live sit-down. | ||
| We're gonna live stream it. | ||
| Live sit-down with Rudy from the local studio in Miami at one o'clock today. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Although we do have the locals meet up tonight. | ||
| So it's, it's, the grid is kind of, it's sucking me in. | ||
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The more I try to get out, the more it sucks me back in. | |
| You guys got it. | ||
| Anyway, let's get into some of the craziness of the last day or so, because yes, the aliens are here. | ||
| There was a congressional hearing yesterday and a UFO whistleblower under oath has testified that non-biologics have landed and well just take a look and it's like I saw | ||
| the story yesterday it's like at this point does anything surprise us does | ||
| anything get the blood pressure to go up does anything get the heart beat faster | ||
| does anything surprise any of us I was like oh aliens well what else is going on | ||
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on Twitter okay take a look intelligent extraterrestrials something I can't discuss in | |
| public setting okay I I can't ask when you think this occurred. | ||
| Um, it's... | ||
| If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft? | ||
| As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries, yeah. | ||
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Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics? | |
| Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program. | ||
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And was this documentary evidence, this video, photos, eyewitness? | |
| Like, how would that be determined? | ||
| The specific documentation I would have to talk to you in a SCIF about. | ||
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Gotcha. | |
| Okay, so, and you may or may not be able to answer my last question and maybe we get into a SCIF at the next hearing that we have, but who in the government either, what agency, sub-agency, what contractors, Who should be called into the next hearing about UAPs, either in a public setting or even in a private setting? | ||
| And you probably can't name names, but what agencies or organizations, contractors, et cetera, do we need to call in to get these questions answered, whether it's about funding, what programs are happening, and what's out there? | ||
| I can give you a specific cooperative and hostile witness list of specific individuals that were in those. | ||
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And how soon can we get that list? | |
| I'm happy to provide that to you after the hearing. | ||
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Super. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, so we will find out, I suppose, what they talked about after the hearing, but to be clear, non-biologics, or biologics, but non-human biologics, so not humans, where something biological was found in some sort of what appears to be a crashed craft or something, like we're entering Men in Black phase of this whole thing, which kind of seems like where this was all headed. | ||
| I suppose we will find out more. | ||
| Or we will not. | ||
| Or this is all kayfabe and we're just playing along in a script. | ||
| Or who the hell knows. | ||
| Or we'll be slaves to the aliens. | ||
| Or God knows what else is going on. | ||
| But I saw the story yesterday and I was like, okay. | ||
| It's the right time to go off the grid. | ||
| Like, if the aliens are here and over the next couple weeks we find out and the invasion and war of the worlds and they're using us as chum and the rest of it. | ||
| It was nice knowing you guys. | ||
| I really enjoyed all of this. | ||
| And we shall see. | ||
| But also, really, it was also like, man, I'm looking at this story and you have someone testifying under oath that agencies know about non-biologics found in these crafts. | ||
| Sorry, not non-biologics, non-human biologics found in these crafts. | ||
| And it's like, nobody really cared. | ||
| Like, everyone just keeps fighting about Trump DeSantis. | ||
| Everyone's fighting about who's racist and not racist, whose, you know, dicks we're going to chop off, and all the rest of the nonsense. | ||
| And that just is exactly why I go off the grid, because the endless hamster wheel of everything, you gotta stop it every now and again. | ||
| So I just want to do one other story before we get to everything else related to the off-the-grid August situation, because this week we covered quite extensively that many people On mainstream media, the Democrats, all the usual hysterics, were very upset because in this new curriculum through the Florida Board of Education, they were very upset about how they were going to teach about slavery. | ||
| And of course, we looked into it and it's basically, I think you can say this in an objective manner, like the most robust assessment of slavery and a true history of slavery that | ||
| probably exists in any state. | ||
| What was getting a whole bunch of people was there was in essence, and by the way, contrary | ||
| to what Kamala Harris said and contrary to what Whoopi Goldberg said, there were several | ||
| black scholars who were part of creating this curriculum. | ||
| But what was getting a lot of people was that there was a line or two in the curriculum | ||
| related to how black slaves attained certain skills that then they were able to use in | ||
| life in the future while they were slaves. | ||
| And somehow that was whitewashing slavery. | ||
| Now, the simple thing, as I addressed the other day, is it's obviously true. | ||
| People that were blacksmiths on plantations, you attain skills. | ||
| And then once they were freed slaves, they were able to either become blacksmiths or use some of those skills. | ||
| That's not an excuse about slavery by any estimation. | ||
| The same thing could be said for concentration camps. | ||
| When people had to do jobs there, they might have been able to take some of those skills and use them after. | ||
| Again, not an excuse at all. | ||
| But everyone started going completely bananas about this and Florida's racist, DeSantis is Hitler too, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Well, you are not going to believe what happened. | ||
| Check this tweet out. | ||
| This is from Jeremy Redfern. | ||
| He says, remember when Florida wouldn't allow that AP African American Studies course because it focused too much on critical race theory and not enough on history and the White House lost its mind? | ||
| Well, here is one of the standards considered essential knowledge. | ||
| So you guys remember this, of course, a few months ago when DeSantis banned this AP class because they were going to have gender theory in it and everyone was saying, this AP class must be taught. | ||
| In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South. | ||
| Once free, American Americans use these skills to provide for themselves and others. | ||
| Can we just go off the grid right now? | ||
| That is such a perfect example of how everything is BS, how it's all virtue signaling. | ||
| It's all fake and crazy and designed and as I said before, kayfabe, K-A-Y-F-A-B-E. | ||
| Google it if you don't know what it is, it's basically that we're in this fake reality. | ||
| Kayfabe was the word that described that you'd be watching an old WWE match back in the day, | ||
| Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant and you knew it was staged, you knew it was fake but | ||
| it could bring out these emotions with you, real emotions and then they'd continue this | ||
| story, this fake story about the Giant and the American hero and we'd all be, we're living | ||
| in it now. | ||
| But that story is the most perfect example of all of it. | ||
| Months ago, we were all racist because he wanted to get that course out. | ||
| Now that course has exactly the same thing that is in the course right now. | ||
| It's just nuts. | ||
| But let me just do one other thing on Florida, then we will get to everything else. | ||
| And again, between aliens and just like the lying about the place that I live in that has allowed my life to flourish and all that stuff, it's exactly why I go off the grid, so I can get fresh eyes on all of these crazy things. | ||
| CNN put up a video yesterday about a family that is fleeing Florida because of how evil And of course transphobic Florida is. | ||
| It's a two-parter. | ||
| Here's part one. | ||
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We just thought it would be a nice warm place to live where we could get to beaches. | |
| I just never thought that I would have to flee a state for the good of my children. | ||
| The SB 254, this will permanent outlaw the mutilation of minors. | ||
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I remember Tori coming to me one time in tears, which she doesn't normally do, and I asked her what was wrong and she | |
| said DeSantis. | ||
| And the fact that a governor would be making my kid cry, that's a messed up government. | ||
| We're absolutely moving because of the political climate and the laws in Florida. | ||
| We didn't want to move. | ||
| When the Florida Board of Medicine started meeting and we realized that they were going to ban gender-affirming care for our kids, that we might need to leave because that is life-saving, essential medicine and treatment for our daughter. | ||
| I was very relieved when we decided to leave. | ||
| I had never really heard that much about trans people until I was like 11 or 12. | ||
| I didn't even know trans people existed. | ||
| So I was just used to being uncomfortable. | ||
| I started hormone blockers pretty soon after that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there was times before she started getting hormones and stuff that she was suicidal, but after she transitioned, she was much more outgoing, much more, like, comfortable with herself. | ||
| Okay, that's only part one. | ||
| First off, before I say anything or make any sarcastic or glib remarks and talk about the general insanity and that CNN is pushing this and everything else, this has nothing to do with this kid, right? | ||
| Like, I'm not making fun of this kid. | ||
| And I actually have great sympathy for this kid, not exactly for the reasons that CNN wants you to think you should have sympathy for this kid, but for what the parents have done for this kid, for what the world and the culture has done to this kid, and all of those things. | ||
| There's so much insanity there. | ||
| First off, that the woman says, you know, she walks in one day, Tori walks in one day, what's wrong, DeSantis. | ||
| Like, it's just made up. | ||
| What's wrong? | ||
| What's wrong? | ||
| DeSantis. | ||
| Ronald DeSantis. | ||
| Like, okay, it's just made-up drivel. | ||
| This thing about gender-affirming care, as you guys know, it's not affirming to chop off a child's genitals. | ||
| That would be, I don't know, unaffirming, let's say. | ||
| That at 11 years old, I had never heard much. | ||
| The kid says, I had never heard much about trans stuff. | ||
| Then 11 years old, then they say soon after on hormone blockers. | ||
| Oh, so do you think there might be a social contagion element to it? | ||
| Suddenly you're at school and everyone's telling you how great trans stuff is. | ||
| You're 11 years old. | ||
| You're confused about your body, your life, all of the things. | ||
| Yada, yada, yada. | ||
| Next thing you know, they're putting you on drugs and literally chopping your genitals off. | ||
| And they're framing this as We are seeing many families that are leaving. | ||
| I really think if you were to ask a member of a trans family, they would tell you they go to bed at night dreaming of how to get out of the state. | ||
| Okay, careful. | ||
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We are seeing many families that are leaving. | |
| I really think if you were to ask a member of a trans family, | ||
| they would tell you they go to bed at night, dreaming of how to get out of the state. | ||
| So that, yeah, that's the dining room right here, and then this is the living room. | ||
| My hope for the McKee family is they are able to find a community | ||
| that embraces them. | ||
| you We're lucky that we're able to get out. | ||
| We're able to afford to leave. | ||
| A lot of people can't or it's going to be very difficult. | ||
| I feel really bad for the people that have to stay here. | ||
| It's been difficult to access my hormones. | ||
| I'm not honestly sure how I would continue to access care. | ||
| Even if I wasn't trans, I wouldn't be comfortable here. | ||
| It's just not a safe environment for queer people in general. | ||
| I do fear for my daughter's safety and just the fact that somebody might want to hurt her just for her being her for her existence is scary. | ||
| I worry about her every time she goes out. | ||
| Almost the wide open view. | ||
| Yeah, sunsets are great from here. | ||
| I'm looking forward to just being in a place where I don't feel under attack, where I don't feel oppressed. | ||
| It's just so sad that our country and our society are in this place of denigrating people like that and making them feel like they have no place. | ||
| It's just hard to start over all over again. | ||
| It's just hard to start over again. | ||
| Guys, this is exactly like that level of propaganda that you just saw there and that they're attacked | ||
| and all of this stuff and Florida's not safe for queer people and that somehow chopping | ||
| genitals is good and dealing with deep psychological issues somehow is not. | ||
| All of the nonsense. | ||
| It's exactly why I go off the grid. | ||
| Like to be able to do what I do and keep it, as I said, with fresh eyes and with an open mind and no reality because otherwise we are just slammed. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We are just slammed with this insanity all the time. | ||
| I would like to note that CNN that put that video out yesterday, they got ratioed to high hell. | ||
| I've mentioned to you guys that aren't on Twitter. | ||
| Ratioed is when you put up a video and, you know, let's say it gets 10 retweets and 20 likes, but then it has like 3000 comments because everyone is like, that is pure deranged BS. | ||
| And that's what happened to CNN. | ||
| Anyway, so all of that being said, between aliens, between the machine trying to trans our children, and the rest of the craziness, guys, this is exactly why I go off the grid. | ||
| So now let's shift into that portion of the show. | ||
| I want to say that, you know, since last August, I mean, there has never been an off-the-grid August. | ||
| I believe this is my seventh off-the-grid August. | ||
| There has never been an August to August situation that my life changed more than it changed this past year. | ||
| We were blessed with Justin last August and then Luke in October. | ||
| And as I've said on this show, I try to do some decent, somewhat respectful balance of my personal and private life, and then the public version of me. | ||
| And those of you that are part of the locals community, you get to see a little bit more of the personal stuff. | ||
| But becoming a father this year has just absolutely changed everything. | ||
| And to have it not just, in essence, be about me all the time, or what I'm doing, or what's going on on the weekend, or what are we eating tonight, Or whatever, that there are these little humans in this house that you got to love and take care of and that are more important than you and all of those things. | ||
| And that also, even this year, is why I want to do the off the grid to, you know, every day I get to spend a certain amount of time with them when I'm working or on the weekends more time, but really like hunker down with them. | ||
| And, you know, Justin's basically walking now. | ||
| He's right, right on the cusp. | ||
| And they're starting, a couple words are starting to bubble out from each of them. | ||
| And like, it's really just been, it's been incredible in that you guys, by supporting us, we are completely independent and will always stay completely independent. | ||
| But you guys, by supporting us, allow me to take this little bit of time to just like clean my brain. | ||
| And you know, when I mentioned before this thing about the hamster wheel, like every day for the rest of my life, as long as I do this show, we could wake up and there are more stories. | ||
| Doesn't matter if Trump ends up president, or DeSantis, or it's Biden or Newsom, or World War III starts, or the aliens invade, or whatever. | ||
| There are always more stories. | ||
| There are always more things to cover. | ||
| There's another Barbie movie to be angry about, and this thing happened, and that guy said this, and oh, we found out that guy did that 20 years ago. | ||
| Like, it will always exist. | ||
| And when I've gone off the grid, major things have happened. | ||
| Last year, was it last year or the year before? | ||
| I don't even remember anymore. | ||
| I missed the Mar-a-Lago raid. | ||
| That was last year, right? | ||
| That was last year. | ||
| It happened like August 2nd. | ||
| So for a month, I did not even know about the Mar-a-Lago raid. | ||
| I came back on the grid and I was like, well, I don't think anything's going to really come of it. | ||
| And, you know, in essence, nothing has, although there's a whole bunch of indictments, I guess quasi related to that. | ||
| I miss John McCain dying one year. | ||
| I miss the Afghanistan withdrawal the year before that. | ||
| I miss Andrew Cuomo stepping down. | ||
| Things happen, but the world continues. | ||
| But I think for me to do this and make sure that I don't have blind spots all the time, like right now I'm very much in the thick of what's happening in presidential politics. | ||
| I'm obviously supporting DeSantis. | ||
| Push back on some of the lies, wherever they come from, but I might have blind spots, right? | ||
| And I think stepping away from some of this to get, like, a clear look on this thing, as opposed to just every day, oh, this happened, holy shit, react! | ||
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and fight and capital letters destroy and all of that stuff. | |
| That's really why I do this. | ||
| I think it's good for me mentally and spiritually. | ||
| You know, it was five years ago or so that I came back on the grid and I said | ||
| I was no longer an atheist, which pissed off a lot of people. | ||
| But you know, when you give your mind and your body and your spirit a little time, | ||
| You never know what could happen. | ||
| So for those of you that are watching this, I know most people can't do a full August off the grid without this thing and without a computer. | ||
| And I do like the extreme, extreme level of it. | ||
| But I hope you guys will just try a couple days here, maybe just the weekends, maybe take a week, maybe take the last week of August, whatever it might be, to give yourself that space too. | ||
| Because the endless doom scrolling on this thing, you know, we are trapped in the matrix. | ||
| but it's your choice. | ||
| The matrix is always growing and it's expanding and it finds ways to wedge itself in our lives | ||
| nonstop in every turn, right? | ||
| And it's just nuts, but you can figure out how much you wanna be a part of it, | ||
| even as it endlessly encroaches on you. | ||
| So I hope that you'll try to do a little of that as well. | ||
| And now I just wanna go through some of my favorite moments of the last year since starting in last September, | ||
| And then a couple questions from the locals, community. | ||
| So let's start. | ||
| Back in September, right when I came back on the grid, I think you've seen this one once or twice, but I finally got to sit down with Bill Maher, who, of course, I had wanted to sit down with forever, have my frustrations, wanted to find the common ground, and I think we managed to do it. | ||
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You must know that the universe really doesn't give a shit about you and is not sending you messages. | |
| I think you can find messages within the nonsense. | ||
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From the universe. | |
| You can call it the universe or whatever. | ||
| It's not all random. | ||
| Here we are in Club Random. | ||
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It's not all completely random. | |
| He would have said to me in 1997, hey, if you're going to be sitting with Bill Maher at his house, he's going to be smoking pot. | ||
| Chevy Chase was just there before, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| You'd be married to a dude Bill Maher would be talking to about anal sex. | ||
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Like, that is so f***ing bananas. | |
| My head would have exploded. | ||
| So that's how the year, I think of my year sort of starting in September, like our season goes September to the end of July. | ||
| That's how the year started off. | ||
| And I think in many ways, all of the things that I've been doing, like, I think I'm moving Bill a little bit on the universe. | ||
| This is not all random. | ||
| I think most people, whether you want to go deeply spiritual and God and biblical stuff, Or just a little more sense to the universe. | ||
| It's so obvious. | ||
| It's not all coincidence. | ||
| It's not all random. | ||
| There is some order to this. | ||
| We all confine those moments in those peaceful times that we have. | ||
| It's partly, again, why I do the Off the Grid August thing. | ||
| Just a couple days After that, October rolled around, and then I had one of the sort of biggest moments of my professional life. | ||
| That one was professional and personal, the bill thing, obviously, but this was professionally probably the biggest moment of my life. | ||
| I was there as Rumble. | ||
| We rang the bell in New York at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. | ||
| That's, of course, Dan Bongino. | ||
| Yeah, so we had just rang the bell and the company went public and free speech really is public. | ||
| Southleb, who's also my brother-in-law, co-founder of Locals. | ||
| Locals and Rumble had merged right before this, and here we are. | ||
| This is as the bell rang. | ||
| I think we've got some video on that, do we? | ||
| Yeah, so we had just rang the bell, and the company went public, | ||
| and free speech really is public. | ||
| There we go. | ||
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Free speech is public now. | |
| Rumble is publicly traded. | ||
| I know a whole bunch of you are in on it, and I assure you, and that's why I'm doing this show through Rumble and through locals and everything else, like, we are fighting for the right reasons. | ||
| I will give you just one great example of how Rumble is fighting for free speech in a way that no other big tech company, including Twitter, is. | ||
| During when the whole Russia-Ukraine war blew up, Russia, no sorry, France basically contacted Rumble and said, if you don't take down some of your Russian channels that are on Rumble, including RT, which is Russian television, we're going to ban you from France. | ||
| And we said, we're not taking them down. | ||
| You can ban us. | ||
| And we are banned in France right now for standing up for the right thing. | ||
| Not even Twitter is doing that. | ||
| So I'm just super proud to be part of that. | ||
| And the fact that the company went public is just awesome. | ||
| And there's obviously a lot of good returns. | ||
| On that, and it's just great. | ||
| November, this was my favorite moment of November. | ||
| I'm sure it was a favorite moment for many of you. | ||
| This was on election night, and of course we did not get that red wave we wanted, but there was a massive landslide in Florida that clearly led to a whole bunch of other stuff. | ||
| You may remember this. | ||
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| Oh my! | ||
| That's a good one! | ||
| That's 15! | ||
| That was the number! | ||
| He knows it! | ||
| Oh, it's called! | ||
| That was it! That was it! | ||
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| Woo! | ||
| That was it! | ||
| 15 points! | ||
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I told the governor, I told the governor on June 2nd, the two of us in Orlando in the green room, I said you're going to win by 15 points. | |
| He laughed in my face. | ||
| All right, Governor DeSantis. | ||
| All right, so that was obviously at the DeSantis victory party. | ||
| It turned out by later in the evening, he won by 20 and a half points or so, I think 1.6 million votes. | ||
| I was sitting there, of course, with Liz Wheeler, and that was a great night as a Floridian. | ||
| Maybe it wasn't a great night for the country, although the Republicans did get the House back, and that has somewhat slowed a little bit of the craziness, but kinda not really, who knows. | ||
| But that was certainly a highlight, and just being there, and the atmosphere there, and the spirit of freedom and all that good stuff. | ||
| December was a great one. | ||
| I got to interview Bibi Netanyahu with just the simple fact that I'm able to talk to these people who are hugely influential in the world, that are people that are literally changing things on the ground that matter in a way bigger way than I ever would have thought I would have been affecting things, you know, 20 years ago. | ||
| It's kind of nuts. | ||
| So here's just a portion of that. | ||
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I think it's a miracle of faith and resolution. | |
| Israel, because of the Resolution, the resolve of its citizens, the genius of its people has become the juggernaut innovation nation in the world. | ||
| And we have, we've just crossed in GDP. | ||
| We've crossed Japan, France, Britain, And Germany, GDP per capita. | ||
| And remember, I described this in my book, when we began the economic revolution towards free markets away from socialism, we were basically the last place in Western Europe, and now we're pretty much in first place. | ||
| And we're going to catch up with the United States. | ||
| That's a personal quest. | ||
| I'm not saying that we'll be in the United States, but we'll catch up with the United States. | ||
| And hopefully going forward after this we'll keep talking to prime ministers and presidents of all political stripes and from all over the world and just making the conversation a little more enriched and to continue it. | ||
| January was pretty awesome because you know the whole Elon Twitter thing really in some ways was the biggest sort of media story of the year. | ||
| Elon buying Twitter, exposing so much of the nonsense around Twitter. | ||
| So I got, I was invited like out of nowhere, I got a call at about 1 p.m. | ||
| Eastern Time. | ||
| Can you get to San Francisco to meet Elon tonight? | ||
| And I somehow got on a plane. | ||
| I was literally on the last row in the middle seat. | ||
| And I got to Twitter headquarters and then I put out a long Twitter thread about what I saw at Twitter. | ||
| And really the beautiful part is what you're seeing in the last line. | ||
| In that Twitter thread. | ||
| I sat with Elon for a couple hours and a bunch of engineers and they showed me all of the stuff and all of the shadow banning they were uncovering and all of the craziness that was going on over there. | ||
| And I said to Elon, because I had no expectations when I went there. | ||
| I didn't know, was I doing the Twitter files? | ||
| Am I just meeting the guy? | ||
| Like, what the hell am I even doing there? | ||
| And I said to him after a couple hours, hey, can I just tweet about what I saw here? | ||
| And his response was just beautiful. | ||
| He says, you can say anything that is true, anything that's true. | ||
| And it's like, that really is the spirit that we need a bit more of these days. | ||
| And I think one of the reasons that right now there's a chance, right? | ||
| Like imagine if he did not get Twitter, even if you're not on Twitter, | ||
| like imagine how much stronger the censorship machine would be right now. | ||
| Yeah, we'd have rumble. | ||
| Yeah, we'd have Locals. | ||
| But, like, Twitter is the ubiquitous app and it's becoming more ubiquitous at the moment because, you know, he's turning Twitter, he wants to turn it into the Everything app, which he just basically renamed the company X and they want to do a whole sort of revamp of that. | ||
| But I think we have a chance with that. | ||
| So that was that was sort of a beautiful moment. | ||
| My favorite moment out of February was it was the what was it the seven year anniversary? | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, it was the six year anniversary of my first video that I ever did for PragerU, the now famous or infamous Why I Left the Left video. | ||
| I subsequently did three more videos. | ||
| So we thought for the anniversary of that, why don't we kind of recap my political adventure? | ||
| Because it's mirrored so many other people's political adventures, including guys like Elon Musk, for example. | ||
| Here's a little trailer we put together on that one. | ||
| So this month is the sixth year anniversary of the famous, or infamous, Why I Left the Left video that I did for PragerU. | ||
| You may remember, it might be hard for you to remember, but you might remember that I once was a good lefty, I was a liberal, I was a democrat, all of those nice things. | ||
| And then things started to change. | ||
| My side, the left, was actually the ones that were acting completely illiberally. | ||
| We were the ones who were silencing free speech on campus and shouting down speakers. | ||
| We were focused on the collective. | ||
| Instead of the individual. | ||
| It was also talking to people that I thought were my ideological enemies. | ||
| Whether they were Dennis Prager, or Glenn Beck, or Larry Elder, or Jordan Peterson, or Ben Shapiro, or the list goes on. | ||
| I was willing to talk to people, hear what they had to say, and then compare that to my own thoughts. | ||
| I think everything that I've spent the last couple years talking about is exactly what is needed in America right now. | ||
| It's imperfect. | ||
| I'm imperfect. | ||
| You're imperfect. | ||
| But if we fight for those ideals, and if we act a little bit more bravely, and we turn back to some of those founding documents that sometimes seem old and irrelevant, I really think we can fix this thing. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report, stealing these short videos from Prager U | ||
| to shoot this film. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| You can check out that compilation. | ||
| Why don't we link to that? | ||
| Can we link to that in the description? | ||
| We're gonna put that in the description right now so you can check that out a little bit later if you haven't seen it. | ||
| We take all four of our videos and really tell a story over the last couple years that I think will, well a lot of you I think will relate to it. | ||
| The highlight, for sure, was our trip to D.C. | ||
| where I interviewed about 18 Republicans. | ||
| Not one Democrat. | ||
| We reached out to about 20 Democrats. | ||
| The only Democrat who even responded to us was Rashida Tlaib, of all people, who said no. | ||
| But we got pretty much every Republican we wanted. | ||
| The highlight, of course, was we went to the Capitol and a whole bunch of you guys from Locals joined us. | ||
| I think about 60, 70 people joined us. | ||
| And we went and we interviewed Kevin McCarthy right in front of you guys. | ||
| It was really great. | ||
| We strive to be a more perfect nation, but we should be more patriotic. | ||
| I mean, this idea, and this goes long answer to your short question, I will put bills on the floor. | ||
| I don't even remember the question. | ||
| I just now did. | ||
| I think I asked you what it's like to work in a place where people don't like you. | ||
| We had a resolution on the floor denouncing socialism, okay? | ||
| This is not a college campus. | ||
| This is not Berkeley. | ||
| This is people elected to the U.S. | ||
| House of Representatives in all the history of America, and a hundred Democrats couldn't vote no. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| So it goes back to your question, could I believe that not one Democrat would stand up? | ||
| That's an extreme position. | ||
| That was a really beautiful day. | ||
| We then took tours. | ||
| Everybody that joined us got to take a tour of the Capitol. | ||
| And Kevin McCarthy, Speaker McCarthy's team, were great. | ||
| They led all the tours. | ||
| I jumped around with everybody. | ||
| It was just really wonderful. | ||
| April, the highlight was definitely this moment. | ||
| I did Patrick Bette David's podcast, which they've now got a live studio up in Fort Lauderdale. | ||
| And they had me and Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| I'm going to see Rudy a little later today. | ||
| They had us on the panel together. | ||
| This was, I think, the highlight moment. | ||
| Can you guys Google it? | ||
| Does she have a dick? | ||
| And... The fact that I just said that in front of Rudy Giuliani... Rudy didn't know what a meme was before this! | ||
| I lived in New York City during 9-11. | ||
| Like, this guy is a true hero and I apologize for even doing that. | ||
| I don't know what a meme is, but I know what a dick is. | ||
| I have to say, like, honestly, I'm almost tearing up as I'm watching that because, you | ||
| know, I lived in New York City, as I said, during 9-11, most of my formative years and | ||
| doing stand-up and struggling and being freaking broke, literally going to my roommate's coffee | ||
| jar to... | ||
| In essence, steal change. | ||
| I guess I was borrowing it. | ||
| Mike, I owe you a couple bucks. | ||
| Like, to take change so I get a cup of coffee, literally, when I had no money and I was sleeping on a cot in a hallway just doing stand-up at night while that guy was mayor of New York City and then I'm up there with him as an equal, like, doing these things and I'm going to do something with him later. | ||
| Yeah, it's just, what a weird, wild adventure. | ||
| May was awesome. | ||
| May was absolutely great. | ||
| May, of course, we did our big Israel-Hungary trip. | ||
| I think we've got a couple pictures of some of the highlights, so that obviously is in Jerusalem, the Western Wall right behind me, Dome of the Rock right behind that. | ||
| That's former Ambassador David Friedman, who of course was really the lead of the Abraham Accords. | ||
| Let's see, I think we have a video from, then we went up to the north to Lebanon. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| So we were right, if you did not see this, we are right on the border between Lebanon and Israel here. | ||
| And we're at a, we're at a bunker here where there's guns aiming each way. | ||
| And they just let me, the Israelis kind of live on the edge. | ||
| They let me wander in the border between Israel and Lebanon. | ||
| Obviously we're on the Israeli side. | ||
| But right through there. | ||
| We're standing in, I suppose, some sort of a bunker here with a little vantage point. | ||
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But right through there, that black tower you're seeing there is fairly new over the last couple months. | |
| That's a Hezbollah tower where they can monitor and see what's going on here in Israel. | ||
| They just shot about, I think it was 36 rockets in the last two weeks or so. | ||
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But mostly what I'm noticing here is that the Israelis are building a wall. | |
| It's almost complete, at least in this section. | ||
| And I guess walls sometimes do work. | ||
| You know, seeing that stuff like so granularly, so like right in front of your face when you see a border and they're like, oh, whether they're good guys or bad guys or whatever, like our territory ends here. | ||
| If you put up a wall, it does kind of stop people from jumping over and it does delineate between one territory and another. | ||
| So they're building their wall there. | ||
| And will we ever get a wall built? | ||
| Will we ever take care of our border? | ||
| We shall see. | ||
| After Israel, we went right over to Hungary, which was fantastic. | ||
| We went to Budapest, and the highlight—well, there were many highlights. | ||
| I did a really—what was one of the most enjoyable talks of my entire life at the Danube Institute, which you're seeing over there, which that video is up on YouTube and Rumble right now. | ||
| You can check that out if you want. | ||
| It was a real pleasure to do that. | ||
| And then, totally impromptu, we happened to be next door to the Prime Minister's residence, and they were able to set up a meeting between me and Viktor Orban. | ||
| And Victor Orban, who's, you know, in Western media is thought of as a very dangerous, scary fascist. | ||
| And I meet the guy and he's like laughing and smiling. | ||
| He's like, I just like my culture and I like my people. | ||
| I want to protect it. | ||
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| You know, so that was that was nice. | ||
| And then then also sort of by coincidence. | ||
| So that is she's the Caitlin Novak is the president, right? | ||
| She is the president of Hungary, Caitlin Novak, and this is backstage. | ||
| Jordan Peterson happened to be doing a show in Budapest the day before we were leaving. | ||
| We were taking like a 5 a.m. | ||
| flight, so I got to do the show with Jordan, open for him, about 6,000 people, and anything with JP is always great, and that was really fantastic. | ||
| In June, now we're almost caught up people, I promise, in June I think the highlight was I headed out to Nevada and I did an event for a couple thousand people with Governor DeSantis. | ||
| This obviously is just right after he announced that he was running for president. | ||
| And there's no audio to that video and people have tried to figure out | ||
| what we were saying to each other there. | ||
| But he's out there now. | ||
| You guys know how I feel about wanting to export Florida to America, right? | ||
| Make America Florida. | ||
| By the way, we have Make America Florida shirts, which we just redesigned. | ||
| I had put a little green in there that people felt was making a little too much | ||
| like the Italian flag. | ||
| We have now redesigned them in red, white, and blue. | ||
| You can find them at daverubin.store, the Make America Florida shirt. | ||
| And then the highlight of July was, I've been talking so much about how there is | ||
| this incredible cross section of people all over the political map, all over the cultural map | ||
| who are trying to come together to make some sense of the world. | ||
| That's really what I was focused on this particular, this last few days, and really what I'm gonna be thinking | ||
| about and churning through and trying to shape, as I said yesterday, right? | ||
| When I'm off the grid and the conversation that I had most related to that in July was with RFK Jr. | ||
| I actually retweeted it and I asked people to come up with some of your dangerous ideas | ||
| and nobody seems to really know what they are, but that doesn't stop the New York Times. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, and all of my conspiracy theories, as it turns out, have come true. | ||
| They're no longer theories. | ||
| They're now proven hypotheses. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I do wonder about it. | ||
| I was thinking about this this morning. | ||
| Because of this hailstorm of negative publicity about me, It goes beyond, like, hit pieces to be just this, you know, poisonous vitriol. | ||
| And that it's coming from all the legacy media, from the Atlantic Monthly, from New York Magazine, New Yorker, from the Washington Post, from the New York Times, from Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone. | ||
| and many, many others. | ||
| And they all kind of use the same talking points and they also are not accurate. | ||
| You know, none of them has really written an accurate. | ||
| And that's one of the reasons it doesn't trouble me is because it's just inaccuracies. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So there is a chance, guys. | ||
| Again, you don't have to agree with everything RFK says. | ||
| You don't have to agree with everything I say. | ||
| I don't agree with everything RFK says. | ||
| He doesn't agree with everything I say. | ||
| But this wide swath of people from Marr and Peterson and Rogan and Vivek and RFK, this wide swath of people | ||
| trying to just make some sense of this thing. | ||
| It's better than the hacks and the sellouts and the liars. | ||
| And there's an awful lot of them. | ||
| And they're super powered by algorithms and corporate press and the rest of it. | ||
| But if we can piece together that thing, it literally is the only way out. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| And now, ladles and jelly spoons, Let's get to a Rubin Report community Q&A. | ||
| I know there's a bunch of stuff about off the grid and some other political rated things and personal things and a bunch more. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Bonnie says, you've inspired me the last few years to put down the devices. | ||
| I don't go full dark, but it's nice to get away from the insanity for a while. | ||
| Enjoy your time off with the family. | ||
| See you on the flip side. | ||
| Well, that's not even a question, but I appreciate that and I'm thrilled to hear that. | ||
| Like really, anyone watching this, when's the last time you took one day? | ||
| Could you do it? | ||
| Could you take one day without this thing? | ||
| Can you walk out of your house? | ||
| I got one for you guys in this room. | ||
| When's the last time you walked out of your house without this thing for five hours? | ||
| Daphne, you're my assistant, so you're not allowed, but anyone else? | ||
| Like, never for Daphne. | ||
| Connor, really, when's the last time you walked around for five hours without this thing? | ||
| When he was 12! | ||
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Last time. | |
| Phoenix takes Dave Rubin's advice. | ||
| Last weekend you did it? | ||
| Like, for an afternoon? | ||
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| Good for you, man. | ||
| Brock, definitely not. | ||
| You're my social media guy. | ||
| The guy's got TikTok lodged. | ||
| He has a phone actually, like, lodged in the side of his brain. | ||
| Michaela, what about you? | ||
| You're the youngest here. | ||
| Michaela, the intern. | ||
| Mikayla the intern does not have her phone on her often. | ||
| Interesting, Mikayla the intern. | ||
| we will have to find out more about it. | ||
| But really guys, I mean it. | ||
| Like if you can just try a little, little break, you just don't know what it'll do to you. | ||
| I'm telling you, I start remembering songs. | ||
| Out of nowhere, I can remember every lyric. | ||
| Like two weeks in, it starts. | ||
| Like the first couple days are kinda weird and I'm grabbing for my phone | ||
| and like there's this weird tension. | ||
| And then it starts, then it's like really great and then I'm remembering songs. | ||
| I literally am remembering like, it'll be like, I'll be like out of nowhere, | ||
| I'm like, oh, what about Brian from third grade Like, whatever happened to him? | ||
| Like, these odd things. | ||
| There's so much that is buried in our brains, and if you can clear the clutter, you can get to some good stuff. | ||
| You really can, because it's in there. | ||
| I promise you. | ||
| Tallway says, since this is your last broadcast until the 23rd of August, what would be your advice for those in the locals community to keep our sanity until your return? | ||
| Well, look, as I said, I want you guys to take some time off, | ||
| but as I addressed yesterday, because of the way the algorithms work, | ||
| we are gonna still put up a bunch of content. | ||
| Phoenix, can you list out some of the interviews that we've done? | ||
| We have a whole bunch of stuff stacked that we're gonna put up in August. | ||
| We also, I taped like 30 intros to things, like if the view ladies go crazy, | ||
| if Joy Reid says something nuts, if Biden croaks, like we did. | ||
| It would be funny to release all those intros, regardless of what happens. | ||
| But we've got a whole bunch of people. | ||
| I interviewed Glenn Beck. | ||
| We're going to put that up. | ||
| Bjorn Lomberg, Carol Roth, Larry Elder, Gad Saad, Marissa Streit from PragerU, Chris Ruffo. | ||
| Who's Greg? | ||
| Which Greg is that? | ||
| Oh, Greg Gutfeld. | ||
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| You see why I need a break, people? | ||
| So we did, like, just in these last couple days, we did, like, ten interviews. | ||
| So you're gonna get a whole bunch of stuff. | ||
| And I hope more than anything, you guys will keep communicating and keeping each other alive and attached in a certain way, but not, like, obsessively, ah, chewing on this thing. | ||
| Dan says, who have you lined up to interview you when you return from off the grid? | ||
| We just found out this morning. | ||
| It's a major, major, major, major person, but I just don't want to say anything right now. | ||
| But we will be live from Milwaukee Rumbles building a huge set at the venue where the debates will be live studio audience. | ||
| How many people? | ||
| I said a couple hundred people, right? | ||
| It's going to be awesome, and it's a big name. | ||
| I promise you, you will be pleased. | ||
| Amy says, since movies have been a hot topic this week, I'm wondering if there are any movies you remember loving as a kid that you rewatched in adulthood and realized they weren't that great, or the opposite, movies you hated as a kid but now like as an adult. | ||
| Ooh, that's a good question. | ||
| Something I loved as a kid that I hate now. | ||
| Nothing's really, do you guys have anything? | ||
| Nothing's really coming to mind. | ||
| Connor, you usually have my references. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| Like something? | ||
| Yeah, that's kind of ballparking what my answer was going to be. | ||
| It's funny, now especially because of the kids, we just don't have time to watch movies anymore. | ||
| It's very rare and at the end of the day, I'm beat, David's beat, it's a lot. | ||
| So what we do is sometimes on the weekends, we just kind of put on movies and we're just kind of checking in and out, but I make sure not to leave the kids just sitting in front of the TV. | ||
| But if the kids take a nap, we'll just put on something. | ||
| And I just put on any crazy 80s movie and I just love them. | ||
| Like whether it's a Schwarzenegger or Stallone movie, or whether it's Mr. Mom or Mannequin or Weekend at Bernie's | ||
| or Weekend at Bernie's 2, which is one of the worst movies of all time, but you can just watch them | ||
| and they're like pleasant and you can check in and out. | ||
| And yeah, that didn't really answer your question, but that's kind of it for me. | ||
| So Justin, his due date was August 22nd, he was born on August 6th. | ||
| There's a serious balloon situation happening and a few other surprises. | ||
| We have not given the kids any kind of sugar yet. | ||
| These kids are eating so well, like healthy, organic, everything. | ||
| I make them eggs every morning. | ||
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| Everyone keep this quiet, but maybe I can smuggle him, like, a little piece of a donut or something. | ||
| I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do a little something. | ||
| Thank God David doesn't watch this show. | ||
| Michael says, Dave, you stay busy with family and work, you even find time for fans and supporters. | ||
| Would you take a position within the DeSantis administration, cabinet communications? | ||
| I really don't think so. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| My life is good. | ||
| I love what we're doing here. | ||
| We're working on some other things related to the show. | ||
| As I said, we're building a new studio, but we're working on some other live things that I think we can probably pull off in the fall and a bunch more. | ||
| But I think I'm affecting things at the right level. | ||
| If you just watch the 12 months that I recap, like I'm doing things that I think are matter and relevant and I don't want to move to DC. | ||
| I mean, do you know that I love Florida? | ||
| Have you heard me say that? | ||
| Like, the idea of moving to DC. | ||
| But I will put one little caveat in there. | ||
| If DeSantis became the president and I got the call to do something, like would I say no to the country for the betterment of the country if they thought I could be part of that? | ||
| I would try to work out something where, I don't know, maybe I could do Fridays? | ||
| Like, you know, they get the press secretary, whoever that might be, maybe Christina Pusha or whoever, and like every now and again, you know, there's always a backup, like we see this You know, we've got cringe Jean-Pierre, but every now and again it's somebody else. | ||
| Like, maybe I could be that person. | ||
| I could wear those outfits that cringe wears, those very colorful tight-knit things, and I could get up there and make my hair all crunchy and then just say nothing. | ||
| I could do that. | ||
| Tony says, thinking back on your previous Off the Grids, what's the most interesting or surprising thing that happened in the world while you were away? | ||
| Well, the Afghanistan, in terms of politics, Can you find what was the date of the Afghanistan withdrawal? | ||
| I think it was very early on in August. | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, it was like the first week in August, maybe second week in August. | ||
| So I had no idea about that for a couple of weeks. | ||
| And for me to see those videos, those insane, you know, you all saw them. | ||
| You saw them when it was happening. | ||
| Those crazy videos of people jumping on the planes and falling off and just watching us leave all of that stuff that we left in like the human toll and the Utter embarrassment for our military and for the Biden administration to whitewash it like that. | ||
| It's pretty rare that anything politically can kind of shock you. | ||
| And we did have to wrap up Afghanistan war. | ||
| No one knew why we were there anymore. | ||
| It had nothing to do with 9-11 and attack them there so they don't attack us here. | ||
| Okay, but what was it? | ||
| 19 of the planners were from Saudi Arabia or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, that was one that shocked me. | ||
| The withdrawal was on August 15th, so right in the middle of the month. | ||
| Right in the middle of the month. | ||
| Dave says, great name Dave, tell me you're planning at least one smoke all day while you chill out. | ||
| Brisket, oh, duh, yeah, I mean, there's gonna be, I actually just went to our Wild Fork place, is Wild Fork, is that just a Florida operation or are they all over the place? | ||
| Yeah, so Wild Fork is a brick-and-mortar place where you can get, they have incredible frozen meats. | ||
| They're not a sponsor. | ||
| I do, obviously, I do a ton with Moink, and I'm always doing all my stuff, but I just went to, for bigger cuts, I've been going to this place, Wild Fork, where you can get these massive freakin' tomahawks. | ||
| I did, like, a 16-pound brisket for my family. | ||
| So yeah, we're gonna be, I'm going to smell like smoke throughout most of August, for sure. | ||
| And maybe we'll let Brock post some pictures of meats, if we can make that happen. | ||
| Ben says predictions for when you come back. | ||
| Will the aliens have landed? | ||
| Will Joe Biden be revealed as king of the zombies? | ||
| Will Gavin Newsom have declared his 2024 presidential campaign? | ||
| I mean, look, any year anything can happen. | ||
| This year feels, and especially because I'm so in the thick of it, like this year feels particularly insane, which is exactly why I have to go off the grid, which is also, you know, the debate. | ||
| I really didn't want the debate to be in August. | ||
| I just feel like, especially because of my situation with Rumble and everything that I'm fighting for, With DeSantis here. | ||
| Like, I just felt like I had to come back a bit early. | ||
| By the way, so we're gonna come back a bit early on the 23rd, and then I will dip out till after Labor Day. | ||
| So I'll shut down again so that I do get the full month sort of mentally. | ||
| So we will be back on September 5th. | ||
| That's Monday, September 5th, right? | ||
| So, because Labor Day is... I'm sorry, it's Tuesday, September... Yeah? | ||
| It's Tuesday, September 6th? | ||
| Labor Day is the Monday, but I think it's the 5th that we're coming back. | ||
| It's the 5th on Tuesday. | ||
| The 5th on Tuesday! | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| I have a crack team here. | ||
| We will be back on Tuesday the 5th because Labor Day is Monday the 4th, right? | ||
| So I didn't want to come back for one day on the 1st and bring all my guys back in. | ||
| I want them to enjoy the summer as well. | ||
| So we will be back on Tuesday the 5th after Labor Day. | ||
| There you go. Oh, but yes, anything could happen. | ||
| Like literally, could Biden this afternoon trip and then it's over? | ||
| Could they figure out a way to install Gavin Newsom? | ||
| Like all of the crazy things. | ||
| Could three of the Republicans drop out? | ||
| Could the aliens are here? | ||
| Anything. | ||
| Anything could happen. | ||
| So, the first few years that I did it, there was no nothing. | ||
| I did have electricity in my house. | ||
| Like, I'm not shutting down, like, going to the forest. | ||
| Although that actually does sound kind of cool, and I should probably do something like that at some point. | ||
| But I shut down in terms of one so for the first few years 100% no news, no phone, no iPad, no computer, no TV, like nothing in terms of consuming media or anything else. | ||
| Yes, we had lights. | ||
| We had a phone. | ||
| Because lights in our house and music, I do listen to music, are controlled by the phone. | ||
| So we had a phone that did not have Wi-Fi or, no, it had Wi-Fi, I guess, but we deleted all the apps and it did not have an actual, it wasn't connected to AT&T or anything, just to open up music and that sort of thing. | ||
| Last year was a little bit different because Justin was born and obviously we had family visiting and coming to town and calling and texting and whatever. | ||
| So I had deleted a whole bunch of apps, but I did occasionally look at this thing. | ||
| For the most part, I will have nothing to do with nothing. | ||
| I will be off, you know, in terms of media, as I said, it will be off all of that stuff. | ||
| With kids, it's a little more complex, like I need to be able to be available at some level. | ||
| But yeah, it's the most important thing really is the media detox. | ||
| As I said, that hamster wheel thing of just slammed with more information, more craziness, more partisanship, more of the stuff. | ||
| And if we can remove ourselves from that, I think it is good. | ||
| Okay, so that's it for the questions for now. | ||
| I just want to make a couple announcements as I leave you guys, although I said I'm really only leaving you for an hour because we're interviewing Rudy Giuliani at Locals in an hour from now. | ||
| So, a couple things. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| Say goodbye to this backdrop. | ||
| We are building the new studio in the house. | ||
| The contractor, we literally started this morning. | ||
| The contractor was here this morning. | ||
| Walls are going up. | ||
| Whole bunch of stuff. | ||
| It's going to be awesome. | ||
| We're designing it together. | ||
| We're getting new equipment, better cameras, better lighting, better audio, the whole thing. | ||
| We're doing a serious investment in it. | ||
| And I'm really psyched about that. | ||
| This background, of course, was my old house in L.A. | ||
| And we're just using a still image of it, which looks pretty damn good. | ||
| And our intention originally, when we moved into this house a year and a half ago, was immediately to build a studio here. | ||
| But then between the kids and just everything else we were doing and traveling, it just became impossible. | ||
| So this is our opportunity to do it. | ||
| I'm told it'll take about three weeks, and then we have about two weeks to get the set perfect. | ||
| And I can't wait to debut that for you. | ||
| As I said, we have a bunch of off-the-grid content coming out, so stay tuned on YouTube and Rumble and Locals and all that good stuff. | ||
| Yes, many of you have asked. | ||
| I am still working on that tequila, the Dave Rubin tequila. | ||
| It's an extremely complex thing, legally and importing tequila and all that. | ||
| We're working on that. | ||
| As I said, Rudy in an hour from Locals. | ||
| Phoenix, do I have anything else I want to tell the fine people? | ||
| What? | ||
| Oh, the cookbook. | ||
| Man, there's so much. | ||
| The Rubin Report Locals Community Cookbook will officially be posted on Monday. | ||
| That's recipes from me and my team and you guys that are part of the community, and I wanna thank you guys for submitting that. | ||
| Sorry it took so long, but we will get that up on Monday. | ||
| And before I go off the grid, because obviously I'm gonna do this thing with Rudy, but that'll be mostly about Rudy, I just once again wanna thank all of you who have been any part of any of this. | ||
| From the people that were with me from way back when, when I was on The Young Turks, to the people that started when we first went independent, or when we were with The Blaze, or now that we've done everything we're doing here, when we were in Cali, in Florida, when we were broke. | ||
| All of the stuff. | ||
| All of the stuff. | ||
| You have enabled me to do this. | ||
| So if what I do here does a little something, like the tiniest Did I do drag this year? | ||
| of something to make the world that you live in a little bit better, then let's consider it a wash. | ||
| So I do thank you. | ||
| So there's no post-game show today because we've got to get to locals right now | ||
| because we're interviewing Rudy in about an hour. | ||
| But I do leave you with a cold close. | ||
| This might've been, I think this is probably the funniest thing that we did all year, | ||
| or just like maybe my personal. | ||
| Did I do drag this year? | ||
| Was that this year? | ||
| That was the year before. | ||
| Phoenix is like, no Dave, you did drag last year and we're never doing it again. | ||
| I think this little thing that we put together of Trudeau and Newsom was like one of my favorite things. | ||
| And Connor can swear to it, we did this in one take and it was off the top of my head. | ||
| One take off the top of my head. | ||
| And again, I thank you guys and we'll see you in September. | ||
| Hey I'm Justin Trudeau and I'm so excited to be here because I'm in California with another lizard person. | ||
| He's a lizard person just like me and I'm here with him in California which he's turned into a communist shithole just like I'm trying to do to Canada. | ||
| We're both World Economic Forum stooges but we have really nice Look at our suits. | ||
| And look at his hair. | ||
| I just love him so much. | ||
| Oh, look at him. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
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Hi, I'm Gavin Newsom. | |
| Look at me. | ||
| I smile when I'm talking, so people think I'm a nice guy. | ||
| But actually, I eat babies. | ||
| Yes, I do. | ||
| I love them. | ||
| They're delicious, and I'm always eating them. | ||
| And then I use their blood as gel in my hair. | ||
| It's very exciting for a guy like me. | ||
| And I'm very happy to be here with Justin Trudeau, who is so evil that makes me look like a good man. | ||
| Yes, isn't it true, Justin? | ||
| Yes, yes, it is true. | ||
| You're just so cute. | ||
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I just love you so much. | |
| Think about all of the people we could lock in their homes and freeze their bank accounts. | ||
| It's very exciting for both of us. | ||
| I'm so happy about it. | ||
| Aren't you happy about it, Gab? | ||
| It's just, yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. |
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