Dave Rubin and Erin Wexler dissect the Boy Scouts' rebranding to Scouting America, contrasting it with critiques of "fat liberation" via a Disney World food challenge video. They analyze societal shifts through clips on cuckolding, gendered Uber rides, and Korean stereotypes, while debating Philadelphia's year-round schooling proposal as union-driven rather than student-focused. Ultimately, the crossover episode highlights deep cultural fractures regarding gender roles, health norms, and institutional motives in modern America. [Automatically generated summary]
And this is a first ever People of the Internet Rubin Report crossover.
And that's right, for reasons that I can't fully get into, although some of you on Locals know where I am,
I am out of the country today doing a very special something, so we have pre-recorded this episode of People of the Internet, airing it here on the Rubin Report channel as well as on the Tenet channel, and I am joined by my special guest co-host Erin Wexler.
We are in it together, whether we like it or not, although you and I do live in the free state of Florida, which is why we have a certain glow, and we haven't been stabbed today, so that's pretty good.
You're telling me that for 114 years the Boy Scouts have been excluding girls and the girls had to have their own scouts and sell their own cookies and society didn't completely collapse?
The same way that men are taking over women's sports and it's getting some people to slowly notice, we need the boys to start outselling girls with Girl Scout cookies.
And I think that's when the rage will really rain down.
So I am hopeful that if we could get them into the cookie game, it could actually change the entire country and reverse this entire tide.
But no, it's so ridiculous.
What would you say is the best Girl Scout cookie?
Nothing's sacred anymore.
Everyone's just gonna merge into some androgynous Zeezer freak and down to the Boy Scouts, apparently.
If I say I'm a queer, you know, whatever, furry, I can wear whatever I want.
But as a straight woman, I'm not allowed to do anything anymore.
But yeah, no, those were the days.
And, you know, everyone knows the studies show that when you just let kids do what they want, they, you know, the boys gravitate one way, the girls gravitate another way.
But here's the other thing.
Let's say you don't.
Let's say you're a tomboy.
I was in that Avril Lavigne stage growing up, you know, that era.
And, uh, and I just, I actually think about the fact that that kind of goth era, like skater girl vibe that I had, and I liked science and math and I didn't like all the girly things that girls liked.
And today they would tell me that I'm a boy to chop my boobs off.
And so I'm just so thankful that I proceeded this time.
Um, yeah, I just, uh, the, I'm curious to see what happens to cookie sales this year.
The funniest part of this whole thing has been me visioning, if you were, you're right, if you were to go out in a tutu and walk down Miami Beach, people would be like, what the hell is wrong with that girl?
And yet if a guy did it, if an obese middle-aged man was walking around in a tutu, people would be like, well, that's great, he is who he is.
And that food, it's all dripped in high fructose corn syrup and fried, and none of it's, yes, could it be delicious at like the most base level, some of it?
We went to, we took my niece and nephew to Universal Studios in Burbank a couple years ago, and they have Simpsonsland there, and I bought a big-ass donut.
You know, they sell that big, giant Homer Simpson-style donut.
I had two bites of that thing, and I was basically in a coma.
They threw me down that Jurassic Park log flume, and I'm pretty sure I was half dead How do these people do it?
You know, what my mind goes to whenever I see a video like this
is this is the same person and all the people who would snap for her and say,
yeah, it's like, not just that like big is beautiful, which is debatable, but like big is healthy
has been a bit, you know, it's like the fat liberation movement on the left
that they're very into.
And it's a whole thing of like that we're supposed to indulge just the way we're supposed to indulge that men can become women and that you should chop your body parts off, but also that this is healthy and that it's wrong for us to point it out.
All those people that support this woman were saying that if you did not get the COVID vaccine, that you should not be treated in a hospital.
And that is all I can think about when I see someone who has allowed themselves to, not just allowed, if this video showed her being upset about her weight and working hard at trying to get it off, we would both have a totally different reaction.
It's a legit point, like the fat jokes aside and everything else, it's a legit point because once you have universal health care, and then everyone's kind of in on it together, you're actually punishing all of the people who take care of them.
You eat right?
You exercise?
You get sun?
Well, now you gotta pay in to take care of that person who also was trying to get you fired, as you said, for not getting vaxxed.
So once they decide to put us all in on a system, well then we're gonna start being resentful of each other.
Should I pay less on a plane because I weigh less while the fat person is now taking up two seats?
No, but yeah, it's a total celebration of a movement and a celebration for something that's going to kill her, right?
And so I just hope that, you know, I would welcome someone like that with a lot of warmth and support if they chose to reverse their life.
But I think there needs to be more shame.
There needs to be more shame around this kind of behavior, whether you're skinny as a stick eating like that or you're as large as the person in that video.
You see, because it's a thin, small person who, because the point is, instead of going to Disney or wherever and eating all that stuff, you can turn yourself into anything you want to be.
It's light-hearted get people to the gym I just think our society if I think of more people we're going to the gym We would have everyone would be happier.
Everyone would be sexier.
It would just be a good time Like I just want America to be filled with Chad's, you know, just like Like this is going to be we're looking at college campuses right now and I feel like the first video we watched and the video we just saw is also kind of like the perfect parallel to what we're seeing on campuses where you have these like big freaks with keffiyehs yelling and there's a video of a bunch of the frat guys yelling at this girl saying like lose some weight or something and I'm like you know what yeah like that the parties are being split and the left is turning into the
Like humorless, sexless, fat, ugly party and the right is turning into fit hotties and I'm here for it.
No, I did see a video I think of him recently and I thought it was a joke.
And so seeing this again, I thought it was his, his like ish kind of thing.
But apparently, I guess that's real for, yeah, I've never met a, a couple where when this is what they're doing, that they actually stay together forever and they end up happily ever after.
Yeah, the secret was that I let your mom cuck me the whole time, and that's what kept us together.
I can't imagine.
It's so crazy, honestly.
I wonder, was she the one suggesting it, or was he?
Was he the one encouraging it?
Because in that video, he seems upset.
He's talking about how difficult it was, but maybe he enjoys the self-infliction of pain.
I don't get it.
I'm also confused because it looks like he had a gun in his background too.
So he's like, you're saying like, he's like one of those mixes where he likes 2A, but is against common sense.
Or like, I don't know what's going on in that clip, but society is definitely just unwell when you're able to put this On the internet and you're just telling everyone.
It's one thing to do it.
It's one thing to allow it to happen in your relationship.
It's entirely another to advertise it.
And you know, I guess I won't be surprised if he ends up dying his hair that weird yellow white color we talked about yesterday.
It's just a funny idea, like, so okay, you're married, right?
And let's say in this case, and my guess is it was the wife, was like, all right, you're not that attractive, actually, and let me just get banged by some of these other guys.
And the first time he heard it, he probably was like, well, I don't think that's a great idea, but he was like, oh, I wanna make her happy, let's try it.
Then it happens once, happens twice, happens three times, and then it's like four years later, and you realize you are so down in the rabbit hole of insanity that you you basically you can't stop or you get divorced and apparently they are it's so pathetic man my my my resume would not or my life story would not say most traditional guy around but i am becoming i'm going to be the king this will be 2055 and i'm going to be living in a castle with a gun just
But, um, but I will say also the, the people on the left who encourage and, and, you know, are supportive of this kind of lifestyle.
They're also the ones that totally on traditional marriage and people getting married young and having kids.
And, you know, those people always pull extremely high on the happiness level.
And I think society would be happier if we didn't have so many choices.
And what I mean by that is this guy and his wife, they saw, like instead of looking at their marriage and saying, we need to fix this.
And I'm not married.
So I'm saying this and admittedly saying, I am not married, but I've had very long-term relationships and I never coached the guy I was with.
And so I have some experience with this.
And I think if you have a relationship of any sort and you're looking at how do we make this stronger and better, then you find the way to do that and you become happier instead of looking at outside of the relationship, right?
And seeing everything as an exit opportunity.
So, you know, I think people would just be happier if they were monogamous.
I am actually turning into Danny Glover from the Lethal Weapon series, where all he said for the last, like, four movies they made was, I'm getting too old for this shit.
Although I would like to save that and like siphon it over for one of the Hadids when they choose to go and wear one of their outfits in Gaza, because that would, I would pay business class, I'd pay 10 from one of the Hadids to go.
That would be, I think my eyes really lit up on that one, if anyone's watching the video.
They know literally nothing about how the rest of the world works and America is Candyland.
And that's why it's kind of funny when you see what's happening where some of them are actually getting arrested now and not able to attend their graduation.
Although most of them, I think, aren't getting too much.
You know, they're not really getting punished all that much.
But I saw a video of one of these fat weirdos Yeah, there are actual consequences in this world, and most American kids have never had to deal with any real consequences, so it's nice when they get to chant their little rhymes and camp slogans or whatever at these protests.
It's very different when it's actually in practice, so that video should be mandatory training for every college student on an American campus.
He just, but he also knows my strong disdain for female Uber drivers, which has gotten me in trouble in the past.
I hear a little giggle on the back.
It's not a giggle.
Phoenix is a man.
So sorry for calling that laugh a giggle.
It's a man's laugh.
Yeah, it's a man's laugh.
Sorry to the YouTube audience.
He's a, he's not a child, but you know, I, It is true.
I have been cursed and I actually think there's a chance that someone at Uber saw one of my Instagram reels where I was talking about being cursed with all these female Uber drivers.
They were always late.
They took multiple wrong turns.
It was just a total disaster and you know it was at least on Lyft and now and now I only get females.
So I think someone went into the computer went into the system and made it so that I will only get female Uber drivers.
So there are two things happening here.
The first is I might try to change my gender on my profile to identify as male now so that they only give me men because you know that's the thing that they do.
So I might be trying that and I can because it's 2024 so I could do whatever the F I want with that.
I could be in it. And then the other thing is on Lyft, they give you an option to request a female
only or non-binary, some mixed driver, which I'm sure there won't be any problems with that, with,
you know, men trying to be with women who only want female drivers. So there's that option.
I don't know why there isn't a lawsuit for discrimination around that, uh, because there's no male only option.
Not only do I want a male only option for my Uber drivers, I would pay a premium for it because if I want to get somewhere on time, have a competent driver, not have them be like so timid on the road and just get there, you know, not have all the short stops, but a smooth ride, I'd pay extra for that.
No, this guy has to be, he's probably trying to get a visa or something to America with the show because I don't know why else he would be with that girl that he's calling a piggy and grabbing her tummy.
So, but good on him for doing the work, I guess, to get into this country legally, because he could be like other people who are coming across the border illegally.
How unfortunate, how unfortunate, though, that the stereotype of what America has become has in so many ways become true.
because if we could just get back to what you mentioned earlier,
imagine if we had the Chad's, right?
You had a bunch of fit dudes knowing what they wanna do, going out there and getting it, blah, blah, blah,
building new things, all of that, which is what so much of America was always about.
And then you had women that were out there making families, working if they wanted to, taking care,
like all of this stuff.
And then of course, there's gonna be people on the margins of those things
that can still fit within a healthy society.
Obviously, that is what the project of a pluralistic society is all about.
But we have just thrown out so much of it.
It's so, you ever see those, we play them on the Rubin Report every now and again.
You ever see those old black and white videos of like New York City or Chicago or from, you know, 1920s, 1930s, turn of the century kind of stuff.
And you see all of these people, And they're dressed right, and the hats are nices, and the dresses are nices, and all of this stuff in there.
But it's not even that, that they're just like walking through a city, and it's pleasant and good, and the paper boy is just as respected as the businessman.
And it's not, doesn't mean everything was perfect, but it was not this weird cacophony of genderless craziness that we are dealing with right now.
No, but I think that people don't respect each other right now because they don't respect themselves.
And you can't respect yourself if that's how you're treating your body and you're getting yourself fast food.
And I do think there is definitely a problem in our country of You know, the accessibility of fast food.
And so even though it's a choice, it's, you know, it's much easier and you're incentivized to get that food.
But you know what?
I, I've been abroad, I've lived abroad and people abroad have a lot less and they manage to get healthy food and cook at home.
And there's just a different prioritization of health in that way.
And, you know, so it's not, it's a, it's a cheap excuse for Americans to say that Fast food is only what's available.
And there are definitely cases in our country where there are food deserts, and it is harder to get healthy food.
But I would argue that that's often caused by the fact that in a lot of these places, you have supermarkets closing down or being shut down because there's so much crime that you just can't keep a supermarket open.
And it wasn't always like that.
We know that only in recent memory, like in the 90s, also when my parents were growing up, one of my parents grew up, very, very poor and their neighborhood was super safe.
It just, you know, being lower class did not make things dangerous for you.
And people had a lot of respect and people were very educated.
Have you seen all these videos lately where people are going to like McDonald's
or Wendy's or Burger King or whatever, and being like, look at the price of what I bought.
They get the Happy Meal or whatever and it's like 30 bucks now because of how prices have gone.
And it's like, man, for 30 bucks for one meal, you could've got a grass-fed steak, you could've got some broccoli, you could've got just something simple, a sweet potato, and eaten a completely balanced, healthy meal.
So maybe do that instead of complaining about what all that artery-hardening stuff is doing to you.
Not that I want that thing to cost 30 bucks, because everyone can enjoy it now and again, but... Yeah, people just don't want to take responsibility.
Again, this goes back to what we were saying earlier, which is, I think if more people were bullied growing up, that we would have a healthier, happier society.
And that's because no one was told, stop being a weirdo.
And listen, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be your own person and be to the march of your own tune of your own drum, whatever it is.
But, you know, it's just like all everyone now, I think that we're saying on College campuses and you know Gen Z they all have their purple pixie freak haircut stuff going on and and I reference that a lot because like it's just you always see it everywhere it's like you go to the barber and say make me look like I'm mentally unstable and they will give you that haircut but why is that and it's because this is the generation of participation trophies where you know everyone gets passed even though no one's reading at grade level and you're just never embarrassed you're never told no you're never told you have to work hard and
And I think, and I'm not advocating, obviously, not advocating for beating your child.
But what I am saying is I appreciate the spirit of that video.
I stole that joke from a comedian from about 30 years ago.
I cannot remember his name, but if he's out there watching this, I stole that from you, whatever your name was.
Josh, Josh something, his name was Josh something.
We worked together at Gladys' Comedy Club on 45th Street.
All right, what do we got?
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♪ Do do do do, shaboom ♪ ♪ Life would be a dream, shaboom ♪ ♪ If I could take you up in paradise up above, shaboom ♪ ♪ If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love ♪ ♪ Life would be a dream ♪ You've really done it today, Phoenix.
What celebrity recently was saying, like, don't hire from Gen Z because they don't work?
And it was some Hollywood, like, classic leftist celebrity.
And they were saying, I can't remember who it was.
Some famous celebrity saying, I won't hire from Gen Z. And this is why.
And you know, I, when I started working after college, I was working in finance on the trading floor and the fear of God was in us, right?
Like we, my friends and I, we had everyone's locations and every morning we were up at four 30 in the morning, making sure that everyone was on their way to work.
And if you were a minute late, if you were there after your boss, you were shaking, you were trembling.
You were like, I just, I'm going to get fired today just for showing up a minute after my boss, I might get fired.
And.
My friends who stayed at that company after I left, and I'm obviously not there now because I'm here watching TikToks with you, which is way more fun.
But, you know, my friends who are still there tell me about Gen Z just not caring, just act like because this is the generation where they were totally coddled and their parents treated them like the world is Candyland and there's always a nice cushion and can't, you know, you have to speak softly with these kids.
I remember working when I was super sick and, you know, it's like there was a snowstorm once and I was told, get your shovel ready and your boots because you're walking to work if the subway is not working.
And you know what?
It's actually a good mentality.
People have purpose when they have to work hard, when they muscle through things.
And so she'd probably be a lot happier.
And I just want to say that burp that she had in the middle there.
But I can tell you, like, no joking aside for a second, I can tell you that one thing that I truly, truly love, I love when you meet someone who is doing a good job at something.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Like, my guys in the studio are all doing a good job.
They work hard.
We have a great atmosphere in here.
I'd like to think that that has a little something to do with the way that I wanted to build this thing and everything else.
But I mean, if I meet a waiter that is doing a great job, I will freaking way, way overtip, sometimes just double the bill altogether.
Or even if you go to the dentist, I just went to a new dentist and I was like, this woman is a great dentist.
She sat down, explained things to me, like anyone that is doing My landscaper, Rolando, who watches the show, I love him.
He loves his work and does great work.
And you can have that in life.
And then when you have that in life, then some of the other stuff, obsessing over your fupa, over your genitals, and all the other problems that you have, and your burping.
I wish I could just burp on demand.
I used to be able to do it when I was like 15.
That would have been...
But then some of the other stuff will go away if you find something you want to do.
And it may not be like the most... I have a guy actually out back right now that's cutting down some trees because we had some... Here's a Florida problem for you.
I got an iguana who's been climbing up a tree and then pooping directly in my pool.
So I've got a guy out there right now who's, but the guy busts his ass.
He's fun.
I like talking to him in the day and I know he likes doing it.
And it's like, that's great.
It's not the most fun job in the world probably, although he's outdoors and whatever, and he can stay fit and get some sun, but like find something that you just want to do and just do it good.
Like why not be the best ditch digger if that's what your lot in life is, you know?
And something happened during COVID when everyone was sitting home with stimmy checks, where I remember it used to be that you could go to, you know, a Starbucks and the person at the register had pride in their work and they were really nice.
And now there's attitude, like they're doing you the favor, right?
For, for taking your order and something about that.
It's like, it's just like totally turned up on, on the other side of its head right now that I don't know, but I will say Dave, it is very Florida for you to have an Iguana I'm not gonna get into your pool.
But what's less Florida is if I were you, can't you just shoot iguanas?
Like they're an invasive species.
I'm pretty sure you could have gotten it yourself.
So that's a little embarrassing for you, but you could have called me.
There are places to go when you have a bike, but what people don't like is that it's not always the exact route that you want to take that's most direct, right?
So sometimes avenues go up and sometimes they go down and, you know, on these bridges, you have to go on a certain side.
So, you know, I could be wrong here.
I don't remember exactly which bridge that one is, but I'm pretty, you know, there are bike lanes.
And it's also not your God-given right to be biking on a road with other cars.
It's like the left.
They want us all, no cars, just everyone on bicycles.
And let's see how Manhattan does.
He also could take that bike, I think, on the subway and get over.
It sounds like he's looking for trouble and looking to complain.
And that would be a very exhausting way to live.
But it's a day that ends in Y. And when you're a leftist, that is what you do.
Isn't it funny we know he's a leftist just for having made the video in the first place?
You're like, that's just how it works.
All right, Connor.
Connor, I want you to give us something healthy to end on.
Give me something robust, something powerful, something moving, something emotional, something deep.
Here we go.
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Summer break might be gone for Philadelphia schools in the near future, and this is not clickbait.
A plan is currently being worked on by the superintendent to introduce year-round schooling to Philly.
Instead of one huge summer break, students will now get smaller breaks throughout the year in addition to holidays.
The goal of this is to end the summer slide that happens where kids forget stuff over the long summer break, but it's not going to happen just yet.
First, 20 schools are going to be selected to test run this year-round school program.
And then for this upcoming school year, things will look mostly the same with expanded after-school programs.
But then the year after that, the 20 schools that were selected will begin the year-round school calendar.
We don't know which 20 schools will be selected yet, and we don't have any specific details on what a year-round calendar will look like, so I'll update you when that stuff comes out.
You know, Philly is one of those, like, top 10 cities that every time you see, like, the drug zombies and the crime and the blight, it's always, you know, it's San Francisco, of course, and L.A.
and Portland and Seattle, but Philly's always in that top 10 list.
And, like, this is what they're focusing on.
First off, as a child, or as a young kid, like, summer break is one of the great joys of life, even as an adult.
I mean, I take August off, but, like, just summer break, or just in general, the idea of the summer, is just so important, I think, in the yearly calendar.
But yes, this will fix all of your problems, Philly.
But you know, we, you know, my parents were actually pretty chill because I'm type A, so I was studying to go back to school.
But my brother wasn't, and my parents would just help him.
And, you know, I say this because my brother's way smarter than I am, so I could rag on him a little bit on the show.
And he watches your show every day, so he'll like that shout out.
where I call him dumber and smarter at the same time. But you know, you found your way back to
school and it's when you have a house, you have parents who value your education, you find a way
to get ready for the school year. Also, I would love to know what the teachers union is being paid
to extend the school year, right? Because it's never about the kids.
This is the same teachers union that during COVID were doing cringe dances about why they would never go back to teaching.
And, you know, they're making all kinds of demands now.
So it's, I doubt this actually has anything to do with helping kids.
The only thing I can think of is that if they do know that a lot of these kids are in homes where education is not valued or encouraged, they might want to keep those kids in school to not be in those homes.
But that's not actually the solution.
The solution is making a culture where people care about this.
It's all, just let kids have their summer break.
Let them run around and play sports and be happy and be in the sun.