June 13, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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An ordinary man. | |
| I'm gonna get you. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Let's clap for that, you stupid bastards. | ||
| Get your work straight, Jack. | ||
| Chocolate chip. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| A patient man. | ||
| You're the boss, not a list person. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| We stop serving breakfast at 11.30. | ||
| Who's running out of patience. | ||
| Just clap for that, you stupid bachelor. | ||
| A peaceful man. | ||
| Who's about to be pushed. | ||
| Get your work straight, Jack. | ||
| A little too far. | ||
| Show some respect. | ||
| Say, would you get off my golf course? | ||
| The story of an everyday guy. | ||
| I'll never forget lying around, and him lying around, actually. | ||
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Now, if you go up against this guy... You may cut me, man, but I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head. | |
| Be careful. | ||
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Think about what you'd think about! | |
| Somebody in a white shirt and tie gunned down a phone booth three blocks from the Whammy Burger. | ||
| This is not a kumbaya moment, as he used to say. | ||
| falling down. A tale of urban reality. | ||
| All right, people. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
| It's June 13th, 2020. | ||
| We're live streaming on Rumble YouTube and local. | ||
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| And I want to give a shout out and some credit to my man Connor right there. | ||
| He put that little ditty together for you yesterday. | ||
| Somehow on YouTube, I came across the trailer for the movie falling down with michael douglas it is a great great movie probably came out around 92 93 can i get a can i get a year on that maybe as late as 95 ish uh it's a great movie about just this like 93 man do i know what i'm doing or what | ||
| It's a great movie about a guy just trying to live a normal life. | ||
| He's got some issues, but trying to live a decent life in a world that has gone crazy. | ||
| It's got a lot of parallels to what's going on today. | ||
| You definitely should check it out. | ||
| But that was just fantastic. | ||
| I should apologize. | ||
| We also started the show about a minute late. | ||
| We were all just sitting here talking about what we're doing over the weekend and what we've been eating and what restaurants we're going to. | ||
| And then Conor looked at us. | ||
| He's like, so are we doing a show today? | ||
| So anyway, here we are. | ||
| It is Thursdays, which means that our new Reuben Report newsletter is out. | ||
| It's absolutely free and you get some insider info. | ||
| ReubenReport.Locals.com. | ||
| And of course, that's where our post game show is about 30 seconds after the show. | ||
| And then today's theme is a little bit of a catch up on something that I didn't get to touch last week because we were in New York. | ||
| I did cover it. | ||
| It's a bit when I was with Megyn Kelly, but it's some of the craziness that is now going on around the WNBA, and it's interesting that anyone would be talking about the WNBA because people generally don't. | ||
| Men usually are better than women at basketball, and that's great that girls love basketball now, and that's great that there is a league and all of that stuff, but at the highest elite level you're usually watching men. | ||
| However, in the last few months, This woman, Caitlin Clark, has appeared and she is now the star of stars. | ||
| She is what the WNBA has been looking for forever. | ||
| She is the Michael Jordan of female basketball. | ||
| And she is being treated unbelievably horribly, not only by other players, but by the league itself, by the media. | ||
| And we're going to connect this to really the rest of the crazy wokeness, the sort of end of feminism, where they will take out the women who are really succeeding. | ||
| We're going to connect this because there's a racial element to it, because she's white. | ||
| There's a sexuality element to it, because she's not a lesbian. | ||
| She's straight, as far as we know. | ||
| That's what I'm told. | ||
| And it's just really wild. | ||
| And we'll connect that to some of the other political things. | ||
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| And now back to me, and we'll have a bit more. | ||
| on the vaccine itself and the injuries and all of that stuff. | ||
| Tomorrow, we've got a panel with Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Drew. | ||
| So that should be super interesting. | ||
| And let's dive right into it. | ||
| So the real controversy around the WNBA and everything happening with Kaitlin Clark started about a week and a half ago. | ||
| Just watch this seven second clip. | ||
| You will see Kaitlin. | ||
| She's just trying to get an inbound pass and watch what happens to her. | ||
| Okay, so I want to show it again because for those of you that don't pay too much attention | ||
| to basketball, maybe your eye wasn't where it was supposed to be, but she is trying to get, | ||
| you know, the other team scored. So now the girl underneath is passing the ball in. | ||
| This is not a play where anyone, I have watched more hours of basketball than probably doing any other thing in my entire life. | ||
| between playing and watching basketball. | ||
| I have never seen anyone ever, someone try to find me the clip of the NBA where just out of nowhere on an inbound pass where the ball isn't even in, someone just levels a player who's just trying to get the ball. | ||
| There is nothing legit about this play. | ||
| It is pure cheap shot nonsense. | ||
| So again, it's sort of in that in that corner area there. | ||
| Okay, so she just levels her. | ||
| Now, Katelyn Clarke obviously won the getting hit. | ||
| Now, she could have broke her hip right there. | ||
| She could have torn an ACL, twisted her ankle, whatever. | ||
| All of the value that she has now brought to the WNBA, which again is spectacular. | ||
| I think it's absolutely great that women have their own sports leagues and that they can play and that young girls are inspired by this and everything else. | ||
| But the Michael Jordan of that thing could have just, her career could have ended right there. | ||
| Literally anything could happen. | ||
| One bad fall, she tears an ACL, something rips. | ||
| She's gone for a season or two and all of the energy is completely gone. | ||
| The player who did that, in my estimation, and I said this when I was on Megyn Kelly's show, should be suspended from for the league altogether. | ||
| Absolutely, you're done. | ||
| You cannot play anymore. | ||
| That is, it's a cheap shot. | ||
| There's a weird racial, so everyone is now talking about this, we're gonna show you a couple other clips, but what people are largely saying is there's a couple things happening here. | ||
| There's a weird racial element because she is Katelyn Clark is white. | ||
| The girl who went after her is black. | ||
| There's a sexuality element because Katelyn Clark is straight and it sounds like about 30% of the girls in the WNBA are lesbians. | ||
| It's just an interesting piece. | ||
| Sonny Hostin, that genius over on The View, also said that there's pretty privilege, right? | ||
| Because Katelyn Clark is pretty. | ||
| That's completely subjective, obviously. | ||
| But the point is, you've got players on the court. | ||
| Just show it one more time, then we'll get to some of the other stuff. | ||
| Players on the court trying to take out Just take her out. | ||
| This is not a legit play in any way. | ||
| Anything could have happened. | ||
| Could have whacked her head on the floor, broke her shoulder, whatever. | ||
| So now there's a whole bunch of people in the media and other players that are basically defending the fact that people in the league are going after Caitlyn Clark and that she's getting too much attention and it's too much about her. | ||
| By the way, from everything I've seen with her, she's totally demure. | ||
| She doesn't seem like she even really loves the spotlight. | ||
| She's just a damn good basketball player. | ||
| So here's another player. | ||
| Her name is Angel Reese. | ||
| And she's kinda cool with all the people going after Caitlyn, and she kinda likes being the villain if Caitlyn is the good guy. | ||
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It all started from the National Championship game, and I've been dealing with this for two years now. | |
| And understanding, like, yeah, negative things have probably been said about me, but honestly, I'll take that, because look where women's basketball is. | ||
| People are talking about women's basketball, but you never would think that we'd be talking about women's basketball. | ||
| People are pulling up to games, we got celebrities coming to games, sold-out arenas, like, just because of one single game. | ||
| And just looking at that, like, I'll take that role. | ||
| I'll take the bad guy role. | ||
| And I'll continue to take that on and be that for my teammates. | ||
| And if I want to be that, and I know I'll go down in history, I'll look back in 20 years and be like, yeah, the reason why we watching women's basketball is not just because of one person. | ||
| It's because of me, too. | ||
| And I want y'all to realize that. | ||
| I mean, the level of ego there is just crazy. | ||
| Now, interestingly, you might be thinking that's the girl who knocked Katelyn Clark down. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| But we're going to show you the video one more time, and watch on the bench. | ||
| The girl that we just showed you right there, Anjali, she's thrilled that they just took out Katelyn Clark. | ||
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Watch this. | |
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Yeah, yeah! | |
| You see her? | ||
| It is a cheap play of, I've never, I've played in the parks my entire life. | ||
| I've just never seen anyone do that. | ||
| But she wants to know you that she'll be the bad guy if Caitlin Clark's gonna be the good guy. | ||
| Even that framing is completely insane. | ||
| Take Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. | ||
| Nobody was the good guy, bad guy. | ||
| They were different. | ||
| Their styles were very different. | ||
| They played against each other. | ||
| People liked them for different reasons. | ||
| There was an interesting racial element to it, actually. | ||
| But nobody was the bad guy, good guy. | ||
| Michael Jordan took out everybody each year, right? | ||
| Took out Magic one year, took out Clyde, took out Barkley, took out Malone, took out Stockton, took out Gary Payton and Sean Kemp. | ||
| It wasn't framed like good guy, bad guy. | ||
| It was like who can play basketball the best, not who can break the arm of the other person. | ||
| Anyway, now it turns out that as the league turns against this person that they should be protecting, USA Women's Basketball has left Caitlin Clark, the single best female basketball player in the world, they have left her off the Olympic team. | ||
| They have a piece of gold, they have a gem, they have a diamond, and they are trying to bury it. | ||
| Here is Bubba the Love Sponge talking about that. | ||
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I'm so over the fact that the WNBA and other women are so jealous of Katelyn Clark. | |
| They've announced that Katelyn Clark's not going to be on the Olympic team for this next summer in Paris. | ||
| Katelyn, what was your reaction when you saw the USA team yesterday, their roster come out? | ||
| I'm excited for the girls that are on the team. | ||
| I know it's the most competitive team in the world. | ||
| I mean, this girl, she's got a good Tom Bean. | ||
| She's got a good handler. | ||
| This girl's got a really good handler. | ||
| She keeps her head on straight. | ||
| Let me tell you something, I should have been on that team. | ||
| I'm just telling you right now, I'm the best, and you know, I can't believe it. | ||
| You know, I'm excited for them. | ||
| I mean, I guess they don't want to sell out arenas and make money, do they? | ||
| Because, I mean, at the end of the day, man, this woman makes a difference to the bottom line. | ||
| Okay, I just want to reiterate, you may not care about sports in general, right? | ||
| We don't cover a ton of sports on this show. | ||
| You may not care about sports in general, but this is so deeply connected to everything else that is culturally wrong with this country right now, because they don't like her. | ||
| The league seems to not like her and is willing to take her out, not only physically take her out on the court, but then take her out of the Olympics because she is white and straight, and I guess she's pretty and whatever else. | ||
| And she could, I mean, you see that. | ||
| She is the most, she's so freaking classy, it's ridiculous. | ||
| She could be up there going, I don't know what the hell these people are doing over at the Olympics, but I am the best player and this is complete farce and everything else. | ||
| And by the way, she would have a ton of support for saying that. | ||
| Dave Portnoy over at Barstool, who does not pull punches when he's talking about these things, he went off on it. | ||
| All right, I'm at Saratoga Belmonte, looking spectacular, per usual, shoes, bang. | ||
| But this is about Caitlin Clark being left off the Olympic team. | ||
| How dumb are these women? | ||
| How dumb? | ||
| I don't know who's making the decision, Women's Olympic Committee, whatever it is. | ||
| I don't care if you don't think Caitlin Clark talent-wise belongs on this team, even though she does put up 37 of 13, like, the most points in the history of the league for a rookie. | ||
| I don't, none of it matters. | ||
| These women, and I love women, I'm a pro-woman guy, women guy. | ||
| They complain and they cry about equal rights, equal wages, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Hey dummies, for the first time in the history of basketball, you have arguably a player who is the most popular player in the world. | ||
| You could argue right now, Caitlin Clark is the most talked about, discussed, most popular, most puts asses in the seats, single basketball player in the world. | ||
| You could argue that. | ||
| Yeah, you could say maybe LeBron, Luka, whatever you want, but you can argue it. | ||
| And you leave her off the Olympics team? | ||
| It's not only a showcase for her, it's for the sport and the other WNBA players who are on this team. | ||
| How dumb, how brain-dead, how idiotic do the people running this thing have to be? | ||
| It was one thing after another with her. | ||
| At the business part of my brain, it's like these people, and maybe it's a guy who did, whoever it is, I don't | ||
| ever want to hear you complain about flying commercial, or not getting salaries, or this | ||
| that. | ||
| You're too dumb! | ||
| You're too dumb! | ||
| You have a cash cow. | ||
| This can bring the Olympic basketball, women's basketball, be like the number one thing people | ||
| With Katelyn Clark as it is, I'd rather watch grass grow. | ||
| I'd rather watch paint dry. | ||
| I'd rather watch dirt just be moved around because Katelyn Clark's not on the team. | ||
| If she's there, it's appointment TV. | ||
| You people, whoever did this, honestly, hey, take your brain, put it in a museum and study it for how dumb you are. | ||
| Okay, I'm not sure I can add much to that. | ||
| He's making every point. | ||
| The key one, of course, putting aside all the social justice stuff, is just the money stuff alone. | ||
| For years, everyone's been claiming they don't get paid enough, and the reason they didn't get paid enough is people were not going to the games, right? | ||
| They'd be in big arenas that would seat 15,000, 20,000 people, and you'd look, and there'd be, you know, 850 people there. | ||
| It would be really depressing. | ||
| Suddenly they are literally selling out arenas because of this girl and they are turning against her. | ||
| By the way, the racial element also is interesting. | ||
| The League, we just checked, the League is about 63% black and 19% white. | ||
| But the racial element is interesting because imagine if there was a League that was mostly white women. | ||
| And then this black woman showed up and she was crushing, scoring 37 points a game, 13 assists, just absolutely crushing it. | ||
| She shoots like Steph Curry. | ||
| She's awesome, right? | ||
| And then imagine if a random white woman just plowed into that black girl on an inbounds play like we just showed you. | ||
| It would be the lead story on CNN, right? | ||
| There would be cities burning down. | ||
| Pep Boys would be taken out. | ||
| And yet instead you have the media and the WNBA and apparently the Olympics all running cover for this nonsense. | ||
| Another one, and this one's just sad to me because I usually like the guy, Shaquille O'Neal, who was a once-in-a-generation player himself, who I don't think I ever saw just got mauled when he didn't have the ball like that. | ||
| They used to occasionally grab him and foul him. | ||
| It's called shack-ack. | ||
| Hack a shack so that they could get him to the free throw line. | ||
| Here he is again running cover that it's not just about Caitlyn anymore. | ||
| It's all these other people who you're not going to have heard of any of them. | ||
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Don't say, oh, we're getting new sponsorship because of Caitlyn. | |
| No. | ||
| What about Angel? | ||
| What about Cardoza? | ||
| What about my favorite, Kelsey Plum? | ||
| Cameron Brink. | ||
| Cameron Brink. | ||
| Asia Wilson, who's been incredible. | ||
| There was just a three-on-three women's league that's being launched right now. | ||
| I mean, women's sports are on the rise everywhere. | ||
| So I think when people get upset, as a player, you don't want to be forgotten. | ||
| So can I tell you what I'm doing from a betting perspective? | ||
| I'm not betting against Caitlin Clark, because there are times where she'll drop 30, but every time she plays another star in the W, they go crazy. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Jewel Lloyd dropped 32. | ||
| Asia Wilson dropped 29 and 15. | ||
| I love Caitlin Clark because I'm getting to see everyone else take their game to a whole, because they know the ratings are higher. | ||
| They want to show out too. | ||
| God, it's so pathetic. | ||
| Yes, dude. | ||
| It might be that they play better against the best player. | ||
| That's what good athletes do, but it's still because of her. | ||
| You're admitting it at the same time. | ||
| You're admitting they try harder and play better because she is so damn good. | ||
| By the way, Shaq, you have just a misunderstanding of how marketing works and even the history of the NBA and shoes and everything else. | ||
| Watch the movie Air. | ||
| It came out last year. | ||
| I think it's on Hulu. | ||
| It was Hulu or Amazon Prime, maybe it was Amazon Prime, but watch the movie Air about what was happening | ||
| in the early 80s when Michael Jordan and a whole bunch of other stars were on the way, | ||
| but Nike made Michael Jordan the star. | ||
| They made a shoe for him, and then that became Air Jordan, and then of course he was on the Dream Team, right? | ||
| He was on the Olympic team, but that Jordan was the guy that made the rest of them stars, right? | ||
| Charles Barkley didn't become the sort of ephemeral superstar without him. | ||
| Carmelo and Chris Mullen, all of those guys, they were all good basketball players, | ||
| but Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan. | ||
| He was the thing, and that's what she is, and you guys are running cover for it. | ||
| Here's ESPN, this is just so pathetic. | ||
| Here's ESPN analyst, I suppose, Monica McNutt, I like that name, on Jon Stewart. | ||
| You know, Jon Stewart is just the worst, woke, pandering, ridiculous thing at this point on The Daily Show that he only hosts once a week. | ||
| And just listen to his analysis. | ||
| We just showed you the video of her just getting mauled out of nowhere. | ||
| Could have ended everything for the WNBA. | ||
| Watch this analysis. | ||
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Tell us a little bit about that viral moment. | |
| Alright, so the conversation, John, it started about this foul over the weekend that Kennedy Carter, for the Chicago Sky, fouled Kaitlyn Clark of the Indiana Fever. | ||
| And I'm not gonna lie to you, John, if I take you through my day that morning, I get the call, or the text rather, and I'm like, are we really leading sports with this? | ||
| Are we really leading sports with a foul? | ||
| A person got knocked over in a basketball game. | ||
| In sports. | ||
| All right. | ||
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I'm like, fine. | |
| Let's just do it. | ||
| So we have the conversation with colleagues and friends, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharp. | ||
| And my larger point in the conversation was the tenor and the prevailing narrative that has been created around this season's WNBA play is that it's the league versus Kaitlyn Clark. | ||
| And that is just absolutely false. | ||
| It is unfair to the women that have been there building this league to this moment so that Kaitlyn Clark's popularity could take it to the next level. | ||
| And so by the end of the show, John, The tone had changed, and I just kind of needed to put my foot down a little bit. | ||
| There was some defensiveness on the part of the individuals. | ||
| You've covered basketball for many, many years. | ||
| You played basketball. | ||
| I did. | ||
| You follow the NBA for many years. | ||
| You know what you're talking about. | ||
| The tenor of the conversation, as I could tell, was they were saying to you, no, we know what we're talking about, even though we just tuned into this whole thing last Wednesday. | ||
| And there it is, right? | ||
| And so, as I have said about this, it was a little bit of a challenge, right, | ||
| to gentlemen that I admire in terms of what they've built. | ||
| Because if you haven't been here, I need three years. | ||
| I need you to kind of have jumped in when Sedona Prince went viral for calling out the NCAA. | ||
| I need you to be here as this league has seen its best viewership year to year. | ||
| Now, yes, it has absolutely been taking over the top this year, | ||
| but this has been a snowballing effect to get to this moment. | ||
| And so, while Caitlyn is fantastic, and I think she's going to have an incredible career in the WNBA, there are women that were worthy of coverage prior to her arriving, and I just will not be silenced when it comes to that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| God, that is such a sack of virtue-signaling, woe-is-me shit. | ||
| No one's denying there were good players over the years. | ||
| There was a woman back in around 1995, maybe we can grab a 10-second clip of her, her name was Cynthia Cooper. | ||
| I watched a couple games, she was on the Houston Comets. | ||
| She was pretty damn good, right? | ||
| Like, no one's denying that. | ||
| But now there's something magical happening and you're all throwing her under the bus. | ||
| And Jon Stewart, I don't know how he became just so absolutely awful. | ||
| But like, it was a foul during a game. | ||
| Again, I've never seen a foul like that before. | ||
| You could go back to the bad boy Pistons of the late 80s, early 90s. | ||
| They were the dirtiest team in the history of basketball. | ||
| I never saw Bill Lampierre crush somebody before the ball was even in play. | ||
| They used to hurt people when the ball was in play. | ||
| It's just psychotic, but maybe there's something deeper. | ||
| Because there is the racial element, obviously. | ||
| There seems to be a sexuality element. | ||
| But maybe there's something else when you see that female sports analyst from ESPN basically throwing Caitlin Clarke under the bus. | ||
| Well, my friend Aaron Wexler put this out. | ||
| I thought it was quite good. | ||
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Okay, here's what no one's willing to say about Caitlin Clark not being chosen for the U.S. | |
| Olympic basketball team. | ||
| Everyone is asking, oh, how could this happen? | ||
| Uh, I know exactly how it happened. | ||
| It's because the biggest threat to women is other women. | ||
| When men are successful, guys want to be friends with them. | ||
| They'll wear their jersey. | ||
| They'll get the same haircut. | ||
| They might even dress like them. | ||
| Men try to actually surround themselves with more successful men. | ||
| But women, they don't see a popular, successful woman as someone to be friends with, someone to elevate themselves with. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| She is a target. | ||
| She is to be taken down. | ||
| And in classic female form, they don't like that this new girl is getting all the attention. | ||
| Also, don't even get me started on the fact that she happens to be white. | ||
| We'll cross that bridge another day. | ||
| You'd think this would be such an obvious decision, but no, no, silly. | ||
| And I would just like to say that women who are always complaining about how men don't support women's basketball, Women don't support women's basketball. | ||
| Name one girl you've ever seen wearing a WNBA jersey. | ||
| And that is why we can't have nice things. | ||
| Man, she's good. | ||
| She's good. | ||
| And that is just true. | ||
| It is just true. | ||
| And it is a damn shame. | ||
| They are being handed the diamond right now, and they are going to throw it away. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Guess what could happen here? | ||
| You know, not everyone can deal with endless like abuse, literally physical abuse on the court, | ||
| and then the mental abuse of being left off the Olympics, and then all of the stuff, right? | ||
| There's a lot of love that comes with it too for Caitlin, but not everyone can deal with all that. | ||
| And maybe it'll just cut her career short five years. | ||
| Maybe just in five years from now, she'll be like, you know, I just, I actually don't wanna do this anymore. | ||
| Like I loved basketball, you took the thing that I loved, you all treated me horribly, the media treated me horribly, | ||
| the players treated me horribly, they stood up and cheered on the bench when I got leveled, | ||
| and I'm actually not that interested in playing anymore. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Then the numbers will start going down again, and no one will care about those five other players | ||
| that I can't even remember their names right now and everything else. | ||
| So this is deeply connected to everything that's been happening with social justice. | ||
| And I would say it's also connected to everything that we've seen happening to race, | ||
| because if you ultimately only care about people's genitals and their sexuality and their skin color, | ||
| you will do absolutely nothing. | ||
| Absolutely awful things. | ||
| So speaking of awful things and awful people, here's Representative Maxine Waters, whom it is often pointed out to me when we show videos of her that she looks like an old catcher's mitt. | ||
| Here she is explaining that DEI is great because black prosecutors are going after Trump. | ||
| White, or orange as it were, but you get the point. | ||
| It's so important for us to fight for education because when we do that, we can aspire to | ||
| careers that will help change what goes on in this country and have a real democracy. | ||
| I want to give you an example of it. | ||
| Right now, as Trump is on trial. | ||
| You have Letitia James in New York. | ||
| You have Fannie Willis in Georgia. | ||
| And you have Tanya Chunkin, who is a judge, who all have a role to play now. | ||
| Prosecutors and judges. | ||
| And if we're ever to change the criminal justice system and get some justice, we've got to be in there. | ||
| We've got to be educated. | ||
| And that's why we're not going to give up. | ||
| Because now we see what it means. | ||
| Let me just tell you a little something that I tweeted and that's this. | ||
| When they go low, black women are going to law school. | ||
| When they go low, black men are becoming judges. | ||
| When they go low, we're not giving up. | ||
| We're going to continue. | ||
| She's racist and everything that this country does not need right now, that's all she is. | ||
| Guys, it's not good in and of itself that so many of the people that went after Trump right now, the lawyers and the judges and the blah blah blah, are black. | ||
| Like, what was true? | ||
| What was right? | ||
| What was just? | ||
| What was applicable to the law? | ||
| And I think we've gone into it enough over the last couple of weeks that they are getting Trump on something that has nothing to do with nothing and if he wasn't running for president. | ||
| So, okay, we're just gonna put in a whole bunch of black people. | ||
| That is not good in and of itself. | ||
| Nobody's saying black people can't be judges or lawyers or anything else. | ||
| By the way, that woman, Maxine Waters, she lives in Hancock Park. | ||
| It is one of the most elite areas in all of Los Angeles. | ||
| She's worth at least 10 million bucks. | ||
| The district she represents is Compton. | ||
| Have you heard about Compton? | ||
| In Compton, the average income, $29,000 a year. | ||
| So it's working out for you, all right? | ||
| This one, I was very conflicted about playing this one because the office, we're gonna show you a clip | ||
| from Oscar from the office, Oscar Nunez. | ||
| And The Office, I never watched it when it was on originally. | ||
| I think I've mentioned on the show a couple of times. | ||
| I watch it on planes all the time. | ||
| I never know what season's coming up. | ||
| I don't think I've ever. | ||
| There are definitely episodes I've missed. | ||
| I haven't seen most of the later stuff, but every time I watch it, even if I watch that freaking Diwali episode 3000 times, it's just it's so brilliant. | ||
| It's so wonderful. | ||
| I don't know anything about Steve Carell's politics, which is great because Michael Scott is one of the best characters in the history of television. | ||
| But the whole cast was awesome. | ||
| Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Anyway, you remember Oscar on The Office was gay. | ||
| Well, here is Oscar, who his also name is Oscar. | ||
| His real name was Oscar and the character's name was Oscar. | ||
| And here he is. | ||
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Just listen to this social justice drivel just because he played a gay character. | |
| My character was gay, and I forget that. | ||
| And now I go to these conventions, and you meet gay young people who are like, you helped me come out, and I'm like, oh yes, I guess I did, because I forget. | ||
| And I think that as straight people, we should have a parade for them every day, through their sh**. | ||
| They have to go through to live in this hateful, stupid-ass place when they've given us so much art, so much culture, so much, right? | ||
| If culture is like an arrow flying through space, society, right? | ||
| But culture is the arrow flying. | ||
| At the very tip is our gay brothers and sisters, right? | ||
| Forging the new poetry and movements and dance. | ||
| Yes, I am forging poetry and new movements and dance. | ||
| Look, we got Brock's wedding in about 10 days. | ||
| The whole team's going to Colorado. | ||
| You people are going to see me dance. | ||
| And trust me, it is not beautiful. | ||
| It is not poetry. | ||
| It should not be forged into anything. | ||
| It's basically I got all my moves. | ||
| from the season two opening of the Cosby show in 1986. | ||
| That's pretty much what I got. | ||
| I got the dit-da-doo and I got the yeah and I'm gonna wear the sweater and the whole thing. | ||
| It's just such pandering drivel. | ||
| He says we should have a parade every day for these gay people who live in this hateful stupid ass place. | ||
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Oscar, which place is better for the gays than America, please? | |
| Which place would be better? | ||
| I live in Florida. | ||
| I was walking the dog this morning. | ||
| A neighbor said hello to me. | ||
| I said, hello Dave. | ||
| I said, gay. | ||
| Nothing happened. | ||
| It's just abject drivel, but they've broken everyone's brains because they've atomized us into our sexuality and our body parts and all of the rest of it. | ||
| And then, of course, what happens again, which is why I connect the WNBA ridiculousness to something that happened from a guy in the office to what's going on in our schools right now, they push this identitarian lunacy on children. | ||
| Here is the San Diego school district raising a pride flag and a a wonderful young lady explaining her gender orientation or | ||
| something. | ||
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I am and have always been queer, non-binary, and most important, me. | |
| For the past several years, students in the LGBTQ plus community and their supporters | ||
| have raised the pride flag over the San Diego Unified Headquarters just before the start of Pride Month. | ||
| They are supported by leaders starting with the superintendent. | ||
| They want to be seen and they want to be heard the way they want to be seen and heard, not the way that others see them. | ||
| Dr. Lamont Jackson has now been superintendent for two years. | ||
| These people are all so f-ing pathetic. | ||
| Nobody, first off, the idea that sixth graders are talking about gender and sexuality and everything else and talking about it with the teachers and the administrators and all of, you know all the horrible stuff that's going on at these schools, but that it's framed as just something so great, nobody cares. | ||
| You know, that girl, I think that was a girl, right? | ||
| She might grow up to be a lesbian. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe she'll grow up and she'll chop her body parts off or whatever. | ||
| But what does it have to do with being a kid now? | ||
| And they're pushing it. | ||
| These are public schools pushing it on all these other kids. | ||
| Connor made the point, I didn't even see it, but on the school itself as they were raising that flag there was a BLM Flagged still years later after we now know that BLM was the greatest grift in the history of the world. | ||
| And it's actually now been morphed into a Hamas terror supporting organization all over the country. | ||
| But they have just done this everywhere. | ||
| And now let's go over to the televised mental institution known as MSNBC. | ||
| You're gonna get a chuckle out of this one. | ||
| Because they did a segment talking about how difficult it is for women to date these days. | ||
| They might have thought it's difficult for women to date because they have women who think that they're men and men who think that they're women and they've destroyed masculinity and nobody has a job and everyone's watching porn and playing video games. | ||
| They could have done something interesting related to that. | ||
| However, that is not the route that they chose. | ||
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Politics, though, did come up in a few conversations. | |
| A few of the women we spoke to felt that they were really turned off by a few dates where the men, in one instance, somebody denigrated the Black Lives Matter movement, and the woman pushed back on that, and the man didn't receive it well, and that made her swear off going on dates with men for about eight months. | ||
| Did you catch that? | ||
| On a cable news network, they did a segment about one girl who met one guy who wasn't thrilled with BLM, and then that one girl didn't go on dates for several months. | ||
| They have so broken people's brains, it is absolutely extraordinary. | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| When you break people's brains, picture the human brain, and now it's broken on a table, and you're trying to figure out what's going on in the world, but your brain is broken, and it's in a pile of goo, and you go, what am I doing? | ||
| What am I doing? | ||
| Well, then what happens is they come in and they fill what once was your brain in your head with a bunch of fear. | ||
| That is what they're really, really good at. | ||
| Let's continue with MSNBC. | ||
| They've got a guy named Donnie Douche. | ||
| And here he is talking about a man he's very afraid of. | ||
| You're not going to believe who it is. | ||
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Trump is, we all know how scary and dangerous he is. | |
| You have to convey that. | ||
| You've got to scare people. | ||
| If they're on the fence, we're talking, everything is now, we're talking about 700,000 voters out of 330 million that are true voters that are in play. | ||
| This is going to be a gut decision, to your point. | ||
| They've had eight years of facts on both sides. | ||
| And you want to get them in that booth where it's just, you know, I may not love Biden, but I can't go there. | ||
| I'm worried about my grandchildren. | ||
| And you just, you know, like I said, Barry Goldwater. | ||
| That's really an incredible admission. | ||
| We know that we don't really have much, so we have to run on fear. | ||
| And what have I been telling you? | ||
| I mean, we really drove it home the last week or so. | ||
| It's all they've got. | ||
| And they will ramp up the fear in various other ways, whether it's looming World War III, or COVID-7, or they're going to just unleash more violence, or whatever. | ||
| They are going to make you think you need Joe Biden Because fascist orange Hitler is on the way. | ||
| Let's go one more with this douche guy, with another douche by the name of James Carville. | ||
| They went on, and Carville, almost Carville, you remember James Carville, former Democrat campaign guy. | ||
| I was on real time with Bill Maher with him, and I explained to him that very fine people on both sides was a complete hoax, and yet he literally dropped his head on the table. | ||
| But here he is almost making a little bit of sense as it pertains to the lunacy of the Democrats. | ||
|
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Why has he not done an executive order on the border? | |
| To me, that is kind of such a no-brainer. | ||
| Because he listened to the left. | ||
| Every time you listen to the left, you're screwed. | ||
| And they came in, and they took this and that, and they wouldn't do the policy at the beginning. | ||
| Then, of course, as is always the case, the Western left is wrong. | ||
| I'm a liberal, okay? | ||
| Stop, right, full stop. | ||
| I am not a moderate. | ||
| I am a liberal, but I'm not A leftist, and there's a difference. | ||
| And he got behind and the issue kind of got away from it. | ||
| I mean, they're trying to rope it back in a little bit. | ||
| I hope they do. | ||
| And I'm very pro-immigrant. | ||
| I don't get as bothered by this. | ||
| It sure looks like disorder to people. | ||
| People don't like when things are disordered. | ||
| Okay, so look, he's mostly a muddled fool, but the interesting distinction that he's making there is he's saying, I'm a liberal, but Biden's getting rolled by the left. | ||
| That is true, right? | ||
| Now, the bigger issue is that nobody knows what's going on in Biden's head. | ||
| If you were to tell me this is Joe Biden of 30 years ago, we would have a sense that he would have been a more of a moderate and he was sold to the people that voted for him as the moderate, right? | ||
| We're not going with crazy Bernie. | ||
| We're going to go with old Joe and things will be okay. | ||
| But in essence, what he, what Carville is saying there is kind of right, that everything that Biden is doing is being driven by the radical left. | ||
| So sorry, Carville, you can't vote for him as a liberal because it's radically illiberal everything he is doing. | ||
| We've got a community Q&A coming up in just a second, but Connor is working hard over there. | ||
| I'm told we have 10 seconds of Cynthia Cooper, a woman who I once watched some WNBA games on Sundays because of. | ||
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She can get to the hoop. | |
| She can shoot. | ||
| Look, left hand. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
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A couple championships. | |
| I think she had Cheryl Swoops on that team. | ||
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See? | |
| It was there. | ||
| There were other reasons to watch a long time ago, but nobody was. | ||
| That's just how it is. | ||
| Community Q&A in just a second. | ||
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| of A. And now back to me, ReubenReport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Prusty says, Hey Dave, Hope everyone survived the storms. | ||
| My question is, do you think they, the Dems slash leftists, are allowing the prosecution of Hunter Biden because they couldn't figure out any other way to get rid of Joe because they all know he won't relinquish power? | ||
| So this is a way for the DNC to usher him out the door and get someone like the lizard man, Gavin Newsom, in. | ||
| First off, thank you for noting the... | ||
| Storms, yes. | ||
| It rained in Florida yesterday. | ||
| It was quite extensive. | ||
| There was a lot of flooding. | ||
| Our studio, actually, the carpet over there is a little bit wet. | ||
| We got to work on something at the door over there. | ||
| But we all survived. | ||
| People were screaming, oh my God, it's climate change. | ||
| This is Ron DeSantis' fault. | ||
| It's all completely ridiculous. | ||
| You're not gonna believe this. | ||
| We live in the tropics and it's the summer and it's raining in Florida. | ||
| It's really bananas. | ||
| By the way, it's a beautiful day out right now in Miami. | ||
| As per Hunter and Joe and everything else, look, they obviously have a set of plans. | ||
| There are papers. | ||
| In a file, in a folder, somewhere, either in the White House or in the FBI building or CIA, on what do we do if Joe falls down the stairs? | ||
| What do we do if the Hunter laptop actually directly links some sort of corruption to Joe, which in essence it has already? | ||
| Or the classified documents that it had in the garage or whatever. | ||
| They are trying to figure out how to get him out, obviously. | ||
| Although, I would say they're also trying to figure out how to just get him to the finish line so that they can get rid of him once they have the presidency. | ||
| Meaning, you still got this issue with Kamala Harris, so you gotta get rid of him, and then you can't run Kamala. | ||
| So in a weird way, the best thing for the powers that be with the Dems is to push Biden over the top, right? | ||
| You get him to November to win the election, And then it doesn't matter what happens to him once he's president-elect, and then you can figure out all the games you have to play. | ||
| But I'm just telling you guys, I think anything can happen. | ||
| I think this will be my eighth Off the Grid August. | ||
| I think this is going to be the one that I miss more than any other time. | ||
| Let's make note of that right now. | ||
| Because we've got the two conventions coming up. | ||
| We have Trump potentially in jail. | ||
| We have a base of the Democrat Party with a convention in Chicago, just like a tinderbox from hell. | ||
| So we will see what happens. | ||
| My gut feeling is Brock, right? | ||
| What's Brock wearing right now? | ||
| He's got the Crocs on or the anything. | ||
| Is he wearing the Shrek shirt right now? | ||
| My gut feeling is Brock, right? | ||
| What's Brock wearing right now? | ||
| He's got the Crocs on or the anything. | ||
| He's got, you got the, is he wearing the Shrek shirt right now? | ||
| He's wearing, get him, get him. | ||
| This is just, I don't know if this is directly gay per se. | ||
| I don't know if it had anything to do with Pride Month. | ||
| It's definitely not you. | ||
| Connor refuses to wear star colors. | ||
| You wear your mustard shirts. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| You got the bra? | ||
| What? | ||
| Blank? | ||
| You're just wearing a blank shirt. | ||
| Look, wait, this is funny. | ||
| But he's, come here, come here. | ||
| Come on, come on in. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| White shirt and he's got the cross. | ||
| So this is your way of celebrating Gay Pride Month? | ||
| I dig it. | ||
| I dig it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Eurasian says, Dave, have you noticed how modern Democrats never solve problems? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Instead, they spend all their time and energy on messaging and optics to make you believe that the problem either doesn't exist or that someone else is to blame for it, like Trump or the Republicans or you. | ||
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. | |
| Whether it is crime or drug use or the border, the border is the easiest one. | ||
| For a year, everybody kept saying in mainstream media and the Democrats and everything else, how many videos did we show you of Mayorkas? | ||
| There's no problem at the border. | ||
| Then finally, about six months ago, right, it started bubbling up because online shows were showing all of the videos. | ||
| of all these people crossing the border. | ||
| I actually think the seminal moment in that was when RFK Jr. | ||
| did that live stream standing at the border, and he's just watching, and it was a wake-up for him. | ||
| He was like, whoa, I didn't realize this was like this. | ||
| They pretend there's no problem, then they blame everybody else, right? | ||
| Who are the Democrats blaming for the last couple months of everything going on at the border? | ||
| It's because Trump convinced the Republicans not to pass a bipartisan deal, even though you don't need Another piece of legislation to defend the border, which Joe Biden actually now knows because now they say they're going to do something on it, but we know that they're actually not going to do anything. | ||
| So yes, it's just wild when you really see through the bullshit. | ||
| The left lies about everything. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| There is almost no one left on the left, although I see already a name in the next question, that is an honest arbiter of things. | ||
| There is just virtually that radical base that Carville was talking about. | ||
| They have destroyed everything that once was liberal, which gets me to the next question perfectly. | ||
| Casey says, are liberals like Bill Maher and Chris Cuomo just telling us what we want to hear for a paycheck? | ||
| So in essence, what you're saying there is, do these liberals just sound sensible on certain things because there's value in that. | ||
| I can't look, I can't speak to Chris Cuomo, but I think I can speak broadly as I can't speak for Bill | ||
| Maher, but knowing Bill now on camera and a bit off camera, he believes what he's saying. | ||
| He really, really does. | ||
| And he really does believe that Donald Trump is that threat and all of those things. | ||
| I think I've tried, whether it was the very fine people on both sides or Hillary calling Trump | ||
| an illegitimate president. | ||
| I've tried when I've been on camera with him to point out some of those blind spots. | ||
| And by the way, I've even said this to him, like, if I have them, then he's welcome to do that with me. | ||
| But I think he really does believe that Trump is that threat. | ||
| I would like to try to convince him otherwise. | ||
| I think we're going to sit down in L.A. | ||
| and do something on camera in a couple weeks. | ||
| But yeah, as for Cuomo and some of these other guys, like the TV guys, I don't know what most of the TV guys, like the MSNBC people, do they really believe any of this or are they paid to sit in a chair to say a certain thing? | ||
| To me, it's the latter. | ||
| So if you take someone like Joy Reid, for example, I know she's not a real liberal, she's a progressive, but it's like, If MSNBC was functioning as a news organization, what any of us used to think a news organization was, there would be an entire fact-checking apparatus there, and every time she lied or said something crazy, she'd be issuing corrections every day. | ||
| Why is it that on this show, I have no problem issuing corrections, sometimes in real time? | ||
| Or sometimes the next day. | ||
| And they never issue corrections over there. | ||
| Because the lie is the point. | ||
| The revolution is the point. | ||
| But I would say that's a stark difference between an activist like her and someone like Bill Maher. | ||
| Mary says, I was thinking about the VP selection and don't understand why anyone from Congress is on the list. | ||
| Does it make sense to take someone out of the Senate? | ||
| The Republicans need every Senator they have and more to try to get control of the Senate. | ||
| The House majority is likely gonna go up in smoke. | ||
| Why pull someone out? | ||
| If you get a chance to talk to Trump Jr., would he listen to your opinion on Tulsi and Y10? | ||
| Is there any influence, is there any way to influence Trump on his pick? | ||
| Well, let me focus mostly on the latter part of that question. | ||
| I don't know if there's a way to influence Trump. | ||
| Even the people that know Trump the best always say, he's ultimately gonna make the decision. | ||
| You might think it's one way, you might be an insider and think it's one way, and then he's gonna be given that announcement, and then it's gonna be somebody else. | ||
| My gut feeling, and we all get these predictions wrong on all of these things, is that that list of people that we got, which included Tim Scott and Marco Rubio and Doug Bergrum, and who else was on that list? | ||
| Byron Donalds, JD Vance, there's about five or six people. | ||
| My gut feeling is that it's not going to be someone on that list. | ||
| I just think he does a bait and switch thing. | ||
| He wants everyone to look over here while he does something here. | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| Maybe it will be. | ||
| And I do think it's possible in light of how chaotic everything is right now because of the impending jail sentence. | ||
| That maybe he has not made up his decision already. | ||
| You know my feelings about why I think someone like Tulsi would be good. | ||
| But he is a master. | ||
| I'm telling you guys, the only reality TV show I ever watched in my entire life was Celebrity Apprentice. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| I think the reason we put it on the first time was because I love Joan Rivers and she won Celebrity Apprentice one year. | ||
| So I was like, all right, I'll watch this show. | ||
| And Trump is just a master at Switching things at the last minute. | ||
| Oh, I'm supposed to fire one person. | ||
| I'll fire two people. | ||
| So he's even doing that. | ||
| It's that skill set that he's doing with all of us right now as it pertains to VP. | ||
| So we shall see. | ||
| The Manta says, Dave, it's official. | ||
| I will be staying in South Beach, Miami for a week to attend the locals meet up. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| And I'm looking for recommendations of cool places I shouldn't miss, especially restaurants, of course. | ||
| Well, first off, obviously I don't publicly say where we're doing the Locals Meetup, but it is on July 25th, and there's more info on Locals, and I'll post something a little bit later. | ||
| And I can't wait to see you guys and have a couple of drinks and talk about life and all that stuff, and then I go off the grid right after that, which will Also be pretty great. | ||
| As for Miami Beach, if you want a great steak, I never go out for steak because I love cooking steak, but Prime 112 in Miami Beach makes a seriously freaking good steak. | ||
| I went there about a year ago with Jordan Peterson and the guy knows a little something about steak. | ||
| Great, great steak over there. | ||
| Carbone is like the hot Italian place. | ||
| It's tough to get in, but like big celebrity, whatever, but the food is pretty great. | ||
| Give me one. | ||
| You guys are all cool and young. | ||
| Pumarola. | ||
| Pumarola in Miami Beach. | ||
| That's pizza, right? | ||
| Yeah, that's pizza. | ||
| Give me something else. | ||
| Something besides pizza. | ||
| Give me something a little more Miami vibe. | ||
| We want something. | ||
| Havana 1957. | ||
| Check that out. | ||
| And let me think of one other. | ||
| Is there one other restaurant? | ||
| What? | ||
| There's this Mexican joint that I love. | ||
| It's a little more south, not in Miami Beach. | ||
| It's called Coco K.O. | ||
| K.O. | ||
| and they've got like 400 tequilas. | ||
| Great vibe. | ||
| Yeah, check it out. | ||
| Quinn says, how do major political parties unite their constituents before the national election | ||
| in November with the infighting happening on all fronts? | ||
| Well, I don't know how the hell the Democrats are going to do it. | ||
| And frankly, I don't even want them to do it. | ||
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Right. | |
| Because I want them to continue to implode. | ||
| But I but there's just nothing left. | ||
| There's no there's no way to arbitrage those two positions of like the radical woke leftists and whatever remains of a decent liberal. | ||
| The energy is going in the wrong direction for anything sane. | ||
| And let them fight is where I'm at with them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Godzilla is fighting Mothra. | ||
| Let them fight. | ||
| OK, fine. | ||
| The right, I think, can do it. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| You can see that's where my energy's been over the last couple of months, and I think it's the right thing. | ||
| Whatever you may say right now is the difference between a Ben Shapiro, more traditional conservative, and a Tucker, more libertarian. | ||
| That can be dealt with. | ||
| These people love the country. | ||
| That's why I have not gone in on the fighting on all of this stuff. | ||
| It's like, okay, guys, you have, let's say, a different view of foreign policy, perhaps, or this or that or the other thing. | ||
| It's just like, do we all think America's good? | ||
| Yeah, we think the founding of the country's good. | ||
| We think we've had a nice 250-year run. | ||
| Yeah, we'd like to continue that. | ||
| Yeah, we believe in the Constitution. | ||
| Yeah, we believe in the Bill of Rights. | ||
| Yeah, we're good. | ||
| So I think what's happening on the right, and seeing, by the way, post-Trump trial, seeing a lot of people on the fence about Trump come around and be like, all right, well, he's our guy now because look what they're doing to him. | ||
| I think it's good, and I think we just have to keep, the forces that be, or the powers that be, will be stretching us every which way. | ||
| They're gonna want as much fighting as possible. | ||
| It's gonna be two days before the election, and there's nothing that the Democrats in the system and everything would want other than the factions of the right trying to take each other out. | ||
| But if you're a libertarian, or a classical liberal, and you're a conservative, and whatever, guess what? | ||
| You still wanna live in the same country, and that is the uniting thing. | ||
| Freedom is the thing that can unite us. | ||
| And unfortunately, right now, only one party has any, Has any sort of banner of freedom that it would be willing to wrap itself around it. | ||
| Obviously the Republicans. | ||
| Amy says, what are your all-time favorite and least favorite songs? | ||
| My all-time favorite song, without question, Soul Heaven Above Me, Frankie Valli, I think it was 1977. | ||
| I didn't even know, you know, people think of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons like, you know, 60s really, Oh What a Night, and 60s, 70s, Sherry and Walk Like a Man and all that stuff. | ||
| But Frankie Valli came out with a disco album. | ||
| I think we've got the, do we have the cover of it? | ||
| Yeah, so this was Frankie Valli, and there's a song called Soul Heaven Above Me. | ||
| That is the song that we played out all of my book tour to. | ||
| It's about a 10 minute hot disco. | ||
| It's just awesome. | ||
| If you do not catch the beat on that one, I don't know what to do with you. | ||
| And I would say, it's hard to say what my least favorite song is, but I will say this. | ||
| I don't like Led Zeppelin. | ||
| There, I said it. | ||
| I know that upsets people. | ||
| I don't like Led Zeppelin. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Stairway to Heaven? | ||
| Don't care for it. | ||
| I don't care for it. | ||
| It's a little too melancholy for me. | ||
| It's not my thing. | ||
| I want to feel good all the time. | ||
| Nick says, do you believe? | ||
| That was a Seinfeld. | ||
| Did you catch that? | ||
| That was a Kramer line. | ||
| I want to feel good. | ||
| Wait, what's the line? | ||
| He's smoking the cigarette. | ||
| He's drinking the beer. | ||
| The guy thinks he's doing coke. | ||
| Here's to feeling good all the time. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| Nick says, do you believe that Trump still hasn't decided who his VP is going to be after three years? | ||
| Or is it possible that the recent vetting rumors are all a dramatic effect to throw people off? | ||
| Sorry, we should have combined those questions into one. | ||
| Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a bait and switch going on there. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't have any, the truth is I don't have any more insight than you do. | ||
| Like for all the, People I know and connections I know and circles that I'm kind of in, like everyone is sort of saying the same thing. | ||
| Everyone's like, well, you know, like I know people that are like, yeah, it's going to be Bergram. | ||
| It's safe. | ||
| He would just sort of be like a Mike Pence. | ||
| You know, like he would just be there kind of guy. | ||
| That could work. | ||
| Other people are saying it's Rubio. | ||
| I'm seeing like you're just seeing all sorts of there's a push for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who, by the way, I don't think was even on that list. | ||
| Maybe she didn't want to be on a public list. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| The bass wants JD, but I don't see how you go to the bass. | ||
| We'll see, we'll see. | ||
| Mitchell says, any favorite moments with the boys since they turned one or things you look forward to seeing them in this coming year? | ||
| Well, they're almost two now. | ||
| Justin will be two in about two months, Luke a little bit after that. | ||
| It's just so great right now. | ||
| They're stronger now, so I've said I can throw them around a little bit more. | ||
| They just have great, fun attitudes all the time, and they're just so happy. | ||
| I would say like watching the words now, because words are just popping every day. | ||
| Like we see their vocabulary just going more and more and stringing a couple words together, which they're doing on the on the pretty early side. | ||
| But in the morning, like I go get my coffee and Justin will be standing there and I'll look at him and I'll be like, what's up? | ||
| Or his sup? | ||
| His new thing is sup, sup, sup. | ||
| He always says sup. | ||
| So it's really the words. | ||
| You can see that they get things. | ||
| I try to talk to them like they're adults. | ||
| I don't do a lot of baby talk and whatever. | ||
| So I try to explain to them. | ||
| If I'm grilling, I'll be like, I'm going outside. | ||
| They always want to go outside. | ||
| So I'll be like, look, I'm going outside for a second. | ||
| I got to cook, but the grill's hot. | ||
| So I don't want to take you out there. | ||
| And you can see that they're piecing some of it together in their brain. | ||
| Not all of it. | ||
| But it's like, and I'll say to him, I'll be back. | ||
| And then I can see him kind of calm down. | ||
| And like, that's a really cool thing. | ||
| Doc says, I spoke with my brother-in-law who has been a mechanic and quality inspector at major airlines for more than 40 years. | ||
| He believes that the problems at Boeing are being blown out of proportion by Chinese intelligence since China has started building airliners. | ||
| Have you heard this before? | ||
| I have not. | ||
| That is quite an interesting theory. | ||
| I would actually be somewhat relieved if that was the truth. | ||
| Not that I necessarily want us to have more Chinese airplanes, | ||
| but it would make us feel better about some of the things we've seen with our airplanes, | ||
| with doors flying off and wheels that aren't dropping at the right time and the rest of it. | ||
| So that is super interesting. | ||
| I'll look into that a little bit. | ||
| Harry says, what demographic of the country does Trump need to appeal to the most? | ||
| Right now, it is middle to upper class women, period. | ||
| I think you might argue, oh no, it's got to be black people, because we see black people moving towards the Republican Party, and he did almost double his support from first time around to second time around, even though he didn't win, with black men particularly. | ||
| I think that thing's on its way already. | ||
| That ship is moving in the right direction. | ||
| The middle class and upper middle class suburban women who Trump has had a major problem with because of attitude and grabbing by the pussy and watching The View and all of that stuff, post-October 7th, realizing that their families are at risk, seeing what's going on at the border, the gender stuff, all of that, that plays to a motherly instinct. | ||
| And again, that's why I think there's an argument for Tulsi there. | ||
| Because you need, this is where you've got to do something soft. | ||
| What you wanna do is take someone, suburban, let's say upper-middle class woman, how about a Megyn Kelly, right? | ||
| Megyn Kelly, who, I don't know who she voted for last time, but she said now she is voting for Trump this time. | ||
| You want the Megyn Kellys of the world, the moderate, the ex-dem, someone that lived in New York City that now left because of something, to come over the right way. | ||
| So I think that's really where you wanna go. | ||
| It's the moms, it's the moms. | ||
| Shelly says, so what's producing the best in your awesome garden? | ||
| And do you use any tricks like Epsom salts or coffee grounds to help your plants? | ||
| Yes, I do use coffee grounds because I ground my beans every day. | ||
| Did we grab any pictures? | ||
| Well, I think we have a couple pictures of, so, you know, we had this burst of rain last night. | ||
| So this is this morning, Adi went out there. | ||
| That is mint. | ||
| I cannot, we're doing mint tea at night. | ||
| We just take the leaves and just steep them in hot water. | ||
| I think there's a Moroccan way. | ||
| Of doing it with a little sugar. | ||
| We don't add the sugar, but we've just got so many. | ||
| That's spearmint there, and I think there's some lemon balm and some other stuff. | ||
| What else we got going on in there? | ||
| Yeah, we've had a great run with these cherry tomatoes, and I've mentioned it before, but tomatoes are tough to grow here because of the humidity. | ||
| It gets a lot of disease and stuff on the plants, but we are eating a ton of tomatoes. | ||
| Yeah, they're crawling up everywhere. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| That's it? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So tomatoes and mint right now, if I could combine them into some sort of dish, it would be perfect. | ||
| Harry says, is there any show that you haven't done, but would love to do? | ||
| Well, Real Time was the one that I've always wanted to do. | ||
| That really was the one. | ||
| My dream growing up, especially when I started in radio, and I had a show on Sirius XM for a while, way back when, Howard Stern was the one. | ||
| He's gone so bananas, whack job lefty, that it's not something I think about anymore. | ||
| And I also think certain point in your career, you just kind of, If you're okay with where you're at, which I am, then you just kind of stop wanting things and then things show up at your door and it's like, oh, now here it is. | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| That's actually kind of how I felt with real time last year. | ||
| The day that it happened, Phoenix got the call. | ||
| We were on air and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. | ||
| I saw him walk out of the room, which he doesn't do while we're on the show. | ||
| And then the show ends and Phoenix pulls me aside and he says, you know who I was on the phone with and tells me. | ||
| And for me, it was like in a weird way. | ||
| Remember, I was like, I was sort of like, oh, that's a little bit of a headache. | ||
| I was like, yeah, I was like, oh cool, like I wanted it forever and then I let it go and then it came. | ||
| So, and I think there's something, I think there's something kind of spiritual with that. | ||
| You know, like if you just want and want and want, that's not kind of how you get. | ||
| And if you let some things go, I think they can kind of come around to you. | ||
| There's probably some version of the secret as it relates to that. | ||
| But no, so Howard Stern, no. | ||
| I don't know if I had a time machine, like to go on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, that would really be it. | ||
| But is there anything else? | ||
| The View. | ||
| We tried to get me on The View. | ||
| We have sent a very respectful email to the ladies at The View, not denying any of the things I've said about them. | ||
| And I would definitely do... I would love to sit with Joy Behar. | ||
| I used to see her on the Upper West. | ||
| I always liked her. | ||
| And Whoopi. | ||
| Yeah, I would do it. | ||
| It's funny though. | ||
| I'll do it, I'll do it. | ||
| Oh, Anna, yeah, oh God, all right. | ||
| Lacey says, I frequently listen to Bill Maher's Club Random podcast just to hear a fairly sane liberal person's point of view. | ||
| He recently on Cara Swisher, who I've never listened to before. | ||
| Wow, she's insufferably arrogant. | ||
| Both Bill and Cara vehemently agreed on how brilliant the ladies of The View are. | ||
| Does that change your opinion of how smart Bill is? | ||
| Well, Kara Swisher, I mean, she's just like one of these lefty nutbags. | ||
| Everyone's racist, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Did they agree? | ||
| We played a clip from that episode. | ||
| I forget what it was. | ||
| We played a clip of it last week. | ||
| What was it? | ||
| Oh, it was the clip that we played last week when he said that Biden's going to lose and Trump's going to win. | ||
| He was talking to Kara Swisher. | ||
| Was Bill saying how brilliant the ladies of The View are? | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| You know, like it kind of, you're all sort of in a party together and nobody's trying to talk shit about anybody. | ||
| It's a little of that. | ||
| But if you just watch, if you watch the episode that we played, what, five or six clips of about two weeks ago of Bill when he was on The View, it's very clear that he is way smarter than them. | ||
| And he's trying to show them what they should think as actual liberals. | ||
| And yet they've just been so overtaken by the radicalism that they don't know what's what. | ||
| Anywho, I believe, do we have the July 4th merch up? | ||
| Is it up? | ||
| It is up! | ||
| DaveRubin.store, just today, we've launched some new July 4th merchandise, so you can check that out. | ||
| We got a post-game show at rubinreport.locals.com in just a moment, and tomorrow's panel show, the Friday Roundtable Extravaganza, will be Dr. Drew and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and we leave you with the name game. | ||
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Goodbye. | |
| This is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name. | ||
| All right, ready? | ||
| Joe Biden. | ||
| Poop. | ||
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Jill Biden. | |
| Evil. | ||
| Kamala Harris. | ||
| Confused. | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | ||
| Decent. | ||
| Barack Obama. | ||
| Snake. | ||
| Michelle Obama. | ||
| Mike. | ||
| John Kerry. | ||
| Breathe. | ||
| And Rachel Maddow? | ||
| Uh, the first word that came to my head was pencil. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It looks like a pencil. | ||
| We highlight very different perspectives here. |
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