Sage Steele guest-hosts Dave Rubin following his 31-day retreat in a Mexican rainforest, where he and husband David allegedly encountered hallucinations involving black vultures. They dissect Kamala Harris's campaign, citing her husband's infidelity, aggressive protest handling, and policy reversals on taxes and abortion, while contrasting her with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s endorsement of Trump. The discussion covers Elon Musk's antitrust suit, Florida's ban on DEI funding, the Supreme Court blocking Biden's Title IX rules, and Mark Zuckerberg's admission of pressuring content censorship, concluding that America's future hinges on rejecting current political establishments. [Automatically generated summary]
Yeah, it was the hottest day of the year in Milwaukee with Malice and Jordan Peterson and a couple other guys and Glenn Beck's done it and Megyn Kelly's done it and Ben Shapiro's done it.
But you were truly my first choice for this year because I felt that Well, first off, did you notice the little sort of exhale I just did in the middle of your intro there?
I am definitely feeling a little different than I have felt in years past, and that is partly why I wanted you to do this, because there's a very obvious political version of this, of escaping politics, and the machine, and all that stuff, and the craziness, and the two weeks beforehand There was a coup, I don't know if anyone's talking about that anymore, and I don't know who the VP is on the Kamala side, assuming she's still in office.
I have no idea.
Oh, and the assassination.
There was so much craziness going on, and I just knew, beyond the political part, that for me to do this, and do it as honestly as I can, and for all the reasons that I guess I am halfway decent at this job, that I needed to escape in a different way.
And also now with two two-year-olds and you're really, Phoenix said right when I sat down, and I haven't even talked to the guys, I said when I get in the studio let's just say hi, we did a quick hug with everybody, and then I just sat down like I really haven't spoken to adults in the last month.
I talked to David, and then I basically just talked to two two-year-olds for the last month, like, you know, a couple waiters here and there, or, you know, the cashier at Whole Foods, but, like, I have not had, like, even an adult conversation in a while.
You know, the first year, I think this was my eighth year doing it, and the first year it was kind of a joke.
Like, it was, the show had just taken off a little bit.
We had a little bit of money where I could be like, all right, I could take off.
I only had, I think, one or two employees, so it wasn't such a big deal kind of internally in what we do.
And I was like, I don't know, like, I'm in this news cycle all the time, 24-hour news cycle, and blah, blah, blah, and Twitter, and everything's getting faster.
I was like, let me just do it as a joke.
And it really was a joke, and the first, Like, five days that I did it, I was freaking out, and you feel phantom buzzing in your pocket.
Literally, like, you feel buzzing in your pocket, and like, you start wondering, like, oh my God, will the world be here when I get back, and what have I missed, and all that stuff.
And then when I came back, I just kind of felt refreshed, and then I did it a second time, and I felt more refreshed, and then a third time, and the third time, I think, I think it was the third time, was really the most important one, because I had considered myself an atheist for at least, five to seven years or so, and I came back
and I no longer felt I was an atheist.
Like, that's pretty powerful.
There were several things that went into that.
And then over the last couple years, just as like, as I guess the success
or the whatever it is has grown, and the craziness has grown.
Again, it was like, I'm sure nobody's talking about the assassination attempt anymore.
That would be my guess.
I'm sure nobody's talking about most of the nonce, the coup.
It's like it's all happening so fast.
We're all responding to it so fast.
We're on this thing all the time.
Like, when I was at the beach, we did two weeks in Mexico in the rainforest.
Yeah, so the first week we were home and I was just playing with the kids and just trying to do a few house projects and just like deal with life stuff.
And then we were like, all right, for two weeks we're just going to go away.
We're in a rainforest in a tree house.
Beach, like, perfect.
Food, perfect.
Just perfection.
But I'm watching all these people.
Weather's beautiful.
All of these people sitting on the beach, just staring at their phones, endlessly scrolling.
Or on planes.
Everywhere you go, everyone is like this.
Now, I know we all know this.
Like, I'm not reinventing the wheel by telling you this.
But, like, when you step away from it for a little while, and you just see people staring.
When I was on the plane, when we were going to Mexico, there was a guy that had the new Apple VR thing, whatever it is,
the Apple, whatever it's called, and he was wearing it for a five hour flight.
No, cannot be good for your brain, and I kid you not, when he got up,
I wasn't looking at anything, right?
So I wasn't looking at screens or anything, so I kept looking at him like I just thought
it was so bizarre, I'm watching this guy, thinking like, what the hell, is he playing video games?
Is he watching porn?
Like, what the hell is this guy doing?
And when he got up, he was sitting with his wife, and she clearly was not thrilled
that he was lost in VR land, but when he got up to go to the bathroom,
he looked like he was drunk, you know what I mean?
Because you're just immersed in this lunacy, and that's what we are all.
Subjected to with the news and the scrolling and it's like picture of a baby terrorist attack this political thing happened There's an avalanche over here and it's just it's doing something very very weird to our brains and I feel I feel like I've gotten like a very good Reset here.
I feel calmer, you know, it is embarrassing when I think we I Look at ourselves, reflect with this in our hand, you know?
And then when you look around, we gotta change it, we have to do it.
But you did the ultimate, you took the ultimate step to go deep in this, in the rainforest, in the middle of nowhere.
Tell me, I think everybody here in the studio would agree that when you walked in, you had this very calm energy about you, and a genuine, you always have a genuine smile on your face, your skin looks great, really annoying actually.
Well, we did have one crazy... I mean, you have a crazy experience every day when you're off the grid, really, because you're just present all the time, right?
And again, because I wasn't really around adults, I was just around kids.
And it's kind of funny being around kids all the time, because when you do the political thing, it's nonsense all the time, right?
Crazy BS.
This one lied about that.
It's chasing, trying to find truth and make sense out of something.
When you're with kids, like, it's all real.
All the time.
All the time.
Hungry, gotta poop.
Like, it is real, you know.
Putting their heads in the dirt and you gotta clean up this and that and the other thing, but it makes sense.
It all makes sense.
So I think that was like sort of the meta version of what I took away.
But I'll tell you one thing that happened that I don't know where I'm going to put this in my life or something, but something genuinely life-changing happened actually.
So we were in Mexico and we went to a sweat lodge.
They call it, I think it's called the Temezcal Ceremony.
So picture you're in a giant kind of clay hut.
And it was just David and I and there's basically he's not a shaman actually but a shaman type person and one other guy and you go in...
And they bring in all of these coals, and they steam the hell out of the place, and it's pitch black, so they cover the top.
So for an hour and a half, you're in this room.
It is basically as hot as you can possibly imagine, like your skin almost burning off, you drenched with sweat, you cannot see anything.
You kind of start to hallucinate.
At one point, I saw a horse run by me, and I saw strange lights in front of me.
And they're chanting and they have different sounds that they're playing and all of this stuff.
And we do this for about an hour and a half and we get out.
And then later that day, and it was just like unbelievable, like you get out and your heart is pounding as if you just did the hardest workout of your life.
Like basically, I got out and I just fell to the floor.
I don't have any pictures of this, of course, because we didn't have phones.
But just fell to the floor and just like, I just felt like my brain had been blown apart and whatever.
Now, that's not even the cool part yet.
So later that day we're in our little tree house and we have a little hot tub there and it's like like I don't know 100 or 200 feet above sea level so the beach is below us unbelievable view of the ocean and we're having like one of the I would say one of the most important conversations we've ever had just talking about our lives and how far we've come and what we want to do in terms of raising the kids and how we want to be as parents and that we've had such a great run and it feels like it's changing now because now the kids are becoming, they're like more human now too, you know?
It's like there's some new thing happening, like we really, like it was probably the most important conversation David and I had ever had.
Wow.
And as we're having this conversation, I can't describe this properly because we didn't have a phone, there's just no photographic evidence of it, two huge black vultures descended on our treehouse, and they sat in front of each of us.
So we're kind of, we're in a little hot tub about eight feet wide.
One basically perches right in front of David on the banister, one perches right in front of me, and they're just staring at us.
Just absolutely big, like big black vultures.
At least this big.
Huge.
Claws that look like dinosaurs, like, yeah.
The whole thing.
And they're just staring at us.
Just absolutely staring at us.
And one's staring at David and one's staring at me.
I kid you not.
And they did not cross.
They're just staring at us.
And David, he's a little more into some of the spiritual side of things and everything.
And he starts kind of talking to the vulture.
Like, are you here for a reason?
Like, what's going on here?
And again, we're having like the most important conversation we've ever had.
so mentally, spiritually, we're just as open as we could be.
And he's kind of asking the vulture, like, what's going on here?
And as he's asking the vulture questions, it kind of seems like it's nodding and walking certain ways.
And then he's like, he had been talking a lot about his grandma, Rose, who had passed away.
And he said, maybe this vulture is my grandma, Rose.
And he said, Grandma Rose, if that's you, give me a sign.
And then I swear to God, may lightning strike me right now.
The second he said that, the vulture jumped down.
Now it's like two feet away from him.
And we had tequila, two glasses of tequila on each side, you know, one on each side for each of us.
The vulture goes to the glass of tequila and starts drinking out of the tequila.
No drugs were involved in any of this or anything else.
Anyway, then we just continued to kind of ask it questions, and David sort of wrapped up the conversation with that vulture, and then he was asking me, he's like, is there anything you're trying to communicate to this vulture, or is this vulture trying to communicate something to you?
And I'm not like, that's just not fully my thing, kinda.
So David was like, maybe I should try to communicate with the vulture.
I did say something about how I felt that a certain chapter in my life was ending, and maybe there was this new beginning coming, and something like that.
But I'm not like, this is why I wanted you to do this today, because I knew you'd be better at the non-political stuff than just drag.
And anyway, then they literally fly off at the exact same time.
So then that night, we go to dinner, and the bartender comes up to us.
We're sitting at the bar, and I said to the bartender, you're not going to believe what happened.
He's like, how was your day?
And I was like, well, actually, something completely insane happened.
We went to the Temescal.
We have this crazy ceremony, sweat lodge, everything that we get.
Two big black poachers.
He gets his phone out.
He's like, did they look like this?
And he shows a picture of the black vulture.
And it was the exact same black vulture.
And apparently these black vultures, they're like a very, very deeply spiritual animal in Mexico.
And they represent the ending of one phase and the beginning of another.
Because a vulture, what does a vulture do?
A vulture eats the carcass of an animal to then sort of continue the circle of life and all of that stuff.
Only after being in the sweat thing for 90 minutes and coming out and feeling drained and exhausted, which means you were, and I believe in that stuff too, and that your heart, frankly, was open to receiving messages.
Because if I see a vulture that close to me right now, I'm out.
Well, that was, I think, like, it was the full sign of what we were talking about, which was that we've come very far, we're secure financially, I made it Successfully here.
So that sort of led it to this morning, where for the first time in coming back from all of these, and all the other years that I've done it, it's just been like, oh, had a great August, let's get rolling again.
And we roll out, I saw, I haven't even, these new graphics that we just showed in the intro, I haven't even seen all of that stuff yet, and the music and all of this new stuff, and I know there's some other things that I have in store, I guess are gonna be surprises to me shortly.
Lots of surprises.
But like, this was the first time that walking into the studio this morning, I felt something a little more...
richer deep than just, oh, we're starting up again.
I'm just giving you, like, a warning of what's to come.
So we're gonna do election news, then we're gonna do additional political news, because there's a lot on the side besides what's happening for the run for the White House.
Some bad faith actors news, and we gotta do some pop culture, right?
You know, you might have missed a couple of things since you were last stateside or wherever you were.
I just hope you had a great time.
I'm jealous, but things are happening so fast.
Since you left, we probably had about 14 or so you'll-remember-where-you-were-when kind of moments, but more coming, so we're glad you're here to help us sort it out.
Welcome back, Dave.
I know the big Kamala news came out before you did your boycott on social media, but guess what?
So you didn't miss anything.
Welcome back, Dave.
As you can see, the country has not burned to the ground yet.
But I emphasize the word yet.
Anyway, it'll be fine.
Welcome back.
Dave, welcome back, man.
I hope you got a ton of sleep, because between now and the end of the year, it's about to get weird.
The world somehow managed to survive while you were offline.
I hope you at least enjoyed a nice margarita in a certain nice treetop bar.
Welcome back, Dave.
Hope you had a good time away, and I hope you ate a lot of red meat, a lot of good steaks and burgers, maybe some raw milk while you were away, because you're gonna need your strength when you hear about what has happened since you've been gone.
But the good news is, there is now a national... That's a great thing.
And by the way, this whole life of rich and famous you're living, as you're getting famous
and rich and wealthy, do not forget the small people in your life who are wanting to hear
what you have to say about all the crazy things that have been going on in the last month.
It's good to see you coming back and getting to work.
Take care, buddy.
Hey Dave, welcome back.
Hope your time off the grid has made you like the great monastics and scholars and Frankly, anyone who lived before the internet, back in the past, better able to see and live true to what really matters.
Onward and upward.
Dave, welcome back.
Boy, have we missed you.
You know, I'm in Israel now.
I'm coming back tonight.
Been here the whole summer.
Taking shots at all our favorite bad guys.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran.
You know, all the guys that we don't like.
And doing it without you, buddy.
So, let's get back together and do great things.
Hey, man.
Heard you got sniffed at the DNC, and that's why you were gone this entire time.
So glad you got that taken care of.
And now that you're back, you know, you could ease right back into things.
We're expecting a pretty quiet couple of months.
Don't think the news is going to be all that crazy.
Remember that time that you said I was the best Uber and Lyft driver ever?
Yeah, I do.
She didn't tip me.
And then when I told you I was moving down to the free state of Florida to be your neighbor, I mean, kind of, I can't quite afford that, but you know, someday, you have hashtag goals, and you said, whatever you need, and I'm like, yeah, I need help packing.
This is a disaster.
Where are you, Dave?
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I know, yeah, one more thing, maybe the most egregious.
Well, my guess before the day when I did my goodbye show, I thought it was going to be Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania, swing state.
He comes off as a bit of a moderate, so I thought that made the most sense.
The only thing that I can guess is that it's not, maybe it's him, maybe it's him, I don't know.
But the only thing I guess is it can't be Gavin Newsom because too many people came up to me at the airport or whatever being like, Dave, you're off the grid, blah, blah, blah.
But I feel like if it had been Gavin Newsom, there's just no way people could have hid that from me, like at Whole Foods.
Like, at least with Kamala the first time it was pretending, or with Biden it was pretending, and then Kamala kind of supposedly moderated a little bit from her really Marxist stuff.
I mean, it doesn't matter.
Like, I can't say that that moved me emotionally or politically in any way whatsoever.
It just doesn't matter.
They're just interchangeable parts.
Like, it's just like, oh, you just took another one of these people who is just part of the—like, are people excited about this?
And there was some disappointment, I think, fair to say, when Shapiro was not chosen.
And then you thought, gosh, well, that would have been smart, based on him being outspoken about being a Jew, but also just an Pennsylvania, of all states.
I mean, arguably the most important state for either candidate to win.
So a lot of energy that we'll talk about that we felt, we, they, whomever out there in the stratosphere, especially during the Democratic National Convention, and energy and joy, joy.
That was the key word out of Chicago.
It was just joy.
There was a lot of joy, and we'll leave that there until we get there.
One thing that, I mean, Walz has been kind of, well, kind of, not just kind of crushed, Because of this stolen valor issue.
So basically, he enlisted at 17, Army National Guard.
Yeah, you know, as I said, I really, I tried not to think about politics when I was gone.
I had to train my brain a little bit, right, because this is what I do all the time and what people want to talk to me about and all that.
But as I said, I was thinking about the narrative stuff and around her it's like, so I'm guessing the whole thing about the Biden coup is just done, like it's not even discussed anymore.
Well, there was some talk leading up to it that it would be Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, which would have been interesting to women.
That would have been disastrous in many ways, but they would have, you know, for those people who like the low-hanging fruit and just the bullet points that MSNBC or anybody will drop, oh my gosh, two women.
It's already historic with Kamala.
A woman.
A woman of color.
And a woman VP?
Oh my God.
So, thank goodness it wasn't her, and that would have been, I mean as far as her politics and her policies, it probably would have been equal to Mr. Walz.
So, yeah, not too much excitement, but they're crushing him on the fact that, you know, stolen valor.
The thing is, and trust me now that I stepped away for a month that you see, is that they can lie and lie and lie and lie and all we can do in a weird way is know that they're lying, right?
Like that's almost, in some ways, that's the best you can do.
You can know that they're lying, you can make fun of it and everything else.
But in a weird way, they win constantly because we are just in, we're in like a vortex
with these people who will lie about literally everything.
And everyone watching this knows, from very fine people and the list goes on and on.
And they lie and lie about everything.
And all we're doing, because the rest of us that are just like
decent human beings, are just trying to live our life.
So because we're not obsessed by that thing, that like shiny lie machine or whatever you wanna call it,
they will just drag us to hell with them.
So I'm glad maybe if some of the lies occasionally get exposed a little bit faster.
All right, I would have preferred one of the evil ones, but oh, that's great, that's great, we got rid of Jamal Bowman, we got rid of her, all right, all right.
Again, I guess we're not shocked with some of these people because when you... If she's gotten to this point, there's obviously way too many people who not only trust her, but choose to overlook true evil, actually.
Well, we're still learning exactly what we swapped them for, but it was interesting because Joe Biden boarded a plane back to Moscow during the hostage exchange.
So take a look at this video here because it was actually a very confusing moment here So US citizens freed from Russia.
I have sympathy for people that have cognitive issues and all that stuff, and everyone gets there one day and we've all had grandparents and all that, but I'm so over that thing.
The reason it's evil is they are saying to their voters, we don't give a flying F about you.
Correct.
steal it, we'll do what we gotta do, and you will eat it up.
And then their voters are like, yes, we will eat it up.
Because I'm guessing, and I swear to God, I have no sense.
I'm guessing the polls are either neck and neck right now, or Kamala's up a little bit.
But for a person who never, yeah, and not a single primary vote, nothing.
She is just magically there.
It's incredible.
Also incredible, depends on who you ask, was the DNC.
The convention in Chicago started on August 19th, and I need you to be prepared to grasp how the first headline to come out of Chicago, and I thought it was fake.
Just outside of, what is it, United Center, wherever is what, downtown Chicago.
A truck.
A couple of trucks.
Free abortions.
Free vasectomies.
Just outside of the festivities.
So if you're there to celebrate Kamala and Tim Walz, And you found out you're knocked up?
The Harris-Walz campaign is tailoring their message to appeal to low testosterone men by using second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Listen to Dana Bash.
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But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone laden, you know, gun toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out of the RNC.
God, they are... Well, first off, I think that's actually probably true, what she's saying.
It's just gross!
They want these effeminate, soy boy, like, loser, ineffectual nobodies because the women are running the show in a weird way.
Oh, God, who would even want that?
You know what's funny?
I will tell you this, that one thing that I did notice, again, I was really trying not to do, I was getting politics out of my brain all month, but like when I was at the store or whatever, you really can just look at people and figure out which way they vote now because of exactly that.
When you see just kind of this little pathetic, very thin, frail man, you're like, oh, that's a Democrat.
And then you just see like a normal dude and it's like, oh, he's probably, it's not even that he's a Republican, he's just somewhat It's just common sense.
But I just thought, as a journalist, to sit there at that forum, and she was reaching and trying to make it make sense that those are the guys that they're leading with.
The one sane thing, I think the one special moment that everybody agreed is when the parents of one of the kids who was held captive in Gaza came to the podium and asked and begged for them to release him.
Couldn't you have seen, especially Taylor, like we know how they lean.
Nobody came, but some people were livid that they thought they just threw it out there to attract ratings and whatever.
Okay.
Kamala's speech during her speech.
First of all, the way she talked, I'll get your reaction in a second, but she said a lot of things that raised some eyebrows, including claiming that Trump will jail his political opponents.
Kamala Harris' husband admits to getting the nanny pregnant during his first marriage.
Admitted it.
Unbelievable.
So cheating on his first wife, they were married, they have two kids, two adult children, and then Kamala-slash-Mamala ended up being the step-mom, Mamala, to the kids.
The relationship's all beautiful, but that's why they got divorced.
In effect, they cancelled a primary, they do their coup, and now she still doesn't have everybody.
So now, it's so ironic.
You really have to love the sort of mystery of the universe that she could be in that situation and now have to be at odds with the base of her own party in some respect.
And if I can get you to inject yourself with something that quite literally either does nothing or maybe will kill you, then I'm pretty sure I have control over you.
But again, I'm just telling you, there's nothing in these beautiful blue papers that you have there that could be too psychotic.
That was my takeaway for the month.
Whatever I was going to come back with, no matter how insane they've gone, no matter what interchangeable parts of Walter Wentz and the guy banging the nanny and the soy boy.
Well, it's like, Kamala, if you actually cared about workers, what you would do is lower taxes on everybody, because if everyone had more of their own money in their own pocket, they could spend it as they wish and create new businesses and things of that nature.
So again, they could stop it now and choose not to.
So when I'm in office, yeah.
On that note, so interesting because she waited 39 days.
From the moment she became the one taking over for Biden until the day she actually sat down for an interview.
It took her 39 days, her first interview.
It was originally 41 minutes.
This is just last Thursday.
Like this just happened.
We were waiting and waiting and waiting.
No press conferences, no interviews until last Thursday.
41 minutes long.
Reports came out that the whole thing, the whole thing, the whole thing only lasted 18 minutes of what we got to see in their reports saying, that they were, you know, her team was behind the scenes
No, but it was shocking to me because when you're doing all this preparation, by the way, if you have 39 days to repair, you better damn well know what you're going to say to that basic question.
Like, when I interviewed RFK Jr.
on my show, that was one of the first things I asked him.
So Megyn Kelly, everybody calls it, that was her security blanket.
And Megyn actually, on her show, picked up her big white blanket the entire thing.
Oh, that's funny.
It's like, they did chat with him, and then when he was asked about the stolen Valor thing, his wife says, Describes it as him having a grammatical error.
Well, first off, that in and of itself, we'll try to hit this more tomorrow, but that in and of itself, that you tape an interview, you tell people it's 41 minutes, and you only air 18 minutes.
And at the end of the day, even if you don't like the answers, at least the questions are being asked and he's giving the answers and then you can make a judgment from there.
We, I mean, we still are trying to figure out what her policies would be if she's in office.
And that's the problem.
Give us the information.
Allow us to judge.
Go through that whole democratic process.
So love him or hate him, at least he's talking.
And it was it was, I mean, well over a million at one point, of course, streaming and watching him on X. How about this, though?
So they're going to they're going to work together like Elon, which is not a shock there, right?
And I said, what are the chances you're gonna give me some good news?
That is good news.
One of my main things when I was supporting DeSantis way back when was that I was afraid Trump was not going to be able to get the right people.
But now if you can get him, and there's another guy like David Sachs, you could start bringing in these people that can know how to build things, know how to build right teams and systems.
It's like, oh, then for the little eccentricities of Trump, That can be dealt with.
Right yeah but well what I want probably is cocaine but I know that if I have a drink then it'll give me it'll like be like okay well I had a drink then I can do this.
Cocaine will turn you into a damn owl homie you know what I'm saying it'll you'll be you'll be out on your own porch you know you'll you'll be your own street lamp you're freaking That is the most insane thing I have ever seen.
No, he literally was like the interviewer for a very long time there and asking the questions and then Theo, it's just Theo, which is amazing, but Donald was talking about how he's never smoked smoking a cigarette and had a drink and nothing.
So those questions, he's genuinely curious about Theo's experience with Coke and mixing
alcohol and all those things.
It was classic.
Like, how cool is that when you go from the youngster Aiden Ross to the comedian?
He does not care with whom he speaks.
Let's just go, let's just talk and show that I can go anywhere.
It doesn't mean you're a Republican and I believe all of the things that Republicans and conservatives believe and exactly this on abortion or exactly this on that.
Like, I've been talking, my oldest kid is in college and she's 22, and she's like, Mom, we're going to sound like those crazy liberals, but if she wins, we got to go.
And I'm like, I know, because to me, this is that cliff.
He had spoken earlier, was it earlier that same day?
Yeah, and talked about just how disappointed he was in the Democrat Party, and of course going back to his family and his history there, but what they were versus what they had become.
And on that note, I actually kind of went off on this on social media too, because then when this happened, his family crushed him.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised about this, but the level to which they went.
They put out some nasty videos about Hillary.
Yeah, I remember they were in Philadelphia on the stage with Biden back in like April or May, and sorry brother, sorry cousin, whatever it is, but we're going for Biden.
So take a look at the statement that they put out, and this is by Kerry Kennedy.
And to me, the last part there is the key.
Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump today as a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear.
But it's funny because even in the state of Michigan, it's so interesting because he's like, you know, okay, I'm just going to get off the ballot here.
Just 20 seconds, this is away from politics for a moment, but I've been on this carnivore thing, and working out a lot, and eating right, and my whole team, we've all been doing this together, so I'm really, I'm probably the lowest weight I've been in, and best shape, and blah, blah, blah, and I'm not patting myself on the back, but I was a little worried about my blood work and everything, because I changed my diet so drastically, so I had my blood work done in July, also for life insurance purposes and whatever, and everything came back absolutely immaculate.
And I was like, and I'm not like, yeah, that's not on wood right there.
But like, I think if you do some work till I get yourself right, and he is trying to do that at the like, countrywide level, and educating us on so many things, and he is resonating and Nicole Shanahan, of course, RFK Jr.
is running mate like they, they are all in on this and I like it.
And don't you want a president who's going to get us out of the wars and who's going to rebuild the middle class in this country, who's going to protect America's freedoms, that's going to make America healthy again?
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I think what RFK's endorsement really shows is that the Kennedy Democrats are actually more at home in the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Today I'm honored to officially welcome another true American patriot.
Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent, If you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all that we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people.
Okay, we finally, so we got the interview with Kamala Harris after 39 days of waiting.
There's been back and forth about a debate, an official debate with Trump and Kamala, and it is scheduled for September 10th, which is a week from today, and it's on ABC.
So, the interesting part about that, first of all it took a minute for them to finally agree to a day to do it, and of course a network that was controversial as well.
But then she came out and she wants to change the debate rules.
I know, you're shocked on that.
So, the things that she wanted to change, to keep the mics on at all times.
She wanted to sit down and, of course, have notes as well.
And let's give credit to ABC for once, and they've rejected her last-minute attempts to change the format of the debate.
So the mics will be cut.
And remember, we talked about this with the last debate with Biden and Trump.
It's like, sometimes let them talk over each other.
Sometimes you need to see that.
Fine.
That stays as is with them off, you know, while the other is speaking.
The sad thing, though, Is that immediately upon seeing that video and everybody's like, well, where's Kamala?
Where's Joe Biden?
Nowhere to be found.
She comes out with a tweet and basically crushing him for taking this as a photo op instead of the fact of why he would naturally want to be there, why you would think she would naturally want to be there.
And even Joe Biden, come off your vacation and go there.
Some people on social media were like, okay, you got to think back to it at the beginning.
These families have been devastated ever since.
But either way, they chose not to be there for whatever reason.
She chose to crush Trump for being there.
And then Trump responded by releasing a video.
And it was eight of the 13 representatives from the 13 who died, their family members,
who came onto a video and basically said, we invited Donald Trump.
That's why he's here.
We did not even want you.
You could have come anyway.
You could have done the right thing.
But they said, we haven't heard a word from you in the three years since we lost our son
or our daughter or our daughter-in-law.
So they, I thought it was brilliant by the Trump campaign to release that video.
As soon as she went there, they're like, no, no, no, no, no.
Man, I mean, everyone's heard me say it a million times, but going from California, where I quite literally I went to vote for the recall, the Gavin Newsom recall, and just by happenstance, I just did it because it was what I do.
I took my license out when I got to the table there, and the guy was like, no, no, no, we don't look at IDs.
How crazy that is compared to here, where I filled out a paper ballot that was in an envelope, someone looked at my ID, I brought it to someone else, they watched me fill everything out.
Man, there is no excuse other than you want to steal elections.
The biggest influencer it was, by the way, that went in the streets of Manhattan, New York City recently just to talk about the whole, you know, racist voter ID laws and going around and asking black people and saying, do you have your ID on you?
And it's like, yeah, well, they're saying that it's racist.
And then these black people were like, what are you talking about?
It's racist.
I mean, it's, it's, it's so blatant.
It's so obvious.
And then I saw on Twitter, I think last night, the list of all the, you know, dozens, hundreds of countries that all require an ID to vote.
And it continues with X. So Garm, the global alliance for responsible media, has disbanded after coming under fire in July's congressional hearing with Ben Shapiro and a lawsuit from Elon Musk's X, of course.
But look at this.
And this is happening as we speak.
Brazil's ban on X has started coming into effect just in the last couple of hours.
Justice Moraes, he's threatening Brazilians who use a VPN to access X with fines of up to $9,000 a day.
So Brazil says no more, and they're shutting down other, is it SpaceX or other things in Brazil that have anything to do with Elon Musk, even though the shareholders and everybody are completely different from X. I think it wasn't one of the last stories we did before I left was about the new prime minister of Brazil basically saying that Elon Musk is enemy number one or something like that.
Basically, he was kidnapped by the French government.
And take a look at this.
The Telegram founder, CEO again, Pavel Durov, was formally charged in France this week for a wide range of alleged crimes stemming from his refusal to cooperate with law enforcement officials investigating crimes that occurred on the encrypted communication platform.
The guy's 39 years old, Russian billionaire over the weekend, so his private jet lands in the country as part of an investigation into, I guess it's a dozen potential offenses, including refusal to cooperate with law enforcement.
I mean, all kinds of different things, including Helping sexually explicit photos of children.
I mean, not stopping that.
I mean, there's a wide range of charges there.
So keep an eye on that because he is now jailed and closely being watched right now.
But this is all tied together, and it's scary, but that's why we need Elon more now than ever before, my God.
Yeah.
Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan versus the media.
So he called out MSNBC, and rightfully so, for they edited a clip of him talking about Tulsi Gabbard in a very positive way, edited it to make it look like he was saying all these positive things about Kamala Harris.
Yes, they did it about politics, but they didn't do it like AI.
They just deceptively edited the things that I was saying.
Took it completely out of context, where I was talking about, first of all, I was talking about Tulsi Gabbard, and then I was talking about that The media behind Kamala Harris, all this surge and all these people just deciding that she's good, she could win.
And they put the two of those together and made it seem like I was praising Kamala Harris and saying a bunch of things that aren't even true.
Yeah, and the thing is, this is the part of, you know, that we never got any comeuppance with this, that Fauci still goes on The View and all that.
The fact that nobody ended up in jail, nobody, like with all of the years of lying and insanity and the horrible things they did and not going to Grandma's funeral and everything, that nobody paid the price for it, so of course they can do it again.
I mean, that's the thing.
So if it's monkey pox or if it's COVID-9 or it's a zombie apocalypse or an alien evasion, of course they could do it again.
Because their graduations, the same kids who had their high school graduations ruined by COVID, had their college graduations ruined by the Hamas supporters.
Israel, this is on August 25th, intercepts hundreds of Hezbollah rockets and drones, and so basically thwarting a much larger attack.
You have that, you have Hamas killing six hostages, and this is just over the last couple of days, including, and this is heartbreaking, American-Israeli Hirsch Goldberg-Polen.
His parents, this is the part that I told you about earlier at the DNC.
His parents are the ones that got up and spoke and pleaded for their son's release.
So, SB 94, that's what it's officially called, would give certain people serving life without parole the chance to petition to have their sentences reviewed if their crimes were committed before June 5th, 1990.
Well, I'm not familiar with exactly what it is, but making the American dream of home ownership available to all people is something we have to do for people who are here now.
$150,000 and Bill, who you know, I've come to love and respect Bill and I like him as a friend and I'll smoke weed with him whenever he wants, which is pretty much the only time I smoke weed.
And she, by the way, she also then just admits the thing.
She admits the thing.
Oh, yes, I want them to be legal.
Meaning, I want to document them, and I want them to vote for us, and we're going to give them stuff, so we'll have basically a new This is going to sound harsh, but it will basically be a new system of slavery for a certain set of people.
That is just true.
We will give them enough stuff so they will never leave us.
The DEI, I feel, maybe we'll, okay, is the blood pressure, how is it?
It's up here.
It was low and now it's back up.
Maybe this will bring it back down a little bit, because I feel like this is kind of good news.
It's all about DEI, because now all of a sudden there are a couple of universities and even businesses who are saying, huh, maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
University of Missouri, Mizzou, eliminating DEI altogether on campus there.
Auburn, dissolving their DEI office as well.
That's already happened.
New College of Florida clears it out, tossing hundreds of LGBTQ and then CRT propaganda,
those books in dumpsters, and also the University of Florida.
So all of a sudden, DEI and universities is going away.
And then the state, I'm trying, the new state law in the state of Florida, the free state of Florida where we all now live, the new state law prohibits the use of state funds for DEI practices.
So that's why you see the Florida and New College of Florida and others doing it now.
So thank you, Ron DeSantis.
That is not what those state funds should be used for.
Well, it's just like, okay, so she steps away, but would you still wanna send your kid to Columbia now?
Do you think that means they're not gonna be taught these things?
Do you think they don't figure out other ways, or they don't use the phrase diversity, equity, inclusion, they just call it something else, or how many other faculty members are still, so it's a win.
It's definitely a win in like, sort of like a large sense, but like in the granular sense, to me, I would just let all those universities, you wanna go that way, just crumble, And let's just keep exposing them and everything else.
Well, and as a parent of college-age kids who are talking about these and making these decisions, I know a lot of parents who are like, I know, but it's Harvard.
I know, but it's Penn.
So the status thing still matters to so many parents.
And I'm like, at the end of the day, no one asked me my GPA.
Thank goodness.
You get the piece of paper.
It's more about life experience anyway.
You know what I mean?
And so to me, you couldn't pay me money.
And I'm paying a lot for three at once to be at any of those schools.
Yeah, I think if I were in your shoes right now, I would probably do the same thing, especially when you look at, they come out and they don't have a job anyway, most of them, you know what I mean?
So the trade schools and getting associates degrees, if anything else, that's where to focus.
You did it right, because I've been in your car when all three of your kids called you, unprompted, and you did not say there's anyone else in the car, and I heard your conversations with your kids, and you are a good mama, and they are good kids.
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Thank you, it's the hardest job ever, but the best job ever.
I'm trying to predict where his blood pressure's gonna go.
I don't know, you guys.
So, this is on August 2nd.
Donald Trump says meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt, and Zuck said he is not going to support a Democrat.
He also apologized for Facebook and Instagram censoring those iconic photos of Donald Trump with the blood running down his face and the fist up in the air.
And, okay, we have video.
Take a look at this.
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said that the picture wasn't altered. At first they said it was altered, then they said no,
it was a bug, it was a mistake. So my point is, is these companies would not allow any
information out about what happened. So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called
And then, Zuck, I mean, this admission to me was huge.
He said in a letter that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly pressured his company, which includes Facebook, of course, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, to censor content that is protected free speech.
So he flat out admitted that.
And this is in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
And he was saying it with Jim Jordan, the one asking the questions.
And he said that his goal moving forward was to, quote, be neutral and not play a role one way or another for any political party or ideology.
He said he doesn't even want the appearance of playing a role, will not be making political contributions.
But he admitted that he listened to the Biden-Harris administration and censoring for all of these years.
Yeah, well, not, I mean, first off, we know some of that.
Jim Jordan even told me that one of my tweets was on the list of things that got taken down.
I had tweeted out in September, I think, no, in August of 21, or no, no, July of 21, that mandates are coming, vaccines aren't working, mandates are coming.
He said that was on the list of things that the government pressured.
I said, well, what's your, can you get anything from the government?
He's like, no, you don't even get a letter of apology.
So they can infringe on your First Amendment right to free speech, and you don't get anything.
You don't get a letter.
I kept saying to the janitor, could someone in this building?
Maybe this was asked by Dana Bash and it ended up on the cutting room floor, you know, but that he said the Biden-Harris administration told me to do this and I did it.
No, just like pathetic and shouldn't be shocking, but Thomas Crooks, the young man who shot Donald Trump.
So we found out that he spent months and months engaging in rifle training at the same facility used by DHS, Department of Homeland Security, and multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies.
Nobody even knew his body was gone until August 5th.
So he was training... The fact that he was training with the same place where DHS trains, federal, local law enforcement, you... I don't remember this happened after or before you left, but when, you know, people now say, OK, that he was in Washington, D.C., he's got these offshore accounts, these are all reports, etc.
Because, I mean, your timing is always perfect, by the way, because you come back just in time for football, and most importantly, right before basketball training camps tip off as well.
But I don't think people ever will give him enough credit for what he did in the creation, basically, of Stephen A. Smith, of that debate model there.
And then he left, and he went to Fox, and then really, Shannon Sharpe should be thanking Skip Bayless as well, and now Shannon and Stephen A. So anyway, I love Skip Bayless.
And that was Skip, and then it was First Take, and then Stephen A. really started to come up like that, but Stephen A. says it, too.
He gives Skip a ton of credit for that, so we'll see what happens if he ends up elsewhere, but he really has had a remarkable career, pissing people off for all these years as well.
I know you get it, but you just didn't like the title.
That's fine.
First take's that much better.
Okay, speaking of firing, so no, he was not fired, but my girl, Samantha Ponder, host of NFL Countdown on ESPN, she was fired three weeks before the NFL season began, which is insanity.
Yeah, I guess I was emotional that day.
I was in Oxford, dropping off my daughter at college when this happened, and it was shocking.
Because at the end of the day, she had a year left on her contract.
They also fired Robert Griffin III, former Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback, etc.
But they fired Sam, and she was shocked.
This was out of the blue.
And the funny thing is, they said it was a cost-cutting thing.
And if you're making a lot of money, fine.
But it's not like they didn't know that, because they signed her to it.
And if you are going to make a move, probably do it at the end of the last season, February.
Right, you don't do it right.
Let's say draft time, April, but to wait until the very last second before the season begins,
it shows a lack of, well, common sense to make sure that your new host will gel with
your analysts, Rex Ryan, Teddy Bruschi, Randy Moss, all who love Samantha Ponder, but they're
saying it's cost-cutting.
Sam was the only other woman at that network besides me, I mean, I was gone though, who
continued to speak up for women in sports and against the trans stuff.
She had been liking some tweets from Kirk Herbstreit, from myself.
Cost-cutting kind of never really means cost-cutting, because I'm going to guess that every guy that you just mentioned right there on the analyst side probably makes more than her.
It's not, especially when McAfee's making $18 million, Stephen A's probably going to get $20 to $25 in his next deal within the next nine months.
It's hard to defend them when they seem to keep making political moves.
So, Sam Ponder will bounce back, let me tell you, that's for sure.
So we're going from sports to airplanes, and this video was awful.
And I played it a hundred times because I kept thinking, can you imagine being a passenger in this plane in Sao Paulo, Brazil, an aircraft that crashes?
One thing I did notice from being off, and again, I was mostly home, but is there a new sort of post-COVID certain level of anxiety and tension at airports that did not exist pre-COVID, or is that just me at this point?
It seems like something, like the level of stress at an airport, if you're just looking at it, now most people are just staring at their phones like drones, but just the amount of sort of like tension that you just kind of like feel at airports, and maybe again, because I was off, so I felt it a little bit more there.
I think COVID and the tension with that and the flight attendants who were snappy, understandably so, and then the passengers who were jerks to them, I think it's a domino effect.
But now it seems to be more recent where, I mean, I will do anything to not connect because the chances of me making that flight are brutal.
More and more luggage piled up, so I don't know exactly what's going on.
She'd stepped down, I think, last year from being the CEO.
But remember, six months ago, her 19-year-old son was found dead in his dorm at UC Berkeley of an apparent drug overdose.
So her husband released a statement, and I just cannot imagine right now what that family is going through with the death of their 19-year-old son and now Susan after a two-year battle with cancer.
I remember coming home from school, my mom would be watching Phil Donahue at 4 o'clock on NBC.
I think it was syndicated, but it was NBC in New York.
And him running out into the audience, and it was just such a Actually, when I do my book tour and some stand-up stuff, that's what I kind of do, like a crazy roadshow, throwing things into the crowd and getting people screaming.
To me, I'm sort of reincarnating Phil Donahue.
I really, really like him.
Politically, I think we were very different.
As he got older, he got more and more left, which was a little bizarre because people usually go the other way as they get older.
I dedicated my first book to Ben Affleck because he went on real time with Bill Maher that time with Sam Harris and they were fighting about religion and everything and it was like one of my wake up moments because he was so insane and ridiculous and over the top and people think he was on steroids because he was training for Batman.
If you can take the old-school liberal and combine them with an American-loving conservative that is willing to live with people who are a little bit different, which most conservatives are, that's America.
That's freedom.
That's what we have to sell.
We have the best product.
You know, I kept thinking this.
We have the best product in America.
Freedom.
It's the best product man-made.
It's the best product that God ever gave us.
And all we have to do is market it a little bit better against these crazy lunatics.
So I have a feeling you're going to be carrying that experience, that moment with you, not just in the next year, as you kick off your new year today, but forever.
Really, right?
So what specifically do you think, how do you think that might affect you going forward?
Today, every day, coming into work, sharing with America, certainly at home.
Knowing how crazy all the politics stuff is and doing what we do and everything else, I just want to be a part of fixing this thing.
Again, I have this physical stuff I want.
I have the family I want.
I have that.
So now if I can help the other thing...
To whatever extent I can, for whatever little bit people like you and I can like nudge this in one way or the other and make people maybe think about things a little bit differently or not be so angry about things or whatever, then that's what I'll keep doing.
Working with amazing people and doing all that, and man, did I pick the right host for this thing or what?
This is the biggest honor for me that you trusted me with this.
And most importantly, literally, I think it takes courage to do what you do.
To take that month off, like, especially in an election year, and there's so much happening, it's literally changing the course of this country and the world based on what happens here, right?
And to come back, and now, buckle up everybody, Rubin's back, With new graphics and everything.