Dec. 19, 2024 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Thank you. | |
| It's a crazy world, crazy world, somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
| It's a crazy world, it's a crazy world, somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
| It's a crazy world, it's a crazy world, it's a crazy world, it's a crazy world, it's a crazy world. | ||
| Alright everybody, it is December 19th, 2024. I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| We are live streaming on Rumble, on YouTube, on Locals. | ||
| We've got a post-game show at rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| And today's program, what you are watching right now, is our last live show of the year. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| We got the holidays coming. | ||
| It's Christmas. | ||
| It's Hanukkah. | ||
| It's New Year's. | ||
| It's time to spend some time with friends and family. | ||
| I release my minions to do whatever they do. | ||
| Tomorrow's show will be with tech guru Joe Lonsdale, which we taped a couple days ago. | ||
| And yes, we're doing a Rubin Report Locals Community Q&A. | ||
| I'm going to catch you up on a couple other things. | ||
| I'll share some thoughts at the end of the show in about 50 minutes or so on just what an incredible year this has been. | ||
| And we pre-taped a whole bunch of stuff that'll get you through Christmas and everything else. | ||
| We did a really fun video about Christmas, which we'll put up on Christmas Day, explaining the importance of Christmas. | ||
| We did the same thing for Hanukkah, which we'll put up the night before. | ||
| It's nice this year. | ||
| It doesn't happen that often where Hanukkah and Christmas actually fall on the same calendar date, so that's pretty great. | ||
| And then we've got some silly viral stuff, and some South Park stuff, which you guys love, and a bunch more. | ||
| You know, if we don't put anything up during that week, you just get booted out of the algorithm. | ||
| So we do have to put some stuff up, and I think you'll enjoy it, and it's fun, and it's silly, and it's largely nonpolitical, and a best of, and a bunch of other stuff. | ||
| So yes, this is our last show. | ||
| It's been an absolutely wonderful year. | ||
| And well, let's just dive right in, because yesterday was an interesting day. | ||
| For those of you that have been tracking me since the Rubin Report started back in 2013, I had a whole life and career before that in the stand-up world, and I had a show on SiriusXM and a bunch of other stuff, but the Rubin Report began in Los Angeles as part of the Young Turks Network. | ||
| In 2013. And then, of course, most of you know my political evolution and I don't know that there's been anyone in the public eye that has been more honest and upfront about their evolving views and sitting down with people and changing their mind. | ||
| And in many ways, that's really what put me on the map and why I left the left and all of those things. | ||
| The cast of characters over at The Young Turks, once I left, were very bitter and angry that I left. | ||
| And they've gone after me many times over the years, as you guys know watching this. | ||
| I haven't really addressed any of that stuff. | ||
| I've never gone after Anna Kasparian because she was a good friend of mine and I just didn't want to do that. | ||
| Cenk, every now and again, I've gone after. | ||
| But they've done endless amounts of videos after me and lying about me and just a whole bunch of stuff. | ||
| Anyway, none of that really matters other than As we addressed last week, Anna Kasparian, who's the co-host on The Young Turks, she seems to be waking up politically and now sort of coming around to, let's say, our side of things. | ||
| And she was on Piers Morgan about a week ago and said that she might have been wrong about Dave Rubin. | ||
| That's quite a concession when you've said so many, you know, really terrible things about somebody. | ||
| So Piers had me on yesterday. | ||
| So I was on with Piers for about 10 minutes, just the two of us, and then a panel with Cenk. | ||
| We're going to show you some of that. | ||
| But first, Piers asked me about the Anna admission about me, the concession about me, and just sort of my general philosophy about people who are waking up And what do you do with a group of people who have maybe been wrong about the issues, who have said bad things, but seem to be coming around? | ||
| And actually, this is sort of a perfect way to start the last live show of the year. | ||
| Dave, there we have it in all its inglorious fashion, all the digs she had at you, then what she said online, which she herself, of course, was pivoting. | ||
| What's your response? | ||
| Well, first off, I should note that note you don't have 10 years of videos of me saying anything about her because we did leave on good terms. | ||
| As a matter of fact, when I told her I was leaving, we went to zinc on Melrose. | ||
| I took her out for sangria and she cried that because I was leaving and I was bringing my producer with me. | ||
| But putting that aside for a moment, if I can't explain any of my ideas, well, somehow this became a New York Times bestseller where I lay out all my classically liberal beliefs, and I've discussed them with you many times, and I believe in laissez-faire economics, and I believe in individual rights and all that. | ||
| But what I would say, I think she's a little confused and perhaps was lied to by her employers about some of my behaviors or something like that. | ||
| But I love the idea of anyone going through their own political evolution. | ||
| One of the things is that people go through it often in varying speeds. | ||
| So I always say some people swallow the red pill and some people snort it, right? | ||
| Some people just wake up overnight and they fully see it. | ||
| I think one of the things that you have to do when you wake up Is realize that many people have gone through this before you and that you might have wronged some people on the way there. | ||
| So I was very glad to hear her say that she might have been wrong about Dave Rubin. | ||
| Look, all it takes, honestly, like I know you know this, Piers. | ||
| You've been in this game longer than me. | ||
| You don't get any apologies in this business. | ||
| And I don't like making things really about myself in that sense. | ||
| But genuinely, if there was a mea culpa there or just a simple apology, maybe I didn't see things right about you, Dave, or whatever, I would gladly welcome anyone. | ||
| Alright, so I think you guys can see that's pretty consistent with my spirit and with the way I conduct this show, and that, you know, people say bad things about you. | ||
| Look at Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump says bad things about people, people say bad things about Donald Trump, and then they end up working together. | ||
| Donald Trump used to say horrible things about Marco Rubio. | ||
| Marco Rubio used to say horrible things about Donald Trump. | ||
| Now he's going to be his secretary of state. | ||
| And you want to give room, especially, I would say, with the amount of people who have woken up and red-pilled in this last year and a half with this wide tent movement that's coming. | ||
| We're going to see all of these people who really were sort of crazy, you know, out of control, identity politics, you're all Nazi leftists. | ||
| They're going to be waking up, and you want to make room for them without abandoning your ideals and your beliefs. | ||
| And, you know, you hope that maybe the apology or the mea culpa comes around. | ||
| So anyway, it was a really lovely conversation. | ||
| And, Piers, if you're watching today, I appreciate you giving me the chance to say that, because it's nice to do it in some sense on someone else's show than just doing it here. | ||
| But then there was a panel, and on the panel was... | ||
| My old boss and Anna's co-host, Cenk Uygur. | ||
| And one of the things that Piers and I discussed is that, you know, and you guys know this, the left doesn't, they're not particularly good at challenging your ideas, right? | ||
| They attack you and they impugn your motives and they say bad things about you and they label you and all the rest of it. | ||
| And then, as if a gift from God, well, here's Cenk. | ||
| So Cenk, I mean, many people are saying if you carry on down the road you're going in the last few weeks, you will be a fully-fledged member of MAGA before we know it. | ||
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Yeah, there's absolutely no chance of that. | |
| And I'm not like Dave Rubin, a giant sellout fraud. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| He changed all of his positions and is totally useless and it shouldn't even be on here. | ||
| He's just a waste of space. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| Really? | ||
| After all Dave said about coming together? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, no, I've got no interest in coming together with utter frauds like Dave Rubin. | ||
| So, brother, you're telling me that when you were on The Young Turks, you were Mr. Progressive and you agreed with us 100 percent, now all of a sudden you agree with Trump 100 percent? | ||
| You're not saying something nuanced like we are. | ||
| The guy gets shot at and he puts his fist up, that's courageous. | ||
| When he does the McDonald's photo op and it works fine, no problem, right? | ||
| If he wants to cut the Pentagon, great. | ||
| Those are progressive positions. | ||
| Anti-corruption, progressive position. | ||
| Anti-war, progressive position. | ||
| But you change all of your ideology overnight and you expect us to believe that that's real? | ||
| I don't think it's real at all. | ||
| And I want an apology from you for all the crazy, outrageous lies that you told about the young Turks. | ||
| When is that going to happen, huh? | ||
| What are you going to admit that you changed all your positions for money, okay? | ||
| What position do you still have that's in any way a so-called classic liberal? | ||
| All right. | ||
| So you got it. | ||
| I'm a fraud. | ||
| I'm a sellout. | ||
| I'm useless. | ||
| I shouldn't be here. | ||
| Utter fraud repeatedly. | ||
| I did it for money. | ||
| First off, it's not even worth addressing any of that, right? | ||
| He's illustrating the point, right? | ||
| At no point, and we'll show you another clip in a moment, at no point does he ever say something that I now believe that's actually true that he can get me on because he can't. | ||
| And as I said, I wrote a book on all of my beliefs and all of these things. | ||
| I'm actually only doing this segment as a sort of like footnote for the end of the year on that. | ||
| 2025 is going to be about widening that tent, building those bridges, but we're not going to bring over everybody. | ||
| Like we might bring over someone like Anna, but this guy is clearly not getting there. | ||
| And you know, again, he would need only look in a mirror if he wants to figure out who did things for money or anything else. | ||
| Imagine trying to be, when I was leaving the left around 2015, how the culture was so different. | ||
| Try to think nine years ago, and I happen to be gay, I don't make a big deal about it, but I'm gay in LA, a lefty. | ||
| Yes, I sold out to be with the right-wingers in 2014 and 15. And that was, I had no idea if my career was over when I started telling people what I thought. | ||
| The amount of hate I was getting, I literally developed an autoimmune disease. | ||
| As many of you guys know, I developed alopecia areata and I lost about 40% of my hair because I was getting so much unbelievable, endless hate. | ||
| When I left the Young Turks, I went independent. | ||
| When we started doing that, we had no idea if we were gonna even have any money. | ||
| David and I left that place. | ||
| It was both of our salaries and we had maybe 5,000 bucks in the bank. | ||
| Anyway, not very important, but here's now Piers defending me, which was nice, and just a bit more. | ||
| Dave? | ||
| Piers, it's barely worth responding to this ridiculous buffoon who's the joke of the industry, but I will say this, Cenk, I haven't spoken to you in 10 years. | ||
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Even right when you're thinking you're a total fraud. | |
| I don't think he's a fraud or a joke. | ||
| I think Dave Rubin is, for what it's worth, I think Dave Rubin is one of the most influential and significant voices out there right now. | ||
| And I admire his honesty about the journey he's been on, Jake. | ||
| I appreciate that, but the thing is, what Cenk just proved is exactly what everyone in America, and I would say all over the world, is getting over. | ||
| Nobody wants what he just offered up there. | ||
| Not only does no one believe it, and he had it pre-packaged and ready to go, and it's complete drivel, yes. | ||
| I sold out. | ||
| It's just so nonsensical. | ||
| Again, Cenk, I'll gladly send you a signed copy of the book and you can read all of my thoughts. | ||
| And if you're anti-corruption and you're anti-war, you should be on the Trump train. | ||
| But your endless hatred, the division that you so calling everyone racist and white supremacist, all of that stuff, It's why you're not respected. | ||
| But I don't mean to get into the personal side of that. | ||
| I'm talking about now something that culturally has shifted. | ||
| And everyone can see the grift that you're up to trying to sort of dance with the thing. | ||
| But it's just not necessary. | ||
| And I don't think that many people will buy it. | ||
| Okay, so again, it's just endless attacks from him. | ||
| And he can't come up with something that he actually thinks that I say that I don't believe. | ||
| So then I kept pushing him on that. | ||
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When you have people like Dave Rubin switch all of their positions, what happens is when you go to do nuance and you say, hey guys, hold on, hold on, let me explain. | |
| Hold on. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Hey, go pleasure Trump again. | ||
| Go pleasure Trump again. | ||
| He goes from Bernie to Trump and pretends. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Come on, brother. | ||
| Come on, brother. | ||
| I tell people what I believe in and I'm upfront and honest about it. | ||
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You believed in something yesterday, you don't believe in anything today. | |
| What position do you think I hold that I don't honestly believe? | ||
| Name one. | ||
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Can I answer the question? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Can I answer the question? | ||
| Can I answer Trump? | ||
| What position do I say that I believe that I don't really believe? | ||
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Brother, you went on Fox News with Tucker Carlson on Fox News and said gay people, that the fact that the fire department was recruiting gay people was why there was forest fires. | |
| You're a national embarrassment. | ||
| You pleasure those guys for a living. | ||
| You can pull up the clip tomorrow if you want. | ||
| I was talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion, that you shouldn't hire people based on their genitals or their sexual orientation. | ||
| And we now all know that. | ||
| You have been one of the prime pushers of all of this neo-racism. | ||
| I believe in meritocracy, that whether you're going to be a doctor or a firefighter or a basketball player or anything else, you should be hired on your qualifications, It's killing me not to do more personal insults with him with the sweat and the ogre-like affect and all that, but I'll try to let that be. | ||
| But again, he had nothing. | ||
| It was like, tell me something that I say I believe in or that I've written about that I believe in that I don't believe in. | ||
| The best he came up with was that I believe that gay firefighters are causing Are causing forest fires, which of course was nonsense. | ||
| I did go on Tucker and talk about that, talking about how fire departments and police departments, et cetera, were using diversity, equity, inclusion to no longer hire the best people. | ||
| And if you hire someone because they're gay or because they're black or because they have a lazy eye, you are not going to hire the best people. | ||
| But that just sort of perfectly illustrates the ridiculousness. | ||
| And anyway, that is, I think we're gonna leave that there In some sense, it was just like it's been 10 years of not addressing it at all. | ||
| And how sad for him. | ||
| We do have one last thing. | ||
| O'Connor got a hell of a screenshot in the middle of this thing. | ||
| And yes, a picture is worth a thousand words. | ||
| There's Cenk with his sweat rag. | ||
| All right, guys, we're gonna get off me for a moment. | ||
| Not get me off. | ||
| That's something else. | ||
| Different show. | ||
| We're going to get off me for a moment and talk about this giant spending bill as we roll into the end of the year. | ||
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| You know, I just had a thought while that thing was playing. | ||
| You know, in the 10 years since I left, as I mentioned up top, I've never done a show about Jink, right? | ||
| I go on other shows every now and again. | ||
| Someone will ask me something about him. | ||
| They've done a ton of shit on me. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| But having just re-watched that after living it yesterday, remember the end of Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure? | ||
| And they're like, are you going to watch the movie? | ||
| And he's like, I lived it. | ||
| That's what I feel like right now. | ||
| I'm never going to ever address that man again. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Like, Anna, you want to come around? | ||
| Or other people that are waking up, lefties, even if you've said some whatever crazy things about me, you want to come around? | ||
| I'll welcome you. | ||
| As I said to peers, I'll be happy to sit down with Anna in here, one-on-one. | ||
| She wants to do it on Skype. | ||
| Peers, we can do it in England, we can do it live, we can do it with peers, moderator, whatever. | ||
| I'll gladly do all that, but I don't think that person is worth addressing anymore. | ||
| And that feels like something, that's a little, that's a pre-Chrismica gift that I'm giving myself this year. | ||
| Alright, so the big story in the country right now, because there are more important things than whatever it is that I just showed you there, is that they are trying to jam through, and they do this every year, right at the end of the year, as everyone's trying to wrap up and not pay attention, and you're starting to think about where you're going for the holidays, and family, and all that stuff. | ||
| They always try to jam through these giant spending bills right at the end. | ||
| We go through this every single year, and it's one of the ways that the deep state, that the bureaucracy... | ||
| Rolls us, right? | ||
| Because everyone just sort of checks out this time of year, right? | ||
| I mean, that's literally why it's our last show today, our last live show for the year, because people are doing other things, other perhaps more important things. | ||
| So one of the things that's happening right now is the bill is getting banged up because Elon and a whole bunch of other people are tweeting about some of the nonsense that is in it. | ||
| And check this out from Fox. | ||
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We're told right now in the past 30 or 40 minutes here that they might try to pull this interim spending bill off the floor and maybe just go with a clean bill. | |
| Unclear what that means for disaster assistance. | ||
| Here's what happened. | ||
| A post on X by Elon Musk sent shockwaves through the Capitol. | ||
| House Republicans were trying to see if they have enough votes to pass the spending bill in the next hour or two. | ||
| Musk posted that anyone who votes yes should lose their office in two years. | ||
| And lawmakers are scrambling. | ||
| The tweets from Musk, has that complicated this? | ||
| Well, I mean, I think that there's always a lot of interest in what's happening up here. | ||
| This is more than interest. | ||
| They're telling people if they vote yes, they should be voted out. | ||
| The social media world is a part of our politics, and I think members have to expect that. | ||
| There will be a lot of hard votes in the next couple of years. | ||
| A member of the House Republican leadership told Fox that Musk is not helping. | ||
| The lawmaker added that Musk has bigger fish to fry than picking a fight with House Republicans. | ||
| One source said the bill is now bleeding support from the GOP. When asked how many Democrats the GOP needs to pass the bill, a senior aide replied, quote, a lot. | ||
| Lawmakers who had hurricanes devastate their districts are torn. | ||
| Alright, so basically what's happening here is we are seeing the bureaucracy, the machine, the deep state that always does this every year. | ||
| We're now seeing the fruits of Donald Trump being elected even before he has taken office. | ||
| Because by Elon tweeting about the nonsense, and we'll get to some of the pork And ridiculous spending in the bill. | ||
| And you just know. | ||
| They just write crazy numbers out. | ||
| Nobody reads the bill. | ||
| The bill, you know, Rand Paul always puts a picture. | ||
| I think he put one on Twitter. | ||
| Maybe we can grab it from Rand Paul's Twitter account. | ||
| You know, the bill is like this long. | ||
| Literally not one senator has read it and they sign it or they do what Nancy Pelosi used to say, which is we have to sign the bill before we read it. | ||
| So Elon and a whole bunch of other people on Twitter, now that Twitter is the media, have started to put pressure and be like, what is in this thing? | ||
| Maybe we shouldn't just sign it. | ||
| And now Mike Johnson, obviously Republican leader, is in a bit of trouble. | ||
| So here's a bit more on what the spending bill includes and then something from Thomas Massey. | ||
| And as you know, Thomas Massey, who I've had on the show many times, he is really, I would say, the number one libertarian in Congress. | ||
| Rand Paul, number one libertarian in In the Senate, but Massey is a guy who wants to cut spending, period. | ||
| That's what he's there for. | ||
| And you'll see how this is connected to Johnson's future, which is tenuous at best. | ||
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Now, the bill has about $100 billion in disaster relief, nearly $30 billion to restock FEMA's coffers, and there are lots of health care provisions. | |
| Jamming everything together in one bill means some Republicans will not support Mike Johnson for speaker in January. | ||
| Have any other of your colleagues said that they're not voting for Johnson? | ||
| I've talked to a few, you know, who don't seem like they're going to vote for him. | ||
| You have to ask them. | ||
| I'm not going to betray anybody's position. | ||
| Will you just vote President or will you vote someone else? | ||
| I'll vote for somebody else. | ||
| Now, Johnson can only lose one vote and still win the Speaker's race on January 3rd. | ||
| Some Republicans ask how things are different with a spending bill like this under Johnson than former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| The funding deadline is Friday night. | ||
| Alright, so there's a whole bunch of interesting political things here because, as you guys remember, or as you may remember, Thomas Massey and Chip Roy, who are really the two big libertarian guys in Congress, they wanted to keep Kevin McCarthy when he was the Republican leader. | ||
| It was the Trump crew who really brought in Mike Johnson, and now it's the Trump crew who's pissed at Mike Johnson. | ||
| Why are they pissed at Mike Johnson? | ||
| They're pissed at him because instead of just doing separate bills for all of these things, if you think that the, whatever it is, you think that the FEMA funding is that important, or you think that the healthcare funding is that important, or whatever it is that we want to make sure Pakistani lesbians are eating, you know, a certain amount of chicken per day, it's like, do these things separately. | ||
| People are sick of these giant omnibus spending bills that they know no one reads that we jam through it at the end of the year. | ||
| So we have a bit more on that from The Daily Wire. | ||
| House Speaker Mike Johnson's spending deal to keep the government open was sunk by Republicans on Wednesday after a pressure campaign from President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk. | ||
| The Washington Post reported that the deal was officially dead and that Johnson has not outlined what his backup plan is as those close to the situation indicate that it was not clear what will happen next. | ||
| Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive continuing resolution plus is dying fast, but can anyone imagine passing it without either terminating or extending the debt ceiling guillotine coming up in June, Trump posted on social media. | ||
| Unless the Democrats terminate or substantially extend the debt ceiling now, I will fight to the end. | ||
| This is a nasty trap set in place by the radical left Democrats. | ||
| He said that the Republicans need to pass a clean, continuing resolution without the bells and whistles that Democrats are seeking to score for their political agenda. | ||
| Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should and will be primary, Trump said, of any Republican who votes for the bill. | ||
| Everything should be done and fully negotiated prior to my taking office on January 20th, 2025. Musk posted on X that this terrible bill was now dead after representatives heard backlash from constituents. | ||
| If the bill is not passed, nonessential government functions would begin shutting down at 12.01 a.m. | ||
| on Saturday. | ||
| Now, first off, let me just say, as it pertains to a government shutdown, or at least a temporary government shutdown, particularly this time of year, let's give it a go. | ||
| I think we're going to be okay. | ||
| The government does need to do some things, but not all of the stuff that it's been doing. | ||
| So I'm not threatened by the threat of the government shutdown. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| Number two, what this really is about now is directly connected to what this whole last year has been about, which is the rise of We, the people, because we can express ourselves now on alt media, particularly ex-Twitter, there is a rise of the people who are now having their voices heard. | ||
| And then when Elon, because he is so influential right now, when he shares like, oh, maybe we shouldn't have these crazy spending bills, then more and more people are suddenly waking up to it. | ||
| So there is an unbelievable sea change happening right now. | ||
| And Donald Trump is absolutely right. | ||
| Why would you concede anything to the Democrats or the squishy Republicans right now who may want to push all of this spending in when Donald Trump was elected on draining the swamp, bringing in Doge and everything else? | ||
| We've got a tweet here from Elon Musk. | ||
| He said, your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. | ||
| The voice of the people has triumphed. | ||
| Vox Populi, Vox Dei. | ||
| So... | ||
| We are in an interesting, interesting moment right now, and I want to connect that to something else. | ||
| Because as we are perhaps seeing, just as the year is wrapping up, the real beginnings of change that we've all wanted, it's not just happening in the government, but it's also happening in our corporations. | ||
| Check this out from Leading Report. | ||
| Breaking! | ||
| American Airlines to End DEI Employment Practices per America First Legal. | ||
| Highlighted portions. | ||
| American Airlines understands that OFCCP regulations do not permit quotas, preferences, or set-asides. | ||
| American Airlines agrees that placement goals under Executive Order 11-246, utilization goals under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, My God, | ||
| that was literally the point I was making in the previous clip about gay firefighters. | ||
| You shouldn't care if... | ||
| Your firefighter is a dude who sleeps with the dude, but that's not why he should get the job, and you shouldn't care if your pilot is a woman who enjoys the punani. | ||
| That's just fine, but do it on your own time, and that's why you don't get the job because of that. | ||
| I think that's the first time I've ever said punani on the show. | ||
| Is that a demonetization word? | ||
| Do we know about it? | ||
| Is Punani Italian for the JJ? I did not know that. | ||
| I thought it was just... | ||
| I'll be damned. | ||
| We're learning things at the end of the year. | ||
| But of course we all know this, right? | ||
| And it also just goes to show... | ||
| It just goes to show that the entire DEI project, the entire WOKE project, it was all BS. It was all nonsense. | ||
| No one thought it was right. | ||
| It largely brought in so many unqualified people for all of the wrong reasons. | ||
| And now thankfully the culture is changing and corporations are eliminating That nonsense. | ||
| Not that there's anything wrong with gay firefighters. | ||
| I feel like there's a lot of gay guys who love... | ||
| Was one of the village people a firefighter? | ||
| I said that on the show yesterday, on the Piers Morgan show. | ||
| Can you pull up an image? | ||
| Can we get an image of the... | ||
| We'll get an image during the Q&A of the village people. | ||
| There was a cop and a Native American. | ||
| Was there a firefighter? | ||
| We'll get to that in just a minute. | ||
| Let's also jump over to something else that I've talked a bit about in the last week or so, which is Eric Adams, who's having that political evolution himself. | ||
| Again, you don't just forget all the things he did, but he does seem to be waking up, and it seems to be somewhat authentic. | ||
| And here he is explaining maybe why he got some of this stuff wrong as it pertains to New York City being a sanctuary city. | ||
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So, you have been strong on those issues. | |
| I look back at the things that you were saying over the years. | ||
| Obviously, you spent decades as a New York City police officer, but when you came into office, you were asked on ABC if you were concerned that being a sanctuary city was going to create a magnet to New York. | ||
| And here's what you said. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| This city has always been a sanctuary city, and we've always managed those who wanted to come to New York City to pursue the American dream. | ||
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But now, you know, people see Trendera Agua in Times Square. | |
| They see gang members and criminals who are getting arrested and getting released, put back out on the street. | ||
| $6.6 billion on migrants in New York City. | ||
| People complain that the city is dirty. | ||
| What do you say to those who say that your turn on this and you're sitting down with Tom Holman last week and talking about making us safe for New York came too late? | ||
| Well, this is why this is so important, to be able to not have a bumper sticker understanding of a policy and a person's belief, but engaging in real conversations, which we don't do that much often anymore. | ||
| Sanctuary City is totally different from a man-made crisis that we saw. | ||
| This is what Sanctuary City states. | ||
| If you're in this city and you are paying taxes, you buy a loaf of bread, you pay taxes, those are your tax dollars. | ||
| You have a right to the services of the city. | ||
| You have a right to the police officers. | ||
| You should not be fearful to put your children in school and get health care. | ||
| That's what a sanctuary city is. | ||
| What a sanctuary city is not is having an unsecure border and allowing gang members to come in, paroling people into the country where you're telling them you can't work for six months or a year and you have to be dependent on the local cities to take care of you. | ||
| Alright, so I would leave it to you guys what his intentions are, right? | ||
| We started at the top of the show, like, how do you know what someone's intentions are? | ||
| How do you know what actually is deeply in their mind? | ||
| I can only analyze what he's saying there. | ||
| I would say, largely, the bumper sticker for him would be, well, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. | ||
| So if we're giving him the best version of it, his intentions were good. | ||
| There were some illegals here. | ||
| And they are here whether we kind of like it or not, and thus we are a sanctuary city, so if they pay taxes, then they should get some services. | ||
| That would be like the best version of it. | ||
| But I would say that the reason that the road to hell is paved with good intentions is that your good intentions then led to a situation where Democrats were voting for people who were opening up that border To send people to your city to basically have your services collapse and bring in the Venezuelan gangs and the rapists and the fentanyl and everything else. | ||
| So whether his intentions were good or not is largely irrelevant. | ||
| If he's truly going through the, boy, I kind of screwed some of this up and now I'm going to evolve properly and I sense it's going in that direction with him, then I think we can work with that. | ||
| One of the people who is not evolving properly and who is really, you know, when you have the long list of just like the worst Democrats around is New York Mayor Kathy Hochul, who was unbelievably horrible during COVID. She's just allowed criminality across the state. | ||
| New York itself, not just New York City, New York has a massive budget problem and everything else. | ||
| She was at a press conference yesterday and check out this question and her, I don't know, I guess we'd say lack of answers. | ||
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I say a lot of things with statistics, and I see the percentage that a crime is down 42% since 2021. But if you look back to pre-pandemic, and I know you like to say that overall crime is down 12% since the pandemic, but murders are up 200%, felony assault is up 55%, and burglary is up 140%. | |
| So are you saying that this is progress? | ||
| Are you talking about statewide, city, or subway? | ||
| Oh, no, no, crime in the transit system. | ||
| I'm sorry, Governor. | ||
| Yes, crime in the subway system. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| - You wanna answer that? - Congratulations, lady. | ||
| Like, I don't know how you got reelected. | ||
| Well, I guess I do. | ||
| The machine in the mainstream media still confuses a certain amount of people. | ||
| 450,000 decent people fled your state and everything else. | ||
| But I would just say good luck. | ||
| Good luck to New York. | ||
| I think New York largely will start turning in the right direction because there'll be a Trump Guys, let's talk about Ledger for a moment, And then I believe we have a picture of the village people coming up right after that. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| More important than anything we've talked about on this show in this omnibus spending bill and the end of DEI and all that, I believe we have a picture of the village people here. | ||
| Those are the village people, so it looks like you have sort of like a cowboy and a construction worker and an Indian and a cop, and what would you call that guy? | ||
| He's a biker and what appears to be like a sort of, looks like one of the guys from Bananas when Woody Allen was in Bananas. | ||
| Apparently, I'm being told by Connor right now that the only straight guy in this entire group, you're saying was the black guy, but there are two black guys there. | ||
| Which one? | ||
| The cop. | ||
| The cop was the only straight guy. | ||
| Now, of course, the village people sang YMCA, which is now the theme song, really, of the country. | ||
| And if you really listen to the words, I always think, has Donald Trump listened to the words? | ||
| But anyway, putting all of that aside, there is no firefighter. | ||
| There's no firefighter in the village people. | ||
| Okay, see you next year! | ||
| All right, let's get to a RubinReport.Locals.com community Q&A. Here we go. | ||
| Dave Dinsmore. | ||
| Was there anyone you immediately thought of when Trump was declared winner of the election? | ||
| For me, it was my dad and Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| Both must be looking down and smiling. | ||
| It really is the most incredible comeback of our lifetime. | ||
| You know, I don't know that there was anyone specific, but we did that seven hour live stream and we had 20 some odd guests. | ||
| I mean, I think we had the most star studded fun election night coverage. | ||
| It's one of the things I'm most proud of professionally all year. | ||
| It was just such an absolute blast. | ||
| We had over a million views on the thing. | ||
| It was just great. | ||
| But really more than anything else, when it was finally declared, you know, I had Ben Shapiro on at about 1230 AM and it was not declared yet, but Ben was saying, it's over, it's over, it's over. | ||
| And I just, because I have so little faith in the system and the machine and all that stuff, I was just like, until it said across the board, Yes, for hours we were like, oh, this is looking good and looking good and looking good. | ||
| But I was like, oh, pipe burst, Pennsylvania. | ||
| Like, what the hell is going to be the thing? | ||
| So more than anything else, it's not that I thought of anyone. | ||
| I just had such absolute relief. | ||
| It was relief. | ||
| And also having... | ||
| Sat in the chair basically for seven hours and interviewed all the people and we were playing video games and all this stuff. | ||
| It was like an adrenaline rush and everything else. | ||
| So when it finally came across, it was this massive relief. | ||
| And then we ended the show pretty quickly after that. | ||
| I was like, okay, I don't need a concession speech tonight from her. | ||
| I don't need the acceptance speech from him tonight or anything else. | ||
| I'm going to bed and we'll pick this up tomorrow. | ||
| But it was an incredible night. | ||
| And I think... | ||
| All of us will remember, you know, there's weird seminal moments, sometimes great ones and sometimes horrible ones where you always remember where you were when it happened. | ||
| Like, I'll never forget when my phone rang in my tiny little apartment on 90th and 1st, my little Nokia cell phone that I had just gotten, black and white phone, the morning of 9-11 in New York City when my dad called me and he was also in the city saying what happened. | ||
| That one tower, one plane had hit a tower and then a minute later another one hit. | ||
| I think we'll all remember where we were when Trump was elected president because it is the restoration of America and it's coming and it's here and we gotta strengthen it and run with it and it's gonna be a great year coming up. | ||
| Wanzel says, Mr. Rubin, if President Biden is not competent to stand trial for his confidential papers trial, how can we overturn his spending and pardons? | ||
| You know, it's an interesting question because... | ||
| Well, first off, I don't think they're not going to put him up for trial. | ||
| No matter what Donald Trump, and they make everybody fearful of everything. | ||
| Donald Trump is going to sick the Department of Justice on everybody. | ||
| I don't think they're going to do a lot of that, actually. | ||
| Even though it was the Biden Department of Justice that was going after Trump. | ||
| I actually don't think that that's what most people want. | ||
| Do I think we should be looking into all of the things that happened at HHS? And NIH and everything else and figure out which bureaucratic, which leaders of the bureaucracy were doing terrible things like Anthony Fauci. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Now, is it good to throw Fauci in jail or is it good to throw Biden in jail? | ||
| You can't start going after presidents like that because once you do... | ||
| One party will do it, then things are cyclical, and then the next party will do it, and you'll end up in a banana republic where no one will ever want to run for president, no one ever will want to do anything that's remotely controversial or even interesting in any way. | ||
| It'll just all be in service of the machine because that way it's your way of making sure the machine doesn't turn on you. | ||
| Now, as for the people who say forced injections on people, Who forced them to make medical decisions they didn't want, who locked them in their home, who caused businesses to close. | ||
| I think you could start looking at some of that. | ||
| I don't know that throwing people in jail is exactly right, but firing a whole bunch of people, which is on the way for sure, yeah, I think you could do that. | ||
| Drunquist says, my family and I are coming to Miami the week of January 5th for vacation. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| What restaurant would you recommend we go to while we're there? | ||
| Must have non-seafood options, as my wife and daughter unfortunately won't eat that. | ||
| Also, just watch Piers Morgan's latest and the way you handled it. | ||
| Cenk was beautiful. | ||
| Thank you for that. | ||
| My favorite spot in Miami right now is in Coconut Grove. | ||
| It's called Coco, K-O-K-O. And it's a Mexican joint. | ||
| They've got about three or 400 tequilas. | ||
| And the vibe is great. | ||
| The aesthetic is great. | ||
| I went there a couple of days ago with some friends. | ||
| They've got big tomahawks if you want something a little more traditional, but if you like Mexican, the tacos are great. | ||
| The guac is great. | ||
| And it's just, and it's always packed and it's fun. | ||
| So try that, but walk around. | ||
| Coconut Grove is like one of the most underrated areas. | ||
| Uh, of all of, maybe all of the country. | ||
| It's safe and it's clean. | ||
| It's fully walkable. | ||
| There's, there's a great, what's the Greek restaurant over there called? | ||
| Meraka? | ||
| Meraki. | ||
| Meraki. | ||
| Uh, there's a Greek restaurant that's over there. | ||
| There's tons of great stuff. | ||
| There's a, what's the Italian place in the... | ||
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They won't like it because it's seafood, but it's Porte di Mare. | |
| What is it? | ||
| Sapate di Mare. | ||
| Sapate di Mare? | ||
| I might be saying that slightly wrong, although that one's seafood. | ||
| But there's just great restaurants there and the vibe is great. | ||
| And again, it's like safe and clean and just really, really, really nice. | ||
| Oh, and speaking of tequila, we posted for the locals, people. | ||
| I'm not gonna put it on YouTube and I'm not putting it on Twitter or anywhere else. | ||
| Our tequila is coming out of the barrels today. | ||
| Today. | ||
| I posted a video of it. | ||
| It's being put in the bottles today. | ||
| I'm super psyched. | ||
| It will be for sale, I think, first week of January. | ||
| We're going to have special deals for the locals members. | ||
| We're going to sign some things and a whole bunch more, but it's going into the bottles today. | ||
| I saw it on the assembly line and their hand doing the caps, and I'm incredibly excited to share that with you guys soon. | ||
| Curtis says, Dave, with the recent changes due to the November election results, do you think that it's time to push harder for the convention of states to offer new amendments to the Constitution? | ||
| Have you been involved in any movement to encourage this? | ||
| So the Convention of States, so it's an Article 5 Convention of States. | ||
| Just give me, we wrote out a little something here because I wanted to explain it to you sort of just right. | ||
| It's basically the ultimate constitutional tool given to us by the founders to empower us to hold the government accountable. | ||
| The process has numerous safeguards to prevent its misuse and enjoys overwhelming support from the American people. | ||
| Okay, so that's from the Convention of States website. | ||
| But the idea basically is that if the government gets too big, that the states can come together And start figuring out how to reorder things, how to scale everything back. | ||
| That's like the most simple explanation that I can give you. | ||
| I have had a little bit to do with the conventions of states. | ||
| PragerU did a video on convention of states that you should check out if you really want to know a bit more about it granularly. | ||
| I would say actually at the moment, Because of this incoming administration, because of Doge, because of the level of competency that seemingly is about to be ushered in, I don't know that we need to be dealing with the Convention of States right now. | ||
| Had Kamala won, and the federal government would have been growing and growing and growing and growing. | ||
| Then would it be more important for several states to come together and say, okay, maybe we need to deal with some of these issues ourselves and separate us from this nonsense? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We're not in that situation at the moment, so I would say pause on it for a moment, but do check out the Convention of States video on PragerU, and I guess the proof will be in the pudding once Trump's in office. | ||
| Lynn says, do you like candles or electric for your menorah? | ||
| I'm still old-fashioned and still do candles. | ||
| Do you also find it's some sort of spiritual sign that the first day of Hanukkah and Christmas fall on the same day this year? | ||
| Oh yeah, well I referenced that up top. | ||
| I absolutely love that. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| You know, growing up, My two best friends, one of them was Italian, one of them was Greek, so they would come to my house and light candles with us. | ||
| We would go to my buddy John's house, and we'd put ornaments on the Christmas tree, and then we would go to my buddy Ari, who's Greek, and they'd do Greek Easter and Greek Christmas. | ||
| We shared all of those things. | ||
| I love the fact that it's falling. | ||
| Sometimes Hanukkah falls like three weeks before, but it's nice when the bulk of us Can all celebrate holidays together. | ||
| And there's definitely a spiritual connection that I think we'll all feel because of that. | ||
| So I think that's absolutely great. | ||
| And yes, we do actual candles. | ||
| The menorah we have, I got when I was in Jerusalem. | ||
| We have a few of them, but the one that we use now, I got when we were in Jerusalem on the last trip to Israel. | ||
| And you'll see in the Hanukkah video that we're gonna put up on the 24th, because the 24th is the first night of Hanukkah, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| You'll see in the video that we put up, you know, it's so interesting. | ||
| The story of Hanukkah is the story of the Jews, the Maccabees, defending the Judean hills from the Greek invaders. | ||
| The Judean hills are what we now call the West Bank, where AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar want zero Jews to live. | ||
| But literally every Jew on earth celebrates Hanukkah. | ||
| Most people understand Hanukkah. | ||
| It's a historical event. | ||
| It's not just some magical thing. | ||
| And the Jews have a little something to do with it. | ||
| So AOC is going to send out a tweet saying, happy Hanukkah. | ||
| And it's like, you bitch, you have no idea what you're talking about. | ||
| And I don't accept your happy Hanukkah. | ||
| Talwe says, Dave, after your appearance on Piers Morgan, do you think the vitriol drank shot at you was real, or do you think that maybe he's afraid of changing, maybe he's afraid his positions are changing, he's coming more to our side, and he's afraid of what that might mean for him and the Young Turks? | ||
| You know, I mentioned I'm not going to talk about him anymore, but just to deal with the question... | ||
| No one is that hysterical and over-the-top and angry and everything else. | ||
| I would say he's like a crisis actor. | ||
| He's just like a crazy... | ||
| You know, one thing when I used to be on camera with him is that we'd be doing the show, and I'd be co-hosting the show, and he'd be screaming, literally throwing papers, and he sweats like an out-of-control meth addict, and he'd be spitting all over the place and screaming, and then they would cut to break, and he'd be completely fine. | ||
| He'd be like, are we playing ball tomorrow, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And then they'd be like, we're live in five, four, and then... | ||
| So it's all fake. | ||
| Again, I don't know what's in his heart. | ||
| I don't really care. | ||
| They've become largely irrelevant. | ||
| They ushered in a lot of this madness. | ||
| He sees the madness going away, and he has to figure out a new thing. | ||
| But I don't need to play the game that he's playing with me. | ||
| So hopefully that now can officially be the last time I ever mention it. | ||
| I'll fight you naked. | ||
| It says, Dave, do you think you could suggest visiting press secretaries on slow news weeks? | ||
| Oh, that's interesting. | ||
| The American people need to see Michael Malice take questions from the enemies of the people while dressed up like Corinne Jean-Pierre in one of those tacky zoo suits and, yes, in blackface. | ||
| That's actually not a bad idea. | ||
| So the White House press secretary is going to be Carolyn Levitt, who I think is going to be excellent. | ||
| I think she's going to definitely do a really fine job, and she seems hyper-competent and ready to roll. | ||
| But, you know, they do bring in people, right? | ||
| Corinne Jean-Pierre used to sub in for Saki before she took the job. | ||
| That would be kind of like... | ||
| If I got the call, if they were like, Dave, you know, it's a Friday... | ||
| And Carolyn's not there. | ||
| Would you handle some of the questions? | ||
| Like, I would love to do that and play with the media and whatever. | ||
| Like, that would be fun. | ||
| I don't think that's that out of the question. | ||
| Malice and blackface, that might be pushing it, but you know, the culture is changing, so who knows? | ||
| But wouldn't that be something if just like every now and again, and that's not out of Trump's... | ||
| That's not out of the toolkit. | ||
| Just like, I'm gonna just start bringing in all these crazy people and let's just see what happens. | ||
| You know, it's a bit of a show. | ||
| It is, whether you like it or not. | ||
| Maybe, maybe. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Vinay says, the UK seems to be going down the drain. | ||
| Can we make our Keir Starmer the next US governor after Trudeau to make it the 52nd state of the USA? So, of course, this is the joke that Trump has been putting out on Truth Social, that, you know, Trudeau came, he kissed the ring, and now suddenly Trudeau has a whole bunch of problems because Trump was basically like, we're not going to have this discrepancy when it comes to trade. | ||
| Why are we getting screwed by cash? | ||
| Canada, of all countries, to the tune of billions of dollars. | ||
| Also, you guys aren't protecting the border properly. | ||
| Now Trudeau, because he's surrounded himself with a bunch of left-wing nutbags, his whole government could collapse at any day now. | ||
| So Trump is basically like, all right, if Canada's not gonna work with us, why don't we make him the 51st state and then we'll figure out how to work with him? | ||
| Of course, it's a joke. | ||
| It's a joke, but it's also, there's a truth to the joke. | ||
| That's what makes a good joke, which is, okay, you guys wanna be pretty damn You're pretty damn close to us geographically, right? | ||
| We're connected, we got a long border, but you wanna be close to us sort of culturally and economically and everything else. | ||
| Well, you better start behaving more in line with our values now rather than just taking advantage of us. | ||
| And I would say, you know, as it pertains to Keir Starmer, who's in a hell of a lot of trouble and rightfully so, I mean, he's been absolutely awful for the UK and the UK is getting prime ministers like faster than anything these days. | ||
| I would say a lot of things will change just because Trump is in office, period. | ||
| Most leaders who aren't completely crazy leftist windbags will see the seas, will see the tides shifting, right? | ||
| And then they'll start getting some of the wind. | ||
| So as, let's put it this way, as the American economy gets better, as our interest rates go down, as inflation goes down, as you start seeing things loosen up, Things start loosening up when it starts here, and then they'll start loosening up across the country. | ||
| And then you just might see a couple people start doing some sane things. | ||
| So that actually might bring Keir Starmer back to the center, let's say. | ||
| But either way, the guy's got to go. | ||
| I mean, he's basically a socialist and has been absolutely awful. | ||
| Meme Machine says, Dave, do you get nervous before an appearance other than your show? | ||
| No, it's weird. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| I've always felt like this is what I'm supposed to do. | ||
| And when you're doing what you're supposed to do, if you know what you're doing, like even with that thing that you saw before, it's like I'm being yelled at and someone's saying horrible things. | ||
| At no point was I nervous or my pulse changed or anything else. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| It's just all part of it. | ||
| When I've performed in front of thousands of people with Jordan or something, I always think, and I used to, when we were on the tour together, I often would take a picture of the mic right before I'd go on stage and then I'd write something about how words are more important than the sword, something like that. | ||
| The pen is mightier than the sword. | ||
| The mic is mightier than the sword. | ||
| To me, if you're the one with the mic, wow, what incredible power that is. | ||
| So I never do. | ||
| I go on all sorts of shows. | ||
| That doesn't mean I enjoy every moment. | ||
| You know, someone I'll be like, you know, you're asking me some sort of ridiculous question or I might be a little more tired one day or something like that. | ||
| But I just don't get nervous doing stand-up or... | ||
| It's what I'm supposed to be doing. | ||
| I'm not comparing myself to Michael Jordan, but if you took an athlete who really cares about what he does and does the proper prep and everything else, I don't think most of them get nervous. | ||
| Everyone's wired a little bit differently. | ||
| But if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, then... | ||
| I think you actually have like a physiological reaction to that. | ||
| Ralph says, hey Dave, have you ever considered Benke for your kids? | ||
| I hooked one of my left of center friends on it. | ||
| Now he's been red-pilled and listens to Ben Shapiro. | ||
| I'm pretty sure he even voted for Trump slash Republican this time around. | ||
| The power of good children programming. | ||
| Who would have thought? | ||
| So Bent Key is the child vertical for the Daily Wire. | ||
| So they have a bunch of cartoons and other kids programming. | ||
| We haven't gone that route yet because we're doing so little television with the kids. | ||
| As I mentioned yesterday, they're watching this show Frog and Toad on Apple TV. It's the most pleasant. | ||
| It's about a frog and a toad. | ||
| And you call the frog Frog. | ||
| He doesn't have a name. | ||
| His name's Frog and the toad's name is Toad and the squirrel's name is Squirrel and I think the bird's name is Bird. | ||
| And the gopher's gopher. | ||
| It's very simple to understand. | ||
| And they go on these very simple adventures. | ||
| It's like they go on a picnic one day or they're playing music one day. | ||
| It's not fast. | ||
| There isn't flashing. | ||
| You know, a trans wackadoodle doesn't show up in the middle of the thing. | ||
| And we do very, very little of it. | ||
| Sometimes in the morning when I'm with the kids, if I'm going through the show and I'm sitting with them for breakfast, I'll put it on just so that they're not jumping on me as I'm trying to make sure I know what I'm doing. | ||
| But we really don't do much of that. | ||
| But I've heard great things about Ben Key. | ||
| I know PragerU is also doing some kid programming and I know some of the people behind it that is supposed to be quite good. | ||
| So look, we can only keep them off tech for so long. | ||
| We don't do iPads with them or phones or anything else. | ||
| But as time goes on, I'm sure we'll incorporate some of that. | ||
| But it really is a challenge, because every now and again, there's been a moment where I've put on kids' YouTube for them, and it starts with something that you think is kind of like, Just nondescript, like it'll start with something like Bluey is the other thing that we let them watch, which is really just kind of simple, pleasant show. | ||
| And then once it hits autoplay, it suddenly starts putting you into these wacky things where they just show squishy things with crazy colors and ding-dongs and sounds and all this stuff. | ||
| And you're like, man, you are assaulting these kids' brains. | ||
| So you really do have to pay attention to what you're showing your kids. | ||
| Kolo Rowe says, what is your opinion on data brokering? | ||
| Should it be illegal? | ||
| I'm of the opinion that it should as it undermines capitalism and the corporations should, as in the old days, compete for our attention and business. | ||
| You know, that's interesting. | ||
| Oh, sorry, there's a little bit more. | ||
| Also, the saying that Google, Facebook, et cetera, aren't the product we are, says that people are like cattle to these big companies, pretty dark ass. | ||
| So, yeah, basically what you're talking about is, you know, when they, all these sites, you go on a site, and it, you know, it gets some metadata from your email, like your email address or your location or whatever it is, and they can collect all this information about you, and then they can sell that information to another company, sort of like, you know, you go on, say, Facebook page, And, you know, your friend in the comments section mentioned something about an umbrella and next thing you know you're scrolling on Instagram and all of your ads are about umbrella. | ||
| In some ways these things know us more than we know ourselves. | ||
| And that they can sell that across, you know, Facebook and Instagram are linked, you know, they're owned by the same parent company Meta. | ||
| But you can sell, they could sell that to another third party and another third party and everything else. | ||
| And you're right, in some sense it undermines capitalism because Because you're not really competing for attention anymore. | ||
| Attention is just being sold. | ||
| Eyeballs are being sold. | ||
| On the other hand, the selling of it is capitalism. | ||
| But I would largely say that in some sense right now, as the internet operates right now, there's really no way around it. | ||
| We have given up, all of us, myself included. | ||
| If you're on Gmail and you're on Twitter and you're on all these things, you are being data mined. | ||
| You just are. | ||
| And it is being sold. | ||
| I think as time goes on, I think we're going to start to see some Anti-technology movements, people escape a little bit from these things. | ||
| I don't think social media, who knows what the future will fully be like if they drag us to the metaverse and everything else. | ||
| But I think people, we've been novices for 20 years as we built the internet and entered this digital space. | ||
| And I think people will take back some of their data and some of the ownership of themselves because you're right, they end up owning you. | ||
| We're giving this to you for free. | ||
| Well, nothing's free. | ||
| Nothing's free. | ||
| Shelly says, Dave, first, thank you for your incredible education that was focused on daily events. | ||
| The sit-down interviews that you conduct were terrific. | ||
| Which one of the sit-down interviews were your favorite for 2024? | ||
| Well, thank you for that. | ||
| You know, I truly, and maybe this is the one because it's top of mind right now, but the best interview that I did this entire year I'll ask these guys their opinion too. | ||
| A couple days ago, we went to Tony Robbins' house in West Palm Beach and we shot it at his house. | ||
| And I mentioned that we had the Rubin Report party on... | ||
| Saturday, and I was a little banged up. | ||
| I was losing my voice. | ||
| There was just a lot of good times, and we went until 4 a.m. | ||
| I was still just feeling a little banged up. | ||
| We sat down with this guy, and Tony Robbins is so energetic. | ||
| He is so positive. | ||
| He is so full of life and passionate. | ||
| I said, literally, you'll see the interview, we're going to put it up on, we're going to do it on the Thursday we come back. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| January 2nd, I think, right? | ||
| That'll be January, is it the 4th? | ||
| We're putting it up on the Thursday of the New Year. | ||
| But anyway, wait, not Thursday of the New Year. | ||
| It's not January 1st. | ||
| I think it's going to be the 2nd, in any event. | ||
| That literally, halfway through the interview, I was like, Tony, I'm actually warm right now. | ||
| I was literally having a physical reaction to the amount of energy and positivity that he has. | ||
| And we talk about that, that you have physical, physiological reactions to things. | ||
| It's sort of what I said about not being nervous with things. | ||
| Like some people get real jazzed up about something. | ||
| Start having a physical reaction. | ||
| You start sweating. | ||
| You start getting nervous. | ||
| Your mouth gets dry. | ||
| It was just, and it was just great because we go, we just talked. | ||
| It wasn't really about politics. | ||
| It was like, what is your role? | ||
| It was much more Jordan Peterson-like. | ||
| It was just like, what is your role in this world? | ||
| And do you have an ability to change things? | ||
| And the hope that so many people are feeling and how you can take advantage of that and so much more. | ||
| So yes, that will be a first thing in the new year. | ||
| And I think you're really, really going to dig it. | ||
| Elizabeth says, how do you feel about New Year's resolutions? | ||
| You know... | ||
| It's funny, everyone always makes like some kind of thin New Year's resolution, you know, something, I'm gonna eat better, I'm gonna drink less, I'm gonna end a relationship or something like that. | ||
| My New Year's resolution last year really was to just get in better shape one way or another. | ||
| Not that I was in bad shape a year ago, but I really am in the best shape of my life right now. | ||
| And even despite the last couple weeks where, as I keep saying, like, just people lose it between Thanksgiving and Christmas. | ||
| But I really, I started largely doing the carnivore, which I've been doing a little bit longer than that, but making sure that I exercise pretty much every day. | ||
| I play basketball a couple times a week. | ||
| Today, I'm going at four o'clock, I'm getting PRP. That's when they take your blood, they spin it in a centrifuge. | ||
| And they inject it back in you. | ||
| My shoulder's been bothering me from lifting and playing basketball so much. | ||
| I was playing last night and I was like, man, I can't shoot right now. | ||
| And they put that in you and it helps regenerate some things. | ||
| I'm doing that also for my knee today. | ||
| And then just being out there with the kids. | ||
| I want to make sure that, you know, I became a dad at 46. I'm 48 now. | ||
| I want to be able to be able to run around and do all those things when I'm 65, 70 and beyond that. | ||
| So I think I did hold to it this year pretty well. | ||
| I would say my resolution mainly for next year is I feel so good about everything we did here. | ||
| I feel like my life kind of really gelled this year and that next year I think we can scale this in many, many ways. | ||
| We have a couple of projects that I've been sitting on that are about to come to fruition that we'll announce at the beginning of the year and some other new business ventures and some other things and then just try to be the best dad I can be and husband and all that other stuff. | ||
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Guys, that is... | |
| The end of the year? | ||
| What a... | ||
| Did I just see a little tear pop out of your eye? | ||
| This is our last show for the year. | ||
| I really want to thank everybody for... | ||
| And this show feels like a sort of perfect ending to the year, too. | ||
| For really just an absolutely incredible year. | ||
| We're gonna put up some numbers on social media at the end of December that'll illustrate what happened with the show this year. | ||
| But I've been doing this for a long time. | ||
| Like, I meet young YouTubers. | ||
| Who are always like, oh, Dave, you're like one of the OGs, like I was one of the originals in this thing. | ||
| And I've had success in this thing for a long, long time, I guess at this point. | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| And this was by far our most successful year, not just because of the numbers, but because the ideas that we talk about on this show literally became the ideas that changed the culture and I think changed the course of the election and the country and the world. | ||
| And I think We all, and I don't mean that about me, I mean you and everyone here, we all had a little something to do with it by waking up our friends, by sharing videos, by talking about these things. | ||
| I know some of our data guys getting us some numbers that I said we'll put up at the end of the year, but I think we're gonna close this year with over 800 million views this year alone on YouTube. | ||
| That's not including Rumble, that's not including Spotify. | ||
| 800 million! | ||
| Million! | ||
| Our numbers, we were up over 100% in virtually every category you could be in. | ||
| And I think there's a lot of reasons for that. | ||
| And a lot of it has to do with the people that I sit here with every single day. | ||
| And a lot of it obviously has to do with you guys. | ||
| But it's been an unbelievably rewarding year. | ||
| I am looking forward to shutting down for a little bit. | ||
| We're spending some time. | ||
| My folks are coming. | ||
| And then my brother's coming down from Florida, my sister, we're all getting together and spending a couple days together. | ||
| And I hope that that's what you guys will do too. | ||
| And I hope that you feel that watching this show every day is not just like the screaming in your ear and making you angrier and feel worse about everything, That it gives you a little something that you can be like, oh, maybe I learned a little something or I laughed about something, or I found out that there was no firefighter in the village people, which I'm still shocked about. | ||
| So I really, I thank you guys. | ||
| It has been just a wonderful year. | ||
| As I said, we'll have plenty of content coming out, including the story of Hanukkah, the story of Christmas, a yearly recap, and a bunch more tomorrow at 11 a.m. | ||
| We taped an interview with tech guru, co-founder of Palantir, Joe Ronsdale. | ||
| Super, super interesting. | ||
| More about tech and the changing world than politics specifically. | ||
| I think you'll dig that. | ||
| As I said, the first interview back is Tony Robbins. | ||
| The Tequila comes out, I think, first week in January, which is going to be awesome. | ||
| And I can finally tell you the name and we can... | ||
| Maybe we'll do Tequila Tuesdays or something. | ||
| So I thank this guy. | ||
| I thank this guy. | ||
| I thank this young lady. | ||
| I thank the two guys back there. | ||
| Are we going to feed them today? | ||
| We're going to feed them today. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Let's give them a little something today. | ||
| And mostly I thank you guys. | ||
| So that's all. | ||
| Oh, post-game show. | ||
| You thought you could get rid of me, but not just yet. | ||
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