Feb. 6, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Where the hell is this damn audition? | |
| They said, Hollywood. | ||
| Well, I'm here in Hollywood. | ||
| What did the puppets say to the kid? | ||
| I'm here in Hollywood, baby. | ||
| Look at this cool trick I can do that I learned from Hollywood. | ||
| I'm going to be the best puppet master in all Hollywood. | ||
| You just wait and see. | ||
| I'm going to have a big career here. | ||
| This is not hyperbole. | ||
| Well, anyway. | ||
| All right, people. | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report on February 6, 2025. We are on your electronic devices, live streaming via Rumble, YouTube, and Locals. | ||
| We are doing a community Q&A today, rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| Many of you got your questions in. | ||
| I like the diverse, in the best sense of the word diverse, set of questions that we've got, and for reasons that I cannot... | ||
| This is a pre-taped program, so there will be no post-game show today. | ||
| If I was to explain to you what was going on, it would be so mind-blowing, so absolutely jarring, your head would explode. | ||
| And it's like, we don't want that. | ||
| So we're doing a little bit of catch up on some of the stories of the week and then second half community Q&A. | ||
| And let's just dive right into it. | ||
| Bill Gates. | ||
| We talk often a lot these days about the billionaire class, and we've got some good ones that are involved in our government right now, right? | ||
| This Elon Musk fella, I don't know if you've heard about him, and we've got David Sachs, and now there's a whole bunch of other people that are involved. | ||
| Howard Lutnick, who's People that know how to build things, that have successfully spawned off businesses and VCs and much more, that are now helping the government become more efficient, run things better, modernize, etc., etc. | ||
| Well, Bill Gates has been around for a couple decades, and it's a little unclear to me if he's brought good things to the world or not. | ||
| We know that he's been highly involved in vaccining a lot of people and warning about pandemics and talking about viruses. | ||
| And he's sort of pudgy and kind of comes off as evil. | ||
| Well, he was making the rounds on the media over the last couple of days because he's been getting a lot of bad press because people think he's kind of not a great guy at this point. | ||
| He went over to The View to talk to the Harpies about the next pandemic, and he seemingly knows when it's going to happen. | ||
| So that seems a little odd to me. | ||
| Before COVID, you say you spent the most sleepless nights worrying about pandemics. | ||
| After COVID, has that changed? | ||
| And if it has, what keeps you up now? | ||
| Because we all need to know. | ||
| Yeah, the pandemic, sadly, was fairly predictable. | ||
| And it won't be the last pandemic. | ||
| The next one could be far more severe. | ||
| I mean, this one, it killed millions. | ||
| It was awful. | ||
| We got the vaccine. | ||
| Actually, President Trump's leadership was... | ||
| Factor in getting that out quickly. | ||
| And so when I spoke to him, I said, OK, here's some other medical innovations, including a thing called an HIV cure that could be accelerated. | ||
| So, you know, we should be more prepared, both for a pandemic. | ||
| I'd say that's still number one. | ||
| I was reading, though, that you said the next pandemic you are predicting within maybe 25 years. | ||
| Oh, certainly we'll have one in the next 25 years. | ||
| You know, there's even some pathogens out there that we're watching over right now. | ||
| So maybe 10% chance in the next four years. | ||
| I don't like this guy. | ||
| I don't like his pudgy body. | ||
| I don't like his sweaters. | ||
| I don't like anyone. | ||
| That sits like this the entire time. | ||
| There's something about the posture and it's like you got all that money and you're sitting like this and he like sort of can't make eye contact with anyone. | ||
| Yes, it's very brave that you can predict there'll be a pandemic in the next 25 years. | ||
| Bill Gates, that is very impressive. | ||
| Also, he's still impressed that Trump pushed through warp speed, even though the vaccine was not a vaccine. | ||
| I don't know if you've heard this before, but the COVID vaccine did not stop you from getting nor transmitting. | ||
| Thus, it was not a vaccine in any estimation how we used to know the definition of the word vaccine. | ||
| Also, he's very concerned that the next one could be severe. | ||
| It could be more severe. | ||
| Well, it could also be less severe. | ||
| It also may be, maybe, I don't know, call me crazy, but maybe we don't have to, I don't know, fund through a shady government organization, mRNA technology and combine bat stuff and gain a function and do all that over in China and then have it come back here. | ||
| Maybe we could not do some of that stuff. | ||
| I also do think it's kind of interesting that they bring on Bill Gates to always talk about viruses, right? | ||
| He's always on these things to talk about. | ||
| And he talks to Donald Trump about viruses, and he's very concerned about viruses. | ||
| Because interestingly, what Bill Gates is known for, more than anything else, is that he created the Windows operating system on the original PCs. | ||
| You know, back in the 80s, it was all kind of DOS and text-based. | ||
| I'm really aging myself right now. | ||
| And it was literally, you would just type things, and then you'd get typed stuff back. | ||
| He created Windows, and then you had a visual interface with a mouse, and you could do paint. | ||
| You pretty much could just do paint. | ||
| Was there anything else on there? | ||
| It was paint and mindset. | ||
| But it was very exciting. | ||
| He made billions off it, ended up getting in an antitrust lawsuit with the government or whatever. | ||
| But the thing that sort of took Windows down, even though I guess it does exist to some extent now, is that it was just filled with viruses. | ||
| The man who is... | ||
| Pretending or trying or attempting to stop viruses in your body, his operating software that became ubiquitous throughout PC computers, it was demolished by viruses. | ||
| I think we've got a video. | ||
| This is what you used to see on your computer all the time back in the day. | ||
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That's what it was like if you grew up back then. | |
| But look, that's the thing. | ||
| Obviously, that's a little over the top, but isn't it a little odd that the man who created an operating software that got overtaken by viruses, and really that's why the Mac then came into being, because the Mac was not susceptible to viruses the way the PCs were. | ||
| Now he's worried about viruses getting in your body. | ||
| Something is rotten in Stinktown, and it ain't the cheese. | ||
| Sunny Hostin, love that lady. | ||
| Here she is. | ||
| She tries to get Gates to go after RFK and Elon. | ||
| Well, your Gates Foundation is the biggest funder of vaccines in the world. | ||
| I think a lot of people don't recognize that. | ||
| And it was key to developing the COVID vaccine. | ||
| That has made you, unfortunately, a target of all kinds of baseless conspiracies, including from RFK Jr., who apparently does have a worm in his brain. | ||
| And he now claims he is not anti-vax. | ||
| Do you believe him? | ||
| Well, we'll do our best to work with him. | ||
| Under his management is going to be the FDA, which is a fantastic regulator. | ||
| Passing judgment on a lot of the new innovations we're funding. | ||
| NIH does fantastic research. | ||
| And so those have been partners of our foundation. | ||
| And, you know, I hope the great scientists there get the support they deserve. | ||
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Well, and you, Mr. Gates, you also called Elon Musk's political influence abroad, quote, insane, along with another word we can't repeat here. | |
| But what's your take on his political access and influence here in America right now? | ||
| Well, Elon, his private sector work, you know, has been very innovative, really fantastic. | ||
| A lot of private sector people, when they get into government, they don't take the time necessarily to see what the good work is or why it's structured the way it is. | ||
| So I'm a little worried, particularly with this USAID stuff. | ||
| We'll have more on that in just a second. | ||
| Everything about this guy and the way they pay deference to Mr. Gates. | ||
| Oh, you have more vaccines out there than anyone. | ||
| Okay, are they killing people? | ||
| Are there side effects? | ||
| Do people even need them? | ||
| He's getting awfully rich on it. | ||
| And also, he's suddenly concerned about Elon. | ||
| Elon's done good stuff. | ||
| Private sector. | ||
| But, you know, who knows? | ||
| Once you get into the government, I mean, there's ways these things are done. | ||
| And yeah, and none of it really works. | ||
| But you can see he's trying to hedge his bets there a little bit because he knows he doesn't want to go too far on Elon because we might uncover some stuff at USAID that maybe there was some weird funding going on with some of Bill's operations. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe it was elsewhere. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But you better be a little bit careful what you say there. | ||
| And even with RFK, he wants to say more, right? | ||
| He doesn't like RFK. RFK wants us to look at vaccines, wants us to look at vaccine. | ||
| He's a skeptic, if anything, right? | ||
| He said he's not against vaccines. | ||
| That's what he said under oath. | ||
| But he's a skeptic. | ||
| And again, you're all allowed to be skeptics and you're all allowed to question the timetables on all of these things and the ages that children should be getting these things and are there connections to autism and all these things. | ||
| You're just allowed as a human being. | ||
| As a free human being with a mind and autonomy, I know they're not big fans of that, you're allowed to question these things, but you can see he doesn't really want to say anything bad about RFK now because he knows he needs the grant money and the research access and all that stuff from the NIH, etc., etc. | ||
| Now, this clip was the one that really was kind of getting me because obviously at Trump's inauguration a couple weeks ago, there were a lot of billionaires standing behind him because all of these people that have lined up, I mentioned some of them up top, that have lined up to... | ||
| To basically say, hey, we will be part of this thing and we will try to fix the government with you, right? | ||
| Well, Gates was not one of them up there and here he is on that. | ||
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Well, they had some VIP seating at the inauguration and we did notice you weren't there. | |
| What do you make of that visual? | ||
| You know, they clearly wanted to fund the inauguration. | ||
| They wanted it to be a great inauguration just for the good of the country, no doubt. | ||
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I feel good calling you Bill, Mr. Gates. | |
| Shortly before President Trump took office, you had a three-hour dinner with him. | ||
| And that's more FaceTime than, as you say, you had with Joe Biden during his presidency. | ||
| And by your account, you say that you were impressed with him. | ||
| What are you able to share about issues you discussed? | ||
| And since he's only been in office two weeks, but do you feel like what you discussed aligned with what you're seeing so far? | ||
| Well, my two priorities in talking to President Trump were the global health issues, particularly HIV and polio. | ||
| The voters have a lot to be proud of. | ||
| So there's a couple things here. | ||
| First off, I just want to say that the view, I know you know it and it's a joke and these women are hysterical and it's awful and all that stuff, but you really need to understand they look down and read every single question. | ||
| Every single part of that is prepackaged. | ||
| And producers wrote those questions. | ||
| You can see them looking down the entire time. | ||
| They basically read it word for word, all of them. | ||
| Just go back into those clips that we showed you right there. | ||
| Like, nothing of that is organic. | ||
| Nothing is someone thinking on the fly and having a proper follow-up question. | ||
| It's all paid propaganda, right? | ||
| It's a giant network that has PR people that place this billionaire, in this case, to push his ideas. | ||
| I also love the question, though. | ||
| The thing that really annoyed me was that the implication is those billionaires were We're up there. | ||
| And he's like, and I'm sure it was for the good of the country with the smile. | ||
| And they all cackle. | ||
| It's like, oh, but everything you're doing, yes, you, Bill Gates, who've become a gajillionaire with vaccines and viruses and everything else, you're doing it always for the good of the country. | ||
| But no, they can't be doing it for the good of the country. | ||
| But of course, they laugh and everything because they're on his side. | ||
| So it's prepackaged. | ||
| It's inauthentic, and it is how they launder the lies, but it is not working much more, and that is pretty sweet. | ||
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| So as we're breaking down all of this insane government spending and everything else, I saw this one yesterday and I had to read this to you because this, it's all being exposed. | ||
| You gotta love it, people. | ||
| From Ian Miles Chong on the Twitter, Elon retweeted it. | ||
| The U.S. government gave the New York Times tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| Over just the past five years, despite paying relatively little money to the New York Times in years preceding 2021. For instance, in August 2024, the US government awarded $4.1 million to the New York Times. | ||
| And what you can see on those charts there are the specific agencies and how they were giving money to the New York Times. | ||
| Now, isn't that a little bit odd? | ||
| That means that agencies who are funded by your tax dollars then gave money... | ||
| To a place of quote-unquote journalism where it's all the news that's fit to print, although it's really all the propaganda that's fit to print, to report on the government and everything else. | ||
| So you wonder, why have they lied about everything? | ||
| Because the government was funding them. | ||
| And again, this is why the Democrat politicians are all freaking out. | ||
| So Elon was correct to call it, to say the New York Times is government-funded media. | ||
| Now when I look back and I think about that. | ||
| That beautiful, beautiful front page Sunday New York Times that I have over there. | ||
| Five, it was from seven years ago or something, where they said that me and Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman and Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro were the head of the alt-right. | ||
| It's interesting that the government was funding that. | ||
| Speaking of interesting in the government, there is a woman who married her brother. | ||
| She married her brother. | ||
| She was from Somalia. | ||
| She married her Somalian brother so he could get here. | ||
| She hates America. | ||
| She loves Hamas. | ||
| She's an awful, awful human being. | ||
| And she is one of the many people that is freaking out right now that we're looking at the books. | ||
| We're looking to figure out where your dollars were spent. | ||
| And we're finding out that they were spent on trans comic books in Peru and other nonsensical places. | ||
| USAID move, and they don't want to help the Ilhan Omars or their families. | ||
| They want to help their own families. | ||
| Can you explain to those people why you think they should be interested in helping families like yours? | ||
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Well, I mean, I think what is really important for the American people to understand is that this money really amounts to less than 1% of what our budget is as a country. | |
| It is money that goes to the most vulnerable around the world. | ||
| It is already appropriated and it can't be reappropriated. | ||
| And so what we are seeing right now is Elon Musk, a billionaire who is attempting to To take away resources from the poorest people around the world. | ||
| This is someone who is not a government official. | ||
| He wasn't elected. | ||
| He's not appointed. | ||
| He holds foreign debts and foreign interests. | ||
| And so we should all look at this with cautious eyes and with curiosity to understand why he is making these decisions and why he's being allowed to make these decisions. | ||
| You know who I'm going to look at with cautious eyes, lady? | ||
| It's you. | ||
| Because not only did you commit immigration fraud when you married your brother, so you broke some laws there, but you hate this country, very obviously. | ||
| You hate our founding, and you believe that racism is there and everything else. | ||
| We'll get on in a moment to how you're currently trying to break the law. | ||
| USAID helps the most vulnerable. | ||
| That might be true in some cases, but I don't know how vulnerable the author of that trans-Peruvian comic book was. | ||
| And either way, I would prefer not to fund it. | ||
| If you, Ilhan, would like to take your personal power and influence and money to fund those things, go ahead. | ||
| But you guys get it. | ||
| It's a giant money laundering scheme. | ||
| But Ilhan has some other problems on the way for her, because not only you get why she's just awful, She's speaking in Somali, but you're going to hear her in English. | ||
| This is the brilliance of AI. And she is literally at an event in Minnesota where she is coaching Somali illegals on how not to cooperate with law enforcement. | ||
| This should kick her out of Congress immediately. | ||
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Member of Parliament Ilhan Omar, who recently spoke to the media, gave advice to people living in this country without legal status. | |
| I strongly advise Somali people and individuals that if they ever ask you something, they should really try to understand that you are absolutely not obligated to answer their questions at all. | ||
| You can simply say that it's just a little too much. | ||
| Or that you really don't have to respond to them. | ||
| Your name, your identity and the law are all part of this situation and you should be well prepared to handle it. | ||
| When you talk, make sure to prepare yourself with the laws. | ||
| If something happens, don't share information that these people don't need to know. | ||
| Okay, again, that was translated in AI, but she spoke that actually in Somali. | ||
| She's very concerned about the laws of the United States while she's telling people who broke the laws of the United States how to further evade the law. | ||
| You know, I'm fairly certain, lady, that you put your hand on the Bible, though I don't know if you used the Bible or not, I'm guessing not, and you swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America to defend the Constitution from enemies, foreign or domestic. | ||
| I think you are a domestic enemy. | ||
| But this is the Democrat Party. | ||
| By any sane standard, regardless of what your feelings are about deportations and what your feelings are about ICE and everything else, having a current sitting member of Congress literally coaching illegal people, not her citizens. | ||
| You might be able to make an argument if she was saying to her law-abiding current citizens of Minnesota, if she was saying to them, you know, if you're at a protest using free speech and the police comes up to you, here's what you're allowed to say, or something like that. | ||
| You could make some argument around that, fine. | ||
| But she is literally telling people who are not her constituents by default because they are illegals, they should not be here in the first place, she's telling them how to evade the law. | ||
| I get it that the Democrats are radical and have completely lost their minds, but they should kick her out of Congress. | ||
| And I have a suspicion she is going to get kicked out of Congress. | ||
| I think this, between this and marrying the brother, it just seems like a lot. | ||
| Like, we just need one more, and then I think we're pretty much there. | ||
| Let me just throw you one other thing that happened. | ||
| This was on Sunday night, but I wanted to get to it. | ||
| And then we'll get to the community Q&A. The Grammys happened. | ||
| I don't know who's singing anything. | ||
| I don't think I can name three current singers. | ||
| They got, what's her name, the blonde chick, the young girl. | ||
| Taylor Dane, Taylor Swift. | ||
| I like Taylor Dane. | ||
| You give me a little Taylor Dane. | ||
| Now we're talking. | ||
| Connor, put up a picture of Taylor Dane. | ||
| Yeah, that's a singer, Taylor Swift, whatever. | ||
| Who else is current? | ||
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Sabrina Carpenter. | |
| Sabrina Carpenter. | ||
| That sounds like a... | ||
| You're talking about Karen Carpenter? | ||
| No? | ||
| I have no idea who that is. | ||
| And what about... | ||
| What about the Shirelles? | ||
| Are they still doing their thing? | ||
| Anyway, there's this Lady Gaga person and here she is and she's still going at it with this trans nonsense. | ||
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I just want to say tonight that trans people are not invisible. | |
| Trans people deserve love. | ||
| The queer community deserves to be lifted up. | ||
| Music is love. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes! | ||
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Chop as many genitals off children as possible! | |
| Yay! | ||
| Can you believe they're still doing this bullshit? | ||
| Put a picture of her back up. | ||
| No wonder she's into the trans community. | ||
| She looks like a dude who transitioned to a man who's now back to a woman. | ||
| Or maybe it was a man or a woman who was a man. | ||
| Something's going on with her face. | ||
| It's like, ease up, lady. | ||
| What are you doing over there? | ||
| But the fact that Hollywood is still doing this nonsense. | ||
| Since you're over 18, you want to wear a dress, chop off your dick, have a party, okay? | ||
| It's great. | ||
| But just stop doing it to the kids and leave the queers alone. | ||
| The homos want nothing to do with you freaks. | ||
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| All right, rubenreport.locals.com, community Q&A, here we go. | ||
| Elizabeth says, what's something small that annoys you really badly? | ||
| Example, when books in a series are not all the same height. | ||
| So I don't have that sort of, that's not really ADHD, that's like obsessive, compulsive, that sort of thing. | ||
| But I will tell you, as the father of two two-year-olds, one thing, I cannot have electronic sounds on toys. | ||
| God bless you, people, and everyone in my family that's watching and friends, and you give us gifts, and we thank you. | ||
| We don't ask for gifts. | ||
| If anything, we'd prefer less gifts, and we have a room full of gifts, and we just dole them out slowly. | ||
| Kids, two years old, they literally want nothing. | ||
| They want a roll of toilet paper. | ||
| They could have a ball with that, but you get them all this stuff. | ||
| Okay, it's great. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're blessed. | ||
| I can't deal with the electronic toys. | ||
| You press something and beeping and dinging and, you know, you gotta whack a frog and then the frog sound doesn't stop for three hours. | ||
| So that is my pet peeve. | ||
| I do not like electronic sounds. | ||
| I like wood. | ||
| Just old-fashioned blocks, wood. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| And Transformers. | ||
| Cool Mom says, a golden age dream of mine. | ||
| Our taxes get cut in half so our government is forced to be more efficient with what they have and we get a guarantee it'll stay that way. | ||
| What's your biggest golden age dream? | ||
| I mean, you're there. | ||
| You're there and your dream's happening. | ||
| I don't know that they're going to cut our taxes in half, but Trump is already floating this idea of getting rid of income tax altogether. | ||
| I think that there's definitely some possibility there or that we just really go to a flat tax, which I've talked about before. | ||
| That's the thing that would be literally the fairest. | ||
| But I would say my golden dream, I mean, it's appearing right now that, as I said yesterday, I think 70% of us, and it might even be more of that, agree on the basic stuff about America being good and that your neighbor's allowed to think and act a little bit differently than you and people are going to come from different places. | ||
| Like, we can... | ||
| We do all of that, and we've done it really well, and it's only because of this last 10 years of insanity that we've just destroyed so much of it. | ||
| The golden age, I suppose, would be the adults being back in charge, which is where we're at, an unbelievable innovation as it comes with technology. | ||
| Like, this AI thing is here, and it's going to change us, whether we like it or not, but doing it in a responsible, mature way, as opposed to the way we all just got phones and got on all these apps, and we're on social media, and it made us more anti-social. | ||
| Like, how about if we go into the AI, the uncharted territory with AI, thinking a little more clearly about what we're about to do? | ||
| Maybe that's just not how humans are wired. | ||
| But I am so excited for the future, actually, because I think there's so much opportunity. | ||
| I think even just some of the things that happened in the last week, what Trump's doing with Gaza, like, we can put aside old ways of thinking about things, and we can think about things in a new way. | ||
| There's unbelievable opportunity right now, and you just have to see it and connect yourself with people. | ||
| That see it too and build some stuff and see what happens. | ||
| Mitchell says, what's been your favorite part of fatherhood? | ||
| You know, it's really like, it's just great. | ||
| It really is great. | ||
| Like, yes, it's exhausting and it's tiring. | ||
| And most of my clothes are stained in one way or another from acai or markers or whatever. | ||
| And we've had to repaint walls constantly because they're always running around. | ||
| Because I'm bad with this, the Sharpie. | ||
| So there's just Sharpie all over the house all the time. | ||
| What's the best part? | ||
| I mean, like, you know, when I see them first thing in the morning, 7 a.m., and they just run at me like... | ||
| And they're like the happiest... | ||
| Kids in the world to see me. | ||
| And I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. | ||
| Like, that's great. | ||
| You know, there's just multiple layers. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| That's just like pure joy and love. | ||
| There's another version that I think I'm better at being a human because of perspective and the lessons and patience that you have to have as a parent. | ||
| I think it's made me a better broadcaster because... | ||
| I have to think about all of these issues in terms of someone else is coming behind me at the end of this. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, I've got however many years I've got left on this earth, but I better set it in a better place than I left it with because I want it to be better for them. | ||
| So, like, that has made me, I think, communicate these ideas better and understand them better and maybe with a little more long-term attachment to that. | ||
| But the best, the best. | ||
| I mean, the best part right now is just like, you know, our living room has become just like a giant pillow factory of all these things that they climb on. | ||
| And just, you know, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, my day is starting to wrap up. | ||
| And just like throwing them all over the place and building forts and hiding in tents. | ||
| And, you know, Justin will say he's Megatron and Luke is Optimus Prime. | ||
| And it's just the fun of the life thing. | ||
| It's pretty good. | ||
| Tappy says, what's the name of your tequila going to be? | ||
| And can we sign up for a list to get a bottle? | ||
| Okay, so this is it, people. | ||
| The tequila is in America. | ||
| It is at the warehouse. | ||
| And I believe that tomorrow... | ||
| On Friday, I will be able to officially launch the website and announce the name and all of that stuff. | ||
| That is where we are at at the moment. | ||
| So I've held the name back for this entire amount of time. | ||
| We are going to be at a couple stores to launch in the Miami area. | ||
| Our warehouse is in Miami. | ||
| So if you order it online, which obviously most of you guys are going to do, if you're on the East Coast, you're going to get it probably in a day or two. | ||
| West Coast, it'll take a little bit more time. | ||
| But as I've said before, it is a... | ||
| Beautiful, delicious, exquisite tequila made the right way, and I cannot wait to share it with you. | ||
| We're going to do all sorts of, you know, I'll sign some stuff, and we're going to do some specials for our locals' audience. | ||
| I want to make sure they have access to the first cases and all of that. | ||
| Just give me another, I think maybe we'll be able to launch the website tomorrow. | ||
| So it's ready to roll. | ||
| I just want to make sure everything's fully there and ready and the logistics are all taken care of. | ||
| And we did not get hit with the 25% tariff. | ||
| And Scheinbaum over in Mexico did what she had to do. | ||
| So thank you, Donald Trump. | ||
| Talway says, what are your thoughts on Doge discovering USAID was funded? | ||
| Funding the mainstream media attacks on Rumble and on X. So actually, I don't know about that portion specifically. | ||
| Maybe we can do a little quick dig on that. | ||
| But as it pertains to what I just read to you related to the New York Times, they were funding the New York Times. | ||
| We know that they gave $8 million to Politico. | ||
| So think how the lying, how the laundering of the lies goes. | ||
| USAID... Funds Politico. | ||
| Politico gets an anonymous source on Capitol Hill to say this about Trump or this about Biden or whichever way it is. | ||
| Then Chuck Todd goes on Meet the Press and Chuck Todd reads to another politician, a source at blah, blah, blah told me this about Donald Trump. | ||
| And then you can, at Politico, told me this. | ||
| So you can see this is how they launder all of the lies. | ||
| It is absolutely wild. | ||
| And okay, so we're getting some info now. | ||
| This is from Chris Pavlovsky, who's the CEO of Rumble. | ||
| He said... | ||
| USAID funding corporate media is the biggest scandal of 2025. In essence, the Biden administration was paying the media through USAID to attack the likes of Rumble and X, advocate for censorship, and install their own government in the USA by attacking the opposition party. | ||
| All right, so there obviously will be more on this. | ||
| I'd like to dive a little bit deeper in that, and I'll talk to Chris about it. | ||
| But none of, it all makes sense to me. | ||
| That's what I said to Phoenix right before the show started when we were going through this. | ||
| Every bit of the attacks now, how they launder the lies. | ||
| I mean, I just explained it. | ||
| So then the government funds Politico. | ||
| Politico then gets their articles written on Meet the Press as if they're real. | ||
| But now we know they were propaganda. | ||
| And then you wonder how all of this happened. | ||
| And at the same time, Chuck Todd cuts to commercial break on Meet the Press and it's brought to you by Pfizer. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| You get it. | ||
| We've all seen through it. | ||
| And now to watch these hysterical people, we showed you a whole bunch of them yesterday, defending USAID and that Ilhan Omar is very upset that we're going to end USAID. It's like, what really is behind all of that? | ||
| I think that's what you're protecting, not the most vulnerable lady. | ||
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| Florida Manchuk says, do you think Doge's transparency into government waste has swayed more people, or do you think their hatred of Trump and Elon is too much for them to see how bad things have been? | ||
| You know, it's a good question because I'm always interested in that thing. | ||
| You know, it seems like more and more of us are... | ||
| Let's say getting to the truthier side of all of this, right? | ||
| We've seen the culture shift. | ||
| We know people are tuning out of mainstream media. | ||
| We know people are getting news in different ways. | ||
| It doesn't seem like they will as easily be able to launder the lies. | ||
| I mean, just what I laid out on how they were doing it through Politico and then through mainstream media. | ||
| Like, none of that's really working, but it is a little hard to gauge. | ||
| Even for me, we all live in our bubbles. | ||
| And it is hard to gauge how many people are still brainwashed by all this. | ||
| When I say that it's like roughly 70% of us that get it, let's say, that still love this country and want things to be right for whatever our political differences are, I'm guesstimating on that. | ||
| And the question is, is that 30% how violent will they become? | ||
| Do they really believe it? | ||
| How many of them are willful idiots? | ||
| How many of them are just pawns? | ||
| Who's pulling the strings? | ||
| I mean, we're unfurling so much of all of that, but... | ||
| Getting people out of their little bubbles and really still converting people. | ||
| Look, I think the best way I can answer that is Trump is right. | ||
| What is his best revenge? | ||
| It's success. | ||
| And the more that the country becomes successful to the point that you can't avoid seeing it, right? | ||
| And there's always ways that they can do smokescreens and make you think that good things are bad and everything else. | ||
| But if the economy just keeps going well and if the world becomes more peaceful and... | ||
| We feel, people feel it in their bones that, oh, this isn't so bad, right? | ||
| Like, I guess these aren't Nazis and everything else. | ||
| If you let some of those people come to what is the obvious true conclusion, then you start keep bringing them over. | ||
| So as long as we keep aiming towards success, I think that's the answer to all of this. | ||
| Marcus Ferales says, "How is it that the Gazans, "with the billions in aid they've received, "haven't made it an oasis, "but instead chose to build the most complex "underground tunnel system in the world today "to hide like cowardly rats? | ||
| Well, they are a twisted, evil, Islamist, jihadist, terrorist organization. | ||
| They had every bit of advantage in the world. | ||
| More money has been pumped into Gaza than probably any other place in the world. | ||
| International organizations like UNRWA exist only for them. | ||
| They've created insane conditions for these people to succeed. | ||
| And I read you that tweet yesterday from Times of Israel columnist Habib Redig-Gur, and he was talking about how this place had every opportunity. | ||
| And every time they should have built something like a civil society, they decided to build rockets and terror infrastructure and underground tunnels. | ||
| They literally were given water pipes to build a functioning water system. | ||
| And water can still be a little hard to come by in that part of the world. | ||
| And so where Israel made desalinization plants and now literally exports water to some of their enemies, like in Jordan, even though there's a cold peace, they decided to turn the water pipes into rockets, literally. | ||
| And it was bad for Israelis and it was bad for Gazans. | ||
| That's what they've done. | ||
| As I said yesterday, there has not been one Jew living in Gaza since 2005, 2006 during the disengagement. | ||
| And they could have had whatever they wanted with an unbelievable piece of real estate, but they squandered it away. | ||
| They voted for Hamas. | ||
| Hamas then never has had elections since around 2008. But they've decided that their number one thing was let's kill as many Jews as possible. | ||
| And congratulations, it's not getting you a state. | ||
| You never had a state. | ||
| You weren't even a people pre. | ||
| You know, 1964-ish. | ||
| And you never had a state. | ||
| You're not getting a state. | ||
| And now Gaza will become something like the Las Vegas of the Middle East. | ||
| It will actually be incredible because it will have the security and safety and democracy that Israel can provide on most of its border. | ||
| And then it has the Mediterranean. | ||
| It has an unbelievable piece of real estate. | ||
| And Trump knows a little something about that. | ||
| But they made their choice. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| Gaza was part of Egypt before 67. So go to Egypt or go to Jordan where it's... | ||
| Mostly Palestinian, but you're done over there. | ||
| You're done just killing people and causing evil chaos and mayhem. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Larry says, with the Trump administration, there is hope for me as a Cuban to see the regime in the island fall after so many decades of suffering. | ||
| I know this is not something that the U.S. politicians care much about, but do you have any thoughts? | ||
| Well, I happen to live in the other Cuba. | ||
| The city of Miami. | ||
| And most of my friends here, my new Miami friends, are Cuban. | ||
| And I love, love, love Cuban people as a general rule. | ||
| Cubans love America and love democracy. | ||
| And Cubans also love to talk. | ||
| You want to sit quietly in a room with a group of people? | ||
| Don't hang out with Cubans. | ||
| Don't go to Little Havana. | ||
| These people talk a lot. | ||
| And they love their mojitos. | ||
| And they love their Cuban sandwiches and all that stuff. | ||
| But they have an unbelievable understanding of what it was like to live under communism. | ||
| The short answer to your question is yes, I do think Cuba could turn because there is... | ||
| Look what we just talked about with Gaza. | ||
| Trump is rethinking everything in the world and something about that man, he has an ability to say something and turn it into reality. | ||
| It doesn't mean that the initial thing that he says is exactly what's going to happen, right? | ||
| That's what a negotiating tactic is. | ||
| That's what the tariffs were. | ||
| We're going to threaten you with this and then you're going to do this. | ||
| And then largely Mexico and Canada came around. | ||
| That's what's happening right now. | ||
| So is it possible that the people of Cuba will look around and be like, we've had enough of this? | ||
| Or that Trump will apply some pressure over there or something? | ||
| I think it's all completely possible, yeah. | ||
| Mark says, have you ever gone floating in the Dead Sea? | ||
| Yeah, a couple times over the years. | ||
| I think we have a picture from last time I did that. | ||
| That's me and Connor and my buddy John who joined on the trip last time. | ||
| That was about two years ago when we were in Israel. | ||
| That was the trip we did before October 7th. | ||
| We didn't go back on that second trip post-October 7th. | ||
| But it really is incredible. | ||
| So the Dead Sea, which is in southern Israel, it's the lowest point in the world, in the world, which does make you think. | ||
| Between the Bible and everything else, there's something going on there. | ||
| And basically, because the salt concentration is so high, as you can see people behind us, you float. | ||
| You can stand right there, but once you get in, kind of above your waist or so, you just absolutely float. | ||
| You can't be in there for too long, because if you got a little cut or something, it'll really start stinging. | ||
| But it really is wild. | ||
| People say, well, how did Jesus walk on water? | ||
| Maybe it had a little something to do with that. | ||
| I know it wasn't at the Dead Sea, but blah, blah, blah. | ||
| You go there and there is something magical. | ||
| And to walk in the place that the Bible took place, whether you're a believer in the most literal sense or in a metaphorical sense, just history is just absolutely alive there. | ||
| So yes, have been there. | ||
| I did not, you know, there are some people that take the mud. | ||
| We got in the mud after they told us, don't take the mud because there's a limited amount of mud. | ||
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We saw some tourists taking some mud and we should have done something about that. | |
| Dina. | ||
| It says, Trump is walking the walk and showing how strong America can be, but what happens when he exits in four years? | ||
| All of this goes undone or is reversed. | ||
| I can't, you know, people ask me this. | ||
| I can't worry about that yet. | ||
| Like, we are in such a good place right now. | ||
| It's not to say we shouldn't worry about it. | ||
| And it's not to say they don't have their tricks. | ||
| And it's not to say all hell couldn't break loose next week. | ||
| But right now, everything's working. | ||
| And look, the... | ||
| Standard version of this would be that JD would be the presumptive nominee after, and there's every reason to think he will be qualified and ready to rock and pick up the mantle where Trump left it and just run and run and run with all of the vision and foresight that Trump has had. | ||
| So I'm not particularly worried just yet. | ||
| I don't think you should be worried just yet either. | ||
| It's like, let's just keep fixing things for now. | ||
| We will worry about it when the times come, but also the Republicans have a bench. | ||
| That was the other problem that the Democrats had this entire time. | ||
| They didn't even have a bench. | ||
| Biden was only put there because they had nobody better at that point, and that was a disaster. | ||
| And then look at the bench subsequently, and look who they just put up after they cooed him and everything else. | ||
| The Republicans have a rich future, and it is a wide tent future, and I just wouldn't worry about four years from now. | ||
| How about let's do this? | ||
| We'll pick up that question in a year. | ||
| Let's just see what the next year holds, and then we can start worrying. | ||
| But yes, he's got one term, and they're going to have to figure it out. | ||
| James says, Dave, when are you going to do a meetup in New Jersey? | ||
| Well, I am in the middle of season four of my third go-round with The Sopranos right now, so I have been feeling a little Jersey lately. | ||
| I would like to go to Jersey. | ||
| You know, I was looking at my man Frankie Valli, 90 years old. | ||
| He's going. | ||
| He's going to be up in Jersey, I think, in a couple months. | ||
| Maybe I should get up in Jersey for that and do a little meetup, and we could have some pizza, and we could, you know, maybe we'll go down to the Jersey Turnpike. | ||
| We could take a ride to the shore. | ||
| I know a guy, a bunch of fur coats fell off a truck. | ||
| We get some VCRs. | ||
| You know what I'm saying. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| You didn't see me here. | ||
| Dr. Winery guy says, is Trump going to release the Epstein list? | ||
| My guess is yes. | ||
| You know, obviously they're doing the RFK stuff. | ||
| They're doing the MLK stuff. | ||
| They're clearly, with everything that Doge is doing, I mean, we're just getting document after document every day about government inefficiency and nonsense and all that, which we've gone through. | ||
| So my guess is, yes, I think they can probably only do things in certain amounts of time. | ||
| God knows what releasing that list and the powerful people that are on that list, like what the subsequent problems will be and chaos and everything else. | ||
| Trump, look, I think it's become clear Trump is a man of his word and he said he's going to do it, so I do think he will do it. | ||
| Shelley says, at the Super Bowl, they are going to have the Black National Anthem. | ||
| Do you think that's appropriate since we have a national anthem? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I know that, I guess that there is a song that is sung at this thing and they call it, no, that's completely ridiculous. | ||
| It's racist. | ||
| I can't believe they're still doing it. | ||
| Is that a fact that they're going to do that at the... | ||
| At the Super Bowl this year. | ||
| They've done it before. | ||
| It's just awful. | ||
| There is one national anthem. | ||
| It's the American national anthem. | ||
| You should know it. | ||
| It should be in your heart. | ||
| You should be able to sing it without reading it. | ||
| And the fact that they would have, like the black, okay, can we get the Asian national anthem? | ||
| Like, how absurd does that sound? | ||
| How about the white national anthem? | ||
| Can we get that one? | ||
| Like, no, they should not do that. | ||
| You know, I'm going to admit something right now that's going to kill all you guys. | ||
| I don't know who's in the Super Bowl. | ||
| I've been very busy. | ||
| I'm guessing, is it Kansas City? | ||
| Kansas City and it's not Washington, right? | ||
| It's the guys that beat them. | ||
| Philly? | ||
| Not bad. | ||
| Alright, so here, I'm going to make my prediction right now. | ||
| I have not watched a minute of football all season, so I think I'm as qualified as anyone on ESPN. It's Kansas City versus Philadelphia. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So here, I'm going to give it to you right here. | ||
| It's going to be K... C, 24. PH. Book it, people. | ||
| Kansas City, 24. PH. That seems like Phoenix. | ||
| What would you do? | ||
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I should have done a PH. Yeah. | |
| How about that? | ||
| Philadelphia, 17. Book it. | ||
| Put the life savings, the Bitcoin, all of it in there. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Thank you for watching. | ||
| We are live tomorrow with the panel show. | ||
| Enjoy the rest of your day. | ||
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This is the last host, man. | |
| Who is this? | ||
| This is Flaming Dragon. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Flaming Dragon. | ||
| F*** face. | ||
| First, take a big step back and literally f*** your own face! | ||
| Now, I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bulls*** power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. | ||
| So whatever you're thinking, you better think again. | ||
| Otherwise, I'm going to have to head down there, and I will rain down on a godly f***ing firestorm upon you. | ||
| You're going to have to call the f***ing United Nations and get a f***ing binding resolution to keep me from f***ing destroying you. | ||
| I am talking scorched earth, mother f***er. | ||
| I will massacre you! | ||
| I will f*** you up! | ||
| Do you want to find out who that was? |
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