May 14, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| I was at the bottom of my class. | ||
| I started doing and I went to the top of my class. | ||
| Suddenly I could sit still and I could read. | ||
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*outro music* | |
| All right, guys, I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It's May 14th, 2025. | ||
| We are live streaming on Rumble YouTube and Locals. | ||
| You've already shared, you've subscribed, you've tapped the notification bell, so I ask nothing of you today. | ||
| We will not have a post-game show today because this is a pre-taped episode because I spoke at the University of Austin last night. | ||
| I assume it went quite well. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm pre-taping this, but I can only imagine I was amazing. | ||
| And I'm doing a bunch of podcasts today as you're watching this right now in Austin. | ||
| I will be back live tomorrow. | ||
| I promise you that. | ||
| I'm going to be with Roseanne Barr, Jason Kalkanis, a couple other people doing a bunch of shows out there, then back to the regularly scheduled program. | ||
| So today's show, because it is pre-taped, we're going to catch you up on a couple things, you know, because I was traveling a bit last week. | ||
| It's been a lot of travel lately. | ||
| I'm racking up the frequent flyer points. | ||
| I did not get to cover Joe Biden's return to The View. | ||
| So we're going to do a little bit of that, a little bit on some of the new Trump appointees. | ||
| And then we've got a RubinReport.locals.com community Q&A. | ||
| So unless you have anything else to say, let's get right to it. | ||
| Joe Biden, the elderly man who was pretending to be president for four years, who obviously was not in charge. | ||
| Perhaps one day we will get to the truth of all of it. | ||
| Who really was in charge? | ||
| How did they use the auto pen? | ||
| Did he know what he was signing with executive actions and everything else? | ||
| How did Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, etc., actually push him out? | ||
| Did Kamala want to even run? | ||
| Just who the hell knows what happened? | ||
| But yes, Joe Biden, they made... | ||
| Him come back. | ||
| Now, I said when Joe Biden went away at the beginning of January, I said we'd see him two more times. | ||
| That was my feeling, like basically two more times. | ||
| Now, he did an interview, what was it, about two weeks ago, I think, with the BBC, and now he's done The View. | ||
| Now, I get it. | ||
| I'm not talking about going to the ice cream, Joe Biden. | ||
| I'm talking about having him out there giving speeches. | ||
| So we've got to the two. | ||
| We'll see how many more there will be. | ||
| Here he is explaining that Kamala lost to Trump because of, you're not going to believe it. | ||
| Sexism and racism. | ||
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And it was like 2016 all over again. | |
| So why do you think the vice president lost and were you surprised? | ||
| I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. | ||
| She is. | ||
| She's qualified to be president of the United States of America. | ||
| But I was surprised. | ||
| I wasn't surprised because they went the route of... | ||
| The sexist route, the whole route. | ||
| I mean, this is a woman, she's this, she's that. | ||
| I've never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn't lead the country and a woman of mixed race. | ||
| It's so boring. | ||
| And of course, they just sit there and they lap it up. | ||
| So there's a couple of things there. | ||
| First up, the most qualified. | ||
| What made her... | ||
| Qualified. | ||
| I accept that you did select her, Joe, because of her skin color and her genitals, to be vice president. | ||
| Did she have any major accomplishment? | ||
| She actually was the border czar, and I'm pretty sure that didn't go that well. | ||
| She was attorney general of California and a senator from California before all that. | ||
| And, you know, nothing major. | ||
| Callie's pretty much a dump. | ||
| So I don't know what made her... | ||
| The most qualified to be the chief executive of the land. | ||
| But then, of course, what he really wants to say, because again, these are just like talking points that they've given him and they're praying that he can kind of hold them in his brain. | ||
| And there's just no doubt that there's things on prompters and papers and that the women were clearly given instructions to keep him sort of not... | ||
| You know, make sure he doesn't, like, drive the car off the cliff and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| But, you know, that it's sexism. | ||
| That it's sexism with an otherwise basically flawless campaign is just crazy. | ||
| Let's not forget, for the first month she announced during brat summer, they hid her, right? | ||
| And then when they put her out, then she gave several really bad interviews and it got even worse. | ||
| That's what David Sachs called, I think it was the doom spiral, which I really liked. | ||
| When we hid her, it didn't work. | ||
| When we hide her, and then when we release her, it doesn't work. | ||
| So they were screwed. | ||
| Screw it either way. | ||
| The cackle, the circular logic, the Venn diagrams, the idea that she was a good candidate. | ||
| Look, you may hate Trump, you may hate the Republicans, you may be a diehard Democrat and everything else, but you could not look at the autopsy. | ||
| Of the, what was it, two billion spent, the million to Oprah's production company, giving LeBron James money, all of this stuff, and go, boy, that was a really well-run campaign. | ||
| But, you know, of course, it's sexism, it's racism, it's the usual stuff. | ||
| Then it got a little spicy because they asked Joe about his ever-melting brain. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Mr. President, since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities. | ||
| In the final year of your presidency, what is your response to these allegations? | ||
| Are these sources wrong? | ||
| They are wrong. | ||
| There's nothing to sustain that, number one. | ||
| Number two, you know... | ||
| Think of what we're left with. | ||
| We're left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started. | ||
| Not since the Civil War. | ||
| We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we... | ||
| Well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, ended up over a million people dying. | ||
| A million people dying. | ||
| And we're also in a situation where we found ourselves... | ||
| Unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won't go into in the interest of time. | ||
| And so we went to work, and we got it done. | ||
| And, you know, one of the things that... | ||
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Well, and Alyssa, you know, one of the things I think is that... | |
| All right, so let me not do the glib, funny part for a second. | ||
| Maybe I'll get to it in a moment. | ||
| But the non-glib, funny part is that Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, is sitting there next to him. | ||
| And you can see her even looking at him like, oh God, where is this going? | ||
| And you can feel it, right? | ||
| What was the feeling you had watching that 60 seconds? | ||
| They're all thinking the exact same thing. | ||
| They're all getting ready to jump in when he gets confused. | ||
| He starts saying something, then he forgets what he's saying. | ||
| The insurrection part, it's just all muddled and confused, and it's sad that they've done this. | ||
| So the non-funny part, the non-glib part or anything else is, and I've tried to do this many times with him, and then sometimes I just can't deal with it anymore because it's all such nonsense around the cover-up around him, is that we will all be confronted with this type of thing one day in our lives, whether it happens to us or whether it's happened to a parent or a grandparent. | ||
| We all know this cognitive. | ||
| Issues are on the rise overall, plus when you add in the phone and broken attention spans and all of these things, like there was such an unbelievable learning moment. | ||
| Imagine if whatever drugs they've got him on, whatever he actually has been diagnosed with, and he obviously has something. | ||
| He obviously has something. | ||
| Imagine if they had taken this as a learning opportunity and been like, well, it is over for him now, so if we're gonna get him out there a few more times, then why don't we have him say, and it does turn out that, Even if they wanted to lie about it. | ||
| Post-presidency, it does turn out, I went for some cognitive tests and I have the beginnings of Parkinson's or I have the beginnings of dementia or something. | ||
| And then I had a whole different conversation as opposed to putting him on there to just continue the charade that they went on for four years. | ||
| It's so disappointing. | ||
| It's such a perfect example of why so many of us have tuned out of the mainstream. | ||
| And it's why I don't have a lot of sympathy around it for something that we should all feel sympathetic to. | ||
| her. | ||
| Let's go with one more on this. | ||
| The projects. | ||
| The projects. | ||
| The benefits. | ||
| How do you lead the world without having the best health care in the world? | ||
| How do you lead the world without having the best education in the world? | ||
| How do you lead the world when you don't have that done? | ||
| And he slurred every word of that. | ||
| You can see Joy looking at him like, just don't fall out of the chair. | ||
| Again, opportunity wasted. | ||
| If you guys could put your hubris aside, yeah, you pulled one over on us and it worked because you had him for four years and it almost doubly worked. | ||
| Because Kamala almost became president, right? | ||
| Like, the election actually was kind of close, despite Trump winning so many states. | ||
| Like, some of the stuff was kind of close. | ||
| You guys almost pulled it off. | ||
| So why not take this opportunity? | ||
| And instead, you're all gonna pretend. | ||
| And you're the same people who ignored moments like this when he just wandered off set in the middle of an MSNBC interview. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Literally wandering off like Mr. Burns, and we all watched all of that happen, and you told us not to see what we've seen. | ||
| Got Jennings over on CNN, however, does see what we see, and for some reason they put him on mainstream media. | ||
| I'm not exactly sure why. | ||
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Music. | |
| Hold on. | ||
| Let me ask you a question, though. | ||
| He said... | ||
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He wasn't surprised that she lost, but that he would have won the race. | |
| That's like saying, "Well, I was a boat anchor on my vice president, so she drowned in this election." But the anchor itself would have floated. | ||
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That's a crazy, that is crazy talk for him to say that. | |
| He did not say that. | ||
| He literally said, I wasn't surprised, but I would have won. | ||
| The idea that he believes to this day. | ||
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Here's the thing, though. | |
| One more issue. | ||
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I mean, he not only said that, but he has said it repeatedly. | |
| He's crapping on her. | ||
| Yeah, and he has said it repeatedly, including on The View, right? | ||
| Like, he has said that he thinks he would have won and that, you know, he basically said they cooed him out of office. | ||
| And how could they have done that other than to have gotten Kamala on board? | ||
| Again, we don't have all of the specifics. | ||
| If you listen to my interview with Lindy Lee, who's a bit of an insider, she talks about some of the people behind the scenes. | ||
| We always think it's Schumer and Pelosi and Kamala that did this and some of the more well-known people. | ||
| But there were other White House people that pulled this thing off. | ||
| But it's more to the point that they put him out there still doing the same... | ||
| That we all saw and they pretend that it's not real. | ||
| It's rather extraordinary. | ||
| And that disconnect from the truth, which the Democrats basically have for every issue, whether it's the border, whether it's the economy, whether it's foreign policy, whether it's Biden's cognitive abilities, whether it's genitals matching gender, they have the opposite take on virtually everything. | ||
| And particularly... | ||
| When it depends if their person is in power or not, here's Amy Klobuchar this week as opposed to how she felt just a year ago. | ||
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Would the party have had a better chance of winning in 2024 had President Biden dropped out sooner? | |
| You know, everything we look at in a rearview mirror after you lose an election, yes, we would have been served better by a primary. | ||
| But we are where we are. | ||
| We're not on the history channel right now. | ||
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You know. | |
| Concerns have been growing for quite some time within your party about President Biden's ability to win a second term. | ||
| The latest person to express this, Ezra Klein of the New York Times, who said this week, quote, he is not up for this. | ||
| Senator, what is your reaction to that stark assessment? | ||
| My reaction is, as someone who ran against Joe Biden, as someone who has spent significant amount of time with Joe Biden, that he is up for this job. | ||
| And I was with the president for over an hour and talked about so many things, domestic, international. | ||
| He was focused, his recall was good. | ||
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Do you think it's time to pass the torch? | |
| Again, I'm a believer in President Biden. | ||
| So you might say, Dave, why are you showing these old clips? | ||
| Like, what's the point at this moment? | ||
| Well, not only, there's several points. | ||
| One of them would be they're dredging him back to lie about the things they've lied about. | ||
| The other point is these people, if we don't call them out, look, I wasn't going to vote for a Democrat if they had had a primary, but why is it that me, someone who isn't going to vote for a Democrat, I was all for the Democrats having a primary. | ||
| I'm for the democratic process. | ||
| You might remember around 2015 when a guy named Donald Trump was running the first time and everybody in the Republican Party basically didn't want him to run and did everything to stop him from running. | ||
| And as he started winning state after state after state, the Republicans didn't rig the system. | ||
| They didn't rig their primary process against him. | ||
| You know what the Democrats did? | ||
| Well, when Bernie had momentum against Hillary Clinton, they basically took him out and he's acted as a little bitch to the party since then when he's not flying private. | ||
| And this time around, when Bobby Kennedy was running... | ||
| As a Democrat, even though I told him he wouldn't be a Democrat by the end of the thing, they made sure that whatever states he campaigned in, the votes wouldn't go towards the primaries. | ||
| So they shut, they said to their own base in the primaries, yeah, he's old and confused and blah, blah, blah, we see all that stuff, but we're just gonna ignore you altogether. | ||
| And then it took until, I think it was June 27th with that unbelievably horrific debate that he had. | ||
| Suddenly the airlock broke that night. | ||
| You all remember watching that thing and it was finally prime time. | ||
| Boy, no. | ||
| No one can deny it. | ||
| Then everyone who's denying it the entire time pretends they didn't deny it. | ||
| They eventually push him out, and people like Klobuchar just continue going on. | ||
| So that's why the video, the first part of that video from this week, I don't know, maybe we should have had a primary. | ||
| Maybe you should have said you should have had a primary, I don't know, a year ago. | ||
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| From Joe Biden, who could use some cheaper drugs, to the rest of America, who will be getting cheaper drugs soon. | ||
| We've got this from Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Just a few hours after teasing his most important Truth Social post ever, President Trump announced that he'll be signing an executive order Monday to lower the cost of prescription drugs by 30 to 80 percent. | ||
| Big Pharma's lobbying of Washington, D.C. has long allowed them to price gouge Americans no more. | ||
| And I'll comment on that in just a second, but let me read you this, because it was sort of in conjunction. | ||
| This is Truth Social from Donald Trump. | ||
| I am pleased to announce that Dr. Casey Means will be nominated as our next Surgeon General of the United States of America. | ||
| Casey has impeccable Maha credentials and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure a successful implementation of our agenda in order to reverse the chronic disease epidemic and ensure all great health For all Americans. | ||
| Her academic achievements, together with her life's work, are absolutely outstanding. | ||
| Dr. Casey Means has the potential. | ||
| Congratulations, Casey! | ||
| Secretary Kennedy looking forward to working with Dr. Jeanette Nishwayat in another capacity at HHS. | ||
| Thank you for attention on this matter. | ||
| So he removed the previous nominee for Surgeon General and now put in Casey Means. | ||
| We'll see about that. | ||
| I've had Callie on the show a couple of times. | ||
| The Means, they get it. | ||
| Like they are right in the center, as Trump said there, of the Maha movement. | ||
| And they've been talking about how to farm properly and what foods we're putting in our system, in our bodies. | ||
| It's completely congruent with everything they've done with our... | ||
| But the real part that I wanted to focus on for a minute was Trump doing this executive action on lowering the costs of drugs. | ||
| Look, you know my feelings on executive actions. | ||
| Both sides do it. | ||
| And we shouldn't do it that much, right? | ||
| You don't want the president to just be setting policy through the stroke of a pen because when it's somebody you don't like, say a Joe Biden reversing what Donald Trump did with the border, you can clean up a border with the pen stroke and then you can ruin it with a pen stroke. | ||
| And then the next guy has to come in with a pen stroke. | ||
| And eventually we just don't have three branches of government anymore. | ||
| We just have an executive branch that does everything. | ||
| We don't want that. | ||
| However, In the moment that we are in, Donald Trump is trying to do so much so quickly. | ||
| And as I've talked about, as I really focused on the show on Monday, there is so much good happening at once that doing more at the moment is kind of worth it. | ||
| I know why that's a slippery slope and a dangerous game, but lowering the cost of drugs for everybody. | ||
| Look, I'd rather, and we'll get to Bobby Kennedy in a second, I know he'd rather everybody be healthy in the first place. | ||
| Why are we on so many prescription drugs? | ||
| Two seconds on television when most countries have banned them. | ||
| Like what is going on with us first? | ||
| We need to start thinking about that. | ||
| But as long as we've got these drugs out there, they probably should be a little bit cheaper for the people that need them. | ||
| Listen to Bobby Kennedy on some of just the numbers, the amount of drugs that we Americans are putting in our system. | ||
| And we use more, we use 70% of the pharmaceutical products in the world are sold to our country. | ||
| We only have 4.2% of the world's population. | ||
| We're the sickest country in the world, and pharmaceutical products are the number three cause of death after cancer and heart attacks. | ||
| So we're the only nation in the world that allows that kind of advertising on TV. | ||
| We're a complete outlier. | ||
| Okay, so the advertising on TV part... | ||
| We should think about that. | ||
| I'm sort of like, do I wanna ban their ability to put ads on TV? | ||
| I'm not sure that I want the government to ban a legal product even if I don't like what it's doing and it's putting a lot of people on a drug that they don't necessarily need to be on or something else. | ||
| Don't know that I love that. | ||
| Right? | ||
| But it is interesting that we do allow all of these advertisements and other countries don't. | ||
| It is also worth noting that, as you know, during COVID, they would literally be doing panels on NBC, on Meet the Press, about COVID and about the efficacy of the mRNA shots, and that it would literally be brought to you by Pfizer. | ||
| Get injected, we'll figure out the rest later. | ||
| Like, there might be some reasons that there's ethical things that perhaps it shouldn't be on news channels, let's say, but you can maybe put it on cartoons, or, well, that's for kids, or sports, or whatever, but you get... | ||
| The ethical thing there. | ||
| Now, as far as the 70%, if his numbers are right, that Americans are about 4% of the world population and we're on 70% of the pharmaceutical drugs, that makes us the sickest nation. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| Does that make us the sickest nation or does that make us the most overly prescribed nation? | ||
| That probably is sure. | ||
| Maybe we're not even, maybe that many people aren't that sick. | ||
| I know we have an awful lot of obesity and all sorts of chronic illnesses, but maybe it's both things. | ||
| We have a lot of that because of the way we eat and everything else. | ||
| And then we're just drugging everybody. | ||
| When we take these kids, you take a fourth grader who's just rambunctious and wants to run around, and you put him in a class for eight hours a day just to sit there like a robot, and then wonder why he just out of nowhere starts screaming or yelling or hitting a kid, and then you drug him. | ||
| Was he sick? | ||
| But now he counts as sick because he's on drugs. | ||
| So I know that's a little bit of like kind of whittling the numbers there, but this is why we have to rethink everything. | ||
| We have to not only rethink our foods, but rethink our education system. | ||
| Rethink why are we training children to just sit like automatons in a classroom all day? | ||
| One of the lines that I love that I've really tried to, or that we've really tried to incorporate in our parenting around here is from Jordan Peterson. | ||
| You know, you basically, you want those kids, when they hit the pillow at night or when they go to the crib,- We are gonna get rid of the taboos about... | ||
| About challenging orthodoxies, about challenging consensus, and we're telling the public every day, all of us, that is not science. | ||
| You know, your whole industry was telling the public for years, trust the experts. | ||
| Trust the experts is not a function of science or democracy. | ||
| It's a function of totalitarianism and religion. | ||
| Yeah, you don't just trust. | ||
| You trust but verify. | ||
| Are there experts in certain things? | ||
| Yeah, there are heart surgeons. | ||
| Could I perform heart surgery? | ||
| No. | ||
| So if you had a heart problem, you needed, say, quadruple bypass, calling Dave Rubin or asking his feelings about it, probably not a great idea. | ||
| You would want to go to an expert in that. | ||
| But just having a blanket, oh, I'm an expert, you better trust me. | ||
| Well, unfortunately, the institutions and the expert class and the elite class, whatever you want to call them, they've failed us. | ||
| Miserably, right? | ||
| They have. | ||
| There's just no doubt about it. | ||
| And it's a two-pronged thing. | ||
| They failed us, not only as it pertains to our health, during COVID, right? | ||
| You know, don't go outside and get sunshine, get some vitamin D. Do stay inside and eat takeout all day. | ||
| Like, six feet social distancing, mask, all the stuff. | ||
| On top of, of course, get injected with some shit we don't even know what it is. | ||
| They failed us in that way, but then really what they did now at a sort of bigger, like, global level is they have now caused a huge swath of people to question everything. | ||
| We basically have something like an alien, an ancient alienification of everything, right? | ||
| Like, you used to watch ancient aliens, and they would just have We have some crazy conspiracy about the pyramids and aliens and all this stuff. | ||
| Ancient alien theorists theorized it. | ||
| And it just like unearths everything. | ||
| And we've now done that with everything. | ||
| Write that one down. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| It's the ancient alienification of virtually everything. | ||
| We will, just anything that has ever existed, history and everything else, we will just unpack it in the craziest ways. | ||
| And unfortunately, it's because you guys did it. | ||
| You guys, in some... | ||
| Elite quest for power or something to be able to tell your neighbor how to live. | ||
| That's what you did. | ||
| But when I always talk about that list of Trump people that he's appointed, that's just an all-star list. | ||
| Look who RFK is sitting next to right there. | ||
| He's got Dr. Marty McCary, who's fantastic. | ||
| He's got Mehmet Oz and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. | ||
| These are all people who are a little more skeptical of the system, skeptical of the experts, let's say, but they're not complete novices, right? | ||
| So you wouldn't want... | ||
| Someone who's not an expert in anything to take over an agency. | ||
| You want people who have knowledge of the topic, but then also have an inquisitive view of the world, and that is actually how we will make America healthy, and I suspect that we will. | ||
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| All right, here we go. | ||
| Mouser says, if we are being honest, please, let's. | ||
| The West is being invaded, clowered Piven style, and destroyed before our very own eyes and against the will of the majority, by the way. | ||
| A lot of people understand this, I think, but are they too polite, intimidated, beleaguered to fight back honestly? | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| All right, well, yes. | ||
| Yeah, we are. | ||
| I mean, look at Western Europe. | ||
| Look at, we show you these videos all the time, like the invasion of Western Europe particularly, a little bit with Eastern Europe, but they did generally a better job of it in Central Europe, did a better job of it. | ||
| I'm talking about Poland and Hungary and some of those countries versus Western Europe, you know, say Spain and France and England, who have just completely opened their borders in Germany, and they've allowed for people and ideas. | ||
| that are not congruent with Western values of plurality and individual rights and tolerance and all of those things. | ||
| They've allowed these people into their countries and they don't know what And none of those countries were ever as good as As America, when it came to integrating people, we did something called assimilation here. | ||
| It's what virtually everyone who ever came to America wanted to do. | ||
| You'd still have some of your foods, you could have your traditions, you could have your religion and your beliefs set, but it would fold into the tapestry of what it meant to be American. | ||
| And what it meant to be American was kind of live and let live, and individual rights, and go out there and get yours, and competition. | ||
| And that's why we've done so much good for so many people in a way that no other country ever has. | ||
| And there are too many cowards now. | ||
| Europe is really... | ||
| Let's put it this way. | ||
| Europe in 50 years is going to look very, very different than it looks right now. | ||
| And it's already looking pretty banged up. | ||
| I think there will be certain countries, again, more Eastern European countries like Hungary, that will be looking a lot better in the future. | ||
| And it's not because they're racist, but they defended their way of life. | ||
| So Angela Merkel and the clown car of British prime ministers who've come in and done nothing about this, it falls on you. | ||
| But at some point, it also falls on the average German and the average Frenchman and everything else. | ||
| I don't know what you're supposed to do. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what I would do. | ||
| If America, look, we have some versions of this. | ||
| We showed you a video out of Minnesota on Monday that looks like Somalia. | ||
| We have Dearborn, Michigan. | ||
| Like, there are clearly people in this country that are here to have their culture dominate ours. | ||
| If it kept growing and growing, I don't know what I would do if push came to shove in that last moment. | ||
| So it's a great challenge for the West, and I think most of the world is looking for the U.S. to solve the problem. | ||
| This is our little chance to do it, and we'll see what happens. | ||
| Tappy Sheff says, are you or David doing the planning for the August break, taking the boys anywhere special or just hanging at the homestead due to all your traveling? | ||
| So I do have a whole bunch of traveling until August. | ||
| Actually, in about a week and a half, I'm doing about five days in Hungary, then about five days in Israel. | ||
| We'll be shooting live shows from both locations and a lot of interviews and on-location stuff. | ||
| So it's busy, busy till August. | ||
| We have not figured out. | ||
| We're gonna do probably a week solo. | ||
| That's just a good reset, separate from the kids and all that stuff. | ||
| And then we're just gonna be here. | ||
| Maybe we'll do little day trips, something like that. | ||
| But part of going away from this show, I mean, part of going off the grid, and for those of you that are new around here, literally no phone, no TV, no news, no nothing. | ||
| I'll be back. | ||
| After Labor Day with a fresh mind and fresh spirit and all that stuff, part of me doing that is not just so I could escape and go to the beach. | ||
| It's just also to like... | ||
| Connect with my life that I have here all the time that is running parallel to the life that you guys know of me, which is very busy in terms of what I do and running the show and working on other things and writing and everything else. | ||
| It's just to get back into the house and be able to spend more time with the kids. | ||
| There will be days where I basically do nothing. | ||
| I'll take a walk with the dog and I'll go to the gym and play with the kids and whatever. | ||
| But it's really just about... | ||
| It's about disconnecting from this little black box. | ||
| But yes, we'll go away for about a week and we got to figure it out. | ||
| I wanted to do maybe like Thailand or something. | ||
| David doesn't want to leave the kids for that long with that kind of flight. | ||
| You know, it's like a 20 hour operation. | ||
| So, and seven days would be kind of tight on that. | ||
| Anyway, so we will figure it out. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| Freedom Hawk says, when are they going to arrest AOC for incitement or at least censure her? | ||
| Well, I don't think there's anything she said specifically you could get for incitement, right? | ||
| So incitement to violence, which is a violation. | ||
| of the First Amendment is very, very specific, right? | ||
| Like, you can, we played a video recently, you can tell people to go kill themselves, but you can't rile up a bunch of people to say kill those people, right? | ||
| And then we have very tight language around libel and slander, that kind of stuff. | ||
| So I don't know that she has said anything like, go burn down that building. | ||
| She's gotten pretty close, a bunch of the Dems. | ||
| They get as close as you possibly can to that, and I think that's very, very intentional. | ||
| The people who for a long time were saying words are violent. | ||
| Now that they're on the out in terms of power, they're kind of ramping up the craziness. | ||
| And you can see it with so many of them. | ||
| Maxine Waters, you know, don't let them have a minute's peace and all that. | ||
| Like at some point, that is kind of a direct call to violence. | ||
| Do I want her arrested for that? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| As for the Democrats censuring her... | ||
| I mean, yeah, you could look at a whole, but who's censuring who? | ||
| Like, who's running the show here? | ||
| Who's the mature adult in the party? | ||
| And if you're looking to the old guard, you know, the Pelosi's and the Schumer's to do that, it's like they don't have the juice anymore. | ||
| They just don't. | ||
| So is AOC going to censure Ilhan or is Ilhan going to censure Rashida or whatever? | ||
| It's like they just don't have enough adults anymore. | ||
| And I think that... | ||
| As time goes on, I hate to tell you, it's just gonna get worse with them. | ||
| They will fake it for their next nominee, like it won't be, it won't look like a true lunatic, but the lunatics... | ||
| Multiplying like gremlins. | ||
| That's just how it is. | ||
| Elizabeth says, did you do anything special for your mom for Mother's Day? | ||
| So my mom was in New York leaving on a flight. | ||
| She's in Italy. | ||
| My parents are in Italy right now. | ||
| They haven't been to Italy in, I think, 10 years or so. | ||
| And they left on Mother's Day. | ||
| So beyond the FaceTime with the kids, yes, we did get her a rather expensive day at the spa. | ||
| You do not get a cheap day at the spa for your mom when you're buying the Mother's Day special. | ||
| We'll let the local place buy her, and there's a facial and a massage, and I think there's some, like, scalp stuff and all that kind of stuff, and it is well-deserved. | ||
| Hope you're eating lots of good pasta, Mom. | ||
| Love ya. | ||
| Talway says, what are your thoughts on Newark Mayor Baraka being arrested by ICE? | ||
| And yes, insert obligatory Mortal Kombat joke. | ||
| Yes, Baraka, Mortal Kombat. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| He was sort of like a combination of Wolverine because he had big, giant metal claws that came out. | ||
| And then who was the other guy from the Wolverine movie that was like, it was like X6, X12 or X6 or something? | ||
| It was played by Ryan Reynolds in the X-Men movie, not... | ||
| I'm not talking about Deadpool, but Ryan Reynolds played. | ||
| It was in the third X-Men movie. | ||
| It was like X-12 something. | ||
| X-Men Origins. | ||
| Wade. | ||
| Was Wade Wilson something? | ||
| Anyway, kind of gross face and big claws and the whole thing. | ||
| That was Barack in Mortal Kombat. | ||
| Can you go back to that Mortal Kombat image? | ||
| Because I didn't know what you were going to pull up there. | ||
| And that's Mortal Kombat from back in my day. | ||
| I remember Mortal Kombat playing that. | ||
| God, that's gotta be, I was in high school, that's gotta be around 95, something like that. | ||
| No, maybe Irvin earlier, probably 93, 92. And Mortal Kombat came out, it was like the more violent, you can see the blood there, version of Street Fighter. | ||
| And Street Fighter was a little more cartoony. | ||
| But then Mortal Kombat came out, and I remember Joe Lieberman and John McCain wanted to censor video games because they were all getting too violent. | ||
| And it's like, man, you take that little bit of drip of blood. | ||
| Compared to what kids are doing now, it's just things change and they change pretty quickly. | ||
| As for Baraka and LaMonica, you know, getting arrested for the ICE stuff. | ||
| Look, the Democrats, I'm not one of you, but I keep trying to give you guys advice. | ||
| Stop taking the side of the illegals in every case. | ||
| Stop taking the sides. | ||
| Of the Kefya-wearing kids who are overtaking campuses. | ||
| Stop always taking the side of the bad guys for just a second. | ||
| Take a breath. | ||
| Take a breath. | ||
| You know, sometimes when my kids are fighting, and they barely fight, but, you know, if they're just, like, on top of each other, kind of wrestling too much, or someone's going to get hurt, I'll kind of separate them. | ||
| I'm like, guys, let's take a breath for a second. | ||
| Take a deep breath. | ||
| And that's what the Democrats need to do. | ||
| Could you just, before you do the next fucking insane thing that you're going to do, Just take a breath and go, is this the right thing to do? | ||
| Should I storm the ICE offices in Newark, or is that not the right thing to do? | ||
| And I think a breath might give you a little insight into that. | ||
| That would be my advice to you people. | ||
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| James says, do you think Kanye West is mentally ill right now based on what he's been saying on the internet recently? | ||
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| And look, something does not seem right. | ||
| Like, I don't know. | ||
| Does he have bipolar disorder or some other... | ||
| Is he just a troll? | ||
| Who knows what he actually believes? | ||
| I don't even care that much. | ||
| I know he's come out with this Hitler song, which I didn't even listen to. | ||
| I just don't care. | ||
| It's partly why I'm always conflicted when we play celebrity things, because on one hand, you shouldn't care. | ||
| On the other hand, I do, as I always say, politics is downstream from culture. | ||
| That's the Andrew Breitbart quote. | ||
| You can't always ignore everything that's coming out of the culture, because... | ||
| The culture is the thing, right? | ||
| In some sense, it matters more than the politics. | ||
| So I don't really care about Kanye. | ||
| I mean, I know he's wearing Hitler shirts and he's doing Nazi salutes and all of this stuff. | ||
| And I guess he's lost custody of the kids to Kim Kardashian. | ||
| I don't know what is in his heart or in his mind. | ||
| But I did tell you guys the story once. | ||
| Years ago, when we lived in L.A., I think it was right before... | ||
| No, it was during COVID. | ||
| It was during COVID. | ||
| The gyms had opened up and I went to Equinox in Encino and he lived in either in Hidden Hills or where did the Kardashians live? | ||
| Calabasas. | ||
| And I guess that was the closest Encino, the closest Equinox to Encino. | ||
| And I go in, and in the morning, you know when you have your headphones in, and you're not really paying attention to anything, and then someone talks to you, and you talk back to them, and you're a little louder. | ||
| Your volume's a little dysregulated. | ||
| So David and I walk into the gym, and then Kanye West is walking towards us. | ||
| But I don't really care for that kind of music. | ||
| I was just like, I'm looking at him, I'm like, I know who you are. | ||
| You're somebody. | ||
| I didn't know if he was an actor, or it was Kanye, or whatever. | ||
| And I turned to David, and loudly, I was like, who is that guy? | ||
| Who is that guy? | ||
| I didn't realize how loud I said it. | ||
| And Kanye West gave me the stare-a-deft. | ||
| He gave me the full-on stare-a-deft because he is not used to having someone in his face being like, who are you? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I thought he was Chris Tucker. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Tony says, it seems in Florida. | ||
| When I run across lefties and they find out I'm originally from California, they automatically assume I'm on their team, not realizing that I fled California based on bad policy. | ||
| I'm guessing as a public figure this doesn't happen to you, but does this ever happen to your team? | ||
| Well, actually, I've talked about this a little bit. | ||
| When we moved here originally, and it's a little over three years ago now, one of the first things that I started doing, even though I know a certain amount of people are going to know me, but when I was walking Clyde around town, when I'm walking the dog around... | ||
| Around here. | ||
| I'd put on a Florida hat. | ||
| I have a hat with a little Florida insignia. | ||
| And I wanted people to immediately, if I met a neighbor, to just get a good vibe out of nowhere. | ||
| Because I knew it was gonna come. | ||
| Oh, where'd you move from? | ||
| And I knew if I said Cali, it was gonna do something, right? | ||
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| Once I did that, I think that alleviated a lot of it. | ||
| Then, look, a certain amount of people know me, and then that's all good. | ||
| But I've gone out of my way to, I try to say hi to every single neighbor. | ||
| I'm in an area where, as far as I can tell, most people kind of lean our way. | ||
| But there are definitely still blue pockets here in Florida. | ||
| You know, I saw, like, I did see, even in my area here, I saw a bunch of Kamala signs. | ||
| Like, it is what it is. | ||
| But yeah, there's a suspicion of the Californians. | ||
| But I can tell you this. | ||
| The Californians that I've met that have moved here, and the New Yorkers, because, you know, a lot of them, it's easier, if you're in Cali or in New York, culturally, it was a little easier maybe to move to Florida than it would be to Texas or Nashville, right? | ||
| Like, there's a little more cultural connection there. | ||
| And I can tell you, the people that have moved here... | ||
| In some sense, even though most of them were just mugged liberals, they are now more red than the average. | ||
| The average Floridian, I think, at some level, you take it for granted. | ||
| When things start really working, I mean, this is why. | ||
| This is why that line, good times create weak men, and then what happens? | ||
| Well, then weak men create bad times, and then bad times create strong men, and strong men create good times, and the cycle goes on and on. | ||
| I think what's happened here in Florida is it was a solidly red state that got even redder because of all the implants. | ||
| And then they, and this time they really realized it. | ||
| It wasn't like a Californian move into Utah 10 years ago because they're like, I've had it with high income tax and then voting the same stupid way. | ||
| People, the COVID thing was so obvious and Florida was so the beacon for that. | ||
| And DeSantis was so freaking good that look, the guy won by 20 points his reelection. | ||
| So I'm very bullish on the future of Florida. | ||
| There's some screwy stuff happening in our legislature right now, but it seems. | ||
| It seems to me that the people that have moved here have done it properly. | ||
| But if you have any concerns about that, I recommend a little Florida hat or an American flag on the side, something like that. | ||
| You'll be good. | ||
| Mitchell says, did you take any precautions to protect the Teslas or is Florida just lunatic free? | ||
| Yeah, no, we've got two Teslas. | ||
| We've got a black and a white Model X. And no, I did not fear for one moment that driving around Florida, I was going to have a crazy person etch a swastika into it or someone was going to throw... | ||
| Poop at me or anything else. | ||
| If someone was going to throw poop at me, it probably had nothing to do with the Tesla. | ||
| It's a safer place here. | ||
| And people know, you know, you do something bad here, you might get shot. | ||
| If you walk into, I always use the example, you walk into Lululemon to grab one of those nice cut-off shirts and you just take it and walk out, you might get shot, maybe by the guy behind the cash register or maybe by the guy standing outside. | ||
| We start policing ourselves when you have a respect for the law. | ||
| It actually scales. | ||
| So no, I have no fears about the Tesla. | ||
| And I am really glad to see now that Elon has stepped away from Doge that that seems to have calmed down. | ||
| And hopefully they punish those people to the fullest extent of the law. | ||
| And again, it just goes to show how the left, they could not get anyone. | ||
| We showed you so many videos that they could not get any leader to just outright condemn it. | ||
| Sorry, you don't like Elon. | ||
| You don't like Doge. | ||
| You don't like the fact that we're getting fraud out of the government. | ||
| But nonetheless, you can't burn a random person. | ||
| Person's Tesla. | ||
| Like, they just couldn't get someone to say that. | ||
| Sam says, what are your thoughts on the Star Wars franchise as it stands today? | ||
| And what about Marvel? | ||
| You know, on the Marvel thing first, because I've talked about Star Wars a lot, I would say, you know, I don't know. | ||
| I'm going to be 49 next month. | ||
| And maybe one of the things about growing up is you gotta let go of some of the stuff. | ||
| And the Marvel movies just don't do it for me anymore. | ||
| It's kind of, they're all kind of the same old thing. | ||
| You know, they're obviously made for kids and there's some good stuff. | ||
| Look, everything that Marvel did up until Avengers Endgame was incredible. | ||
| How many movies did they put together to get Endgame? | ||
| It's like 20 movies, right? | ||
| Can you Google that? | ||
| How many movies went into... | ||
| Putting together that final, you know, it was the two-part movie of Avengers, what was it, Infinity War and Endgame. | ||
| And they went back into the roughly, I think it maybe was 16, but I might be wrong. | ||
| It was about 21 movies. | ||
| So Marvel took 21 movies, built out an incredible universe, figured out all of these crazy touch points, and then in Endgame, go back. | ||
| Into all of it and just unfurl the whole thing. | ||
| Like, it really was incredible what they did. | ||
| Putting aside whether it's too many big explosions or it's just, you know, over-the-top whatever, and with actors who are assholes, like what's-his-name who plays the Hulk, who's a Hamas supporter, and what's-his-name. | ||
| Mark Ruffalo. | ||
| Like, putting all that aside, what they did with those movies, to me, that was the peak of all of it. | ||
| And subsequently, they've put out a bunch of movies, and I'm sure some of them are fine or not. | ||
| I just don't get excited for them anymore. | ||
| Like, I watched Wolverine vs. | ||
| Deadpool. | ||
| On the plane and it was like perfectly fine. | ||
| And I was half sleeping and wake and whatever. | ||
| And there are moments that are kind of good, but it's like, we've just been through all of this. | ||
| I think we just, we need new stories. | ||
| And to connect this to the Star Wars question, you know, Marvel is now owned by Disney. | ||
| And Disney also owns Star Wars. | ||
| And that's an awful lot of imagination cachet that one giant corporation should own. | ||
| And as I've said before, Disney is like the bad guy in a Disney movie, right? | ||
| In a Disney movie, the Disney would be the bad guy, like the giant corporation, right? | ||
| Watch the movie Robots, which was a Disney. | ||
| I think. | ||
| And it's like, they're the bad guys now. | ||
| And they just own too many properties. | ||
| And that's why Disney post-buying Star Wars has really sucked. | ||
| George Lucas, for all the shit that the fans gave George Lucas, because they didn't like the prequels, or they didn't like the acting, or this or that, or he shouldn't have directed all three of them, or whatever. | ||
| It's like, he wrote a really, really cohesive story, especially with the first three. | ||
| The prequels, as I've said a million times, as the years go by, will get better and better. | ||
| The acting is... | ||
| He doesn't know how to write a love story. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| But the incredible story of Anakin becoming Darth Vader and connecting that to Palpatine attaining power and why you want to be wary of power and how does liberty die with thunderous applause. | ||
| There's a great political story in Star Wars 2. They did that beautifully. | ||
| They told you cool backstories as it pertained to Yoda and the Jedi Order and all of those things. | ||
| And then the next three sucked. | ||
| They just sucked. | ||
| Force Awakens was actually pretty good. | ||
| That was the first of the three new ones. | ||
| But then, what's his name? | ||
| Rian Johnson, who did the second one, The Last Jedi. | ||
| He just hated Star Wars. | ||
| And it was obvious. | ||
| So they bring in J.J. Abrams at the end for the last Skywalker. | ||
| And he just tried to do... | ||
| He was just like, look, I got two and a half hours. | ||
| I got to try to make some people happy. | ||
| Throw in this and this and this and this. | ||
| Fifth Halakon. | ||
| And it was just nothing. | ||
| There was no hero's journey. | ||
| There was no arc that made sense or anything else. | ||
| So they've really mucked up. | ||
| You have to have a story that, like, feels true. | ||
| And Kathleen Kennedy, who did some good stuff in her day, you know, she did some Indiana Jones stuff. | ||
| I think she was executive producer of Temple of Doom, which I think is the best Indiana Jones movie. | ||
| Like, she really mucked up Star Wars. | ||
| And it's kind of sad when, you know, I always think about this. | ||
| Like, when I introduce my kids to Star Wars. | ||
| How am I gonna do this? | ||
| Do we do the originals and then the prequels and then they're gonna ask me about the new ones and then the other? | ||
| Like, how do you do it? | ||
| They've mucked up something that was really beautiful. | ||
| But that's what life's all about. | ||
| Someone needs to go out there, write a new story, right? | ||
| Write a new story and write some great characters and stop trying to recreate everything or reboot everything. | ||
| Go to a galaxy that's far, far, far, far away, even further than this galaxy. | ||
| You might find something. | ||
| Tricia says, hey Dave, as your birthday approaches next year, what are some life lessons you've learned this past year in more recent memories? | ||
| So yes, my birthday is June 26th. | ||
| I will be the ripe old age of 49 years old, which seems kind of nuts. | ||
| My tequila will be coming out that day. | ||
| We will have some announcements before that, but we're going to launch it on my birthday, June 26th, after a couple of delays and some shipping things and some import-export stuff. | ||
| All good. | ||
| I mean, what are some lessons that I've learned? | ||
| You know, the last two plus years now with the kids, you learn all sorts of lessons about patience and about, you know, putting yourself second, like all that kind of stuff. | ||
| I think maybe the lesson I've learned more than anything else has been... | ||
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| There's not much I can do with this lesson now, but it's probably that I wish I would have started... | ||
| That part of my life a little bit earlier. | ||
| Can't really do anything about that, but I guess what you can learn about your own life is some lessons that you can pass off to other people. | ||
| And I would say if you're a little bit younger than me and you're married or you're thinking about having a family, get going. | ||
| Get going. | ||
| Because I've talked about this before. | ||
| When I'm out playing basketball with my guys, which my knee is finally healed, I'm going to play this Sunday for the first time competitively again, which... | ||
| The fact that the stem cells did that in two months is incredible, and we're gonna release a little doc around that. | ||
| But when I see these guys who I'm playing with, some in their 50s and 60s who now bring their kids, or one guy even brought a grandkid. | ||
| 65-year-old brought a grandkid and we're playing. | ||
| Like, it makes you realize, boy, you wanna be as functional and as strong and resilient and everything as you can, not just for yourself, but for your kids. | ||
| So I guess, so starting a little younger would be a good lesson. | ||
| But yes, then there's all sorts of lessons about, well, there's lessons like, you know, don't, Put indelible markers. | ||
| If you're somebody who keeps a Sharpie in your hand all the time, all day long, like Bob Dole, when you finish the show, don't just bring this in and put it on the kitchen table, because then the children will draw all over the walls. | ||
| And then once a week, you're gonna have to hire a woman for $15 an hour to repaint your walls all the time. | ||
| So don't do that. | ||
| That's a thing that you could learn. | ||
| If you haven't seen it yet, guys, my interview with Frankie Valli, which we did on location in Fort Myers before one of his shows, it was really one of the greatest personal and professional joys of my life. | ||
| That is out now. | ||
| We will be live tomorrow, likely from somewhere in Austin and then back in studio on Friday. | ||
| I thank you for watching. |
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