Sept. 4, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Previously on the Ruby. | |
| 13 mugshots of Livingston. | ||
| And I'll hit her again. | ||
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Built by slaves. | |
| It was built by slaves. | ||
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Happy news. | |
| Well, how do you would you like to go to the dim world? | ||
| Kick with a wang and the code. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yo, yo, I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Ruben Report. | ||
| It is September 4th, 2025. | ||
| Yeah, our first week back in action, and we're kinda easing into it over here. | ||
| We're trying not to go too hardcore just yet. | ||
| It's hard to escape the matrix and then jump back in all the way without getting dinged up. | ||
| So we're just pacing ourselves. | ||
| As always, we are live streaming on Rumble on Locals and on YouTube. | ||
| We crushed that three mil subscriber thing on YouTube before I went off the grid. | ||
| Appreciate that. | ||
| And uh a couple quick announcements. | ||
| I am going to Australia. | ||
| The Ruben Report will be live. | ||
| I will have all sorts of special Australian guests. | ||
| I don't know, maybe I'll box a kangaroo, hang out with a chlamydia ridden uh no, not gonna do that. | ||
| Okay, we won't do that. | ||
| Uh I'll be in Melbourne, Australia on October 18th, I'll be in Sydney, Australia on October 21st, and Brisbane on October 27th. | ||
| You can go to DaveRubin.com slash events if you are in Australia. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And did you know Australia is its is its own continent? | ||
| People do not know that there. | ||
| If I was on CNN, I would get some kind of award for that sort of information. | ||
| Uh that, and then real quick, uh, Copal will be back in stock next week. | ||
| We'll have more on that if you wanna sign up uh for the waiting list, drink copal uh dot com. | ||
| And we are diving right back into the madness for the first half of the show, and then doing a Ruben Report.locals.com community QA. | ||
| We're gonna talk a little bit about Trump and Elon. | ||
| Uh, we're gonna follow up a bit more on uh one of the main things from yesterday, which is just what's going on in Chicago and Trump having to use the powers of the federal government to clean up places that refuse to clean up themselves, did it in DC, now seems to be doing it in Chicago, and we'll see what happens uh with that. | ||
| And then there was just like a fiery, I would say borderline ridiculous uh congressional hearing. | ||
| Nigel Farage came across the pond uh and tried to explain a few things to some of our, let's just say uh dim-witted Democrat senators. | ||
| Uh and there's some comic moments in that. | ||
| So let's dive in. | ||
| Uh Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Have you heard of this man? | ||
| He went on Scott Jennings podcast. | ||
| I didn't know Scott had his own podcast, but I guess if you work at CNN and you're around these sort of brain-drained lunatics all day long, every now and again you've got to step away and do your own thing. | ||
| So good for you, Scott. | ||
| Welcome to the internet. | ||
| Uh and Donald Trump called in. | ||
| That's what Donald Trump does on a lot of these things. | ||
| He called in, uh, and they talked about uh the fight that obviously started, gosh, what was that? | ||
| That was probably in May, I think it really started, the Elon Trump fight, which largely has settled. | ||
| Uh and I thought Trump made an interesting point about that. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Well, I don't think he has a choice. | ||
| So what's he gonna do? | ||
| He's gonna go with the radical left lunatics, you know, the lunatics. | ||
| Uh I don't think he has a choice. | ||
| He's he's a man of common sense. | ||
| He's a good man. | ||
| He got off the reservation incorrectly, and uh that's okay because you know it's just one of those things. | ||
| But but he's a good person. | ||
| He's got you know, 80% super genius, and then 20% he's got some problems. | ||
| And uh when he works out to 20%, he'll be great. | ||
| But he's got some difficulty, but I like them. | ||
| I always like them, I like them now. | ||
| But but he uh he went off the reservation, and he wished he didn't do it. | ||
| I have to say, it's it's a kind of pickup of what something I said about Trump yesterday, but like we're just years from now, we're gonna look back and we we are not gonna believe how honest this guy was. | ||
| Everything he said there was completely true. | ||
| Like even the 80-20 thing for him to say that, like 80% genius, obviously, and then is there some other stuff, okay? | ||
| Up there obviously is as well. | ||
| He went off the reservation a bit. | ||
| I like him, I liked him, I like him, I even like him now. | ||
| Um, but but the broader point that he made there that I think is interesting, as they've sort of put some of this stuff to bed, and there's obviously gonna be some tension, and nobody has to, you know, the beauty of what Trump has done is he's turned so many of the people that used to hate him, Marco Rubio, Little Marco, and Ted Cruz Lion Ted and blah, blah, blah, and DeSantis, and all these people that used to fight with him and all this stuff. | ||
| He turns them into allies over time. | ||
| So none of this is new. | ||
| It's the magic, and you can even hear the the sort of tone that he's saying it with. | ||
| It's just like, yeah, this is just all part of how it goes, right? | ||
| Like he's been through all this long enough. | ||
| Um, but but the real uh the real sort of catch on that, I would say, is the line where he goes, well, he doesn't have a choice. | ||
| Meaning, where are you gonna go? | ||
| Where are you gonna go, Elon? | ||
| And that actually is true, right? | ||
| What are you gonna do? | ||
| You're gonna try to reform the Democrats now after all of the things that have changed over the years, after all of the Tulsi Bobbies, you, Rogan, etc., all these people move over. | ||
| Why tent Republican stuff? | ||
| I don't have to belabor the point you guys get it. | ||
| Like, are you gonna go back to that? | ||
| So let's try basically to put some of the nonsense down. | ||
| And real quick, we don't have to hit it too hard, but what really got this all going? | ||
| Well, this was the tweet from Elon, uh, which I believe was oh, it was June 6th. | ||
| I said May, it was in the first week of June. | ||
| Time to drop the really big bomb. | ||
| Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. | ||
| That is the real reason they have not been made public. | ||
| Have a nice day, DJT. | ||
| Again, subsequently, they have cleaned up a lot of this. | ||
| We will see what happens. | ||
| But interestingly, over the last couple days, uh, you know, when I was going off the grid in July, um, a lot of the Epstein stuff, it had sort of peaked and then it seemed like it disappeared. | ||
| Now it seems to be bubbling back. | ||
| And Gloria Allred, who I had a rather interesting experience with during COVID. | ||
| We'll show you that in just a moment. | ||
| She is a famed that what they always tell you is she's a famed civil rights attorney. | ||
| She doesn't seem to be that into civil rights. | ||
| Uh I'll show you in just a second. | ||
| Uh, but she is now representing apparently several of the Epstein survivors. | ||
| Uh, and they had a press conference. | ||
| Now, she's no Trump fan, she's no fan of Republicans, conservatives, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Uh, but they had a press conference talking about the Epstein files and the the guilty people, and uh, listen to how they try to tie Trump to this. | ||
| Was that justice? | ||
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No. | |
| This is we're overdue for justice. | ||
| We're not going to be waiting for justice. | ||
| We are fighting for justice. | ||
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And let me tell you, no more talk of the word pedophiles. | |
| Which only means a man who is attracted to children. | ||
| We're not talking about pedophiles. | ||
| We're talking about sexual predators and child molesters. | ||
| Let's get the word in about what the crime was that they committed. | ||
| Epstein surrounded himself, I'm sorry, with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world. | ||
| He abused not only me, but countless others, and everyone seemed to look away. | ||
| The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. | ||
| He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. | ||
| It was his biggest brag, actually. | ||
| Okay, so I just want to be clear. | ||
| Gloria Lord, I I don't trust her. | ||
| She's sort of an ambulance chaser. | ||
| I would like justice to be served to anyone who was molested or abused or trafficked or whatever else. | ||
| Like the that that's the obvious thing as it relates to this. | ||
| Now, note the girl there. | ||
| Well, let's let's assume she's being truthful and that she was a victim that was part of this. | ||
| She never said Donald Trump did anything. | ||
| Now, this is sort of interesting because here is an attorney for some of the Epstein victims saying that Trump is the only one who helped them go after Epstein. | ||
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The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty uh connected people that I was going that I wanted to talk to them. | |
| He is the only person who picked up the phone and said, Let's just talk. | ||
| I'll give you as much time as you want, I'll tell you what you need to know, and was very helpful in the information that he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us. | ||
| And that we didn't have to take a deposition of him in 2009. | ||
| That was in 2009. | ||
| That's pretty interesting. | ||
| There you have a lawyer for the victim saying Trump's the only one who helped us. | ||
| By the way, if you think back to the to the Elon tweet that uh from June, right there, that Epstein that Trump is in the files, it doesn't mean Trump did anything. | ||
| All sorts of people were in those files and took flights and everything else. | ||
| That's why this thing is so freaking messy. | ||
| But it is kind of interesting that a lawyer for the victims is like, oh, Trump is the only one that helped us. | ||
| The other part of this, of course, is Gloria Allred herself, and are her motives to go after Trump, let's say less than honest. | ||
| Listen to this from C3 on X. Uh Gloria Allred is representing Epstein victims. | ||
| Gloria Allred is Lisa Bloom's mother. | ||
| Lisa Bloom got caught offering $750,000 for women to accuse Trump of sexual assault. | ||
| Lisa Bloom paid off a woman's mortgage if she would accuse Trump of sexual assault, a family of fraudsters. | ||
| So that's just a little subtext there. | ||
| And then I thought if we are doing a segment about Gloria allred, we should throw back to this gem. | ||
| Now this was in 2021. | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| I don't know if any of you remember there was a this imaginary thing called COVID. | ||
| A few people were coughing, and then we had to shut down the world for a few years. | ||
| And I was invited to debate civil rights attorney Gloria Allred about civil rights. | ||
| I wanted to open up restaurants. | ||
| I wanted people to be able to go to work. | ||
| I didn't think it would be fair if me of as a boss was able to inject my employees, force my employees to be injected with things. | ||
| But I was going to debate the civil rights attorney who was for mandates and everything else. | ||
| Anyway, I showed up to Fox. | ||
| It was the local Fox affiliate, still lived in LA at the time, and they literally would not let me in the building because I was not vaccinated. | ||
| So I had to go home and then do it online. | ||
| And here is just a small portion of my debate with famed civil rights attorney Gloria Allred. | ||
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Are you a good decent citizen? | |
| Are you vaccinated? | ||
| It's nobody's business whether I'm vaccinated. | ||
| That's like me asking you the last time you got laid. | ||
| I mean, it's just irrelevant. | ||
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All right. | |
| So you know what's really relevant is that it's one thing if you have the right to make it. | ||
| My medical history is not your business, nor yours is mine. | ||
| First off, nobody knows. | ||
| Nobody wants to know the last time that lady got laid. | ||
| Um but can you imagine a civil rights attorney on air asking a private citizen what their medical history is? | ||
| And that's how stupid all of this stuff is. | ||
| So okay, so let's put Gloria Allred down for just a moment uh and jump over. | ||
| Uh Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith were on Chris Cuomo's podcast, and they started talking about this Epstein stuff. | ||
| And uh and I think Bill O'Reilly actually made a great point because you have to really think about some of the motives of some of the people involved here. | ||
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But let's be honest, Stephen A. Of course we'll be honest. | |
| Let's be honest. | ||
| You're a street, you're a straight shooter. | ||
| The motivation of the Democratic Party and the hate Trump cadre is to tie criminality around Trump's. | ||
| Totally true. | ||
| Not to know what the victims went through. | ||
| Okay, that's not to sympathize with the victims. | ||
| That's they don't give a hoot about the victims. | ||
| They want to bring. | ||
| I mean, that that sadly is right. | ||
| Let me be crystal clear about something. | ||
| Anyone who abused a kid or was involved with any of the sexual predator stuff or any of that should pay the price, should be held to justice, all of those things. | ||
| But sadly, I mean, this is what ideology does to everybody. | ||
| If you think you can get the guy you want to get, the guy that's not on your team, you'll be all for something and uncovering everything and all of those things. | ||
| And if you think it's your people involved, or it's gonna cost you something, or the power that you're chasing is gonna be affected by it, you're gonna shut up pretty quickly, which is why, again, this was July or so, right before I went off the grid. | ||
| All these Democrats were suddenly like, release the Epstein files because they thought it was gonna hurt Trump. | ||
| And it was like, guys, you had the presidency and the House and everything else, and you could have done it all those years and you didn't. | ||
| So kind of makes you wonder. | ||
| I want to show you one other here of Bill O'Reilly, because this the main story that we covered yesterday was about Chicago and the amount of people that are being killed in Chicago every week. | ||
| We got some year year-end numbers, which we'll get to you in, we'll get in just a second. | ||
| Uh but here's Bill O'Reilly talking about uh the less than successful tenorship of J.B. Pritzker in Illinois. | ||
| Pritzker is the worst governor in the country. | ||
| He's worse than Newsom, and it's hard to believe that you could be worse than Newsom. | ||
| And the reason is that Pritzer doesn't tell the truth. | ||
| All right. | ||
| He, I don't want to, I hate the word lies, but he misleads his own people in Illinois and the nation. | ||
| So from 2014 to last year, 10 years, there have been more than 7,000 human beings murdered in the city of Chicago. | ||
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That is correct. | |
| And Prince Cool will tell it's going down. | ||
| It doesn't help the people in a cemetery, and it isn't going down significantly based on the Labor Day weekend stats that were horrific. | ||
| So Pritzker doesn't want to solve the problem. | ||
| It's too messy because the murders are taking place in the black neighborhoods. | ||
| 80% of the 7,000 fatalities are African American. | ||
| And they're being gunned down by drug operations, young people in the streets running wild. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Not only are there people being murdered on the South Side, they can't come out of their homes. | ||
| They can't testify against anybody. | ||
| It's like the cartels in Mexico. | ||
| You testify or inform on one of these gang members, you're dead, and so is your family. | ||
| You know, Bill O'Reilly deserves some credit here because it's kind of getting easier to talk about these things, right? | ||
| Talking about inner city crime and black on black crime. | ||
| Like it was extremely hard to talk about it. | ||
| And years ago, I'm talking about a decade ago, the only people really in mainstream media that would even remotely touch this were Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hadity. | ||
| Now, you have Stephen A. Smith, who happens to be a black man there. | ||
| Is anything that Bill O'Reilly said racist? | ||
| Actually, if you cared about black people, whether you were black or not, you would not want 80% of 7,000 people in 10 years who have been killed are black. | ||
| You might care about it. | ||
| But the machine itself doesn't know what to do about this because it's black people killing black people, largely in drug and gang-related violence. | ||
| And it doesn't fit the equation. | ||
| What do they love? | ||
| White guy kills black guy, love that one. | ||
| Black guy kills black guy, don't like that one. | ||
| Black guy kills white guy, really don't like that one. | ||
| Ugh, dumb. | ||
| Here's J.B. Pritzker moving the goalposts. | ||
| The president's absurd characterizations don't match what's happening here. | ||
| There's no emergency that warrants deploying troops in Chicago. | ||
| He's insulting Chicagoans by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone who takes his word at face value is insulting them too. | ||
| It's just meaningless dribble. | ||
| By the way, you know, O'Reilly said that he's the worst governor. | ||
| I mean, I think we could probably, we should have a let's get O'Reilly on, and we could do like just like a full-on autopsy of is it Pritzker or is it Newsom? | ||
| I'll take Newsom, he could take Pritzker and we can battle it out. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| Um, but putting aside like the whittling away which one of these freaks is worse, it's Newsom. | ||
| But like the point is that Pritzker, it's like, why are you not concerned with the death of your own citizens? | ||
| Trump isn't ran, he's not random, he's not like spinning a wheel like this is roulette and throwing a thing down and being like, okay, wheel and it landed on Des Moines Iowa, and let's send in the troops. | ||
| No, he's going to a place where an insane amount, 7,000 people in 10 years. | ||
| I'm not a mathematician, but that's about 700 people a year. | ||
| That's a lot of people. | ||
| Anyway, forgot about this guy in August, did not think about him once. | ||
| Uh, soon-to-be unemployed comedian who's been making 20 million dollars a year to run a show with a staff of 100 that loses 50 million dollars a year. | ||
| I mean, my God, you gotta carry the one a couple of times to get that to work out. | ||
| Uh Stephen Colbert, he's got his show, I guess, for a few more months, and he doesn't like that Donald Trump is concerned that black people are getting killed. | ||
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So yesterday, Trump also posted, Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the world by far. | |
| Worst and most dangerous? | ||
| Two words. | ||
| F*** you. | ||
| *crowd cheers* | ||
| You know what? | ||
| That seems worth 20 million bucks. | ||
| Um, it's funny because I used to do that joke about Newsom years ago. | ||
| It was sort of newish at the time. | ||
| I would say it was an expression of genuine frustration as it pertained to COVID. | ||
| But what like Colbert, you think you're the good guy here, as you have your seals clapping, and I know they throw them little fish heads so that they clap appropriate. | ||
| Oh, he's running our fish head, fishhead. | ||
| Um but like, why do you think you're the good guy? | ||
| You are the good guy. | ||
| Why do you not care, Stephen Colbert, that all of these black people are being killed? | ||
| And again, I don't care what their race is, but you guys are the ones that purport to care about this. | ||
| Why would you put a side race for a second? | ||
| If 7,000 people have been murdered in cold blood in any city of the United States, and the people that govern that state and city don't do anything about it, and then someone else comes in and says, I would like less people. | ||
| I'd like less people to be killed. | ||
| Could we kill less people on the streets? | ||
| Maybe we could do that. | ||
| And your response to him is fuck you. | ||
| Like, and you're the good guy. | ||
| Well, let's give you some of these numbers because they're wild. | ||
| I mean, these numbers are really wild. | ||
| And this backs up what O'Reilly was saying. | ||
| Uh in 2020, the number of Chicago homicides, uh, 779. | ||
| Uh, in uh, well, you can see the numbers right there. | ||
| Like, I wouldn't have to do all this, but in 2021, there were 805, in 2022, 695, 23, 666, uh, sorry, 617, uh, last year 573, and through August of this year, already 278. | ||
| Again, note, we don't know any of those people's names. | ||
| Those are not people that Democrats get up and hold vigils for or anything else. | ||
| It's just baked into the system. | ||
| Oh, a couple black people got killed today. | ||
| Now, however, if a black person was killed by a police officer who he was threatening and blah, blah, blah, we know that there would be riots in the streets, we'd burn down a pet boys and steal a plasma TV from Target. | ||
| Do they still sell plasma TVs? | ||
| I guess it's an LED or U-led TV. | ||
| Anyway, let's jump back over. | ||
| Scott Jennings at his main gig when he's not doing his podcasts. | ||
| He sits at a table with a bunch of retards. | ||
| He's declared nine emergencies since he's elected so that he can violate all sorts of constitutional norms when it comes to deporting people and all sorts of other things. | ||
| Do you believe it is violating constitutional norms for the president, the head of the federal government, the head of the executive branch to be enforcing federal immigration law? | ||
| Because a big issue here, there are over a half a million illegal immigrants in Illinois. | ||
| I suspect most of them live in and around Chicago. | ||
| Why wouldn't you surge federal law enforcement resources to the place where that many people are violating federal law? | ||
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Wait a minute. | |
| Well, he's talking about doing I grant you there's separate pots, but do you believe it's wrong for the president to send ICPV? | ||
| Because the Democrats in Chicago don't want any of it for Jonah Goldberg, that's that guy's name, right? | ||
| It's like, dude, you're supposed to be a conservative. | ||
| I I don't know what you really are. | ||
| I guess you're an anti-Trump conservative or something, which but it's like whether it's to stop illegal immigration, which is the job of the federal government, or it's to stop insane criminality. | ||
| Why would you not be for what would look? | ||
| I don't like the idea of the president just willy-nilly being like everything's an emergency, right? | ||
| You start going down that road and they can always figure out a way to call for an emergency for emergency powers, Palpatine did it. | ||
| We've been through the story, right? | ||
| Like, so the the concept of that I can get on board, but I don't know. | ||
| So how many people would you like killed in Chicago? | ||
| How many people have to flee Chicago? | ||
| If here in Miami there were just every other day, there were just a couple people being shot left and right for different reasons, and then the mayor of Chicago and then the governor of Florida were doing nothing about it. | ||
| I, as a Floridian, would want the federal government to get involved to do something. | ||
| That's asking very little. | ||
| Could you just make sure we don't get shot and or raped while we're going to Starbucks? | ||
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| So clearly with Trump 47, we have a new sheriff in town, whether it comes to trade deals, whether it comes to the border, long litany of economy, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| There's just, we're just doing things differently. | ||
| It's making all of the bad people upset about everything. | ||
| Because if Trump is bad, no matter what Trump does, everything must be bad around it. | ||
| One of the other things Trump did over the last couple of days is uh we had the military, which is here to defend our borders. | ||
| Uh well, it struck a Venezuelan drug vessel. | ||
| A vessel was coming from Venezuela with lots of drugs. | ||
| These drugs probably would have caused drug addiction on our shores, possibly death, fentanyl death, etc. | ||
| etc. | ||
| And we blew up the vessel. | ||
| That seems pretty okay with me. | ||
| Uh Rubios into it. | ||
| We'll get uh the Democrat response in just a second. | ||
| When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that uh we just uh over the last few minutes literally uh shot out a uh a boat, uh drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. | ||
| And uh you'll be seeing that, and you'll be reading about that. | ||
| It just happened moments ago. | ||
| And the United States has long for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats. | ||
| And we did that. | ||
| And it doesn't work. | ||
| Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're gonna lose, you know, two percent of their cargo. | ||
| They bake it into their economics. | ||
| What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. | ||
| So they were designated as what they are. | ||
| They are narco-terrorist organizations. | ||
| So the same information and the same intelligence mechanisms with maybe a higher focus was used to determine that a drug boat was headed towards eventually the United States. | ||
| And instead of interdicting it on the president's orders, he blew it up. | ||
| And it'll happen again. | ||
| Maybe it's happening right now. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But the point is the what the president of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations. | ||
| This one was operating in international waters headed towards the United States to flood our country with poison and under President Trump those days are over. | ||
| So the usual suspects are upset because Trump used the military and it was international waters and everything else for Rubio's making a great point there, which is that when we normally grab these things, they literally, it's in the economics of the way the cartels and the drug dealers uh work, that whether they're gonna have to give up a certain amount of stuff to get the rest of the stuff through. | ||
| We're just not playing like that anymore. | ||
| So we're going to blow you up. | ||
| I also love the fact that he's like, one could be happening right now. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| It's like, and by the way, once you do it a couple times, you blow up a couple Venezuelan fentanyl ships, then it's going to get a little harder to get a guy who's going to pilot that ship, right? | ||
| It's gonna have you're gonna have a little more trouble putting up an ad on Craigslist. | ||
| I need a captain for my Venezuelan drug cartel ship to get over to the U.S. And then it it's exactly what happens with immigration. | ||
| You do a few things. | ||
| You say we're gonna start arresting people, we're gonna start deporting people, whatever it is, and then the signal is sent out to the world. | ||
| Okay, uh, well, the getting the fentanyl across on the boat's gonna be a little more difficult. | ||
| Now, of course, the Democrats. | ||
| If Trump does something good like stopping fentanyl from getting into America, what do they have to do? | ||
| They have to take the side of the narco-terrorists. | ||
| You remember Chris Van Holland, Chris Van Holland, of course, senator from Maryland, who is very concerned that a uh human trafficker by the name of Albrego Garcia, who beat his wife with a boot and a serious series of other things, went over to El Salvador to have a margarita with the guy. | ||
| You remember him. | ||
| Uh, he is very upset about Trump blowing up the boat of fentanyl-filled blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Go. | ||
| Am I am I crazy? | ||
| Am I wrong here that this seems to violate both US and international law? | ||
| Uh, Chris, you're absolutely right. | ||
| And I think at the outset, people should understand that the Trump administration, when they submitted their budget this year, they cut funding for the drug enforcement agency. | ||
| They cut funding for the organized crime drug enforcement task forces. | ||
| Uh, that's a half billion dollars. | ||
| Those are not things you cut if you're Serious about preventing drugs from coming in the United States. | ||
| What this was was an extrajudicial killing, pure and simple. | ||
| It was illegal. | ||
| As you said, we only have the Trump administration's word to take for who was on that vote. | ||
| But even if they were right, we're not in a war with Venezuela. | ||
| We're not in a conflict with Venezuela. | ||
| And as you also know, our own intelligence agencies earlier concluded that there's no kind of collusion between the Venezuelan government regime Maduro and these drug gangs. | ||
| So this was illegal on many counts. | ||
| You guys know my feelings. | ||
| I'm not for political violence, but if I was ever in a situation where I was in a room with that man and there was a frying pan, I would hit him in the face with it. | ||
| Like, dude, how about you care about Americans for just one second? | ||
| And by the way, what what was the opening line there from that impotent Muppet? | ||
| Am I crazy? | ||
| Yes, you are crazy, by the way. | ||
| You work at MS now. | ||
| And then did you see the thing on the bottom? | ||
| Your next guest was the communist who's trying to take over New York City. | ||
| So yes, you are crazy, you Muppet. | ||
| Um but Van Van Hahn, this is yes, we're not at war with Venezuela. | ||
| I suppose that's true. | ||
| We're not in the declared war with Venezuela. | ||
| So let's say this has nothing to do with the Venezuelan government. | ||
| You still a random dude from Venezuela can't just hop on a boat and bring fentanyl into our country. | ||
| And what do you international law? | ||
| It's just nothing. | ||
| It's not even a thing, right? | ||
| And the president of the United States has sworn an oath to protect the laws and the people of the United States, and he's doing it, and you hate it because you know what? | ||
| Look at you. | ||
| Look at you when you visited Albrego Garcia who beat his wife with the boot. | ||
| Like you could see. | ||
| Look how hard he's trying to just maintain his erection right there. | ||
| He's just focused and oh my God, I love him. | ||
| I he's human trafficker, and I love this story. | ||
| So uh let me just read. | ||
| So this is a complete jump here in some sense, I suppose. | ||
| Uh, but uh Nigel Farage, who of course is starting to regain momentum. | ||
| He was the the real leader of the Brexit movement, which was that a decade ago already? | ||
| Man, time flies. | ||
| Uh he is now gaining momentum and could possibly be the next Prime Minister of Britain, we shall see. | ||
| Uh let me read some info here from the Daily Wire because he's here in the United States right now. | ||
| British member of Parliament, Nigel Farage fended off attacks from Democrats Wednesday when he warned lawmakers about threats to free speech Americans may face from his home country. | ||
| Farage, the leader of reform UK, gave the warning as he testified before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on Europe's threats to American speech and innovation. | ||
| The British politician pointed to the arrest of Irish comedian Graham Linehan for posts he made critical of transgender ideology as a warning for Americans who may hope to visit England one day. | ||
| Okay, so Nigel has been on the front end of fighting for free speech, fighting to close the borders, fighting to stop the Islamization of his country, etc. | ||
| etc. | ||
| In some sense, you could think of him as a Trumpian figure uh in Britain. | ||
| Um and uh he goes and he testifies, and now just the clown show of Democrats, the clown show of these people. | ||
| Here's Jamie Raskin. | ||
| Before Nigel even had a chance to say anything, here's Jamie Raskin talking about Nigel. | ||
| Protectors of free speech, but they only want to protect speech they agree with. | ||
| In the UK, Mr. Farage is openly promoting the abolition of the Human Rights Act of 1998 to be replaced with a British Bill of Rights that limits the right of speech free speech to British citizens and legally sanctioned residents. | ||
| He complains that racist threats against immigrants are not protected free speech while he proposes to strip migrants, tourists, and perhaps even visiting American Congress people of any free speech rights at all. | ||
| To the people of UK who think this Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country. | ||
| Come on over to America and see what Trump and MEGA are doing to destroy our freedom, kidnap college students off the street, ban books from our libraries, militarize our police and unleash them against our communities, take over our universities, wreck our professional civil service, and turn the government into a money-making machine for Trump and his family. | ||
| You might twink twice before you let Mr. Farage make Britain great again. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
| Remember the frying pan thing? | ||
| Yeah, that guy too. | ||
| Um okay, so virtually every single thing he said there was a complete lie about Nigel, about what's happening here in the United States and everything else. | ||
| Like it's just drivel and watch now. | ||
| This is where the British accent really starts to shine. | ||
| I'm delighted to reacquaint with the charming Mr. Raskin. | ||
| Um delightful testimony you gave me earlier on uh with your speech. | ||
| But hey, that's fine. | ||
| You can say what you like. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Because that's what free speech is, and in a sense, this has all been going wrong now for a couple of decades. | ||
| We've kind of forgotten the Voltarian principles that we'll fight and defend to the death your right to say something that we fundamentally disagree with. | ||
| That is the absolute foundation, if you think about it, of free speech, of democracy, of living in freedom. | ||
| It's kind of why we fought two world wars at massive, massive cost to defend that very principle for ourselves and for many, many others around the country. | ||
| And I I first became worried about all this with council culture. | ||
| You know, the idea that we can't have this speaker go to a university because some people might be offended by what he or she have to say. | ||
| It is important to note that there is not a parent in the United Kingdom, and I would guess it's the same for America too, that is not concerned about content, their children as minors can find on the internet. | ||
| It's extraordinary that, you know, I come from a land of Magna Carta, or I come from a land that gave us the mother of parliaments, and it doesn't give me any great joy to be sitting in America and describing the really awful authoritarian situation that we have now sunk into. | ||
| Yeah, and you guys know about that awful authoritarian situation. | ||
| We played that video yesterday of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer talking about how they are arresting people who put up mean things on uh on X, not direct calls for violence, but just saying things about immigration policy, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| Like, how is that respectful of free speech? | ||
| But Jamie Raskin, you don't pull Kirstarmer aside to lecture him about that. | ||
| You pull the guy aside who's there trying to defend free speech in his country. | ||
| Now, that was sort of ridiculous, and that's just kind of general clown show, okay. | ||
| Democrats lie about everything, usual nonsense. | ||
| Tim Kane, do you remember Tim Kane? | ||
| Tim Kane was almost vice president of the United States. | ||
| He's largely irrelevant. | ||
| We barely ever talk about him on this show, thankfully. | ||
| Um, but he was Hillary Clinton's choice for VP. | ||
| And had she won, could have been president of the United States. | ||
| Here he is at the very same hearing, and this when we do our year-end show, this clip must be shown. | ||
| This is a sitting member of the United States government who takes the exact opposite position of the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
| The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator. | ||
| That's what the Iranian government believes. | ||
| It's a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha'is, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. | ||
| And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. | ||
| So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. | ||
| All right, first off, Tim Kane. | ||
| Nobody should wear their glasses there. | ||
| What is with Democrats? | ||
| Chuck Schumer wears his glasses down here. | ||
| Tim Kane wears his glasses up here. | ||
| Do they not know that that's how you would do it? | ||
| That the the glass, see what they're doing with glasses these days is you have this sort of frame here, and in it is glass, and they can bend the glass so that it is adjusted to whatever the issue with your eyes are. | ||
| For example, I I have a little bit of an issue when it comes to reading things close. | ||
| So I put these on when I'm reading something close, right in front of my eyes, and then it adjusts. | ||
| But if I put the glasses up here, it doesn't. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So that's one thing. | ||
| Now, are you telling me, Tim Kane, that you think that you where do rights come from? | ||
| Where do rights come from. | ||
| Are you saying that rights come from the government? | ||
| That you, Tim Kane, gave me rights? | ||
| Think how profoundly ridiculous that is. | ||
| Now, uh, Thomas Jefferson, you remember this guy, old guy wore a white wig, and let me listen, let me read something from Thomas, old Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| That is in the Declaration of Independence, okay? | ||
| So you are deeply, deeply confused. | ||
| Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, they are defending our God-given rights. | ||
| They didn't hand us those rights. | ||
| They defend those rights. | ||
| Now, you can have an interesting conversation with an atheist or a non-believer or people of various religions as to what God-given means, or there's a humanist angle to it. | ||
| But the point is there is something innately right. | ||
| There is something innately true and inherently valuable about you that has nothing to do with the government. | ||
| So he's taking a complete, it's the most radically anti-American position you could possibly take. | ||
| Plus, he's a Democrat. | ||
| This is a bit of a jump, but let's just roll with it. | ||
| Uh, do you we talked a bit about COVID before the coughing thing that people had for a while? | ||
| Uh, the woman that was in charge of the CDC at the time, her name was Rochelle Walinsky, and she went up on TV all the time, and she just every day she'd lie and she would move the goalposts and tell you the vaccines work or they don't work, or blah, blah, blah. | ||
| So here she is in an interview, and this is just absolutely incredible. | ||
| Here she is in an interview saying they they didn't even think that um vaccine efficacy could be a problem, or that there would be different variants. | ||
| She's in charge of the CDC. | ||
| There was just no means. | ||
| Where could we have improved? | ||
| Um, you know, I think I can tell you where I was when the CNN fee came that it was 95% effective on the vaccine. | ||
| So many of us wanted it to be helpful. | ||
| So many of us wanted to say, okay, this is our ticket out, right? | ||
| Now we're done. | ||
| Um, so I think we had perhaps too little caution and too much optimism for some good things that came our way. | ||
| I I really do. | ||
| I I think all of us wanted this to be done. | ||
| Nobody said waning when when, you know, oh, this vaccine's gonna work. | ||
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| Um, nobody said, well, what if the next variant doesn't, it doesn't, it's not as public against the next variant. | ||
| Nobody said that, and you were in charge over there. | ||
| Nobody was like, oh, it might wane, or there might be a variant. | ||
| Nobody said that. | ||
| Like you, that woman should never be anywhere near any public institution again. | ||
| And everyone who worked under her, you're telling me as you people were locking down the country and forcing us to be injected with shit that actually didn't work and caused all kinds of side effects and everything else. | ||
| Nobody said to you, uh, lady, do you know that uh we're we're seeing a bit of a problem here? | ||
| This thing ain't working the way we thought it was. | ||
| Nobody was. | ||
| And yet, for some reason, a simple, humble YouTuber like Dave Rubin, was a little skeptical of it. | ||
| What you you should be again, we just need a cave, a cave for these, you know, frying pan for her too. | ||
| It's the best I could do. | ||
| But it doesn't have to be this way, and it's not this way in all of these places. | ||
| Let's come home right here to Florida and listen to our governor, who of course was the all-star when it came to governors doing the right thing during COVID. | ||
| Uh, this is from Ron DeSantis yesterday. | ||
| Florida has become the national model for medical freedom. | ||
| Today we established the Florida Make America Healthy Again Commission to recommend state-level integrations of Maha principles and expanded protections for parental choice regarding childhood vaccines. | ||
| Chaired by First Lady Casey DeSantis and Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, the Maha Commission also includes the Florida Surgeon General, state agency heads in health and human services, and experts in the field of nutrition, vaccine safety, and family practice. | ||
| We have worked to empower Floridians to make the best decisions for their families' health, and the Florida Maha Commission will continue advancing this mission. | ||
| Guys, this is the this is probably the best example of what the Trump effect did when Trump widened the tent, when he brought in Bobby, when it became Make America Healthy again, when that joined, when that joined with MAGA. | ||
| And I remember a year and a half ago going to DC and I spoke at that Maha rally with Jordan Peterson and with Brett Weinstein and with Bobby Kennedy, obviously, and all of these people. | ||
| And it was the first time that I saw Maha things, you know, Maha signs next to MAGA signs. | ||
| And I was like, wow, this thing, oh, and Tulsi spoke there, of course, and this thing was really happening. | ||
| And so you so Trump did the big thing, right? | ||
| He widened the tent for the country. | ||
| And then that then empowered the the states where there's competent governance like Florida to now integrate those ideas. | ||
| So we will have more trusted people that will guide you on health, not force you to do anything, right? | ||
| And that is what we should be asking of our government and uh guys, I don't know if you know this, but we all live in Florida. | ||
| So pretty good for us. | ||
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| All right Ruben Report dot locals dot com community QA Joseph is sitting right there with a computer that I am told is on the internet and if you want to get a question in live you can do that at Rubenhore.locals.com Nimbus says what was your favorite year that you went off the grid so this was our ninth year of doing it and it's hard it's hard to say favorite. | ||
| They're all different they they're they're you know the first couple it was sort of like this lark and I didn't even know what I was doing and could I even do it and there was a lot of curiosity around it and whoa this is weird and whatever. | ||
| Now I kind of know how to do it so it's not as daunting when I put my phone down or disappear or whatever. | ||
| I mean truly like I guess it's the easy thing to say but truly like this year was the most meaningful and probably the year before that was the most meaning more meaningful before that. | ||
| You know, my life has changed obviously I haven't kids now so we don't just disappear all together but get getting to spend time with the kids the, you know, like more than just here where I'm busy some busy during the day I'm always checking in with them and whatever, where we just spent like hours and hours together. | ||
| And it can be it's like crazy and exhausting and nutty and funny and and like all of the things at once. | ||
| But I would say as as all of the things that I do here as the show has continued to grow and uh as we've built out some other businesses around this as we've as we're doing with uh with Copal and some other things that we'll announce soon I get busier and busier. | ||
| And so it just becomes more meaningful to me or more impactful for me to be able to step away. | ||
| So each year does become more meaningful and um and that's why this even this week I was like I was like a little I never get nervous to do this. | ||
| So it's not it's not nervous exactly but when I stepped back into the studio I was like man right back into the circus did I did I fill my cup up enough with all of the good stuff to go back into the craziness and not want to hit people with frying pans. | ||
| I guess I guess I was off by a little bit. | ||
| Rich says with Ron DeSantis's term expiring soon who would you like to see as the next governor of Florida? | ||
| So that's a great question. | ||
| Look we right now I know Byron Donalds who I do like Byron Donald's pat him on the show many times. | ||
| We've we've hung out a couple times uh he's congressman from Southwest Florida. | ||
| He's running for sure he's Trump backed it sounds like Jay Collins who we just mentioned in the previous segment he might get involved I think this guy Renner is jump jumping in a few other people I I don't know yet a Casey DeSantis might get involved. | ||
| I would say I would put it this way without picking a person just yet let's see who the you know the who who the full roster turns out to be um I would say anyone that I truly believe will continue the DeSantis legacy. | ||
| Like when when DeSantis steps away and whatever he does in his life, you know, he deserves some time probably in the private sector to make a little money or just whatever he wants to do. | ||
| and he's a true public servant. | ||
| Like he has he has set this state up so well. | ||
| He has so been the example for what a free state looks like for what a comp what for what competent governance looks like and what for really what the future of America looks like. | ||
| The guy deserves all of the cred, all of the applause. | ||
| I hope we I hope we give him, maybe I'll help lead it. | ||
| Like this guy deserves a serious farewell tour. | ||
| You know, when a basketball player is retiring or a baseball player is retiring, Kobe's retiring, like every game that they went to, every road game within that last year, there was a ceremony at halftime. | ||
| That's what DeSantis deserves at the end, because that's how good this state has become. | ||
| So I would say, I would say almost almost without ex without any question, if DeSantis backs somebody, I'll back that person because I don't think he would back someone that would uh you know be far off from the direction he was going. | ||
| Will it be his wife? | ||
| We will see. | ||
| Uh backup never says, How is Clyde? | ||
| We snapped a pick of Clyde. | ||
| Clyde's doing well. | ||
| Clyde is good. | ||
| You know, he doesn't get the attention that it used to get because of the kids, but he's good. | ||
| He's happy, he's defending the home. | ||
| He's still killing the lizards and the iguanas and all that stuff. | ||
| And uh, you know, it's been raining a lot lately, and he he goes nuts during the storms. | ||
| Uh, but he is uh he's doing well. | ||
| Thank you for asking. | ||
| We've been thinking about maybe getting him a friend. | ||
| He could use a friend, but it's just it's just a lot. | ||
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| Uh Nancy says, what basketball game do you wish you could have seen live? | ||
| This is a great question because I have a great answer for it. | ||
| So you guys all everyone remembers Michael Jordan retiring from the NBA the first time around in uh 94. | ||
| So he sat out the all of the 94 season after winning three championships, and then he came back in the middle of the 95 season. | ||
| Now, somehow in the 95 season, without Jordan, the Bulls were playing incredibly well. | ||
| Scottie Pippen was having his best year, and then and the Bulls were going to Madison Square Garden. | ||
| I lived in New York, and my dad, through a business associate, got two tickets, uh, courtside, basically, like fourth or fifth row to see the Bulls play the Knicks. | ||
| But Jordan was not playing, and my dad asked me if I wanted to go, and I knew my brother really liked Scottie Pippin, and he only had two tickets. | ||
| So I was like, ah, no, you know, let Jonathan go, let my brother go. | ||
| And then I think, if I'm not mistaken, it was literally the next day that Jordan announced he was coming back. | ||
| And then three or four days later, can someone check was it the 55-point Madison Square Garden game? | ||
| How many games back was Jordan already? | ||
| I think it was like his maybe second, third, fourth game back. | ||
| And Michael Jordan scored 55 points at Madison Square Garden. | ||
| There's a shot from it, and the final play of the game, you think he's about to shoot it to win, and he dumps off a pass to Bill Wennington, who dunks it for the win. | ||
| And people think of that as Jordan third possibly his most memorable game, maybe maybe the last game with the with the steal and the shot over Byron Donald's against the Jazz. | ||
| But I missed like a 55-point Madison Square Garden court side game. | ||
| So that is definitely the game I miss most. | ||
| Do we know? | ||
| Do we know which game back it was? | ||
| It was his fifth game back. | ||
| So think about it. | ||
| The guy takes a year and a half off, comes back 55 points in Madison Square Garden. | ||
| Uh Doc Ransom says, what is it with Soros and his desire to destroy America? | ||
| Is he just part of the WEF group wanting power that he already has? | ||
| Or is there some deeper goal? | ||
| You know, this is we brought this up a little bit with Nancy Pelosi the other day with Jillian talking about, you know, the trans stuff. | ||
| Like, what are the motives of these people? | ||
| What is the motives of someone like Bill Gates? | ||
| What is the motives of someone like Soros who funds so many so many of these NGOs that just wreck havoc? | ||
| Look, at the end of the day, I think it's the same thing that brings the intersexual coalition of the ding bats together. | ||
| Why is the why are the queers for Palestine for people that will literally kill them? | ||
| It's it's a it's a complete misunderstanding. | ||
| Well, there's probably two versions of it. | ||
| For the for the foot soldiers and the people that they just have out there with masks, you know, with tambourines screaming to destroy America, they're they're just like LARPing revolutionaries who just need to find meaning in their life or whatever. | ||
| Someone like Soros or Bill Gates or all of the people who are making all the money off the vaccines, or a guy like Soros, like you have to live in this society too, I guess. | ||
| It's well, he's gonna die soon. | ||
| But like your son will have to live on planet Earth. | ||
| I you know, I mean, I guess Elon will get some of us off the planet. | ||
| But like, what is the real motivation? | ||
| No, It's something like absolute power corrupts absolutely. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| If you have so much influence and power, you have so much money, you are so disconnected from what the average person is going through. | ||
| Could what does that somehow like does it somehow instigate some sort of like Machiavellian desire to control the world, basically make it seem like you're playing chess with the world. | ||
| I guess for some people, it does. | ||
| I mean, to make this about the previous question and or two questions ago, like the DeSantis thing, one of the things that I always liked about DeSantis was it didn't seem like he really wanted power that much. | ||
| He seemed like a competent, he seems like a competent executive. | ||
| And I think you always have to be leery of people that want that they love the fame. | ||
| They love the power, they love all of those things. | ||
| Trump is probably in an example of someone who obviously does love fame, but knows how to wield power appropriately. | ||
| That's very rare. | ||
| That's what makes Trump such a gem. | ||
| But most of these people get involved because they just want to rule the world. | ||
| And that that is pretty freaking dangerous. | ||
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| Larry says Joseph Hernandez is running in New York City against Mom Dani. | ||
| Would you amplify his campaign? | ||
| He's from Cuba and knows firsthand the horrors of communism. | ||
| You know, I've never heard his name before. | ||
| Uh I am here in Miami, lots of Cubans here, and I absolutely know. | ||
| I love, love, love, love Cubans. | ||
| Like they love freedom. | ||
| They get it. | ||
| They know what they fled. | ||
| They know why America's great. | ||
| There, I love like Cuban food and music and culture and mojitos and all the stuff. | ||
| Um, I have not heard of him. | ||
| My guess is in that I haven't heard of him, he probably doesn't have much momentum. | ||
| Um, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess he's probably a pretty good dude and does get it. | ||
| Um, Joseph, do we have any updated numbers on what's going on in New York City? | ||
| You know, I really one of the things that I thought was gonna happen in August was I thought we I there would just be more general in uh news coming out of New York as it pertained to the election, but not so much. | ||
| Uh I'm getting some numbers right now. | ||
| As of September 2nd in a survey of a thousand likely voters, uh, Mom Domney has the lead with 42%, uh, Cuomo with 23%. | ||
| Where does that even leave Eric Adams? | ||
| God, it's all so pathetic. | ||
| Like Adams has 9%. | ||
| So even if you combine Cuomo and Adams, now you're at 32%, and you're still down by 10 points. | ||
| God, get out of New York City if you're sane. | ||
| Get out. | ||
| Don't come to Florida, though. | ||
| We it's I just read somewhere that it's closed and um there's horrible crocodile deaths happening all over the place. | ||
| Um, yeah, anyway, I'll I'll look into him, but uh, in that, in that we're what, a week away from the election, or is it even next week, maybe? | ||
| You know, a couple days from now, something like that. | ||
| Like, he probably doesn't have much of a chance. | ||
| Uh, David says, You mentioned you had crazy dreams during August. | ||
| Do you remember the craziest one? | ||
| So, yes, you know, one of the things that that I really do think is important about getting off the phone, and and by the way, you don't have to take a month to do this. | ||
| One simple thing you could do with the phone is not have this thing on your nightstand when you go to sleep. | ||
| I do have it sometimes. | ||
| I do have it sometimes, because sometimes the kids monitors on there, and if I'm doing nights, Like, so I have that, right? | ||
| If they cry, I don't want to leave them for a long time. | ||
| Um, but one thing you can do is just get this thing off your nightstand because the it's not good that the last thing that you do before bed is is do the scrolling thing, pump all this more information, even if it's great, even if it's great, even if you're just watching stuff or whatever, it's stuff you like. | ||
| I just my general sense is it's not great to inundate your brain with all of this stuff all of the time. | ||
| Um, so by not doing that in August, I found that my dreams, my dreams all felt thick. | ||
| They were like robust. | ||
| They weren't, you know, sometimes you have dreams that are just like flashbulbs of things, you just have like a feeling about something, or you wake up and you're like, boy, that was really profound, but I can't really quite grab it the second I remember what it was, like almost like I figured out the meaning of life, and then it just like flits away at that moment. | ||
| But I had a lot of dreams that were like epic, like I was watching movies. | ||
| And one of them, I think the coolest one that I had was I was the captain of a ship. | ||
| It was in the future. | ||
| This was full sci-fi thing. | ||
| I was a captain of this massive starship, and it was my job and the crew's job. | ||
| We had to seed planets with life. | ||
| I did watch the alien movie. | ||
| I watched Prometheus and the other one, like a little bit at the end of July. | ||
| So maybe something about this was in my head. | ||
| But basically, we had to fly across the galaxy, and we had to shoot this, like, it was like this bundle of stuff, like this bundle of organic stuff, and we had to keep shooting it into the galaxy, hoping that it was gonna hit a planet so that if it hit a planet, it would create life on the planet. | ||
| Like, and I remember I was wearing this very like uh like very space space suit and like this well-fitting kind of blue suit, and I had all these emblems over here, and I was the captain of the I was the captain of the ship. | ||
| Can we AI that thing? | ||
| Let's AI that thing. | ||
| Uh Ella says, what was the most shocking news to come back from August? | ||
| Not that much. | ||
| I mean, look, there was a shooting. | ||
| Are there shootings? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I I guess Trump meeting Putin probably. | ||
| Like, if you would have said to me, is that gonna happen during August? | ||
| I although I might have said maybe, you know, you just never know with Trump. | ||
| So unfortunately, it doesn't sound like much good has come out of it, but but we'll see where the chips fall on that one. | ||
| There was nothing, I mean, do you can you guys think of anything? | ||
| Was there anything that was like shocking? | ||
| Yeah, I guess Howard Stern, but you know, he's also kind of aging out. | ||
| So him disappearing from Sirius XM or that the economics didn't work. | ||
| I mean, I suppose it's surprising at some level when someone who who is so influential or for so long, you know, stepped out either by their choice or being forced out. | ||
| There really wasn't much. | ||
| There really wasn't much, which I'm happy for, by the way, because what were the chances that I would come back and be surprised by something so unbelievably positive that happened? | ||
| My God, we solved all of the stuff. | ||
| Of course that wasn't gonna happen. | ||
| So if I was gonna come back and something was gonna really surprise me, it was gonna be something terrible. | ||
| So it was very nice that things were basically under control. | ||
| Uh Polly says, Do you think voters in states outside of Cali know about Newsom's terrible track record? | ||
| Well, I think viewers of this program probably know about it. | ||
| I I think more and more people are realizing it. | ||
| You know, I live in a very in a bubble here, so like people talk about it all the time in Florida, just like the difference between Florida and Cali, the fact that you know, we literally are on opposite ends of the country and and it's opposite ends of the political spectrum and all of that stuff. | ||
| Um, I am amazed, you know. | ||
| When I hear people, I've even you've even heard Donald Trump say this, and and other people that I've respected will be like, oh, Gavin Newsom is he is very charming and whatever. | ||
| Like I see none of that with him. | ||
| Like I so see through that thing and live through it and campaigned against him and was audited by the state and all I've so been through all of that that I don't see any. | ||
| I just see, I just see psychopath. | ||
| Like that's what I see with him. | ||
| And I and I know what the fruits of what he's done in that place are. | ||
| Uh, but look, for whatever reason there is some condition in Cali, maybe it's because of the nice weather or the mountains or whatever it is, they got the wine over there or whatever, the the lore of Hollywood, that when a man single-handedly destroys San Francisco, one of the great uh cities of the United States of America. | ||
| I told I told you the guys this a couple of times. | ||
| The only city that I've ever been to, this was about 15 years ago, that the first time I went there, I was like, whole, I had never thought of leaving New York ever. | ||
| I went to San Francisco about 15 years ago. | ||
| I was like, wow, I could really live here. | ||
| Like, I that's how great San Francisco once was. | ||
| He destroyed that. | ||
| And then, and then the reward for him was that they then made him governor of Cali. | ||
| So more and more people need to know it and we will see where the Democrats shake out, right? | ||
| Like, are they gonna hand it to him or do you hand it to Mom Donnie? | ||
| Do you hand it to one of the true abject communist lunatics? | ||
| Like he's a he's a psychopath opportunist. | ||
| In some sense that's probably better than one of the true believer like want to destroy America people. | ||
| So but congratulations Democrats, that's what you're left with. | ||
| Euroman says, what's one lesson you can give to fathers of young children. | ||
| Oh man, that's a good one. | ||
| Um I would say I mean this probably sounds simple or cliche or something but like enjoy it, right? | ||
| Like it's easy to enjoy the easy parts like the easy parts when when you're playing or you're showing them stuff if I'm you know playing I got these Spider-Man toys and we're going through the characters or right now we're reading goodnight um it's good night Darth Vader Goodnight Star Wars. | ||
| Wait no it's I think it's called Goodnight uh Darth can you check? | ||
| It's a child's book. | ||
| I think it's called Goodnight Darth Vader and it's uh Darth Bader yeah and it's good night it's Darth Vader reading Luke and Leia story goodnight and then each page is like another little character from the Star Wars adventure and they blend the prequels into the into the originals really nicely it has nothing to do with the last three movies. | ||
| And then I basically instead of reading the book as it's uh as it's written I tell the kids about each of the characters and they'll ask me about the Jawas and the I have to explain that they're fixing the robots and then we talk about C3PO and all the stuff right like though but that's easy like the good stuff is easy. | ||
| I would say try and I'm and I'm talking to myself when I say this like try to enjoy the tough parts too like when they're trying to go to sleep and it's not going well and you know you gotta stay up later you gotta hold them and you're tired too and you're hungry and like you've worked hard all day like try your best to enjoy that too I really do try to do that last couple nights Luke's been waking up a little bit more at night and I've been going in at 1 a.m and I got to work during the day and all that and and I just you can like kind of just get over the hump |
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