Oct. 30, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| Previously on the Rubin. | ||
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I try not to talk about it, but I'm a method actor. | |
| There's no time to give up. | ||
| It's time to get up. | ||
| I know he doesn't really know what he's saying. | ||
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I woke up every day as a black woman who is queer. | |
| Oh my God, I'm black. | ||
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My good. | |
| I like, yo. | ||
| That's what the kids say, right? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is the Rubin Report. | ||
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It is October 30th, 2025. | |
| We are live streaming on Rumble YouTube and locals. | ||
| Tap the subscribe button, click the notification bell, one or the other, do both. | ||
| Join us on this crazy adventure. | ||
| And before I do anything today, I want to give a little credit to a man who maybe doesn't get enough credit in this world. | ||
| And I'm talking about Donald Trump, because the man definitely doesn't get enough credit because he's bouncing around Asia right now. | ||
| And he does all these trips, Middle East stuff, shows up in all these different countries all the time, Europe, everywhere. | ||
| Seemingly never sleeps, never tired, gives these speeches, funny the entire time. | ||
| I'm two days back, basically, day and a half back from Australia. | ||
| And I got to tell you, the jet lag is still real. | ||
| My brain is still not fully functioning, right? | ||
| I've been up since about 4.15 this morning, slept about four hours, but we somehow pulled off a pretty good show yesterday. | ||
| And right before today's show, I walked outside and we put a little bet on. | ||
| And if I hit the three-pointer, one shot, it was going to be a 10 out of 10 show. | ||
| If I missed, it was still going to be a pretty good show because that's how we do it around here. | ||
| And I did hit the shot. | ||
| So I owe you a 10 out of 10 despite my fatigue and time shift disorder. | ||
| Anyway, we got a lot to get to. | ||
| Some crazy Dems, little wackiness on the right. | ||
| We got a locals community Q ⁇ A on the other side. | ||
| And I thought we would start with this because obviously it's very easy all the time to talk about the crazy progressives. | ||
| They're all nutbags. | ||
| We're going to have New York City run by Marxist jihadists soon, all of that stuff. | ||
| But there are a couple decent liberals out there and they're still trying. | ||
| And mostly they drink tequila, Copal, by the way, and smoke weed with Bill Maher at his Club Random podcast. | ||
| And Charlie Sheen went on there. | ||
| I guess he didn't smoke weed or drink tequila because he's clean these days yet, but he smoked a lot of weed and drank a lot of tequila in his day. | ||
| And here they are talking about crime in Democrat-run cities. | ||
| And I just thought this was just like too sane. | ||
| This was the moderate sane position of everybody like 20 years ago. | ||
| And now it is just completely out of lockstep with everything on the left. | ||
| And do note the bottle of Copal on the table right there. | ||
| Some crazy percentage of crimes, some site of crime was like from 600 people who just over and over did like 80% of the time. | ||
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So if you're able to build statistics from that, you clearly know who the f ⁇ they are, right? | |
| I mean, so why aren't, why, why not just take just that? | ||
| Build a special place for them. | ||
| And this is why it's so good. | ||
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Call it the 600 building. | |
| Right. | ||
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You know? | |
| That's good. | ||
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I mean, that's very good. | |
| There's our 600 building. | ||
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Yeah, there it is. | |
| And this is why Republicans get elected, because Democrats run cities and they don't do that. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, it's not rocket science. | ||
| And the reason I wanted to start with that clip was because that is just sort of normal stuff, right? | ||
| Like 20 years ago, it was just normal stuff before everything had become political all the time. | ||
| People used to just sit down. | ||
| And I think Charlie, he's probably, he had a bait there, but I'm guessing that's not weed. | ||
| That was probably just tobacco because apparently he's clean now. | ||
| I watched a little bit of that documentary. | ||
| But like people used to just sit down and just like kind of like hash out shit over a drink and like circle roughly around common sense. | ||
| And of course, Charlie's right about that. | ||
| And the 600 club is kind of interesting. | ||
| The 600 building would be kind of funny. | ||
| But we have, we know this, we know this. | ||
| And Bill's point at the end, that this is why Republicans win. | ||
| People have just had it with their cities, their states, and the country at large being overrun by criminals. | ||
| So let's put that down for a moment and get into some of the crazies, because the main problem that the Democrats seem to be having is to whatever extent there are sane people in their party still, and that's totally up for debate, really, at this point, besides Federman. | ||
| They don't know what to do about the radicals. | ||
| And then on top of it right now, we're in the midst of this government shutdown that, as I've said really from day one, I don't think most people really care about. | ||
| I think people are basically like, wait a minute, the government's shut down. | ||
| Oh, maybe I don't need them that much because everything's basically still working. | ||
| Though it would be nice if our members of the military were getting paid. | ||
| And I'm sure there are some services that are not being doled out the way they should be. | ||
| Whether they should be in existence in the first place is a different topic. | ||
| But here's a little compilation of just the sort of average do-nothing, nobody really likes you Democrats using the one thing they have. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Fear. | ||
| So Trump is weaponizing hunger. | ||
| He's turning millions of children and seniors and veterans into political pawns. | ||
| He's choosing politics over people, cruelty over compassion. | ||
| And let's be clear about this. | ||
| They've been on a crusade. | ||
| The Republicans have been on a crusade against SNAP all year. | ||
| They slashed it by $200 billion this summer to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires. | ||
| Johnson understands that the second Trump term has been a national nightmare and the notion that the American people will have to experience more of what they are dealing with right now. | ||
| Largest cut to Medicaid in American history, Republican health care crisis, threatening to starve children and seniors and veterans by cutting off SNAP. | ||
| The administration is clearly trying to weaponize hunger as part of their effort to continue to try to jam their right-wing ideology and this partisan spending bill down the throats of the American people. | ||
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You know, the administration has been looking for ways to be cruel to the American people over and over. | |
| They are making a conscious decision not to use that money just to inflict pain on 42 million people across the country. | ||
| So the new one is we're starving poor people and we're starving children. | ||
| Now, interestingly, note there's no video. | ||
| Please find it and send it to us if I'm wrong of anyone that is now starving that wasn't starving two weeks ago. | ||
| By the way, there is and should be always a debate about whether these government programs work, whether it keeps people in a perpetual cycle of poverty or on the government doll in the first place. | ||
| Why can't charities get involved? | ||
| Chuck, you could donate a little extra money to feed somebody. | ||
| Have you done that? | ||
| Have you tried that, Timu Obama? | ||
| But they just love the government slush, right? | ||
| It's just the government must do all of these things. | ||
| But again, I don't know of anyone that's starving right now that suddenly wasn't starving a month ago, but they must, they just have the fear thing. | ||
| And then the question, of course, is do these programs work at all? | ||
| There's what I just laid out. | ||
| There's sort of like the cycle of poverty that it keeps people in. | ||
| But then the next part of that is who is on these programs? | ||
| How did they get on these programs? | ||
| And then really, how long should they be on these programs? | ||
| Like all of these food programs, when they have subsidized rent or lower income housing, all these things, they were supposed to be temporary. | ||
| But just like that video from Arnold Schwarzenegger we played a day or two ago about gerrymandering, when the government comes in and says something's temporary, it's only temporary until it's permanent. | ||
| And that's why most people don't get off benefits. | ||
| If you give people just enough to survive, that basically crushes their desire to do anything. | ||
| It has nothing to do with race or any other factor. | ||
| That's just a human condition. | ||
| You give people just enough and they're just like, oh, I don't really have to do anything now. | ||
| And I can get this apartment and I can get this food and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| I can have my Takis and my Prime and all that stuff. | ||
| And everybody loves Takis and Prime. | ||
| Nobody's talking shit about Takis and Prime. | ||
| This guy loves it. | ||
| I became Donald Trump right there. | ||
| But who are the people that are getting these SNAP benefits? | ||
| Well, watch these two videos and tell me, should these people be getting your government money? | ||
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Without the government support, I cannot stay maybe month off to a month. | |
| Employee of the school district. | ||
| I only get paid once a month. | ||
| By the time I get my bills paid, I have nothing left to pay for food and other basic needs. | ||
| If it wasn't for SNAP benefits, I wouldn't be able to feed my children or myself. | ||
| Yeah, that lady's starving, right? | ||
| She's really, I mean, for God's sakes, if that woman doesn't get some food in her quick, and then the other guy, okay, you're an Iraqi refugee. | ||
| All right, but how about come here and work? | ||
| Get to work and build yourself up. | ||
| And if you're not on these programs, you only have another month. | ||
| Well, then maybe, maybe, I don't know about this guy specifically. | ||
| And that woman specifically. | ||
| So it's not really about them, but those are avatars for something. | ||
| We have people who come into this country, right? | ||
| This guy's new refugee to the country. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| And then feels that he is owed something beyond just being allowed to be here, which is a pretty freaking big privilege that most people in the world would love to have, right? | ||
| He's here, but then also we must owe him that we have to keep giving him benefits. | ||
| And then a woman who is as big as big as who? | ||
| What was that? | ||
| What was that movie? | ||
| The fat black girl. | ||
| She's huge. | ||
| Precious. | ||
| That's the white precious right there. | ||
| That woman is not starving. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| She's not starving. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You love that precious. | ||
| You love Lord of the Rings and you love Precious. | ||
| Oh, you've never seen it. | ||
| Shut up. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Listen to this from personal finance wizards. | ||
| This is food stamps by ethnicity. | ||
| Percentage of U.S. households receiving SNAP benefits. | ||
| I mean, these numbers are insane. | ||
| Afghan households, 45%. | ||
| Somali, 42%. | ||
| Iraqi, 34%. | ||
| Dominican, 34%. | ||
| Caribbean, 28% Native American, 27. | ||
| Puerto Rican, 27. | ||
| Cuban, 25. | ||
| Black, 24. | ||
| And you can keep going down, down, down, down, down, down, down. | ||
| So what do we do with this? | ||
| What do we do with this, this issue? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Because there's like this weird racial element to it. | ||
| That's what it feels like. | ||
| There's also this kind of dependency element to it. | ||
| So there's like a general poverty element to it, but people don't think white people can be in poverty. | ||
| Like there's so many confusing things about this. | ||
| But Adam Carolla, who has been long fighting giant bloated government from the free state of, oh my God, I almost said the free state of California. | ||
| I really am still jetlagged from the communist country known as California. | ||
| Listen to him break down a little bit about SNAP. | ||
| This whole thing of like 40 million people are going to go hungry. | ||
| First off, those 40 million people average an extra 40 pounds on them over the average working American. | ||
| If you took the average person that's on SNAP getting free food and the average person that gets no free food from the government, the average female who gets no free food from the government is 146 pounds. | ||
| The average SNAP recipient is 211 pounds. | ||
| So is there a free food? | ||
| I know. | ||
| First off, we talk about going hungry. | ||
| Nobody could benefit from a nice fast more than the snap recipients. | ||
| I mean, that is wild. | ||
| If what Carolla just said there is wild. | ||
| Can we try to double verify that right now? | ||
| But I am sure he did his homework on that. | ||
| The average woman in America is 146 pounds. | ||
| The average snap female is 211? | ||
| Like that is like big chick wrestling level. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Fat chick wrestling? | ||
| What do they call it? | ||
| It's the technical term. | ||
| That's pretty big. | ||
| So these people could use a little bit of a diet. | ||
| But again, it's just, it's, of course, it's really, really just about the fear and how many of these people, regardless of the nationality thing that I just put out there, how many of these people should be on these things? | ||
| And also, why can't the Democrats? | ||
| Chuck, you've got a shit ton of money. | ||
| And we've all seen that picture of you making delicious cheeseburgers. | ||
| Can't you give them a little food? | ||
| Bernie, can't you put up a couple of these people in your house and give them a little food? | ||
| But they never want to do anything that will cause them pain. | ||
| They just want to make sure they can be virtuous by taking other people's cash and doing what they want with it. | ||
| Let's jump over to CNN, where Jake Tapper, and you know my feelings about Jake, he kind of did a decent job here. | ||
| He had Democrat Representative Melanie Stansberry on, and he points out that this is the Democrats just not wanting to open the government. | ||
| Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico, your home state, vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds are not at risk? | ||
| Let me be clear. | ||
| The administration is choosing to starve American children with money that they already have appropriately. | ||
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I'm not applauding their taxes. | |
| This is a choice by the White House. | ||
| This is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government. | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| Yeah, Jake, I'll give you credit. | ||
| I'll give you credit, Jake Tapper. | ||
| You are right, because the Republicans have, I think it's 52 or 53, maybe one Democrat jumped over, votes to get the clean resolution, the CR bill, which is what always happens. | ||
| But you need 60. | ||
| So they just need basically seven or eight Democrats to jump on board, and the government would be open right now. | ||
| But the Democrats, as we've played a couple of videos in the last week or so, the Democrats feel that this is their leverage point. | ||
| If they can make people think that people are starving, if they make people feel a certain amount of pain, this is the only way they will get Republicans to cave. | ||
| My sense is Republicans are not going to cave. | ||
| I don't think there's any desire on the right right now to push Trump and the rest of the Republicans into caving, but there is desire to get the Democrats to cave because it's their base that's being hit by this. | ||
| Here on CNBC is Joe Kiernan, the host, calling out Senator Peter Welch of Vermont over the government shutdown and saying that they're extorting Americans. | ||
| Are you ready to vote with the Republicans to reopen the government at this point as a reasonable Democrat? | ||
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Maybe others would follow you. | |
| You know, I'm not there yet because we have had literally, Joe, no discussion whatsoever about how we're going to deal. | ||
| This is the right way to do it, Senator? | ||
| By people not getting paychecks at the TSA? | ||
| This is extortion. | ||
| You think this is the right way to do it? | ||
| In your conscience, you think it's the right way to do it? | ||
| I never thought I'd say that, Andrew. | ||
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As a human being, as a human being, he always says that. | |
| As a human being, you think this is the right thing to do? | ||
| That's your line. | ||
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Well, that's why Senator Holly on Have Our Bill to make sure that folks get the nutrition that they absolutely need is why the president is paying the troops. | |
| All right. | ||
| First off, to the last point that they so want people to get the nutrition they need and everything else. | ||
| Then how about you guys create the economic conditions so that people can build businesses and get jobs and save a little money and buy a house and do all those things so they're dependent on themselves and less dependent on government. | ||
| This is the perfect, in some ways, this is the perfect storm of why the Democrats are so terrible at this point, right? | ||
| They do all these terrible things with the economy. | ||
| Look at the last four years with the Inflation Reduction Act and endless spending, oh, and COVID locking people in their houses and kicking people out of work and all of those things, right? | ||
| And then people become dependent on the system. | ||
| Then they choose to shut down the government and then people are upset that the thing that they're dependent on isn't giving them stuff. | ||
| Well, maybe it's because the whole equation is backwards. | ||
| You shouldn't want the government to give you anything. | ||
| You should want the government off your back so you can get out there and get stuff for yourself. | ||
| But again, he's just deflecting the question because it's like, yeah, you could be a human, as the interviewer said. | ||
| You could be a human and just open up the government if you think this is all so important. | ||
| If children are starving, you can put your shit aside and open up the government. | ||
| We just need seven or eight of you. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Here's a little quick compilation. | ||
| It's Bernie and Schumer at a press conference. | ||
| And again, they are so focused on this snap thing. | ||
| Now, remember, they can open the government themselves. | ||
| Bernie is a senator. | ||
| God help us all. | ||
| Chuck Schumer is a senator. | ||
| Why, I have no idea. | ||
| But this is on them, but watch them deflect. | ||
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Senate Democrats are continuing to reject the House past CR to open the government. | |
| But since Congress does have the power of the purse to fund the government, how do you justify blaming Trump to fund all these various aspects of government when it's Democrats who continue to vote to keep it all straight? | ||
| Why don't you read this? | ||
| What this is is a congressional mandate. | ||
| It is acknowledged by the Trump administration. | ||
| What they are saying is, we acknowledge that there are over $5 billion in a fund that in the event of a shutdown will be released in order to continue the STAP program. | ||
| That is not unequivocal. | ||
| That is the reality. | ||
| Let's have a president who obeys the law for a change. | ||
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Are you saying Democrats have no responsibility for the capital? | |
| We are saying the Republicans can fund it now, and they're using these people as hostages. | ||
| Plain and simple. | ||
| Next, that's the answer. | ||
| The answer is they can fund it right now. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Chuck, you are using these people as hostages. | ||
| Now, Bernie might be right. | ||
| I didn't read all the text of what he was pointing to right there. | ||
| There may be some provision that during a government shutdown, the federal government can release SNAP funds. | ||
| That may be right. | ||
| And it is possible that Trump is using that as leverage, right? | ||
| Because it's going to, because my guess is it's more Democrats that are on these programs. | ||
| And it will get, you know, it will get them pissed at the Democrats that the government is shut down. | ||
| But again, if you guys really care, if you genuinely think that anyone is starving right now, then you guys can open up the government with a clean CR, 60 votes, which is what always happens. | ||
| But as you guys know, this has nothing to do with what's right or the Democrats doing something for their base. | ||
| What this really is about is that there is a war in the Democrat Party and the moderates are afraid of the lunatics. | ||
| And ironically, the more they cave to them, it doesn't help them, right? | ||
| It really doesn't help them. | ||
| And the more they fight them, it doesn't help them because the moderate, because it's not a moderate party anymore. | ||
| Here is National Treasurer, Senator Republican, Senator John Kennedy on Chuck Schumer. | ||
| In the American people's opinion, Senator Schumer is a wet match in a dark cave. | ||
| He polls right up there with clubbing baby skeet seals. | ||
| He's got a 30% approval rating, a 60% disapproval rating, and 10% of folks polled just didn't want to pause their video games to answer. | ||
| It's not working. | ||
| The American people may not read Aristotle every day, but they get it. | ||
| This is not a policy shutdown. | ||
| This is a political shutdown. | ||
| And I keep waiting for my Democratic colleagues to come to their senses. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| And you know what, Chuck? | ||
| Might I offer you a little political advice? | ||
| Although I'm not a big fan of yours, how about you break from the lunatics right now and say, you know what? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I don't want to starve all these kids. | ||
| I'm going to break from my party right now. | ||
| I'm the leader of the party, but I'm going to break from the radicals right now. | ||
| And we're going to go ahead and open this thing. | ||
| And I'm going to see if I can get some senators there. | ||
| You will start getting cred. | ||
| Now, it may not be from your lunatic base, and that's a problem for you, but you'll start getting cred in other corners of the world. | ||
| And by the way, dude, you have a huge problem on the horizon because AOC is going to primary you or somebody else. | ||
| They're primary you one way or another. | ||
| And there are, again, there just aren't enough sane people in the Democratic Party. | ||
| They all left. | ||
| There are some sane people in the Republican Party. | ||
| One of them is J.D. Vance, who did a really bang up job at a Turning Point USA event last night. | ||
| Spent about an hour taking questions from the crowd. | ||
| I've never seen a president or a VP do something like this before, just on the fly like that. | ||
| We'll get to that in just a second. | ||
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| All right, so J.D. Vance went to University of Mississippi last night. | ||
| Do you know how to spell Mississippi, Connor? | ||
| M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. | ||
| I learned that from, what's her name? | ||
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What was that Broadway show with the girl with red hair, little girl, and Daddy Warbucks? | |
| Annie, thank you. | ||
| Rain. | ||
| How does Trump do it? | ||
| How does Trump do it? | ||
| Anyway, he was at the University of Mississippi last night and he gave a talk. | ||
| It was a turning point event. | ||
| And then they just opened it up to questions, very much in line and in the spirit of what Charlie Kirk has been doing or had been doing for years. | ||
| And he got seriously tough questions. | ||
| It was extremely impressive. | ||
| I think he basically gave a masterclass. | ||
| Here's one question that a girl gave implying that Trump's policies hurt immigrants. | ||
| Pushing out policies that hurt us. | ||
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And these policies are not even solving the problems. | |
| These policies are just creating a lot of people. | ||
| No, no, no, no, ma'am. | ||
| Okay, so just because one person or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean that we're thereby committed to let in a million or 10 million or 100 million people a year in the future? | ||
| No, that's not right. | ||
| We cannot have, I'll go ahead and finish. | ||
| We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future. | ||
| There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America. | ||
| And my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world. | ||
| It's to look out for the people of the United States. | ||
| Yeah, and he got huge applause for that, as you heard. | ||
| And it was just, we're going to show you a bit more, but it was just a masterclass in how to answer questions honestly and clearly. | ||
| And it really reminded me of debate night with him during that VP debate when he just has a complete understanding of the issues. | ||
| He has a nice way of speaking. | ||
| And I think, you know, even though I was pulling for Tulsi to be the VP, I think Trump absolutely did a bang up job here by selecting JD. | ||
| It was interesting, her question, because her question also said, the Trump policies hurt us, but then it was really about illegal immigration. | ||
| So I don't know if she meant she's illegal, I suppose not, or she's just sort of a standard lefty who seemingly is unable to make this the distinction between legal and illegal. | ||
| He also makes the point that just because 10 or 100 people are coming here and doing just fine doesn't mean that there should be an unlimited amount of it. | ||
| And the broader point was the second part, which is that things used to be different. | ||
| We were going through an industrial revolution 50, 60, 70 years ago. | ||
| We needed more people. | ||
| Now, with the advent of robotics and AI and all the technological horizons that are about to be, that we're about to go through right now, we don't need as many people. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And industries are wildly changing. | ||
| And wait till you see. | ||
| I mean, I think it was announced this week, Amazon's going to get rid of something like 30,000 employees because they're going to be able to use drones to drop packages off. | ||
| And eventually all of the Uber Eats people and Postmates people that are delivering your food, that will all be done, you know, via an automated Tesla car probably with a robot that will come out. | ||
| There's so many things changing right now. | ||
| So it would only be in the interests of the United States to take a to close the border, which we've done. | ||
| We still have to figure out who's here, right? | ||
| The 20 plus million people who showed up in four years. | ||
| We've only booted a slim, I don't even think it's a million people. | ||
| So it's a slim, slim percentage of that. | ||
| And they're pissed about that, by the way. | ||
| But we have to take stock of what is here in the United States. | ||
| And as he says, he is the VP of the United States. | ||
| He has to do what is right for the United States. | ||
| I thought this was a really nice moment, too, where Trump is asked, or sorry, JD is asked if Trump has any conflicts of interest as it pertains to Israel. | ||
| And listen, it's just a masterclass. | ||
| He's really good at this. | ||
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Watch this. | |
| Do you think it's a conflict of interest for Miriam Adelson, an Israeli donor, to give millions of dollars to his campaign and then Trump have pro-Israeli policies? | ||
| Well, if you're asking, do I think the President of the United States has a conflict of interest? | ||
| No, I do not. | ||
| Let me give you just a couple of examples of this. | ||
| Number one, we have heard from some pro-Israel voices, some people who really love the state of Israel, that they don't want us to have a relationship with certain Middle Eastern countries. | ||
| Well, the president, his attitude is we need to build relationships with any country where we have shared interests, and he's going to do it if it's in the interest of the American people, and he's done exactly that. | ||
| Number two, there were people, and I remember this criticism of the president of the United States, I just raised it in the context of a conversation that I had with Charlie. | ||
| I remember when people said that the president of the United States was going to get us into a multi-hundred thousand troop regime change war for Israel. | ||
| This was four months ago. | ||
| This was six months ago. | ||
| Now, the people who accuse the president of the United States of wanting to get us into a regime change war for Israel, I wonder if they stepped back and said, you know what? | ||
| We were wrong about that. | ||
| Because the President of the United States did not want to get us into a regime change war for any other country. | ||
| He wanted to knock out a nuclear facility and get everybody back home. | ||
| And that's exactly what he did. | ||
| He's really good at this. | ||
| So two parts to that question. | ||
| First, in essence, is Trump taking money to be on Israel's side? | ||
| Trump has been on Israel's side for well before he was in politics, right? | ||
| And of course, they only ask this question as it pertains to Israel. | ||
| They never ask about Qatar or any other nation. | ||
| But okay, put that aside for a second. | ||
| The second part was really interesting because it was a little gratuitous that he went into the Iran thing right there because it wasn't about Iran. | ||
| Oh, he did point out that Trump, what Trump does is try to build relationships where they are, and he's always looking for America first. | ||
| And sometimes you're going to agree with an ally and sometimes you're going to disagree. | ||
| And that's what international relations are all about, right? | ||
| That's like having friends. | ||
| Sometimes you agree with your friend, sometimes you don't, right? | ||
| Like that's just basic relationship management 101. | ||
| But the Iran thing was super interesting because he went, it wasn't asked about Iran, but then he went out of his way to say there were a bunch of influencers who said, you know, we were going to end up in a nuclear war, thousands of people were going to die, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| That definitely was a shot. | ||
| It was a shot at two people, but I think one specifically. | ||
| That was a shot at Tucker Carlson, and it was a shot at Alex Jones. | ||
| But I think it really was a shot at Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Tucker obviously has been going a bit off the deep end lately. | ||
| And JD did not have to bring that up at all. | ||
| But Tucker, remember, when the Iran thing was happening, just, what was it, four, six months ago, as JD points out, when that thing was happening, Tucker was saying this was going to lead to thermonuclear World War III. | ||
| There were going to be thousands of American deaths. | ||
| There were going to be sleeper cells activated in the United States. | ||
| All of these troops killed. | ||
| We'd have troops on the ground. | ||
| Every single thing turned out to be wrong. | ||
| Every single thing turned out to be wrong. | ||
| I don't need to pat myself on the back, but you can look at my tweets and what I said on the show at that time, which is once it started, I thought Israel was going to do it in about two weeks and that America might come in with a couple bombs at the end. | ||
| And that's exactly what happened. | ||
| It's not because I'm Kresskin or have a magic eight ball, but like it seemed fairly obvious, right? | ||
| So I think it was just an it's just worth pinning that one right there, that that was the first time there's been a little pushback from the administration on some of a bit of what I would say is the craziness on the right. | ||
| So let's just leave that right there and let's talk about someone on the left who's not completely insane and trying to save his party. | ||
| Yes, it's the guy who had brain damage two years ago, but as his brain heals, he becomes more conservative. | ||
| John Federman. | ||
| You just don't ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things. | ||
| Now look what happened to Charlie Kirk. | ||
| I mean, the man was shot. | ||
| Now, we have to turn the temperature down. | ||
| It's like we can't compare people to these kinds of figures in history. | ||
| And this is not an autocrat. | ||
| This is a product of a democratic election. | ||
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So you don't think that Trump is at all shattering any of the norms of democracy in any way? | |
| I'm saying he's definitely different, but that's what America voted for. | ||
| Again, I don't agree with many of these things, but that does not make him an autocrat. | ||
| Who's that interviewer, Anu Benani or something? | ||
| Like, dude, he's just telling you, stop calling everyone Hitler. | ||
| He's like, but you don't think he's doing like, come on, man. | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| Of course, he's right. | ||
| You keep calling everybody Hitler. | ||
| You keep saying that they want to kill all the trans people and everything else. | ||
| And then people do take things into their own hand. | ||
| And again, you can only blame the person who does it, but we should be able to talk about the conditions around what breaks so many brains and what creates the toxicity that we're all seeing that leads to political violence. | ||
| So speaking of politically motivated violence, my buddy from the Daily Wire, Michael Knowles, was called to the Capitol to testify about politically motivated violence. | ||
| And here he is with some wise words for Corey Booker, a man who once didn't urinate for 18 hours. | ||
| I think Senator Booker made a good point just a moment ago when he said we have to self-examine. | ||
| We have to be introspective. | ||
| And I can't help but think of a line today. | ||
| Jay Jones has the vision, commitment, and integrity to keep families safe and make sure every Virginian gets a fair shake in the justice system. | ||
| I'll be working every day to ensure Jay wins this race. | ||
| That's the endorsement of Senator Booker for a man who would seek to be the Attorney General of Virginia. | ||
| This is a man who, if people have not been reading the news, has called for a Republican to be murdered, for his children to be murdered, for the children to die in their mother's arms in order to persuade the Republican to change his policy views, and a man who says that he would urinate on the graves of multiple Republicans. | ||
| Senator Booker, in the spirit of introspection, is standing by this endorsement. | ||
| So I suppose I would invite perhaps I should have looked because Senator Booker has left the room and I think I can guess why. | ||
| I mean, Knowles really has become an eloquent speaker and really effective at all this. | ||
| You know, it's one of those things. | ||
| It's like, why is there such a rich tapestry of people broadly on the right in the podcast space and the alt media and everything? | ||
| Like, we've had to fight the thing for so long that we were able to refine all of our ideas. | ||
| So Knowles can get up there and lay out something so cleanly like that with a little bit of humor and everything else. | ||
| And Booker, a man, maybe he had to pee. | ||
| Wouldn't that have been ironic that the reason he left the Knowles hearing was because he had to pee. | ||
| Anyway, Knowles continued about which side is more violent. | ||
| How do we get at this problem? | ||
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What's the road forward in your view? | |
| We might be able to find a little bipartisan agreement if we acknowledge something that both parties at different times have acknowledged, which is that marketplaces of ideas or any other kind of marketplace only function when there are rules and when we abide by those rules. | ||
| You can't have a marketplace if bandits keep shooting up the marketplace. | ||
| And this is why it's so important to identify where the threats to the marketplace have really been coming from. | ||
| Have we seen left-wing speakers shouted down on campuses? | ||
| Have we seen left-wing events interrupted by terrorists? | ||
| Rarely so, if ever, I can't think of an occasion. | ||
| I think any honest Democrat even would have to acknowledge, as the Atlantic Magazine did, as even CSIS has acknowledged, that the threats today to the free marketplace of ideas come from the left. | ||
| Yeah, and again, we all know it. | ||
| Who was burning down our cities during the summer of love? | ||
| Who is out on the streets every weekend attacking the Portland federal courthouse? | ||
| Who's out there chanting River to the sea and pulling down monuments and burning American flags? | ||
| Who's out there in blue cities? | ||
| I don't know, raping the women and shooting the black people. | ||
| I mean, okay, fine, you got it. | ||
| So, what is the counter to all of that? | ||
| Well, the counter to all of that is we have a Republican Party right now that's pretty good, I would say. | ||
| And it's being led by a guy that I really would like to sit down with and just talk to about jet lag because he's bouncing all over the world and seemingly is never tired and always on point. | ||
| Obviously, I'm talking about Trump. | ||
| And now he's bouncing around Asia and made a surprise visit to China, which we'll get to in a second. | ||
| But first, he is in South Korea, and here he is. | ||
| And just explaining a bit about his philosophy when it comes to success. | ||
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True success comes from having the confidence and the courage to prove the doubter is wrong. | |
| And oftentimes, you'll go the opposite way of almost everybody, and you'll be the one that's right, and the others will be the one that's wrong. | ||
| And that's where you have your greatest successes. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| And that's what Donald Trump really is more than anything else, more than being Hitler or anything else. | ||
| He's a guy that went the other way when everybody else was going the other way. | ||
| When we kind of had this uniparty between the Republicans and the Democrats, Trump broke the thing, and it was scary for a lot of people, and they didn't like how he tweeted and did all, you know, how he spoke or whatever it was, made fun of people. | ||
| And I'm sympathetic to all of that to some extent, or I certainly was a years past. | ||
| But it's hard to criticize the guy who does the thing that everyone says can't be done and then is writing the world. | ||
| He really is. | ||
| He's writing the world. | ||
| Are watching the world order, which was so close with the Biden Auto Penn presidency. | ||
| There was such a lack of leadership by America. | ||
| The globalist forces and the World Economic Forum and all of these things, they were getting stronger and stronger and stronger. | ||
| National borders kind of didn't mean anything anymore. | ||
| And we were becoming something, I would say, globally that was extremely dangerous. | ||
| But now, by America standing up for itself, it's showing other nations that maybe you can stand up for yourself too. | ||
| But let's do a bit more on some of the success that he's having in Asia right now. | ||
| This is from Eric Daughtry, breaking major success underway for President Trump in Asia. | ||
| Toyota to invest $10 billion in U.S. auto plants, a $30 billion partnership with Mitsubishi, U.S.-Japan-South Korea signed tech deal, framework agreement with Japan on critical minerals. | ||
| Trump is now gearing up for a blockbuster meeting with China. | ||
| President Trump is optimistic going into the meeting. | ||
| Scott Besson's team met with Chinese officials over the weekend per Fox News. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Trump is about to bring it home. | ||
| And then, yes, out of nowhere, it was not leaked in advance. | ||
| Trump went to China, and here he is, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. | ||
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But he's a very tough negotiator. | |
| That's not good. | ||
| We know each other well. | ||
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President, do you plan to sign a free deal today? | |
| Could be. | ||
| I think we have a great understanding. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Sorry, that's my bad. | ||
| Quick correction. | ||
| You know, I'm not above it. | ||
| They met actually in South Korea. | ||
| He didn't go to China. | ||
| But again, he's just awake and alert and ready to go and answering questions. | ||
| It's all on the fly. | ||
| There's a translator, but they just keep doing it. | ||
| This is from Donald Trump on Truth Social. | ||
| This is a condensed version of what he put out after the meeting. | ||
| I had a truly great meeting with President Xi of China. | ||
| I was extremely honored by the fact that President Xi authorized China to begin purchase of massive amounts of soybeans, sorghum, and other farm products. | ||
| Our farmers will be very happy. | ||
| Very significantly, China has strongly stated that they will work diligently to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country. | ||
| They will help us end the fentanyl crisis. | ||
| I want to thank the great countries of Malaysia, Japan, South Korea for being so generous, gracious, and hospitable. | ||
| Also, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. | ||
| Hundreds of billions of dollars are being brought into our country because of them. | ||
| Our nation is strong, respected, and admired again, and the best is yet to come. | ||
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So, look, guys, we will see where this all lays out, right? | |
| Like, you got to see where it lands, just like all the tariff deals and everything else. | ||
| But them meeting is good. | ||
| If it is actually true that China, which in some sense has been using fentanyl as a weapon of war against us, right, it's not a conventional weapon of war, but if you just flood our streets with drugs and our young people are dropping dead at the rates that they have been, that is a kind of war, right? | ||
| It is sort of like the opium war. | ||
| It's kind of a war. | ||
| And if we can scale that back a little bit, if we can get all this new investment from these Japanese and South Korean companies, and then we can work with China on some of these things at least, then strikes me as pretty good. | ||
| And then maybe once those relationships are tightened a little bit, we can work through this China-Taiwan situation. | ||
| But we'll leave that right there. | ||
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| Okay, community Q ⁇ A. Here we go. | ||
| Connor says, what do you care most about on a day-to-day basis? | ||
| Connor, is this you or a different Connor? | ||
| There's only one N in there. | ||
| Okay, different Connor. | ||
| I mean, the obvious answer is the kids. | ||
| Actually, right now they're at the dentist. | ||
| David just sent me a picture of the two of them on, you know, in the chairs right next to each other. | ||
| They've got cool sunglasses on and the dentists or the technicians are in there doing their thing. | ||
| Sounds like teeth are in good shape. | ||
| But, you know, after being away for 14 days and coming home, I was able to jump on an earlier connecting flight. | ||
| So I didn't think I was going to see them to the morning, but I got to see them right before bed the night before I anticipated being home with the time change and everything. | ||
| And just to walk into the house and daddy, you're home and big hugs and just so excited. | ||
| And then I brought obviously some koala stuff and kangaroo stuff and some bluey stuff and t-shirts and all that. | ||
| And, you know, that three is a fun age because then, because even in two weeks, when you don't see them, there's so many more words. | ||
| Just the language is just bursting out of them. | ||
| The sense of humor gets better every day and all that stuff. | ||
| So yeah, that's the easy and obvious answer for any parent, I think. | ||
| Brian says, I'm curious to get your thoughts on the international effect of Mamdani being elected mayor, international finances in New York, the UN and international businesses. | ||
| Are they planning to move elsewhere like Florida or Texas? | ||
| Look, first off, let me just say, pray. | ||
| Like, if there is any chance in high hell that this is not a fargone conclusion, then just pray. | ||
| Because if New York City goes down, it may not happen over. | ||
| Yes, he's so authentic. | ||
| Look at him with his hand over his heart. | ||
| He's so authentic. | ||
| If there's any chance that he won't win, like this is the moment that every good person has to wake up and be like, you know what, maybe I was considering the wrong thing or I was considering not voting or I was going to vote for Sliwa, but he can't win and I've got to vote for Cuomo. | ||
| And that doesn't mean that Cuomo is a great governor or would be a great mayor, but he would not usher in the destruction of New York City. | ||
| We know, we all know what communism, Marxism, what government-run grocery stores, what everything being quote-unquote free, what government freezes over rent prices, what it does to a society, it crushes the human spirit. | ||
| What you want to do in a free society is get the government out of the way as much as possible so people can get there so they can pursue freedom. | ||
| There are so many reasons not to vote for this guy. | ||
| But to your point, what do I think that will do big time? | ||
| Look, I mean, the UN is basically the Legion of Doom from the Justice League. | ||
| So like that place is just an evil cesspool that'll probably get more evil. | ||
| That's one thing. | ||
| Speaking of Justice League, I watched Superman movie, the new Superman on the plane back. | ||
| Not bad. | ||
| Not bad. | ||
| And I'm not, the DC movies have largely been pretty crappy, but the new Superman, it was an actual movie. | ||
| I was kind of impressed. | ||
| So that's one thing. | ||
| You know, I think the real fear that I have is that they'll fake it for a little while. | ||
| As I've said a couple of times, they can fake it. | ||
| Like it won't, they can turn the violence on and off. | ||
| You can fake the budgets for a while. | ||
| And there'll be this like, it'll feel like utopia for there. | ||
| It'll feel like Obama running, you know, whatever that was 10 plus years ago. | ||
| And it was, it'll be like, oh, it's all just wonderful. | ||
| And then once people see that wonderfulness there, that it could start popping up in other places. | ||
| Of course, it ultimately will collapse. | ||
| But I think the other, the other effect is you are just going to see tons and tons of people leave. | ||
| And yes, most of them, most of them will go to Florida. | ||
| Some of them will go to Texas and Tennessee. | ||
| And it will strengthen those places. | ||
| And by the way, it's not just the high taxpayers that are going to do it. | ||
| Middle class people will get out of the city. | ||
| That's going to be a huge problem. | ||
| So the tax base will decrease. | ||
| They're going to lose. | ||
| I mean, DeSantis just said it again yesterday. | ||
| We'll take the good police officers, whatever good NYPDR. | ||
| You get a $5,000 bonus if you move down to Florida. | ||
| So it will just further the red-blue divide and let the chips fall where they may. | ||
| Olaf says, was there a meal in Australia that really stood out for one reason or another? | ||
| Not only was there one meal that stood out, we took a picture of it because have you eaten if you have not taken a picture? | ||
| So this was, we had one day where it was just, we didn't have much to do during the day. | ||
| And I took the guys and we went to like a beach club during the day. | ||
| And that is a big ass board of meat. | ||
| You can see the tomahawk there and there was some wagu fillets and there was, I think, a rump roast, which you have to say like that, rump roast. | ||
| There was a piece of lettuce, which was confusing to me. | ||
| Did anyone eat the lettuce? | ||
| You guys didn't touch the lettuce. | ||
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You did? | |
| Oh, Phoenix ate the lettuce. | ||
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My respect to you just died like big time. | |
| What else was on there? | ||
| And then there were some sauces and stuff and some fries, but we had a great day. | ||
| You know, I'm a tequila guy, as everybody knows, but Joey got me into the Hugo Spritz, which I guess is some kind of champagne with mint kind of thing. | ||
| Anyway, we just had a great time. | ||
| That was by far the best meal. | ||
| I do have to say, the one thing that was a little disappointing about Australia was the food. | ||
| We didn't, we went to a ton of restaurants. | ||
| I mean, we went out every night. | ||
| We had a couple of great meals, of course, but overall, we didn't find the food that great. | ||
| Like, I thought I was going to be eating the most amazing Australian wagu all the time. | ||
| That's what I get here in Miami when I'm cooking for guests. | ||
| When I show you all those pictures of that great meat that I'm cooking, it's Australian wagu. | ||
| It seems to me that maybe they export most of it because a lot of it was not on the menu. | ||
| So that was the one disappointing thing, but it was a wonderful truth. | ||
| Sarah says, I was having a discussion with my friend the other day about Mount Everest. | ||
| My take is that the people who decide to take a climb on a mountain like that do it for no particular reason other than the thrill are ill the people who do it for no other particular reason than a thrill are ill in the head. | ||
| What's your take? | ||
| No, that's what humanity is all about, right? | ||
| Like we see a mountain and we want to climb it. | ||
| We see a river and we want to traverse it. | ||
| You want to swim in it. | ||
| You want to go as far as you can. | ||
| I mean, look at kids. | ||
| Kids want to climb and climb and climb and climb. | ||
| They want to build things so that they can go and go and go. | ||
| Like that, that's what the human thing is. | ||
| That thrill is the thing. | ||
| People want to jump out of planes. | ||
| I don't want to jump out of a plane. | ||
| People want to do crazy things. | ||
| Is that mental illness or is it just the indomitable human spirit? | ||
| Maybe it's both at the very same time. | ||
| I don't particularly have a desire to, any of you wanna climb Mount Everest? | ||
| Is that doing it for any of you guys? | ||
| But I feel like you would jump out of a plane. | ||
| I feel like you would jump. | ||
| Yeah, Joseph would jump out of a plane. | ||
| Phoenix eats lettuce, you freak. | ||
| Would you jump out of a plane? | ||
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| Connor would not jump out of a plane. | ||
| Thank God, because I don't think anyone knows how to use that computer besides you. | ||
| Glenn says, what are the most, what are the moments on your Australian visit you will remember most fondly? | ||
| I mean, the easy answer, of course, the shows, the shows were wonderful. | ||
| Do we have some images of the shows? | ||
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| So I think this was the first show. | ||
| Was that Melbourne? | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, that was Melbourne. | ||
| Oh, that was Sydney. | ||
| That was the second show in Sydney. | ||
| And that maybe was, I'm not even sure. | ||
| But the shows, you know, we wrote a different show. | ||
| That was, I was in the middle of a t-shirt giveaway right there. | ||
| So I did a bunch of things to just get the crowd involved. | ||
| I really wanted people, you know, because you guys watch this show and it's a one-way thing unless we're doing the questions. | ||
| And I really wanted people to be like, hey, Dave is live right in front of us right now. | ||
| So I messed around with the crowd a lot. | ||
| We did some fun giveaways. | ||
| I had people screaming things. | ||
| We did the Q ⁇ A. I really tried to do something that even though we wrote a Rubin Report show that day and we tried to make it a little bit always about Australia too. | ||
| And it kind of worked out nicely for us because the Australian prime minister was meeting with Trump during some of our shows. | ||
| So like there was some stuff that actually made sense to talk about that we might have covered anyway on this show. | ||
| So the shows obviously were the best part. | ||
| And just meet, I just love meeting people. | ||
| It's so cool. | ||
| Like, you know, you get all these weird accolades when you're a public person and you do this kind of thing. | ||
| But then to be able to travel across the world, somebody even pointed out that yesterday I said more than halfway across the world, which is impossible. | ||
| You can't go more than halfway in a sense because then you're back around the other way. | ||
| But to go so far and that there are these people who love you and want to hug you and give you gifts and all these things and that you've affected them in some way. | ||
| It's really just incredible. | ||
| So that was awesome. | ||
| You know, obviously the shows, hanging out with the guys was great. | ||
| It was like we all said goodbye after 14 days together and it was like leaving camp, even though we are all together again right now. | ||
| So that was that was great. | ||
| And just what else? | ||
| I had a great interview with, if you haven't seen it, with former prime minister Tony Abbott, who's just a great, great guy. | ||
| Anything else for you guys? | ||
| It's just good. | ||
| We ate a TGI Fridays one night. | ||
| That was a little salty. | ||
| That was about it. | ||
| That was about it. | ||
| Oh, in the Gold Coast. | ||
| I mean, you know, awesome beaches. | ||
| And, you know, I'm not, I'm not much of a surfer. | ||
| I don't want to mess up my knee after all this time. | ||
| But just, you know, watching all the people out there and all that good stuff. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Prusky says, how does the lamestream media get away with lying blatantly and not get sued for slander or defamation more often? | ||
| Well, Trump has sued them a couple of times and won. | ||
| So I think that has sent at least some sort of signal to the system. | ||
| Like, you guys got to stop doing the extremely obvious video editing and all of the things that they've done. | ||
| Or like, it's not even the things they've done to Trump. | ||
| It was, you know, what was it, 60 Minutes that had that Kamala interview and they, which she, when she bumbled and fumbled and everything else, they cut all of that out. | ||
| So we know all their tricks. | ||
| I mean, look, libel and slander laws in this country are extremely, extremely tight. | ||
| And you want them to be tight, right? | ||
| Because you want people to be able to speak freely. | ||
| You want people to be able to mock people like I do on the show. | ||
| And you want people to be able to mock me, right? | ||
| You don't want everyone, you said something about me, I got to sue you now. | ||
| And oh, you wrote something about me, I'm going to destroy your publication, right? | ||
| You want, you absolutely want these laws to be seriously, seriously tight or narrow, I should say, so that it maximizes free speech. | ||
| The question really is, does the mainstream media, do they have a higher bar that they should be willing to jump over when it comes to truth? | ||
| Well, of course, the answer to that is yes, or at least in an ideal situation is yes. | ||
| And of course, the answer to whether they whether they actually accomplish that is no. | ||
| I mean, they very rarely do. | ||
| So I don't know that the answer is suing more of them. | ||
| What I would like to see is just better competition, better reporting, and then hopefully, you know, the truth has a way of coming around one way or another. | ||
| One thing that gives me a little bit of hope, to whatever extent we need a mainstream media at this point, is that, you know, Barry Weiss taking over CBS News, you know, she created the free press. | ||
| This is someone, and I've had my issues with Barry. | ||
| I've mentioned them on the show over the years. | ||
| This is someone who was hugely influential at the New York Times, saw how woke it was going, decided to leave, did not have a job. | ||
| I had a party at my house like a couple weeks after she left that she came to. | ||
| She literally did not have a job. | ||
| She didn't have a sub stack. | ||
| She didn't have a blog. | ||
| She had nothing. | ||
| She did not know what she was going to do. | ||
| She ends up starting the free press, creates something of real value. | ||
| Paramount, the head, you know, which owns CBS, buys it. | ||
| Now she's running CBS now. | ||
| Do I think it's going to make, you know, is it going to turn young people into watching TV again? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| But if she can make CBS not go so whackadoodle left back to the center-ish, let's say, right? | ||
| Not even great, but let's just say something roughly towards the center. | ||
| What the signal from that could be is that NBC will be like, boy, our numbers are going out. | ||
| And maybe we should go back that way. | ||
| ABC maybe goes back that way. | ||
| CNN maybe goes that way. | ||
| So, you know, these things follow. | ||
| They follow the dollars and they follow the trends. | ||
| So there is a little bit of hope there. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Lori says, you are willing to talk to people you disagree with, which I appreciate. | ||
| Have you ever done an interview you regret doing? | ||
| You know, I would say this, in light of a couple recent events, some of the things that have been, some of the weird things that's been happening on the right for the last year or so, I don't have regrets in that sense, because even the things that you do wrong or that you look back and you go, I could have done this better or something. | ||
| If you're a growing person, they will benefit you in the long term, right? | ||
| That's how you learn. | ||
| You don't always learn by hitting every shot. | ||
| You learn about the shots that you missed so that then you can get better. | ||
| And so regret isn't quite the right word because I think what I've done overall has been a net positive. | ||
| And I'm still, I really think I'm still getting better at it. | ||
| And I guess the day that I don't feel that, I'll probably stop. | ||
| But I guess if I did have, if it's regret is the word or whatever word you want to use, you know, I think I had a little naivete over the years when I was interviewing certain people. | ||
| And there were things that I should have been a little more suspect of. | ||
| And I should have questioned people's motives a little bit more. | ||
| And I always, I think I've always tried on this show to give my interviewees the benefit of the doubt. | ||
| And I think some people probably took advantage of that to some extent. | ||
| And, you know, I amplified people that probably shouldn't have been amplified, something like that. | ||
| But again, do I regret it? | ||
| I mean, ultimately, it was a learning experience for me. | ||
| And had I not done it, would it have stopped the ascension of some people? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| So all you can do is do the best you can. | ||
| But hopefully, hopefully, as a human, whatever it is that you're doing, whether you're an electrician or a talk show host or a welder or whatever, or a PR agent or an accountant, like hopefully you feel like you're getting better at what you do over the years. | ||
| Otherwise, you're just clocking in. | ||
| And when you're just clocking in, in some sense, you're just clocking out. | ||
| Tappy says, are you glad to be back in time for Halloween? | ||
| What will you and the fam dress up as? | ||
| Yes, I'm super excited. | ||
| I think I've mentioned on the show, we've been very pro-Halloween here basically since August. | ||
| The kids got, when we were off the Great August, the kids somehow heard the Ghostbusters song. | ||
| And I have heard that song thousands of times. | ||
| I kid you not in the last couple of months. | ||
| They are so into Ghostbusters right now. | ||
| We got them little Proton Blasters. | ||
| And yes, we are all going as the Ghostbusters. | ||
| I will be Bill Murray, obviously. | ||
| And we will have one of the children in Blackface. | ||
| So I'm very excited for Halloween. | ||
| And our neighborhood here really goes big on Halloween. | ||
| Actually, last night we took them out for a walk and we were doing the pre-Halloween, you know, which houses are cool. | ||
| And there's a lot, a lot of great stuff here. | ||
| So I'm very excited about that. | ||
| Okay, post-game show in 30 seconds. | ||
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| Thanks for watching. | ||
| And tomorrow's panel show with the hosts of the Clay and Buck Show, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton. |
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