Dave Rubin launches Copal Tequila, a reposado aged three months with unique bottle art, marking his shift from wine to a more uplifting spirit. He recounts leaving Patreon in 2018 after earning $16,000 monthly and reconnects with high school friend Jessica in Florida after thirty-five years. While reading a Truth Social post where Donald Trump attacks Tucker Carlson and others regarding Iran, Rubin plays Super Mario Bros., answers trivia about Seinfeld and Iron Man, and promotes giveaways for early Copal buyers. Ultimately, the stream blends business promotion, personal nostalgia, and political commentary to engage his audience directly. [Automatically generated summary]
For some soft ambient music on this Thursday afternoon.
It is 5 o'clock somewhere.
5 o'clock in Berkeley, where you are right now.
I'm Dave Rubin.
It is Tequila Thursday.
We've been trying to bring this back.
And originally we did a couple of Tequila Tuesdays.
Just sounds nice, Tequila Tuesday.
But to be quite frank, I just don't want to drink on Tuesdays.
And we were like, we got to bring this thing back.
I don't know if you heard about there's been this 35 day war.
Which either is over or not over, depending on which way you look at it.
We were like, we're bringing it back this week.
We're going to bust out a little copal.
We're going to do some silly stuff.
There is an old school 8 bit Nintendo right there.
Connor, are you able to flash to the live shot of what I'm looking at on the Nintendo right there?
We don't know what's going to happen, but yeah, that's right.
Super Mario and Duck Hunt ready to go.
I've got a basketball hoop over there.
It's a little three, four footer just at a camera angle right now.
We've got some fresh Copal here, which I'm really so you know, you guys, most of you know this already if you've been watching for a while.
We dropped Copal, it launched quite literally on my birthday in 2025.
So, what was that?
June, well, it was June 26th.
I'm trying, how many months ago was that?
That's about nine months ago ish, something like that.
And I've been working on this thing for about three years.
This is, I promise you, the most exquisite, light, refreshing reposado you have ever had.
One of the cool things we did with the bottle, as I've mentioned many times, Is that the artwork on every single bottle is completely and totally unique.
So you get a little something extra with that.
What we didn't want to do was just make a fancy bottle and sell a fancy bottle.
A lot of these tequila companies, they sell fancy bottles and the liquid, the juice as they call it inside, is actually not great.
We put all of our efforts into the juice, the tequila itself.
We went with a simple bottle, which there's something about a simple bottle, simple glass bottle that I like, and just a beautiful label.
So that's what we did.
Anyway, I got plenty of these bottles around here, so we're going to crack a fresh one right now.
And we're going to do a bunch of different things.
We're going to do some silly stuff.
Also, Donald Trump just in the last 10 minutes, apparently, on Truth Social, just dropped a bomb on the heads of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and a couple other people.
So I will read that thing live.
But first, people often ask me, how do I like my tequila?
And very, very simple.
First off, you want to just do something to just like class up your joint, just get a simple mold for a A circular cube, a circular ice cube right there.
And you will have just something light and refreshing that is beautiful to look at.
And that's all you need.
You don't need anything else, I promise you.
Now, some people just like it neat, and Coppola is excellent, so having it neat, that works too.
But I just like one rock.
Yeah, they're all, look at you guys, they're all drooling right now.
You can have some too, there's plenty of bottles around here, don't worry.
And I like to let it swirl for just a moment.
It just kind of opens it up just a little bit.
I'll wait just a sec.
And it's just perfect.
So, hopefully, you guys, if you're playing along on locals, by the way, if you have Copal already and you want to post an image of what you're drinking, how you're drinking it, et cetera, et cetera, we can throw some images up and we'll get rid of your name or anything that's on there.
Don't worry about that.
And we thought we'd do some giveaways for this.
So, here's the deal if you buy a bottle at drinkcopal.com while I'm on this live stream, or let's just say in the next 24 hours, but hopefully, you'll do it on the live stream because if you do it on the live stream and you forward your receipt, To hello at drinkcopal.com.
So you buy it at drinkcopal.com.
You forward your receipt to hello at drinkcopal.com.
I'll give your first name a shout out on the live stream and we will send you a signed sticker.
I will sign a sticker and send it to you.
And if you buy a case on the stream, not only will you get the shout out, but you will also get a personalized note on official Ruben Report letterhead.
I will write you a personalized note.
And apparently it's already started.
She didn't even know, but Victoria just bought four bottles.
Appreciate that, Victoria.
Trust me, trust me, it is the best tequila you've ever had.
So, cheers, everybody.
Yeah, I mean, trust me, I know tequila at this point.
Like, we done good.
My business partner, Brendan, over there.
We done all right.
We done all right.
Okay, so as I said, if you guys, particularly if you're in the locals chat, we'll try to interact with you and get you going.
We'll pay attention, obviously, to the Rumble chat and to the YouTube chat and all of those things.
And I'll just say a little bit more about the tequila as we get going here.
And then I want to read the what do you tell me?
What do you tell me?
Elizabeth crocheted.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Elizabeth.
Is this a new one?
No, actually, I don't think this is a new one.
Elizabeth, who's one of our great locals members, she had crocheted Little Dave Rubin.
Do we have Little Dave Rubin here?
Come on, give me Little Dave Rubin.
You can toss him.
So, this is Little Dave Rubin.
She created Little Dave Rubin.
And he had, there was another, she's created a few of them.
Little Dave Rubin once had a little copal bottle right here.
Clyde, we think Clyde ate the copal bottle at the end of the day.
He may have buried the Little Dave Rubin with the copal bottle.
And Elizabeth has come to some of our meetups and things of that nature.
We've really, it's just such a great community that we've got.
So, that's pretty fantastic.
So, just a little bit more about the tequila.
You know, so people have asked me why I did this.
It's just like a side quest, as my guys always say.
And really, you know, for most of my life, At least adult life, I drank wine.
I was just kind of a wine drinker, started drinking wine, liked wine.
I liked the culture around it.
We lived in Cali.
We used to go up to Sonoma and Napa all the time.
And then right before COVID, we had a dinner party at the house.
And this is while we still lived in LA.
And a couple of friends came over.
It's about five couples or so.
And for some reason, they all brought bottles of tequila, fancy, you know, the Class Azul bottle that everybody knows, the big blue and white bottle.
And there was one.
There were just all the dragon head.
You've seen all these different fancy bottles.
And we're just having tequila throughout the night.
And I realized, you know, you barely have to drink.
I mean, that's the thing.
Like, I'm also on, I've been on a real health kick over the last couple of years.
And I was just like, wow, you know, you have a little sip of tequila.
And then it's like you could just sit there and not even drink for the next five or 10 minutes.
And there's just something about it that seems right.
Where wine, you're sort of constantly drinking.
Every time you go out, you have wine with friends.
One way or another, three hours pass by, you basically drank a bottle of wine yourself.
And I'm not talking just to get messed up and drunk, it's just in the course of casual conversation, hanging out and all that.
Where tequila, it's just more like you have a sip, you kind of let it be.
It happens to be, I think, a little bit more of an upper where a lot of alcohol is a downer, like it's a depressant.
Tequila is like a little more like you're a little more awake and alive.
And also, I think it kind of changed my look on tequila.
Like, I had that idea that kind of everybody had that tequila is like drinking shots of Jose Cuervo at a college party, puking your brains out.
And it's just so not that.
The flavor is just so, if done right, the flavor is so light and perfect.
It's just great.
I'm told that Dirk just bought a bottle.
We're going to sign a sticker for you.
Erica just bought a bottle.
All right, very good.
We'll get all those stickers out.
We'll get them out.
This week, I promise you that.
Dan or Dion just bought a bottle.
All right, there we go.
So I was just like, a couple years later, after switching to tequila, I was like, could I make a tequila?
Is that a thing that a human can do?
Is that possible?
And I started talking to my brother in law, Brendan, who's done all sorts of different foods and products over the years.
And we started doing some research and reaching out to distilleries down in, mostly in the Jalisco area.
There are four regions of Mexico that you're allowed to make tequila.
You can really only make.
Technically, you can only make tequila in these four regions of Mexico, sort of like champagne.
If you want to actually call it champagne, you have to make it in France, in that specific, in the champagne region.
So you can make, technically, you could make tequila in America.
You could make, you know, you can grow agave and you can go through the process, but you can't call it tequila.
What do they call it?
They call it like agave spirit or agave beverage.
And actually, it is tequila.
But if you want to make genuine tequila, so we, Talked to a couple distilleries.
We went down there actually to the town of Tequila.
There is a whole town called Tequila, and our distilleries are right outside of Tequila.
And we went down there, and at our distillery, they grow all the agave there.
So we talked to the guys who tend to the agave, and we went through the whole process, and we had all sorts of tastings.
And if I can say, Brendan doesn't drink much, so every day by about 9 a.m., he was completely wasted.
I was fine usually until about 7 p.m.
And we really tried to figure out how do we want The blend to be, and what kind of barrels do we want it to be aged in?
We're doing a reposado here, which is aged three months.
And that really is, as they, I didn't know this, but as they told us, you know, if you're making a blanco, so a blanco is basically just the agave.
That's it.
There's no aging process.
There's a process to obviously make it into the liquid, but you're just, it's agave, they turned it into the liquid.
A reposado is aged three months, and then you can get anejos, which are aged at least 12 months, and then super anejos or extra anejos, they usually call them, are, uh, are, could be 12 months, 15 months.
I, I think, I think I had a 22 year one, uh, a couple of years ago, which I actually don't like.
I find them to be a little bit, they're kind of thick.
There's almost too much of the oaky flavor.
So to do a reposado is actually, it's kind of the most difficult one to make to get the flavor right because you're only aging three months, so you're just gonna get, You're just going to get a hint of flavor.
And that's what I like, just light, light and refreshing.
So you could have this on a summer day just as easily as you could have it on a cool winter morning.
Debbie just bought a bottle, and Deborah on Super Chat, oh, just asked me a question.
So we'll get to that in just a sec.
So I guess we'll take some Super Chat questions as well.
So just keep throwing in questions and comments and all that stuff, and I'll try to get to everything.
But in any event, went down there, met with the team.
Actually, for those of you that remember, about a month ago when there were all those crazed, The crazy gun violence and gang violence that was happening in Mexico.
A lot of it was happening in the Jalisco airport, or it was in the Guadalajara airport, which is where we flew in.
I literally knew exactly where we saw some of that gunfight.
We checked in with our guys at the distillery.
Everybody's good, you know.
But there obviously is some tension, obviously, in different parts of Mexico.
But we've just made something great here.
And then I was like, oh my God, I got a business now, too.
I kind of didn't realize it.
I was like, oh, could I just make something?
We made it.
And then suddenly we realized that we have a business.
I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon, because they have one thing in common low IQs.
They're stupid people.
They know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it too.
Look at their past.
Look at their record.
They don't have what it takes and they never did.
They've all been thrown off television, lost their shows, and aren't even invited on TV because nobody cares about them.
They're nutjobs, troublemakers, and will say anything necessary for some free and cheap publicity.
Now they think they can get some clicks because they have the third rate, because they have third rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them and their views are the opposite of MAGA.
Or I wouldn't have won the presidential election in a landslide.
MAGA agrees with me and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating of Trump, not hand flailing fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish college.
He was a broken man when he got fired from Fox and he's never been the same.
Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist.
Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous only Rosie O'Donnell question, or crazy Candace Owens, who accuses the highly respected lady.
Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is far more a beautiful woman than Candace.
In fact, it's not even close.
Or bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things and has lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of Sandy Hook, shooting victims ridiculously claiming it was a hoax.
These so-called pundits are losers, and they always will be.
Now fake news CNN, the flailing New York Times, and all.
Of the other radical left news organizations are hailing them and giving them positive press for the first time in their lives.
They're not MAGA.
They're losers just trying to latch on to MAGA.
As president, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don't return their calls because I'm too busy on world and country affairs.
And after a few times, they go nasty, just like Marjorie Trader Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff.
I only care about doing right for our country.
MAGA is about winning and strength in not allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons.
MAGA is about making America great again, and these people have no idea how to do that, but I do because the United States is now the hottest country anywhere in the world.
President Donald J. Trump.
Like, the crazy part is he writes these.
You know what I mean?
Like, he actually writes them.
You know, Biden was signing, you know, auto penning everything and reading off the prompter very poorly.
But there is nobody else wrote this besides Donald Trump.
Like, he has a long ass trail track record of writing these things.
I mean, this one, this is a top 10.
This is an absolute top 10.
It's also interesting.
He makes the point that now that all of these guys, Tucker and Candace and the rest of them, now that they're turning on Trump, Suddenly, what happened with Marjorie Taylor Greene, what happened with Liz Cheney, anyone that is once in Trump's orbit, if you say anything against Trump, even if the mainstream hated you your entire life, so Liz Cheney was a Republican, she was hated by the mainstream media, then she leaves Trump, now you're a hero.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, you leave Trump, even though they hated you before and you were a white supremacist on The View and everything else, you leave Trump, now they glaze you, they love you.
And you'll see it with all these other guys.
So the fact that he even gets that level of nuance here, I think, is impressive.
Also, dare I say, maybe he's watching the Rubin Report because he references Megan doing it for clicks.
And it's like, there's no other way to explain Megan.
Tucker, maybe it's the mental condition, maybe the Demon One, whatever it is.
Candace, it's not even worth thinking about what happened there.
But Megan, it was like, she just was like, that's where the energy is, that's where the clicks are.
And that's why she seems so hysterical and angry now, because she just, she bet on the wrong horse.
But this one, we may have to frame this and put it in the studio somewhere.
All right, a different view says, Dave, I wanted to, oh, this is great.
Dave, I wanted to update you on the election I was in on Tuesday, April 7th.
2026.
So this is a, I'm seeing this obviously for the first time right now, but this is a locals member who made a comment a few weeks ago that he was getting involved in politics in his local community, partly because of watching the show and just hearing my message and all that.
So this is fantastic.
There were 12 of us running for three positions opened as a trustee position.
I got a total of 55 votes.
The winner got a total of 328 votes.
And the second runner up got 319 votes.
And the third runner up got 298 votes.
I think I literally knocked on the 520 houses in which I literally handed out 520 flyers.
I went to more houses than that, but obviously not everyone answered their doors.
So, all right, it didn't work out this time, but that's fine.
You did something, and I have no doubt that you don't regret it, right?
You don't regret it.
You tried to get involved, and that's great.
And there are other ways to get involved, whether you're sitting on a school board or you're the mayor of the town or whatever else.
So, win, you don't win them all.
You don't win them all.
I don't win them all.
You don't win them all.
So, it's all good.
Rich on the farm says, thank you for creating this awesome community.
Cheers to all.
Let's drink some kopala on the farm soon.
So, Rich has a farm.
If I'm not mistaken, Rich, it's somewhere right outside of the Orlando area, and there is a lot of farmland up there.
You know, people don't think of Florida as farm.
You think of Florida as beaches.
But Florida is absolutely massive, and we have huge horse farms and all sorts of stuff.
And, Rich, yes, we would love to take the kids up there.
We will make that happen.
I know we've been trying.
Maybe we'll do, I think I proposed this to Rich once, but maybe we'll do a locals meetup at the farm, like get everybody to, Rich, I'll pay for it, but you want to have everybody at the farm, see what happens?
Yeah.
Erica says, Candace popped out four babies in four years.
I think she has a chemical imbalance.
She's worked.
Through it.
Was it four babies and four?
I don't know.
The fact that I, it's so weird.
I can't explain to you guys truly how weird it is.
This would be for six tequilas in to really dive in.
But to know these people, to be part of this thing, like, it's one thing you see all these people on TV, you go, boy, I like that person, I agree with that person, I've been watching this person for years, and then they kind of went a little sideways or they changed a lot of their thoughts, whatever.
But to know people, people that have been to your house, people who've met your kids, people who you break bread with, People who you celebrate weddings with.
And then you just see complete changes, wholesale changes that just make no sense outside of, I don't know, is it foreign influence?
Is it a mental condition?
You just don't know.
And I think I've tried to talk about this a bit without going too far on it on the show because I don't mean this in Crimea River, but it's a little bit weird when you see how the sausage is made, right?
When you see how the sausage is made, you meet these people on.
Off camera, you see how they are.
And then you see the other version of it.
It is a strange thing to try to put together.
Dr. Winery guy says, I'm sure Megyn Kelly will rebuke this with a ton of swearing and in her black outfit.
Yeah, I mean, that's another reason why I've been cursing less on the show.
It's not, I generally try not to curse that much.
It really just comes out naturally every now and again when these Democrats are doing stupid things.
That's usually when it comes out.
But the more that she curses, it just seems so classless to me.
The more that I see the Democrats curse, And use all this language.
And by the way, that's not to say Trump doesn't do it.
He literally dropped the F bomb on Easter Sunday.
So I'm not preaching.
I'm not telling you don't ever curse.
Don't use choice language.
Like, of course, whatever.
But for me to do a daily show knowing that you might be watching with your kid or, you know, I do hear this a lot that parents are watching with their kids are getting interested in politics in high school or something.
It's just like, I don't know.
Like, I don't need to curse in front of your 10 year old daughter or your 10th grade daughter.
Alex says, my wife and I love your Newsome rants.
I use your Lizard Man picture often.
When talking about Newsome, I mean, he is just, he is, that's gonna, I gotta drink to that.
He is just the worst of the worst.
He really is the worst of the worst.
He absolutely is.
All right, you guys, reminder real quick, and then I think we're gonna bust out some Super Mario.
My fingers, before my fingers start, you know, you know what happens at a certain age, the joints clog up.
I'm feeling good right now.
So I think we're gonna do that.
But just a quick reminder if you go to drinkopala.com right now and you buy a bottle, you forward your receipt.
To hello at drinkcopal.com, and we will give you a shout out, first name only, don't worry about it on the show.
And we will send you a personalized sticker.
Robin just bought one bottle, thank you, Robin.
And if you buy a case, I'm gonna literally write a note, a personalized note to you.
Nathan just bought two bottles.
And yes, people have, I haven't seen anyone ask today, but people have asked.
At the moment, if you're just buying a single bottle, we do have to charge for shipping.
We're actually eating some of the cost on that, depending on where you live.
The economics of alcohol are just tough in the shipping biz and everything else.
We are working on some brick and mortar stores, and we're in some places in Tampa and down here in Miami.
For those of you, some of you will remember this if you've been playing along with me for a long time.
When I was on Patreon a long time ago, you guys remember Patreon?
It was a site where you could basically subscribe to somebody, and if they were a political talker or an unboxer, anyone that does anything basically, you could subscribe and give them a certain amount per month, and that would unlock different features and all that.
And I was on there for a while.
That was the original idea behind Locals, obviously.
We were on there.
Jordan Peterson was on there as well.
We didn't like some of their policies around free speech, so we decided to leave Patreon.
And that's when I decided to create Locals and to end my Patreon.
We had created Locals, it wasn't even called Locals yet.
We didn't even realize it was going to be for every, you know, whether we were going to offer it to other creators.
We had basically just created RubenReport.com with the subscription model built in.
And the last day I was on Patreon, this is around 2018 ish, maybe, so about eight years ago.
I'm doing a live stream like one of these.
And we said, for every, that was how my company was making all our money, basically.
We made a little bit, I don't know, maybe $2,000 a month on YouTube pre rolls, something like that.
But all the money that we were making for all my employees and me and everything was through subscription.
And we were doing that all through Patreon.
So I was like, all right, I'm ending Patreon.
And I swear to you, I had no idea if it was going to work or not.
No idea.
I knew the tech was going to work, but I didn't know if people were going to subscribe.
Once people are subscribed to one thing, it's hard to move them over to something else.
So I was like, I don't know.
What if I only get 60% of the people over just because people are busy?
You got your own life.
You just don't, you didn't miss the live stream.
You didn't even realize, whatever.
So we had no idea what was going to happen.
And I said on the live stream, this is before COPAL, I was like, all right, I'm leaving Patreon.
So I will drink, I will take a shot.
I think what I did was I will take a shot for every $1,000 that we make per month, because it was a $5 minimum, I think.
And for every $1,000 that we hit, I will take a shot.
Just on that first day alone, someone can go back to the video and find it.
I think we ended up with like $16,000 monthly.
I did, I don't know that I did, I could not have done 16 shots and still lived.
I don't know how we did it.
I have no idea how we did it, but I did shot after shot after shot, all legit.
And then at the end, I was like, at the end of this live stream, I will close my Patreon account.
That was the whole thing.
That was the big ending I'm going to officially close the thing.
So now I'm 10 shots in.
I have to close my Patreon account, and it was before you, Connor.
I barely remember doing the show before you.
My director at the time, what the hell was that guy's name?
A lot of times at live events, people bring me things.
And I have been given so many Golden Girls things over the years.
That it is actually crazy.
This shot glass, this is a Dorothy's Mornack Golden Girls shot glass.
This was actually not, I have many shot glasses of Golden Girls that have been given to me by fans.
This one, actually not.
This one was given to me, believe it or not, by Sam Harris, who gave me a collection of Golden Girls shot glasses because his mom is Susan Harris, who created the Golden Girls.
He's not a fan of the Golden Girls, which is mind blowing to me.
And he was like, people give my mom Golden Girls things all the time, and I thought you would appreciate it.
Now, you may note, for those of you of a certain age, you will note, this is not the original 8 bit NES Nintendo Entertainment System controller.
We have my original 8 bit Nintendo.
And one of, if you ask me the 10 proudest things that I'm ever proud of that I did in my life, about 10 years ago, found my old Nintendo from childhood.
And like everybody else's Nintendo, the system wasn't working.
I tried blowing on the cartridges and all of those things.
That's the part they're going to clip from this, of course, the internet.
And that's what we had to do.
We literally had to blow in the cartridges to get them to work back in the day.
Anyway, the whole thing was dead.
I could maybe get a light flickering or whatever.
I went on YouTube, early days of YouTube, and I found a thing if your Nintendo is not working, and I took the entire Nintendo apart with a little screwdriver, set up every piece.
I had a little, bought one of those little cans of air that you spray.
I got some polish.
And I fixed and refurbished that entire Nintendo.
It's in such pristine condition that I didn't want to bring it from upstairs.
So we have a backup.
This is like a new one with better wires and all the fancy new stuff that they're doing with the electronics.
But it is, so you know, the original Nintendo controller obviously was a square.
This one's a little more ergonomic.
All right, I see questions flying in and I see some more bottles brought in.
But what I am going to do here now, having had a few sips of tequila, a shot of tequila, you are now going to watch.
A 49 year old video game veteran plays Super Mario Brothers, the game that made him fall in love with video games 30 years ago.
I was keen on the NBA once upon a time before the league sucked.
Question If you had to start a team with Magic Johnson or Larry Bird, which one would it be?
That's a great question.
See, that's my kind of question.
You don't even have to buy a bottle of Copal.
You want a signed sticker, just send your email to hello at drinkcopal.com.
We'll take care of you.
If I had to start a team with Magic or Bird, Well, if you just go through some of the numbers, Magic won five championships and Bird won two or three.
Can someone get me the numbers on that?
Magic definitely won five.
I think Bird won three, if I'm not mistaken.
Magic obviously played point, but he was more of a point forward because he was pretty tall.
Bird played power forward, but he was actually more of a shooting guard in a weird way.
So, yeah, I was right.
Magic had five championships.
How many for Bird?
Bird was the one I wasn't sure.
It was three, yeah, so it was three.
They were both incredible.
You know, it was a little bit before I fully started watching basketball.
I started watching basketball.
In 1990.
So that was in 1990, the Lakers and the Celtics were not even in the finals that year.
It was the Blazers and the Pistons.
So the Pistons were just getting good Isaiah and Dumars and all those guys.
But I have watched, I think I've watched every single finals game and probably conference finals on YouTube from all those great Lakers, you know, the Showtime Lakers and the Celtics years.
If I had to pick one, I think I would pick Magic.
And the reason for picking magic is to start a team, to me, you start with a point guard.
Now, Bird, in some ways, Bird had the skills of a point guard.
What was the most assists Bird ever averaged in a season?
I want to say he probably averaged eight assists in one season.
Like, the guy could, he was an incredible passer.
Also, maybe we could grab, can we grab one of those, like Bird?
Oh, that's a good question, that next one, but let me get to this one first.
Dr. Winery says, I think this jury is still out on whether Joseph is a Chinese spy.
Joseph, could you on camera in Chinese say that you are, well, why don't you tell me if you are a Chinese spy or not?
I leave that to the internet to figure it out.
Delaney says, Dave, are you friends with any of the girls you dated in high school?
That is a good question.
So I have a great answer for that.
So actually, there are one of them, maybe both of them are watching right now.
About three months ago, December, it was in December, right before Christmas, I had dinner with two girls that I was friends with in high school that I had not seen since high school.
They both happened to be named Jessica, and they're both going to be very happy they're getting the shout out.
Right now, and they were in my crew.
You know, we had guys and girls and whatever.
And Jessica, she knows which one.
She was my first girlfriend.
This is seventh or eighth grade, which, whatever the hell that means when you're in seventh or eighth grade, do you have a girlfriend?
I don't know.
You knock their trapper keeper on the floor in between classes.
Trapper keeper?
Does that even mean anything to you guys?
Yeah, none of you guys know what a trapper keeper was.
It sounds like a medieval torture device, but it was basically like a binder that you could put all your folders and your paper in, and it was kind of soft on the outside.
And your friend would be walking down the hallway, and you'd smack their trapper keeper.
It was before the internet.
All we had was to knock.
Anyway, actually, it's connected to Copal.
So when I started Copal, so now this is back in June, oh, this is an image of a trapper keeper.
And so it would flip open, and then you'd have your binder in there and your notepad.
You could put all sorts of different artwork on there and all kinds of stuff.
Man, that's what we had.
You guys have little phones.
We had big, giant.
Anyway, when I started Copal, one of the Jessicas messages me on Instagram and she says how much she loves the show and her whole family loves it.
She's so proud of me and we haven't seen each other in literally 35 years or something.
And that she has a cousin who's big in the tequila industry who I took a call with who was great and helped guide us a little bit.
Anyway, I said to her, listen, you guys get down to Florida and let's meet up.
And it turns out the other Jessica lives in Florida in Boca, and we had dinner in December.
And I kid you not, we got there.
I think the reservation was for 7 o'clock.
We closed the joint, there was nobody else in the restaurant.
Everyone's like, everyone's like, Dave, we got nothing left.
Yeah.
Three guys just retired.
All right, guys, this is your last chance.
If you want a shout out right now, you can buy a bottle real quick at drinkcopal.com.
Forward your receipt to hello at drinkcopal.com, and I will sign a sticker for you.
We'll send that to you immediately.
If we can do it right, we're going to get that sticker.
It will be put actually in the box that we send you.
If not, it may have to be sent separately.
It just depends.
We've got to talk to the distributor.
And if you buy a case right now, I'm going to sign.
We're going to get some Ruben Report letterhead.
Or we actually, you know what we're going to try to do?
I have a couple pieces of letterhead from Don't Burn This Book still left from the old days.
Maybe we would do it on that.
And that would be pretty good.
Oh, and I should note that something did happen on the show a few weeks ago that confused a lot of people.
And I let a lot of people down.
And now I can explain why.
So, two weeks ago today on the show, At the end of the show, the normal 11 o'clock live stream, I normally don't do this, but I turned to the guys and I was like, what else is happening today?
I don't know why I did it, like an idiot.
But it was Connor's birthday, and we had planned, we told Connor, we put in the calendar that we were doing Tequila Thursday.
But it was a lie because we were surprising Connor here.
I had the whole team over and I made some bomb ass steaks, and we had plenty of tequila and all that stuff.
But I put in the calendar, we told Connor that he had to come because everyone was going to come at night and we were going to do this live stream, a Tequila Thursday night live stream.
So I say to the guys, what are we doing tonight?
I don't know why I said it.
So Phoenix then announces at the end of the show, we're doing the tequila stream tonight.
But there was no tequila stream.
So many people were sitting around waiting at 7 o'clock for the tequila stream.
But when Connor got here, then we pulled out the surprise and it did not happen.
So that's why we did not have a Tequila Thursday last week.
However, we will do more of these.
This was fun.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I appreciated your, that was incredible.
Now, understanding what you were doing, so you were just coming up with, you're watching Seinfeld for the first time.
So, actually, what you did was pretty impressive.
You're watching Seinfeld for the first time, coming up with Seinfeld trivia that was pretty impressive on the fly.
A few little errors, but I thought you were copying and pasting wrong.
And then that was going to have to, we were going to have to sit down.
You know, like that was going to be a quarterly meeting situation.
Guys, thanks for watching.
Have a great day.
Tomorrow, we have a great roundtable for you tomorrow.
We pre recorded it today.
It's with Dinesh D'Souza.
And Brandon Tatum, who are on the ever decreasing list of people who I think are sane, both of them are on there.
We really had a great time today, so I hope you'll enjoy that.
And thanks for watching, and thanks for enjoying some Kopal if you were drinking along with us.
And next week, if you ordered today, you will definitely have it by next Thursday, as long as you're in the continental United States.