Dave Rubin critiques Zohran Mamdani for allegedly begging middle-class New Yorkers to stay amidst a claimed $2 trillion wealth exodus and a 300% rise in subway murders. He contrasts Mamdani's denial of violent crime with data suggesting policy-driven implosion, while comparing sanctuary laws to cultural shifts in the UK and Germany versus Japan's mosque resistance. Rubin predicts a Republican 2026 victory could end a "lame duck" era, highlighting candidates like Marco Rubio and JD Vance, before concluding with personal tributes and reflections on humanity's future. [Automatically generated summary]
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We're just wrapping up a whole bunch of just general state of crazy today and leftist lunacy and what they're doing.
So that's kind of low hanging fruit for us.
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We got a nice mix of stuff today.
But let's dive right in because, you know, as I keep saying, everything right now is just about the midterms, really.
All of the fighting, whether it's fighting wars over there or the political fighting that's happening, In our cities and states, what it really adds up to right now is what will happen in November.
Because the moment that election closes, if the Democrats are in charge, it is what it is.
Lame dump, lame dump, lame dump truck, lame duck Trump era begins, and it will not be pretty.
And if the Republicans win, Trump truly unchained for the last two years of his presidency could be absolutely incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
And that's where everything's leading us up to.
So, in some sense, I think you can make an argument that everything going on with the crazy Dems right now is a net good because as people watch these cities crumble, as they watch the crime, as they watch the mayhem and just the general state of lunacy, as we get to shine light on the differences between Democrats and Republicans, as we have like an L.A. mayoral race and a California gubernatorial race, and then the fruits of what Zorhan's doing in New York, it's exposing so much of it so that the hope is enough decent people will be like, you know what?
I don't know about these Republicans, but I don't want that.
Zorham Amdami, who is pushing out every productive, sane person in New York City, here he realizes that now there's an it's not just, oh, we got rid of the rich people and everything was going to be fine.
Now the working class are starting to head out too.
Amidst being in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we already see an exodus of working and middle class New Yorkers.
So I don't have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money in the city or the most profits in the city to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city.
It's also something not just about Justice or the ability for working class people to live here.
It is also actually about ensuring that corporations can continue to attract the top talent to this city.
So, I think we showed you that clip before, but the reason I wanted to start with it is because it shows a real disconnect.
We're going to get you some numbers in just a second on how much money has actually fled New York.
But it shows you the disconnect between what they do policy wise and what their results are and how they never realize these things are connected, right?
So, on one hand, his whole thing is I'm going after the rich, I'm going after the billionaires, the millionaires, the corporations, blah, blah, blah.
Then the millionaires, the billionaires, the corporations leave.
And most of them, as you know, come into Florida, right?
So they get out.
They're like, these are not the conditions we can do business in.
He's standing outside Ken Griffin's Pied de Terre saying, burn this place down.
Like, this is not a great situation.
We're going to go to places with less regulation, less taxes, all of the goodness that free societies have, and everything else.
What Zorhan seems to be unable to realize, although I think he's doing this intentionally, a lot of people think he just doesn't, you know, he's just kind of like a ding dong communist, doesn't know what he's doing.
I think he's intentionally imploding the system.
Wherever you fall on that, obviously, you not great guy, if you take out the people who are running all the corporations, who have a huge chunk of the money, who pay a huge percentage of taxes, if they leave, it's not just that they leave and you get to go, yay, we got their apartment, let's throw a big party.
They're taking companies out, right?
You guys are always going after the billionaires.
Well, we read you the numbers last week.
Elon Musk employs, I think it was 144,000 people.
So, if you hamper him and he has to look at the books a little bit differently, he's going to have to fire people.
So, when you push Citadel out, when you push, say, Tesla out of California, whatever it is, you're not just punishing those guys.
Then you're actually, you think you're for the working class.
Well, the working class now are realizing, boy, prices haven't gone down and there are less jobs.
We got to go.
And what does it all add up to?
Well, this just came out from the New York Post.
2 trillion, that's with a T, in wealth to red states in the last decade, and New York leads the pack.
So maybe, Zorhan, again, unless you're doing this intentionally, which I think you are, maybe you'd want to go, all right, why don't we put a pause on all this stuff?
Sure, I couldn't pull off the free buses, and yeah, those free grocery stores, we're only going to have five of them in five boroughs for 10 million people, and we're not going to have them until 2029.
And I did push out all these people, and maybe I shouldn't have threatened Ken Griffin, and the list goes on and on.
And I showed up to a Mets game and I hugged Mr. Mets and then they lost, what, 13 straight games?
Like, the guy does not have a good track record.
He might want to reverse course on this, but he cannot.
They are so deep in their doo-doo that they just seem to want more and more and more.
Here is Zorhan explaining that violence is not a real thing.
Connor, do we have a picture of the artificial construction known as violent crime?
Well, that's a man being thrown into the subway, and as you can see, we translated it I'm fine.
Violence is an artificial construct.
To be clear, we added that part, I think.
I think we added that part.
I don't know that's exactly what he said.
But these people are ridiculous.
On every issue that they can be on the wrong side of, they are always on the wrong side.
And of course, what happens when you are for defunding the police?
What happens when you are for letting violent criminals out of prison or not even putting them in prison in the first place?
Well, from the New York Post.
Murders up 300% in New York City subway system.
Robbery surge, NYPD data shows.
So murders are going up.
Violent crime is going up.
We've already talked about it many times.
How they don't arrest you, and this started under de Blasio, so this wasn't even from that ding dong Eric Adams before Zoran.
That if you jump the turnstile, what does it cost now to get into New York City subway if you're just throwing one ride?
It's probably, I'm gonna guess, $2.50 or something.
Man, I remember when it was like 75 cents, and you put change in, you literally put change in the thing.
God, life.
But once they said, okay, you could just jump the turnstile and we will not punish you for that, you're actually saying, okay, we will incentivize criminality, and then you're also saying, oh, people who pay, You're just too old to jump that thing, old lady.
Well, you're going to pay for yourself and somebody else.
It's $3 per ride right now on the subway, and you're a sucker.
If you can jump that thing and you don't, you're a sucker.
So get out there, do some squats, learn how to jump, get those shoes.
What do they call those jumpy shoes that we had back in the day?
Remember those jumpy shoes?
Get me an image of those jumpy shoes.
We're going to throw it in right here.
You know, for basketball players, it had the big, it was kind of like a heel for a guy.
All right, we got an image of it.
There you go.
But of course, it's not just New York, it's everywhere.
Everywhere these people are, they ruin everything, and they're always interested in protecting criminals and illegals instead of you.
As you know, Cali is full of these people Katie Porter, Javier Becerra, and Tom Steyer, the billionaire.
They're coming into our state, they're terrorizing people, they're racially profiling people, and they're harming people and committing violence against them.
Actually, Tom, they're arresting illegals who shouldn't be here.
And you're a billionaire, Tom, so I'm sure you have an awful lot of security everywhere you go.
The average person doesn't have armed guards wherever they go.
But now, the reason I showed you that, and obviously that was a few days ago at the debate, is because this came out, and this is just perfection, you know?
Look at this.
Tom Steyer, he's getting an endorsement.
It's very exciting.
The California Democratic Socialists Voter Guide recommends Tom Steyer.
Quote, the most progressive of the current viable candidates for governor is Tom Steyer.
Time will tell whether he's truly a class traitor.
Do you see what they did right there?
They basically threatened to kill him as they endorsed him.
And in some ways, I think you could argue that a billionaire who is placating the never placated progressive loony mob is probably, in some ways, the most dangerous person you could have in politics.
Everything that he has to do, his very existence is anathema to these people, right?
But he has to placate to them so that they don't kill him.
So, would he do all of the craziest possible things, open borders, endless criminality, like whatever it is that they want?
Meanwhile, he will, of course, be living in his mansion with his armed security and everything else while all hell breaks loose so that he can bow to them.
I mean, that put that statement up again.
I mean, that last line is just so beautiful.
Time will tell whether he's truly a class traitor.
So we'll endorse, I mean, it's the biggest mafia.
That's an awful nice restaurant you got there.
It would be a damn shame if something happened to it.
That is unbelievable.
But just in and of itself, we hate billionaires.
We hate billionaires.
But we'll vote for a billionaire as long as he will be a slave to us.
And also, if he isn't, we'll kill him.
So good luck.
But let's connect this to some of these other things going on all over the world.
We wanted to show you this one for a little bit, but I thought this was interesting.
This is an African refugee in Germany.
And as you guys know, Germany.
Angela Merkel opened up the doors.
Germany is so screwed, and so much of it has to do with their guilt from generations ago.
They opened up their country.
They are really the idea of Germany for Germans is, well, they have some parties like the AFD who are fighting for that, but the country is really screwed up right now.
And here is an African refugee.
He's just telling a joke.
He's going to actually tell you a joke.
You'll read the translation.
And you can see within this, this hysterical laughter about how they even realize how ridiculous the whole thing is.
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A afrikan asylant, a schwarzer, he goes to the city in Nürnberg and he spricht the first person, the one he sees, and he says, Thank you, that you have been in Deutschland.
Thank you, that I have been in the country, I have been in the country, I have been in the I gotta say, the joke is actually pretty good.
Everyone else that's wandering around the streets all day, they're not even German in the first place.
But the fact that this guy would be a migrant.
Migrant, or whatever you want to call him, legal or illegal from another place.
And in the case of Germany, they let in all these people legally, so he's probably not even illegal.
But that he would sit there, that the joke got out there, he would sit there laughing about it on video, knowing no one's going to do anything about it, that no German's going to take their country back or anything else.
Again, the AFD party does exist and they're fighting and all that stuff.
But that tells you, like, these things can happen here too.
They will take what is yours and laugh about it in your face, and you will do nothing.
And then it will be 10.
20, 30 years later, and you will not know what your country looks like.
If you'd like an example of that, well, England just had a bunch of local elections, and here is video of the London borough known as Tower Hamlet, and here is their new city council.
It's like right out of Downton Abbey.
Now, on the non joke side for a second, I just want to be clear.
I'm sure some of these people are perfectly fine.
But what will happen?
Okay, so now a generation goes by and another generation goes by.
Will this have anything to do with the England that any of us knew or the London that any of us knew or anything else?
Here's a list of some of the Tower Hamlet mayor names before these people.
You had Richard Desmond, George Cheney, B. Holmes, Daniel Kelly, John Riley, Mr. Durrell over there, Crook, Thompson, Neil, et cetera, et cetera.
You got Duffy, you got Shaw, you got Ludlow.
And then let's jump over to the 2000s.
What happened in the 2000s?
Well, Yeah, we're going to have a Jones and an Alum and a Melvin and an Ullah and a Sardar and an Akhmet and an Ullah and a Haki and a Siddiqui and an Omer and an Al Zaman.
Again, it's not, in and of itself, it isn't necessarily a problem except when it happens everywhere and then it completely changed the cultural makeup of the nation and everything else.
Then it starts becoming a problem.
But how did this all happen?
Well, it was feckless leaders.
You know, my friend Gad said his new book, Is coming out this week on a phrase that I have mentioned a million times, that Elon has tweeted about endlessly, which is suicidal empathy.
That this is what the Islamists and the leftists preyed upon.
And it's really what the Islamists did.
Oh, it's those ding dong leftist progressives.
They're so tolerant.
They're so nice.
They will commit suicide.
They will commit Harry Kerry.
They will fall on the sword in the name of being nice.
And we will be able to take over their countries.
And that is what is happening.
In the UK.
So the UK just had these elections.
Again, did not go well for Keir Starmer, who's in a whole bunch of trouble.
But what's he worried about?
He's worried about the Tommy Robinson, who I've had on this show multiple times, that Tommy Robinson, who is the leader, I would say, of the Britain for British People movement, sounds pretty racist, he's the real problem here, and they better stop people from going to Tommy's rallies.
For two years following October 7th, you guys had jihad rallies every weekend taking over London with no British flags, tons of Palestinian flags, tons of Hezbollah flags, tons of ISIS flags, things of that nature.
You didn't stop anybody from traveling to London.
Now, a British guy who's upset that his hometown was completely Islamized, who is Talking to the people of the country that you're supposed to be the leader of and saying, hey, we do have a problem with immigration and we do have a problem with sovereign borders and we have a problem with the EU and the rest of it.
You're going to literally ban people from traveling to his rally?
How are you going to do that?
Are you going to be arresting people on the roads and asking for their political affiliation or checking out what underwear they're wearing?
What are you doing?
But either way, let's say you could do that.
Well, why is it you only do it to that guy, not to the guys who are calling to decapitate you?
Unless you're actually afraid of them, and that's why.
Yeah, that's probably why.
Of course, there are some countries that are not doing it this way, and that's the lesson.
The reason I do so much of this kind of stuff from an American perspective is we're not there yet, and we have many, many better strengths states' rights and gun rights.
We were born in revolution.
Americans are much more diverse in the right sense of diverse.
They're diverse in like, oh, we got that many brown people and that many white people.
We're all diverse.
We have created something in America that is much, it is, well, we used to call it the melting pot, but it is a much, Better stew of Americana where people put aside ancient hatreds, but it's being boiled up again.
But there are some places that they are dealing with it correctly, and I do think it's worth noting that.
So when we are confronted with this stuff, we will know what to do.
Look at this video from Eric Daughtry.
I'll read it to you as you're watching the video.
Incredible sight, as thousands of Japanese recently stormed to resist building the first mosque in Fujisawa.
The Japanese people are getting fed up not only with the invasion, but the fact that the mosque would be larger than the Shinto shrine.
Keep pushing.
Prime Minister Takachi and the Japanese people must repel the third world and Muslim conquerors.
Look, obviously that's Daughtry editorializing a little bit, but the point is, is it racist for Japan, a tiny little set of islands?
Is it racist when we say our culture is for us and we have certain cultural habits, we have a certain language, we have certain foods and a certain history and we want to protect it for us?
Is that racist?
And the answer is it's obviously not racist.
And in the 50 some odd Muslim countries, if a whole bunch of Japanese people came in and started saying, we are going to build our places of worship here, how would it go?
Well, we know it wouldn't go well.
There are no churches in Saudi Arabia.
Qatar contains their Christians to this, you know, couple block radius, and they're really actually all slaves, mostly from Thailand, who they take their passports away.
So it's not a two way street.
I suppose if we did some of the two way street stuff, then it would be a little harder to push back on this stuff.
But Japan is fighting for its culture.
There are certain places that are doing it, and we better start modeling it.
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All right, so you guys remember last week when Marco Rubio stepped in for Caroline Levitt and gave the White House press briefing and just did a bang up job.
And the highlight, of course, of it was when he gave this wonderful soliloquy on what it means to be an American.
I want to read a bit more to give you some context there.
This is from Fox.
A viral clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivering a hopeful vision for America's future while answering a question this week at the White House is stoking more buzz about a possible 28th.
Presidential bid.
Rubio, in his debut performance at a White House press briefing, gave an uplifting answer that noted America's story of perpetual improvement when asked about his hope for the country in the years ahead.
Recordings of the Secretary of State's 53 second answer, including a campaign style video put out by Rubio's team, grabbed tons of views on social media.
The frenzy is understandable as every move and each comment Rubio makes is often seen as a possible prelude to a potential White House run in the race to succeed his boss, term limited president.
Donald Trump.
So, you know, there's a lot of talk.
I'm, in some sense, I'm not that interested in it, in who's running in 28.
Like, we got to get through these freaking midterms right now.
Do I think Rubio is an absolute all star who has proven himself at every possible level to be the most highly competent Secretary of State we've ever had, to step in and do the White House press briefing, to explain what America is, why we're doing the things we're doing?
Like, has this guy just knocked it out of the park almost completely flawlessly?
I can't even think of a flawed moment.
His last flawed moment was, what was that?
10 years ago when he gave the rebuttal to Trump in one of the speeches and his mouth was a little dry.
Like that basically was his last thought.
The guy's been that good.
I just don't think it's worth spending too much time on this because whatever happens with the Republicans, there's a deep bench, right?
So, okay, so you got Rubio.
We'll see where DeSantis shakes out on this.
As I keep saying, people don't mention Hegseth, but I think there could potentially be a lane there and he has been great.
Obviously, JD is the presumptive nominee as the vice president and he's been excellent.
I think there is going to be a contested convention.
I think there's going to be a fight.
But regardless of who I like the most and can we move this guy into this slot and everything else, it's like there's a deep bench there, and that's pretty good.
And when you compare that to what's going on on the Democrat side, it's night and day, right?
Like they are in a constant race to the bottom kind of who hates America the most, who would give the government the most power, who wants to fundamentally change everything as we know it, versus a bunch of Republicans that, okay, if Rubio becomes president, pretty good.
JD becomes president, pretty good.
Hagseth, pretty good.
DeSantis, pretty good.
We'd probably give you a couple more that would all be like, yeah, America will be pretty solid.
And we got out of all those Trump years and it was kind of crazy, but Trump angled us the right way and gave us somebody that loves the country and we can move forward with.
So the Republicans are in a good spot right here.
I thought this was interesting because the media loves the little internal fights.
Here's Scott Jennings on whether Rubio, he thinks Rubio will run and where that leaves JD.
Yeah, look, Rubio, you talk to people, hardcore MAGA voters.
I think more than anybody else in the administration, Rubio has.
Outkicked his coverage based on the expectations for him, A, with that crowd, and B, for the, you know, old world normie Republicans who've always loved Rubio, they're like, this guy's terrific.
So I agree with Brad on the buzz.
My assumption is, and Rubio has said this, Vance and Rubio will not run against each other.
And so, however, this shakes out, and I still think it would be enormously difficult to take the nomination away from a sitting vice president if he wants to get it.
When he has been silently complicit, serving an administration that targets people, racially profiles people, is basically persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African Americans, firing people.
He's the son of immigrants from Cuba that came here in 1956.
How dare he stand by complicitly and allow Latinos to be rounded up, allow American citizens to be shot in the face and shot in the chest and shot in the back?
How dare he allow the voting, stand by idly while the Voting Rights Act is gutted and disenfranchising African-American voting.
You know, there's something about the show, it's like a fever dream.
It's like when they're off camera, they're probably all perfectly fine, and the second they sit down on that set and the camera's gone, they all go completely the same.
Anna Navarro, they're persecuting and torturing Latinos.
Christy, my assistant Christy here, Latina, Cuban, live in Miami.
Have you been persecuted andor tortured under Marco Rubio?
Was she just let off the hook, or did those crazy people?
Make all of that stuff up.
I think you know.
Uh, interestingly, Christy and Marco Rubio are both Cuban, and as I often talk about living down here in Miami, the Cuban people love freedom because they fled communism, right?
So they get it.
They really get it.
It's recent.
It's not five generations ago.
It's basically last week.
So Rubio really does have his eye on Cuba right now, and you can sense Trump's trying to figure out how do we order this thing.
We gotta wrap up Iran.
There's, you know, we knocked that, we took out Maduro in Venezuela.
There's a bunch of stuff going on.
But here is Rubio explaining a bit more on what we are doing with Cuba right now.
There's the Cuban government, and they have a budget.
And then there's this private company that has more money than the government does.
None of the money in that company goes to build a single road, a single bridge, provide a single grain of rice to a single Cuban, other than the people that are part of Gaiza.
So that's what we're sanctioning, is a company that basically is taking anything that makes money in Cuba, and illegally putting it into the pockets of a few regime insiders.
So that's not sanctions on the Cuban people because the Cuban people don't benefit from Gaesa.
It's a sanction against this company that is stealing from the Cuban people to the benefit of a few.
And we didn't discuss those sanctions yesterday, but we imposed them yesterday.
The guy asking the question is Dave, and my name is Dave.
That could be rather confusing.
Dave, what's your first and best concert?
I think I've.
Maybe this has been brought up once before.
My first concert that I ever went to was probably 12 years old, Sleep Away Camp, and somewhere in Pennsylvania, outdoor concert, we went to see the Steve Miller Band.
And Steve Miller, you know the Steve Miller Band.
They were, I don't know that I was like into that music per se back then.
I don't know what I liked really as a 12 year old, but Steve Miller Band is awesome.
I mean, they've got probably 20 great songs.
My best concert, that was my first concert, my best concert, well, we got engaged at a Fleetwood Mac concert to the song Dreams at the Forum in Los Angeles back in 2014, many lifetimes ago.
So that was my favorite concert we ever went to for sure.
And the most enjoyable time I ever had a concert, you guys know I've been to many, many Frankie Valley concerts and gotten to see him personally and spend some time with him and interview him and all that.
But even just at the last one that I went to, which was, he's 91 years old, and two months ago, I went to see him in Tucson, Arizona, and I got to show him some video of the kids dancing to some of his songs and talk about how they love music.
And that's when he really, really, really lit up.
And I just love, you know, I don't know, I guess in that sense, I'm just an old soul.
I like 70s, 80s.
Don't care much for the 90s, got a little depressing.
But you give me all the 70s, 80s stuff.
But I like doo wop from the 50s, too.
So I got a bit of an eclectic mix when it comes to music.
Mark says Dave, given the political dynamics before and after the midterms, do you think there might be changes on the Supreme Court?
Who do you think might get nominated, DeSantis, Cruz, or even JD?
Well, it's a good question, you know, because as some of these guys age, you know, guys and gals, Trump or any president realizes, boy, I'm at.
The end of my run here, you know, what could part of my legacy be?
Could we get somebody to retire who's going to age out?
Because if they resign or pass away or whatever under a Democrat president, it goes the other way.
So, could Trump try something here?
How many years does Clarence Thomas want to do this?
You know, that sort of thing.
I don't know the answer on that.
Like, I don't know that there's any discussions about any of those things.
Ted Cruz would be a phenomenal choice.
Ted Cruz, you know, Alan Dershowitz, who's the legendary Harvard Law professor, he said that Ted Cruz, I think he either said he was his best student or best debater that he ever had.
Maybe we could check the specifics on that.
But Ted Cruz, like, he is, he knows the Constitution in and out.
I think he would, you know, he knows how to, he's been in the public eye forever.
Like, he would do well at the confirmation hearings.
He wouldn't be caught in a question, you know, what is a woman?
He wouldn't be caught like a deer in headlights.
And Dershowitz did say he was one of the best and brightest students he ever had.
Look, DeSantis also would be incredible.
DeSantis was a lawyer.
DeSantis, to me, though, he has, there's more to do first, right?
Like, DeSantis is about to wrap up.
Eight incredible years in this state, and he made it by far the freest state in the Union.
And, you know, he's only been in politics.
He doesn't have a huge career before that.
He's younger than I am.
How old is DeSantis?
Maybe 46 or something.
You know, he deserves to make some money.
You know, he's worth a couple hundred grand.
Like, could he do something else in politics?
Sure.
He's 47 years old.
He has three young kids.
Like, my sense is he either goes private sector for a couple years and then a comeback, or maybe he runs for president.
There's all these rumors that he's, I mean, literally, it's all over the internet now that he's going to announce he's running for president during the show that we're doing in Miami on June 11th.
I have no freaking idea.
There has not been one implication or discussion around that with my team.
I give you my word on that.
I have no idea.
But his future is bright one way or another.
And again, if you get to that debate stage and you look and you go, man, that's DeSantis up there, Rubio, and JD.
Imagine that's the last three and they just have to fight it out.
Like, I think there would be a degree of honor there.
I think it would be something.
So, but.
So you said Ted Cruz, who was the third name?
Or JD.
Well, JD, I mean, that would be so far in the offing.
JD doesn't have a real legal background, as far as I know, right?
JD's not a lawyer, I don't think.
So that probably is less likely for the Supreme Court.
But, you know, with Trump, you just never know with Trump, right?
David, wow.
So we had a Dave ask question.
Now everyone in the community is either named Dave or David.
Any plans for your 50th?
So June 26th, I will be 50 years old.
Not bad, Connor.
No Botox, no nothing.
Just I go to my girl three times a year in Miami Beach.
I say to her, do whatever you want.
She lasers the hell out of my face, puts creams all over me.
It burns for a day or two.
But I'm doing all right, working out right, you know, eating right and all that stuff.
I'm very, I have to say, I'm sort of excited for 50 in a way that I was not for 40.
Oh, wow, I do have a correction to make.
I like making a correction, not above corrections.
JD went to Yale Law School, so there is a bit of a law background there.
Did not, see, even at 49 years old, you can learn something.
Who knew?
You know, When there's something about turning 50, my 40s, my life has been good under 40s.
You know, we had kids, like, life's good.
Career is working.
I love doing the show.
I love the people I work with.
My friends are good.
I feel, you know, I feel physically good.
So, like, I like being 50, or I like the prospect of being 50.
I remember when I was turning 40, I was like, man, like, I'm getting old.
Like, I actually thought 40 was old.
Where 50 seems like great, like, let's roll, let's keep going, let's see how we can keep improving over time.
Where 40, I was like, oh, man, the.
Like the youth part of me is over, or something, and I don't feel that at all anymore.
So, I'm very excited.
So, anyway, as for plans, probably a big Dave Rubin birthday party, because I think the 26th is a Friday, so we've been discussing that.
So, you know, I'm in London for a couple days before that for the ARC conference.
I will not spend my 50th birthday in London.
Like, if I have to freaking swim the freaking pond across, I will make it back here for my 50th.
So, likely a party.
Thought maybe we'd go away for the weekend.
But then, you know, that Sunday, Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize in DC.
And I was invited to that.
So that would be a nice way to wrap up the weekend to go see Bill get that.
So probably a party, maybe a dinner.
I don't need much.
You know, I guess that's what happens.
You start getting older.
You don't need much for your birthday.
You don't.
I don't want anything.
I really don't need any gifts, nothing.
Morgan says, do we think that humanity will course correct at some point or are we doomed to fulfill the plot of the movie Idiocracy?
Oh, it's a great movie if you have not seen Idiocracy.
Great, great.
Mike Judge.
Movie from about, I don't know, what year did it come out?
I'm going to guess it's probably got to be, it's got to be 25 years ago.
Did it come out?
2006.
Wow, so 20 years ago.
And it's just a brilliant, it's so funny.
It's low budget, but it's a great take on the future of what will happen to people as we just keep elevating the dumbest and just punishing people who are bright and whatever.
You know what?
I think it's something like this.
I think some people will be prepared for the future.
And know the right things and have been brought up properly, and we'll go through this AI robotics thing that we're going to go through right now, the world's going to be so freaking different.
It's going to be more different than when your grandma didn't have the radio and then had it, or when we didn't have television and then you had it, or we didn't have the internet and had it.
It's going to be so wildly different.
But if you prepare yourself properly, if you know what your values are, if you're ready to incorporate these things into your life, the future is going to be really, really bright.
And I think, and again, I mentioned it yesterday, but if you've not seen my interview with Joe Lonsdale from Saturday, you know, he's a technologist, a VC guy.
And he paints such a bright future for humanity.
You know, Elon always painting that bright future that we will be able to automate so many things, so many mundane tasks.
It will leave us to have the opportunity to do so much more with our lives.
Work is important too, and we're going to have to figure out how to incorporate all of those things.
So there's just huge things, there's huge problems, and incredible horizons that are right in front of us right now.
And I think if you leverage them, the future will be incredibly bright.
I think cities are going to be increasingly hard to live in, hyper controlled, dumber state school people, and it's just going to be just kind of dumb and stupid and dysfunctional.
And then there's going to be other places that things are really bright and awesome.
And hopefully you angle your life towards one of those places.
All right, Tappy says Have you been able to speak to Jordan Peterson or Dennis Prager?
So I did, I think I mentioned it a few weeks ago.
Dennis has been moved down here to the Miami area.
I did see him two or three weeks ago.
He's doing okay.
He's making more appearances.
We're actually going to have him on the show.
He does it virtually.
In essence, he has no movement below his neck.
He actually is moving just a tiny bit for the first time with some fingers, I think.
I saw his thumb move, which it feels like nothing in some sense, but it's incredible progress.
I just want to say that, well, first off, Dennis, if you're watching today and he told me he's been watching the show, I love you and I'm thrilled you're here.
And we're going to try to spend more time together and everything else.
And we'll have him back on the show soon.
But Dennis' attitude is so unbelievably positive.
You know, this is a guy who I don't know how many books he's written, but wrote extensively and has talked extensively about happiness, and he's so appreciative to be alive.
There wasn't a moment, you know, when we went there, you know, I'd seen him before.
I saw him in the hospital in LA.
And, you know, it's tough to obviously see your friend at any age or any stage of life to be in that kind of condition.
And when I saw him the first time with breathing tubes and all of those things, and it's, you can't, there's nothing you could say, right?
We've all seen something like that at some point, right?
And it's the circle of life and all of those things.
But the first time I saw him, he couldn't communicate at all because of the breathing tube.
When I saw him this time, you know, he's speaking and everything else.
He has the same smile on his face, the same sense of humor.
I did go to see him a couple weeks ago, and then something came up, and it didn't work out.
Michaela, his daughter, has given some updates on where he's at with things.
So, I don't want to share anything that's not public knowledge.
But, man, I've said it before, but in this last year, to have lost temporarily Jordan Peterson, to have lost for good Charlie Kirk, to have Dennis be largely MIA for so much of that.
We lost heavy hitters, and I think it led to some of the craziness on the right.
And I do, my senses, things are healing a little bit.
I'm always trying to do my best to be part of that healing process, probably failing at it sometimes.
But yeah, two absolute all stars in Jordan and Dennis, and we need them both back in whatever capacity.
Either one of them, getting them back at 10%, it's better than getting most people at 100%.
One more question Elizabeth says, Did you do anything special for your mom for Mother's Day?
So I wanted, there was a brief moment where I thought.
Thought maybe I could jump home and surprise her, but we did send her flowers and we did the FaceTime thing with the kids and all of that.
But thank you for asking the question and love you, Mom.
And I do want to add quickly, since you've given me the opportunity to do it, that my mom actually spent most of Mother's Day with our family friend Shelly, who's been my mom's in that best friend crew for 40 some odd years.
And she's in hospice right now, and I got to.
You know, kind of say hi and I suppose goodbye to her.
And she was a wonderful, positive influence in my life, who I remember when I was like six years old was telling me how funny I am and that I'm going to host the Tonight Show or something.
So, Mom, we love you.
Shelly, we love you.
I love you.
And all right, that is our show for today.
No post game show.
We got a couple interesting things coming out for the rest of the week.
I will fill you in online as to why.
Tomorrow with Dr. Drew, then Adam Carolla, then we got Bishop Barron on Friday.
And one more time, guys, if you have not bought tickets, Already.
I want to see you in Florida, June 11th, Fillmore, Miami Beach.
Me, Corolla, Shapiro, Jillian Michaels, and the headliner, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, DaveRubin.com slash events.