Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, being attacked by Forbes and the liberal media for his “1,000 Blind People See For The First Time" video, where he pays for the manual small incision cataract surgery of 1,000 people; the Babylon Bee’s perfect satire of the MrBeast controversy; and the media silence on Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest liberal hypocrisy surrounding his climate change activism. Dave also does a special “ask me anything” question-and-answer session on a wide-ranging host of topics, answering questions from the Rubin Report Locals community.
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healthy and that's all rascally forest. So there has been some push back, but we're not backing down. For this
because people I'm dave reuben. This is the reuben report in February. Second, twenty twenty three relies driven on rumble, youtube and local subscribe. If you have not- and today is a local community q and a sigh
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I've come the local communities blowing up, and that gives me a good moment to mention that I can officially
Oh you, that january was by far
I have said it about lately, but it's worth repeating not to pat myself on the back
I can impact these guys out on the back for their hard work. But I think
something good is happening here, because january was by far our biggest month on youtube alone. It was our best month, I think, by sixty four percent. If you have a month increase of ten percent, that's good twenty percent, that's fantastic! Thirty kind of
at its centre, etc. Sixty four percent also rumble is just like a hockey stick of growth right now, all the
social media, stuff people are paying attention, we're we're
work and hard think doing something its relevant. So that's just a little. Thank you up top to you guys been
is the the engine is clean and effective and the machine is role, and so all
before we do the community q and though I wanted to do this story,
I don't do much about sort of the the inter drama of the: u to people
I mostly stick to politics, I to the culture wars and all that kind of stuff and some philosophy, and what
burma be, but I dont get into like the nitty gritty of the u to game game and there there's an entire youtube ecosystem of people that
making videos to destroy this person and that person
How does the video to take out this person and then they sort of their their mutually assured? Destruction actually makes a lot of money for everybody because they are getting clicks by going after this person, it's sort
when wrappers or fighting each other. We are big.
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those are gone,
You know these guys would get go out each other out of those two were those who were private.
getting some how right somebody's frightened or you got your righi azalea fight near beyond, say, J c. The point is,
people get into these things and I'm not saying there's nothing there, but then it's good for everybody. You sell more albums. You get work. Lakes bought up so that a lot of this sort of thing on you too, but but there was an interesting controversy. I knew too, when I wonder: I'm actually totally curious will look in the comments
hear from you that how many of you heard about this controversy causes a super interesting
There is a guy, a young guy who go
by the name. Mr beast on you.
Who, by I'm guessing he's fry in his late twenties, do even know how will this guy is held? Twenty four, while he's twenty four years old,
sky has become these worth prob
hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. He does all sorts of eighty of videos and a lot of
he does is giving people money. He gives people money, helps people by houses, cars and get
life in order, did he seems to be doing a lot of good stuff from anything that I've seen his stuff does show up on my youtube feed concept.
the anything that I seen since.
He's, doing good step that that's what I've been able to see.
In any event, he decided to pay for a thousand people
get their blindness reverse. There are procedures that can be done for a specific type of blindness to
actually get your blindness reversed. You are blind one moment you have the procedure. You can see next
He paid and then made a big video about it for this to happen at this procedure to happen for a thousand
people in literally all over the world who went to multiple countries to do this. It's it's really fantastic. We're going to show you a little bit of it
the reason I wanted to show you. This is because there is a huge blow back against him for doing. What's
eggs me as a seriously nice thing, it's good for him
HU, I beseech you get some pr and he gets clicks and all that. But like
using your money for good and to help people see seems pretty good, but but you,
birds, one after him, mainstream media. Whenever mean it was really really bizarre us I want to just
impact that a little bit and then we'll get into the community q and a and then I also want to make fun of leonardo dicaprio real, quick and
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back to me all right. So this, MR beast, valor, and if europe, if you're you tube person, one of these people that clicks
get up in the rabbit. All's, you start watch
a reuben next thing you know you're watching the MR beast or something else he's a huge tik, tok or he's he's all over the place. This guy- and as I said, he he's got it
the money and he seems from what I can tell
to be doing good things with his money he's with his money, he's a twenty four hour katie's from north carolina. He has over a hundred
thirty million subscribers on youtube. By comparison, we have about two million now. Obviously, my channel is hit with all sorts of shadow bands and everything else because of the politics and that sort of thing, but like two million and we're pretty big great like this- is we're doing something over here and this guy's got one hundred thirty million subscribe. It's really nuts anyway, he reinvests all of his profits. Back into each video where he performs these family friendly stunts or these big acts of philanthropy, as I've been saying so now, I want to show you this. This is a little compilation, video cause. He did a big video on this thing. He did this video where he gave.
This this incredible, truly life changing surgery, so the blind people could see to a thousand people its cataracts surgery to cure their blindness, he's just a little snippet.
There are many our hearing, a thousand people's wine, that simple vacant
He you myself.
You know, here's ten thousand dollars we're just getting started. We still have nine hundred and eighty lives left to change. Geez. There's my watch. I'd never seen it before. Oh, my god, man, there. You go
the crime? I can see everybody's facial picture. Well, it's a little blurry with my fears coming out. Okay, yeah I've been subscribed to you for like eleven years. Really. Oh, my god, Jeremiah has been blinded his right eye since he was born and it's affected his vision, his entire life. Let's do this how to go good yeah. Are you excited the right? Take your time, the pressure everything looks clear to make this day even more special
If you're about to graduate high school and go to college, we wanted to give you fifty thousand dollars to put towards college. I didn't even think this is for him, like I'm waiting to wake up.
but we are also going to other places around the world
because, unfortunately, nearly half the population would curable, blindness doesn't have access to the surgeon. So I wanted to provide this to as many people as possible as a big you, because you are just so gracious in this video. We want to make a hundred thousand donation it'll bring side to thousands of people. So how great is that so
If there is anyone watching this, I know you guys you're good, decent people you're watching going. Oh, how heartwarming it's nice, you could almost here up. A thousand people can now see that could not see before because of cataracts, because of what this guy did he's also pay
for people to go to college gave the doktor another hundred grand, but then what happens in this is so consistent. You'll see why I want to talk about it. This is so consistent,
with everything that happens in the world. If you try to do something good, if you, if you do something sort of like elon musk trying to
for free speech. Then suddenly, there's a litany of articles in every mainstream publicly
about how evil he is and how bad is. Businesses are and all that this kid
Does this on his own volition and it doesn't matter,
he's making more money on these videos than he spending he's doing something really fantastic
Then the haters come out and there's this this cascade, this endless casket,
of people on you to go and after him, for this gift and everything
and then mainstream media goes after him to check out this article from forbes forms was
once a reputable place of journalism, forbes is absolutely true
forged by the way we just remember this well remain. This thing about six months ago said that they were
I saw a article about how my audience had abandoned me because of my political positions and literally, I think, every month, for the last six months, we've broken every record and, as I just said, we just like smash them into oblivion. Anyway, here's what for
said about MR beast, who just helped a thousand people see and seeing generally thought of his good thing. Mister
beasts. Latest video sees the youtube or help cure the blind partnering with s e international to provide manual, small incision, cataract surgery without and patients filming their delighted reactions in the wake of a successful procedure. However, the video sparked controversy on line.
Writing an interesting ethics debate. Mr beasts, habit of shit
powering strangers with cash for content, has long been a bit of a joke on twitter because his charnel acts tend to conceal an uncomfortable truth under this,
tiny surface, the fact that these videos are created primarily for cloud and profit imbue them with a dark.
would own, especially when young fans view them as acts of messianic empathy. After all, one can always depend on the kindness of you tubers. Essentially MR beast, videos or much like those feel good news stories that I'd obliquely
reality at their core. Like stories of children, raising money to pay their parents, medical bills or teachers having to go to extreme lengths to provide basic classroom supplies, disturbing acts of desperation framed, is inspirational and empowering good god where's my barf bag from the
today cause I'm gonna need it. This lead to some twitter users. I gotta watch out for some twitter users voicing concerns of their discover, even enabling the video, demonic and mocking MR beast, but many of the critiques aimed at mister bees. Video were not aimed at the youtube or but the systems that incentivize is this kind of content. Political streamer, Hassan piker watched MR beasts, curing blindness, video on twitch and stated that watching it made him filled with rage. Piker went on to explain we shut off access to a ten minute procedure because we pay walden undecided that some people simply cannot get it. Mr beast is happy to take credit for enriching these people's lives, but would it be so difficult to take a few seconds,
or video to explain the conditions that led to his subjects suffering a little context could go a long way. The subjects of MR beast- videos are surely blessed by his interventions, but the concern is that many of the children who watch these videos are
forming a particular ideology. That's the only way!
change. The world is to get incredibly rich, throw some of that cash in the right direction and make sure there's a camera point in your way.
I must say that is one of the most disgusting ridiculous
more erotic things that has ever been written in mainstream media. We all want people to help. You know everyone seems
Everyone seems to want the government to help. Maybe not you guys, but like the the mainstream layer of this thing away the gun,
women should help if only the government could take from some and do
whatever a certain set of people want to do to another certain set of people, and it usually hurts those people. This guy he's figured out to make money for himself, which is fantastic,
probably lives a great life and he's doing all of this good work and these beater cold
I quote, journalists at forbes that they dare even rent this trash.
like he should have spent more time figuring out what their real problems are. Like. You think that that kid who now can see couldn't see out of his right eye now can seems crying and then got fifty grand you think he's looking at this like. Oh, I hate MR beast it so
stupid the government literally steals boat load.
of your money to drop bombs on countries across the world? You don't even know why and people are upset about this
anyway, MR beast saw a little bit of the push back and he wrote this on twitter. Your twitter, rich people, should help others with there.
me. Ok I'll use my money to help people and I promised to give away all my money before I die. Every single penny twitter, twitter, MR beast, bad and I gotta almost fifty million
views the Babylon be had a great take on this thing. They saw the controversy. This is just perfect sad you tube or mr
He spends million curing people current curing blind people when he could have said another tank to ukraine absolutely perfect and I just wanted to juxtapose. This was something else, because here you have this again
I know this. Kid just all seems interesting to me, like a twenty four year old kid doing all this good work and, and that he's making a dime on to like it's great like it's, it's just great all around, but I wanted to
that too leonardo dicaprio because, as you know, Leonardo caprio, who I'm sure is worth at least a hundred million bucks and is actually a great actor
in the ton of great movies, just written, perfect and the wolf of wall street, and I even like titanic there. I said it: ok
I didn't like the first time I saw it over the years. I've come to enjoy the titanic when it's been on t n t in the afternoon, and you know whatever I don't have cable anymore, but okay, fine, I like titanic. What are you going to do
eli david, whose a doctor who does a ton uncovered he had an interesting tweet about leonardo dicaprio.
he wrote. Leonardo dicaprio is very concerned about climate change. Fun fact
his mega yacht, emits more carbon in a single trip than your car,
your entire lifetime now look about yacht there. It turns out
that he rents that yacht. He does not own that yard, but isn't that just the essence of all of this stuff
same people. Who will tell you, MR beast, is a bad dude for doing good stuff because he's gettin attention, while he's doing it, making
the money, they're the same people that love leonardo.
caprio lira the cavalry will fly on his private jets all over the place and he
get on those yachts, his carbon footprint. Will we massive while he guilds, you intend, not drive a car anything else. You know when we will. I saw a wheel
When will we lived in a way? What was that you remember that restaurant and laurel canyon that limit I enjoy down there whenever that place? Was god rumour that
is so I'm down there and he was sitting at the table. He had five chicks with them to mere like this five checks,
arm around to them. You live in a good light. That's what I'm saying.
Any who, let's get to a reuben report, a community you and
I will try to do good work, no one's getting paid, I'm not paying you people to watch, but you might enjoy yourself that enough about that Nineveh says: hey
I just finished, reading your second book and I could not stopped laughing.
Could choose one book to have everyone in the world read what would it be? Well, first off, I'm thrilled to hear that.
then stop laughing at it, because my one concern with dumper in this country.
Obviously was. The second book was that I did not
It was as funny as the first book the first book, because it was a little more autobiographical,
like I got more funny quips in their at my my editor
We were a little looser with somebody silliness and then in the in the second book. It was a little dancer. I get a little more research ebby and I felt like
do we caught a lotta jokes at the end? So I'm very very glad to hear that and if, if you, if you read it and you liked it, you may
I tried the audio books that, because I do the whole thing myself and then you know some of the the inflection and intonation in my voice. I think your dig it
if there was one book that everyone could read, I may look my easy answer on. This is red twelve rules for life. If you have not read it
I literally lived it.
I lived that book by Jordan peterson by being on tour with him. One hundred and twenty stops, as you guys know, in about twenty countries for a year and a half it was, it was incredible
back on it. Like that happen, it was a dream.
That's a very easy answer for me to give you. I
say you know. I've mentioned this book a couple times before and its I wish I could have interviewed him, but he passed away before I was due
this of stuff, you know the great astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and Carl Sagan was sort of. If you dont know Carl Sagan, if you're bright young bride on across aid,
He was, he was sort of kneel to grasp, hasten before any autographs eyes, and he was he was a
he would go on Johnny Carson and he would talk about these great ideas of philosophy and science in space and all of these,
He was a professor at Coronel university, also,
actually, I when I was on bill Marshall, I asked him his bill went to pornography ever course with him.
Fourthly, he wasn't teaching much of the time because he had sorted become a tv star, but I know a lot of you. Don't I
photographs ties, and he is certainly no Carl Sagan and he's become sort of a crazed leftist, especially around corbett,
Sagan, we sort of non political. I just wanted to communicate, be decent ideas of science people. He wrote one work of fiction, which was the movie contact, which is an absolutely wonderful movie. I might be my favorite movie ever with jody foster care
ninety ninety seven and any wrote many many books, including cosmos, but his last book was called
billions and billions, and he actually
passed away. He died of cancer right before he had finished the book, so his wife andrey and whose also a professor Coronel. I think she still is now. Actually she ass. She had finished the book for him, but it's
sort of him. He clearly knew that his time was coming to a close
in its him putting his final touches on on the thoughts of his life and its
really really wonderful. Indeed, a great way of explaining really complex stuff in a very, very human way, James said,
I heard you were possibly doing a tour in europe for twenty.
many three any confirmation or teaser that you can?
provide. I mean to plan in advance dave. You know what I don't want to tease too much right now, because there's a couple moving parts,
I also have the blend. You know there are two kids here that I got feed, make sure they're doing ok, change, diapers and things I can't leave every
david, so we're trying to figure out like do. We have to break it into two trips, maybe even three trips. Now it sounds like I mentioned yesterday, the george peterson's, putting on this conference in october
Where are they going to really do this sort of assault like a a one? Eighty reverse on the w e F, a bottom up idea of how to fix the world's problems that'll be in london in october, so I'm gonna try to get to that. But yes, may there's going to be a couple of countries at least
to possibly three maybe bore we're trying to figure it out?
hang title that I'll have more poison
so Amy says: what activities are you most looking forward to doing with justin and luke? I mean I can't wait to get out there and play basketball with them like that's it
really really hope they like basketball. I know the thing: is we kids,
ruin throws him into soccer at the beginning, because you can basically just stand out there and you don't have to do much of anything and another whatever not a lot is happening, I'm not a soccer guy, find it boring as hell, but whatever what you know I'll go out and do it, but I cannot wait to to teach them how to shoot hoops like I. I just hope that you know I'm forty six now, but let's say it's in like
five years five, we could start shooting around a little bit, maybe a little bit before, hopefully, I'm still walking. I cannot wait for that, cannot wait for that and I would love to go fishing with them too. I think that'll be super fun which obviously, here in florida, plenty opportunity
to do that, but they are really like their growing so fast right now, like every morning there, both in that phase, where you wake up in the morning and unlike whoop dear bigger than you were before, and will wait your who in whose at one
it's a lot and also just in his now he's almost into six months, like he's not quite
crawling, but he's rolling like this. Kid can basically get where he needs to go by rolling, which is which is sort of hilarious. To watch cool mom says, rather than encourage us to talk politics with our democrat friends and family, which often ends badly shouldn't the focus be on pros. Like yourself,
getting the truth out. Is there a plan to stop liberal views from dominating the airwaves? Are you working towards crossing over
Well, if you've been crossing over, if you mean into where you're saying the airwaves, so I think you mean maybe like a little more into the mainstream, I mean look. I tried many times when I put those two books out that we're both best sellers
to get on CNN? We tried to get on MSNBC. We tried to get on
whatever the the political talk shows are on all of these networks. Nobody would have me fox and fox business would put me on every show and they still consistently put me on these things. I would have gone on all of these shows to talk about
these things is what it is. So I dont know that we can. I dont know that we can salvage the mainstream, and I dont know that we have to you know that
Industry, media at this point is dying in numbers. It's why they write nonsensical hit pieces. Why does forbes right, hippies,
about how Joe romans a racist is it.
and why did Brian skelter for weeks cover
how europeans are racist? Is it because they really
leave his racist or if they believe that he's getting the views and the clicks that they used to got so they want to take him out. Why is it that forbes is going after this
your beasts guy is today honestly think it's
in writing an article that this guy, who just help the thousand people in several countries, see some for the first time that it's worth taken him out?
or is it that they know if they write a hit piece about him, it'll cause controversy and then cause clicks right, like you know the answer
obviously so I dont know how important it is to transcend that thing that the mainstream media seems to me at this point to be
dinosaur in the libretto pits right leg. For those of you that have been telling you just picture the dinosaur,
prototypical dinosaur and the targets we go to your natural history, museum in whatever city in
and the dinosaurs slowly thinking right
then other dinosaurs or jumping on top of it remember you they show you like a brontosaurus walks into the tar pits
now he's sinking and then some other predator would jump on him. Cause he's easy prey, but then what that guy doesn't realize is old man he's thinking now the tories on me. You know saber,
the tiger now I can't get out either and I think that with the mainstream media is doing its feeding on itself in its last gasps as it as it sinks down beneath the tar, and I think that that
Just fine. I think we have to do the best. We can to help convince people that have been paying attention to those things that there are more truthful things out there. It's what I was saying yesterday about the view
how whether Ebby can we can you go? I don't even know that it's a thing that we can find but is is the view.
Part of abc news, or is it part of abc entertainment division because of its part,
entertainment division than you can then just sort of business.
Why? I guess you could you say all right: it's just an entertainment show it doesn't matter what these girls say.
but at a news level- and it ended in essence- is a de facto news show at this point
these women lie about absolutely everything.
it's a real problem of we're getting the right now so technically, it is part of the entertainment, not news division. Isn't that interesting because they know it's not,
when Anna Navarro gets up there as she did two days ago, and she
screaming about the importance of this african american AP class.
African american history, a p class and claiming that ron de Santis is getting rid of it because he's racist and doesn't mention anything about the gender queer theory blah blah blah. It's like you're, confusing people
I generally, but I suppose, you're an entertainment show so you're allowed to do it. Oh interesting, this is interesting, phoenix gimme info on the fly. It was part. The view was part of a b c news division until two thousand fourteen, but then they switched it
the entertainment debate. That is extremely interesting, so there may have been legal reasons for that. You know your upheld two different standards when you're part of
use division than you are as part of the entertainment industry. So there you go Francis says when someone hollers four days
in your house, do both you and dave answer so
he goes by David. I go by Dave. However, my family still calls me David, so when, when I have my brother and sister and spouses
and missus a nap use all my nieces enough youth. They call me big uncle David. They call him little uncle David, I'm a little bit taller and dependent on how much have eaten it could be a little bit. More
and my parents call me David, so it can be very confusing when we have a lot of family under the roof. But beyond that its were work.
we're already were pretty good
He does nobody really calls him dave, and at this point none of my friends really call me David, so it kind of it were his about. I
It is weird like it is sort of weird I suppose, but at some point you just stop thinking about it and SAM says just a thought from a cow
foreign residents. What do you really think a cabin newsome presidency would look like. I have this conversation with my friend the other day, because we both of or him so much, but he is a california Democrat. He has never faced any kind of opposition at all. Look how awful comma is same thing right cause. She was a senator from Kelly once they get to DC with actual republicans with power. They are totally exposed like what would newsome do with a republican house incentive that he had to work with low first off. Let me just say: I'm going to do. Every
in my power to ensure the gavin newsome never becomes, president of the united states that there is an interesting conversation happening. A little bit about gabby
which is you know, a lot of people think he's just he's just a she'll like he's just a drifter he'll do
thing for power. Like he's not a true believe, I know people that no him personally,
lotta people say he's not really a bananas leftist right, like you might say that I don't even know that she's a true believer either Bernie
believe right so Bernie, whether you like it or not. I don't think there's a lot of question as to whether he believes in the
ideas of leftism and socialism. Like he dies, he's been fighting in school.
Being about these moronic collectivist. Idiotic
ideas as he became a millionaire with three houses for many many decades like he is a true believer. Someone like Gavin newsom and again, I know people
I know a lot of people that he doesn't believe this stuff he's just doing whatever will get him elected whatever will give him power. So in some ways that makes him the perfect democrat, because you'll do anything to attain power right, and that seems to be what the game is about with these people.
You are totally right and it's an important point that, because california has become a one party, state he's been able to do whatever he wants there and by the way, when he does those things he destroys. The state and his people make more money right,
You have to think about it like a pretty clear way. You could see the videos that I showed you guys last week from San francisco right and their there in saint there absolutely insane. It's not a city it.
It is a is right out of the walking dead you can
los angeles. You could go all over the state. The state has water problems, because this disguised constant tension between the middle of the state.
The city is all of this- that there are so many problems in california. The deficits, the road sock, like all,
right, and it should be the most spectacular stayed in the in the union like the size of it.
Geographic area along the pacific, like it so gorgeous the mountains, like there's so much there, that you can go skiing and beyond the beach. Basically,
the same day like yours, so many incredible things there. But you have to understand that this
guy is doing everything for power, so he might look at san francisco,
and you might wonder why is he letting that happen while he's letting it happen, because when they put in the policies that stop builders from building or put in all these crazy regulations, it's his guys that are?
we're making the deals right, it's his guys that are getting richer. It's the exact same thing with the world economic forum types: do you think bill gates is ever going to stop eating meat? Do you think bill gates is going to be eating bugs, of course he's not. Do you think John?
Carry while he's flying around on his plane will ever stop.
inflamed and yawned and far greater, like, of course they will not. So these people
They they really it. It is that video that we showed you a couple of weeks ago. What would what was it that John Kerry said he said were this is extraordinary we're like extra terrestrials like basically like we're like
gods, and I think that is really what these people believe. They think it is their job to constantly be re jibbering human society, so it fits to their ego. Testicle psychosis, I'm not into that's. Just me.
The valencia is love the black as they say. When are we going to be able to chat with each other?
in the reuben report community, it would be nice
the built in messenger feature been waiting for this and other features to be rolled out where's the beta.
groups. I me up our first. I promise you you'll, be in the first made it s group we're working on it. I thought
we're we're gonna bunch of stuff. It takes time to build these things and there has been a
two things: you know when we did the merger with rumble. There were a lot
things like we had. Our engineers are locals engineers, helping them on things. They were
lobbying us. I think we have to combine all of the forces there. Obviously,
opened up offices here in miami in the studio, in miami rumbles, building, really fantastic on the water offices and sarasota that a great there's, big things happen.
Also, then, this region, ridiculous war in ukraine happen
That's where most of our local programmers were. We were able to get a whole bunch of keys,
loud who now our working here in the united states, some of them are still in europe and an indifferent parts differ.
Countries right now, so that delayed some things. But but the feature set trust me, I I've seen the whiteboard. The feature set has live chat for you, guys
go back and forth on each other. We want it to be an all in one stop shop.
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were now live streaming locals. That was something we couldn't do about a month ago. So, like we are building this doubt appreciate your patients bear with us and more is come in. I promise you rich says high dave, so much has been said about elon musk by his supporters in detractors that he seems to have an air of eccentricities surrounding him. He's almost howard, hughes minus the crane
What surprised you the most, when you spend time with him, while I mentioned you guys, I mean the first thing was on that on that first night, when I went in there and its about twelve thirty a m and
he's meeting with all these people and I'm sort of standing up to the sky with a couple of the engineers they're kind of catch me up on some of the things that we have been talking about for the last two weeks
and then you on comes up to me. We start trading from it. In fact, work few minutes and then he basically that he said hey,
You need me tonight. If you need me to stay
night, like I'm, really tired, but if you need me to state a state like that's crazy, like absolutely crazy, the world's richest man right like he doesn't work for me
He's got a hell of a lot to do. I'm just one guy in this ecosystem that you know they happened to
and some things on my account it now they found across the board, but like that he was willing to stay at that point. Basically at one am for that, and that then we push it to
moral in our meeting
I told you guys are meeting kept getting pushed throughout the day. So again
we didn't meet until after midnight and then we had two hours, but the other point that was cool was like.
Is he really is like like
right. When we sat in the meeting, he was in the middle of showing somebody like a funny video online about leg. It was like a mocking mentoring about what it's like to raise funds in silicon valley and he was cracking up and he was funny
I told you he lit up when we talked about the political alignment, because I think he really does feel like the sort of political evolution that that I've been going through for these last couple years and deployment in the forefront of tat
about at least I think he's right within that. I think with I think they're. So many people in america just like that,
I think it's why I always even though it it frustrates you guys sometimes interpreters.
It's me it's why I always talk about bill Maher because it's not about bill specifically, but it's about the type of disaffected liberal that might be willing to ultimately change their vote. When most people will not do
he was just a good. Dude is also like a second I don't know the first night you're the first item.
Wearing a suit? The second night he was worth
He sure that was just kind of like it's like a ready old teacher like I that I would have even been seen in that t shirt.
and just sneakers, unlike some basic gains like he's just like a decent dude,
just have to remember not
Is he runnin tesla?
space acts in trying to get us to mars and all this stuff the guy has.
all the money in the world. He could literally do anything that you can think of and ended a good julian things that you can't think of like if he wanted to buy Bora Bora and live in a tropical paradise, with a hunt
red servants for the rest of his life and never be seen by humans. Again, he could do it if you wanted to turn
Did it to the island of doktor? Were rowing? Do bizarre experiments cross breeding humans with elephants? He could do that. Maybe you
but instead he chose to get into this fight, and I dont know what better mark of a man you could. Finally, that oak says worth
One trillion in debt with no end to the spending are we bankrupt? Is there any chance that social security and medicare will be
means tested. You know this is a debate that we have every year about this stupid debt ceiling being raised.
We are a debtor nation period we do now.
Have any money. We have notes that say. I owe you, if
This was monopoly, we'd be sir.
right now, like we are one roll of the dice away from be it in the pool.
House on baltic avenue right we're gonna we're gonna have to basically cell crack on baltic so that we can get. You know a tenement home
Something like that. So we are a destination, there's no way we're paying back our debts. Obviously like they're there simply
a way we're doing it and I
at the end of the day like this is a weird depressing reality, but it's just true it's why we have to have the best military in the world. You know if you borrow money from somebody you, any mafia movie, you ve ever seen
the borrow money from the mafia, and then it's like
their pay them back on time or they may be. They knew no kind of rough up once maybe roughy up twice. First,
have you taken a drive out to the metal lands in jersey, right
and and then that it so one
China might be like well. The does seem that the united states, we ve crunch the numbers here and don't seem like the united states, but also as an awful lot of money. I we're gonna call
and the debt and then they're going to call Joe Biden. He won't know where he is hopefully he's not president anymore, but we but whoever they call. They call ron de santis and they say we were calling in the debt were cashing in the chips and he's going to have to go well shit
how do we do about this, and then you either prolong it. But how long can you prolonged for before the whole house of cards fails?
Or you end up in some sort of war situation,
This is why we have these words: periodically a whole bunch of people get rich off ukraine right now. The idea
we gave a hundred
billion dollars a hundred billion of your dollars to ukraine. Why why why- and we have virtually no debate about it and if you even question it
If you live in question at your somehow thought of as a russian stew,
George you're working for putin or something like that- that's naughty, but maybe them
she just needs the wars every now and again to keep the money thing flowing. I think it's probably something close to that.
I don't think I dont think social security medicare will foller medicate will fall because
we'll just kind of keep going if the machine is good at one thing, it's good it it's good in that it can keep going. I think the best we can do with the machine
It is at times when we get enough brave politicians that I'm talking about the federal level. We can kind of push it back into the same direction. You can't completely alter it. I don't think you can, and you can maybe push it this way. You can maybe push it. This way
poll. You can tug blah blah blah, but I don't think you can do that much and which is why I would want that thing to be pretty small to begin with, and it's why I would always focus on states before the federal government.
Heather yeah, what's our what's our, what we have right now and expenditures in Florida were up. We have like a massive massive amount of cash. I think we have like something like an a surplus of like seventeen.
billion dollars when we had the storm which you guys know about this crazy hurricane
we cut aid and then, of course, far too had enough money to cover the collie deficit. Heather says,
with all the biden, docks unravelling,
heard. A number of other like minded alight independent journalists, like yourself thinking this, is all to get Biden out of office or at least not run again. My question is given
we have documented proof that the ds was planning the plan dynamic as early as what two thousand sixteen
maybe earlier, wouldn't it stands to reason that the entirety of biting presidency has also been fairly well planned out in advance,
Look we can all go down some level of conspiracy. Theory here and you know conspiracy. There is the last ten years on conspiracy. Theirs, they look pretty good there. Certainly looking better than most most journalists
and I dont think anything. You said there is like a wild conspiracy theory. You have to remember
when Joe Biden was running and your head, you know yet people to judge and yeah Kemal, yet Chelsea gabert
idea had Bernie and Elizabeth Warren ET, etc. Rubber,
before super tuesday super tuesdays on a tuesday, and if you,
we're on that monday. They cut the deal with everybody, they cut the deal so that peat dropped out and burning
dropped out and Elizabeth Warren dropped out and pete got a job in the administration.
Bernie just allowed to keep doing his nonsensical bernie thing whatever it is.
all solidified around bite in them whatever. That is what is it the Clinton machine, the obama,
she like somebody orchestrated all of that. This is just politics: that's not a crazy conspiracy theories, a theory they orchestrated
that, because it seems to me that
whoever they is felt that the best guy to take out trump,
Whatever reason was Joe Biden, my
guesses. They did not. Think Biden was going to sort of mentally collapse this early. The idea that he could even be considering running again is so bananas. I really don't think he will do it. I think there's still a large chance. He doesn't even make it through the end of the term, and this document stuff is sort of the perfect way
push him aside. You have like a temporary kemal, a situation, and then you let go
I've been in
they lie grad. Doesn't that sort of seem right? You? I don't think
system has much use for him
you may remember. I have told the story once or twice that when I met trumpet the height of impeachment- and this was during you know that the Democrats were in the middle of their campaign
They were all running at the time.
You may remember those what was it about three weeks where MIKE Bloomberg was running, nobody was supporting, might bloomberg by them.
Here was all about what might bloomberg and in those two debates that might bloomberg within you may remember
rybody was attacking him and I said to tromp I said I said. Mr president, my theory
This is that the only reason Bloomberg is in is because they want the fired,
directed at him, because Biden is pulling number one and they know if everyone goes on a date debate stage and attacks Biden that he's gonna break down. He can't deal with it
what cognitively or any other way and
tromp kind of laughed at me
he first of all. First, he said to bologna he's, like god, this is sort of interesting. Listen to this. He had me repeat it to her and then he's like nah Bloomberg, just hates me, but I
We think I was right about that. I think the system
put bloomberg in as a complete. He was a horrible candidate. He did not even try. There was no support.
but they needed to drag bite into the finish line. Somehow- and I think if you can see some of these tactics that the machine uses, then you don't fall for them next time, so we're gonna have to get our big republican primary coming up
dickie haliae said she's in I'm hearing here and that my buddy Larry elder is gonna. Get in. It sounds like my pompiers gonna get in. There's gonna be an interesting crop people
many of whom I like and let's see how the games or a bit differently
It will be different also because republicans generally, but a little bit differently right, remember trump and twenty six
I mean he just ran the show all the way through they kept saying the establishment wants to stop him, but nobody did stop him. Nobody coalesced to stop him. He took out cruz, took out, rubio, etc, and so we
I'll see me more says what
happened with bill mar when you went to see him in l a this time. Inquiring minds want to know so I went to after San francisco is just like a mean
cali like? How often am I going to get down here? I've got a couple of friends I want to. I want to do some stuff with Prager. U so I went to real time and I was backstage which is sort of like, like quite honestly, like it's ridicule
said this point that I haven't been on the show, but I go back stage and you know every producer, it everyone there they're all say hi to me always so we
we haven't been on the show yet and I'm just like alright. Like I don't know, I really don't care anymore. I'm not just saying that I don't care anymore
If anything, I would almost view it as a headache if I got the call at this point.
I did what I needed to do with bill in those two and a half hours or whatever it was when we did the club, random podcast.
and we become front friendly subsequently, so I dont need it it it felt sort of silly. You know
Considering I had to spend time with you. It's like I could talk about some pretty relevant stuff, but
it seems to me there may be going in a different direction, or you know, to put us somewhat saying right. Leading person on might be too much exposure for what they're trying to do.
Whatever it is? Does it doesn't even matter a bill, and I talked about a whole bunch of stuff? That's all video! Ok here we go nick says once luke
just in our old enough to join the low,
well boys, basketball, flash golf team. How would you and David teach them to handle a situation where one of their teammates identified as trans? That's an interesting question. Well, first off, as I said, I can't wait to get them out there. Playing basketball david was a was a golfer,
in high school is a really great offer and I'm trying to be trying to carve out a little more time now because he saw in it with the kids so that he could obviously it on a great golf courses here in florida. There were trying to make that
and how would we deal with it while I guess the first part of that is like we'll have to see when when the time comes- and hopefully they don't get confronted with something like that for quite some time, and I think we have some protection against that. Obviously, here in florida- and you know what
Are we home school or private, school or whatever? But but does it seem like? The world is heading in a direction where it is likely that my seven year old son might know a girl who's? Pretending to be.
Boy or whatever. Unlike what do you do it that bank
and I don't know what the right answer would be. Yet I don't know, I guess I'm not the parent of a seven year old yet and I'd
think I do when we do talk about the sort of thing allowed, a dinner alike.
like what you'd want to do and what we will try to do is is put these kids into the world without being too
I muddled in their minds, hopefully knowing what a loving family is and knowing what something close to truth is and- and goodness is all those things and surrounded by you know, I'm blessed to be surrounded not only by great family and friends but like they're going to have awesome influence. You know, justin's middle name is
Gordon, in honor of Jordan petersen, like ugly jordan, will have a little role in his life and an Dennis Prager in these great people. So I think we can. I think we can buttress alot of the good idea.
We can really stabilize them. So when the crazy stuff comes in it all kind of present itself and will know how to deal with it. But I dont know if it's just came home and he said I mean I'm in basque
ball and there's a girl who's going by the name brian, but it really wouldn't be that direction
it would be the other way most likely because the little girl it's messy,
bessie. I hate we can be
the show in seven years, yeah, ok, I'll, let you know
it says, I've been a supporter since rogan help you launch the rogan, helped me launch. I've been on rogan a couple of times that really helped me launch, but er
It's been a wild ride question. Will you support, starting
funding campaign to send sab
the mail order desserts until he agrees to talk to Brett weinstein's for at least in our you know,
look. I addressed the sampling earlier in the week. I told you didn't give me any great pleasure, but I sort of felt that I had to do it too,
how to get it out of my system, because so many people ask me about it. It is very disappointing
if you listen to the video that we played where sam you know, he's still kind of going act like mocking brett. For being vaccine skeptical- and it's like no sam, you should have been, but also even if sam felt, that brett was completely wrong on vaccine skepticism, which again clearly Brett was
right right. Clearly, I was right. Clearly many of you were right. Why wouldn't you talked him about
the whole idea when we started the idea. W was that we,
or it was this wide, ranging people. I I always used when people asked me what the whole id w was. You know this group of people we it's hard to remember cause. It was five or six years ago now and the internet moves so fast.
but it was this really wide swaths of people that that had very, very different views on things that were coming together and talking about all the important issues. It was all
We would. We were just on the early end of seeing how woke me I was gonna, destroy so much and we were trying to stop that from happening.
it really is what it boils down to, but I always used sam invention Ben, as as the the example of what this thing really was because salmon
Shapiro literally disagreed on everything.
everything I would say, except sort of the basic tenants of the united states, meaning they disagreed on belief and religion and god they disagreed on abortion and taxes and and virtually every political. You know dem democrats versus republicans like pretty much everything you could think of
but they often would sit down in my garage in our studio and talk it out.
We would agree that we all wanted to live in the same country so that
was the beautiful things, so the disappointing part with sam is that he suddenly
didn't wanna talk to any of his friends or the people that were willing to talk about these things and that as
the other day was disappointing to me at up at a personal level, more than a professional level. I didn't care. If we did any of this stuff publicly. I really did
always would say that live said that many many friends over the years who were anger at all,
disappointed with my politics, where they see me with a picture we trumpery or an event with the sad is neither they back on this right wing maniac and it's like man. Can you not separate friendship? Put
side, whether we agree or disagree politically. Can you not separate that from friendship? Why can I do
why do I consistently find the people on the right are able to do that and people on the left or not? I think there is actually a very fundamental reason for that having to do with belief and the lack of belief, I think was making them feel very tenuous in everything he said. So he didn't want to be confronted with people that may be got things writers all things.
a little bit differently. Isn't it something like that and lady broad says dave? Is there ever going to be a republican conservative party that will unify like the Democrats even for irresponsible, stupid bills? They stick together. It's powerful yeah, well the quest for power,
We'll get you to stick together right if your goal is not like, what's writer, what's just it's just like we want more power, we want more
our over people. We want more of their money to do what we want to them. If you can unify against that.
What what do they say? You go to a libertarian canada conference and its like it's like hurting cat right, because
everybody's got their own issue there, like pet issue, that they really care about whether its dry legalization of drivers licence is or what should happen with
hardcore drugs or the border releasing see once you get people there
believe in individual rights that that respect autonomy of the mind of the self and you try
get them to coordinate themselves into a political party and make a coherent, and if you're, asking about the republican party than you'd want them to have a coherent set of values and that when the next presidential election rules out that's what they do with the convention, they say here the principles of our.
Eddie and the principles of our party, let's say, as the republican party there is going to be different, then say pure conservative principles.
Those are gonna, be differ than pure libertarian principles, but when you want to do as you want to create the widest tensile enough, people can get in there,
think I'm a living breathing example of this, as
one. That is a duly report registered republican here in florida. I think this is the wide tent party I think it proper.
We has been for a long time. It was a little hard to see as the mainstream media didn't want you to see it but
will be the challenge. Maybe it can't hold.
like maybe I'm being a little. You know, rose coloured glass, this sort of thing in what I see as being with wide party, but I
I really do think it is, and I think I have enough evidence of that- and not only because of what I do here and that we see the response that you guys give us, but I literally traveled the country and meet people from every walk of life, whether it's, whether it's some guy in arkansas or to disaffected. You know
traditional conservative but say in arkansas, or it's a disaffected liberal in cali, and it's like boy. You guys disagree about some stuff, but I know you both love, america. I know you both respect
ray speech? I know you like rule of law and you think this whole experiment is good and worthy fighting for so that's what we that's the challenge and
whether we can actually do. It is well that the proof is in the bud. Cappy says: what are your plans for off the great august now
the boys are here cappy, I don't know, but I really really do hope that were able to get.
way for a little bit. Actually you know, fortunately, because we we both got family on the east coast. Hopefully we can get some family members some grandparents to come on down to maybe take the kids for a little bit. We used to do some great trips
we've gone to the to the amazon and mexico and we did the Bora Bora thing and just disconnected none of this and I just stare at the ocean. I don't need to read a book. I try to read some of the planes, but like
I can just sit. I if you get me on a beach, I can just sit down David drive. Some crazy cause he's got books.
Got his ereader reader. He's got he's looking at it, we're not looking at his phone, but he's just like got his well got like the ipad for reading
Magazines also argue to sit there. I little
We can just sit there and watch the waves and it could be six hours later. I beaten sums of each year have had a little tequila, I'm good to go back that works. For me,
I hope we can get away a little bit. You know thing that happens with august is like there's so many places that I want to go back to a really want to go back to ITALY. I haven't been there since nineteen eighty seven, I was twenty one. I was basically broke kind of backpacking through europe didn't,
I have a great appreciation for food or wine or anything else like. I was eating at mcdonald's in rome like I would love to go back to italy, just for the just for the food, and I really wanted.
back to australia. I've never been to Japan. That's really number one on my list of places that I want to go that I haven't been to and then we're going to tell you a bit more on that question about the european tour and a bit, because it does look like some places that I have not been to yet anyway. That is the show for today we're going to
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