AOC Shocks Press with Reckless ICE Shooting Comments That Will Make Things Much Worse

24:55Again, there's no reason to think that this ICE agent was anything other than a good citizen who was doing his job. And in a moment, again, try to imagine, they're throwing snowballs at people, which I remember back in the day, you could fucking kill somebody with a snowball. Like the amount of times I would come in after playing with my friends and like, you know, it's just any, you get a shard of ice in there. There could be, you know, a piece of glass or a rock. Usually it would be a rock or a pebble that would be stuck in there. You get hit with one of those, like the amount of times that would come home bloody from a snowball fight.

25:24But you have all these people throwing things at you. They're all screaming at you. Again, the tenor, the temperature, everything that the Democrats have done rhetoric wise. You have someone in a car who's not listening to you. Like, it's just a perfect storm of insanity. Here are images from Instagram now, which is, you know, these guys coordinate. Remember, these things are coordinated and planned. It's just like the Hamas protests. They get out there, they have paid protesters who are out there with placards, which is why the signs in all the cities are exactly the same. There are NGOs involved and somebody better get on a RICO thing.

25:58Again, Pam Bondi, you got a lot of work to do, but here you can see ICE murderers out of our communities, emergency response alert, ICE murdered woman in Minneapolis, 4 p.m. rally. So they're going for it, guys. They are going for it to make this the next BLM situation. And I don't wanna relitigate George Floyd or anything else, but this thing is pretty freaking clear cut. We've shown you the video repeatedly already. Here's a video of protests out of Minneapolis and Seattle now. Help! Help!

26:31Help! Help! Help! Death, death, death to ice! Death, death, death to ice! Death to ice, as they walk there with a Palestinian, although I call it Hamas flag, like, who do you think the good guys here? First off, if you're chanting death to ice, I mean, that really sounds like kill ice officers. Somebody might want to, Pam Bondi, are you watching today? I'll give you a little more to do. You might want to look into that guy. Death to ice? I mean, how many which ways can you read that? that death, pretty clear to me, death to ice. Man, I just was kidding about the death thing. That's one part. Now you can also see, like the fact that the Palestinian flag is there, you can see this is just, it's all about the revolution.

27:15So we can move on. Oh, the Gaza war's over, we can move these people over. And now there'll be anti-ice activists. And we've done it before. They used to be BLM people. And then they were, I don't know, the pink hat people. Like they just, it's just a never ending morphing of retarded morons. Good title for a book, The Never-Ending Morphing of Retarded Morons by Dave Rubin to be released in the summer of 2026. Here is an image of a man on the top of a Waymu in LA. You may remember this guy. This is what, this is obviously from a couple months ago. We've shown you this many times. It looks like it's right out of Mad Max, but there will just be more of this.

27:53And if you think these, even if, here's the hero, this is what it is. Even if the video showed you something that it didn't show, like let's say it showed you something pretty nasty, like that the woman was actually backing up and getting out of the car and then the guy just summarily executed her, which of course this is not what happened, but I'm just trying to give you another version of it. Let's say it really looked bad for the ICE officer. Does that give the protesters the right to be breaking into buildings and taking over streets and burning things down and everything else? Of course the answer to that is no.

28:24You wanna protest peacefully, fine, but we're just, the horse has left the barn on some of this stuff. Here is a witness telling Erin Burnett over on CNN that Renee Good, that is the name of the 37-year-old woman who is now deceased, was just trying to reverse her vehicle. She was totally peaceful and ICE, it seemed completely unorganized. They didn't really know what they were doing. They were screaming at her to move, move, move. And then they approached her vehicle aggressively and tried to open her door. and then that's when she got spooked and she reversed her vehicle to turn her wheels to try to escape and that's when an ICE agent stepped in front of her vehicle and said stop and then I mean she was already moving and then point blank shot her through her windshield in the face.

29:19Erin can I give you a little advice a little advice you know it's interesting because you've got this woman telling a story, not the truth. You've got her just telling a story while you've got the video being played. Might you want to say, lady, I've got the video being played right now. The ICE officer didn't just step in front of the car car. You want to show the slow-mo version again? He didn't step in front of the car as if like step in front of the car as it was moving forward. The car is backing up and he's standing there. They have every right. They're closing the road or whatever they're doing, they have every right to have that person stop.

29:53And again, he did not pull out the gun until she started using the car as a weapon. You can see it so freaking clearly here. This is going to be the one second that everybody's going to have to focus on, right? But again, even if the one second didn't prove that, it's utter chaos. And these people are all just evil. Let's jump over to John Miller basically saying you should move out of the way of a moving vehicle. Well, just watch, just watch. But it's basically simple, which is if you're confronted by a moving vehicle that could be a threat to you, get out of the way of the vehicle and don't shoot at a car.

30:28We saw a murder happen in our streets and a federal agent take out a U.S. citizen who wasn't doing anything except driving by and getting away from the situation. Driving by and getting away from the situation, you should just move out of the way. Like they don't want to make it seem so simple. These guys have a job to do. They don't know who's in that car. They don't know if there are illegals in that car or whatever, or if the driver is illegal or anything else. They tried to stop the car. That is, that is what they are doing. Again, they're not out there to execute people. So the idea that you should just get out of the way of the car.

30:58Okay. It's a fraction of a second where you have your life in your hands. What would you do? Like it's and then of course the other ladies, I eat, whatever. It's just like, okay, we get it. We get Here's Scott Jennings, a man who makes some sense on CNN. But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now. Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis, but all over the country in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities? This is not an isolated incident. We have had hundreds of car ramings against ICE agents all over the country.

31:39According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, have been tracking ICE agents around. Why are people believing that they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation, and that is an appropriate thing to do? Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to, quote, put your bodies on the line. and Tim Walls calling these guys Gestapo all year. What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people about this? It does strike me. Yeah, of course, everything he said there is right.

32:16Good, quick reminder that I had Scott Jennings on the show this week. We've released one or two clips of it right now on Rumble and YouTube, and the full thing will be up on Saturday. The point here is, guys, that they have done this, right? What, a year ago, it was the Luigi Mangione, the kid who just murdered the healthcare CEO, O 'Brien Thompson in cold blood in Times Square in New York City. And they, many of them on the left made him a hero or at least wouldn't condemn it. They're running around saying you've got to punch a Nazi. And it's like, well, they could just label anyone a Nazi and then they can punch you or they can plow your car, their car into you, et cetera, et cetera.

32:52So they have created the condition. Look what happened to Charlie. You know, I was discussing it with somebody yesterday, a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a while. We were chatting and it was like, what a weird freaking thing, like a friend of mine was assassinated. I don't even know that I've fully even now five months later, even fully wrapped my brain around that. But what happened to Charlie? What happened to Charlie? Well, an activist, in this case, a trans activist who got ginned up by these very same people murdered Charlie Kirk. And they think it's okay. So everything that Scott Jennings just said there was completely correct.

33:23And now they don't know what to do. Because the other part of this is if there was a layer of the Democratic Party that was still roughly sane, they might have some adults that could calm this down, but AOC is going to ratchet it up. Tim Walz is going to ratchet it up. Jasmine Crockett is going to ratchet up. Try to picture a Democrat who won't. Well, there's one. Again, it's Fetterman. It's wild. Fetterman is the only one. Give me a Democrat that will turn it the other way. Ro Khanna, the one guy who will talk to me, he's ratcheting up. This was not cold-blooded murder or anything else. This is on you guys for the rhetoric that you created.

34:00Okay, let's put that down from there. The story obviously ain't going anywhere. And we're going to shift over to some Venezuela updates. But first, Mars Men. There's a moment a lot of men experience where something feels off. They're still functioning, still working, still getting through the day. But the drive isn't the same. Energy dips, motivation fades, focus slips. And because it happens slowly, it's easy to accept as normal. But that feeling isn't just getting older. It's what happens when men aren't supporting their bodies the way they should. That's where Mars Men comes in. Mars Men is designed to support healthy testosterone levels using studied ingredients.

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35:10It sounds like there'll also be some charges coming out of Florida. We will see about all that. So the main thing at the moment is what will happen with the kind of transitional government. What is the US involvement going to be? Are we gonna do some things with oil? Does this basically is what really is happening here that Iran and Russia were encroaching on Venezuela, which has the most oil reserves in the world, even more than Saudi Arabia. And are we now pushing them away? But the real sort of, not chaos around this, the real unknown here, obviously, is what will happen on the ground in Venezuela.

35:41Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining what's going on. Varia says that you're winging it, that there's no plan for Venezuela going forward. Yeah, I know they're going to say that. I used to be a senator too. That's what you always say when it's the other party. The bottom line is we've gone into great detail with them about the planning. We've described it to them. In fact, it's not just winging it. It's not just saying or speculating it's going to happen. It's already happening. Like the oil arrangement that we've made with Patovesa on their sanctioned oil that they can't move. Understand they are not generating any revenue from their oil right now.

36:12They can't move it unless we allow it to move because we have sanctions, because we're enforcing those sanctions. This is tremendous leverage. We are exercising it in a positive way. What I like about this is that he's basically saying, yeah, I was a senator too and we all play politics, but this is something different. So now before I even comment any further, here he is laying out the three-step plan for Venezuela. As we move forward, we'll describe our process, which is a three-fold process in Venezuela. I've described it to them now. Step one is the stabilization of the country. We don't want it descending into chaos.

36:41Part of that's stabilization. And the reason why we understand and believe that we have the strongest leverage possible is our quarantine. As you've seen today, two more ships were seized. We are in the midst right now and, in fact, about to execute on a deal to take all the oil. They have oil that is stuck in Venezuela. They can't move it because of our quarantine and because it's sanctioned. We are going to take between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil. We're going to sell it in the marketplace at market rates, not at the discounts Venezuela was getting. That money will then be handled in such a way that we will control how it is dispersed in a way that benefits the Venezuelan people, not corruption, not the regime.

37:14So we have a lot of leverage to move on the stabilization front. The second phase will be a phase that we call recovery, and that is ensuring that American, Western, and other companies have access to the Venezuelan market in a way that's fair. Also, at the same time, begin to create the process of reconciliation nationally within Venezuela so that the opposition forces can be amnestied and released and from prisons or brought back to the country and begin to rebuild civil society. And then the third phase, of course, will be one of transition. Okay, look, when I tell you that this guy was born for this job, I don't know that there could be a possible better example of that, right?

37:48He's doing this all off the cuff right there. He's not reading anything or anything else. And he's competent, and they're laying it out very clearly, right? So stabilization, so that we will figure out what's going on with the oil. And although we are basically going to be the custodians for this sanctioned oil, he's saying the money will go back to the people of Venezuela. There are going to be benefits to the United States, obviously. And the oil will not be sold at these ridiculously low rates that Venezuela was selling it in the first place. But that he's making it very clear. We're not here to steal the oil of the people of Venezuela.

38:22We are here to, in this stabilization phase, to get some of that money back to the people because communism, which always promises that it's for the people, is always for these people, not the rest of these people. That's number one. Recovery, so American companies are gonna be involved. And then the third one really was the transition. They're gonna have to figure out a government. And is the government likely going to be a little more favorable and friendly to the United States and perhaps Western values? Yeah, and you might say, well, what right do we have to do that as America? Well, we are the world's last remaining superpower.

38:55And Donald Trump, via the Trump doctrine, or whatever you wanna call it, the updated Monroe Doctrine that we read to you the other day, has said it's not just that we are gonna care about what is in our borders. We are gonna care about what's happening in our hemisphere. And we will not allow our adversarial countries, which are basically Russia and China, to put bases in countries that are closer to us to use their oil, et cetera, et cetera. So it's just a new policy overall. Here's a bit more from Donald Trump. It was a great honor to speak with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had.

39:31I appreciated his call and tone and look forward to meeting him in the near future. Arrangements are being made between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign minister of Colombia. The meeting will take place in the White House in Washington, D.C. Well, isn't that interesting? What am I always talking about, guys? The signal. What is the signal? What was the signal when we blew up some of the boats? It was Maduro, stop sending them. And then what did Maduro do? Instead of listening to the signal, he said, come and get me. And Donald Trump went ahead and did it. Well, I would say the president of Colombia is a little brighter than this guy.

40:00And he's going, oh shit, it turns out that Maduro, who was on a military base in Venezuela, in 90 minutes, those American badass Delta Force motherfuckers were able to go in and pick them up and put them in sunglasses and get them the hell out of there. I might wanna play ball with these people. So via peace through strength. Via showing, we will say things and then follow up on it. We can actually get countries that have, how would you say, been doing less than their best effort to curb drugs and crime from coming into our country. We can get them to play ball. This tweet, an image from the White House, breaking the Trump administration announced.

40:38Oh, so let's put that, I'm doing that without a segue. The other thing that happened, well, let's come back for a moment. Let's reset. As I said, we didn't do a full rundown on the show today. let's, like that, let's talk about the food pyramid for a moment because another good thing that's happening in this administration, that was that, I'm not sure. Another good thing that's happening in this administration, of course, was the combination of MAGA and MAHA, make America healthy again, and that was all because Bobby Kennedy saw that Donald Trump was going to be the one who, if he could work with him and leave the Democrat party, would allow for his life's work, which he has repeatedly said was to make America, quite literally to make America healthy again and figure out our chronic disease problem.

41:20He knew that if Donald Trump won, he could be a part of it. And he's doing a bang up job right now. And now listen, look at this tweet and image from the White House. Breaking the Trump administration announces the 2025 to 2030 dietary guidelines for Americans, putting real food back at the center of health. And hot diggity damn, who would think, put it back up for a second, who would think having, I don't know, a whole steak or a whole chicken or fresh broccoli or fresh carrots, that those things should maybe be at the top of the food pyramid, that eating whole real foods is actually good for you.

41:55And perhaps you should eat way less processed stuff and that breads and simple carbs and things like that, which turn into sugar in your body, you should maybe eat a little bit less of those. So we've basically flipped the freaking thing upside down, which this is kind of funny. Bobby put this on his Twitter. It's a South Park edit, you'll see. The pyramid doesn't work. We've already tried it. It's upside down. What? Sir, the pyramid is upside down. Turn the pyramid upside down. It can't be serious. That would put butter and fat at the top of the... Flip the damn food pyramid!

42:37Get the president on the phone. tell him to have some steak with his butter it's just it's just great and it's true i don't you know i usually use the uh the big green egg when i'm making steaks or i'll do something simple on the grill but it is true that a little butter in the pan if you're going that route for more of a restaurant quality style steak is the way to do it uh but they're they're just great you know i in some way i used to do a lot of those south park reaction videos because i never really watched it I was a Simpsons guy, I couldn't deal with two animated shows, but they just nail it perfectly.

43:10Here's Bobby Kennedy on some of the other things we've been doing wrong as it relates to all this. Any kind of healthy protein, today about 50 % of the calories that our children eat are ultra processed foods or highly refined carbohydrates, and it's literally poisoning them. And that is the result of a food pyramid that was driven by mercantile impulses that put fruit loops at the top of the fruit pyramid. We now have a science-based food pyramid that is based upon the most recent best science. And it's telling people to eat proteins, eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and whole grains. And that is going to transform the American dietary culture.

43:56Is that some Nazi shit or what? Like all the guys, it's like basic basic stuff guys it's stuff it's stuff that we all know it's stuff that you know i've talked a bit about my uh glow up as the kids say over the last couple years and how i've lost weight and and how i've taken better care of myself and fixed my knee through stem cells and all these things like there are so many better ways to think about all of the things as it pertains to your health you know i got the the aura ring here it's not a sponsor but it's an absolutely incredible thing where it will track track your sleep track your um your steps track your calories it'll start it starts knowing you basically, so can figure out when the best time you should go to sleep is, all sorts of things.

44:35We can all start doing these things. We can think of these things a little bit differently. And you don't look, in some sense, you don't need the government to tell you what to eat, right? But it is nice to know that we have somebody in charge of some of these institutions now that are telling us truer things that, yeah, eating whole foods, things that our ancestors used to eat that are not hyper-processed, that don't have all of the crazy oils in them and everything else. And not, you know, I forget how many spoonfuls of sugar they have in just a simple can of Coke. And by the way, in America, our sugar, our sweetener is high fructose corn syrup.

45:09It's not even real sugar, which is why you go to a restaurant. Sometimes people order a Mexican Coke because in Mexico, at least they're getting the real sugar. Not that that's so great for you. So anyway, some good things are happening. All right, we're going to get to a local community Q &A in just a sec, but first Tax Network USA. Do you owe back taxes or haven't even filed in years? now's the time to resolve your tax issues. With the national debate around abolishing the income tax system, the IRS is pushing back by becoming more aggressive than ever. They're sending more collection notices, filing more tax liens, and collecting billions more than in recent years.

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46:13Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com slash Dave for your free discovery call. Don't let the IRS be the first act. All right, let's get some community questions. Joseph is at a computer right there. So if you're watching on Locals right now, if you'd like to add a question, let's get a question also on the fly. Not just these questions that you prepared for me, although because we didn't do a rundown, I haven't even seen them. Here we go. Glenn says, what sporting events are you hoping to watch in 2026 if you get the time? And you know, it's so weird. You know, you guys know I love, love, love, love basketball.

46:44I'm playing more basketball than ever right now. I play on Wednesdays for three hours, six to nine. I play Sunday mornings, nine to noon, and now I got a Tuesday game, six to nine, and we're going to start. I have a full court here at the house, and we're going to start playing on Mondays. So I'm playing more than I've probably played since college or something right now, and I just, my knee feels great. Just at 49, I'm in better shape than I was at 39. And I'm going to really, as I said to you the first day back from the new year, I'm really going to just try to make this year that I turn 50 into the best year in every possible way, whether that's physically or spiritually or emotionally or work-wise or anything else but but anyway as it pertains to watching i don't watch a lot anymore i really don't um i don't really watch the nba anymore because it became so politicized you know i see some highlights on instagram or whatever here and again and they don't dribble anymore in basketball you know about this they just run with the ball now you can take 87 steps on the court so it's not even basketball in some ways um yeah i haven't really watched much baseball in the last couple years i keep saying we're going to take the team to a marlins game nobody seems to go to the marlins games so i can get all five of us in for or like six of us in for like 12 bucks the world baseball classic is coming up in march in miami connor you want to go to that all right joseph tell christie book the tickets we're going to go to the world baseball classic that's uh that's professional players and that's college or what is that it's professional guys oh would they choose their country oh okay all right all right we'll do that it's sort of like uh like an olympics thing um and yeah i mean i watch the super bowl once a year and some kind yeah i don't know i've just you know i'm so damn busy it's it's sort of like when people ask me do i play video games i had my nephews over during the christmas break and like we busted out the the playstation upstairs and i played for a minute and it's just like i just don't have the time or the midget wrestling that's what i'd really like to go see you find some midget wrestling coming to miami and we'll do a team building exercise.

48:40Wait, January 18th in Miami. Are you kidding? There's midget wrestling coming? Are you just making this up? Get me an image. I'm being told there is midget wrestling coming to Cape Coral. All right. It's a little bit far, but is there an image or something that we can show? All right. What are we doing guys? Rapsack says, Hey Dave, I used to really like Rand Paul, but more recently he's become rather an obstructionist for the Republican party. Can't he just express his opinion and still vote with the Republicans? Same with Thomas Massey. What's up with him? So, Well, first off, I like Randall Ott.

49:09He's done the show. I think maybe as far as senators on the show, maybe he's done the show more than anybody. And I personally like him. We've met in person a few times. Massey I've had on the show a couple of times, also in person, like him. And look, this is what I would say with libertarian thinking. Much of it is utopian. Like the idea that everyone will always, that the government should have no role in anything, in essence, and that people respect private property and people will just behave with their better nature. So you never have to use any levers of power. I think it's a utopian idea, which is why, I mean, and if you haven't read Don't Burn This Book, it's why I lay out in it, why I consider, at least at the time, considered myself a classical liberal and not a libertarian, because I like a lot of the ideas.

50:00I want very little control over the market. I want the government to take as little tax as possible. I want a slim and trim government. I'm very sympathetic to all that. But to me, a classical liberal, the classically liberal position is basically a libertarian. It's more of a realist libertarian. So it's a libertarian that goes, all right, that's all nice in the idea realm, like the Ayn Rand realm. And we can write some novels about it that can make some great insightful points. But in the real world, there are bad guys. You do need borders. Libertarians don't like borders. They, in some sense, don't love the idea of a nation state.

50:32They don't really understand the idea of peace through strength. I mean, much of what's gone on as Tucker Carlson's gone crazy is because he's taking the hyper-libertarian approach, which philosophically, maybe you could get there. But there are bad guys in the world. There are countries and people that want to do bad to us. And it is okay if we, as the last moral authority on earth, exert some power. And it doesn't mean it's going to be perfect all the time. So I don't consider myself one of them. But to your question is, you know, basically, should they vote more with the Republicans? Yes, the answer to that is yes.

51:03You know, one of the reasons that I came around on Trump after having not voted for him the first time way back when, when I voted for the libertarian, ironically, Gary Johnson, back in 2016, one of the reasons I came around on Trump was because Rand Paul, who I really liked as a senator, the most libertarian senator, was he was coming around on Trump. So Trump, I think, is blending as much kind of libertarian policy as possible. He wants the government out of things. He does want lower taxes. He wants to leave things to the states, et cetera, with realism, particularly as it pertains to foreign policy.

51:33So yes, I think they should probably, at the end of the day, Trump has made a point on this, which is why Trump is backing Massey's competitor in his congressional race in Kentucky. Massey does not always vote with the Republicans and the margins are so slim right now. It's like, do you wanna be right and lose the House? Or do you wanna play ball with people who maybe you don't agree with completely, but aren't complete maniacs like Democrats are. I think the answer is fairly obvious. Joe says, any plans on the 250th birthday of America in July, or is it too soon? You know, I haven't thought about it specifically, but yes, July 4th is the 250th birthday of America.

52:09Just a week before that is my 50th, which I think me and two of my old time buddies were gonna do like three days in Vegas for the, cause we're all turning 50 this year. So we're gonna do three days in Vegas. I already rented Mike Tyson and the Tiger. It's very exciting. And we'll see what happens there. We should have a bananas party. We will have a bananas July 4th party here. Fireworks, everything, chickens, cows, all of it. And then we will celebrate this great country. Hunter says, would you run over an anti-ice protester if they blocked your car? Would I? Look at you guys, AI Dave. Looking good, looking good.

52:47Would I run over them? Well, look, I live here in Florida, whereas Ron DeSantis has pointed out on this very show, if these guys, if you are driving somewhere and these guys are on the road and they are impeding you, you have every right to continue. Now, look, I wouldn't wanna kill somebody. I would take no pleasure in driving through somebody, but let me just truly try to play it out for you. If I was driving down the street and there was a protester of any kind, a bunch of them got in the way, and if they start, particularly if they start, it's one thing if they just stop the road. Now, you're gonna hope that law enforcement's gonna get there pretty damn soon.

53:22And when they did that, at the height of the Hamas lunacy protests, when they did that in Florida, up in Orlando, they were gone, and I think DeSantis said 13 minutes. That's how quickly they got them off the highway. So if they just had blocked a road, right, and they're all just laying on the ground, now, do I just wanna plow right over them, even though you have the right to do it here? No, I don't wanna do that. Now, if they started approaching my car, you don't know if these people have guns, you don't know if these people have knives, particularly if I had my kids in the car, I would do what I had to do to protect my family, period.

53:52And that is a much better way to create a situation of law and order that you will take some responsibility for your life. So it's not that you just wanna be running through these people with glee, like you're an Islamist at a Christmas fair. What you wanna do is protect your family. And you have every, you damn well have every right to do that. LeBrian says, hey Dave, I saw this sign at Tequila Jacks in Shoreline Village, Long Beach, California. it reminded me of your tequila i gave some of my friends copal for christmas they loved it oh well save water drink tequila i love that i'm also thrilled to hear that about copal um we are we're in the midst of doing a few things with copal which i'm really incredibly excited about and i think i mentioned you guys our distributor has said we have broken every record of online sales of a launch of a new spirit like you guys have really come through for us and i'm just thrilled to see that so many people love it like it's just a great we went to a dinner party last night with some friends and I brought over a bottle and people were just blown away like it's it's a light and refreshing tequila made the right way and the price point is right and you know it's it's just really good so if you haven't tried it and you want to give a gift to somebody it's and this episode is brought to you by Copal tequila look at that you can go to drinkcopal.com and we're working on laying, going out to some other restaurants and some brick and mortar stuff.

55:11It just, it takes a little bit of time. I'm also trying not to, you know, I've talked to a ton of people in the alcohol industry. It's, it's sort of like an old boys club kind of thing. And unless you want to get millions of dollars behind you to go nationwide, like we're just trying to go small and grow and grow and grow and grow. And that's the way I did this show. And that's what we're applying to that. Let's talk about Juven for a second, then a couple more questions. Staying active matters, but even people who move and work out regularly still deal with stiffness, soreness, and feeling worn down.

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56:14Right now, Rubin Report listeners can save$300 at juven.com slash rubin using code rubin. That's juven.com slash rubin code rubin for$300 off. All right, Vandy says Jasmine Crock-Pot can't be a lawyer, can she? What lawyer uses the term illegal? An ill eagle is a sick bird. Ill eagle. Vandy, that's the type of dad humor I can get behind. Yes, an ill eagle is a sick bird. That's the least of the woman's problems. The fact that she is possibly going to be senator from Texas is just so insane. Haim says, why are you so optimistic on the midterms? Look, I don't know that I'm so optimistic, but I'm not as blackpilled as everybody.

56:57Like conventional thinking from everybody, every pundit in this space and from everybody I talk to is that this thing's going to be a disaster. And I've said this a million times. We know what happens when the incumbent president's party, you know, gets to the midterms. It virtually never goes well. I think 70 % of the time they lose. So there's all sorts of reasons to think this will go poorly. You know, now we've got this early summer of love happening in Minneapolis. But I do think, look, there's a couple things here. All the stuff, the tax benefits and the economic benefits of the big, beautiful bill will start kicking in this year, right?

57:30It just took effect. So that's one thing. I think we're going to see some benefits out of the Venezuela thing. I think people seeing that America's reasserting itself is good. I think to the backdrop of America 250, there's going to be a resurgence of patriotism. The Republicans can really grab that because it's kryptonite to the Democrats, patriotism, right? Like they can't stand patriotism because they're not that into to this country, right? So I think there's just a series of things. The Middle East wars have wrapped up. Maybe there'll be more on the Abraham Accords type of things. Maybe we get some, you know, the thing that I predicted, which I haven't heard anyone else say, but I just, I'm still hanging it out there, is I think somewhere in the summer, there's gonna be some move on Russia, Ukraine.

58:07And if that starts wrapping up, I just, you know, maybe more than anything else, it's just that if you, Trump won the last election, and I get it, midterms, you're gonna get a lower turnout. the base doesn't get as fired up and everything else. But if you believe in what Trump is doing, and if you believe this country is good, and you wanna stop this onslaught that we now have that is full on socialism, communism, you have to get out there and vote. So yeah, I get it. They're gonna be more ginned up to vote because they're not in power right now. And they think this is their chance to grab power and then impeach Trump and everything else.

58:40But we gotta get ginned up too. So I'm just not black-pilled yet. As we get closer, if everything's going off the rails, we'll see, but we'll pick that up then. Harrison says, do you have a favorite soup? I believe they were gonna show a clip of my favorite joke about a soup, but my favorite soup, just a good old fashioned chicken soup. We've had, when you have young kids, there's always like a little sickness and sniffles going around the house. So, you know, constantly, even right now, I have a little something in my throat. So we've been making a lot of chicken soup, which you can do all sorts of different ways, but we like going big La Crusade pot.

59:16I throw an entire chicken in there. We've got a wonderful garden here that I'm really loving tending to. And we put all sorts of fresh herbs in there and dill and all that stuff. And then obviously celery and onions and garlic, fresh garlic and all of those things. And we're making just a kick-ass chicken soup. We'll get the recipe up for you guys soon. But I do absolutely have a favorite joke about a soup. No, we don't have it. Oh, it's coming. It's coming in just a second. Oh, but interesting. In the meantime, this is the most popular soups in America, chicken noodle. Okay, I don't even need the noodles in there.

59:48I don't even need rice in there. I can just do a broth with the chicken and I'm very happy. Wanton, I mean, who doesn't like a nice wonton soup? French onion, a little heavy for the way I'm eating these days. You know, a good minestrone. Yeah, good minestrone. You're gonna get some vegetables in there. It's very nice. Chicken and rice. So that's basically chicken noodle, but if you're just going with rice. Cream of mushroom, you know, it's a heavier soup. And matzo ball soup, which in essence, I would say is pretty much chicken noodle soup. Same thing. Goulash. Is goulash technically a soup? Not American, but you should.

1:00:19Yeah, but you're just mentioning that goulash is good. Yeah, but is goulash a soup, really? It's more of a meal in, this is like that episode of Seinfeld, you know, is soup in a sandwich a meal? But is goulash, goulash is technically a soup. It's a hearty soup. It's a hearty soup. Goulash is a soup. And to think you watch other shows than this, we do have my favorite joke. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, stop right there. Listen, stop right there a minute. Man goes into a restaurant, you listening? A man goes into a restaurant, he sits down, he's having a bowl of soup. He says to the waiter, waiter, come, taste the soup.

1:01:00The waiter says, is there something wrong with the soup? He says, taste the soup. He says, is there something wrong with the soup? Is the soup too hot? He says, will you taste the soup? It's wrong, is the soup too cold? Will you just taste the soup? All right, I'll taste the soup. Where's the spoon?

1:01:18I mean, that is funny. You get it? There was no spoon. There will, however, be a postgame show, rubenreport.locals.com. See you tomorrow.