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25:52It would be a massive security threat in the technological horizon we're on for China to take Taiwan. So suddenly, because of the moves that we are making right now, we're choking off China. Do you think that some of this stuff is connected? So next time you're talking to a friend who's screaming about all of this, and we just want war for war's sake and everything else, you might want to mention some of this. Now I want to show you a couple of videos from 10 years ago, 11 years ago, actually, because I think they perfectly illustrate when someone says, oh, we're just doing this out of nowhere.

26:26There's no reason to do it. You know, blah, blah, blah. It's like our leaders have been talking about this for a long time. This video is going super viral. This is probably the most viral video on the Internet yesterday. This is Marco Rubio in 2015 talking about Iran. This deal has already been said. I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going to happen in regards to this if it goes through. And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high.

27:03This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today. It's called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a long-range rocket that can already reach the United States. And we cannot do anything about it. An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo or Seoul or Guam or Hawaii or California. And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of nuclear weapons. And this is the goal Iran has as well, to reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military threat because the price of a military strike would be too high.

27:40Isn't that wild? Because we could have shown you that video and said that that is what Rubio said yesterday in explaining why we did it. But 11 years ago, he was explaining that there is a threshold you get to. You attack countries when they're weaker. Had we waited until they had a nuke, the price becomes way too high. We don't know what they're gonna do with that nuke. We don't know if they're gonna put it on a missile. We don't know if they're gonna allow it to create a dirty bomb that can get into our country and everything else. That was 11 years ago. I also love the fact, I mean, he's just so damn good, that he said, I want this recorded for history's purposes.

28:16He wanted people to know that way back then, and he was a senator from Florida, This is way before he ran for president or anything else. He wanted people to know that he was going to be on the right side of this. Here's a little bit more from that speech. Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger.

28:56And he's going to possess nuclear weapons? This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit. Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic. And soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force. Or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world's history. You know, it's so interesting.

29:27Every day on the show, we show you politicians flip-flopping on things or that's what they said then and this is what they're saying now. It's usually, you know, usually I do it with Democrats. The Democrats of 20 years ago were just saying the same things that Donald Trump is saying now. or just constantly we can show you the hypocrisies and everything else. Isn't it pretty damn refreshing to hear a politician who 11 years ago was saying literally the exact same thing? So it is not a coincidence that that guy, Marco Rubio, who's saying the exact same thing 11 years ago that he's saying now is working for Donald Trump, who we've shown you many videos of the course of the last 40 years has been saying the exact same thing as it comes to Iran and many other issues.

30:05As a matter of fact, here's Donald Trump in 2015. We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Can't do it. Can't do it.

30:18We cannot let that happen. You know, in the old days, I would have said 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, pull out, let them fight each other. The one game changer that we have to be careful with, that we never really had to think about too much before, other than a certain number of years ago, is the nuclear. nuclear today it's not like soldiers in uniform shooting rifles you can take out the east coast of this country so if I run for president and if I win I would totally succeed in creating jobs defeating ISIS and stopping the Islamic terrorists and you have to do that

31:05reducing the budget deficit so important have to do it securing our southern border and i mean seriously securing

31:19stopping nuclear weapons in iran and elsewhere i mean guys like how much more do you need this guy has been so consistent for so long, it's almost impossible. It almost feels like AI. Like how could he have been right about all of these things? He's gonna stop the nukes. He's gonna secure the Southern border. He's gonna work on balancing the budget, like stop the Islamic terrorist networks. And he was right about all of those things. And now he's doing it right now with another guy who was talking about it 11 years ago and a ridiculously hyper-competent commander of our Department of War, Pete Hegg said, they're doing all of the things they said they were going to do and people are very upset about it.

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33:06It's time to turn those what-ifs into cha-chings with Shopify today. Sign up for your$1 per month trial at shopify.com slash Rubin. That's shopify.com slash Rubin. All right, so let's focus on some domestic stuff for just a little bit. There was a hearing yesterday. It was called the Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota, Part Two. And well, Tim Walz, a man who almost was vice president, who is now not even running for re-election as governor in Minnesota because he is so caught up in this fraud scam, he was brought in under oath to testify about the fraud. Here is Representative Scott Perry grilling walls regarding illegals, getting driver's licenses, and then a bit from Ms.

33:56Boebert. Well, just watch. But he was licensed in your state under your law that you signed about a year and a half ago. Every day we give licenses and people speed. So we ticket them and try and stop that. What I'm telling you is I don't understand the connection between he's here illegally. He can't read and he got a license under your provisions and he's driving all across the country, imperiling everybody else. Governor Walz, do you know who Victoria Eileen Harwell is? I do not believe I do. What about American Mafalda Tire? I don't believe I do there. These are Minnesota women who were brutally killed by illegal aliens in your state.

34:41You don't know who they are, so I would also assume that you did not attend their vigils or speak out to their families when they were brutally killed by illegal aliens. I'm not familiar with both of these, no, Congresswoman. No, just the hard-hitting CNN ones. Damn, Boebert, damn, she's sharp. It's not just about that spray tan. Okay, first off, so look, look, you're never gonna get an answer from these people. It doesn't mean anything that they're under oath or anything else. And he probably won't pay the price, okay. But for him to be in charge of a state that is giving illegal immigrants who cannot read commercial driver's license.

35:26Hello, you're here. Oh, you can't read. Would you like a license to drive a truck? And you're gonna have to look at signs in a language that you can't read, but we'll go ahead and do that. And of course he doesn't know and I can't check everything. And that's why the buck stops with nobody with these people. It's just incompetence everywhere, right? So that was great. And then it was of course great what Lauren Boebert just did, which is exactly, we played you a clip yesterday where Kirstie Noem called out Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal. Do you know the name of this person? And then Boebert did it right there.

35:59Why is it that the Democrats never know the name of the women who have been raped and or murdered, beaten with a boot or whatever else in their states. They always know the name and they'll get out on the streets and they'll get a bullhorn as Walls did and they'll get out there and say, stay on the streets and in honor of defending the illegals who commit these horrific acts. But they know none of the names of the women who are the actual victims. Nancy Mace decided to pull an oldie but a goodie right here on Tim Walls. What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson? Do you know what a woman is?

36:37I'm the governor of Minnesota, Congressman. I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession. I taught middle school in your obsession. So if you can't define what a woman is, you certainly can't define what fraud is. If you can't even define what a woman is, you can't define fraud. How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2017, Governor? I don't have those numbers in front of me, Congressman. How much money was spent on 2017 for autism in Minnesota? How much? I don't know. I wasn't the governor. One million dollars. OK, a quick Google search or using your AI could tell you one million dollars was spent.

37:10How much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2024? I don't have a number in front of me. Were you governor in 2024? I was, but I'm not the head of the budget. OK, so your excuse before that you didn't know what 2017 autism numbers were because you were not governor. And today you can't answer the numbers about 2024 as governor. And you still said you prepared for this hearing today. It's unbelievable. $343 million. Ouch. Ouch. And this is good. This is good. Republicans are getting better. They're learning to bring receipts. They're learning to use little visual cues and notes and things like that, because that's powerful.

37:49So basically in eight years, they went from a million for autism to $342 million? And how many people got, how much less autism is there in Minnesota? I'm going to guess none. I'm actually going to guess that the rates of autism actually went up. Now that is not to say that the state can't do anything to help with certain schools or whatever. Separate argument. They went from 1 million to 343 million. You would think there would be a radically, a huge difference, decline in either the rates of autism or how they're dealing with it or whatever. But of course the answer is no. Then this guy, Ro Khanna, the one Democrat who will talk to me, but probably not for much longer.

38:33And he just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Here he is absolutely lying about the Somali fraud situation. Watch this. It's really untrue that Somali Minnesotans or Somali Americans commit more fraud than white Americans or Indian Americans or other Americans. And could you just speak to this because it is so dangerous? And I don't even think on the other side people are doing that on purpose. But if you aren't an immigrant, if you haven't lived that or a child of immigrants, you don't know what that makes you feel. And can you talk about the Somali experience in Minnesota? No, the reality is the Somali community in Minnesota has brought great things to our state.

39:14They have opened businesses. They've gotten professional degrees. They are great neighbors who volunteer and help their neighbors. They have been a benefit to our state. That's Keith Ellison, who, of course, is the attorney general of Minnesota, who's caught up in the entire scam himself. It took us two seconds, two seconds, according to the AP. So you can either trust Ro Khanna, just saying it has nothing to do with the Somalis, or you can trust the AP. 87 % of Minnesota Medicaid fraud was through the Somali community. So did the AP just make that up? So Ro, you're just a liar. Like you should be the one under oath answering those questions.

39:56You're just an absolute liar. And by the way, you might wanna check out my interview about a month and a half ago with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is Somali herself, but she is like the anti-Ilhan Omar. And she talks about how it is part of the Somali culture that if you see an opportunity of fraud or take advantage of the system, that it's actually kind of built into the culture to do that. That's what she's saying as a Somali, okay? So you're just outright lying there. And what they're trying to do is suicidal empathy. Roe is going, it's just not true that the Somalis, like, first off, in and of, like, base level thinking would let you think that certain groups act a little bit differently, right?

40:35Groups act a little bit differently. They have different foods, they have different behaviors, they have different customs and everything else. So it is not a coincidence that the Somali community, that doesn't mean all Somalis do it, but is there an issue with the place that they came from and the culture that they've imported that they are doing 87 % of the Medicaid fraud? The Medicaid fraud, right? That's not even the leering center fraud. That's a different fraud altogether. But okay, you get it, Democrats, liars, frauds, and nutbags. Well, it got even wackier, as we pointed out yesterday in Texas, because Lady Eyelashes' Jasmine Crockett, who is a far-left nutbag beyond imagination, she got beat in a Democrat primary by somebody who is even nuttier than her.

41:19You almost can't make it up. You thought, man, they went so far that way that they're over here now, Roadrunner style or something, but no, they just keep going. So the guy who beat Jasmine Crockett is this guy by the name of James Tallarico, and here's just some of his greatest hits. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence. ...ass citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state. Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol.

42:07What I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. The second way we can tell that Jesus was a feminist was through his teachings. All right. There's a lot there. There are six biological sexes. I got two. I can really just think of two. And then isn't it true that Jamie Lee Curtis was born with a penis and a vagina? Somebody said that once. Yeah, I got a thumbs up on that. So I'll throw in there's male, female, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Okay. I don't know what the other three are. Trans, the trans community needs abortion health care.

42:46Now, a trans person is someone who's born in a body. Let's say I'm male, right? Now, if I believed I was female, that wouldn't change my biology. I wouldn't magically have a uterus. Christie's busy. Otherwise I would grab some of her lipstick. But if I put lipstick on right now, would I have a uterus? No. No, I would not. And that man just beat Jasmine Crockett. But there's more from this man. Listen to this in May 20 of 20. White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus, but we spread it everywhere we go through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious.

43:34I mean, it's extraordinarily brain damaging drivel. You're not guilty for anything because you're white, just like you're not guilty for anything just because you're black or anything else. This man should be under serious psychiatric care. And instead, he's going to churches and telling people that they should have trans abortions. Here's Donald Trump on the Texas political situation. So that was the Democrat primary and there was a Republican primary as well. But so this is what Trump's addressing here. The Republican primary race for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas, a state I love and won three times in record numbers, the highest vote ever recorded by far, cannot for the good of our party and our country itself be allowed to go on any longer.

44:23It must stop now. We have an easy to beat radical left opponent and we have to totally focus on putting him away quickly and decisively. Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now this one must be perfect. My endorsements within the Republican Party have been virtually insurmountable. It is an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I endorse wins and wins by a lot, especially in Texas. I'll be making my endorsement soon and I'll be asking the candidate that I don't endorse to immediately drop out of the race. Is it fair? We must win in November. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

44:52Okay, so he's going to pick one of these guys, right? So it's gonna be Ken Paxton or John Cornyn. Either one by any account should beat this leftist wackadoodle, but I would say to Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, make a deal. Like this is what politics is about. Make a deal so that one of you becomes governor and if the other one wants to be, I don't know what it is, attorney general of the state or you wanna be deputy governor or something, just make a deal. Like the Republicans need to coalesce right now. And by the way, someone can fact check me on this. I think that every single person that Donald Trump endorsed in these elections the last couple of days, that nobody lost.

45:27Some of them went to runoffs, but I don't think anyone actually lost. And just quickly on Polymarket, where they do the betting odds on this stuff, 86 % are saying that it'll be John Cornyn, 15 % to be Ken Paxson. So if that basically is true, then it's like Trump should back Cornyn. Paxson should just get out. There's too much at risk here. And unless you want, if you're just the average guy, you know, with a cowboy hat on a ranch, you know, riding your horse around and you want to pay for trans abortions, you better vote for one of them. All right, let's do a Locals community Q &A. Joseph is at the computer right there.

46:06So if you're on Locals right now at rubinreport.locals.com, you can get a question in on the fly. He's doing some sort of happy dance right now. Now, a different view says, hey, Dave, because of you and your show, I was inspired to run for public office. I'm a candidate for city trustee in the city of Millican in Colorado. Do you think Islam should be banned in the United States through a constitutional amendment because it functions as a political system rather than solely a religion and therefore conflicts with Western democratic values and the separation of church and state? well, first off, let me just address the first part of that.

46:36If I had anything to do, like one half of 1 % to do with you getting involved and getting in, and, you know, I'm honored and I'm thrilled to hear that. You use an alias here, so I don't actually know your name, but if you want me to help promote you and talk about you, I would be more than happy to do that. I'd like to know a little bit more about your platform, but I would assume that, you know, I would largely be on board. Look, as to the question of Islam, it's something that we are going to have to increasingly deal with and discuss. And it's not something that anyone wants to talk about because the truth is nobody wants to get beheaded and called an Islamophobe and all of the rest of it.

47:13But Islam operates not only as a religion, but as a political system. It means to submit. They want you to submit to everything. And everywhere that political Islam has grown becomes more authoritarian and worse for the dhimis. The dhimis are the non-Muslims. And unless you want to pay your jizya, this is It's what the non-Muslims pay. It's a tax that non-Muslims pay to live in Muslim societies, unless you want to be in a place like Saudi Arabia, where they quite literally have roads for Muslims and then roads for non-Muslims. There's no churches, no state-sanctioned churches in Saudi Arabia. You know, let's not forget Tucker Carlson went to Saudi Arabia, said he feels safer as a Christian in the seat of Islam in Saudi Arabia, where there are no churches.

47:58He's apparently buying a house in Qatar, even though now the Qatar has come out against him and said he was lying about that story about the Mossad agents. So what do we do? Do we outlaw it because of the church and state issue? I don't know exactly. There probably is an argument for it. There probably is. Look, is it a problem that Zorhan Mamdami, and I'm sure he's not the only one, I'm going to guess Rashid Tlaib did and several others, took their oath of office on the Quran. They are saying the thing that I believe in is above the constitution of the United States. You know, virtually every other politician does it on the Bible.

48:34And you could say, well, wait a minute, we live by secular values, not biblical values, even though the founders framed their secular values through biblical stories and through Bible itself. You can make that argument, except the Bible is not antithetical to our constitutional values. The Quran is. That's just true. So I don't know what we do about that exactly, but we're going to have to start having some more serious conversations. Look, when radical Islam went crazy in Europe, it was because at the mosques, they were preaching all sorts of things. We have shown you plenty of videos from America right now.

49:13It's not just Europe. We're at the mosques. They are talking about killing the non-believers and hunting down the Jew and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not work in America? I don't think so. Glenn says, what were your favorite TV shows when you were a kid? We pulled up some images here. None of this is going to surprise you. So first off, I love the Cosby show. I remember 1983, I saw Bill Cosby himself on HBO. I was seven years old. I remember sitting in my parents' den, you know, when you're a kid and you sit right in front of the TV and your parents are yelling at you, you're going to go blind because they're sitting in front of you.

49:46I remember having my legs up, like right on, the TV was on, you know, like a console or something and watching that thing. And I remember being buckled over in laughter. I could not believe anything could be that funny. The dentist routine and chocolate dad is great. Bakes us chocolate cake. Like I just thought it was the funniest thing ever. And then, you know, what, two years later, Cosby, the Cosby show came out and the first couple of years of the Cosby show were absolutely hysterical. They were brilliant. You, by the way, you could make an argument that Bill Cosby did more for race relations in America than anybody because he's so normalized the show until the last few years where it became a little bit more about race, unfortunately.

50:26And that's where the show sort of went off the rails. You know, he was a, uh, what was he? He was an obstetrician, an OBGYN and his wife, Felicia Rashad. She was a, um, she was a lawyer. They lived in a nice part of Brooklyn. Like it had nothing to do really with race. They were just like another American family. I think it was a wonderful, wonderful show. Turns out he drugged a lot of women and raped them. Nobody's perfect, but I just loved it. Then of course, Golden Girls, which I've talked to you guys about a million times, like just, just funny, funny, funny, four brilliant actresses, absolutely hilarious.

51:00And anyway, if you're asking me really what I was watching in the 80s as a kid, it's the middle too. It's, it's the original Transformers series and the original G.I. Joe. So the Transformers series was just so damn good. And I've watched some of it, even doing cardio. I'll occasionally watch them. And there was the 1986 Transformers movie, which came out. And I saw it in the movie theater in 1986. I was 10 years old. My brother was seven. And as many of you know, watching this right now, about 15 minutes into the movie, spoiler alert, they kill Optimus Prime. And as I remember crying in the movie theater as a 10-year-old, and everyone was crying in the movie theater.

51:35And there was a huge outcry against it because parents thought they were taking their kids to just, you know, there's a cartoon movie, robots more than meets the eye, blah, blah, blah. And next thing you know, the hero dies right at the beginning. Starscream also died, which I was upset about, but a lot of people didn't care about that. And then eventually the G.I. Joe movie didn't make it to theaters because the Transformers movie was so controversial. But that Transformers movie is better than the Michael Bay trash. And Orson Welles plays Unicron, which is amazing. Leonard Nimoy is one of the voices.

52:07is, oh, it's just, it's just spectacular. Samantha says, dear Dave, I just saw that Ben Shapiro had Senator Fetterman on his show yesterday. I didn't know that. When will you make that happen? I feel like he would be a much better Democrat guest than Ro Khanna. We've been trying. We absolutely will make that happen. I'll text Ben after this and see if he can, if he can hook it up. But yes, I would love to talk to Fetterman. And, and cause I think what would be interesting is, so is, is it your goal now? Like what may, what makes you a Democrat still? And he would probably lay out some of the types of things when I say I'm still a liberal, but it just doesn't make sense to say liberal and people don't understand classical liberalism and all that.

52:43I think he would lay a little bit of that out, but is it true that he's just there to kind of hold the door now, right? Is he just there to stop the crazy? Is he there to just be the dam, be a pain in the ass as they go completely nuts? Because if they had literally nobody on their side that was even remotely sane, just how much crazier they would go. Look what we just showed you out of Texas. I mean, that's Texas. That means Texas Democrats thought that Jasmine Crockett wasn't crazy enough. Think about that. Janine says, so our trip to Israel was canceled for obvious reasons. My family and I have decided instead to spend a few days in Miami before hopping on a cruise.

53:22Nice. Is there a list somewhere of all the restaurants that serve Copal? What are some restaurants you recommend? Well, hopefully, you know, I don't know what the tourism situation is in Israel, obviously, for the next week or two, probably not great. We actually have a trip upcoming. We're supposed to be going to Hungary and Israel. The Hungary portion will definitely happen. I'm not sure what'll happen on the Israel side. If you want Copala in Miami, so we're in the midst of getting into a couple of restaurants, but for sure, we're at a great steak joint in the heart of Coconut Grove, which is one of the best areas in all of Miami, Chopped Steakhouse over there.

53:55And my man, George, is one of the bartenders over there who's fantastic. So you can get Copala over there. There's a couple other restaurants. I think we're gonna be at Old Cutler Inn, which is a little off the beaten path, but a great restaurant owned by a friend of mine down here. And there are a few others, but I would say go to Coconut Grove and Chop is just fantastic. The steak is fantastic. And it takes a lot for me to say that about somebody else's steak. And just enjoy our great city. Miami is just so great. Go to the design district. Obviously go to the beach and spend a little time on South Beach.

54:28just you're gonna see a safe, wonderful, functioning place filled with people who are fit and happy. And you're gonna see a lot of infrastructure being built. But Coconut Grove is just a great area to walk around and enjoy yourself. And it's right on the water over there. And there's some other places, but CHOP is the place right now to get Copala. And if you wanna just order Copala yourself, you can go to drinkcopal.com. And we're working on a whole series of, we're in a couple of stores in Tampa now. We're working on Florida first. and then the idea is to go nationwide in stores. Joe says, have you ever served on a jury before?

55:02If so, what was it like for you? You've probably jinxed me in the most horrible way, Joe, but I have never done it. You know, a couple of times when I lived in New York, I was called in for jury duty and you know, the way at least they did it in New York at the time was if you said you were willing to do it and they didn't choose you, you would get like a six year, you know, a six year stay in essence, that they wouldn't call you for another six years. And I'm pretty sure that happened to me twice where I was like, all right, I'll just get it out of the way. And I didn't get chosen twice, which is, you know, pretty lucky, I suppose.

55:36And then I don't think I've been called for it in LA or here in Florida, but you've probably jinxed me horribly and I'm going to have to take a month off from the show. Well, that's just, thanks, Joe. All right. Is this a YouTube comment? We're jumping to a YouTube comment for just a sec. You know, I've been trying to pay attention a little more to the comments in general because they've been so good and I'm really, I'm just so proud of what we've built on Rumble and YouTube, but locals especially. But just seeing the reaction, especially as things get crazier, this I just thought was interesting, 1579.

56:12Thank you, Dave, for your continuing excellent coverage of our life in the United States. Doesn't matter what's going on. You keep things straight. As an almost retiree, I have time to listen better to what's happening. And you are an important part of a mere handful of journalists. I trust. Thank you. Thank you. You know, again, I always say I don't consider myself a journalist. I'm just telling you what I think. And I'm trying to be honest about it. And you can agree with me or not agree with me. And I hope you're laughing along the way. And I've just watched so many people in this space just go completely insane.

56:44But it was not easy to get here. I had to leave several jobs. I think when I started doing the show in 2013, I was making$50 ,000 a year at The Young Turks. And I left that show and I made a little bit more at Aura TV for a little while. That's where the show started blowing up. And the better we did there, they kept demanding more out of us. And that's when I was like, this doesn't make sense. I'm going to try to go independent. and I remember the night before we launched our original Patreon, which is what the, that was the crowdsourcing thing we were on before I created Locals. I remember thinking it was only me and David and our one producer, Amira, director Amira, actually.

57:24And I said to the two of them, I was like, I might've just ruined all of our lives. I have no idea when we launched this crowdfunding thing in the morning, if we're going to be okay. And within, within minutes of launching the next morning at 9 a.m. we had about 30 grand a month which is you know that's about 700 ,000 a year in operating budget to do the show and that was the beginning and now I work with tons of great people we get to travel all over the world and I can show up in Australia and do shows and all this cool stuff so it's it's a two-way street is the point like I'm telling you what I think and trust me you guys are giving it way back to me in a in a much bigger way such as a post game show which I will offer a bit more insight on.

58:03If you want to join us right now, 30 seconds, rubinreport.locals.com. We've got a great paddle show tomorrow. I'm not even going to tease the guests, but we have two new guests who I've wanted on for a long time. And I'm telling you, it's going to be a banger. Cold clothes, and then we'll see you on Locals. Mr. President, have you ever tried putting ice cubes in your shoes? Nobody's ever asked me that question but you. Why would I do that? Tell me why. Might be fine.