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25:53The guy who caused this all to go sort of nuclear, of course, was Nick Shirley, who's just an independent creator. He's got a phone and he's doing more good work than and basically CBS, NBC, and ABC and CNN put together. Here he is back in Minnesota and a Somali man approaches him and of course accuses him of Islamophobia because he was able to find out that children's daycare centers that didn't exist were getting millions of dollars, which somehow is Islamophobic. I wanna ask you. Yes, sir. Why are you sensationalizing the propaganda? What are we sensationalizing? to attack our community. What's your final objective?

26:35We're not attacking your community by any means. Are you making good money from this? We're looking for fraud. This has nothing to do with race. This is fraud. This absolutely has to do with us being Muslim. No, it does not. And us being from Africa. This is a constitutional argument. If you don't want us here, change the freedom of religion. Even as 2 ,000 providers, you want to sacrifice the safety of 80 ,000 people because of f***ing people. 2 ,000 providers? Are you f***ing mad? It's about fraud, sir. It's because of you sensationalized us. You son of a b***h. Sensationalized us. Wow, you're very...

27:12I mean... That's the best way to do this. Who's anti-American there? Is it Nick Shirley, who's just going around to places and finding insane amounts of fraud, literally to the point that a man who was going to be vice president right now is not even going to run for governor anymore of the state of Minnesota. Who is more anti-American? Is it that guy, Nick Shirley, who's just out there doing what journalists used to do, right? I'm not a journalist. I always say that. You know, people always call me a journalist. I'm not a journalist. I'm telling you what I think. I translate some of the nonsense, hopefully in a somewhat fun way.

27:48And I communicate the news to you guys. But all of these people that sit at desks are not journalists. The journalists are the ones who are out there on the street figuring out what's going on. And then other people can comment on it, right? Nick Shirley's an actual journalist. There's almost none left. I would say Andy Ngo is an actual journalist. That girl, Alison Steinberg, she seems like a journalist. If you're out there getting information from the direct sources, doing the work, as the Democrats always say, then you're a journalist. So who's anti-American? Is it Nick Shirley who's finding out that there is a massive billion dollar plus money laundering scheme that largely is connected to the Somali community in Minnesota, or is it that guy?

28:30Or is it that guy who's getting in his face and screaming at him and calling him Islamophobic? This has nothing to do with Islam. The implication would be that if Nick Shirley found out that there was a, let's say, a white Christian community somewhere in Utah that was laundering hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, that he wouldn't be covering it. And that is completely absurd. And I assure you that if there is such a thing, and we might find out that there is, I have a feeling that there's all sorts of slush funds and money laundering things going through all sorts of communities. I'll cover it too.

29:03Here's Peter Thiel talking to Jordan Peterson. This is a couple of months ago about the political correctness around what we are allowed to talk about and not allowed to talk about because clearly they don't want Nick Shirley talking about a certain something. And then there's probably always a political intuition I have on this too, which is that perhaps if you have ideas that are taboo, that you're not allowed to discuss. My shortcut is to suspect they're simply correct. And so the example I always give is Professor Bob Laughlin is a Stanford physics professor. I think around 1998, he gets a Nobel Prize in physics.

29:42And he suffers from the extreme delusion that now that he has a Nobel Prize, he finally has academic freedom and can talk about whatever he would like to talk about. But he picked one that's even more dangerous than any of those three. He believed that most of the scientists, so-called scientists, were basically stealing money from the government, engaging in borderline fraudulent science. Started by talking about naming people. And this person has stole money, and this person is a fraud. And I mean, I don't even need to tell you how that movie ended. He promptly got defunded. His students couldn't get PhDs anymore.

30:16And so, and then my hermeneutic of suspicion is, if you have an idea like stagnation in science, which immediately gets you deplatformed. That's an idea we should take very seriously. So the point of what he's illustrating there is that even those who you think are gonna get as close to the truth as possible, they often get taken out by the machine in some sense. You have a Nobel winning scientist who starts calling out fraudulence in these departments, mostly college departments, doing all these scientific papers and research and all these things. And then he gets the boot because they're all kind of in on it.

30:52And I think that maybe explains what the modern Democrat party is more than anything else. They're all in on the money laundering to some extent, which is how they get so freaking rich. Now, by the way, this is not something that is exclusive to them. The Republicans have a version of it too. But when it comes to sort of the holistic, we are going to destroy the United States and pilfer every last piece and pull the copper out of the wall as we're taking the place out, the Democrats are all kind of in on it. So you cannot call anything out. That's why a guy like John Fetterman, who is a Democrat for some reason still, when he pokes them now, what are they doing?

31:29They're trying to primary him, even though he's by far the most sane member they have in the Senate. Okay, more in a moment, but first, Noble Gold. Guys, let me talk to you about gold. Just threw to myself. Let's talk about Noble Gold. All right, guys, gold has officially gone mainstream. Every day, more and more Americans are discovering the power of gold, but how do you actually take advantage of it and invest in a simple way? That's where Noble Gold Investments comes in. Their specialists are trained to help investors like you go from confused to confident. Whether you're looking to roll over an old 401k into a gold IRA, or you want physical coins and bars delivered right to your home, Noble Gold makes the process simple, secure, and stress-free.

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32:44That remains a little unclear. So there's a few things breaking right now. So we're gonna just get you caught up starting yesterday, which yesterday afternoon, Trump sort of made it sound like the killing has stopped and he may take a pause on all of this. Take a look. On Iran, you said that the killing has stopped. Who told you that the killings have stopped there? And it's the Iranian regime. We have been informed by very important sources on the other side and they've said the killing has stopped and the executions won't take place. There was supposed to be a lot of executions today and that the executions won't take place.

33:16and we're going to find out. I mean, I'll find out after this. You'll find out. But we've been told on good authority and I hope it's true. Who knows, right? Who knows? We've seen the body bags. So how do you trust them? No, no, you've seen that over the last few days and they said people were shooting at them with guns and they were shooting back and, you know, it's one of those things. But they told me that there'll be no executions and so I hope that's true. Does this mean military action is now off the table against Iran? We're going to watch and see what the process is, but we were given a very good, very good statement by people that are aware of what's going on.

33:56Okay, so there's a couple of things here. Let me first preface this by saying, I think Donald Trump deserves every single bit of trust on this right now. He has consistently proven himself, whether it is everything that happened with Israel and Hamas, whether it is what just happened with Maduro or what has happened at the border and ICE and a series of other things, that he is playing a chess game, right? He knows how to negotiate and everything that he is doing, in many cases, is a misdirection while he's doing something else, and that he does follow through on his words. So that would be my bumper sticker version of all this.

34:34Now, if it is true that the Iranian regime has at least temporarily stopped the killing, now it sounds like 12 ,000 to 20 ,000 people have already been killed. But if they have temporarily stopped the killing, the question, I suppose, is, well, okay, so if no one's going to do anything, and again, as I said yesterday, it doesn't mean America's supposed to do anything or has to do anything, but if we don't do anything, no one does. That's just reality. Well, if the killing has stopped and that's just kind of enough and the regime stays in power, well, then all of this was for nothing. I don't really think with the rhetoric that Trump has put out there over the last week or so that he really thinks this is the end.

35:12So of course, then the question that the reporter asks, such a simple one, does this mean the military options on the table? And then he, again, he's just honest. He's like, well, I don't know. We got to see what happens here. So now there's been a few moves over the last even 16 hours or so. This was yesterday afternoon. According to Grok, U.S. withdraws personnel from the Al-Udid base. The U.S. began withdrawing non-essential personnel from key Middle East bases, including Al-Udid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. military facility in the region and a potential target for Iranian retaliation.

35:42Qatar confirmed the moves and CENTCOM activated a coordination cell at Al-Udid for integrated air and missile defense. A U.S. official described the atmosphere as one where all signals point to an imminent attack. So at first we're moving our troops or moving personnel out of a base in Qatar. And you may remember that during the Israel-Iran war, Iran lobbed a couple rockets at the Qatar base. I don't think anyone was injured in that, but that was sort of their paper tiger version of retaliation. But because we were moving personnel out, which was very similar to what happened last time there was the Iran kerfuffle with Israel, people started thinking, okay, America's about to attack.

36:20Well, then we got an update from last night, also from Grok. Outcome, no U.S. strikes occurred, and the day ended without major escalation, though tensions remained high. Iranian ambassador to Egypt described the country in a state of war. So the question I would say here is, is, is what is Trump doing? And I will not pretend that I know the answer to that. I don't know any better than you do. But what I do know is, as I said, I think he deserves a very long leash that he knows what he is doing here. And then again, the question, the secondary question would be, let's say the killing just stops.

36:55Like, let's say the regime just stops. They've killed enough people. They've scare the resistance enough, and they're just ready to go back to how things were the day before. It's like, is that tolerable, that we'll just do this again in a couple of years? And again, none of that makes it so we have to attack or anything like that. I'm actually not sitting here saying that. But I just know it's just a hard and fast rule of the world. The United States is the last moral authority in the world. And we're still the ones that can do incredible military things. And we are not, Donald Trump is not going to get us into some farcical, crazy occupation adventure like we did with Afghanistan and Iraq and the chaos that Barack Obama did in Libya and all those things.

37:45So the question is, what is he up to? I don't think we know just yet, but we will find out. I thought this meme probably explains it perfectly more than anything else. I might do it. I might not do it. I might have already done it. Nobody knows Trump Zoo. Like that, that pretty much, I think, gets it right there. He's doing a lot of things at once. And there is an art of war element to this. And I just think, I know, I know that the people of Iran and Iranian supporters, Persians here in America want something done immediately, but I think the guy deserves some leash here. Here's Marco Rubio. This is about a year and a half ago talking about the Iranian regime.

38:24Sole source and the core source of instability and violence in the Middle East is the Ayatollah in Iran. And the only thing that Iran cares about more, the only thing they care about more than being the most powerful country in the Middle East, the only thing they care about more is regime survival, surviving in power. And I think Donald Trump is a threat to that, which is why they want to kill him. Yeah. So Donald Trump obviously is a threat to that. There's also been some reporting that some of the regime, the higher ups have actually moved like hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars out of Iran, largely towards Europe.

39:00Maybe some of them are going to take refuge in Turkey. So the game is afoot. So let's leave that there. I want to do a couple other things before we get to the community Q &A. There's no real segue here, but let's just chalk this up to the weak and insane woke lunacy. This is Dr. Anya Jastabaroff talking about how obesity is not a choice. And then we'll chime in with Oprah, who apparently came out of the forest. She's always eating bread in the forest with some friends, but she's making the TV rounds. Obesity is about biology. Obesity is not a choice. It is not a personal failure. It is not something that someone decides to have.

39:38Two-thirds of Americans did not wake up one morning and decide to have a disease. All these years I thought I was overeating. I was standing there with all the food noise, what I ate, what I should eat, how many calories was that, how long is it going to take. I thought that that was because of me and my fault. Now I understand that if you carry the obesity gene, if that is what you have, that is what makes you overeat. You don't overeat and become obese. Obesity causes you to overeat. Obesity causes you to have all of that food noise. And what the GLP-1s have done for me, and I know a number of other people, is to quiet that noise.

40:19All right. I'm sorry. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a scientist. But you see what they're doing there? They want you to really think that you have no autonomy me over your life that obesity is a disease. Now, I don't even want to get into the strict technical definition of obesity and even the strict technical definition of disease. But why is it that they want you to sort of think? It's kind of the same thing with alcoholism, that it's a disease. It's a choice, right? Now, some people may have a proclivity towards it. Some people may have... There might be some genetic component to having a more addictive personality.

40:56You might grow up in a family that has a whole bunch of alcohol and alcoholics around so that you're around it more and you start drinking more. There's also reverse versions of that where kids that grow up in families that are completely dry and there's no alcohol in the house, they go to college and then they suddenly see something for the first time and they can't control it. But the general notion there that the doctor wants you to think that obesity is not a choice and then you have Oprah backing it up. It's like, Oprah, you could just eat less. Now, I'm not saying you don't have some sort of proclivity or anything else.

41:25You could just eat less, spend less time in the forest eating bread. Do you remember that commercial? Yeah. That she was just always in the forest with like a chandelier under a tree eating bread. It was like, lady, how about take a walk instead? But okay. So you could, but, but they don't want you to think that it's like alcoholism, drink less. You may have some conditioning towards it, right? I love tequila. I don't drink tequila seven days a week. I drink maybe two days a week. Right. And it's like, If I started drinking a lot more, I would also know that I'd be putting on more weight because there's more calories involved.

41:56These are all obvious things. The issue here is why is it that suddenly they're putting a doctor and Oprah out there to say you have no autonomy over your life? You know, I'm very proud of this, so I'm gonna show it to you. I think I can show this without. This is my health app on my phone, and I don't know if you can quite see that with the glare there. But over the last seven days, you've worked out for an hour of one hour and 53 minutes a day. I'm taking my own health into my life. And then what is it? You've worked out on 26 days in the last four weeks. I think that's 26 out of 28 days. I'm not sitting here bragging, but there is some connection between putting the work in.

42:32Again, a phrase that they love. Oh, they're always putting in the work. They're never really doing anything, but they're always putting in the work. So put in the work, get on the treadmill, work out a little bit, eat a little bit less. There's something very, very strange there that feels very anti-Maha to me. There was a, let's connect this to something else. There was a Senate hearing yesterday, the Health Education Labor Pension Committee health on abortion pills. And Senator Josh Hawley, who I like a lot and does a bang up job with this stuff. Here he is. They brought in a doctor. Her name's Dr.

43:05Verma. And he basically asked her, is there a difference between boys and girls? And you can basically guess how it went. Do you think that men can get pregnant? I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that's where I paused. I think I wasn't sure where you were going with that. Well, the goal is just the truth. So can men get pregnant? Again, the reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.

43:40The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition. can men get pregnant? I take care of people with many identities. And your refusal to recognize women as women and men as men is deeply corrosive to science, to public trust, and yes, to constitutional protections for women as women. Lady, did you not know what you were going to walk into right there? Joseph, you're a doctor, are you some sort of doctor or scientist or anything, or are you just a regular citizen? But you went to college, you dropped out of college, you went to college, I can't even remember anymore.

44:18You did go to college. Well, and I hired you? That's weird. Can men get pregnant? No. Yeah, yeah. That's all you had to do, doc. That's all you had to do. Now, the reason I want to show you that, we're going to do one other clip here before we get to the Q &A, is because when we looked at that clip this morning, it's like, that shit feels kind of old now, doesn't it? Like, we've really moved past this. Like, you can fully mock these people. If that woman is your doctor, you need to fire her. She should not be your doctor. She does not understand basic biology, okay? but something has shifted in the culture where we can now make fun of these people and you're not gonna have your YouTube channel deleted or whatever else.

44:56And interestingly, there's a show that's doing quite well. I haven't seen it. I've seen this clip. I don't subscribe to Paramount, but on the Paramount streaming app, they've got a show called Landman and there was this interesting thing going viral, just sort of mocking this woke gender pronoun lunacy. Take a look. So what are your pronouns? My pronouns? I hope that's pretty clear. Yeah, I don't make assumptions. You could identify as a sunflower. You know, I've been told I look like one. I use they, them. You know, I've always been curious. Why they, them? Because there's just one of you, and those are plural pronouns.

45:36I just never really understood the hoopla pronouns. My name's Ainsley, and I just can't really come up with a reason Why you would address me in third person in a conversation that I'm a part of. So if you do, I'm probably not there. So I wouldn't really know what pronouns you're using anyways. So why would it matter? Yeah, I don't get the sense that she wants me to express myself at all. How so? Well, for example, their pronouns. Here we go. What? Nothing, I'm just preparing myself to be offended. No, I don't care what someone's pronouns are. I just, I mean, using a plural pronoun for one person is just kind of incorrect.

46:15Says who? Well, the English language. I love how they even get it with the therapist there that she's awful too. But the point is that show is doing really well right now and it's mocking this nonsense. So something, yes, doctor, what was her name? Dr. Mend or whatever with Holly. It's like, okay, you can keep pretending you don't know what basic biological reality is, but you guys are actually losing and how much damage you can create and how many kids you can chemically castrate while it's still legal. I suppose we will find out, unfortunately. Guys, let's talk about GhostBed for a minute and then we'll get to a locals community Q &A.

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47:51We got her out of New York. I mean, it's just the last sane people are getting the hell out. And we got her at Ghostbed, and she absolutely loves it. All right, we're going to do something a little different with the Q &A today. I'm working hard. You know what I mean? I'm working hard here every day. And it's like, Dave, should you read the questions or should we have a third party read the questions? And I said, who here knows how to read? And Joseph raised his hand and said, Dave, I will read the questions. So Joseph is going to read the questions and I will respond to the questions. Joseph?

48:18All right. So Crafty Cat says, now that Dan Bongino is back in the Rumbleverse, can we get an interview with him on The Rubin Report? Well, yes. So, okay, there's a couple of things going on here. As you guys know, Dan stepped away from his, his, the biggest streaming news show in the world. He stepped away where he was making a gajillion dollars and really affecting the culture and politics in a major, major way. He stepped away to work with Kash Patel. He is now coming back. I spoke to him yesterday. I believe his comeback date is February 2nd, the official comeback date. Don't quote me on that.

48:55It might be the sixth, but I, is February 2nd a Monday? I'm gonna guess it's a Monday. Can we check on the calendar there? I think it's February 2nd. But in any event, he's coming back in the next couple of weeks. Yes, it is Monday. Okay, so it's February 2nd. He is coming back. Yes, we are gonna do a sit down. We will hopefully live stream it maybe on both our channels. We're trying to figure out where to do it because we may, he also is on the East Coast here in Florida, but we may jump over to the West Coast and go to Rumble Studios in Longboat Key and do it from there. We'd like to do some kind of live event to welcome him back.

49:26So I'm discussing that with the Rumble people. but I'm really, really thrilled that Dan will be back. You know, I've mentioned this a couple of times recently, but you know, it's not just that we lost Charlie. We temporarily have lost Jordan Peterson. We temporarily have lost Dennis Prager. Just two days ago, Scott Adams is no longer with us. Like we've, Victor Davis Hanson, who we've been trying to get on the show for quite some time, he just had a tumor removed. He's MIA at the moment. He's been great. So we've really lost some great people. And then Bongino, you know, he removed himself from the chessboard to serve his country?

49:58What could it possibly be more honorable than that? I mean, the guy literally walked away from millions of dollars last year to do this, to take a government job and then have so many people hate him and all of these things. So I'm thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to have him back. And yeah, we're gonna do it. So I assume it'll probably be first week in February. Stay tuned on that. Joseph? Lynn asks, will we ever see justice for any of these fraudsters in Minnesota or is it another pipe dream? you know you don't want to over promise on these things because it's it is one of those things with government where nobody ever pays the price right all of the covid stuff and fauci still gets 400 grand a year in retirement and all of the things that happen it does feel like we have a new sheriff in town now with the trump administration with this doj etc etc and and i do think they are going to be pulling in some sort of massive rico case around all this that's usually how they used to get mafia guys way back when.

50:54You don't get the mafia guy for like shooting the guy in the meadowlands and burying him in the swamp. You get him on some other money laundering thing or something else. And then they can start looking at bank statements and everything. It does feel to me that they are going to get some people here. I could be wrong, but like, if they don't get anyone here, I just don't know how you could have hope for any of these things. And I get it. I get what the question is. Like, it's like, does anyone ever pay the price for doing horrible things? I suppose we'll find out. Olaf says, Dave, would you consider visiting Iran when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the current government falls?

51:29Oh, that's a great question. Well, look, if the government fell, if the Ayatollah was gone, if the Mullahs were gone, if the Persian people took Iran back and Iran became something like a liberal democracy again. Yes. If I felt that there was enough, you know, it's funny, we're probably going back to London in June for another of Jordan Peterson's art conferences. And it's like, I go to London and it doesn't feel particularly safe there when I'm walking down the streets. I mean, there are Islamists everywhere. They're not big fans of the show. So would I not go to Iran if it actually got on the other side of this thing?

52:08No, I would go. It would be, I've never really, I don't know that it's ever popped in my mind that I would go to Iran, but I think if they actually had a revolution that worked and there were some layer of security that we would have to talk about obviously, then yeah, we would probably do it. Cito asks, do you write all the questions you ask your guests or do you collaborate with your team? I write all the questions, although most of the questions just kind of come, most, usually most questions just come to me while we are sitting there. Joseph usually gives me a kind of basic rundown before, just so I can get caught up usually on, sometimes it's on dates or kind of like very, very specific bullet points just to make sure I don't miss anything.

52:51But you know, it's interesting. My interviewing style, I think, has had an evolution over the years. When I first started doing long form interviews back in this fall of 2015, I felt that I should always read the full book of the guest. I should do a tremendous amount of research before and all that. And I think it was, I suppose it was quite good. and that's where people started finding out about me and I kind of brought the long form interview back. It had kind of went away after Larry King left CNN and I'm very proud of that, that I was, I guess, a pioneer, I suppose, in that now everybody's got a podcast and everybody's interviewing everybody, everything else.

53:28I think that's evolved over the years where now I usually find that a little bit less is more, particularly if I'm sitting with someone, meaning I'm doing it live in studio, not just doing it on Zoom or something. If I'm sitting with someone, I like just sitting down and you know how I usually do an interview. I try to start it with, well, give me 30 seconds about yourself in case someone doesn't know who you are. That kind of opens up the aperture a little bit. And then I just kind of try to take it somewhere. But I usually say to my guests before the show, if I'm not getting somewhere that you are interested in going to, try to get us there yourself.

54:04But we don't edit for content. I think we've only done it, I think once. I could be wrong. There was one guest we had on who was a bit drunk and high. It's not worth throwing them under the bus. And we did edit some stuff out. But beyond that, we just let it fly. And I try to push back when appropriate. I try to just play along in that, you know, be as present as possible, really, in that hour. Eurasian asks, do you think the ICE officer who shot Rene Good has grounds to sue public figures who refer to his action as murder, which has legal definition that was never supported by the evidence they had?

54:39That's interesting. I talked a bit about this earlier because AOC and I think Ilhan and a few others have said the word murder as it relates to all of this, which again, it's just a ramping up of the rhetoric. It's different to say murder than homicide. It's different to say murder than someone got shot. There's a lot of things you can say, but they want the base, the crazies out there to think it was cold-blooded murder because once they think that, well, then what might you do? well, oh, there's an ICE thing. Let's grab, there's an ICE car. Let's grab a hammer and break into the back and literally steal a rifle from outside of the car.

55:16Like let's burn down a Pep Boys. They murdered somebody. So they want that ramped up. That's an interesting question is that could there be legal ramifications around it? I mean, I suppose that there may be, I don't know if it's legal in the most strict sense, meaning like they have the first amendment right to say whatever they want. Now, as a member of the government, As a member of Congress, your side could censure you for saying something, but we know the Democrats won't censor themselves for going too over the top. Like that's kind of baked in at the moment. So I don't know that there could be a lawsuit really around that.

55:51It might be an interesting one to talk to Harmeet Dillon on as it relates to the First Amendment. Let's talk about Rumble Premium for a minute and then a couple more questions. Guys, if you want the best experience on Rumble, you need a Rumble Premium. It's ad-free, distraction-free, and built entirely around creators who actually stand for something. You'll get exclusive access to a whole lineup of voices that aren't afraid to think differently. Rumble Premium is how you support a platform that's genuinely built on free speech, not just talking about it. Go to rumble.com slash premium slash Rubin.

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56:37I had a colonoscopy, which I was a little, I guess I didn't do enough research on to realize we were planning on doing a show like Monday morning, I was going to be sitting here and there was simply no way I could sit in this seat for an hour. If you understand what you have to do before a colonoscopy, you're drinking this, it was like called like Klonopik or something, not Klonopin, but something, it was just, there's many versions of it that you take because you basically you're clearing out your inside. So it's just, you cannot sit still. Basically you're on the toilet nonstop. Anyway, then you, you go under propofol actually is, is what they gave me, which is what, uh, what killed Michael Jackson.

57:16And I get in there and they were very, very friendly here. And, um, and I wanted a few people had said to me, Oh, you know, see how long you can stay awake when they give you the, the anesthesia. Can you try to count, see how far you can count? Because it happened so quickly. And people are always amazed by that. The doctor was quite good. The anesthesiologist, I'm laying there. He comes up, he says, hi. And he goes, so are you going to watch the big Miami football game on Monday? And I remember I was about to say to him, oh, I'm more of a basketball guy. And then the next thing I remember, that was the anesthesiologist.

57:50The next thing I I remember the doc goes, okay, you're good to go. Like it was, it's incredible how quickly it takes you out. I don't think I could have counted to one. I did sort of think when he asked me about the football game, that was like his little trick to get it in me without me, you know, cause I guess people freak out when they see something, you know, a needle or whatever go in them. But no, so I guess I did not, as far as I know, I did not say anything. But I've been told that in the old days when I used to do the PRP for my hair, which was really, it's very painful. It's a lot of needles in your head.

58:22And I would do laughing gas. And the gals used to say I was quite a hoot back then. All right, go ahead. I mean, I'll never forget that text exchange we had right before the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was right. Joseph's like, how old are you? 23. You don't know what a colonoscopy is and you shouldn't. I'm 49. They wanted me to do it a few years ago. Finally, I was just like, I'll do it. I'll get it out of the way. For some reason, I thought, even though I had heard all the stories, but I was like, I don't know. I'll be able to drink this and then sit there. But all morning, the encouragement, that just tells you that these guys love doing what they do because everybody wanted me to work.

58:57Diarrhea notwithstanding. Go ahead. All right, Glenn asks, if there is a trip to Mars and back for citizens that is deemed relatively safe, reasonably affordable, would you try to go there? I love that question. My first answer is absolutely yes. I've thought about this because this type of travel, There will be some element of space travel within my lifetime with the advances that Elon's having, um, like, and, and that we're having with AI and robotics and all of these things and 3d printing, you know, because eventually we're going to land on Mars or we're going to land on, we're going to figure out interstellar travel.

59:35We're going to start landing on places. We're going to drop 3d printers there. And then they'll be able to build the things that'll get us to the next place. Like there's so many cool things happening. Would I ever do it if it really became, you know, it's like, what is safe? and are there gonna be unimaginable tragedies on the way? And can you imagine the bravery of the people that are the first pioneers doing this? If you haven't seen it, I hope you've seen the movie Interstellar, which is one of my absolute favorite movies. And in Interstellar, they're trying to find life to get humans, in essence, to get humans off earth because the earth is no longer producing food.

1:00:09The soil is no longer good. And they have, what is it, 12? They send 12 people. One of them happens to be Matt Damon, who turns out to be a bad guy, spoiler alert, but they send 12 people knowing they're on basically a one-way mission to another planet. And the question you asked was round trip. Look, I'm not good on roller coasters, so I don't know how I would be going. Like in terms of the travel part of it, are they gonna knock you out? Are you sleeping for a portion of it? You know, do they put you under like in an alien movie and cryosleep and all that? But putting aside the details, the concept of it, yes.

1:00:45I think it would be absolutely incredible. We're very close to the Elon interview, which I think might be happening in the next couple of weeks. And I don't really wanna focus on politics. I wanna focus more on some of this type of stuff and where he thinks the next horizons are for humanity. So maybe I can ask him if he could throw me on a, I am getting another Tesla this week. So maybe he owes me one. Get me to Mars, man. Get your ass to Mars. What movie? What movie? Come on. Get your ass to Mars. get your ass to mars oh come on get your ass to total recall oh you guys you don't even know where you don't know about three boobed woman and the midget with the gun all right go okay this is from rapsack how about this trump removes all of ice from minnesota then withhold all government funding every single penny from the state of minnesota until they remove all the illegals themselves, make them clean up their own state before they can get even a dime of federal funding.

1:01:45Oh, well, I mean, I love the idea. There's just no way it's gonna happen. I mean, Trump's, well, I just read it before. Trump is saying on February 1st, you guys are, the federal funding is gone. But the issue is that if he removes the federal funding, which he will, and if he then removes ICE, they are not going to do anything. I mean, they've made it very clear ICE are the bad guys here. So I love where you're at kind of conceptually, but unfortunately in reality, they will do everything they can to hide as many of these people and get them somehow to vote and everything else as possible. Like that's just, that's just the depressing reality around all of it.

1:02:17Web Metalworks says, Hey Dave, I'd love to hear your advice on starting a thing like Locals. I have no idea how to build anything like that. Would you say, what would you say your first move was to get Locals to be real? Oh man. Well, first off, if you have an idea, that's the most important thing, right? Like if you have just some idea, you see some problem, some issue, whatever it might be, whether you're trying to build the next phone or a cool pair of glasses or a new pen or a tech company or a freaking mousetrap or whatever it might be. If you just have an idea, that's the first thing. So if you've, let's assume you've got that.

1:02:51You know, I did, I had no idea what to do. When we, when we started Locals, many of you know this, I was on Patreon. That was the kind of a ubiquitous subscription platform for people. And then they were censoring all sorts of people. And Jordan Peterson and I got out at the exact same time and we were gonna build something together, but that was when Jordan got quite ill. This is, what was this? This was maybe early 21 if I'm, no, no, no, no, no, sorry. This is early 17, I think. Yeah, no, it was a little late in that. I think it's around early 19. Sorry, I can't remember the full dates, but I think it was around early 19.

1:03:27We were about to build something together. Oh yeah, because it was right after we toured. So it was somewhere early 19 and he got quite ill. And then I was like, all right, well, I wanna build something. Let me talk to, and it's a tech company. Let me talk to my brother-in-law, who's a tech guy and a startup guy. And he was like, all right, well, we'll build a subscription model for you. And then we'll see what happens. And we built it for us. I left Patreon and thankfully to you guys, you came along with me and joined me on there. And then we were like, we've got something really cool here. And we could start adding new features and start doing live streams.

1:03:56and we could do tipping and we could do direct push notifications to just eliminate the middleman between me and my audience so that it's like on YouTube right now, how many of you got this video because it showed up in your feed, even if you subscribe? There's just no way of knowing what's going on with the game. So first you have to have an idea. Then you have to find somebody that can help you execute on it. In this case, it was my brother-in-law. And then once we did that, I mentioned this the other day, we spun it off to a couple other people and one of the first, if not the first, was Scott Adams and Scott absolutely loved it.

1:04:29And once Scott loved it and we saw a little traction there and then Scott said, Hey, can I help you with funding or figure? I didn't even know, like, I didn't even know what to do with the money or anything. It wasn't my money. It was money for the company, but we, but Scott became an investor. We made him a nice amount of money. I'm very happy about that. Um, start connecting with good people, tell, tell them about it. And you will, you will find a way. Um, actually the first investor in locals, I don't know if he would want his name mentioned, so I won't say his name. But one day I was doing a live stream and I started telling people about the idea we had come up with.

1:05:01And I literally was like, you know, is there a billionaire out there watching this that wants to help? And I got an email from somebody who I did not know, who was fairly well known in the tech world. And he said, let's sit down. And I happened to be going to Sonoma for my brother's 40th birthday. And he lived near there. And we met for coffee. And right at that, I did not know this guy or anything else. and he said, let me help you with this. So you just make every connection possible and you work and work and work. The craziest thing for me when I think back on all of this is that for those years that we were building Locals, you know, that's when the show was taking off too.

1:05:35When the Rubin Report, the Daily Show was really blowing up and you guys see the fruits of that, right? But most of my days, I mean, I'm not kidding, sometimes six to 10 hours a day, I was just on Zoom calls every single day. This is also like peak COVID nonsense. I was just on Zoom calls, pitching and pitching and pitching and pitching and pitching and pitching and everything else. And then the guy who really got everything to coalesce for us was I met this very nice woman at a party who came up to me and started chatting. And she introduced me and she was a fan of the show. I did not know who she was, but she was a fan.

1:06:14We started chatting. And then she said, I want you to meet my husband, David. And I chat with this nice guy, David, for about a half hour. and then he walks away and someone comes up to me and says, oh, you know David Sachs? And I was like, who's David Sachs? He's like, well, that's the guy you were just talking to. I had no idea who he was. David Sachs, you know him now because we play clips of him all the time. He's the AI in CryptoZar, but he's also the co-host of the All In podcast and he's a legendary investor. And David, a week later, I called him and I said, hey, this is what we're doing.

1:06:43Do you wanna be involved? He asked for some numbers, we gave him some numbers. And when he jumped in, then many, many other big time people jumped in. And then we had runway and we built something good. So that was a very long answer to a short question, which is if you've got the idea, which hopefully you have already, just start doing it. You will not know what the roadmap is exactly. And things will change along the way and everything. And you will put a hell of a lot of work in and not make a dime until hopefully it really comes together, right? Like I never took one dime from locals until we sold it.

1:07:13And we sold it all for stock. So even when I sold it, I didn't take any cash per se, but then it all did work out. And if you build something good with good people, I really do believe good things will come of it. All right, we got a post-game show in 30 seconds at rubinreport.locals.com. I thank you for watching. Joseph, how would you grade today's program? 9.8. 9.8? Wow. How would you grade your performance? I'd say like a 8.8. 8 point, you definitely could do better. Yeah. Yeah, but that's, you want to start soft and then see what happens. Can we say goodbye to the viewers in Chinese? Yep.

1:07:53What he said.