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24:41My buddy Stephen A. Smith went on Will Kane yesterday and was asked about what's going on with Plattner. And they had an interesting exchange here because Stephen A. tried to sort of flip the script here and make this also about how Republicans have made some strange choices in the past. It's a good exchange, watch this. Stephen A., all these Democrats that stood by Graham Plattner continue to tell us that we should vote for guys like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't trust any of their endorsements. Well, listen, I don't blame you feeling that way. Just don't sit here and act innocent, Will Kane.

25:13I'm not going to let you sit here and do this one-sided reporting that you're doing right there. When you're talking about the Democrats, I'm not here to defend them. I can't defend that soundbite from Elizabeth Warren. She's got to defend that. I can't defend Bernie Sanders defending him. He's got to do that. I can't defend any of the Democrats for sitting up there and defending this man, considering the Nazi tattoo. That should have been enough personally. Let me be very, very clear. But Will Cain is not going to sit here at four o 'clock in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time and act like the Republicans haven't tried to defend people in the past.

25:44Don't get me started with Roy Moore, the Senate candidate out of Alabama in 2017. Don't get me started with your president and a myriad of allegations that he absolutely positively swore were false. But nevertheless, there were a bevy of allegations against him. The issue is the Democrats have told us now for years, Stephen A, that they are the moral high ground, that believe all women, that they are the ones holding us back to our oh so valued norms. And yet here now they sold them all out in one candidate. With one candidate, they showed us that that was nothing but a posture. It was fake. It was all embodied in one man with a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

26:19Yeah. And you can see why I think that's a good exchange right there. I like that. Those guys have mutual respect. I like both of them. So they're both right. They're both right. It's not that Republicans have never backed people with shady pasts or who've done weird things or you find out all sorts of strange sexual proclivities or they cheated on their wife or they're banging the intern or whatever. But the broader point, so we can all judge that. Politics is freaking dirty. There were double standards across the board. Everyone gets all that. The broader point, and I think the correct point here is what Will Cain said at the end.

26:55They're the ones that said, believe all women. They're the ones that said, me too. They're the ones who tried to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and many, many other people. That wasn't us. So they're the ones who used this crazy hammer on people for years and destroyed lives, many unjustly, and almost completely destroyed the career of Brett Kavanaugh, right? They're the ones who did that. And then they, in one shot, one shot, all of them were like, this is our guy. Oh, he has a chance to get us power. Let's throw all the feminists under the bus. Let's throw all the Me Too people under the bus.

27:38Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And this is so consistent with all of them because the only thing that unifies anyone on the left right now is the quest for power, right? The progressive, the standard bare, just the run of the mill progressive ding dong who wants government control over everything, that is a quest for power, right? The jihadi who's in on this and their strange alliance, they have a quest for power. It does not work out well for the first guy at the end of all of this. But because of that, of course, it's the line that I always quote from James Lindsay, which is that the issue is never the issue.

28:16The issue is always the revolution. So anything you can do in service of the revolution. So Plattner was a useful tool for the revolution. The second that tool became unuseful, he is out. And oh, we didn't have any morals along the way. Well, what are you gonna do? Speaking of no morals along the way, we showed you a video of these two yesterday. This is Molly Jungfast from MSNBC with Rick Wilson, who I think was a Republican, who's now basically a lunatic Democrat. And they get into a little bit of what they would have done if they had been running against Graham, and then you'll see a cut. It's a pretty clever watch.

28:50If you were a Republican strategist or Mitch McConnell, what would you do with the Graham-Platt in our situation at this moment? I would use a cutout person who is deeply involved with a whole bunch of right-wing causes, and I would get her to the New York Times. You know, a lot of us, I interviewed him for my podcast. I've talked to his team. When the first New York Times article came out, I said, this reads sort of funny. What else is there? And so the idea we were sold this, this character arc, this, this person who gets better, who got better, but he wasn't maybe better. Do you get how ridiculous these people are?

29:32On her podcast a month ago, she basically is running cover for him saying, if you were a Republican strategist, what would you do to destroy the guy? And he's like, and the fact that he even says it, the quiet part out loud, yeah, I'd bring in a conservative woman to destroy him. So that was their way of dismissing the New York Times article. So she's running cover. And then there she is yesterday, like, and we had no freaking, I love her singing, the way she speaks.

30:02Over on MS Now, they seem to think that everybody who's working class has a Nazi tattoo. I think it's also a little bit denigrating. to people who are working class and just be like, oh, they all have Nazi tattoos. I mean, it's exactly. They all have these gross, and they would overlook it. Who are these ridiculously dumb broads? Like, it doesn't matter to know any of their names. They're just ridiculous people. Have you heard one person say, Graham Plattner has a Nazi tattoo. That means all working class people have Nazi tattoos. I would go out on a limb and say, only Nazis have Nazi tattoos.

30:36It would be pretty hard pressed to be so drunk and have no Nazi leanings and then wake up with a Nazi tattoo. I'm gonna go out there and say that if you have a Nazi tattoo, you're pretty much a Nazi. There's gonna be an edge case somewhere. There's an outlier somewhere. Some guy who just had one too many and I'm a fascist. You know what it would be? It would be an Italian guy. An Italian guy would get so drunk, he'd wake up with a Nazi tattoo and he'd go, but I'm not a Nazi. I'm a fascist. That was funny. I don't know if I fully mailed it, but there was something funny there. But these people are ridiculous.

31:09Nobody said it. Nobody said it. Nobody said it. But that was on MS Now, not a place that Donald Trump is a fan of. Go ahead, Red. Mr. President, you said today, Ines de la Quatera with MS Now, you said today that country You're with who? MS Now. MS Now, that's a failing network. Why would you want to work for them? MS Now, can you imagine? They wanted to get away. They took the name NBC because they were embarrassed by it. Go ahead. Let's go. when you hear this question. It doesn't even matter what the question is. I just like that he's still doing that stuff, honestly. Like these people, they don't deserve our respect.

31:43They deserve our mockery and nothing else. But now let's dive in a little bit more to how did this happen politically? Because again, you can think all the ideas are horrible. You can think these people are ridiculous and they're all hypocrites and all of that stuff. But where you have to give the devil his due, where you have to give them credit is that they are playing the game well, right? Don't hate the player. hate the game and they are playing the game well. So this is an interesting video. This is video of DSA member and political strategist. His name is Daniel Moraf and he is basically one of the two people that pretty much created Graham Plattner.

32:20They were the ones that kind of vetted him and figured out that this is the guy we should choose in Maine and they are questioned about that and take a look. At this point, you hadn't vetted Graham Plattner. you hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him? And why did you... We paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back, some of what you've seen on the news we got back, other stuff we didn't. Did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media? I said none of this will or should stop him from becoming a U.S. senator.

33:01And what was your thinking there? I think if what the voters wanted were people who were grown in bats and had never done or said anything, that they might regret their entire lives, we'd have a very different country. Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in bats. They want people who are real human beings, and they want people who do not look and sound like the bat-grown people who have been in this country off the cliff for the last century. And that was crap. If I, all right, listen, I don't call for political violence, but if I ever see that guy, I'm going to kick him in the head.

33:39I can't deal with whatever that is. Do you see what the strange position that these people found themselves in? They found this guy, again, who had no discernible special skills, hadn't built anything, didn't have a great track record. Does he strike you as someone that really looks like a politician? Does he dress up properly? Like he had nothing other than they were like, ah, he's average enough, he'll come across as a working person and he'll do whatever we want, he'll say whatever we want. So there you have the guy basically admitting, yeah, we're there, here's like a little bit of a rapist, a little bit of a Nazi, but we don't want people who are born in vats.

34:17Well, it's not that you have to choose between Nazis and people born in vats, although that would be a great sci-fi movie. What you could get is a, I don't know, a decent person who has some principles, who doesn't have a completely absurdly checkered past, but congratulations, everybody. So the guy, so now that Plattner has stepped down, they have not officially announced who will replace him yet. He's holding the party basically hostage, saying that he has to have some say in it. I don't know that he has any leverage now that he has admitted he's stepped down, but it looks like it's gonna be this guy, Troy Jackson, who until this morning, I had never heard of.

34:51There is Troy, okay, so here's what Troy put up on the Twitter machine. There is a powerful movement of working class people in the state of Maine and millions more across America who are ready to send a progressive fighter to the Senate. I've been fighting for that movement my whole life and I'm sure as hell not backing down now when the fight is needed most. I'm in and we're going to defeat Susan Collins. Maine deserves a senator that will fight for working families. There are some things, so he's a logger actually. So again, he has the sort of like, that's work, I would say that's working class, you know, average Maine guy cred.

35:27So that's fine, that's what they're going for here. According to Gemini, there is some stuff there though. Former Maine Senate president, oh, so he was in the Maine Senate. Okay, so former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson has faced intense scrutiny over two major controversies, a federal housing administration, mortgage fraud allegation, and accusations of throwing a water bottle at a woman. So you had the guy who liked to masturbate in the porta potties, and they've replaced him with someone who threw a water bottle at a woman. I'm sure he had his reasons. Again, I have no doubt that he is just gonna, it's just going to be generic, repetitive, whatever Plattner said, whatever the progressives want out of him.

36:03Will he be as like psychotically, everything's about Israel, who knows? But it's just gonna be just the same stuff. And here he is, he went over on the MSNOW to defend old Graham Plattner. Let me ask you because you campaigned with Graham Plattner during your bid for governor, even as all of these other controversies surfaced, old Reddit posts downplaying sexual assault in the military, since covered up tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol. He denied knowing what it meant, as well as allegations from past girlfriends about physically aggressive behavior. He denied those. But why were none of those controversies a breaking point for you?

36:47I think the old Reddit post, I think even the tattoo, you know, there were plausible things that, you know, people can change and things like that. This is the guy. All right. They picked another winner here. Well, not the tattoo and the Reddit post. So good luck. Good luck. And I have no idea what's going to happen in Maine. I don't know exactly what's going on with the electorate there. I think Susan Collins is just fine. but this guy's just gonna toe the line. He's gonna be another generic nothing, and there we go. But let's jump back to the guy we started with, because Abdul Al-Sayed over in Michigan that wants to take what's happened in Dearborn, Michigan, and he wants to Islamize the entire state, and he's got a chance of doing it.

37:30And of course, it's coming out that he's just a liar across the board and has been lying about being a physician. And here's Mehdi Hassan, who again, he's horrible, but he does an actual decent job here of questioning why Abdul Syed has been pretending to be a physician. You got attacked by your rivals for calling yourself a physician, not just a doctor, even though you don't have a valid state medical license in New York or Michigan, which apparently is what you need legally to call yourself a physician. Do you wish you'd just stuck to calling yourself a doctor, which you are, to avoid all of this controversy and attacks on your physician status?

38:02You know, at the end of the day, it's not about whether or not I'm a physician or a doctor. The question is, can you see a doctor? It's not about my education. It's about whether or not your kid gives a good education. So I'm just not spending time. People would say it's also about, did you tell the truth? Well, I would say that I was the health director for the city of Detroit. I've done more to provide more people health care or eliminate their medical debt than most doctors have done in their practice career. Yeah, so you're not a physician and you just lied about it. And it doesn't matter what your former job was or anything else.

38:31Like, the guy's just gross and awful. And his policies are terrible. I think we need to be freezing property tax for seniors. If you paid off your home at some point, we can't expect you to keep up with property taxes that are going up. Now, how do we pay for that? Well, again, if we tax billionaires their wealth, if we were to invest in the Department of Education so that we're paying centrally for public schools in an equitable way, there are a lot of opportunities for us to lift the burden off of seniors who've done their job. They've worked extra hard. They deserve a dignified retirement. And we've got to be thinking about how to offer them that.

39:03I've been clear that you can't reform ICE. You can't retrain ICE. You have to abolish ICE. Now, that's not to say that we can't secure our border. That's not even to say that we can't actually enforce our immigration policy. That is to say that we shouldn't do it at the edge of destroying our Constitution itself. You know, it's so interesting how backwards these people are. All right, let's do the ICE thing first. You get it already. We've discussed it enough. The reason he does not want ICE here is because he wants, like all the Democrats want, if they take over power, they will open up the borders.

39:31They will flood the country. They want illegals here. They view them as a new constituency. They don't want them to have IDs. They want them to get on the government dole and be Democrats forever, period. It has nothing to do with being nice or sympathetic or because Donald Trump and J.D. Vance want America to be an ethnostate or anything else. Done, I don't think we have to discuss that any further. Now on this issue of freezing property taxes for seniors, you know, on face, well, first off, I would, look what we're trying to do here in Florida, and which DeSantis is getting massive pushback against, even from members of our Republican Senate.

40:06DeSantis was trying to eliminate property taxes for everybody. Now, Florida and Michigan are two very, very different things. But it's interesting. So you, oh, so you don't really like taxing or you like giving tax relief. That's kind of funny as a progressive because everything you are for is about taxing everybody. Now, as it comes to seniors, on one hand, I suppose you could make an argument, you know, these people have paid in, now they're in retirement. and could we lower or eliminate their property taxes and give them some relief? There's probably some argument around that. Now, of course, his answer is, well, where are we gonna make up for the money?

40:39Tax the billionaires, okay? Tax the billionaires, they're gonna leave the state, and then you are just gonna have a bigger mess. But there's another argument that I think is a more sensible argument against it, which is that in a sensible society, if we were doing things right, and there wasn't as much fraud, and people were paying in fairly, and it wasn't that the rich just paid the 47%, and lower pay nothing and everything else. You actually could make the reverse argument of what he's making. How about you make an argument that when you're say under 30, you don't have to pay property taxes because that's when you're growing a family and you're getting a house for the first time.

41:13And that's when you're struggling more, right? More people are struggling as young people than they are struggling when they're old, right? When you're old, now you've retired, you're getting some money from the government. Hopefully you lived within your means. and then at that point, you could be paying taxes and helping the future generations. I think that's actually a more sensible thing. You want them, but they'll never do that, right? They will never ever do that. The only reason he's even throwing this out there, anything to do with tax relief is because he knows old people vote. It's just obvious.

41:44Also, they got into it because Mehdi asked him about his financial disclosures and he won't release them till after the election and his argument is that he and his wife own property in Egypt. So somehow they can't talk about that till after the election. How about just move back to Egypt? And if you don't think these people are radical, like they are radical. They can pretend this is about taxes and they can pretend this is about all of the other and affordable this and free that. But it really is just about destroying America. And, you know, we have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast.

42:20The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within. Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire's failure in ways that we can, ultimately to overthrow our own empire. Imperialism is, U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away. It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle. And to build a mass movement that can use the leverage of workers to hit the kill switch on American imperialism here within the American empire. I'm sorry, I know we've shown you that before. I was having trouble listening to this. I mean, the main lesson from that is that socialists don't know how to cut hair.

42:58Is that the main takeaway? Why do they have all of awful haircuts? They're all gross. Again, clean, that's Jordan Peterson 101. Clean up your room. Guys, clean up your life. Go to the gym, get a little sun, get a haircut. And then we can discuss about your socialist takeover over the world, okay? How about that? And you may go, Dave, those are just kids. It doesn't matter, except that video we just showed you of the guy talking like this. He's one of these people. They are young people and they are organizing. They have been given their cause of life and it is to destroy the United States. And again, whether you like it or not, and I know you don't, you better damn well realize they are freaking committed to this while you're committed to building a family and going about being a decent citizen.

43:41And then one day we will wake up in their socialist dystopia if we don't do anything about it. But I prefer to focus on positive things and there are good things happening in the world. So let's jump back to Fetterman one more time because I thought he had a nice moment here contrasting someone that builds like Elon Musk versus someone like Plattner who just wants to take from the people who are actually doing cool things. I'm in awe what he's accomplished. We're the same age. He's so far more successful and smarter than I could ever be. And then you have people you know you know the the guy from maine said that he's our first trillionaire let's make sure he's the last one and i'm like why do you hate a guy you know he builds rockets he builds cars for thing you know like yeah i mean how many jobs have you created what it's what you think so so this idea that would be like hating on you know thomas edison or these other kind of entrepreneurs It actually would.

44:44It really would. He is the modern day Thomas. You know, it's so interesting. I don't have to analyze Fetterman again. It's so interesting though, that it's really just a state of mind. When Fetterman's like, why would you go after him? He builds rockets, he builds cars. That's true. It's true. Why would you just, so you don't like somebody because they're rich, but they're doing all of this stuff. And by the way, you end up using all this stuff, all these, you know, ding-dongs that are always boycotting Israel. It's like, go ahead, boycott Israel. You're gonna have to boycott the most advanced cancer treatments, you're gonna have to boycott your iPhone, you're gonna have to boycott Waze and a gajillion other apps, you're gonna have to boycott drip irrigation that makes the desert bloom.

45:21Like you're all, I get it, none of it's real, it's just. But it's a state of mind to be jealous or to not be jealous. Like Bernie could shift today. You know, if Bernie just slipped and banged his head, it would be a good movie, The Socialist Who Tripped. And he bangs his head and then he wakes up and he's suddenly not jealous anymore. And instead of walking around going,

45:41that Bernie could stop. I bet actually he would stop talking like that too. He'd be like, you know, everybody, I didn't do much in Senate. I'm just gonna retire and move to one of my three houses. Thank you very much. That's probably what he sounds like if he wasn't a miserable socialist. So that's just true. I've mentioned this before. You know, I've been around a ton of rich people in my life, especially over the last couple of years, right? I've been around billionaires. And what I have found, I've never walked into somebody's home and been jealous of them. I walk in and I'm like, this is incredible.

46:13These people have, you've done something. And then that makes you want to do better things. And the most literal example I can give you of that is when I had Joe Lonsdale in here a couple of weeks ago, co-founded Palantir with Teal and he's done a million other things. And I went to his house to do his podcast in Austin, what about six months ago. And then as we're walking out, he's like, you might wanna look in there. and I open up the door and it was the most beautiful indoor basketball court I've ever seen. That is literally my dream, what I would want. Like if there's one thing that's physical that I don't have that I want, I want an indoor basketball court so all my guys can play at my house in Florida.

46:49It's tough to play in the summer and all that stuff. That's my dream. But I didn't get, I wasn't like, screw this guy. I want what he has. I was like, I gotta do it. And then he issued a challenge to me. He's like, Dave, well, make it happen. Make it happen. And that's all these people need. They need a shift in their world view. So let me show you one more about Elon. This is with Laura Trump. It's from about a year ago, but what he wants his legacy to be. And maybe if more of us started thinking like this, we could fix some of these problems. What do you want your legacy to be one day when you're long gone?

47:24That I was useful in the furtherance of civilization. I helped move civilization forward.

47:33added to the store of knowledge and capability,

47:38that I helped understand the universe. I think you're on your way. You're doing a lot for everyone here in America. You're doing a lot for everyone around the world. And for planets we haven't even visited yet, so. Thank you. Elon, thank you. Like, isn't that pretty cool? Like, why be angry at that guy? He's got more money than you, it's true. And yet, ironically, he still wears old ratty T-shirts, and it seems like he's wearing jeans that he bought 20 years ago and everything else. So why be jealous? And again, if you fools thought that climate change was real and we're gonna have to get off this planet anytime soon, you might not wanna be talking smack about the guy that's got the rockets.

48:20And I really do think he should just put up on X one day. You know what, going forward, if you try to threaten me with lawfare or whatever else, you cannot get on my rockets. And you will watch these people shut up pretty quickly. Guys, let's do a rubinreport.locals.com community Q &A. And Joseph is at the computer right now. It is connected to the internet. Oh, via Starlink. We've got the Starlink up there. Thank you, Elon, for that. I'm not pissed at you over giving us satellite internet. So if you wanna get a question in, you can do that at rubinreport.locals.com right now. Morgan says, do you think we'll ever get back to the colorblindness that we more or less had in the 90s?

48:55man, you know, I'm Gen X, I'm 50, so Gen X is basically late 70s to, what are the exact years that they say of Gen X? It's basically you were born, it's probably something like, what, 75 to? 65 to 80. Wow, 65, so Gen X starts 65, right, so after the boomers, 65 to 80. Yeah, if you grew up, if you were born in those years, and then that means you basically, you grew up, you know, you grew up in the 80s into the 90s, nobody cared about this stuff. Nobody cared. It was, I know that's hard for you if you're a young person and you're watching this to believe, but like we would so moved on from all of this.

49:37It's not to say racism didn't exist, of course, but like if you watch TV shows, like Maury Povich would put on the head of the KKK and everyone would make fun of him. It was like, you guys are archaic and ridiculous and everything else. And then the wokesters shredded all of that. And I was actually talking to a friend of mine from high school this morning and his oldest son is going to college now. They're trying to figure out what college to go into. And he's just white, he's just old fashioned white. And he was talking about how still, despite a lot of the DEI stuff going away, they know it actually isn't going away when you have to do interviews and everything else.

50:13Like it's fairly obvious. And if you wanna create a generation of racists, well then, you're gonna have a lot of kids who are in high school now who are just decent white kids who did it right, or of course, this is very applicable to Asians and very applicable to Jews, et cetera, that are going to become racist because they'll be like, oh, look at all those guys who got in with worse grades, who didn't work as hard and everything else just because of their skin color. So the people who had put all the racist stuff aside will start using the racist lens again. So can we ever get back to it? Well, the answer is yes, but it's going to be more at a micro level.

50:48I think in places where there is success, and I would put Florida at the top of the list, but I think broadly in red places and in things that are not gonna be in big cities, particularly in big blue cities, yeah, people will just be over it and it simply will not matter. But the places where that stuff has taken root, I see no way they can get past it. It is embedded. Think about it, you have an Egyptian guy who's running for Senate talking about diversity while he's telling us that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump want an ethno state and we're pretending that's okay and that he should be allowed to run.

51:22It's completely absurd. Cassiferay says, if sanctuary cities conflict with federal laws, I hear you occasionally say, why can't the executive branch do something about voiding that status? If what you say is true, how did sanctuary cities ever come into existence? So it's a great question. I often bring up the supremacy clause, that anything that is not left to the states, and I'm giving you the short version of it, is actually part of the, is for the federal government to deal with. And by the way, the federal government is supposed to deal with the border. So the guys gave me a little note here so I can do this as cleanly as possible to answer your question.

51:57The Supremacy Clause and the 10th Amendment deal with two separate categories. So you gotta listen to this. One is enforcement and one is obstruction. So this is how the states are getting away with it. So the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration, the border, right? However, under the 10th Amendment, the federal government cannot force state or local officials to enforce federal immigration laws. That being said, a state can't obstruct ICE because that would violate the Supremacy Clause. So in essence, what these cities and states are doing, they can't obstruct ICE, but they don't have to work with ICE.

52:31I would say they are getting as close as possible to obstructing ICE. And we know that there have been judges who have gone out of their way to hide illegals that come into their courtroom. That is an obstruction of federal law for sure, right? But you can't send your police out to fight with ICE, but you can tell your police ignore the crimes that they're committing or just don't bring them in if they do commit a crime or have some rotating in and out of prison situation or something like that. So can Trump do anything else? I don't think so. I don't think there's an executive order that he could pass that would, well, he can't.

53:08He can't use an executive order to supersede the fact that the states do not have to cooperate on this enforcement mechanism. And that's just unfortunate, I would say. And again, there's just no sign that the blue states are gonna turn around on this stuff. Tony says, any news on the Rubin Report meetup at the end of the month? I know I saw you guys last month, but it's always a good time with the crew. Oh, you must've been at the DeSantis show at the Fillmore. We're working on it. We're trying to figure it out. You know, January, or July has just become so crazy for us as we tie together everything before August.

53:42So we are looking at the last couple of days. I was just discussing it with Joseph yesterday. So stay tuned. That's obviously mostly for those of you that are in South Florida, but we'll try to give you enough time if we can pull it off so that we can do it. And we'll do it at, usually we do it at a local bar or something and it will definitely be filled with copal and good time. So hang tight on that. Give me another week or so. We'll make a final decision. Sarah says, my younger sister and I are 18 months apart and our family has always called us the ladies. We are both in our 30s. Do you guys have anything like that for Justin and Luke?

54:15I mean, right now they're Decepticons. They are Decepticons all the time. Justin is big on Soundwave. Actually, he has my, oh wait, I got it back in the studio now. Is he visible? Oh, he's not quite visible. Give me my Soundwave, would you? I bust him out every now and again. He does not know this. So this is my Soundwave from when I was a child. I busted this guy out before. We do have his head, he's missing right now. But I got this, I remember getting this in 1984 when I was eight years old. So Justin's been playing with this and I've got Ravage here too, who's jammed in there. Let's see if I can get him out.

54:47Ravage the Panther. Justin's been playing with this guy and he broke off the little front plate and that's when you really realize that you love your child, when they break one of your childhood toys and you're like, you know what, it's part of life. But anyway, and this is Ravage, the little Panther who fits in there and we have Rumble somewhere who also fit in there. Anyway, I decided I can't have him breaking this thing. He means too much to me. So we were able to get an original G1 Soundwave. And when Justin decides to poop in the potty, which is gonna happen any day now, he will receive Soundwave.

55:20So yeah, we mostly call them Decepticons right now. But they're about to turn four. It's just such a great age. They're so funny. And it's just a blast, like just walking in there after the show and just sometimes like all hell is breaking and I just jump in on it and we're building forts and we're destroying things and cars and craziness and everything else. A lot of mosquito bites though because they want to be outside all the time and this time of year is just, it's a mess in Miami. Mark says, as a lover of science fiction, what do you consider some of the best movie or series adaptations of great novels and some of the worst?

55:57Probably an easier answer. So I did go through the questions early today. I usually don't. And I did write out a few of them. I don't know what order you have them in here, Connor. So you can put it up in whatever order you've got. So Contact, which you guys know, is one of my favorite movies of all time. 1997, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey. It's such a brilliant sci-fi without crazy aliens. Like what could a real futuristic sci-fi sort of like interstellar movie look like? And it was written by the great Carl Sagan. I saw the movie first and then subsequently I read the novel Contact. It's Carl Sagan's only work of fiction.

56:35And one interesting thing, I love the book, I love the movie and I love the book, is that in Contact, the book, for those of you that know the story, Jodie Foster in the movie, they only, they build one machine and then there's a terrorist attack and then there's a second machine, but only one person goes through the machine and has the experience that Jodie Foster has. In the book, they send several scientists from different countries and they all have different experiences. So it's another layer that if you have not read the book and you like the movie, I really recommend you do. What else did we throw?

57:05Just whatever order you've got, I'll do it in. Oh, so, well, you know, my favorite sci-fi movie of all time is Total Recall Schwarzenegger. I saw it in the movie theater. I was so freaking blown away. Get Your Ass to Mars, The Three-Boobed Woman, The Mutants, it's just, it's so freaking great. The soundtrack is great. It won a ton of awards for technical effects and everything. It was based on a short story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick. I didn't have that book actually, but I had, well, no. So I guess that is the compilation. I have a compilation book that that must be just a different cover of.

57:40And as you can see, he also did Adjustment Bureau, which if you didn't see, did you guys see Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon? That's another great movie. And I think that was a short story too. So it's basically like probably 20 short stories that he had, Philip K. Dick. and he really was the most innovative sci-fi thinker that we probably ever had. There's a show on Amazon Prime, it's called Electric Dreams, I think, that he did. It's based on his stories. Obviously, he died 30, 40 years ago. What else did we put up there? Oh, this is another Philip K. Dick. So I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

58:15Probably one of the first books I read. Maybe I was in ninth grade, eighth grade, something like that. And of course, that became the incredible movie Blade Runner, and if you haven't seen the reboot of Blade Runner with, what's his name? Who was the guy? Who's the guy? He's Wolverine or he's one? Ryan Gosling, yeah. The reboot was great too, and Harrison Ford's in that, but the movie, so I'm giving you all good versions so far. Let's see what else, what else do we put in here? Oh, so I thought this one might surprise you. So Starship Troopers, the movie, many of you have seen that probably, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also directed Total Recall.

58:51He had a very specific way of directing, sort of like over the top 80s, little bit of cheesy stuff. Starship Troopers is such a great, it's just like kind of mindless fun, but it actually, so it was based on a book that I also read. I think I, I don't know, that must've been high school also. And what's interesting, one of the things that they do in the book is that there's this intergalactic war and the only people who are allowed to vote are the people who serve in the military. Kind of interesting. Did we put anything else up in there? Is that it? That was all I got. Yeah, that was it. So I gave you all ones that I liked.

59:25I'm trying to think, was there ever a, can you think of a sci-fi book that you loved that turned into a terrible movie? I'm sure there's a million of them. There was something, you know, do you remember The Dark Tower was a series of books that I read, Stephen King, and then it was a terrible movie like maybe 10 years ago or something. Ender's Game. Oh, yeah, Ender's, oh, I did read Ender's Game. Ender's Game, remember Ender's Game from everybody. Who's the author again? Wait, give me the author of Endric's Game. I'm blanking, I'm totally blanking. Austin Skarkar. Yeah, Austin Skarkar. And then the book, or the movie was with Harrison Ford.

59:58Also not great. Okay, what else? Lori, I believe you said you have PT following the stem cell treatment. What are you doing for exercise and to manage the angst that comes with view clips and other foolishness since you can't play ball? You know, thanks for asking. So I'm starting PT. I just got clearance on Monday morning. Excuse me. Is that the first time I ever sneezed on the show? I think in all the years of Rubik's Report, that's the first sneeze. I don't know what happened there. So I got the clearance for PT on Monday. The place by me didn't have an appointment until next week. So I've been doing exercises at home.

1:00:33They showed me a bunch that I can do, mostly with a band. It's like a three pound band, so it's nothing. And I can basically, what she said was, I can do anything that keeps my arm low. They don't want me doing any exercises where I'm lifting my arm higher than shoulder length. So I'm doing a lot of these and then I'm turning around and doing a lot of those. I'm doing in and out on both sides. A lot of that kind of stuff. But yeah, I really, really, really miss basketball. It's not just the physical part of it, it's the mental part. Like when I'm on that court for those three hours, I don't think about anything else, literally.

1:01:06And then sometimes I come home and I'm laying in bed and I'm replaying, you know, I should have done this or that was a great shot or some of that. So I do miss that. And by the way, when you have that, when you have something that you love outside of what you do for work, it does make whatever the angst part of work is, like when I'm frustrated about the view or these socialists that are taking over the country or whatever, it does make some of that stuff easier. But I'm feeling really, really good about the stem cells. I think it's really working. The orthopedist was really impressed with where I'm at at this point.

1:01:38And unfortunately, I'm probably gonna be stuck with this bump for a while. So we'll see about that. but I should be probably 95 % by the time we go off the grid. Anyway, thanks for asking the question. Lo Brian says, hey Dave, how do you come up with your business ideas and have any of them failed or not lived up to your expectations? Well, how do I come up with my business ideas? So I have, I think, four or five businesses right now. So the first one obviously was the production company behind Rubin Report. And that was out of pure necessity. I was like, I wanna go independent. And this was over 10 years ago and really nobody was independent and I want to build a home studio and do all that stuff and figure out how to do it and figure out how to crowdfund.

1:02:17So that was my first business. And then the second business, which ultimately became Locals, was a subscription. We were going to basically, we had a Rubin Report community that was just for an app that was just for me. So for those of you that have been with me since the beginning, you may remember that. It wasn't the Locals app. It was a Rubin Report app. But because that worked so well for me, we were like, oh, there's a real business here for other creators. And that ultimately became Locals. and that was my second business. My third business, Copala is basically my third business, which we started about a year and a half ago.

1:02:49And it's going incredibly well. And for those of you that ordered during our crazy 50th birthday, 50 % off, I know not all of them have been shipped yet. We sold about 6 ,000 bottles now, I'm told, in about 36 hours. We completely overwhelmed the distributor. We're trying to scale as fast as we can. I know it's a good problem to have. And we're getting a lot of emails and people are like, we're being patient, whatever. We're working on it, I promise you. And we're trying, I have a big meeting later today, actually, with all the guys to figure out how we can expand and I have to put some more money in to figure out more distribution centers and all that.

1:03:18That was my third business. My fourth business, which I haven't, which by the way, I mean, all three of them are profitable. So I'm three for three, I guess, in that sense. My fourth business, which I haven't even talked about that much before is I've built out another network to help other creators build what I've built here. So it wasn't just the subscription model of Rubin Report, but how do you build a staff that's proper? And how do you do SEO? And how do you manage things? And how do you do sales and all of those things? And that we started a little over a year ago, and it's going unbelievably well.

1:03:51I haven't even publicly really announced it. I think this may be the first time I'm even talking about it, but it's a behind the hood network. We're not trying to be CNN or MSNBC like everyone's on this network. We're just trying to give everybody the full skill set, the full tools that I have here. And we're working with, I don't even have to name everybody, but we're working with 20 creators that you know, many of whom have been on this show. And we're always looking for more people to work with, and that's going well. And then I have one other little thing. So I'm working on, I guess I'm four for four.

1:04:22And I think that if you just do things for the right reasons, like if you see a problem, I guess that's the answer. I saw a problem, the first one. I wanted to go independent. and how did I have to build something? All right, that was one problem. The second problem was the offshoot of that with locals, which is, okay, the problem is other people don't know how to do this. Copal, I was like, I want to make, well, I guess that wasn't really a problem. There's a lot of tequilas out there, but that was just purely passion, right? So you have to have either a problem or passion. And Copal was purely passion.

1:04:50I love tequila. I want to show people that tequila is not just doing shots of Jose Cuervo and jumping in the pool and getting stupid. Like there's another way to drink wonderful tequila and you don't have to drink as much and blah, blah, blah. And then the fourth one, again, there was a problem. Like people come to me all the time, Dave, how did you build this? How do you, all these guys come into my studio, successful people who outwardly are very famous or whatever, they come in here and they look around like how did you build this freaking thing? How did you do it? And how did you assemble this team?

1:05:18And all these other things. And I was like, all right, I wanna give that to people. So I think it's about, it's two Ps, has everyone said, problem and passion. And if you can figure out one of those two, then you can probably do something good. So that's all I've got to say about that. I thank you for watching. I can't believe I sneezed. In all the years, Connor, we've been together. Have I ever sneezed on camera before?

1:05:41I sneezed on Fox? You know what I did do on Fox yesterday, if you didn't see it? I was talking about John F. Kennedy, and I suddenly, I full on had a brain freeze for a second. I asked not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. And I started saying it backwards, and then I started doing it again, and then we got there at the end, but I was like, that, you know, I'm working hard. I told you, it's a lot in July. Anyway, post game show real quick, rubenreport.locals.com. Thanks for watching guys.