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24:47For individuals who don't work in this space, to have zero successful illegal entries in an entire month should be an impossible achievement. There's a 2 ,000-mile border with one of the poorest countries in the world, and you have open travel from 150 countries into Central America and South There are two billion people in the world that would economically benefit from illegally coming to the United States. And through the deployment of the military, through the deployment of novel legal and diplomatic tools, through the building of physical infrastructure, through the empowering of ICE and Border Patrol, and the entire federal law enforcement apparatus, President Trump achieved absolute border security.

25:32And now, once this legislation is passed, he will be able to make that with those resources permanent. In short, he said, decline is a choice and Trump chose not to decline anymore. They didn't need anything. They didn't need executive actions. They didn't need a bipartisan bill. They needed absolutely nothing to close the border. They did this intentionally. Did Joe Biden even know? We may never know the answer to that. But then Trump came in and fixed it real quick. We, in essence, right now, are getting no illegal border crossings. it's not only because we've put protection at the border, but the signal, that's actually the bigger part.

26:11The signal went out to the world. Don't come. Sorry, don't come.

26:19I'm gonna come. Don't come, okay? That's it. And thus people don't come. And now go, go. Guys, did you know that Florida just legalized gold and silver as money? Yeah, that's right. The free state of Florida, my home state, recognizes gold and silver now as legal tender. Governor DeSantis put it best. This is about giving you the financial freedom to protect yourself against the declining dollar. With inflation, national debt soaring, and even U.S. credit downgrade, it's no wonder people are waking up. That's why I've partnered with GoldCo, a top-tier precious metals company I trust. Want to protect your savings?

26:57Visit DaveLikesGold.com to get your free 2025 gold and silver kit. Once again, that's DaveLikesGold.com. From all of that to a bad day for chicks with dicks. Listen to this from Fox News. The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to a resolution with President Donald Trump's administration to keep biological male trans athletes out of women's sports in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. The department previously launched an investigation into UPenn on February 6th for the Title IX violations that occurred in the swimming program. Trans athlete Leah Thomas competed for the women's team in the 21-22 season after previously competing for the men's team.

27:39Per the DOE's announcement, under UPenn's new agreement, the following actions will be taken. UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions, which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories. UPenn will issue a public statement to the university community, stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics' female intimate facilities. The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words male and female pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's executive orders defending women from gender ideology extremism and keeping men out of women's sports.

28:26UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics. UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions. And UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer. UPenn also released a statement acknowledging the agreement and suggested changes to its swimming records will be made. Okay, so look, this is obvious. It is good, it is just, it is right.

29:05If you are for women, you should not want men competing with them. No one cares what you do as an adult if you wanna dress a certain way or do whatever the high hell you wanna do with your body, but it shouldn't come at the cost of young women athletes. Title IX was put in so that women would have access to sports so that they could compete in their own facilities and in a way that was equitable to them so they weren't getting crushed by guys. And then this guy, Leah Thomas, comes in and Leah Thomas, we still believe, I don't know this for a fact, but several people, this is what it says online, he still has a wang.

29:44So he has a wang, which as you know, it's the Conor theory. He was using as a propeller to speed past these chicks. And one of the ladies that he beat is a spectacular young woman who I know a little bit, Riley Gaines. And here she is on Fox News talking about her vindication. Your reaction tonight, historic news from you, Pam. Man, I watched that video back, Laura, that you showed in the intro to this segment. And I cannot even believe that happened. All the while, so many sat idly by and watched and actually reprimanded us as women, if we even dared to speak about this. To say that I, of course, am grateful for Secretary McMahon, for President Trump, for even Attorney General Bondi.

30:26She's been fantastic at the Department of Justice on this issue is an understatement. I feel vindicated. I feel like pigs are flying. I feel like hell has frozen over. So it is a fantastic day, of course, for sanity, for common sense. But I think more broadly for women, for humanity, for the little girl that I'm growing inside of me right now that I will welcome to the world in just a few weeks. I think of her, I think of her future. That is what Donald Trump and of course, Secretary McMahon and myself, that is what we are fighting for. So very, very excited about today's news. Yeah, look, I don't need to reiterate that because she said it quite well, but I think the key part is what she said at the front, which is that she can't even believe that's what happened.

31:06And I think that that's what, if we beat the woke thing, if society actually heals itself over time and all that, we'll all look back on it like, Like, man, that was a pretty freaking bananas period of time. And who participated in that lunacy? And of course, as you know, all the people who did participate in it will pretend they had nothing to do with it. That would be like Jake Tapper writing a book about Biden's mental state while he was covering it up. Same general notion there, right? The people who had everything to do with wokeness will be like, oh, I didn't know. But no, you guys can't get away with this.

31:36And we all should have known it was ridiculous all along. Here's the dude with the propeller penis, Leah Thomas on a podcast two years ago, explaining that this was all, the pushback was all because people are transphobic. They're like, oh, we respect Leah as a woman, as a trans woman, whatever. We respect her identity. We just don't think it's fair. You can't really have that sort of half support where you're like, oh, I respect her as a woman here, but not here. They're using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs. And I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don't want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out.

32:17And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half support. They think about how twisted feminism, quote unquote, feminism has become. Their arguments, you know, in order to exclude anybody in the trans category, you have to reduce women to reproductive capacity, which is, in my opinion, extremely anti-feminist. I don't want to put those women down either. And I know you don't want to either because I see pain. I see pain and the pain is coming from somewhere. It's not you, though. It's the patriarchy. And how can we get people to see that? Ah, there's nothing more feminist than two dudes explaining to chicks what feminism is.

32:50I don't even consider myself a feminist, but I'm for women having equal rights and not having the shit kicked out of them. Where's my award? The other guy's name is Shuler Baylor. Who cares? Why'd you give me that information? I don't care. He's not going anywhere. Or is he a chick? Is he's probably a chick too? Who knows? Doesn't matter. Anyway, just to show you how off the rails this whole thing went. And again, the world is healing. That's the point of all this, is that nature is healing right now. Here is a former Congresswoman and Senate candidate, Vicki Hartzler's ad from 2022 about Leah Thomas, because somehow this got to the point that Congress people had to comment on genitals in female sports.

33:32Meet William Thomas, ranked number 462 in men's swimming. Meet Leah Thomas, ranked number one in women's swimming. Only one problem. It's the same person. Some people are afraid to talk about it. Not me. I'm Vicky Hartzler. I ran and coached girls' track, and I won't look away while woke liberals destroy women's sports. Women's sports are for women, not men pretending to be women. Now, incredibly, she did not win. Vicky did not win, so she's not the congresswoman. and putting that aside for a moment, it goes back to what I was just saying. Like we will look back on things like that. We're gonna show our kids are gonna see that on YouTube of the future in the metaverse.

34:15They're gonna see some ad the way we see it. I like all those throwback things from like the 80s. I see like cartoons and commercials from when I was a kid. Kids are gonna see that. They'll be like, mommy, daddy, is that true? Or mommy, robot or whatever, you know? Anyway, check this out for Maysmore on Twitter. In 2022, former Congresswoman and Senate candidate, Vicky Hartzler, ran this ad and then posted women's sports are for women, not for men to pretending to be women. She was then immediately suspended from Twitter for hateful conduct. Thankfully, we are moving past that insanity. You know what?

34:48I don't know where she is these days, but she put her on the list of people that I want to buy dinner. But the good news is not just happening at University of Pennsylvania. Listen to this from Eric Daughtry. Huge news. Stanford Medicine has now terminated its transgender surgeries for children following pressure from President Trump's administration. They are the second major California provider making this move. The children are being saved. Winds like this are monumental. So again, my position, whatever the high hell you want to do as an adult, if you treat me with respect, I might even use the gender pronouns you prefer.

35:23Like I can work all that through in an adult conversation and everything else. But I will not lie about biology and I certainly will not pretend that just because a five-year-old who's been brainwashed thinks they are something, are something, and then you allow, as Jordan Peterson calls them, these butchers to come in and basically ruin these young people's lives. And now we know there's this huge detransition movement. And again, this is the Earth Healing. Let's talk about 1775 Coffee for a Moan and then a RubinReport.Locals.com community Q &A. What if your coffee didn't just wake you up, but actually made you feel sharp, focused, and ready for the day?

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36:38Curtis Sliwa was part of the Guardian Angels and we used to see him on WPIX Channel 11 all the time. And basically we did a little checking on, I wanted to get it right. The Guardian Angels started, it was a volunteer organization. They wore their kind of bright red jackets. started in around 1979 and they would go on the subway and they would just make sure that things were safe. When New York City was bad, this was pre-Giuliani, they were vital in keeping the streets and the subways safe for other people. Curtis Lee has been on the radio for years there in New York and he's like a true New Yorker.

37:08You listen to the guy talk, he sounds like a New Yorker. I think the reason people aren't talking about him that much and I think we're gonna get him on the show, he just followed me on Twitter so I'm gonna send him a message. The reason people aren't talking that much is because it is very, very difficult, if not impossible at this point for a Republican to win. So the question is, if Mondami is bad, let's say all of you watching this agree that he's basically bad, but the Democrats have the base of the city. Well, then if Eric Adams is against him and now Slea was there too, Eric Adams is gonna run as an independent.

37:45Slea was there too. And maybe there'll be a couple other little names that get involved. you gotta basically bring all those people together to stop Mondami. So the question is how much attention, I think a lot of people in the media are sort of bouncing around this notion, like what do you do with a guy like Sliwa? Decent, you know, he's a good guy by all estimation. He cares about New York City, probably right on most of the issues. But if he can't get there because he's a Republican, then do we just have to back, do we just have to back Eric Adams, the guy who ushered in so much of this nonsense, who's just pretty terrible himself, but he's not a completely psychotic jihadist communist.

38:20New York City will have to figure it out. Hey, hey, Glazier Girl says, did you explore other parts of New York State? If so, any favorite areas? Well, I went to college upstate New York, SUNY Binghamton, went to the big Syracuse Carousel Mall, one of the biggest malls in the country. I mean, most of my life, I grew up in Long Island. I was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Long Island, lived in New York City most of my life. So it was mostly in that New York City metropolitan area, had a lot of family in Jersey to, you know, we went up to Buffalo, you know, my brother went to SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo.

38:52They got the big waterfall over there. And yeah, I don't, I don't, you know, I'm, I like Florida. I like Florida. It's pretty good. I like the Gators, Alcatraz's, that kind of thing. Casey Ferrier says, maybe it's time to make a change and put an age limit on judges. Is there still, is there still a reason why you think judges should be appointed for life? Look, it's an interesting question. The original idea, of course, was that you want this branch of government not to be subjected to the whims of the people, not to be subjected to having to be elected every two, four, six years, whatever it might be, because then they can be hopefully faithful purely to the constitution of the United States and not to the political or cultural machinations of the day.

39:38So I understand the original idea there. Is there an issue now that we are getting people and we see this putting aside judges for a second, I mean, we've seen this with the, you know, 80 plus set of people, 80 year old plus set of people that have been running the country for so long that at some point you shouldn't be allowed to be in public office. Yeah, probably. Like, I don't like the idea of an arbitrary number, right? Because, you know, one of the things, every time we would expose Biden, people would be like, oh, you're going after him because of his age. And it's like, no, it wasn't because of his age.

40:09I know, I know, I literally know 90 year olds that are in great shape. I interviewed Frankie Valli not too long ago, who's still putting on three, four hour concerts at 91 years old, right? Joe Biden at 82 or whatever could barely get through a sentence. So it wasn't about age, it was about cognitive ability. So I don't like just associating an age with the cutoff point. But should there be more transparency? Let's do it this way. Should there be more transparency as it relates to cognitive ability, to other physical modalities that they should have to prove that they're somewhat able to accomplish, like something like that, probably.

40:47And I think the world is also going in that direction more because as technology evolves, as we all have phones and all these things, you can't hide the things like you used to. You know, you take Biden, all the stumbles and the gaffes and everything else, they would have been able to hide it a lot better 20 years ago, pre-internet. Now it's all here, it's right in front of our face. So that in some sense offers an automatic correction because they know they can't get away with as much. But the arbitrary number, I'm not totally on board. Kul Ora says, how does one go about publishing a book? Does an aspiring author already need to have some work prepared for an editor?

41:19What is entailed in the process? Well, I can tell you about my process, which was that the first time I was, I had sort of wanted to write a book for a while and I was on tour with Jordan and Jordan at the time, it was the 12 Rules for Life tour. Jordan was already working on the second book. and I started through talking to Jordan, I started sketching out the idea for a book and I called my agent and I was like, listen, I'm kind of thinking about this. Could you maybe see what's what? And then a couple of weeks went by. I didn't hear anything from him. And then one day, I've told the story a couple of times, Jordan and I were about to go on stage.

41:55We were in, were we in Sweden? Or I think we were in Finland, actually, if I'm not mistaken. No, we were in Oslo. Pretty sure we were in Oslo. And it was right before that we were about to go on stage and I got a call from my agent saying, hey, there's a lot of excitement here. We took this thing to auction, meaning they took it to a bunch of the big publishing houses and they all kind of bet on it. And here we go. And Penguin Random House was the winner. And would you be interested in this offer? And I took it and I was thrilled. And Jordan was so happy for me. It was great. And so I had basically written out sort of a brief sketch.

42:26Now at that point, I had like a library of work behind me. So they kind of knew what they were getting. If you're a brand new author, I suspect you're asking this question because you want to write something. You got to write a full treatment. So when I wrote my second book, even though my first book did extremely extremely well Then I wrote a full treatment meaning I wrote basically the first chapter and I wrote The rest of the outline for my third book right now. I don't think I'm gonna go through the main channels. I'm probably gonna self-publish it and I've been Sketching it out a little bit more and I'm trying to figure out what to do But I would say this is in some sense It's a kind of offshoot of the previous question because the world is changing fast So if you wanna go through the traditional channels, the old school world of publishing and publishing houses, it's very, very slow.

43:11Books are held for basically a year and a half. So to write something topical is almost impossible, which is also a weird thing about how quickly that Jake Tapper book got through the system. But you can self-publish now and you can immediately get it out to the people. And if you have a little bit of an audience, that might be the better way of doing it. There are advantages to having a publishing house with you where you're gonna get an all-star editor, My editor, Helen, was amazing. And I loved working with her and going back and forth and arguing things out and cutting things and pushing them back in and all of that stuff.

43:42But you can find an editor that's independent as well. And so there's a lot of different ways, a lot of different ways to do it. But I wish you a lot of luck. And it's a labor of love. Like you can only do it if you wanna do it because I knew I really wanted to do it. I knew I had to do it sort of. And if you don't, like you'll hate yourself during the process because it's a lot of work. there were days where I would start at like 8 a.m. and I would go into my office and I would just have a cup of coffee and then it would suddenly be five o 'clock. And half the day I was writing, half the day I was basically staring at the wall trying to come up with something.

44:12And sometimes David wouldn't even open the door. Or he would literally just crack the door open and slide some food in just to make sure I ate something because you're just so in the zone on it. So if you've got something to say, you should say it. Go ahead, do it. Send it to me, you're on Locals. Send me something, let me take a look. Rob says, Dave, would you ever consider running for state or federal public office oh lordy lordy um look i've been asked this a lot over the years you know there were a few people that wanted me to get involved more intimately in la public stuff during covid because that went so crazy and i was so against the lockdowns and all that um i've been approached by several people like high level people here in florida to maybe get involved obviously the santus is not going to be governor forever i i don't think so i don't think So I love what I'm doing, number one.

45:01That's number one. Number two, I think I'm affecting things, actually. Like, not only do I enjoy what I'm doing, but I think I'm affecting things and helping hopefully people see through some of the BS and get involved in their own way. And being a politician, you know, is a constant battle for, like, it's a constant battle for your integrity or something that I don't know that I would wanna do. My life is good. I want to be able to spend as much time with the kids as possible while I still build all of these things. You know, we've also got, you know, several new businesses on the way. We started another new production company that we're doing actual friends through.

45:40We started a tequila thing. So I'm just doing a lot of things. But to affect politics, I think I can affect it more from this side. But I would also say never say never. You never know. Rumble Premium real quick and then a couple more questions. Free speech is under attack, but Rumble refuses to back down. We've always believed in empowering voices, no matter how unpopular, and now we're taking that fight to the next level. When major advertisers conspired to pull their dollars, even brands like Dunkin' Donuts turned their backs. But we're not here to fit a mold. We're here to defend free expression.

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46:44Mitch says, I'm going to be on Long Island next week. Any favorite restaurants you recommend? There's probably only one restaurant on all of Long Island I can recommend because it's the same one from my childhood. You want to eat pizza at the very same place that Dave Rubin has been eating pizza since he was four years old. Go to Mario's Pizzeria on Jericho Turnpike, the very place that I was riding my bike to for all my years. When I was going there, literally 1980, 81, they had the original Miss Pac-Man in there. That's how old it was. Old school. It was a little. They probably had eight tables.

47:19It was just like an alleyway like this. the old school, you know, red and white checkered Italian tablecloths. And pizza was probably 75 cents. And if we'd get a couple sodas, we could maybe get a quarter, you know, you could give them the cans back. You'd get a quarter. We could play a little Pac-Man. I think later on, what else did they have? There was something with the Ninja. I don't remember what game that was, but they expanded over the years. They took like two or three more restaurants that were right on either side of them and they've been going strong forever. And the pizza is, that is the one thing when I go home, like, man, I want a slice of Mario's pizza.

47:54So if you make it Jericho Turnpike Mario's pizza. Tappy Chef says, any super fun plans for July 4th? Are the boys into fireworks or does Clyde cower? Well, Clyde goes bananas with fireworks. So we're gonna give him, you know, you can give him some treats to calm down, but they barely, barely work. And we're not too far from the water here. So there's just an endless amount of fireworks and Clyde's just gonna have a rough couple hours. What are you gonna do? He's also in the cone at the moment. and he had a little thing removed. So it's gonna be a tough couple hours for Clyde. The kids love fireworks, absolutely love fireworks.

48:28They've only seen them a couple of times, but they love like clouds and planes and helicopters and all of that stuff. So I'm not exactly sure what we're doing. I'm moving up some pool time this weekend and we'll do some barbecue. And it's hot here right now, so you gotta figure out some things that aren't outdoors. Probably do something with my sister and some of her kids and just celebrate this great, not great, the greatest country in the history of the world. Mark says, what does Dave of 2025 tell the Dave that was hawking tickets to his own shows on the streets of New York? Oh man, I mean, I guess Dave of 2025 would tell that guy, listen, it's gonna be okay.

49:06Because there were a lot of days out there where for hours we used to bark, that's what we called it. You'd stand outside for an hour before a show, handing out tickets. I did it six days a week, two hours a night for two different shows. so an hour a night per show for years years and years and we did it no matter the weather it did not matter snowstorm burning hot we'd be out there it just did not matter and we would do it and you'd often for the show itself you'd make no money maybe you'd get a beer if the club was being nice eventually i opened a couple clubs myself i guess i had that industrious thing and and a few comics and i opened some things and we started making a little scratch which was great and we would get more time on stage.

49:44But a lot of it just sucked, you know, like, and it's, it really sucked back then. I would have to put on two pairs of socks and double pants to go do standup because it was so cold out there. I remember one time I was on, I was standing on 51st and Broadway in the middle of the craziest snowstorm. And I had an old, this was early on with cell phones. I had an old candy bar, Nokia, I think they called it a candy bar, like black and white. You could play snake on that thing. Old phone. And I remember my phone rang and I, and I put, you know, gloves and it's hard to even pick up the phone, pick up the phone.

50:21And it's my roommate, Mike. And he's telling, he goes, Dave, turn around, turn around. I was like, what? He goes, turn around. You're on the news right now because they're doing a report from Times Square saying that nobody should be outside and everything's closing. And I see you out there standing there with the tickets. Cause that was the corner that that I stood on with the tickets. Like that's what we used to do. We'd perform in front of three, four people, sometimes broken AC and things, dripping with sweat. So what would I tell that guy? I would say it all worked out. It all worked out.

50:51Like it was worth it, I guess is what I was telling. And the funny thing is I look back on them now. When I go, I usually only go back to New York City to do Gutfeld and the Fox studio is just two or three blocks from where I used to hang out all the time and where I'd be handing these tickets out. And I walk there all the time and I'll sometimes just stand on that corner that I used to stand. I usually post a picture in locals. And to me, it's like the good old days, which that really tells you something about life. I guess if you do it right, right? You aim at something. And if you kind of get towards that thing, you'll be able to look at the struggle and be like, oh, that was the good old days.

51:25That was the good old days. When me and Bob, we had five bucks between the two of us at the end of every night and we'd split a turkey sandwich at the dumpiest deli ever. but it's somehow, that's the good old days. Life's weird, I guess, is what I would say. Final question, Christine says, what will the team do in August? Well, I'll have a little bit more about my August adventure as we get closer. And we're doing something super cool this year related to the show, which I kind of hinted. I'll give you a little more hint right now, but it is AI related. And August is gonna be like no other August we've ever done.

52:00That's one thing show related. um anyone want to say what they're well phoenix is going to los angeles freak what are you and joseph's going to los angeles connor please tell me you're doing something you got to go some arizona arizona colorado that sounds all right joey's going to greece that's pretty good christy you going anywhere in august where she's going to miami beach I give you all a month, a month people go do something for God's sakes. Thank you for watching everybody. Have an absolutely wonderful July 4th. Happy birthday, America. And we're going to put up a quick little July 4th video for you tomorrow.

52:44No big show. And we'll be back on Monday.

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