There's One Major Problem w/ Gavin Newsom's Controversial Plan & He's Too Dumb to Know

24:25Your diet, your behaviors, all of those things. You guys have no imagination. That's what it is. You have absolutely no imagination. So your answer to everything is control it, tax it, put it in a little box and never talk about it. Completely ridiculous. I saw this, it's a random account on X, but I thought this was a perfect explanation. It's Roach Charand, or Chartrand on X, regarding what Elizabeth just said right there. So by her logic, every business built using, sorry. So by her logic, every business built using roads, electricity, schools, or the internet belongs to all of us. Using public infrastructure doesn't erase private ownership.

25:03The people who build, invest, and take the risks own the result. What she's really saying is if something becomes successful enough, politicians should get to redefine ownership. Bingo. And invest in people usually means transferring more control and wealth to the political class. So again, well, not only is that perfectly correct, which is why I read it, but why is it? Why is it that they want you? why is it that Bernie is doing AI doomerism constantly? And by the way, there's the horseshoe theory of politics. Tucker is doing it too. It's like, you cannot stop progress. You can be wary of it.

25:41And I would say you should do what we're trying to do, literally with my team in this studio. I have Joseph over here and he's kind of leading us on AI. We have a meeting next week to all go through Claude and figure out how it can help everybody's tasks, right? We are figuring, we're working with some of these places that are creating these incredible AI movies, and we're gonna start incorporating some of them. There'll be ways that we can do clipping and various things. You know, we did AI Dave last year, and we're gonna expand on that. Like, you should treat it as a means, not an end. Like, it's a tool in your toolkit.

26:16But for anyone that thinks, okay, it's inherently evil, it's run by bad people, well, that's not gonna stop it, and taxing ain't gonna stop it either. That will just crush innovation. So stop being so bland and boring, I don't like it. We showed you a bunch of videos last week of Jeff Bezos on CNBC, really pushing back on Mamdami, pushing back on communism, trying to explain that the 1 % already pay half the taxes and the rest of it. Here's one more from that clip that now subsequently, because everyone's talking about AI this week, is going viral, it's Bezos talking about how AI will actually create, well, take a look.

26:52I need to lead. I think there's so many people who are afraid that AI is going to take their job. I think that there's going to be a labor shortage as a result. I don't know if you saw, Eric Schmidt gave a commencement address over the weekend. Yeah. And the students were booing because every time he mentioned AI, they were booing because I think they're deeply fearful and worried about whether they're going to have a job. Yeah. Well, and the reason they're afraid of that is because all these smart people keep saying that. So there are so many smart people, and they are smart, and they are saying, oh my god, you know, there's going to be no more radiologists because, you know, AI can read x-rays better than a radiologist can and there are going to be no more software engineers because AI can program better than a software engineer can.

27:38These people are wrong. So what's really going to happen is that it's going to elevate all of these people and it's like you've been digging, let's say you're a software engineer. Right. The analogy I can give you is you've been digging out a basement for your house with a shovel, and somebody was about to hand you a bulldozer. Do you know what this is starting to feel like to me? It's starting to feel like the new climate change. You know, now that climate change is not flying anymore, right? Like people have realized, oh, AOC said we have 12 years, eight years ago, and Al Gore, and they all said the sky is falling and the sky isn't falling.

28:18And yes, we all want clean air, but you don't give up your very existence to the government so that they can clean up the air as if they could clean it up or as if America did something that it would stop Pakistan and China and India and all these other countries from putting all the carbon into the air and all that stuff. But it's starting to feel the same thing because they created one of the reasons that the young generation now is so filled with anxiety and everything is they were fed for decades the doomerism around climate. The world is gonna blow up. Everything's gonna be on fire. We'll all be underwater, all of these things.

28:52Because that's not playing anymore, right? It doesn't feel that culturally important anymore. We're not talking about it. People have realized it's largely been a hoax and the rest of it. They're moving on to the next doomerism thing because all they have is fear. So it's interesting. What they're saying there is at this commencement speech that Schmidt gave, that every time he brought up AI, they're booing. and it's like how sad, it's so sad what they've done to young people in that sense. Like they should all be like, whoa, how cool. I could do all these, whatever it is that I wanna do. I have all of these tools to now help me do it.

29:24I wanna be a movie writer. I have all of these incredible things that can help me come up with stories and invent new characters and all of these things. Like that would be one version. There's all the technical versions and we went through the medicinal versions a moment ago and how it's going to quite literally revolutionize everything. We won't need troops during a war anymore because we will have robots. So do we wanna stifle our ability to do that while our enemies, while China just starts stacking robots? Is that what we wanna do? And again, whatever it is you do right now, you can incorporate a little bit of it into your life.

29:59And I think that's just fine. One thing I do with Grok is I've been basically tracking my macros. So I track, I tell it what I'm eating every day. I tell it how much I'm working out. It's tracking and we're looking at different things. I did a blood test, I asked a few questions about that. And it's not to say it's the end all be all. I still had to go to a doctor, a nurse still had to put a needle in my arm and all of those things. But figure out how to incorporate in your life, stop being so afraid, but they want you to be afraid so that they can come in and say, oh, we must regulate it and of course tax it.

30:31And as Bezos points out, once you're doing that, really you're just helping the political class. Another guy who's really been leading on the white pill version of this is a guy I play videos of all the time, Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank, Kevin O 'Leary, who's building all these AI data centers and he's leaning into this stuff. And here he is talking about the coordinated campaigns to make you fear AI. I got a call from one of our IT guys and he said, there's something wrong here. There's a massive influx in DMs going on on two specific platforms, X, formerly Twitter and Instagram. Not a small increase, tens of thousands of percent increase.

31:11Next morning we hired and started working with a very advanced data science team and what we learned was to me shocking, just stunning. And lo and behold, multiple filings through multiple entities all over the world, all going back to something called Arabella. Neville Singham, under investigation, multiple branches of the government, shares offices with the CPP. So then I said, I want more. Can you tell me the exact amounts? And we got those the next day. We're talking about millions, hundreds of millions of dollars here. It's not just Utah. These guys are doing campaigns everywhere there's a proposed increase in power and or a data center.

32:09There's a war going on, I guess a PR war or whatever you want to call it. Does he own the company? I was just asking the guys. You know, it's interesting the way he does these split videos. Does he literally own the company of those sandals? He probably does. That's what's going on here. Apparently he wants people to see his sandals or something. You can see the reason why I showed you that. It's not only it's obviously applicable to exactly what I was talking about with AI, but the name Neville Roy Singham has come up a lot in the last little bit. Astrid Nomani wrote a great piece on Fox News about this guy who is a CCP-linked billionaire who I'll give you a little more information.

32:43He's a Shanghai billionaire with deep ties to the CCP who has poured money into groups like Code Pink, the People's Forum, and many more to influence Americans. So he's one of the guys who is funding all of these crazy people on the street and Code Pink. And yes, Hassan Piker from the Young Turks, who we played the video of yesterday, who's now in this federal indictment over going to Cuba. He, in the video that he did, was basically like, oh, I was doing it at the behest of Neville Roy Singham. So there is something very, very weird in the system here. But okay, we've shown you the negative version of it.

33:18I've tried to explain a bit of the positive version of it, but let's talk to somebody who's a bit more of an expert when it comes to AI than Dave Rubin. Yeah, how about that Elon Musk guy here talking to Ted Cruz. How likely is America to win the race for AI vis-a-vis China or anyone else? For the next few years, I think America is likely to win. Then it will be a function of who controls the AI chip fabrication. The factories that make the AI chips, who controls them?

33:52If more of them are controlled by China, then China will win. more the factories that are making the AI chips. You think that will determine it? Yes. And how are we doing versus China on that front? Well, right now, almost all the advanced AI chip factories, they call them fabs, are in Taiwan. And what if China invades Taiwan? Which is 69 miles away from China. Yeah. What happens if China invades Taiwan? What happens to the world? Well, if they were to invade in the near term, the world would be cut off from advanced AI chips. Okay. So now I think you can see a bigger geopolitical thing that's been happening here that I actually think is connected to Venezuela.

34:40I think it's connected to what likely is going to happen to Cuba. I think it's connected to what's been going on with Iran, which I kept saying is deeply connected to China because they get a huge amount of their energy from Iran. But do you see what he's saying? So right now, we're basically doing okay. We might get a Democrat administration. This isn't exactly what he was saying there, but we might get a Democrat administration that will take the advice of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and all of these people and start regulating the hell out of these AI companies and we will be completely screwed.

35:08But Elon's point is beyond that, that you literally need the physical chips and Taiwan is where they make the best of the best and the most of these chips. And for years, China has been threatening to take Taiwan. Now, what is it that America should do then? And why maybe, do you think it's possible that Trump, when he's done some of these military adventures, was signaling to China, boy, you know, we do some stuff still. Yeah, we've got a pretty effective army still. And maybe you shouldn't take Taiwan. Because Elon is basically saying, if China takes Taiwan, they will jump ahead of us in very, very short order if they have access to all of those chips.

35:52So I would say we need to start building more factories and chips here, and we need to be building more AI factories too, and server farms and all of those things. And that's what Mr. Wonderful's trying to do. But also, this is where there might be some things that we don't quite see as it pertains to Trump and what he is doing with the military and what happened with Iran and signals to China. Okay, let's leave that there. I wanna do one other thing before we get to the community Q &A because I thought this was rather interesting. Doctor, she is a doctor of what? We have no idea. Dr. Jill Biden went on CBS Sunday morning and said something that was rather striking, and I don't know why it didn't get more coverage, although I guess I do know why.

36:35She said that, you remember that 2024 debate against Trump that didn't go very well? Well, apparently she thought that Joe had a stroke during the debate.

36:44Elizabeth Warren:Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never. Or since? Yes. You've never seen him like that? Never. No. What happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh, my God, he's having a stroke. and it scared me to death. You know, I don't like calling people evil. I call Gavin Newsom evil. There are some evil people. Then there's some confused people. There's some people who are wrong. People have good intentions, blah, blah, blah. I don't know how to describe this woman.

37:30Lady, you're telling me that you had never seen Joe Biden like that before? How did we all see it? Are we wizards from the future? How is it that we all basically knew what was gonna happen that night and that all Donald Trump had to do was stand there, which is pretty much all he did that night? And Joe Biden completely broke down, completely and utterly broke down. And she's pretending she'd never seen him like that. And it was a shock and that maybe he had a stroke. That is completely insane. You may remember this right after the debate, they went back in to celebrate how great he did after that abject disaster.

38:09And this was just a gem out of Jill.

38:13Elizabeth Warren:Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts.

38:22Elizabeth Warren:And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do? Why? How absolutely insane pandering. And that is what you say to a child. You answered all the questions. You ate all your lunch. Do you want dessert? Joseph, come here. You did all your tasks today. I'm really, really proud of you. You're really, really great. Go sit down. Okay. Like if I talk to him like that, people would say, what's wrong with these people? Like, and you pretend. And then the thing is that, of course, as you guys know, it was then that night where the airlock broke. Suddenly, all of us that for four years, because it was starting before Biden took office.

39:05We're saying something's rotting in stink town. Suddenly everybody was like, oh my God, there is something wrong here. Little compilation for you. Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden is the best Biden ever. She knows so long as she's denied. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been. President Biden has a photographic memory. His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation is remarkable. He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused. Jackie, are you here?

39:48Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was going to be here. I was sitting, you know, two feet from him across the table, and he was, you know, intense. Had trouble walking sometimes? Yeah, so did FDR. He wanted GD war. But he's totally focused. He's very sharp. They say he's sharp in meetings and so on. Very lucid, well, very well informed. Biden is state lead. He comes with gravitas. There hasn't been, as far as I know, a single claim that Biden made a mistake. Who is that guy? That New York Times guy at the end. There hasn't been a single claim. It's not Tom Friedman. It's the other loser from the New York Times.

40:24What's his name, Phoenix? He's the op-ed guy. I saw him once on the Upper West Side at a coffee shop, and he was sitting there like, and he was just like a sniveling little, ugh. These people, so guys, again, why did I get all that right? And it's not that I get everything right, and it's not that you get everything right, but we see things and we talk about them as they're happening, and these people were all running cover for a man who clearly was not there because they had Trump Derangement Syndrome, and then suddenly that night, where apparently Jill saw it for the first time and thought he had a stroke, and it's odd, she thought he had a stroke that night and she didn't ask him to go to the doctor the next day or suspend the campaign or anything else, because that didn't happen for a couple of weeks after that.

41:03So it's all just nonsense. And it's not that we can do anything about it. It's just that you should just know it's nonsense so that it gives you a little bit of the equipment necessary that the next time they throw more nonsense on you, you're like, oh, fool me once, George Bush. I don't get fooled again. Okay, let's just do one other thing and then the Q &A. So this Tallarico guy is running for Senate in Texas. And he thinks that Jesus is non-binary and he thinks that there are six genders and he thinks he is evil because of his white skin. And it's not just him that's evil because of his white skin.

41:36He might be evil, but it's all white people are evil because of their white skin and all that. And the Dems are pushing this guy. It is so wild. They had Jasmine Crockett and they were like, lady, get out of the way. You think you're nuts? We'll show you nuts. So they're all in on this guy and he's gonna run against Ken Paxton in Texas. And we will see if this flies. So this tweet from the Democrats, November, here we come. And there he is. He's such a man's man, you know, and he's eating. Apparently he's running a vegan campaign. So a lot of people thought he was vegan. It's just the campaign that's vegan.

42:06Apparently he will eat. He has definitely had his mouth around a piece of meat like that before. You can see that. There he is with his turkey leg being all Texan. But here he is in stark contrast announcing, despite his desire to swallow the giant turkey leg, that he's running a non-meat campaign to save the environment. We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare. I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society.

42:48And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign. So we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses. Am I missing something here? Has something happened in Texas where a man in a mask saying he's going to run a non-meat campaign could possibly win? What has happened? Texas, barbecue, Austin, Dallas. What's the one we like? It's the famous one. Terry Black's, man. Go to Terry Black's in Dallas. Did we go to the one in Austin, too? Yeah, we went to the one in Austin, too. Yeah, I know people say it's a little too commercial. It's freaking awesome.

43:28Or what's the other one I like in Dallas is Cedar? No, we went there, we went there. We sat in the, yeah, Connor, you went there. It was called, not Cedar. It's what? Oaked. Not oaked, ah, come on. It's, yeah, it's like Pecan or something. Is it Pecan Lodge, something like that? Yeah. Anyway, they got great barbecue in Dallas. That's the point. So you're gonna tell these people don't eat meat on this, It's like, what is going, there are six genders and don't eat meat and I'm wearing a mask and I'm running for Texas Senate. Here's another tweet from the Democrats. Texas, James Tallarico is the only candidate who will put you first.

44:07Look at this guy, look at this guy. What's interesting, a lot of people are saying that they're really trying to turn him into the next Beto O 'Rourke, which would be fine by me because Beto O 'Rourke did lose his Senate race against Ted Cruz. Here's an image that, well, here's two images that show you that they're really trying to, Look at him. I put my hands on my butt. I'm running for Senate in Texas. Vote for me. Eat tofu. But they're going to try to make this guy a star, which is exactly what they did to Beto. Look at this from 2018. And I'm telling you guys, this is coming.

44:38Elizabeth Warren:You can't go 10 feet without an interruption from a Beto backer. I love you, too. Thank you all. You're a rock star. No, no, there's just so many great people who are. You can't go anywhere without getting... Hey! O 'Rourke, a three-term congressman from El Paso, has certainly captured the entire nation's attention as well. You're a rock star. I'm doing journalism. Can I blow you right now? But the point is that guy crashed and burned. And that is where we pray to the Lord. A lot of big churches in Texas pray to the big man that this guy loses. I just don't understand how this is the road Democrats are gonna go down, but obviously there's just, they're looking at numbers and they're saying, we're going all in this guy and maybe we can zombify enough people before the election.

45:25It's worth noting that Beto is now out of politics. He runs a Texas based voting rights organization called Powered by People. He's such a big, can you imagine walking down the street and there's, oh my God, it's Beto O 'Rourke, sign my boob. The guy that Tallarico will be running against is Ken Paxton. And as I said yesterday, Ken, he's not the most enigmatic guy. He's, you know, he's, I think he'll probably be just fine. It doesn't even matter. He's just not a bananas lefty. However, he did put out a pretty good ad. This is Texas. This is not. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.

46:03This is Texas. This is not. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. This is Texas. This is not. They're going to call me a radical leftist. This is Texas. This is not. Something that you love that's not family or friends. I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children. This is Texas. This is not. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. This is Texas. This is not. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign.

46:51This is Texas. This is not. Man, my main takeaway from that is it's been too long since we did a smoked brisket around here. We're going to do a 16-hour smoked brisket in the next couple days for you guys. Like, that gets it right there. That should end the campaign. and let's really just hope that, look, the mainstream is gonna push this guy. They're gonna push him, the same thing they did with Beto. And as I've pointed out repeatedly, Beto I think lost by, what was it, 2.3 points, if I'm not mistaken, to Ted, to Ted Cruz, who's an all-star, right? So it's like, things do get closer than they should be.

47:27So I think the people of Texas, 2.3 points, 2.6 points, okay. That's pretty damn close, like way too close. So we'll see what, and Ted Cruz is obviously, I would say a better campaigner and a better orator, let's say, than Paxton. So this thing could get weirdly close, we shall see. But the media will push this guy, I promise you. Here he is with Tapper cleaning up his remarks about God being non-binary. National Republican Senate Committee is already highlighting comments that you've made as a state representative. For example, they're highlighting this. god is both masculine and feminine and everything in between god is non-binary what is your response to them using that and explain what you were talking about well i understand that that comment is a little provocative i said it on the house floor when the extremists in the Republican legislature were picking on school kids who were different.

48:32But I don't think it's controversial theologically. Most Christians would acknowledge that God is beyond gender. In fact, the Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me, they should take it up with the Apostle Paul. So the reason I wanted to show you that clip, look, everyone can have their own personal beliefs in God and whether God is male or female. And I would leave that to people at their individual church to talk to their pastor or synagogue or whatever it might be that.

49:06It was the other part that he said. The reason he was doing that was because he was on the floor of the House in the Texas state legislature because extremists were picking on school kids. Except extremists weren't picking on school kids. there were legislators that didn't want boys in girls' bathrooms, that didn't want boys competing with girls in sports. They are not extremists. They are the sane people. So I would say, Tallarico, you can have whatever your theological belief is about God being a man or a woman or having a little bit of both or just having a good time. But when it comes to children and girls being crushed by boys in high school wrestling, that's not really up for debate.

49:49All right, so let's end all of this and get to the community Q &A by pointing out that maybe we just need more good people to get involved, that that's part of the problem here. Politics has become so toxic that we're just pulling people out of a very thin pool right now, right? It's a very shallow pool that we can get people out of because people don't wanna get involved. But here's one more from Elon on how he decides who he's gonna work with. The biggest mistake in general that I've made and I'm trying to correct for that is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and not enough on their personality.

50:26And I've made that mistake several times. In fact, I'm not going to make that mistake again. They don't make it again. and I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart. It really does. And I've made the mistake of thinking that sometimes it's just about the problem. I think that's an important piece and it's something I try to do here. Here, Joseph, why don't you come here again? Joseph, when we brought him on board, completely unskilled, this guy. Had no skills. Always smiling, thumbs up constantly. No discernible skills that we could figure out. But I felt he had a good smile to these people again.

51:02Look at that, look at that. He's happy to be here. You're happy to be here, right? Yes, see how, all right, go now. He's happy to be here, and that's what you want around you, right? And we should have more of that. No, he's good on email, right? He knows how to email send and all that kind of stuff. Great kid, great kid. That's the point, guys. We just gotta find more good people, right? Now, you know, we can hit the crazies and the loonies, and it's easy, and they're there, and they're multiplying, and it's like gremlins in water and all that stuff. But like more good people, some skilled people too, but find some people that are of good heart.

51:33And actually, I can tell you that when I hire people, usually it's, yeah, we're gonna look at a resume and can you do the job? But it's like, do I wanna be around you? Literally, do I wanna be around you every day? Are you the type of person I wanna talk to, I wanna be in a meeting with, I wanna welcome to my home, I wanna break bread with? And if we do a little more of that, find people that are really trying to do cool things, that are decent people, that's how we'll defeat this thing. Let's talk about Tax Network USA and then we'll get to the community Q &A on the other side. Do you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns?

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52:40That's 866-685-6604. Or visit tnusa.com slash Dave. Okay, rubinreport.locals.com. Community Q &A if you want to get a question in live. I, all jokes aside, Joseph is very skilled and he's right there at a computer right now. And if you're on our locals page right now, you can comment and perhaps he will give me a question on the fly. Morgan says, how much do you think the horseshoe right crowd will affect how the Republicans do in the midterms? And what you're talking about is what people call the horseshoe theory that these far right people are kind of colliding with the far left people. There are some people are calling the woke right.

53:19It's the Megyn Kelly, Tucker crowd. But look, proof is in the pudding. Donald Trump is 118 for his last 118 endorsements. So the idea that he doesn't have a lock on this party is just crazy. The disconnect, what is happening to a lot of people, and I am not impervious to it either, is that it is very hard to figure out how much of what happens online and the fighting on X and all of that is translating into reality. And I would say beyond reality, translating into the way people vote. And from every data point, CNN, literally two weeks ago, Trump has 97 % approval in MAGA. Then you look at his 118 for 118.

54:01You take a guy like Thomas Massey, again, a guy who I basically liked until this last year. I thought he started going crazy, but I never went after once until the day before the election. But he was saying Trump's, you know, an Epstein guy and covering for pedophiles and blah, blah, blah. And then the people of Kentucky were just like, no, we like Trump, we're not doing this, Massey. You don't vote for Trump, you didn't help him with the border wall, you didn't help him with the big, beautiful bill, you're out. So I get it that these guys are allowed. And I don't know what the answer is. I think about this all the time.

54:32I talk to people I like and respect and admire about this all the time. When these people are saying crazy things and hacking away at MAGA and lying about things and lying about people, how much should we push back? To some extent, should we just ignore them? I don't know exactly what the right answer is, but right now as it stands, I don't think they're kind of hyper-libertarian and hyper-online. I don't think that represents a lot of actual people, but we shall see. Dave, no, Mark says, Dave, have you started a plan for August travel yet? Where have you gone in the past? Have you ever heard of the Fogo Island Inn?

55:10It's an amazing place. I think the guys pulled up some pictures of the Fogo Island Inn, which looks quite spectacular. That looks like in the Marvel movies when they had to create the new Asgard after the whole, what happened? The whole planet blew up or something went down with Thanos and whatever. And they had to create that. That does look gorgeous. It's in Canada. I know I've never been. That does look super interesting. So we actually don't know what we're doing yet. We just, I've been so damn busy. We just haven't had a moment to discuss. You know, before we had kids, we did crazy things.

55:40We went to Bora Bora. I think you got some pictures. Yeah, like we did this a couple of times, which is literally you feel like you're at the edge of the universe. and if you get one of those units right there at the end, you're just facing infinity and I've said it a bunch of times, people don't believe me, like I don't need much when I'm there. I don't need to read, I don't need to do it. I can just sit basically all day long. I usually go to the gym or I'll take a bike ride or something, just do something physical, eat some food but then I can just sit and I just purge my mind of all of the nonsense and I really do think that's one of the reasons that after 14 years of this show, if I can humbly say, I think I'm better than I have ever been.

56:19But I don't mean that as a brag. I mean that as like I've done work so that I don't go crazy with all of this stuff. Like I get rid of a lot of the nonsense. It gives me fresh eyes to come back every year and do it. So we've done that a couple of times. Then over the last couple of years with kids, we just haven't wanted to travel as far. So we've done little smaller things in Mexico. I love Mexico and I love Mexican culture. And as you know, I love tequila. So that's really where I fell in love with tequila a couple of years ago. So by the way, Copal just won another award. Can we get the image for the other award?

56:47Every award that we have applied for, I think now six, we are six for six in winning awards from these big tequila competitions and magazines. We just won another one yesterday. But I love Mexican culture. I love the Mexican people. There's just such a warmth and kindness. And I love Mexican food and I love spicy stuff and all that stuff. So we've done that a couple of times. This year, my guess, we may not even do anything. Like I could be here and be very happy and that would be fine too, and just do some house projects and fiddle around and whatever, you know. What was, all right, we'll work on the award in just a sec.

57:20Tom says, what can we do as supporters of the real truth, AKA common sense, to help the independent voters see the Republican candidates are the better choice for the USA? I mean, man, that was the theme of the show today. And it is, I would say a consistent theme that I'm always talking about here. I think it's be a little less hysterical. I think it's point out the obvious difference. If you look at a show like today, so okay, so what's happening as it pertains to housing in New York? High taxes, government control, regulation, and at the exact same time, what's happening in Florida? Oh, we're trying to eliminate property tax.

57:58Make sure that you can have more of your money. Talk to people about, okay, so you have someone who's a lefty or they're woke or whatever. So say to them, so okay, Karen, and we'll call her Karen for the sake of the argument. Karen, all our political differences aside, do you know that 2.3 million people have moved to Florida since COVID and over a million people have fled California? What do you think that's about? Now they're gonna tell you people were brainwashed by Trump and everything else. And, but I think if you give them some literal things, like to me, that's the best one. Where are people going to and where are people fleeing from?

58:37That's just the, at the end of the day, shows you that, it shows you what a certain set of people will do when push comes to shove. And I don't know anybody, I literally don't know one person that fled California, came to Florida and was like, I can't hack it here, I'm going back. I wish I had those high taxes and crime again, that would be a pleasure. Like it just, I'm not saying it's never happened, but it doesn't happen. And still in my neighborhood here, They're knocking down houses every day and building new ones, right? And then at the same time, DeSantis is trying to take care of the property tax situation.

59:12So I think we just have to be calmer. But again, it's why I think there is a certain white pill that's hard to fully see yet around what's going on with these Democrats. Like the more that the Democrats hand this, okay, so Momdami will be your face, right? Momdami will be your face and Tallarico will be your face and Gavin Newsom will be your face. Well, all right, then people will see that. America is not a communist nation. We are not, we love freedom. And again, I keep saying it, I don't like repeating myself, but I keep saying the 250 thing that we're rolling into on July 4th, there's going to be a burst of patriotism and maybe we can get enough people to realize that what we have had here is so extraordinarily precious.

59:52And so the dream of what humanity could be, that it might be worth protecting. Robert says, okay, Dave and family, Now that the boys are showing personality, what do you see them doing later in life? What would you like to see them do? Right now, I think I mentioned it last week, we got some crazy wars going on with Transformers and Spider-Man. We got some Star Wars guys in there and then some various dinosaurs and trucks. It's a massive war that is taking place constantly in the living room. I love it. I can fully get back to that. We're building pillow forts and magnetiles, which are pretty awesome, and build spaceships and all that stuff.

1:00:30I have no idea. I want them to do whatever will make them feel fully actualized and get a sense of purpose and everything else. It's so hard. It's sort of the backdrop of what we talked about with robotics and AI on today's show. It's so hard to think about what the world will look like in 10 years. Try to think what the world looked like before the printing press and then 10 years after, before radio and then 10 years after. And this is going to be even more than that, actually, because things are speeding up now. in a different way, right? A newspaper, okay, so the newspaper appeared. That was pretty awesome.

1:01:07Average people could get news and share things, but there was a speed, it could still only spread so fast. Now things, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I think that's one of the problems we're having. We're all becoming impatient by everything because we're just hit with an algorithm and a feed that's just hitting you all the time. So I have no idea what, there's nothing I would want them to do. I would want them to do whatever would make them feel fulfilled and passionate and all that stuff. You know, the show is called The Rubin Report and I'm gonna have to hand this thing to somebody one day. So who knows, who knows?

1:01:39But why would I subject them to that? You're right, okay. David says, what do you think the October surprise will be this year? There's always an October surprise. I don't know, they've gone as far. Like, I don't think there's any more that they can throw at Trump at this point. Like, what else could they throw at Trump that we haven't been through at this point? I don't know. I don't even know that I can guess on this one, truly. What will the October surprise be? There will be something. How about that? It's not the best answer, but there will be something. I wanted to read one question. We've been putting out our newsletter.

1:02:13What's the link to send people for the newsletter? Is it? DaveRubin.com slash newsletter. DaveRubin.com slash newsletter. See, I belittled him before, and he knows even the link to that, to our newsletter. It's really, really great. I think you'll really enjoy it. People really love it. It's nice. We do a nice recap of everything going on. But I wanted to just read one comment to the backdrop of Memorial Day. This is from Terry. It's not a question, it's just a comment. My father served in World War II. Two brothers served in Desert Storm, all three army. An uncle was a Marine, would have been Vietnam era.

1:02:42My cousin served in the Navy. My father-in-law and brother-in-law were both career Air Force and are now retired. And I have a nephew currently serving in the army. Amazingly enough, we did not lose anybody in service. I mean, that is a gold star family right there. and I hope you're very, very, I have no doubt, you are very, very proud of all of those people and God bless you guys and thank you. Please thank them from me for their service and that's incredible so that nobody was lost in all of that. Final question, this is something that's been on my mind lately. Elizabeth, are you dreading turning 50 or is it just another birthday?

1:03:18You know, I gotta tell you, it's the complete reverse of dread. My 40s were my best decade by far, by far, personally, professionally, every which way. I'm basically in the best shape I've been in as an adult right now. I have the things that I want. I feel good about my work and my colleagues and my family and all those things. And I just think if you're doing it right, 50, in a weird way, I feel younger at 50 than I did at 40. I was thinking of, I don't know that we're gonna do this, but I was thinking I have a picture of me at, I think a day or two before my 40th birthday, just like a shirtless picture on the beach or something.

1:04:02And like, I just, I look much better now. And I'm not saying, it's not that the look thing is the most important thing, but it shows a degree of taking care of yourself, of getting your shit in order and all of those things. And so 50 seems young to me. Like when I play ball for three hours last night and I'm playing with guys that are in their 20s and then a couple guys that are in their 60s. And I'm right in the middle of that. So some days I could be the best one out there. Some days I'm the worst one out there. But I'm still trying to push myself and better myself, not only physically, but mentally, and do good things in this room.

1:04:36And feel like as long as things are moving in the right direction, I guess if I was 50, if I was turning 50, and it felt like, well, my best days are behind me, I guess I would be depressed. but I don't feel, I had a great decade and I think this decade will be even better. I was a late bloomer. I think my twenties were more messed up. My thirties were more messed up. So, you know, I'm really looking forward to it. So, so we shall see. I'm the oldest guy you guys know. That's sad, that's sad. How do we end this now? Oh, tequila. Oh, tequila. Yes, we did get another award this week. Do we have an image?

1:05:16Yeah, so, so these are a couple of, So we have applied for, I guess it's five awards and we have won in all five. Which was the new one? Oh, the new one is the upper left there. It's the Agavos awards. We just won silver. And I just love what we're doing with Coppola. It's just, it's so great everywhere we go that people are serving it. People are just loving it. And if you want a little bit, if you're just, if you're either trying to drink a little bit less or you don't want sugary drinks or anything else. Like if you're on your own little glow up and you don't wanna go out and you know, you end up going to dinner and having a half a bottle of wine because that's just how it is.

1:05:54You can sip on just a little bit of tequila and it's gonna be way, way better for you. I'm not selling it. I'm not promoting it as somehow alcohol is healthy per se, but it's just exquisite and light and refreshing and good. And I think you will dig it, drinkcopal.com. And just reminder, our friends at PragerU have allowed us to extend that Memorial Day sale. We were often 25 % off all the tickets for our big show. And you can go to DaveRubin.com slash events. And if you enter code PragerU, you can get 25 % off general admission or the VIP. That's all the talking I'm gonna do for the next 10 minutes or so.

1:06:30And then I got to do something else, I'm sure. Thank you for watching. See you tomorrow. Hey, Isaiah. How you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you so much. Good to meet you. Hello, how you doing? It is so good to see you. Now this is a winner. I think y 'all should make the Donald shoes a free sale. Oh! Oh, and the pressure's on! Oh, we got a sub! We got a sub! We got a sub! Yeah! We got a pretty cheerleader. This definitely is going in.

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