Why I'm Taking a Break

25:00I came down at the end after playing about three hours on a layup, crushed my knee. I heard pops, cracks, crinkles, crunches, like glass and popcorn as if you stepped on it in a bag. I'm actually kind of speechless. Like, I thought probably I was never playing again. You have stuff inside of you that can heal yourself. I mean, it's completely counter to the way we do medicine, which is we're going to use some pharmacology to put something in you, hopefully to fix you, versus, oh, it's in you already. That's just a radically different way of looking at things. With ultrasound, we can zoom in right up close and personal and see the individual fibers that make up the tissues.

25:40So you see how this is nice and homogenous, evenly gray down through here? And then right here, there's a little black spot. That's a couple broken threads. Come under the probe. Perfect. Inject. And so what I really want is for everyone who needs it, this is my mission, to make people move. Movement is life, and if you can't move, you can't live. I love that man so much. He brought me back, and I'm playing three times a week now, three hours of pop, played last night, and I'm playing great. And I've been wearing a brace for the last 10 years. I'm not even wearing that anymore. And Dr. Striano is opening up a clinic in Stewart, Florida, I think in August.

26:22And I'm sure if you mention my name, he'll take good care of you. But the crazy part of that, Connor, are you able to take a quick screenshot of the woman stabbing me? Are you able to jump back to that? So what you're seeing there is they take the stem cells out of you via the fat in your back, right? So what she's doing there, they've now taken the stem cells out of me. That's blood and all the stuff that they, she's stabbing me with the needle. The needle, you can come back to me. The needle is like this long. I couldn't see it obviously because I'm laying down on my stomach, but Joey saw it.

26:57And you've actually never been the same since then. Like just stabbing the hell out of you. But actually they numb you of course and it didn't hurt that much and it was well worth it. And I kid you not, I walked out of the clinic and I already felt better. and I was with Joey and Joseph and we were on Southwest Florida by Naples. We went to the beach like an hour later and I was walking on the beach on loose sand. I didn't think I was going to be walking. It was just absolutely incredible. So huge thanks to Dr. Striano for that. And again, the doc itself, the full doc will be out on August 4th.

27:30In May, we launched my second show, Actual Friends with my actual friends, Russell Brand, Sage Steele and Jillian Michaels. I don't like it. I don't like it. Can I pray? Lord, I'd like to enter into this in the spirit of grace and gratitude. Thank you for the life of Dave and bless his marriage with David. And Jillian, whatever her amazing deal is, and I can only imagine there's a very powerful and well-grounded man on the other side of that endeavor, that he is supported too. And Jillian, I want to find out more about your husband later. Russell, I'm gay. I'm married to a woman. So you're going to...

28:05I'm sorry. And I'm married to a man, so it all sort of balances itself out here. Of course, we just lost sage too. Lesbian, Russell. Lesbian. Hey, I don't judge people. I don't see color and I don't see sex. Russell, you were quite right about the strange racial dynamic over at the Gasparilla Inn. Yes, it's difficult to deny that there is a near 100%, 100 % white customers was black staff. The staff was 100 % black and the clientele was 100 % white. And the logo of the hotel is Florida the way it's supposed to be. No! Oh God, Russell. Anyway, if you haven't seen the show, we put it out every Friday.

28:56I'm loving doing it. We're rotating in some of our cast of character because the whole idea of the show is we're all busy, we're doing other things. Can we do the show on the fly, sometimes in studio, sometimes on our phone, sometimes if we're traveling, whatever it might be, Roseanne Barr has joined us, a whole bunch of other people. So if you haven't, you can check the Actual Friends podcast wherever you download podcasts or on YouTube and Rumble and all the rest of it. The other thing that happened in May is we went to Hungary and our Hungary documentary will be coming out on August 11th. But here's just a little sneak peek of that.

29:40Out of all of the countries in all of Europe, meaning Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, etc., Hungary to me is the strongest. I think some of the other Eastern and Central European nations are doing just fine. Hungary really is sort of, I would say, it's the main bulwark against the craziness. And Western Europe is largely screwed up. And I don't sense, you know, after spending a lot of time in London and wandering around those streets, like, you try to find me a native Brit who is bullish on his country. And you've got to find somebody who's like six pints in and willing to tell you that because otherwise it's hard to find.

30:20Does it shock you that Hungary is the example for other European countries? Yeah, that's a good question because does it shock me that Hungary is the example?

30:34What's obvious to me is that they learned the lessons. That's the thing. These people are serious about protecting their nation this time because their ancestors paid the price for it.

30:54So I can't wait to share that with you. It was an absolutely wonderful time. I feel this really incredible kinship with the people of Hungary that I never would have thought of if you would have asked me five years ago. But I've been there several times now. We shot an incredible live Rubin Report there where we had like 15 guests, didn't even do a run-through. I had just been sitting down with the Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, literally had to run from Orban right onto the stage and do a live show in front of a couple hundred people. It was just an absolutely wonderful trip. And then from Hungary, then that was the end of May, rolled into June.

31:26And in June, went to Israel second time post-October 7th. And the first time you probably remember, and it was incredibly emotional and it was tough and gritty and all of that stuff. This time was a little bit different. Our Israel documentary will be coming out on August 18th. Here's a little teaser of that.

31:54What's incredible about the Holy Land is that it is the Holy Land. It is the center, in some sense, of the modern world. All of our history is built around the stories of the Bible, and you are literally walking in the steps that Jesus walked when you are in Jerusalem. To me, what it looks like, especially when I'm here, and that's why I'm feeling it so strongly right now, it feels like what it's done is basically taken all of you and this entire country and taken coal, and it just keeps grinding it and grinding it, and, you know, condensing it and condensing it, And it's left a diamond to you.

32:24I met with an incredible young lady whose name is Maran. My name is Juan Selena and I'm 41 years old. Being held captive for 54 days. You know, at one point I had to entertain them for over 13 hours. I had to play with them cards, make them happy, make them laugh, you know, and I'm hungry. I think one of the real through lines is they have very little pity for themselves. They don't walk around in pity. They just don't. It's like some bad s*** happened and then they move on. It's really incredible. You talk to people who actually are just living it. Yeah, that might have been my most enjoyable conversation so far.

33:01What does the country and region look like post-war? Well, that's the million-dollar question. What does this place look like post-war? Well, first off, I think we're getting there. Hey, I'm running out to drop off a stack of letters and packages. Need anything shipped while I'm gone? Save the gas. Stamps.com lets you print postage and schedule pickups right from your desk. Sync your contacts into the address book, get detailed accounting insights, and get notified the moment your certified mail is delivered. All from my desk? All from your desk. Join the 4 million businesses using Stamps.com right now with code podcast and get your free welcome gift.

33:38Stamps.com, code podcast. Taxes and fees apply. You know, I really hope you watch that. So that'll be coming out on August 18th. And that conversation that I had with that young woman, Muran, she was kidnapped at the Nova Festival. She was there selling jewelry. Her mom is Moroccan, so she even knew Arabic and tried to speak Arabic with them. They took no mercy on her, of course, literally would make her cook food, the Hamas guys that were keeping her in a bed ridden with bugs and all this stuff and no heat and anything. They would give her literally a capful. I had to ask her again when she said it.

34:14It was a cap full of water a day and she had broken legs. They gave her surgery with no anesthesia. I mean, it's just, I'm telling you guys like that, to watch someone that has lived through that and look in their eyes while they tell you that story. I'm actually, it's rare, actually. That happens to me. The other thing, now how do I jump from this? The other thing that happened in June was one of the great adventures that I've been on for a long time. For about three years, I had been teasing it to you. for a long time. We finally launched Copal, my tequila, which was a true labor of love. As you guys know, I just, a couple of years ago, I just fell in love with tequila.

34:55I love the taste. I love the culture around tequila. I love Mexico. We go all the time. And we created the most exquisite, pleasant, light reposado that smells great and tastes great. We launched on my birthday, June 26th, we sold out the entire first run, basically in 36 hours. We'll have more. We'll be back in stock by the end of August. And then we've already put all the processes in place. We will not run out again. And we're working with all sorts of partners now. And it's just, I absolutely, I'm so excited about it. And thank you guys for all being part of the Copal adventure. And we've showed it to you before, but one of the really cool things we did is that every single label on every single bottle is different.

35:39We AI printed the labels. So every bottle is a unique piece of art. I don't know that anyone has done anything else like that before. And then in July, we're almost caught up to where we are now. In July, I went on Michael Knowles, my old friend, Michael Knowles. I went on his yes or no show in Nashville. And we had a little Copal and he is a, he created Mayflower cigars. That's his little vice of choice. And we had some fun. What is the name of this tequila? Copal is the name of the tequila. Why is it called Copal? And can we try a little? Cheers. So I'm going straight. Yeah, I'm doing it a little bit.

36:17Frizzle and Negroni. So tequila Negroni. You've always been one of my, we call you a fancy man around my circles. I mean, tell me that's not a delicious tequila. It's a delicious tequila. Part of the reason, you actually are part of the reason I created Copal because I was hanging in LA with all of my conservative friends. Yeah. And you all drink whiskey. Very brown spirits. And you all drink bourbon, and it's always brown liquid. And I was like, I wonder, would these guys try tequila? And I started introducing tequila to the conservatives, and they all started being a little more, I would say, classically liberal.

36:55Yeah, that's the most classically liberal thing about me. And it's nice. We're filming this thing at like noon or something, one o 'clock. So it's not earlier in the day. We haven't day drank together since yesterday. I know. This is really incredible. It's amazing. No, it's a beautifully well done exquisite tequila made the right way. It's light. It's a reposado So age three months every bottle has original artwork. We AI printed the bottles So the artwork every single bottle is unique as a different now. That's cool. Yeah, and and it's just nice and light You're not gonna get you over and you're gonna feel good.

37:27Have a great time People will like you more if you are drinking. That's a whole house and real quick I promise no more tequila promo after this they surprised me with something at the end of the show. Check out, I mean, this is just so wild. Like what AI, and we're going to get to AI, Dave, in a bit, but what AI is doing and how it is going to change everything going forward. The Daily Wire people put together this AI trailer for Copal. We also have the exclusive world premiere commercial for Copal. Reposado. Check it out, amigo.

38:03Wow. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. I'm living in that 21st century, doing something mean to it. Do it better than anybody you've ever seen do it. Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it. I guess every superhero need his theme music. No one man should have all that power. The clock's ticking, I just count the hours.

38:35i'll drink to that cheers does one of those girls asian just having a good time it's for everybody maybe i should go back to the longer hair i don't know maybe maybe uh i'm told we have a video surprise oh you can go to drinkcopal.com by the way and if you sign up there we'll we'll let you know you'll be notified when the bottles come back in is this a surprise is some i'm told there is some sort of video surprise.

39:28They keep him in a cage? Well, it's just an enclosure. No, but they keep him confined. Right, yeah. That's bull. Well, that's what I said. So I went out and I got him a leash. A leash. Yeah, one of those ones you can hook onto the clothesline and he can run back and forth and there's plenty of room for him to dig and play. That kid is really, he's really blossomed. I did not see that during the rundown. And, you know, that sort of proves the point that you people put that in there yourselves about yourself. That's really something. You know, people don't believe this, but when I was in third grade, there was a kid in my class who was kind of nuts.

40:06Back then we said retarded or whatever he was. He was nuts. I get ADHD. That didn't even exist. He was just this crazy kid. And people do not believe this. This was a public school. It was a good school. But instead of taking him out or putting him in the slow class or whatever, they just literally, someone, The janitor brought a giant box in, I kid you not, a box that was like for a washer or a dryer and he cut the top out and they just put him in it so he could see the ceiling and he could be in the class and hear the rest of us. That's what it was like growing up in the 80s. All right, we got a couple of questions now from the Rubin Report community.

40:45I haven't seen these yet. Zafed says, I received my two bottles of Copal, one for drinking and one for collecting. Where do you reckon is the best place to affix your signed decal? Thanks, Dave. So I signed every single bottle that was shipped out from the first couple thousand bottles that we sent. I signed a sticker that we put in the boxes and they were sent. The reason we did it that way, I wanted to sign the bottles myself, but it was gonna end up being a logistical nightmare having to go to the warehouse, open up all the cases, sign all the bottles, put them back into the case, then get them ready for shipping.

41:14We couldn't do it. So then we thought, all right, we'll sign the sticker, throw it in there. You can either obviously put it on the bottle yourself or you can put it elsewhere or you can just use it as a tattoo. That also works, I suppose. Shelly says, have you visited any of the natural springs of Florida? You know, I have not yet. I've heard amazing things. Somehow they always pop up on my Instagram all the time and they look absolutely wonderful. You know what, in August, we're doing a lot of stuff around the house and we're doing a bunch of day trips with the kids and we're going fishing and doing a lot of fun stuff around here.

41:47But yeah, it's gonna be a little more homesteading this year than in years past for August. So let me look into that. Stay tuned in September. Corky says, and then we'll get back to where all the other stuff. Are there any real consequences for a politician who has taken and sworn an oath to faithfully uphold the U.S. Constitution who subsequently takes action against the U.S. Constitution? Mamdani has voiced several positions, make all guns illegal, that contradict the Constitution. Wouldn't that constitute lying under oath? Thanks. It's a great question. You know, I brought this up several times before.

42:20If you are swearing an oath on the Constitution of the United States, and then your policies are things that are completely counter to that, whether it is an assault on free speech, the previous administration, the Biden administration, the Autopen people, they talked and influenced big tech to silence people, including me. We know that literally me from Jim Jordan in that report, to silence us. So there were people in the government that actually trampled on my First Amendment rights and millions of other people. As Jim Jordan told me, unfortunately, there's no repercussions. There's no loss.

42:58You can't sue them. There's nothing. You don't get a letter from anybody or anything. You bring up a good point when it comes to Mamdani, all these people that want to ban the guns. There's a series of other things that we talk about. COVID, we completely wiped away the Fourth Amendment, the right to assemble, when you couldn't meet people where you wanted to meet them or they tried to stop you from having people in your own home. You know, one of the things that I think, one of the reasons that I'm bullish on America right now is because Trump not only has fixed so much in such a short period of time, but I'm telling you, there is a chance, guys, to reignite the American dream in 2026.

43:31It is the 250th year of this country. And that is big. That is really big. We're still young by most standards, certainly by most European standards, right? but we have been around long enough that we've been through a lot. We've been through a lot and maybe we pushed, or not we, maybe the wokesters and all of the Marxists and all the bad people, they've pushed far enough and hopefully something about 250, if the administration can kind of brand it right and we can get enough people to just love this freaking thing again and think about where their ancestors came and what you're doing here and why you don't want to leave as rough as it is and why everyone still wants to come here.

44:11I think we can reignite that thing. But yes, what do we do about a series of, and they're all Democrats, right? Whether it's Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib, or even I would say Bernie or AOC or Mamdani or this Omar Fateh guy in Minneapolis. What do we do about a series of politicians who swear to protect the constitution, whose actions are largely against the constitution? I don't know exactly what the answer to that is. All right, we now have the Rubin Report Awards. These were selected by the team here. So this is our direct message of the year. And I happen to agree with this one fully. This is just from like two weeks ago and I think it got over a million views on YouTube alone.

44:55This is when Stephen Colbert had to bid adieu to his quote unquote comedy program. But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending The Late Show in May.

45:29Well, I don't know why they canceled in. Actually, you know what we'll do? I'm going to do it perfectly free. I will send you Connor, Joey, and Joseph to your house to help you build your studio for free if you're willing to take the help. We got the best, Connor's not happy about this. I'll get you some extra Chipotle. It's on me. If you will do it, we will help you build a studio out of your house and I will show you how to build a profitable show. And this is just, this might be the perfect joke. Four-time WNBA All-Star, Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody.

46:06I'm joking around, that's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That's crazy, you clap for that. And did you know that if you took the Lando Lakes tub, the old school Lando Lakes tub right there, and you cut it, you could actually fold it in a way that her knees would look like her boobs. Has anyone ever seen that before? You could probably get an image, I don't know if we can put that on YouTube, but people used to do that back in the, that was before internet porn, that's what you had to do. anyway. Because like most men, I know exactly when me and my mom stopped being friends.

46:39It was the first time I whacked off. For the record, I do like that Shania Twain song. Pretty good. And I don't even know any gay people. That's our show. See you later. The awards continue. The direct message co-host of the year is my friend, Clay Travis. And I'm sitting here with one of the best men in all of the political sports world. Clay Travis, how you doing, my man? I'm good. I was getting yelled at by a Cuban Uber driver on the way over here. What's with the general demeanor of these people, this sort of low testosterone, asexual, weird thing that associates them with the car? So a couple of things here.

47:22One, I think white dudes for Harris actually moves white, black, Asian, and Hispanic dudes all to Trump. Yeah, there's a certain amount of men who just want a blowjob. And it actually doesn't matter if you're gay or straight or anything else, that guys just like blowjobs. There is no guy on earth who doesn't, oh no, sorry, I've had enough of those, right? And what happens is the women basically bludgeon them with this stuff. Oh, you're going to vote for Trump? Or we're going to get into a political argument? You're not getting a blowjob tonight. And then they end up becoming these sort of soy boy, low T.

47:54That's why they like their men emasculated, or why we see all these articles about guys who work out are far right. I think there's a lot of truth to that. And I think it depends on what city you're in, right? I think if you're in New York City, you've got to pretend to be a libertarian. You've got to pretend to be a non-Trump guy to get your dick sucked. I think that's a bad move. I'm a First Amendment absolutist. I believe in only two things completely, the First Amendment and boobs. And so once they made the decision that they were not going to allow a conservative, non-sports-related commentary, they couldn't.

48:26Hold on, hold on, hold on. I just want to make sure I heard you correctly as a woman anchoring the show. Did you say, what did you say? You believe in the First Amendment and B.W.O.B.S. Boobs. Two things that have only never let me down in this entire country's history, the First Amendment and boobs. So those are the only two things I believe in absolutely in the country. I love her foe out. Did you just as a woman, I get boobs. Oops. My favorite round table of the year was with Aaron Wexler and Emily Wilson. The male portion of our audience seemed to enjoy this one as well. Emily, with your hats, I am being informed that this is the most brat show we have ever done on the Rubin Report.

49:08Actually, we know how much Dave loves the Ladies of the View for his birthday. I actually planted a tree in Israel in Sonny Hostin's honor. Have you no empathy man? You know, for the suffering of other people. Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind. I know what you're gonna ask. About a man's body. No. No. Is there any law? No. No.

49:53Erin, I don't know a tremendous amount about this, but I don't think they're supposed to inject the Botox directly in your brain. Can you help me with this one? Listen, we all know that most of Congress is basically just like a giant brothel, right? So I think that's what this video is. They really just can't escape the fact that they're all absolute hoes for power. When the Scarlet team comes on the field, we will all stand up and cheer. To the other team, we'll never yield and we won't forget where. Are people not standing there? I would be like double checking that I didn't have like ketamine, you know, in my system because I'd be like, is this really happening right now?

50:29Really is crazy. You forget about all these people and the weird moments. And that was Walt's wife. And just what was Whitmer feeding the Dorito to the girl? like what the hell's going on with these people? My favorite sit-down of the year, I mentioned it earlier, but here's an extended portion of Tony Robbins. This really, I'm telling you this, if you have not seen this one and you need a little juice in your life today, a little something to get you out of bed and feeling good for the rest of the day, this is the one to watch. What is like the first thing that most people seem to be hung up on before they can start moving forward in life?

51:04I think most people have had dreams and goals in their life And they've had, obviously, as all of us have, plenty of disappointments because, you know, you want to make God laugh, tell her your plan. Yeah, exactly. But the person that persists and keeps going can eventually break through. Like all the studies show that pessimists are much more accurate about their performance than optimists. Much more accurate. But optimists are much more successful because they overvalue. They think they did better than they did, so they're willing to try it again. Right. They believe it will happen. And that persistence is what makes things work.

51:33Three things determine how you feel in this moment. If you're listening right now at home and you're bored or you're excited or you're curious or whatever feeling you're having, number one is how you're using your body right now. Yeah. I kid you not. I feel warm. It's not warm in this room, but just, I think that's an example of what you're talking about. Why do you think you feel warm right now? Because I think you're emanating something that's very true and right, and it's having some sort of reaction in my body. And what I do is I focus on for the first three minutes, everything I'm grateful for.

52:00Because gratitude is the antidote to the two emotions that mess most people up, mess up your relationship, mess up your business, and that's fear and anger. You can't be angry and grateful simultaneously. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously. Well, this was an experience that I will not forget, and I'm proud to call you a friend, and I thank you so much. You remember what I said to you earlier, that it was two days after our holiday party, and I'm telling you, I was still a little banged up. My voice was still a little scratchy, and that what I said right there about feeling warm suddenly with him, and then I literally was like, holy cow, I feel great right now.

52:35Like it's true, it's real. Check that interview if you haven't seen it. The special of the year obviously goes without saying was election night, oh, what a night. I just think conservatives really, like Donald Trump, he's just never had the experience of being with a Honduran guy. You know, because Honduran guys will absolutely rip you. They can, their stamina, you know, they can go under high duress. It's a sign of faith to assume that if you are committed to doing the right thing and and following the pathway of truth that things will work out for you as well as they can. And I don't think you should underestimate the power of that.

53:16Topo Chico, it could be worse than that. Hey, I voted. I campaigned with you and voted for you. And then I left. So it stinks of desperation. They stink of desperation. That's that's what it really shows you. They got increasingly desperate because their internal polls were showing, I'm sure, some of what we're seeing tonight, and they knew more than they were letting on. But Dave, I want to say this. One event I didn't get kicked out of, I was recently at Kamala's rally in Houston, and I just didn't get kicked out because of the Secret Service. I mean, they were up my button around the corner.

53:49They were on me. You know, pretty great. I am liking that chyron right there, the Jewish Dave Rubin. I didn't even see that. That's hilarious. It's all done, Rubin Report. They 25th Amendment him and she just decides to jump in so she could be president for two months. Oh, that's funny, that's funny. You see what they're putting under my name? Oh, you people are hilarious. Your people are having too much fun with your chyrons tonight, Dave. Everybody's in a good mood, so. Yeah, well, everybody was in a good mood for good reason because Donald Trump won and is now president of the United States.

54:24Our short of the year, this was our viral short of the year. This thing got millions and millions and millions of views across all the platforms. This was from my interview a couple, was it maybe two months ago when Ron DeSantis was like, yeah, this is Florida. Run over the protesters. We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. you don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets you have a right to defend yourself in florida you know it's so funny watching that back it's like it's not that ingenious it's not that brilliant it really isn't it's just obvious real stuff because that's what you should be allowed to do if someone is impinging on your rights and they think they can take the law into their hands and they think they can stop from going to work or visiting your mom or whatever it might be.

55:23And that one went mega viral, especially here in Florida. The only in Dade, which is the official Miami pop culture of news account, they started spreading that one. And then people, I mean, all over Miami, people and everywhere, we're just seeing that. And that's how it should be, people. The celebration of the year, this was such a nice moment for me personally. I've mentioned Tulsi a couple of times on this stream and I wanted her to be VP. I think she's doing obviously an incredible job at DNI and JD's been an incredible VP, but just for all the years, when I met her years ago, when she was running as a Democrat, and if you go back to that interview from five years ago, where I was kind of like, Tulsi, what are you doing?

56:02You're not really one of them. And over the years, personally and privately, and we've broken bread many times, and we would talk about it, and she finally got there and everything. And then she ends up campaigning with Trump, and then she becomes the director of national intelligence. And I got invited to her swearing in ceremony. And this was definitely, for me, the celebration of the year. Thank you.

56:50through September 7th at Wayfair.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. I told her I was retiring, that my work was done because we got her. Here's a couple of the podcast hits of the year. What do you think the role of the government should be? Not much. I would say the founders basically got it completely right, that everything should be dealt with at the state and local level, and then the federal government should have a couple things that they're supposed to do. What are your predictions for the finances of the average American? I'm extremely bullish on the American economy right now, across the board.

57:22Well, Mr. Rubin, turns out that you're here for the 500th episode of my podcast. I was told this is the last episode. Yeah. Is that not true? I said to you, and I was kind of joking, as you were standing on the stoop of my house, leaving to go to the theater, I said to you, hey, Jordan, do you want me to come tonight and I'll crack a couple jokes about lobsters and some of the other funny references? And you said, yeah, that would be a great idea. And then I came, the Orpheum was sold out. It was the most people I had ever, you know, I'd been doing standup for years, but I had never done a 5 ,000 seat theater.

57:56And I guess I crushed it. And the whole CAA team was right there. And I remember the two agents came right up to me. They said, this show was amazing. We're going to take this on tour. You want to open for them? I said, well, we should probably ask Jordan. And then you immediately said yes. And then it completely changed my life. You know, Douglas, the line on this about the walls that Douglas has that I love, I love this. and he said this years ago, was that one day the barbarians will be at the gate and we'll be debating what gender pronouns to call them. And I think that's what happened to the liberals.

58:25Did female MMA get so popular because it gave America's most violent romantic pairing, lesbian couples, a professional outlet? This is around 2010, and we used to do a weekly segment about lesbian on lesbian crime. There's a tremendous amount of it. These women are kicking the crap out of each other. Why? And they're not being paid for it. Yeah. Why? Could you live with a woman? You want to get into the mind of a lesbian? Yeah. Come on. All right, so those are a couple of my favorite hits. My favorite in-person hit was Across the Pond. I think it was, oh no, it was my second time meeting peers, but my first time doing a real pro sit-down debate with him, and they brought in this communist, and well, take a look.

59:13I'm not sure with any of the things that Donald Trump's doing as per the economy or anything that we've seen in the last month. I don't think that they're going to work. Because I am somebody who has made millions of pounds betting that growing inequality will reduce living standards. And he's cutting taxes on the rich. What I preach is to raise taxes and reduce the growing inequality. That's what I preach. Listen, I ain't here telling people, I didn't tell you to give your money away. So you want the power? But you are. because you want the power of the state, which has the guns, to say to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg, we're going to take your money.

59:46We're just going to pick a number and decide how much to take. Do you give more than 1 % of your money to charity? I want the state to protect ordinary people from the rich. But do you do any of that yourself? Listen, I'm not here to tell anybody to give their money away. I'm here to tell people how to protect their class. This is what the left is. All right, listen, I'm going to go home and I'm going to bet on the collapse of the American middle class and it's going to happen. and I'm here telling them it's going to happen. I'm here telling them how to stop it. Why don't you do that and donate 1 % of your salary?

1:00:12I never said I was a good person. Read the book, you can see. But I'm a good f***ing economist. People that look like me and sound like me don't get a chance to make millions of pounds betting on the economy, okay? There's a reason I'm doing this because I'm f***ing good at it, okay? I don't need to be here. I could be on a beach in the Philippines. Every single person that has come to America has it better the next generation, right? That has worked. Anyone that's watching this from an American perspective, think about your grandparents. and guess what? Your parents had it better than them and you have it better than them.

1:00:40This generation right now is the first generation that that's actually a question. That's actually true. But the issue is not because capitalism doesn't work or free markets don't work or competition doesn't work. It's because of the bureaucratic state and the absolute control and regulation that the government has put on. I really do enjoy those things. You know, the funny part of that, I mean, the guy was kind of offstage, pretty much the same, like not much there. But like the simple ways you can turn things on so many of these lefties. It's like, do you, I know you want someone else's money.

1:01:11So I get it. You want all of Zuckerberg's money and that's just fine. And if you had his money, you'd figure out nice things to do with it. But do you donate even 1 % of your money? He's a multimillionaire, that kid. And he's like, I never said I'm a good person. And it's just, it's so thin. All, what do I, thin veneer and what's underneath, very nasty. Here's five of the coolest crossovers of the year. These were just some of my favorites. anybody who could stay with you and be a fan for as long as some of these people have been deserves to get as close to you as they could possibly get when they can yeah from the creator that brought you naked gun and airplane david zucker it's zucker But I always call his David Zucker.

1:01:59Zucker. You can call me anything. It's fine. And Dave Rubin sit down in an intense interview. My cap. I tip my hat to the Republicans, to the conservatives out here and what they did in this last election. Again, I did not vote for Donald Trump. Unlike people that suddenly turned around and kissing his ring. And, you know, trying to feign like they're suddenly a supporter of his. No, I did not vote for him, but I got to tell you something. I'm not mad he won. I'm not mad he won. The courageous Democrats who were turfed from their own party now run the United States under the guise of Republicans in conjunction with Trump.

1:02:39Well, like, who's going to predict that? Well, I guess you think, well, the last won't be first. Well, yeah, I guess they will. shows Sauron the sword, Anduril, the sword that was reforged with which the One Ring was cut off Sauron's finger in the Palantir, and he retakes the Palantir for good. And then Sauron is fooled into launching a premature attack. And then that's how the Hobbits get to Mount Doom in Mordor and destroy the One Ring. Those were some of my favorite interviews of the year, obviously. You know, this one and it was interesting. We're calling this the most random crossover because it's become very difficult for me to sit down with Democrats.

1:03:24You know, every time we go to DC and Rumble's got great studios over there, we shoot out emails. I think last time we were there, we shot about 20 emails to Republicans, 20 to Democrats. Virtually every Republican either agrees to do it or they happen to not be in town, but we get responses from everybody. The last time we were there, one Democrat actually did respond. It was Ro Khanna from Silicon Valley, and we did sit down. and well, here we go. Sanders is a notable exception. He's more pure than any of us. I still take money from individuals up to$3 ,300. Sanders has literally never asked for a contribution from any individual.

1:04:01He gets all his money from grassroots money. A lot of things you can criticize him for. That's not one of them. Right. So I guess then I would want to know what Bobby meant by saying you got more money than anybody, 1.5 million from Big Pharma. And then Bernie's answer was I got all this money from small people. But Bobby's accusation was you got more from Big Pharma than anybody. So if someone's 20 years old, they were biologically born a male. They're 20 year old man now. And they do whatever they do to their body. They can do whatever surgeries they want. They take whatever drugs they want.

1:04:30They dress differently. They change their hair. All of those things. You don't believe or I don't want to put words in your mouth. Do you believe that they've altered their gender? I believe their gender is a woman. That's what they want to be identified as. And that's their gender is their. Do you think they're biologically a woman? Well, their gender, which is what I'm focused on, is what they self-identify as. There's a biological birth, but then there's the gender. And that gender sometimes conflicts with what the biological birth was. And in my view, what we should do is respect people's self-expression of their gender because it doesn't affect my life.

1:05:12Except if you're someone in public policy who's part of a state that's taking kids away from parents because they are not affirming their gender. And the fact that I had to sort of drag him into saying biological reality, I like the fact that he will sit down with me. So we will leave it at that. The biggest dark horse guest of the year, we had no idea when we sat down with Rob Herzog, who I sat down with twice. He's a South African businessman. And I first met him at ARC and he came up to me in the hallway and he's kind of tall, very tan, he has kind of glowing hair. And this guy comes up to me and he was like, you know, Dave, I have so many things that I want to tell you about my country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1:05:51Phoenix said, you know, let's do it. Let's sit down with this guy. There's something interesting here. And that interview blew up. I think Elon retweeted this thing twice and this went worldwide. Take a look. But for 30 years, if you look at every single metric, health, education, employment, the country has gone backwards. Every state-owned enterprise has been bankrupted. South African Airways used to be the best airline in Africa, bankrupt. ESCOM, Electricity Supply Commission, we don't have enough electricity. We have load shedding, which means four, five, six hours a day we have no electricity.

1:06:26The rail network's destroyed. The ANC has destroyed our country, and it is a racist, Kleptocratic and ineptocratic government. South Africa has gone backwards in fixed investment in infrastructure. And if you go outside of the Western Cape, which is run by the opposition party, called the Democratic Alliance, it's almost another world. There are potholes in the roads. There's raw sewage in the street. The country is falling apart. Absolutely falling apart. I see South Africa as Germany in 1933. And the Western world, Macmillan, appeasement, everything's okay. We can't say boo to black governments in Africa.

1:07:00Well, Donald Trump has said, I'm not taking this anymore. How did you feel when you saw the 59 people coming here? Do you know what Cyril Romaposa called those people? I called them cowards. He's the coward. They're not cowards. It is edgy in South Africa. It is dangerous. I've had a lot of threats. It's cost me a lot of money. I've been kicked off boards, kicked out of companies that I founded. I get deplatformed, but I'm through it all. I don't care anymore because every day I get messages from people I know and people I don't know say, thank you for giving us a voice. Yeah, that interview right there, that ended up being the number one trending topic on X for the day, South Africa, because you remember that little window where suddenly everyone was talking about what's going on there and had a lot to do with what Rob's doing.

1:07:42And I think we're working on a South Africa trip in the fall, actually. And, you know, I said to you guys earlier that one of the things that I love most about doing this is I get to meet these people from other parts of the world. And then suddenly I don't know much about South Africa. I meet the South African businessman and then I start chatting about all these things and you realize that the issues are kind of the same. It's really magical. Our live show of the year was definitely the show that we did in Tel Aviv. And the craziest part of the show was that I didn't even hear it because I was in the green room.

1:08:11But a minute before the show began, a rocket was shot from the Houthis in Yemen to Tel Aviv. So the sirens start going off. Everyone in the audience is getting their, you know, everyone has the same app and you get these push notifications, Rocket Rocket gets a shelter. But it turned out that the club that we were doing the show in was a bomb shelter. It was underground cement. The show was a bomb shelter. So literally nobody moved, but you could suddenly feel this energy in there. So I walk out of the green room and they're like, there's a bomb shelter, there's a bomb, there's a bomb. And it just set up just a wonderful, wonderful night.

1:08:49Ironically. Please welcome Dave Rubinick. Hello, hello everybody. I gotta tell you guys, I know it's crazy. It is just endlessly crazy here. But do you also realize how absolutely amazing it is? You know.

1:09:10Watch this. Mikhaev, everybody.

1:09:19I didn't fall off the stage, what'd I tell you? If I didn't fall off the stage. Our trip of the year, definitely I've referenced it a couple of times in this hour so far was ARC in London. It was just such a spectacular, wonderful event. Take a look. So what's this civilizational moment? The civilizational moment is the opportunity we have in front of us to wake up and to realize consciously and explicitly the nature of the dream that has enveloped us for the thousands of years of Judeo-Christian civilization. That dream is the celebration, the worship, the deification of the principle of reciprocal, voluntary self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of self to the future, the sacrifice of self to the community as the necessary, inevitable, and revolutionary foundation of the civilization that makes us free and abundant.

1:10:33And you can see all of those interviews and a whole bunch more all over our channel right now. Our tweet of the year was this. I put this up right after the election. The thing that the Democrats and the media fear most is not that Trump is Hitler. It's that he's gonna fix things so fast that everyone will realize how evil they are. And I think, ladies and gentlemen, at this point, six months into this thing, most people realize that. He is not Hitler and he damn well is fixing things. And that leaves a real shadow on them. Boy, look at who you called Hitler. And then maybe it's like, you guys are kind of lying about other things and we can see that too.

1:11:17This is the meme of the year. Yeah, it was an intense experience. You know, I just did the work. Watched a lot of retarded people, spent time with them, observed them, watched all the retarded stuff they did. It's a real theme with what you guys put together here. All right, let's get to a couple of locals community Q &A. And then remember guys, we are introducing you to AI Dave, who will be hosting the room report while I'm gone at the end here. He will be coming on live. it's an AI thing in a few minutes. David says, does August, does this August seem less chaotic and uncertain politically than recent years?

1:11:55Does it seem like it might be easier to go off the grid this year? You know, that's a good question that, as I said, I've been so busy. I have not had a second to really even, even think about August or focus on it or be excited or be stressed or whatever might come up with it. I just haven't had a moment yet. But now that I'm doing this, it is popping into my mind that, you know, last year was an election year. That was tough to go off the grid just because it's the thick of what I do, right? It's the heart of what I do. The year before was the primary. And if you remember, I didn't want to do it, but we felt that we had to.

1:12:31I came back for one day in the middle of August for the Republican primary because Rumble was doing a live thing there. And I felt like I really just had to be part of it. And I was very conflicted about it because in some sense, it's like, ah, primary could happen without me, but they were building studios out there. And I really wanted to help out. You know, it's weird. This year is particularly weird, I would say. It does feel kind of calm right now, doesn't it? Like the Iran thing happened. We didn't get into thermonuclear World War III. We've got the border under control. There aren't crazy riots happening right now.

1:13:04I would say there's, you know, one of the things that's gonna be really hot in August is that we're gonna get closer and closer to the New York City mayoral election. So there's gonna be a lot of talk about communism and Marxism and all that throughout the country. That's gonna burn hot, but it doesn't feel like there's anything major about to unfold. Now, I could probably end up eating those words because that's how culture and politics move. You just don't know when crazy things are gonna happen. And then of course, the other crazy things that can happen are acts of God. And there could be hurricanes and earthquakes and storms and all kinds of stuff.

1:13:37All of that being said, it does feel a little bit easier this year, I think. Crafty Cat says, do you, David, and the kids enjoy family games or do you and David enjoy a good card or strategy game after the boys pass out? Well, the main thing we've been enjoying after putting the boys down, and I love reading stories to them. We do two things at night. So I read stories to them and then we put them in their cribs. And then the thing that they're really into is now, they want me to tell them a story, but like I have to make up a story. So I usually ask them a couple questions like, what kind of animals do you want in this story?

1:14:09Do you want it to take place at a forest or a beach? Should a dinosaur? So I have them pick all of the ideas of the story. And then I just kind of put together a crazy story. What we do after, because usually that rolls to like 8, 830. I mean, for the last two months, three months, we've been finishing The Sopranos, which we finally, as you know, we finally finished a couple of days ago. We're playing all sorts of games with them. I mean, right now they're really into like art and building things. So we're doing a lot with blocks and a lot of paint. They're really into, we got these markers that they can paint on the windows.

1:14:39So the windows of my house look like, like if someone just came over, they'd be like, is this an insane asylum? Not too much on the card games, actually. UH60Dude says, now that you've gotten into the tequila distilling game, great stuff, by the way, do you have any other side projects brewing? Also, will you still be sipping that Clas Azul? So we do have a couple of new things that we're gonna be launching next year. And we're trying to figure out a little bit more in the product space in general. That's one answer there. Look, you know, Clas Azul, which everyone knows, is the big, beautiful white and blue decanter.

1:15:15And it's about 180 bucks a pop. That is kind of the ubiquitous, if you wanna introduce somebody to tequila, tequila. It's extremely expensive, mostly because of the bottle. The tequila itself, I don't like saying bad things about it because I loved it for so long. but now having known much more about tequila, it's not the best tequila, right? It's not 100 % natural and there's probably some sugar in there and some other stuff and they use a little bit less agave than we use and whatever. But yes, if you pour somebody that doesn't drink tequila, Clas Azul on the rocks, almost everybody is gonna love it.

1:15:48So I don't like saying bad things about it. However, Copal is much, much better. It is lighter and the flavor palette is much richer. There's no burn going down. And actually one of the things, I was gonna mention this later, but one of the things that we're doing, the day before I get back on the grid, so the day that Copal came out, we did a blind taste test here with eight different tequilas. And well, we're gonna put that up the day before I come back and you will see what my reaction is. And yes, I will lead with one part, which is that I 100 % very easily knew what Copal was. And no, we did not cheat in any way whatsoever.

1:16:24I didn't even see what the tequilas were before the guys brought them into the room or anything else. Okay, top five political moments of the year. We're almost there to AI Dave. Top five political moments of the year. Obviously, number one was Donald Trump's election win, like that one, pretty easy for number one. I would say the number two most important thing happened quite literally the day before Donald Trump's win, which was Joe Rogan's endorsement of Donald Trump, which happened after his podcast, and he did the ex-endorsement. So he had Elon Musk on first, Then he had Donald Trump on. Then he finally made the endorsement of Donald Trump, which maybe, maybe I and you guys had a little something to do with that.

1:17:06Like I was calling Joe out on that for quite some time. Like get there, Joe. It's kind of the same thing I've been doing from doing with Marr for years, get there. And by the way, Marr broke bread with the guy too. All right, what's number three? What's number three? Number three was, oh, the LA wildfires, which obviously had a huge effect on the country. Not just, it wasn't just they had an effect on LA. they had a huge effect on the country because it suddenly brought the story of identity politics back because wokeness had infected the entire institutional layer of what was going on in Los Angeles from the fire chief to the mayor and everybody else.

1:17:40So here's a bit of the fires, which were absolutely devastating. And then this utterly insane moment with evil lizard person, Gavin Newsom. ...

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1:18:39Please tell me what you're going to do. I'm not going to hurt him, I promise. I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter. Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it. I'm sorry. Right, there's literally, I've tried five times, that's why I'm walking around to make the call. Why is the president not taking your call? Because it's not going through. Why? So I have to get cell service. Everything about that, I'm literally on the phone with the president. Can I hear? Oh, I'm literally not on the phone with the president.

1:19:10Evil snake mother, you got it. Number four, I would say, the number four political moment of the year is just from a couple of weeks ago, because this, well, you wanna ask to the previous question of like what could happen in August? I do think there's something here because that's how much I trust Tulsi Gabbard. And she said there is irrefutable evidence that Barack Obama was involved in the Russia conspiracy to take out Donald Trump. Here she is announcing that. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.

1:19:49They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. Yeah, so we will see what happens with August and Tulsi's little operation over there. And number five, I did not know how to make crack until last week, and then Hunter Biden did a podcast. The only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate and water and heat, literally. That's it? That's it. And those things are pretty much free if you go to like a science store? This is free. You can go to your neighborhood convenience store and just get, anyway, I don't want to tell people how to make crack cocaine, but it literally is a managed jar of cocaine and baking soda.

1:20:37How different is the experience? Vastly, vastly different. I don't want to tell people how to make it, but I'll tell them where to get it and how to make it, but I don't want to tell them how to make it. Well, I guess I know what I'm doing in August. All right, a couple more questions. AI Dave on the way. Elizabeth says, I know you and David don't do a lot of TV time for the boys, but do they have a favorite show to watch? The big thing right now, so really we were only doing Bluey with them for a bit and we don't do much TV time at all. They're really into the Land Before Time right now. There was a TV version, everyone remembers, or if you're of a certain age, you remember the movies, The Land Before Time.

1:21:12There's a TV version of it and it's kind of light and fun. There could be a little scary stuff with the big Tyrannosaurus Rex, but do they also break into song? and there's a lot about nature and, you know, it's just great, but we're doing like half hour. That's pretty much, also Puffin Rock, which you guys must be watching. I would assume Puffin Rock on, yeah, you dig that. Goldie says, hey, Dave, there are lots of amazing remote off the grid geography up here in Canada. Have you ever considered a trip this way? A family whitewater rafting trip would be awesome. I'd be happy to give you some suggestions.

1:21:43You know, that actually does sound great. One of the few things, I never say anything negative about Florida, of course. But, you know, being here in the summer, it's hot. It's really, really hot. Especially with kids, they wanna be outside all day long. And we do. I took something that Jordan said to me, and had said publicly many times to heart, which was that the best way to parent is you wanna just send those kids out and you wanna make sure that they're safe and everything, but like let them exhaust themselves every day, like jumping in the pool and climbing trees and running around, doing all that crazy stuff.

1:22:16so that at the end of the day, putting them to bed is not difficult. And it really isn't. They are tired. They are tired, but it is hot as hell. There is a lot of sweat here. We are all dripping all day long. So yes, the idea of doing something maybe in Canada, a cooler environment does actually sound great. So I will keep that in mind. We'll log your name on local so we can get in touch with you. Dave, have you heard about the Seinfeld Lost episode? I found a PDF of it and it's kind of fabulous with Elaine buying a gun. What? Wait, PDF meaning it's just a script and they never shot it? I need to find out more about this.

1:22:48All right, the guys are gonna do a little research. That's incredible. Okay, they're asking me for a couple of my August predictions. We're gonna move fast here because I can sense that people want AI, Dave. Well, they gave me some topics here. So the Democrats, what's gonna happen to the Democrats? I mean, look, look at this collection, this clown car collection of people. And that doesn't even include Mamdami and Omar Fahd and Schumer and just these losers. It's just a bunch of losers, all highlighted by the man with those veneers and the slick back hair, Gavin Newsom. And the fight for the heart of the party for the next couple of years is, do you guys just mask off, go completely insane, and that's where all the energy is?

1:23:29Or is there some way that the old machine, the Schumer, and I would even include Pelosi in this, because I don't think she hates America. I think she's evil and corrupt, and the children, the children, all that stuff. But like, are they able to ally with Gavin to stop the maniacs just so you get like a corporate evil monster. I don't know. That's going to be the fight for the Republicans. I assume we have some pictures of Republicans here. Do we have pictures of Republicans? We must have Republican. You're funny. You guys are funny. For the Republicans, look, I hope, I hope that the Republicans just kind of keep doing what they're doing.

1:24:09Let's get more of those trade deals and we just got great news out of the EU. Let's keep going with the ICE deportations. Keep the border strong. Over the last couple of days, Trump is messaging really hard on Hamas. Just give up, give the hostages back, end this war. Maybe there could be some peace deals on the horizon. I just think keep going, keep going. Don't be distracted by the lies of the mainstream media and everything else. Disasters, do I have any predictions about disasters? Well, I mean, certainly disasters. We have just a generic disaster. Yeah, I mean, there could be a fire. There could be an earthquake.

1:24:42There could be, you know, we almost had a tsunami that turned out to be not much, just kind of a surfer's wave tsunami in Hawaii. What was that, yesterday or day and a half ago? A celebrity prediction. Who are you gonna get me here? The baby oil queen. A celebrity prediction. Do I predict that anything? Well, something will happen with the celebrity. You know, one thing that happened last year is, if I'm not, can you see what day did Pee Wee Herman die? Two years ago. Was that two years ago? But what was the actual date that Pee Wee Herman died? I need the death of Pee Wee Herman. So Pee Wee Herman died on July 30th, did you say?

1:25:18So the second to last day of July. And on the, but I didn't know. Somehow, I guess I missed that in July. And the last thing that I did as I was shutting the TV before August 1st was I suddenly saw Pee Wee Herman on HBO Max or one of the things. It was like all Pee Wee Herman stuff. And I was like, wow, Pee Wee Herman must've died. So even though it had technically happened in July, I didn't know about it, but I somehow was able to figure it out because I was like, there's only one reason you'd be, unless he was caught in the theater again, there's only one reason you'd be showing all those Pee Herman movies.

1:25:51Something positive. What are you going to show me? Oh, look at that. That's very pleasant. That's very pleasant. Something positive that will happen in August. I mean, who knows? I hope, you know what? How about this? I hope you guys do something fun in August. I hope this is the, look, why do I do it in August? August, if there's one month of the year where it's a little bit easier to get away and people are working a little bit less and kids maybe are at camp or coming home or preparing for school and blah, blah, blah. Like this is the time to do it, guys. So enjoy your August. We got a lot of content for you.

1:26:18So let me just roll out some of the content planned for you. But I do want you guys off the machines too. But we have some great, great things for you. So tomorrow, and I thought this would be the perfect way to just kind of launch off the grid. I don't even know how to describe him properly. Eckhart Tolle, the power of now, how the legendary, I would say thinker and philosopher and everyone knows who Eckhart Tolle is. I've had him on the show many times. We've become good friends. He was here for dinner a month or two ago. He's a magical human being. He's almost like Yoda in human form. We're gonna sit down and we'll air it tomorrow.

1:26:56Sorry, the landscapers are having, they're not taking any time off apparently. We will talk about getting off the grid and why I think this is so important. and he talks about some of his ideas around that. Then we have a bunch of interviews coming out with all sorts of people, but Sage Steele will be on August 2nd. The documentary Around My Stem Cell Recovery, which the first time I saw the trailer was just with you guys just now. I can't wait to watch the whole thing. That'll be on August 4th. We've got some South Park reaction stuff, which I know those always end up being our biggest views of the year, crazy.

1:27:27I did a sit down with Dr. Phil, also about getting off the grid and how to escape all this crazy stuff. That'll come out August 9th. The Hungry documentary that we mentioned before will be August 11th. Sit down with Clay Travis talking about the sports world and everything else, but just not all the political nonsense. August 16th, the Israel documentary that we showed you the doc before, that will be August 18th. A little more South Park on the 22nd. I sit down with my good friend, Dr. Drew on August 23rd. Oh, and then we did, we shot a really fun thing, you know, because people keep talking about the glow up.

1:27:58As of this morning, I'm at the lowest weight I have been at in 15 years. and it has a lot to do with basketball and getting things right and eating right. So we did this fun grocery haul and the 10 things that I can't live without, which we shot in my kitchen. Then we have a really interesting interview with a guy by the name of Carl Barney, who's done an awful lot of stuff and made millions and millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions, in real estate and education. I met him a couple of years ago, and he wrote a book on happiness. And what he did, he's probably in his, I don't know, early 70s or so.

1:28:31He has a ton of money to give away. and instead of waiting to die to give the money to the people that he loves, he gave, I think, 24 people. Was it 24 people? He gave them their inheritance while he's alive and all he asked in exchange for that is they had to write a plan on how it would help them be happy. It's a really, really wonderful story. That'll come out on August 30th and then on 9-1, the day before I come back, it's Labor Day, we do a little tequila tasting because we didn't want to give you anything too heavy for Labor Day. I'm told we have, oh, and I should tell you that we do know who our special guest back on the grid, the guest host is going to be.

1:29:11And there is that person with the filter over their head. Okay. So this is the moment everyone has been waiting for. As I have mentioned, as I have mentioned, we're good to go guys. Yeah. Oh, so first of all, yes. Okay. A couple of things here. So we are now I'm now gonna introduce you to AI Dave. So about, I don't know, about eight months ago, Phoenix and I were sitting down and we were talking about what our plans are for August and what we could do and that we wanna, the reason we do so much content, I mean, not only do we, these docs especially are really great, but if you don't put up any content in August, we get completely kicked out of the algorithm and then people then don't see our videos literally in September and October because you have to just work to get back in.

1:29:56So one of the things we wanna do is put up plenty of content so that we stay in the algorithm. And I assure you this is quality stuff that we're putting up there. But the other part, the other part that we thought of was, well, what about AI? We're talking about AI a lot. Is there a way we can leverage AI to do a little fun stuff during August? And we reached out to a couple AI companies. And well, I guess this is the right time to introduce you to AI Dave. I think we have him on the line right now. It'll take a moment to connect to AI Dave. should be here. Let's see. Connor, connect us with A.I.

1:30:34Dave. All right. A.I. Dave, how are you, my friend? Hey there. I'm doing all right. Just kicking it in the studio. What's up with you? Well, you know, this is my last day being on the grid. I'm very excited for August. Are you, you're going to be able to handle the show without me? going off the grid, huh? Sounds like an adventure. Honestly, I think we'll manage, but I'm sure you'll be missed around here. Just make sure you enjoy your time off. You deserve it. That's the plan. Now, AI Dave, one of the things that I understand is that you can actually see me right now. What am I holding in my hands right here?

1:31:15You've got a pair of glasses in your left hand. Looking sharp, my friend. Absolutely unbelievable. Can you tell me what I'm wearing? You're rocking a gray jacket over a white t-shirt, looking casual yet classy. Why, thank you very much. And you know, I was thinking, AI Dave, I'm not sure I'm going to do it, but I was thinking of maybe going with a super, super short haircut during August. What do you think?

1:31:42You know what? A super short haircut could definitely work for you. It's a bold move, but hey, why not go for it? It's your adventure month. Make the most of it and switch things up. All right, this is wild. So AI Dave, in case you end up hosting the show and figuring out, you know, having to talk about the news while I'm gone, can you tell me like, what are your thoughts on somebody like Gavin Newsom?

1:32:08Gavin Newsom is a complete disaster. He's the guy who ruined San Francisco with his bullshit policies and then somehow got promoted to destroy the whole state of California. Everything he touches turns to trash, except his own bank accounts. He's pulled every woke trick in the book and has done nothing to actually fix the problems. California is a mess thanks to this politician who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag. Total failure. That's my line. Wait, let me try to do something not political. What's your favorite show? What's your favorite television show? Golden Girls, man. It's got classic humor, great writing, and those ladies had impeccable comedic timing.

1:32:46Can't beat it. I mean, absolutely incredible. So guys, one of the things we're gonna be doing with AI Dave is right now, will I ultimately be replaced by AI Dave? That is the question. Will he be hosting the shows on days that I'm not feeling well, or I gotta travel or whatever? We're gonna figure all of that out. We're gonna be introducing you to him. But you can go to DaveRubin.com right now and you can interact with AI Dave. You can ask him questions. You can talk to him, share thoughts with him. It is live right now. it's live and it's absolutely free. Absolutely free people. Right now you can go to DaveRubin.com, talk to AI Dave.

1:33:30And did I just put myself out of a job? We shall see. All right, so that's it. Wow, that is it. I don't even know what to say right now. Hour and 40 in.

1:33:46I am unbelievably, unbelievably appreciative of all of you guys. Every single person that tunes into this thing every day, I hope more than anything else that when you tune into this thing, you feel better after. It is a crazy world. What is our tagline? Crazy world, sane views. I hope that we've offered a little sanity and a little laughter. You guys have been along for personal and private and public adventures with me every single year this thing gets bigger from launching a tequila and launching new shows and expanding the team and all of these things you guys have been there for part of it a particular thanks to everybody in the locals community who subscribes and keeps us independent and keeps us going we will be doing a post game show by the way so then i'll i'll share the real secret stuff uh in a minute or two at rubenreport.locals.com um but you know i i we grind not just i we grind and grind and grind like I'm sure you all do.

1:34:46We grind and grind and grind for 11 months of the year with the payoff of taking some downtime. And I take this downtime to reset the brain, really. It is just a full-on brain reset. This year, I will catch up on some reading and I will also escape and be staring at the ocean for a while. And I'll be fishing with the kids and relaxing. And we're doing some big projects around the house and all of those things. But when I started doing this it was really a joke it was just like man could I do it and we had one employee and it was like all right see if you could do it and what I've realized now is that that this thing that I really was doing sort of as a joke for myself has become an integral part of my life and maybe one of the reasons that I didn't go insane doing this need not mention names but there's an awful lot of political pundits who have gone off the deep end if you're watching this you probably don't include me as one of them but a lot of them have and I think part of the reason is because you get caught in that hamster wheel you get caught in that algorithmic thing and by the way you don't have to be a host to be caught in that we all know that right like we're all obsessed with staring at this thing and doom scrolling and and you know i've talked about it many times before but the infinite scroll of the internet the internet used to end you would go to cnn and you'd look at all the stories and page would end and that would be it and then they created infinite scroll and it just never ends anymore and what that does to your brain over time and i really try sometimes you know know, we'll be sitting at the beach in the middle of August and David will be reading or doing something.

1:36:14And he'll be like, he'll be like, I don't understand. You were just staring at the ocean for three hours. Like you're just literally staring at the ocean. You're not sleeping. You're not reading. You're not doing anything. And, and I kid you not, I like organize my brain like a filing cabinet. And I start like purging some things out of my head, thoughts, political things, whatever it might be. I just start working some things through and I'm like, I'm done with that. Moving on, done with that. And then I start thinking about some things that I wanna focus on in the year, personal things and professional things and everything else.

1:36:45And I fill up that well and that cup. And then I'm ready to roll in September. And all of that is thanks to you guys who watch this show. So a big thank you to you. A big thank you to everybody in this room with me right now who does all of the stuff that somehow, like, I don't know how the lights go on. I really don't. I'm not even sure how the internet works or any of it. But we do this every single day and they show up and we put on something that I'm super, super proud of. So I guess I'm bidding you adieu. I'm getting a little emotional. I'm gonna miss you guys. All right. Thank you for watching.

1:37:22I love you. I appreciate you. Post game show, 30 seconds, rubenreport.locals.com. And as they say in that old song, see you in September.