Dave Rubin (43:57)
Look, I think Trump's right. They will gladly clip this and all my haters will have a field day with it. And I don't think there's any point in pretending that things look great because of, as you know, 70% of the time the incumbent president's party loses in the midterms and there's fighting on the right and all of those things, things. We wrap this Iran thing up, well, the economy keeps chugging along. We get the backdrop of our 250th anniversary in the summer. Some other good things happen. We get some more peace deals. There's some things that could happen, but that's all secondary to the fact that the Democrats have completely lost their minds. So if you're a Trump supporter, or you voted for Trump last time, even begrudgingly, you didn't really like Trump, but you were like, ah, the Democrats are completely insane. I'm not voting for this. You have to realize that if you don't vote for Trump again, if you don't vote. In essence, if you don't vote for the Republicans, right, you don't vote in the midterms or you're just depressed or you're just, it's midterms. I'm not gonna vote. It's not a presidential election. You are handing the country to people whose goal is complete destruction of everything that we know. And I think that more and more people, when push comes to shove, will come around. So I am not as far fearful as a lot of people. In some sense, there's no point in me telling you that, right? Like maybe we need to ratchet up the fear. I'm just telling you what I think. But there's an argument to say you got to ratchet up the fear right now to make sure people get out there. But take that with a grain of salt, I suppose. Let's talk about balance in nature for a minute and then we'll get to arubinreport.locals.com community Q&A. You've probably noticed that nutrition has gotten really complicated lately. 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Head on over to balance in nature.com to subscribe and save today join hundreds of thousands of people making whole food nutrition part of their daily routine. All right, let's get to some locals community Q and A. Joseph is at the computer right now if you'd like to drop a question in on the fly. Tappy says. Dave, when you go to events like cpac, do you already know who you're gonna interview? Is there a set agenda or are you winging it? You know, I gotta tell you, you guys know I have a great team here and they'll run through walls for me. And just everything we do like we set up perfectly, we're there on time. Nobody ever fails me. Phoenix, if he has to run through 40 people to like get an interview that we wanna get. We'll do it and never second guess anything. So what happens usually in an event like that, you know, we've reached out, we usually can find out who's going to be there in advance and we reach out to the prime people that we're trying to get. But then at all of these things, there's so much media there. Speakers end up speaking for too long, schedules get changed, everything's on the fly. So it's literally just grabbing people like Geert Wilders, who I interviewed, who was the former leader of the opposition party in the Netherlands, who has been really the leading voice in all of Europe against the Islamization of the continent. He was there. I basically was like, we've got to get him. And Phoenix just plowed through 20 people and we grabbed him and we got him. We tried to do that with Milei. I just got the quick hello with Milei and we'll try to get him appropriately. But then we booked the. We had the former prime minister of Poland on which that went up yesterday. If you haven't seen that, it's quite interesting. And it's not a country we talk a ton about. So it was nice to learn some things in an interview. A lot of it's just kind of winging it on the fly. Sometimes I'm literally interviewing somebody, you know, just in a hallway because we just happen to be going to lunch and you know, Joey's got the camera and I'm just like, oh, there's that guy. Let's, let's do it. And then sometimes we get the proper sit down. Sometimes I'm pulled away for someone to interview me. It's just. And it's fun, you know, it really. It ends up. You go to these two day conferences and there's just an adrenaline rush the entire time. And then at the end of all these things then we usually wrap it up and we have dinner and it's like we're almost just out of words to speak to each other because you just run, run, run, run, run, run, run. And then it's over and you come home. Different views says, my question concerns your side project, Actual Friends, which I watch avidly. I'm wondering if you're willing to start an actual Friends channel here on locals. Well, I'm glad you're watching. You know, I really love it if you guys have not seen Actual Friends. So it's me and Jillian Michaels and Dr. Drew and Sage Steele and we really set up the show, the whole idea was like, I'm friends with some cool people in this space, and I've watched some friends go off the deep end over the years. I happen to really love those three. And we were like, could we come together and just talk about what's been going on in the week without, you know, a hardcore news angle necessarily? Even though we're going to recap some of the news, obviously, but, like, talk about it from more of a friend perspective and what we're frustrated with personally. And, you know, sometimes, you know, Sage has shot them while she's, like, driving cross country. And Gillian did one in the airport, and I've done one while in Europe. And just that to show that all our lives are just different. But we're setting aside a little time. I said to Drew one day on the show, we could call the show creator therapy, because when the hour's done, I feel like I just was able to get some extra stuff off my head with some friends. And I'm really glad you're enjoying it. I'll talk to them about creating a locals community. We're trying to figure out. I don't want you guys to have to pay for a lot of things. I really don't. I'm very appreciative of those of you who subscribe to the locals community, the Rubin Report locals community. And we're trying to figure out ways we can offer extra benefits for that and things of that nature, which we're always trying to figure out. So I don't know that I want to do another paid thing, necessarily, but I'm really glad you're watching. And if you haven't seen it, we do repost some of the videos on the Rubin Report channel, but you can just put actual friends in YouTube or rumble and find out more. And I'm telling you, it's really, really enjoyable. We're shooting it today. And also, you know, because the whole idea of the show is we're going to do it sort of as we have time. None of us are taking any money to do it. No money. Even the advertising money that's coming in, we're just setting aside right now. We're all doing it for free. We've been doing it for about a year now. When we don't have someone, then Roseanne Barr has jumped in. I was in Hungary last week, so I couldn't do it. So they had. What's his name? Who was the guy they had on Brad Palumbo on. So we're just grabbing different people and Just kind of mixing them in. It's fine. It's like the view with how crazy people. Like, that's actually what it is. Mouser says. One thing that's becoming crystal clear to me is Republicans, Independents and conservatives, et cetera, are absolutely being divided as a result of this war. Who wins in this scenario? Well, that's one of the reasons why, as you can see, every time that I've had to talk about what's going on with Tucker or watching Megyn Kelly go a little nuts, I genuinely don't take any pleasure in it. I'm constantly having a back and forth with my guys about how much attention we should point to it. Because partly, I think in some sense, the bad actors, they say crazy out there things, hoping that we'll all talk about it. And then once we start talking about it, that's how the algorithm works. The algorithm's like, oh, there's something shiny there. And then people are clicking on it. And then we do more. And then they see, oh, there's more of it now. More people do it, and you end up butterflying, affecting Streisand, affecting the entire thing. The Streisand effect, for those of you that don't know, it's a great thing about. What Was it about 40 years ago? What magazine did a piece on Barbra Streisand? Her house somewhere in Cali. And they showed her house on the shore somewhere in California. Was it Glamour magazine or. We'll get it in just a sec. They showed a picture of her house. They didn't show the address, but they showed a picture of her house. And she basically, I think, tried to sue them because of the picture of the house. But then that. That basically Streisand affected it. That's where the phrase came from. That then suddenly, because she created a lawsuit around it, then all these people wanted to figure out where she lived and what the house looked like and everything else. And sometimes I think that's what these guys are doing. They're saying endlessly crazy things. Candace is saying endlessly crazy things. Because good people don't want lies to just sit there. So you just lie, lie, lie. You say over the top things. You lie, you. You say horrible things about people, good people try to push back on it. And then, unfortunately, I don't know what the best way to deal with it is. I really don't. I think there are times you have to. I think you have to be. Let's put it this way. I think you have to be specific with your. With your Responses. That's what it is. You have to be specific with your responses. Occasionally something is just so nuts that you have to address it, but for the most part, for the most part, you have to try to ignore this stuff. And I'm getting some information. It was actually californiacoastline.org which posted her house in Malibu and then she tried to get it taken down and then suddenly more and more people knew where it was. Kevin says, oh, but anyway, who's the winner in all of this? Well, look, all the polling shows that MAGA is still with Trump. And again, I know I keep repeating myself on this, but I'm telling you, as we roll into July 4th and 250 years of, there will be a built in resurgence of patriotism. And if the war is wrapped, the military portion of the war is basically wrapping up already. But like, if the result of the war is some new peace deals in the Middle east and things kind of calm down over there and then there's just win after win for Trump to talk about. If the SAVE act gets passed, I think everything's going to be okay. So I know it's annoying to have to deal with some of these crazy people saying horrible, horrible things. Sometimes you just have to let calmer and cooler heads prevail. Kevin says, how were the security lines at the airport for your trip to Hungary? You know, we really lucked out. I don't know if it was maybe because we were flying international. So there was a different situation over there. Yeah. So Phoenix is telling me Miami Airport for some reason has been largely unaffected. I don't know why that is or what's going on there. I know Fort Lauderdale Airport, which is not far from here, they were having some problems and then ICE did come in and cleaned up some of that. I don't know, it sounds like Atlanta Airport's been pretty terrible and a few others have been terrible. So for us, fortunately it was okay. I will say this, airports in Europe are just nicer, like putting aside lines and everything else. Like you go to the airports, well, the Switzerland, of course. You go to a Zurich airport, you expect something nice but like beautiful. And, you know, the architecture is nice and it's a beautiful blend of greenery and glass and industrial stuff. And the floor food is much fresher. You know, I had a sandwich on the way back at the Zurich airport. Just like a simple, like it was a baguette with, I don't know, like egg salad and avocado or something. And like if you got that in America, you would Take a bite of it. And the bread would be kind of stale. The egg would be kind of nasty. And it was. It was so delicious. It was absolutely delicious. Like, we. We have. We still have work to do in. In America. Maybe Europe's done a couple things better than we have over the years. Meg says. Dave, my husband has a major case of tds. He was so upset about the shooting of the nurse in Minnesota, he lost his mind. I don't know how to move forward. If you can, please advise. My marriage is in trouble because of this. Oh, man. You know, I hear so many of these. I get a lot of emails about this kind of thing, versions of it in my friend circles and everything else. There's no good answer. And this is what the left and the media created with Trump derangement syndrome. They really broke brains. And, you know, I'm sympathetic. I'll assume your husband's a good guy and, you know, you married him and hopefully you guys have had a good life and all of those things. And then these things pop in, right? They leak in. And I'm sympathetic to people that are affected by this stuff because the system lied to us about so much. It lied about so many things related to Donald Trump. Like, is it possible your husband maybe was a CNN viewer, even casually, and for years thought that very fine people was legit? Right. So he thought Donald Trump was defending white supremacists. Or is it possible that he was buying what they were selling during COVID and that if you get the vaccine, you know, you will not get nor transmit. Like, there's been so many lies. And I think a certain type of psychological makeup is susceptible to those lies. I think one thing I really learned about myself during COVID was on day 15 when they told us two weeks to stop the spread. And then on day 15, I remember this. I vividly remember this. On day 15, David and I were watching the Golden Girls on TV Land and a commercial came on and it started talking about the new normal. I was like, what? They told us two weeks, and now I'm watching a commercial about the new normal as it relates to Covid. Well, that commercial obviously was produced not today and not yesterday. It was produced a couple weeks ago. So how are these things already in the can ready to tell us about the new normal? And for some reason that just so struck with me. Maybe it was my love of the Golden Girls. It was that I channeled my inner Dorothy's mornack. She had a bullshit. Damn it, Krista. She had a BS detector. I Just woke up and everyone wakes up in different ways. I don't know, like, if you have kids, like, there's a way, there's a way to hopefully make your life maybe more about the kids. But I know when you start seeing your partner, your husband, your wife go off the deep end with this stuff, it's really, really hard because then, because it becomes this thing where people want to talk about politics all the time. And when you so intimately see the world a different way, it's hard to arbitrage that. I don't. I wish I had a better answer for you. Tough. Like we've all. We are. It's tough. We've all been through this. Look, the best you can do, Hopefully, I don't know, send him a call. I'm sure you've probably done this, I'm guessing, since you're a member of the Locals committee, like, I hope maybe you've sent him some of the clips of our show where I've debunked some of this stuff or pointed out that Donald Trump is actually, you know, the last person defending Western civilization and trying to reorder the world back to what America used to be, and that he's been defending conservatism and liberalism. Like, you can try all those things and then you just gotta hope, you gotta show him if he was really upset about, you know, the woman or the guy that got killed by ice, you know, bring up the point that, well, the week before that guy was attacking an ice vehicle and broke the bumper and he had a gun on him and he was screaming about revolution. And like, what would you do in that situation? Like, like, it's not easy. I'm thinking for you. I'm praying for you. Brian says, hey, Dave, last fall of the shutdown was all about healthcare and we've heard nothing and probably nothing has moved. Now the Shutdown is about ice and CBP. What does your Magic 8 ball see happening in the few months when we can look back? Well, right now, I mean, when we look back on this moment right now, it's going to be, well, which way did the war go? Right. As simple as that. You know, Trump keeps saying, in essence, it's over. Meaning the Iranian military is, is decimated. The Iranian leadership is decimated. Everyone knows that Part two of the movie is that the Iranian people have to take their country back. But Trump may not have a full appetite for that. We will see if at the very least their military machine and financial machine that's been exporting terrorism has been demolished. That's pretty good. If we get other peace deals at the end of this, that's pretty good. It's not the completion of the story, but you don't always get everything at once. But I suspect every, all of the stuff that we'll be looking back at in a few months from now, it's all gonna be sort of war related. It's all gonna be war related. And can the Republicans pull off the SABE thing? If they can't pull off the SAVE act, it just won't matter. The Democrats will import more and more people. Cause look, one way or another, the Democrats are gonna have a president again. One way or another, the Democrats are gonna have congressional power again. And when they do, why would they not do everything they've been saying they're gonna do? The problem that the Republicans have is that the. Is that Republicans basically believe in the system. So you're not eager to destroy the system. You're not eager to use power knowing it can be used against you. The Democrats don't have that limiting principle right, because they don't think that the system is good. They're constantly telling you the system was founded for awful reasons and that it, that it is not fundamentally good and that those founders were just old white men, so why should we care about them in a time of modernity? So they are much more willing to break things, but it is a hell of a lot easier to break things rather than build them. Kuhlma says. I'm wondering if you've given any thought to the whole possibility of aliens making Contact or what your thoughts are on that. You know, I'm so glad you asked that question because on the flight back from, from Hungary, we had a 10 hour flight and I saw that the movie Contact was on there. And I've talked about it before. It's one of my favorite movies. I saw it in the theater in 1997. It was written. It's the only work of fiction by the great. By Cosmos. And he was astrologer, not astrologer. He was an astronomy professor, I think. Or what was Carl Sagan? Was he a professor of physics at Cornell? And probably. Yeah, I think he was an astronomer also at Cornell. It's his only work of fiction, the movie Contact with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. And what's so great about the movie, if you haven't seen it, is it's a realistic version of sci fi. It's not just like aliens everywhere and lasers and all of these things. It's more in some sense it's like a prequel. You could argue it's almost like a prequel to Interstellar. Interstellar, which really. There you go. That's the. I have that movie poster up in our. In our bathroom upstairs. You know, she's listening on satellites for something. And then there's Contact Is Made and how. And it's just a great movie. Cause it deals with. How would people deal with it. If you were a scientist, how would you deal with that? If you were a person of faith, how would you deal with it? How the government would deal with it, how world governments would be fighting over the meaning of the message. It really is just a wonderful movie. The director is Robert Zemeckis, who did Forrest Gump and who did Back to the Future and a million other things. Great, great director. So if you haven't seen that, you should definitely check that out. But what was the question? Was the question how would I given any thought to the whole possibility of aliens making contact? I mean, if they're going to make contact, I hope I'm here for it. And yeah, Carl Sagan was an astronomer. He was at Cornell University. I actually went once to Cornell. My buddy Jason was at college in Cornell. I went to Binghamton. It was about a 45 minute drive and I wanted to hear Carl Sagan speak. And I think it got canceled or something, or there was a snowstorm. But yeah, I would hope that. I would hope that we'll be here for it. And who knows? Like, as they say, as they say in Contact, it's like there are billions and billions of stars. And, you know, our star, our sun is just an average star and we've got a couple planets around it. So if out of those billions, there's a couple that have something like, are we really the only ones here? And if we are, what an awful waste of space. That's the line in the movie. I got it. You enjoyed the movie, did you not? It was a good movie. There you go. Elizabeth says, if you could instantly learn any handicraft, what craft would you choose? You know, the team brought me this question before, before the show today, and I think it's fairly obvious. Ceramics. It's got to be ceramics. You know, I'm a child of the 80s and do you have the image? There we go. It would be. That would be me. Me and Demi Moore right there. Same body as Patrick Swayze. You know, been working out a lot. And that's the movie Ghost. If you don't remember, that was the movie Ghost when Whoopi Goldberg was Not completely insane. Molly, you in danger, girl. I think I would be. I enjoyed that in seventh grade. I took ceramics. The kiln and the ceramics stuff. Does anyone have anything else to add? Feel this is an odd ending to the show today. Anyone? Anyone? Nothing? Phoenix, you've got nothing feeling good. Just feeling good about life. Yeah, what's that? Oh, tonight. Well, you know what? There may be a little surprise a little bit later. We're going to leave it at that for now. About 7 o', clock, we'll say that goodbye.
