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Dave Rubin
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Dave Rubin
But I agree with Chuck Gar Voice is out of control. The socialist phlegm. I will put you in handcuffs. What mafia movie did he just watch while snorting. Foreign. Guys? This is the Rubin Report. I am Dave Rubin. It is March 26, Thursday, March 26. Yesterday I said it was Tuesday. None of you corrected me. I had to see it in the commenters. Guys, before we get to anything else, at the top of yesterday's show, I posted this picture. Can we put the picture up? Connor? This man, at about 8am yesterday morning stole a bunch of target bins and other sundry items we had ordered from right outside my house. We caught him on our security camera. I offered a $5,000 reward to find him dead or alive. Preferably alive. And I also texted the local police chief. And I just want to say that one thing you should do as a citizen is know your police chief, know your local police officers. You should know people in your town. And I've gotten to know the police chief. He's a great, great guy. And I texted him the image and I also had the image of the truck that the guy was like white van right out of an 80s, like child molester movie van. And I texted him that too. And I told him what happened. And then I went and did the show and I offered the reward if someone could not kill. I'm just kidding. I didn't want you to go out there, bounty hunter like Boba Fett style and freeze him in carbonite and whatever it was. Just if you could lead to a tip that would get him arrested. 5,000 bucks. Anyway, by the time the show was over yesterday, the police chief personally found the guy. He ran the plates on the truck. He figured out he had something to do with construction in the area. Went, found the guy, they got him. And my bins, all of our target bins, we're doing some spring cleaning around here. We're moving some things around, getting rid of old holiday decor, moving some things into the garage, the bins. And in that bag, I should note, there were a couple kush balls. Just, just some kush balls. That's all it was. I think some pool toys maybe also in there. But we got the guy. And just as one other just side note on this, interestingly, when they catch somebody, when local police, I confirmed this with the police chief here in Florida, when local police catch somebody like this, they run a check on him, they see if he was legal and they even check in with ice. It turned out that the guy was legal. And we will leave it at that. But it's just, I just have to say, well, first off, Chief, I thanked you in person. I thank you once again. And I know you and some of the officers over there are viewers of the show, so really appreciate what you guys are doing. But it's also just nice to live in a place where they will get you if you commit a crime. And we don't have that much crime because of it. And people are armed and it's just safe and sane and everything else. So that's just a little sidebar. I was very happy about that. Thank you for everybody that dressed up as a Star wars, whether it was Boba Fett or Bossk or give me one more, give me a name of another bounty hunter from Star Wars. There was the robot THQ813. Give me somebody one more. Bounty hunter from Star Wars, Cad Bane. Cad Bane. That wasn't in the originals, but we'll accept it. Okay, let's dive in guys. A lot to get to on the show today. I wanna start though with a story that we covered a bit yesterday and the day before out of Chicago where there is this young lady who is no longer with us by the name of Sheridan Gorman. She was an 18 year old student at Loyola University who was killed by an illegal from Venezuela who not only was here illegally but had been arrested in 2023 and released. And of course, no Democrats. We ran it yesterday on X. No Democrats are talking about this story. They love to find an illegal who's getting deported and tell his name and what a wonderful person he was, even though he beat his wife with a boot and all the rest of it. But when a young girl gets killed, they go absolutely silent. Now this happened in Chicago. Loyola in Chicago, which of course is in Illinois. Illinois, thanks to J.B. pritzker, is a sanctuary state. Chicago is a shanktuary. It is a sanctuary city, actually. It is a sanctuary city. And here is a reporter by the name of William Carey at a press conference going after Brandon Johnson on his policies that directly led to the death of Sheridan Gorman. And then there's another story that we, that I didn't even know about until this morning. But a few months ago a girl named Bethany McGee was killed and she was set on fire. I mean this is just extraordinary.
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William Carey
Take a look, Mayor Johnson. Bethany McGee, I don't know if you remember her name. She was set on fire on a CTA trained by a repeat violent offender who was out on the street because of your policies. Again, we have another young lady, 18 year old Irish girl, Sheridan Gorman, who is dead. You didn't even issue a statement, which I guess is better than the statement you released. We got it announcing that Bethany McGee was an isolated incident, which is an insane, which is almost evil.
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Brandon Johnson
My work to continue to create safe and affordable communities, that that work doesn't stop when we have a tragedy like this. And as we continue to grieve the loss of Sheridan and other victims who have fallen because of senseless violence, we're going to double down on our efforts to ensure that we create safe communities across the city.
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Dave Rubin
That man is a useless buffoon in a suit. That is all he is. He should not be governor. I mean he should not be mayor of Chicago. Like I don't know what their recall situation is, but they need total recall over there. That guy needs to be recalled. He is basically a criminal and his policies are leading to the deaths of citizens of Chicago. We mentioned the shootings in Chicago over the weekend. We'll get to that in just a second. He shows no remorse. My work to create safe and affordable city. You haven't done that. You've done the complete reverse of that. And people are fleeing Chicago and they're fleeing Illinois more broadly. He didn't issue a statement about Sheridan Gorman. And somehow the story of a few months ago of the girl who got set on fire, just we just. Another girl just got set on fire. Doesn't matter. You know, it's sort of like what's happening with all these jihadist attacks. We've had four radical Islamist jihadist attacks in the last month. And we just. Well, we had another one. And let's just move on. I mean, this is. This is unacceptable. Except that there's a certain set of people that will continue to accept it. Here he is, asked if he will apologize to Sheridan's parents for his policies which led to her death.
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William Carey
Will you apologize. Will you take this opportunity to apologize to Sheridan's parents for the policies that you promoted that have. That would directly caused her death? That suspect would not be in the city, would not be in the country, but for your policies? Will you take this opportunity to apologize again?
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Brandon Johnson
We're all grieving the loss of Sheridan and other folks who have lost their lives because of sentence violence. And let's just be very clear between the Safety act and the Welcoming City ordinance. Welcoming City ordinance was passed 40 years ago by the first black American in the history of Chicago. And the Safety act was passed under the governor at that time, who was Republican. Governor Rauner. Thank you for your question.
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William Carey
So you will not apologize to. To Sheridan's parents. Hi, Mayor. You have no apology. You have nothing to say to them?
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Dave Rubin
I want to follow up on some of the other. I don't care if anything was passed by a Republican or you had a black mayor or anything else. You have continued the sanctuary city policies. So it's on you. You are the mayor of a city that allows for a ridiculous amount of shootings every weekend. We'll get to that. You are the mayor of a city who has decided that people that quite literally illegals who are illegal in the first place, so they've already broken the law by being here in the first place. They can then commit crimes in the United States and then be let out of jail, which is exactly what happened. And now this girl is dead. Do you understand that? But what is he doing? So he won't even. He, like, dude, I get it. You're wrong about these policies. You're an ideologue. We're on polar opposites of the sanity spectrum, let's say. I understand that, but why don't you have, like, just like, the slightest. The slightest shred of humanity to say, you know what? I really am sorry about what happened here. You could even. You could even, like, fudge it. You could say, you know, I don't think it's really because of my sanctuary city stuff, and I don't think it's because of what we've done with policing here, where we bring people in, we slap them on the wrist, let them out. Like, I don't think it's that, but I really do feel Horrible here and I will meet with her parents or something, but he can't even do that. And he looks just. You know this thing that I'm always telling you about with Dana Bash and Abby Phillip, where there's just nothing behind the eyes, it's the same thing. There's just nothing there. Because they're ideologues more than they are truth tellers. And once you do that, you have actually, like an aversion to the truth. It's almost a repulsion to the truth. Like if you have two magnets that can't touch each other because they're the same. Right. Like, it's like a. Like it's like this force that forces them away from each other. Anyway, what has he been up to while, you know, people are getting killed and people are being burned alive and everything else? Well, he does have a new snowplow.
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Brandon Johnson
And to all of the residents who participated in our snowplow naming contest, keep speaking up in every way, in any way that you can.
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Did you reconsider rescheduling this event given the murder of Sheridan Gorman by an undocumented immigrant?
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Brandon Johnson
Well, look, as I've said before, my condolences to the family of Sheridan. This is a terrible tragedy. This tragedy, it's not going to deter us from our work. In fact, it's going to challenge us all to double down on our efforts to ensure that we are protecting every single individual across neighborhoods.
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Dave Rubin
That. That is some Orwellian drivel. This tragedy is not going to deter us from our work. The work of ice, the thing that you're trying to abolish. And congratulations to all the people that took part in that little game where they got to name the truck that's so impressive. And that sign, My God, is there nothing they can't do in Chicago? The work of ICE is to get rid of the people that killed her. So you're asked about that and your answer is the reverse of the truth. Your answer is, oh, we will continue to work to eliminate the people who are trying to stop our own citizens from being killed. This guy. This is not even suicidal empathy. I use Gad Saad's phrase, suicidal empathy. And his book comes out and I think like two weeks or something and I think, and it will, I have just, no doubt it's going to be the book of the year. But it's not even suicidal empathy with this guy because he doesn't even have empathy. There isn't even a shred of empathy. He has like suicidal emptiness. That would be better. Look at this headline from ABC. 7 in Chicago, at least 19 shot, 4 fatally in weekend gun violence across Chicago. Police say again. And it's always every weekend, where are the most people shot and killed? It's always Chicago. Who is the mayor? It's that guy who. Where do they have the most strict gun laws in the entire United States? Chicago, Illinois. Is anyone putting any of these Lego pieces together like this is just extraordinary. But now I want to try this. A bit of a leap, but I want to connect this to something happening across the world. This story, if you have not heard this story, is so crazy, you're going to think we are making it up, but we are not. This is a story coming out of Spain and there is a girl by the name of Noela Castillo Ramos who is going to be killed. She is going to be euthanized in a few days. And here's the story behind that. You'll see how it's connected to people. Oh no. She's going to be euthanized today, Is that right? Oh my. Okay. She is going to be euthanized apparently one hour from now. So we might even be live on air when it happens. And you, this story, when you think about suicidal empathy, the backwards policies of all the lefties, immigration not holding criminals to account, all of the stuff we're constantly talking about, this is it in one grotesque package. Listen to this from Inevitable west, who's an ex commentator. This story is horrific. This girl with mental issues was taken from her parents and thrown in a state run facility with Mena migrant minors. They then gang raped her. It traumatized her and led her to a suicide attempt which left her paraplegic. Today Spain will euthanize her. Okay, so that sounds insane, right? That sounds completely insane. So African, North African migrants gang rape this girl in a mental health facility in Spain. She then tries to take her own life because she has to live with the unimaginable scars of that, leaving her paraplegic and now they are going to euthanize her in an hour from now. This is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. Here's a bit more from Al Mudina Barrosa on X. For 20 months, her father. Sorry, can we go ahead here? For 20 months, her father has been fighting a legal battle to save her life. He lost, but there are no winners in the other side. What will be done to Noella bears the weight of a state's execution. This is not a dignified death. She was under state supervision, taken away from her parents. And within that responsibility, she suffered a gang rape. The same government that failed in its duty of care is now authorizing her euthanasia because of the depression caused by that very failure. This is precisely the kind of outcome that many warned about when euthanasia law was introduced. Instead of surrounding her with the level of psychological support required to rebuild her life, the state is choosing the fastest and cheapest path, allowing her to disappear. This is profoundly disturbing. Okay, so there's probably. You're probably all thinking the same thing right now. Why is the state killing her? Euthanizing her? She wants to be euthanized. They passed this euthanasia law, okay? And she now wants to be euthanized because she is a paraplegic after being gang raped by these migrants in a state mental health facility. She doesn't want to live with the scars of that anymore. And we likely will be on air when she kills herself in about 45 minutes. Here's video of her talking about her pending euthanasia. My name is Noelia Castillo Ramos. I am currently 25 years of age. And, well, looking at the calendar right now, I realized that I have exactly four full days left before the final deadline is here. The fundamental reason for this is simply because on the 26th of this month, the medical team has scheduled a procedure to carry out a process of assisted euthanasia. For me, have you ever doubted, like, okay, I'll stop the whole process? No, I was very sure about it from the beginning. So think how psychotic this is. And this is not far from where we could end up in the United States of America. Canada has now passed some rather disturbing euthanasia laws as well. She's the victim here and the state she's now choosing. She does not want to live like this. She doesn't want to live as a paraplegic. She doesn't want to live with the horrors and the memories of being gang raped by a bunch of North African migrants in a mental health facility that was run by the state. She is now choosing to kill herself. It's so crazy. But don't think that these types of things cannot come here. And this is what suicidal empathy is in the end, who do you punish every time? That girl should not be a paraplegic. She should not be dying within an hour from now. She should not be in any of these situations that she's in. But because of the suicidal empathy of the government of Spain that took in these North African migrants, that mixed them in mental health facilities with their own citizens, you now are going to. The state is now going to kill the victim. Nayib Bukali, the president of El Salvador, he saw this story and he wrote something that's rather interesting. And I think this is where you can see how it could leak towards the United States. This is the ultimate goal of human rights organizations. See the entire case from the beginning to the end. They intend each and every one of the steps is part of the protection of human rights achieved through their struggles and victories. We will never listen to them, no matter how much they attack us. They have nothing to come tell us. Rather we should be the ones denouncing you for what you do to women like Noella. The world urgently needs to free itself from these organizations which are nothing more than law firms of criminals who literally prefer to kill the victims rather than protect them. So understand, understand guys, it is her choice. It is her choice. The euthanasia law was passed. She's not being forced to do this, but she, she no longer wants to live. And it is because of the horrible policies of Spain and really all over Europe. And you might. So how. What's the jump from the story that we just showed you in Chicago? Well, imagine if you were an 18 year old girl, you're a beautiful young girl going to college and one day an illegal immigrant just sets fire to you on a train. And now you're completely deformed or you have. And then the psychological problems that come with that and everything else, well, we could pass those laws too. And then we could have a rash of young women killing themselves, choosing to kill themselves because of what? Well, the suicidal empathy. But this is happening, of course, all over Europe. This video was making the rounds and I think it's just sort of a perfect example of. Well, this is a perfect example of being an ostrich with your head in the ground. The uk, of all the countries in Europe is the one that's going to fall first. They have radically Islamized the country. They have Islamist mayors in dozens of cities. The demographics are changing. Mohammed is now the number one name for young people in Europe, in the uk, they don't know what to do. They are giving their country away. And this video of just what appears to be just like a nice, well intended British guy talking about how he doesn't know that he hasn't noticed anything changing and, well, you'll see.
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Brandon Johnson
Have you noticed a change in demographics,
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Dave Rubin
the people who live here and so on? Not in. Not particularly. I don't see it hasn't even changed in any great deal, to be honest with you. So you can see why that video was making the rounds. It's like, these are women. Well, we assume they're women. We don't know that they're women. But these are purported women just walking around, you can only see their eyes. Do you think they have anything in common with that guy? Do you think they want Britain to remain the Britain that apparently he still thinks it is and doesn't realize what's changing under his feet? And this is happening all over the place. This is what suicidal empathy is. Oh, come to our country, enjoy our freedoms, enjoy our Western way of life and our individual rights and liberties and all of those things and then slowly, over time, replace us, take away our freedoms, make us bow to your religion, et cetera, et cetera. As you guys know, last week I was in Hungary for cpac and Hungary is just an absolutely extraordinary country. It is a citadel on a hill of Europe which has just laid over and let itself be raped, basically, literally and figuratively in some sense. And in Hungary, a tiny country of 9.7 million people, they have closed their borders. They have no problem with illegal immigration. They have stopped it. They don't have an Islamization problem or anything else. We were out and about at 2am and they were quite literally like, you know, young girls just wandering around and it's safe and it's clean and it's wonderful. My friend Eva Vladingerbrook, who is a Dutch speaker, so she's mostly concerned with what's going on in Holland and the immigration problem there. But she's now extrapolated that to all of Europe. She spoke, I think, right. Was it right after me or right before me? I think right after me at cpac. And here she is with a powerful message about borders and migration.
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The future of this continent falls or stands with our willingness to do everything we can to save it. We have to reclaim our sovereignty and most importantly, not just close the borders, but reverse mass migration. And now, of course, there are many people who will tell you that that will never happen that it is just too difficult and cannot be done. But ladies and gentlemen, just because something is hard does not mean it's impossible. Do you think it was easy for the Spanish to drive out the Moors after 800 years of occupation? Do you think Europeans born in the 60s thought that they would be the ones to witness the Iron Curtain fall? Do you think it was easy to construct the most beautiful cities, write the most interesting books, and create the most incredible art the world has ever seen? I don't think so. I don't think so. Yet our ancestors pulled it off. They did it all. So nothing is impossible if we put our minds to it.
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Dave Rubin
You know, it's funny, I keep saying, even as it relates to Trump and Iran and foreign policy and things that we have to. We have to be able to dream again, right? We have to remember that we used to be able to do things. That is her point. Is it going to be hard to kick a lot of these people out of these countries? I mean, mostly I'm thinking about this from a British perspective, but we're going to have to do it in America, too. And it's not just going to be illegals because there are plenty of legal people here who are trying to undermine the system and destroy our freedoms and all of those things. Is that going to be pleasant or fun or anything else? And will we have Democrats screaming along the way? I mean, look what just happened with Minneapolis and ice and everything. Of course we will, but we have to be able to believe we can do things again. And that's why, as it pertains to the Iran war, it's like all these people that are like, oh, my God, forever war again. And it's George W. Bush and the neocons, like Donald Trump is different. So we better start realizing that we can accomplish things again. You know, it's also fascinating, if you haven't seen the clip, I did an event the day before this at the Danube Institute with Eva, and she is banned. She is quite literally banned from the U.K. think about that. A Dutch citizen is banned from the UK because she talks about being able to defend the sovereign borders of nations. Meanwhile, the UK is overrun by jihadists and Islamists and everything else. I mean, the mayor of London is basically an Islamist. So it's just incredible. And they see no signs of stopping, except there are a few little signs in some of these countries. Listen to this from British Patriot on x. The last seven days across the West, AfD surged across Germany. RN breaks through historic elections in France. Denmark, anti Islam Party tripled its membership size. Australia's one nation kicked labor out of southern seats. The Netherlands banned the Muslim Brotherhood. The Trump effect is in full swing. So there are signs now, will these countries really be able to do what it takes? And as I read that there was nothing good coming out of the UK there, but some of these other European nations, and it was particularly nice to see something shifting in Australia because I've grown to really love that country. Interestingly, Alice Weidel, she is the head of the AfD party. I think we have an image of her from cpac. Yeah, so she spoke there. So that is the, you know, quote, unquote, far right party, right? The racist far right party. Well, you know what's interesting about the leader of the racist far right party in Germany, she's married to a woman and she has children. And she mentioned that on stage at a far right racist CPAC gathering in Hungary. And you know what happened? She got applause. Because people are realizing we better put aside some of our problems. So if the conservatives of yesterday had some problem with the gays or something like that, what they're realizing is, you know, the gays with their music and their dancing and whatever else they're doing, it's not as bad as the Islamists, so we better find common cause with these people. So quite literally, she was the biggest star there outside Viktor Orban, obviously, and he's running for reelection. So there's a huge amount of momentum behind him and everything else and excitement that he was there. But she was the number two star there. A German lesbian who is leading the far right part again, quote, unquote, far right party, talking about her wife getting huge applause at a right wing conservative conference in Europe. Things are changing, guys, and it's time that all of us really see what's what and pick some sides. Let's talk about Brooklyn Bedding for just a second and then we will jump to America, where if you haven't picked sides already, you should have your head examined. 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And, well, the Democrats defeated it 54 to. Well, the Republicans got 54 votes. The Democrats basically got 46. Take a look on this vote. The yeas are 54, the nays are 46. Three three fifths of the Senate duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative. The motion upon reconsideration is not agreed to. Okay, so as you know, they need 60 votes to pass this. This is why people are talking about blowing up the talking filibuster so that they would need a simple majority, which in which case, even if you had a few Republicans that didn't come along, the Republicans have the tiebreaker because of J.D. vance. And we seem to be edging closer and closer to that moment because the Democrats are not giving an inch here and nobody seems to know what they're doing. Yesterday, actually, we talked a little bit about how it sounded like there was a proposal that might change some of this, but now it seems a bit stalled. Here's some more from CBS News. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party presented its newest proposal on Wednesday morning, framing it as a reasonable good faith proposal that includes reforms to ice. Republicans have said they are willing to exclude money for ICE's deportation arm from the bill, but Democrats have rejected that as insufficient. Thune said the Democratic offer is not even close to being real. He said Democrats are asking for things that have already been turned down. So it seems just like they're going in circles. A test vote on advancing the funding bill failed in the chamber on Wednesday afternoon with no movement on either side. In a 54 to 46 vote, a measure to fund DHS fell short of the 60 vote threshold needed to move forward. Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote in favor of advancing the measure. So again, this all leads us to the place where will the Republicans do the nuclear option? Will they go for the simple majority and will they? Will will. In essence, will they have the balls to use power when they have it? That remains to be seen over on cnn. I'm quite critical of the people over there. But here's Caitlin Collins doing, like, a fairly decent job, calling out Jamie Raskin, Democrat, because, yes, this is the Democrats DHS shutdown. Donald Trump was the one who essentially exploded the deal when the Republican senators brought it to him.
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But then he met.
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Dave Rubin
That's my Republican senators.
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Then he met with Republican senators on Monday night. And they came out of that yesterday and said, we've got this deal that would fund this and just have this limited subsection of immigration enforcement that we'll work on later. Which basically Republicans were just going to try to find the votes on their own to pass and have that. And then Schumer sent a counteroffer this morning. That's what derailed it today.
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Dave Rubin
Okay, well, you might be a couple steps ahead of me then. Yeah, well, I don't even know why I'm here. Who, who put me on this show? What am I doing? Where are my shoes? Okay, so the question is, whatever Schumer's counteroffer is, is it. Is it worth anything? Right. It's the Democrats that are doing this, that it could be over now. It could be over before Spain kills that young girl. I somehow doubt it will be. I thought this was kind of interesting because there's a human element to this that that most people are just completely ignoring because you go up, you go to the airport, and you're pissed, right? You're suddenly missing your connecting flight, you're late for your vacation, family, wedding, whatever, you're pissed. And again, I keep telling you, what the Democrats are hoping is that people who don't pay that much attention to politics will be at the airport. They're gonna be late. They're gonna see the chaos, and then they're gonna just go, well, Trump's the president and they're gonna want to. They're gonna wanna blame Trump for it. That is absolutely at least a, a portion of what the Democrat strategy here is. But there's a human portion of this, which is these DHS and TSA employees who are not being paid right now. So here's TSA deputy administrator Ham McNeil talking about what TSA officers are doing right now as they are not being paid.
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Many in our workforce have missed bill payments, received eviction notices, had their cars repossessed and utilities shut off, lost their childcare, defaulted on loans, damaged their credit line, and drained their retirement savings. Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood and plasma, and taking on second jobs to make ends meet, all while being expected to perform at the highest level when in Uniform to protect the traveling public. A transportation security officer at Reagan National Airport recently said, I just want Congress to pay me for the job I am doing.
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Dave Rubin
So think how crazy this is. The Democrats are doing this to extract pain on you so that you'll blame it on Trump. Meanwhile, the TSA officers and look, I have no, like, great love or admiration for tsa. I think a lot of it's theateral. Many of these people don't seem qualified, blah, blah, blah. But I. But this is their job. It is a lofty job in some sense, to keep our planes safe, et cetera, et cetera, and our transportation system safe and all of those things. They're the ones paying the price right now. But meanwhile, members of Congress and the Senate, they're being paid. Although Ted Cruz has put his paycheck on hold and John Kennedy from Louisiana tried to get something passed so that none of the senators would be paid. During all this, the Democrats stopped that. So the Democrats know exactly what they are doing. Now. The one sane Democrat, John Fetterman, here, he is from fully admitting that the Democrats have known the entire time that this would accomplish absolutely nothing.
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TSA Employee or Commentator
Why are we doing this? We just don't get it. I mean, these are not rich people. They make around $50,000 a year. That's. That used to be. Should be our wheelhouse. These are the kind of people that we should be fighting for. And now we're talking about affordability. And, and now, now we're denying them to their paychecks and out here. And we knew going into it that shutdown of DHS would have zero impact on forcing any kinds of changes at ice. And that's, that's here we are right now. So what is it that we really get out of it? You know, all we've done is we've punished TSA and other employees under DHS and made us less safe, and now creating mass chaos in our air traffic system across America.
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Dave Rubin
It's just so incredible. He's the same guy. Like, yeah, you're right. They had no leverage. Again, ICE is funded through 2029. So the Democrats are trying to get the Republicans by doing this shutdown to just change policy around ice. Right? They're claiming we're trying to defund it. That's just off the table because it is funded already. What they're trying to do is exert maximum pain on the American people. So they'll be angry at Trump so that enough Republicans will be like, all right, well, we'll change what ICE's goals and intentions and policies are. But fortunately, in this case, the Republicans don't seem to be falling for it. Now will they do the simple majority? We will see. But the point of all of this is that the Democrats are crazy. Put it on a bumper sticker, sell it. It'll make money. The Democrats are completely insane. And that is why we must nuke the filibuster. It is not something that I would have been for all these years, but in normal times, you'd have two political parties that loved America. We now have one that does not love America, I would say that actively hates America. There is simply no doubt they will nuke the filibuster if they have a majority. And then they will pack the Supreme Court and they will impeach Donald Trump and they will open up the borders again, and we can keep going and going and going. And the problem that they're facing right now is they have no leader. They have a clown car of people. And every clown that gets out of the car is crazier than the previous clown. You go, boy. That's a hell of a clown. And then the crazier clown comes right behind him. Listen to this truth from Donald Trump. Chuck Schumer, a desperate crippled politician who has lost all control of the radical left. Democrats will make a deal now because he doesn't think that if. Because he thinks that if he doesn't, Republicans will terminate the filibuster, something which they should do whether he makes a deal or not. Okay, so that's Trump kind of leading. So will. He's saying the Republicans should do it. I'm with you on that, Trump. Will Chuck bow here? We don't know. But Chuck has the problem that nobody likes Chuck, you tried to be not a complete lunatic in a party of loons. It's just not going to work. Speaking of loons, Rashida Tlaib, who I have no problem saying absolutely is an Islamist and a Hamas supporter who is in our Congress, which is completely crazy. She is the representative of Dearborn, Michigan, which is an occupied city in the United States. Here she is on why she doesn't like the SAVE Act. Okay, Lady.
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Rashida Tlaib
President Trump and Republicans know that their policies are deeply unpopular with the American people. So what are they doing? They are trying to rig the elections. They want to force Americans to produce a passport or birth certificate just to register to vote. They know full well that only about half of Americans have a passport. They know it costs money. They know it takes time. That's the point. They want to make it harder for many of our neighbors to be able to vote. Nearly 70 million married women do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name. This bill is in a direct attack to our right to vote and Republicans don't want people like us voting. It would also increase purges of voting registered voters who literally are getting kicked off of these lists who are legally allowed to vote. And we must stop.
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Dave Rubin
Okay, look, everything she says there is a lie. As you know, I'm not cursing on the show, at least temporarily. And I know a lot of people are upset. Again, I went into the comments yesterday and people really want me to curse. It's something. I'm just knocking it for a little bit. You can think of the four letter word that I'm thinking of. I think. Are you thinking of the same word? You got it starts with a. You got it. Yeah. Okay. If lady, lady, if anything you said there was true, it takes time. It takes money to get IDs. 70 million women don't have passports that match their married name or birth certificate. Yes. That's what Republicans are trying to do. Republicans are trying to set up a situation so that when you go vote next November that married women are going to be turned away because their last name changed because they got married. Think how profitable, profoundly idiotic that is. But even if you believe all of the lies that you just said right there, the simplest way to fix that would be to create a government program. There's no government program that you guys don't like. It's more of a slush fund for you people. So in the interest of secure elections, which I would think that everybody wants, why don't you create a government program so that literally every American, free of charge, even though it's taking money from some and whatever, free of charge, could go get an ID so that they could vote, so that married women could vote, so that you, Rashida Tlaib, could vote, hopefully for the last time before we kick your ass out of the country. How about you do that? But of Course you won't do that, because that's not what this is about. Here's a video of Joe Scarborough. Not Chuck Scarborough, Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom. And none of them can find their birth certificates. These people, they don't know where their socks are. They don't know. Are they wearing underwear? We have no idea. This is far too oppressive. This is not about id. Mike, let me ask you a question. Could you find your birth certificate? No, I couldn't. Could you find your birth certificate? And it's required. Do you have your. Do you have a passport of your birth certificate at the moment? Do you? I do, but millions of people don't.
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Brandon Johnson
I don't have my birth certificate. God knows how I get it. And of course, we're not talking about the other aspects of the SAVE act that go well beyond id. And it goes to the. I mean. Which is also part of Jim Crow, the history. And that is when it comes to registration, you got to find your birth certificate if you know where yours is. I have no clue where mine is.
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Dave Rubin
Hard. It really is hard. Okay, I already made the point. If any of that was true, you would just create a government program. You would just create a government program to ensure that people could get IDs. But I thought this was interesting. Joseph pointed this out to me this morning. And you know the real ID thing, you know, when you go to the airport now, there's something called real ID that is now how you get through tsa. Well, to apply for a real id, you must have either a US passport or birth certificate, a Social Security card, two proofs of residency, and a legal proof of name change. Okay. This was required starting in May of 2025. Nobody in the Democratic Party complained about it. So they lie about absolutely everything. This is 100%. Just book it. Book it. It is 100% about allowing illegals and fraudulent votes. It is nothing more than that. That's what it's about. And that's why they think black people can't get printers. And black people don't know what a computer is. And the rest of it. It's a like, if you were black, you should be offended. You should hate these people. Hate. You shouldn't have a lot of hate in your heart, but you should hate people who look at you and think that you're less than everybody. A black person on a computer. Moley. Speaking of black people, Stephen A. Smith, here he is. This is a guy who largely is on board the Trump thing. But then Steve keeps coming around back to the Dems but then mostly smacks them around. And here he is basically laying out that these people are idiots when it comes to the voter ID laws. Let me stay for the record, you should have a damn id. I have no problem with the demand for an ID to vote. You need an ID for every damn thing else. And to the progressive left. Shut the hell up. You got a mayor in New York city that required two IDs for you to shovel snow. You ain't in no position to be bitching about how he wants IDs. And the GOP wants IDs for votes. Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that. I hear you, Stephen A. You're right. He literally was asking for two forms of ID so you could shovel snow, even though illegals who they'll pay to be there don't have to shovel the snow. So you got the legal people with the two forms of id. You shoveling the snow for the illegal people. It ain't right. Here's Donald Trump talking about how. Everyone calm down. We're going to be fine in November,
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Brandon Johnson
but from now until November, we're going to fight, and I'm going to personally campaign for every one of you.
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Dave Rubin
We're going to go to win in midterms.
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Brandon Johnson
We're going to have even bigger majorities in the House and the Senate than we have today. Going to help us.
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Dave Rubin
All of you Americans saw the true and craven nature of congressional Democrats during my State of the Union, and we're
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Brandon Johnson
not going to let that happen again.
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Dave Rubin
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.
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