Dave Rubin (30:15)
All right, so again, this is Trump doing something that he ran on. He's messaging it clearly. And there's two main points here. You know, he brought up Europe, and if we had a DeLorean and we had a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawatts of power and all that stuff. And we could go back, if you were a European, and you could go back 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and reverse all of your immigration policies and end the open border stuff and not let in millions and millions of people who are there to overthrow your governments and destroy your culture and everything. You know damn well that virtually every European except the most crazed brain broken leftist would do it. Trust me, I was just at cpac, Hungary, and everyone from every other country that was there, particularly uk, France and Germany, they realize that their countries are teetering on the edge. Actually, in Holland now, Geert Wilders, who's the prime minister, has just collapsed the government because even though he wants to protect his country's borders and he wants to deport People he's been in a coalition with parties that don't want to. So he wants new elections to see if he can get a more far right party, which is exactly what. When I had a meeting with Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, exactly what he said Geert Wilders should be doing. And that was just a few days before. I don't know if he had any insider knowledge or whatever, but. So that's one portion of it that we just can't let people hear, that we have no idea why they're here and what their intentions are and everything else. There is a bigger issue, though. And the bigger issue, and this is where it's going to get really messy and this is why what this judge just did by trying to stop the deportations is so dangerous, is we have no idea how many more of these Egyptians nationals who want to throw Molotov cocktails. People are there who will strap on suicide bombs, who will blow up buses or whatever else. We have no idea how many are in the country. So we better get serious quick, otherwise it will get much worse quickly. Nobody wants that. And this has nothing to do with Israel or Jews or anything else. Do you want people in your country who believe that because they have some set of political beliefs or cultural beliefs or religious beliefs, they're allowed to murder people in your country? Because it doesn't matter what the issue is, Right? It's what the action is. So if the action is, well, I don't like these types of people. I don't like people who think this or that or who vote a different way or whatever it might be. So I am allowed to murder them. Once we bring that ashore, once we basically say that that's okay, then all bets are off because everyone on every which side would be able to do the reverse of that. Oh, I don't like what they, they say, so I'm gonna murder them. And then you can do that in every which direction. It's deeply dangerous, it's completely anti American, and Trump's got a big freaking job cut out for him. And we will see if he's up to the test. Let's talk about Chef IQ and then we'll get a couple rubinreport.locals.com community questions in cooking meat shouldn't mean sweating over a grill, guessing if it's done or burning half while the other half is still raw. That's why I got the chef IQ sense, and I'm never going back. It's a wireless smart cooking sensor that goes right into whatever you're making. Just pick your meat and how you like it in the app. Rare, medium, well done. And Chef IQ Sense monitors everything and pings your phone when it's ready. No more hovering, no more guesswork, just perfectly cooked meat every time. Flash sale happening right now. Get 15% off@chefiq.com with promo code Reuben. That's chefiq.com, promo code Reuben. All right, let's dive into some questions, and then we've got a busy day here in Jerusalem. I'm actually heading to the. To the American Embassy here in Jerusalem, where I'll be sitting down with Mike Huckabee, who of course is the American ambassador to Israel. I'm going to do a few more media appearances here and then a couple other things before we head out tonight. Jeff says, dave, if you were an establishment Democrat in Congress, what would you do or call for in order to get that party back on track? Although that's a good question relative to how we started the show with Corinne Jean Pierre. I mean, I genuinely don't know. It is hard to know at all what an establishment or moderate or old school blue dog Dem stands for, because if you were any of those things, what I would be doing. So let's say I was just like an average Democrat who wasn't completely on board with the open borders and the woke stuff and everything else. And I see the party in absolute free fall. You know what I'd be doing? I'd be calling my Republican colleagues and I'd be having coffee with them, and I'd be going out to dinner with them, and I'd be trying to figure out what we have in common. And even if I, for whatever reason in my district, you know, near Portland or something, was still a Democrat, I'd be trying to work with those guys as much as possible. I will give Corinne. I can't believe I'm gonna do this the slightest bit of credit, which is that we have to get out of the completely partisan thing. That, ironically, is what MAGA is all about, is getting out of that. Right. Because it's not a traditional Republican movement. But if I was an old school Dem, I would try as much as possible to work with the moderate Republicans, which most Republicans are at this point. I just don't know what you can do with those people at this point. What issue could you win on the Democrat side from a moderate position? I genuinely have no idea. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Cool. Mom says. What are some issues the Democrats could be happily spending Time working on if they weren't focused on wasting our tax dollars fighting for what the majority of voters voted for. Yeah, I mean, in essence, that's the same question. I don't know. I don't know at this point, like, what could they be working on? Well, you know, if you were a Democrat and you still loved government after all the fraud we found, after all of the COVID madness, after all all of this stuff, but you still just love government, you might want to go, and this is why the Schumer thing that we just showed you, that compilation is so cynical. If you were a Democrat, you could have for the last couple months been like, you know, I don't agree with Republicans. I don't really like Donald Trump and Elon. I don't even like that guy. But you know what? I do like the fact that we're getting rid of fraud. But they couldn't even do that. Think about Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, all of these people. They could not even even do that. They couldn't even pinch their nose and vote for their former colleague who was a moderate Tulsi Gabbard. Right. So the ship has so sailed with these people that I have just no sense what can bring them back. Elizabeth says, what was the biggest culture shock when you moved from New York to California and then California to Florida? Boy. So we moved from New York to California, and I had only lived in New York. Born in Brooklyn, grew up in Long island, went to college, upstate New York, lived in Manhattan most of my life. We moved to Los Angeles in 2013. I would say the biggest culture shock for me was after living in New York City. I lived in New York City from 99 to 2013. I was there for 9, 11. I was in the hustle and bustle. I was grinding as a standup, doing all sorts of odd jobs during the day. There were times I didn't have enough money for a freaking cup of coffee. And then I was doing two, three gigs every night, and I was doing road stuff. And I was just in the grind of when you're in your 20s and you don't even know, you just want to do something, and you're not even smart enough to know that it might not work. And that's why you do it. That's the beauty of the adventure, and that's the beauty of youth, I suppose. It was all about the hustle and bustle in New York City. It was just this endless thing. And then I got to la, and at first we moved to West Hollywood. Eventually we moved to the Valley. And the weather was perfect every single day. And it wasn't hustle and bustle. I remember we would be walking our dog, Emma, at the time. And, like, it wasn't about her chasing down the Chinese delivery guy or, you know, a homeless guy jumping out. Because la at that time, before all the craziness was beautiful and clean and simple and everything else. So that the slower pace was the. Was the real shock. And then from, well, from Cali to Florida, which we moved In December of 21, I mean, obviously it was. It wasn't a shock, I would say, because I knew it, at least in my head, but it was still the COVID craziness and all, and some version of lockdowns and masks and I was getting yelled at everywhere. And, you know, just all of the terrible stuff that was happening. And then the homelessness and the burning down of Ventura Boulevard, which we lived off of, and everything else. It was all of that Cali. And then I moved to Florida, and immediately it's just clean and safe and nobody's wearing a mask. And in my neighborhood, there are American flags everywhere. And, you know, for the first couple weeks, I think I've talked about this before. I would wear my. It's still really my only hat that I wear, but my Florida hat with a map of Florida here. So that when the new people in my neighborhood would see me, they would. And then say, hi, you know, I don't recognize you, where to come from. If I say I come from Cali, they would freak out, but then they'd see the Florida, Florida at. Sometimes I would literally have a picture of me and DeSantis on my phone to just be like, don't. You got nothing to worry about with me? So it was really just like it was the sanity of Florida. It's not that it was shocking to me, but it was, I would say, very validating. Chipster says, what's your thought on the fact that most people that are sentenced to death are never executed? Instead they die many years later of a disease, condition, or old age. Many family members of the victim pass without seeing justice. I believe those sentenced to death in cases of no doubt about their guilt, should meet their maker with an ear. Wow, that's a great question that we should do more. You know, I'm definitely feeling, and I think it's a little bit because of the spiritual nature of being here in Israel, but particularly in Jerusalem, I'm definitely feeling a little bit like I want to get back to some of the philosophical stuff that I Used to talk about more instead of, like, the endless nitty gritty political stuff. And there's a great philosophical debate around the death penalty. Obviously, you know, I've shifted. I was largely against it for a long time. You can find a debate of mine from about 10 years ago where I, on the left, was debating against the death penalty, Dennis Prager was debating for it. And I have shifted in some sense. So I'm not against the death penalty in the airtight cases. But you are right, people, because of the amount of time they end up staying there, the amount of challenging in the court cases that often these people don't. They end up staying on death row for years and years and years. And to your point, then family members of the people who really paid the ultimate price with a loved one who was killed by these people, then they don't get to see justice. I don't know what the exact best way to do that is. In the airtight way. Yeah, it probably should be done a little bit faster, but I promise you I'll do some more shows on this from both perspectives. Francis says, is there any other state that you would live in outside of Florida? Well, look, it would only be a red state, obviously. You know, we were in Austin a couple weeks ago, and I mentioned to you guys that in the city of Austin, which is blue, and the motto is Keep Austin Weird. Basically, like Portland, there was a lot of homeless people. I was not happy there. I'm over city life in general. I don't like it anymore. I want nothing to do with cities. You know, I like being outside, having a little bit of land, being separate and distant. I think it's just part of life and having a family and that kind of stuff. But I did go to the outskirts of Austin, you know, about an hour away where Roseanne Barr lived, and we did a podcast, and I went to Joel Lonsdale's house. That podcast will be up in a couple weeks. And there are great areas where, you know, you can have, like, you know, a gated community and you can have some land, and it feels much more rural, and you can do some farming and you can have some animals and all of that stuff that's interesting to me. So there's several places outside of Dallas that would be somewhat interesting to me. You know, I don't know, maybe something like Montana or Utah. I'm definitely much more into the rural things these days. But I'm not interested in ever going back to a place that I think could flip back blue or I'm Definitely not interested in a city at all. Let's talk about balance of Nature real quick and then a couple more questions before we continue on with the day. 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I've got what it's a 11 hour flight or something from Miami or from Tel Aviv back to Miami and for some reason I can't sleep on planes anymore. I don't know what's happened there. I'm going to download it and I will try to read it and I will get to back back to you next week on that. I've read little excerpts and I know enough about it. But yeah, it would be good to get a little more insight into that. Heidi says Karen Bass defends her water chief because there was a rip in the reservoir cover. Has anyone heard of duct tape? Yeah, I sort of glossed over that yesterday because she just says it. This is where they're talking about, hey, your water chief got 700 plus grand salary. Like, how ridiculous is all of this? And she's like, well, they weren't great. And you know, there was a rip in the thing. But this is what the Democrats are you pay inept people lots of money. The buck never stops with anyone. So it doesn't matter if the water chief was a DEI hire who was incompetent and that Karen Bass obviously is not truly competent to be running that city. Oh, there was a rip. Oh, we didn't think that the reservoir should be filled because we thought there was enough time in the sand. It's just all, all of its nonsense. So whether it was duct tape that could have fixed it or anything else. It's like none of you people deserve the jobs in the first place. But you know what? You've got the jobs. And that's why I will not live in Los Angeles ever again. Polly says, what were some of the jokes you told on the stage in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv? Well, you know, I did very, very different shows. We'll probably show you some video of it, but I like keeping the theater things just sort of in the theater. That's the beauty of doing a live show. You're with a group of people, you're with a couple hundred people and you just. It's live, it exists then and that's it. But the shows were very different. Tel Aviv, right before we did the show, everybody on their phones, I mean, a minute before the show were getting rocket incoming rocket warnings and there was a siren outside. And it turned out that our theater, literally the theater was downstairs. The theater itself was a bomb shelter all in concrete. So obviously I started the, you know, you don't want a bomb in a comedy club. This is a little literal. And then we just kind of went from there. And then Tel Aviv, you know, it was just like I really messed around with the crowd. Yesterday in Jerusalem, it was a very. And maybe we'll show you some pictures and stuff. Yesterday in Jerusalem, it was a very different show. I really was feeling quite moved by the experience that I talked about at the top of the show. Being at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, which is just moments away. A few minute walk which we took and we filmed a lot of it from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is the holiest site in Christianity, and just walking those streets that Jesus walked and walking the streets that all of our ancestors walked, regardless of your religion now, and seeing a place that, you know, the Orthodox hat wear, black hat wearing, bearded Jew is walking next to a woman in a burqa and you hear Arabic and you hear English and you hear Hebrew and you hear a whole bunch of other. You hear all sorts of languages from all over the world because all these people come here. So it was quite moving. So anyway, the show last night was, I think, much more heartfelt and I talked a little bit more about my spiritual journey and things like that, but both were really great. And I hope to do this. You know what, if you're in another country right now and you want to invite me, I'm going to see what I can do. I can't get everywhere, but I will do the best I can. I like meeting people from other places in the world. I like seeing what, what problems and solutions people have to all of the things that we're dealing with. And we do have a worldwide audience, so I appreciate it. I also appreciate the fine people at jns. And if any of you are in the podcast game and you need a really spectacular studio, there are many different versions of what we could have done here. We went with the digital background, but they got a great background with bookshelves and all sorts of stuff and the people are great here. If you ever need a studio in Jerusalem, contact jns. I thank you guys for watching. We're heading up to meet Ambassador Mike Huckabee and then back to the United States of America. Thanks for watching everybody, and we will see you soon. Goodbye.
