Joe Rogan's Chilling Warning about Cali Election Goes Viral Fast

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The Rubin Report – "Joe Rogan's Chilling Warning about Cali Election Goes Viral Fast"
Host: Dave Rubin
Date: July 16, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rubin Report, hosted by Dave Rubin, centers on the state of decay in American urban centers—especially Los Angeles—along with surging concerns about election integrity, government fraud, and the ongoing crisis in Iran. The episode draws heavily from viral recent clips, notably Joe Rogan and J.D. Vance discussing California’s political unraveling and the implications for the national political landscape. Rubin, with a mix of seriousness and signature levity, threads together viral moments, audience questions, and guest insights to create a picture of disillusionment with progressive urban governance, skepticism over elections, and distrust toward American institutions.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. LA's Urban Decline as a National Metaphor

[00:11-04:38]

• Skid Row has expanded:
  • J.D. Vance describes downtown LA’s Skid Row now stretching 55 blocks, painting a picture ("like the US Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti": 02:11) of wealth buttressed by walls amidst growing squalor—a metaphor for urban decline and social division.
  • Dave Rubin validates and expands, recounting personal experiences in LA and noting the normalization of drugs, chaos, and armed guards even in upscale districts like Melrose.
  • “There are literally people outside that look like they're dying. There's trash everywhere. And this is Los Angeles.” (Dave Rubin, 04:07)

2. Elections and ‘Suspicious’ Outcomes in LA

[08:49-11:30]

• LA Mayoral Primary Controversy:
  • J.D. Vance and Larry Elder remark on the "super sus" LA mayoral primary:
    • A candidate (Nithya Raman), initially in third, ends up overtaking second-place Spencer Pratt through mail-in ballots—a statistical anomaly in Vance's eyes.
    • Mail-in ballots also pass a tax hike (“The people voted to pay more taxes.” – JD Vance, 09:19)
  • Rubin highlights the oddity of Los Angeles elections trending weeks, not days, with candidates like Raman conceding in tears on election night yet being declared winners a week later.
  • Direct vote share: “Nithya Raman...got 44%. Karen Bass got 33%. Pratt 15%.” (Dave Rubin, 11:29)
  • Rubin’s Tone: Suggests deep skepticism and frustration, but stops short of explicit conspiracy claims: “At some point, you're not a crazy conspiracy theorist if you just say something's not quite right here.” (10:01)

3. The SAVE America Act & Election Integrity Battles

[12:14-18:15]

• National Push for Voter ID:
  • Deep dive by JD Vance into the gridlock over requiring voter ID at a federal level.
  • Republicans (some, anyway) reluctant to abandon Senate filibuster traditions to pass the SAVE America Act—exposing what Vance calls “Senate procedural bull.”
  • “There are senators who are so attached to the idea that budget is 50, non budget is 60, that they're quite literally willing to prevent voter ID in America.” (JD Vance, 12:01)
  • Rubin provides analysis: balancing reverence for procedure with the need for action to combat what he calls existential threats from the progressive left.

4. Systemic Fraud in State and Federal Budgets

[21:51-26:36]

• Government-Enabled Fraud:
  • Whistleblower Nick Shirley uncovers Medicaid and government program fraud, specifically naming Minnesota and New York as key cases.
  • A key viral moment: “Governor Tim Waltz labeled my work as white supremacy... Meanwhile...he has ended his political career.” (Nick Shirley, 21:51)
  • $700 million in cash tracked flowing through the Minneapolis airport to Africa, mainly Somalia—“a lot of foreign governments have infiltrated our Medicaid because it’s...easy to defraud.” (Nick Shirley, 23:36)
  • Laura Ingram and Joe Borelli discuss similar fraud in Korean/Chinese communities in New York’s adult daycares—“fraudrepreneurship.” (Laura Ingram, 27:00)

5. Media Accountability and NPR Critique

[28:36-30:29]

• Media Complicity:
  • NPR’s correction downplayed $110 million in fraud as $110,000, revealing, per Rubin and journalist Ashley Rinsberg, a tendency to downplay stories that hurt their ideological side.
  • “Instead of investigating the fraud, the mainstream media decided to investigate the person who exposed the fraud.” (Nick Shirley, 28:36)
  • Rubin and Bill Maher remark on NPR’s drift to the far left and the absurdity of continuing public funding in the age of digital media.

6. Iran: War, Sanctions, and Regime Change

[33:47-41:53]

• Ongoing Crisis in Iran:
  • Jesse Waters describes the US resuming airstrikes and blockade (“47 gave the gay ayatollah seven straight hours of bitch slaps.” – Waters, 33:47)
  • Ex-President Trump asserts his tougher approach was needed:
    • "We hit them a year ago, just about a year ago, with the B2 bombers, and that ended that." (Donald Trump, 36:20)
  • CNN’s coverage is lampooned—Scott Jennings and Joe Borelli confront anchors for denying the weakening of Iran’s regime:
    • Jennings: "You don't have to put up a cardboard cutout and an AI image of the Supreme Leader if you're not trying desperately to keep up the illusion of solely in control." (41:30)

7. Cultural Decline and Movie Nostalgia

[48:15-52:47]

• Loss of Civic Experiences:
  • Rubin laments the fading of the classic American moviegoing experience, showcasing a meme of ‘80s blockbusters to highlight a shared, unifying popular culture now largely gone.
  • Excitement over a new "I Play Rocky" trailer—a reminder of individual grit (and a rare, upbeat moment).
  • “The movie, it's about having a belief in yourself. It's about going the distance.” (Sylvester Stallone, "I Play Rocky" trailer, 52:22)
  • Personal anecdote: Rubin meeting Stallone—starstruck and relating Rocky IV to political struggle.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On LA’s decline:
  • “It's like this beautiful facility with like fancy food and fancy wine, and then there are armed guards outside... reminds me of going to the US Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti.” (JD Vance, 02:11)
• On elections feeling ‘off’:
  • “You're not a crazy conspiracy theorist if you just say something's not quite right here.” (Dave Rubin, 10:01)
• On mail-in ballots:
  • “The mail in ballots also passed a tax hike... The people voted to pay more taxes.” (JD Vance, 09:19)
• On voter fraud:
  • "Any frequency at all is a problem. A single ballot cast illegally in an American election is in fact the theft of the ballot from another American citizen." (JD Vance, 17:23)
• On government fraud:
  • “Governor Tim Waltz labeled my work as white supremacy and called me a far right delusional conspiracy theorist... Now the highest government funded daycare in Minnesota has pleaded guilty to daycare fraud.” (Nick Shirley, 21:51)
• On US strategy in Iran:
  • "We hit them a year ago, just about a year ago, with the B2 bombers, and that ended that." (Donald Trump, 36:20)
• On cultural change:
  • “Highest worldwide grossing movies for each year of the 80s... That's what we did. And it was a great equalizer.” (Dave Rubin, 48:16)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• LA Urban Decline / Skid Row Expansion: 02:04 – 04:38
• LA Mayoral Election Anomalies: 08:49 – 11:30
• SAVE America Act / Voter ID Debate: 12:14 – 18:15
• Medicaid Fraud Exposé: 21:51 – 27:01
• NPR Media Critique / Bill Maher Clip: 28:36 – 30:29
• US-Iran Conflict Update: 33:47 – 41:53
• 1980s Movie Blockbuster Nostalgia: 48:15 – 52:47
• "I Play Rocky" Trailer Reaction: 50:18 – 52:47

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Conclusion & Tone

Rubin’s episode weaves together viral moments, policy analysis, and personal experience to foster a sense of unease about the nation’s direction amid urban decay, questionable elections, and institutional failures. The show’s trademark blend of humor, anxiety, and nostalgia seeks to rally a center-right audience against what he frames as the growing overreach and dysfunction of left-leaning governance and media. Despite brief moments of optimism or levity (as with pop cultural nostalgia or the new "Rocky" film), the overall mood is one of vigilance and impatience for solutions.

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For listeners wanting a snapshot of what’s troubling the post-2020s center-right—from big city squalor and electoral distrust to fraud and global threats—this episode offers pointed commentary, sometimes wry but more often fiery, with key moments flagged for follow-up.

Transcript

[Dave Rubin]

Previously on the Rubin River.

[Joseph]

He was dead ass.

[Dave Rubin]

Dead ass means like, yo, really wanna go get a hamburger at burger joint? Yo, clock it.

[Joseph]

Colonialism directly addresses the systemic roots of healthcare.

[Dave Rubin]

Went to the hospital and I walked in and they were like, we got a white guy, everybody. And they were like, throwing cash at. How you doing, people? I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin report. It is July 16, 2026. We have a very fine program for you people. Second half is rubinreport.locals.com community Q&A. Joseph's got the computer right there. If you want to get a question in on the fly as we live stre, go to rubinreport.locals.com on your desktop machine. Do people still have computers on their desks or on your laptop machine on your lap, or your iPad or your phone or your Apple IIC or your television? And he'll throw in some extra questions right there. We got a whole bunch to get to. It's a little all over the place today, but I think you're gonna enjoy it. We are gonna start with the vice president, J.D. vance. He was on a little podcast. I don't know if you've heard of this guy, Joe Rogan, very small program. I wish him well. I hope it all works out for him. And they got into a whole bunch of over the course of a couple hours. But I wanted to focus on some of their stuff around what is happening in Los Angeles and really how it eventually, and as we're seeing it happen now, it's kind of scaling all over the country. Between the election stuff, the homeless stuff, the drug stuff, all the usual stuff, let's put it that way. So first they dive in and JD talks about how last time he was in la, it reminded him of a third world nation.

[JD Vance]

Skid row is now 55 blocks. It was 50 blocks just like a year or two ago.

[Larry Elder]

Okay, so my first experience with Skid row was. So Usha used to work at this, like, very fancy litigation firm in Southern California before she was second lady, she was a corporate litigator. So there's a Christmas party in downtown la. You get to this party, you drive through Skid Row. If you follow Google Maps directions, you get there and it's like this beautiful facility with like fancy food and fancy wine, and then there are armed guards outside of it and these gigantic walls. And I realized when I was there, you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of going to the US Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti. Like super security, crazy wealth and privilege and status on the inside and squalor and misery on the outside. Like, it's the first time I'd ever thought America. Like this part of America is actually more like a Third World country than anything that I thought we'd ever become.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, he's right. I've been there. We didn't hang out on Skid Row too much when we had the operations in la, but I did have to go downtown every now and again. I actually remember the first time I saw how disastrous Skid Row was. This was probably in 2017. So this is not a recent thing that's been going on. I did the first ever show that Jordan Peterson was doing. He was in my studio with Ben Shapiro that night. At the end of the show, I said, I was like, hey, you want me to join you for the show? I'll do a little stand up top, see what happens. He said, come on. Down we went, we did the. What was the theater that we did, The Orpheum in downtown la. And I remember driving to it and, you know, we're in suits and feeling great about everything and think we're going to do this awesome theater show and it's the Orpheum, it's really cool. And you drive by and it's just drugs everywhere. We're going to show you some footage from over the last couple days of what's going on there. But JD is absolutely right. It's not just that it's drugs everywhere and chaos everywhere, but then all of the decent things, of which there are some there, because there are event spaces down there in la. You've got, you know, there's basketball stadium, event stadiums, et cetera. Those are behind gates. There's armed guards and everything. And to Joe's point, which I also think is interesting, I don't know if that's factually true. Can we check that? He said skid row is 50 blocks and now it's expanded to 50. I didn't think it was that big. But the point, whether he's completely right on that or not, the point is it is expanding. Why are we allowing this?

[Bill Maher]

Correct

[Donald Trump]

this.

[Dave Rubin]

I mean, look at this. I mean, this is crazy. So Rogan was right. We just checked. So it's about 50 blocks. 50 plus blocks. That is crazy. And this is everywhere, guys. I mean, this is. It's drugs. Like, what is that guy doing with that wire? What are these guys doing? Like, they're in. Do they have bombs in there? Meth? Like, are they child trafficking? All of the stuff. This goes on and on. I mean, I think you got the point. There are literally people outside that look like they're dying. There's trash everywhere. And this is Los Angeles. Let's not forget when I was there only two months ago. I mean, this was the image that went crazy viral. I mean, this was on Melrose, which is one supposedly one of the nicest streets in all. You know, with, you know, Balenciaga and all the fancy. What else do they got? What name another fancy store? Ziago Fotero. That sounds like something Christian Dior, et cetera. And here's a guy, sure, the swastika on the baby carriage. And he's, you know, it's interesting because he's got the cup there from Erewhon. Erewhon. It's like 20 doll for the smoothie there. So this guy was a Hollywood executive. The night before he spent so much on the smoothie. Look at him. But the point is, this should not be happening in any of our cities. But it's not just LA that it's happening, you know, that it's happening in so many of our Democrat run cities. This clip, like, you're gonna get the heebie jeebies. I guarantee you, you're getting the heebie jeebies. Here is KTLA reporter Rachel Menitoff. She's reporting on something out of Sherman Oaks, which is where I used to live. And something interesting happened.

[Rachel Menitoff]

And it's a lot more comfortable at this hour. But we're still in the 80s here in the Valley, so overnight temperatures, not necessarily dropping. And this leads to less recovery time from the daytime heat. And

[Dave Rubin]

I have to hand it to her, she was really calm.

[Rachel Menitoff]

I don't know if she knew that was there at that point.

[Dave Rubin]

So those fly.

[Jesse Waters]

They do fly.

[Dave Rubin]

That's like a flying cockroach.

[Scott Jennings]

Oh, Eric, it is.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, that's our Rachel Minotaux flying cockroach who is so professional, she kept her cool. All right, I'll give her credit. Like, she did keep her cool or she's completely numb, head down, who knows? But like, what? Why are there cockroach? Sherman Oaks is an extremely nice area in the Valley. Like, why are there cockroach flying cockroaches everywhere? And all right, I know that's like a little bit of a throwaway or whatever, but the point is there is something wrong in these cities and no one wants to fix it. And it reminds me, do you remember when there were riots in la? There were the anti ice riots a couple months ago and Karen Bass was like, oh, they're very Controlled. They're just happening downtown. Well, downtown is where skid row is. It's like, well, so what? That's a part of the city. It's 50 blocks, as Rogan pointed out. That's crazy to me. I can't believe that that's even right. So 50 to 55 blocks are this urban, absolute urban sprawl disaster. You got cockroaches flying all over the place. And by the way, it's a city of lefties. Crazy left who all masked up and did six foot social distancing and watched grandma die without going to see her and lock their kids up. They were so worried about germs. And suddenly if you have baby carriages filled with meth and people on the floor dying in a zombie apocalypse, you're like, oh, I'm empathetic. So let's just let it be. They also got into JD and Rogan, that is also got into some of the wackiness around the LA mayoral race. And of course, the craziest part of all of it. Yeah, there was. Everyone sort of thought there was that Spencer Pratt and I said on the show before the election, you know, is this just a national thing and maybe it's not going to work so much in la? And my friend Larry Elder, born and bred in Los Angeles, he had said to me a few days before the election that, you know, that the numbers, the amount of registered voters. He covered this again when he was on the show last Friday. The amount of registered voters so heavily favored the Democrats that the chances Pratt gets in are. He said to me, zero. He said there is zero percent chance. But as you know, the night of the election, Nithya Raman, the crazy commie who's worse than Karen Bass, she conceded and she was crying. A week later, she's back in. Spencer's proud. Spencer is out. Here's Rogan and JD on all that craziness.

[JD Vance]

First of all, what happened with the last election in Los Angeles, just the primary, I think was so super sus.

[Larry Elder]

Yes, it is.

[JD Vance]

And here's why. It's super sus, not just super Susan. That Spencer Platt, Spencer Pratt, who was in second place, got overtaken by Nithya Rahman in the mail in ballots. But that the mail in ballots also passed a tax hike. The people voted to pay more taxes.

[Larry Elder]

Yep.

[JD Vance]

In a state where you have the highest, highest taxes.

[Joe Borelli]

That's right.

[JD Vance]

They're like, we don't pay enough.

[Larry Elder]

So after the initial ballots all came in, it was. Karen Bass was number one. Spencer Pratt was right behind her. And Then number three. Whatever this woman is.

[JD Vance]

Nithya Raman.

[Larry Elder]

Snithya Raman. Okay, so you would expect the mail in ballots to be more or less like the original ballots in terms of 1, 2 and 3. I'm not saying Spencer Pratt's gonna win the mail in ballots, but it just so happened that the third place person, in relative terms, did a lot better than the first and second place person. It's proportionately better, such that the Republican was actually kicked out of the race, so that there's not actually a real election in Californ.

[Dave Rubin]

Right. Okay, so there they are. Reiterating what I just said. I have Joseph checking what percentage of votes Nithyaraman got in those mail ins. But listen to this. From Spencer Pratt yesterday. And this is super interesting. Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election. She's not campaigning at all like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd, Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with bastards from the start. So look, I don't have evidence per se, that Nithya Raman and Karen Bass are colluding to take him out, but first off, the very nature of the fact that election days have turned into election week and that you could have a candidate who literally concedes in tears, who then a week later is the winner and the second guy is completely out. And then of course, the top two happen to be Democrats in a Democrat run city, in a super majority Democrat run state. Like at some point, you're not a crazy conspiracy theorist if you just say something's not quite right here. Do we know the percentage?

[Scott Jennings]

44%.

[Dave Rubin]

She got 44%. So Nithyaraman got 44%. But remember, it was a three way race. Do we know what the other two got? We'll check on that in just a second. But the point is. Yeah, you got it fast.

[Laura Ingram]

30.

[Dave Rubin]

Pratt like 15. Yeah, so, okay, so in the Malins, think about this. Nithyaraman, who conceded on election night, she then got 44%. Karen Bass got 38. Is that what you said? 30 what?

[Donald Trump]

33.

[Dave Rubin]

33%. And Pratt 15. 15%. So why are those so out of whack? And by the way, that's not all conspiratorial. You can argue that, yes, Republicans tend to vote more day of and whatever else, but it's enough for us all to think something's not quite right here. So as it pertains to our not quite right election process, as you know, Trump's main thing right now, and I think you maybe can make the argument that his entire presidency and potentially the future of the Republic depends on it, is whether we can get this Save act passed. Here's JD Talking about how some senators, even Republicans, kind of don't have the cojones to do what must be done.

[Larry Elder]

We are right now trying to pass the Save America Act. One of its main provisions is a requirement that you do voter id. And we actually have, I think, a majority of the Senate that would support it. But this is just weird Senate procedural bull. There is a subsegment of people who want voter ID but won't blow up the filibuster in order to achieve it. And so they're so married to these old world Senate procedures that they're going to make it impossible for us to pass Save America. Here's what the filibuster is. It is a pure Senate rule. It is a creation of the Senate procedures which basically says that anything that has to do with the budget is a 50 vote threshold and anything that everything else non budgetary is a 60 vote threshold. We have tried to persuade the Senate to do is to treat the voter ID as something that can fall within the 50 vote threshold. And there is no law, there's no provision in the Constitution. It is legitimately that there are senators who are so attached to the idea that budget is 50, non budget is 60, that they're quite literally willing to prevent voter ID in America.

[Dave Rubin]

Okay, this is where I always give JD a lot of credit, where he can explain some of the granular stuff of what's going on while Trump, Trump doesn't do that.

[Donald Trump]

Right.

[Dave Rubin]

Trump's like, pass, Save act, let's make our elections fair bumper sticker stuff. I'm Trump. There's JD really explaining what is going on here, the difference between the budgetary stuff and the other stuff and how it all lays out and why now some Senate Republicans who have power at the moment, they can pass this thing if they want, especially because he's the tiebreaker. Right? So one or two Republicans could even leave. But then you've got John Thune, it was Thom Tillis, a couple others, even Susan Collins again, who was running against Platner. So it's not like she's great, she's better than the Nazi, but it's not like she's spectacular. I think she's kind of hedging on it too. So they can do it by simple majority, but you've got these people hung up on procedure. And I would say as someone that I can genuinely say I love the Constitution, I love our founding documents, I love our separation of powers and all of these things. I'm always leery of power. So I don't want just because you have a simple majority. I don't love the idea that you could change all these things. But every now and again in that I think it is fair to say we are fighting, we are fighting a movement in the Democrat Party right now that is completely at odds with everything that America stands for. And they are not only telling us that, but they are telling us what they will do in the future once they attain power, such as make D.C. a state, get two more Democrat senators because D.C. is the most blue state ever because people that are in power, it's more Democrat aligned.

[Larry Elder]

Right.

[Dave Rubin]

You're going to be in D.C. well, now you've got the Senate. What else do you want to do? They want to pack the court, but they don't want to pack the court with 50, 50 liberal conservative judges. They want to pack the court with their judges. And as I've pointed out several times this week, if you look at the Supreme Court decisions over the last two weeks, for every all the Democrats, it's always a Trump Supreme Court. Well, the Trump Supreme Court didn't even vote with Trump, such as birthright citizen half the time in the last bunch of decisions, it was basically 50, 50. So they're telling us what they will do. So will these Republicans not get over a sort of procedural thing? And again, I can get on board. Let's do things the right way. Let's try to whip everybody and get the 60. But if the alternative is we're about to hand the keys to the kingdom to a bunch of commies who probably want to kill a bunch of us because that's what communists do, I don't know. I'd get over the procedure thing. Here's a bit more on the SAVE act and where it's at right now. This is from Nick Sorter breaking the US House just passed a national security bill with the Save America act language included, 217 to 219. So it wasn't its own bill. It was included in another bill. It now heads over to the Senate, keep pushing for the Save America Act. Patriots without election integrity, nothing else matters. Donald Trump, by the way, has repeatedly said he won't sign any other bills until the Save America act passes. And Anna Paulina Luna, who we've had on the show, congresswoman from Florida, she has said that every Single thing that the Senate, that the Republican Senate tries to push forward. They're going to put the SAVE act in. This is where, you know, because they get 20, the bill will be for, like, it'll be some bill that has nothing, you know, a foreign policy bill. And then they'll have a whole bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with it. They jam all these things in. Would we rather have just clean, simple bills? Probably. But Xi is trying here and Trump is trying basically using whatever levers we have. Hey, you want us to get anything done? Well, then you're going to include the thing that we think is the most important. Let's jump back to JD now. This is a separate press conference he did talking about how the air, it's just the air of cheating is sort of in the system right now. If you don't have to show your id. If you look at what happened in Los Angeles, and that in and of itself is not good, which is why we should have national voter id. That is the SAVE Act.

[Larry Elder]

Midterm elections. We think we're going to win, but ultimately that's up to the American people. But we also think we have to do everything that we can to discourage cheating. Because you will hear Democrats sometimes say, and I love this line, I can't help but laugh at it. Cheating isn't that frequent in American elections. Any frequency at all is a problem. A single ballot cast illegally in an American election is in fact the theft of the ballot from another American citizen, from an American citizen who deserves to be able to vote. So you're right. You know, the elections, in some ways, the process is already getting started for 2026. But you don't pass a piece of legislation because you think you're going to immediately benefit from it. You pass a piece of legislation because you think the American people are going to benefit from it over the long haul. We have to do it. Save America is not mainly about 2026 to your question. It's actually about saving America's election.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, like, he did it again. Again, it's just like the granular explanation of everything. Like, let's say we don't get it done now. Republicans win the midterms, lose the midterms, it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter. Everything just proceeds accordingly. Right. But we don't get to Save America. Passed the bill, passed. Well, then we just know what will happen in Democrat states. There will just always be this air of feeling things are not quite right. There will always be this, you know, sort of subtle. Did shenanigans happen again? Or how many weeks do we have to wait for the elections this time? And the more you do that, the less you will get Spencer Pratt, who's going to be the next Spencer Pratt coming out of la. Because not only do you have to like be sort of insurgent, right? You also have to think there's a chance you can win. But eventually, if this just keeps happening over and over again, regardless of how nefarious the system actually is, if it just all feels nefarious. Things only work if we believe in them, right? Democracy only works if we believe. We have to believe that it works, right? Most of us at least have to believe that it works. And then it can work. Even if something works and none of us believe it works, then it doesn't work. Therein lies the rub. Speaking of rub, one thing you don't want to do, can I get this right? Is smash your shoulder into the floor while playing basketball because you had an 18 year old kid bash you while you were trying to get a simple defensive rebound. I think that worked. That's why I take Relief Factor guys, because my shoulder's all banged up. I did PT this morning. Thank you to Cynthia, if you're watching for taking good care of me. Look at this. I have Joseph over here. As you know, he gets fed a bucket of fish heads every day. He opens up the Relief Factor product, he places it in my hand. Thank you very much. I take the Relief factor as I do every day. There we go. And guys, it's a non drug formula and it actually really works. Whether you got a bum shoulder or a banged up knee or a little back pain, some hip stuff, whatever it is, muscle soreness, everything else, it's got ingredients, great ingredients like omega 3s, turmeric, resveratrol, icarin, black pepper. They're all designed to help support your body's healthy response to inflammation and help reduce everyday dysfunction. Comfort. This year, as America celebrates its 250th year of freedom, Relief Factor wants to help you declare your independence from everyday aches and pains. For a limited time, you can get their three week quick start for just $17.76. That's $17.76 three week quick start. It's ready for you. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-for relief. You can go back to your cage. Thank you. Let's move on. What else is going on? So we got again this just thing around elections that doesn't feel right and Democrats just simply don't want to look at it. And what did that video we've shown you of Elon many times when he talks about if you start exposing fraud, the people who freak out the most are the fraudsters. So you might think that around why Democrats don't care about something that seems to be wrong with our election system. And you really might think it when it comes to looking at budgets and now the fact that we are finding out that there is just, just hundreds of millions and literally billions of dollars of fraud flowing throughout the system. Of course this all started when Nick shirley, like a 25 year old kid with an iPhone, went over to the Quality Leering center in little Somalia, Minnesota and figured out that these people were money laundering and stealing from you, the taxpayer. Here he is testifying at the Senate about how he was treated for finding out that there was fraud in Minnesota.

[Nick Shirley]

By exposing the fraud, I actually also exposed the politicians and media and media who worked for years to cover it up. Governor Tim Waltz labeled my work as white supremacy and called me a far right delusional conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, he dropped out of reelection and he even said he has ended his political career. Now the highest government funded daycare in Minnesota has pleaded guilty to daycare fraud and the largest autism bus in America history has been exposed. Where is Tim Waltz in the media now? It just so happens that over 80% of the fraud committed in Minnesota is by the Somali population.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, I mean guys, it will never be lost on me that not only did he go there, he exposes the fraud. That's one thing. It's deeply connected to Tim Walz who could have been vice president right now. But then Tim Walls announces that he's not going to run for reelection. On top of calling him a white supremacist and everything. I was like think how crazy that is. Like he actually took out Tim Walz and thank God the man's not vice president. And might I say to the people of Minnesota, you're going to be pretty happy when he's not governor anymore. Although knowing what happens in these Democrat run places, you just get somebody crazier. Like you think Tim Walz was crazy? I'll show you crazy. Here's a little bit more from the hearing. Senator Ron Johnson, from which Wisconsin asked Nick Shirley a little bit about the foreign money that is flowing in and mostly out of America in these fraud schemes.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

I mean $700 million in cash flowing out of the Minneapolis airport back to countries in Africa. Have either of you gentlemen kind of investigated the foreign sourcing or an organization of a lot of this fraud. We're opening it up to foreign governments to fund their government, their own operations.

[Nick Shirley]

Well, yeah, it's been proven that a lot of the money in suitcases that left Minnesota went back into the hands of people inside Somalia. And for instance, in New York City, where I just did an expose exposing this adult daycare fraud, nobody at these daycares actually knows who the owner is. A lot of them had just been hired within the past month. It's in Miami. You have the Cuban government running these DME companies that are fleecing and quite literally looting from Medicaid. A lot of foreign governments have infiltrated our Medicaid because it's so simple and so easy to defraud.

[Senator Ron Johnson]

By the way, we know it's $700 million because government watched it go out. They let it go. They didn't even put the IRS on the case. It's truly remarkable what we're allowing to happen.

[Dave Rubin]

So, yeah, we are allowing this to happen. And you would think more people would be outraged. Like, do you want one of your dollars that you earn going to Somalia for some reason? Let's say you wanted it to go to Somalia. Let's say you really wanted your money to go to Somalia. You can send it to Somalia. For example, I never told this to the guys before, but I take $10 out of their check each week and I send it to a Somali daycare center. That's what I do. That's my way of giving back. I don't take it out of my own check. I take it out of theirs. But you could do it yourself. But instead, they're stealing it from the American people, and then they are sending it to Somalia and we know it and we're not doing anything about it. You might want to also go back and maybe we can put the link in the description to my interview from about four months ago with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is. She was born in Somalia. And she talks about some of the cultural. Some of the cultural attachments that the Somali culture has when it comes to. If you come to a place and you can take advantage of the system, you should do it. Like, that's actually something that is taught in Somali culture. Don't take my word for it. Watch my interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is a hero of Western values and has abandoned, obviously, that type of thinking. But of course, it's not just that it's happening. It's happening. It's not just happening in Minnesota. It's happening in New York. It's happening all over the place. Here's Nick. He's making the rounds this week on with Laura Ingram talking a little bit about what's going on in New York City.

[Laura Ingram]

So in Flushing, Queens, in this area, you have these adult daycares. They're like play date centers for seniors.

[Joe Borelli]

Yeah. So if they don't want to be alone in their house and they're picked up at their home and taken to this center.

[Laura Ingram]

Exactly. And we pay for it. And then right around them they have all these pharmacies set up. They have all these durable medical equipment companies set up. And it's just like this big racket where they start billing all these people with these medical beneficiary numbers from these seniors, from these adult daycares. And because they make so much money from Medicaid, they're then able to give kickbacks to the seniors. So you have these Korean and Chinese mafias quite literally looting the government from Medicaid and then giving the kickbacks to the seniors.

[Joe Borelli]

So wait, the old people get the money? Get money themselves?

[Laura Ingram]

Well, they make these, they make so much money, these pharmacies and these adult daycares that they then have a little referral program set up for these seniors. So it's like, bring in a friend, we'll give you 100 bucks. Thank you for coming. Here's your $25.

[Joe Borelli]

That's good money. What can be done to put an end to this? Because this seems like the biggest entrepreneurial activity of certain immigrant classes now. I mean, this is a big business for the immigrant community.

[Laura Ingram]

Yeah, it's fraudrepreneurship.

[Dave Rubin]

Fraudrepreneur. Her question is the right one. What can be done now? I'd say respectfully, I don't mean this as a knock like she's asking it to the wrong guy. He doesn't know what can be done right. This is now for responsible people to look into and figure out. I would hope that the DOJ is looking into this. You could probably get, I don't know if the CIA has to be looking into it or other. I don't know exactly what. Well, it's I guess mostly the doj, but like, we gotta get people enough. Enough. We know this is happening. We are letting it happen. It's enough. And then if you wanna see how the lies around this get laundered. This is wild. We've had Ashley Rinsberg on the show several times, who's an excellent actual journalist. He put this out on X yesterday. This is One hell of a correction by npr. And listen to this. They just posted a correction on a piece they put up on December 31, 2025. And listen to this. An earlier version of this story incorrectly said Nick Shirley and his colleagues claimed to have uncovered $110,000 in fraud. In fact, it was 110 million million million 100. It was 110,000. You know what? We could probably look past that 110 million. Bit much. So great work over there, NPR. We'll have more on NPR in just a second. But back to Nick Shirley for a second. He put this up on the Twitter machine. Remember when instead of investigating the fraud, the mainstream media decided to investigate the person who exposed the fraud? Why? Because they were complicit in the COVID up. I was right. They were wrong. I work for you, they work against you. The media is full of learers. And what he means there, he means liars. But of course he's saying the quality Leering center.

[Larry Elder]

And.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, why? It just, it's extraordinary to me. And you see this. We've shown you other videos of this where he's wandering around New York City and people start screaming at him and calling him a white supremacist. All he's done is expose fraud, which is stealing money from you. And by you, I mean me, all of us. And whether that money was going to Somalia or anywhere else, they shouldn't be the government and these NGOs should not be laundering money in illegal and illicit ways, not telling anyone about it, getting caught and then continuing to do it. But let's continue with NPR for just a second. They had Bill Maher on the other day. He went on with this guy, Steve Inskeep. And Bill again, who is still a liberal, a lefty, whatever you want to call him, despite all the good stuff about him. Right. I'm not giving you shit here, Bill. Bill is surprised that he was. Even. Welcome to go on npr.

[Bill Maher]

Your audience is gonna love this, by the way.

[Dave Rubin]

The audience is a little more diverse

[Joe Borelli]

than you might think. Really? Sure.

[Dave Rubin]

Some people, I mean, I'm surprised you

[Bill Maher]

even had me on because I just think of this place as so different than what it used to be. And like I would. What I always want people to do, but it's so hard to get people to do these days is just. Just engage with the argument. You can hate me, whatever for, whatever your reasons. I'm too old, whatever I am. Are you engaging with the argument? Tell me if I'm wrong about something and then we're gonna be Cool. But that's not what either extreme does in this country anymore. And maybe I'm wrong, but I think of this place as, like, on the far extreme of the left. But I could be wrong.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, Maybe there's a little more variety in who we talk to than you might have. Who are we told?

[Bill Maher]

Who you talk to is different than what people believe.

[JD Vance]

Right.

[Dave Rubin]

Well, first off, Bill's not wrong there at all. And I would congratulate NPR for putting far right maniac Bill Maher on. Holy cow, you did it. That's so worthy of praise. But everything that NPR puts out there is from a lefty lens. Even the way, you know, the way they talk. I can't even do it the way they talk on NPR with that low talk like this. We're all automaton robots. Can we get some kind of NPR audio for a second that we can play? Like, I don't even understand how they do it. But of course, it's all crazy lefty stuff. And also, you might ask that in 2026 with the advent of the Internet. And I don't know if you guys have one of these things. It's a phone. I keep it in my pocket sometimes. Podcasts, streaming audio and video, et cetera, et cetera. The idea that a dime goes into publicly funded radio is completely insane. Or publicly funded television, no. There's a million other ways you can get educational things. You can get nonpartisan things. Nonprofits can do things. Why are they taking tax dollars? And I know it's not all tax dollars. You can donate money to npr. You get a tote bag and all those things, like, you can do all that. Believe it or not, I did fundraiser for npr, like one of those teledrives that they do. It was one of the first TV gigs I ever had when I was a lefty back in New York City. This has got to be 2010. And I was at Caroline's Comedy Club, and it was like, if you donate $100 to NPR, we'll give you this tote bag. People really want the tote bag. Or you get an umbrella. Can we get something on how they talk? We'll get that in a second. All right, let's talk about Angel Studios for a minute, and then we'll catch up on the. On again, off again, hot, cold, wet, dry, up, down, left, right, loose, tight. War in Iran. As America celebrates its 250th birthday, angel is offering a great deal right now. You can become a premium Angel Guild member for just $15 a month. With that price locked in for a full year, you'll get two free tickets to see Young Washington in theaters this Independence Day, plus access to Angel's entire streaming library and tickets to every future angel theatrical release. Young Washington tells story of George Washington before he became America's first president, showing the challenges, failures and determination that shaped one of history's greatest leaders. To claim the offer, go to angel.com rubin and become a premium Angel Guild member today. All right, we're working on getting some audio from npr, but you know what I'm talking about that fake way that they speak with that strange affect and they're trying to brainwash you while we're talking. So they're trying to grab that. But let's get caught up. Up on Iran, the hot part of the war is back on the MOU memorandum of understanding. The JD Tried to push through. It was a very rickety, you know, 20ish days, barely. And it did not work. The Iranians, as Trump said, they are scum. And you know what scum is? Scum is pretty scummy. And they're not being honest. As Trump pointed out in a clip we showed you yesterday, they agree to things in the meetings and then they completely reneged. Now you might say, Dave, why do you believe Trump? I'm going to believe Trump more than I'm going to believe the Iranians. And if they want this to end, it seems to me they can get it to end by just allowing ships to go through. Here is Jesse Waters talking about the airstrikes that we are now launching in response to them firing at some ships and that the blockade is now back in effect.

[Jesse Waters]

Fox News alert. Trump's giving Iran the big squeeze. For the first time in the war, we're launching airstrikes while the blockade's in full effect. Plus sanctions are slapped back last night, 47 gave the gay ayatollah seven straight hours of bitch slaps. US precision missiles fired from fighter jets, drones and warships hit dozens of Iranian launch sites, mosquito fleets and defense systems near the strait. And this morning, Iran woke up to more bombs over an hour of pounding hitting cruise missile storage and missile sites near an island base. We're not stopping. Our forces are bombing Iran for the second time today while the blockade stops anyone without a permission slip a Curacao flag. Tanker headed for Kharg Island. That's the first ship disabled since we started back up.

[Dave Rubin]

Long story short of that, we're attacking again, right? And why are we attacking again? Because they were firing on ships. And as I Brought up a few days ago, you might say, how do they even have the capabilities to fire on ships? Because they have been in that they have been so decimated. You can still do things fairly easily with drones. You know, the Strait of Hormuz is pretty big and long. Like it could be random people with over the shoulder fire. Like there's all sorts of things. But this is now interesting because here's Trump really going all in on, yeah, we're gonna take these guys out. Which again, is it just his end of civilization ploy, or is it that he has just finally hit the end of the road with these people?

[Donald Trump]

Take a look.

[Larry Elder]

Does that mean that you might wipe them out like you did isis?

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, it does. We will see what's happening. We received a call just as I was coming here that they want to meet. They always want to meet. But, you know, this should have been done by other presidents for many years. Years. For 47 years, but really a lot longer than that. And it wasn't. And I never understood why, but now I do. Because if you're not going to do it the way I'm doing it, you're never going to make a deal with them. They were very difficult. They're good negotiators. They were tapping Everybody along for 47 years. Then Obama came in and he just offered them, you know, a fortune of money. He paid them off 1.7 billion in green cash and hundreds of billions of dollars. And that really set everyone else back because they started making. Wanting to make nuclear weapons. And then we hit them a year ago, just about a year ago, with the B2 bombers, and that ended that. So we got a little bit lucky. Our timing was a little bit lucky.

[Dave Rubin]

You know, it's interesting what he says there, that none of the, you know, they always said they were going to do it. He says that all the time, but none of them were going to do it my way. You know, that does give it a little insight into perhaps, why did so many presidents for decades say we were never gonna let them get a nuke and all of these things, and nobody did it? Well, it's a little bit of political posturing, right? You're running for office and you're gonna say, well, we're not gonna let those bad guys over there do that. That's like one version of it. But the other version of it is, I believe it's quite possible that some of these guys got into office, say Bill Clinton, Obama, as Trump pointed out, kind of wanted them to have a bomb, and he he gave him a bunch of cash. But let's say some other presidents, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, maybe even Biden, maybe, or whoever was in charge, that they got in and they were starting to look at the Iran situation and they were like, boy, this is going to be much more of a headache than we think. Like, we say we don't want them to have it, but what do we do? What do we do?

[Donald Trump]

Don't.

[Dave Rubin]

What did Joe Biden say?

[Donald Trump]

Don't.

[Dave Rubin]

What did Kamala Harris say? Don't. But these guys don't negotiate with that way. It's hard for us to realize there are people that are part of an apocalyptic regime. There are. There are people that want the 72 virgins in heaven. There are people that want the destruction of the west, that don't abide by our rules, that can sign a piece of paper and say, here's what we're going to do, and then just walk away from it. And now I would say the bigger problem is if we don't finish this thing properly, you're going to see the bad guys scale. It's a little bit of what's happening in New York City. If Mamdami is not exposed as the complete Kami Jihad goddess that he is, you're going to see it scale and it is scaling a little bit. But listen to this. As it pertains to Iran and scaling. Houthi rebels are preparing to shut the Bab El Mandeep Strait on behalf of Iran. A source told the Telegraph of a deliberate Iranian attempt to control the other side of the Red Sea and create a scenario similar to its grip on the Strait of Hormuz. So they may be realizing this is, you know, kind of all they got left. They got some leverage of the Strait of Hormuz. They can now go. Go for this other situation over there. I can't tell you I'm fully familiar with that strait or what goes through it, but you can see they're figuring out what their leverage points are. So if we don't clean up what's happening at the Strait of Hormuz, it just is what it is. Whether you want to be in the war or not, do you now want to concede shipping routes to Iran, let them charge taxes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I thought this was quite a great clip from cnn. And yes, of course, it involved Scott Jennings, former Trump DHS chief Miles Taylor. I don't know how this guy worked in the Trump administration. This is very weird. Is now on cnn. And apparently Anti Trump talking about how Trump keeps shifting the goalposts. And watch once again. We've shown you a couple of these types of clips lately where if you just are smart enough, you can always flip something on dishonest people and they basically will ask, either backtrack or you can expose them really easily. Scott Jennings does a bang up job right here.

[Donald Trump]

Go ahead.

[Joe Borelli]

Donald Trump doesn't know how to play chess. And our allies tonight even told me in meetings that because Donald Trump keeps changing his objectives.

[Dave Rubin]

Who was it?

[Sylvester Stallone]

Who was it?

[Joe Borelli]

Because Donald Trump. Well, I'll tell you when the president tells us who he's negotiating with.

[Laura Ingram]

So you don't.

[Joe Borelli]

So when the president claims you have high level conversations with other countries. I talk to people from the region all the time, Scott. The region or with the governments? Scott, here's the point. Here's the point. The people in that region who are our allies have been very.

[Dave Rubin]

Did you get what he just did right there? The guy said, our allies told me. So then Scott was like, who? And then it's very quickly changed to people from the region. Well, there's people from the region that think all sorts of things. Are you talking to our allies out your former Trump administration official. Are you talking to our allies about policy while you're not part of the administration? That would be rather interesting. But it's just. This is the exact same thing. Like that lady asking Ana Navarro, can you name some of the women who have been killed by illegal immigrants? And she's like, yeah, I can. She's like, okay, name some. Oh, we've done this too many times. I don't have to name any. Here's another one. Abby. Phillip again, she's just so dim witted. You can see she doesn't believe anything she's gonna say here. She's trying to imply that the regime is just as strong as it's always been.

[Joe Borelli]

Sure.

[Dave Rubin]

Ayatollah is dead. All the guys are gone, the military's gone, Air Force is gone, Navy's under the sea, they're randomly firing stuff. And she doesn't even believe what she's saying is the funny part. And here is Scott and this guy Joe Borelli, who we've shown you before, calling her out.

[Scott Jennings]

At this moment, there's no indication that the regime has been weakened or that they have.

[Joe Borelli]

You don't think Iran's been weakened?

[Scott Jennings]

Okay. All of the reporting out there from within the administration is that they recognize that the regime has not. They have not shifted away from the, from the Islamic.

[Joe Borelli]

Of course not. Their religious fanatics, they personally never change. But to say they haven't been weakened, I think is not true.

[Scott Jennings]

I mean, listen, I'm talking about control. I'm talking about how much control do they have over their own country? And I'm not saying why are we on a second? I'm not saying the people were killed in the regime. I'm just saying, are they in less control? And the answer is no.

[Dave Rubin]

You don't have to put up a cardboard cutout and an AI image of the Supreme Leader if you're not trying desperately to keep up the illusion of solely in control. Guys, again, you can tell she doesn't really know what she's saying. It's like, does she really believe it? Is someone in her ear saying it? But whether. Regardless of where you think this war is at right now, the idea that the regime isn't weaker.

[Donald Trump]

Could you.

[Dave Rubin]

Yeah, that's the Ayatollah in a box. I'm going to guess that they're a little weaker without the Ayatollah. And now they have his son, who apparently is gay and missing a leg. He's great. Time at a party, like, insane. It's so insane. The military leadership is gone. The Navy is gone. We know all these things. So the argument that you can say, boy, they turned out to be a little bit stronger. They had a little more wherewithal than we thought. Right. They're holding onto the straight in a little more of an effective way. Those would all be logical things you could say, Abby, but this idea that they're not weaker is just completely absurd. But we will put a pin in that. Do we have a clip of how they speak over on npr? I think we got something. Did we get a little something? Yeah, let's throw it.

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[Dave Rubin]

That wasn't a great. That was more of an ad read. But you guys. You guys know what it is. You know what it is.

[Scott Jennings]

All right.

[Donald Trump]

I don't have to.

[Dave Rubin]

I can sometimes just say something without having having to throw to a cliff. You guys get it. It's one of the challenges of having a smart audience. Let's talk About Tax Network USA for a minute, then we'll get to arubinreport.locals.com community Q&A. Do you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns? No matter how it started, the problem's only going to get worse. Penalties grow, interest adds up. And the IRS is already taking action through wage garnishments, bank levies and more. That's where Tax Network USA can help. With over 15 years of experience, they specialize in resolving back taxes and unfiled returns. They've handled thousands of cases, resolved over 1 billion in tax debt nationwide. Right now, they're offering a free investigation call with the IRS to review your situation and create a clear path to get you back on track. Don't wait for another IRS notice or worse. Call 866-685-6604, that's 866-685-6604 or visit tnusa.com Dave all right. Rubinreport.locals.com Community Q&A if you want to get something in on the fly, we'll see what we can do for you. Trying Daily says, I see you commenting on different channels, frequently on the news of the day. How far in advance do you book those appearances? You know, it usually depends. So I usually every week I try to do, you know, maybe two Fox hits. I jump on Newsmax once or twice here. That's one of those is that was Fox Business the other night. The other one is with Ed Henry over on Newsmax. Then I jump on some other podcasts or we try to mix it up like every week. You know, obviously I do the five day a week show in here for an hour. I do one or two interviews a week on top of that and then a certain amount of appearances. This month it's actually been a little bit less because obviously because we're prepping for August and we have so much content coming out. And I'm taping pre taping a whole bunch of extra interviews. We're doing throwback videos. We're doing reaction stuff. We're doing some lifestyle stuff. Like we got a whole bunch of stuff. So I just, I don't have as much time to do those hits, but I think they're worth, you know, we like to put them on the channel. It's extra content, but it's also just worthy of it's good for me to be seen in some of these other places and everything else. And I enjoy usually I enjoy doing it for the most part. Like every now and again I'm just like, I don't feel like doing that. You know, when I was on the west coast because of the time shift, I used to do late night Fox shows more. But now to do the eight, you know, they asked me to do Hannity a lot, or even Jesse Waters, which I do them sometimes and I like those guys. But to do those later shows, especially with the kids, I like reading them stories at night and putting them down. I'm just less interested at this moment in my life doing those later things. But every now and again I do them and I think I'm doing. Aren't I doing Hannity's podcast next week? Am I heading up to. Yeah, I think I'm heading up to West Palm and doing Hannity's podcast. But yeah, we just, we kind of pace them out. Christy gets the requests from all these guys and she sends them to me and I take a look and, and I usually, you know, if we get say 10 requests a week, six this week, four this week, eight next week, you never know. Lil fella says, are the movies finished? You know, it's so interesting, I mentioned a couple days ago that I am actually going to see the Odyssey this weekend. It's David's birthday and he really wants to go see it and he loves Christopher Nolan and I've mentioned how much I'm a huge admirer of his work. Like the Batman trilogy and it's Interstellar and Inception I thought was great. And he did Tenet, which I didn't particularly like. David liked it. I didn't do that. That was one of his ones that I don't think did that well. So they bagged on the sequel, right? I don't think they're doing a second one. And he did Oppenheimer, which I also didn't. I didn't love. But it was a good film, obviously. So anyway, I'm gonna give the Odyssey a shot. Even though we've talked a little bit about the Wokeness stuff around it. I don't want to be one of those people that just is like, like before I've seen anything, I'm crapping all over it. I'm outraged or whatever. Like, let me go see it and we'll see what happens. But yes, mostly movies are over. The only two movies. I've seen three movies in the movie theater since COVID I think I don't want to brag here, but it was Downton Abbey 2, Downton Abbey 3, and just a couple weeks ago it was that sci fi movie that I didn't love, Project Hail Mary, but that was it. And you know, we have a pretty cool movie theater in the house. Like nice big screen with like movie style chairs and sometimes I have the guys come over and watch movies and Whatever. So that's obviously very nice, but it's a shame because. Can you find. See if you can find it real quick. That meme of 1980s movies. How many movies were coming out every week? There's this great meme. And it's like in 1985, in the. The summer, like seven amazing movies came out of nowhere. It was like Back to the Future in Indiana. You found it already? Yeah. All right. He's gonna grab it in one second. And going to the movies, like that's what you did. My parents basically every Saturday night of the 80s and 90s went to the movies, usually with their friends, sometimes with us. I remember seeing Spaceballs in the movie theater. I remember seeing. I think I saw. No, I totally remember. We're get to Rocky in just a second. I totally remember seeing Rocky IV in the theater in 1985. Do we have. We have the image?

[Joseph]

Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

Oh, this is it. Yeah, you found it.

[Scott Jennings]

Great.

[Dave Rubin]

So look at this. Highest worldwide grossing movies for each year of the 80s. And just look at this. What was going on in the 80s in 1980? Empire 9 to 5, which is one of the most underrated comedies of all time. And Stir Crazy with Pryor and Gene Wilder. 81, Raiders of the Lost Ark, another 07, Superman II. 82 et Rocky 3. Tootsie was great. Dustin Hoffman. 83, Return of the Jedi, Flashdance, Another Bond Octopussy. I'll get to the year that I think is best. So that's what they ask you. They put this image up and they go, what year? Indiana Jones and temple of doom. 84. Beverly Hills Cop and Ghostbusters. I mean, that's a great summer right there. 85. Back to the Future, Rambo, Rocky 486, Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction. 87, Cop 2, Dirty Dancing.

[Joseph]

88.

[Dave Rubin]

Rain Man, Roger Rabbit, Coming to America. 89. Indiana Jones again, Last Crusade, Batman and Back to Future 2. If I had to pick a year there, it's 84 or 85. Temple of Doom is the best Indiana Jones movie. That opening scene is just phenomenal. Beverly Hills Cop Peak, Eddie Murphy and Ghostbusters is perfect. Or 85. Back to the Future. Absolutely. One of the best movies in the of all time. That's the original Rambo, right? Is that what it says? Does it say First Blood there? Yeah, that's the original Rambo. Yeah, that's pretty damn Perfect. And Rocky IV, 85 is probably the best of all that. But anyway, the point of showing you that is that we used to just have. It was just like that's what we did. And it was a great equalizer. And everyone was at the movie theater and it was a wonderful experience. And we don't really have that anymore. But that being said, we wanted to figure out a way to get this into the show anyway. And then we saw your question. I don't know if you guys saw this yesterday. If you can bear with us for about a minute and a half, it's really worth watching. The I Play Rocky trailer came out and it is the story of how Sylvester Stallone got Rocky made. They didn't want him in it. He wrote it himself. He was broke. And. And I thought we'd play the trailer because it just looks great. And I will go see this in the theater.

[Donald Trump]

Name a much.

[Sylvester Stallone]

Acting's what I live and breathe for. And I gotta have faith in myself.

[Joseph]

You need to show everyone who you are.

[Donald Trump]

I like this girl. Sylvester.

[Joseph]

Sylvester, that's right.

[Dave Rubin]

His real name.

[Joseph]

It's got a nice ring to it. Sylvester Stallone. It's like Peter Parker.

[Donald Trump]

Are you delusional? You don't. I don't got the looks to be a movie star. Not to mention you talk like you got rocks in your mouth.

[Sylvester Stallone]

Yeah, I know I don't look like Einstein, but I got a brain. The only way for me to get to show people is I'm have to write a script for myself.

[Joseph]

Yeah, so do that.

[Joe Borelli]

Write a script

[Joseph]

and give yourself the best part. There's something big here.

[Dave Rubin]

You wrote this in three and a half days.

[Joe Borelli]

This is fricking good to have someone like Chuck Bronson.

[Dave Rubin]

Or we could do Eastwood.

[Sylvester Stallone]

Guys, I play Rocky.

[Dave Rubin]

I have no idea what that means. So the writer wants to be in it as the lead.

[Donald Trump]

No.

[Dave Rubin]

Absolutely not. Throw some money at him.

[Donald Trump]

25K.

[Sylvester Stallone]

No.

[Dave Rubin]

Raise the offer. Try 75. You're parking cars for Christ's sake.

[Larry Elder]

Sylvester.

[Sylvester Stallone]

No.

[Jesse Waters]

170.

[Donald Trump]

75. Go to 200.

[Sylvester Stallone]

No, I'm not giving this up. Not for a million bucks, not for 10. Hey.

[Donald Trump]

All right.

[Dave Rubin]

Now, if you do this comes with some strengths. If you ever fall one day behind schedule, the meat's frozen solid, they're gonna kick you to the curb.

[Joseph]

You broke your hand and they can

[Dave Rubin]

replace you with a real actor.

[Sylvester Stallone]

I don't even know doing is any good.

[Dave Rubin]

Just do the best acting of your life and everything will be fine. How far behind the schedule are they?

[Donald Trump]

They're not.

[Sylvester Stallone]

This movie, it's about having a belief in yourself. It's about going the distance. I put my heart and soul on the page. If I'm not willing to live up to what I wrote and what's the point? So do you believe in me or not?

[Dave Rubin]

I mean, anyone else get chills? Like, I love that. Like, I wrote this thing if I'm not willing to live up to its ideals. And. And that's the true story of how he ended up being in the. The movie and everything else. And that looks awesome. So I will see that in the theater. And as long as I mentioned this. Can you throw the picture up for one sec? I met Stallone once. I think I mentioned this on the show. This was at Dr. Oz's house back in January of last year. There was a little get together with me and Tony Robbins and Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand and just a great crew. And, you know, I've met so many people. I've met the President. I've met just all these people at. I never get nervous or anything or just like, I'm like, not even nervous, starstruck. And Stallone walks in and he goes up to everybody and he shakes everybody's hand, and I shake his hand. And, you know, he's been through a lot. You can almost feel the cartilage in his hand. There he is right in the middle. Over there. Oh, yeah, I'm right behind him.

[Laura Ingram]

Yeah.

[Dave Rubin]

And Bobby Kennedy was there. It was just a great. It was a great afternoon talking about. The whole purpose of the little get together was talking about how Maha could do great things in the administration. It was after Trump had won, but before he had taken office. And we all just sort of shared some thoughts and things. It was a really wonderful day. But in any event, we were talking about Maja. And then I told this story about how in Rocky iv, it's a great parable metaphor for that because Drago is all on drugs and he's the bad guy. And what does Rocky do? He's going to the fight in Moscow on Christmas Day, and he's working out just hardcore old school. And it was just really cool meeting him. See, I can still get starstruck a little bit. Like, that's a cool one. Chipster says, why do journalists never push back when interviewees avoid answering the question asked and deflect? You know, it's a good question. And look, I can tell you as an interviewer, I can tell you what I do, and then I'll try to answer the question in a more. In a more amorphous way to everybody. But for me, you know, what I'm always trying to do as an interviewer is not. I. I usually don't try to bludgeon my guest into anything. But what I like to do is give them enough rope. And usually I find if someone doesn't really know what they're talking about or if they're lying, you can kind of see them wrapping their neck, you know, their neck with the rope. You can see them hanging themselves. Now, occasionally people will say things that I feel like you should push back more. And I try. You know, if you watch my two interviews with Ro, particularly, I think it was the first one, Ro Khanna, you could see, like, I really didn't believe what he was saying, and I didn't think he was applying it to his own life. And. And it didn't really make sense. I had a great moment with Bobby Kennedy the first time I interviewed him when I was asking him about affirmative action, and he started talking about historic racism. And I said, but why would you want to solve historic racism with racism of the day? And you could really see that he was listening. And I bet you he is not really for affirmative action anymore. And I'm not saying that was solely because of me, obviously, but you could see him working through something. I think the answer in a lot of the cases, though, is that it becomes an insider's club. Like, let's say you get the interview with the president, you get the interview with some big celebrity, whatever it is, if you go at them too hard, not only are you never going to get to interview them again because they won't want to come back, but then the PR agents and everybody else is going to say, well, you see that guy? That guy's a real ball buster. So my hero in interviewing growing up was Larry King, who, of course later became a friend and a mentor to me. And I always loved the fact that every night on cnn, on any given night, he could have. He would literally have, like, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird on one night, then he'd have the animal guy on the next night, then he'd have Bishop Desmond Tutu, then he would have, you know, like a stripper. And then the next night he would have Tom Hanks. And I just thought that was great. And he let them talk. And you learn a little bit about these people now, are they going to run roughshod over you? Sometimes if you're too much for. Of a softball interviewer, for sure. But I do think most of it has to do with access. If you are a relentlessly hard interviewer, people won't come back. So you have to figure out a way to do it effectively. And then I would also say that all these people start becoming friends. It's why I am way less interested in interviewing politicians than I used to be. Because you sort of. You start feeling like you're friendly with the. These people and you're probably not really. Like, I am friendly with some of them. Like Tulsi has become an actual friend of mine. But like most of them, once you sort of think you're friends with them, would you take it easy on them? Like, it's really, it's multi layered and it's. And by the way, a certain amount of it is. These people are just completely unprepared. These are not great interviewers. They don't know what they're talking about. People can lie and they don't even realize it. So there's several factors there. Backup never says, if you could visit a place anywhere in the world that you've never been, where would you go? Well, 100%, it's Japan. And Phoenix is going to Japan this August. Everyone's going to cool places. I remember like 1984 seeing the back of a Nintendo cartridge made in Japan, and I was like, I have to go to Japan. And the one part of the world that I've really never been to is Asia. I've never done Japan. I've never done Thailand. I've never, never done China or any of that. I really would love to go. We're potentially working on a trip for next year for that part of the world, for the team. But I would love to take a vacation there as well. And you know, I love sushi. And of course I want to go to Okinawa and see the village where Mr. Miyagi was from. Although if you watched Cobra Kai, sadly, Okinawa has turned into a much real commercial zone with a lot of, you know, a lot of chain stores and things like that. Nothing stays forever. But I. I would like to go. That would be nice. So we will see about that. But yeah, Asia is the one part that I haven't been to. Jeff says, will there be a new book? Saw that the names of your previous tours have been Don't Burn this World. And that sounds like a good title for the third. Yeah. So the title for the third book is definitely Don't Burn this World. I have the outline written of 12 chapters and I have the first chapter written. And again, I'm just so damn busy. And it's good. I don't mean damn busy. I am so busy, and I'm thankful that I'm busy that I haven't had the time to fully do it. And I've also, even though you want a book to be somewhat evergreen and not dependent on an election, I really do think that this upcoming midterm is so pivotal that I sort of feel like I don't even want to do it because it's a trilogy in some sense. Like, Don't Burn this book was defending my classically liberal positions, which basically have become conservative conservative positions. Right. And Don't Burn this World was really about, okay, the woke thing's not going anywhere. What can you do to flourish in this dystopia? Like moving, like creating your own businesses, getting your kids out of schools, things like that. That was more of a how to. And the third book is damn well is something like, well, shit, we didn't solve anything. And what are you going to do as this world potentially is burning? So I do want to see what happens with the midterms on that. There is a chance that as I'm sitting on the beach for some portion of August, that I'll take a notebook and a pen and just scribble it out. When I wrote Don't Burn this book for, the first draft of the book basically was three days on the beach with my notebook just scribbling like a crazy person and then trying to transcribe it after it was crazy and everything else. So it's sort of a matter of just what can come out of me at what time. Ozymom says thank you for having Brian Dean Wright on your show. From the Wright Report, I feel heard. Yeah, I know you've been asking for him for a while. We do pay attention in locals. He's great. He's a former CIA guy. I've had him on a couple times over the years. He offers some really interesting insight, I think, particularly on foreign affairs and how some things work on the back end. And he's a great guy. We will definitely have him. And of course, Larry Elder is always welcome back. Brian says Dave, what was your favorite treat as a child and do you still enjoy it today? Well, first, before I get into my favorite treat, the kids are really into Jello right now. Like a Jello packet or a little plastic cup of Jello. I don't know how they got into my house. Nona, was that you? I'm not sure what happened, but some Jello cups got into my house and these kids are. And they don't even eat them, really. It's just you push it out, you smush it, you throw it at the dog. I'll get some for you. Guys for lunch today. It's pretty great. But mine, if I really think what was my favorite, like real treat when I was a kid. This is going to age me a little bit because I can't even imagine they're making these things anymore. But I asked Connor to Google it. The Moon Pie. And none of these guys even heard of the Moon Pie. The Moon Pie. So you got marshmallow in there and then it was a soft, soft cookie. So try to imagine that. Not like a s' more where you're putting a marshmallow on a graham cracker with crunch. It was a soft cookie dipped in chocolate. Do they still make them? They gotta make them still, right? The Moon Pie. You can get the Moon Pie. We're gonna order some moon Pies. I'm eat a moon pie on the show next week. That will be my. I haven't had sugar in 17 years. It would be nice.

[Joe Borelli]

That's it.

[Dave Rubin]

Anything else, guys? Oh, we got a little Chuck Schumer for you to cold close it and then post game quick Rubenport, Locals.com.

[Bill Maher]

see you tomorrow.

[Dave Rubin]

A complete investigation that's independent now on Iran and the ndaa when all the Trump administrators.