Bill Maher (2:49)

This is not the only country where the pendulum doesn't land in the middle. Apparently, Germany is so afraid to look like their Nazi past that they're literally knocking on people's doors. Doors. And taking their phones and their computers. If you just insult people online, we.

Fareed Zakaria (3:04)

Have an amazing set of protections with the First Amendment. And the Germans have a particular history. You're right. You know, for example, Holocaust denial, which is allowed in the US Anyone can say whatever they want. It's illegal in Germany because they're sensitive to the Nazi past in much of Europe, mostly in Germany. But what I really thought was offensive about that speech was the premise of the speech was that this is the greatest danger facing Europe today. Not Russian aggression, not Chinese or lack.

Bill Maher (3:34)

Of speech in Russia.

Dave Rubin (3:35)

I mean, God, there's so much to talk about there. First off, let me just. Bill, I'm going to give you largely a pass because you're good on free speech. I am going to ding you for a moment because the party that you're basically calling the new Nazis is the AfD, who did extremely well in the election, although they did not win, The Conservatives won. And now they're going to align with the Social Democrats, which kind of sucks for the average German. But that aside, they are not Nazis. They want borders and they want to protect German culture. And I know that gets confusing for people with Germany's past, but they are headed up by a woman who is a lesbian, who is married to a Sri Lankan lesbian. If that is the face of modern Nazis, then, well, Nazis just ain't what they used to be. Okay? But that aside, what's interesting about the clip is that Bill, of course, is usually right on free speech. Farid, There is mostly concern that actually the biggest threats. He's not really worried about the free speech threat that might be happening in Germany, that police are showing up because people put memes online or make fun of people or dare talk about Islam or Jihad. He's mostly concerned that Russia and China and some of these other things are threats. They are threats. But I think most people talk to. Talk to your friends over in Britain, if you have any, and ask them what they feel is the biggest threat right now. And most of them actually will talk about Immigration first, because they've just let in all of these people that are destroying their culture. We'll get to more of that in a second. But then it is the chilling effect around free speech. People are afraid to say what they think. They have literal police officers showing up and arresting grandmas over memes. So if Germany or Britain or some of these other countries are going to fall, it's because they're going to fall on their own sword. They will. They will not be able to debate any of the important issues. How do you debate immigration? How do you debate porters or any of these other things if you don't have free speech first? There was a bunch of old guys a couple hundred years ago who wore white wigs and they wrote on some old papers and they put down this thing in America called the First Amendment and they made it first and it was about free speech, and there was a reason they made it first. And then the second amendment, which was to protect the first amendment, that was the second one for a reason that had something to do with, you know, you able to have arms and defend yourself. So I think we kind of got it right here and we should be defending the people all over the world who want to speak freely about issues. And if you, you don't, if you think you're watching this and you're going, dave, come on. Germany doesn't have a problem as it relates to free speech. This obviously is made up. They're not arresting grandmas who are posting memes online. Well, don't take my word for it. Take. How about 60 minutes word for it. A stiff bind and sometimes keeps their devices. How do people react when you take their phones from them?

Richard Dawkins (6:16)

They are shocked. It's a kind of punishment. If you lose your smartphone, it's even worse than the fine you have to.

Dave Rubin (6:24)

Pay use your whole life. All right. There is something creepy about the German accent when it comes to, like, we are going to take your stuff and, you know, just sit down, show me your papers. But this is really happening. The fact that these people who are doing it are laughing about it. This is incredibly dangerous. What do you think happens over time if people can't debate issues properly? Well, bad ideas get pushed further underground. They don't get destroyed. And then elections become sort of just larping nonsense because nobody's actually talking about what's really bothering them. And then, you know, bad things tend to stretch, tend to stem from that. Now let's connect this over to the uk because the UK has a whole bunch of problems And Richard Dawkins, who has been sort of the leading, you'd say him and Sam Harris really have been sort of the leading atheists in the world. Now, the atheist, particularly the new atheist movement, has collapsed over the last decade or so. I think largely that's good. And Dawkins himself has even begrudgingly admitted that he is glad to live in a Christian country talking about Britain because it defends his liberal atheist beliefs. I want to throw back to a clip from about a year and a half ago. He was on Piers Morgan and here they are talking about an ISIS bride and Islam and you can see how nervous he gets, although doesn't really have a problem criticizing, say, Christianity.

Richard Dawkins (7:43)

There's been a big debate about this ISIS bride, Shamima Begum, whether she should be allowed to come back to this country. Do you have a view about that? I'd rather not say. You'd rather not say? I haven't studied it enough. Well, she was married to an ISIS fighter. I know she was a young, but she was 15 when she went out there. The debate really is, was she groomed to be part of this terror group in Syria and as such, should we show mercy and allow her back to this country? Yes, I'm not going to say about that. Are you worried about. Do you get threats because of the positions you've taken on some of these things? When you saw what happened to Salman Rushdie, didn't send a shutter through. Are you saying, no, you don't want to talk about it or. Yes, right. I mean, that's interesting in itself because. Is it. There are areas which you would prefer not to discuss. Yes, I should have said that before we started.

Dave Rubin (8:37)

I mean, that's a chilling clip. Let me give some kudos to Piers for doing a nice job right there. Richard Dawkins has spent his life attacking Christianity. Attack, largely attacking the west, because if you're attacking Christianity and you end up attacking the west and the west is the thing that defended your life as a liberal atheist. So he would have no problem. I mean, you can watch literally thousands of speeches of his online talking about Christianity, but when he's asked about an ISIS bride, like, that's not great. You marry an ISIS dude. Maybe you shouldn't come back to, to the uk. That's not bigoted or anything else, but he's afraid to talk about it. You can really see, I mean, he can barely move his mouth, his body language, everything. Really afraid to talk about it. That is a problem, I would say, and it's a direct problem. With what's happening in the UK right now. My friend Lawrence Fox, who's been on the show, he at one time ran for May. He's an actor who got canceled years ago because he was a little politically outspoken. He ran for the Mayor of London. It did not work out for him, but he's very politically involved. He put this video up. It's going massively, massively viral right now. And check this out. He wrote, it was a good millennium, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of brave men who sacrificed their lives only for traitor politicians to hand Britain over to Islam. The dying gasps of a once most successful continuous culture on earth surrendered. And we're going to play a little audio of it for about 10 seconds. So what they're doing there, these are Ramadan celebrations in Windsor Castle, which is a Protestant royal residence and fortress in England. That's the oldest, oldest and large occupied castle in the world. And they're playing Ramadan celebrations there. Now, you might say, in and of itself, that's not that. What's the problem? What's the problem? It looked peaceful and everything else. The problem is that. Well, there's several problems, I would say. One problem is, would it go the other way? How many places of Muslim worship are opened up for Jews or Christians or Hindus or Buddhists to pray in? I don't have an abacus with me, but it's not many. That's number one. Number two, the other problem is that the UK has a massive problem as it pertains to immigration and integrating people into their society. And it's just a reality that is uncomfortable to talk about. But where Islam spreads is not good for the Richard Dawkins types. It's not good for the women, it's not good for the other religious minorities. It's not good for the. For the gays and. And often it's not good for the Muslims themselves, who wish to think a little bit differently. So there is a big problem here that I think is a. It's sort of. We're fixing it in America right now with what we're doing with our borders, and we've done it much better in terms of a melting pot. But Europe is realizing that they have a major problem on their hands. Which brings us to this from Ann Wokeness. Check out this survey. Seven in ten Europeans believe that their country is accepting too many migrants. And here are the results by country. Greece, 90% of their citizens believe that. Cyprus, 84%. Ireland, 78%. Austria, 77%. Germany, 77. Bulgaria, 76. Poland, 75. Italy 74. France 70. Spain 70. Sweden 70. And that's from LPS News. These numbers, how long can that hold? If a native population, put aside what country we're talking about, what the culture is like anywhere on Earth, or just go, just think of a science fiction movie on another planet. There's a native population that has a way of life. Then another group of people come in and they decide not to meld into that way of life or to try to work with that way of life, but to dominate that way of life. And it only goes one way. And then suddenly 80% of the natives start getting pissed. How do you think this ends? I would say not well. And I think we really dodged a bullet by, by electing Donald Trump to be president of the United States because we're dealing with it here. Again, we don't have the exact same problems. We're protected by two bodies of water. And even our Mexico situation is better than this and we're dealing with it. But Europe's got a lot to think about and people are afraid to talk about it. And that's directly connected to what's going on in Germany with arresting people, which is also happening in the UK and everything else. All right, we're going to bring it back to the States and talk about some of our political craziness in just a moment. But first, Prolon life is hectic. Long work weeks, busy weekends, and before you know it, you're feeling and looking depleted. But what if there was a way to reset your body at a cellular level without the struggle of traditional fast? Exactly what Prolon does. Prolon is not just another diet. It's science research. 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Although it's kind of low hanging fruit dealing with the types that they put him on these panels with. But I liked what he said here about what percentage it is that Trump gets right and why that kind of works in politics.

Scott Jennings (14:25)

Hey, look, Trump is like the 80, 20 president. He gets on the right side of all these 8020 issues. Democrats knee jerk and take the 20 and then what happens? Today, CBS News poll this morning, Donald Trump sitting at a 53% approval rating, the highest he's ever recorded in that survey. Why? Because Democrats are taking the wrong side of all of these obvious issues, number one. And number two, they're giving him an enormous amount of latitude to move fast and break things, which I heard used in a pejorative fashion. But when you're talking about the government, that's what people want Democrats, Trump to do.

Dave Rubin (14:57)

You could even see the way everyone gives him side eye during that. Even the people that kind of agree with him. There's just this look like, what's he saying now? Oh no, he's making too much sense. I'm gonna have to respond to that. But of course he's right. I mean the two easy examples of this would be the border and the gender nonsense, right? Everybody, every sane person in America, except for the most broken brain progressives and the true activists, antifa type and the sold out USAID Democrats and the media people, everyone else in America knew that having a border is an important thing to have. Trump was right when he said it back in 2015 and he's right now. And we lived through four years of endless video of people wandering in. So Trump took the issue and made it the right thing. And then of course, what did it do? It made the Democrat response insane. We need a bipartisan, bipartisan bill. And it actually, as we talked about yesterday, turned out. No, you didn't. The President just had to do his job. You didn't need a bipartisan bill, you just needed a new president. And then of course the even easier one than the border on this, about Trump, Trump directionally being right, it doesn't mean that every single decision he makes is right. But he's, he's right on about 80% of the stuff. And, and what's the other one? Of course it's the gender thing. We all got sucked into this evil gender nonsense. We know that boys cannot become girls. We know that There are biological differences between males and females. We know that boys should not be wrestling with girls in junior high school and volleyball and the rest of it. And Trump got right on it. And that caused the Dems to go completely the other way again. It's not always worth saying, but I'll say it one more time. If you're over 18 and you wanna wear a wig and put on a dress and call yourself Nancy, if you're nice to me, I'll call you Nancy. Okay? It's a two way street, lady. Dude, whatever. Jasmine Crockett, we've been hitting her hard over the last couple days. She is just. She's the new aoc. She looked at aoc, she said, how do I up this lunacy? And she has. Here she is going off on Mr. Elon, and she's also not happy with a certain Trump person. If you could tell, if you could tell Donald Trump anything tonight, what would you tell him?

Jasmine Crockett (16:57)

I would tell him to grow a spine and stop being Putin's hoe. As it relates to X, he has never made a profit since he bought X. In fact, the value of x is 75% lower than it has ever been. So if I am going to go look for somebody to run a business, I'm going to look for someone who is going to run one successfully. And before people start screaming and yelling about, well, he's a billionaire.

Dave Rubin (17:27)

Yeah.

Jasmine Crockett (17:27)

When you know the right people and they'll just give you money, then you can become a billionaire too. And maybe one day all of us will have that kind of access.

Dave Rubin (17:34)

But until then, she is so dumb. I think I said it before. She makes. She makes AOC look like Margaret Thatcher. First off, telling Trump to stop being Putin's bitch. It's like figuring out how to get peace and not roll ourselves into a nuclear war and not endlessly fund Ukraine. That's not being Putin's bitch. Okay. I would say if you want to. If you want to. Who's. Who's being. Who's the bitch to who here? I'd say we have been the bitch to Zelensky over the last couple years. Right. We just. He just kept strolling in with his sweatpants and telling us what he wanted and we kept giving it to him. That seems more bitchy than Trump actually trying to broker peace. That's number one. The idea that people have just given Elon money is absurd. He completely has turned around Twitter. I don't know that it's running at a profit yet. Do we have, do we have any numbers on that specifically, but that's irrelevant. First off, the guy also has Space X. The guy also has Tesla. Ask the Tesla people how people who own Tesla stock, how well that's doing over the last 10 years. He's got the boring company. He's got all of these other things. Twitter, when he bought it, he way overpaid. I think it was 46 billion, if I'm not mistaken, which was way overvaluation because he knew he wanted to be in the free speech fight. So whatever the numbers actually are in terms of whether Twitter's making more money, by the way, Twitter also, for the first year struggled under him because the. Because of. Thanks to people like her and cnn, advertisers were boycotting Twitter. That's largely going away as the culture has changed. Do we have any numbers on. On Elon and how we switch some of that stuff? We'll look into it. We'll try to get it to you at the end of the show. But that is the point. The Democrats are not particularly bright. And we went into the archives, we said, okay, we can show you all the current videos of Democrats not being bright. Is there something old? Is there something out there that's so old that. That the video doesn't even have color? Did that even exist? A time when things were in black and white that would perfectly illustrate the mindset of a Democrat. And hot damn, we found one. You live here? Yeah. Maybe. You know what a zombie is when a person dies and is buried? Seems there's certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life. Horrible. It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring. You mean like Democrats? Bob Hope, ladies and gentlemen. We did get some numbers. So it's a little unclear exactly what's going on with the revenue over at Twitter, but the users per month from when he got it to now have jumped from. From 300 million per month to over 600 million per month. The money will follow that. But again, the implication that somehow he's a bad businessman because of Twitter. All of the other things that he's done just to completely ignore them. It's absurd. I don't think I have to spend any more time talking about Jasmine Crockett today. Let's jump over to the rest of the crazy Dems because they are crazy libs of TikTok. Put this up. Breaking every Democrat senator just voted. Keeping men out of women's sports Democrats hate women. And of course you can see the vote total there. It was 51 to 45. That happened right before Trump gave that big speech the other day at the Capitol. And Daniel Cohen, journalist, wrote this. I thought this was quite good. The same Democrats who can't define what a woman is and voted against keeping biological males out of female sports are wearing pink to protest Donald Trump. So they somehow want to defend women so much that they can't tell you if you have boobs in a uterus that you actually are a woman. And they would also like a six foot foot for dude in high school to dunk over a chick. But they're wearing pink so they must love ladies. That's how it works in their muddled brains. If you want to see how muddled these people are. I wanted to get to this story a couple days ago. This is about a week ago in Boston. And Boston has strangely, you know, we usually talk about la, we talk about New York, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. Somehow Boston gets a little lost in this. But Massachusetts is really screwy right now and the mayor of Boston is a, a complete progressive, absolute lunatic who literally last Christmas held, held a Christmas party for people of color and excluded white people. I mean, the woman is a nut bag beyond belief. But listen to this story and this, this video is going to drive you crazy. If you haven't heard about this. This is from Boston News. An off duty police officer shot and killed a man who is allegedly wielding a knife inside a restaurant near Back Bay's Copley Square Saturday. Officials said two people were chased inside a Chick fil a on Boyfriend Charleston street around 5:27pm by a man armed with a knife, Police Commissioner Michael Cox told reporters. Okay, so someone chased some people with a knife trying to kill them in a Chick fil a, which why would you do that in a Chick fil a with all that delicious sauce? The guy got killed. The killer got killed. The killer got killed. Let me say it one more time because I'm going to show you some video that's going to be very confusing. The killer, the man wielding the knife, trying to kill people amongst the chicken, he got killed. Here is the response by the Boston Mayor, the Boston DA and the Boston Police Commissioner. My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost. Our thoughts and prayers are with the.

Richard Dawkins (23:03)

Family and friends of the individual who's been lost.

Dave Rubin (23:08)

So our condolences go to the individual who was killed tonight. Your condolences go to the individual who is killed tonight? Who was chasing people with a knife in Chick Fil A? Do you see? This is what NPCs are. First off, the way they word it exactly the same. These are non playable characters. They have a script that they have been programmed and somehow they think up is down, left is right, good is bad. I don't even get out of Boston. If you live in Boston, get out of Boston. If having Harvard, the center for Hamas is not, well, I guess that's really Columbia. But if having, if having Hamas is number two spot is not enough for you, how about that? How about the fact that if someone chases you into a Chick Fil a trying to stab you, all you want is that delicious Polynesian sauce. Okay, what sauce do you like? You like the buffalo? You like the buffalo. You like the honey mustard? What do you like the Chick Fil A sauce? You just want your sauce. That's all you want. And your fried chicken. Someone's trying to stab you, they get shot and then the mayor is upset that that guy got. You got to get out of that town. There are Chick Fil A's everywhere. We've got one a mile from here. What does this all lead to? It leads to a great meme. Well, it's a saying for decades now, but it's in meme form. It's even more beautiful. We've played this before. We've shown you this before. Hard times create strong men. Strong men, good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. The weak men that have created the hard times that we are getting out of right now, it's being fixed by strong men who are about to create good times. That's what's happening right now with Trump and the culture reset and everything else. Just a couple more before we get to the community. Q and A Nick Sorter journalist put this up. Related. Let's talk about Ukraine for just a second. Just in, Zelensky backs down to Trump just hours after US pauses all military aid to Ukraine. Thanks Trump for helping Ukraine. This was so predictable. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a piece that lasts. We remember the moment when things change when President Trump provided Ukraine with javelins. We are grateful for this. Nick added. I still don't trust this clown. So putting aside what you think of Zelensky or anything else, the point is they had that insane meeting on Friday. Trump threatens to cut the aid. Trump says, we're not going to do this mineral deal anymore. We're done with you. And immediately Zelensky starts groveling back. So strong men create good times as opposed to the weak men who basically got us on the verge of World War iii. One more from Nick. President Trump and Secretary Rubio have secured the extradition of 29 top cartel leaders from Mexico for the US for US prosecution. This is unprecedented. Rafael Caro Quintero, who murdered a DEA agent, was just flown into New York and handed over. This is the highest number of extraditions in one day in the history of Mexico. Without question, former DEA head of international operations Mike Vigil, Virgil told Crash out justice is coming and an example will be made. So again, we had weak men. And what did weak men do? They weakened our border. And then what happened as the result of that? Fentanyl and crime and gangs and beheadings and pushing people into subways. Stuff like that, not good stuff happened. Now we have a strong man in charge who surrounded himself with competent people. And we are going after the bad guys and we are making sure that the cartels will not operate unless fentanyl will come across and we'll have a border and all of those things. Those things are good. You guys want Chick Fil A for lunch? Kind of in the mood now, little Chick Fil A. We're gonna do Chick Fil A for lunch today, guys. 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All right, Community Q and A. Here we go. Relle says Trump said he's tried to make Dems happy, but can't get a smile, applause, or any other show of support. What do you think it'll take to bring the Left, closer to the middle. This is, this is the endless question. This is the endless question. He's right when he says, if I saw, if I cured cancer, you people wouldn't be happy. Right? The. If you just. If you were removing all of the emotion, remove all the culture war and the media from everything that's happened in this last month, does America seem better or worse? And the obvious answer is better. We're removing criminals from our streets. We're making sure less drugs get through. We're protecting our border. There's, there's arguments. Okay, you want to argue over whether the tariffs are going to work or not, fine. Like the stock market struggling a little bit. Fine. But there. But they even warned us about that. What did Elon say as they started uncovering stuff? There's going to be some pain points here, but obviously things are better. Right? It's just so damn obvious. I don't think it's, it's even worth analyzing. So the question is, what do you do with people who are those NPCs who have been brainwashed, who still watch it CNN and think it's true, or who get the New York Times and sit there with their cup of coffee and their legs crossed thinking that they're being enlightened? I don't know how you get more of them at this point. We've brought an awful lot over. That's the point of the Bobby Tulsi thing. Right. So we have to keep just being good. I, I think you know what the answer is this, the answer is something that Trump said, that, that success is the ultimate revenge. If things just keep going well, the crazies on both sides will start feeling less important. We, the crazies on the left, it's obvious. It's endless and it's obvious. Obvious. And okay, fine. And even the crazies on the right, there's some version of craziness on the right, like a strange thing happening in some portions of the right. But that will go away, too, because Trump is for America. And when you're for America, you're for freedom and you're for success. And that's the thing most of us want to be part of. So success is the only answer. I don't know what you do in your own life. Everybody still has these relatives and friends, and it's tough. And you can just, just try to. Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it a Republican. Chipster says, do you know if any proposed tax law changes would take effect this year? So I. It sounds to me like the answer to that is no. So that if Congress actually went ahead and changed some things, it doesn't kick in for this year, it would kick for. For 26, but hopefully they will do some tax reform. You know, look, the secondary benefit of DOGE is not just getting the waste out of the system. It's then, oh, the system can operate with a much tighter budget, so maybe it doesn't need as much of your money. So how about we lower taxes for everybody? Which actually is what Trump called for in his speech. I don't want anyone else's money, and I hope that less people want my money and keep more of your money. Keep. When you have more of your money, you tend to spend more of your money, and that's the engine for the economy. So looking at things bottom down, you keep more of yours. Let's see what you do with it. Maybe you want to spend it, maybe you want to save it, maybe you want to put it in. In Bitcoin, maybe you want to buy a boat, but that's up to you. You don't just get to get other people's money because you want it. That's what Bernie has tricked people into thinking, that somehow greed is that not that greed is good, that that unearned something that is unearned for you should be yours. I think you can actually make an argument that greed is good. That would be the Gordon Gecko argument in Wall street movie. If you haven't seen it with Michael Douglas, should Tony says, with Kathleen Kennedy leaving Lucasfilm, is there any hope for a Star wars revival? Maybe if they move towards the old republic and away from the Skywalker saga. I don't know. I, I just, I don't have any hope. I really don't. Unless George Lucas himself came back in and, and really some. But I know he has no desire to do it. From everything I've seen and, and George Lucas, people ask me a lot. Who's the one person I've not interviewed that I wanted with? George Lucas is still number one. I would. There's just so many things I would love to talk to him about. Not only related to the lore of Star wars wars, but also being the rebel against the studios in the 70s and all that kind of stuff. But they've. They've so damaged it, you know, even. Even now, like, you know, I'm doing cardio and I'm flipping through my. The things that I own on Apple movies or whatever, and I've got obviously all of the Star wars on there. And even, you know, even watching the old, the originals now seem dinged up because of how bad those three new ones were. And I like the prequels. I've argued for a long time that as time goes on, the prequels will look better and better. And yes, the acting was bad and this dialogue's a little stiff, but it's a beautiful story. Actually not only the story of Anakin Skywalker, but it's a beautiful story of how power corrupts and how governments, you know, in the name of security. What was Palpatine doing in the name of security? He was actually funding a war on both sides that ultimately led to him becoming the emperor of the galaxy. Does that sound kind of familiar to some of the things that we've been dealing with? So I, I just don't have any hope. I don't know what they can do. They've just, they've just. I, I watched even Kenobi I didn't think was great. Did you watch Kenobi? Like, yeah, I watched a little. I don't even have Disney Channel anymore. I had to hijack it somehow. I probably just got. Now the government's gonna look into me. Just kidding. Never saw Kenobi. Don't care for it. Olaf says, what is your favorite national park and what national park do you want to visit? I mean, I think my best memory of a national park is when we drove cross country in February 2013 when we were coming from New York to move to la and we did that wonderful trip, that cross country trip which if you've never done, if you are an American, it is a must do. You must drive across this great country once. When you see the breadth of this country and the, the colors and the differences of the states and the weather changing and the wide open spaces and the prairies and the mountains and all the stuff, it is so absolutely incredible and awe inspiring that I highly recommend everyone do it. And when we did it, we did stop at the Grand Canyon for a couple hours. We couldn't stay for too long. We had our dog with us. Which to do us, you know, like a six day trip with the dog every day is, is kind of tricky. But the Grand Canyon is unbelievably awe inspiring and magical and everything else. I've never been to Yellowstone, so that's definitely the easy answer on that. I've got to. Have any of you guys been there? You've been? You've been? You've been? Yeah, all three? One, the three. Can I go to Yellowstone with You guys, can we take a little trip? All right, Team building Yellowstone. We're doing it. Joe says it's Women's History Month. Who amongst the fairer sex do you look up to? And who motivated you over the years? Well, of course we can talk about all of the Golden Girls. We can talk about Darley's Morenak, and we can talk about Blanche Devereaux and we can talk about Sophia Petrillo, and we can talk about Rose Nyland and the wonderful actresses who played all of them. As you know, I'm a Tina Turner guy. I always love Tina Turner. I love her music, but I also love the story, this woman's story that she was plucked out of nowhere. Nutbush City, Tennessee, and she was nobody. And Ike finds her, you know, sees this unbelievable talent and then he's abusing her beyond imagination. If you haven't seen the movie, what's Love Got to Do With It? It's a great movie with Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. It's an incredible movie. But her life story is just unbelievably inspiring. And, and one of the really cool things at the end of the movie and, and it's true, actually, is that as they're going through the divorce, you know, she's become Tina Turner now and she's a star and all of those things and, you know, star in her own right. And they're going through the divorce. And she says to the, to the judge during the divorce, she wants nothing, she wants nothing from him other than her name. Her, her real name was Anime Book. And all she wants is the name, name Tina Turner. And then she wants to go build a life on that. And then, of course, she built an unbelievable 30 year career, almost 40 year career, post, post Ike. So who are some of the other women? I like that. Margaret Thatcher. She's pretty good. So the Golden Girls. Tina Turner. Margaret Thatcher. Who are some other cool broads out there these days? Yeah, who? There was that old lady on the Titanic, but she talked a lot. Who else was there? Come on, give me another. Who's a cool chick? Who's that? Who's out there doing some good stuff? Who? That's funny. He said Dick Levine. That's funny. That's funny. Who else do. Oh, I mean, Joan Rivers. I loved, loved, love Joan Rivers. And man, could we use like the sardonic, sarcastic, brilliant, brilliant wit of Joan Rivers these days. Oh, my God. And let me think of one more chick that I love. Is that it? That's my list wheezy on the Jeffersons. She was always giving George. That was pretty good. All right. Rondi says Dave, did you have anything to do? My mom's pretty good. How about my mom? Great lady. Mom. Mom. Love you. Rondi says Dave, did you have anything to do with the Democrats and their signs? Because. Because the comedy that has ensued is hilarious. Yes, there were. We'll show you a couple as we're talking for a moment. But they were just, it was so obvious, these idiots to bring these signs there. They were going to get made up fun of because of the signs. But then did they not think for one minute that the meme makers online were going to do stuff like you're looking at right now? Like it was so obvious. You people walk into the trap every time. Be better please. It would make us better. Let's talk about healthy fat. That and we'll have more on the other side. Did you know your breakfast could be setting you up to either gain or lose weight for an entire day? The word breakfast literally means breaking your overnight fast. 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That's thehealthyfat.com Reuben Holloway says, what are your thoughts on Canada threatening to cut off electricity to the northern states in the U.S. so this has been a thing. I am not worried. I do not think Canada is going to cut electricity. There are other ways we can also get electricity. I also think that some of the it's unfortunate, right, because Americans love Canadians. Canadians love Americans. I'm here in Florida where we have so many snowbirds that now just have decided to basically stay here. I'm not even sure it's legal because they normally come down for the winter to Florida for our good weather and they just don't even want to go back. But the Canadians and Americans, there's a, there's a shared sense of humor. And, and we're, we're so like each other in so many ways. You guys like poutine on your french fries, we like ketchup. But we put all that stuff aside to, to, to basically be similar, right? We're pretty good. Mostly, I think it's through comedy. Like that's, there have been so many great Canadian comedians that have come down here and helped in our culture and all that stuff. I'm not too worried about this situation. I think it's getting a little out of hand. You know, now we've got Americans booing the Canadian national anthem and Canadians booing an American national anthem. But at the end of the day, this is just the pain point that Trump and Musk talked about. If we were going to do some things to make our trade deals fair, if we were going to do some things that were going to uncover fraud and all these things, there was going to be a pain point involved, right? There is going to be some, you know, if you're going to go in and look at the inefficiency of the federal government, you're going to fire people that are nice people, doesn't mean they should have a job. And I think we're dealing with some of that as it pertains to Canada. We're going to put tariffs on, be in a little fight with them. It's going to be a little testy, but, but in the end, that's how you will make the relationship better. When it's a little give and take and not just a one way street. Izzy says any chance Dave could do a reading of a children's book? If so, how about the Little Engine that could? Well, I do read children's books every night. We put the kids down to books, which often, Justin particularly, he likes. You got to read the book twice. The exact same book. I read one more time. One more time. We got to read that same one. I try to bring it as many different books as possible. So I am reading a lot of children's book these days. Are you saying you want me to read a children's book on this show to the audience? That would be an interesting. Maybe I'll end the show one day. I'll read a children's book. We'll get a good one. We're very seasonal with our books, so we'll see what we can get for the spring. We'll do something for you. Goldie says, Dave, have you made brisket? Burnt ends on that big green egg. I have made every type of meat known to man on that thing. I think my biggest brisket was like a 17 pounder. I did it for 14 hours overnight. You know, you got to wrap it in the wax and the, and the. I have done some amazing. Yeah. Can I get a round of applause for the types of meat that are going on in this place? Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And yeah, if you cook it right, you're going to get those beautiful burnt ends on the end of the brisket, but then you're going to get a beautifully, like, marbly, fatty brisket that's just absolutely perfect. A couple times it's hard to get a wagyu brisket and it's also really expensive, but a couple times I've been able to get a wagyu brisket that you almost can't screw up. And the big green egg is fun because if you enjoy, if you enjoy the process, you know, it's more than just turning on the grill and leaving it for hours. You know, you got to fiddle with the, with the top and the bottom and make sure the smoke is right. And it's just a beautiful little thing. And I highly, highly recommend it if you, if you're a fan of the meats. Monty says, will there be another Rubin Report meetup? Yes, we will figure out something. Probably Miami ish, but maybe elsewhere. We'll try to do something soon. You know, obviously between some of my travel lately and being a little busier with family life, it's been harder to do things like that than it was a couple years ago where we used to do more of them. But I do love meeting you guys and doing those hangouts and all those things. And I think I mentioned once I was, I wanted at one time I was going to do like a big locals hangout at the house, but I got overridden on that by all sorts of people for legal insecurity and all kinds of other reasons. But, you know, I'm trying. Trying. All right, one more, guys. Elizabeth says, any big plans for your 10 year wedding anniversary? I cannot believe that it's 10 years. We got married in August of 2015. So, yeah, our 10 year is coming. Well, we'll be off the grid, so I don't know where we'll be or what we'll be doing, but 10 years, you know, for gays, that's like 30 years for straight people. So technically, it's like our 30th anniversary right now, which I guess that means we just go to dinner at 5:00 and we're asleep by 7. Guys, that is our program for today. As I said, there's no postgame show. And if I was to explain to you why it would be so mind blowing and, and just like it would just be beyond anything that you could possibly deal with this early in the day. But I will be back tomorrow live and we'll do a longer post game show. And I thank you for watching. That's all I have to say about that. That goodbye. Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.