Dave Rubin (43:26)
You know, I have to say something for these. Don't want to curse. Can I say ass monkey. I feel like that's like for these ass monkeys that are always. That seems you could say that on cable, on regular NBC, you could say ass monkey. For these ass monkeys that always say Donald Trump has. Can I get a round of applause for ass monkey for these ass monkeys. Or he's lost a step or these idiots who get on CNN and say these things, it's like Donald Trump right there, he laid out serious numbers and percentages and they maybe have 18, 19% of the ballistic missiles. Like, you know, I'm always telling you, Donald Trump's good at the Bumper sticker stuff. And then guys like Marco fill in the blanks on everything. That was Trump filling in an awful lot of blanks, like Navy gone, Air Force gone, et cetera, et cetera. And his point was, we've got them over the barrel. As I said yesterday, pun intended, we've got them over the barrel, and we will now see what comes out of it. I want to jump back to something else that we covered on yesterday's show. It's how we opened and closed the show, which was a bit about Marco Rubio, because his star is really shining right now. I think him. I think it was a really clever move. I mean, man, does Trump still get TV and media. To have Marco do the White House press briefing yesterday while Carolyn Levette was out was AWAS really a stroke of genius? Two days ago, he did it. And what it allowed for was people to see that Marco has a ridiculously good command, not only of the issues, but of what America is. And we're going to need to sell the positive vision of America to people, particularly as we write into these midterms. So it's not just that Marco, you know, there's this meme of that Marco's always sitting in the White House and he's got a different hat on and a different outfit for every freaking job that he's doing. It's not just that he is Secretary of State, and it's not just that he's acting as press secretary. Here he is over at the Vatican. I think this is yesterday meeting with Pope Leo. Now, the reason I'm showing you that we don't know anything about that meeting yet, as far as I know. But Marco obviously is Catholic. There has obviously been some tension between this pope who has been, I would say he has been, I think, unnecessarily political, particularly when it comes to Trump and border and deportations. Right. Like. Like the Vatican has walls and things of that nature. It seems to be a little more aggressive when it comes to Trump on these things. But maybe, maybe Marco's soothing some of that over. And I thought this was interesting. As per polymarket Republican presidential nominee 2028. Well, wrote J.D. which obviously, he's the heir apparent. Obviously, he's the popular vice president to a very popular president. He's at 39%, but Rubio's at 24. And that just. It doesn't matter. It's way too early to talk about this. I don't even have to have an opinion on it or anything. But if you just think of the bench you got J.D. you got Marco. You know, people, I mentioned it yesterday. People don't really mention Hegseth in that sense, but, like, I could support Hegseth in a second. Maybe DeSantis gets back in. Like, give me one more good, decent Republican that we could throw in the mix on that. Anyone in the administration. Yeah, like, maybe Bobby's willing to do it again. He probably won't. It doesn't even matter. The point is there are sensible people that. You may not agree with everything, but there are sensible people on that side. And that is just wildly contrasted with what's going on with the left. All right, let's put that there and jump over to arubinreport.locals.com community Q&A. Joseph sitting right there with a wire attached to his computer that I'm told goes to a series of pipes that AL Gore created 30 years ago that are something like the Internet. And if you want to get a question in live, you can jump on our locals page and do that. A different view says Dave. I know you grew up in Long Island, New York. I grew up in Ocean County, New Jersey. Have you ever been to the Jersey Shore? And if so, did you ever go to Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant Beach, Long Beach? Yeah, I've been to all of them. I've been to all of them. We used to go to the Jersey shore all the time in the summer. I had friends. Oh, look. Well, there's the. That is not a picture of me when I was younger. That's the Jersey shore cast with their serious tans and everything all. But yeah, most of my beach time as a kid was spent at Jones beach and the Long island beaches, obviously. But we used to go to Jersey. Most of my family, actually, although I grew up in Long island, most of my extended family lived in Jersey, so we used to do a ton of Jersey stuff. I just have a great affinity for Jersey. Jersey's always the butt of every joke. And what did they say in Golden Girls? I think Sophia says it's the only state with a state smell. Like, you literally are driving into Jersey and it suddenly started smelling. But when you think of all the mafia stuff that I love and Italian food and culture, and there's just all of that kind of thing. And the attitude. There's something. There's a Jersey style attitude that Long island has in a very similar way, but Long island has it. And it's like we're still New Yorkers where Jersey has this attitude and they're not quite New Yorkers. Right. So there's something there. But I used to go to all of those places. Wildwood. Wildwood is one of them. The Jersey Shore, I think I went there too. And yeah, ate a lot of sandwiches and drank a lot of 40s on the beach over there. Glenn says, I would like whoopee to keep it up and keep scaring her moronic fans from voting. We need more informed voters voting, not idiots who watch her show. Interesting. Do you think she's scaring people away from voting, though? That's the question. Right? So they are scaring people all the time, right? Like there's an endless, endless. That's what they do. They scare people and they lie. The question is, do those people. Are those people literally like afraid to go out and vote then? Or are they so ginned up on fear that they actually vote? You know, using fear as a tactic. It's a pretty nasty game that you're playing. But you know, it could get people out there voting. Like if you're like, oh my God, I have to vote because Nazi Hitler fascist guy is coming, you might vote. But yes, it's just so sad. I saw the comments yesterday and people are still on this. It's like 5050 with the view. It's good content in a way and it's fun to make fun of them. But people are also like, we should just start ignoring them and we probably should a little bit more. And it's one of the back and forths we always do when we're figuring out the content. But it's just really sad what happened to that show. Barbara Walters, who was a great. She was an actual journalist and that she created that show to be a place where people could come together and women from all walks of life could have share their different opinions and that became this hysterical harpy. Just awful institution of evil is a shame. Craft cat says Dave, what's your favorite Star wars quote? I mean, there's so many. But I'm going to slightly wait. So I'll give you one. I'll give you my real one and then the funny one. You already know what the funny one is. Can you grab it? You know what it is, right from the prequels. He's going to get it. You know what you get triple guacamole today if you get that quote from the prequels. You know what I'm talking about already. That's the silly one. My favorite quote from the originals is never tell me the odds. Remember, they're flying into. They're on the Millennium Falcon and they're flying into the astronauts belt and C3PO is like the odds of surviving is 300 and Han Solo. Never tell me the odds. Like it's just, it's just got such great grit and it's everything, you know. Part of the reasons that the last three movies sucked is they didn't have a Han Solo type character. It's why Force Awakens that had Han Solo was pretty good and then the other two just dumped out. Which I read yesterday online. I don't know if you've seen this, I don't know if it was a rumor, but people are saying that they now realize how bad the three new ones were that they're considering. Disney is actually considering removing them from the canon. Basically just wiping them away and then starting over a little bit closer to what George. George Lucas actual sequels were gonna look like. But my favorite quote, you have the image. My favorite quote from the prequels, I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Look, George wasn't the greatest when it came to romantic dialogue. Remember that? That's when they're falling in love and she like wants to go to the beach. I don't like sand. Oh, and a runner up. You've got to run her up for me. You saw Tinking. You saw people gonna die. Oh, that was pretty good. That was pretty good. That was on the fly. You get triple glass. Like you see how long have we been working together now? All I had to say was I'm thinking of a prequel quote. And you got it like that. That's impressive, man. Rapsack says. Hey Dave, don't have a question for you, but just wanted to say sure to appreciate that first look in the morning that you've been doing. It's really great. Really appreciate it. Oh, I'm thrilled to hear that. We started doing this a couple weeks ago. We had been discussing it a while. If you have not seen this yet, it's in your feed. And particularly if you're watching watching on YouTube, it's probably not getting to your feed even if you're subscribed because they're going on your viewing habits. And we put it up at 4:45 in the morning, right? So all it is, it's eight to 10 minutes of the three or four most important stories straight up, not silly or anything else just to give you a little bite. The whole idea was if you don't have time for an hour long show during a day or you just want a little bit of news in the morning so you're getting into conversations during the day and you have some sense of what's going on. That's what we're doing. We try to make it pleasant and thoughtful and that's it. And by the way, you can go to daverubin.com where we're also doing articles that our staff is writing so that if you want just news that is nonpartisan, like, it's just straight up stuff. What's the direct link? It's daverubin.com read for the actual can we get a screenshot of that? We'll show it in just a second. But that'll just give you something that you can share with people. But I'm really enjoying first look. But anyway, the more you click it on YouTube, the more it'll actually be fed into your algorithm. But if you're downloading the podcast on Spotify, et cetera, it should be right there and we're getting great feedback. So I'm really happy about that. Bad Wolf says, I asked Grok for a list of podcasters who don't hate Israel and also don't hate Russia. The list came back with three names. That's it. Jordan Peterson, Lex Friedman, and Dave Rubin. Huh. How is that possible? This not hate Israel, Russia thing seems pretty consistent with the Trump 47 core team. So why is all the Internet lost their minds when it comes to both Russia and Israel? They're wildly different reasons that they've come to their mind. Look, I don't hate Russia. Putin is not a great guy. And you know, you cannot, not cannot. You can. But generally speaking, when nations have sovereign borders, if you invade a nation with the sovereign border, that's not what a good guy does. In a sense. Right now it's a little more complex when it comes to Ukraine and Russia because there was the Soviet Union, where these borders did not exist until the Soviet Union fell. And there are many people in Ukraine who consider themselves Russian and the languages are different. So saying there's just sovereign borders, like these countries have nothing to do with each other. It's not that easy. I have, first off, I have tons of Russian friends, actually, and I was born in Brooklyn in New York, even though we moved to Long island quickly. But everybody in Brooklyn at the time was Russian. Basically. I have nothing against the Russian people. I think Putin is the best I can say about Putin is that he is also doing something that I think Trump is trying to do, which is keep the globalists off his back. So the closer NATO gets to his borders, the more he's going Boy, I'm not thrilled with this. So there has to be some resolution there. My guess is it's the same thing that I said. If you watch how long has this war been going on? When did the Russia, Ukraine war start? March 22. You just have that sitting in your head just like that. March of 22. Look at. Man, these guys are sharp. Everyone never had coffee this morning or what March of 22. So, all right, so over three years ago, if you watch my videos on it, I'm sure I was saying the exact same thing. Like, Putin, not a great guy. Ukraine likely has to give up some sort of territory here. By the way, there was so much corruption in Ukraine related to Hunter Biden and getting rid of the prosecutor and all that stuff. But, no, I don't hate Russia. And look, on the Israel thing, you know, look, Megyn Kelly's doing it for cliques. She would sell her kid for a clique at this point. She's not defending Islam and everything else. And if you just care about cliques, yeah, there are way more Muslims than Jews. But what a sad and cynical way to do a program. I just think that's pretty awful. No, most Americans understand what's going on here. There is a battle for the West. You don't have to particularly care about the Jews. You don't have to particularly care about Israel. You don't. You really don't, as an American. But what you should care about for is the idea of Western civilization. And Israel represents Western civilization in a place that is not very friendly to it. Although I think when Trump is done with the Iran war, it will be a lot more friendly to it. And they know if they can get Israel. All right, so you do another Holocaust, get Israel or get the Jews or whatever it's like, then it's on, you know, how quickly the rest of the west will fall. Like, the Jews have been fighting the bad guys for thousands of years. That's what happens, you know, when they say, oh, the Jews got kicked out of all these countries. How did it work out in the end for all of those countries? When I was in Australia, I kept at the Q&As at the events. Several times I got questions about, you know, do you think Jews have a future in Australia? And my answer to that basically was, well, only if Australia has an Australian future. Right. The Jews have been a major part of Australia and have done extraordinary things, as Jews usually do in most of the societies that they are in. And if it ends for the 100,000 remaining Jews in Australia. Well, the day after that. Do you think it's better for the average Australian or. It's worse. And the answer is obviously worse. Theresa says, why does the Democratic Party want to destroy America? What do they benefit from doing that? Is it because their party has been taken over by jihadists or they genuinely hate America? Well, look, this is where it's hard to know what is in everyone's mind and heart. But when I keep saying that the Democrats are morphing into their final form, what I mean is, you know, they had the sort of, you had Obama with hope and change, you had Medicare for everybody. We'll solve all your problems. We don't want war. Like it's all, it's all just kind of like low level. It sounds good. And if your population is not particularly bright, they will vote for it, even if in the end they're going to have to pay for for it, literally and figuratively. And if it's going to infringe on their rights and everything else if they're notif they don't even know what their rights are in the first place. Oh my God, someone got shot. We should take away guns, right? So what do they want? What do the actual Democrats now want? Well, I think that the Democrat Party, as right now as it stands, it's morphing into its final form and its final form is the progression. The alliance between progressives and Islamists is doing this. It's doing this right now, right? It's tightening up, it's gooey, but it's becoming its final form, whatever that may be. And that's much like what happened to the Labour Party in the uk, completely taken over. And then suddenly what happens? The queers for Palestine go, oh my God. I'm starting to think that these Islamists don't like us very much and that that's going so it will collapse at some point. But I would also say for all of us, and it's most of us, it's most of America that loves this country, that does not want overreaching progressive government, that certainly doesn't want Sharia law or anything else. Like we just got to stand up now. You got to stand up while you can. You don't want to wait until you're in a situation like the UK is or like Germany or France is where it's much, much worse. We have better protections, we have states rights, we have guns in this country. Like we were born out of revolution. So I think we have a stronger force field against evil. But that does not mean it's not happening here. And I wonder, you know, in the end of the day, I wonder, a guy like Bernie Sanders, let's just say he really believes all his stuff. He really just believes in socialism, which it seems fairly obvious he's a true believer. It doesn't matter how many times he's proven wrong. I don't know that he thinks thought, boy, I'd be ushering in Islamism too. So is it a little weird for Bernie Sanders when he's hanging out with all the Islamists and they're endlessly. Now he hates Israel too. And when they come for the Jews, I hope that Israel won't let Bernie in. But is it a little weird for him to be hanging out with these people all the time and going, boy, did I. Maybe I opened the door a little bit too much on this thing. But the left never knows when the left goes too far. So here we are. Doc Ransom says, how's your knee doing? Is there going to be a need to redo the treatment in a few years? For example, does the treatment wear off or wear out? So as you guys know, it was a year ago last month.
