12:00

with Gloria Allred. So Gloria Allred, the

12:02

legendary, you know, civil rights

12:04

attorney. What's that? Odd pairing, but... Yeah,

12:07

strange pair. I had never met her before, interviewed

12:09

her before anything. But they wanted, she was gonna

12:11

debate the pro-mandate side and I was gonna do

12:13

the anti-mandate side. I

12:15

get to the studio and they said, well, where's your passport?

12:17

I said, well, I don't have a passport, I'm not that.

12:19

They would not let me in, so they sent me back.

12:21

And that was Fox. That was Fox. It's the Fox affiliate,

12:24

not Fox News there, but the local Fox affiliate. Anyway,

12:27

but I couldn't get in Fox News here either. So nobody's,

12:30

you know, guiltless and all this. Anyway, I

12:32

go back home and then we do it digitally.

12:34

And then on air, Gloria Allred, the

12:37

legendary civil rights attorney asked

12:39

me if I was vaxxed on air. Think

12:41

how insane that is, that she was asking me my

12:43

private medical information on air. I asked her when the

12:45

last time she got laid was. She was not too

12:48

thrilled with that question and I still didn't get an

12:50

answer. But when do you think that was? Let's

12:53

throw to that old classic right now. You

12:56

know, I'm a progressive, proud progressive. I might

12:58

add, but I also believe in science. And

13:01

this is really not about rights. It's

13:03

about life and death. And

13:06

of course, kids can also be carriers

13:08

of COVID. And I ask you,

13:10

Dave, do you think there should not be

13:12

a mandate for kids in schools to have

13:15

to get vaccine for chickenpox

13:17

for mumps, for polio,

13:20

for so many other vaccines that they are

13:22

required to have in order to go to school?

13:25

All of those things were tested for years. As

13:27

we know, we rushed out this vaccination. But this

13:29

is not, I'm not saying people should not get vaccinated.

13:31

I'm saying it should be left up to choice. Are

13:34

you a good, decent citizen? Are you vaccinated? It's

13:37

nobody's business whether I'm vaccinated. That's like me

13:39

asking you the last time you got laid. I mean, it's just irrelevant. All

13:43

right, so you know, what's really relevant is

13:45

that it's one thing if you have the

13:47

right to choose for your... My medical history

13:49

is not your business nor yours is mine.

13:51

Isn't that interesting? She's a civil rights attorney.

13:54

And I said legendary with Cuomo because she is

13:56

sort of like the ambulance chaser for

13:59

civil... civil rights cases. She's

14:01

been on television for 40 years and

14:03

asking someone on air if they're vaccinated.

14:05

Also, how ridiculous in retrospect, now that's

14:08

about three years ago, how ridiculous does

14:10

that now come off that she was

14:12

demanding that children get vaccinated for COVID

14:15

to go back into schools and everything else. By the

14:17

way, the chicken pox thing is completely absurd. Every kid

14:19

gets chicken pox, you get it once and you move

14:21

on. Actually, the week that I had chicken pox in

14:23

about second grade, it was one of the best weeks

14:25

of my life, because my buddy John got chicken pox

14:28

too, when we just hung out and played Super Mario

14:30

Brothers for a week. Like everything that

14:32

happened to us was completely ridiculous. It

14:34

was sold to us, and here's the

14:37

point really. It was sold to

14:39

us by people who lie like

14:41

Anthony Fauci, then those lies were

14:43

laundered. Unfortunately, I would say in

14:45

this case by media people like

14:47

Cuomo, and again, I'm not saying

14:50

that to own you, Chris. And

14:52

then it was further laundered by

14:54

people who were supposed to protect

14:56

our civil rights like Gloria Allred.

14:58

And that is why things seemingly

15:00

get worse, because all of the people we

15:02

are supposed to trust, the people in the

15:05

institutions that we are supposed to trust when

15:07

the shit hits the fan, they have failed

15:09

us miserably. And then not only do they

15:11

fail us miserably, all of the people who

15:13

get everything wrong, they basically

15:15

never have a mea culpa. They

15:19

never say sorry, they never say they

15:21

got anything wrong, they blame, they pretend

15:23

it didn't happen. And

15:25

then of course, they try to point

15:27

the finger at people who just were

15:29

a little bit skeptical. And Anthony Fauci,

15:31

I mentioned that, he's back making the

15:33

media rounds. Here he is on the

15:35

televised mental institution known as MSNBC, and

15:37

he's still going after people in red

15:39

states who didn't bow to him. To

15:42

follow that question, we

15:46

now head into a moment where, because

15:48

of that divisiveness, it's become a

15:50

political issue. Like vaccinations in particular have become

15:52

a political issue where you have not just

15:54

Donald Trump, but other Republicans saying, no, no,

15:57

don't take the COVID vaccine. We have other

15:59

prominent. handed

18:00

to him on a piece of paper

18:02

from the CDC. He repeated it without

18:04

doing any research. It was complete nonsense

18:06

beginning to end. What happened

18:09

to natural immunity, right? How come

18:11

I got COVID? And

18:13

then my knees hurt a little bit for a couple of

18:15

days. David got a little bit sicker than me, but then

18:17

we had natural immunity and I've probably had COVID three or

18:19

four times since. And it just used

18:22

to get sick back in the day and

18:24

then the body creates antibodies. And then you

18:26

maybe should also do things like eat right

18:28

and exercise and get outside and all of

18:30

the rest of the stuff while they're literally

18:32

locking you at home and having you order

18:34

in Chinese and pizza every day. So just,

18:36

it's just absolutely extraordinary. And also just the

18:38

way the entire interview is framed. People

18:41

won't trust you anymore. And

18:43

oh my God, you are the victim here, Fauci.

18:45

And yes, we've got more of that. Here's

18:47

Joe Scarborough, filleting. Be

18:50

Fauci. I'm just curious how

18:53

frustrating it is to you that people will go back

18:55

and pick up something that you may have said in

18:58

March of 2020 or something

19:00

that another health official or a politician may

19:02

have said later in that year, whether it

19:04

was about masks or vaccines or anything, we

19:07

didn't know. None of us knew where this

19:09

was going. None of us knew. Like for

19:11

instance, how long would the vaccine work? Would

19:13

we need one booster every five years? We

19:16

need one every five months. How

19:18

frustrating is it to you that people look back with 2020 hindsight

19:21

and judge you when you

19:23

and the rest of the world was in the fog of

19:25

war? You know, it is

19:28

quite frustrating, Joe. And that relates exactly to

19:30

the answer to the question just a moment

19:32

ago where I was saying that

19:34

people really don't appreciate it. I

19:36

don't blame them for that, but they don't

19:38

appreciate that we were dealing with a moving

19:40

target and we were saying things in the

19:42

beginning, wear a mask or not,

19:46

how the virus has spread. I mean,

19:48

originally it was felt understandably,

19:50

but incorrectly by the CDC that

19:52

it has spread by the same

19:54

way that flu has spread, namely

19:57

mostly by droplets, when in fact,

26:00

that are pushing this stuff are way more nefarious

26:02

maybe than you think. What do you think they

26:04

want? Oh, I think they

26:06

actually want to upend all of the meritocracy

26:08

that America has been built on. I think

26:10

they would gladly shred all of our founding

26:12

documents. I think that's very clear. Listen to

26:14

what they're saying at these campus protests. They're

26:17

starting with Israel, but the United States is the

26:19

big fish. I 100% know that Chris Cuomo is

26:21

a father four years from now when your son

26:23

is out of college and he goes to get

26:25

a job on Wall Street or if he wants

26:27

to be a doctor or whatever, does not want

26:30

him to be discriminated on by the

26:32

basis of the color of his skin, nor how

26:34

much money and how famous his dad is

26:36

and everything else. And that is

26:38

what they literally have systemically put

26:40

into the country. Supreme Court just

26:42

reversed affirmative action as it pertains

26:45

to college admissions, which was absolutely

26:47

right. You don't solve past discrimination

26:49

by discriminating against Asians of today.

26:51

Right. You don't do that. In

26:53

your opinion, they would say that,

26:55

no, we are just trying

26:57

to make sure this group isn't discriminated against anymore. Not

26:59

that you are, but I don't think it's an opinion

27:02

to say that discriminate. Well, I suppose it's an opinion

27:04

at some level, but I think it's

27:06

an empirical truth that discrimination based on

27:08

immutable, immutable characteristics is bad. But they're

27:10

not saying no white. They're saying no

27:13

or other than white doesn't matter. Then

27:15

you thus you must discriminate. OK,

27:18

so I think you saw how hard

27:20

I was trying not to go after

27:22

him personally or impugnous motives

27:25

or anything else. But you could also see

27:27

that when you make a clear and cogent

27:29

argument to somebody and then

27:31

make it personal, too, that's why I brought up his

27:33

son. He had brought up his son earlier, said his

27:35

son was just graduating high school, going to college when

27:37

I made it about the discrimination that his son will

27:39

face because his son is growing

27:42

up rich. His dad is, you know, was

27:44

a TV star, but certainly influential. His grandfather

27:46

was the governor. His uncle was the governor

27:48

of New York. That the system,

27:50

the D.I. system that he basically

27:54

thinks is OK is

27:56

going to discriminate against his own child. And

27:59

I think that started. breaking him up. Also,

28:01

a bit of his argument was the

28:03

best of intentions. Well, the intentions are we wanna

28:05

solve some of this stuff, but the

28:07

road to hell is paved with good intentions,

28:10

right? So you can't say, okay, we're gonna

28:12

just artificially inflate the amount of say, black

28:14

and brown students we're gonna bring into these

28:16

schools. So we're gonna, they

28:18

will be able to have lesser grades,

28:20

lesser qualifications than these Asian kids. Well,

28:23

then you are ultimately creating racism because

28:25

what do you think will happen a

28:27

generation later when a whole bunch of

28:29

Asian kids, it's Asians and it's Jews

28:31

and it's whites, of course, too, that

28:34

when they, but it largely is happening. We

28:36

know for sure it was happening as it

28:38

pertains to Asians at Harvard. What

28:41

do you think is going to happen a

28:43

generation after a generation of that goes by?

28:45

You think Asians will be racist against black

28:47

people? Probably yes. They'll be like, look what

28:50

they're getting. So all a system can do

28:52

is say, we are going

28:54

to be colorblind. And sure, some groups have a

28:56

little more and some groups have a little bit

28:58

less and that has to do with culture and

29:00

that has to do with family and that has

29:03

to do with hard work and everything else. And

29:05

there is no perfect system. Humans are imperfect, so

29:07

we create imperfect systems. But I wanna connect what

29:10

we talked about there as it pertains

29:12

to DEI to show how

29:14

granularly in this country things

29:16

are changing. Here

29:18

is University of Florida President,

29:20

Ben Sasse, talking about how

29:23

professors are now flocking to

29:26

Florida because we have dismantled

29:28

DEI. So we've

29:30

taken it out of our schools. And

29:32

what's happening is real professors, the

29:35

few sane Ivy League professors that are left,

29:37

guess what, they want out of Columbia, they

29:39

want out of NYU and they want out of

29:41

Cornell and they wanna be in the free state of Florida.

29:44

The Hamilton Center that we've been building, and thank

29:46

you for some of the faculty that you've loaned

29:49

us, at the University of Florida, we have

29:51

6,400 professors. We

29:54

have 16 colleges and schools,

29:56

but Hamilton is our latest and they're currently

29:58

called the center, but we'll... and eventually be

30:00

upgraded to a college or school. I

30:03

think Hamilton is probably the most sought

30:05

after job in higher education in America

30:07

right now. We had over

30:09

1,200 applicants in about a 10 month period this

30:14

year to become a professor there. And

30:16

New York Times and other places have tried to write

30:19

pieces and called the Hamilton Center a right wing this

30:21

or that. It's just classically liberal.

30:23

Like it's not right a center, we're

30:25

not interested in your politics. And

30:27

lots and lots of the faculty who are applying

30:30

are from IVs and IV plus top

30:32

15 institutions who are way left to

30:34

center. I just happen to know a

30:36

lot of them personally. And

30:38

so that's the only reason I know anything about their politics.

30:41

But they just wanna teach it a place that's

30:43

humble enough to say we're wrestling with

30:45

big questions here and political indoctrination is

30:47

boring. That's

30:50

not what an educational institution exists to do.

30:53

That's the white pill of everything I've done

30:55

here today so far is that the sorting

30:57

is actually happening. People post COVID are moving

30:59

to places that are more in line with

31:01

their values, hopefully voting the right way when

31:03

they get there. Then the institutions

31:06

are having a major sorting, right? Like

31:08

if you're gonna spend $80,000 a year

31:11

to send your kid to Columbia so they become a

31:13

member of Hamas, okay, have at it. But

31:15

you could also perhaps spend way less,

31:18

send your kids to a school in

31:20

Florida where they will be taught a

31:22

classically liberal education. And that sorting over

31:24

time actually is the strength of America.

31:26

It's the beauty of what the founders

31:28

did with federalism. It's the beauty of

31:30

what choice is. It's the beauty of

31:33

bottom up instead of top down authority.

31:35

And that's just what we need more

31:37

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31:39

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33:35

a community Q&A. Here we go. James

33:37

says, I would ask Dave to comment

33:40

on the question San Francisco Mayor London

33:42

Breed posed to her chief opponent Mark

33:44

Farrell. Quote, you were at the Harvey

33:46

Milk LGBT Democratic Club and couldn't name

33:48

any LGBT advisors to your campaign. You

33:50

were at the debate last week and

33:53

couldn't name any drag queens on your

33:55

own, she said to Farrell. This

33:57

is an opportunity to redeem yourself if you could...

34:00

name three LGBTQ advisors through your campaign and

34:02

three drag queens in San Francisco. Okay, so

34:04

this is true actually. I'm gonna skip the

34:06

rest of the question because we have some

34:08

video of this. They're out of San

34:11

Francisco. Think of all

34:13

of the crazy, psychotic

34:15

shit going on in San Francisco. The

34:18

zombie apocalypse on the streets, the drugs,

34:20

the homelessness, the urban blight, the destruction

34:22

of the middle class. And

34:24

instead of dealing with any of those things

34:26

properly at a debate, they're debating how many

34:28

drag queens do you know? So

34:30

before I even comment on this any further, we actually

34:32

have some of the video from the debate. I'd

34:35

like to ask Mark a question. You

34:39

were at the Harvey

34:41

Milk LGBT Democratic Club and

34:44

couldn't name any LGBT

34:47

advisors to your campaign.

34:50

You were at the debate last week

34:52

and couldn't name any

34:55

drag queens on your own. I

34:57

was wondering if you could, this

35:01

is an opportunity to redeem yourself. And

35:04

if you could name three

35:06

LGBTQ advisors for your campaign

35:09

and three drag queens in

35:12

San Francisco. So

35:21

we're not gonna, we're

35:25

not gonna revise the drag queen

35:27

question from last week. But what

35:29

I will say is I'm incredibly

35:31

proud of the support that I

35:33

have from our LGBTQ plus community

35:36

here in the San Francisco. Let

35:39

me be very clear about this

35:41

during Gay Pride Month. There is

35:43

no such thing as the fucking

35:46

LGBTQI two-spirit plus community. The trans

35:48

people want to chop the genitals

35:50

off the gays and the lesbians.

35:53

The spies are just a little confused. These people have nothing to

35:55

do with each other. The two-spirit and the queer thing. Nobody

35:58

cares, nobody cares. You like to wear a dog. mask.

36:00

Okay, fine. Just do it in the

36:02

privacy of your own home. But the

36:04

absurdity, the profound absurdity that

36:06

the mayor of San Francisco, who has demolished

36:08

that city, which was one of the most

36:11

beautiful cities in all of America only 15

36:13

years ago, that they have so

36:16

destroyed that city, and the question

36:18

that they are dealing with is,

36:20

can my opponent name three drag

36:22

queens? I can't name three. RuPaul,

36:26

can anyone else in this room name

36:28

a drag queen? George Santos, okay. Anyone

36:30

else? Yeah. Like, think how

36:32

absolute you people deserve whatever you get. And

36:34

that is again why federalism is great. And

36:36

the great sorting that I just talked about

36:38

is great. I want nothing to do with

36:41

you people. You want San Francisco, you want

36:43

your drag queen advisors have at it. I

36:45

just want nothing to do with you. And

36:47

guess what? You can't have our shit. That's

36:49

going to be really the problem because the

36:51

more that we separate, the

36:53

more that we separate, they're going to keep coming

36:55

for our stuff. And that really will be the

36:57

problem. But congratulations, San Francisco. Go for it. Give

37:00

me one more drag queen or give me a funny

37:02

drag queen name. There must be another drag queen out

37:04

there. Who? Daddy Satan. Daddy Satan.

37:07

Phoenix is a pro-Palestine drag

37:09

queen. Daddy Satan is a

37:11

pro-Palestine drag queen. Glenn

37:16

says, do you ever worry you will miss out

37:18

on commenting on a big story when you take

37:20

your August breaks? You

37:22

know, I guess, I think this is my

37:24

eighth year doing it. We'll check. It's either my seventh

37:26

or eighth year. You know, I go completely off the

37:28

grid for August. No TV, no phone, no electronics, nothing,

37:30

nothing, nothing, nothing, and no news. And then of course

37:32

I come back with the big guest host and get

37:35

caught up on everything. You know, the first couple of

37:37

years, I guess I was worried that I would miss

37:39

little things. And I did miss things. I missed the

37:41

Afghanistan withdrawal. That was obviously a huge news story a

37:43

couple of years back. I missed John

37:45

McCain's death one year. You know, I missed

37:47

different things each year. I missed one of

37:49

the Republican conventions, this or that. I'm

37:52

not worried. The whole purpose of

37:54

me doing it is so that I can come back refreshed

37:57

and with fresh eyes to do this.

38:00

right? To be able to look at the news and

38:02

communicate it to you guys in a way that

38:04

hopefully is a little bit lighter and a little

38:06

bit funnier and a little bit more honest than

38:08

what most people are doing. I say that to

38:10

the backdrop of just showing you those clips with

38:13

Cuomo. And and I think it's

38:15

just it's it's one of the reasons I

38:17

have not gone crazy while doing this. There's

38:19

a lot of people that do something

38:21

similar to this that have kind of gone a

38:23

little bit nutty or off the rails or anything

38:25

else. But for me when I realize you know

38:27

and I'm two weeks in and I'm like alright

38:29

well whatever is happening in the world it's happening

38:31

and okay I didn't comment on it and I'll

38:33

get to it. You realize the world goes on

38:35

and on with or without you and

38:37

I think that that perspective and then just actually

38:40

literally just giving my brain a chance to kind

38:42

of reset and I've told you guys how suddenly

38:44

I can remember like out of nowhere. I'll be

38:46

like whatever happened to that kid Rich in second

38:49

grade I used to sit next to him. I

38:51

wonder what happened to him and like I'll just

38:53

start thinking about something that I just haven't thought

38:55

about for 20-30 years because the brain has room

38:57

to like wander a little bit. Sometimes

39:01

days go by where you know we'll be sitting

39:03

at the beach and we barely talk. I

39:05

don't even say that much which I kind of

39:08

like too. Like it's it's just it's

39:10

just a decompression of all of the craziness.

39:12

So no I'm not worried. I think this

39:14

year is particularly particularly nutty in that I

39:17

suppose Donald Trump could end up in jail

39:19

and Joe Biden could end up in the

39:21

old age home or some other version of

39:23

both of those things and I could come

39:25

back and it's September whatever it is September

39:27

3rd that I come back and it'll be

39:30

completely two different candidates running for president. That

39:32

does seem a little bizarre. Also it does

39:34

feel like there's a there's a world war

39:36

at some level being ramped up so this

39:38

one seems particularly weird but that's exactly why

39:40

I do it. Jeffrey says

39:43

right-wing news outlets are showing how Biden

39:45

is losing his mind. Left-wing news outlets

39:47

are showing how Trump is losing it.

39:49

Is RFK Jr. really the only

39:51

candidate with a functioning brain? Well first off I don't think

39:54

there's any comparison between the

39:56

degradation of Joe Biden's brain

39:58

and whatever cognitively is going going on

40:00

with him and Trump, right? Trump's still

40:02

for all of his silliness and yes,

40:04

he repeats phrases and just he glosses

40:06

over things and whatever, he can extemporaneously

40:09

talk for two hours. He gets, he's

40:11

directionally right about most of the stuff

40:13

and I just don't see a real

40:15

comparison between the two of them. But

40:17

to your point, yes, left-wing media will

40:19

always go out of their way to

40:21

show him in the most uncharitable thing

40:23

and I suppose right-wing media will do

40:25

the same thing when it comes

40:27

to Joe Biden. RFK, ironically, he had brain worms but

40:29

he might have the most functioning brain out of all

40:31

of them. Is he officially out of the debate? I

40:34

didn't think he was gonna get in but I think

40:36

there's, yeah, so he will not be in

40:38

the debate which is a damn shame and

40:40

it really is, it's totally unjust for

40:43

several reasons but I would say the prime reason is

40:45

he's still polling somewhere in most national polls between 10

40:48

and 20%. Knowing

40:50

that most of our elections come down to 1%, 2%, the

40:54

guy with 10 or 20 in the middle, depending

40:57

on which way he polls, he could fully affect

40:59

the result of the election so we should be

41:01

able to hear from him, whether you want Trump

41:03

to win or whether you want Biden to win.

41:07

But I suppose that is not gonna happen. He is

41:09

getting on more and more ballots so I think that

41:11

that's good at least. Shelley says, hey

41:14

Dave, at what age did you realize you wanted to

41:16

be a standup comic? You mentioned going to college and

41:18

probably did not have comedy as your major. That being

41:20

said, how did your parents take the new venture of

41:22

yours? Did they believe it was your passion or just

41:24

a dream that would not come to fruition? This

41:29

too will pass moment in time. Glad

41:31

you're living your dream, thanks. Well,

41:34

you know, it's funny, my friends growing up, everybody

41:37

was funny, like that was the language that we

41:39

spoke in, like we were playing video games, playing

41:41

basketball and just being funny, like that was it

41:43

and I always thought somebody was gonna be a

41:45

comedian and my last day of college, literally my

41:47

last day of college, I had done all my

41:49

finals, handed it all my papers, I was in

41:51

a public speaking class and it was the last

41:53

thing I was going to do, the last class

41:56

I was gonna attend or anything and

41:59

we were allowed to talk about whatever. whatever we

42:01

wanted, like a give a 10 minute speech on

42:03

something and I just did this recap of what

42:05

it was like to be in college. And I

42:07

sat down on a chair like Bill Cosby himself

42:09

and Cosby was my favorite standup comic. In 1983

42:11

I saw himself, I was seven years old, the

42:13

title of his HBO special is himself and I

42:15

just could not believe anything was that funny. My

42:17

stomach was buckled and in pain from laughing so

42:19

hard. I just couldn't believe it. And

42:21

I did basically a 10 minute recap of what

42:24

it was like to be in college and

42:27

made it funny. And half the class was looking at

42:29

me like I was insane and half the class was

42:31

cracking up. And then a week later I was at

42:33

New York comedy club in New York City, 23rd and

42:35

3rd and I started doing standup. And then it was

42:37

15 years of doing that in New York and doing

42:39

some stuff on the road and then eventually doing it

42:41

in LA. And I think all of it

42:44

led to my ability to do a book tour

42:47

where I largely do standup for an hour, pretty

42:49

much kind of off the top of my head,

42:51

but I'm just kind of messing around with everybody.

42:53

And I never wanted to be one of these

42:55

like jokey joke, I'm gonna get on the Tonight

42:57

Show, here's my little five minute thing. It's sort

42:59

of the way I do this show. Like I

43:01

want it to be kind of thoughtful and then

43:04

funny at times and it's kind of corny and

43:06

also silly and ridiculous and straightforward and just a

43:08

big mix of a bunch of stuff.

43:10

As for my parents, my dad

43:12

basically was like, well, you can do whatever you want, but

43:14

you got to figure out a way to pay the bills,

43:16

you can't live here forever. So

43:18

I did all sorts of odd jobs as

43:21

a standup. My first job out of college,

43:23

I was assistant manager at electronics boutique, which

43:25

you guys know as GameStop now, but I

43:27

did, I was a waiter, I was a

43:30

bartender, I did promotions where I'd go to

43:32

colleges and I just anything I could do

43:34

to rub two nickels together so that I

43:36

can survive. And I guess it all worked

43:38

out to some degree or another. Sulana

43:41

says, hey Dave, the analogy of Pakistan, which

43:43

Douglas Murray so eloquently explained in the monk

43:45

debate the other day, is a very good

43:48

analogy to confront the Zionism argument I think.

43:50

Do you think we should all use it

43:52

to debunk the pro-Hamasque group like Brianna Joy

43:54

Gray, who are now openly calling for the

43:56

eradication of a Jewish state in favor of

43:59

a Jewish state? of some utopian democracy, which

44:01

of course would be an Arab theocracy. And

44:03

then Salan, I do wanna note, you gave

44:05

me a really nice historical

44:08

piece on Pakistan there, but I thought it would be a bit

44:10

much to read right now. In

44:13

essence, the short answer is

44:15

yes, that post World War II, the entire world

44:17

and the borders of the Middle East and

44:20

across Europe were changed and altered

44:22

and states were created and everything

44:24

else. As Douglas pointed out in

44:26

the monk debate amongst a zillion other things

44:28

that he said that were quite brilliant, if

44:31

you were relentlessly trying to destroy an upend

44:33

Pakistan and then you were like, but it

44:36

has nothing to do with the Pakistani people,

44:38

I really love them. Everyone would know you

44:40

were like a maniac and an idiot and

44:42

a liar and probably a racist to some

44:45

extent, to the extent that

44:47

Pakistan is obviously, it's not a race, it's

44:49

a nation, but you get the point. I

44:53

think that there are many, many arguments

44:55

to be made that make the Zionism

44:57

argument very simple, like there are basic,

45:00

basic things. Judaism is the first of

45:02

the monotheistic religions. Everyone knows the story

45:04

of Exodus, which is the Jews going

45:06

from Egypt to the ancient land

45:08

of Israel. You go to Israel and

45:10

you see their unearthing things in Hebrew

45:12

from thousands of years ago. Jesus

45:16

of Nazareth was from Israel, right?

45:19

Like everyone knows all of these

45:21

things. There's 22 Arab nations that

45:23

all are only for largely Arab

45:26

and Muslim people. There is no

45:28

coexistence. Women are not

45:30

treated well, minorities are not treated well. There's

45:32

no Christians left in any of these countries,

45:34

virtually no Christians. There's basically no Jews left

45:36

in any of these countries. The Middle East

45:38

has one tiny place the size of New

45:40

Jersey where there's two million Arab Muslims who

45:42

can serve on the Supreme Court and have

45:45

in Israel and all the rest of the

45:47

stuff. You go to Jerusalem, and we

45:49

showed you videos of this when we were in

45:51

Jerusalem, where there'll be an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man standing

45:53

next to a Muslim woman in a burqa

45:55

and they're on the bus together. Like it is

45:58

the only place of anything related to COVID. existence

46:01

in the entire part of that world.

46:03

It's the only place in the Middle

46:05

East that is anything remotely close to

46:08

progressive ideology or liberal

46:10

ideology, and that's the place that the

46:12

progressives hate the most. Ironically, if Israel

46:14

behaved the exact same way as an

46:16

Arab nation, they would all

46:18

hate it because they would say it was

46:20

too liberal, right? Like, so it's all completely

46:22

idiotic, and I think there's many good arguments.

46:24

The Pakistan one is wonderful. LW says, Dave,

46:26

you said you had two Tesla's sitting out

46:29

back. Does that mean you have no intention

46:31

in the future of a long road trip? No, so we do

46:33

have two Teslas. We only had one car for many, many years.

46:35

Then we had, we had the

46:37

kids. We realized we needed two cars, but

46:39

you know, the superchargers are all over the country.

46:42

You can drive coast to coast. You can drive

46:44

from Miami, Florida down south. You can go

46:46

in the east, and you can go all

46:48

the way to northwest California

46:50

or Oregon and supercharge all along the way. It's

46:53

going to take you a little bit more time,

46:55

but the superchargers, Elon's done a great job, where

46:58

the superchargers now charge way, way faster. So

47:00

on the Model X, I mean, you can

47:02

basically go from no charge to full charge

47:04

probably in about 20 minutes, and you have

47:06

a beautiful screen in that Tesla where you,

47:08

they have apps for Netflix and everything else.

47:11

So you can sit there and you can

47:13

watch Netflix, and most of the superchargers, at

47:16

least in the, in the bigger city areas, are usually

47:18

somewhere that it's a nice outdoor mall or whatever. Some

47:20

of them are in a little more remote, remote spot,

47:22

so you just get out of the car and you

47:24

go have lunch or whatever. So

47:26

yes, it would make the

47:29

drive a bit longer. I've done the cross-country thing once.

47:31

We did it one time when we moved in 2013

47:33

from, from New York to Cali.

47:36

It is absolutely, Tesla or not, it

47:38

is something that everyone should do. Every

47:41

American should do it. When you drive

47:43

across this great country and you see

47:45

the vastness and you see the change

47:47

in foliage and the from mountains to plains

47:49

and the beauty of the sunsets and the

47:51

sunrises and all of that and the difference

47:53

in the people and the weather, like, and

47:55

you see that this is, this is so

47:57

freaking extraordinary what we have in this country.

48:00

that perhaps we should not give it up. Jay

48:03

from Boise says, I have a

48:05

completely non-confirmed theory. The reason

48:07

why the left push to shut down

48:10

American energy production in the name of

48:12

climate control is because most of the

48:14

stateside energy supports the Republican Party. What

48:16

do you think of this? I

48:19

don't think it's that crazy. I think that the,

48:22

that's probably one layer of it. I would say that

48:24

the big layer of it is that

48:26

the reason they are trying to shut down stateside

48:28

energy and they want us off oil is not

48:31

because of climate change. It's because they want to

48:33

institute huge governmental

48:35

authoritarian power over humans

48:37

and decide how much

48:39

you drive your car or as we covered yesterday,

48:42

whether you will even own your car or have

48:44

to borrow your car or how often you can

48:46

be on a plane while they are on their

48:48

private jets. Like most things just come down to

48:50

control. AOC seven years ago

48:52

when she said we have 12 years

48:54

left to live, unless she is a

48:56

complete retard, which I do think is

48:59

possible, she knew it was a lie,

49:01

right? But they lie because as James

49:03

Lindsay often points out, everything is about

49:05

the revolution, right? So every single thing

49:07

that they do, whether it's burning down

49:09

buildings in honor of George Floyd or

49:11

trying to push Jews out of Columbia

49:14

while wearing Hamas masks or telling you

49:16

that you have to give up your

49:18

gas car or your gas stove to

49:20

stop climate change, it's all in the

49:22

name of the communist revolution. So I

49:24

think when you start seeing that, as

49:27

opposed to what Chris Cuomo was doing, where

49:29

he was like, well, DEI was originally brought

49:31

in because people wanted minorities to, and it's

49:34

like, okay, well, we can play this game

49:36

forever, where they destroy everything and we just

49:38

never call out why they're doing it. Or

49:40

we can be like, oh, we know what

49:43

they do, we know what the game plan

49:45

is and we're not gonna play with them

49:47

anymore. KCMTL

49:51

says, is it better to call

49:53

Justin Trudeau a douchebag or a

49:55

scumbag? I

49:57

like douchebag, I like douchebag, I'm not a

49:59

hun. 100% sure what a douchebag

50:01

is, and i kind of don't want to

50:03

know, but douche is a funny word. Douchebag.

50:07

Scumbag is sort of standard stuff. i would say

50:09

he's more of a douchebag. Yeah,

50:12

douchebag is something to do with downstairs

50:15

in the feminine regions, and he also...

50:18

he's trans or something, right? So it seems

50:20

right for him. Laurie says,

50:22

you have shared your humble beginnings, canzatuna, and

50:25

sleeping on couches trying to make it. Now

50:27

that you've made a big, what is the most important thing that you

50:29

want to leave for your kids? Man,

50:32

well, i did definitely have those lean years. i

50:34

told you i had a buddy who was in

50:36

food service, and he would bring me industrial-sized cans

50:38

of tuna that i would eat for weeks, and

50:41

industrial-sized cans of soup that would go to restaurants.

50:43

My sodium levels and my mercury levels, i'm

50:45

sure, in the early 2000s, probably, i should

50:48

have been quarantined for that. So

50:50

i had those lean years. i mean, i'm talking

50:52

scrounging up a couple... a little bit of change

50:54

from my roommate's coffee

50:56

can so i could buy a cup of coffee. It

50:59

was definitely tough in some of those years, living...

51:01

you know, i had a couple different apartments, but

51:04

also living on friends' couches for a while and

51:06

all that stuff. What would i want to leave

51:08

the kids? Well, i mean, if

51:10

you mean the monetary stuff, i would just... i

51:13

would hope that i would leave them... well,

51:16

it's really not the monetary stuff. i hope that for the

51:18

next 18 years or so that i'm

51:20

able to fill them up with enough of the good

51:22

stuff and the right things and the truth that

51:25

they will go on a great adventure and

51:27

do more amazing things than i've done. Like,

51:29

that, i guess, would be the real piece

51:31

of it. We have discussed

51:33

with our family planners and financial people, like,

51:36

we're not putting aside for college, really. We're

51:38

putting aside a fund so that

51:40

if, hopefully, they have their head on straight and one

51:42

of them comes up to me, you know, post high

51:44

school and like, dad, i want to travel for a

51:46

little bit and then... and then this is what i

51:48

want to do, well, there are some funds to do

51:50

that. But

51:53

i don't... it's not like i want to, like, buy

51:55

houses for everybody and all that stuff. I think, you

51:57

know, the struggle is also part of it and that's

51:59

also the challenge. for anyone, once you get

52:01

a little something, like if you

52:04

just hand it to your kids, why do so many

52:07

kids of fairly wealthy parents, why do

52:09

they, so many of them will go crazy in

52:11

drugs and blah, blah, blah? Because

52:13

the struggle is real too, just being handed everything

52:16

is not good. So that will certainly be a

52:18

challenge that we will have to address. Olaf

52:20

says, do you have any flags flying

52:23

outside your home? I'm thinking you don't

52:25

have the rainbow alphabet plus flag. No,

52:27

we do not have the flag of

52:29

the trans terrorists in front

52:31

of our house. We don't have, you

52:34

know, there's a ton of, this is Florida, there's

52:36

a ton of American flags here. We don't have

52:38

one outside. Maybe we'll do it finally for this

52:40

July 4th. We have discussed it, but we do

52:42

have a massive, I think we have a picture

52:44

of it. So we have a huge American flag

52:46

that's in the hallway which led to our

52:49

old studio inside the house. That's really not illustrating

52:51

how big it is, but that flag was given

52:53

to me, I wish I could remember the guy's

52:55

name, a

52:59

former member of the

53:01

armed services who I think it's

53:03

a World War II flag. He

53:06

got in France if I'm not mistaken. I wish I

53:08

had the specifics. I'll have to dive into my email

53:10

and check on that. Long story short, I had mentioned

53:12

one day on the show a couple of years ago

53:14

that I wanted an authentic flag to hang in the

53:17

house somewhere and somebody reached out to me and I

53:19

met him in LA and I

53:21

should know the story a little bit better. I'm sorry for

53:23

that. We'll double check on that. The

53:25

Eurasian says, in those clips you played of

53:27

your interview with Chris Cuomo, you were spot

53:29

on, bravo. Do you think

53:31

your perspective on DEI will have any effect

53:33

on his remaining followers, all 20 of them,

53:36

or do you think such people are hopelessly

53:38

brainwashed and we should just focus our attention

53:41

on the uninformed moderates? Well, look, that gets to

53:43

a bit of what I said my trepidation was

53:45

before we did the interview. It's like

53:48

there are a million cable news hosts.

53:50

They're largely interchangeable. I do not mean

53:52

this as an attack on Chris Cuomo

53:54

specifically, but they are just someone who

53:56

sits in a chair and pretty much

53:58

reads what's on the table. as

54:00

I keep pointing out to you guys, when I

54:02

show you the lies of Joy Reid or of

54:05

Joe Scarborough or these MSNBC people every day, when

54:08

you start understanding that the reason they have

54:10

that job is because it is their job

54:12

to lie, which is why they never correct

54:14

themselves, right? So why is it that I

54:16

correct myself? Sometimes live on air, like sometimes

54:19

I make a mistake at the beginning or

54:21

I read the numbers wrong or I just misremember something like,

54:23

and then I correct myself and it's not a big deal.

54:25

It's like, I actually kind of like doing it. It shows

54:27

I'm human and okay. But

54:29

when you realize they're paid to lie,

54:32

then it starts becoming a

54:35

lot clearer. So I don't

54:37

know that I changed Chris Cuomo's mind on anything. I

54:39

do think that the DEI thing as it pertained to

54:41

relating to his son, I think

54:43

I probably got somewhere on

54:46

that. The COVID stuff, he's pretty damn in

54:48

on it. Like I don't

54:50

think we're really changing him on that.

54:53

But again, these things, it's sort of like, when I talk

54:55

about Bill Maher all the time, the end

54:57

goal as much as

54:59

I like Bill is not so that

55:01

Bill one day will like sit down and we're gonna

55:03

be a club random smoking a joint and having tequila

55:05

and he's gonna be like, you know what Dave, you're

55:07

right. I'm voting for Trump, let's go. The

55:10

point is that the more you illustrate the

55:12

truth to these people, they have huge audiences.

55:14

And I believe that just like

55:16

I think you guys are bright, I think that there

55:18

are bright people that watch a lot of these other

55:20

shows. And if you can get them there, that that's

55:22

more important than whether I've been able to get Chris

55:24

Cuomo not to believe in DEI or

55:27

Bill Maher to vote for Donald Trump. Schifster

55:29

says, will y'all be hanging out at

55:32

home or doing day trips or going on an

55:34

actual vacation while off the grid? So

55:36

David and I will disappear for a little bit to

55:39

an unknown location and just

55:42

decompress and it's good to just

55:44

have the two of us and kids will be

55:46

well taken care of and all that. We'll be

55:48

doing some day trips as well. We'll hopefully see

55:50

a little bit of family and just kind of

55:53

relax and be in the pool and just

55:56

really just take it easy. We're gonna

55:58

work out, we're gonna eat right. like come back

56:00

refreshed that that really is the goal. All right,

56:03

we've got John Bachman on Newsmax in just a

56:05

couple minutes so I gotta go quick here. Tappy

56:07

says, Dave, this is the only social media I

56:09

do. You're referring to locals I assume. So I'm

56:11

wondering why someone doesn't point out to Joy Reid

56:13

that she's basically wearing a Trump wig. That is

56:15

a good point. I mean, it is cultural appropriation.

56:18

You've got a black woman with blonde hair. I

56:20

mean, I don't care about that stuff, they do.

56:22

But apparently she took the wig off yesterday. And

56:24

Elizabeth says, Dave, do you have any fun birthday

56:26

plans this year? That's right, my birthday's next Wednesday,

56:28

June 26th. I'm having the whole team

56:30

over. Couple other friends from

56:32

my Florida crew, many of them who've been on the show.

56:35

And I think we may have just

56:37

scored an excellent chef for that evening.

56:41

I'm not gonna cook for you people on my birthday. That's

56:43

how it's gonna be. All right, we leave

56:45

you with the cold clothes. And

56:48

so we will not have a post game, right? Or we do. Yes,

56:50

we are gonna have a post

56:52

game quickly before Bachman. ReubenReport.locals.com. Goodbye.

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57:01

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57:03

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