Speaker 1: So I've got a fun one for you guys for
Speaker 1: this episode. It's my friend Dave Reuben. You know him
Speaker 1: from the Ruben Rapport, you know him from Fox, you
Speaker 1: know him from the books he has written. He wrote
Speaker 1: Don't Burn This Book. It was a New York Times bestseller. Well,
Speaker 1: I have become friends with him. We are both Floridians,
Speaker 1: we both live in the Miami area. He's a ton
Speaker 1: of fun, really smart guy. So I'm just really looking
Speaker 1: forward to this conversation. We're gonna have fun talk about life,
Speaker 1: but also get into a lot of these serious issues
Speaker 1: as well. Uh. Dave's got a book out that coming
Speaker 1: out right now called Don't Burn This Country, Surviving and
Speaker 1: Thriving and Our Woke Dystopia, where he goes through some
Speaker 1: of the antics of the left and what we on
Speaker 1: the right should do about it. He's a former leftist,
Speaker 1: but he has seen the light. He has come around, uh,
Speaker 1: and now he's trying to preach the gospel to to
Speaker 1: people who don't get it yet. He's also on tour,
Speaker 1: Don't Burn This Country Tour. He's had some amazing guests,
Speaker 1: people like Don Jr. He's got Governor de Santis coming
Speaker 1: up as well. He also started Locals, which merged with
Speaker 1: Rumble if he didn't have enough on his plate, and
Speaker 1: everyone's always like, oh, you know, go out and build
Speaker 1: your own thing, do this conservatives. Well, he did it,
Speaker 1: and he did it successfully. So I'm really looking forward
Speaker 1: to this conversation. He's an awesome dude. I've been fortunate
Speaker 1: to get to know him here in Miami. So I
Speaker 1: really hope you enjoyed the conversation, and I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the show. So I am so stoked about this
Speaker 1: guest because he's my friend and he's awesome. Dave Reuben,
Speaker 1: nice to have you on the show, my friend. I
Speaker 1: like that intro. He's my friend and he's awesome. People
Speaker 1: always say he needs no introduction, that's the thing I
Speaker 1: keep getting lately. But I like he's my friend and
Speaker 1: he's awesome. That's that's sort of capsuletes all things. We'll
Speaker 1: see the beauty of this show as we do the
Speaker 1: intro before, because I don't want to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: go through all the things with the so so it's
Speaker 1: like I do that for you guys, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to sit through hearing, uh, you know, the different stuff.
Speaker 1: So I do this simple short start and then we
Speaker 1: do like the longer later. But I was telling you
Speaker 1: we went to the tennis to SUSA for a two
Speaker 1: thousand mules last night and I overserved myself. So my
Speaker 1: apologies to you and the audience. I'm it's self inflicted.
Speaker 1: But I have a little on the struggle bus. Today.
Speaker 1: We get through this thing at mar Lago, which is
Speaker 1: in West Palm here in Florida, and you know, we're
Speaker 1: at the beginning of May in Florida. This is my
Speaker 1: first spring and into summer here in Florida, and I'm
Speaker 1: told it's going to get very hot and very humid.
Speaker 1: So I got there and I just assumed this thing
Speaker 1: was going to be a c indoors, you know, nice
Speaker 1: and chili and all these fancy people in their tuxedos.
Speaker 1: And we get out there and it's blair ring hot.
Speaker 1: It's outdoors. The bars are like baked in the sun.
Speaker 1: Everyone is dripping. And Lisa, were you there for the
Speaker 1: guy who fell in the pool? Did you see that?
Speaker 1: So I didn't see it, but I saw the aftermath,
Speaker 1: and I I'm just glad it wasn't me. But because
Speaker 1: there's nothing worse than like being wet and you're you know,
Speaker 1: like it's just a terrible feeling. So I feel bad
Speaker 1: for that guy. I've got I've got sympathy for him.
Speaker 1: But but fortunately I was you know, I stayed away
Speaker 1: from the pool area, so I was good. I can
Speaker 1: I can confirm to the audience it was not you.
Speaker 1: It was a rather portly fella. And but he came out.
Speaker 1: He had a big smile on his face. Everyone gave
Speaker 1: him a round of applause, and it's all good. But
Speaker 1: we've been fortunate because I've gotten to know you more
Speaker 1: since now we're both Floridians. And what's hilarious is you
Speaker 1: as a good friend. We were trying to set me
Speaker 1: up with someone, which is a sign of a good
Speaker 1: friend because you want to you want to take care
Speaker 1: of me. You don't want me to be old and
Speaker 1: alone and have like thirty cats at some point. So
Speaker 1: it's like it's a sign of friendship, you know. But
Speaker 1: hilarious is you're like telling about this guy and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I did it didn't work out?
Speaker 1: That's very kind of you. Well, so so you know, look,
Speaker 1: you're you're awesome. I just think you're great. You're obviously
Speaker 1: gonna find a great guy with the time is right.
Speaker 1: But you know, a few months ago you said that
Speaker 1: you were single, and you're kind of you know, you're looking.
Speaker 1: So I happened to be out one night with my
Speaker 1: friend Douglas Murray, who you may know. He's a great
Speaker 1: British conservative author, and he introduced me to this other
Speaker 1: guy and we're out having drinks and the guy's he's
Speaker 1: very handsome, he's a he's a model, and he seems
Speaker 1: to get it politically. And I'm sitting there and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this guy is pretty bright, he's on the ball. Young
Speaker 1: guy seems about Lisa's age. I think they'd really hit
Speaker 1: it off. So I text you before I even say anything. Oh,
Speaker 1: I asked the guy if he single. He says he's single.
Speaker 1: And then I text you. I said, Lisa, send me
Speaker 1: the hottest shot that you got right now, and I
Speaker 1: think this is the one. And you sent me. You know,
Speaker 1: you're off. You're on a balcony somewhere and the wind
Speaker 1: is blowing in the air is blowing. You look rather stunning.
Speaker 1: And I show it to the guy. I said, I
Speaker 1: think I got the girl for you. I show him
Speaker 1: the picture and he's like, you're not going to believe
Speaker 1: that I dated her. I know, but it was so
Speaker 1: continued to try. But you know what I said to myself,
Speaker 1: I said that Dave Ruben, he's a friend, and so
Speaker 1: I appreciate. I was looking out, I was looking up.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna You're gonna find a great guy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just obvious, you know, I know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: little harder. I mean, that really is true. You know, girls, generally,
Speaker 1: I've found UM girls usually in there sort of let's say,
Speaker 1: mid twenties into their thirties and even beyond that better
Speaker 1: single usually have their stuff together way more than the
Speaker 1: guys do. We definitely are in this weird thing in
Speaker 1: America right now where guys are in like a more
Speaker 1: of a slow maturation process. I think that might be
Speaker 1: changing a little bit, and it probably definitely is changing
Speaker 1: when it comes to more of like a conservative set
Speaker 1: of guys. UM. But I know a lot of great
Speaker 1: girls that are having trouble just finding guys who kind
Speaker 1: of have their stuff together, who maybe do a little
Speaker 1: bit of the Jordan's Peterson stand up straight with your
Speaker 1: shoulders back and you know, get yourself into the world
Speaker 1: in a sensible way. So I know a lot of
Speaker 1: cool girls and that, and then that that makes it
Speaker 1: obviously tougher because the pool then becomes a little bit
Speaker 1: thinner if you're in the market for a dude. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's harder when you get older because
Speaker 1: you're looking for different things in life, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: not you're not just looking to like go on dates
Speaker 1: and have fun whatever, like You're you're looking for, Okay,
Speaker 1: is this Could this person be a husband? Could this
Speaker 1: person be a father? You know, like you just don't
Speaker 1: have as much time to like waste with someone, so
Speaker 1: you just become like a little more judicious in the process.
Speaker 1: But that's probably because I didn't do those things earlier,
Speaker 1: is probably what I'm saying. Seven. So I wish I
Speaker 1: wish I had gone to that, you know, conclusion. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's all good in life. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And we've we've been fortunate because we live in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida. I mean, how much do you love
Speaker 1: being a Floridian? I freaking all love it. I mean,
Speaker 1: like beyond love it. I know how much you love it.
Speaker 1: I know how much everyone here that now has trans planted,
Speaker 1: and I know an awful lot of refugees how much
Speaker 1: they love it. But I don't know that there's anyone
Speaker 1: that has loved every minute of living in Florida more
Speaker 1: than me. I got here about now, it's about five
Speaker 1: months ago or so, and I wake up every morning
Speaker 1: and the sun is shining, and the frogs are croaking,
Speaker 1: and the lizards are climbing around, and my dog's going
Speaker 1: crazy to these, hunting all of them. And you know,
Speaker 1: the spirit of freedom here, I mean the smiling faces
Speaker 1: after living in Los Angeles, especially for the last two
Speaker 1: years of COVID, where you never saw people everyone, and
Speaker 1: when you rarely did, they were just so depressed and
Speaker 1: anti social and there was such a depression in terms
Speaker 1: of the economic activity, and everything was closed and dirty
Speaker 1: and homelessness and all of the broken windows, all the stuff.
Speaker 1: And you come here and you and I both live
Speaker 1: in the Miami area and it's clean and it's nice
Speaker 1: and even like just the trees and the leaves, everything
Speaker 1: feels so good. And then the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: for for people like you and me, Lesa like to live,
Speaker 1: to do what we do for a living, where we
Speaker 1: talk about politics and you know, to live in a
Speaker 1: place that is in line with our politics. I really forgot,
Speaker 1: having lived lived in California, how when you live in
Speaker 1: a place that's so disconnected from how you actually believe
Speaker 1: and want to live, it does great on you over time.
Speaker 1: And I was at a one eighty opposite with basically
Speaker 1: everyone at a public level in California, whether it was
Speaker 1: my mayor Eric Arsetti or the crazy psycho governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: And I did everything I could to get the guy recalled,
Speaker 1: and then I campaigned with Larry Elder. It obviously didn't work,
Speaker 1: and then that was the last straw. I got audited
Speaker 1: by the state three days later, and I said, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. And it was the best decision
Speaker 1: I ever made. Well, and then that was I mean,
Speaker 1: that was kind of crazy for them to But we're
Speaker 1: saying this all the time though, I mean, like the
Speaker 1: government just politically going after uh, you know, people who
Speaker 1: don't subscribe to their leftist bus and it's it's but
Speaker 1: it's only it seemingly only goes one way. You know,
Speaker 1: these people are, They're exactly what they all purported Trump
Speaker 1: to be. They all thought Trump was going to use
Speaker 1: the levers of the state to punish his opponents and
Speaker 1: people down and blah blah blah. And meanwhile it's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, it was actually the I R S
Speaker 1: under Obama Lowis Learner that was hunting down the Tea
Speaker 1: Party groups because they didn't like what they were doing.
Speaker 1: In this case, it was me campaigning obviously to get
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom recalled with Larry Elder, who was a great,
Speaker 1: great man. And then I get audited. So this is
Speaker 1: what they do. And that's just like, that's just one
Speaker 1: oh one for what the left is up to these days.
Speaker 1: They accuse you of doing exactly what they're doing, but
Speaker 1: it's so much more overt now. I mean, they quite
Speaker 1: literally have a ministry of truth and you know, just
Speaker 1: but the wheel, the wielding of the guard. I just
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of times before there was at
Speaker 1: least some effort to conceal like this totalitarianism, communism, authoritary
Speaker 1: and now they're just overt with it. They don't even
Speaker 1: care anymore. There's no attempt to hide like the abuse
Speaker 1: of power and their their hatred for us. Isn't there
Speaker 1: something kind of refreshing about that? O Like it really
Speaker 1: is out in the open right now. There's you know,
Speaker 1: I do it on my show all the time. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could count the remaining good liberals, the
Speaker 1: remaining sort of somewhat sane moderate Democrats, and you know,
Speaker 1: I can usually do it all on one hand because
Speaker 1: you've got Tulsi who's completely on the outs from her
Speaker 1: own party because she is a moderate. And then you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you've got half a bill Mare depending on what
Speaker 1: day it is, and you know, okay, there's sort of
Speaker 1: Barry Wise every now and again. But the point is
Speaker 1: there are no moderates left. They've let the inmates run
Speaker 1: the asylum. But I think in some ways it's making
Speaker 1: our job easier because you know, whether you're a libertarian
Speaker 1: or conservative or you're just an ex liberal or something
Speaker 1: like that, it's like, man, we're happier. I think we
Speaker 1: have a better sense of really what reality is and
Speaker 1: what the world is. And that's been an interesting thing
Speaker 1: for me. You know, we have a we have a
Speaker 1: fun crew here of you know, like internet personalities that
Speaker 1: we've gone to dinners with and hung out with and stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's like these people are happy, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: we have some political difference is but nobody cares. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just irrelevant to to us all trying to
Speaker 1: live happy lives and do good work and you know,
Speaker 1: make Florida the best part and that it can be well.
Speaker 1: I think Tucker recently said that the left is now
Speaker 1: the party of weak men and unhappy women, which I
Speaker 1: think pretty much. But they really do just seem miserable.
Speaker 1: And you know, you used to be a progressive. You
Speaker 1: obviously aren't miserable, You're amazing, But what was that turning
Speaker 1: point for you when you're just like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this just doesn't drive with me anywhere. I don't subscribe
Speaker 1: to this, Like what what was it for you? That's
Speaker 1: sort of just kind of set that that light bulb
Speaker 1: off in your head. I mean, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of things it was sort of it was I think
Speaker 1: what happens to a lot of people. It's similar to
Speaker 1: what happened to me, which is there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: slow motion things and then suddenly something that completely tips
Speaker 1: you over and you're like, holy cow, that really just happened.
Speaker 1: That's why that's why they call it the red pill,
Speaker 1: because you have like these hints that something is up. Uh,
Speaker 1: sort of like Neo had before the moment, and then
Speaker 1: you take the red them then you go, wow, I
Speaker 1: really was seeing things backwards. Uh. There's a few moments
Speaker 1: for me. Most famously was this moment where I was
Speaker 1: still on the left and I had Larry Elder on.
Speaker 1: This is now seven years ago or so, and we
Speaker 1: we were talking about systemic racism and he just beat
Speaker 1: me senseless with facts and I wasn't armed to fight
Speaker 1: back because I was a lefty and what lefties do
Speaker 1: is you just say something and you think because you
Speaker 1: say it, it's true. So you say systemic racism, and
Speaker 1: then you think, oh, I said it, so it must
Speaker 1: be true. Everyone says it's systemic racism, it's systemically racist.
Speaker 1: And he really went after me with stacks and statistics
Speaker 1: and figures, and instead of doing what the knee jerk
Speaker 1: lefty thing is, which is yelling at him and calling
Speaker 1: him a racist whatever, I just kind of listened and
Speaker 1: this all happened live on camera, and from that moment
Speaker 1: I started just being willing to talk to some of
Speaker 1: the people that I thought were my opponents. So you know,
Speaker 1: soon after that, I had the scary Glenn back on,
Speaker 1: and I had the scary Dennis Praeger and the very
Speaker 1: very scary five ft seven Ben Shapiro. And what I
Speaker 1: realized was, well, I had some political different disagreements with them,
Speaker 1: but they were nice people, and I actually thought that
Speaker 1: they were quite thoughtful and um and in many ways
Speaker 1: generous of spirit. Now that I've become friends with all
Speaker 1: of them, I find them to be great people. So
Speaker 1: you just need one moment that kind of tips you over.
Speaker 1: And I think the challenge for us always is getting
Speaker 1: people to that moment, you know, if you can just
Speaker 1: leave them long enough and then they have to just
Speaker 1: kind of get that last moment themselves well. And there's
Speaker 1: people like that that are on the cost, Like you
Speaker 1: look at people like Baumert. I know you've talked about
Speaker 1: this on your show. You know, you've got people like
Speaker 1: bou Mar who you know makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, but he just can't seem
Speaker 1: to completely come around. You know, It's like, why why
Speaker 1: do you think he can't completely what? What's blocking? Is
Speaker 1: it just you know, for publicity, worried about losing street
Speaker 1: credit or why can't some of these people just fully
Speaker 1: like they're they're at the cost, right? I think they're
Speaker 1: right there, but they just can't get there complete. He's
Speaker 1: kind of the most interesting case. And that's why I
Speaker 1: talk about him so much, because, you know, he's been
Speaker 1: the standard bearer for liberalism in America for thirty years
Speaker 1: at least, it's actually more than thirty years, and now
Speaker 1: at this point between politically and correct and real time
Speaker 1: and doing stand up. Before that, he was the sort
Speaker 1: of most outspoken political comedian. We had George Carlin before him,
Speaker 1: but in terms of like cultural irrelevance, and obviously George
Speaker 1: Carlin passed away ten years ago or whatever. Um, Bill
Speaker 1: mart you know what he seems to do now is
Speaker 1: he gets everything two years too late. So, you know,
Speaker 1: in the last couple of months, he's suddenly speaking out
Speaker 1: against the gender stuff, but we've all been talking about
Speaker 1: it for a couple of years. He's talking out against
Speaker 1: critical race theory in schools, but we've all been talking
Speaker 1: about it for a couple of years. In the last
Speaker 1: few weeks he started talking out against blockdowns and masks. Again,
Speaker 1: we've all been talking about it for two years. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been consistently good on free speech, so
Speaker 1: i'll give him that one. Um, But at the same time.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a guy who said in the
Speaker 1: middle of the Trump presidency that he wanted or session
Speaker 1: because it would take out Trump. And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you ended up supporting by it, and then congratulations, we
Speaker 1: basically have a recession. I think for Bill Maher and
Speaker 1: for a lot of the liberals, there's two. I think
Speaker 1: there's three things, really, but I think there's two that
Speaker 1: become almost intractable and that's why they don't get to
Speaker 1: the end. I think the first one is often they
Speaker 1: don't think through the issues, so they so one issue
Speaker 1: that keeps getting them is the welfare state. They think
Speaker 1: that they're good just because they think taxes should go
Speaker 1: to help poor people. I would say in that one,
Speaker 1: all they have to do is read the Thomas Soul
Speaker 1: book or just basically any libertarian economics economists to understand
Speaker 1: why that doesn't work. So I think I think we
Speaker 1: can probably move them past that, and I do see
Speaker 1: some movement there. The two that I think of the
Speaker 1: real issue, and one is very unique to build one
Speaker 1: is the one is the issue that's hot right now,
Speaker 1: which is abortion. Um, they've really the less has really
Speaker 1: fetishized abortion in such a twisted way. And I say
Speaker 1: this as someone that's begrudgingly pro choice at least for
Speaker 1: a few weeks. Um they're they're so obsessed with abortion
Speaker 1: and they think that there were publicans just want to
Speaker 1: control women or something like that. That that's one, that's
Speaker 1: the big one. And then for Bill, I think there's
Speaker 1: another one, which is that he's gone so in the
Speaker 1: atheist thing for so long and so mocked religion and
Speaker 1: believers were so long. I think it would be a
Speaker 1: real weird moment for a guy like him to fully
Speaker 1: admit that actually the people that are defending all of
Speaker 1: the things that he has fought for, who are defending
Speaker 1: all his liberal beliefs about free speech and rationality and
Speaker 1: all that, well, guess what it turned out to be
Speaker 1: those crazy religious people. So I think he's got a
Speaker 1: big comment that And then I would throw in one
Speaker 1: more with him, which is that he's he's a product
Speaker 1: of Hollywood and he wants to go he likes Hollywood parties.
Speaker 1: He throws a lot of Hollywood parties. I've seen him
Speaker 1: at Hollywood parties like he likes that thing. And if
Speaker 1: you want to stay in that thing. And the guy's single,
Speaker 1: he's a lifelong bachelor and never had kids. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, if he wants that thing, if that thing
Speaker 1: is his life, well they're not going to tolerate the
Speaker 1: other part of that. Trust me, I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm on me out for that thing, and
Speaker 1: it's it's fine with me. Quick commercial break back with
Speaker 1: my friend Dave Reuben. On the other side, when you
Speaker 1: had mentioned, you know, Bill Maher wanting a recession to
Speaker 1: try to get rid of Trump. But this, that's sort
Speaker 1: of that's sort of the embodiment of the left right,
Speaker 1: like they always subscribe to this notion that the ends
Speaker 1: always justify the means. And we just saw, you know,
Speaker 1: you also talked about abortion. We just saw, you know,
Speaker 1: someone leaked the reverse Wade draft opinion, obviously with intention
Speaker 1: to try to put pressure on the justices, to put pressure,
Speaker 1: just like they did with Kavanaugh when you had senators
Speaker 1: needing security because their lives were at risk. Why why
Speaker 1: is that so specific to the left, where they're they're
Speaker 1: just so unafraid to push for violence or or to
Speaker 1: blow up norms, blow up institutions to try to get
Speaker 1: their way. Why why do why do you think that's
Speaker 1: more specific to them or why do they do that.
Speaker 1: I actually think it's a very very clear and honest
Speaker 1: reason for it that if you if you ask people
Speaker 1: on the right, what are they believed, what is the
Speaker 1: purpose of America? Like, what's what's actually going on here?
Speaker 1: Most people on the right, and I'm talking about people
Speaker 1: who really understand the issues, they believe in individual rights,
Speaker 1: Like that's like the fundamental building block of what the
Speaker 1: West is, It's fundamental building block of our founding documents
Speaker 1: that you, as a free person in a free society,
Speaker 1: you're the root of the thing. It starts with you.
Speaker 1: And then that you should have very little government control
Speaker 1: over what you do beyond that. And unfortunately both parties
Speaker 1: Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats have have etched
Speaker 1: away at that over the years. But broadly speaking, people
Speaker 1: on the right believe in the individual. They believe that
Speaker 1: you are unique and you have value. What has happened
Speaker 1: with the left, unfortunately, and this is a product of
Speaker 1: the last twenty or thirty years, because this is not
Speaker 1: a product of say the sixties. Less h is that
Speaker 1: collectivism has taken over. So once you once you are
Speaker 1: obsessed with collectivism and that your your skin color and
Speaker 1: your gender into sexuality and all that stuff that that
Speaker 1: is the the main important thing about you. Well, then
Speaker 1: you're just a cog in the system. And if you're
Speaker 1: just a cognist system, everyone else is just a cognist system.
Speaker 1: And then the system is more important than us. And
Speaker 1: then if you throw what really has been the gasoline
Speaker 1: on the fire, you know, all of this really horrific
Speaker 1: stuff like the sixteen nineteen project and this this idea
Speaker 1: that America is founded on racism, and that's really the
Speaker 1: driving factor of everything. These people don't believe in our institutions.
Speaker 1: They don't believe this experiment is good. And it's such
Speaker 1: a shame because not only is this the greatest, this
Speaker 1: is the greatest human experiment that has ever been done,
Speaker 1: and it's done it for two d fifty years. That
Speaker 1: we may be getting close to the end. Maybe we are,
Speaker 1: maybe we really are. UM. But you know the thing is,
Speaker 1: I think in their hearts and hearts they know it's
Speaker 1: not true. Uh, they don't leave, right, Nobody leaves America.
Speaker 1: Everybody always wants to come stay in America. People still
Speaker 1: want to come to America. UM. And the race hucksters,
Speaker 1: you know, all of the e Bram Candy's and the
Speaker 1: Jamal Hills of the s and all of these people.
Speaker 1: They've made millions and millions of dollars living in a
Speaker 1: suppressed state, telling you all how oppressed they are, and
Speaker 1: they seem to be doing quite okay at the same time. Well,
Speaker 1: and and you're talking about you know, democrats obviously want
Speaker 1: to you know, trying to burn our country to the ground.
Speaker 1: Which sets me up perfectly to talk about your new book,
Speaker 1: which is called Don't Burn this Country Surviving and Thriving,
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's perfect. E's ev up perfectly, my friend,
Speaker 1: you know, Surviving and Thriving and or woke just to
Speaker 1: obviously and woke dystopia. Obviously they haven't gotten the message
Speaker 1: because they're still trying to, you know, burn our country
Speaker 1: to the ground. But talk a little bit about your book,
Speaker 1: why you wanted to write it, you know what message
Speaker 1: you were really trying to convey, uh in the book?
Speaker 1: To talk about it a little bit for for the audience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the man driver of the book is we've all been
Speaker 1: complaining about this stuff for a long time, and we've
Speaker 1: all been trying to expose it, and we can make
Speaker 1: fun of it and we can mock it, and we
Speaker 1: can show them their hypocrisy. We can do all of
Speaker 1: those things, and those things are worthy of doing, and
Speaker 1: these people need to be exposed and all of that
Speaker 1: m but at some point that's not enough. At some
Speaker 1: point it's like you need to take a proactive message
Speaker 1: and say, well, okay, so now what is it that
Speaker 1: I want to do. I don't want to wake up
Speaker 1: every day and just have to react to a bunch
Speaker 1: of crazy people. What is it that I can do
Speaker 1: that will empower my life? And that really is what
Speaker 1: this book is about. And I think the the main
Speaker 1: point of the book is, Look, you have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: these people have done an incredible amount of destruction. You
Speaker 1: don't have to like what they've done, but you do
Speaker 1: have to kind of tip your cap to them and go, boy,
Speaker 1: you guys really did it. It's it's evil what you did,
Speaker 1: but you really did do it. So you can't just
Speaker 1: sit around and go, oh, they're just inept, you know,
Speaker 1: morons and buffoons, because if they are, then what does
Speaker 1: that say about us? Because they did it on our watch? Right,
Speaker 1: So if you accept that they've done some really bad stuff, well,
Speaker 1: what can you do to better your life. And I
Speaker 1: think there's actually a lot of things you can do.
Speaker 1: One of them, uh, we said, it's something that you
Speaker 1: and I both did, which is pick up and move
Speaker 1: to a better place. We still have fifty states in
Speaker 1: the United States, and they are very different, just like
Speaker 1: Founders intended, and we now live in a place that
Speaker 1: is much more in line with our views. And that's
Speaker 1: one thing you can do. You can also not send
Speaker 1: your kids to college, as I say, to get a
Speaker 1: degree in eighteenth century lesbian poetry and a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars into debt. Wait, that's not successful. That's not going
Speaker 1: to set you a set up. But it's not going
Speaker 1: to set you up for a success. We say, you
Speaker 1: are literally the only person I know who majored in
Speaker 1: a eighteen center lesbian poetry who has a job right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying master's. Actually, Dave, it was a
Speaker 1: master's from Harvard Um. But but you know, you you
Speaker 1: send your kids to school, you get them a hundred
Speaker 1: or a hundred fifty thou dollars or believe it, and
Speaker 1: they're not somethingle three hundred thousand dollars in debt. You know,
Speaker 1: to go to go to Syracuse Syracuse University, which is
Speaker 1: obviously a private school, but that was the number one
Speaker 1: communication school. That's where I wanted to go when I
Speaker 1: was when I was a kid, because I wanted to
Speaker 1: be in broadcasting at some level. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: on ESPN or something, and that was where a lot
Speaker 1: of podcast this went there, and I think Marv Albert
Speaker 1: went there, a lot of those guys. UH. Syracuse University
Speaker 1: right now seventy thousand dollars a year. That means you
Speaker 1: would walk out of out of Syracuse after four years
Speaker 1: roughly two hundred eighty thousand dollars in debt, and now
Speaker 1: you might have learned something about broadcasting. But you know what,
Speaker 1: I didn't go to Syracuse. I ended up going to
Speaker 1: State University of New York at Binghamton, which is a
Speaker 1: perfectly fine New York State school. Unfortunately, like everything else,
Speaker 1: it's gone pretty woke over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: But you know what, then I got on YouTube and
Speaker 1: I became a broadcaster myself. So the point is, there
Speaker 1: are there are tools that you have access to. UH,
Speaker 1: if you want to learn about psychology, you don't have
Speaker 1: to go a hundred thousand dollars into debt to do it.
Speaker 1: You know what you can do. You can watch Jordan
Speaker 1: Peterson lectures online. You can watch incredible UH lectures and
Speaker 1: talks about economics by Thomas Soul. There are so many
Speaker 1: things that you can do to give the power back
Speaker 1: to yourself instead of just being part of a system
Speaker 1: that in many ways it's just designed to punish and
Speaker 1: abuse you. Well, and what's interesting is you know you've
Speaker 1: actually followed through on a lot of these things. I mean,
Speaker 1: you are part of independent media, right like you You
Speaker 1: started your show The Reuben Report, you built Locals, which
Speaker 1: merged with Rumble have been incredibly successful that, So talk
Speaker 1: about you know what you were saying when you started
Speaker 1: that and why you did it. I mean, first I
Speaker 1: went into you know, I had been on a series
Speaker 1: of networks. I started my show on the Young Church
Speaker 1: Network when I was a leftie, and then I moved
Speaker 1: over to or A TV, which was one of the
Speaker 1: At one point there was a bunch of these digital
Speaker 1: independent networks um that were fledgling, and most of them
Speaker 1: all if not all of them, have somewhat crumbled. So
Speaker 1: I was on a couple of different networks and I
Speaker 1: never felt right to me. I felt wet, boy. I'm
Speaker 1: working real hard, and the people that I hire and
Speaker 1: my small team, we worked very hard. We're doing good work,
Speaker 1: we're getting more views, we're being more successful. But the
Speaker 1: machinery doesn't feel right about this. It doesn't feel good
Speaker 1: that we don't own any of this, we don't make
Speaker 1: all the final disc Asians. I just felt the I
Speaker 1: felt the energy going towards independence. So over the years,
Speaker 1: I made a series of moves of leaving these networks
Speaker 1: to become independent, and then really the big thing that
Speaker 1: I did was ultimately create locals. I just thought, well, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm on YouTube, on Patreon, I'm on Facebook,
Speaker 1: all the same things that everyone else is on. But
Speaker 1: I don't own any of this stuff. You know, you
Speaker 1: know this when you're on YouTube. So I have about
Speaker 1: two million subscribers on YouTube. I don't have any of
Speaker 1: their email addresses, and depending on the algorithm I can,
Speaker 1: my people will either see my videos or not. It's
Speaker 1: irrelevant whether they subscribe, it's just whatever the algorithm chokes out.
Speaker 1: So I started realizing that there were such a series
Speaker 1: of problems. What would be some of the things that
Speaker 1: I would want? Well, I would want direct access to
Speaker 1: my audience. I would want to own the video and
Speaker 1: audio and make sure I have their contact information. I
Speaker 1: would want, you know, a really cool app, and I'd
Speaker 1: be able to live stream from my phone and get
Speaker 1: push notifications out so if I got kicked off Twitter,
Speaker 1: I'd be able to communicate with people. And that did
Speaker 1: happen to me last summer um and that's what we
Speaker 1: built and the locals men. By building something that was
Speaker 1: good for me, it turned out to be good for
Speaker 1: an awful lot of other creators, which I'm really proud of.
Speaker 1: And then about seven or eight months ago, we we
Speaker 1: merged with Rumble, which is really the main YouTube competitor
Speaker 1: and the main Amazon AWS. That's Amazon Web Services. That's
Speaker 1: like the sort of the ubiquitous under the belly of
Speaker 1: the Internet. That's what drives the Internet. It's the infrastructure
Speaker 1: of the Internet. Rumble's building a really robust cloud system
Speaker 1: to complete with that, and we're just building it. And
Speaker 1: I believe that if you build it, they will come.
Speaker 1: And that's so bar The proof has been in the pudding. No,
Speaker 1: you've absolutely crushed and I've been to your house, so
Speaker 1: I know you're you're killing it's okay, it's okay. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of you. Your you know, your your your crushing
Speaker 1: life and it's it's well deserved. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, So you went on tour with Jordan Peterson?
Speaker 1: What was that like? I mean, talk about that. It
Speaker 1: was incredible. You know, it was a year and a
Speaker 1: half of my life. We did about a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: stops in twenty countries or so. And you know, Jordan's
Speaker 1: is you know, I believe he's the most important influential
Speaker 1: public thinker that is living on earth today. Um, And
Speaker 1: you know, it was magical to be part of because
Speaker 1: it wasn't like going on tour with a politician or
Speaker 1: someone that just talks politics or just talks current events.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was talking about the most important existential things,
Speaker 1: about getting your life in order and healing old wounds
Speaker 1: and making mends with family members and getting off drugs
Speaker 1: and whatever addictions you have in all these things, and
Speaker 1: the people that were showing up to these theaters, and
Speaker 1: these were massive theaters. I mean we were doing four
Speaker 1: to eight, sometimes more eight thousand theaters. Jam packs sold
Speaker 1: out every night. And the type of people that were
Speaker 1: coming there, these were people who had done the work
Speaker 1: or or were in the in the course of doing
Speaker 1: the work, so they were they looked better. You could
Speaker 1: tell they were taking care of themselves, maybe for the
Speaker 1: first times in their time in their life. They were
Speaker 1: people that had just got jobs, or had just had kids,
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be, that they had started to
Speaker 1: set a little order instead of the chaos that Jordan
Speaker 1: talks about, and to bounce around the world with this
Speaker 1: guy and go wherever we went and see the way
Speaker 1: that he had affected people. It affected me. I mean
Speaker 1: it got into me. I started becoming a better person.
Speaker 1: I started doing the things in my life that we're
Speaker 1: still a little a little chaotic and a little out
Speaker 1: of order. It doesn't mean that I'm perfect, obviously I'm not,
Speaker 1: but I I live with that thing in me now
Speaker 1: and um and I just saw it happened. So it
Speaker 1: was It was really interesting because it's you know, you
Speaker 1: can tour with the band, and you can tour with
Speaker 1: a comedian. You know, you can tour with you know,
Speaker 1: an author, but this really was like touring in some ways.
Speaker 1: It sounds a little corny, but in somebody who was
Speaker 1: like touring with a modern Jesus This was like a
Speaker 1: guy who really was just out there trying to say
Speaker 1: to people, get get your ship in order, and if
Speaker 1: you do that, like who knows what can happen in
Speaker 1: your life? And then and then I saw all the
Speaker 1: transformations happening in front of me every night, and it
Speaker 1: was it was truly incredible. I think back on it
Speaker 1: seems like a dream. It's like, Wow, did I do that?
Speaker 1: It was pretty awesome. It sounds like such an obviously
Speaker 1: an impactful experience in your life. I wish you know.
Speaker 1: I have such a fear of public speaking. I get
Speaker 1: like massive anxiety about it, which is so weird because
Speaker 1: obviously I work in tele I know, right, but like TV,
Speaker 1: it's so intimate you know everyone and like you don't
Speaker 1: see all the people watching. So it's not as I'll
Speaker 1: get nervous if I guest host or things like I
Speaker 1: don't do as frequently. But for whatever reason, just saying
Speaker 1: all the people in the I get like massive anxiety,
Speaker 1: Like I'll have anxiety like for days building up to it.
Speaker 1: It's like the weirdest thing. I wish I didn't because
Speaker 1: you know, I envy people like you who can go
Speaker 1: out there and just like crush it in front of
Speaker 1: an audience. But it just gives me like a funny
Speaker 1: you say that because I well, first off, I would
Speaker 1: have never thought that about you, and I'd be happy
Speaker 1: to like bring you on stage with me to some
Speaker 1: stand up stuff or some other stuff that I do.
Speaker 1: Probably my path. We can bring diapers, it's all good.
Speaker 1: Or if you do pee in your pants will get
Speaker 1: a good laugh, so that can work too. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's different techniques that people use. Because actually one
Speaker 1: of the questions that Jordan would get a lot is
Speaker 1: how do you get over nervousness in front of you know,
Speaker 1: speaking in front of lots of people, And he and
Speaker 1: I had a very different approach on that. He would
Speaker 1: often say that one thing that you can do if
Speaker 1: you're speaking in front of a lot of people is
Speaker 1: if you find one or two people in the crowd
Speaker 1: that you really can look at and focus on them,
Speaker 1: and then you'll feel like you're just talking to you know,
Speaker 1: one or two or three people, and then hopefully your
Speaker 1: nerve levels will go down. I actually find the reverse
Speaker 1: for me. I find if I'm on stage, I can
Speaker 1: if I just look out into the sea, then it's
Speaker 1: almost as if you're talking to nobody, you're you're you
Speaker 1: can feel the energy of the room, and especially if
Speaker 1: you're getting laughs, you can work with that. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be this hyper intimate thing. It can
Speaker 1: actually just be oh, I'm the person, I have the microphone,
Speaker 1: there's people here. But if you're just looking out into
Speaker 1: the sea a bit, it's actually not that intimate, and
Speaker 1: I find that very disarming. So it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where it just depends how you're wired and how
Speaker 1: you want to do it. Although I feel like if
Speaker 1: you're only staring at like one person the whole time,
Speaker 1: they might be like, oh, Lisa's into me, you know,
Speaker 1: and then like maybe you are, but maybe you're not
Speaker 1: so sense that could also take some odd turns. It
Speaker 1: could you know, it could go to take a quick
Speaker 1: break for a little bit, and then we're back with
Speaker 1: Dave Reuben. And so you're on tour right now with
Speaker 1: the with the Don't Burn This Country tour. You've had
Speaker 1: some incredible guests that have joined you, people like Governor
Speaker 1: de Santis I think is coming up, Don Jr. Has
Speaker 1: Don Junior? Happened? That's happened right? That was in last
Speaker 1: week it was awesome. Now very cool and so talk
Speaker 1: about like I assume that's just been so much fun
Speaker 1: to be on this tour, you know, talk about sort
Speaker 1: of your experiences, how it's going, where people can sign up,
Speaker 1: and what other guests are are up ahead. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: first off, it's just been great to be out there
Speaker 1: with people again. I mean everyone forgot it would like
Speaker 1: to sit in the room and laugh, so, you know,
Speaker 1: to just go out there and mess around with the
Speaker 1: crowd and do some politically politically incorrect stuff and make
Speaker 1: fun of the woke and all of that. It's like
Speaker 1: people are having a freaking lass. So I tried to
Speaker 1: give a different you know, roughly different talk for about
Speaker 1: forty minutes each night, I have a different person open
Speaker 1: for me and then do the Q and A. So
Speaker 1: in West Palm I had Don Jr. So he came on.
Speaker 1: He did about five or ten up top. I do
Speaker 1: my thing, then we do a Q and A together again.
Speaker 1: I had Megan Kelly joined me. An upcoming in uh
Speaker 1: in Brea, California, I think on May eleventh, I've got
Speaker 1: Dennis Praeger. The next night Oxnard, I've got Larry Elder,
Speaker 1: who we talked about earlier and just a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different people. So it has a different vibe every night,
Speaker 1: which is also fun because you know, some of the
Speaker 1: guests hosts are a little funnier, some of them are
Speaker 1: a little more serious, some of them are more personal,
Speaker 1: some of them are more political. And it's really just
Speaker 1: changed the vibe. And uh, you know there and see people.
Speaker 1: It's like we all forgot something. Man. You know, we
Speaker 1: used to go out and see people. I know people
Speaker 1: have been doing it here in Florida. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty relenting le since all this began. But that's been
Speaker 1: really great and if people want to join, there's actually
Speaker 1: not many tickets left, but the big one is June
Speaker 1: second at the Plaza Live in Orlando with Governor DeSantis.
Speaker 1: Uh and that you can get tickets at Dave Reuben
Speaker 1: dot com slash events. Well, and you talk about how
Speaker 1: good it is just to have you know, everyone together,
Speaker 1: and like, don't you think that's why everyone got so
Speaker 1: mussed up during I mean not us, because you know,
Speaker 1: we made the wise decision to come down to Florida
Speaker 1: and liveral life and not hiding her basements, you know,
Speaker 1: out of fear from a virus that wasn't going to
Speaker 1: kill us. But you know, isn't why everyone got so
Speaker 1: mussed up? Like we're wired as humans to have that
Speaker 1: interpersonal connection to be around other people. And you know,
Speaker 1: you had some people who you know, basically hit in
Speaker 1: their basement, and I think that's why we've got so
Speaker 1: many crazy people now. Personally, Oh, I think that completely
Speaker 1: is it. Humans need to be around other humans. We're
Speaker 1: social creature. And you took a bunch of social creatures
Speaker 1: and you told them to socially distant and then you
Speaker 1: basically said, hey, only talk to people on zoom and
Speaker 1: face time and just stay in your house and most
Speaker 1: likely you're going to drink more and you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: watch more porn or play video games all day or
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you do. And obviously, two years
Speaker 1: after all of that, it has had incredibly awful effects.
Speaker 1: I actually don't think we've even begun to see the
Speaker 1: effects that this has had really on young people. I mean,
Speaker 1: we know about the rates of alcoholism, we know about
Speaker 1: the rates of depression, but in terms of prescription drugs
Speaker 1: and illicit drugs and just all the stuff, Um, I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be far worse effects coming over the
Speaker 1: next decade or so. And it's such a damn shame
Speaker 1: because we did not have to do this, and and
Speaker 1: I can't even say, even though you know, I grant
Speaker 1: everybody a leash for that first month, you know, when
Speaker 1: that when it all began in a lockdown there everything,
Speaker 1: we didn't know what the hell was going on. It
Speaker 1: was the first time something like this had happened. They
Speaker 1: really scared all of us. And I think every abody
Speaker 1: has about a month, you know, there were two weeks
Speaker 1: to flatten the curve. They extended that and for a
Speaker 1: month it was like, Okay, something weird is going on here,
Speaker 1: let's let's behave or something. After that, I pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: even though I was in crazy l a, I was like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. This thing is is out of control. They're
Speaker 1: not going to stop. This is not human nature. Too
Speaker 1: many people are enjoying it, too many people are profiting
Speaker 1: off it. There's such a fetishization of COVID and lockdowns.
Speaker 1: And and then of course it unmasked something about people
Speaker 1: that people really want to control other people. People want
Speaker 1: to you know, the people who say it's my body,
Speaker 1: my choice. Suddenly wanted to inject other people with things,
Speaker 1: and uh, and I just hope that those of us
Speaker 1: that care about freedom, I hope we never forget what happened.
Speaker 1: We really have to make sure that we never forget
Speaker 1: what they did to us, because otherwise we'll just do
Speaker 1: it again. And I suspect most likely a lot of
Speaker 1: people will and they'll welcome it well. And I really
Speaker 1: don't like being told what to do, so it was
Speaker 1: a rough period for me. Tell me what to do
Speaker 1: or to put on a freaking mask, like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose it. But you know, one thing I didn't really
Speaker 1: when I was looking into like some of the questions
Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, some of the things I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about. I didn't realize you
Speaker 1: started your career as a stand up comedian, Lisa. I
Speaker 1: was funny a long time ago. You are funny, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know that. Like that's so interesting.
Speaker 1: But what we're saying now is like comedians are under
Speaker 1: attack for speech, and if comedians can't be funny and
Speaker 1: test the boundaries of you know, some of these litmus
Speaker 1: tests for society and just sort of test the boundaries,
Speaker 1: then we're not a free society. We're seeing someone like
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle really get attacked because he's made jokes about
Speaker 1: the trans community, which are honestly hilarious, like everyone should
Speaker 1: go watch The Closer on Netflix. And my favorite joke
Speaker 1: from him as he said, someone told them they are
Speaker 1: after you about the trans community, and he said many
Speaker 1: days or singular day, but he was attacked Dave, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, why, why why are comedians under attack?
Speaker 1: And what does that say about society right now where
Speaker 1: we are on the issue of speech. Well, look, it's
Speaker 1: so consistent with everything that's going on here right I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the people that are telling you words are violence.
Speaker 1: If you miss gender someone, that's violence. And then they
Speaker 1: also tell you that violence is not violence. If you
Speaker 1: burn down a target in the name of social justice,
Speaker 1: that's not a violent act. But if you call he
Speaker 1: is she or she and he, then it's violence. I mean,
Speaker 1: they they really flipped the meaning of everything. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny when I when I tour now because I
Speaker 1: did stand up for twelve years in New York and
Speaker 1: I had all the I had the struggles and successes
Speaker 1: of it, and I worked the road and I worked
Speaker 1: sometimes six nights a week, two shows a night, and
Speaker 1: I stood out on the street corners handing out tickets
Speaker 1: in you know, negative twenty in New York City, in
Speaker 1: the middle of blizzards, all of that stuff. And now
Speaker 1: when I when I do these shows, one of the
Speaker 1: best things that people say to me after they go Dave,
Speaker 1: I had no idea you were so funny, because you know,
Speaker 1: on my daily show, I try to be funny, but
Speaker 1: I'm not really doing a scripted stand up show. When
Speaker 1: I go out and I do my tour show, now
Speaker 1: is like I'm telling stories and I'm talking about Paul Picks,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of looking at what happened on Twitter
Speaker 1: five minutes before I went on stage. But now I
Speaker 1: have all the tools of a comedian. I know how
Speaker 1: to play with the crowd. I know how to mess
Speaker 1: with them and get them going and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So we need comedians, right, I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: I can tell you that after just the first leg
Speaker 1: of the tour, people are walking out of that thing
Speaker 1: and there's an exhale. There's like, oh, we're allowed to laugh.
Speaker 1: We forgot about that. But if you're going to comedy
Speaker 1: clubs looking to be offended and then think you're allowed
Speaker 1: to jump on stage and mal Dave Chappelle like the
Speaker 1: idiot did uh? You probably have to have your head
Speaker 1: examined well. And also like as a conservative and also
Speaker 1: as a Trump supporter, I mean like I would go
Speaker 1: to like the comedy Seller in New York and basically
Speaker 1: every joke was directed towards me. So it's like whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean most of the time. I mean
Speaker 1: that stuff can be funny. It's funnier though when people
Speaker 1: open it up and just attack everyone and you know,
Speaker 1: and just but obviously now like all these people like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon or whatever, they only go after the right,
Speaker 1: which is sort of boring. I mean they've sort of
Speaker 1: just become, you know, tiresome and lame. It's like society
Speaker 1: sort of has as well. Like people just don't seem
Speaker 1: to have I mean, we have fun, but like the
Speaker 1: left doesn't seem to have fun. No, they don't have fun,
Speaker 1: and they wrecked comedy. I mean, who turns on? I mean,
Speaker 1: first off, I honestly don't know anyone that watches any
Speaker 1: of these late night shows anymore. I mean, Gut felt
Speaker 1: funny because he's the counter I mean he's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's crushing them in the ratings. Which I was on
Speaker 1: his first show, and he went to the nightly show.
Speaker 1: I was on the premier episode and I said, gut Felt,
Speaker 1: within three months, you're gonna be number one, I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: And I think it only took him about a month
Speaker 1: and a half because he's doing something different. It's it's
Speaker 1: less scripted. It's obviously politically different, but it's a little loose,
Speaker 1: it's a little dirtier, and people enjoy it. They see
Speaker 1: him having fun. You see these Balon and uh Colbert
Speaker 1: and these cor bit or whatever his name is. These
Speaker 1: guys there, they're first up, they're miserable. They're giving me
Speaker 1: the same thing every night, and they're they're all they
Speaker 1: do is suck up to the machine. They just suck
Speaker 1: up to the machine. Oh it's so edgy what you do,
Speaker 1: Republicans or ray sist. Congratulations, that's so brilliant. And you've
Speaker 1: alienated half of the country on each and every joke.
Speaker 1: But look at their ratings are showing it, and people
Speaker 1: aren't watching, and people are watching other things, you know,
Speaker 1: and in the old days, you know, I'm old enough
Speaker 1: to remember Johnny Carson Tonight Show, and Johnny Carson was
Speaker 1: so cool. I was only when he retired. I was
Speaker 1: only about twelve or so, and I just remember watching
Speaker 1: him and thinking, man, this guy is so cool. He's
Speaker 1: so funny. He was like all he cared about was
Speaker 1: being funny. You didn't know necessarily what he thought, and
Speaker 1: if you did, it was okay. Versus these guys, they
Speaker 1: just want to beat you over the head with their
Speaker 1: politics and it's just so boring. It's so boring, and
Speaker 1: it's like there's only so many times you can call
Speaker 1: someone a racist, and like sex, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: no one even cares anymore. It doesn't land because it's
Speaker 1: so overused and so tiresome and so boring. But you aren't,
Speaker 1: and you're fun and that is why we're friends. And
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we become friends. Are an awesome guy.
Speaker 1: Everyone should go to go out and get Don't Burn
Speaker 1: This Country. Look for tour tickets as well if they're available.
Speaker 1: Don't Burn This Country Tour, Dave Reuben, You're awesome. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate your time. Anything you want to leave us
Speaker 1: with before you go, Yes, Lisa, I'm going to do
Speaker 1: two things for you. Now, I'm gonna find you a
Speaker 1: guy that fun. Okay, fine. At number two, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I want to break this fear of speaking things with you.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe it. You are the one of the
Speaker 1: most confident, fun like president people I've ever met in
Speaker 1: my life. And the fact that you have something there.
Speaker 1: We can work through this thing. I think we can
Speaker 1: knock it out in like two or three weeks. I'm
Speaker 1: going to figure it out. It's a tall order, though,
Speaker 1: I don't You've got to be prepared for I think
Speaker 1: we can do it. It might involve tequila, by the way,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, might need I might need a
Speaker 1: shot or something. We're going on stage. Dave, You're the best.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for your success. You're just killing it
Speaker 1: and it's great to see. So proud of you, happy
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