The Rubin Report

I think he did it for for two reasons or three reasons. The first is and this goes to kind of how we are how we operate as a city. He never never adopted conventional wisdom. If he would adopt a conventional wisdom, we got it would have gotten conventional results.

If it wasn't for the fact that he was the son-in-law of the president, you know America would not have benefited from someone of his level of talent who could demystify an issue who could look at it from a different perspective a different through a different prism and re-engineer the solution in a radically different way.

I'm Dave Rubin and joining me is a former senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump and author of the brand new book, The New York Times number one bestselling book. We're gonna have to talk about that in just a second. Breaking History.

They are not big fans of that, that is for sure. I do appreciate the fact that your book matches our local set pretty perfectly.

But it was kind of funny, they wrote a review that was pretty unhinged in terms of how they characterized the book and actually once that happened the sales of the book started going up immediately and I think it's because what's in the book contradicts a lot of what they wrote about Trump and his administration for four years and so they obviously didn't want to see it in existence or want people to read a point of view that differs from theirs.

I write about this in the book as condensed as I can. But basically my father was a major Democrat donor. New Jersey is a big Democrat state. He was involved in a family dispute. It was a business that he built up. He brought his siblings in. And basically he was prosecuted for three years.

And I really try to put those two things together. But that complacency was the same thing I found in the Middle East in the sense that everyone thought that there were limitations to what they could do. And what I found is like all these barriers are usually in people's minds.

I remember Senator Cruz and the emails that were timestamped at 2 33 AM. I mean, he was burning the midnight oil working really hard drafting chapters on this book.

So I've got a book that's coming out in October called One Vote Away. And it talks about how one vote on the Supreme Court can change history.

Indeed, the late Canadian comic norm McDonald famously put out a tweet a few years ago before he passed away where he I'm paraphrasing I don't have the tweet in front of me, where he said, you know, if the if Islamic terrorists were to detonate a nuclear bomb that killed 50 million people, it will be really important the day after to make sure that there isn't a rise in Islamophobia.

And I don't mean forgive the plug, but my next book is going to be titled Suicidal Empathy.

It precisely speaks to that when when I mean, empathy is a great emotion to have. And there's an evolutionary reason why we are empathetic creatures.

But when empathy is misdirected, when empathy is hyper activated on the wrong target, you end up with public policies that are absolutely insane, right?

So vets become less important than Guatam Allens. I mean, American vets, the homeless become more important than the kids who should be able to play in parks without having, you know, needles filled with the drugs.

I'm so happy to be back, although I'm a bit dismayed that it's not sure whether I'm the most frequent guest. Please check and get back to me with those stats.

But talk to me about how the tan and the weight loss are connected to this whole thing, and then we'll get onto everything else.

I have the uncorrected proof here, so I don't know if you added any additional happiness photos or anything.

I think from my heaviest weight to my lightest, I dropped 86 pounds. And I did it by repeatedly making the right decision on a daily basis.

So in the last chapter of my forthcoming happiness book, I have a quote by Viktor Frankl where he basically says, don't pursue directly success. It is something that comes as a consequence.

If you haven't seen it yet, my chat with Pippa Gosian that we put up this week, lifelong atheist, wrote a book called "A Handbook for Creating Atheists."

He has now come to the realization that you need some level of belief in society to organize things.

one of the people who was super impressed with Joe Biden last night, and I assure you I was not. We'll get to that momentarily. One of the people who was was my friend and many, many time guest on this show, Peter Boghossian.

I'm freaking out not only because you're here in my studio which somehow you've only been to once for about 30 seconds before that seems very bizarre but I'm holding your book in my hand which comes out this week The End of the Alphabet how Gen Z can save America forward by Dave Rubin.

Her new book comes out today The End of the Alphabet how Gen Z can save America is out today and yes where is it right there yours truly. How's the glare? How's the glare? It's all right. Yeah Dave Rubin wrote the forward on that thing and I just interviewed her yesterday about it. It'll be up later this week.

Isabel Brown's new book is out today I highly highly recommend it as I said I wrote the forward she's I just adore her and part one of our interview will be up later today

Is it fair to say this is your best work ever?

No, but it's up there. [...] this is pretty damn funny too.

on Amazon it had a 4.8. It toggles between like a 4.7 star and a 4.8 star. My other books are 4.5, 4.6, you know so it's yeah, it arguably is ranked a little higher review wise, but it's up there, everything's above a 4.5.

I believe in chapter four you say you're gonna stay till your kids are out of high school and then you're gonna get the hell out. Is that, is that really the plan?

It's a very funny book. Go to Amazon, read the reviews. If you like what you read, go get it, and you will laugh.

Your last book, Adam Carolla, did not make it [the New York Times bestseller list], but we know that the New York Times bestseller list is a crock of shit.

Yeah, I'm kind of it is what it is. It's it's kind of weird when you see that you outsold a bunch of books that are on the list and when you look at the title of the book you know all something to do with race all something to do with gender all something to whatever.

But you also in a good example of somebody who's diluted their brand they've they've they've compromised their brand New York Times bestseller list Oscars rotten tomatoes you know it they've diluted it they're hurting their brand it doesn't if I now hear a book is on the New York Times bestseller list or more importantly didn't make it on the New York Times bestseller list I got questions I never would have had questions 15 years ago.

When my book was coming out in April and everybody kept you know the publishers agents everybody oh we're getting we want to get you on the New York Times bestseller list we want you on the New York Times bestseller list and I kept saying everybody but you're all telling me it's fixed that the whole thing's fixed but you want to get on it you want to get on the fixed list and it's like we're all we're all running for something that kind of doesn't exist in a weird way.

My question to the retired prime minister is how does he assess the content of this book?

I don't know the book, chairman.

Mr. Klaus Schwab, who advocates in his book for resetting our world, to replace our national parliamentary democracy with a global technocracy.

He advocates that there will be an end to private ownership.

And Mr. Rutte apparently does not even realize that he is sending this a hopeful message for a better future.

Klaus Schwab wrote a book in 2020. It is called The Great Reset. You can look it up on Amazon, in which he laid out exactly what it would look like if you used a crisis like COVID-19, which is what he wrote about.

It's predicated upon a book from a Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

His book Nation of Victims explains a lot of this really, really fabulously.

That's the one that we're talking about now.

And so the second book is really about the underlying flyer, the fire, the conflagration on which corporations threw that fuel.

And that's the heart of this whole new book you know, that's why I wrote the book is someone who needed to expose this in some ways as a first generation American looking at this not as somebody who inherited America but whose parents came to this country voluntarily with their two feet to be part of that national identity.

And so I think that, you know, it's not a sort of a cheesy humans respond to incentives kind of argument all the way down, but it's really a part of the story that makes it less surprising than you'd otherwise think.

He was very much out of the sort of Ayn Rand school of thinking. And he's often discussed how The Fountainhead and books like that from Ayn Rand were really his formative things.

This is the third book with Cameron Winter and to just this very day, I sent in the manuscript for the fourth book and the fifth one is under contract.

I wanted to put this guy who was a bad guy in his day, but is now trying to become a good guy. I wanted to put him into a society like ours, which is reaching a crisis point.

And so these are stories about a guy moving through an America that is at crisis point. And even maybe a bit beyond where we are, he's moving through an America. It takes place now, but it's just a little bit ahead of now.

He's a guy who goes into enclaves of surviving civilizations. So this is a little gated community he goes into where a family has been wiped out. And he starts to realize how the corruption of the world around it is seeping in to any place where you try to escape.

And they're about a man trying to make sense of the world and trying to find the truth in a world like that.

Andrew, am I correct? Is it out now or did we get ... Oh no, we get you in a couple days, August 31st if I'm not mistaken.

October 31st. Sorry. Available to pre-order right this moment. While we're talking, you could be pre-ordering. You're wasting your time if you're not pre-ordering.

What was the book the end of what was the book the end of not the end of religion? What was the book the end of religion The End of Faith?

He wrote a book called The End of Faith like he's written another book waking up. It was a guide to spirituality without religion.

What was the book the end of what was the book the end of not the end of religion? What was the book the end of religion The End of Faith?

He wrote a book called The End of Faith like he's written another book waking up. It was a guide to spirituality without religion.

You're the Willy Wonk of Politics.

I'm on the back of the book, called You're the Willy Wonk of Politics.

You've basically predicted kind of all of everything that's happened over the last couple of years.

Netflix has pulled the plug on Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's show, Anti-Racist Baby along with several other proposed offerings that would present a nod or a total body immersion experience to woke culture.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified every book rewritten. Every picture has been repainted every statue and Street building has been renamed every date has been altered and the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

What is the expertise that you have and other Moms for Liberty advocates have to decide that a book, an award-winning book like All Boys Aren't Blue isn't appropriate?

In what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school?

I don't have to be an expert in what dildos are inappropriate for public school.

Again, we're talking about incest, rape and pedophilia.

If a child feels seen by this story, that means that they have been the victim of a predator.

I put some lube on and got him on his knees and I began to slide into him from behind. I pulled out of him and kissed him while he masturbated. He asked me to turn over while he slipped a condom on himself. This was my ass and I was struggling to imagine someone inside me. He got on top and slowly inserted himself into me. It was the worst pain I think I have ever felt in my life. Eventually I felt a mix of pleasure with the pain.

I wrote an essay called Why I Am Not a Progressive.

I have two books out. One last year, one this year, Apocalypse Never and San Francisco were, you know, I wrote them in part because I just wanted to sort of articulate what I believe, you know, based on reading the evidence and what my views are because I think labels are so inadequate.

I felt like I'm living in like apartheid South Africa or something. I just feel like I'm living in a place that's not moral and and I feel really bad and angry about that.

When I would raise the problems with them, including the fact that the vast majority of people living on the streets are addicted to hard drugs or suffering mental illness, they would say to me it sounds like you just want to arrest everybody. And so I wrote San Francisco in part to say, here's what I want to do. You know, here's what I think the plan is.

I felt the need to write San Francisco because I think when my progressive soccer buddies read it and you kind of lay out where is this ideology coming from? And you realize that, yeah, it's really that stupid. Like, it's like, you know, you get to the bottom of it. You're like, wow, that dumb. Are you like, I thought it maybe would be more sophisticated, but it's just that stupid at bottom. There's no there there.

part four of my interview with Michael Schellenberger who wrote a great book San Francisco how progressives destroy cities and indeed they do is up right now

I write about this and Never Give an Inch. He worked on this thing that incorporated the Steele dossier that became the Russia hoax in ways that were antithetical to good analysis, good intelligence that is so important for the United States of America.

And I write about this in the book, who on January 6th, 2017, when the president had not yet been sworn in, went to Trump Tower.

And I write about this and this is why you can't give an inch. That's why I titled the book the way I did.

I write about this because it was important, not just to deter Iran, but Chairman Kim in North Korea, who I spent way too much time with, the Taliban, Xi Jinping, they all said, oh my goodness, these guys are serious, Pompeo. These guys are going to, if they say they're going to do something, they actually are going to do it.

I write about this and Never Give an Inch. He worked on this thing that incorporated the Steele dossier that became the Russia hoax in ways that were antithetical to good analysis, good intelligence that is so important for the United States of America.

And I write about this in the book, who on January 6th, 2017, when the president had not yet been sworn in, went to Trump Tower.

And I am now even more convinced that they knew that wasn't true, that they knew it was based on unreliable, unverified for sure information and the harm that they did.

And so I write about this and this is why you can't give an inch. That's why I titled the book the way I did.

I write about this because it was important, not just to deter Iran, but Chairman Kim in North Korea, who I spent way too much time with, the Taliban, Xi Jinping, they all said, oh my goodness, these guys are serious, Pompeo. These guys are going to, if they say they're going to do something, they actually are going to do it.

author of another new book. We've got a lot of authors today. Radical Nation, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' dangerous plan for America, Sean Spicer.

And I named the book Radical Nation for a reason.

I have a chapter in my book that walks through Biden's evolution on religious liberty in life.

I literally have a chapter in my book, Radical Nation, documenting its origin, what it seeks to achieve.

It's about how much money can we get out of the government to people to get them addicted? It's allowed voting rights. It's about creating people who will keep them in power. It's about creating a state that will give them two democratic centers.