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hello humans and other assorted life forms it's january 25th 2021 there is a lot going on in the world we're doing four stories today and they're sort of all over the place because i want to give you a holistic view of the world without making you completely insane uh before i do anything else today though uh you probably heard the news that my friend my mentor my sort of uncle or bonus grandfather and and just guy i admired and loved so much larry king passed away over the weekend larry was 87 he had had a series of health issues over the years a bunch of heart attacks and bypass surgeries and cancer and all sort of stuff he had a very difficult year this year two of his adult children passed away over the last couple months his brother had died not long before that it had been a rough rough time for larry on top of coveted and everything else i just want to say to larry wherever you are and how much i love and admire you and thank you for making me think that i could do something even halfway decent as an interviewer or whatever it is that i am at this point um every moment that i spent with larry was like truly magical whether it was on camera although usually the magical ones were were off camera when i got to know them in different way and i shared this story on the reuben report locals community a couple days ago or two days ago i suppose um but i thought i would just share one one thing with you because i think it's it's uh well it's worth mentioning in light of everything going on in the world right now and sort of how crazy everybody feels um i saw larry a few times right before a lockdown and and he had had some health stuff and had been in and out of hospitals already and one time i saw him and he was really kind of banged up and and not feeling great and i kind of when i left his house i sort of thought it was like oh that's probably the last time that i was going to see him and then i called him about a week later and i said larry how you doing and he goes he goes david you always call me david who goes david i'm laying on the table the doctor the doctor's poking me right now i said well how you feeling he goes doc how am i feeling i just thought it was like it was just so funny and perfect like it was just the way he was like as he had doctors like poking a doc how am i feeling tell dave how i'm feeling doc i'm doing a little more rodney dangerfield i think than uh than larry king um but then about a week later when he got home again i did get to see him and he was there with uh with two of his sons one of whom is one of the ones that passed away and then one of his younger sons um and uh he was in a wheelchair at the time and we were chatting and having lunch and he said i want to show you the trophy room and i wheeled him into the trophy room and we stood there and the trophy room in his house was he had a room in his house that was basically all the awards all the accolades all the notes and plaques and all of the things the gifts that he had been given by all of the incredible people he had interviewed over the years from all of the presidents and the secretaries of state and the pope and just everybody that he had interviewed the pictures the sign things all of it and we were standing there and most of it so one side was all of like the the political stuff and the interview stuff and the other side was a lot of baseball memorabilia and we were staring at the at the political side you know the show side you know the emmys all of that stuff and i kind of wheeled him in front of it we were just standing there and uh he goes he goes what's it all about dave what's it all about and you know when you have those moments where it's like you don't even have time to to think of anything and just sort of whatever was going to come out of my mouth came out of my mouth and i just looked at him and i said larry this this is what it's all about like this this is a life worth living and we just kind of sat there we sat there we didn't really say much for like three or four minutes um and then and then his son came in and we got out of there and uh i don't know it was just like an incredible moment like he knew like his time was limited and you know just looking at all of the stuff that he had done and not that that was the sum totality of his life right he had many children just the amount of people that adored him and how much he loved baseball and all sorts of other stuff um but it was just a i don't know it's just a very special moment for me and for any of you that watch and appreciate what i do if i'm you know five percent of the interviewer that that guy was i will take that so larry i will always be thinking of you and i miss you already and i hope you're on to greener pastures all right my friends uh let's move on so there is some actually believe it or not there's some potentially good news coming out of california today i i actually can't believe it but it is possible supposedly in approximately an hour from now this is the rumor on the computer there uh the rumor is that gavin newsom our horrific awful terrible to be recalled governor uh is going to end at least part of the statewide lockdown it is unclear exactly what that will mean i'm hearing a rumor that that may not include la that it'll include every other part of california but maybe not la in which case i'm going to actually you're going to tomorrow i won't be doing a show because my brain will have exploded in my head and pieces will ever be everywhere and they're gonna have to piece me together um but let's just assume that it's gonna be everything and that some restaurants will open outdoor eating and hopefully some of these mom and pop shops can get up to it uh back to work um but if you want a little context for this whole thing i think it's become very obvious that this all was about politics this all was about destroying trump and crushing the economies enough so people would be frustrated enough and they could blame everything on trump even though trump handed the power to the governors you know this this authoritarian hitler guy who was letting the governors do what they thought was best um i i don't think newsom or cuomo or any of these guys that have locked down their states and destroyed countless amounts of lives have any bit of guilt or remorse or anything they've done truly truly terrible things um and it's just like think about it this way if you were a small business owner you just had a dream to open up some shop or a restaurant as i always say something like 90 of restaurants fail in the first year in normal times how could you ever go ahead and do it in one of these states ever again knowing what the normal risks are now on top of the fact that the governments can just come in and shut you down at whims i mean i just it's just absolutely incredible but if you need some evidence that this was really about politics and not really about covid or keeping us safe which i don't even think it's the government's job to keep us safe but if you need some evidence we should look at these two charts that were put up this is from the new york times so on december 7th 2020 that's the day they shut down outdoor dining and you may remember that the woman who shut down outdoor dining uh miss cool her name is from what was her first name sandra was it sandra cool sheila cool sheila cool i actually protested at her house a few days later she uh voted she was the deciding vote to shut down outdoor dining then right from the vote she actually went to go eat outside until they shut down outdoor dining the next day so that just shows you this the hypocrisy and ridiculousness of these people but the day we did the outdoor shutdown we had 27 227 new cases of cobit our seven day average was 23 000 roughly now flash forward five weeks later new cases are 21 680 so a little bit less new cases but our seven day average right now is actually higher than it was five weeks ago it's at twenty five thousand five hundred seventy six so if our new case average is higher then how in the world does it make sense to open the state if opening if keeping us locked down had anything to do with keeping us safe i think it's fairly obvious that we all know the answer to this that the lockdowns not only didn't work they actually were completely counter to everything because they destroyed the economy and made people depressed and we know rates of alcohol and suicide are up and the rest of it um this is because uh that joe biden guy was sworn in as president of the united states six days ago this is the only reason new york opened up a little bit more since then look i want all the states to open so i will gladly take it i will gladly take it but my hope my hope is that over the next couple months and and year or so that as the information trickles out as to how they made these decisions how these ridiculous authoritarian power hungry lunatics made these decisions my hope is that there will be massive lawsuits that there will be class action lawsuits there will be lawsuits by restaurateurs there will be lawsuits by regular citizens whose lives were destroyed and people like avenue some probably should end up in jail probably like i don't really see a way around it like the damage that he has done to society is far more than the damage that our former attorney general kamala harris has put people into jail for here in california so uh i just want to say a special a special message it's been a while i haven't given a special message in a while but i do have a special message for gavin newsom gavin newsom you're getting recalled so you didn't know what i was going to do there you thought i might drop the f-bomb again but i mixed it up on you he's getting recalled let's recall this guy it only needs i think it has something like 1.3 out of the 1.5 million signatures to get this guy recalled if you haven't signed it and you're in california sign this thing they don't make it easy because you have to do it in person while at the same time they're keeping you locked down you think maybe he wanted to keep people locked down so they couldn't sign his thing because you can't do it online find your local place group whatever and sign that recall gavin uh situation because he he deserves to go he really does deserve to go um and look if if california opens tomorrow if if la is open tomorrow i think that i'm going to go outside and have a chicken sandwich i'm going to go to a restaurant and have a fried chicken sandwich you guys want to come with me what do you want what do you want michael what do you want spicy chicken sandwich connor what do you want two spicy chicken sandwiches so the group of people breaking the law by being in this room right now i'm gonna have a regular chicken sandwich two spicy chicken sandwiches okay that's what's gonna happen god bless america um all right let's switch over because i thought this was a an interesting way to follow up that story uh there are some studies out right now that have been released that trust in the media has hit an all-time low color me shocked can you believe it people i just can't believe it are wonderful media like the new york times at cnn people don't trust them this is very very disturbing let's look at some of the numbers 56 percent of people polled believe that journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead that so that means more than half of the people think that journalists are intentionally trying to lie to you that's pretty interesting this is by edelman polling 58 think that news organizations are more interested in ideology than facts yes only 18 percent of republicans trust the media versus 57 percent of democrats i mean 18 a republican seems pretty high for the republicans considering how awful the media is but that roughly 60 percent of democrats even buy into this nonsense just tells you how far the ship has sailed uh as a whole 46 of americans of all political stripes say they trust the media and here's a fancy little graph i like this little dump off here uh as far as the percentage of americans who trust traditional media i mean look guys this this should not surprise exactly what the media has been they've been gaslighting us relentlessly they condone and excuse violence when it's violence on the left and they exaggerate it when it's violence on the right i have no problem telling you that i condemn all political violence either way whether it's antifa in portland or whether it's right-wing political violence in dc but they simply cannot do that they bring on democrats on all the shows to help promote them and they bring on republicans usually to lie about them or cut them off there was a really interesting video yesterday on uh abc what is it the george stephanopoulos show in the morning george stephanopoulos who is the head this guy is in charge basically of abc's political news division he also worked in the bill clinton white house you think he's a democrat or a republican i mean i'm not a scientist but i think i can figure it out he had rand paul on senator from kentucky obviously libertarian i like rand a lot and rand brought up some points about how we should continue to look into election fraud that we want to secure our elections in the future and he started talking about some of the things that happened over the last couple months which we're really not allowed to talk about here on youtube and george stephanopoulos said there are not two sides to this story i mean imagine being a journalist and saying like just like no blanket there are not two sides to this story that's it these are again are the same people i would love if somebody could figure out how many hours worth of content has george stephanopoulos and abc put out from 2016 to 2020 related to the russia hoax and related to the covington kids and the brett kavanaugh stuff and uh jesse smellet and all of the things that we all know turned out to be lies but that fit their narrative but in this issue about about either election fraud or broadly anything that conservatives or libertarians believe there's sorry one side to this story just this it's so weird but this one thing that we really really need you to believe that's the one thing that you know you can't even look at another way you'd have you'd be alex freaking jones you'd be a complete conspiracy nut bag you get it people do you get it which also actually believe it or not we really did a hell of a job with the segways today it segues perfectly into the third story so i know you guys get it people don't trust the media okay well then there's another sort of layer of what's going to happen i think more and more in the next couple years as we see the biden harris administration or i should say the harris biden administration as they sort of navigate through the media landscape and the big tech landscape and this story is probably going to seem like a little bit of insider baseball to you guys but i think it's i think it's actually pretty important so the biden white house team has shut off all comments on their youtube videos now that's pretty interesting because it's like first off if it's a governmental website my general um state my general position on this would be that you'd want as much transparency as possible and you just let the people talk right like you just have the comments there and you'd let the people talk now they know that they would get ratioed to high hell they know that most people wouldn't tune in and we could just actually just look back at the last few months where every time trump did an event there were hundreds of thousands if not millions of people watching and then biden would do an event in front of three cars and there would be basically nobody watching and it would have all down votes so what they're really trying to say here is they don't want the people commenting on things now a few of you wise witty people maybe noting that we here at the reuben report don't have comments on our live streams and that is true now first off i want to be very clear i'm not part of the us government in case you didn't figure that out i have no connection with the government the reason that we do it is because the way that these ridiculous big tech algorithms are set up is that these the live streams become the worst sort of evil trolling bot lunacy white supremacists crazy anti-semites like just just the awful dredge of society show up in the live stream comments believe it or not when we put the video up immediately after we allow for comments and our comments on our videos actually have been really great lately i do quickly try to glance a little bit and i have my guys just sort of take a temperature of what's going on and they've been really good i think that's probably uh indicative of the type of content we're putting out here but anyway i mentioned that because obviously we're not part of the government but they are but the really the bigger issue here is okay so let's say you've got all of the media elite so you know that when biden does interviews they're going to be softball interviews you know the jen pasaki the new white house press secretary you know that she's going to get softball questions we played a couple of them last week we know the media is going to focus all the bad on trump like no matter what happens if biden starts a war in syria somehow it will be related to something trump did we alright i think everybody gets the game right like all of the kobit stuff it was all horrible somehow this week we can open up but trump was the guy with his bad beforehand okay fine fine the problem is that if you have the layer of just basically getting blow jobs from the media right and then that's that's a horrible visual actually um but if you if you have that and then you have okay we're also going to post videos on these mass communication sites like youtube and people won't be able to comment and then on top of it we know that our algorithms are going to shadow ban people on twitter so that they can't communicate or the way we'll manipulate algorithms on youtube so people only see certain things and what whatever else is going on even the stuff that we don't know about and i have no i i have no doubt that there's plenty of stuff we don't know about that in essence as i've been talking about for a long time we are in an information war you'll have a sort of a state-run media and then you'll have videos that you can see online that you can't comment on and then when you go to the big tech platforms they'll manipulate you in a certain way and then you'll be reduced to to figuring out other ways to communicate with people one way you might want to communicate with people is at reubenreport.locals.com we are the community is absolutely exploding and you can say whatever you want you can talk to other interesting people and there's no bots and trolls uh so so there you go anyway so again as i said it feels like a little bit of insider baseball to be talking about youtube comments um but in another way it's not because it's just more about like why are they really doing it why are they like what was that they had a meeting and they said okay we're gonna put up videos on the white house youtube channel that's what presidents have done for the last you know 10 years or so and then somebody said well we know that if we do that that there's going to be a lot of people making fun of us there's going to be a lot of people calling us out on our bs there's going to be a lot of people whatever even if it was related to trolls and bots like there's gonna be a lot of and then they said okay well let's just not you know allow for a forum where the citizens where the people of the united states can comment to us so that's what the real risk is and i think we're gonna see more and more of that and as as government and tech just becomes one thing that's going to be a big problem and by the way that's also why you know as over the last couple years as there were all these debates about what do you do about big tech i kept saying that the conservatives have to watch out what they're asking for that if you have trump do an executive action on big tech and regulate well congratulations you've just tied big tech back together with the government and i understand why a lot of conservatives would have been for that because trump would still be on these platforms at the moment but i think you maybe down the line would have created a much bigger monster and by the way guys as i always say i'm a world weary optimist and i have a belief that these systems will fail they will keep hiring the wrong people the wrong engineers the wrong public people based not on their uh skills but on these other immutable characteristics and i think these things will ultimately uh fail let me do one other story today okay and then there's a lot going on here i got a busy day there's there's just like so much happening with locals right now i'm just in meeting after meeting uh but i want to do one other story about uh masks because you know i'm a believer as i've said from from day one that you should do what's right for you and if you own a store and you want people to wear masks that's fine and the government can give us recommendations on how we want to behave but that that basically is it but the new york times uh has now re recommended that we double mask so let's just back up for a second you may remember march do you remember march of 2020 it seems like a lifetime ago we were told two weeks to flatten the curve there was nothing about locking down the entire economy there was nothing about destroying millions of lives and the rest of it but now we've gone from two weeks to flatten the curve to endless lockdowns to maybe kind of opening up to restaurants that can be a 25 capacity that sounds like a profitable motive oh on top of everything else biden's pushing for this 15 minimum wage and it's like if you ever wanted to crush the remaining small businesses what would you do you would take them you would lock them down you would say okay you can open up a part capacity and you have to pay your employees more like if you ever want to destroy small businesses that's how you do it you know who can afford to pay for 15 minimum wage target walmart etc etc now philosophically i don't think the government should have anything to do with minimum wage anyway i believe in the market i think that's the only roughly fair way of doing anything although bad things can happen just in the market itself but i think those things have a way of working themselves out but the point is if you want to destroy the last remaining small businesses as i believe bernie sanders wants to do as i believe joe biden now wants to do what would you do you would you would handicap them with all of these lockdowns and then you would say okay little mom and pop sneakers store now you have to pay your stock boy 15 bucks guess what target's not going to have a problem doing that the big the big outlets and the online retailers aren't going to have a problem doing that and you will crush what's remaining but anyway now they are telling us two masks we went from two weeks to flatten the curve to two masks this is from the new york times two masks are the new masks double masking is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk when you have to spend more time around others in a taxi on a train or plane or at an inauguration um look again do what's right for you do what's right for your family think it through and try to be a responsible human being also understanding that there is some risk in life but the idea that we're gonna wear two masks why not three masks you know how about a mask and a mask and a face shield and just like a giant body condom like a naked gun like should we start doing that would that be best and and like you know i know we've all sort of given up on social distancing people don't really do it anymore but maybe we should reinstate that but it shouldn't be six feet it's like why six maybe 20 feet so mask mask shield body condom 20 feet and let's see how this works out for humans okay let's see if the human experiment can continue in the rest of this uh while all of this lunacy proliferates throughout society um okay guys i got a crazy week but there is a ton going on here i am leaving for dallas on wednesday and then we'll be doing live shows live direct messages from the blaze studios on thursday and on friday i'm doing about 20 000 roughly blaze guest appearances while i'm in town uh my interview with jason reilly from the manhattan institute is up by the way and he has a great documentary about thomas soule which is out right now it came out this weekend so you can find out a little more insider stuff it was a pleasure to to talk to jason i'm actually in the documentary as well but it was a pleasure to talk to jason about thomas soul who has just inspired so many people i have no doubt that he's inspired many of you guys uh and a lot going on on locals as i keep telling you so check out reubenreport.locals.com have a great day everybody and if if i don't want to make any promises but if gavin newsom within approximately a half hour from now announces that california will open including los angeles and even if the restaurants are at 25 and outdoors i will send a picture of three count you know what we're each getting two chicken sandwiches two chicken salad you want fries you want fries fries all right there will be six oh wait we should david probably wants lunch too we will have eight chicken sandwiches everyone's getting two things of fries eight chicken sandwiches eight things of fries what kind of sauce you want chick-fil-a sauce what do you want oh yes there buffalo sauce all right chick-fil-a sauce buffalo sauce they've got that polypanisian sauce they've got the sweet and sour what else what honey don't forget the honey mustard maybe a little ketchup okay we're gonna take a picture of chicken outside eating it it's incredible it's a very exciting time to be alive have a great day and gavin newsom i don't like you goodbye