Brian Keating & Dave Rubin — DON’T BURN THIS BOOK: using free speech to avoid a Sci Fi dystopia (#042)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Brian Keating interviews Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) on the most interesting issues of the day: free speech and expression, classical liberalism, lessons from Jordan Peterson, and the imperative of tolerance. More about Dave Rubin: https://daverubin.com/ Find Dave on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RubinReport Get Dave’s book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason: https://amzn.to/2KCurtT 00:01:00 The mellifluousness of the Long Island accent! 00:05:00 Coming out of the Closets: first as a gay man, and then as a classical liberal 00:12:07 The Exclusive story of how Dave named the book and designed the cover 00:21:00 Shadow Banning: the new normal? 00:23:11 Are we running out of time to defend liberalism? 00:26:46 Is there a danger in overblowing your message? 00:30:00 Similar messages like Michael Shermer’s https://youtu.be/5dGzMTdfsic 00:34:36 Digital Detox: why and how? 00:41:02 Jordan Peterson: what do you do when your mentor struggles? 00:47:43 Are you worried about getting too popular? 00:52:53 High-Performance Public Speaking 00:57:57 Would you rather have a 1,000 readers now or 1 reader in a 100 years? 00:59:10 Would you rather have fans or haters read your book? 00:59:51 What are you most pessimistic about? 01:01:09 What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? 01:03:16 Can creativity be taught? Dave’s journey from a left-leaning progressive to a free-thinking classical liberal has been quite an adventure. As a gay married man in America, Dave spent the majority of his adult life subscribing to a certain political belief system based primarily on his immutable characteristics. Fed up with the mainstream media narrative and click-bait news, Dave decided to open up about his awakening, for all to see. He came to realize that no person or idea should be expected to join a side, but rather they should embrace their status as an individual. He now feels that political correctness and groupthink are reaching dangerous levels, distracting us from the true American dream of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Dave’s background as a stand-up comedian, degree in political science, and willingness to listen without fighting has uniquely positioned him to tackle big ideas and uncomfortable truths with thought leaders from both sides of the aisle. His show The Rubin Report aims to create civil discourse with people we both agree and disa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.
0:04.4	Five, four, three, two, one.
0:10.4	Hello Dave Rubin, welcome to the Into the Impossible Podcast, production of the Arthur C. Clark Center
0:17.6	for Human Imagination.
0:19.6	Brian, it's good to be with you.
0:20.8	I'm looking forward to chatting.
0:22.1	Yeah, I've been a fan of yours for many
0:24.5	years now, followed you for a long time and I want to get into all that and of course
0:28.6	your fantastic new book which I had a chance to devour this weekend and that's pretty high praise given all the other stuff going on in life
0:37.2	So first I want to start off with with a you know just a quick
0:48.0	Question for you and that is you grew up in Long Island as did I. Oh, all right. Where are you from?
0:50.0	I'm from Stony Brook. So I grew up in Stony Brook, the real island, we're talking Suffolk County here.
0:54.0	And what about you?
0:57.0	I am a child of Nassau County.
0:59.0	We're sort of enemies, but let's see if we can work it through over the next hour.
1:04.0	Exactly. They're the nicest friends to real Long Islanders.
1:07.0	How'd you lose the accent? Did you go? Did you have the surgery too, like I did?
1:11.0	You know what's funny is people always say to me that I sound more like
1:14.4	I'm from the Midwest or usually what they say to me is I sound like Yogi Bear or
1:18.7	Fazi or something like that. I don't this is just the way I've always spoke but I never had that
1:23.2	real hardcore long island accent although there are a few words you know I say
1:28.7	orange juice most people say orange juice and what do you put your pencils in at your desk when you
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