Previously on the Rubin. New York City, you're f***. My offer is this, nothing. Democrats are caving to Donald Trump. I wanted to get stoned and watch, well, play PlayStation, mostly, or watch Billy Madison. And I'm angry all the time. I got a good night's sleep last night, you're saying. Say very excited. The The All right, people, let's try this again.

We had some technical difficulties on our stream that lasted for about three minutes

there.

You know, it is freezing.

If you're a Floridian, you're freezing right now.

I walked out, I was in sweatpants and a hoodie, had the hood over my head when walking the dog this morning. It's in the 40s. If you're a Floridian, that's freezing. There are iguanas falling out of the trees. They are not dead. They freeze because they're cold-blooded. They go unconscious. They fall into the If you are a nice person, you could move them to the side eventually when it warms up, they will wake up. But apparently, the pipes that send us across the internet, they're freezing too. That's what we're dealing with over here, but I sound okay now, we're good, we're back, all right. Apparently I sounded a little robotic or digitized or something. So let me just quickly repeat what I said at the top of the show moments ago.

This is what Groundhog Day must feel like.

Today is Veterans Day, and I actually did not even realize it until about an hour before the show today

because I wake up and I do the stupid scrolling on the Twitter machine and all that stuff. And you know, in the old days, on the Veterans Day, Memorial Day, MLK, Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever, you'd see like a lot of people acknowledging the day, right? And now it's all devolved into just fighting and back and forth nonsense and doom scrolling and everything else. So I really did not even realize it was Veterans Day, which is one of the most important

holidays that we have, because if it was not for the veterans, if it was not for those who

serve, none of us would be, we wouldn't be here.

We wouldn't have the freedom to fight about nonsense all day long.

And I say that with all due irony.

So I thought one nice way to honor the veterans was with this very short quote from Ronald Reagan

that I think gets it perfectly and succinctly.

Some people live an entire lifetime

and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world.

A veteran does not have that problem.

So any of you who are veterans out there watching today,

I thank you for your service.

We are going to dive into all of the day's news, mostly about the shutdown, which is now over.

Thank God.

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