Hey guys, welcome to relatable. Today I am talking to my friend Dave Rubin. We are going to talk about

his political positions, what he thinks about what's going on with the state of our

dialogue in political media and we are going to learn from him as he is an expert on how to talk to people that you disagree with. Dave

Thanks so much for joining me.

Allie, it's good to be with you.

Okay, so for the few of those out there who might not be completely familiar with where you came from, but just have seen maybe over the past

a few months, especially that you are almost constantly in the spotlight or you're almost constantly getting some kind of hate on social media.

And they don't know that you've actually been in this game for a really long time. Just tell everyone you're background and how you came to kind of fill this space.

Well, if you listen to Vox or media matters or Buzzfeed, I'm some sort of alt-right extremist and I'm trying to destroy America.

Yes.

And if you listen to sort of average sane, decent thinking people, I host my show called The Rubin Report where we do long form

conversations, sort of old school Larry King S. Conversation and I try to have an honest conversation with somebody about ideas and what they think.

And I try to talk to people all over the political map, the social map. I'm really willing to talk to anyone that doesn't attack motives, doesn't attack people personally.

That can really be tough these days, especially the way social media is.

But before that, I did stand up comedy in New York for 12 years. I had a show on Sirius XM. I do the same things as you. I go out and I talk to college kids. I toured for a year last year with Jordan Peterson.

So, you know, I'm just out there doing my thing. I like what I'm doing. I think I'm doing something decent.

And I really would enjoy more than anything else in the last six or eight months is that I have bridged a lot of the divide with people like you.

And, you know, you guys, the scary conservatives are always getting, you know, attacked by mainstream media and lied about all these things. And now I see the way it's kind of turned on me just because I'm remotely pleasant to you guys.

So, there's a real interesting alignment happening or realignment, I should say. And I'm just trying to navigate my way through it.

How do you describe yourself politically?

I'm a classical liberal. I believe that we should have individual rights. I believe in logic and reason. I believe in limited government, laissez-faire economics.

And I would always prefer that the private market deal with whatever your problems are. That doesn't mean that there is no answer for government.

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