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The Babylon Bee

Episode 31: Leftism, Liberty, And Lightsabers With Dave Rubin

The Babylon Bee

Seth Dillon

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.42.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the thirty-first episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk with Dave Rubin about freedom of speech, his journey from being a left progressive to a classical liberal, and how Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a total cinematic failure. Dave is an American political commentator, YouTube personality, stand up comedian, talk show host and total Star Wars nerd. He is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on BlazeTV and YouTube.

You can now pre-order Dave Rubin's book: Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason.

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Show Outline

Introduction - Kyle and Ethan discuss the stories of the week.

Story 1 - San Francisco Dogs Begin Bagging People Poop

Story 2 - Democrats Call For Flags To Be Flown At Half-Mast To Grieve Death Of Soleimani

Story 3 - Thousands Of Panicked Terrorists Surrender As Trump Deploys Jack Wilson To Middle East

Interview - Dave Rubin

Kyle and Ethan discuss with Dave Rubin the differences between the political left and right, his journey from left progressive to classical liberal. and how leftism is destroying comedy, journalism, and movies (like Star Wars). They also discuss which private mega-corporation should run the government in a libertarian utopia where everything is privatized.

Hate Mail - an iTunes reviewer isn't a fan of our giggling.

Paid-subscriber portion

Story 1 - Woman Who Scoffs At Your Religion Still Checking Her Horoscope Every Day

Story 2 - Woman Slapped By Pope Sells Hand For 1.3 Billion Dollars

Story 3 - Castro’s Campaign Fails As Democrats Realize His First Name Isn’t Fidel

Dave Rubin Interview (continued)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In a world of fake news, this is news you can trust.

0:07.0

News so controversial, it's been banned on seven of eight planets.

0:12.0

You're listening to the Babylon B with your hosts, Kyle Mann and Ethan Nichole.

0:20.0

Welcome to the only podcast that is 100% fact-checked and verified by all the fact-chekers

0:25.0

that's CNN.

0:26.0

Snopes?

0:28.0

Yeah, and Buzzfeed.

0:31.0

Good job.

0:32.0

That's a sick cultural reference, bro.

0:35.0

Trying to be on the cusp of things that are happening.

0:39.0

The other day, my sons are not supposed to be on the internet, okay?

0:43.0

At all?

0:44.0

Well, if they say, hey, Dad, can I Google this?

0:47.0

Like surfing?

0:48.0

Just randomly surfing, yes.

0:50.0

And I saw them and they were on Buzzfeed taking a quiz to see which Harry Potter house they were in.

0:56.0

Stupid Buzzfeed quizzes.

0:58.0

That's how they'd read real people and they built their entire empire in stupid quizzes.

1:03.0

I know, it's crazy.

1:04.0

Dude, have you clicked on Buzzfeed lately and looked at the quizzes?

1:07.0

One of them is like...

1:09.0

What do you take me for?

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