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The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Richard Dreyfuss, the author of “One Thought Scares Me…” and an Academy Award-winning actor, about the dangers of political partisanship; why tribalism around political parties is so dangerous; what it was like to grow up around members of the Communist Party; what drew so many Americans to communism in the 1950s; what it was really like for some blacklisted writers; why political statements in Oscar Awards speeches make him cringe; why he attended a Ted Cruz rally in 2016; why he thinks we abandoned the teachings of the Founding Fathers; why we need to prioritize the teaching of civics in high school; why the current level of political partisanship may be the end of America; and much more.

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is an Academy Award-winning actor, author of One Thought
0:12.8	Scares Me.
0:13.9	We teach our children what we wish them to know.
0:17.0	We don't teach our children what we don't wish them to know.
0:21.3	And a guy with a lot of moxie.
0:23.2	Richard Drifus, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:25.5	Hiya.
0:27.8	Richard, you do have a lot of moxie.
0:29.5	For some reason, that line seemed like the one that I should go to in the intro.
0:33.4	I could have gone through about 800 movies.
0:36.3	How do you feel about a lost in Yonkers' reference right up top?
0:42.8	For some reason, every bio of me starts out with what a cocky arrogant guy I knew, or
0:51.6	it was, or something.
0:53.8	And I don't really agree with it, but I don't want to start a war.
1:01.8	So I let it go.
1:04.3	But I think it's just that I'm, I tell my truth.
1:10.6	I tell the truth.
1:12.6	I tell my truth whether it's anti-Richard or pro-Richard.
1:17.5	So, and I think that people are, are, are surprised by that.
1:25.6	There was an article once about the fact that Barbara Streisand and Richard Drifus were
1:32.5	the only two Jews who talked about being Jews and loved it and, you know, didn't expect
1:41.1	any bad stuff to come for that.
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