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The Rubin Report

Is Speaking Out Worth Lost Jobs & Friends? | Bridget Phetasy | Book Club Chapter 2

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Bridget Phetasy (Comedian and Podcast Host) about Dave’s embracing of his wake-up call in the second chapter of “Don’t Burn This Book”. Dave has met many people who have told him that they are afraid of speaking their mind for fear of losing their jobs or friends and live in “political closets”. The social media outrage mob has made it risky to speak what were once considered centrist political opinions. Dave shares his personal story of how he and others like James Damore and Lindsay Shepherd have come out the other side stronger for having the beliefs that their peers expected them to have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all know that the left is no longer liberal, but the past few weeks have shown like never before the

0:06.0

Distressing results of our trend towards polarization. The mainstream media has doubled down on their petty hyperpartisan

0:13.3

Mudd slinging in the face of a true crisis. It's more important than ever to be informed, engaged,

0:19.8

responsible citizens who want to follow the facts at more than nonsense and the noise.

0:24.7

That's what don't burn this book is all about. While we faced a lot of pressure to delay the publication of this book because of

0:31.5

Quarantine, I felt it was important to get these ideas out as soon as possible.

0:36.0

I know that free thought, free speech and patriotism are as important to you as they are to me,

0:42.0

so I hope this book entertains and inspires you during the days and weeks ahead. Order now at don't burn this book.

0:49.2

I'm Bridget Fettisie and I'm here with Dave Rubin with the Don't Burn this book book club doing chapter two. Hi Dave.

1:03.4

Hello Bridget chapter two. We thought this would be a good one for you in light of the

1:09.0

Fettisie evolution.

1:11.0

Fettisie has been an evolution. I think what you know, right out of the gates in this chapter, you talk about

1:17.8

years of self-deception. You mentioned when people maybe have been deceiving themselves for years.

1:24.9

What were you deceiving yourself about for all those years?

1:29.6

Yeah, well, I think one of the things that's happening right now is that a lot of people are realizing either that they've deceived themselves or maybe that they've

1:37.2

viewed the world a little bit

1:39.4

incorrectly and they're trying to piece together a new world and actually, even though I wrote this before coronavirus, especially right now,

1:45.8

I think a lot of people are going, oh, there's a new world on the horizon. Maybe everything that I believed in before is in quite exactly right.

1:53.5

Maybe I have to think about a new way of thinking about things. I referenced in chapter one that it's time to come out and I talk about,

1:59.8

you know, coming out of the closet, which usually people apply to sexuality and that right now,

2:05.8

there's a lot of politically closeted people that just aren't saying what they think and it probably goes both ways.

2:11.3

Mostly I'm talking about it from like a lefty to a more centrist or a right thing,

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