That doesn't sound like a recession to me. Thank you very much.

So Mr. President, Mr. President, I'm going to know you that we're not heading towards the recession.

Alright Internet, this is it. It is July 29th in the year 2022. It is Friday, which means that it is the last work day of the month before August and yours truly.

Your favorite YouTube host, Dave Rubin, is going off the grid for August.

So this is a very special livestream. We're probably going to go for a couple hours. We got announcements.

We got giveaways. We've got a yearly recap. We've got so much more. My God, it's going to be nuts.

I'm very excited to be here. The team is pumped today. Everyone is feeling good. Everyone's about to take a little time off. I gave them projects and things to do throughout August.

But in many ways, this is what our whole year leads to. It leads to this time just to get off the machines, to be humans, to see family perhaps, to take a walk, to do other things.

And as you guys know, this will now be my fifth or my sixth. This is the fifth. We had to check this morning because I've been doing this for a while now.

So this is my fifth off the grid, August. Oh, and I shouldn't mention, by the way. It's my sister's birthday and my sister works for us. Great lady. And she's eight months pregnant.

I wish you happy birthday in person too. But here we go, the internet. So when I started doing this off the grid thing, it really was just sort of a joke. I kind of did it as just like, could it be done?

Like, could I throw my phone in a safe? Could I not look at my computer? Could I not check the news? Not look at my iPad? Just get off all the stuff because the internet, we all know it's like they gave us social media.

I thought it was going to make us more social. And in many ways, it's made us more crazy. It's like, it's the catch 22 of the internet. And the internet really is a tool. And a tool can be used for good or bad. A hammer can, you know, hammer in a nail.

And then, you know, your house doesn't fall down or you can use a hammer to crack someone's skull. Sometimes someone's attacking you and you want to crack their skull. That's a good use of a hammer. Sometimes you're murdering somebody. Not a good use of a hammer.

That's what the internet is. And they gave us social media. We thought it was going to make us more social. But we know it made us more anxiety-ridden and angry and crazy and frustrated with strangers. And then this cancel culture thing and all this stuff. So when I did this a couple of years ago, I kind of saw all that. I guess early, I suppose.

And that's probably directly connected to my political evolution as well. And I was like, let me just try. Let me just try it. And I tried it one year and it was freaking amazing. You know, the year that I tried it also was coming off a year when my career was really blowing up. I had done that while I left the left video.

So suddenly I was getting all this endless hate from the lefties. And as you guys know, I developed from all the stress of all of that, which I wasn't dealing with well. And I was getting death threats, you know, from the tolerant, diverse lefty, the nice people. It was before we called them wokesters or whatever. I developed alopecia riyada. I had lost like 40% of my hair just fallen out in chunks. I was on this crazy experimental medication. I get into all this in Don't Burn this book.

And I was like, I just want to try something. I just want to try to get off this thing. Like it's a lot. Let's just see if it can even be done. Can a human do it?

People are afraid to get offline for literally a day or a weekend. And I did it. And it was incredible. And we traveled a little bit. And we just didn't do much. People always ask me, well, what do you do? I don't know. I don't do much.

We've traveled. We've done some pretty awesome vacations. We've done some rain forest things in Mexico. We've done the borough borough over the water, just staring out into oblivion thing.

I catch up on some reading or I don't read anything. I literally will just kind of like just stare at the ocean for a couple hours a day. Really have my coffee. Just enjoy life and air and take a lot of walks and all that good stuff.

And that's why I started doing it. And I really, truly believe that one of the reasons that I've stayed sane while doing politics because I have no doubt that, I know you don't want me to know this, but I'm probably not the only show you watch.

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