On Babe Rubin and this is the Rubin Report. Joining me today is a best-selling author,

Political Pundit, and now American Cultural Expert, Douglas Murray. Douglas, welcome to the Rubin

Report. It's a great pleasure to be back with you Dave. Do you consider yourself an American

cultural expert now that you spent how long, about two months traversing our great country,

seeing cities burn and going to joyous rallies and everything in between? Are you a cultural

expert of American and American? If I am, then there's hundreds of millions of others as well,

and it certainly does feel like that sometimes. I do notice that many millions of cultural experts

on America don't bother going there at all and don't bother traveling around. But yeah, I spent

a very, very interesting period ahead of the election, as you know, traveling all around your country,

to the extent that you can in these days, went across about six or seven states and was there right

up until just after the election? I spent the election in Washington, DC. Yeah, so I thought you'd

be the right guy to talk to from my post Thanksgiving show because I thought we could get a way a little

bit from like the minutia of American politics, but I think getting your perspective as an outsider

that spent so much time here and that has, you know, a cohesive worldview. So I thought we'd start

by saying so when you were here about six weeks ago or so, we actually went out to lunch one day

and we were just heading back, we were heading back to my place and we saw a Trump rally in Beverly Hills.

We did not know that there was a Trump rally, but we got out of the car and we thought, all right,

let's do a little exploration and see what's what. I think at this point, my audience knows my

take on it. What was your take on that rally and then subsequently you went to a bunch of others

and got to see some stuff? Yes, I wanted to get a sense of where America was ahead of the election.

I was writing from multiple states, from New York, Long Island, California, to Oregon,

to Atlanta, Georgia, Pensacola, Florida, Washington, DC. I did quite a good round and one of the

...