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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 65 (Dave Rubin)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Callen, Dave, Bill, 6, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Carlin

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Episode 65 with Dave Rubin, stand-up comedian, talk show host, television personality and creator & host of political comedy talk show The Rubin Report on The Young Turks Network. He is also host of TYT140, which provides daily news stories in 140 seconds or less. He also previously hosted The Six Pack podcast & radio show on XM radio.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We must regard again the acquisition of unborned in a world, whether sought or unsurred by the military

0:11.0

successful economy. In my line of work and things I've got to keep repeating things over and over again

0:28.6

for the truth to sink in.

0:33.6

They've got to catapult the propaganda.

0:36.6

They've got a catapult of propaganda. What's up? Another episode of Ripple Effect podcast. Today we got stand-up comedian and TV personality, Dave Rubin. He has a show called The Rubin Report. He's done a podcast. He's done a show on Sirius. He's kind of, he's done a lot. And he actually worked on The Daily Show, which was pretty awesome to have him on right after John Stewart, or the announcement came out that John Stewart's leaving the Daily Show. So it was just a great timing to have him on and have him talk about that and his take on that. Also, it was great timing because it showed the Ruben reports on the TYT Network, which people who aren't familiar with the TYT Network.

1:28.1

It's the Young Turks. I'm sure most people by now would probably at least heard of them. They're one of the biggest news shows on not just the Internet, but I think overall, just one of the biggest news shows. And they just come out of a documentary called Mad As Hell, which was really good. I recommend anybody who hasn't seen it to definitely go see it. even if you're not a huge fan of the young turks.

1:25.7

It's just an interesting documentary to follow

1:47.4

Cenk, the guy who created the Young Turks, and he was very opinionated, and everybody basically

1:54.0

seemed like they disagreed with him and told him that people don't want to see him on TV and his show

1:58.0

sucks and all this stuff. And he started with a locally a public access show.

2:02.1

And he really grew to become this, I mean, what I would call empire now. I mean, for lack of a

2:08.4

better term, just this huge channel that has all these different shows and different channels. And they do a

2:15.1

college channel. They do stuff on, you on you know pop culture a little bit of

2:18.3

everything and just to see how much resistance he got and how he just kept going and kept going

2:22.4

and he didn't let people bring him down or convince him that he wasn't going to succeed and and

2:27.0

I think it was inspirational it was a great documentary I definitely recommend people checking it

2:31.0

out also I want to give more detail on some of the things I talked about on the show.

2:36.0

We talked about foreign policy and actually we talked about a lot of stuff from basketball to foreign policy to current events.

2:42.0

And some of the things, like usual, I kind of, it's funny, I'm kind of sold on the idea that why memorize anything that you can look up.

2:51.3

And it's one of those things where I have this thing where I take in all this information.

2:56.1

I'll gather a opinion on that information from consuming it and connecting the dots and all

3:01.7

the stuff.

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