Host Squirms When Bill Maher Gets Brutally Honest About Democrats
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What's going on, everybody? I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It is Monday, July 20th, 2026. That's right, 10 days from now, July 30th is our last day. Before I go off the grid, we will have a special show for you on the 31st that I'm very excited about. We're doing a little something special, but my last live show before August off the grid, before disappearing from the madness and the muck and the mire is 10 days from today. Hope you all had a great weekend. I wanted to address something real quick. Today's show, I can tell you the rundown very easily. It is 90% just the evil communist socialist lunacy that has burst forth and the steroid part of it is now kicking in. It's getting worse and worse.
The rhetoric is ramping up and all that stuff. Let's put that aside for one second because I saw the Odyssey over the weekend. I'm gonna just address this for one minute. I'm not gonna give you any spoilers or anything, but if you do not want to hear anything about anything, you might wanna mute for the next 60 seconds, but I'm not gonna give any spoilers. I'm not gonna say a word about the plot. I wanna talk a little bit for a moment about the narrative around it because we covered and everybody online was covering that there was gonna be all this wokeness in the movie and the odd, admittedly odd casting of Elliot Page, who was Ellen Page, beautiful young girl who Nolan had worked with in Inception, and she was in X-Men and a bunch of stuff.
And then Lupita Nyong'o was in it, which was obviously miscast because the chances that back then, 3,000 plus years ago, although it is a fictitious story, that there would have been a black woman. Okay, there was all this stuff. And everybody, and what I said last week when we covered it was, you know what, I'm not gonna get pre-outraged. I was curious about some of the casting for sure. And as it comes to anything that comes out of Hollywood, I'm always worried about the wokeness stuff. But I was like, I just didn't wanna prejudge it. I just wanna say one quick thing about the movie. It was spectacular. It really, I tweeted it was a masterpiece. I tweeted it was an absolute masterpiece. The responses were psychotic.
If you go on Twitter and look at the responses to that tweet, psychotic. And I don't know if, you know, people were like, did you get, who bought you out? Who paid you to say this and everything? I don't know, I went to a movie with a couple friends. And then I had a thought about the movie. But I will just say this quick. If your argument is that it wasn't a perfect adaptation of the 3,000-year-old story, The Odyssey, by Homer, then look, I read it when I was in high school. I don't even fully remember the story. It's, I think, 24 different poems that were within to create the whole story. If your argument is that it wasn't perfect to the source material, that's fine. That's fine. I'm sure there were some things that were missed.
But there was nothing woke in it. There really wasn't. There was no woke messaging. There was two or three odd casting choices. I thought the casting was a little bit off. But Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong'o were barely in the movie. I would say combined had about eight minutes of screen time. The rest of it, from Matt Damon, who was spectacular, to the story itself and weaving in and out of timelines, it was really just wonderful. So the only reason I'm even mentioning any of that is go see it, I would say, before you want to destroy it. We live in this strange time. There's so little good that comes out of Hollywood these days. that is water cooler stuff. But there is something water cooler today, because so many people saw it over the weekend.
It's obviously gonna be the biggest movie of the year.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–18:18
2
How does Bill Maher explain why moderate Democrats might vote Republican?
18:18–58:32
3
What examples does Dave Rubin use to show Democratic socialism gaining ground?
58:32–59:39
4
How does Zorhan Mamdani defend his New York City record on potholes and crime?
59:39–1:09:09
Speakers
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