Dave Rubin: evaluation

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…Ultimately is the tricky word there, right? Yeah, at the end of the day I’m an optimist, but I think there’s a lot of bad stuff at the moment. One of the things that I always say to the kids when I go to the schools is, I’m sure most of you guys saw Midnight in Paris, the Woody Allen movie. And the crux of the movie is that everyone thinks that if they only lived in another time that it was important then, if you lived in some other period that that’s when things were really happening. But what I say to these kids is, “You guys truly live in something amazing right now.” I mean, all of you can feel it, that’s why you’re all here and you guys all do the work that you do. There’s something happening right now, there is some incredible fertile ground. It doesn’t mean it’s gonna go well or it’s gonna go bad, it’s up for us to choose, and that’s why talking to these young people is so important. If you tell jokes all day long and you make people laugh and you interact with them on social media, that whole experience on net, making people laugh, does it make you more or less optimistic about human nature compared to when you started?…

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