Social Media and It's All Good, Its All Bad

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Social media can make you less optimistic. It brings out the worst in us in so many ways, i say that as someone who prefaced the beginning of this by saying, it's connected us. I mean, look, twitter and and all of the and having a phone and all this video, it literally caused a revolution in egypt. So there's it's all good, it's all bad. And it's really what you make of it and what you pull out of it.

Today many YouTube channels have more influence than traditional TV shows. This fact is not lost on Dave Rubin, who started his talk show career in traditional media, but soon decided to strike out on his own. He now hosts The Rubin Report, which has half a million subscribers on YouTube and is financially backed by its fans on Patreon.

But the most important indicator of influence? All but one of Tyler’s law and literature class had heard of Dave before this taping.

Recorded live at an event a few months ago, Dave and Tyler’s conversation covers all this and more, including what Dave learned from his year abroad in Israel and his pick for the most underrated Star Wars movie.

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Recorded April 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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