Biography
Dave Rubin hosts The Rubin Report, a long-form interview programme distributed as video and as a podcast.
The Programme
The show’s own feed lists Dave Rubin — a person, not a network — as its author, and rubinreport.com as its home. Retrieved on 1 September 2026, it held 1,916 episodes running from June 2018 to that day. A separate Spanish-language edition, The Rubin Report en Español, has run to 72 episodes.
The feed is the record of an interview programme that runs several episodes a week without a broadcaster, network or studio named anywhere in its metadata.
The “Intellectual Dark Web” Characterization
Rubin — described in the article as “the commentator and comedian” — was one of the people Bari Weiss wrote about in “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web,” published by The New York Times on 8 May 2018, the column that put the “Intellectual Dark Web” label into wide use. The label is Weiss’s framing, not a self-description or an organization Rubin belongs to.
Digital Political Impact
- Runs an interview programme published under his own name rather than a network’s, distributed across video and podcast platforms simultaneously
- Maintains a separate Spanish-language edition
What Is Not Established Here
Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; YouTube and Twitter follower counts; the account of his early career in comedy and online video; the dates and description of his time on The Young Turks network; and his relationship with BlazeTV, including any dates. The Young Turks and BlazeTV affiliations are retained in frontmatter, where they came from the previous version, but nothing is asserted about them in the text beyond what the “Intellectual Dark Web” section above documents. The feed’s earliest retained episode is dated June 2018; that is a property of the feed, not the start of the programme.
Sources
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Dave Rubin. The Rubin Report — podcast RSS feed. The programme's own feed, retrieved 2026-09-01 with 1,916 retained episodes running from 1 June 2018 to 1 September 2026. Lists Dave Rubin as the author — not a network — and rubinreport.com as the show's home, which is the first-party record of the programme being self-published.
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Apple Inc.. Apple Podcasts directory entry for The Rubin Report. Directory lookup confirming the feed above is the one Apple lists, with Dave Rubin as the listed artist, and recording a separate Spanish-language edition, The Rubin Report en Español, with 72 episodes.
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Weiss, B. (2018). Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web. The New York Times. Published 8 May 2018; nytimes.com returns HTTP 403 to automated clients, so the text was read from the recorded capture. Describes Rubin as 'the commentator and comedian' among the dinner companions Weiss met for the piece, alongside Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. Cited for the labelling event, not as an assessment of Rubin.