Video taking off 9.4x its usual first day

Dave Rubin questions Raman's shade plan for Los Angeles

The mayor-elect's street-heat proposal becomes a debate about city priorities in a fast-starting Rubin Report clip.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 845,124 views a day, 9.4 times a normal first day on this channel (89,878).

LA Mayor Becomes Viral Laughingstock for This Video

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1:07Ro Khanna celebrates diverse election winners; Rubin argues that competence should matter more than identity.
2:24Rubin introduces Raman's election and argues that homelessness, drugs and housing costs deserve priority.
3:20The title's Los Angeles segment plays: Raman proposes more shade to reduce street heat.
3:45Rubin questions the proposal's priority and predicts bureaucratic problems, while saying he supports trees.
5:54Rubin argues that government assistance should support farmers regardless of race.

"Simply put, the city needs more shade," Nithya Raman says in the social video Dave Rubin plays. His objection isn't to trees themselves. It's to putting that proposal in the spotlight while, he argues, Los Angeles has more urgent problems to address.

The Rubin Report upload drew an estimated 845,000 views in its first day, nearly ten times the channel's usual opening audience for regular videos. Its title, "LA Mayor Becomes Viral Laughingstock for This Video," refers to Raman, who is mayor-elect rather than the city's sitting mayor.

The Los Angeles segment arrives midway through a broader political commentary clip. Rubin introduces Raman's video through a post by Spencer Pratt, then contrasts her shade proposal with homelessness, drugs and housing costs. Raman, an urban planner who has served on the City Council, presents additional shade as a way to reduce street heat.

"Okay, you want to put trees, I'm all for trees. But that's what you're working on right now..." Rubin says. He goes on to predict bureaucratic problems with carrying out the proposal.

Elsewhere in the upload, Rubin objects to Ro Khanna's celebration of diverse election winners and argues that agricultural assistance should help farmers regardless of race. The shade segment is the title's hook, but the wider episode concerns Rubin's objections to Democratic priorities after the election.

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